skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a large university in Texas, I had two professors - one amazing in everyway, the other not. The amazing professor published great research, wrote well, and had great teaching skills. The other professor gave lackluster classes, published research that was routine, and shocked me that they could be teaching at this level (inspiring in a pessimistic way).

Both up for tenure - the amazing professor was passed on because the other had a more desirable background. Both women. As a grad student, I understood the difficult of hiring, but this was honestly incredible.

I thought of this when I read the following from the article: "I was startled to learn that academic achievements were not always what mattered most." and "only to fall short of securing a faculty position due to factors outside my control."

Just a different story from academia.
6% interest rate? Things are crazy in the US! For my house I got 0.9% fixed rate over 10 years. No yearly fees.
I think Mach got this right, going the other direction from fork(). Instead of mashing even more functionality into one function, disaggregate more.

You create a new task, which may or may not inherit your address space. This new task does not contain any threads.

You can then give it address space as needed (for example if you didn't set it to inherit any).

You can then create threads within the new task and start them as needed.

And yes, having a separate task without threads can be useful.
Sarcasm? 60k GBP per year is what an IT director get in the UK, that can not be poverty.
Very nice!

Since I saw one of the Ascii Art styled ones:

If anyone is interested in more Animated Ascii Art, I created an interactive tool to generate it recently: https://www.gifcii.fun
>One of the biggest issues with Discord is how the content posted into a community is lost into the abyss.

This is something Discord could fix by adding functionality. They've solved the base problem - they have the users. The overlap of Reddit users and Discord users is huge. You need a Discord account these days even if you aren't into gaming or "socializing" on the internet - most programming projects use it instead of IRC or Slack now.

Discord is also in a better position re:IPO/profitability.

That's why when people kept saying "there's nowhere for people to go" I thought Discord would be the perfect choice. If they're willing to capitalize on the opportunity they absolutely could swoop in and start eating Reddit's lunch.
This is insightful, thank you for sharing your personal life so openly. How does one go about starting to study Buddhism? I feel like it's a recurring topic that I stumble upon every now and then, but beyond reading up about it myself, it feels a bit impenetrable. I'm already familiar with the general core ideas and such, but applying them seems well out of reach.
"were poured in"
"Nice" use of the passive form. Do you think there weren't any weapons before? Or that advisors were needed to start an insurrection?

Google "1982 Hama massacre" le "Alois Brunner".
Do you know that Earth is more than Kyiv?
Mrs. Puff
Nice to see someone is paying attention.
It's not clear to me what this approach offers over Dedekind cuts, you are specifying a real number by saying in which rational intervals it lies, a Dedekind cut specifies a real number by saying which rationals are below it and which are above, and translating back and forth between the two is immediate
I have my doubts about this, and also whether it is relevant that a pressure differential can increase the rate of osmosis.

If, as the author contends, meat can be regarded as a water-saturated matrix of proteins [1], then the pressure inside the meat will rise to match the external pressure. The only way for a pressure differential to form would be if the matrix formed a very rigid shell (even a slight flexibility would allow the pressure to equalize), but it does not.

Furthermore, because water is almost incompressible, this occurs without any appreciable change in volume. The author suggests that if the matrix compresses, then that will expel water, but this will only be the case if the voids in the matrix become smaller. It's more likely, I think, that the only change would be that the walls of the voids will become thinner, as the water inside the voids can follow the pressure increase without changing appreciably in volume: in effect, the water inside the voids supports them against the pressure outside.

All of this assumes the pressure is being applied equally in all directions, which is the case if you are applying the pressure to the marinade, rather than squeezing the meat in one direction.

[1] Or a cellulose matrix in the case of vegetables.
just zoom the site (with ctrl +)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_rule
It’s written in a very restricted variant of Python, rpython: https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rpython.html
Uhh... I proved that it's false because it leads to contradictions. That is literally a reductio ad absurdum - a proper proof. It's a transcendental argument against materialism.

In addition to it, I personally reject materialism because it fails to describe the universe properly, in particular the Big Bang.

The Big Bang is the beginning of all material universe - creatio ex nihilo. However, if there was a mathematical structure that sets the framework for the physical laws, there's a reality that transcends the material universe and exists prior to it. It's the only logically consistent worldview in my opinion.

This has even further implications but, you know, you can figure it out yourself.
>Its not necessarily even the federal government’s fault. The distance between the federal government and its constituents is far by nature. They are making laws that apply to both Texas and California - there is not much that both will want.

Which arguably is be design; the framers knew that it was better for the states to largely handle their own affairs. The problem is now everyone thinks their laws are so important that they have to be federal, instead of just letting different states do their own thing.
Yeah I think the the number that clicked for me was the ratio of home price to entry level wage 50 years ago.

