skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I published in refereed journals from 1997 until 2006.

I was in academia - the last one, post-academia - and it was (to me) understood that having peer review was at least a gatekeeper for releasing information that might be useful to or otherwise heeded by the public. Maybe.

Are there problems with that? Are the prices exceptionally high, especially for academic libraries (I recall that Tetrahedron Letters was on the order of $25K in 1995 for a subscription at UT-Austin)? Yes.

But I keep coming back to the standards involved with friendly, neutral, or hostile people vetting your work. It's a higher standard to reach than the free market will entertain, but there is a cost. Keep you on your toes.

The staff and editors need to be paid. Reprints - something from my generation, actual hard copies, some of those requiring color and not BW - cost money. It all costs money.

Do the authors get something in return? Yes. We get refereed journal article citations on our CVs, and that's invaluable.

Love the idea, wish there was a meeting in the middle.
No, at least not on the desktop machines.

On servers, it picked up a few exploitable (but uninstalled) packages from our Debian mirror, and a few EICAR files. So, no actual threat averted.
Here's coffezilla's video about joining hustler university
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BijOF8I2t_4
My two big pieces of advice (which I’ve also given to team members growing into senior roles):

1. Learn how and when to step into “external” code when debugging. How being mainly oriented around navigating call stacks that might be obfuscated by default, while establishing pattern recognition for cases where problems in your code show up in third party call sites versus simple cases of misconfiguration.

2. Sorry but… learn regex. Even if your language is static everything, you’re probably going to hit a wall using code navigation tooling. If you know the general format of things you’re looking to find and call stacks aren’t getting you there, regex is an incredibly powerful way to find what you’re looking for. Don’t rely on it for aggressive mass changes, but definitely get comfortable with it for finding potential root causes.
> but it's always fascinated me how the Z80 and the 6502 dominated the market for reasonably-priced CPUs for about a decade.

Only a decade? I would argue they had at least 15 years of dominance and were being used en masse for ~20 (the Genesis, SMS, NES, Gameboy, etc were using them well into the 90s, as you mentioned).
One thing I have a hard time getting away from as a consumer is the delta in graphics quality between VR and a high-res display.

Modern AAA games on a 32" 4k monitor that I'm sitting right in front of are pretty damn beautiful and immersive.

By comparison, anything in VR is low res and low poly.

Of course this is a natural effect of the technical constraints* but the 3d and head-tracking aspects of VR seem less important to me than the crispness of a screen.

* I can't find a plausible explanation for the absurdity of the graphics of (e.g.) Meta which despite an apparently unlimited budget can't muster graphics exceeding what I experienced on a 1024x768 on my Pentium II in highschool.
This is just eugenics with a shot of sexism. If you're going for that, you might also look for people with "problematic genes" or from problematic populations and decide you want to be more surgical too.
Is that true? I thought phd students typically had access to these via the (expensive) agreements universities have. I thought sci-hub was for everyone else?
Someone has to pay for that compute power. There are returns to scale and savings from sharing a machine when it would be idling, but those aren’t a factor of 10x. The AI will get in your pocket eventually and they’ll be ready to charge a premium for it.
I did.

At one point I was paying for Paramount+, HBO-whatever, Netflix (for me) and a traditional cable subscription (for my elderly grandfather who lived with me).

I'm not adding up how much I was paying.

I cancelled cable after he passed, realized I missed nothing.

Cancelled Paramount+ and HBO-whatever at some point and cancelled Netflix about a year ago (and I was an early DVD subscriber and a streaming subscriber from day-1). Paying for the services was marginally easier than sailing, but, with arr services it's easy enough.

Mostly I was happy to support services producing great content, but, there's a marked decline in quality and such fragmentation of the services that I'm just not into it anymore. I don't want to doomscroll things on netflix, I want to watch what I want to watch and get out.
Not necessarily disagreeing but I wonder how that applies to the yet to be born audiences. Maybe they will be used to it. The killer app (maybe remote travel, or vocational training) delivered via VR will make them used to it. To them 2D would be like using emacs having only used an IDE
Autodesk cad cam ? Was that not Lisp?
Working at Valve: A rare look at alleged boss-free company [video]
And as in the Iota language, you only need the X combinator to do everything. (Sorry YC.)
Doubt. Individuals feel assaulted by society independent of reporting.
Aiming towards a legitimate meritocracy is the least dystopian aim possible.

Aiming at anything else will simply be a less effective, more corrupt, more unjust, more arrogantly constructed system.

