skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few loosely coupled thoughts on the subject - mostly to flesh out my own thinking

(tldr - in which I conclude that we agree on the goal but disagree on “which was easy to implement”, after thinking through my own educational / economical history at some length ;))

I benefited from:

* a nearly free and (luckily) high quality school education from kindergarten through 12th grade - most schools were not that great in my time, I lucked out (with parents who strived / persisted until they got me into the right one)
* a nearly free but terrible education for my bachelors in engineering in India
* a largely discounted and excellent post-graduate education in the US, paid for by my work as a research assistant, which I had to compete for, and that paid the equivalent of $375/month after taxes for working 20 hours a week with a full course load from which I paid my living expenses (in the early oughts - so i was poor :)), but came with a tuition waiver.

Here’s how it has led me to approach this subject:

* I definitely agree that the ideal of nearly free education for everyone that wants it is the right one for a richer society like America to strive for, but subject to some basic rules(eg maintain non-abysmal grades that reflect at least basic effort)

* Free just means someone else is paying for it - and that has its limits. In a free / subsidized college world, major states in India had (have?) so few engineering colleges that if you got less than 99%, you couldn’t study technology - at all! Barring a stroke of luck (family moving to another state where I at least got into a pretty bad engineering college) , I would have had to study economics instead of engineering.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/delhi-uni...

* Around the time of the article above (maybe a few years before) India started allowing private colleges to charge more. This has made education a lot more expensive in India on average, although I believe a similar number of “free seats” still exist, but the number of “seats” to study popular fields has gone up by on order of magnitude, and that has enabled a LOT more people to study what they want, but incomes have grown a lot too for white collar workers. For many (not all) fields, folks are able to take a loan and pay it back.

* If, for instance, the US government paid for just “degree granting post-secondary institutions” expenses, it would instantly become the #2 budget category just below social security and above health, medicare, “income security” and defense.

* It seems that 65% of US adults over 25 do not have a bachelors degree. It seems likely many of them will not support using their tax dollars to create a new #2 budget liability - despite the “chicken-or-egg” dynamic - that if the education was free, many of them would have a degree, and might support it.
Is it really considered a "backdoor" for one party to willingly hand over the data that was exchanged through an encrypted channel? I'm not sure what you mean.
Being able to JIT individual Python functions is absolutely huge, this could make way for huge speedups in hot functions from existing large Python codebases.
I find it sort of implausible that somebody high in their field is totally ignorant in English, if only because so many papers are only published in English.

I've known so many researchers who apologize every other sentence because they say they've only read English and I would never had known otherwise.

Which is to say - it'd be wierd to say "well I don't know English and I don't know anybody who does oh well". But, anyway, the papers were published on aeXive in...
In many (perhaps most?) countries there is not a distinction between commercial and residential toilets, I rarely see any here that aren't gravity flushed.

I remember the first time going into public toilets in the US (at LAX) and I went into a cubicle and thought I'd picked one with a broken toilet - the bowl was full of water!
You can turn on 'showdead' in your profile to see everything that has been killed by moderators, software, or user flags.

Just be aware that if you do that, you're signing up to see the worst of what the internet has to offer HN—alongside a lot of other stuff that isn't as bad. We never delete things outright, unless the author asks us to, so that setting is basically x-ray glasses into everything.
Probably these bacteria are good in small quantities... Something for the immune system to practice on.
WEI sounds awful. And it seems like yet another aspect of the ongoing war on general-purpose computing.

> Wisner insists that [...] it won’t block browsers that spoof their identity.

What exactly is holding anyone to this pinky promise? Even if you assume angels are running everything right now, why should anyone trust that that will remain the case perpetually?
I submitted this a few minutes ago. But I cannot see it from an incognito window.

The link is just a link to a Yahoo News article.
4 years of maintaining a react project downloaded 40k times a month argues otherwise.
I wrote a comprehensive thread on the current situation here. It is somewhat long and hard to summarize, sorry.

https://twitter.com/sanxiyn/status/1685094029116297216
Nitpick: The "Documentation" button on the header links to LFortran, not LPython.

With that said, I love the fact that this can generate executables, and I'm looking forward to trying it out in the future! Python compilers are really cool. I recently used Nuitka to build a standalone version of an app I wrote for my own use, so that I can run it on hosts that don't have Python installed (or don't have the right Python packages installed yet). This seems to be focused much more on speed.

One thing which I didn't understand from the homepage: can I take vanilla Python code and AOT compile it with this?
organization before electronics before concrete. some amount of infrastructure will fix congestion, how much depends on what precise timetable will be run. the swiss manage to run a huge amount of freight alongside many passenger trains because they did their homework and built infrastructure where it was needed.

in general, "precision scheduled railroading" has fucked passenger-freight interoperability in the states because the freight railroads are running trains too long to fit into any of the sidings, which forces amtrak into the pocket
At work we use snapshot tests to see visual changes to ui. It helps a lot with code review especially with adding edge case data to tight designs.

