skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and to add to this, I think also the longer you stay in the industry, the more you realize that the industry itself has intractable problems (at least on the scale at which you can effect change). The tension is whether or not to accept those problems or leave the industry.

Unfortunately, I also think that many of the problems are both simultaneously solvable and intractable at the same time, which is particularly crazy making if one is so inclined.
Women are about 46% of the labor force.
Matt Levine is doing a podcast now
Gulp v5 released
The "historical borders" argument explicitly ignores anything that happened after the greatest extent of the borders. See also: Ukraine.
> I meant that some people will become very good at distinguishing AI vocals

Until it becomes impossible which seems to be the trajectory here, no?
Just this morning, I spent over an hour trying to fix things after I made a git mistake. I ended up having to check out a fresh copy and manually reapply my changes.

This sort of thing is why I both fear and hate git.

I'll have to check this game out. My flawed abstractions clearly cause me issues. Maybe it could help.
If the industry doesn't self-regulate (ie, following conventional rules and basic human courtesy) ... then it will be regulated by laws.

So let me fix what you said for you:

> Robots.txt isn't a legal document, yet.
Just to be clear, I don't mean to say that I don't reply to anybody, ever. Far from it. I enjoy a good conversation - *so long as it's some combination of productive, interesting, polite, professional, etc.*. I was trying to say that I'm more willing now to not reply when it's a response that is clearly just trying to start an argument for the sake of starting an argument, or somebody who is rude / disrespectful / etc.

I reply to people all the time, especially on HN where the S/N ratio tends to be a bit higher.
Look to your left. Look to your right.

Both of those people are working for a foreign government.

At least one of them does not know it.

Trust no one.
Ask HN: Best Approch for Leetcode?
hi, i would like to pass some interview, (also a in a faang could be cool), but i dont know the good approch. should i learn / study algorithms and Ds and meanwhile make leetcode exercise ? or should start grind leetcode, and in the meanwhile learn step by step, also looking the solution? i have a degree in cs, so i already learn basic ds and algo, but not for pass an interview
I stayed there for a week and can confirm it was a great time. There are a surprising amount of activities and tourist destinations within reach without the busyness that you often find at touristy destinations.
Which users asked for devs to focus on developing a telemetry system (vs developing the app they bought)?
OJ Simpson Dead at 76
> also be doable in 3 years

I would like to add more color to this. 3 year PhD is very possible for a motivated individual at, what I'll call, the low end of R1 universities. That doesn't mean you cannot do good research (the OP is a counterexample) but that there is a fundamental difference between the program that the OP went to and top-tier universities. Think Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, etc.

It is normally pretty easy to distinguish these programs because they focus a lot on the course requirements and that the thesis counts as a course. From the OP's institution, you can see that the course load is at least 15 courses and I would not be surprised if some students do 20 [1]. These programs are more or less an advanced undergraduate with a real independent research project that spans multiple years. Conversely, top-tier universities typically operate under the "publish 3 things and you have satisfied the thesis requirements". This cannot be explicitly written and this is normally difficult to ascertain online. For example, Harvard has similar requirements [2] but you can still find it for some departments [3]. The Catch-22 with this is that someone who can publish 3 things in 3 years can publish 6 things (or more) in 5 years which will greatly increase their academic job prospects. Thus, at top-tier universities, even the best students stay for 5 years at a minimum to start working the job market. You need to be at Dantzig's level to finish at a top-tier in 3 years [4]. To summarize, if you want to finish a PhD in 3 years, look for course-heavy programs and don't expect to get hired into academia.

Edit: I see the OP commented somewhere else that they published 3 papers. The OP is obviously a standout but I think most people have to be realistic that very few areas of research allow for publications in your first year PhD. For example, if you are doing research in LLMs, you are looking at a couple of years just to be brought up to speed.

[1] - https://catalog.louisville.edu/graduate/programs-study/docto...

[2] - https://seas.harvard.edu/office-academic-programs/graduate-p...

[3] - https://www.math.harvard.edu/graduate/graduate-program-timel...

[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig
Putin routinely frames the decisions of his "weak" predecessors as unjust and in need of repair. Hence his justification of the invasion of Ukraine leans heavily on an ideological foundation that Lenin and Krushchev (and probably Gorbachev->Yeltsin) are to blame for its very existence.

He ranted at length about Lenin in his speech on the eve of the invasion, and the talking point that "Crimea isn't Ukrainian it was a gift to them in the Kruschev era!" is all over the place, even by western sympathisers^Wuseful idiots.

I imagine he could frame the Alaska scenario in a similar way, though I doubt he'd actually go that far.