True meritocracy requires aiming away from corruption, towards justice, and towards humility. That will never be perfectly achieved, but the lack of willingness to even aim at the target in large sectors of society at the moment is something I find both incredibly depressing and incredibly counterproductive strategically. There are tools and procedures that can be systematically employed to measure merit that, while imperfect, are better than nothing, and seem to be increasingly rejected because people don’t like the results. Those results are not something that should be considered static nor perfectly calibrated to merit nor reflective of worth as a high status member of society. But the incredible amount of sensitivity around any attempt at identifying and nurturing people with signs of high potential regardless of background is a giant achilles heel affecting all of society. Failing to properly address and assuage those sensitivities so we can pursue meritocracy to the extent possible harms everyone in the long run.
This really depends, but for things that really are confusing you / your team won't help, why not add the metric? You add observability and can learn something about how that flow is utilized
> There is a LOT of dead (unreachable / redundant) code in any enterprise codebase. Especially recently launched flag that haven't been "cleaned up yet". Just start cleaning this stuff up. Even the very obvious stuff gets you very well introduced to the codebase.

Ooof, good way to get well known in the team when the smoke comes out. :)
excellent, thanks!

this has been a serious pain in my side for a while, both for my own debugging and for telling people I try to help "you're gonna have to start over and do X or this will take hours longer".
> The Myth of Mental Illness

Having been close to a few people with psychotic disorders (I'm not misusing that term, I mean paranoid delusions, hallucinations, ...), this rubs me the wrong way. A mild case of depression may be safe to approach this way but with serious psychiatric problems that is dangerous.

The author wrote a book saying schizophrenia doesn't exist, and was made up by psychiatrists. While it's probably true that it's a blanket term for what are probably multiple causes or possibly more of a spectrum disorder, I have seen schizophrenia up close. It would be foolish to say it doesn't exist, in that there are millions of suffering people in existence who fit the symptom criteria and benefit from treatment.

You also need to be careful about people who advocate this position because some of them are affiliated with cults.
I wonder which is more wasteful - compiling these packages for the nth time vs mining cryptocurrency...
It's NASA's research high altitude aircraft.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/er2-806-retu...
Isn’t the research now on using float8? Anyway, it will take time to move battleship, but they’re well aligned and motivated. Their UI team has gone to hell in recent years, but hardware has been strong with nothing to waste the power on. Now there is something to use it for.
This! Riffing on your comment I think probably what a lot of going on is, what’s called and labeled as depression is really a highly diverse, multi faceted multitude of different things for different people. So people come with a certain affect, certain behavior, and it gets labeled as depression, but actually what’s going on, is probably a whole range of distinctly (and likely because it’s complex: overlapping), pathologies, conditions, or whatever you wanna call them with different causes and different effective treatments and it’s all just getting lumped together.

And one reason is because we just don’t know enough exactly as you say.

Maybe one reason electroshock “works” (if it does and I’m speculating here and I feel like it sounds like a barbaric torturous medieval treatment) but maybe one reason is because it throws enough entropy into the brain to allow it to reset out of the local “optima” that it had settled into. And obviously there’s multiple you know assumptions going into that statement and I’m just speculating.

Riffing on that comment I think it’s interesting to consider that the depressive response may actually be an adaptive evolutionarily response of the brain, the nervous system, the body, the endocrine system, whatever and I think it’s interesting to consider what that adaptation might be trying to achieve.

Maybe depression is not the cause of unhappiness, but its result. The collection of symptoms is the result of unhappiness and a response by the body to try to slow somebody down when they’re sort of in a situation that the body brain system whatever has judged is dangerous or not good for them.

And that danger may be to mental health or some thing so it’s basically a way to try to take somebody out of circulation to protect them. It’s the self trying to protect itself from a dangerous environment, whatever the parameters of that environment may be: social, environmental, work whatever.

I was going to add my personal experience. I might be a bit of an anomaly. I have the full range of emotions, intensely experienced, and all kinds of crazy deep experiences in my life so far but I’ve never been depressed. And I always felt it was some thing I wasn’t gonna let happened to me: I was gonna Always find a way through and to keep moving through whatever situation. So I think in my case I mean riffing on what I previously said the depression response never came up because I always kept moving through whatever I was in and my body didn’t have to take me out of circulation, because I was always finding a way like actively to just keep going and doing what I want.
I know some news outlets flat out refuse to print the names. That's a start.
So you got the same experience us fans of 1 & 2 got when trying 3/NV/4 ;)

Honestly I no longer resent the Bethesda games but for whatever reason despite replaying 1 & 2 multiple times (including in recent years) I just can’t get into the 3d ones. NV was the closest but it still didn’t manage to grab my attention for more than a weekend. 3, 4 & (via gamepass) 76 didn’t even get that far (a couple of hours each).
There are a lot of academic papers I want to read, either to advance my own knowledge or because I am doing a vanity search and want to see where I made some mistakes, or how I can improve things.

