skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess no one wants to be responsible, while at the same time having some of the highest paid employees of tech companies. No one wants to take the blame for the crap Google is pushing down people's throats. If Google started to actually deal with these things, instead of leaving it to "the algorithm", they probably would have lots of extra costs. Some number pusher needs to make their numbers, so nothing changes.

If one has the choice, one should never rely on Google for anything, unless one has a fetish for being victim of some algorithm with no way to change it. Most of their tooling is not worth that pain anyway and looks like a thin veil around user tracking. Never forget, that Google is an ads business company and that is how they make their money.
Supervisor could do more to help I think. Help the student break it down into manageable weekly chunks. Not just say “get better at
time management”
Runlike: Given an existing Docker container, prints the command line to run it
Duplicate, although this one is gaining more traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34440005
Yes, my own MSc dissertation was very rushed and of low quality, unfortunately...
This works wonders, especially for collaborative documents (which a thesis should be, a collaboration between you and your supervisor/other people). A first "vomit" draft allows you to at least discuss the concepts, and it forces you to align the thoughts in your head. It is how I have written all my papers/thesis, and I cannot recommended it enough!
It can serve as a meal ticket in certain fields, yes. Should it? I'm not entirely sure. The opportunity cost is certainly high.

In less fortunate areas you can be consigned to a permanent adjunct or postdoctoral purgatory.
Could it be related to COVID or to high inflation / bad economy?
As I understand it, self hatred arises not from gender dysphoria but rather how others treat the person experiencing that.
Will Tesla Ever “Solve” Full Self Driving? (2022)
Because an individual with a car can drive wherever he or she wants. They are, conceptually at least, a liberating force. They are not consistent with the totalitarianism of Big Brother's society.

In 1949, a society where everyone has their own car would have been seen as a utopian vision of the future. We see it differently today, of course.
Bear is very easy to use and could feel more like journaling than blogging!
Haha well I'm happy to take that up ... @MauranKilom ?
They haven't even launched yet and are already talking of The Personalized News Feed and the old discussion about a chronological feed is already going in the comments.

No thanks. I already see where this one is going. Chronology and non-personalizing has become a good litmus test over the last decade of social.

I'll get my news, viral and not, on Mastodon instead. It's such a relief to be there. Like being able to breathe fresh air, not a stale echo chamber that is built for me.
The question is, do we really need a PhD reform? Or should we restructure the academic process to enable more people to pariticipate without going through the ardous process of writing a thesis? I have a PhD and work in an industrial research environment, with 50/50 PhD and non-PhD colleagues. There is no difference in quality of work and output. So maybe universities should be less discriminatory against non-PhD research fellows.
Office documents seem to default to somewhere in the region of 90 – 100 characters, interestingly.
>Unnecessarily harsh. I reckon it'd be better for everybody if I didn't crash at that speed.

No. You are not a professional driver, or even a good driver, because a good driver would recognize that the proper place to do 250 is on a race track. You make the road dangerous both for you, but even more so for other drivers and will, one day, kill someone. So, please, kindly fuck off of french roads, whether it is through crossing the border and letting it be someone else's problem, or eating a tree like half of the dumbasses driving polish rental Audis.
Kompare is much better. <https://apps.kde.org/kompare/>
Oh wow, yeah that is similar. I'll add a comparison. Thanks!
Standardising on Matter? What was wrong with Zigbee/Zwave? How long until another standard comes along :D
as long as we paid the semester fee the university never bat an eye
To be honest, we probably see an alternative to academia grow and disrupt it before we see academia reform itself – the academic institution is so old and has so much legacy at this point, that it is close to impossible.

I am curious on how these new structures would look.
That can also happen in two-year long programs as well, especially in those that allow you for less than a semester from proposal to defense. I can certainly perceive a scaling issue in academia. Will MOOC-style initiatives be able to solve this problem in the future?
I used to work for large civil engineering consultancy. They had lots of highly paid people with PhDs, hired because of their PhDs, doing work directly related to the thing they did their PhD in. So it obviously seems to work fine in some fields.
Disclaimer: I'm inexperienced with bash and powershell.

I just converted a bash script to a powershell script. Some things are a lot easier (like writing errors or info messages in different colors). But I had a lot of problems getting the exit codes from maven calls to determine the exit result. Checking for 0 in shell works fine all the time, in powershell checking $LASTERRORCODE works sometimes but not always. I'm using try catch now but it's a bit of a hassle (which is ironic, comic from a java developer).
Thanks for writing this, I'm reading it now.

my comment before knowing the information you provide in the text is simple, these models are trained over some texts downloaded from Internet, there are some real "trends" you can easily spot reviewing yourself some subreddits, i.e. likely many american citizens commenting in a guns related subreddit have certain opinions which probably aren't shared for other people in a LGBT+ subreddit elsewhere.

