skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A university department is a research community, which is much more valuable than just some bureaucratic overhead.

A group of professors, postdocs and grad students regularly interacting with one another, attending talks by visiting researchers, going to journal club every week to discuss new papers, etc. will be much more intellectually productive, in general, than the same set of people dispersed and trying to work by themselves.

Of course, the university does also perform bureaucratic functions, like running payroll, making sure the grant money is used on what it's supposed to be used on, and very importantly, organizing classes for undergraduate and graduate students. However, the university is also an intellectual community.
Crate namespaces is best-in-class++ feature and currently not available.
With the way they cycle through cards in the same checkout session I 100% don't think this is happening, but if it is then I wouldn't even blame Stripe at that point lol
Aside from shuttle launches, first sonic boom I've ever felt. I couldn't guess what would rock this whole row house like that!

The F-16 is a pretty small jet, comparatively. I wonder how different other jets would be.
Also see: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/parking-lots-eat-american-...

HN discussion (333 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35395060
I might do the same if I didn’t have any other food choices for 3 weeks.
> I have a rainbow star trek shirt on right now.

I’m one of the good guys! I have gay friends!

> I support the gay and lesbian community in anyway I can.

Well, you know, as long as it isn’t the most trivial of inconveniences to you.

Get over yourself and unclutch your pearls, Karen. Your kids aren’t going to be traumatized from seeing two men kiss in a passing scene and you’re not going to have to do your job and have the simplest conversation with your kids.

“Sometimes a boy likes another boy, and that’s perfectly normal.” is not the end of the world, even if it comes up, which it realistically won’t. Stop pretending like it is.

You say you support the community, but your actions show you clearly don’t. Not even remotely close. I hope you don’t consider yourself an ally, because you are far from it.
Yeah, the costs of changing are greater than the costs of staying the same. But the basic idea of using a nation's currency as global reserve currency is a bad design.

"Triffin Dilemma" - a national currency used in a global context will always result in spiralling imbalances. Some China guy cited this as a proximal cause of the collapse in 2007-2008 and I don't think anyone would argue with that at all[1]. So there's a pressure to move to an OCA/OCR (optimum currency area or optimal currency region) that's more like "The World", even if that's a hypothetical space.

I mean, look at the United States today, aside from extractive industries. It's pretty much a military humping/fighting a financial industry on these teeny tiny little fast food legs. That's exactly what you would theoretically expect from an economy that's been the global currency for a couple generations, but it's a damn weird shape to bend your nation into.

The solution is not crypto, but definitely an analytically-arrived at unit that's redeemable in a bucket of commodities via a real World Bank structure. Maybe crypto could be a part of that, maybe a "carbon coin" or some other quantitative measure of future value. All this waffle spells the lie to the "international capitalism" story we've been telling ourselves - without World Cops, World Courts, World Laws, there is no World Market. It's bandits in Brioni with nukes and red tape.

[1] Although, of course, yes yes yes, his motives are suspect, but his statement was not. He wants the Yuan but no one else should.
It was for a conference.

Notacon was a hack-tech-art-music-demoscene conference in Cleveland, Ohio that ran from 2003 to 2014. I knew some of the organizers and got heavily involved in volunteering and setup for the event.

The drive from my home north of Detroit to Cleveland is a couple hours, so I carpooled with another Michigander making the trip, a guy who ran large parts of the campus network at MSU. I was in telecom, mostly slinging SONET networks at the time, he was mostly Ethernet, but adjacent to a lot of other technologies. We spoke just enough of each other's language to have a lot to learn from each other.

One year (I think it was 2005) in the car, we got to talking about transport networks, and lamenting the fact that "traceroute hides all the fun stuff"; it only shows IP-aware hops that decrement the TTL, and there could be thousands of miles of glass and hundreds of pieces of equipment, which considered the IP traffic to be "payload" and thus would never dare to alter it, between two hops that show up in a traceroute. (Plenty of otherwise-bright LAN engineers might naïvely assume that a packet leaves their router in Chicago and just arrives at another router in Denver because there was just a long, long piece of glass between them -- I think a lot of people have inflated ideas of fiber's capabilities because they're ignorant of the dozens of payload-transparent transport nodes and repeaters handling their circuit between the hops they see.)

"Wouldn't it be fun", we mused, "to somehow shine some light on all those other networks that aren't IP, aren't ethernet, aren't visible to the normal user?" And as the miles ticked by, Anything but Ethernet was born. We proposed it to Notacon's organizers, who gleefully encouraged us to take it and run with it. I'm not sure how it ended up being mostly my baby, but I ran around and found sponsors for prizes, spent the year needling potential contestants into actually building the crazy stuff they verbalized while couched in hypotheticals, and then emceed the chaos when the conference weekend and judging time came around.

