skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These are statements about Harvard’s purpose or intent, not about its effect.

Yes, the current purpose or intent. Harvard was established 387 years ago; what was its original purpose or intent? I don't know. In fact, I don't care. It's not relevant to the current argument. Institutions change over time, and we're talking about hundreds of years at Harvard.
> the main benefit is that it keeps your tools/libs updated with the latest.

For tools you want to be on the latest version of, why not use a package manager like homebrew that isn't tied to your distro?

I've never understood the Linux culture of tightly coupling OS and package management (and so I use brew even on Linux), but I seem to be in the minority.
> What about pihole?

I had trouble with pi-hole breaking things and requiring too much manual intervention (compared to browser based ones that I can toggle with a mouse click without changing screens).

> What about watching less TV/youtube?

I generally have youtube on pretty much all day for music as I haven't found anything else that approaches it for music recommendations (which is pretty sad as they're still not great).
I think it is already killed by telegram even before discord emerges. The only thing you can't do on other IM other than IRC is having a really big chatroom that contains thousands of people. But it is no longer the case after telegram.

BTW, i think an irc bot is a good target if you are starting to learn writing a network program. The protocol is really simple(don't need complex xml parser...etc) yet requires all technique you need to write a proper client.
I think the parent comment is still mostly relevant here. 150GB downloads are not common even for those with games that big. A new install is most likely a ~monthly operation and updates that aren’t ready by the time you notice them will be rare.

Sure it would be nice for those few instances, but those are not worth the additional cost for almost any individual or family if they actually work out the time saved waiting.
Not that one should have to, but for Firefox you can

cd .mozilla/firefox/$profile
git init
git add extensions
git commit -am init
echo '*.xpi diff=zip' >>.gitattributes
echo '[diff "zip"]' >>.git/config
echo ' textconv = unzip -c -a' >>.git/config

which at least lets you take a peek at what kind of nefarious updates you're getting.
Yeah there's definitely a selection bias in an interview setting too, but since I was doing the same thing in both locations (career fair interviews as a company employee) there was more in common between the groups and me (imo) as opposed to undergrad peers/friends when you're an undergrad and students you TA when you're a grad student.
> It turned into a list of chores I need to do to make them money.

Agreed. It really irks me when a vacation home that I rented for a lot of money hands me a list of chores at the end of the stay, then has the gall to charge me a cleaning fee on top of it. These days I stick to a hotel other than for exceptional use-cases.
Google tracks you to "customize search results" and I even have a 100% google'd phone (Pixel) but when I'm searching for restaurants it still shows me stuff from portland oregon instead of portland maine. This despite literally having my "Home" marked in my google account as portland maine.
>Algebra and Calculus are more or less "solved." Unless by algebra, you mean abstract algebra

Or unless by calculus he means analysis, which is really active. Especially things like PDEs.
> You need a Redis cache? Or a GPU?

But how often are these things truly *necessary"? I think they seem more necessary than they really are because they are so readily available.
Short answer: if the inputs can be represented well on the Fourier basis, yes. I have a patent in process on this, fingers crossed.

Longer answer: deep learning models are usually trying to find the best nonlinear basis in which to represent inputs; if the inputs are well-represented (read that as: can be sparsely represented) in some basis known a-priori, it usually helps to just put them in that basis, e.g., by FFT’ing RF signals.

The challenge is that the overall-optimal basis might not be the same as those of any local minima, so you’ve got to do some tricks to nudge the network closer.
I hope not. A lot of holiday locations are only attractive places because they don't have a load of cheaply built urban sprawl all around them.
AirBnB hosts are unrealistic with their expectations. The raising costs, ridiculous cleaning fees, absurd "house rules", etc. make AirBnB pretty much a no-go for me these days.

Hotels have great amenities, really good customer support, and not too much BS.

