skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth remembering that ~2/3 of U.S. students in college are in public colleges and universities, not private ones like Vanderbilt. Prices have gone up there too (especially since state governments subsidize their public universities significantly less than they used to), but they are still pretty good deals given U.S. GDP per capita. In many states they can also be practically free depending on income level and typically provide excellent educations and career opportunities for most students.
We were building SD WAN. There was a brilliant evangelist spinning the story of how we were going to change the world with our new in house product. He listed off the features it would have, and I asked if our customers requested those features. He blew right by my question without even acknowledging me. There was a feeling in the room like I was being obtuse and asking silly questions. The implication was that the smart people in the room all understood why this was going to be big, and I had better keep my mouth shut and try to keep up.

To make sure the project was successful, we contracted the actual work out to BigCorp. I pointed out they were already selling a product in this space - we would be hiring them to build their own competition. No one seemed too worried.

Lots of money, lots of time, lots of progress reports, lots of calls with enthusiastic sales people. Nothing ever resembling a functional product came out of it. When it finally got cancelled I heaved a sigh of relief.
It is not. I don't think it said "if" before, but it certainly doesn't say it now:

> When the marginal cost of each student is probably $20K
Operating systems, and enterprise solutions, are complex ecosystems. You never know what you'll need, and find that a lot of basic stuff doesn't work properly. For example, with 30k people, you know they have graphic designers. Hopefully they don't get forced to learn inkscape and gimp, so they're already out. What about the millions of conferencing applications that people use? Personally, I've had many embarrassing failures with Zoom and Webex on Linux. What if you need to do an external presentation? Hope you don't have any compatibility issues with the projectors(real story T_T). Of course I still wish them luck as I would prefer a Linux based world, but let's not pretend this won't be a bumpy ride.
Same, didn't read any shaming at all here :-)
For affordable long range assassination operations. Make it in clear matte plastic, quiet, low flying, add some obstacle avoidance and facial recognition perhaps. Quite a nasty package under 1500 dollars I bet. Could even be ultra small w poison darts too.
I presume the current transformer is spec'd for a particular range of current/voltage. Would the drone need to assess if the line is a suitable one before (or after) connecting?

Also was a private power line used, or did the university ask the power company for permission before conducting their field tests?
I mean, this isn't adding yet-another-tool. These inspections have existed for years inside of JetBrains IDEs. I feel like this is just an "encyclopedia of inspections." I don't see any other uses for it. They are just providing everything they are testing in the various tools they offer.
It is pretty hard for the rich to opt out of smart TVs.
Apple has this exactly backwards. Their platforms have value because of developers. There’s a reason Apple added an App Store after the app-less first year of the iPhone.

How many people would switch to android, even if they like apple’s design better, if Apple had no apps? It’s just a farcical claim on their part.
right now the loss does not exist. Its a cool experiment. If this was a big thing the drone fleet operators would simply get some kind of legal agreement with the transmission operator. But overall we are talking about really small amounts of energy.
WebAssembly is used in the real world and uses are very diverse. I recommend "An Empirical Study of Real-World WebAssembly Binaries". (The paper is from 2021, and it would be great to get an update, but I guess academia does not reward such work because it is not "novel" even if it is clearly valuable.)

https://www.software-lab.org/publications/www2021.pdf
I haven't heard about this. Can I read more about this somewhere?
Why it's so hard for some people to accept compliments
> Go forces you to think about failure just as much as success

Except, it doesn’t.

Forcing you to at least write boilerplate code for failures might be a nudge to think about them for some people, but it absolutely is not “forcing” you to think about it, and you can absolutely defer it with boilerplate while concentrating on the success path and never actually return to it.
My PhD thesis (ETA: TBA)
When the grippers close they probably close the loops of a coil that wraps around the wire. So it's harvesting the ever changing magnetic field that arises from AC current, independent of voltage. You can still get some power from coils that aren't wrapped around the wire but are still parallel. I think that's how wireless phone chargers work.

You can also take power using a capacitor instead of an inductor, from the changing voltage (not current) in an AC line. Like when you hold a florescent tube vertical under a hi-power line, and it lights up.
Section 702 is expiring at the end of the month but whether or not it gets re-authorized by a bill called RISSA is likely going to the floor of the house NEXT WEEK. IF you care about privacy and surveillance, contact your house member and say you want real surveillance and fisa and 702 reform, and that they should only vote for RISSA if three good amendments from the judiciary committee pass, and three bad ammendments from the intellegence committee fail.

The good judiciary ammendments would: requiring fbi obtain a warrant before querying 702 data, close data broker loophole, prohibit restarting "abouts" collection. All good things.

