skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other people have shown pictures of people reading in the bus, but here's the other thing: it was (and still is!) common to read a magazine or newspaper when you're out in a group for casual outings like a casual coffee, breakfast or even dinner with the family, lunch or coffee break with co-workers in a restaurant. It was often the only time you had to read the newspaper (unless you're were commuting by bus, hah!).

Kids would have coloring books or comics. Disinterested teens would have a book. I remember my grandmother carrying a crosswords puzzle, Stanley-style.

Sure it's not something you would do in an occasion where you're expected to keep conversation, like a social living room visit, a fancier diner, a sales call, a date or a birthday party. But even in special occasions with the extended family would be totally normal to excuse yourself to go read a newspaper or something if the rest of the people were engaged in conversation you're not interested in.
BTRFS is probably mature and stable by now, but it's been a rocky road with several premature declarations of maturity.
> What is striking about the allegations of plagiarism against President Gay is that the improprieties are routine and pervasive.

> She is accused of plagiarism in her dissertation and at least two of her 11 journal articles. Two sentences from the acknowledgement section of her dissertation even seem to have been copied from another work.

Presuming the allegations are true, I find it interesting that it went unaddressed for so long. The matter was seemingly systematically ignored for almost 30 years until she pissed off the wrong people by allowing students to protest against Israel. Then people went digging for something to use against her and found this plagarism. From the NYTimes:

> After weeks of tumult at Harvard over the university’s response to the Israel-Hamas war and the leadership of its president, Claudine Gay, there was no shortage of interest in a faculty forum with Dr. Gay this week.

> In a town hall held over Zoom on Tuesday with several hundred members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Gay focused on how to bridge the deep divides that had emerged on campus as a result of the war, according to two people who attended and asked for confidentiality because of the sensitivity of the situation.

> Faculty members who spoke up in the meeting were largely positive, and there were no questions about Dr. Gay’s academic record after public allegations of plagiarism. The matter wasn’t even raised, one professor said.

> But by Thursday, new questions surrounding Dr. Gay’s scholarship had shifted to the forefront, after the university said late Wednesday that it had identified two more instances of what it called “duplicative language without appropriate attribution,” from her 1997 doctoral dissertation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/harvard-claudine-gay-p...
It’s not just what the phones give us (in terms of connectivity), it seems we’re addicted to the light itself (same with TV before).

Presumably, this is some primal sitting-round-the-fire type impulse.
If you would have asked me in high school what I wanted to do for a career, it had absolutely nothing to do with computing, even though I grew up tweens onward around computers. The opportunities were interesting to me, and as things progressed, I went along with it.

I've been lucky enough that I am currently in early retirement, 15 years before traditional retirement. I still do a lot of what I did work-wise, but as hobby now.
For those not familiar, this is the paper which first proposed the amyliod plaque theory (the original link mentions protiens, but not beta-amyloid or Tau specifically).

https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/what-now-for-the-amyloid-h...
Happy 2024 :). I've gotten so much out of this site. 2024 marks 10 years for me as an SWE officially. Starting with a soulless internship in a defense contractor, working at many early stage startups, and ending with a FAANG.

The one constant? This site. I never post, but I hope to more. Love the productive discussions that I always see on this site. It's a breath of fresh air after spending any time on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
I suppose that selling the solution is what makes the author so optimistic about the problem.
I think push notifications and dark patterns would be better examples. A bus in any year could be filled with people reading, writing, playing solitary games, and conversing with people they knew. Parents punished children by taking reading material they disapproved. And denying music, games, and social activities.
I was hoping you'd continue with a drinking play on words regarding a sixtel of beer.
Well my n is small. Tenured faculty at Stanford, still paying after 30 y and unlikely to pay off in next decade (note: not in CS, Economics, or business which pay the big bucks). Have heard other faculty discuss this at dinner parties too.

I graduated 35 years ago and back then was able to pay my MIT tuition by consulting over the summer + January. CS of course during the AI boom. Doubt that’s possible today.

I think the financing of education in the US is absurd and broken, but there is some logic to spreading the financing of an asset over the lifetime of the asset.
Slight difference is that:

1) everybody read pretty much the same content. And not highly curated personalized content. So if you did strike a conversation with someone you’d have some common ground.

2) When starting said conversation the newspaper didn’t keep vibrating in your fingers or making sounds begging your attention back to it and you didn’t experience the FOMO of not giving said attention to it.

