skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to be sure it really happened this way, but I feel like my PhD began more with a research challenge and then went top down into learning what I needed to to think about the challenge, and working back up to an academic framing of how the fundamental theory was advanced.

We also had comprehensive exams, so you're forced to know the overall theory of your discipline as part of the rigor of the program.

I personally like the challenge approach to research, it's like what companies call their "north star" sometimes. It's not that you're working directly on that problem necessarily, it's that you're identifying what would have to be true for that problem to be solvable and working on some of those things
This post is unavailable in a... peculiar way:

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If this is hosting provider's response to HN death hug, it's very poorly executed.
If you already have a Django project up and running, you wouldn't gain much by migrating, as most of the value (for the moment) is in the initial setup, ready boilerplate and sane defaults.

You could give it a spin tho (signup is free, and you can even create a demo project without signing up), any feedback is welcome!
The Craft of Emacs
A cross-stitch themed guide to Emacs Lisp, written in Racket.
This was a really fun list to read through. I agree with the author that knowing as much as possible about how things work, not just what things do, is extremely useful.

However, "Just know stuff" I think is a secondary requirement (although an important one) to be successful. People really struggle to "just know stuff" if they aren't interested in the subject in the first place. People who aren't interested will settle for knowing only what things do, and not dive into how they work.

I am interested in this stuff, and actually self taught (bachelors in mathematics here). I have experience with a lot of stuff on this list, not through work or academia, or because I want to make money, but through fiddling on my desktop at home. I too got the "coveted tech job" as a machine learning engineer, but I never would have if I wasn't legitimately interested in this stuff, studying for fun in my spare time. I have seen lots of people fail to progress in this field because they _don't care_, they just want a good job.

Kind of off topic, but this is actually an integral part of my interviewing process. We give candidates a simple dataset to model, and we receive their script. The performance on the hold-out set is only weighted ~20%. The candidates ability to talk about their process, about the internals of the model they used, about the feature engineering quirks to work around model limitations, about their parameter tuning scheme - these conversations reveal how much someone is actually interested in the field, and is a great indicator for whether or not they are going to be a good contributor to the team. I've had candidates who couldn't tell me _anything_ about how the models they used actually worked. PhDs included!
yesterday I posted a link to another text editor - Turbo
https://github.com/magiblot/turbo which is built using Turbo Vision framework
Not really sure if this is supposed to be the joke, but your link just redirects me to google
We covered this a while ago on the #osspodcast https://opensourcesecurity.io/2022/10/30/episode-347-airtags... TL;DR: Airlines hate being held accountable.
Pseudo intellectual knowledge. It’s a problem that has been with humans ever since we began communicating.

When there is a conflict Mountain goats just knock heads against each other (presumably so that both goats suffer concussions … until the one with the weaker knowledge graph suffers a loss of memory).

No such process in AI.
Do you agree with edubart's runtime vs. compile time distinctions between Nelua and Terra?

I was interested in Terra a while back, but it didn't seem to get a lot of traction. This three-year-old critique put the nail in the coffin for me:

https://erikmcclure.com/blog/a-rant-on-terra/
The person you're replying wrote no one wants to study the effects of nootropics in healthy adults.

Sick people with insurance, particularly chronically ill ones, or those with illnesses that threaten their lives, are where I'd imagine the majority of money is made. You could probably argue treating the ill is more psychologically impactful work too. That's going to skew where researcher's focus their attention, especially if their work is funded by private industry.
Elon Musk ‘doesn’t seem like’ right person to own Twitter, says co-founder
https://typeracelive.com/

I wasn't satisfied with other type racing sites because they were not real time enough for me. I wanted to be able to see exactly where the other racers' cursors were and where they made errors.

I don't expect to make money any off of this, but it was fun to build and I find it fun to play with my friends every once in a while.

The stack is React and ChartJS in the FE (that's it), and Rust with Warp in the BE.
Not sure if it's some kind of joke or the author doesn't want their article on Hacker News, but the URL is currently 302'd to point to Google.com.
Building a question answering system using semantic search and GPT3
depends if German and French gov already implemented this EU directive. Different countries implement it in different pace. For example Poland already has this law in power and amazon.pl is aligned to it.
One key flaw to this idea is simply mass. The best CRTs we ever made were probably the Trinitron tubes, which are notoriously hefty. A good living room TV set weighs 100-200 pounds!

The CRT itself is heavy, it's all glass and metal. Then you have to consider all the electronics required to drive it. Transformers and coils are very dense.

Whereas an LCD panel on its own is a very thin sheet of glass and some plastics. It's all driven digitally, so your entire control system is one fat chip.