We use ui tests specifically for testing accessibility, analytics and data passed along during navigation.

We use fixtures for all of this.

None of these tests really help with bugs. What they do help with is:

- Making sure the ui stays really decoupled from the business logic. This helps a lot with getting the data unit tested which does help a lot with bugs.

- Making sure that analytics and accessibility are not forgotten about. This helps a ton when refactoring.

- Making the intent of the code really clear during review.

It takes a bit of practice and being ruthless about removing/fixing stuff that’s not helping. I have found it makes it much easier for new developers to work, review code and understand how the code is organized. YMMV.
British Austerity and the sheer amount of despair the Tories inflected on younger generations is so great that it cause a fertility collapse. It’s one thing when people have less kids out of choice, it’s another when people are having less kids because they loath living
Can you post a link to one of the mirrors that lets logged out people read the thread?
I just cycled from Santa Fe to Seattle. I lived in Seattle from 89-97. I know what the state is like.

Lots of good reasons to justify train system expansion (even ... explosion), but not "it's just like Germany".
-Costco has a serious problem with theft

The thread yesterday (based on another post from the same source as this one) said Costco had much lower theft (shrinkage) than rivals.
Well, Germany sort of does ....
How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund UBI
Ukraine fires North Korean rockets to blast Russian positions
I wish that were true, but I doubt it. They'll carry on, as they have in other self-immolating ways.
https://archive.is/S71A1
There's plenty of high density in certain corridors of North America. Vancouver -> Seattle -> Portland, potentially extending down to California. Geography is not an excuse. Japan and China have horrible geography too.
I don't revel in politics and my latest go-to interest in Rome has been, to what extent did they actually experience lead poisoning and what would have been its lasting mental effects? Jerome Okon Nriagu is an environmental chemist who has studied metal toxicity in the environment in modern times.

But his foray into history was a book, "Lead and Lead Poisoning in Antiquity" which was lambasted as a bit hasty and heavy on secondary sources. There was also some criticism on a pure chemical basis, for example he cites the lead pipes and lead lined aqueducts as possible major direct sources, but the plumbing of Rome suffered from the hardness of its water and its calcium carbonate buildups were 'legion' (is that a pun?) and are mentioned in ancient times. It would eventually serve as an an insulating barrier against water contacting lead directly.

In this reexamination of Nriagu's work ( https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wi... ) "aelius stilo" provides sources that build on Nriagu's premise without discounting it, and suggests that the practice of boiling down unfermented grape juice (must) to syrup (defrutum and sapa) to flavor wine was almost certainly done in lead vessels, or copper vessels that had been coated in lead to avoid the bitter taste copper corrosion imparted into the mix.

Lead was generally known as toxic as early as 2500 BC but what may not have been known was the transformative property of heat on chemistry. "stilo" gives some really mean estimates of lead toxicity in syrup and wine, which indeed suggest that wine (not so much water) was the delivery mechanism.
Yeah fine, I fully believe in the Vancouver->Vancouver (cough) train line.

The justification for it, however, is not "WA is just like Germany".

First of all, it's gone to be a relatively single-line system, paralleling I-5, which is quite unlike Germany,

Second, even with the full west-of-cascades population, you're still not even remotely close to the population of Germany. You not even really that close to the population along any of the busiest lines within Germany,.
The mechanics of something like Facebook are that you have your “friends” and people can engage as much or as little as they like or dip in and out. I find I’ll occasionally post something that relates to overlapping friends circles but people can easily ignore stuff that doesn’t really involve them. It’s a very different model from a much more deliberate mailing list or SMS chat.

I do have some group chats and email threads but there’s a broader that extends beyond that which social media apps can be useful for.
The slide deck talks about how they break even on sales, and make their profit only on the membership fees.

Interestingly, there was a bit in there about (deck dated 2018) "27% of all US households are cardholders".

But I don't know why the employee screamed at you. I can understand you not wanting to return to a store where that happened.
How Will AI Transform Life by 2030?
Are you asking if the west could make phones? Almost certainly. Have they chosen to do so? Not at all. Apple may be big enough today to possibly operate without china in 10-20 years, but no chance in 2007 or today.
There is the saying that to get 5 years of experience in 1 year you should work in a startup.

This isn't only about title inflation. It is in some ways true in the real sense also. Because in a small team you get exposed to everything and if things don't work, it's very obvious why and there are no excuses to hide behind. Whereas in an enterprise you could sleep behind the wheel, roam around in pointless meetings, wait for the other department blocking you, ride on your teammates merits, close 1 story per month and nobody would question.

