skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience, I strongly do not recommended You and Your Research.

When I started my PhD I read this text as well. Of course I was very motivated of doing only important research. After some time I even found a nice research topic and worked on it for over two years. Even my advisor pointed out that it was a very novel and foundational idea.

At the same time, a colleague published three papers in top conferences. Their approach was basically to look at publications from the previous conference, apply some delta that they had an advantage over other teams and publish this in the next round.

Reviewers were happy because their publications already got cited and they understood the topic well.

Whereas my topic used an algorithm from the seventies that reviewers had to revisit. My topic didn't fit so well into the overall conference trend and so I still have way less citations than those incremental works.

When someone asks me if it's worth doing a PhD I tend to say that you need to like the direction in which science is going. If you don't like it and are rather rebellious, it's better to start a company.
> They don't spell it out explicitly, but I think the author realized that they were effectively acting as an enabler.
> The letsblock.it tool encouraged customers to use workarounds so that they could still continue engaging with big tech companies that are so customer-hostile.

With only 800 active users, letsblock.it obviously didn't have any measurable effect. To think otherwise is hubris.

People use products from "big tech companies" because they offer something that is useful that others don't offer. In the author's conflation of "big tech" and "commercial", I think they need more clarity in what they really want to accomplish, what their mission is. Being "against" something is a valid goal in life, but then you really have to be very strategic about it. Being "for something" and pouring your energy into making something that people want or need seems more productive. Even then, you want to be strategic because there's an infinite number of things you could go after. Do you diffuse your attention or do you focus? Supporting the "non-commercial web" seems too vague in my opinion.
There's a wide chasm between not knowing what docker does and knowing docker well enough that it isn't a major drain on your productivity.
No way. Family puts alot of "make money now" and "be home for dinner" pressure on you. Hardly a good environment for doing research. Not even bringing kids into the equation.
The game looks great!

One way to fix the tutorial is to make it more interactive than just asking players to place a specific tile in a specific place. Once you explain the most fundamental rules, introduce subsequent ones in the form of mini games where players decide what tiles to put and where, and can lose. Have a look at the Queen's Gambit game about chess. It is free if you have a Netflix subscription.

One feature that I would request is to let me organize my tiles. Just my 2 cents.
Yes, after 8 years.
Giving out advice for concrete steps someone can take to prevent a problem isn't victim blaming. Unless we're all content with people just sitting and whining all the time instead of actually doing anything to help themselves. And let's be real, we're talking about open source contributions, not getting mugged for wearing the wrong clothing here.
Hot take, I wouldn't consider India as a proper democracy at all the way political parties are setup India is a temporary dictatorship.
I’m guessing because silicon is longer lasting? Essentially forever except for mechanical weathering. Diatomaceous earth, for example. Asbestos for another.

Steel and even copper degrade much quicker.
Yes? Block, move on. It's the internet, you aren't forced to interact with anyone. If you are, get a better source code hosting platform.
The CPU works on 64-bits. But the memory works on 512-bit / 64 byte cache lengths or DDR4 bursts.

An unaligned access could be across 2 cache lines or 2 DDR Bursts. Or across a page table (I think 4096-bytes??) Or other higher level of organization requiring multiple accesses under the hood.

X86 does the easy thing and takes two or more clock ticks to read. But aligned accesses remain faster, likely for these low level groupings of bytes.

Some architectures straight up do not allow unaligned reads and force the programmer to read two registers and then extract the unaligned data.

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In particular, reading or writing across two cache lines can be disastrous loss of efficiencies. The memory system needs to lock / MESI indicate both cache blocks. If one (or the other) memory location is still locked by another thread / CPU core, you'll get false sharing.

As such, a common practice is to 64-byte / 512-bit align your memory accesses in heavily multithreaded code.
FWIW I too am unable to access reddit using my home (residential) IP. I've never had an account there, so I have no idea why they would block my IP. I also haven't scraped anything, ever.

Previously I could access old.reddit.com, but now that's blocked too. I also can't create an account -- I get "403 forbidden", even if I specify an email address and clear my cookies.

I even created a support ticket about this a few weeks ago, which went unanswered (apart from an automated message which wasn't helpful or applicable at all).

I suspect it might be because I often use RedReader on my Android phone, which is still working somehow regardless of the IP ban.

Funnily enough I can access Reddit through a VPN.
rsync is great
MB provided a cash infusion during the GFC in exchange for 10% of Tesla. Both companies saw it as a strategic partnership.

Tesla planned on sticking to luxury vehicles and selling electric power trains to companies, like MB, that would handle everything else. MB, as far as I’m aware, thought that Tesla would prioritize this more than they did.

Tesla helped develop the MB B 250e, MB’s first BEV. At the same time, they developed and launched the Model S, which was far more expensive but a complete game changer.

