skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Half the stuff I search for (old magazines) doesn't even appear in Google's SERPs any longer.

I resort to Duckduckgo and Brave's searches among many others. Even things like Yandex give much deeper dives now.
Welcome to the Mosaic Communications Universe (1994)
I do enjoy reading actual dialog coming from Kenny. :)
I read the same argument, but that sounds like a much better argument for donation-led places (which is also a thing), rather than hoping for the knock-on effect of legacies.
I haven't found a specific list, but did find this article with a bunch more details https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/19/marc-tessier-lavigne-sta...
M.2 SSDs have almost zero idle power draw, if that‘s what you meant?

HDDs can spin down and will not draw much in that state. I think it‘s a reasonable assumption for a file server at home that it will spend most of time in spindown.

I have seen some problematic reports on external enclosures on Reddit, but maybe they do work fine in many cases.
The student-run newspaper broke the story and relentlessly pursued it.

Stanford president’s research under investigation for scientific misconduct, University admits ‘mistakes’

https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/29/stanford-presidents-res...

Stanford president dodges research misconduct questions

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/04/25/stanford-president-dodg...

Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s Alzheimer’s research, colleagues allege

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-f...

The reporter, Theo Baker, is a freshman.

https://stanforddaily.com/author/tabaker/
Yeah, I think part of the problem is that people don't really understand this. I have taken classes at a community college, a directional state school, an R1 and my master's degree is from a highly selective school. My n=1 experience is that the coursework from any accredited program is largely the same. The professors at the state school were actually better than at any of the other schools from a pure teaching perspective. The biggest difference between them was the profile of my classmates. The entire value that Harvard et al. provide is the name brand and the alumni network. The education itself you can get anywhere.
And VS Code supports the py-percent format as a notebook too (that jupytext can use)
That may be a satisfying explanation at first pass, but it breaks down quickly under scrutiny, I think.

We can recognize the emotional state of pigs and cows, probably more than even we can with cats. Certainly more than we can with rodents and other pets.

I also think most people wouldn't accept a video of someone abusing a cow, pig, or even a chicken. Let's just replace dog with piglet in my comment if that helps track the point.

I'd wager most people wouldn't find footage inside a slaughterhouse or factory farm very palatable. But this happens by the hundreds of millions daily.
Learning Chinese (well enough to order from the menu) using MTurk
Definitely. And on a broader note, white collar crime effectively having zero repercussions is the main reason so many of our institutions are failing.
Every digit is equally likely in pi:

>>> statistics.mean(map(int, string.digits))
4.5
Your bio welcomes strangers to chat, but, no method of contact! =]

How can I get in touch?
The R Naught is not as complicated as it sounds. If you get infected and pass the virus on to one person, and him to one person, and that person to another person, and this pattern persists throughout society, you have an infection rate of 1. If you pass it on to two people, and on down the line, you have an R Naught of 2. And so on it goes. If it falls below one and finally to 0, the pandemic qualifies as endemic.

The infection rate is always conjectural, not really empirical. It’s impossible to discern without universalized, random, and thoroughly accurate testing, tracing, and tracking. Those conditions have never been met in any country or any pandemic. So what seems to be a measure of an existing reality is really true only in theory, not realistically discernible in the midst of a pandemic. At best, it is an estimate.

Masks are ineffective at lowering the R Naught. Social Distancing might.
I agree. But it shouldn't be illegal; many legitimate businesses also follow very similar dark patterns to acquire and retain customers/users, that's a fact of doing business.

It shouldn't magically be an issue when the company provides gambling games.
High SAT scores are only a good predictor against low SAT scores. Can you say that extremely high SAT scores are a better indicator of college success than very high SAT scores?

I’m not saying SAT scores are useless, just that they should only be used as a filter and not for ranking.
Spy – a static Python to WASM compiler
Slides - https://4897a01d-e56f-47fa-814f-70c7c1e11730.pyscriptapps.co...

Repo - https://github.com/spylang/spy
> Because downvotes aren't for disagreement.

On Reddit, not HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
There are non-ligatured variants included in the download.
The prison system wouldn't be able to handle the influx.
True - but if some other place existed which said "We only let in 50% children of harvard students and 50% really smart people", would that place turn out to be more desirable to hire from?