Without sci-hub I would not be able to get access to a lot of them. A good example being this one https://sci-hub.ru/10.1109/TASE49443.2020.00032 which I could had no other option than pay an exorbitant amount of money to access https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9405312

I don't mind actually paying for things, but the prices they charge are insane. Especially for something were I there only thing I can see is a small footnote that just happens to make what I am interested in pop to the top of search results.
Huh, I wrote about this a few months ago too (with a lot more whimsy): Eating Elephants -- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c07-Zj6bUbYPwx7Zttd1N74o...

The thrust of both our articles is similar, except I think I ended up using many more words.
Because we are unable to do that, and we've tried for decades.

There are all kinds of things we're doing (e.g. rewriting things in memory-safe languages) to make it less likely for an attacker to become able to control a jump to somewhere, however, we don't expect to fully succeed any time soon, and this is defense in depth against cases when attackers once again do find a way to control transfer to some arbitrary gadget.
My mind is blown. I don't know how sustainable this is without manufacturers pulling products or filing lawsuits.
I struggle to understand how 'eliminating' 50% of society because of the actions of less than 0.0000003% makes any sense whatsoever. If you're not trolling, please seek help.
I think the interesting thing is that, apart from those private companies, institutions such as IEEE and ISO also have rediculous paywall, even for standards that should be public... Perhaps the gov have less influence over private companies, but can't they do something with IEEE and ISO?
As long as you don't mind supporting evil organizations and being subject to continuous prostilitizing. I find it difficult to believe that someone who is depressed needs to hear that they're a sinner heading to hell unless they accept whatever precepts the particular church is pushing.
You need the mental health diagnosis to get access to study drugs and testing accommodations for that extra leg up.
I tried configuring the training for Apple M1 chip and I was able to configure the training to work on both CPU / GPU based on how you configure. In my case it was faster on CPU. If you are running on other platforms, We need to check on PyTorch config for utilising better CPU.
Worrying about fault and taking an adversarial perspective where you see patients as being stubborn or lazy and concluding that resistance to lifestyle changes is due to that is absolutely insane.

People are resistant to those things because they are being told - do all these things and make all these hard changes and you will feel better and have motivation and energy. While they are thinking, “but to do all those things will require a lot of motivation and energy”. So patients are being told to get the things they want, they need to already have them.

It doesn’t matter if depression is a chemical imbalance or whatever. The reality is people get stuck and medication is a very easy initial step that can get them moving. It’s well established that executive control varies among people. It’s not a moral deficit to be on the lower end of that spectrum and be unable to spontaneously will yourself out of a depressive apathy.
True but what has allowed it to become "an option" for these people? It's pronounced in the US, but mass violence (not just shootings, but bombings, knivings, mass vehicular assaults, etc) has increased beyond population growth, I think?
Ok I'll ask, what tools do you use?

Is your technique described somewhere?
I want to do the reverse: pass in some music and have it describe what I'm hearing
It's amazing that I've never even heard of this. As we have seen time after time, the best technology doesn't always win, marketing is a huge factor. Does the organization behind this do any marketing?
You will have become the very thing you despise, only far far worse.
Definitely - fast ecosystem shifts are the nature of social sites and I'm glad the market is re-learning this... to some degree anyway.

Google can still point to it and say "billions missed out on" though, and not a single person in the board room will disagree.

Meta-wise, I'm glad the acronym is now MANGA, and I have my popcorn ready. The metaverse is the second biggest joke I've seen this much money spent on, second only to NFTs. I quite like VR, but "owning" "the metaverse" is unbelievable nonsense.
In enterprise where there is poor documentation and lots of tribal knowledge, noting down just those 2 lines for every new info is a quick way to break down knowledge gaps created by just that.

It is exactly due to such disdain for documentation that most people find it hard to navigate large codebases. Documentation is not just for noting things down pedantically but also a thinking tool and a temporary thought buffer.

And no one pushes code to production to validate assumptions. Not if you have 100 clients and you are not doing CD.
I’d really like to experience this. Is this something I could do on a week-long hiking trip? Where can I get more info?
My guess is that the metaverse has reduced quality so that it runs on the Quest headsets. They're basically just an android phone built into a headset, and they're capable of significantly less than a PC.
Ask HN: What are your favorite projects built using GPT-3?
What I noticed was, block_size config 16 works best. Increasing it gives mostly the original kural. There are lot of ideas for further optimisation, especially in the encoder/decoder as it is not tuned for Tamil.
No, I am unsurprised by the DataDog taking that position; it fits with what I know of the company. However as someone pointed out, the comment in question wasn't originally linked, but I see it now.
Lots of researchers outside the first world may actually fall into the everyone else category. Not all institutions are flush with money to sign the extortionate licensing deals. Gp comment is definitely a stretch though.
The Boston Bruins and the Dallas Stars faced off in a heated match on January 26th, with tensions running high between Bruins defenseman Connor Clifton and Stars forward Corey Perry. The tension boiled over in the third period, when Perry delivered an elbow to Clifton's head. Clifton, not one to back down from a challenge, responded with a punishing blow that sent Perry crashing to the ice
What Are Diatoms?
Incredible work, the best python database tool just got even better!
Wow. That's a huge difference.

