skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a former academic (grad student, not professor), and now professional software developer (so exposed to open source), the idea of self-plagiarism irritates me a little bit, because of its vagueness.

Of course, there is such a thing as "self-plagiarism". If you took an entire paper and resubmitted it to a different journal after it was published, that would be unethical. There is a related case that's fine where a book collects previously published papers, but that's done with full disclosure.

However, I also think that large portions of what is published should be reused, and the norms surrounding that reuse are suboptimal. The background section for two papers often should have many sentences or paragraphs that are identical down to the word.[0] I certainly remember some fruitless sessions wondering whether a vocabulary change between two papers was load-bearing or not--encouragine reuse and making it explicit when components were reused would make papers more readable.

In this particular case, I suspect that some of these reviewers were putting out shoddy reviews using copy-paste without thinking about it. But it's also possible some of them had just gotten good at copy-pasting the parts of reviews that are always boilerplate, and the non-repeated parts of their reviews are worthwhile.

[0] The fact that you often skip those sections when reading scientific or mathematical papers is an argument for reuse, not against it. In philosophy, those sections often aren't really skippable, because terminology too often has small idiosyncracies that are introduced early on.
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Ask HN: Quitting my job without another one lined up
Currently planning on quitting my job. I’m feeling really burnt out, but just seeking some feedback on my thoughts. Going to try and see if I can get some unpaid medical leave first, but if that doesn’t work out, I will be planning to give my notice. Trying to find work in the data engineering/analytics space. Switching from back-end development.

Stats for job applications so far:
I have 2 yoe full time, 1 yoe with internships. If counting internships, then I have 3 yoe
So far, I have submitted around 120 applications. I’ve had 8 callbacks, which I think is a pretty good response rate. So far, I usually get one recruiter reaching out to me per month as well. I get stuck on interviewing since I haven’t spent time prepping due to my mental health from work. Resigning would give me more time to focus on applications, studying for interviews, learning skills to transition to analytics, and also a much needed break (I think).

Savings plan:
I’m planning to move back in with my parents which they’ve ok’d, but I have at least 2 years of savings not counting the move back.

Plan if can’t get a job within a year:
Masters specializing in data engineering/science/analytics next fall which would include an internship, currently applying. If I can't get in, I’ll take part time courses, earn an analytics diploma from a local technical college and continue looking for work in the meantime. Timeline would be about 2.5 years for the part time diploma from today, 3 years for masters with an internship from today.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated :)
Oh! I hope I wasn't bemoaning too much -- that was the lead-in, but it's mostly about what I really like about the language (and had some examples but I also didn't want to write a tutorial).
This is like a capacitor discharging. I had always considered this a variant of token bucket with exponential instead of linear decay.
At least for me, it's not just charging time for longer distance driving, it's charger availability. Driving a gas car, I can be pretty confident that as long as I'm not driving through Death Valley, I will be able to easily find numerous places where I just need a credit card and I can fill up.

Electric chargers on the other hand are a festival of incompatibility, unreliability, unexpectedly slow charging, broken chargers, mandatory terrible apps, lack of availability off major roads, etc. Now every trip is like driving a gas car through the middle of rural Australia, where you have to carefully plan your stops and hope nothing goes wrong.

Now I admit all that is getting better, but the experience is still worse than taking a road trip in a gas car. And most importantly, it's something people feel less comfortable relying on. If the only difference was time to fill up, I don't think it would be an issue for a lot of people.
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Seems to be some kind of ad spamming / moderation evasion going on here? Particularly since "Ildarmon" is the same username that owns the GitHub repository. Somebody might want to contact the moderators.

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But you could at least dampen out or randomize eye travel while looking at the keyboard. Fully reproducing eye output is a recipe for disaster, and that should have been obvious.
Every so often in HN comments, one finds pearls like this anecdote. Outside the bubble of usually sterile tech narratives and uniquely, hilariously fascinating. Thanks for that... "dyna-wipe".. made me laugh right out loud.

Also, wouldn't the nitroglycerin that sweated out as you describe have constantly been in danger of spontaneously exploding, even in small quantities?
Agreed, addressing the bully directly allows them to see they are wrong. The HN “just downvote it” is passive aggressive and disincentivizes interaction. It may work well for Apple related threads or other noisy topics to help cut the noise down but you’re still basically telling people to “shut up” which feels bad if you’re on the receiving end. Some people are just emoting even if it’s off-base.

Responding to cruelty with more cruelty, breeds cruelty.
> cards aren’t memorabilia, they’re explicitly made to evade punishment for breaking the law

Sure. What makes that distinction is the action. The problem isn’t police memorabilia, it’s the way these cards are being respected.
Against Prophecy Among the Machines
The scenario here is archiving data like music recordings.