With AirBnB it's an absolute gamble if you're going to get a good host or a wannabe slumlord. I don't think this is AirBnB's fault though, just general human greed, wanting to make easy money by providing as little value as possible.
Dissolving in acid seems like the safest/most overkill option: <https://youtu.be/L0bcNm1gfpU>.
> arch-based clone of SteamOS 2

So SteamOS 3?
> Let's see how much traction Vimscript9 will get. From the distant view of an outsider I got strong NIH vibes from that.

Honestly, that's what most recent Vim development in the Neovim era looks like to me.

Bram rejected async patches for years. Neovim gets made and proves out the demand for async. Vim suddenly is motivated to cook up their own, incompatible version of async.

When Neovim began, I thought the inevitable future was the Vim project cherry-picking the best features from Neovim each time such a feature reached sufficient maturity and popularity, and merging Neovim's implementations back into the core project. I underestimated how strong the NIH syndrome was with Vim proper.
Indeed, one thing I disliked it that Canadian incumbent providers used to (and maybe continue to) refuse to peer freely at IXs. So my closest POP (by their shit routing) for my VoIP provider was in US while on mobile vs my independent home ISP could use the local POP.
I would imagine that it would do better if it was told to build it up step by step, and critique its own work as it goes along.
You'd be taking the owner to court, who probably isn't the one delivering the papers.
Good point.

Also: Please correct me if I’m wrong but I would guess that quite a few owners of indie labels also have other sources of income in order to make a living…? I.e. a dayjob.
Brutal. Operating these controls seems equivalent/worse for eyes-on-the-road than texting while driving.
Especially because too many "bakeries" only do sweets and donuts.
I actually work for our search quality team, and my job is to foster two-way communication between the search quality team and those outside Google. When issues come up outside Google, I try to explain what's happened to the best I can. I bring feedback into the search quality team and Google Search generally to help foster potential improvements we can make.
The dream was never real: the pitch was that you could make tons of money without complying with local regulations and cutting corners on services like cleaning but it turns out that markets are pretty efficient at cutting out actual inefficiencies. Once the VCs stopped subsidizing everything, it became obvious that this is not a massively profitable business but a relatively low-margin field which competitors can fairly easily enter. Everyone who went into this expecting double-digit returns for little effort is now learning a hard lesson about why you should do research before investing.
Re-United Linux!
Entreprise wishes i guess? Just look at all the group policies for windows update..
How long until Waze-like "ads-when-stopped" show on your heads up display?

Or "I see you're navigating to McDonalds, would you rather go to Burger King and get half off your Whopper meal?"
The authors conclude:

"In conclusion, based on the LDA band calculations, we have identified the low energy hole excitation and we propose an effective Hamiltonian where Cu and O occupies the A and B sites of a stack of buckled honeycomb lattices. The key parameters are the hopping integral and the energy D which separates the Cu and O onsite energies.The hopping energies and D are well balanced. We propose that this system should be treated as a charge transfer system [9] which may be close to the metal-insulator transition and has the potential of exhibiting novel physics and unconventional SC. However, the energy scale is small, considerably smaller than the energy scale in the cuprates and more comparable to the organics. Ordinarily one would not expect very high Tc with these parameters, but not much is known about system such as these with intermediate correlations and more work is surely needed. We plan to explore some versions of these models with numerical methods."

Point is: Even if this is not a SC, LK-99 claims may lead to new innovations anyway
That was just the hate mob attacking

I noted that the most interesting data is behind firewalls as in private data as our entire model is open models to private data => not using that data to train our models

You can also license that data smartly, with royalty schemes and more, three no reason to get past paywalls etc nor do we do so (others do of course)

We are the only AI company to even offer opt outs, first models soon on that
I’m guessing it's the -tainmnet aspect of it. If we're purely weather, traffic, maps it'd be fine but the entire focus is on how they automakers can make more money, now longer about providing objectively valuable services.
Real estate has the disadvantage of there only being a fixed amount of land in those spots.
It's clearly a hobby for OP, not everything needs to be optimized for profit.
In the context of the rewards and satisfaction of being a parent, I think it is a valid question.

