skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deep irony of praising autodidacticism in lieu of getting a degree is that one has to be a world class autodidact to succeed in a Ph.D program and that a university is stuffed to the brim with resources to support that autodidacticism: libraries, lab facilities, experts, etc. for both graduate and undergraduate studies. And not in just in one field, but dozens and dozens of fields.

A real autodidact would be in seventh heaven at a university. These kids are just trying to put a good face on being "too cool for school".
If your timeline holds, so is the rise of fascism and WW2.
There is still Spark on CBC radio https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark about "technology and culture".
2100 BCE is too early. Yes, some Gilgamesh stories date there. The epic proper is a later redaction of several of those stories.
That's a shame. What a nice Beaver.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4
>clarity of communications

I (native dane) work in robotics. Our company has a disproportionate amount of non-danes employed, who also are not native english speakers. I've been reading and writing english since I was very young, but having almost never spoken it makes face-to-face communication challenging. And not only that, but I encounter colleagues conversing in Hindi, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Greek etc. Any of those conversations is one I'm locked out of, and unable to contribute to. It's really a Tower Of Babel type of situation here. Effective communication is a frustrating chore, especially since we're talking about highly technical subjects. Upper management thinks our diversity is a strength, but I'm just not seeing it from where I'm sitting.

In my next job, this is a situation I will seek to avoid.
Maybe nuclear, material, and other engineering just wasn’t as advanced in the 50s?

They had a 2MW reactor designed to run 20 years that cracked and failed after 10 and went through three cores in that time.

Meanwhile, these days the US hasn’t built a non-nuclear submarine or large aircraft carrier in almost 50 years, and globally we have all sorts of nuclear ships including all sorts of combat ships as well as things like ice breakers. And they’re not all running around irradiating everything wherever they go.

The current French reactor produces 50MW and only needs refueling every 30 years.

Seems like it might be worth another go at this point.
Yes people can come together at their home and gamble as well

It is just the same can’t find any logical argument that makes it different in any post. Feels like everyone is trying to justify it
Beneficiary until proven otherwise. That sounds precise. If you are in poor belief that you really are not the beneficiary, I would take care spending the money!

That is how it always has been.

The tax agency can come back 5 years later and ammend You tax filling.

The same here. You announce who the beneficiary is (the ex girlfriend), someone challenges that, but that does not change the beneficiary until the decision has been made.

I don't really see other ways it could work?

> You're not the thing until proven otherwise, the thing has to be proven in the first place now.

You misunderstand. You are the thing until proven otherwise.
> Simply CMD+D (fonts) and enable anything you want.

Like I said, you can do it. That’s why I said ‘by default’: the defaults clearly show how LaTeX is optimised for high-quality typesetting to a greater extent than Word is.

> My point is the marginal benefit of using Latex to make documents slightly prettier is negligible.

I disagree with this: it’s not just a matter of being ‘slightly prettier’. I will make the claim that, if you care about typography, LaTeX is easier to use than Word. Given the same amount of time and effort, a document created in LaTeX will look better than one made in Word.

For instance, take the paper you linked. You mentioned that, in order to create it in Word, you needed to make ‘lots of Word styles’, etc. etc. By contrast, simply retyping the text into a minimal LaTeX document will result in an output which is as good, if not better. I’m not going to bother wrestling with Word styles and whatnot, if I can create a far better-looking document in LaTeX with less effort.

> The focus of the researcher should be on the content.

And it is, when I use LaTeX. The whole point of LaTeX was always to separate design from content, and I feel it succeeds pretty well in this.
Is it really necessary? I'm not seeing it.
In a different response I actually remarked on how I would never talk down to people who feel unsafe because we can cite all the stats we want in the world, but their feeling secure is very important as well.
Did a sudden reduction in shipping pollution inadvertently stoke global warming?
If you think about it, law is kind of like programming.

When a set of conditions are met, apply a rule.
Creative Commons evaluates EU AI legislation
I was a systems phd, so the amount of math I used in latex, was minimal. In practice, i used very little of latex's features, and what I did, was kept in a small text notes file that I could copy/paste from as needed (i.e. inserting an image / table mostly).
Does asking the HN community not fall into the category of “finding out”?
Sounds like your average compiler.
> LLM agents have become increasingly sophisticated, especially in the realm of cybersecurity. Researchers have shown that LLM agents can exploit real-world vulnerabilities when given a description of the vulnerability and toy capture-the-flag problems. However, these agents still perform poorly on real-world vulnerabilities that are unknown to the agent ahead of time (zero-day vulnerabilities).

Does this perform any better than the million bots that are out there exploiting vulnerabilities without AI?
My ISP forced a switch maybe a year ago or so. Everything broke and I couldn't connect to anything. I had to change the router and I think then my computer (though that doesn't make sense in hindsight, maybe I just needed a reboot) to force v4 again. I'll hold out as long as I can.
There are two Americas, the one that HN folks inhabit and the underclass.

