skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What PhD program doesn't require a public defense?

I'm currently a PhD candidate, and our program includes separate written and oral qualifying exams during the first year or two, and a public defense of the dissertation at the end. I thought some minor variation of this was nearly universal.

It's also my observation, by the way, that the public dissertation defense (and even the written dissertation itself) is less of a big deal than outsiders tend to think. What matters is doing the research that the advisor / committee wants, and working on some number of papers that get accepted into workshops / conferences / journals (depending on the field). Everything else seems to be kind of a check-the-box formality. By the time the committee agrees that someone has done enough to defend, it's pretty much a done deal.
iPhone did less than competitors. Ultimately, Math Notes will get copied and sold for less.
We join the excusive club of mass extinction causing species: cyanobacteria, methanogenic microbes, flowers, moss, and trees. And now humans.

Meetups are on Saturdays, flowers bring the honey, trees bring the table.
It's actually survival of the fittest unless you happen to destroy the ecosystem in which you live, in which case you starve to death.
Sure, people can do scams but it will be way more interesting to apply them to finding stuff like this. Up through now, literary treasures and open secrets are sitting out waiting to be recognized.

And why bother with trying to deceive when one could build reputation for creating truly good fan fiction based off real source material.

Just because tech can be used to abuse trust doesn't mean it will be the most interesting and commonly recognized thing to do with it.
Show HN: AI-powered shopping assistant trained on Reddit reviews
Last June I was shopping for a new gaming mouse, and I read around 10 reviews, blogs and watched YouTube videos to make a decision. I thought about all this time spent, and started to build yfind.co, it's still a work in progress, but you can search for whatever product you are shopping for and it'll give you suggestions based on Reddit's threads.

Next step is to add more reviews sources (outside or Reddit) to improve the results

I'd would love for you to try yfind.co and would really appreciate any feedback!
It does, but the general public does not seem to believe anyone can operate it safely enough to allow it in their communities. That position may or may not be supported by facts, but that only matters in countries where politicians don't answer to the electorate.
The person above you teaches higher ed, and yet cannot articulate what you just did. Cheating isn't the problem, the system is.
It's on the AppStore now... you can just download it there.
Same!

Writing code and writing literature are curiously similar. It begins with thinking, both structured and creatively. Breaking a story down into pieces while keeping the bigger picture, and making a plan for how to approach it. Then comes the difficult metamorphosis where abstract ideas/concepts are turned into concrete words/code.

Good literature/code is concise, expressive, even beautiful. It doesn't come about easily, but takes time. The author reshapes and refactors the text until it meets some standard that the author aspires to, often revisiting it days later to read it with fresh eyes. Then it's committed for review, and may still have to be reworked a bit.

I agree with those who say that coding is more art than engineering. At least if you're really good at it.
The Indispensable Opposition (1939) [pdf]
As I wrote in an earlier comment [1], you can take a sample in two parts, and the first part is the only one that needs to do a scan and, even then, if you index your weights (or are using a column store like Parquet), this scan can be very lightweight and ignore everything except the weights and primary keys.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41906816
Yes, that seems like a very big hand-wavy assumption. This paragraph is quite...something:

> Could you use other real-time distance measurements like laser rangefinding or visual processing? I don’t think so – the surface of the vehicle is too irregular to get a reliable fix point, especially while it is moving, and these are vulnerable to smoke/fog/gas/ambient lighting. Technologies like Ultra Wideband are vulnerable to multipath reflections and attenuation by the booster’s steel walls, and aren’t more accurate than RTK anyway.

That is not exactly an exhaustive list of methods to locate an object.

I have no idea whether 0.5 cm precision is feasible or even needed, but this part felt a bit off.
I think because settling for less is just not an option, progress at large would be hindered with a pressure for using less energy, even though it’s the right thing, arguably. Hence demand for more energy itself propels progress and innovation.
I was impressed before. Now I'm doubly impressed after having watched that. Thanks.
I skimmed it but couldn't figure out what "brain endurance training" consists of here. I have heard that multilingual people and musicians never end up with alzheimers, though, so maybe this is an attempt to measure that relationship.
Stairs are great exercise, and a bit too unsafe/unnatural to do in a gym. Requires a lot more coordination than walking.

