skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strong agree here. I wish there were significant & substantive items in the reporting that motivated the desire behind the ban (in a manner that differs significantly from what US social giants definitely already do), but it's too abstract and the motivations easily reduce to exactly what you say.
nice!

AI is about to end this - shortly, we'll be able to ask for the answer directly, in zero clicks.
I tried removing a sign post in front of a photo of my car in Photoshop with their Firefly AI, and it refused to produce a result if I mentioned the model of my car.

I can't imagine a situation where Adobe could get in trouble for generating an image of a Prius, and it doesn't give you a reason for refusing-- but the possibility the AI was trying to avoid a word that sounds ever so slightly similar crossed my mind.
CRTs absolutely DO "ghost." Much like turning off a filament light bulb, the phosphors respond instantly, but there's a long tail where they fade out. In practice, it's not perceptible, just as it's not perceptible in any good LCD or OLED.

There were also a few wrong numbers in this video, such as the idea of a normal CRT refreshing 75 times a second (nope).

And I was expecting some discussion of interlacing, which had a big impact on how pixels and animations appeared on CRTs.

But I agree—it was fun to watch!
They are worth it if you’re trying to emigrate out of a bad situation. My partner is in a lab with an awful PI, but she is Lebanese, and wanted to be able to bring herself and her family out of a very unstable situation.
Ebay doesn't list any used Zimaboards when I checked just now. :/
Maybe one could get f_clock a bit higher, but what would be the point comparing an overclocked CPU with one working at normal frequency?
If we agree that that's bad, why do we allow Facebook to do it? Why not craft a ban on the bad behavior, which would then necessarily also preclude Tiktok from doing it?
a massive collapse may just never happen. states where prices have gone up that locals cannot afford, yet outside folks are moving in because it is very much in affordable range for outsiders. So demand will always be high.
Hey Blackmagic - you may be benefited by reviewing your copy once more on this page. You have a LOT of exclamation marks in these descriptions, and while I get that it’s an exciting product, the copy starts to get a little tiring.
>Rather than spur promising scientists to extend good work, the Nobel is now more of a lifetime achievement award for people nearing the end of distinguished careers.

It makes sense in economics. You need time to be proven right. Physicists and chemists can produce a bunch of equations that we can plug in and get the results, or perform an experiment to demonstrate. Social science can only be proven retrospectively.
Stable coins are pegged to $ so they need to be backed by it (or other assets denominated in $) pretty much be definition
From my experience

1. Don’t opt for a phd just because it sounds cool (remember the first tweet shared in that article).

2. Academia is a pretty hard space if you can’t get your own funding or if you don’t like hustling for it. Getting tenure track jobs without having funding attached is impossible.

3. Very few jobs in industry need a PhD. Most are ok with a masters. Those that require a PhD can be selective based on where you graduate from and what your publication record is.

4. Know your PI well and reach out to his/her previous students who have already graduated. Some may reply - especially those with a bad experience.

5. Back to point #1, don’t take up the PhD just because you get the assistance and stipend. Make sure you really like your subject - it’s the only thing you’re doing for the next 4-12 years depending on your discipline while subsisting on poverty level stipends
Ads being the main funding source of media, it's an essential piece of a functioning democracy.

Without decent revenue streams for quality news outlets, the alternative we're slowly heading to is "sponsored" media, with patrons such as Jeff Bezos funding papers like the WP, and distorting their ability to report news accurately, or clickbait media not contributing to news discovery.
So, there is probably a kernel of truth, as far as I know the DLL model in Windows is equivalent of RTLD_LOCAL, so global variables are actually instantiated per DLL (but of course not shared cross process), which for example makes allocation behave differently. So a spinlock pool between the main program and a DLL wouldn't be shared, making cross-DLL emulated atomics problematic. But I guess there are ways around that or simply the expectation is not to share non-address-free atomics across DLL boundaries.
The article says Improv is where pivot tables started.
Every time I tried to scale windows UI in "software" way, as you just described it, I would encounter bug after bug after bug either in windows or apps or taskbar. After a realization that windows will never get UI scaling right, I decided to do "hardware" scaling, meaning, I still keep my windows scaling at 100%(recommended), but then I set the display resolution to a compatible lower one. My monitor is 38" and it's native resolution is 3840x1600. But when I set that resolution, there is no way in hell I would be able to read the fonts of the screen. So, instead, I set my resolution to 2560x1080, which doesn't look blurry, scales perfectly, and zero UI bugs.
The FSF has been (slowly) moving away from CLAs though [0]

[0] https://heathermeeker.com/2021/06/01/fsf-drops-assignment-re...
To be somewhat constructive: What you rather should have done is not create more elaborate dashboards. What imho the world needs is an easy way to use a spreadsheet tool to generate and publish a dashboard. A "make web dashboard" button right next to the print button. With auto-updates when input data changes of course.
Offshore wind turbines need rare earth metal. Will there be enough to go around?
> It's also more difficult to concentrate on the gameplay when all details are rendered on screen

