skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Professors had to pay the their salary + overheads on the percentage they worked on the project (those percentages often add up to to more than 100%, while not reducing teaching load)."

They better not have. This is actively illegal. One of the major activities of our grants office is making sure you don't go over ~ 95% effort (you also can't write grants while supported on a grant).
The NVIDIA Jetson is Arm based, with (duh) their GPU. Funnily enough, at $DAYJOB I used an Altra Arm server to do builds of our codebase - it replaced having to build the code directly on a device sitting on a rack in our server room (slow! Especially on Xavier), and saved me from having to set up a cross compile.
Most if not all symmetric encryption is quantum resistant though (with a large enough key). Quantum computing only causes problems for asymmetric algorithms that involve factorisation iirc
That’s quite the straw man argument.
IBKR can also be finicky when it comes to what they allow on their platform. They seem to want people to do stock brokerage, and not use their service for other things despite offering a whole lot of convenient features that suggest they want you to use them.

I used them a lot for automated transfers, paying bills and keeping cash and they weren't happy about it.
Humanitarian system in Gaza facing 'total collapse', says UN chief
>I'm sure someone much smarter than me will create this at some point.

Such a person is the very last creature I want parsing every byte of content delivered to me. in order to make this service a reality it must be local.

What we need is data poisoning. Have the AI watch ads, spoof responses, while we watch ad free content. Run it like SETI, during our devices downtime. They'll try to raise fraud concerns. Understandable. Accusations of piracy? Certainly possible. Convictions, though? Probably not.
"And the counter to this is how for many departments getting hold of their company card statements is like pulling teeth. They just try to tell Finance "just pay the bill, thanks". And then audits find faculty paying for flights for their partners on the university card... or first class upgrades... or very liquid lunches."

I've never been at a university where I've been able to tell the finance office "Just pay it" without pushback.
The C ABI doesn't necessarily force you to use C. Maybe to turn some pesky macros into proper functions. Bury the bindings deep in the language's stdlib. Done.

Under the hood, it's all assembly language instructions invoking an operating system written in C. Operating systems care very much about types, but can't offer type safety. Programming languages can.
I feel like I have to speak against the guilt you're referring to being unable to forgive. Collective guilt is only believed in by people who haven't thought through the horrific enormity of the implications and others who want them... it is also falsely implied by a partial reading of the scriptures. Yes, "the people of Israel" were lead into captivity or out of it together, but God used the Babylonians to save Jeremiah, and all of the poor in the area who were previously living innocently and with nothing got to take the vineyards and the farms, along with the prophet, who lived among them. Individual guilt can be synchronized by the same peer pressure forces as synchronize the movements in the histories of all sons of Adam equally. Nonetheless, it remains individual guilt even when it appears to rest on many people who did the same bad thing all at once.
I wouldn't say 15 years, the HTC Dream / G1 / whatever you wanna call it was a flop. The first real Android phones came out in 2009
Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
Why Boredom is Good For You - Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPwKFigF8U
> I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.

That’s fair. I imagine I wouldn’t need a bank account after trusting X with my finances.
> This is the land they occupied when foreign settlers took it from them and instituted a government that marginalized them. The Israeli position is that after the Holocaust, they had nowhere in the world to go that would grant them the right and power to prevent another Holocaust, so they returned to their ancient homeland.

This part is false. Jews were always present in large numbers in that area alongside Arabs.
Have You Seen Me?: Missing Works of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
genuine question: why is it that ufo's always land on first world countries and never on third world countries.
The main difference, I guess, is that you can afford a better car but don't feel the need to display this? Your $8k vehicle does the job you need it to do and spending any more would be a waste of cash.

Someone struggling to afford a fancy car is prioritizing their perceived status over financial prudence.
They often fund new departments or centers within existing universities, because despite all the complaining about overhead rates, setting up an organization required to house, support, accept funding for, etc. research is non-trivial.

My current position is in a department like that - it's funded heavily from several $Person'sName Foundation
The King of Tractor Versatility – Ventrac 4500 Full Attachment Lineup (2020) [video]
What do you mean? We can make party balloons and long balloons for balloon animals without any additional pieces.
My first smartphone. I started working at Tmobile in college as a sales rep when the G1 came out and I immediately was smitten with it. The functionality and experience was so much better than anything that BlackBerry had to offer, yet all of the seasoned reps scoffed at the G1 and continued to push and sell Blackberries. They thought I was crazy to carry and sell the G1. I think I got the last laugh.
This is often a clause in our commercialization agreements - that if a company sits on it, the license reverts back to us.
Found the German.
No thank you.