It could be matter of choice during the assembly of the datasets used for the training, simply. They could have included some subreddits comments from here and there, but some richer texts were found in some subs, so they included more text from there, hence the LLM ended having "biases" related to those comments, because some ideas are more "heavy" in their internal values than the other ideas from other people, which are less - stadistically -represented in the dataset.

It looks like you could really introduce any "bias" you choose into the "core internals" of any LLM. This could be an accident or not.
I disagree. People use social media for different purposes. One is to post about yourself, my least favorite, another is to post links to information and knowledge of interest to those with similar interests. People posting about themselves do nothing to up the IQ and awareness of the population and lead to mental health issues as well as feed narcissism. News and information can lead to learning and debate and all those great things that came out of classroom discussions in college. It only goes bad where there's a culture clash or people are unsophisticated, ideologues, or lack critical thinking skills. For rational and curious minded people, it's great though.
cf https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia... for less editorial & curation
What a waste, the time you have for your thesis is the most free time you will ever have to do research, but if you don't enjoy it whats the point.
They likely could not hire a janitor.

My school system routinely cancels busses because they don’t pay the drivers enough. Public institutions are unwilling to pay market cost for someone to show up for a split shift, which could be 80k/year or more.
Control systems often last decades, longer than most employees.

I've recently worked on a control system that is at least 30 years old. While you can't get the exact part any more - you can still get compatible replacements that drop in. There are still staff that are competent working with the platform.

They should be upgrading over the years, unless you think working with a MS-DOS computer would be advisable today.

Most education sectors use a large vendors control system with either vendor engineers, or local contractors.
In plenty of non-USA countries, a PhD is basically a prerequisite to enter the higher echelons of government and the corporate world.

Not saying it should be like that, nor that it is completely impossible to advance in those countries without. It's more that there's a glass ceiling through which you'll have to break if you don't have a PhD. And I have talked with PhD students with such backgrounds who were quite clear on that. For a (to me) surprising number of them, an academic career was not the main goal at all (not necessarily completely ruled out, but not the original main goal).
Most circuit breakers that you’ll find on lighting circuits are designed for switching duty of modern lighting loads. Circuit breakers so designed will have an “SWD” printed in them (“switching duty”)
This is a catalogue of irrational scare-mongering.

Do you honestly believe that "housewarmings, birthdays, holidays, sports games, barbecuing, karaoke, ... parties ... for people joining the team, for people leaving, for projects kicking off or finishing" have decreased because of the prevalence of false sexual accusations, allergies, smartphones, or intense goal-driven schooling?

Do you have a credible reason to think that poverty of young adults, narcissism, or lack of patience, is materially different and has a material effect on the number of parties in the present day compared to 10 or 20 years ago?

Would you also claim that there haven't been other prior time periods where people were just as poor, self-centered or impatient as they are now, and there were more parties? Or is the claim only based on interpolation of specific, correlated changes in the recent past?
> It's available, but people don't actually use it much outside of Zoom meetings for work

This is just your environment. There are some cultures which embraced videocalls so much it's annoying to be around because, surprise! you can't make a quiet videocall in public.
There is no recipe to making money so what generally applicable advice can be given is more often what _not_ to do. I find this applies to most areas, from losing weight to romantic relationships. And judging by my anecdotal evidence of people who failed to make money I can find pretty much all the traps listed in there. Many, including me, would have avoided a lot of pain if they would have kept these rules in mind at all times.
> excited to see another link to [Project Gutenberg] ... they ...

It is a bit different. They started it, they started it all. The Project started in 1971, when Michael S. Hart as a student was offered computer use and realized it was a good idea to digitize texts, for preservation and distribution.

Project Gutenberg is one of the foremost Cultural Preservation and Promotion Projects of the XX Century.
> with the amount of pro-Rust posts filling almost every discussion of C and C++ over the last 5 years or more, all over the web, the time that advocates spent arguing about why C users are ignorant and stubborn could have been spent contributing to a minimal kernel

Don't mistake a very small but very very vocal group of zealots for the Rust community at large
Some don't. Since the rise of gamification design has in many cases been to promote clicks for ad revenue.
I don't have any tips to add here other than I feel you and I have dealt with similar feelings when I was doing my uni degree (I haven't done a thesis or something similar mainly because I hate writing long form stuff!)

I used to procrastinate working on assignments or watching lectures because I was afraid I wouldn't understand the content and I'd fulfill the belief that I was not smart enough to be studying comp sci, which inevitably led to not having enough time to properly study and understand the content or do assignments!