This isn't to say there aren't great minds in big organizations, I've been in both contexts and learned tons and met absolutely fantastic colleagues and experiences in both.
Oh, yes. It is also laughable. Doubly so, with the Streisand Effect.

lol, and the dead response by zdad on my original comment. Yes, do your free speech exercise, while the platform does its. Excellent illustration of what and why, thank you very much.
I am not sure it’s possible. Part of what defines addiction is that overpowers the will, which isn’t safe. It also is typically a long term decent, a series of poor decisions in the grip of a disease. Not easy to model.
I know so many things I never could have without Sci-Hub. Its value in enabling access to scientific knowledge simply cannot be overstated.
It’s a 7B model, it’s not supposed to, nor going to, compete with GPT3.5
Wow, her "human" output for dig is wonderful. I learned nslookup first, and to this day I still use it because dig's output is such a mess. If dig looked as she suggests, I would have switched years ago.
Yes this is an excellent thread. You have done some of the only on the ground reporting from Seoul. The takedowns you linked of the paper, CMTC giving it an F, are damning. There's one legit professor Kim from William & Mary who had a tiny part of this, but more and more, it looks like it's the output of a few cranks out of a "Q-Centre." The bulk of the work took place before Kim's involvement and he's listed on 1 of 3 papers so far. He's the only thread of legitimacy in this whole thing, and it's a thin one. The 5 other guys are just loony.
These brought back a lot of memories...

> Epic Battle Fantasy

> Luftrauser

> Bubble Tanks

> Desktop Tower Defense

> Deep Sleep

> Starwish

> Xiao Xiao

> Straw Hat Samurai

> Rebuild

> Clarence's Big Chance
Ingest OpenTelemetry metrics with Prometheus natively
Whatever happens, this goan be a great 4,000 word New Yorker article, or Netflix kdrama.
Yeah. It was a bit different from today, but not by much. Really if anything, stuff has regressed since then.

Our setup in the early 2000s was the same as today, except the AP, router, and modem were separate devices. This was somewhat beneficial: today, my monopoly ISP forces me to use their all-in-one junk box. There's not even a possibility of competition, and lo and behold, I don't think the forced-box does anything more than the three pieces of equipment did. (Except, finally and only as of the last year, IPv6. But perhaps if there had been real competition, that'd happened a decade sooner, esp. since I first saw it in '07 on a non-ISP connection…)

Combining the AP/router I can get behind. It's when it became ISP domain that it went south.

The 90s were rougher, as the networking stack in Windows was a bit more terrible. I have vague nightmares about installing drivers for TCP … where the TCP driver was somehow specific to the network card. That sentence doesn't even make sense by today's standards. Stuff got better in the 2000s.
46,000-Year-Old Worm Possibly Revived from Siberian Permafrost
Revoking the certificate _after_ an app developer already gathered and sold PI is a good action. But it is reactive. The user damage is already done.

But trying to deter such app developer to gather as much PI as possible is even better as it is preventive.
We're getting pretty far afield from the original point of decoupling control systems from network connected infotainment systems, which doesn't necessarily eliminate backup sensors or cameras. The current everything-in-one-bucket implementation is a matter of convenience and cost savings for the manufacturers, not a hard technical requirement.

I could go on at length about the consequences of trying to play whack-a-mole with human stupidity and how that just breeds stronger idiots. There have been no significant changes to vehicle-related death statistics since the 90s when airbags were mandated, despite significant improvements to crash protection and countless here-let-me-help-you-with-that safety features that have been introduced in the last 30 years. So what do you call it when improving safety doesn't actually improve safety?
It's a little strange that they don't do multiple grinding/crystallization when their best sample produces...gimpy diamagnetism

If it's been 1000 experiments, do another. I'm not convinced that 1000 experiments over 24 years is all that intense if you actually do the math.
People are making money, and in most cases not the kind of money the decision-makers are getting. Is it unethical? maybe it is. I think it is, and in the past I have had the gumption to just quit, but that also comes from privilege. I was in a position where quitting was not going to cripple my living... some people might not be in that situation.
They’re doping, so no need for a cultural explanation.
At least there seems to be a lot of movement against pretrial detention because of financial reasons like bond. Of course, your passport would be confiscated so you still wouldn't be able to visit her, but at leas you could have spent hours on the phone with her.
Aha, to clarify for others - Vancouver WA is what you're referring to, not BC.
IIRC, there was a paper which showed GPT models pay most attention to the beginning and end of context window, and much less attention to what's in the middle. In that regard, they behave like human brains. But I'm wondering if these efforts to increase context window actually make the models pay almost uniform attention to all the prompt?
But the python 2->3 migration has been exactly that
> Obviously there's a a key difference between instagram and all those others services I just mentioned and I posit that common difference is why you're using instagram instead. What is it?

