skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Graduate student compensation and treatment is a serious problem at many Universities across the country. I had a pretty good experience in grad school... great department... great advisor... a stipend on which I could actually live.

But man oh man... I know of a lot of work colleagues who were treated like shit in grad school:
- effective pay far below minimum wage
- no medical or crappy medical, far below university staff benefit levels
- forced 6-7 day a week schedules
- verbal abuse and intimidation from professors
- Advisor's holding students back from defending their thesis for years to squeeze more work out of them (this should be a crime)

I hope everyone thinking about going to Temple is watching this carefully and making other plans.

Also... under the circumstances, I find Temple's DEI statement (https://diversity.temple.edu/) to be complete bullshit.
On a random note I used to be an "I'll never go apple guy" but having to do some app dev had to get one so got a 13PM and recently upgraded to the 14PM and also copped a Pixel 7 Pro and man... going back to Android feels like regressing, sure swiftkey etc is nice but every app feels lesser than it's ios counterpart in terms of polish and feel, ios gestures are also way better. I haven't used my Pixel in weeks outside of work and a few calls despite having spent the last decade or so on Android. I once heard someone say even a baby can use an iphone and it shows, I don't think when I'm on it, it feels very natural and you quickly get used to the inconsistencies. I now have a M1 and a watch, heh.
What exactly is a drawback of Trunk-based development for developers?
> Can large-language models help humans with the creation of original writing? To answer that, we need to be specific about what we mean by that question. There is a genre of art known as Xerox art, or photocopy art, in which artists use the distinctive properties of photocopiers as creative tools. Something along those lines is surely possible with the photocopier that is ChatGPT, so, in that sense, the answer is yes. But I don’t think that anyone would claim that photocopiers have become an essential tool in the creation of art; the vast majority of artists don’t use them in their creative process, and no one argues that they’re putting themselves at a disadvantage with that choice.

An interesting example since I believe photo shop could be considered an excellent example of “photocopier” art
This doesn't answer your question, but I really wish someone would offer off-the-shelf panels with tubing on the back to hook up water lines. It would be dope to cool my panels and preheat my hot water at the same time.
Back in the 90s we had a different term for "full stack developers". We called them "web developers"
I don’t care about the next big thing or changing the world. I’m just not interested in working for companies that were mismanaged into the ground.
Hehe, ok. Fantastic movie that one. Also quite depressing.
The run around is just "if you built more than half of it, you can be trusted to maintain it" which isn't really all that scandalous. It's actually been a very healthy thing for the GA industry in recent years given the issues outlined in TFA
I find it interesting that you’re comparing an old, low-end Pixel phone to the most expensive current generation iPhone. If your phone budget is $300 you’d be comparing it to the similarly priced iPhone 11 or SE; if you wanted a prestige flagship phone you’d be comparing it to a high-end Android device costing about the same.
Ask HN: Advice for processing large quantities of data locally?
I have a Postgres database with a few terabytes of data. I need to process a large quantity of data (terabytes) which will involve queries/upsertions into the database.

How do you best do this and finish in a reasonable amount of time (1-2 weeks)?

For reference, I have 64GB of RAM and working with several 5TB drives (a mix of NVMe, SSD and spinning discs).
Highway robbery… am I rite?
I’m surprised this isn’t happening up and down the line. All those law/consulting/accounting firms (where the culture assumes most people have private offices) are leasing enormous amounts of space that’s underutilized now because people are only in a couple or few times a week. With the economic belt tightening coming up it seems like a no brainer to start trying to end these leases.
The reason they cut it short was that it was unethical to let more of the control group get severe COVID-19, so they had to be informed.
Shell’s board of directors sued over ‘flawed’ climate strategy
You’ve summarized my memories of encountering this game at showbiz often. I loved the art.

I remember looking it up in college https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gbc/436660-dragons-lair/faqs/1... and realizing there’s no way I would have ever remembered all that.

https://youtu.be/hdumVFgwgP8 is the complete run. I so wanted to like it. Fortunately that style didn’t survive often.
Well, they can train the model on things we know _aren't_ alien signals.