The former is doing great.

The latter has grown and shifted. I grew up in a rural community that was in the process of unraveling from a prosperous farming and light industrial area to a rural slum. There are zero operational farms in that area today. The one I worked for as a teen was in continuous operation since the Dutch colonial period.

That’s an example of why the nihilism of MAGA is so appealing. The world is collapsing around many people.

These issues are caused by demographics and macro trends. The laws have changed to facilitate generational wealth transfer, and that process will change the way the economy works and further fuel unrest. This stuff is unlikely to get fixed in my lifetime.
Americans will swear that Visa and Mastercard earn their transaction fees, but the EU simply mandated them much lower and they were suddenly much lower, and the cards still work here. You don't get rewards, but that's fine, because you're saving that money in fees.
Using pre-release versions absolutely is different
1. Justified text without hyphenation is a quick recipe for very odd-looking uneven spacing, like in your example.

2. The inset used by the headings is jarringly big.

3. The text is too wide for comfortable reading.

4. The fonts used in the body and in the figures don’t match.

Other than that, it’s probably the best-formatted Word document I’ve seen.

I wouldn’t want to use Word, because in my experience even outside of maths its UI is working against me. In particular it’s hard to recreate the same document in two different major versions of Word. The spacing, the sizes are always off. Moreover, I don’t like how formatting is very sticky based on where you position your text cursor. I constantly need to disable styling copied from some text nearby.
Sorry, why would you write 2024? I thought it's the year 5784.
I'm sure there will be other treatments based on AAV and CRISPR. I'm interested in ALS as a relative has it and that stuff is one of the only approaches that might work. The had a go on mice with so so results - lived longer but no cure https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-ther...
Malicious VSCode extensions with installs discovered
Does this mean employees have to renew the contracts? As in, if the employer doesn't renew the contract, does it count as getting fired? Also maybe it's regional, I know that in France contractors are very common but I might have outdated data!
Update: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye
Well, you are required to learn about some largish thing that nobody could teach you because nobody knew.

I don't know if it teaches self-learning, but it surely ensures you know it.
Both can be right. The 8% is per billion years (and I believe the rate has been accelerating slightly over time.)
> It's a shame that TeX the great typesetting system comes with TeX the ungodly complex language

You hit the nail on the head. Brilliant design of the typesetting system, not an ergonomic language.

I think over the next few years Scroll (https://scroll.pub/) will become the language all academics use to publish papers.(Or another markdown like alternative, but ours will be _very_, _very_ good)

You are always in an ergonomic, simple, fun, forgiving high level language (Scroll), but then you can dip down into TeX whenever you want for its beautiful 2D math rendering (thanks to KaTeX library).

We don't have great automatic whole document PDF generation yet (you still have to manually save as PDF from your web browser), but we will get there.

If anyone really wants this please shoot me an email--fun to get more passionate beta users that can help us steer priorities and build something free and great for paper writers all across the globe.
I'm the wrong person to ask, as I'm fairly new to this. This is my first foray into home automation in general, but this platform has a Home Assistant integration that I'm playing around with. But the included base station is what is aggregating all of the data from the sensors and sending it out to the cloud when connected to wifi. HA is able to poll that base station for the data as well, and I think you can do that purely on the local network. You can keep all of the data local to only the base station and not use their cloud service.

I picked this platform because it has a lot of out-of-the-box functionality as I'm just getting started. It looked like I can still play around outside their walled garden as I do more home automation stuff. Beyond the outdoor weather data a site like WU wants, it has sensors for indoor temp and air quality so I can set up some HVAC routines or monitor if my chest freezer for getting too warm. It has a soil moisture sensor and one day I'd like to set up an automatic irrigation system for my garden. I can expand the connected sensors as I think of more things I want to try.

I think I could have accomplished a lot of the same with bare sensors like you're suggesting but I wasn't ready to take that on. That was too much learning curve for me right now.
The vibecession isn't totally wrong, there are a lot of paradoxes you hear when you ask people about how they're doing vs how other people are doing, Paul Krugman has covered this a bit.

The middle class and up is doing well, basically anyone who has mortgage debt and a white collar job. Lower classes were doing well due to pandemic wage gains, but inflation and housing prices have now outpaced those.
Why is Russia accusing its own physicists of treason?
Machine Learning Without Processor: Emergent Learning in Electronic Metamaterial
Big rocket make big CO2, no good.
you are lucky, in addition to the migraines and stuffy nose, sildenafil altered my vision making everything looked blue tinted. I tried a couple other drugs in that class but the migraines never went away.
Neal Stephenson’s book Termination Shock is about geoengineering by burning large amounts of sulfur.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
Follow the github author to this project and you get to https://ruijie-zhu.github.io/ which has in the bio "I am deeply fascinated by large language models and had the privilege to be one of the authors of the RWKV large language model"
The Alchemy of Scale Transformation
Imagine a self-replicating code that is able to find zero-days and spread through the internet, finding niches of Turing-completeness offering compute keeping itself spreading.
If the glacier does not melt it is definitely not a source of drinking water either...
Not true the maximum losses a private utility can generate for the public are unlimited because the losses always get nationalized. The 10% margin is after C suite grift so it’s likely more than 10% you can save. Plus if you are on the hook for losses might as well take the 10%
Yup.