This has made me really appreciate art direction over raw fidelity. The first party PS5 games are all beautiful, but Horizon Forbidden West was almost difficult to look at because there's just so much detail everywhere, much of it irrelevant. In contrast God of War Ragnarok is just as beautiful, but the art direction is much better suited for the gameplay, so I never had problems with losing important details in the sea of fidelity. Horizon is like blowing out your taste buds on pure sugar.
Yep. Everything that is physically possible becomes a possibility, limited only by their creativity.
Well, another nice thing with pivot tables, in excel at least, is I can just follow the data connection to its home and do whatever I want with that. RBQL in rainbowcsv is my usual.
Since it seems just about everybody who's been in or around a PhD program agrees it's a miserable institution with low chances of satisfaction, I will continue to follow the advice that it is not for me.

However, are there alternative paths to a research career? I really enjoyed being in an academic environment in undergrad and dream of working on AI/ML research in some capacity, but I'm a total outsider.
I see marketing-speak for how this is so much easier than other tools like JIRA (which we use.) However, I'm not finding details about how this is accomplished.

What are the key differentiators in how this is easier specific to those that use JIRA?
> Why is the license for this GUI tool so different than the license for their command line tool? The source isn’t even in this repository.

The desktop app is not ready to be open-sourced yet.

> There is 0% chance that this will avoid the route that POSTman and Insomnia have paved.

HTTPie has been around for 10+ years, and the new desktop product is built around the idea that we can do much better than the incumbents (from a much simpler interface and more pleasant UX to a more aligned set of incentives supporting incognito, free, as well as paying users/companies).

> WTF is it about these tools that the creators think will make us tolerate the sudden switch from free to paid? I am dead tired of watching this play out over and over.

What Postman and Insomnia did is not cool. But that does not mean it’s unavoidable. Even though it complicates development, we’re local-first from the very start. Accounts and sync are optional layers on top of it.
What about jump drives in Battlestar Galactica?
There's a lot of literature on auction theory. I don't get the sense you've read any of it, or talked to anyone who has.

Ad auctions happen in microseconds. There's no possibility of changing your bid while it's underway.
The quotes from her article suggest otherwise.

Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse:

> Although some of our estimates have large standard errors and there is one persistent effect in the opposite direction, the weight of the evidence suggests that the blind audition procedure fostered impartiality in hiring and increased the proportion women in symphony orchestras.

> …

> The weight of the evidence, however, is what we find most persuasive and what we have emphasized. The point estimates, moreover, are almost all economically significant.

Andrew Gelman:

> This is not very impressive at all. Some fine words but the punchline seems to be that the data are too noisy to form any strong conclusions. And the bit about the point estimates being “economically significant”—that doesn’t mean anything at all. That’s just what you get when you have a small sample and noisy data, you get noisy estimates so you can get big numbers.
But scale matters, because usually the law doesn't get involved until scale is reached. We didn't used to have anti-spam laws because it wasn't a problem at small scales.

Then it became easy for everyone and became a problem, so laws were created specifically to combat electronic spam, because current laws didn't cover that situation.
These machines and the ZimaBoard absolute bottom of the barrel cheapo NICs, which are the biggest source of issues for networking devices.

In my experience using all of these, if you want to have reliable networking, either use a Linux distribution that ships with the quirks needed for specifically consumer NIC hardware (like VyOS), or use a NIC that ships for the OCP platform (aka commodity hyperscaler NICs) like the i350.
Unless one is fine with relicensing.
> not evidence specifically that he stopped loving you.

I think that last example is problematic. Did he ever start loving you? How would you know? How would he know? What is love, anyway? (~Charles Rex)

What evidence would support the belief that someone does or doesn't love you? Erich Fromm defined four types of love; but just because someone is your mother doesn't mean that their attitude is one of Motherly Love. They might not even like you.

Basically, "Love" is a field with no definitions, no evidence, and nothing even close to certainty. It's all just feels.
and have no confidence in it
this probably is more about specific implementations than pivot table in general, but I often find it's "lacking" when wanting to do some more advanced things with it.

To name a few:

The way how the "values" are generated is very limited in both Excel and Google Sheets (in different ways).

The way how filter/sorting works with pivot table isn't the most straightforward or flexible.

the "UI" elements (headers, styles, etc.) is very hard to control. I often find myself creating a pivot table, and copy it somewhere else, and manually fix bunch of stuff -- which kinda defeats the point of it (since I can no longer dynamically update it).

