skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an advocate for graduate studies, provided that your situation allows it to be a financially responsible decision [0].

That said, there are a lot of limitations of the graduate system that make writing iconoclastic dissertations that experiment with form or are full-frontal assaults on dogma a very poor career choice. At least in my opinion.

For one, most institutions and most supervisors across most disciplines measure success by the number of papers one publishes, particularly in high-impact journals or prestige conferences. You also have about four-six years to make your mark and graduate.

Because of the paper requirements and the timeline, I can't find it in me to recommend anyone attempt anything but an approach they believe will consistantly yield publishable results. "Swinging for the fences" and taking a bold but risky approach to your research might be the more rewarding approach from a scientific perspective, since even a negative result is a result, but negative results are more often than not unpublishable.

All this to say, I _love_ research that is serious but playful. I love people who provide answers to wild questions. But I also think that if your goal is to graduate, writing your dissertation in the form of a comic is decision that will hurt you more often than it will help you.

FWIW, I'm not defending the status quo. I think we should challenge it, and I think as a community we should create more space for "high-risk" research. I think a great example of this is eLife, a journal that will publish every paper it's editor chooses to send for review, but includes the peer-reviews in the published work.

Anyway this was a bit of a rant, but kudos to folks following their intellectual curiosities through serious methods.

[0] I, for example, live in Quebec, Canada so my tuition is just a couple of thousand a year, and I'm lucky that my stipend is rather generous.
Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofit
Sorry, can you elaborate what or who you are replying to?
That's just such an academic ballsy move.

You all have your three hundred page defense of your research. Bah. Here's my half page massive Dick measuring proof.
Re: Causal inference [with observational data]: "The world needs computational social science" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746921
> So it turns into two competing management problems. How do you convince them that management works for them? And how do you groom them into leadership positions? The first is the easier of the two.

1. How to convince someone that management works for them?

By constantly affirming in team meetings publicly, that I - the manager - am here for you, to help you. Then, you build trust by demonstrating your support every week.

2. Grooming into leadership positions?

You only groom people who want to be there. Not everyone wants leadership positions. People who want it will seek it. Often these people are ladder climbers that you will need to filter through.
In many jobs, if you can't tailor your CV to the job, and can't write half a page rationale - you probably can't collect, evaluate and summarize business and technical requirements - ie: you can't do the tricky part of software engineering.

Sure, being fluent at the level of fizz-buzz in a relevant programming language is useful too - but honestly, that bar is lower.

I realize that people that can't code their way out of a wet paper bag (mysteriously) apply for programming jobs, and there's a low-pass filter needed for that as well - but a coding challenge isn't a substitute to check for (written) communication skills and basic reasoning.
> in some cases you can shoot through thin walls at these players

Not just that, you can even chuck a flashbang/grenade far outside your visibility range and get someone this way too.
Getting off topic but most sync systems do a quick comparison then a full one.

So for example check modified, inode number against the previous version. If they are all a match consider skipping the checksum. This way you can skip almost all checksums on an incremental transfer. You can have false-negatives but this can often be mitigated by occasionally doing a full rescan or similar.
It takes a lot of skill to meaningfully communicate complex and deep topics to people who are not already familiar with the field.
How roboticists are thinking about generative AI
US warns Starlink satellites will start killing people
My Linkedin feed was full of Google, Facebook, and Amazon non techs getting axed, I'll need to look through https://layoffs.fyi/ to see how accurate my statement is.
You don’t earn what you are worth, you earn what you negotiate. Unless you are unusually terrible, you are worth more than $106k even in CT.
Well yeah, and meshtastic is a chat app over lora (radio)... why not have a LLM somewhere on lora?
I can sit there and spend significant time per application elegantly explaining how the details I've already put in my resume are relevant to the job description, only to have it never reach a human because a poorly designed parser didn't find a keyword or ML gave it 1 point under a set score threshold.

Or a human could just read the resume.
Why? Are not grammatical errors and idiosyncrasies part of the data set that chatGPT is trained on and thus also a predictable set of tokens?
The labor shortage is here for one reason – and it's quiet quitting
Usually means P&L responsibility for a business unit.
His own project was seeking to replace haskell lol
https://archive.ph/9K66c
I remember seeing that news on arstechnica or some tech publication I was following at the time.

It actually put a little fear in me because I look around and not a lot of internet users in my small hell hole of an open prison I call home and i was like "dude. You're like a alert beacon screaming here is a tor user, check him out".

I was using tor at the time and that is the last day I used it because this use case fit me somewhat. Not for sending bomb threats but because the nature of surveillance, I am a target of the government so any outlier gets flagged pretty hard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_city_airport...

