skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. Revenue is a huge problem, which means academia will become a zero-sum game even (especially!) for higher-compensated labor. Academia's revenue streams come from three sources that are decreasing in real terms. Those revenue streams will likely begin decreasing even in nominal terms even as inflation reaches a higher steady-state! Government budgets for higher education and academic R&D are more likely to decrease than to increase, and even if they increase almost certainly won't keep up with inflation. Meanwhile, due to demographics, the USA in particular is about to enter a period of decreasing college enrollments (unless the percent of the college-going population can increase substantially, which is unlikely).

On the other side, spending is a huge problem as well. Like... professional grade sports teams? As an European: WTF does that kind of shit have to do with universities? Yes, I get it, it attracts students, but you could also carve out the sports teams into separate commercial entities. And the bill isn't small either - the US government helped out with 6.5 billion dollars and student fees with another 1.5 billion dollars [1] in 2018! That is, frankly, insane.

Also, at least Ivy League universities have endowments valued at literally dozens of billions of dollars [2]. The US needs a complete reform of university financing.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2020/03/11/college-sports-financing-st...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
That last line reminds me of the old refrain: "Ironic shitposting is still shitposting."
Also that old fake Descartes quote: " Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
I don't know regarding Pakistan, but it isn't true that they generally don't care: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-fo...
It's worth remembering that the hippies and related counterculture(s) became a threat to the status quo (most notably through their opposition to the Vietnam War), and that the War on Drugs was in part a way to criminalize that movement to limit its influence.

The playbook of "criminalize any counterculture that threatens the status quo" is arguably in continuous use now, preventing any countercultural movement from gaining that kind of scale through a combination of negative press and prosecution threats.
Awesome thank you. I'm adding it to the cargo favorites list: https://github.com/sixarm/cargo-install-favorites

Tiny feedback:

- Can you consider changing "git add ." to be explicit e.g. "git add Cargo.toml .github/workflows/release.yml"?

- How about modifying Cargo.toml to add cargo-dist as a dev-dependency? I know it's not strictly necessary; it's just very helpful for typical collaboration.
Exactly, nail making used to be a profession in itself so much that there is a German surname Nagelmacher which is literally Nail Maker. Don't see many of them around nowadays unless they own a factory that produces nails.
I use ChatGPT a bit, and I definitely see the value, however, the way they are pitching this seems more like they are giving you the option to help further train the system - "challenge incorrect assumptions".

It is currently valuable, but I only use it maybe once a week.
However, built into other products like Canva, that's where I see the real opportunity for me.
Perhaps those very pigeon droppings were interfering with their analysis of celestial bodies and helped them discover cosmic background radiation...it could happen twice [0]

[0] https://astronomy.com/news/2018/09/pigeon-poop-and-strange-s...
OP is not saying that type checking is useful. They’re saying that it’s not as useful.
Somewhat off-topic but I remember being initially confused when I read that my employer's health plan offered AD&D coverage.
This video[1] cleared up a lot of questions for me as to the issues I've seen with ChatGPT.

My current operating theory goes thusly:

Think back to "This Person does not Exist" [2], a site which generates a simulated human face. This works by randomly picking a vector into the latent space of human faces from a trained model, and showing it to the user.

When you're using ChatGPT, you're getting a simulated assistant, at random. The quality of the answer is highly dependent on how that portion of the latent space (and thus that particular simulated assistant) was trained.

Thus, as you get a wide variety of faces from this-person-does-not-exist, you'll get a wide variety of simulated assistants from ChatGPT.

For me, this explains the schizophrenic nature of ChatGPT.

As for the Bullshit it seems to spew, it is working against a rating system (another AI) trained to act like a human rating text. If those humans didn't know something, they had no way to express it, they simply had "pick which is best", which removes all the other dimensions of consideration, and quashes it into a scalar.

The optimum strategy for the rating system is to try to BS its way through things, which then teaches ChatGPT to BS its way through things as well.

Much like rating systems on HN, and all social media, this destroys information and tends to dis-incentivize nuance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viJt_DXTfwA

[2] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
Yeah thought so too... in particular the example where you pass a a generator to a db, the generator isn't actually executed, and instead the expression is parsed & transformed to SQL.

This is cool if it works. Good luck when it doesn't due to user error, and more luck if it doesn't due to a bug.

You need to develop a whole strategy to tell the user what went wrong and how, and why, basically from scratch; admitting that you didn't, in fact, execute the generator, and that they have to change it.
because of that.

It's pretty awesome that it's possible. And it would be pretty amazing to write something like that. But... idk if it's a good idea from a developer stand point. I like being able to understand what's happening in a library with a single click.
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Thanks - seen them and it’s similar but they’re building something much more enterprise scale.

