skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's already been trending toward quantity for a long time, at the expense of quality.

Good research people are way more expensive than good research equipment.

So that's where the cutbacks were made to the bone until not enough people were remaining, and it became obvious more people were needed just to get something out of otherwise underutilized equipment.

So arrangements were optimized for getting more people, while spending less money on each of them, the kind of thing that would normally only be accepted on a temporary basis, but it instead became normalized that even the most brilliant researchers will need to move on as soon as they have enough credentials for a decent-paying opportunity.

You get way more researchers for the same money by paying them way less, but you not only may not get the highest quality researchers, everyone had to get accustomed to those projects having longer-term payoffs, getting pushed further out-of-reach even when breakthroughs are visible on the horizon.

A pretty good estimate at today's costs is for a $100,000 apparatus in a $1M lab, you need to pay somebody $100,000 yearly to get the most out of the gear.

Decent apparatus will last 10 years so the equipment price works out to only $10,000 per year, but it takes way more than $100,000 budget each following year to pay a person that much. And there would ideally be raises in pay. So the people cost over 10 times more than the equipment they work with on an ongoing basis.

So if a person like that does stay at the lab for 10 full years, that one person cost more than it did to build a $1M lab to begin with. Anything less and you're not going to get the most out of the expensive equipment. Organizations can get by anyway since apparatus is usually paid for the first year so it has far less than $10,000 in ongoing cost, making the fully qualified researcher even more expensive by comparison. So they do without and nobody gets the most out of the capital budget either.

That's only one person, and most of the time a $1M lab is more productive with 2 or more people like this.

Quality costs money, how much quality would you like?
Ok, but they didn't have to read about it? She talked about it a bunch. It didn't seem to light anybody up.
Here's a talk version given by Rachel (one of the authors) about the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE
I enjoyed looking at serifmagazine.com just now, and would love to read articles from it if any were available.
I’ll show this to my compsci students later today as an example of what web pages typically used to look like.
When you dig down into the history of various inventions, you tend to find that Edison was an excellent marketer of 'other people's inventions', rather than having invented things himself.

For instance, Tesla worked for Edison for several years before branching off on his own.

That's not to be putting Edison down, it's raising awareness of those true inventors that were often forgotten.
I would have expected the crypto implosion to have a depressing effect on graphics card prices (certainly in the secondary market). Any theories why they remain elevated? Is it just supply chain stuff that everything is experiencing?
There is a new congressionally funded office to identify UAPs and act in coordination with the military to defeat them: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/32...

This may be related to why we’re seeing more of these incidents being reported with interventions.
> “AI is like the that guy in meetings who just repeats what someone else has just said, to sound smart.”

This is pretty funny
> The sensor stacks the actual AV players use are worth more than a vehicle.

Not sure about that. LIDAR prices dropped to 1-2k USD.
> Try arguing in good faith

Dropping the use of reality distorting memes like this would be a good place to start, assuming you're actually serious.
A Pigeon Was Dyed. Then It Died. Now the Police Are Investigating
Not to sound like a Redditor, but this username checks out.
I started IF only after I had been doing keto for about six weeks. At that point it was frankly easy because I wasn't getting hungry or having cravings anymore. I can't tease out how much IF contributed but I'd already lost a remarkable amount of weight on just keto. In general, I'd recommend only making one significant change at a time.

Calorie tracking and restriction pretty much comes with strict keto. Transitioning to keto rigorously requires detailed tracking of every molecule that goes in your mouth (with a food scale and measuring cups), at least for the first 12 weeks. I tracked constantly for about 6 mos until it was automatic for me and I knew every food and portion I typically encounter at a glance. It's hard at first but only tracking part way is the #1 reason for failing to get results.

I didn't do any exercise at all while losing weight, in fact while changing diet I was more sedentary than my usual slug-like activity level due to work and life factors. For me, exercise has always been hard, unpleasant and inevitably makes me hungrier. N=1 but that's what worked best for me and my weight loss was dramatic and super fast (>100 lbs in 8 mos).
Yes, but notice how they did not test them in Chinese airspace.
I will try this out this evening.

I want to test how well it generates config files for well-documented software packages like i3wm. Give it some natural language instructions for hot keys and default window behavior and let it go wild. Maybe generate some theming for polybar/rofi & resources based off what I actually want the output to look like.
Google chief: AI chatbots can give convincing but completely fictitious answers
For "the rest of the world", the "sad events" have been happening literally right now, or during the last 80 years... syria, libya, afghanistan, iraq, iraq again, yemen, yugoslavia, etc., but since it was "us" doing it, no sanctions were needed, and dead civilians didn't count. Syria is occupied right now by americans and you're shitting here about safety... Price Harry even went playing "war tourism" and went shooting afghani farmers and bragged about it... France has been fucking up africa for centuries too. I live in a shitty small slovenia, and even we sent soldiers to help the agressors in afghanistan and syria.

