skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty great still if you pay for YouTube Premium (which IMO is a good deal given you get YouTube Music too). The sponsor ads are easy to skip too. Half the videos even mark the ad sections in the timeline or even have an on screen timer to make it easier.
Totality and non-standard recursion in Idris
I think these labels definitely apply, if you think about it as a spectrum. Maybe the author's state wasn't pathological in either case but he definitely went from low energy to high energy.

I notice these shifts in myself and others; deciding to change it is the only way to get yourself out of a rut in my experience. When I do feel a little too "amped up" I use that energy and just make sure to avoid big decisions.
A: Inheriting a mission-critical legacy code base that is written by some cowboy coder who has left the company and who is in no way available to answer your questions.
A problem with marriage during the Phd is the inevitable two body problem. Academia privileges being itinerant. One reason I quit my PhD program for industry was because I saw how those ahead of me who wanted to stay in the same region were seen as failures or not serious.

I was excited for my friend who got a postdoc in another prof's lab in the same department, who didn't have to move across the country with his wife and newborn child. And my advisor taught me to pity him instead, "he could have gone to MIT if he applied, but now everyone will assume he couldn't get a postdoc anywhere else". If you "win" then you have to move for a postdoc, then to "win" again means moving again for a faculty position.
You don't know that this person has lots of work to do on themselves. These things are partially a matter of compatibility, putting yourself out there (which is a thing you do rather than a thing you become), and yes, unfortunately, pure dumb luck.
The safety of whatever it decays into is a concern I'd share, and is worth investigating.

On the plus side, as a surface treatment there's less material in total vs. the use of asbestos as fireproofing.
And as far as the audience is concerned, nebula is like netflix rather than youtube.
The imperative to collect and connect and the risks of interconnectedness
> As a maintainer of a security-oriented open source library, the paranoia of "is this person trying to help or to exploit?"

That's an excellent mind set when reviewing code, no matter security or not. But especially for security. How could this be wrong? What are the corner cases? How could anyboy break this? What do we need to test? That kind of scrutiny is crucial for keeping the quality of your code base high, no matter who posts the PR.
3. Discover the employee was not unproductive because he was bad but because of internal bureaucracy
Ask HN: How are you using your Vision Pro? Pro tips from HN users?
Been through it. Never really could take any of this stuff all that seriously. Especially after the woman I ended up closest to passed away. I’m mostly wondering how the people who recommend marriage as a solution to a lot of ills (and I think it’s an issue worth exploring but I also think there’s a lot of correlation/causation mixups here) expect people to take action on that.
I'm taking a class at the local community college. It's OK, just some class notes and an e-textbook that I never bother to read. The pedagogy is much as I remember it, the teacher going through the problems on a whiteboard and expecting everyone to rote-memorize things.

But mostly, I'm learning from ChatGPT. You can enter (or take a picture of) any problem and ask it to break it down step by step and it does that very well, and explains it better than most resources I've found. There are some OK YouTube or KhanAcademy videos too, but overall I prefer ChatGPT for its higher signal to noise ratio.

At home I'll usually ask ChatGPT to explain the first one of a problem type, then try to do it again on my own and double-check it against the posted answers. For subsequent problems, I'll do it myself first (pen and paper or iPad), check it for correctness, and then ask ChatGPT for a breakdown if I screw up. I can usually tell it the mistake I made (i.e. how come I got X in step Y) and it can often correctly guess and explain where I went wrong.

Some examples (keep in mind that I'm still working up to calc, so still in pre-calc right now!):

* Breaking down the quadratic formula and explaining imaginary numbers: https://chat.openai.com/share/b267e954-fa0b-46ea-8fd6-11f71a...

* Explaining properties of logs: https://chat.openai.com/share/01d79b4f-81b4-46b3-9767-be93b7...

* e and natural logs: https://chat.openai.com/share/fbb3f957-ed6f-4c1a-af95-917d0e...

* Word problems: https://chat.openai.com/share/502f7a91-9c2c-4c74-834a-5c791a...

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Overall, I find this method of learning math (by rote memorization and parroting) very unsatisfying, and I'm unable to retain most of it in long-term memory. A few days after I learn anything I already forget how to do it. I ended up with an A in the class mostly just cramming the night before + morning of, using ChatGPT and class notes to refresh myself before the tests.