Cascadehealth.ai and serifhealth.com are as well.
Hard to predict and I’m not sure of the timeline of purchases, but 40B was 10% of their market cap at closing, which is kinda bonkers. So naively at least a 10% jump.
Not a hindrance but I work with image data a lot. Usually what comes in is any kind of Numpy array and what comes out at the end is either statistics or a Numpy array. I try to type hint everywhere I can but I feel stupid doing so because all I do is work with arrays. Maybe I’m not proficient/knowledgeable enough though so take it with a grain of salt.
It feels like only 3 months ago I was repeatedly trying to convince HN readers that Meta was a great investment opportunity at a P/E of 9. In fact, it was…:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33572187

Markets aren’t efficient. People are biased and can’t look past them.

There’s quite a bit of knowledge on HN. As a group, we could do much better understanding the markets.
This implies that he eschews your regimen about how important production is. It's really not a signal that Twitter, the multi-billion dollar company, is about to collapse.

He's a cowboy coder? That's totally unsurprising to me. He's seemingly made it work many times in a row.

I agree that we don't know if all is well, so let's quit saying it's not.
I don't personally have a dog in this race because I'm happy working a single job, but I think you might be making assumptions that don't necessarily apply to all full-time jobs.

If at your company, "duration of time someone's butt is in their seat" is a meaningful business measurement, then by all means, insist your employees spend the required amount of time in their chair. Most full-time jobs I've had did not specify hours with such rigidity, and the best ones were very flexible about other things we need to do during the day (even, gasp, during business hours). Your business might not be willing to provide such flexibility. Definitely ask candidates about side projects and other jobs during the interview process and make your policy clear so they know it's important. Disclosure goes both ways.

I would find it distasteful if I got fired (and then the firer reached out to another, unrelated party to continue the damage), over something that was glossed over (or never asked about) during the interview, and simply written somewhere on page 13 of the employment agreement.
Many possible futures, but IMO for short/medium term projections one can narrow down if extrapolating from can be feasibly procured in time frame and limits of said hardware. Personally have extreme doubts on direct energy weapons for anything other than homeland defense where power/magazine is not issue. Like I don't see existing fleets being overhulled for enough power generation for sustained DE use. Maybe in new DDGX but that's 10+ years of developmeent and another 20+ years to be aquired in numbers. Only realistic answer to saturation missile strikes is advanced interceptors because you can counter salvo, which is more or less what expert panels on hypersonics from last few years have said. IMO fighter design is roughly going to be larger airframes for IndoPac theatre where you need long range, and extending that range will be even longer range stand off missiles vs bullets. Hi-lo mix of with sacrificial loyal wingman. B21 very likely can be used for mesh sensor + anti air. Space infra is heading starlink, both PRC and US have 10,000s constellations planned, I think surface ships doomed. Autonomous subs probably big. Biggest development for me will be volume aquisition of long range bombers like B21/H20 and prompt global strike / long range precision strikes. Drop ordnance accurately in volume or with speed, using platforms completely hosted from homelands = skipping all the layers inbetween and going strait for strategic targets on adversaries home front (i.e. all major energy infra). AKA conventional MAD. Everything else is incidental if conventional war has escalation rung equivalent to being nuked.
I had the opposite from Spectrum. I document every single outage and call them monthly to ask for credits.

Once month I got the bill and it was nearly 50% higher with no explanation. After contacting them they informed that where I was supposed to be receiving credits was in fact getting additional charges.

Either Spectrum employees are dumber than the average 5 year old or this was an intentional act done in retribution.
Yeah but they are also a major contributor to our breakaway UAP program with Lockheed - and also, the Horse fucking industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumclaw_horse_sex_case
Been using brain.fm which claims to do similar with their cerebrally-engineered audio. Anecdata point one can report feeling much more focused and engaged when it is playing.
You pay a 747 pilot way more than $50/hour.

https://www.aviationinterviews.com/pilot/payrates/united-par...
I'm not sure what you mean. Can you give an example?

I've attributed it to the formalization/metricization of every aspect of businesses. MBA-itis. "If you can't measure and control it eliminate it."

Similarly, if you believe a company's only job is to provide shareholders profits, this is the natural end game.
markets are irrational except when it goes up 17% AH ?
The philosophical lesson is that certain businesses just can’t exist without targeted advertisements, and that society might decide that is a price they are willing to pay.
I'm sure someone will get fired over this.
They do ship at MSRP, to a large number of corporate partners that embed the Pi in their products. Apparently at the rate of 30M per year. However much like the bitcoin miners who slurped up the GPUs for years, there's precious few Pis available to end users.

So much so that out of 30M a year the Pi foundation decided to allocate an extra 100k for end users, which did improve availability, but still it's clear that most production is going to corporate partners and not end users.
Part of blocking tracking is just outright blocking ads, so yes, I definitely get fewer ads. Also, I'm able to see more content. My spouse often finds they can't access some random article (or not all of it) but it works fine for me with my extreme blocking.
Surveillance technology will only improve. Trying to live this way will become impossible. The only solution is regulation.
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why would raising money imply dilution? shares could easily come from existing employees.
> StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp.

gwm was a normal window manager. Too bad it only works on 32 bit systems.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57004

Nothing concrete as it seems. It means that new releases are no longer tested with the old versions of Windows on their builders, and if you open a bug report about a problem with an unsupported version of Windows, nobody will care.
You are either looking at non-ECC prices or you have a supplier who is giving you extremely deep discounts.
Why would they put such a message if they didn't have the GDPR in mind?