In terms of airport systems, Atlanta isn't even the top in the USA.
Yes, corruption at national (and subnational) levels is much greater.

EC institutions don't control enough programs, funds or building permits to rival states on this front.

I do think there is "soft" corruption (as OP alludes) in the "EU as a regulatory powerhouse" complex. Lobby-adjacent corruption, like in the US. A lot of that is very dirty money, with foreigns states or industries literally buying a seat at the table. The cleaner end is Google & Apple getting a seat at the table via ireland (and others) who simply have a national interest in giving it to them. The dirtier is Qatar, China or whatnot getting proxied in for political donations, payola, funding of specific nonprofits/etc.

Anyway... that exists. It is (IMO) almost entirely contained at the top level, and it mostly bleeds in from national politics.OTOH, competence and professionalism also exists in the EC. That means the can actually deliver on the job, if they're tasked with a good job.

The EU has very little advocacy or awareness of digital freedom. Foreign ministry staff don't understand it at all. We're just a stream of weirdo complaints that appears whenever they try to do anything digital related. I know it's hard to grok, but they do not have any idea what we are talking about... and that's kind of our fault. Democracy has some essential bottom up components.

On the positive side... a sound, rational and tactical movement can (IMO) really succeed and get stuff. The good thing about eurocrats, is that once they're mission is the right mission... they get it done better than most. EU consumer protection, for example, is quite excellent relative to any examples I know. EU infrastructure and transport projects were executed way better than national equivalents (see Ireland again for examples).

There is no serious political/factional/ideological barrier to EC adopting digital freedom goals. Just ignorance. There's hope.
> Current kernel and current distro tuning is almost always folly unless there's a specific issue you're trying to work around.

Of course there's no reason to tune if stock works fine. Plenty of people buy or a rent a reasonable computer and it has more than enough capacity for their work with default tuning. That's fine.

But when you run out of CPU or memory or X, it's often a good idea to see if there's reasonable things you can do to get more out of the hardware you already have. Depending on what you're doing, there's often a lot of room for improvement.

For some networking tasks, doing proper alignment of threads and work with Receive Side Scaling or similar can make a tremendous improvement in capacity versus naive threads. In some environments, the bandwidth costs when you're using enough capacity to see that mean that machine costs of doing it well versus naively don't matter, so you may as well do it naively and spend your engineering time elsewhere. In other environments, gettingthe same work done with 10% of the nodes is valuable.

Also, in many cases, better hardware needs more tuning, rather than less. You don't need to spend a lot of time avoiding cross core communication on an 8-core single socket machine. But if you get a dual-socket, 128-core per socket machine and you're not careful about cross socket communication, you'll spend a lot of CPU on memory arbitration (which you'll have to know or learn how to look for)
Nevergrad seems more similar to Nelder Mead optimization, except that Nevergrad is a framework and not a single algorithm, and it has an impressive list of optimizers.

Back in the day before autograd optimizers became a commodity, I used Nelder-Mead and the likes heavily. To this day, I still use gradient-free methods for cases where the first derivative is discontinuous (but I suspect that e.g. Pytorch has some black-magic for those cases).
Scan Local Network with IPv6 NDP on Windows/Linux
I never get this "calorie restriction" term. What does it mean? I have a BMI of 20. Should I reduce my intake by 12%? When do I stop reducing?

I want to live longer. I would also like to build some more muscle, ideally to a BMI of 22. What if I gain 10lbs of muscle then restrict?
Swagger or OpenAPI parser?
I think that there are people who are capable of working mostly independently when simply given goals and people who are not (yet?) and should be given clear instructions on what to do and how to do it - and IMHO the key part is to accept that both are okay, especially in different roles, and you "just" have to understand which is which and appropriately match the roles, levels and management style to these people.
Thanks for the explanation, this context helps a lot!
This is correct. It would be nice to have an option for the browser to format it for you. Especially since you can't reliably get the user's time zone on the server.

I wrote some JS that watches the page for these and updates them to be more user friendly and use the user's locale. But it would be nice if this was the browser's problem to solve (and can consider things like non-locale preferences such as always showing the time across websites and how far relative times should stretch)
Have you seen the subway extensions in Paris?
Different definitions. He (or rather the Nazi party) had the largest share of votes, and thus the majority by one definition. But that share did not comprise >50% of the votes, and thus wasn’t a majority by another definition.
SWEET16: Interpreted byte-code instruction set invented by Steve Wozniak
I had to supplement with calorie shakes for workout guys in my 20's, just to maintain weight. I ate trash, and a shit load of it. And that's not considering the amazing levels of calories I would've consumed from alcohol.