It's too bad that in most modern buildings, the stairs are only to be used in case of fire, and usually locked from the outside and alarmed.
Meta's Israel Policy Chief tried to suppress pro-Palestinian posts
Grammarly is very different from vanilla spellcheck.
I had to develop an entirely new way of dealing with him in order for it not to affect _my_ health. I literally went to a therapist for a bit to create a plan for working with him.
And canals: https://www.tid.org/current-projects/project-nexus/
It's rather unfair to "first commenters", who got the article up from the pile and left a quick recommendation, to get downvoted by latecomers.

(dartharva's comment was the only thing here when I first looked from the front page)
This resonates with me - I primarily run and lift weights, neither of which require much quick thinking or movement outside of specific patterns. So while it's not my primary focus, I do try to include a few sessions of rock climbing and pickup soccer in my week.

I've definitely noticed an improvement in my ability to "express" the strength/endurance since I started doing that (more agile, coordinated, sense of how to apply force, general feeling of fitness).

In general I feel like novelty in exercise is understudied/appreciated
Yes, body mind connection is a real attribute in sports science. All kinds of exercises help the brain too
The IRS Papers
Stone-Paved Cellars in the Stone Age:Evidence from a Neolithic Subterranean Site
This slow clap thing is a tradition to ask for an encore/bis/repeat at concerts. So I wouldn't be so quick at stating that this is an emergent phenomenon.

But maybe this has become the tradition because when you clap for a long time it would slowly synchronize.

In the video it is quite clear a few people are seeding the synchronisation.
Free market capitalism will save the animals.
Good point. I use llama3.1 for a lot of small tasks and rarely feel like I need to use Claude instead. It’s fine. I’m even running the model a (big) step down from 70b, because I’ve only got 32GB of ram. It’s a solid model that probably costs me next to nothing to run.
I agree its not even close! A single day of YouTube uploads alone is 720,000 hours!
> As a student, the only thing the next institution will see is GPA, school, major. Roughly in that order.

At least for my CS degree, this surprisingly wasn't the case. I remember our freshman class advisor gave a speech that said that grades don't really matter so long as if you pass, but we all laughed and dismissed him. I ended up getting a big tech internship with a ~2.8 GPA and an even better full time job with a ~3.2.

Obviously, your mileage may vary. I graduated in a hot tech market from a prestigious university with a reputation of being difficult. Even so, overall, almost all of my classmates were stressed over grades significantly more than they needed to be.
You misunderstand. It can't be true because if it were, the current situation would be vastly worse than it actually is. Ancient mass extinctions were almost unimaginably terrible. It's not that the current situation is ok.
No, and it would be wrong for it to do so, because you've given it a very explicit set of instructions about what to do: "Give me the value of the byte of memory at the start of x."

To do what you're asking, you'd do something like this:

unsigned char c = (unsigned char)x;

That will give you the low order byte of x. But to do that, on a big endian system, when you've told it to get you the byte at the base address of x, is simply wrong behavior. At least in C. I can't speak to higher level languages since I don't work in them.
There are stairstepper machines in gyms! They're great (IMO one of the best bang for your buck in terms of time and injury risk)
Good that guy is not in India, Otherwise he would be put behind bars for decades or just executed/hanged or encountered without any consequence whatsoever. No burden of proof on government ever.

It seems to me this government is watching too many Akshay Kumar movies and thinking they can get away with eliminating "threats" on foreign soil and be called heroes for doing this.
This kind of (ahem) "business model" has become rampant. We easily call out crypto scams, but the "buy now, I'll finish it whenever" strategy has been rotting away at the core of the internet since Kickstarter became a thing.