I think like many other (mainly US) sites it's partly to make a statement, and partly misguided belief that they have to put some kind of message.

In reality it would be safer to ignore GDPR if you believe it shouldn't apply to you because you're not EU based. If you're doing something specifically for EU visitors then it becomes clear you're also targeting them as visitors and then you have to comply with GDPR (this popup isn't compliant).
Exec: Fix the login bug in production.

ChatGPT: There is no login bug in production.

Exec: Yes there is, run the login integration test.

ChatGPT: The test passes.

Exec: But I can't log in!

ChatGPT: Works for me.
macOS has a similar feature with Gatekeeper, which bit me when preparing a Pyinstaller binary for Mac. The flag doesn't get added when you download a file with curl, but it does when you download it through a web browser, which can cause difficult to debug issues with binaries downloaded from GitHub releases.

You can remove this flag with the xattr command:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine the_quarantined_binary

I wrote up the details of this in a PR [0] where I last dealt with it.

[0] https://github.com/splitgraph/sgr/pull/656
> I mitigate it by configuring the serializer to be tolerant of new or missing keys, enum values, et

Good point, we do that too.

> We actually considered grpc at some point but decided against it as being a bit too limiting and mobile centric at the time. Also, grpc in a browser was not well supported at the time we looked. Maybe that has changed?

Its supported:
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web

Transcoding to HTTP is also supported:
https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/grpc/transcoding

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/api-management/unders...
One fascinating thing (especially in view of this topic) about `next/image` is that the primary reason we decided not to optimize upon `next build` or `next export` is that we'd have all these customers migrating from Gatsby telling us their build performance was holding them back, and a big chunk of that was `sharp` optimization and overly eager static generation. Image optimization fits a "dynamic" model much better.

In fact, look at this example I tweeted today:
https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1620821476499947523

… it shows how Vercel lazily optimizes _specifically_ (1) for the images in viewport and (2) for the devices requesting those images. And new pages and images can be added without redeploying.

I think we could still put image optimization behind a flag with a durable cache at build time (think: `next export --optimize-images`), but it's always been hard to prioritize it as the world moves further away from pure-static solutions

As a userspace alternative, I don't think it'd be too hard to do a post-build script that runs `sharp` on a `source-images` folder, outputs it to `public/static-images` with content-addressable checksums, and sets `cache-control` in `next.config.js` `headers` to `public, max-age=31536000, immutable`. Oh, and you could first check if there work has already been done in `.next/images-cache` or something that the CI provider would cache across builds, to make it a bit faster.
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Oh, so what I had assumed was some kind of page table fragmentation was in fact due to the number of postgres clients increasing, meaning that the number of page table entries increased due to duplication between processes?

That would make sense, in retrospect: the OOMs almost always occurred at the point of highest client load.
Worth considering using nix with cargo. Of course it still involves a lot of "download from github" or "download from nix cache" but reproducibility + tight source hash pinning helps guarantee provenance.
I wondered if that was the case, but having extra discretionary income doesn't explain the dead space between $20 and $100. It's a pretty bimodal distribution, and the directors/VPs aren't all making 5-10x what a mid-level eng does.

They definitely do more communicating and less creating. They also seem more willing to invest cash rather than just time into their careers. I'm sure having extra income doesn't hurt, though.
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How do you go about finding and consuming papers? What are your grievances about this process?
Full size cars are designed to crumple because its less dangerous for the occupants
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If Google rewards the fluff, couldn’t the authors put it after the actual recipe?
I.e., tldr; first and then the backstory?
Also in eastern washington weird things drawn in the sky, google "eastern washington sky dicks" for a somewhat more phallic image representation.

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The Whidbey NAS pilots who did it got in trouble, as I recall.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/the-u-s-navy-released-tr...
You were talking about WhatsApp in context of the 2 billion number which doesn’t include WhatsApp users.
I disagree on your point that resources will remain scarce. That's true of earth, but long-term, which is really what I'm getting at, that's not the case. We aren't even that far off from mining nearby asteroids; give humanity 100 years, and who knows what we'll be up to.

UBI is a stopgap in that it just extends the current system by giving away money; eventually we'll need to move past 'money' somehow.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's more a "we're not going to bother to keep hooking up new things or doing fixes in a way that works and is tested on old operating systems" than "there isn't a way to..." type thing. Some security stuff may break the mold on that though.
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I understand you mean well, but does this really create a larger burden for the company or change anything in the future? I've never had a letter result in anything.
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SolidJS also sacrifices expressivity for performance (ie you need to do contortions like this[1] to build dynamic lists), so I prefer React to it. However, I like its approach more than Svelte because there’s less of a DSL to learn.

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