This was pre-hackerspace, when all our nerd energy for the year was focused on one or two insane weekends (many of us also attended Penguicon or Defcon). So, extra cycles were less likely to be otherwise spoken for, and a few folks were highly motivated by the contest's appreciation of perverse, obscure, flashy, and MacGuyvered hacks.

My greatest regret looking back on the whole thing is that I didn't put more emphasis on recording and documenting the insanity. That wasn't valuable at the time -- it existed in and for a short-duration event -- but it would be amazing to look back on more of it now.
They still do an amazing job of it. There is likely no better solution (poison is bad as it kills local wild life, traps require more effort)
CBDCs are exactly why crypto will always be around. Spying on other people’s money is not a basic human right.
Yup, they took a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenacher_Motorenwerk including a whole BMW factory!

They kept making cars with the BMW logo until BMW sued them, so they renamed it "Eisenacher Motorenwerk".
they don't AI hard enough
Building on this a little. I’m very worried that Rust is growing the same problem. Although it does seem that one can be more successful in learning a subset and interacting with other’s code without everything falling over.
There are no software patents in the US either, as of 2014, except ones that have a physical effect on the world. Compression, encryption, and data structures are basically the only allowed software patents.
Easy: Create and organization, crowd fund it. You can knock out a few studies for free/low cost.

Hard: Can we form an intellectual union for this(professionals/10%ers)? Protects us from the mob and the ruling class + we can collect dues for things that are incredibly important like this.
A series of excel errors, including failure to copy down a formula to the whole column, led many governments to adopt a policy of economic austerity. The spreadsheet had demonstrated that, historically, countries that adopted austerity came out of recession faster. Once the errors in the spread where fixed, it actually proved the opposite. But by then the damage was done.

Edit: It was UMASS grad students that spotted the spreadsheet errors by these Harvard/IMF heavy weights:)

Reinhart and Rogoff kindly provided us with the working spreadsheet from the RR analysis. With the working spreadsheet, we were able to approximate closely the published RR results. While using RR’s working spreadsheet, we identified coding errors, selective exclusion of available data, and unconventional weighting of summary statistics.

https://peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt
FYI: The Cessna in question was a Citation jet that went unresponsive and crashed in a Virginia forest later. Before it crashed it flew over DC causing this incident.
This was basically the argument of overbearing planners in the 50s and 60s who carved up walk-able American cities with urban highways. The results were pretty disastrous and don't really need to be expanded upon here.
Yep: https://www.google.com/search?q=rhona+mitra+tomb+raider+mode...
They did a recount. In fact, that’s how they figured out there has been a mistake. Otherwise, nobody would have found out. It’s only ca 600 votes btw, so very easy to recount.
Man, System 7.5 and the OS X Developer Preview 2 are so damn crisp. I know you can approximate that look on Linux, but it's never quite the real thing. I would do horrible things if I could have a modern desktop that truly looked like those.
you are paid to enforce rules, bet?
Regarding your example, you can protect worksheets and have only some cells unlocked for modification [1].

You can add conditional formatting, VBA procedures, additional formulas etc. to do whatever validation you like. However, you need a software engineer (or someone who thinks like one) to properly implement that, and it’s not exactly fun.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/lock-or-unlock-sp...
Is there a list of unsupported syscalls and instructions, and how to add support for them for people interested in contributing?
> IMO the USA does need an honest, unbiased news organization. If CNN can be it

They've been the exact opposite for so long, that I don't see how any sensible person could ever trust them to be "it" in the future. the brand is tarnished beyond repair.
Most of your recent comments are dead, and they don't seem too offensive.
> other options that do not push this crap on me

push what crap? the existence of gay people? why is it "pushing" something to more fully represent reality in our media? why should movies continue to pretend that gay people don't exist just because some parents refuse to teach their children about totally normal things?
To TUI or Not to TUI
Maker Pipe
> Nobody is literally referring to the concept of property ownership though

I don't see the point of this comment. If you read up in the thread:

> Forget about e-waste, it's my fucking property. I paid full price for a full product that is now mine. Not partially mine and partially the manufacturers

That doesn't mean there aren't other things to discuss, but people in this section of the comments are talking about ownership.
I get why you would say something like that in astonishment.

By why would you ever send that out over a medium that'll leave a paper trail?

Thank goodness that criminals aren't very smart. Their idiocy is doing society a huge favor.
Sorry for the silly question but I don't get it.

Is this a remote server where you can install and use web apps from third parties?