I mean, Tim McNamara's course is literally a scam. You paid full price (minus the coupon) for a product that was never delivered (and likely never will be), sold to you based on hype and Twitter clout. What the actual fuck? How many people were defrauded, but were just like "meh, what's a few hundred bucks?"
>Note: These early access boards will not come with onboard GPU support or Ubuntu, but are fully upgradable to support those features with an upcoming software update before year end

Yikes... I'll wait

Source:
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/hf106/sifive-inc
It really annoys me how these tools use so many exclamation marks. Also how they use those "Go...!" at end of paragraphs or end the results with a "personal question" like "What are you favourite [things I asked about]?" as if I had time to chat to something that can't reason.
Right, and if pg writes 8192 bytes every time, this is no longer relevant.
Everyone needs their preferred brand of fear-porn I guess, but this one doesn't work on me. I believe in the ingenuity of Humanity to keep itself alive no matter the environmental challenges.
30,000 hours is about the amount of new video uploaded to YouTube every hour.
I was was wondering what a plankton balloon is. Then I re-read the garden path sentence, and figured out what they mean.
As I have said, some people, including you, are using the word "control" in this wider sense, where it is synonymous with "dependency".

Nevertheless, using "control" with this meaning in any engineering text would be a mistake, because there "control" must be used in its strict sense, to avoid confusions.

In any system there are many dependency relationships, corresponding to all the equations that are applicable to that system, but much fewer control relationships. The control relationships are quite important for the understanding of the system, so they must be identified clearly in a distinct way from other dependencies.

Etymologically, the right sense of "control" is the strict sense, because it has never been applied to a bidirectional relationship like that between the quantities connected by an equation, but it originally referred to a unidirectional relationship, between a dominant party, the controller, and a subordinate entity, the controlled, whose accounts were checked by the controller.

In proper engineering terms it is not the source of power which controls the speed of a motor, but the device that is used to vary the amount of that power. When there is no device to vary the input power, a DC motor works like a transformer, the input voltage is proportional with the output rotational speed and the input current is proportional with the output torque. The input quantities and the output quantities are dependent, so in the wide meaning of "control" you can say equally well that the input electric power is controlled by the output mechanical power or that the output mechanical power is controlled by the input electrical power. However the use of this phrases does not provide any advantage instead of just saying that you have a system of 2 equations that connect the 2 input quantities and the 2 output quantities, so given an appropriate pair of quantities the other 2 are provided by the equations. On the other hand, saying for instance that the motor speed can be controlled by the excitation current of the motor provides useful information by using the word "control", because it is implied that this method of varying the motor speed requires only a small power in comparison with the output power.
> Who knows what ideas will spring forth when there are all these AI-capable data-centers sitting out there on the cheap.

You still have to pay for power to run them. A lot of power. It won't be that cheap.
Can't or didn't? I had a different message to convey. You can't understand that. Or perhaps, you didn't understand that. Can't or didn't?

I reiterate:

But even requiring in person proctored exams is not the full solution. Students are not used to doing the necessary work to learn. They are used to doing the necessary work to pass. And that work is increasingly cheating. It’s a clusterfuck. I have calculus students who don’t know how to work with fractions. If we did truly devise a system that prevents cheating we’ll see that a very high percentage of current college students are not ready to be truly college educated.

K-12 needs to be changed as well.
Maybe most of the guns they confiscate were not brought there intentionally.
Well I guess the theory is that you could go to court, and the court would be reasonable and say "this 1 second look does not fulfill the requirement, you need to actually use human judgement and see what was going on there". Lots of discussions regarding FAANG malicious compliance have shown this is how high courts work in EU. When there is political will.

But if you're a nobody, and can't afford to go to court against Deutsche Bank for example, of course you're SOL. EU has some good parts, but it's still a human government.

It's especially problematic since a good chunk of those "flagged" are actually doing something nefarious, and both courts and government will consider that "mostly works" is a good outcome. One or ten unlucky citizens are just the way the world works, as long as it's not someone with money or power or fame.
Generation, signature, verification, and some more crypto operations are performed with the standard browser Crypto APIs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...).