1> (lflow '(1 2 3) (append '(4 5 6)))
(1 2 3 4 5 6)
2> (lflow '(1 2 3) (append '(4 5 6)) reverse)
(6 5 4 3 2 1)
3> (lflow '(1 2 3) (append '(4 5 6)) reverse 2)
4
4> (let ((prepend (op append "other ")))
[mapcar prepend '#"hello world"])
("other hello" "other world")
5> (match-case '(1 (2 3))
((@x @(as inner-list (@y @z))) (list x y z inner-list)))
(1 2 3 (2 3))

No "import this" or list.that; just language.
It's an ARM-based processor?
I found swimming laps to be the same.

Extremely repetitive in terms of scenery, breath, everything. The first few laps get into the rhythm and later ones are just you and your thoughts. Or, if you're lucky, just you.
How does it not synergize with the metaverse? If it takes off , there will 1000% be games. And why would a division that makes money have some negative organisational cost?
The article implies this is beefier than A-series. Can we assume it's intended for Linux vice bare metal?
Governments were doing that kind of sampling before Covid too, eg for drugs.

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/study-tracks-illicit-dr...
It’s much easier to just ship a WASM blob that renders to canvas. You can throw in a bit of obfuscation (LLVM can do that).

But even without WASM, there is the “tiktok strategy”, of pushing bytecode to a self-made interpreter, that frequently changes its semantics.
Why I'm using Next.js
My department is actively pivoting away from more expensive researchers towards theorists, implementation scientists, etc.

Partially because all that expensive lab equipment means expensive startup packages. And expensive grants get reviewed in the context of being expensive.
Migrations can kill your business. They are no small matter. Do you really want to stop everything just as your business is gaining momentum?
I understand. I don't actually like it, and I wouldn't want Linux to adopt the same practice; exposing raw syscalls in assembly rather than libc functions allows for a more flexible runtime, since C is a lot more limited (although that in itself invites greater security risk). I was saying that because, if you're asking for more type-safe kernel interfaces and frown upon uses of C, then the OpenBSD team seems like the last people you'd want to talk to. They're true Unix believers, love writing C and assembly, and dislike modern programming languages.

> Aside: that thread is a little bit outdated by the way, ...

Yeah, that thread was more to show that they really dislike the idea of replacing C with memory safe language, and instead say that people who can't program safely in C shouldn't be programming.

bytevolcano:

> I've always subscribed to the idea that too much safety results in too may idiots, and the same is true for all these "safe" programming languages. "Oh I don't have to write any form of bounds-checking, because the language will do it for me."

Nick Holland:

> Idiots who shouldn't be coding, coding. "safe" languages being trusted to be safe when in the hands of idiots. Like you said.

> The more I see of "safe" languages, the more I love assembly. Most people who call themselves programmers...shouldn't.

bytevolcano again (in the context of memory safe languages):

> A good programmer won't even need these languages in the first
place. Case in point, the entire OpenBSD dev team. :)

They'd probably be fine if Go dropped support for OpenBSD altogether; they don't seem to have a high opinion of managed languages or their users.
Isn't geometric algebra supposed to replace these ?
These sound like manageable problems in space though.

Overall the temperature of the balloon will stay pretty constant if it stays on a fixed orbit around the sun.

The argument about precision I don't understand - the article talks about creating telescopes with this concept but NASA wants to use this for radio communication - the comparison with JWST doesn't apply, as it's mirrors had to be manufactured to a much higher tolerance.

> lifetime

I mean we had bigelow Aerospace with their module and it seems to be pretty durable. [0]

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Expandable_Activity_Mo...
Firefox is already the best browser on the market in my opinion. Containers alone achieves this.

The problem is that Mozilla doesn’t own a leading OS. So theyre always going to be an “also ran”.

If history has taught us anything, it’s that the only way to succeed in build a successful browser is to build a successful operating system.
> It shouldn't need more than 3 variables

Why do you say that?

For example, we could represent any point on the sphere {x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = 1} by two numbers, but for most purposes, three numbers is a lot nicer.

And graphics programmers use homogeneous coordinates for everything, mainly because they make translations and perspective projections nicer. (Coincidentally, quaternions are also a kind of homogeneous coordinates, since the space of 3D rotations is (diffeomorphic to) 3D real projective space.)

So there are lots of places where adding extra variables makes things cleaner.
There's an extensive negotiation period to arrive at these rates - universities don't get to just pick.
Is that a real problem for professional users or just a kluge to work around the ever-decreasing IT skills of today's generation that can no longer do basic things such as window management?

I think an OS-managed popup window is superior to a page-managed modal since it allows you to move the window out of the way or even switch away from it, where as a page-managed modal is generally fixed in place, blanks out the parent page, and the only way to get back that parent page would be to dismiss the modal which discards your input.