Or can you actually build a web app there so that users can employ it? Something similar to Digital Ocean.
As long as people keep focusing solely on these "narrow victories" in order to simply maintain the broken status quo, the broader abuse of the patent system to serve as a legal anti-competitive moat in service of large companies who can afford expensive lawyers will continue. It's not radical to believe that.
Without a great strategy, hard work becomes a nightmare
Quoting James Clear, you will find in the link a whitepaper on Digital Microeconomics and Business Strategy. Learn about product market fit, unit economics of software, network effects, sustaining value creation in time, data-driven culture, and much more.
Even then it's hard to compare because different places go through different culture shifts. Since moving to London I've learnt that several time through history that "living in London" has shifted from unpopular to unpopular and vice-versa many times.

Through history sometimes you'd find the extremely well-off people in London, other times they'd not be caught near the place, it seems.
Are you speaking/working for EFF? If yes, I'll delete my comment.

Patents are abominations and should not exist. I don't see how informing the public about their negatives benefits patent trolls.
Racket would be my suggestion. As much as I like Common Lisp, it has a lack of material targeting kids (other than particularly motivated ones). Scheme would be a second suggestion, but Racket is descended from Scheme and so is mostly (with a bit of effort in some cases) compatible with any Scheme learning material you might want to use. Scheme also requires you to decide which implementation to use, which can impact available libraries and tools.

https://racket-lang.org/

It's also very easy to get visual results in Racket which often helps to keep kids motivated (seeing results of their work quickly and easily, versus needing to jump through hoops or read lots of documentation just to render a single image).
We know that progress towards ever more sophisticated AI will be incremental, with occasional breakthroughs and leaps forward. But even assuming we never leap forward again, the ideal time to sort out what to do when some threshold is crossed is before we have crossed that threshold.

By way of analogy, the climate crisis is arguably suffering from the same kinds of thinking. We’ve never witnessed the kinds of climate catastrophe that we know is around the corner, but that doesn’t stop people who understand the dynamics from taking it seriously. It also hasn’t stopped a very vocal and powerful opposition who won’t be convinced until we experience real catastrophe.

To me, the argument that we’re nowhere close is unconvincing, and I’d argue irrelevant. Even if the real risk is decades away, we’re now living in the moment where we can mitigate risks before they become pressingly real. Anything else is kicking the can down the road.

> There is a further argument that even with actual AI, which people have written volumes of sci-fi tier essays about how it will kill us all, that there has been no demonstrated risk

How would you define “demonstrated risk”? We’re at a stage where all we can do is speculate and predict based on our models of the world as they currently exist. That says nothing about the actual intrinsic risks that we are or are not speculating about.

And again, the climate crisis seems like a useful parallel to consider.
Yeah but investigative journalism is expensive. A few talking heads and glorified zoom calls to comment on news someone else investigated is much cheaper.
Hell yeah they are. cats have had darwinian pressure for thousands of years to be comfortable around humans(perhaps this needs to be phrased more generically? comfortable in clans?). It is not much compared to dogs. But as a counter example try raising a bobcat kitten as a house cat. Domestic cats are very amiable in comparison.

Note that this appears that I have raised a bobcat, I have not. but I have heard stories from them who have.
IDK about donuts.

But consider a network request. The vast majority of the time is not spent in the CPU.

Right?
Imagine `public class [randomName] {` at the top. If it has a void main() method the class loader (not the spec!) will do new [randomName].main()

You won’t acquire this main via reflection because why would you do so? It is for teaching, and one-off scripts. Later on you can trivially add that single line and name your class.
Starting the article with the false equivalence of housing space to parking space is ridiculous.

Housing requires a massive amount of ancillary infrastructure such as power, heat, plumbing/sewer, telecom etc.

Parking requires either gravel or gravel with asphalt on top.

Second, what happened in e.g. Moscow once cars were readily available and affordable? ... People who already had an advanced metro system, trains etc... still bought them! Why?
It seems like google hardly returns results from traditional forums or blogs which has probably accelerated their decline artificially.
"If you go to a place that isn't driving dependent and you'll see that the main factor for "better walkability" is namely "places are a few miles closer because you don't have to walk through 20 parking lots to get there"."

That's not really the main factor. I would say the main factor is medium to high density, mixed use areas that have business friendly regulations and/or wealthy residents/tourists. There aren't tons of large parking lots in west Philly, but I wouldn't give it a high walkability score given all the vacancies (where are you going to walk to?) and safety concerns (both in infrastructure and crime terms).
namespace.so by friends of mine.
I don't think that there has been a single communist nation that hasn't just been a thinly veiled dictatorship.
It only helps so much.

I've taught to freshmen students who have personally encountered dozens of different false positives and false negatives not only with sanitizers, but with compiler warnings as well. Nothing extraordinary, just `-Wall -Wextra -Werror` with the latest available GCC/Clang on the latest available Ubuntu LTS.