I suspect so... Those connections are perhaps more valuable than great exam grades.
I hear the calls for blood here, but will offer a contrarian point of view. The pressures academic researchers have to face today are unparalleled, even in 95% of industry jobs. The pressure to publish continuously, pressure to win grants, pressure to be a great teacher, pressure to be a role model for students and younger faculty, pressure to balance all this with families that really need you too.

So we basically take the brightest minds and have them compete in a gladiatorial rate race. This system is so broken that something fundamental has to change here.
Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person! [0]

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ

Edit: NSFW (but still compliant with YouTube obscenity standards)
Likewise in software with Facebook AI releases
ChatGPT’s performance is declining in some areas
How many lives have been made significantly worse by 24/7 on-call being made the norm for engineers by these companies? These companies deserve plenty of retaliation even if they pay good salaries.
This is modern science. This is our tax dollars. And this is at the highest levels.
Yeah got the same. Very solid
My first real software job, I asked how much do we charge for this thing? Sales guy told me it was $50k. I was like, what? This thing isn't worth 50k. Sales man replied "It's not what it's worth, it's what they'll pay."

Never forgot it.
It’s amazing how much worse Siri has gotten over the years.

I don’t think my perception of what it should be able to do has changed…
I admit, the cases are different, and I may be more stating how I think it should be than what a court would decide. But yes, Microsoft is doing even worse now, because the government failed to act previously.
It’s gotten really bad over the past few months, but even before GPT was a thing scummy operators just used Mechanical Turk or Fiverr.

I don’t understand why Google is doing so poorly at filtering it out: for a concrete example, searching for terms relating to common semi-trivial problems when programming mainstream platforms like the web, Java, or C# will now result in low-quality, non-authoritative sites like GeeksForGeeks - or even W3Schools always coming up first, with authoritative sources like MDN, the W3/WHATWG, even StackOverflow sometimes being below-the-fold.
> Tessier-Lavigne defended his reputation but acknowledged that issues with his research, first raised in a Daily investigation last autumn, meant that Stanford requires a president “whose leadership is not hampered by such discussions.”

This speaks volumes about his character. Any organization led by someone with questionable ethics poisons the trust and confidence of the entire organization. So good for him!

Those kinds of ethics questions have a real impact on everyone else in the organization trying to do the right thing - as they bear the reputational harm with much less ability to just choose to go elsewhere.

Knowingly, or even just negligently, putting your colleagues and employees in such a situation is a tragedy of leadership.

It’s important to recognize that this would be a different story had he been ousted and protested or attempted a cover up. People mess up, but sometimes that means you don’t get to be a leader anymore. That’s what’s happening here and it seems like the right way we should treat these things.
STH: New Server CPUs AMD EPYC Bergamo and Genoa-X [video]
Ah yeah. Not sure on that one. scp does have the `-3` option to copy between two remote hosts via the local host, but that can be significantly slower if the remote hosts are in the same network and local host is not.
Discussion over here on the Stanford Daily's story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36790301
Downvoting to indicate disagreement is how HN has always worked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
MIT and Harvard are almost completely different. The promise of MIT, as I understand it, is sort of a ruthless no-compromise academic excellence. The promise of Harvard or Yale is that you are going to be inducted into the American ruling class. These are different goals.
Well, you know what they say about polishing certain things. Python is just not meant to write serious applications, despite all the startups using it. Let's stick to OpenCV and ML applications, NOT line-of-business. Doesn't even have static typing, might as well use JavaScript.
He prob had millions in government grants to write those papers.

Theres no accountability.
> Can you expand on what it is you think his goal is in your scenario?

Fund raising for his vanity campaign. Attracting votes from Trump-adjacent voters who may have buyer's remorse from 2016 but still want a lunatic conspiracy candidate. The same goals as anyone spouting this kind of dog whistling nonsense.
Which leads me to another tangent, which is that there is a very clear split between programmers that "manipulate text" and programmers that "manipulate structure".

It can be seen in the choice of tooling, some people really go ham with multi-cursor editing, find-and-replace patterns, "select next word", editor macros, and other text manipulation based tools. While others (myself included) prefer a more content-aware tool like JetBrains' "rename field", "extract method", "widen selection" (select AST parent's text span), etc.

