skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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 imagine that. My own programme had two terms with exams in January and May/June, then the dissertation from June till September and it was a nightmare!

> I can certainly perceive a scaling issue in academia. Will MOOC-style initiatives be able to solve this problem in the future?

If I were running a university, I'd definitely move the large early undergrad courses to MOOCs to free up lecturers time for more advanced/specialised courses and direct supervision of students. It seems crazy to me that there are thousands of basic algorithms, calculus, etc courses being taught across the world by people who could use their time a lot more productively teaching the more specialised knowledge they have acquired through their research.
The kernel needs a bit more information than that, since chunks of code can refer to each other and if you rearrange them this would break these since they're typically emitted as relative offsets.
A while ago, I was helping a student collect 19th century texts for corpus analysis. Since the books were out of copyright, PDFs were downloadable from Google and the Internet Archive. Although the scanned versions from the two sources were equivalent, the OCRed versions were very different. The OCRed texts from Google had a very low error rate and could be easily corrected by hand. The ones from IA were unusable, with many extreme typos on every line.
You guys are so much really sure all life needs to take off from chemical reactions.

I wouldn't be so sure. Not even for our Sun system, nor even our own planet.

Humans really, historically have had little imagination, think electricity (THE big one we missed as a species for literally thousands of years and it was 100% of the time all around us), wifi networks in pre 70s scifi, etc.

So it could be happening again, we are again so much sure we know everything, "this is it", "the peak of science", etc.

But we probably don't know everything just yet.
My understanding is half the problem is Elon's insistence on trying to do it with only 2d image recognition, which isn't that reliable even in humans.
Beware, though, because in other fields - particularly in STEM - a PHD may actually lower your job prospects. "You're overqualified" gets old really fast if no one offers jobs that align with your proficiency level.
This was a really thoughtful response, thanks for sharing it.

As a 35 year old who's just had his first kids this makes me sad to read, it really feels like I'm past the age of good parties now.

Pre-covid we were having raucous times every weekend and now there's too much responsibility to imagine that again. And I'm probably getting towards the age where it'd be a bit sad to still do that anyway.

FWIW one place I've lived that seems to care little about age in the party scene is Madrid. Plenty of nights you're just as likely to be partying with 60 year olds as 25 year olds.
The supervisor is responding to the BS he's being told. OP isn't telling the supervisor "I have emotional problems that lead me to procrastinate as an avoidance mechanism". He's telling him something like "oh yeah I'm totally making progress with task X you gave me, I just didn't finish it because I went into task Y and made progress there instead".
> And him saying that it's okay, to take my time, to be compassionate with myself.

Maybe this is part of the issue. In my CS department, when this happens, the advisor has to raise up the problem. Then a concrete solution must be found. For instance, defining concrete steps and deadlines, and possibly stopping the PhD if things really don't go forward.

A lot of people are subject to procrastination, so it's not about blaming and making students feel guilty. But they should be helped, as it's not making the student a favour to let the situation drag forever.

Personally, I also had months of procrastination during my PhD (and still suffers from procrastination, I think it's anxiety related and imposter syndrome). But somehow, I managed to get it done, even though my PhD could have been much better than what it was. I think what helped me most was to have extra tasks to get the ball rolling. For instance, teaching a class: there's a well-defined scope and deadline.
Makes sense. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure," as the saying goes. This has already been applied to humans taking exams (studying for the test).

My impression of chatGPT is like a super-genius with Alzheimer's: really impressive, but also not right.
I truly wish these guys to succeed! Watching ReactOS for a decade or more.
Maybe we should use toggle switch only when the effect is immediately visible.
It’s fairly simple…

As people get older,

1. they have more responsibilities/obligations and less free time

2. as well as, they also grow into having new interests besides partying, so they use their (limited) free time differently.
Came to post the same link (-:
How is a downloadable gui at all comparable?
Elon Musk-Backed Non-Profit Offered $100K Grant to ‘Pro-Nazi’ Media Outlet
I don't know where it started either, maybe originally it was Gun Acquisition Syndrome, ha.

But I'd like to believe it all started right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7-5io1muSQ
anyone have a link to the exact terms of the 1956 consent decree?
Goodbye Nitter indeed. Also, goodbye Twitterific. Goodbye Tweetbot.