If you have legal troubles that's a different conversation. And the feds can certainly confiscate your physical media anyways.
Kill it with fire.

semantic-whitespace is the worst idea since ideas, or at least since null. Cut and paste, or just moving code blocks around, doesn't work smoothly, there's no way to check the semantics other than the formating, it's difficult to judge the correct indent level many lines away, etc, etc.

Use actual delimiters to signify meaning, then auto-format to demonstrate the semantics are what you expect. A kind of double-entry book-keeping for coding.
Uncomfortable truths are no less a truth when spoken.
Sometimes when I wait for slow tasks to complete I do stuff like:

sleep 900; say "Task X is probably done now"

On Mac this works out of the box, AFAICT Linux has similar commands.

https://ss64.com/mac/say.html

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/gnustep-gui-common/say....
Going to preface this by saying that it's completely uncontroversial that the Kerala school discovered a lot of foundational mathematical concepts independently and in many cases earlier than Europeans, but the evidence for any transmission of those ideas to europe is _extremely_ thin, and you can see the organic development of it mostly within Europe in the textual record after the introduction of Arabic numbers and Arabic mathematical texts to Europe (which of course themselves where _hugely_ influenced by Indian mathematics themselves).

You can of course make the argument that colonialist historians are motivated to erase the contributions of foreign mathemeticians, but the _mathematicians themselves_ were not shy about crediting the influence of arabic philosophers and mathematicians, so it would have to be explained why they were fine with crediting al-Khwārizmī but drew the line at crediting Madhava. If they did have direct access to the works of the Kerala school, they'd have developed Calculus much more quickly, that's for sure.

It's very possible that there was some extremely vague indirect transmission through word of mouth where the source was obscure even to the mathematicians themselves, but I think it's hard to make the argument that "if not for Madhava, calculus would not have been discovered in Europe." There were many scientists and mathematicans all circling around the same problems and several of them solved aspects of it independently at the same time from different directions.

And the idea that _Euler_ only discovered power series with help from Indian mathematics is ridiculous. You can see in his own books and his correspondence with others how he gradually worked them out from first principles over time. There's no mystery as to where it came from. If he had just read about them from a book, he would have used them and not spent several years trying to figure it out.

The development of math in Europe was _absolutely_ dependent on the introduction of Indian mathematical ideas through Arabic texts, though.
As a consultant I have experienced this exact scenario at a government contractor. My team sat in a hotel for a week because the security badges needed to go through some third agency before they could give them to us and we could be physically on the corporate campus.
The average US resident produces about 16 tons of greenhouse gasses a year. A Falcon launch (like this one) produces about 28,000 tons of greenhouse gas. This guy paid to take a ride to space producing 1,700 person-years worth of greenhouse gas emissions or alternatively 6,000 car-years.

I sure hope there was real science going on in the background as I'm kind of done with billionaire space tourism.

Note: Several people have correctly pointed out that my emissions number is wrong. The actual 28,000 figure is in CO2 equivalence not directly in gasses emitted. Clearly some emissions are much worse than CO2.

see: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-rocket-launches-enviro...

"Starship launch produces 76,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (a measure combining different types of greenhouse gases in one unit). That's 2.72 times more emissions than those produced by a single SpaceX Falcon 9 launch"

78,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent / 2.72 is 27,941 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

While I recognize that some celebrities also produce a lot of pollution, I struggle to justify space tourism that produces in 3 days what Taylor Swift produces in 3 years.
On the other hand, the ID series... I don't even have words for how bad it looks

Really? While I'm not a huge fan of the ID 3 or 4, I think both the 5 and especially 7 look OK. Plus the Buzz is pretty cool. I agree that all their ID cars are too expensive though.
I agree that the busy work in todays open world games are mostly boring and not providing any kind of experience. But that's also part of the problem of modern game design. Side content is mostly boring and useless.
> since you can express cycles with hard links

You can't if you only allow hard links to files.
If you can get the math right you can frequently develop a very good system for representing data in RDF and writing SPARQL queries against it. A week of high-quality thinking can save you six months of time developing an alternate query system; the custom query system might be better but it probably won't be. It's easy to make something that is faster for specialized queries but unlikely you can build something that will let you write complex and versatile queries better than SPARQL.

The key though is coining good identifiers, developing a good set of properties, and understanding how datatype properties work and using them well. It's very easy to develop a bad standard like Dublin Core that, unfortunately, perpetuates the bad stereotypes people have of the RDF world.