People can either think "being a parent would be miserable" or "being a parent would be fun". The interesting question is what leads them to one conclusion or the other.

In general, my life is pretty great and full of loving friends and family. I think my children's lives will be great too.
I absolutely love it and wish it all the best.
> a certain assumption of the population pyramid

What is this assumption? The pyramid should look like… a pyramid? Don’t you see the elephant in the room: the population can’t infinitely grow on a finite universe.

GDP, dept, income… anything that is virtual can grow as long as you find a way to describe and write them. Ressources and space can be optimized within the boundary of what the known science let us do and what the humans tolerate.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love a future with 100s Billions humans eating delicious and healthy meals made of pure fusion energy in a Saturn orbit cafè. Let’s find out solutions of the problems caused by the current demography before increasing it, otherwise it’s betting our descents future on the retirement system.
They both suck.

A multi-billion dollar corporation that actively strategizes to benefit from no regulation or bad regulation. Likely they also lobby for favorable regulation that will actively harm locals.

A local government not properly regulating.

I'd compare it to PG&E or Comcast in the United States.
> Balzac's pronouncement assumes the world is zero-sum; ie that wealth must be stolen from others

Not stolen, but it really pays to be super-ruthless towards your competition and everyone around you really. Just look at Microsoft's history.
Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature
I know people who are sarcastic and arrogant as you are are rarely correct.
Oops, good point. I think I'm going to leave it as-is on account of not knowing of any actual emoji that HN allows, but yes that is technically incorrect on my part.
Would you recommend using Kotlin or Java?
How did they manage that? GenX wasn't generally subject to the onerous student debt mess. For everyone over 50, college was much cheaper and easier to get into. If nothing else, the population was smaller!
I wrote this post when I've supposed to be working on some Kalman Filter models at work, and it really shows.

> Additionally, in orbit there is no force opposing gravity

There is when we treat the vehicle in a rotating reference frame centered around the earth origin, as is typically done for orbital calculations. It is completely correct to treat the vehicle in such a manner. And is of course exactly how the Karman Line was first proposed to be calculated.
Where do you draw the line? I don't know anyone that wants to go back to paper maps for navigation. And backup cameras are unambiguously good for everyone.
Can you send me another friend request? I may have deleted it accidentally.
I would imagine there are edge cases where toxic foods or at least harmful foods could be created from various food ingredients that are not obvious to the lay person.

Blaming the user/customer isn’t a good look from their PR team and probably won’t hold up on court.
Well it was SCO back in the United Linux days--albeit it wasn't the evil SCO yet at that time. (Though as others have remarked, there's a different objective at play here.)
Going along with what you said, it’s a good thing that 40yr/o need to go into debt in order to get an education? Surely if someone in their 40s who was at least a little lucky may be in a better socioeconomic strata than those just starting out in their 20s. What kind of debt burden do we want our kids carrying?

Rentier economics throughout the economy are crippling the working class and feeding the rentiers.

People finance their cars, their education, their music, healthcare, phones, laptops, just about any major appliance. You can even finance your food!

What exactly are you getting for your tax dollars?
It's pretty clear cut as his suit has three claims

1. Did not inform him of pivot and generative AI art (false, even generated AI art for him)

2. Did not inform him of fundraise/inflows (also false)

3. Either of the above are not legal under Delaware law (also false)

We will find out in a few months I suppose.
>Your dad is forced to be an indentured servant for these companies that can't make money without exploiting people like him.

