skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been mostly like this for a long time, but it is slowly changing. Open data repositories and scientific software libraries/products are beginning to count more and more (at least many of us are pushing for this). It also depends on the target career past graduation. Papers matter a lot for tenure-track positions, and much less for science support (scientific software developers, data engineers, lab managers etc.) in academia, or most jobs in the industry.

The 3 paper requirement in the game is also not a formal requirement in most universities--it's more of an implied requirement by individual PhD advisors. FWIW, my first lead-author paper I published a year past my PhD. During my PhD, I produced two relatively large scientific software applications (one open and one closed source) and a few open datasets. I'm now 8 years past my PhD and relatively successful in my field, 90th or so percentile based on common metrics--papers, citations, and funds raised.

Bottom line, papers are important but not the only thing that counts. Outside of tenure-track careers where they are crucial, it's possible to establish yourself as a scientist and be respected by your peers by publishing software and data.
Ah so you don't count hackernews as news - an interesting choice.

You mention tv news, but I suspect online news is what most people consume, streaming killed tv news many years ago.
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Is this a new thing in France? People have been blaming video games and movies in the US for a really long time now
Microbes Gained Photosynthesis Superpowers from a ‘Proton Pump’
just started writing blog in a telegram channel, a little bit of support might helps it.
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Show HN: Interest based networking app using AI to match on varied interests
A interest based networking app using AI to match and categorize infinite interests. Unlike other apps having given set of interests, here user can match on any valid interest
What's the purpose of this exercise? What's the value of equating one emotionally-charged label with a different emotionally-charged label?

As to your question: yes, most authoritarians are conservative in nature, given that the world has mostly been moving away from authoritarianism over the past few decades.
I love how all the acronyms in the glossary are basically inverted English ones.

- BAF - Final Assembly Building - Bâtiment d’Assemblage Final

I knew about NATO/OTAN and such, but didn't know it's so universal.

They also had fun with some of them:

- PLANET - Payload Local Area Network

- SHOGUN - SHOck Generation UNit
seems quite accurate to me - reflects well my own experience.
Long term plan is yes. That's why I donated to BCacheFS on Patreon for a good while. I'll wait until it becomes closer to ZFS in terms of usability.
I never meant to say Western charities were the only actors in this growth. The opposite in fact.

I'm just saying it is commonplace in the Western world to pat ourselves in the back because we've donated $100 to Médecins Sans Frontières and believe we've made the world a better place. We certainly did, but it's just a drop in the ocean.
Yes because Musk cares about “freedom of speech” as long as it is something he agrees with .
I find this highly unrealistic. Advisors do not notice nor care for your mental health. Breaks and rest are not offered nor advised. Back to the lab!
Zoom out one more time and you see that the world gained a solution to climate change that is actually competitive economically.

Competitive even without a strong government regulation to enforce people paying for externalities, and even working against the entrenched intests of fossil fuels.

A solution which is rolling out at a truly astonishing rate.

What happens in Germany is irrelevant compared with what has happened globally due, in large part, to Germany.
Macron can't run for president again.
I like GNOME because of its design choices in 3.x+. I really appreciate the aforementioned large controls, title bars (often integrated as toolbar menus) and resignation of menus in favour of dedicated pop-overs. IMHO it is a step forward in providing simpler UI, but yes - it has some drawbacks too.

Ironically, I see the designers of macOS built-in applications (e.g. Finder.app or System Settings.app) are following their GNOME counterparts rather than the other way around. Since Maverick, Apple has lagged behind in terms of UI innovation and it is the GNOME designers, who are pushing forward with new ideas. The addition of a header bar in Finder.app and Nautilus made them much more usable for me [0] [1]. The same can be said for System Settings.app [2], which now follows the design and layout of the GNOME Control Center. GNOME has been a copycat for many years, its UI was inspired by macOS/iOS, but now the roles are reversed.

The missing piece of the puzzle is searchability, which GNOME 3.x+ lacks and which GNOME excelled at in the days of Unity DE. Hopefully GNOME 40+ will bring some improvements in this area.
I like this reply, thanks.
Reminds me of a software architect accurately and confidently providing the wrong spec and accuse later our team of poor performances in an unnecessarily passioned way in a meeting.
Turned out later the cause was later revealed to be what he specifically asked to be set to wasting a week of efforts in the team.
BTW if you have career advice on how to deal with a situation like that, I'd like to hear.
A floppy disk is a fixed size. The number of thoughts human language can convey is infinite. English Wikipedia has 6.6M articles. The AI could drop a Wikipedia-sized batch of articles, expertly written and cross-referenced, every day, forever. At the same interval they could drop 100 million YouTube videos, expertly authored and hyper-clear.