But IMO it's a terrible way to learn (at least for me) and part of why I hate math. I never really learn the whys and wherefores of anything, it's just a bunch of magic shortcuts and black-box algorithms that I have to memorize and re-use without any actual understanding. It's the educational equivalent of solving every problem with someone else's function/library :( I have no idea why anything works the way it does, only that I must remember it and re-use it exactly.

If anyone has a better approach to learning and retaining this stuff, I'm all ears!
Holy shit they can brainwash their peers even better. Those are evil geniuses….

Sorry I meant the optimize the content for their peers and shield them from harmful content for the better of humanity // irony
I've been using this as a good way to filter and configure the familys browsers. For example to filter unwanted YouTube videos oe hiding shorts.

Is there another easy way to sync blocklists like this?
> Are you trying to debate them back into working on the project?

No, I think the project was based on wrong assumptions (strategy) and poorly executed.

I am merely putting constructive ideas out there.
Having been through all of this, young kids are both wonderful, but definitely restrict the ability to completely focus on a research sprint. While 90% habit is important, there were periods where I needed long hours and focus, and those are harder to find now. Adding finances to that, and I'm really glad that I waited until after my Phd to have kids, though plenty of people do it successfully.
These work fine: https://us.bic.com/en_us/bic-sensitive-disposable-razors-52-...

Works out at $0.29 per razor.
>So getting more contributors, people to assist with bugs and bug investigations, etc. is arguably more important.

Pay is how you get more contributors.
Git’s use of the ssh protocol as a transport is a niche use case that ignores the actual problem. No one is seriously arguing that you can’t sandbox that constrained scenario but it’s not really relevant since it’s not the main purpose of the secure shell daemon.
The unreasonable obnoxiousness of the overuse of the "unreasonable effectiveness" meme: I know I should let this bother me, but the "unreasonable effectiveness" of math in the natural sciences was not merely an assertion that math is useful in science, but an observation that math is so useful that it must hint at some underlying metaphysical or philosophical truth about the very nature of reality. I don't think the usefulness of VMs in pedagogy is hinting at anything so profound. They're useful in a reasonable way.
“like our ancestors did: multiple redundant calendar alerts”

Love that line
I don't think I like the grouping example; yes, it looks better when you show a single row from each one, but when I'm looking at 50 rows, it becomes much easier to spot any outliers (like one San Francisco among 49 Los Angeleses, or a Carolina hidden among Californias).
Update: as I noted in another comment, both Wikipedia and Wikisource of course run MediaWiki as their wiki engine. Not sure if the HTML/PDF capability is baked in there or not.
I've often felt that there is something inherently unwholesome about PhDs and the modern academic effort. As if we could create research factories, and that the quality and quantity of discoveries would scale with input (money). I'm not a historian of science, but I do know that many of our greatest scientists were not professional researchers, doing the work essentially in their spare time on the side (Einstein, Newton) or more typically, because of the support of a wealthy patron. Contributors self-selected for passion and talent mixed with a juicy problem. It makes sense to park people with passion and talent but NOT a juicy problem into a teaching position until that problem ripens. But instead you get careerist, low-impact papers - even negative-impact papers if you taken into account the impact on signal-to-noise ratio such papers have.

Consider that one of the more important papers in CS in the last 20 years was "Attention is all you need", which was a side-effect of the authors day jobs. Or the many contributions of open-source which are 99% hobbyists. There is some sort of perversion that happens when you "fund research" - it removes the spontaneity and changes the selection criteria from something "natural" (passion and time and results) to something "synthetic" (grant application). It would seem to me a more sensible approach to become a car mechanic or programmer and do your original science on the side.
Not sure why the downvotes. The RSS feed for Axios does indeed include the entire story. Check for yourself: https://api.axios.com/feed/top/

It's very convenient to have that all incorporated into your RSS reader.
The only thing really stopping more sites from doing this is ad revenue.
Robinhood's new, attractive and expensive credit card
That exists, it's under the [i] button at the top right.

Incidentally, some buttons don't work for me. This [i] button won't toggle back to off, and the buttons in the "edit board" function mostly don't work - including "stop editing board".
Or when your country decides the benefit of treating you with the new treatment doesn't justify the cost. I understand this is quite common in Europe with some cancer treatments.
> It's dumb that it requires switching.

seeding other platforms with your content that was meant to be youtube is fine (i'm sure there are tools that could do this already), but the problem is that those new platforms aren't monetized like youtube is.