Edit: From the article:

> To train the AI system, Ma inserted simulated signals into actual data, allowing the autoencoder to learn what to look for. Then the researchers fed the AI more than 150 terabytes of data from 480 observing hours at the Green Bank Telescope.

The simulated signals were sounds that couldn't possibly be produced by any (known) natural astrophysical process. So, the model finds signals that have characteristics of artificially generated signals.
Forgive me for being negative, but it doesn't seem to me that anything that faces the public in the UK is allowed to be nice any more. Lack of funding, overzealous safety and cost regimes, plus hooligans who will deface anything, and you have a country where everything has to be made industrial-ugly, if even made at all these days. (except for private office buildings for finance people)
Well I mean. In a lot of the popular Linux distributions you kind of get what the distro comes with.

Can you configure openSUSE to use apt instead of zypper? I mean, sure, probably, it's open source.

Is it going to be straightforward? I don't know. I suspect it's going to be harder than it's worth, and you might need to rebuild the operating system image to change the directory layout to work with apt's assumptions or something.

So in practice, even though these things are all open source, people who bundle complex software lay down the paths that 99.9% of people will take.

I wasn't proposing "disabling telemetry" as the primary business proposition.

Instead I was suggesting that open-source companies spend a lot of time dealing with issues from people who use the open-source software in unanticipated ways. If "the beaten path" for using the software without support includes telemetry, they get value from that.

If people want to use the software without telemetry, then they're paying for a support license, so the issues they run into which the supporting company has no telemetric insight into are at least better aligned with their support resource allocation.
You mean in 500 years, nobody's going to dig up the server rack in my house and figure out how to rig the Ceph cluster back up?
You’ll be waiting longer than that for a Sling HW. It was nearly a 3 year waiting list when I ordered one last summer.
I hate Stackoverflow and ChatGPT is my savior
I hate the smell, always have. Smells like rotten vegetables. But I have grown to like the taste, especially with khai jiaow cha-om (ไข่เจียวชะอม) (acacia shoots fried with egg, a sort of omelette).
Is cold calling legal? Don't you need marketing consent before contacting someone with the purpose of selling a product/service?
A funny story that's vaguely related - Here in Ireland, alcohol sales were prohibited on Good Friday until surprisingly recently. But there were some exceptions, and one of those was travelling.

I've heard stories of people buying a ticket to the next town so they could park themselves in the Station Bar for the afternoon. And the lockdown equivalent - a budget flight so you have similar free rein of the airport for the day.

edit: the quote “nobody likes them except the public and the public have flocked to them” rings awfully familiar around here.
Yes, exactly, apologies if I misunderstood your comment. I haven't been able to find more concrete information if the University is threatening to just not pay for health insurance now, or if they said they'd cancel health care flat out.
Ploopy Open-Source Headphones
It wouldn't fix it even a little bit, because DNSSEC is a server-to-server protocol, and the "threat" in this scenario is your upstream DNS server.

It would, on the other hand, create enormous new load on the DNS infrastructure.
No examples on the front page. Example is multiple clicks away.
Most yachts have 35-75hp diesel engines.
While reading more about this I found out about the ~/.hidden file which I'm pretty excited about. The following hides the folder from Thunar & Dolphin (and presumably other file managers):

echo snap >> ~/.hidden
Hopefully not for long.
A 1% wage with a 0.1% cost of living is still poor! Its all relative. Stocks dont mean nothing to me. Watch the stock price plummet when founders sell their stock.

There are jobs out there, I've turned down 3 (2xUS, 1xUK/CH) last year I enquired about just to keep in touch with whats on offer and gain insight into projects underway or commencing. Paying 6 figures, US onsite, UK/CH offered remote, working as many hours as I wanted. Turned them down. I think US/Canada remote is rare because of the poor internet infrastructure once you get outside of the cities, Europe has better internet infrastructure so can offer more remote work. Management styles are generally different in the US compared to Europe, with the UK somewhere in between the two regions as usual.