Intel committee ammendments are really bad. expands the definition of Foreign Intelligence Information to include counternarcotics, Unnecessarily expands suspicionless vetting of immigrants, including people allready in in the United States, and Includes one of the biggest expansions of surveillance in recent history, or what Rep. Lofgren calls "Patriot Act 2.0," by expanding the categories of businesses that can be subject to a *gagged directive* under Section 702

This has been an incredibly annoying issue to track and mobilize around because things are moving quickly and behind the scenes but just raising the issue helps. Even if you think your house rep sucks on everything else, its worthwhile to reach out on this issue. Its hard to know where people stand when folks from trump-land and the squad are both calling for reform.
Yes and:

These years later, while the innovator's dilemma thesis describes what, there's still little treatment of why and how.

I keep wanting someone to account for the roles of investment and finance.

Amazon's innovation was lower cost of capital. They convinced investors to wait for returns. And they got a massive tax holiday. (How could they not succeed?)

Ditto Tesla, with its saavy moves like govt loans, prepurchases, tax incentives, and selling direct.

That cheap capital was necessary, but not sufficient. Both still had to create products customers wanted.

I keep coming back to Apple. How'd Apple avoid the trap? Despite their terrible position. My guess is better financial strategy (if that's the right phrase). Apple focused on margins (and monosophony) instead of market share. And then leveraged their war chest to implement monosphony.
But they don't try to "buck the system" just for the sake of it.

Overcoming process inertia is profoundly expensive and often demoralizing to teams. The project budget for a new system is often pitched as vendor price plus some internal oversight, but this fails to represent the cost of the project exactly because adapting the workflow of a whole division or organization inevitavly costs some multiple of that budget while vendors, consultants, and internal spearheaders all pretend it's negligible.

You're right, ultimately, that failure to adapt is the final damning issue in many of these projects but the root cause of the failure is often that nobody sincerely quantified just how costly and disruptive it will be.
Very much so. Also Michael Scott. This was a period of my life when I wanted to like The Office, but it was just too realistic for me.
I'm surprised at the number of commenters here that are blind, or commenters who work with someone who is blind. Maybe this is more common than I thought, and that's awesome. Goes to show that we should try to make accessibility more than just an afterthought.
Not sure this answers your question but Harvard does make a profit (technically an operating surplus as they are not a for profit) which they then reinvest. Although technically it might not seem like a profit motive I can see how a lot of this money might find it's way into the pockets of the administration of the university (although I'm no expert on this - presenting this as a personal view, not a fact)

Https://finance.harvard.edu/financial-overview

"The University ended fiscal year 2023 with an operating surplus of $186 million compared to $406 million in fiscal year 2022, on an operating revenue base that increased 5% or $262 million, to $6.1 billion. The reduced surplus was not unexpected and was driven primarily by expenses associated with renewed return to campus activity and strategic investments in our workforce, with increased compensation for faculty and staff, a decrease in vacancy rates, and overall growth in new workers across campus."
Kodak did fine in the transition to digital. They made some popular compact cameras and tried to make DSLRs. They were wiped out by compact cameras being killed by smartphones. The survivors are the old camera makers like Canon and Nikon that have ecosystems. The other big survivor is Sony, which bought a camera company and makes most of camera sensors.

Fuji is interesting, they weren't that successful in first digital cameras, but now have some interesting mirrorless ones. They still make film.
The whole point of corporations is that they are organized to do things (leaving good or bad out of it) that a person cannot do
… thanks GPT
It's hard to be a scientist and to be authentic in our current grant-funding race.
I know I'm doing something wrong, but trying to programmatically figure out errors in golang always seems to rely on knowledge of a magic string in the error and I find it frustrating
10,000% respect for anyone able to develop or work productivility and being blind. I lost the use of my dominant right for a few months three years ago, so difficult to adapt even for a few months. Respect!
Probably because RustRover is still in preview.

https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/
It's more about the details left out really. I lived in LA area for ~5 years, and 1 tornado. In one Tornado Alley storm system, you can get multiple twisters. There's of course more than one storm system per season. It's also just weird knowing that for a tornado to hit places like Santa Monica and the knowledge that tornadoes usually travel southwest to northeast, and that there is no more land west of Santa Monica, that they are going to form as waterspouts. That's just unusual for typical experience for Tornado Alley folks.

Just another example of how one person's typical experience with storms can still be unusual when experience some place else.

Sure, my original comment was very ambiguous about what I've just posted, but that's how the tangent worked in my mind.
Right, it's like Photoshop shilling itself as "over 1bn builds!"

Well obviously, it's probably actually infinite number of things you can do with it. That... should not really be a selling point.
> Why do we tolerate behavior from corporations that we would absolutely despise if a person did it?