Who knows what happened between this and when MB sold their stake in Tesla, but it’s easy to imagine that both companies became less enthusiastic about their partnership over time.
Difference being oil is still economically useful whereas nvidia and current AI won’t be in 100+ years.

It’s not necessarily a building block to anything, either. Some alternative to transformers or some biotech based AI could come along with zero connection to current AI

This is just another virtual economy, because the prior generations have monopolized the real economy, pump and dump to maintain social order
Research in a Phd program is 90% long term habit, 10% creative musing. Marriage structure helps with that 90% part.
>obviously creates predators as more people are exposed. (from your earlier comment)

>There isn't a single person in the world

Is there any good research to back these up? Societies have had similar lines of reasoning involving prohibition and banning in the past that seemed "obviously" intuitively correct, some of which have been mentioned already by others.

As mentioned by someone else, CP is "radioactive," and as such, in a black market would probably fetch an appropriate price. It's been an extensively studied and observable behavior that people can, and will partake in unethical or immoral activities if the economic incentive is high enough. It's not an either-or thing; it can be about the abuse, but it can also be about money, or even just a lack of empathy. The "lesser" crime of CP distribution doesn't necessarily have to be about the abuse either; people can find themselves in crime rings out of desperation, or coercion.

If realistic AI-gen CP can greatly devalue the real stuff, the risk would become much less worth it, except for the types of people you specifically mention. As I mentioned in another comment, it's possible to train and generate victimless synthetic CP -- AI learns concepts, similar to how a human artist might piece together concepts to create something they've never seen before.

The idea that virtual content can't provide some sort of catharsis or outlet for at least some people is also questionable, unless we can get a significant number of actual pedophiles to come and testify to this. People already find outlets in acting out any number of emotional, sex, or abuse fantasies via text LLMs, despite it being only text. And generative AI is becoming increasingly realistic, including audio and video domains, even if it's disturbing to think about.

There is evidence to support that pedophilia is to some extent a result of biology and uncontrollable life circumstance, and there are non-offending pedophile support groups, so avoiding abuse crimes is a choice for a significant non-zero portion of pedophiles.
I’ve been learning Chinese for a few years. I’d recommend taking the time to learn the radicals as well, as it will help you get the feeling for what the character might mean, to the point that eventually through context and the radicals used it becomes useful to understand what it means even when you don’t actually know the character.

It also makes it easier to learn characters: Yesterday I learned the character 祂 while reading about Buddhism. It means “it”, but when referring to a god, which I could infer from the context, but also from the fact that 他 means “he” (with a person radical 人）, and 她 means “her” (with a female radical 女）， and I’m familiar with the radical for god/temple which is 礻.

In Chinese this also helps with “guessing” how the character should be pronounced, to an useful extent, but I don’t know if this also would apply for Japanese.

Keep up the good work!
They just flocked in from countryside, depopulating it, that's how.
Dan Gelbart, a great. Adding MIT Alex Slocum’s kinematic and flexure design resources: http://pergatory.mit.edu/resources/fundamentals.html
It's dumb that it requires switching. Why aren't there any tools or services for publishing content simultaneously to every platform? New platform? Make an account and add it to my publishing tool, done. Now my content posts there as well.

I think it's difficult by design. The platforms don't want that, they want the lock-in and switching costs.
Happy too! So my main resource is Hacking With Swift (https://www.hackingwithswift.com), specifically the 100 days of SwiftUI Course. It takes you over Swift and SwiftUI. I've paired this with the official Swift site (https://www.swift.org) so I can dig into the language more, and Apple Documentation where appropriate to get used to using the tools.

In terms of finding it, it was a bit of a shot in the dark. I did some poking around and this popped up the most, specifically because I was looking for iOS specific materials. I'm sure if you want to make cross platform apps there's probably a whole host of great resources!
My setup doesn’t include a remote browser and I’d prefer not to add one.

I listed what I’m using - safari desktop, nordvpn, the sign up link that I checked is in the grandparent comment. This worked earlier for me, now it doesn’t.
I’m not going to read this link because nothing is worth trying to deal with the Twitter UI, but if you’re interested in the topic there’s a bunch on it in Andrew Robinson’s book Lost Languages.
And even the Chinese ripoff crap that uses a printhead (see also: those little handheld "pocket printer" things that let you "print on anything") just uses an HP 62 cartridge carrier and knockoff HP 62s.

(The HP 62 is the backbone of HP's TIJ 2.x platform, which is their OEM printing engine platform for specialty applications. They even sell blank tri-tank 62 carts for you to fill with your own specialty inks and materials to jet with the cartridge since it's got the onboard printhead.)
I dont use mailing lists for patches, I use gerrit that would put a great big highlight over that character
As an aside, I get irritated as all heck by the old, previously useful reddit threads that now show up in search results but with the actually useful information deleted by someone in a fit of rage. This is frustrating, since the information is not necessarily easy to find somewhere else. Or at all.