I purchased a Chinese brand scooter from a US-based dealer.

Their customer service was awful. They had a phone number that changed often and didn't work, and lied about their intent to honor warranty claims. It was broken for 4 months. In the end, they decided to cancel my warranty and refuse any further assistance because I dared to ask for a functional product.

I suggest no one ever buy a Kaabo scooter from any of the 3 major dealers in the US.

Kaabo itself is even worse providing no support to customers at all.
The Power of Chatbots in SaaS Customer Support
> the bits in the output would be correlated, if in a complex, cryptographically obscure way.

Yes – but by definition, no feasible computation would be able to detect the correlation; and if nobody can detect that it's there, it does not matter.
Many nation states do not have freedom of speech and have laws that content can be taken down if it is considered bad - and the definition of bad is always changing based on the current ruling party.

Thus, they might have just the threatened YouTube with domain level blocking if laws of the land are not followed.

Also I am not sure, why the ruling party is so uppity about this documentary. It doesn’t even show Modi in too much of a bad light. Basically just shows that he was incompetent in stopping riots.

Also not sure, but does the BBC have an agenda with releasing this documentary now on an event that happened around two decades back.
The problem of course being that x86 linux on laptops is still and might always be terrible. Using an ARM Mac to develop your backend services is not ideal but probably still a better user experience than the 0.01% where a modern language does something vastly different on your local machine than in production (which is btw also very often ARM these days, at least on AWS).

I've used Ubuntu, WSL2 and currently a M1 mac and if I need to be mobile AT ALL with the machine I chose a Mac any day. For a desktop computer Ubuntu works great though
Another stab at a "typed Lua" is this paper by one of the original authors of Lua: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2020.102393

The paper describes the language Pallene
Some languages besides English have distinct terms for a human face vs. an animal face. Is that what you're referring to?
English hasn't been the default for OS or browsers since 1995.
Kind of a bummer that decorator metadata won't be supported, but this is at least a step in the right direction.

I'm looking forward to the day that I can write validation decorators for intersections, unions, and generics without doing any crazy hacks.
It may have been worth it for the author to mention that Apple is sitting on the biggest pile of cash in the known universe.
There was an article a while back where there was some debate about how the metaverse had failed to provide a stadium like quality experience with thousands of attendees, rather they created a sort of conference room experience.

I couldn’t help but think that I wanted neither and the folks pushing this idea were people who wanted conference rooms or stadiums of people watching them, but I’m not sure anyone else would be interested.
I’ve seen some published studies recently about altered gut bacteria in people whose mothers experienced trauma, altered insulin sensitivity. It’s definitely getting clearer scientifically why weight is so much harder for some
> they or their repair center marked it as a no fix, recycled the card and I was credited the amount I paid, sadly that was during the GPU crunch

I bet somebody kept that GPU, fixed it, and flipped it.
This is a bit off topic but your comment reminded me of something I learned only comparatively recently: while these degrees are things we earn one at a time, they are sequential and the result is that your status (the degree to which you have climbed the academic ladder) does not accumulate, it only changes.

So at one point in time your mentor would have held the status / degree / title of Bachelor of Science. They were then promoted to Master, and then to Doctor.

That’s probably what you’re saying, and this isn’t really a correction. It’s simply something interesting that I wanted to share with everyone else.
I mean, you can do both. Or, technically with that link you mentioned, all three.

You can use HEREDOCS to combo together commands that make sense in a layer, ensure your layers are ordered such that the more-frequently changing ones are further on in your Dockerfile when possible (this will also speed up your builds, ensuring as many caches as possible are more likely to be valid), and use mutli-stage builds on top of that to really pare it down to the bare necessities.
As someone part of a university, I don’t even bother trying to sign in with my organization, since the probability I have “legal” access to a drm-free pdf of a resource by signing in is lower than if I just try it on sci hub.
How do you feel about Lisp in 2023 compared to your opinions as expressed in the article?

How do you feel about Clojure?

I’m a seasoned software engineer in 2023 that has worked up and down the stack that has always wanted to get into Lisp. What’s the 2023 way to do it?
Good news! The PR is moving again!

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
Very cool and innovative!

I don't have direct anxiety but I have shallow breathing and inappropriate sinus tachycardia that feels like a persistent state of anxiety without a proximal cause. Anything I could do to physiologically relax would be fantastic.

Keep up the good work!
Just as a caveat, ((a % b) + b) can overflow. For example, with 32-bit signed integer arithmetic, mod(1000000000, 2000000000) using that formula will yield -1294967296 instead of 1000000000.
Do tobacco and cannabis use and co-use predict lung function