skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I very much hope I will live long enough to see the day when Belorussians finally get their freedom in a peaceful way

Seconded. I had such high hopes that they could push it through the last time around and what really irks me is that there are enough Belorussians still that keep this jackass in power, and that they will prioritize their own financial well being over their fellow citizens' lives. I was in Poland during the Solidarity uprising and I had such high hopes for the rest of the SovBloc but not everybody managed to take advantage of the momentum. Ironically, distance from German capital seems to have been a prime factor in the outcome.
Libraries are a fairly unique kind of institution in society. It's community owned, so you're not going to throw someone out for not buying something. It's sheltered, and probably climate-controlled, so you're out of the elements. There's something to do (computers, books, activities).

Unhoused people come to libraries because it's one of the last places that they're not being told to "get out". They want to be there probably for the same reason any of us do. Compared to a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen, that is mostly a room full of beds or tables, a library is a relief.
We're talking about the functionality of their ebook service. There is no way in hell homeless people sleeping in the library makes the ebook service worse. Please, show me the press release or e-mail where OverDrive said "we're removing title wishlist notifications and selling ourselves to a private capital firm because you're a homeless shelter, not a library."

Also, the "free market solution" would have been to just let the libraries offer ebooks on their site. Digital distribution gutted libraries' ability to provide their core service, because now they need permission and licensing to do so. Homeless people using libraries as makeshift shelters isn't new, you just never noticed it back when everyone was using libraries.
Assuming you're Austrian and have a better grasp of this issue than I.

That said, I think this is an interesting news story despite the Austrian politics; privacy & surveillance, fiat currency & inflation, economic access and freedoms... these are all issues that many countries and peoples will have to tackle in the coming years...
Perhaps if you re-read the article you'd catch more of the facts.

Overdrive and Libby are two apps from the same company.

That company, Overdrive, has a monopoly and makes money charging libraries money to provide a service to that library's patrons for free.
Do more 1:1s. You'll have to chase some things piecemeal across two to three people, but you'll soon figure out who actually owns a topic and be able to have more in-depth conversations.
Ask HN: High Pay to High Impact – Tips?
Hello HN community,

I am a senior scientist at a UARC (University Affiliated Research Center) with a strong focus in machine learning, and over the years, I've had the privilege of seeing one of my projects go fleetwide. Additionally, I completed both my master's and PhD in machine learning while holding down a full-time job - an enriching journey that has honed my math and computer science skills.

My role at the UARC has been fulfilling, but it's entirely soft money funded which means I'm consistently required to bring in a significant amount of funding (around 600k annually) just to sustain my position. This has led to a shift where I find myself spending more time writing proposals than actually engaging in meaningful research, the part of my job that I truly love and excel at.

Although the lab seems to be gravitating more towards 6.3 and 6.4 projects, my passion truly lies in 6.1 and 6.2 work. I'm proud to say that I've managed to maintain a consistent track record of publishing as a first author yearly, a practice many colleagues seem to abandon after earning their PhD.

At 39 years old, I find myself yearning for a career shift where I can focus more on research that makes an impact and can be published, without the constant worry of having to secure funding. I'm more than willing to take a pay cut if it means being able to do the work I love.

So, I come to you, dear HN community, in search of advice. Where might someone with my experience and desire to continue contributing to meaningful and publishable research look for opportunities? How should I market myself for this transition?

I'm eager to hear your thoughts and greatly appreciate any suggestions or guidance you may be able to provide.

Thank you.
I've worked remotely for about 15 years now, and I think it's the same amount of communicating, it's just broken up differently than in-person.

Instead of booking a 30 minute meeting, that only has maybe 10-15 minutes of work talk and 5-10 of personal talk, we might instant message for 15-20 mins spread across a whole day.

Or if things get complicated in the first few minutes we'll just have an adhoc call for 5 mins, then IM whatever details we thought of after hanging up. That 5 minute call is similar to swinging by someone's desk.

Some people still insist on booking the 30 minute meeting, and that can make sense when you have several people or some "meetings are my job" people are involved (upper management, marketing, sales, etc).

It seems like about the same amount of work talk either way, but usually less personal talk. Introverts love that, extroverts are missing out.