I think people need to understand the different parts of a global economy and realise some sectors some countries wont be or will hardly be affected by the social media downturn especially if they are prepared to work abroad and broaden their horizons.

Plenty of money in China.....
Because if they don't I won't sell them my labor.

I've retained employment for nearly two decades, and have retained the "privilege" of working remotely for nearly half of that. I'm not concerned.
We also had fewer complexity
Oh, that was removed by the famous Julie Ann Horvath who made allegations of sexism and discrimination against Github (who hired an investigator and said they did not find grounds for the claims).
Wow, yes this looks like it will do the job!
In the mid 90s, Congress passed a law capping the liability tail for manufacturers. That helped some, in that most of the planes from the 50s and 60s were off the manufacturer’s books.

But it’s still crazy because GA is a high income pursuit. So any lawsuit for lifetime earnings is going to be huge.
Perl makes it easy to do as well.

# Delete (most) C comments.
$program =~ s {
/\* # Match the opening delimiter.
.*? # Match a minimal number of characters.
\*/ # Match the closing delimiter.
} []gsx;

And I always do that to remind myself what I am doing it for.
It was my understanding that the threat was long term. I'm probably wrong about that!
I’m really comparing it to my previous ICE cars, both an Audi sedans and a Mercedes. All built in the last 10-15 years.

100,000 miles for spark plugs is extremely rare. I just pulled up a 2022 A4 and it’s 30k. Transmission fluid is 40k miles. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the heat, vibration and weight from an ICE engine wears down parts faster. Add in complexity from turbochargers and there’s even more parts that can fail.

The coolant system on an electric vehicle is extremely simple. There’s no radiator even. An ICE coolant system is far bigger and more complex.
not allowed to integrate with other people's work in progress without a trip through main. also dont know how you are supposed to put out maintenance releases.
I just had my first week last week. Took a startup first engineer position and I’m not regretting it!
This and Space Ace were my favorites. The audio is forever etched into my brain.
What's your guidance concerning the risk of prompt injection with applications built on this kind of platform?

If developers on your platform are building code that accepts prompt input from untrusted users do you have any measures in place to avoid them tricking the system into executing functions in an inappropriate or unintended way?

One thing I'd find useful would be a limit on the number of functions that can be called during a single execution - and rate limits and budget calls on functions generally might be smart as well.
The engines don’t require lead, it was just the only high octane fuel available. We do have a 100LL replacement now, and work is being done to get it into service. Lower compression engines run just fine on mogas where it’s available too.
Spot on. Just uttering the beauty of freemarket is X is quite lazy intelectually to be honest.
That server rack clearly the the Rosetta Stone of the future. It is the key to the understanding of all our current jargon.
The “prompt” was a very very brief yellow flash on the periphery of the screen in the direction you were supposed to move the joystick. I tried it a few times as a kid but was far too poor to get past the first one or two prompts. The visuals were mind boggling and the gameplay was abysmal, so my friends and I would usually just stare at the demo reel before moving on to a game that would stretch our quarters farther (gauntlet, tmnt, street fighter, etc). Ah, those were the days…!
Original!? JenniCam would like a word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley
I don’t think so. The prisoner’s dilemma is just a payoff matrix. Adding communication doesn’t change it as long as each player can’t see the other’s choice before making their own. And whether the payoff matrix arises because of a mutual adversary or some other way doesn’t seem like it should make a difference to me.

Make it an iterated prisoner’s dilemma, or add some other way for players to punish each other after seeing their choice, and that does change the game.
You say "it got so bad" as if there was some kind of progression.

I see exactly 2 (flagged) comment mentioning jews, both by accounts created ~2 hours ago (could even be the same person), in other words, explicit trolls; could even be false flags.