But yes, overinflated politicians are bragging about europe being civilization and everywhere else being a jungle... so yeah, maybe it's time for yankee/European to go home and keep for them/ourselves. If we don't, we have no moral superiority to blame putin for anything while our own soldiers are occupying foreign sovereign countries this very moment.
Send an Amateur Radio Balloon Around the World [pdf]
> they were profitable in 2018 and 2019.

Technically also profitable in 2021 - without the $800M lawsuit settlement, they'd have made $580M profit instead of $220M loss.
Yeah, I’m sure if we would have just waited a few more years, slavery would have also ended, we would have ended child labor, women would be allowed to vote… come on, this is just utterly dumbly naive.
> and tried to make seem as if profit is the be-end-all

That statement was paired with a teleological statement about the purpose of a company. When paired with the common usage of the word "company", the statement becomes tautological. Admittedly, this isn't the most insightful realization ever, but the point from the comment was that people forget that a profit needs to be extracted.

> My overall point is still consistent with Drucker's "the purpose of a company is to create customers".

And, pray-tell, why do you think companies want customers, if not for eventual profit?

> Amazon ran without profit for 10 years. Did we magically call them a non-profit for 10 years and then a company thereafter?

Amazon made an intentional decision to re-invest profits, as a gamble that it would lead to greater profits later. That's not refraining from profit, but just operating on a time-scale that isn't quarter to quarter.
Incognito isn't as private as the name suggests. I was surprised one day to open a tab in Incognito and see the site I visited knew who I was. That's because I had logged in to a related site in a tab I'd forgotten about in another Incognito window.

My assumption up to then was that each newly opened Incognito tab or window was it's own private session, but this turned out to be wrong - they all share state, as if you had one separate but shared profile called Incognito. This was a little upsetting as I'd been using Incognito for years without realising the data sharing going on.

Temporary Containers does what I'd expected from Incognito. Each new temporary container has its own isolated cookies etc from all the others. So now I open a TC when I want to visit a site without identity or tracking, or to login temporarily with a different account, and don't use Incognito at all.
Hmm. Maybe not. But they sure have much in common: You define a set of things that should be done, triggered by something - either a schedule, an event (oftentimes a repository event, but it doesn't have to), or from another Github action.
Now I disagree that it is a "time tax" to use public transportation. Instead, I would argue that private personal transportation sucks away that commute time much worse. Because if you are committed and responsible for driving a vehicle, your attention must be 100% devoted to operation of that vehicle, from source to destination. The best you can do is listen to a podcast or something, passively.

By contrast, as soon as I plop down at a bus stop or I board a train, my time is my own and I can make the most of it, interactively! I can check forums like Hacker News, I can pull out a laptop, edit Wikipedia, I can make phone calls, or I could tune out and just listen to some music or meditate. I can close my eyes and make use of the calmest 2 hours I might get all day long.

So I would say that the middle class are the ones with the "transportation time tax" and they can't free themselves of that until they can indeed afford to take a cab everywhere, or better yet, have their own chauffered vehicle and driver. (Yeah, it is not easy to do your own thing while a taxi driver wants to chit-chat.)
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There has been speculation that China is testing our response. It seems unclear what the purpose of hovering over Montana is. Maybe they are actually testing something they'd like to attack or monitor Taiwan with and the way to test in an obfuscated manner is releasing them over the US to get the response without triggering the idea that they are preparing for another, real target.
These payloads are duds - all you need to do is to pierce the balloon.
Strongly suggests against balloons - mainly because they already shot one down and it was no biggie. Aliens are not impossible any more, but drones of some kind remain the vastly most probable option.
One of the structures we do have is to raise the issue and criticize it through discussion, which is why I often bring this up. A structure of intense and criticial discussion is directly counter to the capitalistic tendencies that have made this software possible. Since almost no one is offering a critical opinion, the people that do already provide some friction and realization against the indiscriminate use of this technology.
Inaction is a political choice, you have already taken a side by doing that.
> And if you're doing that, why force the client to think in terms of async messaging at all? Just let them do REST, and hide the queue under the API layer of the receiver.

Yes, exactly. And on top of that, async messaging implicitly introduces DoS vulnerabilities exactly because of the buffering required. At least with sync messaging exposing a queue in the API layer, you opt-into this vulnerability.
Yet there are hundreds of female rock climbers who will kick my ass on any crag in existence. We're not like spiders where the males are super tiny and easily eaten by the females, or even cardinals where the male has really colorful plumage. The differences are not super significant.
Pretty clear this guy is a key player in their mafia
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
This is from the golden age of Google.