If you find that you must do this, could you at least re-host your answers elsewhere and link to them?
Silicon is chosen precisely because it is much easier to turn into small fibers, literally just like asbestos. Silicon is the second most abundant material in asbestos, after oxygen.
I have made my system pretty basic, relying on cron and rsync, because I figure that’s the most futureproof and secure way. But you helped me realize that if something happened to me and our NAS, my family would not be able to restore from backup. I’ll have to work on that.
Self-learning via books. I've bought a bunch. Am currently going through Susskind's Theoretical Minimum Classical Mechanics [1], also looking through No Nonsense Classical Mechanics [2].

AI chatbots sometimes come to rescue when I am stuck. Not with mathematics though.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-Theoretical-Georg...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/No-Nonsense-Classical-Mechanics-Stude...
Only hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophilies, nerds, and people who have been dared to attempt to pronounce it aloud in the presence of others, will care to use it.
I work with Chrome-based addon "AdGuard VPN" and it still works fine.
It will be pitty to block users from using VPN as there are countries (like Indonesia) that blocks Reddit by default.
Iirc some got lucky & struck gold. Most didn't, and moved on empty handed.

But businesses that did prosper long-term, were the ones that catered to the gold seekers: sellers of equipment, food stores, bars & room-for-rent type facilities.

So you could say that (on average) the 'meta-suppliers' did better long-term than the gold seekers themselves.
"have no hope" actually means someone at the department refuses to sign your papers. I have never been treated with so little respect in industry.
Quantum computing could help us understand more about the universe NewsHour
Or it will since self control is not a binary, so more barriers can reduce use
Not challenging you, but I'm curious what source you have for this stat? I'd be interested in a good source for profit margins for many products, and also in the process behind those numbers.
What if you make your user agent a crawler?
What a sad instance of pointless puritanism.
Vaguely reminiscent of Specimen by Charlie Whitney and Erica Gorochow
https://playspecimen.com/
… a great game if you haven’t tried it, and unusually revealing about the limits of perception.
Now that is a great fucking article. I have to tell people this all the time and no one can truly grasp what I'm saying. You have absolutely nailed it.
Indeed, it looks like they even tried to fix it in LLVM (back in 2017) but wound up reverting it: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28990
People don't typically start a Phd at 34. You're at a different level of maturity now.
> A nice way to see the pathspecs in action is using git ls-files. That command lists all the files in the staging area,

This should read "That command lists all the files in the _working directory_"
It's a continous, demoralizing nightmare called scrum in an administration oriented company.
Thanks, that's all good advice.
Autocomf output is so incredibly noisy though, still long odds someone would notice anytime soon.
It’s not a vulnerability in systemd either, it’s a vulnerability in xz, which libsystemd depends on, and libsystemd is only integrated into OpenSSH in certain distributions, and only to avoid writing ~5 lines of C code to write the string “READY=1” to a socket specified in an environment variable.

Systemd itself doesn’t even use lzma/xz… libsystemd does, and that’s a library meant to help other software integrate with systemd. It’s not really the same thing.
That's one way of putting it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/29/olympics-i...

COP displaced 30,000 people (though, I suppose it's not as bad as Seoul, where over 700k people lost their homes due to Olympics redevelopment).
some countries block Reddit by default.
> The accommodation of vast numbers of immigrants

Let's not forget that (European) immigrants were mostly wanted, so as to provide needed workers. Even the Chinese immigrants of the 19th century were wanted to help build railroads and the like. Racist anti-immigrant factions such as the Know-Nothings and the KKK never really gained the power needed even to try to stop immigration (with the notable exception of the Asian exclusion acts in the late-19th and early-20th centuries).

Scores of millions of Americans, including your servant, are descended from those European and Asian immigrants. Again, the "movie" is that over generations, those people became fully assimilated into American society and values.

As for "accommodating" the immigrants, that brings to mind Heinlein's dictum: Never argue with the weather. It's questionable whether the "British" America of, say, 1787, or even 1868, could have effectively prevented immigration.

We also shouldn't lose sight of the millions of involuntary "immigrants" who were brought here in chains from Africa.
Hm I’d been thinking of buying a TV after not owning one for many years.

Guess I won’t.
This is very wrong. One of the most studied ways of breaking bad habits is by introducing friction. Nothing stops me from getting in my car and going to McDonalds but that is a lot of friction. It's easier to just stay home and cook something I have.
Agreed, surrendering our privacy is anything but "just."
In the case of XZ it was more akin to burnout based on the literature around the time Jia Tan was instated.
I've seen such title inflation work for people.