Goodbye all methods of accessing Twitter outside of their apps. They took down their API and bypassing this move via internal API's or scraping output via a headless client (thinking of ways forward for Nitter) will surely be seen as intentional to violate this. So, I guess this is the end then.

https://twitterrific.com/beyond

https://twitter.com/tapbots/status/1614041474567372804
Oh it must be nice to be able to do things like this, while only keeping an eye out for the laws of your own country, safe in the knowledge that your government won't extradite you for breaking the laws of another country.
Yeah but that won’t get you points for LEED, or comply with the energy codes for that matter.
I had one, many years ago. Just re-zip and forget. )
I'm one of those suckers and I'm glad I wasted years of my life being paid to study things I found interesting, on my own terms, without pointless meetings, impossible deadlines and unreasonable bosses, dropping projects and colleagues I did not like. Would do it again.
German has similar singular pronouns to English, with "he", "she" and it corresponding directly to "er", "sie" und "es".

(Not trying to make any point here, just thought it might be useful for context.)
at least until the next Sputnik moment, when supporting PhDs will suddenly become much more popular once again...
> As much as it sucks, YouTube has the same clause and it makes a lot of sense for companies who monetize on ads.

I wonder why we couldn't just get something like: "If you create a third party UI, you must include the following ad web component in the interface: https://github.com/... and the supporting mechanisms for that (user ID/cookies/whatever)"

But instead, many companies attempt to disallow third party clients and any reverse engineering in general, whereas the few that do allow it don't think about the possibility of monetization in third party clients (legally enforced), or just have to deal with such configurations not being supported.

And if the current ad technology doesn't work that way, then what prevent us from making it work that way? Why should the party that displays an ad always be the same one that's benefiting from it financially? Why couldn't I have some third party UI for a popular site that solves my personal gripes with the UI, while still showing ads on the behalf of that company that owns the original platform, so I don't get my socks sued off of me?
FFhistory: Conclusion
Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020)
> If I were running a university, I'd definitely move the large early undergrad courses to MOOCs to free up lecturers time for more advanced/specialised courses and direct supervision of students. It seems crazy to me that there are thousands of basic algorithms, calculus, etc courses being taught across the world by people who could use their time a lot more productively teaching the more specialised knowledge they have acquired through their research.

That's a very good idea. That could even free resources for allowing research opportunities for more students.
This is a good example for an interactive non-SPA. JS only for cosmetics and all state is fully stored in the URLs. The main pages could even be statically generated (858705 combinations * 3 views * 8KB = 20GB).
You literally can’t. Some form of automatic lighting control is required by code in most commercial or public buildings.
(I've not read the above mentioned content but as a general principle:) It's worth noting that emotional regulation is a part of ADHD that doesnt get talked about as much as other aspects and is one if the things that the meds help with.

https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-medication-emotional-dysreg...
If they want it to look like actual math notation, they might as well:

A_ij = ⎰ 1 if (i,j) ∈ E
⎱ 0 otherwise
where
A ∈ ℝ^(n × n)
E ∈ { ℤ × ℤ }
n ∈ ℤ
> 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.

I don't disagree. But if we consider that researchers need to publish papers, requiring a PhD isn't not much different than requiring a bunch of publications (when you have 3-4 publications, basically you have a PhD thesis, just need to introduce context and glue everything together).
I invite anyone who wants to go to VR parties to come to my mansion in the Metaverse. Enjoy the professionally designed modern architecture as you mingle amongst other guests and have VR drinks (while enjoying your own beverage at home), and watch our preprogrammed live entertainment. Sometimes we go out on the yacht too. Tell the bouncer up front you’re with Hackernews for VIP status.
I think a similar case would be if someone black asked you to call them an n word. They may be comfortable with that, but I am afraid others probably won't.
that's a good point. Sometimes you get hung in technicalities and forget what are the priorities (move fast and cheaply). Thanks for your thoughts!
And have that employee be a part of the local community, rather than funneling money off to a distant corporation.
FWIW I couldn't get myself to start my writing thesis until I had signed the contract for my postdoc with a solid start date. That was the craziest 10 weeks of my academic life. Nothing like a real deadline to help focus the soul, at least for me
Do you see this happening in CS? I've seen positions where they don't care if you have formal training or not, then why would being a PhD holder hinder your chances?
Unfortunately this site is not useful for me, as it seems there is no way to select my current car, a VW Golf Mk6 5 door.
If the school has IT-related classes it would be a good opportunity to let them have fun reverse-engineering and building a replacement controller for it. As a bonus it would cost no money and they'd have the source code of the new control system forever.
Check this out if you haven't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Keeping the Wolves Out of WolfSSL – Fuzzing Weekly CW3
You mean like how google is inserting chromebooks into education for a loss, to one day raise prices at the detriment of education facilities who bought into the google classroom offering. Color me surprised /s
> ...Francis Bacon’s scientific method...I didn't entirely understand.