It also varies by person. Some people are too vague in their typed messages so it's better to talk on the phone. Other people have really thick accents and English may be a second language, so a detailed IM conversation can actually be more efficient than talking on the phone for both parties.
I just hope it’s not the new graphene
> It shifts communication from a one-to-one relationship, to a one-to-many. Next time you’re about to “send a quick DM” or “schedule a quick chat”, consider what steps you could take to optimize for the long tail of information retrieval and discovery.

This is the only real difference: that any individual can wield the power of one-to-many communication. We all have a voice now.

Calls and DMs exist solely to ensure what's in writing is understood. Same as it was in the physical office for meetings.
I believe she said it wasn't a replication because she had changed the formula.

She seemed to have problems with the efficiency of the original formula, which is why I believe she doesn't believe it's replication what she produced may in the end not be LK-99.

It seems like she's in the process of getting X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) done.

There has been several fake videos placed out there on the Internet.

There is a quote by jay-z I'll paraphrase

"
Men lie

Women lie

But replicable science don't lie.
"

The mixture of USSR tweets has patriotic Americans so ruffled that some can't see through their disbelief and rage.
Keep the managers working from home and get all devs to the office?
I'd say you're reading it correctly. This is what I see:

There's an underlying yearly cycle that goes something like:

- gets hotter around March

- gets colder around May-June

- gets hotter around August

- gets colder around November

This is, let's say, a sort of cyclic baseline that repeats every year. But over it there are variations. Some years are generally colder, or generally hotter. Some the differences are bigger or smaller, etc. Then, obviously, it's not a perfect curve and there's "noise" on it. It's also interesting to note that the "March peak" is generally hotter than the "August peak", and that the "November valley" is generally colder than the "June valley". All this, broadly speaking.

Now, until last year, the highest temperature had happened in 2016, in the "March peak". This "makes sense". I mean, it makes sense that the hottest it got was on one of the hot peaks. What's more, it happened in the hotter one of both hot peaks.

But if we look at this year, what we see is two things. One is that, as the title points out, there's been a new highest, higher than March 2016. This is pointed out because it makes an easy and simple headline.

The second thing you can see is what you pointed out, that in 2023 we haven't had much of a valley in May-June and instead it has been hotter since March producing that the August peak be not only much higher than other years but even higher than the highest March peak. (And, I may add, it may still get hotter in this peak)
Could you please point to a comment where he does objectify women? I skimmed through all of them but not sure which one you could read this way. Or, if this term also drifted, I’d like to know what it means now.

I’m starting to suspect that you may be involuntarily gaslighting me looking through the lens of your own perception.
Exactly. Being poor is its own kind of prison.
Ask HN: Have you successfully made any AI agent do useful work for you?
Since BabyAGI and AutoGPT, there have been countless forks and web products built based on them. Have you had any luck making these agents do any meaningful work for you? What was your use case?

So far every time I've tried them, most likely outcome is that the agent keeps spinning wheels and never completes the task.
Amazing news. I saw a video cast of Rick during a meeting @ NuBank, and it looked like corporate life had sucked the life out of him [1]. So, I'm glad he got out of there, and I hope he's able to shake it off like a bad dream. Building something like Clojure require radical thinking, and creative freedom. I can only imagine how trying to fit that into your weekly scrum sprint would be draining. And in the monthly meetings where they recite the corporate values.. shivers

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34781607
> The sibling is still dead. Finding out whenever you checked your voicemail isn’t going to change that.

Maybe so, but my cousin passed away suddenly nearly 10 years ago and I was the one who received the call because his family was out of town.

The thought of missing that call because I had to disable unknown numbers because we live in a society that doesn't value privacy enough to leave people alone is really depressing.
The climatologists aren't in actual disbelief, just in a metaphorical one. That makes it slightly click-baity.
I've never been more productive than when I have an office with a door -- home or otherwise. That also makes it much easier to have quick chats without disturbing the rest of the floor.
You don't seem to be seeing that those are two sides of the same coin. The article cites rising labor costs as the primary factor in needing to increase ticket prices. Well, why would labor costs in an industry rise? Because demand exceeds supply. And why would demand exceed supply? Because people only want to work there "as a job", rather than seeing working there as a cultural mission to educate others — to educate the world! — about their culture and history. (I.e. people working at the MoMA demand higher wages [relative to cost of living] than people working at the Louvre do, for essentially the same work, because the people at the MoMA value the "perks of the job" less.)