Multiply this weight by the number of screens in a starship (hundreds? Thousands?) and you've got a problem. This extra mass significantly affects maneuverability and acceleration. You'd have to reduce mass elsewhere in the ship, most likely by reducing passenger count.

And good luck if you have to transport these things from a planetary surface. CRTs are inherently fragile and don't handle high acceleration well.

Magentic interference is also a likely concern. Every screen in the engine room would turn into a colorful mess any time the reactor is running. You'd have to invest even more mass into magnetic shielding.

All in all, I find this unlikely. Mass is too important in space travel. As other commenters mention, once you have the ability to produce ICs outside of earth, it's not that far of a leap to produce LCDs.

LCDs are simply better in every way that matters. Even refresh rate is arguably unimportant today, and will likely be solved entirely by the time we're thinking about interstellar travel.
If you can do that with social media accounts then I am sure private corporate logins must have also been breached hand over fist.
Apple literally just released a security update to a 10 years old device, and their devices have a huge second-, and even third-hand market so they easily live for that long.

There are plenty things to say about apple, but their devices do serve their lifetimes. I would be much more worried about the litany of low-end laptops and mobile phones that end up in the trash with zero value in a year.
Instead we made machines to write poetry so we can have more time for work.
But we also can no longer trust that information published by a verified human was actually created by a human.
Radiant: https://getradiant.app/

Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad.

Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music while playing all the songs you know and love, in a smart, contextual way.

Availability: iOS, Android.

Price: $0

Cost to me: like 40-50 bucks a month.

Why do it? I use it daily and so do many others. Great for house parties, offices, long car journeys or just your daily pilgrimage to the supermarket.
I'm surprised that Apple doesn't provide a commercial service for organisations such as airlines to scan baggage for AirTags.

This strikes me as something cheap to implement that would help everyone involved.
It's not pitched as a bike computer. The cycle navigation mode just enables use of paths that may not be available to cars or pedestrians.
https://tvdatanow.co/

We're an Ad Tech startup - cross device attribution measurement aimed at CTV specifically... and we have very few clients, just enough to pay the server bills and expenses but not enough to actually pay ourselves. Been like this for 3 years now.

It's hard, because the job is fairly demanding and it takes effort to keep this kind of big data apparatus going, but at the same time it's never quite dead and almost just barely always on the cusp of getting big enough to support ourselves with it.

We tried (and failed) to raise last year, so still entirely bootstrapped. With funding down right now another attempt at a raise doesn't seem like it's in the cards.
I get that you don't like sarcasm (disagree, but to each his own), but how is the comment that I replied to more "respectful"? They dismissed out of hand the entire intellectual exercise of the original post because it doesn't jibe with their ideal of perfectly informed employees making optimal contracts with their employers.

I found their tone quite sneering and flippant, and so I parodied it (pretty mildly, I might add, the implications are right there in the comment I replied to).
"If you think of the knowledge base of the internet as a living thing, ChatGPT is a like a virus that now threatens its life."

I am not sure, if the situation is that dramatic, but just wait, until advertisers finds a way to get their "data" into ChatGPT results (or alike).

Then things will get really ugly.

So yes, this is what we will have to do:

"All signs point to this strengthening the value of curation and authenticated sources. "
Built a password protected daily journal app to encourage myself to write everyday.

Wanted something very minimal and trustworthy and where all my data lives on my device and not on a server somewhere. Also wanted to see stats on how often I write and how much.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-journal-a-day/id1659288235

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.georgejose...
Just downloaded it and tried it. Still miles off being as good as mapy.cz. Even OrganicMaps is smoother than OsmAnd and navigation still takes far too long.
https://jointgreetings.com

(Currently totally free) online greeting cards that can be signed by many people digitally.

Started it to learn sveltekit but fairly happy with how it turned out. Still more work to be done with optimisations etc but the framework is there.

Currently losing $60/month as it’s part of my mongo atlas subscription and I’ve not gotten around to putting it on a free version yet.
> The problem here is that Blizzard Entertainment and their performance management system mixes the two approaches,” Grote said by email. “They’re using absolute comparison terms to make a relative comparison judgement.”

I think this is an interesting take. If you have to stack rank employees, then that's at least a valid piece of data, a relative comparison. We can argue about the value of that relative data and how it's appropriate to use it, but at least it's a fairly honest piece of data.

If you attempt to portray this as an absolute piece of data, either by saying the bottom 5% don't meet expectations, or by applying quotas to absolute ratings (i.e. 5% must not meet expectations), then now you're producing something fundamentally dishonest.
Now is a terrible time to start a PhD in ML. If you do a CS PhD, pick literally any other subfield.
Why Is East Asia Less Happy?
Thank you :)

Laravel, MySQL (Planetscale), Redis. Hosted on fly.io

Total monthly expenses is somewhere near $30/mo which is less than I've paid for personal hosting at times.
GJS would be SpiderMonkey+GTK so no actual browser rendering is available until one pull in something like Webkit.
You can say any city has widespread crime. There will be crime happening throughout the city on some level.
OT, but I find this fascinating: did you buy all of those computers for yourself? If so, why do you need to upgrade them so frequently?
Journal articles (and newspapers) are also plagued by bullshit.