Recently watched a relatively young person parley a position at a small company with a VP title that resulted in a slot at a regionally well known organization as a director and then president of a much larger startup.

Over about 4 years he went from front line sales to running a sizeable company with the key step being the VP title at the small company that rocketed him up.

I also recall a former co-worker that was denied promotion and generally failing to progress in his career. He took a slot at a tiny company explicitly for the title. I think it was director. He managed to parlay that into very positive career moves.

Personally, I don't care as much about titles these days. I just don't want to work for places making terrible tech decisions and forcing me to work within that. I'm happiest making the decisions and really don't want to stop, whatever it's called.
Well, on Russian keyboards, they are on the same key.
North American Boy Love Association #9

Is that an acronym?
Nevertheless there are a ton of very high quality, and seemingly successful, streamed-prerecorded pirate video sites these past few years, and One might assume their users be more adblocky than google's users.

Oh and also porn sites I guess, and what's the advertising worth there vs on youtube
anything where you would publish content

Here it depends too.

The devil has been in the details for the vast majority of “google banned me” [1] stories I have read…

When there are details.

The hypothetical case of your grandfather’s photos would be an example of Google acting reasonably, correctly, and in good faith. The devil in the details matters.

[1] or “PayPal froze my funds,” “Amazon kicked me off the platform,” etc.
nvidia-smi exposes all cards, so you could run the same workload on multiple cards. This (likely) won't solve the problem of certain failure modes being intrinsic to the work being completed/compute environment. I would speculate some of those aggressive failure modes would present themselves across all the hardware.

Maybe someone could run workloads across CUDA and ZLUDA (Nvidia, and other hardware), but really we just might need more reliability to efficiently and reliability run a file system across disparate GPU hardware.
Yes it's old news(1) but it has come up again in numerous HN and reddit posts for a few reasons (if you flick through HN you'll see various versions of this story holding lower ranks.)

Also noteworthy is that Google were also doing something similar at the time, both were side-stepping Apple's privacy protections in iOS by using enterprise certificates that allowed the side-loading of apps without Apple's overview. In response Apple more thoroughly restricted how these certificates can be used.

Interestingly I've noticed in the DMA threads people suggesting that a company exploiting side-loading to dodge Apple's privacy protections was nothing more than fear mongering. As if this is a red line developers won't cross.

To me, it's wild to think that people on HN don't know about this relatively recent history and are so naive to think that these protections were just pulled out of the air to frustrate developers, and not a reaction to an on-going arms war against consumer's right to privacy.

(1) https://www.extremetech.com/internet/284770-apple-kills-face...
Great use of bpftrace! eBPF-based tracing is really useful for understanding multithreaded performance in the kernel. E.g. if you're running into kernel-level lock contention, the preemption time won't show up in the perf report (except for the few moments of optimistic spin locking).

I was trying to understand a bottleneck related to concurrent page faulting, and being able to just hook into the relevant event is nice.
Notably only writable by Lasse who I personally believe is a Good Actor here.
One things to know and remember - we are nothing special.
Re Docker, chroot, etc: the boundary around a VM is both easier to understand and more hermetic than around a container.

The learner already has a pretty good idea of where a computer stops. They can pretty much transfer that knowledge to a VM and not have any problems for a long time. Whereas with Docker, what's a filesystem? What's a process namespace?

And, well, I wouldn't do anything in a container that I couldn't afford to leak out into my host system. In a chroot especially, the files are just sitting there, waiting for a newbie to touch them from the wrong context.
I've been enjoying these posts about the IRIS project. I would love to see some quantitative measurements of its performance. If it works for the autofocus purpose, that is great. But I'm skeptical of calling this kinematically coupled or nanometer resolution with vhb taped non spherical balls and no preload. I wouldn't expect that to repeat very well. Also, I'm having a hard time thinking about whether you can actually use the maxwell as a trim/tram table like this, is this known? The piezo's are going to be moving in 3 slightly different axes and surely with some parasitic motion so the ball's position won't stay in radial symmetery. And they have to slide in the groove so there will be stiction. I think a linear stage at 1um would suffice because the correlation between images should be higher
Interesting take, thanks
Anybody is free to contribute if s/he is contributing in a good will but what happens if you don't know who they are and what are their motives? You can look at the their track record for example, that's another way to determining their credibility. In another words you need to establish trust somehow.

Idk if this specific individual that backdoored XZ had a track record of contributing to other open source projects(in a good will) or if s/he just out of the blue starting contributing to this project. I read somewhere that somebody else recommended him or vouched for him. Somebody needs to fill me in with the details.
It's, what, a 5 hour drive from San Francisco to Eureka?

Takes longer to fly to Las Vegas if you count all the Security Theater and whatnot.