E.g. an entry level job on Wall Street might have paid $15k/yr and a really nice apartment was $150k…a 10x spread - today that entry level job is say $150K but the same apartment is like $3-5m closer to a 25x spread…
Great article! As a self-taught web developer I find that kind of resources very valuable. It help me to move away from all the abstractions and towards a more concrete understanding of how thing work. Thank you.
I have been a home owner for roughly 20 years by now and I don’t think I spent more than 5k euros in maintenance so far…
Or commercial platform decides it doesn't want to deal with alternative clients and just bans people using them.
The 1958 coup was successful. You might be confusing it with the failed 1961 coup.

In 1958, the military in Algeria (then still part of France) rebelled against the government, and successfully invaded Corsica. They threatened to invade metropolitan France unless the government stepped down, which it did. They then installed Charles de Gaulle in power and rewrote the constitution.

As French Wikipedia notes, "il s'agit du dernier coup d'État réussi en France" ("it's the last successful coup d'état in France").[0]

> Therefore it allows the president's government to force through laws only if there aren't enough members of parliament to vote for them, but not against them.

It forces parliament to choose between deposing the government or allowing the law to go through. There's no option to simply reject the law, as would be the case in most normal democracies.

0. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%89tat_du_13_mai_1...
Please stop using DNS protocol for your application
No one who is wealthy would ever refer to their annual income as a defining metric.
I just don't agree that it's hidden by our politics. "How many Yemenis died in the war, and how" is actually an obscured and hidden topic.
Hmm. Is there going to be a "Cocaine Shark"[0] movie at some point? Or perhaps a "Cocaine Sharknado"?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Bear
I've always been curious as to why .us isn't popular among the US tech companies. The only exception I know of is zoom.us.
Responsibilty to maintain road and sewer, for example, are funded by use tax and sales tax. Those who use it are paying to maintain it.

Income tax pays for ... ridiculous things like endless wars and spying on American income tax payers.
Me too. My parents made significantly more in their entire lifetime from the appreciation of a house they bought in the 1980s than they ever did earning a lower middle class wage. It's quite common, but not talked about in polite conversation.

If you have even a half hearted belief in meritocracy that represents a failure of epic proportions.

As a top 10%-er wouldn't qualify for a mortgage to buy the house I grew up in.

This wasn't an accident. The country has been on the road to serfdom and ever since Thatcher violently crushed the Labour unions.
LZAV now integrated into TurboBench [1]

Download TurboBench for windows from releases [2]

Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro - Ryzen 6600HS - DDR5 6400 - gcc-13.1

File: silesia.tar 220MB (Mixed text/binary)

C Size ratio% C MB/s D MB/s Name
77885207 36.7 43.20 4479.24 lz4 9
81343184 38.4 123.17 4299.68 lz4 3
85664894 40.4 324.11 5171.12 lzturbo 11
88672448 41.8 435.96 2769.77 lzav v1.3
99553305 47.0 914.25 5425.54 lzturbo 10
100883728 47.6 813.76 4667.85 lz4 1
211948544 100.0 16032.92 16023.24 memcpy

lzturbo (closed source) included as reference

[1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench

[2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/releases
I believe that this is the same episode in which Bart, who has brittle bones, drinks Mulk.
That's disingenuous, Chinese households may have higher capacity burners than the average Western household but do not go anywhere near 100,000 BTU. This is reserved for restaurants. North of 10,000 is plenty for home cooking.
This reminds me of something i did once using a 1d CRF at the output of a sequence model. I set "impossible" transitions to -inf so that transitions between certain state pairs were simply never predicted. I could imagine executing something like this that is conditional on the current grammatical context.

On fact it's a bit surprising to me how little I see CRFs mentioned in the context of language models. They are useful whenever you want to model or learn transition probabilities.
Reproducible builds: a PostgreSQL query optimization example
> Why not then, dip into your bank account?

The government does it every time when it prints money. Note that with cryptocurrency or golden money that would become impossible. Maybe that is why government set up obstacles for buying gold or cryptocurrency.
> the ultra-wealthy have increasingly been taking all of the economic gains in society

What, do only the ultra-wealthy have smartphones? High level the big issue is overpopulation. At the pointy end of the stick we have the crusade against cheap energy.

You can blame the outcomes on the ultra-wealthy looking after themselves, but fact is that most of the damage was done by policies people were out there vocally supporting. Picking the ultra-wealthy as a bogyman isn't going to fix things. The ultra-wealthy don't have huge storehouses of food to feed the hungry. They don't have 10 years supply of cheap gas for everyone. They can't magic cheap goods out of the air without someone else working to build them.
Any AI platform do you know where we can do abusive talks?
And then platform also give reply in abusive language.
> having a good idea is as important as the CV if not more

I don't know about the acceptance criteria for ERC grants, but from the peer reviews I've read from one of my professors papers it feels like there's a bias towards accepting novelty of all else. My joke with ideas was meant more general, i.e. that you can have a few billion dollar ideas, but executing on them is much harder (due to lack of funds, time or skill).