I don't see how an individual trading these data would be more or less despicable to the parties involved.
In case you‘re into audiobooks, I suggest to check out Bookcamp too. I guess Plexamp works for that as well, but Bookcamp is just like Audible in a way.
You could write a web browser that supports ROMs as script source.

<script type="application/snes" src="…"/>

;)
Very interesting article and it was interesting to see his desk without a display and mouse.

I posted a long and very moving story the other day about a software developer who was getting blind on an eye in six hours.
https://elye-project.medium.com/i-became-blind-within-6-hour...

It made me think about how much time we spend in front of screens these days and that eyesight can't be taken for granted.

This article was a nice contrast describing the possibilities to do work as a blind developer.
I have had this job before.

You have two choices.

1. Start a side gig. Be busy at work make extra money.

2. Work on open source. Find a project you like or want to work on and do that.

PS: set up a home lab and learn to love SSH tunnels.
In data-driven product development, they use A/B experiments to determine if a new feature will improve some key metric in the long run and also will not impair other key metrics. Several teams may run tens of experiments at the same time. In mature products, 80%-90% of these experiments' outcomes are zero or negative and their code is wiped out to keep the codebase unclogged.

When I was working in such a company, I warned people in the interview that most likely 80% of the code they write will be thrown away. It is surprisingly hard to cope with.
[dupe] why wasting our time OP?

Lots of earlier discussion on the official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928173
> We shouldn't look at a school charging $400k and say "well you'll make more than that so it's a good deal." We should look at what you're actually getting. A cinder block dorm, mass-produced assembly line food, a professor making $80k a year telling you to write a paper on a book that's in the public domain. None of that is worth $400k.

If passing this exercise in docility gives you the mentioned 2 million USD over life: why not?
yeah... a lot of ink has been spilled over there should be a Warrent requirement for the FBI but imo the data broker loophole is the bigger issue. NSA buys netflow data in bulk for petes sake.
Demo shows 502 for me and Readme in repo was not clear enough for me on what kind of output should be shown
It's not at full capacity yet, they are pumping into it daily (around 200 million gallons) until it is. Only spruce run reservoir upstream of it fills naturally (and is spilling currently).

Operations data for the reservoir updates every morning during workdays, so we'll know Monday if they paused pumping into it after the quakes, I don't have any better than daily numbers for it. Letting the water down isn't an option, most of the downstream gauges on the south branch were just at or near flood stage. River gauges available here: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/index.php?wfo=phi
Historically the justification for limiting the use of JIT compilers is for security reasons, which does actually stack up.

JIT compilers are one of few use cases where an application absolutely needs the ability to write data to memory, mark that memory region as executable, and then execute the op codes in that memory region. On iOS, other than Safari, no application, either built in or installed via the App Store is allowed to change memory permissions from writable to executable, and that acts as a cornerstone in iOS application sandboxing.

Now there’s perfectly good argument that the security argument doesn’t really stack up anymore, given that sandboxing technologies have progressed a lot, and it should be possible to properly sandbox a JIT compiler or similar. But there’s no denying the fact that removing the ability for an application to execute arbitrary created op codes is a very good way to completely eradication a huge surface area for exploits. Especially when such restrictions are paired with static scanning of binaries before signing (which happens when any binary is produced for iOS, via Apples signing service).

All of that is to say, there is a possible world where ROM are transpiled for iOS devices (using something like Rosetta), and loaded as signed binaries via emulation wrappers. But at point you’re basically having to create your own App Store, and sign a new app for each transpiled ROM.

In short, it doesn’t seem likely we’ll see JIT powered emulators on iOS anytime soon, and, at least in this specific instance, Apple has a legitimate security reason for restricting their usage.
This article doesn't mention brain drain.
This is also related to M$ providing windoze source to China, in order for china to be able to implement their own encryption (allowing gov backdoor).

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/china-to-view-window...

In addition ot governments' concern for security, I'm am amazed that corps happily use s/w tools that routinely exfiltrate data. This includes gmail, outlook, teams, ST's CubeIDE, cloud storage and many many more.

If you were a company that was a majotr competitor to M$, would you be OK hosting your executive strategy meetings on a M$ or Goggle meeting platform? When the EULA says they can mine your meeting?

And offering these tools in schools (where "free" licenses are provided) only locks the next generation of users, including s/w engineering students, into the M$ platform. It's basically tax payer funded M$ training. I'm shocked (shocked I say) at the number of young s/w engineers I work with who are hopeless outside of a windows desktop.

As you mention, I also certainly hope that the current conversion away from M$ will sustain, and influence other agencies and companies to migrate away...
I spent much of 2023 writing the code for our company to implement the changes in the new version of this standards document:

https://www.frc.org.uk/library/standards-codes-policy/actuar...