It's a "might makes right" philosophy. Those predecessors were "wrong" because they were weak, and a strong Russia is "right" or will make things "right" through its inherent superiority.
not even academic or journalistic "research"; they're a think tankie: https://www.bismarckanalysis.com/#/

(I wonder if there's a jealousy problem here: academics and journalists are both trained in wading through lots of Sturgeon's law to find the good stuff, but think tank analysts are competing with each other to carry out the DDoSing?)
Zeromq will have changed a lot since then, but some time in the 2010s, I prototyped a system using it (which was going to be a major production system in a large tech company) and had weird unexpected blocking issues with it. To debug, I sat down to read a bunch of the zeromq code, just to realize that it was using assert() to handle wire protocol errors (unrelated to the blocking bug).

I've never dropped a piece of software as quickly as that.
Thanks for sharing! Looks like the documentary is available on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/322890808
I don't disagree with the article - enjoyed it. The 5th Solvay is somewhat of an outlier: majority of the folks in the famous photo were Nobel laureates or laureates to be, which must be some sort of record.

Unfortunately, everything is held back by the en(bull)shitification cycle we're in, not just academe. This seems to be an area where LLMs will make a big difference: what we think now is a flood will turn out to be the receding tide before the tsunami.
Show HN: I created a *social network* like those of 2010 for *nostalgic people
Remove any unwanted thing from your pictures
Mixtral 7x8b was way better than llama2 70b and used less RAM and compute at the same time. This model is way better than llama.

In fact I would go as far as saying llama2 isn’t that good compared to some of the most recent models.
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-pentagons-silicon-va...

If they actually worked, that is.
Baffling. This really is like buying a billboard with your phone number on it, along with text that reads "contact me!!" and then getting upset that you're getting phone calls.

The whole point of associating an encryption key with your email address on a public keyserver is so that you get encrypted mail!
Follow Your ADHD Flow
https://archive.is/H6z6Z
Unfortunately a lot of developers are conditioned so heavily to believe that inheritance is intrinsically bad, that they contort their code into an unreadable mess just to re-implement something that could have been trivial to do with inheritance.

I'm not saying that I like it everywhere; IMHO it's a tool to be used sparingly and not with deep hierarchies. But it's not reasonable to avoid it 100% of the time because we're soiling ourselves over the thought of possibly encountering the diamond problem.
> A simple solution would be giving lesser trusted devices only access to lower security keys.

That puts the burden of the decision of picking the right security level on the sender though, right? I don't see that ever becoming a thing.
When I learned programming as a teenager, I was using one of the C++ classics which, of course, taught OOP and Inheritance as a magic silver bullet.

When I then finished the book and its examples, I wanted to do my own exercises and went through about 1-2 very painful years trying to model my things using Inheritance and totally blamed myself for being too stupid to do software development.

Only then I started searching and finding essays and blog posts of people criticizing OOP and esp. Inheritance for exactly the things I was struggling with. This felt like a relief!

My question: Why is Inheritance still taught as a silver bullet? I'm seeing university courses using Inheritance both for Domain and infrastructural code reuse at the same time. Esp. in Germany I see a lot of stupid 90s alike "programming" courses and, no shit, according code bases. It's as if they were living in a gigantic bubble.
I used OpenCL a little in 2015. AMD's implementation seemed pretty good, whereas nVidia's was significantly behind. It didn't support OpenCL 1.2, iirc.
I'm not terribly convinced that software engineering is harder on someone mental health than being a doctor, lawyer, sales, engineer, professional athlete, teacher, or any other white collar profession is.

All of these have their specific stressors, all of these professions have loads of articles about how people are leaving these professions due to how hard they are.

All of these jobs tend to lead to them consuming your free time if you don't set boundaries, all have deadlines that lead to stress.

>You cannot take a sick day by telling your team, “I have mental issues and need a day off.”

This hurt me to read on behalf of the OP.

I'm now 20 years into my career and never once have I come across this attitude. People take sick days all the time for mental health. I feel terribly for this person that they felt like they couldn't but this is far and away the exception rather than the rule.

Has any company come out against mental health in the past 20 years?
This doesn't make any sense. All filenames were uppercase in DOS so having README in uppercase wouldn't distinguish it visually.
It's the right direction of course but the concurrent release with Harvard sort of opens them up to antitrust probe tbh. Clearly the admission offices are all synchronizing policy in backchannels (or frontchannels).
That's an aspiration, not a guarantee.
Source?

Quick Google turns up ~89% from Statistia:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187127/number-of-occupat...
It also doesn't mean that it isn't way better than the local tap water in many, many places.