In other words. Sense of community was easier to establish and the artificial attention grabbers weren’t there for the social aspect of our beings to come between us as we try to do that social thing our species is known for.
Nix store can be anywhere. But if it’s not /nix Nix will not use the cache (already compiled packages) and compile every package needed.
Is it OK? I'm genuinely not sure. I have been considering a new year's resolution not to keep propping up relationship that aren't reciprocated. Are they "not initiators" in all relationships, or just with you? Why do you conclude that it's ok (genuinely interested)?
Is it feasible to generate comprehensive plagiarism analyses for most or all published works?
UEVR – Universal VR Mod for Unreal Engine 4/5 Titles
Did they control for income? Meats tend to be more expensive than other foods. Perhaps life expectancy is just correlating with income level here.
You don't need a global catastrophe for species extinctions. Millions of species have probably gone extinct just because they got out-competed by another species. If you believe in evolution you also have to believe in natural extinction, because species don't just adapt to be optimal, they adapt to survive, and that doesn't always work.
The issue is if the ai can make Mario games and Mario movies instantaneously, then what’s the point? Eventually you’ll reach a critical mass where rights holders can’t tolerate it.
Yes, I went as a kid and I was really excited about it. It was the lamest thing ever, it didn't seem mysterious at all to me and my family agreed.
Jennifer Doudna [1], who helped characterize* CRISPR, worked at Yale:

> Doudna joined Yale's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry as an assistant professor in 1994.

... and now works at UC Berkeley.

David Liu [2], who pioneered base editing, a generational improvement on classic CRISPR, works at Broad Institute (which is a collab between Harvard and MIT):

> He is the Richard Merkin Professor, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

I absolutely loathe the current social meta where people are allowed (even celebrated) for thoughtlessly punching upwards, regardless how broad the brush (boxing glove?) seems to be. Are there shitheads in these institutions? Undoubtedly. Are there also a ton of really brilliant people who have good intentions, have integrity, and deserve your utmost respect? Undoubtedly. Are the shitheads more likely to be located in administration? My bet is yes, because the scope of administration is a lot more political, but again -- we have to be careful.

Is it anywhere near accurate to say "They’re all wrought with dishonesty and self preservation"? I don't see how this statement could be supported with anything other than personal emotion. Anti-intellectualism is just another form of dangerous prejudice and should be treated as such. You can sign me up for metaphorically stringing up this particular asshole.

I also say all this as someone who didn't go to a prestigious school.

Happy New Years!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Liu
Yea, I think you could only write a COM file, since they are single segment "memory images". And 64kB was indeed the limit for a memory segment in those days.

Depending on what you were doing, even a ^C character in a script would throw it off, too.
People dodge the NSFW filters very easily trust me. There are entire subreddits devoted to it.
It will take a few more years for Chromebooks to take over parts of the Windows market share. It's sad but the Steam Deck and Chromebooks are most likely the closest the Linux Desktop will ever come in the next decades.
Readers of old science fiction may be interested to know about the film version of Olaf Stapledon's novel Last and First Men. The film, mostly a voice over reading of some parts of the novel, was made with many Spomeniks as a background.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8015444/
The New Yorker (not NYT) has used diaeresis in their style guide since they started and have stuck with it ever since.

"""
Basically, we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application. The diaeresis is the single thing that readers of the letter-writing variety complain about most.
"""

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
Too many books in ones pocket is for many a curse, ending up reading none. For a minority of with very much self control and determination tough, it probably is a super power to have a library in the pocket.
Every discussion like this people people assume the challenges of converting old buildings are insurmountable and throw up their hands. Nobody living in a tent or car has ever said 'of course I'd like a warm room with a bed but not at the price of altering the building code or compromising on anything.'
Not surprising. Papers have no bearing on ones capabilities especially in an era where knowledge is virtually everywhere
You do understand that source code as text in current form is most efficient way to do it?

There is no more efficient way unless you go to down to writing assembly or go down to writing 1 and 0.

Everything you build up as low code has to create much more data which takes obviously much more space than high level languages we use today and if you want to do change control - any other data structure will take even more space. Then all of it will be obviously slower because more data is not just a bit more data but at least order or two orders of magnitude more.

LLMs are great at compression but compression with them is not lossless so even if we write behavior to be interpreted by LLM to be executed it might turning out differently each time you run it.

That last one is not a tradeoff we can deal in I would guess 95% of applications. People expect 2+2=4 from applications but they want to say „computer add two numbers that add up to 4” and they don’t really want to to crash because pi+x=4 and LLM went hanging because it is now calculating PI and then it will move to finding X.