So yes there might be an infinite amount they cannot convey, but there is also an infinite amount they can convey. I guess it's half-glass-empty test if you are happy about the infinite you get, or are just sad about the infinite you don't get.
If only iOS devices had web browsers…
Not for me:

> There are numerous innovative strategies that companies have been adopting to improve their hiring processes and attract top talent. As of my last update in September 2021, here are some unique approaches:
The person mentioned in the article, comori22, is still on Twitter and is not a professional illustrator. The Chinese are only interested in the derivative works of famous IPs that he draws, and he himself is not well-known at all.
Also notable as one of the few actual software-related failures in spaceflight. It's usually some other design flaw at fault, as software has relatively small complexity footprint.
> Outside of elections you are pretty impotent as an individual.

This is untrue, in most parts of America at least; there are more levels of government that affect you than national ones and I find that folks who make this claim generally aren't aware how to effect change or are unwilling to expend the effort.

You can get pretty far just by talking to people.
I have not done extensive testing and the testing I have done is only on the Steam Deck.

I found that when comparing a normal Windows 10 installation to SteamOS, SteamOS performed better (slightly more consistent FPS and better battery).

When I switched to the LTS version of Windows 10 (which doesn't have a lot of the bloat in it and you don't run the risk of screwing things up by running a debloat tool) I got slightly better performance on Windows than I did on SteamOS.

This is also not on a higher end PC. I choose to keep my gaming PC windows right now just to not deal with lower performance, I paid a lot for this computer since I value performance on it.

I will say however that I am finding myself using Windows on my Steam Deck more often. Like right now I am replaying through the Kingdom Hearts series. It feels like jumping through hoops to get that to work on SteamOS where on Windows I just installed the Heroic Game Launcher (alternate app for epic games), installed it and it just works.
If I wanted to include some weird little subspecies though, or even expanded it out to H. erectus... surely they don't add much to the total. Prior to the invention of agriculture, they could never achieve high population densities, so "success" would mean what, hundreds of thousands of individuals across the globe?
> Anyone in a submarine?

Yes, in WW2, when civilians were being evacuated on the USS Crevalle

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Crevalle#Third_and_fourth_...
An interesting thought, considering the barometer which Musk used to measure his commitment to free speech, shows he is not committed to free speech, and "censorship" is still rampant. Literally, using Musk as the context here, Twitter is literally more censored now than it was before.
The kind of people who think to add a backup aren't inspirational: https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/why-stockton-rush-didnt-hire-5...
A relatively simple carbon tax could put us on the right path, but most voters aren’t pushing for it. If the voters were all pushing for it, even if it means living a lower energy lifestyle in the short run and all that that entails, you’d see change.

Write a physical paper letter to your congresspeople letting them know that you’re a single issue voter on carbon tax with carbon dividend and border adjustment. Help bring it to the top of their mind, above the huge number of competing priorities, if you want to see something done.
Nobody should talk to Oracle without their company lawyer present. I am sure Oracle has a variety of shady techniques to determine the version of Java you are running.
It is not impossible, but it is easier said than done.
I did not claim it is only to lower production - it's mainly due to it. Which is exactly my point.

Renewables were not actively hindered, Germany just decided to stop paying 30-50 cent per kwh in subsidies because it's stupid. Also, this is a seperate discussion.
No, the market is surprisingly slow with this. Sure, there are some professional traders that react very quickly. But it appears that there are masses of investors that get to learn the news very late, or only react when they hear from other people who heard the news before them.

Some striking examples: look at the stock prices of pharma companies after Covid broke out. Sure they went up, but it took a full year(!) before most of them finally reached their peeks.
Or look at shares of weapon manufacturers after the Ukraine invasion. Same story, share prices went up but it took months.
I think the common theme that unites supporters of the surveillance state is control, which is not the same thing as preserving the status quo. You also need control in order to make effective changes to the status quo.

All political movements and all politicians are convinced that their power is 100% legitimate and they should therefore be able to have 100% control of and visibility into everything that's going on.

The idea is compatible with most peoples' definition of democracy. You don't need to support other aspects of authoritarianism usually associated with right or left wing dictatorships.
How will you know what your opinion is expected to be by society to avoid getting into trouble at work or in public?

You cannot simply say "Go current good thing! End the current bad thing!" as people will think you are being sarcastic.
I would have fired this person immediately. Gross misconduct -> instant dismissal.
On the other hand, my impression was that they do have a lot of velcro on the ISS, or places to strap yourself to in general.
You don't go into my main point. The majority of people existing then exist now. The cultural shift is very thorough. Even if all new people are super progressive and all old people are super conservative it does not explain the shift. There must be a significant group of the majority which has internalized these cultural changes.
They only just announced it a few weeks ago, surely not launching it would be the business decision if this was the case.
You've been able to specifically schedule refresh times and interval's for awhile now. We did it monthly at a specific time and then set a calendar event with a couple notifications to keep track of it. IMO the "I can't turn off the updates" concern is overblown. If you aren't patching your systems ever you have problems anyways.
What is your point? He deserved to be murdered? This seems irrelevant, “he likely was maybe guilty of something…” and?
Boohoo, somebody said "fuck you" instead of "I strongly disagree with you, good sir! I shall shake my head disapprovingly whence upon I see you again!"