For a content creator, if they dilute their audience (by saying that their content is available on some other platform), they might have less views on youtube which is the money maker.
Odysee (front end to LBRY) seems to have a fair number of creators using it. Like others have said there is also Nebula and CuriosityStream.
With just one quadruple-thick blanket ('duvet') you are either broiling or freezing, with no ability to peel back or add just one layer at a time. Can't understand how anyone can be comfortable with that.
Being told what to make, how to do it, oh and hurry up.
There is a huge housing crisis in the Netherlands, so people purchase homes before they are built, and sometimes a group of people get together to build homes that way.

In order to do this, you need to have all your permits in order. Unfortunately, the energy companies announced out of the blue that they didn't have enough energy to accommodate all their new obligations...
Currently working for me with ProtonVPN
I used to do all my development in VMs but found they were too heavy-weight, too slow and too difficult to keep "clean". Docker doesn't give you the same isolation at the resource level, which is a major benefit of VMs, but I also found this was more of a hinderance than a help. For me sharing the artifacts of development or the dependencies (i.e. building Docker images or using containers for parts of the system not under development) is where the value is, vs a completely isolated, reproducable software/hardware environment. A baseline VM is still great for reproducing production issues, and avoids the "Works on my machine" badge.
Quite frankly, anybody too old to be an airline pilot should be disqualified as POTUS.
No, brand-new homes - see my other comment.
Objective measures are a good thing. Otherwise you just end up with some subjective opinions nitting bro culture even closer together.
In nix you can pin your environment down to a commit in nixpkgs, from which whenever you build your system (i.e, artefact), the result will be the same. How do you achieve this in docker or vagrant?

> Usually you don't really want "the more deterministic way to get all, and only, the things you absolutely need."

IMO, you do, as otherwise you'll need to fix additional issues every time your CI runs, no?
What's the cost of polluting the environment? Burning a limited reserve of fossil oils? Ripping up developing societies?

The cost to humanity is enormous. The cost to a company is zero.
> If those communities and apps already respect their users, then do they need this author? What difference would they make?

What? Does software development just go away if you respect your users? Do people not want 3rd-party Mastodon or Matrix clients just because the orgs aren't running advertisements on their servers? Is the idea that I install Linux and everything just magically works because Linus isn't trying to sell me something?

Building services that respect users is still work. It's still a thing that people can help with and support, either directly or through 3rd-party tooling and extensions.
On Android Chrome here, taps register but drags not.
> FB did not clearly request to be able to read all traffic (encrypted and nonencrypted) so how could they get consent.

I can't find the consent page/legalese shown to users, do you have a link?
Very similar experience here, and I ended up going directly into industry instead of a postdoc because I had the same realization. I'm glad I did it that way, though, because I'm very proud of my research and I think we did something very interesting and novel.
My mistake. Thanks for correcting.
I had my own "oh shit" moment in my PhD, which I wrote about among other things, here:

https://elliottslaughter.com/2024/02/legion-paper-history

I'll just add one more comment: it's entirely possible to feel like everything you're doing is worthless, when in fact you are on the brink of accomplishing something worthwhile. That's not to say that every research project is worthwhile, but "how I feel right now" is maybe not the best indicator of how you are actually doing.
The word "science" is ambiguous. It denotes two very different kinds of activities.

The first is the lofty intellectual ideal of solving a major problem, winning a Nobel, and getting your name in the history books. The second is the daily grind of reading other people's papers, providing peer review, writing grant proposals, and generally interfacing with other humans as a cog in a grand machine. The second is in some sense "easier" than the first. It's a lot more work, takes a lot more time, but it's a relatively straightforward (if often tedious) process that pretty much anyone can do with enough diligence. The first is a lot more fun, can often be done while showering, but is also fraught with risk and dependent on luck. You have to find just the right problem at just the right time under just the right circumstances. You can spend your time slogging, or you can spend your time buying intellectual lottery tickets and hope that lightning strikes, but you can't do both, at least not at at the same time.

The good news is that engaging in the daily slog is often (but not always) good preparation for and improves the odds of having lightning strike. So as a practical matter, that is often a good place to start. You might feel as if you're wasting your time reading everybody else's bullshit papers instead of writing the next Nobel prize winner yourself, but you're not. You're actually an essential part of the process even if you don't end up with the glory. And some day you just might be facing a really hard problem and go, "Wait a minute, this seems kinda like that thing I remember Dr. Arglebargle talking about three years ago, except that he missed this one detail..." and that's when the magic happens.
"... combines the syntax of python with..."

ewww. That already turns me off. python has horrible syntax soup
I would expect the exact nature of the collection to be spelled out in some TOS that users probably clicked through.
Unless I’m misunderstanding, all this code was embedded and hidden inside the obfuscated test files.