So this is why it will never work other way than „source code is text”.
Won't those adapters just say "I am a PD client please give me 20V"? I fail to see how that is a violation of the specification.
"Smug MA"?
Luddites and neoludites and similar Amish type will expand their foothold into different cultures. I personally am going to be adjusting my usage as it is impacting my life and negative ways. I've already added timers and limits and will soon be going to grayscale only.

What I do hope for which does not yet exist is the ability to use voice GPT at selective moments with a finger tap of an ear bud.

I have noticed a growing divide between those who have phones in their hands and those who have phones by proximity. I have some friends who take a day or two to text me back because I simply don't use their phone.
> 2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with?

Hollywood? That’s how “nerds” are usually represented
Please don't insinuate. If you have something to say that you think we know, you should say it.
> Retractions remain exceedingly rare for scientific papers: Just eight out of every 10,000 are retracted, according to a Retraction Watch database.

Reading HN, one might get the impression that it's much higher.
What was being built? If you don't want to share the exact details, can you share a general outline?
I left the spidermonkey team a while back but was there when this issue came up and I was strongly against implementing support for it. For me it wasn’t about it being “too hard” (implementation difficulty wouldn’t have been that bad actually).

It was more that it forced the implementation to elide stack frames whenever calls occurred in tail position.

That’s a semantic change to program behaviour. And one that messed with the expectations of developers.

I would have been fine with some explicit syntax for invoking that behaviour, but it seems the standards process that got it approved never really consulted developers or implementors.

Do you know why the standard committee rejected adding explicit syntax for tail returns and instead went the route of declaring that all calls in tail position must lead to stack elision? I never really bothered to find out.

Also is spidermonkey now adding TCO to JS because of wasm, or are they adding TCO to wasm?
I have been a proponent of no-code low-code and in the last year or so your second point has been the biggest problem we encountered on projects
“…developer talent is tiny.” The talent is now more expensive than code developers. However, the net benefit for most web apps is still there, that once you established the “platform” i.e main aspects of your “thing” the low maintenance burden starts paying big dividends. With rapid prototyping we do traditional dev, then transition web apps to no-code because the burden is in the through life aspects and no-code wins there.
Wow, even as a lay person I hear other lay people talk about amyloid plaque. It’s scary to know how far into common knowledge misinformation can burrow.
The article doesn't explain why (and it should) but it does mention that this version is very slow and offers a version that doesn't have the same problems.
Reminds me Desmond Doss and the movie Hacksaw Ridge: while certain elements were fictionalized for the purposes of telling a story on film, some actual events were left because no one would believe they were real and would come off as too fantastical:

> Other changes occur near the end of the film, when Doss is placed on a stretcher. In real life, Doss had another wounded man take his place on the stretcher. After treating the soldier, a sniper shot fractured Doss's arm, and he crawled 300 yards (270 m)[55] to safety after being left alone for five hours.[56] Gibson omitted that from the film because he felt that the audience would not find the scene believable.[57]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksaw_Ridge
I think it's higher polyunsaturated fats are what concerns me the most
I wrote a paper this year (after about a 15 year hiatus) and apparently submitted papers, this was to an elsevier journal, now automatically go though a plagiarism detector of some kind that gives a score that can't exceed some value. We actually failed the first time because we'd published the paper on Arxiv first, which seems like a big flaw in the system. I don't have a lot of faith in, nor do I support automated detection like that, but it does happen systematically now.
x60(t) is superior to X220 IMO.
I don't know about Spain, but I can tell you what is happening in Australia. We aren't phasing out anything. "Phasing out" implies decommissioning a money making machine, and I've yet to see that happen anywhere.

Yet, Australia looks like it will be one of the leaders in the changeover to renewables. Instead of "phasing out" we are replacing things when they no longer are making money. By chance and good luck most (all?) of our coal fired power stations were built decades ago, and so are becoming very expensive to maintain. Their private owners (who aren't about to take a loss for the public good and who would happily continue to pump out CO2 if it made a buck) are decommissioning them at a brisk pace.

Politicians on the left like to claim their policies has something to do the rapid change over. Politicians on the right like to claim they are holding it up or stopping it. The reality seems to be neither are having much effect on the outcome. It's all driven by money. That said, the politicians of both sides sold the then publicly owned generators to private equity a decade or two ago. We were given lots of reasons by the pollies (like promises of cheaper power), most of which turned out to bullshit. But it did make this money driven transition possible.