His ideas in that area were very handwavy, so nobody had a clear idea of what he meant. The classic study of his philosophy is Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science (1957).
People pay for a place to live and almost every amenity therein except the air we breathe. We pay for the electricity that moves bits around. For telephone lines. For computing hardware. For connecting to the internet. For getting information in print.

But for a certain type of software and information retrieval / news exchange, that builds on all this stuff we pay for, hurrah, we dont have to pay, not with money anyway, we just have to relinquish a bit a value (become a transparent, monitored and manipulated object).

Spot the odd business model. A business model that combines obvious amorality and social regression with economic shortsightness: You cannot build the digital society solely on monetizing personal data.

Yes, people will have to pay for journalism in the digital age, just like they have to pay individually for everything else that is not a public good paid collectively via taxes.

How we get there is not so important. No, people cannot be bothered to subscribe to hundreds of individual sources. We need decent intermediares (many of them and competing) that will (for a fee, lets say €10 per month) provide access to a basket of newspapers, journals etc.

The idea is an old one but executing it is difficult when you have to compete against above said aberrant business model. Sometimes politicians and legislators need to grow a spine or otherwise the very system that empowered them will collapse
Show HN: Nino Doc – Block-based document editor module
Nino Doc has a lot of features that we thought are not implemented properly in current document editors. Full offline mode with cloud sync, commit-based version control, edge-side rendered pages, to name but a few.

This is the 1st module released on Nino, a modular workspace app. It is built on an architecture that allows it to interoperate with all future modules.

Would love for you all to try it out and share your thoughts :)
Exactly. I don't build Minecrafts. I build big old web applications ...add a Python end point, create some React UI, all very repetitive and huge talent is pretty much wasted on that.
The flip side is that someone hoping to prosecute a "pot user" for being such while obtaining a firearm would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspect was indeed a "pot user" at the time one answered the question.

I've submitted to no less than five background checks for purchasing firearms. My ID has also been scanned at multiple dispensaries in the same state as those background checks. Not once has the latter caused any issue with the former - in all likelihood because "I at one point set foot in a dispensary" != "I actually purchased something in that dispensary" != "I actually consumed something purchased from that dispensary" != "I was a user of something purchased from that dispensary at the time that I answered a question about whether or not I use federally-controlled substances".

Maybe if background checks included drug tests this would be a practical concern, but as it stands, unless you show up to the gun store stoned out of your gourd (hell, even then), there is little opportunity to demonstrate "the defendant lied about not being a user of illicit substances at the time one purchased the firearm".
I recommend reading the first few chapters of "The conquest of bread".
I see you too studied at the IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark ;-)
Are there any perfectionists around here that have experience with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)? It sounds like perfectionism-induced procrastination: it's better to give up than to play because playing may mean losing, and the chance of losing is unacceptable.
Didn’t think of it this way, that makes sense. Thank you
Please don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Fully reproducible builds provide great assurance against the supply chain attacks. But 100% reproducibility is in some cases a bit too much. What matters is whether the artifact can be easily proven to be functionally identical to the canonical one.

So I am 100% for a fully predictable sshd random-relink kit, producing unpredictable sshd binaries, but only as long as there is an instruction how to check that the sshd binary that allegedly came from it indeed could have come from it, and was not quietly replaced by some malicious entity.
PayPal – Poisoning the Competition
I’m curious, what is the big draw of controlling your thermostat in real time that is significantly better than just (for example) a timer?

As an argument against connecting one’s thermostat to the internet, I’ll point to this article:

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-energy-companies-remot...
I know those tools and i agree. There's no skill required to use a search engine for compromised/misconducted servers to find a compromised/misconfigured server and then pile around on it. I don't think it's so good to publish it instead of reporting to the airline but I'm pretty sure that is for political reasons considering the author's political views.
I was at your position. I dragged on a journal and my thesis for 2 years. My advisor literally begged me to get my dissertation done at times. He complained I was a perfectionist and told me all good advice you have here every month for those two years. It didn't work.

Eventually, he told me "How about you ``take leave`` and write whatever and bring it to me". I took one week leave, stayed at home and start writing. Somehow, I finished my first thesis draft in a month after that then I graduated. Those two years was the lowest years in my life emotionally.

I don't have any advice for you because every person is different. This is a battle you need to fight by yourself. Start writing!
Theyr'e missing Rivian!
OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence
I was thinking something like “the cyberbong draft”
I think that as a regular consumer there is not enough training on how to manage secrets. There is a lack of transparency about the implications of enabling/ignoring security settings. I should not have to be a certified security expert to manage my account properly.