This is absurdly patronizing to people making their own choices, and the freedom to seek employment or work as they see fit. As someone who, as an independent contractor in CA, was the victim of such patronizing sympathy that resulted in regulation which was deeply contrary to my own interests, please stop trying to "protect" people like me. Ironically, that regulation was targeted at Uber, who then received a specific carve out that left me screwed over as a small independent contractor.
The owners of said AirBnBs, who would be eligible to vote for the local councilors (who must approve new developments), have an incentive to ensure that that would not be the case.
The audience for, e.g. ambient soundfields, is not at the Taylor Swift concert, and they never were. Neither are the bluegrass fans. Ditto for every other highly developed genre. It used to be possible to make a modest living as a genre musician; accepting and adopting streaming has destroyed this for (almost) anyone not already established.

My point is this: most people who want to be musicians will NEVER make a living from sales of anything related to their music. Not from streaming. Not from touring. Not from merchandise.

So why settle for an absolute pittance from streaming sales, when you could instead adopt a strategy that accepts the (likely) limits of your success, but maybe gets you a couple of hundred dollars a month extra, at least some of the time ?
iCloud Passwords (Chrome Extension) Performance Bug
There is a bug in [the iCloud Passwords extension for Chrome] that causes some websites (like GitHub) to hang for 10+ seconds during navigation. A recursive DOM traversal occurs before the page is finished loading, pegging the thread at 100% and blocking page resources from loading. Once the loop finishes some resources are loaded, but the DOM change triggers the extension to restart the traversal, repeatedly blocking the page resources.

Changing `content_scripts.run_at` to "document_end" in the extension's manifest corrects the issue. I suspect `document.collectMatchingElementsInFlatTree()` is a Safari API feature that won't make it to Chrome any time soon. A proper fix might also replace the recursive loop in `content_script.js::querySelectorAllIncludingWithinShadowRoots()` with an async loop to avoid blocking the main event loop for so long.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/pejdijmoenmkgeppbflobdenhhabjlaj
the visual query builder looks neat and useful!
This reply is almost entirely a category error.
I am not a JS developer, but in some tech areas there are niches with relatively fewer developers competing for the same position.

I don't know if this is actually a niche, but since I don't see it mentioned frequently on HN, perhaps you could have a look at Google Apps Script [0], which is basically JS for automating and extending Google Docs (Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides), and integrating them into GCP. Tons of companies have whole departments living inside Google Docs, so I imagine they would pay for software making their lives easier. I would but I currently don't have the budget for it, so I am writing short scripts myself. Curiously, Bard and ChatGPT produce really bad Apps Scripts code, which would be to your advantage.

When I occasionally hire people, I do look at their repos to see how good they are in a specific language. Specifically, how easy to follow and idiomatic their code is, what the quality of their comments and documentation is, are there any tests, even if very rudimentary. I particularly enjoy original projects like home automation, custom keyboard firmware, an alternative Netflix UI, a ggplot extension, a basic Python wrapper for some overly-complicated API vs. your typical to-do app or yet another analysis of the Bike Sharing dataset. I don't expect all people to have public repos or FLOSS contributions because not everyone has the time for that. However, if you wanted to demonstrate skills in a technology you haven't used professionally, I think it is a good idea.

0. https://developers.google.com/apps-script
A lot of people chasing a 'passive' income dream becoming hosts and landlords. I'd imagine they are probably the worst because they're not understanding that they're entering a service oriented business.
There is. Which is why I specifically talked only about writing for algorithmic systems. Machine learning systems are different, and not everyone fully understands how they work, only that they do and can be influenced.
YouTube is removing clickable links from Shorts
In addition to the iPhone 15, Apple may add USB-C to iPhones from last year
Didn't see him live in Cape Town but I remember there was quite a ruckus. People were super excited.
This seems like a non-story. There are some 1.8 trillion dollars in student loan debt: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SLOAS
As the cost of this equipment goes down, this can totally become commonplace, what I fear is the HOA being the monopoly energy, telco, water, and sewage provider that can then charge ridiculous rates because it simply resell from the upstream provider. They can also make the rules on what, if any, value a homeowner can derive from solar panels on their roof, perhaps even going so far as to say that they belong to the HOA and are required to have them on their roof.
The $50 you made doesn't prove anything. It's a small enough number to be statistically insignificant, and could easily have been a lucky fluke. You can't claim that your experience generalizes to higher income levels for people actually trying to make a living off music.
Circa 1998 I was a teenage Linux zealot who would attend LAN parties carrying a Linux box. It actually worked -- at the time, WINE practically existed to support Starcraft, Quake 2 could run natively, and that covered like 95% of what people were playing.