It’s the media bit… Insta is created to share pictures and videos with your _own_ selection of followers. You couldn’t do that in WhatsApp without creating some horrific cartesian product of different groups chats for every node on your social graph. Even then the UX is designed around messaging, not as a content repository.

This has to be one of the most asinine takes I’ve ever seen.
Why isn't this topic getting more attention? It is as if people just don't believe in this. To good to be true?
It probably works ok for a solo project but IME with large scale codebases snapshot tests are awful. You update some implementation detail of a common shared component and suddenly 5000 tests break despite the look and behavior being unchanged.
> It seems like HN has become more political in just last couple months.

Users have been saying that almost since the beginning, but I think it's mostly just swings and fluctuations. Lots of past examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869.
Someone above mentions: "Costco has a markup cap of 15%"
This article states as much:
“Costco loses only 0.1% of revenue to theft annually. For context, that's 90% lower than Walmart's shrink
rate.”
Isn’t shrinkage a big problem in getting an accurate number? Unless you’re recounting everything everyday, I’d assume it’d always be off
Yes. And article is also two days old. Ancient for this.
Conclusions: Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients. Many single studies highlight implausibly large effects, even though evidence is weak. Effect sizes shrink in meta-analyses.
> Humans will not voluntarily give up one of the nice things they currently have access to and enjoy

Plenty of people have, somewhat nullifying your comment.
The key difference is that all those other services you list have UX that is mostly centred around active use ("Check this out: Your friend Joe is doing a thing right now!"), while Instagram's UX is mostly centred around passive use ("Now that you have some free time, let's catch up on what your friend Joe did last week").

Ultimately they can all be used for the same purpose, sure. At the end of the day you're pushing the same bits around. But UX can make all the difference.
I usually don't tell people how they feel.

I honestly didn't know it would be a big deal that my dad didn't go with me to the store to buy things.
Just sit on the couch near the middle of the store and send her a text. O(1)
The “[–]” button is a Good Thing™.
Since cancer is us, it eats everything we do
I don't know about India but that's probably not true in China. China was close to industrial revolution twice, once in the Song dynasty, once in the Ming dynasty (oil and natural gas application were documented), both disrupted by regime change from foreign invasions. Comparison with europe at the same time would suggest that the average Chinese enjoyed relatively better living conditions and intuitively would result in more expensive labor. It is unclear whether industrial revolution would start without the invasions, or were the falls of the dynasties inevitable, but the "cheap labor" theory is quite a bit off in quality in comparison to some other proposed theories, and even if present, could be a result of some other underlying cause than being the problem itself (which may seed a myriad of other problems that impede the progress).
If you look in another field, the default wavelength (wave number) unit is 1/cm. Meaning, there's not really a default wavelength unit.
Take the $50B and build something that'll make a dent in climate change
> I think DNS is something few people take the time to learn, but it's not actually hard to learn.

Hard disagree. For me, DNS is like doing taxes: I touch it once a year or so, find it Byzantine, know enough to be dangerous, but am always frustrated that I don't use it often enough to remember exactly how to configure things without having to consult poorly written and/or overly technical tutorials.

I'd like to see a better version of web-based tools like mxtoolbox.com that will analyze DNS records, let you know what's wrong, and give you actual examples of what settings you need for things like DMARC/DKIM/SPF records. In my experience, online tutorials for setting them up come tantalizingly close to giving me what I need, but I often end up getting stuck with the last few details (usually the weird punctuation required) because, again, I touch this stuff so infrequently I just don't remember from one time to the next. Ideally I'd want a form-based tool that gives you drop-downs to select from and, when submitted, just gives you the actual record you need.
Best book to prepare for EDC and Digital Logic for Competitive exam like GATE?
Here are my choices(in no particular order). You can recommend something out of this as well.

1) Electronic Devices and Circuits by JB Gupta.

2) Electrronic Principles by albert malvino, david j bates, patrick e hoppe

3) Electronic devices and circuit theory by boylestad and nashelsky

4) microelectronic circuits by sedra smith

5) Op-amps and linear integrated circuits by ramakant a. gayakwad

1) Digital Electronics by william h. gothmann

2) digital logic and computer organization by v.rajaraman, t.radhakrishnan

3) digital fundamentals by thomas. l floyd

4) digital logic design by mansaf alam, bashir alam

5) digital logic and microprocessor design with vhdl by enoch o hwang

6) digital design by m.morris mano and michael d.ciletti

7) digital logic and computer deisng by m. morris mano

8) digital systems design by charles h roth jr, lizy kurion john

Purpose of buying these books:

1) To prepare for comptitive exams.

2) To have a good book as reference whenever I want to learn something. Having a book physically means a lot.

3) Have good exercises that can help me brainstorm and understand the concepts. More is always not better but there should be enough.

PS: Books like the art of electronics are out of scope. I generally don't like morris mano's books, idk why. That's all.