None of this would have been visible in commits or diffs at all.
I believe that claim ignores the R&D that is occurring in small companies. The large companies are good at marketing, so they buy small companies that have a hit, and then market it. The large purchase price they pay for the small companies reflects all that R&D that was done by the small companies (including the ones that didn't get a hit and weren't purchased.)
For me, it's not so much JIRA itself, it's having work with control freaks who actively enjoy being an admin of it.

(I can't stand all the modal dialogs and lack of proper Epic -> Feature -> Story -> Task structure, however)
"Here's the problem: Your brain and its cortical columns are designed to conserve energy at all costs."

How does this model explain substance addiction?

'You need to consciously and repetitively seek out "False" signals and embrace the discomfort they bring. You need to construct a new reality.'

Much like the 'why aren't you growing? you need to grow. grow!' sentiment in the beginning this seems more in line with something tumorous than what I'd like to be or become.
But see, there often are more of those "hour or two a month" people. If you have, say, 20 times as many "non power users" as "power users", then "an hour or two a month" times 20 adds up to a significant amount - still less than the "power users", but not negligible.

And that's the problem of a lot of enterprise apps. The UI design is one that makes sense and is efficient for power users, but a large number of regular users use the app too, and the UI design absolutely stinks for them.
CS224W: Machine Learning with Graphs – Notes
I don't personally know anyone who would run any Debian release that's not stable on production systems. On your desktop? Fine. I do it myself. On a server, with ports open to the public Internet that's a big nope.

There's nothing wrong with Debian stable having years-old packages either. In any case:

> The current "stable" distribution of Debian is version 12, codenamed bookworm. It was initially released as version 12.0 on June 10th, 2023 and its latest update, version 12.5, was released on February 10th, 2024.

https://www.debian.org/releases/

That's just over 1 year. Sure, packages themselves will be older than that since they take some time soaking frozen in testing before they become part of stable but that's generally a good thing.

In any case, if there's pressing need for some newer packages, it's always possible to use apt pinning to pull those on top of a stable base.
Joined waitlist, thanks for this info.

Personally, I'm more interested in the ez creation of virtual and temp cards to use for certain subscriptions than anything else.
The problem niver would have been fixed in proprietary software. And it's unlikely the problem would have been considered anything more than a 0.5s startup delay in some situations if xz were proprietary; it would have been reported as a performance issue to the malicious maintainer, who would have treated it as such and improved the startup time.
I’m finishing a phd now and this is very good advice, especially point number 1.

There are a lot of good, technically fascinating ideas out there. Only a subset of those are interesting to other researchers in your field. As an early career researcher, the first priority is finding projects that other people will care about. It’s very very important to find an advisor who knows what others care about. Science is inherently social.
Given the valuation rollercoaster, and the shutterstock acquisition, this is no surprise.
> 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.

I think that's it for most PhD students. Look at recent papers from your advisor (or their co-authors). Once you understand that specialized area well-enough, you should be able to find an epsilon that can be added, or to apply some results to a different use case. A 2-3 papers in somewhat decent conferences should be enough to be able to graduate.

Most people won't solve interesting open problems. They will find questions that nobody has asked before, so they can be the first one to answer it.
Afaik only in some instances, in some they were not paid and informed consent is in all cases quite questionable

edit: I think this is something I wouldn't call informed consent: "Of particular concern was that users as young as 13 were allowed to participate in the program. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal criticized Facebook Research, stating "wiretapping teens is not research, and it should never be permissible. This is yet another astonishing example of Facebook’s complete disregard for data privacy and eagerness to engage in anti-competitive behavior.""[1]

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
"how do you know?"

And that is exactly the question allmost never being asked in (my) school. "No time for it. Here are the facts. Accept it and learn them, we will determine your future on how well you memorized them"

But to be fair, some of my teachers tried this approach as much as possible, but within the whole framework of the curriculum, not much was possible.
Nothing enforces that they don't keep the info or sell it to third parties.

Maybe they disclose it in a privacy policy. Maybe they say they don't, but do it anyway. It would be very hard to prove the negative in this case.
Is It a Good Idea to Respond to Solicitors' Letters Without a Lawyer?