Humans are capable of producing intelligently sounding word salads just like chatgpt can.
Termination and layoff are two very different things. You typically don't layoff people for incompetence, you fire them.
Seems like a fuzzy search would yield decent results if you already have the database
I'm not super enthusiastic about stock buybacks, but to my knowledge, pretty much 100% of Apple employees are eligible for the discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program (which is a no-lose proposition, if you can afford to defer part of your salary for 6 months), and at least in some years, all Apple employees got some outright stock grants, so the interests of "employees" and "shareholders" may be more aligned than you make them out to me.
A shirt that you bought for $100 3 years ago is not valued at $100 now.
The first version of Dall-E was mediocre. Look where we are now.
JS-free archive links:

https://archive.today/reH1y

https://web.archive.org/web/20230127161833/https://www.nytim...
This is why everyone keeps saying SMS 2FA is bad.
So many people on HN just debate based on the title of an article that the actual writing of the content is a superfluous waste of time
Regardless of personal reports you mention, choline is a very interesting substance due to demonstrated long-term attention benefits in children after being administered to their mothers during pregnancy: https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.2021012...

This is as close to "life-changing" as it gets with these substances.
Again how if the tag is torn or missing?
AI powered transcription and full text search web app: https://polyscriber.com

Started late last year, it works, but has a limited feature set and a basic UI. The core/primary features are there and have some friends using it with free credits. Next planned feature will be an API to enable integrations like transcribing and searching recorded meetings.
Impersonal ad-hominen is a great new way to construct an argument.

Or, maybe not that new. "These people to that" without even saying what people you are talking about has been used on politics since forever.
"Current evidence supports the finding that omega-3 PUFAs with EPA ≥ 60% at a dosage of ≤1 g/d would have beneficial effects on depression." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0515-5

Is this considered brain boosting?
It's not that different than naming a Protein by a Greek god or goddess, is it?
GPT has a hidden steganographic watermark in its output, so the arms race should be one-sided.
Agents like this under the control of users would be pretty great. Man, would companies ever hate if we could use the kinds of tools they use against us, against them. No more shopping for the best price: "ChatGPT, what's the lowest price on a new X, brand Y, model Z? And give me the URL to the product page." No more burning our human time talking to companies' robots: "ChatGPT, get through this shitty phone tree and let me know when you have a person". A true digital assistant. Couple with crowd-sourced data (receipt scanning, junk-mail grocery flier scanning, or the AR goggles that are probably not that far off) and you could even do stuff like have it plot optimal IRL grocery shopping for you (lowest total price on this list of goods, value my time at $X/hr, and factor in cost of transportation... and also ChatGPT assembled the list for me in the first place, because I had it create this week's dinner menu)

ChatGPT as a service that can be used to mislead us to trick us out of our money on the behalf of megacorps, like the entire rest of the Web has become? To "promote" things to us against our interests? Meh. Call me when it's mine and will obey me and will never lie to me or serve someone else's priorities over mine, and I'll be interested.
Suddenly I don't feel so bad about deleting an entire PVCS repository (happily answering 'yes' to all the 'are you sure?' questions) at 4:30PM on a Friday.
I have been burnt by the sockit board. I move away from wanting to learn fpga after all the bushit. All fgpa vendors are similar as far as I'm concerned.
I'm actively working on two projects currently making $0 (and I don't necessarily mind):

Mastodon Chirper - A browser extension which injects Mastodon posts into your Twitter timeline. Great way to transition to Mastodon without leaving Twitter. https://chirper.picheta.me/

Mousetrack - A price tracker and deal finder for Walt Disney World holidays. I hope to make it the best source of data for how prices for these holidays change (especially during our current high-inflation times). https://mousetrack.co.uk
Firefox now has JavaScript JIT acceleration for RISC-V (RV64GC)
https://codeatlas.dev - codebase visualisation tool

Takes your git repo and generates a beautiful visual representation of the code. Sort of an alternative navigation tool (in addition to IDEs) for large codebases. Can also run it as part of CI with our Github Action (https://github.com/codeatlasHQ/codebase-visualizer-action).

We made this because grokking complex software projects is really difficult and we've found that a visual overview of what's in a codebase can be quite helpful to get started.