The same kind of people who work in the museums, work in the municipal governments of these cities. In Europe, both groups — regardless of political affiliation! — tend to believe in the "city as cultural institution." And so both groups tend to work together to craft a city whose economy is in symbiosis with "global cultural enrichment", rather than in conflict with it.

The US does not do this. Or at least, I have never seen a majority government in any American municipality be aligned in creating a "hospitality-driven city focused around cultural tourism" in the way that municipal governments in Europe are.

Also, re: "I'm sure museums in France are free for French citizen under 25 and the unemployed" — from the article:

> The Guggenheim charges students $19 (children under 12 receive free admission) and the museum maintains a pay-what-you-wish policy for everyone on Saturdays that is expanding by one hour, from 5-8 p.m.

This is not a debate about economic barriers to access. The US is equally considerate of these. This really is just a question of how much to charge the rich foreign tourists who need to get out of town the next day and so don't have time to wait for a lazy Saturday to visit the museum. American cultural sites charge these people more; European cultural sites less. I'm offering an explanation for that, specific phenomenon.
> This is no different to any other Western-based social networks? None of them have any incentive to go beyond the bare minimum, especially considering bordeline/offensive/etc content actually generates the most engagement.

Facebook, Twitter/X etc. all can be grabbed by Western courts. Tiktok can just choose to ignore court rulings and summons, just as Telegram does with German legal issues, and continue to operate with impunity because we don't have the balls to do it - unlike China, Turkey, Iran or Indonesia who have zero problems just ordering domain blocks at their telcos.
The problem with that is that after 6 months artists invariably choose (through economic necessity, not choice) to deny everyone access to those books forever, which is then enforced through copyright and is just a great loss to everyone.
> An obvious improvement is to just be OK when another serious regulator approved the drug too. If, say Europe or Australia calls it safe and effective, and the market is small, then approve with their study.

I wish this were true, however history paints a different picture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
They're not the biggest factor in creating the warming, but they are in allowing it to continue and increase unabated.
> They claim that the EU wants to ban all cash payments. But this is a none-issue, as the proposed EU law sets a limit to 50.000 € and is meant to be a step against organised crime.

How does that make it a non-issue?
Any economist worth their salt will advocate for putting a price on carbon emissions (like cap and trade), and letting the market work it out.

If you’re concerned about regressive impacts (e.g. the price of gas increasing), you add a tax and pay it out as subsidies to the poor.

It’s not hard or complicated, there’s just no political will, so instead we end up with super inefficient subsidies for specific industries and technologies that might or might not allow us to hit the emissions goals we need to avoid cooking ourselves.
I imagine it'll come down to the cause of death and the time-to-freeze.

If you had a heart attack and it just wouldn't restart, that feels like a tractable problem in a world where we can do some crazy shit like 3d print you a new heart (making it up, please don't attack the 3d printing hearts idea, it's dumb).

If you had some sort of trauma that put you into a coma, idk, I could imagine that some sort of futuristic stimulation could bring you back. Even now you can possibly live on your own without machinery, possibly even breathing on your own, your brain just isn't driving critical functions like feeding yourself. Today we have to let people die in that scenario, what if we could freeze them and in 100 years there's a way to trigger new brain activity?

If you're shot in the head, obviously I'm going to be a lot more skeptical of the ability to bring you back.
Instead simply trust the experts... oh wait.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
This just made my life so much easier, thanks for posting this. IT Glue recently introduced a bug they have acknowledged where you can no longer hover over large images to see the full size, making half of our documentation illegible unless you want to force open the image in a new tab. This fixes that entirely.

I may as well post my must have extensions while thanking you:

DarkReader - this combined with f.lux on the machine will save your eyesight

SponsorBlock - makes youtube so much more usable, as well as other video sites

CookieNoticeBlocker - Im guessing there is a way to use ublock to achieve similar results, but it blocks those annoying popups for you

Behind the Overlay- useful for sites that use an overlay to hide article content, click the button and it hides any overlays and suddenly the page is there again

UnPayWall - find the full text to scholarly articles
> What are you on about? Both of the Communist superpowers are/were state capitalists.

"Capitalist" has a definition that does not mean "something I don't like." Capitalism specifically refers to where trade is controlled by private owners for profit. This does not match either the Soviet Union or Communist China at all, where profits were distributed to the state, which was nominally for the benefit of the people.