The deeper issue is the situation is kafkaesque. Imagine explaining to a stereotypical elderly grandparent (with minimal computer experience) that you need to configure a 2FA TOTP on your mobile phone and save backup codes in a secure location. BTW don’t lose your phone or you will need to initiate a complex recovery procedure. Oh BTW you need to memorize a 20 character length passphrase along with the 30 other websites you use. Perhaps you could use a password manager, but it will need a 20 character length password and 2FA TOTP as well. Oh make sure you certify the password hashing function and iteration count follows current NIST-800 guidelines. It will need to reauthenticate periodically so don’t forget your password manager’s passphrase. Be sure to make it a sentence and sprinkle in a number and punctuation mark or two.

Oh Back to your original account: It might prompt you to log with a previously known authenticated mobile app at random. There is also a random AI agent scoring how secure your device is and can cancel you at anytime. Oh BTW if you want have extra protection buy this $30 hardware key we don’t advertise. Actually buy two hardware keys and keep one offsite just in case. Don’t use that key use this one. We might drop the other key for unknown reasons. The key might be exploitable since it has Bluetooth so keep it shielded in a faraday cage at all times.

The security policy can change at anytime with no warning or requirements notification update. Do not contact customer service, because you are not a customer but a product being sold at data mining auction. Instead you will need to plead your case on Twitter, Reddit, or Hacker News and pray someone working at the company sees it and is willing to help.
What do you prefer and how would you use a tool that gives you both options?
it ran git.rip
I suspect that the level and sophistication of attacks on the banking sector is far lower than equivalent attacks for data/accounts.

In general, if you break into someones bank account and transfer money out, that money can be traced by authorities. In almost all cases, that money is recoverable by the government, even if individual banks like to shrug and tell the customer it isn't recoverable.

If you break into someone's email and steal their private info, it can't be traced. That makes the latter much more attractive.
Lambda School and other JavaScript web developer bootcamps have been very successfully disrupting the "traditional CS degree" as the only route to software engineering.

Perhaps the thing to disrupt stale academia will be a wave of bootcamp PhD's coming out of Lambda University. In the short term, there may be a side effect of deflating the FAANG-style compensation, job stability, and perks of "tenured faculty." It seems obvious that there is an enormous benefit of a more mobile, agile, and adaptable academic workforce of folks who only contract to teach for a semester or two before dipping back into industry careers or trying out another institution (or maybe even working at multiple institutions at once to broaden their teaching and research skills!).
The key component is the linear attention[1] and residual connections.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16236

> Transformers achieve remarkable performance in several tasks but due to their quadratic complexity, with respect to the input's length, they are prohibitively slow for very long sequences. To address this limitation, we express the self-attention as a linear dot-product of kernel feature maps and make use of the associativity property of matrix products to reduce the complexity from (N2) to (N), where N is the sequence length. We show that this formulation permits an iterative implementation that dramatically accelerates autoregressive transformers and reveals their relationship to recurrent neural networks. Our linear transformers achieve similar performance to vanilla transformers and they are up to 4000x faster on autoregressive prediction of very long sequences.
I think that's just your family- and friend-group or maybe local culture. My family and friends are always making video calls on WhatsApp. Probably more common than voice calls, but less than audio messages.
Twitterrific and other clients begin offloading their apps from Twitter
Every time I read "Amazon spokesperson" an image of the Borg flashes up in my mind.
For crypto skeptics, this is another day in paradise
CodeMatch sounded too much like a dating site: https://codepatterns.vercel.app/
I usually talk about equivalence class partitioning before the topic of property-based testing. It's useful even for manual testers to think about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_partitioning

Then I talk about randomly sampling from a partition as a way to eventually detect "hidden" partitions you didn't expect. Like Hypothesis does.

When dealing with many parameters, each with several partitions, the variations multiply quickly. To deal with combinatoric explosion, I talk about all pairs testing, also known as "pairwise" testing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pairs_testing
Google to reduce workforce by 12k
hot take from someone in Europe: I have no degree and work as a software engineer. New masters graduates I have worked with still need a lot of guidance to do basic things: making pull requests, writing unit tests, structuring code, setting up CI and CD pipelines, network communication, IaC, cloud, microservices, parallelism and state management.

Most of what they do know is of limited value. They don't seem to really grasp the fundamentals of computers very well, they maybe grasp some math, but nothing more than what they could have learnt in maybe 3 months or less, and the math is pretty useless if they don't have a feeling for how to apply it to something like a stateless microservice.

I think in our industry having these people go directly to work internships would be much more valuable for them and society than what is currently happening. While I do think free education is good in principle, I am not very happy that my tax money is propping up this broken system.
Is this different from the last breach?
1. Make it work
2. Make it right
3. Make it performant (if too slow).