As far as getting paid to write code in our industry goes, it was quite enjoyable. Most of the code was totally new and not particularly tightly coupled with the rest of the system, so the challenges were in understanding the subtleties of the requirements and coming up with a clean and performant design rather than fighting legacy code.

Touch wood, I've done a reasonable job. We got it done a couple of months before it was required and a full dry run with our entire customer base only found one pretty subtle edge case that I'd missed.

So we get to keep our license to look after billions of pounds of customers retirement savings, which is kinda important, and because I worked on this other developers got to work on stuff that actually helps our customers (which is important for our customers, and ensuring that our business retains and expands said customer base).

However, the new version of the regulations, while written with the laudable intention of providing people with more accurate and unbiased information about how much money they will have on retirement, achieve nothing of the sort. It just replaces one set of assumptions that are wrong on some edge cases, with another set of assumptions that are wrong on a different set of edge cases, in some cases arguably wrong in worse ways. Nor does it address the real weaknesses in these statements.

And across the industry, there are literally dozens of companies who had developers who spent similar amounts of time to me implementing this new standard, for no benefit of any of their customers that I can discern either.
Interesting. Google is going to shit these days.
> The efficiency of such tools is mostly just a matter of familiarity.

That is just not true. Think of making that statement about any software - is the efficiency of all software roughly equal?

> I struggle to think of them needing to be aware of one another.

IT administrators have an order of magnitude less time than you seem to imagine, and an order of magnitude more systems and subsystems and components to manage than you imagine: It's not that they can't copy files and run commands, it's that they don't have time to learn to do that, manage it (including documenting procedures, changes, etc.), and implementing it for every action for every application on every system. It's not like your personal computers - the magnitude makes it a different thing entirely.

The application needs to provide a management component that integrates with the admin's system management tool, just like your new railcar needs to integrate with the train tracks. Now if your railcar is really valuable, the train company might adapt it themselves, and IT admins do that, but it's a real cost. (OK, the railcar analogy is a bit of an exaggeration, but not as much as you think.)
I'm sorry to say this, but I think you're going to be laid off at some point.
IIRC, that was Socrates' complaint to Phaedrus about writing: that reading (because it was "high tech" at the time?) led only to an illusion of understanding.

Elsewhere Phaedrus echoes with a very modern complaint (even though search engines wouldn't arrive for another 2'300 years): They would say in reply that he is a madman or a pedant who fancies that he is a physician because he has read something in a book, or has stumbled on a prescription or two, although he has no real understanding of the art of medicine.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1636/1636-h/1636-h.htm
At Caltech, students from families making $90K or below, will receive a no loan financial aid package (package will consist of grants and work-study).[0]

[0] https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/afford
Bookcamp has fairly negative reviews on the App Store.

Have you had issues with it?
HTML5-qrcode – open-source, cross platform HTML5 QR code reader
Samsung and other TVs already show ads on the Home Screen so this is just the other market players catching up.

Dumb TVs are also getting more expensive since Samsung and other TV manufacturers are subsidizing their cost by pitching the ads they can push down the line as they boil the frog.
The "go to market" story for DNSCurve involves it solving some of the problems DoH solves (see "Why DNSCurve" under "For DNS Users" on Bernstein's page). It's had minimal adoption over 15 years, and the case for it has weakened, not improved, since then.
only 5000 or so trials, easy
I can see the logic of administrators wanting to spend money on their own remuneration, but why should they care about building new buildings?
> China ... economically is in the same league as Europe.

Not at all; on a per capita level Europeans are far richer and more productive.
> article doesn't mention brain drain

It does, indirectly, both ways: in Islam's golden age, scholars flocked to its capitals.
I’m about 10mi from the epicenter and noticed most of the aftershocks today. What’s interesting is there was a 2.2 a couple weeks ago at the same area and I thought I noticed it, but didn’t look it up at the time thinking it was just a truck nearby.
I find Google isn't so good anymore for finding things by title; rather than being a search engine they are slowly becoming more like a politician answering reporters' questions, in that instead of returning results based on the terms I asked for, they insist on returning results for the terms they believe I should have asked for.
I’ve had good results in the past by fine tuning YOLO for image classification and object detection within images, you can find a rough guide here on how to create a good training dataset and such [0] [1]

YMMV though, ultimately accuracy is going to depend on the quality of the labelled data and your use case

There might be models better suited to your specific needs too, but ultimately you’re always going to need the training dataset

[0]: https://labelstud.io/blog/getting-started-with-image-classif...

[1]: https://docs.ultralytics.com/tasks/classify/