Which is not to say that either group is more correct or efficient, it's just a pattern I see on people.
> I don't see how it's going to beat Perl, which already lets you do the same things, but inside a full-fledged programming language

I don't know if you've heard of CPAN - it was introduced less than 2 months ago (October '95) and it's fantastic: you can browse and download modules off the world-wide web without hunting down tarballs on obscure FTP servers! The number of Perl modules on CPAN is growing daily! Any functionality
a webmaster may want can be achieved using Perl CGI scripts - I highly recommend the latest CGI.pm (v2) whixhbyou can get from CPAN
It's been in use since at least 2006 that I know of. That's when I was first let onto it by a friend running a big content farm. Now it's absolutely out of control. I use it myself generously to help me write articles, but you have to be incredibly careful because it so frequently hallucinates. You have to have some knowledge of the domain you are writing in to peep when it is going full HAL9000 on you.

The Internet now feels like this to me:

https://www.okcu.edu/admin/communications/web/wharrgarbl

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
I mean, it starts out by saying that the special sauce usually isn't even needed.
Additional info available from https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/19/marc-tessier-lavigne-sta...

I'm glad to see someone take some personal responsibility that isn't forced on them (that we know of). I realize that I don't know enough about the circumstances to know if this is "enough", and I am curious about his staying on as faculty, but from purely appearances this is a pleasant surprise given most recent public figure screw-ups have just posted through it.
On the whole, all these scandals in manipulated research have deeply shaken my trust in many of our scientific institutions. It's clear by now this isn't the case of a few bad apples - our scientific institutions are systemically broken in ways that promote spreading fraudulent results as established scientific truth.
That's trivially solved with shared culture. Simply by both being human, we share a level of shared experience that would make me uncomfortable eating you. To a lesser extent, we have a shared experience with our domesticated pets, which is why we find it repugnant to eat them, but unlike with Grandma it's okay to give them the Old Yeller' treatment when need be.

Most edge cases you could come up with are covered by "it wouldn't necessarily be unethical to eat them, but we have a universal taboo because edge cases are so absurd and rare."
Sick of AI censorship? Check out FreedomGPT where you can real answers to your questions, not censorship: https://freedomgpt.com/
Exactly. A lot of progress was made in that time, so I have little patience for defeatism.
Unlike Google and MS, Apple has neural processing hardware in user's hands. Every modern Apple device has neural processors as part of its CPU, from iPhones and iPads to Macs of every price-point.

Apple is the only company I know of (discounting Nvidia), that has this established base of consumers just waiting for a killer app.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
AFAICT whether you find a conversation a source of joy is relatively orthogonal to being an introvert. It's whether it's draining or not. A conversation can be both a source of joy and draining.
Maybe you should publish then, because just claiming the opposite isn’t proof of anything.
> At the same time, I intend to use the phrase correctly in the future!

These kinds of dual usages come up pretty often, but in that spectrum I find this one very interesting because it is somehow very good at scratching some sort of intellectual/elitist itch in all of us. Both usages are fine, but one is more rare (but not too rare) and "came first" so is ostensibly more "correct." Which makes it very satisfying to bring up in these kinds of conversations :-)
"When you're in a hole, stop digging". Yes, academia is terribly broken at the moment, the incentives are fucked, and fraud is rampant. But the solution there is not to just look the other way at misdeeds, that just makes the incentives even worse. Highly-visible career executions for misconduct aren't the entire solution, but they are part of the solution.
I could see that from the list of the colleges. Certainly it would be a lot easier to fall through the cracks at Penn State than at more elite schools. It's probably also true that your experience at large state schools in general is probably more a function of what you make of it than smaller, more selective schools.
What are the implications if an open source library is simply maintained in the US and consumed in the EU?

Does the EU company then need to handle the details of certifying it? Do you end up with an entire industry around companies "importing" open source libraries into essentially a library of usable verified things that companies are then allowed to consume?

Does this end up with EU companies using out of date things because it requires certification? How do you avoid it either becoming a rubber stamp with a fee attached or EU industry being behind insofar as its ability to use technology.