Some examples (some library bugs are also included):

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98677

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105729

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/59432

https://github.com/boostorg/dll/issues/30

https://github.com/boostorg/asio/commit/71964b22c7fade69cc4c...

https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio/issues/997

I've also seen fun examples of a program working with all sanitizers in 14 modes across 3 OSes (GCC and Clang on Ubuntu, Apple Clang on macOS, Visual Studio on Windows), and _only_ failing with Visual Studio Release mode. It was an array overflow. Just was not caught by sanitizers.

Mind you: no weird C++ magic, just standard coding exercises.
Because they naturally don't want to rely on exploitation to the same degree. That's not a problem of the concept but the context.
Yes they should, because their very existence is heavily subsidized by those "out of touch" cities. Much in the same way as the cities depend on those rural areas for goods that can't be produced efficiently in cities, especially (but not limited to) food, and they don't want their politics governed by "out of touch" country people.

Consider being less antagonistic towards your mutual dependents.
I was being hyperbolic but it's not that far from the reality of the situation. Google's decline started around the same time as that merger.

I'm not the only one who thinks this way: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/technology/google-doublec...
I've commented on a similar topic before about knowing who the reviewers were based on their comments and papers they recomend we cited.

But as for the papers being inscruitable, i think part of that is just that the domain has it's own language, and assumed knowledge. I don't have to explain why i'm using the gibbs equation to calcualte free energy, or why i'm using hess's law. I just do it. The only things that need explaination are the novel applications of techniques.

When it comes to explaining those foundational concepts we need to pickup a text book or a popular science book. Speaking of, one of the things that makes me a little sad is how few popular science books there are around chemistry. There is loads about biology and physics, and even some around maths. Not a lot with chem.
Well, there are plenty of real-world examples of harms caused by AI-powered systems (https://incidentdatabase.ai). For LLMs in particular, I think it's just too early to have convincing independent research on their harms, but coincidentally this just happened a few days ago:

National Eating Disorder Association shuts down A.I. chatbot it planned to use to replaces humans saying it 'may have given' harmful information (https://fortune.com/well/2023/05/31/neda-ai-chatbot-harmful-...)
> Are you considering supporting other cloud providers? I'd personally always choose GCP for UX reasons, and I know there are many who choose Azure for MS reasons, or Alibaba for price/language/location reasons. I understand starting with AWS, just wondering if that's set in stone or if others are on the roadmap.

We are definitely considering other cloud providers. I'm currently working on adding GKE support. GCP's UX is top-notch in my own experience and is a breath of fresh air when compared to AWS. We've also found a lot of startups are choosing GCP over AWS these days. This at least has been the case for many prospects we've spoken to.
I have seen people in the insurance business using Word as their calculation tool.

If these tools need any type of user interaction they won't use it.

How many people still right align text per spacebar or tab if they are pros?
Maybe I'll out myself as not living on a farm: what does your property/driveway size have to do with having outdoor cats?
> IMO the USA does need an honest, unbiased news organization.

No organization made up of humans can be unbiased.

You can have honesty, you can have forms of transparency, you can have adherence to various journalistic procedural norms, but you cannot have “unbiased”.
But this is a problem of scale. If I wrote a bot that posted 10k AI generated questions and answers per hour, you would surely agree that it would be unreasonable to require every answer to be human-reviewed before it can be removed - it would be an incredible waste of time and effort. (Also note that filling SO with LLM-generated content is entirely pointless - someone who wants LLM-generated answers can just go ask an LLM).

Now spread that one bot over hundreds of users and you have the same end result. That's why the communities of different SE sites all ended up with a similar policy.
This all ignores a basic financial reality underlying 'hard-money' academic positions: we are paid 9-month salaries that come from core funds (ie: teaching, paid for by tuition, government funds, etc.). Yes, bringing grants matters, but given that grant $ have not really changed in decades, it is a huge relief to not have to fund one's own salary (beyond 3 summer months). During dry spells, students can be supported on TAships or fellowships here and there, and if you relatively low-cost experiments, small internal grants can tide you by. This is the real reason you'd have trouble with this model. You'd then need grant $ to directly pay 100% of faculty salaries. Unless you can solve this problem I don't see scientists leaving universities.

The big exception is of course medical schools/ medical research, where faculty positions are largely soft money (some minimal base salary is usually covered).
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I'm all for the cull.

Absentee/incompetent owners are overwhelming the ability to control the noise, agression and dog shit everywhere that's resulted from treating a living entity like a video game console.

It's not the dog's resoponsibility to sooth neurotic primates.

The reason they "love you so much" is because they were stolen from their actual mother, and handed to a primate before they were old enough to remmeber their actual parent.

The entire phenomenon of pet ownership is basically infant kidnapping...
interestingly, we have a pair of gray rescue littermates who were bonded for ~4 years until we got a third cat (make purebred maine coon) who seemingly broke that bond. to this day, they get along, but everyone needs to keep their space or trouble could break out! :-)
I wonder if it's still making money? I'm sure the copyright is still valid.