But over time it took me a little less time in order for me to get started on that assignment or watch that lecture. You're most likely not going to greatly improve your organisation overnight, but as long as you are seeing small bits of progress, that's what matters.
When you sit you may feel discomfort of a kind that makes you want to move. Sit for a bit longer. The discomfort will move rapidly from place to place, since it is an artifact of the revolutions of the mind stuff.

It's kind of like spam subject lines... a call to action.

My nose is bleeding? I need to...
Wait, my ankle is killing me, let me just...
Oh, no, now my back, quick stretch will ...
Hmm, I'd be so much more meditative if I just pop on to Amazon and order a proper cushion...

Just sit. You'll be fine.

Remember that the word user also governs the skeletal muscles. Not the most ideal situation, but you have to expect some strange things if you grow such a complex thing as a brain from some goo. When these things, or other things happen, just watch them, let them pass, and then bring your attention back to the breath in your nose.

It's like balancing. How do you get better at balancing? Stand precariously every day and eventually your muscles will strengthen and you will be balanced.

Similarly, bringing your attention back to the breath in your nose is how you get better at this thing.

Just some tips that helped me.
Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?
During COVID-era we got a lot of new podcasts. So I am wonder, what is the current list of Tech Podcasts, which you consume these days?

My current list:

1. https://www.codingblocks.net/category/podcast/ - deep dives into different tech topics

2. https://anchor.fm/happypathprogramming - scala/kotlin/java + interviews with different tech people

3. https://postgres.fm/episodes - deep dives into different parts of PostgreSQL database

4. https://www.softwareatscale.dev/archive - interviews with different tech people

5. https://bootifulpodcast.fm/#/all-podcasts - java/spring + interviews with different tech people
This is also recommended by Donald Knuth in one of his technical writing guidelines [citation missing] so +1
I would strongly recommend people who are looking for more music and dance in their life to check out the vr clubbing scene. I've been on it almost constantly for the last 3 months and love having partying back in my life again from the comfort of my own home. (I don't want to say it's a perfect replacement but for me it's good enough to scratch the itch)

See my prior posts for more info.
> Anybody too dangerous to allow on an airplane should probably be behind bars.

Someone who the US deems a danger but isn't in the US would fit this criteria.
Public universities usually give you a lot less time, think months, and one may also be constrained by visa allowances. Not sure if it's also the case in the US.
This is why it's so important to have public contracts drafted and reviewed by experts.

The original contract should have provision in place that the system be maintained, that the school be notified in any change in parent company ownership, etc.

It would then be much easier to compel the company to do the replacement and if necessary sue them to recover the $1.2m cost.

The issue isn't just one of a technological solution inferior to old fashioned manual lights, it's that public bodies get hoodwinked into contracts that are unfavourable.

There were similar stories from the era of mass-PFI in the UK, with stories about how teachers weren't allowed to change lightbulbs but had to pay a maintenance company £50 to do so every time a bulb went.

Public bodies rushing to accept contracts thinking that suppliers have their best interests in mind is horribly naive.
This was obviously not a good system design, but a box full of relays and PLC controller cost a whole lot less than the all-in employer cost of an extra employee.

They really should also be able to turn off the lights at the breakers unless they did something exceptionally stupid like put the fire control panels on the lighting breakers.
Only if you realise the removal of cars == removal of personal agency which is part of the distopia
I have no records from when I was a kid, but as an adult I have a journal I can access on a central service called "1177". It lists my diagnoses, appointment notes, prescriptions, vaccination history, etc.
Surprised to see this guy wasn't already in prison due to his previous antics, and it's too bad he didn't responsibly report this issue through the proper channels. Everyone's luck is bound to run out at some point.
I like the new Wikipedia design, find it much easier to read. However, it seems to be very similar to the new (and controversial) Arch Linux wiki redesign so maybe I'm just already used to it.

I also very rarely maximise a browser window and much prefer clean designs where I can make the window as narrow as possible as I tend to open three windows for a desktop.
OpenOffice can’t print on Tuesdays https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
An animation ending with "invite only", with no way to actually request an invite, and no further info...?
I should have written my CS master's thesis in 2015.

Wrote a book and hundreds of articles since then. Still can't bring myself to do it.
It's complimentary to ASLR.
This wasn’t redirecting available labor, it was forcing people off farms without any offsetting attempt to increase efficiency.
For reference, here’s how it looked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230120013024/https://cohost.or...
Crypto lending firm Genesis files for bankruptcy
I sometimes fill in my name as [object Object].
There's something there, corroborated by two examples in cinema and litterature: Finding Forrester (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zLBEFvMkQCo) and in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, with the rhetorics professor facing 'my students are stuck write even the simplest essay' problem.