Given these comments are quickly flagged (by presumably more multiple members), they are explicitly not accepted by HN. I'd be more interested in hearing about the "thinly veiled and overt racism" from longer term members if I where to judge the HN community.
Did the poster-you-are-replying-to change their comment, because I don't see the literal (quoted) "they're lazy".

I see instead:

"People with a cultural background that fosters academic achievement"

"Korean friend growing up who spent his every afternoon and weekend studying while I was playing videogames"

Which, to me, isn't at all the same as the (insulting) phrase "lazy". Plenty would say Asian cultural prioritisation of academic success is even too extreme e.g. tiger parenting.

Also, as an aside, as someone with a recognisable name, I'm surprised you are using your regular account for these controversial political topics.
Perhaps we'd be able to promptly enter data without predefined structure. AI will help suggest entry form structure progressively. Searching and reporting will be in natural language.
Because it begs the question of why the outcomes are different, and hence challenge some narratives concerning systematic racism e.g a lot of those narratives put the outcomes on factor external to those communities i.e. "the system" - but Asians are in the same system, and have/had a similar relationship to it.
But it's easy to be skeptical of this. If you say "I'll gladly pay you [tomorrow] for a hamburger today" people will think "Tomorrow never comes".

Also, the authoritarian method of labeling people with an -ism for questioning* DEI initiatives/principles, doesn't seem to be the kind of thing that will inspire the positive change you describe. It feels more like drawing lines in the stand to setup the coming culture war.

> You will get a VISOR if you are blind

Then you are no longer blind, hence there was no actual change. In comparison, maybe LGBT can serve in the forces without change, via the political visor that is the "don't say gay" policy.
In my experience, working primarily based on integration branches, as opposed to working on master and cherry-picking back into integration branches, provides some short term benefits but is net negative in the long term.

1. People stop caring about master. Then master breaks and nobody fixes it. This is a problem if not _everyone_ is on the integration branch, e.g. if there is a single small team working on a feature for the next+1 release that needs master: they can't fix all the breakage from all the other teams, and they can't get the other teams invested in not breaking master. This ruins that teams productivity, which makes development of larger scale features much more costly. Even if no team needs master, leaving master broken and coming back to it later makes those fixes more costly.

2. Regressions: people mark bugs closed as soon as it is fixed in the integration branch. Then the fix never makes it into master, and you get regressions on the next+1 release. Automatic forward merge (always immediately and automatically merge release/n to release/n+1 [...] to master) as supported by e.g. Bitbucket can help with this, at the cost of the occasional merge conflict(s) and less control in case some fixes actually should not go into a specific intermediate release.
Branch from a tag, make or cherry pick the fix, tag, deploy.
What is? All the modern expensive insulins have some patent protecting them or have no biosimilar, san one. It's all in the article.
I don't think it's a great idea to integrate with other work in progress, living on another feature branch. As far as maintenance releases go, strategies for resolving this are well documented here https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/branch-for-release/#fix-pr....
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

According to BLS.GOV - 1970 $45 == 2022 $353.

Makes sense that something like an airplane would drop in price, but I'm surprised that it is (after adjusting for inflation) 1/3 the price that it was in 1970.
Do you have the same apps installed? Years back I found uninstalling Facebook was like a 20% battery life improvement - I didn’t even open it much but it was so busy in the background.

Going through the battery usage report and pruning apps is like flossing: most people should do it more often than they do.
No I mean as in if I run foobar, which itself happens to call aws under the hood.

Now I need both boxxy foobar and boxxy aws configured for the same ~/.aws redirection.
I still think that his last finals run with the Cavs is the most impressive basketball accomplishment I’ve ever seen. That supporting cast was mediocre to bad, and they came a JR Smith all time blunder from beating a super team.
Meow wolf?
How often do you go off-road? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly? How often are you buying large furniture or moving something large? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly? Is it worth spending $10000+ extra for a truck + extra on fuel + extra pollution over a car to save a few hundred on delivery fees?