I'm also not sure whether the accessibility concerns are substantiated - surely window management would be a well-trodden path for any screen-reader user and whatever you build yourself in-browser would have different and unexpected semantics that would require the user to get used to it.
I work at a state university, and how we spend our allocated funding, and whether we go over budget, both matter quite a bit.
There's been a yearly Andromeda 6 shuttle landing in the PNG highlands for the past four decades, but with the lack of internet, no radar, no regular air flights, less than one car per ten thousand people, obscured by clouds and all that it just never makes the news <shrug>.
Agreed. The difference to before is probably only that rent seeking is possible, because the post-war generation had lots of innovations (oil, plastics, electronics) to exploit.
I’m not sure if you find that a bad trade, in my opinion having a proper work environment beats buying stock at a good price
as if we don't remember PayPal stealing from us
Re: wind, at what frequencies would it be ok to put them in a box / tent?
You don't need any mods to make a speaker act as a microphone... Just like an LED doesn't need any mods to be a light sensor
How so? I had two 11" Airs and the 12" Macbook and haven't bought a Macbook since they stopped manufacturing small laptops. Right now I'm carrying 10gen iPad but it's not the same.
I bought a 2009 Focus with over 80k on the clock almost 4 years ago. I've done another 80k and spent nothing over and above regular maintenance and tyres. Off hand, I'd guess 2k max?

I would not have expected to be so fortunate with a Ford but with a Honda I would be, not least because Hondas in the UK are synonymous with senior, careful drivers who look after their cars. As a consequence, it's a much sought after brand in the pre-owned market.
long time ago, when i was living in.. oz.. for few years, the boredom thing came up to me a few times. And there are few phases.. a bit like those about accepting death in "All that jazz" movie.. So here my take and speculation.. The vast empty wilderness spaces are best for total boredom. Though be careful, survival there is not boredom. But not that difficult for few days. Keep some civilization comforts (pillow? water? repellents? ..) and Just stay there, doing nothing. Don't turn on phones or radio or whatever civilization-strings-attaching-you-back.

The state that your mind will get after such thing, is like.. you go beyond boredom. Stop caring about anything unimportant to-real-you. Newz? whuts-dat? Anxiety? none.

So.. if you go for a easy but near-unescapable longer boredom - e.g. rent a floating house, on the lazy river, going with 5km/h (and no way to propel it faster), for a week upstream.. and another week back.. mmmm.

i did not make it. did not find time, courage, you-name-it, and now oz isn't a country that i would go again. But Maybe one day, maybe another place..
I don't use google search (most of the time) as it's inferior - it ignores what I'm searching for, and substitutes what it thinks I should be searching for - and it's been doing that for years. There were free search engines before there were ads.

I don't use gmail because why would anyone want to use gmail for anything but temporary throwaways that'll get spammed.

I don't use google maps. nokia heremaps and openstreetmap (I use magic earth) are better in most ways, worse in others. When I go to a different country, I click "download country" and have a fully searchable map. No, I don't want a map that needs a data connection. No, I don't want to have to visually search the map for the thing I'm looking for, because someone barfed up a salad of dots that are place ads for things unrelated to my search. Google maps is not usable to anyone who has used something else. People who always use google maps don't know any better.

I do use google translate. This does not support your argument, because that's a service that is free, and does not display ads. You saying that the current ad-free service will disappear if ads were blocked from it... Can't make the comment on here that I want to make, so I'll let you imagine <words>

Youtube... Who give a crap. There were sites with videos before, there are other sites now. No, no one can host a huge expensive platform like that for free. So how about the people posting stuff, pay for their stuff being hosted. Then those people can inline talking ads or put a coke can on their desk, in their videos. You know, how ads in videos have been done since the existence of the video format, in 1920 all the way up to right now.

Google products, google customer service, and google the company, are inferior to the competition in almost every way. Except for google translate. Which again - has no ads.
The fun factor of the video game Uplink
> but you hear things about quantum fields

Fields are not exotic objects at all: they're just assignments of some quantity (a number, a vector, a linear transformation, something more complicated) to each point in some space. Take the elevation of every point on the Earth's surface, for instance: that's a field. Wind velocity is a field. The stresses inside some solid material are a field. They're absolutely foundational to physics.

> virtual particles

Virtual particles are a mnemonic device for approximating certain very complicated integrals, they don't actually exist.

> quantum gravity

Quantum gravity is a topic, not (yet) a particular thing. We have an extremely good theory of gravity (general relativity), and an extremely good theory of most of the rest of physics (the Standard Model, and more generally quantum field theory) - and they're impossible to reconcile with each other. So despite their empirical success, we know for a fact that both are false. What we want is a single consistent theory that incorporates both fundamental particle physics and gravity: a theory of quantum gravity. And while we know roughly what sort of experiments would allow us to investigate it directly, they would require particle colliders larger than the Earth to carry out. So for the moment all the theorists can really do is investigate candidate theories in preparation for the day when someone (hopefully) figures out an easier way to test them.