> I don't know what the fuck LessWrong lingo “motte and bailey” really means but it's not like I have stated my pro-ideology. For all you know I could be an anarcho-primitivist.

But you aren't, are you? I don't expect people to completely detatch themselves from society, but you at least need to commit yourself to that lifestyle of a certain extent if you want me to consider you a real anarcho-primitivist as opposed to simply a contrarian. At the very least, you should be able to survive with minimal support for a year before you make the conclusion that this is the way you want all of humanity to live forever.
> You know how "basilica" meant a public building in Roman times

This does not seem to have been the case; it meant a building in the shape of the Athenian Basilica.
I remember that when I was in school good parts of the Harz mountains were destroyed by the Bark Beetle, but at that time it was acid rain that made matters worse. It was a poster example of the Waldsterben (dying of forests) at that time. This phenomenon has been politically abused at least since the 80s.
> I don’t think this is at all what is predicted.

This is exactly what was predicted. Governments leaned on climate scientists to focus on the lower end of the impact scale in public, and leave the worst case scenario for those who care about the research themselves. But this has been a reported possible outcome for years now.

Unfortunately, not wanting to alarm people has caused many to ignore the problem at hand.
Up the proverbial river of excrement without a paddle, if you'll excuse my French
Bill Gates used to compete with his colleagues to sleep as little as possible
Does a library have no duty of preservation or archival? Surely "what the public wants" cannot be the only driving factor, right?

If the public wanted a building filled with nothing but adult magazines, or nothing but gardening books, would the library not have any choice but to fulfill those narrow desires at the expense of preserving great works of literary art?
If you look at the massive AI progress we had in the last year, last five years, last ten years ... doesn't that suggest that progress will continue at a similar pace for at least some time?
Step 2 is a lot less ??? than people assume, because we have at least unfrozen hamsters back to life in the 60's, it's a scale problem, not necessarily a the magic will get us there problem

There was at least some basis to thinking there was an eventual way to get there, even if now it seems cargo cult-ish
> To tell us that we had to load some commercial app on our device to get eBooks, rather than compatibility with some existing, popular eReader at least, or just give us the ePub or PDF.

Libby is available as a website and offers ePubs or PDFs. It also supports many popular e-readers and can automatically deliver titles to some Kobos and all Kindles.
Virtualizing development environments in 2023
I think the experience of banging your head against the wall (for a bit) can be valuable. As long as the culture of the team encourages this and offers an escape hatch after a few hours (or whatever timeframe is appropriate for the problem).
This is because the point of a library has changed a lot recently. My mom is a librarian and has talked a lot about how a lot of library engagement now is as a community space. It has internet access, you don't have to pay to be there, and can provide a lot of programs for free or reduced cost. As people are changing their habits, libraries are trying to follow them.
Two independent research groups, one from Japan and one from the US, simultaneously published their discovery of the NdFeB magnet in the same issue of the same journal.
How does overtone compare to Tidal Cycles and are there plans to make it run in the browser (like the Strudel project)?
Show HN: LK-99: A fad or a revolution? Chat with ArXiv to find out
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a decent crypto strat is to buy a coin named after a major news event asap, then sell within a day
> There's such a deep seeded, systemic bias against linux that it actually can never win, to any degree or magnitude, because the moment it starts winning we just move the goal-posts for the flimsiest of reasons to ensure it can't quite claim that victory.

Win what? It’s wildly popular in some environments, and it’s getting more popular in others. I think it’s a waste your energy to get worked up over who’s giving Linux “proper recognition”…
>“Do we bring these likely brain-damaged people into a world they can’t understand and which would cause them pain” — and the answer might be “No, that would be cruel”

Some people already paid to maybe suffer that cruelty in the future, the same way some people already paid to go to the Titanic in an uncertified submarine and die.
> What the author is missing is the comparison with physical books, which never had this feature. You want to recommend the library get a book? You fill out the form they have. That process still works regardless of the format.

It doesn't. I used to be able to submit a request for printed and digital books, but my library stopped accepting those requests for digital books and (just as I commented elsewhere in this thread) now refers me to the Notify Me feature and Overdrive catalog (and if it's not in the catalog, I can't request it do be added).
Take your own breaks. Hang out with friends. Take a lunch. Your officemates do not have to be your end-all of social interaction :)
Those "rabbit holes" are where you learn. Saving hours is more important if you bill hourly, less if you are salaried.