People don't buy bottled water that tastes bad, and it's pretty likely to taste worse than your local water if it's worse for you than your local water.
Apple is malicious, but Facebook is totally okay?
My situation is different than a lot of others--I work mostly with code-bases I 100% control--but I just don't use inheritance all that often, and if I do, it's never deeper than one or two levels. Now, I do most of my programming in Python and in JavaScript, and I do like using python's ABCs to specify interfaces for interfaces that I expect to be implemented, but that's mostly the end of it.
Fsck Microsoft: I run a legal copy of Win 10 Pro under Linux on a VM and once that's unsupported I'll delete it and move on.
My next question would be "What do your immediate relatives and friends do, or what are they involved with?"
Why would a college student be an interesting target simply for being a college student in an interesting field? If they work at an interesting company or something like that I would understand, but the knowledge that is accessible in colleges is not some super secret stuff or am I missing something?
a) I think they have in a lot of ways, that are maybe not super flashy. Vertex AI offers more API/functionality/product than anyone else, by a mile. I think in a year or two this might be more important than the quality of model (not that the model won't have to be good, but all of them will be good enough to solve most peoples business problems)

b) Gemini 1.5 Pro public preview with 1 mio tokens is out now (including API access). Has anyone benchmarked it?
You think? All the closing announcements I've seen were "we've reached the end of our incredible journey, we're proud to have served our users but your data is gone tomorrow. Good luck!".

Meanwhile, I never find out what the thing even does.
I've only had a chance to listen to the beginning of it, but I share their disgust with the NYT article [1]. In any other field, journalists feel responsible for simplifying and explaining. Professionals in science, law, or medicine are often critical of these explanations, because the journalists' understanding of the relevant background material is often flawed, and the simplifications either ignore crucial distinctions or get the facts wrong. But they are at least trying, because the journalists understand that it's their responsibility to explain the issues at hand to the audience; that's the point. Instead, here we see a sort of flip shrug, with a "geek stuff, amirite?" wink. Obviously, there's a limit to the amount of technical detail a general-interest article can include, but it needn't deliver its elisions with a smirk, and I can't imagine any other subject area the NYT would approach that way.

My brother, who is not in IT, sent me the article a few days ago. He was fascinated by the underlying story but frustrated with the article's tone and lack of explanation, so I'm confident this isn't just me suffering from a bout of Gell-Mann amnesia.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/technology/prevent-cybera...
For all those who intend to visit Pompeii: Rick Steves has a free narrated (in English) tour in one of his apps. Really worth it.
It's Lisp. I suspect there is no copy of the source code, they've just kept adding to the running program.

Just kidding but that does sound like a fun art project to see how complex you could get...
The problems aren't patents. The alternative to patents are company secrets, which are much less conductive to innovation.

The point of a patent is that a company can share something without it being immediately used by their competition, who didn't have to do the RnD, and now obviously can undercut them.

The problem is that the patent system is largely gamed and exists to a significant extent to drag your opponents and random companies into multi million dollar lawsuits over the most flimsy excuse of a research result.
I claim the README convention came from Unix.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40003251.
Most of these SaaS's have a "firehose" that if you are big enough (aka, can handle the firehose), can subscribe to. These are like RSS feeds on crack for their entire SaaS.

- https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise...

- https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/firehose/
Lynch is good. But comparing him to Kubrick is like chalk and cheese
What's the antitrust angle? SAT and ACT are administered by different companies, right? Do Caltech or Harvard have some sort of stake in either of them?
Related ongoing thread:

Harvard will require test scores for admission again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40003251 - April 2024 (110 comments)

Also related. Others?

Socioeconomic status and the relationship between the SAT and GPA (2009) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39694012 - March 2024 (70 comments)

UT Austin Reinstates Standardized Test Scores in Admissions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677364 - March 2024 (3 comments)

Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467434 - Feb 2024 (233 comments)

Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39263106 - Feb 2024 (416 comments)

The misguided war on the SAT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38901976 - Jan 2024 (21 comments)

Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028562 - March 2023 (652 comments)

Colleges that ditched admission tests find it harder to fairly choose students - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33298336 - Oct 2022 (573 comments)

Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592885 - Dec 2021 (485 comments)

UC slams the door on standardized admissions tests, nixing any SAT alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29282174 - Nov 2021 (215 comments)

University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23266209 - May 2020 (367 comments)

MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions decisions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22638764 - March 2020 (453 comments)

Record number of colleges drop SAT/ACT admissions requirement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21297868 - Oct 2019 (153 comments)
Sane defaults are the bomb. Defused bomb.
Daiso is great in the US, although they've raised prices from $1.25 to $1.75. Still a far better value than Dollar Tree and the like.
No, no, no. The emperor signed a long-term lease, not a sale. The lease expired in 1999. The US owes Russia 25 years of rent, in addition to Alaska.