One time I thought it would be funny to run a shell script that looped through every Windows share on the network and tried to open `CON/CON` on it, resulting in a prompt Blue Screen of Death for each machine.

For some reason my friends did not think it was funny.
> Why is it that most "chat/conference" apps become horrible sooner or later?

To 'become' horrible there has to have been a period where it wasn't. AFAIK that doesn't apply to teams, lol
All this is true but there are some other factors I’d consider:
- Experts will definitely be valuable but with an extreme bell curve favoring the top. 10+yoe? Yes. 3-4yoe? Maybe
-JS is ubiquitous but as a company grows the techstack specializes. JS at a startup would be very valuable everywhere, JS at a late stage FAANG will be more constrained
Extremely relatable post. I worked someplace that had a policy of absolutely never changing your Active Directory username because it was the primary key in like a dozen internal systems. Someone finally made a massive stink about it to HR when their name had legally changed but IT was forcing them to use their old name (and they were absolutely right to complain. It was a ridiculous policy only in place due to terrible architecture). They still defaulted to telling people no but they did at least document all the highly tedious manual steps necessary to change the name in all affected systems if (when) another employee refused to take no for an answer.

Was certainly a great lesson in schema design, among other things.
I can’t choose my ISP’s modem. And I don’t think they care about my electric bill. I do disable their wifi and run my own wifi/router.
Multi-story luxury condos are a thing. Not a lot of land used, and it's something that many people want to live in. Why are they not being built in these places?

Even high-end condos cost less than a low-end house to build, since the land costs are amortized among many units.
General tip for structuring user data. Try to treat it as obscure blobs, whenever possible.. Imagine it's encrypted so it's not even printable/human readable.

> forms, CON, CONIN$, CONOUT$, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 to COM9, LPT1 to LPT9, desktop.ini, _vti_

If they have to restrict those because some user input is going straight into their FS, then they mucked up. Probably should have been given a safe ID (perhaps uuid4, perhaps something more like a digest of the channel name instead of using the user input directly.

For me it's a smell when someone says "You cannot use these characters". I automatically think "Why not? You're not using this unencoded or plaintext, right?" eg passwords, or usernames, or content that will show up on a webpage like a comment or such.

This all being said, perhaps it's just an easter egg gone sideways... Perhaps they were just trying to have a bit of fun :)
I was thinking of millions, because that's the order of magnitude of the educational system. You could give examples of groups of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands instead if you like. I'm just trying to set a reasonable lower bound for a "society" as a opposed to a small group. Lots of organizational structures work for small groups, but break down when applied to larger ones.

What are some of those examples you're thinking of that he mentions in the book?
Graduate school. Half of all student loan debt is held by graduate students. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/16/graduate-students-owe-around...

It's also the case that back in the 80s, the elite ultra-expensive schools did not offer generous financial aid like they do now, so middle class kids had to pay themselves.
Well, I'm not a British driver, but am a British cyclist. I'm very familiar with some parts of the Highway Code (not so much the motorway sections), but those terms just aren't commonly used, whereas pavement and road generally are.
If we were to judge by the historical standards of human life, to the intuitive human brain, it all seems wasted. Everything was scarcer back then. A cereal box? Don't waste it, you don't know when your handmade clay bowl will crack. (Not an exactly apt example, but I think you got the point.)
>This is only an issue if you have millions of pages

You know, like a news website that's been on the internet since the 90s