The SPARQL spec is dense reading

https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql12-query/

but it's a tiny spec. The SQL spec on the other hand is broken up into numerous $200 documents and if you did look at them you'd find it's much much messier. If you felt SPARQL needed something extra it's a good base to work from to develop some kind of SPARQL++ and the same is true with the RDF model. (e.g. add something to every triple to record provenance, for instance)

My two complaints with SPARQL are: (1) there are two official ways to represent ordered collections and a third unofficial one; if you are good at SPARQL you can write queries that can do the obvious things you want to do with ordered collections (like you'd see in JSON query languages like N1QL or AQL) but there ought to be built in functions that just do it, (2) you can write path queries like

?s (ex:motherOf|ex:fatherOf)+ ?o .

which will match ?o being an ancestor of ?s. Sometimes you need to capture the matching path and SPARQL as it is doesn't provide a way to do that.
This is great - thanks for making/sharing it!

I use (and like) Moqups, but the lo-fi nature of Konty is really nice. Seems very easy to use and responsive so far.
When raising funds, the goal should not be to pursue high financing or high valuation. It is more important to combine the actual situation of the company, such as the cost of expenses in the next 18-24 months, and the equity that the team hopes to control.
> the first one to drop acid in space

Seems unlikely we'll ever definitely now, but I suspect that whomever does it next won't be the first (or second, or third).
Gilead's twiceyearly shot cut HIV infections by 96% in trial
I remember way back in February the FTC was already up in arms over Microsoft layoffs post-acquisition. I wonder if there'll be more action on it now.

https://www.polygon.com/24065269/ftc-microsoft-activision-de...
Sometimes you don’t want to share all your data with the largest corporations on the planet.
The Art Of Niwaki (2017)
No, I do the opposite. I keep my speakers muted when developing. I don't want sounds. But then, I'm also one of those weirdos who prefers not to use colors as well (they hinder rather than help me), so it may just be a personality thing.
This ship sailed the day the first HTTP proxy was installed, and likely well before that.
Hard to say exactly what you're dealing with, but you could take a look at Nonviolent Communication.
What do you mean by "economical"?

EV already beats ICE in some dimensions of economy.
Changing the type signature (which, by the way, could be at least in easy cases implicitly deduced by the compiler rather than edited by hand) allows new client code to assume that the result is present.
I'd wait until walking robots are commonplace before discounting our ability to make an efficient one. I don't think I've seen one in person yet.
> why would you restrict yourself to Haskell? It's not bleeding edge any more.

I'm not using Haskell because it's bleeding edge.

I use it because it is advanced enough and practical enough. It's at a good balanced spot now to do practical things while tapping into some of the advances in programming language theory.

The compiler and the build system have gotten a lot more stable over the past several years. The libraries for most production-type activities have gotten a lot more mature.

And I get all of the above plus strong type safety and composability, which helps me maintain applications in a way that I find satisfactory. For someone who aims to be pragmatic with a hint of scholarliness, Haskell is great.
Sure, in theory.

But in practice everybody's data is widely distributed.

So I'm not sure what kind of event you're imagining that would take down one customer's data and no one else's.

It's not an issue. Whereas if you're warehousing all your data in a single physical location, it's vastly more likely for it to be fully destroyed due to a fire/earthquake/flood/etc.
China's cloud-seeding experiment leads to unexpected 76mph storm
An interesting one for me is that living in Texas, there is a punitive tax on registration for EVs, but not plug-in hybrids. It's not terribly significant, but it is worth mentioning. Otherwise, range anxiety is still a factor.
I like Apple Notes for planning
Thanks for this comment, it encouraged me to go and add this to the <head> of my blog.
Here's story as retold by (now retired) SpaceX engine chief Tom Mueller: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/is-spacex-...

> Significantly, the Merlin engines—like roughly 80 percent of the components for Falcon and Dragon, including even the flight computers—are made in-house. That’s something SpaceX didn’t originally set out to do, but was driven to by suppliers’ high prices. Mueller recalls asking a vendor for an estimate on a particular engine valve. “They came back [requesting] like a year and a half in development and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Just way out of whack. And we’re like, ‘No, we need it by this summer, for much, much less money.’ They go, ‘Good luck with that,’ and kind of smirked and left.” Mueller’s people made the valve themselves, and by summer they had qualified it for use with cryogenic propellants.