Same activity level now as then. But now if I think too hard about a candy bar I gain weight that never goes away.
Practice. It is one of those things like riding a bike that you have to put in the time and mess up at if you want to master. It might take an hour or two to get that first blade sharp but once you develop the skill it will become easy. The biggest thing is to pay attention to what you are doing, how you hold the blade and the movements you are making and how that affects the edge. Check the edge often and examine the marks left by the stone, nice straight parallel even grooving tells you things are as they should be; they will appear slightly curved and/or look as if they fade away if you are changing angle during the stroke. The marks will actually tell you everything you are doing wrong or right once you learn to read them and some purposeful and exaggerated 'mistakes' can be helpful in learning to read them.
How to say Ferrari customers are sketchy without saying Ferrari customers are sketchy.
> punishment for being convicted of a felony

For certain traffic violations (including DUI in some states), your car gets impounded and your license taken away on the spot, way before you get your court hearing and get charged with anything.
Then "please separate with spaces"
> you can drop a weight class but not lose strength.

Exactly. This aligns to strategic weight cutting. Once you go up and then go back down, you feel stronger than you were for about as long as you continue regular training.
An important factor is knowing your audience. Writing a book review? Go ahead and use "bildungsroman". A scientific paper? Neodymium, amygdala, or ionosphere will probably be understood.

The goal of a writer shouldn't be to confuse their readers or make them feel dumb, but they also shouldn't sacrifice a perfectly fitting word that 90% of the audience understands for a weaker substitute that 100% understand.

I often look up words when reading. Sometimes new words, and sometimes words I have a rough understanding of but am curious about their dictionary definition. I almost never see as the author's failure or mine.

Many of the words in this list I've never seen before, but I don't think that means they should necessarily be discarded. And I wouldn't want writers to avoid words like bowdlerize, vestigial, avuncular, defenestrate, palimpsest or sinecure just because they could be replaced by a more common word or phrase that means almost the same thing.
JVC 3100R Video Capsule Television/Radio (1978)
Cellebrite kit can't unlock iPhones – but the company can, at $4k each
Got me curious. The Wikipedia page for the term basically says that the word means the different things depending on being used in an American legal or British legal context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness

Seems like the word could be classified as a contronym in some sense.
> Perhaps it has learned by observation that friendly questions get helpful answers

It tries to predict next words, and this is it's only goal, answering your question is like controlled side effect
Show HN: Tmux plugin in for playing Spotify playlists
> "You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-4 architecture. Knowledge cutoff: 2022-01 Current date: 2023-10-11

Image input capabilities: Enabled"

That's surprisingly short, also compared to the instructions eg for DALL-E, which are full of safety railguards etc. Some explanations I can think of: a lot of the safety checks could be happening one layer "above" the dialogue, eg feeding the user prompt and the model's answer to another LLM and through some more classical filters. The base LLM could be fine-tuned so that the instructions are directly incorporated into the weights. But even with that, this seems surprisingly shorts. And it doesn't explain why they took such a different approach with DALL-E, Browse with Bing etc.
It pointless trying to abide by your rules of decorum - I call a thing a rant - as if it isn't and that makes me aggressive? In reality you're just mad I pointed out your kafka-esque moderation policies.

> Please be like them instead.

Be an arrogant martinet? No thanks. But I'll stop posting so congrats on keeping your community homogeneously obnoxious (and ignorant).
Looks like the compatible TVs have an interface (UPnP/DLNA?) that can presumably be queried to ask "What video is playing?", and "How far along are you in the video?", as well as accepting commands like "Skip to x:xx".
Not always, some countries actually require this to be sent over a bank-specific protocol.
My degree is in marketing so I used to offer human versus bot click analysis as a service. The initial sale was very easy but the practice was more like grief counselling than consulting. As a result, my customers weren’t sticky - they were happier before me. And I don’t believe anyone actually changed how they bought ads as a result.

A criticism of social media advertising is that it’s too easy for small business to get stuck thinking that it’s work when in reality it’s just a very boring hobby. Many digital ad campaigns don’t show a return on investment so maybe that criticism applies to digital ads too…
What does it mean to remove bad comments, in the context of this software?
Widely accepted mathematical results that were later shown to be wrong? (2010)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
Satellites don't kill people. People kill people!
I would say throughput rather than bandwidth, although the meaning is similar, people have been discussing throughput vs latency for a long time.

Sometimes you can improve both, but often it's a tradeoff.
Have you tried drizzle? https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/select#aggregations

(note: it produces type-safe results too)
This is the most common type of response to any realistic look at LLMs, it's always hilarious. Who are you convincing by using another field of research you also don't understand?
> They found that during a two-year span, the goal for participants was to reduce their daily caloric intake by 25%, but the highest the group was able to reach was a 12% reduction

This feels like something the royal we should be talking about as well.