> Economic "models" make assumptions like markets being efficient.

Open markets require rules and referees.

Freedom Markets™ advocates eliminate rules and refs. Because "regulations discourages free enterprise".

The final result are closed markets.

"free market" is doublespeak for winner-takes-all, anti-competition, pro-monopolies, plantation class, and neoliberalism.
I do not have control over stripe's interface sadly
It's very scary I guess.
> If you learn TeX from Knuth’s TeX book

https://visualmatheditor.equatheque.net/doc/texbook.pdf

+1 on this.

That book is fantastic, one of my favorites. It's been a couple of years since I last read it, and your comment reminded me that I should probably skim again.
Yes, product changes should be logged IMO so that customers can access that information. Companies essentially pass off a new product as the old product now, lying to consumers. Capitalism relies on informed customers to target purchases towards the 'best' products; this breaks that ability. VC firms seem to buy well-established companies, reduce the quality and ride them into the ground, destroying a lot of value that has built up over a long time. Rinse-and-repeat and the overall value of products goes down. This is a point for government to require a detailed account of products.

It shouldn't be a mystery whether shrinkflation has occurred it should say it right on the product, and be confirmed in a government verified database.

In the UK it feels more like corrupted consumer protections. I suppose that's a type of failed, but it's not because the consumer protections were bad, it's because they were removed by a government who work for (or just are) the capitalists rather than the demos.
I had this discussion with my law school friends. Laws (programs) are here to solve a problem, and when deciding on a law (programming) you need to account for a lot of edge cases.
100% correct. They even teach this in graduate criminology programs. Stats are only consistently reliable for a narrow range of events.
> With this in mind insurance is a service worth paying for as long as the fee is lower than utility you gain from it.

Why even consider the insurance as investment (money increasing tool)? A stock market would get you higher gains at more controlled risk.

The 3rd best financial advice I got is about insurances: "Pay the insurance only if the negative outcome would cause you a significant financial loss" (and is of relatively high probability)

So, insuring a house from fire etc. makes sense. But, my $2k bike is not worth covering (from my PoV). Or, if we go to extreme, my (unnecessary) motorbike/boat/jet ski as if they are destroyed, I can continue living without them (a bit of exaggerated example, but I hope you get my point). Same for insuring a house from unlikely events.
I have friends who did not go the college degree route and it is very grim.
>The layoffs from mixed reality aren't all that surprising since lots of tech companies thought VR/AR was going to be the next hot thing and then AI popped up instead.

Yeah, to be followed by layoffs from AI when the next-next hot thing comes.
But look, big rocket makes happy! Also ChatAI hallucination big fun for everyone! Not bad time!
I think this is a silent constraining factor of photography. You used to have to do most of the work before you hit the shutter because every shot was expensive both in cash and time. Now you can fire it like a machine gun and dredge through the crap later. This added to the mental investment in the process and the mental investment in the device itself as you felt more connected and decisive.

You can and I do run my digital camera within these rails artificially. It's more fun!

(Edit: just checked my mirrorless - it's at 1875 shutter activations and it has been around the world at least once)
The open source maintainer gonna pay this?
Utilizing basic income to create a sustainable, poverty-free tomorrow
Of course not, but the policies are driven by politics that prevent the market from providing what people want. High housing prices aren't a market failure, they are due to NIMBYism.
OralB Takes Alexa Feature Away from Its Toothbrush 4 Years After Selling Them
Being at university helps but accessing those resources doesn’t necessarily require attending, which is out of reach for many people for many different reasons. When I was in high school I emailed a few professors at my local university (Caltech/MIT/Ivy league tier) and they allowed me to audit graduate level classes, participate in labs and group projects, and sponsored visiting faculty status so I could officially borrow books and lab equipment. Maybe this doesn’t scale if everyone starts pestering professors at research universities, but everyone I’ve met in academia has been extremely receptive to helping autodidacts access university resources without attending. At the coal face of a university, everyone is still dedicated to education afterall.
The text is updated on the website. And it's not next-generation anymore.
One need only download a community based self reporting app like "citizen" to see how much crime really exist.. It's more than you'd like know. Like the previous poster said, not everything is reported.
I developed security software in Python that ran on 100k+ production nodes covering dozens of operating systems. They all had Python.
I think the parent is more concerned about whether the poor company's stock might be in trouble...
> Easy. Shouldn't take long. I billed him up-front for the full cost — a couple of hours of work.