Some people need trucks for sure but I think a lot more have them than need them.
Never make your products with an unpronouncable name.

Never name your products with a name that brings nasty or disgusting things to mind.

Sure, a cockroach may be the only thing surviving a nuclear holocaust but most people don't want cockroaches anywhere near them.

"A cat has nine lives" is a similar concept, but hasn't got the negative connotations of both 'cockroach' and 'the end of the world'. Brainstorm that.
No one pays bravo landing fees just to get their commercial cert. You can get all your certs just fine without going to an airport that large.
Hmmm this is Part 2's title.
> And a 64b sweep is ~21 days

Per GPU. A consumer GPU at that (A100 is faster).

4x GPUs (the AMD 6900 XT) per node and maybe 10x nodes in a rack (4U per node, 42U cabinet) can do 64-bit sweep in half a day.

> The real issue is that the verification code is much, much, slower.

Isn't verification of 64b multipliers actually a 128-bit problem? (x * y == z, so you have 2x 64-bit numbers to work with).

Also, I think they use BDDs, which although multiplication is exponential, its still small enough exponent that 128-bit BDDs fit on today's computers. So its not a brute force thing like discussed in this topic, but actually a very elegant data-structure (though with tons of complications, as is the nature of NP-complete and expspace problems).
If you have a mass of cached data that shouldn't be backed up would you rather just exclude .cache or investigate what files/directories every individual app uses.
These are currently only available for pre-ordering.

There's some discussion on the Ploopy subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ploopy/
You and I are apparently dealing with very different yachts.
It's a tough question, but the fact that anything with mass affects the spacetime around it is a huge hint, and it seems clear that mass, spacetime, and light (E=mc^2) are intrinsically related: space is never really empty and matter is always somewhere.
Getting killed by running into a semi because you were weaving in and out of traffic at 90 mph and ran a red light is not really the traffic’s fault.
I've been trying to embrace IPv6 as much as possible in my home setup. Something funny I noticed, though, is that ICMP ping times are 30ms higher over IPv6 vs. IPv4 between the same two hosts when the packets go over a wireless WDS link. I have yet to explain it.
See also: Insurance, healthcare, and car dealerships, all "free market" institutions that people consistently have great experiences with

/s, in case it's non-obvious
> what I don't understand is why I'd make my account on an Emacs-focused instance unless literally all I ever wanted to talk about in life was Emacs!

Talking on a social network on the Internet is not the same as talking in real life. Unlike Twitter, Mastodon recognizes this.

Maybe all you want to talk about on the Internet is Emacs. Maybe you want to keep your "Emacs nerd" persona totally separate from your "classical music afficionado" persona. Maybe you are part of a group of Emacs committers who want a casual place to hang out.
That’s regular season Lebron at 38, in games that matter he’s an excellent defender.
>but maybe power plants of the future will look like the pyramids and energy receivers like obelisks.

Unless people in the future become religious nuts even worse than today's, I don't see why they'd waste so much space and resources on power-generating burial mounds. The pyramids may be impressive for a primitive civilization to build, but they were functionally completely useless and just a collosal waste of manpower, materials, and space.

This is quite unlike solar-power-collecting terra cotta roof tiles: roofs serve a real purpose, on buildings that people live and work in.
Some amount of repetition is a small price to pay for plentiful quality housing. We probably need about as much variety in housing as we do in cars. There are hundreds of currently produced car models (and thousands more available used) with enough variety and options to suit almost every need.
A year after outcry, IRS still doesn’t offer taxpayers alternative to ID.me
Even if the design is certified, I’d imagine the shops that produce them would still have ongoing certification costs to validate the equipment, tooling, etc. On going costs that would have the distributed across a limited number of engines.
I want to work for a company that’s financially strong (or at least profitable). If that means they sometimes fire people, that’s ok. I want my “don’t fire them” to be based on a premise that I’m creating much more value for them than I cost. That’s a stable situation for all parties, short and long term.