Additionally, depending on the demand of the field I can imagine it being easier to obtain funding for resarch. Imagine being in machine learning right now lol.

I wasn't talking about grant acceptance though, but purely what kind of ideas can get you published and what data you have to fake in order to get there. In the case of Francesca Gino it doesn't sound like her fraudulent resarch was so costly that she would have to have applied for large grants in order to conduct it.
In Pittsburgh, my summertime natural gas bill is about $25 - That's with a gas stove, gas, water heater, and gas dryer. Of that, $14.50 is just the cost to be hooked up to gas. IOW, the connection fee is substantially higher than the cost of the energy I use to cook.

(My winter time bill is much higher; we heat the house with a gas boiler.)

But there's $174/year of savings available if we went all-electric. Which we won't do any time soon, alas.
Botulinum toxin: Bioweapon and magic drug (2010)
One was issued because it was easier than not issuing it, that's it. I disagree any apology was owed when the other half thought Apu was a good thing, a well fleshed out and developed character bringing part of their culture to masses that would otherwise never encounter it. But, it is what it is.
I feel you, this happens to me sometimes. Arrogance and ignorance are a dangerous mix. Many people know nothing yet argue aggressively about the Middle East.
Alan Savory's holistic planned grazing seems to have worked for both preventing and reverting the desertification of brittle land.

Would be very interesting to see more attempts at using it in these places, especially since it would be hard to make the land worse.
> One man isn’t an apparatus in lockstep seeking to perpetuate its power for its own sake.

From the linked Wikipedia page: "Historians have suggested since the 1980s that as McCarthy's involvement was less central than that of others, a different and more accurate term should be used instead that more accurately conveys the breadth of the phenomenon, and that the term McCarthyism is now outdated. Ellen Schrecker has suggested that Hooverism after FBI Head J. Edgar Hoover is more appropriate."
Very different experience than mine being on a hiring committee. The CS market has been so great that candidates have a lot of choice in where they land.

We’d sift through maybe 200 applications, quickly reject most (i.e., do they have any top pubs in the area we are hiring for?). Most of them were wildly out of scope.

Pick 10 from the remaining 30 applicants that we think (a) are the best and (b) would potentially accept the offer.

We had several failed searches after many, many interviews.
Insurance is all about risk and when you are not uniform with the baseline then you become a risk. Whatever debris is doesn't really matter. It's that there is debris and that's what increases the insurance risk.
I'm out of context, but shouldn't it be possible to train a LLM-like model for images? (as an alternative to the stable diffusion process)

If you rearrenge all pixels from square-sized images using the Hilbert curve, you should end-up with pixels arranged in 1D, and that shouldn't be much different from "word tokens" that LLMs are used to deal with, right? Like a LLM that only "talks" in pixels.

This would have the benefit that you may be able to use various resolutions during training with the model still "converging" (since the Hilbert curve stabilizes towards infinite resolution).

I'm not sure if the pixels would also need to be linearized, then maybe it could work to represent the RGB values as a 3D cube and also apply a 3D Hilbert curve on it, then you would have a 1D representation of all of the colors.

I don't really know the subject but I guess something like that should be possible.
Theres a billion kids from Shenzen though. They could literally do all the work in America. Then theres 1.5 billion people in India on top of that.

Meanwhile, Western countries birth rates are declining.

I dont know what the solution is but this is the argument for the destruction of western civilization.

And maybe that would make a lot of people happy but I would not want to live in a world without things/ideas that Western civilization has created.
I don't agree with your interpretation of MSX being a XBOX predecessor in any way, especially in target market.

It was a standard largely adopted for home and business computers that could run arbitrary code and, despite the strong game library, it wasn't meant for games. In many countries it was extensively used for business applications by small businesses and independent professionals due to the decent specs and low cost.
Yes. Sorry I misunderstood your point.
The comment you replied to is so tone deaf that I wonder if they're trolling.
The headline is misleading. e2e encryption features, like facetime, imessage and some chat AppStore apps, would be pulled from the UK.

IDK where TechDirt got "exit the UK market" from.
If i might speak on some behalf, an adjacent question is what would a political agenda in structural engineering registration and certification look like? Then, what would a political agenda in the registration of journalists look like? It feels sorta like regulatory capture. Why would we allow the government or some central organizing body to determine who is legally allowed to report on them. Because introducing certifications turns it into a legal proceeding, possibly prosecutable with possibly steep penalties. Then we've just provided the infrastructure to jail dissenting journalists on a silver platter.

Maybe if the world was in a better state we could trust anyone with the literal power over speech but have you seen the uproar over even corporate pseudo-control that exists now? Imagine a world where a President, instead of removing unfavorable journalists from his press conferences, revokes those journalists certifications and then jails them the next time they try to do their job.