EG a US developer can use A B or C whereas EU dev can only use a 2 year old version of A which may be less secure for lack of improvements on further versions rather than more secure. Essentially a certified predictable level of inferiority.

> Some of the obligations are virtually impossible to meet: for example there is an obligation to “deliver a product without known exploitable vulnerabilities”.

Is it possible we actually CAN meet something a lot closer to that? There isn't infinite ways to use something and if the use is novel and out of scope of the library itself wouldn't that be something out of scope and part of the companies job to certify?

Consider languages and technology that obviate or drastically decrease entire classes of bugs from memory safe langues, to comprehensive testing, to static analysis, to more secure OS like seL4.
Alright, you confused me. I was simply saying that this (your words):

> any of those languages (and plenty of others) will work fine.

...is not necessarily true. I've tried a good amount of languages in my life and their killer apps lose steam very fast when you try doing commercial code with them. For the rest of discussion, well, I didn't understand its point, so not participating there.
> Lots of language do not have guaranteed to be called at a specific time “destructors”.

Those tend to be GC languages though, where deterministic execution is not a hard requirement.
I didn't realize academic research was a mandatory life sentence.
I’d you forward your agent to a remote host, that host can mess with you.
> a context-sensitive grammar with unbounded lookaheads

You may want to look at chibicc, a toy (but self-hosting) C compiler written in C, which treats C grammar as if it was pretty much that.

Of course, the sane way is to not invent languages that can be naturally described only by a context-sensitive grammar with unbounded lookahead.
The guy went on to become Stanford president, it's not the system that broke him, it's that he was a cheater all along and flourished in it.

There are a lot of good honest hard working people losing out, but you won't find them at an administrator luncheon because they are spending 70h in the lab every week on a temp contract.
JetBrains Mono is nice, but it's a little too sharp, and it's too tightly packed IMO. Cascadia Code is a little better, but nothing beats Menlo for me.
Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies use of copyrighted works
The filezilla installer will install adware on a windows PC if you leave the default options (as of 1-2yrs ago)
The compiler is able to warn you about this:

<source>:8:18: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
8 | if (*ptr == EOF) {

Of course this warning only happens when you target ARM, so I can imagine it's still hard to catch if you do all your development on x86, and only occasionally cross-compile to ARM without heeding compiler warnings.
> At the end of the day, their system can more efficiently organize national production around some shared goal.

That sounds like propaganda. Oligopolies are historically hilariously inefficient, and China's brain drain hardly seems like it portends well for them:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-brain-drain-threatens-it...

https://archive.ph/ACMyG

https://web.archive.org/web/20170225132236/http://www.nytime...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-s-millio...
The open source definition is by the people that invented the term 'open source'. When you heard the term 'open source', it was because the OSI made the term 'open source' and defined it.

You can use any other term you like: 'shared source', 'source available', 'fauxpen source' or whatever else.
I remember a student who doctored his whole CV to get into Harvard (and win awards) was sent to probation: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/16/harvard-wheele... Although his case was more egregious.
Why is IMAX running a software emulation of hardware from two decades ago?

“The original Quick Turn Reel Units operated on Palm Pilots. In advance of the release of Oppenheimer, IMAX Engineering designed and manufactured an emulator that mimics the look and feel of a Palm Pilot to keep it simple and familiar for IMAX film projectionists,” an IMAX spokesperson told Motherboard.

The article quotes an IMAX spokesperson directly, explaining how and why this was done.
I do.

Everything one does to themselves or to their own body should be legal as long as they don't harm others.

I never support narcotic use, but I equally think government should never have rights over what people put into their own body either.
Between Marc Tessier-Lavigne, operation Varsity Blues and SBF parents, the scandals involving Stanford keep on coming. It's not sending a good signal when it comes to the overall integrity of the institution.
Which is IMO fine for PRC since it's manufacturing base can always out compete west on cost. The real issue is IP law protects incumbents, predominantly western companies. Stats from a few years ago was PRC was paying $6 in IP to US for every $1 it took. It's a rigged game with rules made by west to benefit west. It's unsustainable. As PRC catches up, would it like a world where their IP gets respected? Yes, but the second best is a world where western IP gets increasingly ignored because that deals disproportionate damage to those with most profitable IP portfolios.