Yes, write something, anything, then edit. These are two different states of mind, two completely different personality parts, and I wish we taught the first one better (and the second one too...). Shut down the critics part when writing. Should down the ego part when editing.
I'm here to bemoan the fact that project gutenberg is censored on italian soil and italian DNS for no. good. reason.
> I like that you can do basic arithmetic in the shell

You can do that with $(( ... ))

echo $(( 2 + 1 ))
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>I think you underestimate how fast a Windows install gets slow and bloated.

In my many years of experience, I have found desktop linux to be even worse. Frankly, I'm annoyed this is a problem on any OS. App containers are the way forward, and snapd is terrible (firefox updates, for example, are awful)
Introduction to the Vrchat Rave Scene
> you could hire a janitor's assistant to keep an eye out that the lights are off in the evening and turned on in the morning

My worry is that there would be problems with getting such a person.

Unemployment in the US (and quite a few other regions as well) is currently low, and "janitor's assistant" doesn't sound like a particularly glamorous career.
Very true, the opportunity cost can be very high. There's always the risk of pursuing a wrong research path.

At some point I've considered that a second master's in a complementary field could make more sense than a PhD.
You could consider on-boarding the CEO based on performance.

i.e. If they generate a certain monthly recurring revenue, they get 50% of the company. Less than that they get nothing.
I mean they're also great for being able to symbolicate crash logs and such.
Mine is Risky Business https://risky.biz/RB691/ . It's about IT security.

But I'm more interested in dev news and I am still searching for a podcast that would have discussions about dev news.
This isn't the Genesys people know from Shadow Drive and RPC providers.

https://docs.genesysgo.com/shadow/

It appears to be some kind of OTC derivatives platform.
I think the line there is blurry. If someone said "bare metal Smalltalk" I'd probably assume they were referring to a Smalltalk VM running directly on the hardware.
Ph.D. as expensive meal ticket would seem to support the need for reform.
I graduated right around the time Covid hit, and I feel like that wrecked my social life irreparably. I have 4-5 close friends I can hang out with every other week or so (nobody wants to hang out 1 to 1 every day), but all my friend groups dissipated. Some moved away, some moved on, some just stopped moving at all. I feel miserable and every couple of nights I have dreams of a Third Place where I can just go and make friends with strangers. It's been like 3 years since I went to a club, houseparty, or even a larger get-together (5+ people) outside of birthday drinks, and it's heartbreaking.
> Leaving aside why someone is still using RSS in 2023

Because it's superior technology for following posting/news to opening app and praying that algorithm will show me what I wanted? My feeds flow to me at 6:00, via rss2email, and get filtered into a IMAP folder and I can read them at my leisure. Online or offline, with whatever client I have handy.

> this is a pretty good user signup strategy

Nagging only works if I really, really want to see what you hide behind a login screen. For most of the posts on Twitter it won't be worth it.
... and now I'm making blog posts about it.
I've never seen a "smart" lighting system that was meaningfully better than a light switch.

Every place I've been to that had fancy ways to control the lighting was just annoying. In school and uni teachers had issues dimming the lights, people who have smart lights at home can't figure out how to turn on/off some of the lights, you can't turn off flickering lights because they are motion activated...

My favorite "smart" solution was a light that went out while you were sitting on the toilet, because the timer was set to a minute or so, and the motion sensor to activate it was outside the stall...

Just use normal light switches, if something goes wrong everyone can look up on youtube how to fix them in 10 minutes.
You don't have any right to travel to a foreign country. You only get in if you convince them you won't be a troublesome guest.
That is not procratination. Procrastinators will avoid a task to verz best end and then do the least minium to get the job somehow done. You avoided and anvoided and then quit. I think this is a personality disorder called (anxiously) avoidant personality disorder. And I am not saying that to label or to fret you but to help. If you know the name and shape of your enemy it is easier to fight it. Please go and talk to a psychiatrist. A behavior therapy can help immensly.
The mindset that helped me work through my master's thesis, was thinking that I'll do a better job next time. Focus on getting something/anything done in the given timeframe, and stop worrying about quality. Let go of the idea that it must be good quality. Do a better job in the next project, whatever it might be.
Something connected to the phone line maybe?
Um... for the record: BMP and TGA may have compression. And, since it is rarely implemented, you may crash a lot of stuff with your RLE bitmap )
Straight to the point, hardware video – this should be a template for others
I forgot to mention one more podcast, which discusses latest news. It is online streams on Fridays - https://www.youtube.com/@DevOpsParadox/streams