> “That vendor, they iced us for a couple of months,” Mueller says, “and then they called us back: ‘Hey, we’re willing to do that valve. You guys want to talk about it?’ And we’re like, ‘No, we’re done.’ He goes, ‘What do you mean you’re done?’ ‘We qualified it. We’re done.’ And there was just silence at the end of the line. They were in shock.” That scenario has been repeated to the point where, Mueller says, “we passionately avoid space vendors.”
They eat a lot more meat though. And that's much more CO_2 intensive than grains and legumes.
Why Sierra Space vs Blue Origin ?
Tangential but interesting - see also Sam Miller's idiosyncratic and funny book A Strange Kind of Paradise: India through Foreign Eyes.
Back when I bought such things, SQL Server Enterprise Edition was about $30k per CPU socket, Oracle about $40k.
2 weeks ago, Bruce Wagoner from the Voyager program gave a talk at !!Con about how they recovered from the CMOS memory issue that they had a year ago.

It’s basically blind debugging with a latency of 45 hours.

The talk is amazing and goes through the computer architecture of the spacecraft as well as the challenges of dealing with something that is so old, with so documentation that has conflicting information or unreadable etc.

https://youtu.be/dF_9YcehCZo?si=W_b3NJ7vgxaYS1__
Well you know the old saying. There was only ever one COBOL Program written from scratch. All others were copied from it or other programs decedent from it.
Absolutely not. Cubicle farms are noisy enough as they are. The occasional beep from an ASCII Bel character is more than enough.

I also surprise myself regularly by finding that I'm still wearing noise-cancelling headphones long, long after the Zoom or WebEx has ended. When I take the headphones off, I'm surprised again by how noisy the background is, particularly the howling of the ventilation system.
I love how Bezos' company is never mentioned in these discussions. Seriously, why is he not competing in this space?
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> The space agency, under a fixed price agreement, agreed to pay Boeing $4.2 billion to develop the Starliner spacecraft; SpaceX would receive $2.6 billion for the development of its Crew Dragon vehicle.

> The NASA officials at the press conference said they were confident that Boeing would continue despite losing at least $1.6 billion so far on the fixed-price contract and facing more losses amid investigations into the thruster failures on Starliner's latest flight. But there were no Boeing officials to ask. In the immediate aftermath of the landing, the company issued a short statement that included this noncommittal comment about its plans: "We will review the data and determine the next steps for the program."

From the article, it seems like the implication is that the program is under review from the Boeing side and not the Nasa side.
Ireland is happy to be a tax haven and would like to continue being one - the magic phrase is "put on the green jersey" (and think of the nation's economic interest rather than demand fiscal transparency from Apple)

But the EU isn't happy for Ireland to be one, and has forced it to close its dodgiest schemes as it also did with the Netherlands.

Also, the EU hasn't said Ireland is a tax haven, it said it's a tax "black hole"
Hm.

That is completely true, it doesn't have to be then.

But surely "the summit where they are literally working out the future of windows security" is the best place to report on the future of Windows security? Why do I get the impression you think that makes it inferior?
Which great extinction did humans cause in the past?
What about Roc or Koka? Or simply moving to OCaml? It's looking pretty great after v5, with multicore and effect handlers.
You should totally check out the talk from a few weeks ago that I link to in my other comment. It answers your 3 questions and more.
Really depends on how batteries develop, in my opinion. If we see a jump in energy density and charging speeds that allows e.g. a VW Golf sized car to have a range of 400-500 miles (with larger vehicles with larger batteries being able to go even further), the appeal of hybrids diminishes significantly. That’s a good enough range to close remaining gaps in the NA charger grid and longer than many ICE cars can go without a refill.
It’s literally not.

If an artist born today develops their own style that takes the world by storm in 20years, the image generators of the time (for this thought experiment, imagine we’re using the same image gen techniques as today) would not know about it. They wouldn’t be able to replicate it until they get enough training data on that style.
> as long as we get enough gaze information that can accurately recover the keyboard, then all following keystrokes can be detected

That’s a pretty big assumption. Also, I guess the user has to be stationary - stay in the camera’s field of view and not move their head in a way that would obstruct the image.

Unless this is about intercepting in-device data; but in this case it seems easier to address.
This is a huge deal, I've tried to implement this anywhere I've had any clout and it always saves a ton of time on reviews. Automated lint, formatting and coverage requirements (just not 100%!) cut so much wasted time out of reviews.

Of course, the flip side is organizations that want to go crazy with Sonar/Snyk/etc, where every PR ends up being dragged down by over-opinionated tools.
Shades of the Lotus Notes “Visual Hash”

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/41247/changing-...
Microsoft Lays Off 650 People in Its Gaming Division
It would be cheaper still to commit suicide directly, and less likely to affect other road users.
Is this like forcing a tenant out of a property because you wish to raise the rent?
They were already biased against SpaceX because the government and the parasitical military contractors react violently against any competence that embarrasses them when people inevitably make the comparison. How do you think this makes NASA administrators or Boeing executives feel? The latter had a nice thing going before SpaceX came along, tens billions of dollars guaranteed from the government without having to work too hard.