Of particular note is that they published this many years after it had been shipped to their internal customers. This was not some position paper about "why we focus on ai" after not shipping any of their "breakthroughs".
Statistically fewer poisonings than other uses. Putting the morals and politics to one side it's much more likely to be mundane. Arsenic was used in dye and as a wood preservative and insecticide far more than to kill people.
The difference between the OS being 4 times as large as Windows 11 vs. a small math issue in the Settings app is massive.
Which has been taken off the front page remarkably quickly, given its large number of votes in a short time.

Perhaps there’s some system where downvotes encourage a post to be taken off the front page quicker. But I suspect moderator involvement. Which is misguided if so: people will simply post dupes and continue to upvote them. Thus, the story is still on the front-page, but in a fragmented manner.
An HN commenter like yourself who thinks this is simply mistaken by definition, just as a man who thinks he is a dog or a cat is mistaken by definition. This is not to say we should not have compassion for people who believe they are right about this and try to help them.

I'm sorry that you are simply unable to change your mind. I hope you get the care you need.
It seems like you can get a 30-year fixed on a rental property. Am I misreading that?
Yes, but where does the US launch them? China can launch a swarm of these from the Pacific and guarantee they'll overfly the US and Canada due to the jetstream. Where can the US military launch a counterswarm that won't have to overfly a bunch of other countries with unaligned military strategies? All that does is create a negative diplomatic situation with those countries, and they'll likely shoot them down before they reach China.
In comparison, they are much less expensive. (Though people who refuse to switch brands might have a harder time.)

For example, The Radeon 6700 XT 12GB was commonly $900+ during the crypto boom, but is regularly around $350 now. That's a pretty big drop.

"Current generation" - only very expensive high end models have been announced (and some aren't selling as low as MSRP yet.)

RTX 4070 Ti $800 | RX 7900 XT $900 | RX 7900 XTX $1000 | RTX 4080 $1200 | RTX 4090 $1600

You have to stick to last generation for excellent performance with less insane pricing.
This seems mostly right. But ChatGPT also can make it a lot easier to learn if one wants to learn. But I think that you need to be able to critically evaluate it's output for that. And to formulate your ideas on some level. If one never obtains those skills, perhaps learning with chatGPT won't be of much use.
I was on ~100dpi monitors for years. I just picked up a 26" 4k Dell for a steal - it's noticably more crisp than my 1440p screens. I'm not getting rid of my 1200p and 1440p screens on my workstation, but ... 4k is nice.
> So the pipeline sitting there usable but with no gas flowing would both create legal problems for Russia and also be a symbol of European unity.

What legal problems? Is russia going to get sued? ...while EU is literally stealing russian assets and sending weapons to kill russians?

The situation on tv is one thing, but the people are fed up with ever more expensive lives while sending billions to ukraine, and enough angry people means huge changes in politics. The last time germany was so fucked by outside forces as it is now, they elected that austrian painter guy, who actually made the country strong again... sadly it ended up in a war and another fuckup of germany.
Ask HN: What is an RStudio-like IDE for Python?
I am coming from the R world and used to RStudio. Any recommendations for a good IDE for Python similar to RStudio?
What would be the purpose of surveillance balloons if not to use them on your rivals...
Interesting, but it doesn’t say matklad is stepping down from rust-analyzer
All of a sudden balloons everywhere. Were they always there, and people are just now noticing it, or is this something new?
I like the idea. It has promise but needs some work: no explanation of what reputation does; dice always reduce reputation, not sure why that is desirable; buying first campus sets money to negative cost of campus (-$10000 for first one); state not saved; images spin instead of a more meaningful animation. I think clickers like this are great projects for someone wanting to learn javascript frameworks.
Sure, but this can apply to cars, or fixing small appliances, doing your taxes, etc.
What it tells you about the Department of Defense is that dating someone outside of your own circle brings a lot of scrutiny (who is this girl you're dating? You're sure she's not a Russian/Chinese spy?), so DoD workers prefer in-breeding.
No, the Chinese get aggressive if anyone flies in the South China Sea let alone over China proper.
I tried but couldn't find any evidence. Thanks for your useful advice though.
Have you ever seen the budget for the department of defense? Whatever they're doing here is less than the pocket change they lose in the Pentagon seat cushions.
Telegram doesn't do that, atleast not for me, since android reports (via toaster popup) clipboard access now too.
We'd have found out for sure when we first built a GPS system without relativity correction. It wouldn't work and that experimental error would have to be explained somehow and that in turn would lead to the discovery of GR if it had not been discovered through some other means at that time.
GPT is that you?
That's just for filing charges, getting an arrest, right? This would be for search warrants.
I really wish they would make this tech available via gcloud. Seems like it would be very popular and a great way to attract other gcloud business away from MS/GitHub which scales horribly.
Kids play with current balloons because they’re elastic and bouncy. I think they would be bored of a perfect sphere that just hovers around the room.