E.g. checkout https://codeatlas.dev/gallery/kubernetes/kubernetes for the generated visualisation of the Kubernetes Github repo!

Currently making -10$/year to pay for the domain :D We slowed down active development after our initial attempts at dissemination didn't really go anywhere (bragging about side projects on the internet, ugh), but I'm still really keen on getting some feedback on whether this is actually useful to anyone else!

Note: The site works somewhat on mobile, but is much better on desktop!

Also, funny there's a post like this again, just like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531989 yesterday.
What you need to know depends largely what you are working on - and that also holds for a successful Ph.D. candidate. Of course, it is good advice to be open-minded beyond one's narrow field of inquiry, as the OP suggests, but a long list of maths topics may not be helpful a lot to beginners.

The Ph.D. period is the time when you have some time available to acquire additional skills, and my advice is: try to strengthen those aspects of your education where you currently have the most glaring deficits. For instance,
take a statistics course if that is your weak spot, or learn a foreign language
if you have evaded that topic so far in your educational journey.

Read the main textbooks of your field and read and re-read ALL relevant papers for your actual Ph.D. topic, once you've been able to identify it (which may well take you most or all of your first year). Take details notes because nobody can remember most of that much highly concentrated advanced material. Try to find gaps: ask questions and find out if people have tried to answer them yet or not.
Interact with others e.g. at conferences, after meeting some people there by attending and networking in a prior year.
Is it worth drawing up a standard rider for employment agreements? Stuff like “I own stuff that I create on my own time and with my own equipment” would be in there along with voiding non-compete clauses. Also, adding protections to minimum time off per year in the face of companies doing the “unlimited PTO” trick.

Then it becomes an exchange of paper rather than sitting there with a highlighter handing it back and forth between, you, the recruiter, HR, and legal. I sign your contract, you sign my rider with everything I care about.
It's not a bad way to compare when looking at flights traveling 2500+ miles...
tello.tv was started by Josh Comeau but I took it over and add to it frequently. I have some ideas that can make this better with more users (inherently data) but right now it's free.
Because not every baby figures it out the first time does not mean it is not intuitive for the other babies that do figure it out immediately.

It's become more of a meme to be needlessly contrarian, and ignore the fact that billions of babies actually do know this interface intuitively.
> Delays everyone getting on and off the plane

You check your luggage, right?

Then you're going to end up waiting at the luggage carousel no matter how long it takes for you to get off the plane.
...sure? I guess I'm saying that I don't really care about this speculation, since the reality on the ground is that we all collaborate.
I agree with the headline because uptime was the goal of Erlang.

Lightweight processes using message passing is how Erlang stays up (and perhaps ironically, let-it-crash is how Erlang avoids going down).

Lightweight processes and message passing are the architectural decisions that address the business problem Erlang was designed to solve.
https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

My passion project is building an OS in the browser. I've been at it for 2 years now. I've had interest from people who want to turn a profit with it, but I am happy to just keep adding features and polishing it forever.
As noted in the article, this is more-or-less an issue with corporate/biz MDM solutions.

A corporation buying hardware from another corporation. The “user” here is and was never in control of the hardware. The only human beings close to that role are the IT department.

Like it or not there are legitimate reasons corps do this. HIPAA, SOC, PCI, good old fashioned responsibility, etc. Apple isn’t the only vendor that sells systems and hardware locked in this fashion.

The reason we’re talking about this and not anyone else:

1) Apple is one of the world’a most valuable companies.

2) There is a tiny but very loud minority of people who have a seething, irrational hatred of them and cannot ever acknowledge anything positive about them.

3) Their solution for this is actually implemented well and can’t be bypassed.

I understand your point but we’ve gotten here for valid reasons - “XYZ employee gets laptop with 100m SSNs stolen”, etc.

Speaking more broadly, you are aware that with Apple Silicon they had a massive opportunity to do as you say and “own” user hardware, right? It would have been trivial for them to utilize all of this to prevent alternate OS installation. Even if they did lock out alternate OS installation they’d lose what, 0.5% of sales from the people ranting about Apple on HN that were never really going to buy Apple anyway?

Yet here we are with Asahi Linux.
I would say the productivity gains of Haskell are actually most transparently obvious in the case of the sort of toy algorithmic code you're likely to be writing in a compsci class.
Right on, stick it to the man
I live here and observe, it's reality, and its true other cities share this reality, and other's don't. Those that do share this problem have very different policies than cities that don't.

The problem with just thinking this is normal, a meme, and not caused by bad policies at the city and state level, means it will just get worse, and more people will leave, and the outcome of this is not good. Better to acknowledge that policies specifically about crime and police have had devastating effects on SF and continue unabated now.

I for one would like SF to be the great place it was before these policy changes, and therefore not have to leave.