Disclaimer: I'm by no means a spreadsheet expert so I may just miss something.
If you don't need a stupid amount of compute power you can find even cheaper alternatives.
I bought a used Asus Chromebox CN60 for $21, put $20 of ram(16gigs) in it and a $20 256 gig ssd. All in, ~$61 minus shipping and I have a small home server running CasaOS. Same as the Zima Board, I have it running Home Assistant, PiHole, a MariaDB instance & an image hosting website for my wifes project. It happily hums away running on a Cloudflare Tunnel.
It's excellent!
I had to set up my Cloudflare Tunnel manually but it has since been added as an app to the app repository.
https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS-AppStore/issues/158
You'd pay $.80 plus minimum overbid amount - so $.81 or $0.85 or sth like that.
Running a mold takes a great deal of skill as well. Right now (literally just found out about the issue on Thursday) I'm dealing with a mold house that's struggling to hold tolerances on a part for a medical device. And they're running the parts because our in house team wasn't even coming close.

Yeah it's not something you need a skilled artisan to actively control, but a lot of technical skill goes into making consistently high quality parts.
A more egalitarian solution would be longer paid parental leave and earlier free childcare. Are women leaving jobs due to a genuine desire to be a full-time parent, or are women leaving jobs because the alternative is putting a three-month-old in prohibitively expensive daycare?
The source quoted being an expert witness in a trial, the source is likely discovery.
GitHub Copilot loses an average of $20 a month per user
This does not seem to work for me as I'm getting a blank page.
Yes, this is a hard calculation to make.

A couple of years ago I would also have said that a PhD is not worth the opportunity cost. I look back to the the time when my wife and I were both fresh out of college and in our PhD programs. We lived _very_ frugally. After housing, food (all cooked ourselves, no take-out or eat-out), transportation (had to live outside of the city), we had maybe $100-$200 left over each month (in 2000-2004 dollars). We had no money to set aside for retirement or investments. We did take out interest free student loans and put them in a CD and paid them back immediately after we graduated, so that helped provide a little investment income. We worked hard to scrape by on a poverty-level stipend without going into debt.

Shortly after we got real jobs, I looked at our friends who went to industry right after college and they were significantly better off, and continued to be better for a quite a while (that whole compounding rewards things).

However, now that I'm senior in my position (real senior, not SV senior label), I have much more stability in my job than my non-PhD friends have. The PhD is pretty valuable for the work I do, and that keeps me as the lead on most of our contracts.

I can't say if I would be better of right now if I went to industry right away and started making money and savings, or if the stability has put me in a better place.

I don't have the massive income as an SV tech job, but I have also never been cut at a layoff, so I don't have to worry about the variability in income.

As an aside, I will say that a PhD is non-trivial and you should probably only consider it if you _love_ the field. If you're just using it to buy yourself some time or to live off the stipend because you can't find work, you probably won't have a fun time.
In comparison, a modern eco VW UP! is around 2.8L/100km in mixed driving, so 1.5 is about a 2x improvement over a good ICE. My old diesel polo does around 4L/100km, so 2.5x for that one.

Not bad, definitely a hell of a lot better than the early Prius, but definitely nowhere near BEV efficiencies. I feel like a small-battery BEV is a better proposition for many, especially as pure BEVs have significantly better pure-electric drive-train efficiency than plugins, and less maintenance.
From memory, $1 is your maximum bid, your actual cost would be $.81 (or whatever the increment is over 2nd place).
This is an interesting article. Not 100% sure about the implementation of JumpRope, but I think it combines a gap buffer together with a rope. Ropey (and I think Crop too?) also support cheap persistence.
https://archive.ph/3WDSv
I agree the duplex scanning from the feeder is a big miss for my model as well.
Not GP, but this is what I see: https://imgur.com/gTQ4J80

I can read it, but I can understand having trouble with dim gray text on a black background.
In Excel, you can have the source data for the pivot table be an SQL query -- then the pivoting is just for presentation purposes when you get down to the very last layer of groupby's, so to speak

You can also use SQL queries as sources for regular tables in Excel (i.e. no pivoting)

One of my first roles out of undergrad was to take reports that would take an analyst literally days or weeks to generate into a set of SQL queries that got them very close to the answer with pivot tables (or just tables). Their job went from working on reports to changing a couple parameters in the queries like "current month" or "forecast version", which only took a couple minutes, leaving them with plenty of time to think about new reports to generate, how else to improve current reports, etc. Still one of the most personally satisfying things I've ever done.