Further, given that the vacuum balloons are rigid, I think it’s far more likely to take on a leak that fills the balloon rather quickly but not instantly. For argument’s sake, suppose one does fail suddenly- do we even know what that sounds like? I don’t think it could possibly be worse than a (thick enough) mylar balloon pumped up to two atmospheres and exploding. It’s not like suddenly there’s vacuum in the room.
Meh. People who throw that word around aren't principled. Take the time to step such a person through why apartheid is an inappropriate term to describe whatever going on in Israel, and they'll just move the goalposts around.
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...

There you go, PDF free version.
you're speaking of multiplayer games, which is true, but even single-player games will face this when they have denuvo, once the denuvo server goes out you're also unable to play your single player games.

EMPRESS is the last line of defence.
Not trying to gatekeep. The fact is there are subcultures in which Leonardo da Vinci comes up in conversation far more than others. In those (particularly art history), Leonardo is most common
I assume you picked that game just to stir shit up.
I got an older Supermicro off eBay with 6 10Gb ports for $89.
I think the additional point I'm making is that a 2D-graph necessarily biases your brain into ignoring the environment change, and that makes this a poor model to think about the world. Indeed, the other comment reply posted as of now still references the graph metaphor, but with S-curves instead of straight lines (which isn't really the point I was making - I'm trying to argue that your lines need to be in infinite-dimension space, regardless of their equation). You certainly can have environment change as an additional mental model you draw on when necessary - but if the quality of a model is in its ability to draw useful conclusions about the world from it, then conclusions which need to be corrected by some other model should be viewed with some suspicion.
french tax code has a semi-official DSL syntax

https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang

just adopt theirs, add a message layer, and call it done
Exactly. This is the exact logic people fail at when it comes to medication side effects. Sure, the vaccine has a tiny chance for this and that negative side effect, but you are not choosing between getting the vaccine and gambling on the side effect, vs not taking any risk, but gambling on not taking a vaccine and having a higher chance of catching the virus which has orders of magnitude higher chance for way worse side effects. It is a tradeoff with a quite clear better shot (pun semi-intended)
All modern missiles use a proximity fuse that selects the optimum position relative to the target to detonate, it isn't based on contact. One thing to consider is that the warhead is not in the nose -- that is where the sensors are -- but further back on the missile. These warheads often us an annular (ring-like) blast pattern, hence why positioning and orientation relative to the target at detonation time is important to maximize damage.
I can say there has never been a time where I’ve preferred having a button instead of scrolling.

I’ve interacted with sites where scrolling locked in to pages, and I thought that was fine (As I say this, that sounds like “swiping” - which I think is fine and feels intuitive).
> The best example I can think of on this, is

It's not the best example. It's the one well worn example that everyone pulls out and is a perfect case of letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Something works for 99% of cases, someone finds a 1% case it doesn't work for an says "ok I don't need to evaluate it it's useless".

Not tool works 100% of the time, the fact that it didn't work for someone creating a constraint solver is effectively irrelevant.
That'll be it! Not the bleak job prospects, the crippling financial situation, the world barrelling towards catastrophe at every turn, etc. IT'S THE SCREENS.
It had multiple antennas? Holy cow that's bad. That definitely rules out weather balloons then.
First off, I don't buy the underlying premise because the US has been launching satellites with global coverage for 50 years... I don't see why China would wait until now to respond.

But for your question, with LEO satellites you don't really target specific countries. They cover every country within a given latitude range. A round LEO orbit that goes over the US must also go over China.

However you don't need geostationary orbits to target a given part of the globe. Molniya orbits do the same thing more or less and work better if you want coverage further away from the equator. They were popularized by the USSR and the US and China use them to varying extents.
It is cost benefit trade off. Sure US could get some benefit but at the expense of the similar scenario that is playing out now here. Using balloons over national territory is highly escalatory. Whatever they're getting intelligence wise it can't be worth the fallout. Building a capability is not the same as employing it. We have nukes and yet we don't regularly bring them out.
Tbh I was taught both in school at about the same age.

This doesn't prevent me from kicking the kubernetes can down the road instead of coming up with more general relativity. Maybe it's the lust that's insufficient.
Have we shot anything down over CONUS since early on in the Cold War?
To surveil your population, as most "first world" governments seem so keen on?
My girlfriend used to go to camping raves and had to stop. She described the culture as “really smelly and pretty rape-y depending on the set list”. Sounds just lovely.

She still listens to the music, though, much to my chagrin as I think its fucking terrible.