There are two reasons the coal fired stations are now making losses. One is the aforementioned "they are old" and hence getting expensive to maintain. But that doesn't explain why they are shutting down earlier than their planned lifetimes. The reason they are doing that is because renewables are economic poison for coal fired power stations. The planners counted on selling near 100% of the power they generated. But renewables are supplying 75% of the power (long term average of course, 150% in one hour and 0% in the next) in some parts of Australia. Coal plants can't vary their output fast enough to match indeterminacy of renewables, so they often find themselves pushing power into a market that is literally paying negative prices for it. Power prices go through the roof of course when renewables drop to 0%, but coal can't ramp up anywhere near quickly enough to take advantage of it. Instead, the gas peakers step in with their high priced generation. So coal can't win either way.

Turns out that's a death sentence for a coal fired plant that's expensive to maintain, in spite of the fact that it's repaid it's capital costs years ago. Nuclear has the same problems competing against renewables, but on steroids. The capital costs take decades to recoup even with the assumption will make money from most of the demand in the plants catchment, and it's so bad at varying it's output to meet demand Japan (which has a lot of nuclear) has more pumped storage per unit generation (to soak up the excess output) than anywhere else on the planet.

So it's not a surprise to me that Spain is phasing out nuclear. We would be far better off climate wise if they didn't, but this isn't driven by climate or safety concerns. The decision is driven my money.
What I find interesting is that the colors aren't "real", in the sense that the materials aren't colored. The colors are mostly from thin-film interference due to the thin layers of material. And the black lines aren't "real" either; although the layers look flat, they form three-dimensional structures as they overlap. So many of the black lines show up because they are edges in three dimensions, not because they are actually black. Another consequence is that different chips look completely different due to the manufacturing process that was used, even though the bulk color of the materials is the same.

Of course, the images would be sharper if I had a more expensive microscope, since the quality of the optics matters too :-)
> Are there shitheads in these institutions? Undoubtedly. Are there also a ton of really brilliant people who have good intentions, have integrity, and deserve your utmost respect? Undoubtedly.

Right, that is the nature of every human institution, and every human.
Doudna didnt discover CRISPR; her fellow Nobel recipient Emmanuelle Charpentier did

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier?wprov=s...
Sometimes people use evil systems for good.
This style isn't efficient in JS, though, because it produces a ton of garbage to collect. TCO doesn't really make it more efficient, just possible.
"We" is myself and two others that call ourselves maintainers, and the group at Universal Blue who brought us into their circle and shared knowledge. My personal repo at https://GitHub.com/KyleGospo/Bazzite is a time capsule of the project at it's beginning when it was only me.

Universal blue has a ton of different people contributing to it, but there's no corporate backing there either.
As much as I don't think anyone I know would use Oracle Cloud, the reasons in this blog post are far from ones I'd consider. The author of this post is annoyed that they have to pay even 1 cent for their app.
7 watts idle is unimpressive out of context

If you have a NAS that is idle most of the time, and want to minimise power consumption, how about an embedded-cpu based WoL generator? Sniff packets destined for the fileserver, which is otherwise in deep sleep, and automagically wake it up when relevant traffic is detected, with the relevant WoL packet. You'd get say <300mA consumption at 3v3, and full performance on wake. It would be transparent to the machines attempting to access the server. If idle power measurement is your criteria, this might be a way forwards?
2019? Pretty sure this website is from 2003. I was looking for the CSS1 compliance badge.
Typology of Traditional Arctic Kayaks
Best way to write a CV: Update it regularly, and when it comes time to use it, take stuff away.
Plagiarism and research fraud are rife throughout academia. If we subjected everyone to the same level of scrutiny we would find a lot of people who have done far worse than Dr. Gay. I am hopeful that new AI tools will automate this type of investigation and find more instances of academic dishonesty.
I can only speculate Valve's reasoning, but there are a very select few games that require actual case folding and not the simulated case folding that wine offers. I know of literally only one.
Xi's 2024 Year End Address
Not without false positives, which are unacceptable (unless you're willing to put the work saved from plagiarism checking into absolving the innocent).

I was forced to submit essays to a plagarism checker in high school (well over a decade ago). The company running this checker had, in their infinite wisdom, included a check for writing complexity under the assumption that a 10th grader who writes like an adult is probably cheating. This was embarrassing for everyone.
Thank you for that explanation. Now I understand why the home-grown versions of the same tomatoes are so different!
> This retraction is Tessier-Lavigne’s fourth in as many months, a stunning turn of events for a researcher of his stature.

That says a lot about how worthless the whole science journal and peer review process is. At this rate your assumption is that 50% of what is published is complete junk.
Sounds like you may want https://hu.ma.ne/