Granted we can't expect all business users to learn to write SQL (spoilers: they never will). I believe we collectively need a more robust solution than having an SQL angel come by and write queries for business users... it feels obvious and within reach, but no one has really done it yet.
Sure, let's do it. I haven't seen anyone defending Facebook's own shitty behavior here. If you mean why don't politicians do it, the answer is corruption (lobbying).
Perhaps we could create a set of logical prompts to get there even faster. We could call it a structured query language!
Sorry, you are wrong here. We may never solve BB(6) exactly because of undecidability. We don't have an algorithm for computing BB(6). If we had one, BB(6) would be computable (= decidable). Of course, as soon as we know BB(6) = n, for some numeric literal n, it is trivially clear that BB(6) is computable/decidable:

function BB(k) {
if (k === 6) return n;
}

Granted, we don't know if BB(6) is decidable or not, because we don't know if there are proofs in reasonable axiomatic theories which show for each of the 6-state TMs which don't halt that they don't halt. That there are only finitely many such TMs does not really matter here. For something like BB(3) there are only 21 TMs, so we can try our luck to prove that those TMs which don't seem to halt actually don't halt, and hey, we got lucky, we can! Nobody knows if we have the same kind of luck for BB(6).
Indeed, for BB(745) we know that at least for ZFC, we don't have this kind of luck. Of course, if we knew BB(745) = n, for some numeric literal n, then in ZFC + {BB(745) = n} we have that BB(745) is decidable, but if you don't like logical tricks, then you won't like that result too much, either.

The fact that BB(745) is undecidable in ZFC doesn't mean that it will stay unknown forever. But we will have to come up with some other mathematical explanation than ZFC to know BB(745), and nobody knows if such an explanation exists. It could also be that you come up with such an explanation, but many others don't agree with it. Now, on which grounds would you defend your explanation?

But I am a Platonist, so I do agree with you that there is some sort of mathematical explanation for BB(745) = n for some n formulated in a suitable mathematical theory. Because obviously, such an n must exist. Because TMs are real, and they either halt or they don't (Platonist leap of faith I). And then there must be a way to explain why that is (Platonist leap of faith II). But it may be that we never find such an explanation, and/or that humans are too limited to understand the explanation. Certainly, there is no known general algorithm to find human-understandable answers to all human-understandable mathematical questions, and that's why undecidability is the reason we may never know BB(6).
How come Latin Americans are coming back to Netflix, when the rest of the world is not?

Maybe the article is not giving us the full picture?
Absolutely incredible. I wish something like this existed for Germany.
If you can't customize the software, then you'll implement external hacks and workarounds that are much uglier and costlier to maintain than customizations layered on top of a more flexible system would be, or else you just won't use the software.

This isn't my first rodeo either, and in my experience, most firms have at least a few idiosyncratic rules and process that they aren't willing to change just to conform to the limitations of software.

If you build opinionated software, your customer base will be limited to businesses that either already operate according to the assumptions you've baked in to your design, or else have the resources to implement their own solutions -- at higher complexity than customization -- to compensate for what's missing from yours.
Unless you are running your plugins in a sandbox or have different profiles for different usages, this doesn't make any difference as what is more important, your personal data is accessible from your main user.

Anyone producing music from qubesOS?
I do most of my programming in a binary world.
No, precisely as they said: winner pays the second place bid.

E2a: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_second-price_auc...

Edit again - I stand corrected, while it is true that the standard implementation is as I said, seems from TFA Google’s implementation is second-place+0.01.
What nobody talks about is there is a process for social class advancement. Getting $120K in debt right out of the gate is not part of that process. Poor folks have to utilize community colleges and state colleges and even then, they may have to attend part-time. That's what I did. It's not glamorous and it's not the "all-American" college experience complete with extensive networking - but it will advance you to the next social class. Instill those values and "hacks" into your children and they'll be able to advance further.

What you can't do is play the game as though you were already in the social class you're aspiring to. There's one set of well-known rules for them, another set of lesser-known rules for you.
Agreed, current implementations are totally brittle and far from "feature complete" relative to what an experienced / power user would expect coming in

It actually bothers me so much I've decided to write my own spreadsheet engine. This is one of the pain points I want to fix
That is one lens with which to view the situation. But it's a simple lens when inflation is a large forceful re-structuring of the economic pyramid that is impacted by the attempts of central authorities to manage money.

Inflation is just a word that we have for changes between the costs of various goods and services and the amount of money that people are being paid for the work they do (averaged across various parameters to make communication simple). Those changes happen for many reasons, because people aren't making enough money... because people are hording money... because the govt et al increase the supply of money to counteract those phenomena... because the economic chain of supply has shifted... and for some massive combination of all those things and more. The economy is a complex machination that you're deeply oversimplifying with this two sentence comment. Although the government trying to predict such things and get involved can be deeply flawed, the alternative is the crushing burden of unemployment and crumbling structures.

As such, pointing the finger strongly at big government and saying "how dare you get involved" is myopic and heavy handed. We could also easily point the finger at the financiers and real-estate moguls who have brought us into a world where the average worker has little income and extreme "expenses" that filter into the coffers of wall street.