I'm kidding, of course. But reality has never gotten in the way of these kinds of claims...
Can AI disrupt the industry of posting about how AI will disrupt things?
Ask HN: Looking for tech city without hayfever risk in May/June
Hi,

I'm allergic to grass pollen, and it has its season in May and June in Europe. So this year I want to try to escape Europe and to not get exposed to pollen. For this reason, I've been looking for places that:

- Have a nice tech scene

- No pollen in the air in May and June

- Affordable

- Safe

- the closer to Europe, the better

The best I could find for now was:

- Iceland (bit cold lol)

- Capetown (do they have a big enough tech scene)?

- Canary Islands (I don't want to be a beach tourist)

What other options are there? Also: Have you already done this, and what was your experience? Does this plan generally work?
(Full disclosure, I have a science PhD)

> the number of awarded PhDs is larger, and therefore the number of Nobel prizes awarded per PhD is lower [..] I don't know what that tells about an average PhD vs average PhD then or 'standards of the field'.

I don't think it's about Nobel prizes per PhD, the article mentions neither the word 'Nobel' nor 'prize'.

> "From 1900-1999, the U.S.’s production of academic doctorates increased a hundredfold, while its population increased by 3.5 times—that is, almost thirty times more PhDs per capita"

That's the issue: Why are we dishing out far more PhDs - and I'm guessing also all other types of academic qualification - per capita than we were before?

Hypothesis #1: We're all getting smarter!

Hypothesis #2: The value of the qualification is dropping...

In the immortal words of so many professors: "discuss" ...
Scientific literacy is at an all-time low (or rather it's being leveraged at an all -time high), with Reddit and TikTok regurgitating "Study finds .. " articles without linking the study nor doing due diligence on the results. The amount of non-reproducible studies on child development, child attachment are wreaking havoc on well-meaning parents being influenced by group think.

For example, the APA does a pretty good job posting recommendations and citing sources. Those sources often lead back to studies with ~2k data points, often meta-analysis or in a single area, or from a past era that is no longer relevant.

The recommendation that mothers must exclusively breastfeed for at least 6 months is built on many studies that seem rather small or homogenous, and yet this recommendation is treated as if it is a prescription that must be followed. Try bringing up this nuanced argument with an exhausted mother who is "failing" to breastfeed a starving baby.
I explored FBG sensors early on and they are very cool -- I was aiming for a less expensive and more robotics-oriented application. Something that can be seamlessly integrated into a design at a lower level without the complexity of FBG technology.
Sure, words certainly have meaning, but that meaning is constantly evolving and even differs from person to person.

For the common person and the common definition and use of the two words, they are very much interchangeable. The common person might not even notice the change in words because the generally used definitions of both are common enough.
Kubernetes is not the point
At the end of the day, you want the data. Sure, it's much more convenient to get the data from a device, but if you had to get it somewhere else, the data is obtainable.
A government that stoops to civil rights crimes but doesn't attach a good percentage of its fear to student movements is kind of oblivious to history as it pertains to its own miserable survival.
If my web browser's extension "visits" the site and dumps it into ChatGPT for me to read its summarization of the site, what has been gained by the website operator?
The region in question (Gyeongsang-do, split into two provinces in modern South Korean administration) was also the home ground of the Kingdom of Silla, which was arguably the first polity that unified the Korean peninsula, almost 1400 years ago. It shows how sticky these things can be.
Yes, but that still doesn't grant you permission to yell at people using it as originally intended. And whatever the "modern" usage for PGP may be, the purpose of keyservers still remain the same: publishing keys for others to use, or discovering them.
I realize that, but can you help me see why that's relevant here? The question as I understood it was BPP?=P, and I read that as "Do all problems that seem hard but have randomized algorithms actually live in P?" for which a counter example would be an NP-Hard problem with good randomized solution, right?
+1 I spent most of my childhood and teenage years feeling depressed due to traumatic experiences. I failed at mostly everything until I started programming. I took some mushrooms last year that helped me stop this constant cycle of repeating thoughts.
> If you're going to pitch something as a game, it needs voice.

Why? The majority of the games I have don't include voice.
This rant is not worthy of the front page of HN.

Its all, "Make Science Great Again" "because believe you me, back in the day things were great"; now not so much. Some are good, but its hard to know, cuz but most are lying stupid rats, coming over, looking to bilk you."

Nope. Not buying the outrage.
This was implicit as an intent in the public statement of Ek, Spotifys CEO, when he said that they're not gonna ban AI-generated music per se (and there already is plenty on Spotify).

Somehow this nudged me a bit when I switched to YTM, although the bundle with YT background playback on iOS was probably the bigger nudge.
There's plenty of AI-generated music on YouTube as well, but for the moment their recommendation algorithm and catalogue is just better for me.

For now, it also doesn't seem to suggest me any AI-generated music whenever I use autoplay or suggestions.

I'm not falling for the illusion that this won't change though.