> what in quantum mechanics is considered “canon”

All of the formalism, very little of the interpretation.
Yeah it took them 16 days to unblock the Austrian company. As I said, that was fun. We had insane luck because my brother and I are operating an entire international network of small companies (mostly because you can't employ people otherwise and staffing agencies are too expensive) so we could pull money from another company to Austria temporarily but gosh.
Raspberry Pi based sound localizing audio recorder
For those interested in bio-acoustic research a new sound localizing audio recorder.
What do you think is the best incentive?
It would be great if the companies who complained about ghosting and quite quoting quit ghosting and constructive dismissal, but the world isn't all perfect sadly.
> No one actually believes that all or even most of the buildings destroyed in this campaign was "used by Hamas" if you are being honest with yourself. It's obviously collective punishment and revenge with a little bit of show ("we dropped leaflets" or "we sent warnings by SMS") for those who need it in order to go to bed at night.

Sorry, no. I don't believe that.

Granted, I'm Israeli, and have far more trust in the Israeli public and soldiers than most people in the world. But it really is true that Hamas uses human shields. It really is true that they place bases in places like hospitals.

And it also is really true that many, hopefully most Israelis, wouldn't comply with an order to bomb a building only to kill civilians with no military value.

I understand why that might be a statement that outsiders wouldn't trust. And I'm sure there have been plenty of mistakes and even many times where people did do the wrong thing, like in every conflict in the world. I just don't think that as a matter of policy, Israel is bombing buildings with no military reason.
It's just entanglement.
Or at least all the constant doomsaying about it
WinterJS
I’m pretty sure everywhere I’ve ever worked has notified me that there is a legal hold on deleting my communications. And I’m just a simple programmer.
There's no aftermath to this? No police involvement? No neighboorhood mob, delighted by a legitimate opportunity to beat someone up? Just, your tooth hit a razor, is where the story ends with a shrug and "some people do shit like this"?
Not sure why my original post was downvoted.

By looking into it, I found this browser:

qutebrowser is a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI. It’s based on Python and Qt and free software, licensed under the GPL.
It was inspired by other browsers/addons like dwb and Vimperator/Pentadactyl.
https://qutebrowser.org/

It is fast!
Wikipedia: Wikifunctions Running on WebAssembly
iOS has non safari browsers
That sudden drop in 2000 smells like redefinition so that the data before and after aren't measuring the same thing.
> and then Rabin was murdered (by his own side, go figure)

I don't think you can really call the lunatic who killed Rabin (or worse, the lunatics that urged him on and enabled him) part of Rabin's side.
One of the understated innovations of the iPhone was bringing awareness of the phone manufacturer to the masses, disrupting the relationship between customer and carrier. Android provided (and still does) a way for carriers to regain some control in that relationship.

One example is Verizon's Droid campaign, which was so successful that "Droid" became a genericized trademark for any Android phone for a decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Droid
But again, why can’t one of the factors be advertising first followed by due diligence before finalization? Especially in the instance of stated facts that can be fairly easily verified by anyone’s personal definition of a trusted source, most especially when presented with simply an incentive to use a stored resource that neither you or any of your trusted sources of truth were even aware existed at all to begin with? Again with specificity at advertisements on a digital medium where there is an enticement to spend money suggested by a third party and they are not evil?
Completely agree. The other thing I've noticed is that this "lack of boredom" has really killed my creativity. Phone use (especially scrolling, scrolling, scrolling) gets my brain stuck in repeated patterns that is the antithesis of creativity.

I really wonder what the endgame of all this is. The "attention addiction" enabled by smartphones, and all the apps that are designed by some of the smartest people on the planet whose sole incentive is to keep you addicted, is IMO one of the most detrimental impacts by tech on human happiness in the past 100 years.
As opposed to what? Your Linux desktop that will readily allow sending your browser cache, ssh keys, family photos to anyone with a simple ‘npm install’, nothing at all preventing it?

Also, if you call that GUI inaccessible, you write from a place of privilege: mobile platforms absolutely beat the shit out of any desktop computer on accessibility count, hands down, any people with some kind of disability will tell you as much.

There are negatives, but also, all around mobile OSs are a newer generation of OSs, that fixes many problems of their forefathers. To not call them computing devices is just unreasonable.
You don’t have to book with them but this Rakuten site can give you ideas of what’s available. https://experiences.travel.rakuten.com/destinations/japan/na...

Although Hiroshima is a big city, I would recommend visiting the Atom Bomb/Peace Memorial. You can visit the building that survived the bomb. A short ferry ride from Hiroshima is Miyajima Island which has Itsukushima Shrine. The shrine big Torii standing in the water is considered one of three most scenic spots in Japan. In Tokyo, if you don’t mind being crowded into a tiny room with giant sweaty men practicing sumo, I would pay to visit a sumo stable practice session and also pay for an interpreter.