It's just respectability politics. Tone down your language so you don't hurt the poor DoD Aiw Fowce man's feewings. If she "plugged her beliefs in pacifism in a positive manner" he would've just ignored her, which is the point of Respectability(tm).
Thanks, I'm glad the explanation was helpful. I'm always worried that my explanations make no sense to anyone.
The problem comes before that. Mostly there isn’t an alternative to that. Either sign off your rights with an employment contract if you wanna be paid for your skills, or die in a ditch (pardon the hyperbole).
Tertium non datur, there is not an alternative.
And no, I’m sorry, but “you have the freedom to start your own company”, “you have the freedom to not be employed by that company” are all false statements.
My plan is to wait until AI can just tell me it wants me to do for it. be it technical or back rubs. :D
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Pretty new, started blogging again after many years, focussing on data and AWS topics

- Using DuckDB in AWS Lambda https://tobilg.com/using-duckdb-in-aws-lambda

- A poor man's data lake in the cloud https://tobilg.com/casual-data-engineering-or-a-poor-mans-da...

- Gathering and analyzing public ip address data from cloud providers https://tobilg.com/gathering-and-analyzing-public-cloud-prov...
Nobody tried to redefine “open source” here in this thread. @xenago jumped to an incorrect conclusion.

> There’s only one concept for both “open source” and “free software”

Well neither OSI nor FSF agree with this statement. You’re on your own there.
Do you really consider the Babylon Bee a hate speech account?
And is that awareness creating any useful action?
Put that 64kb exe file into a zip file, and it becomes 62 kilobytes...

Clearly there was a little more space they could have eeked out!
FB as a brand has a stink on it that they don't want Threads to be associated with
I tested out Yagi's search results real quick and they are truly excellent. I was actually remarking to my girlfriend yesterday that I wish search engines would surface personal special interest blog posts and stuff like that when I search for things, because personal blogs usually have significantly better content then articles from major websites, and certainly better than the clearly AI generated SEO shit most of the search results on major search engines are clogged with, and sure enough, the example search results on Yagi's homepage are exactly what I wish search results were! Many of the top results in the python exceptions example search were personal blog articles from software engineers talking about the actual theory and practice of using exceptions in Python, and the rest were just links directly to relevant parts of Python's actual documentation or stack overflow. It was amazing, incredibly refreshing. It makes me really want to subscribe to them honestly. It seems like Yagi would give me access to the internet I wish I could spend all my time in, the one I thought was gone but maybe was just lurking under the surface this whole time, the internet where it's just a bunch of people writing about subjects they care about, stuff that makes them excited or whatever, just for their own enjoyment and the enrichment of others.

The problem is, I really don't want to be searching using an account that's linked to my credit card and thus my legal identity. That's a massive possible breach in privacy. And yeah, they say they don't log searches or link them to any account, but the thing is, even if I believe they don't right now, the fact that accounts are set up this way means that they very easily could start logging your searches to your legal identity in the future. It's like giving someone your social security number because they promise not to do anything nefarious with it. Maybe you trust them right now, but it's still a bad idea because of the opening it creates. Maybe they end up doing it to comply with some government regulation. Or maybe because it makes it easier to count searches. Or maybe because they start running ads.

Why would they start running ads? Well, because under capitalism, where everything is supposed to grow in profits and size every year so that the shareholders can get their money, just having a source of income outside of ads isn't enough to guarantee a company won't decide to also run ads, as a source of extra income. Why would any capitalist company every turn down an opportunity to make more profit, just because it already has another profit source? Obviously the constant need for growth creates an incentive to vacuum up every possible way to make profit, not an incentive to be satisfied with a stable, reliable source of income that's enough to keep the lights on and everyone employed. That isn't how capitalism works.
Now do an arts PhD!
> there are more levels of government that affect you than national ones and I find that folks who make this claim generally aren't aware how to effect change or are unwilling to expend the effort

Well you are partially right but also I live in a major metropolitan area. I don't think politics is an area where I can really effect change and I have so much going on with my life that I am also unwilling to expend the effort.
What's the state of 'traditional' turnkey time sharing for coding + development in 2023? Are always-on, signon-and-go servers or clusters of servers with shared storage and a wealth of pre-installed software used by a community of scores or hundreds or thousands of developers still a common thing? Or has that pretty much gone by the wayside and most development is carried out in more isolated, individualized, single-user oriented environments - be it laptop/desktop or Cloud-based (containers, VMs, EC2, etc.) that are customized/tailored to single individual's needs?
How are community notes helpful to a fictional illustrator or their followers?
They wouldn't make a more detailed manual for customers that they couldn't show to those customers. They do provide more detailed interface and system documentation, but they don't share the restricted implementation details. Even for internal use, they'd want to confine the controlled information to a smaller subset of documents because otherwise it's difficult to circulate information.
> The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements

Yes, but... "coding" would be much harder, were we to change two things about current practice:

1. Code must not have security vulnerabilities. (Currently, security vulnerabilities are ordinary and expected, as if security isn't really a consideration -- only passing limited functional tests, and appears to work. Make security a consideration, and I'd say most developers would have to discard their current ways of working.)

2. Code must be able to continue be maintained and evolved without an explosion of human resources required. (Our intuition for how to keep velocity high sustainably hasn't been helped by the convention of frequent job-hopping before one sees full-lifecycle effects, nor by startups that plan on large "growth" hiring.)
This is corroborated by the fact that the car is a Mercedes A45 AMG, which has an MSRP of around £60k (~$/€75k) [0], and costs several hundred Euros per day to rent [1]. How could a 17 year old (who worked as a pizza delivery driver [2]) obtain such a rental, especially given that the minimum age to rent a car in France is 18?

This doesn’t excuse the fact that he was killed, which is an unforgivable overreaction by the police to someone driving recklessly in what’s likely a stolen car.

[0] https://www.carwow.co.uk/mercedes/amg-a45#gref

[1] https://www.eliterent.com/luxury-car-rental/rent-sport-conve..., https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0GeUVAXsAIVsMm?format=jpg

[2] https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/06/28/nahel-tue-a-nanterre-par...
I use tmux in all my terminal sessions. It can search. It's not grep, but 95% of the time it's enough and the 5% I capture the output to a file myself using tmux's it's copy/paste function. I wouldn't mind such functionality if it wasn't mouse-based. But switching terminal just for this not. But seeing an idea executed it always nice.
Before all the FUD comments appear:

- OpenJDK is the reference implementation, it has the same license as the linux kernel, and almost all of the “alternative” JDKs you might have used are all repackaged OpenJDKs with minimal patches. OracleJDK is also like that.

- Java is completely free and libre. You can choose to pay for it the same way you can seek out Red Hat for a paid support license. The kernel/OpenJDK itself is completely open-source.

- OracleJDK itself has a “freemium” model, where you can use the latest LTS release freely, until the next one comes along (plus one year).

- Open JDK is being developed like 90+% by developers employed by Oracle
So? The followers still all died. Whether or not they may have been happy about dying doesn't change that.

And I'm not sure what Lazarus has to do with this unless your suggesting that his raising means that he couldn't die i.e. he's still alive. That would be a very unusual interpretation.
> consisting of failing to read at the university level

I haven't felt a need to do that since my defense around 2 decades ago. I don't think I've needed to flex that muscle today either, you're welcome to prove me wrong, but I don't really trust your judgement going by your standards today, maybe you should bring along one of your peers instead.
Did you know that the planes you fly on essentially have a windmill in the event of a total power loss[0]? I don't think it's common knowledge and I don't think there's any reason that it would matter if the passengers were aware of it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
I've seen a few reasons in big-corps. To list 2:

1. Old version, and security updates are still required

There's some critical piece of legacy software that has only been tested and observed to work on an old version of the JVM (e.g Oracle JDK 8).

The cost of decommissioning the software OR upgrading and re-testing on a later JDK OR switching to the OpenJDK (without security updates...) is perceived to be more expensive or in breach of company policy versus paying licensing fees.

2. Use of proprietary or deprecated APIs

Either company code or that of a library dependency has reliance on proprietary or undocumented Oracle (or Sun) APIs and toolkits that aren't supported in OpenJDK.

The chances that the existing team members, or the current army of "Spring Boot Microservice Developers" will be able to rationalise or unwind this code in a reasonable time frame is slim.

Though to be fair I haven't seen #2 in some time now.
I am curious are you building new antennas every time or upgrading and improving? Bees are cool btw.
And the all serverless approach isn't even possible in general, they aren't drop-in replacements for one another, and god help you they aren't trivial. Real production workloads architected around Lambda get really complex really fast.
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I was on holidays that week and I didn't even noticed the drama. Is Twitter then doing just fine?

Looks like Twitter is just easy to bash nowadays, I'm not that a big user but I see, especially in the OSS / computer related profiles a lot of people putting their Mastodon address in the nickname and yet still tweeting, retweeting, liking in the same compulsory manner as they did before.
"Waiter, this soup tastes like shit."

"Sir, it's the intended outcome that it tastes like shit."

"Oh, I guess that must be ok then."