Okay, so it wouldn't be the president who has that power, who would you pick? Name a person who you trust with control over investigative speech itself. That's where all the downvotes are coming from. You can't just say, what if we regulated journalism legally. You have to also introduce a system that doesn't immediately descend into hell or people are gonna be way against you
So do I, but I don’t worry about America trying to take over the world in the same way.
Another perspective on this is that departments will have a long term hiring strategy that balances breadth of the overall research program against depth in a particular subdiscipline, with the goal of building a coherent ecosystem with good opportunities for faculty and students. That may be a factor beyond a candidate's control, but not necessarily just anticompetitive behavior in the hiring process.
are they? That’s a promising thought actually
>Buying online is a terrible idea.

While the rest of your post is on point, I strongly disagree with this. If you shop on a site with free shipping and returns, online can be a great choice. I recently bought 7 pairs of shoes from Amazon and returned all but one. Yes, I may have to float the cash (depending on my CC billing cycle), but it is worth it to me compared to: drive time, traffic/parking frustrations, toxic perfume air in malls and dept stores, and the hours it takes going store to store (and then maybe back again to buy the least bad option), salespeople who know nothing, etc...

Thrift stores used to be great, but flipper mania has reduced them to last pick of the litter spots.

Some people enjoy shopping (though I suspect "retail therapy" is a big factor in that), I do not. And judging from the state of brick and mortar and especially malls, I believe that I am no outlier.

Again, I really appreciated the rest of your post.
What My Musical Instruments Have Taught Me
Business relationships are not zero sum games. There is no benefit to you to making them suffer (besides I guess some temporary pleasure in the vindictiveness?). Focus on what helps you long term; if there are relationships with individual managers you can keep a good relationship with that can come back around as a future benefit. But mostly know from the corporate perspective this is "just business" and you should look out for your own interests not theirs.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/558352...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/bezos-musk-and-other...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/us/politics/trump-taxes-i...

https://ktla.com/news/how-does-tesla-get-away-with-paying-0-...

The list goes on and on. Once you have enough money you use staff lawyers at your company to pay nothing taxes either for your company or for yourself.
Horseshoe theory is an evidence-free smear of anything outside the Overton window.

The Overton window has been creeping to the right for the last half century, so traditionally leftist views like freedom of speech, a right to privacy, and being anti-war are now outside the window. Anyone who still holds those values is effectively far right, say the horseshoe-calling centrists.

Nonsense!
> One professor strongly advocated for his own postdoc, even though his CV was not at all competitive. After considerable debate—and without consensus—he was invited for an interview anyway.

This alone happens more frequent than not. Idea here is to land (PhD) on a remarkable lab with a supervisor on the committee...
Well, we could start with billionaires not buying houses to to use as investment vehicles. Being able to own their own home would be the single biggest way you could raise living standards for the poorest in society.
"Unless they are partners as subcontractors,"

Well that's the loophole, isnt it?
I think the key point in the memo is "The following assumptions were made for purposes of calculating the potential value of GS7340 as an exclusivity extension strategy: GS7340 exhibits incrementally better efficacy (greater antiviral log reduction when taken as a monotherapy) than Viread.

At the time the decision was made, nobody knew if the drug would be better. There were two possible outcomes if they made the investment now: a) the drug turns out to be a flop, the investment is lost or b) the drug turns out to be better.

And the decision was not "do we continue to develop this now", it was "do we develop this now, or spend the R&D dollars on something else".

It is true that the patent expiration was a factor, but the fact the drug turned out to be better is just 20/20 hindsight. If it had failed and Gilead flushed a few hundred million down the drain, nobody would have criticized the decision to delay the development.
So I actually did have this as a class, or at least part of one.

I think there is / was an official standard or name, I can't remember it though. It never worked with Google really, but it worked on the search engines for our university and other academic sites.
This has nothing to do with enterprise, it's about accessibility. For most people on the planet English isn't even the first language and now you expect them to know about obscure wannabe-cutesy internet slang? Fuck that shit, what's next? UWU.md instead of README.md?
That's easy for you to say because you have no skin in the game.

Imagine a service where a system can scan all your programming and engineering knowledge and expertise into an AI that then can be hired out to other companies infinitely and forever.

You might care then because this obviously reduces the profit you can now extract from your labor.
lz4 is ALWAYS decompressing faster (> 2x) thand zstd
20%? Seems like at least half of all the work has to do with infrastructure plumbing, now that people who are supposed to write product code are expected to be Cloud prodigies.
Politically as in general society politics, or as in academic infighting politics?
A brief history of computers
This (original comment, not parent) is what happens when you conflate London and the Home Counties with the UK as a whole.
Yes, particularly /malefashionadvice/ which reddit recently forced back open.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/07/21/1210216/reddit-take...