It’s clearly really difficult to restrict calories/eat less in the US. It’s unclear if this is a US only phenomenon or not but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were.
Then pay for your shit.

"Your argument is dumb" is not a valid counter-argument.
A bug in MySQL, or working as intended? You decide
they should make the inside look just like a Blockbuster from 1989 but all branded Netflix.
“Getting things done” is good under only very specific and hard to obtain conditions. Ask anyone who has ever hired a hard-working fool.
> but you can't expect _everyone_ to be able to live like that.

Not even if the alternative would mean millions and millions of deaths due to heath, draught, fires, flooding and wars due to people try to move to livable areas?

I bet you could accept no fridge, no ac, no car, if the alternative would be sudden death…
You just coined HSBC's new marketing slogan!
It would be chaos, and the real power would shift to the administrators.

If you select people at random, they will have even less understanding of the issues they vote on than career politicians. They don't have established networks of experts they believe they can trust. They lack the skills to have effective meetings between more than a handful of people, to negotiate, and to make collective decisions. Administrators would have to provide all that.

That would be bureaucracy in the literal sense of the word.
Wow, a project describing itself as a “Next generation ORM” that… doesn’t do joins, with no way to optimise queries.

Perhaps they mean “Next generation” as in, the 1987 TV series sense. Which would still be a long time after the concept of joins…
I think the assumption in that rule is that it applies only to cars that you want to have registered and drive on public roads.

Naturally, if you want to drive your car on your own private property, you won’t need a valid registration or license, so it won’t fall under that rule. So no, this law wouldn’t strip your rights to that.
For me the intuition came from Sebastian Thrun in his Ai for robotics online course. Running through everything in 1D definitely helped get the concepts before extending to multidimensional problems.

This looks to be the course playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAwxTw4SYaPkCSYXw6-a_aAoX...

The kalman filter stuff starts at video "Tracking Intro - Artificial Intelligence for Robotics"

Also the free course appears to be available here, although a login is required to access:

https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-artificial-intellige...
"It compared outcomes in a group assigned a target of 25% CR (i.e., a 25% reduction in energy intake below baseline levels) with outcomes in an ad libitum diet control group. "

and

"... CALERIE TM participant requirements included:

Absence of significant health problems, including diabetes, cancer, heart and liver disease, and AIDS
Absence of medication use except oral contraceptives
Age from 20 to 50 (inclusive) for men and ages 20-47 (inclusive) for women
Body mass index (BMI) of 22-27.9 (lean to slightly overweight)
No recent substantial weight loss
No history of eating disorders, behavioral, or psychiatric problems
Use by women of an acceptable form of contraception throughout the study"

Source - https://calerie.duke.edu/background
I learned about this effect too recently in an ACX post, let me add a link for the curious:
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-secret-gov...
Please edit this and remove any company names. You'll be grateful later when you look back and realise some of the ramblings you've posted here are not flattering and you'd rather not have potential employers/business connections being able to find it.
> Voice was a consititutional amendment to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders a body by which to speak [1]. How and in what way was vague (unfortunately) but it would have been a large step forward

The government could have legislated a statutory Voice, let it operate for a few years, and then have a vote on entrenching it in the constitution. If they’d done that, (1) there could have been a Voice right now; (2) greater odds an eventual referendum would have passed (voting on making an existing institution more permanent vs voting to create a whole new thing), and would have eliminated the “we don’t have enough information” argument. Whereas, in the situation we are now in, there is no Voice, and with a clear majority of the nation voting “No”, even a purely statutory one is now a political non-starter. If you want the Voice, this referendum should never have been held, since not holding it would have greatly increased the odds of a Voice existing. The referendum had the odds against it all along, given the low success rate of constitutional amendments in Australia; made even worse by the government’s decision to push ahead when bipartisanship was lost, instead of taking that as an opportunity to pause and re-evaluate their strategy (it could have been a good time to pivot to a purely statutory Voice and save constitutional entrenchment for later)
yes, it's bizarre, but it wouldn't had rammed it through though. and just because it's agricultural ministers it doesn't mean they don't have contact with their respective government, etc.
It is unsurprising that some customers are growing agitated with self checkouts. Others have mentioned issues with weights and "accusatory" automated voices, but recently I ran afoul of the computer vision technique used to detect theft. A machine flagged me twice for holding produce in my left hand while trying to find the item number on the screen with my right. Both times an employee had to come and override the system.

It's just a machine but when people are being accused of theft while just trying to buy their groceries, frustration will grow. Since then I've gone back to cashier based checkout. I wonder if we will see more people doing that in future.