As a 10 year+ veteran remote and onsite tech support admin, I have learned from experience to never trust my own or anyone else's estimates or instincts regarding the ease or alacrity of a job sight-unseen. It's Murphy's law in action. Never, ever take payment upfront, and bill by the hour for support unless you have an ongoing support contract with a known-good client. You can always itemize the bill and prorate/discount the bill post-fix if you think it shouldn't cost as much, and you'll avoid a lot of headaches and heartaches as well as reduce strain on business relations.

If you accept payment upfront pre-fix, you're in the buyer's remorse business, and your clients' frustrations with their problems will spontaneously become frustrations with you before you even get the chance to fix the root cause, because subconsciously in their minds, they paid good money once for the original failure to launch, and now, no thanks to you, they're somehow on the hook for your failure to immediately if not retroactively pull a rabbit out of a hat over the phone or in person.

I repeat - never accept payment upfront - instead, offer free diagnosis/estimates/quotes.

Ask me how I know.
Nothing out-of-the-box that I'm aware of from the manufacturer. But all of the data is stored locally on the base station and you can try putting into a model.
I'm pretty skeptical of the networking with rich people theory. Of course, it happens. But I'm not sure it's a rationale, by itself, to go to Harvard if you can. While I've done business with various people I know in school I can't point to any clear examples where some opportunity came along because of school connections. Professional connections, yes, in pretty much every case. But very little to do with school.
Since you asked: Here's my first novel: "The Undeserving Future" https://a.co/d/aQ1Nn4G which is basically 1984 and Brave New World but for a future dystopia based on eco-totalitarianism instead of Stalinism. It's also got a lot more jokes than those dour books. It has a completely novel economic system that might even work to implement permanent ecological sustainability in a less awful way than central planning everything.

The second novel draft is done and is being edited. It's about AI, Mars Colonization, and how humanity gets past the limits to growth and to the next stage of human history past the one we're currently in and takes place in the same universe as the first book. Here's an excerpt that describes a particularly soft and comfy AI doom: https://open.substack.com/pub/botsfordism/p/the-bot
> you need to look at perception and fix the reasoning behind it.

Many times that perception is shaped by the media we consume, which has no obligation to have any connection to the reality on the ground. At that point whatever is done to improve the reality doesn't have to have any impact on people's perception.
From the perspective of the company/stock market yes.

From the other perspective, 1 fired person is a lot for a family - especially in a bad economy
Really, really great interview...But being from 6 years ago, is there something similar and more recent, about the current state of the Blender ecosystem?
I taught myself the word autodidact.
Unfortunately it’s not hard to imagine that these pressures are going to cause a huge amount of political instability and dramatically increase the odds of catastrophic conflict though.
It is simply easier to take basic written human text and put it into a TSV than a CSV as humans use commas far more than tabs. You can replace a TAB with spaces and keep things legible but replacing a comma in a sentence can literally change the meaning.

Maybe you could wrap everything in quotation marks but that is ugly.
I started to study every piece of Chomsky's work and interviews and reactions on anything and I am amazed of his intelligence.
People say TeX doesn't have good tooling but I can't think of any other language where I can seamlessly intermix circuit diagrams with equations and plots. It's really nice to be able to draw on an axis coordinate system (pgfplots with TikZ), as an example.

The language itself is horrible and the skill floor is too high but the Turing completeness enables a ton of wacky features that would never be allowed in something like Mathematica.
As someone in the job market right now, with 15+ years experience but no degree... This is an unfortunately very visible trend. It's Especially boggling to see a job posting wanting 10+ years of experience but still demanding you provide your GPA.
> pay

For a few API calls?
A curious question, is nasal congestion has any correlation with high blood pressure?
"can help", that's the sentence everyone uses to describe negligible results
> what kind of equipment

Any microphone hooked up to a laptop with a microphone input. Or a phone running some audio spectrogram app.

Getting started is very easy, but then you'll be constantly tempted by better sensors, more sensors, more channels, more analysis...
It’s just a refutation of naive bias towards statistics, which is rampant in big organizations (see the McNamara fallacy). This is codified in the idea of being “data driven”, which is the right thing if your data is a true proxy for the thing you care about; in practice it often isn’t and you have to incorporate some more flimsy or subjective signal to better understand a problem.
I think there are more than enough people with limited domain understanding imagining that AI can do all sorts of things that it won't be able to do any time soon, if ever. There's enough Yudkowskis fabulating the impossible and screaming about it.

The bugs in the paper are largely low complexity issues that have been auto-exploitable by domain-specific programs in the past.

I really wish everything Ai would get a much more sober and less hyperbolic treatment.