Storage of the private key is another thing. For a web app it is difficult to acces a hardware-based storage system. So typically it is stored in Localstorage or IndexdedDB, encrypted using a user-provided password. It is possible (but very involved and I have not seen web apps using it) to use WebAuthn for that.
By this point I automatically even read it by that voice. :P
Maybe TuneTracker is still around? I know they ported to Haiku, but not sure if they're still active.
Absolutely right. My mistake. CRPF is riots and all.
No, they don't. We know this already. And failing student on that basis is just a very quick path to losing lawsuits which will shortly eliminate this question as a serious concern.
An in-depth exploration of color meanings across cultures
Hate flying through India. They make TSA look like nice guys. Apparently, you can't carry vapes in carry-on and you can't check them in either due to batteries. So you can't take vapes at all, cigarettes are fine though. I have a two piece vape, so I put the liquid bit in check-in and the bottom battery in carry on. And he still confiscated it. Got into an argument of how it's just a battery and that why stop there; after-all everything can be used to make a bomb. He got mad that I said the b word. I let him have the battery as I didn't want to miss the flight.
When you graduate college all that people see is the degree; unless you go to graduate school and then they will look at grades but will notice many other things much more.

Going from high school to college grades are looked at a bit more, but that's because that, the essay, and the SAT are all they have.
In the NBC article, "crucial tool" is a non-technical phrase by the article writer, it is not the memo. [1]

The EFF article's expressed intent is first, that there's a history that goes beyond the NBC report. Then, that the history shows reports written by various governmental & non-governmental entities that the tools are not effective.

I'm genuinely curious why that felt schizophrenic. ex. to me, even if "crucial tool" was in a government memo, I'm not sure why the EFF would be schizophrenic for disputing that.

[1] "Nearly one-third of the cameras in the Border Patrol’s primary surveillance system along the southern U.S. border are not working, according to an internal agency memo sent in early October, depriving border agents of a crucial tool in combating illegal migrant crossings."
The difference is that in Europe, you apply to take a specific subject at university, like Computer Science, and there are only so many spots available so that effectively caps the class sizes. You don't have a bunch of other people taking the class that are not working on that specific degree.
I'm going to use this line from now on.
Please do not write below the line
It's an opportunity to flex. Public wants it, public loves it.
Citations needed, specifically the claim that bombers act exclusively or primarily in silence.
That depends on the specifics of the commute.
> It is so bizarre that reducing pollution was not a sufficient driver to build more nuclear power, but training AI models is.

It makes more sense when you understand "training AI models" as "greedily pumping up a bubble."
I read the "heated" exchange. And it was heated. But it was more like a reporter grilling the interviewee. "You did xyz. Are you going to do zyx [the opposite]?" And then he calls him to remove this part of the interview. And I don't blame him.

The question was effectively are you going to do the opposite of what you have been doing all along. And that is not a fair question. Instead the interviewee pivots to something they have done (making taxes simpler) in similar line to what the question was asking (lobbying gov't to send a pre-prepared tax bill).

I think they should have deleted the part of the audio, and simply reported on what occurred. We grilled Sasan on pushing gov't to send people an already prepared tax bill, but he deflected to pushing govt to make taxes simpler.
Does the information contained in smell and touch contribute to the acquisition of language? Keep in mind you'd be arguing that people born without a sense of smell take longer to develop language, or are otherwise deficient in it in some way. I'm doubtful. It's certainly tricky to measure full sight / sound vs. text, but luckily we don't have to, because we also have video online, which, surprise surprise, utterly dwarfs 30,000 hours of sight and sound in terms of total information.
That's worse, considering that the control points are a huge distance away. Just flex alone has to be huge.
"Mortified" means "extremely embarrassed". You seem to mean "terrified".
U.S. retailers list AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs – prices range from $484 to $525
> That's kinda nuts how adult people learned to trust some random algorithms in a year or two. They don't know how it works, they cannot explain it, they don't care, it just works. It's magic.

Well, you shouldn’t be so surprised. You just described 95%+ of the population’s approach to any form of technology. And there’s very rarely any discomfort with such ignorance, nor any desire to learn even the basics. It’s very hard to understand for me — some of us just have to know!
haha light on details
No single entity can know what is compromised. Passengers aren't the only thing getting on a plane.
Thanks again for the details!

It seems that the active developers are either in "the group", don't care (because they can get their work done), or care and now suffer the consequences.

And it seems the majority strictly doesn't care. Which is strange, but ... Python is old, and has its conservative-ish status quo, so it kind of makes sense (at least in my interpretation) that most eligible voters basically represent Python's "past" and doesn't really want much to do with its "future" (and present, apparently).

Do core devs lose their vote if they don't contribute for some time? Is there some kind of publish-or-perish thing?
This just seems like a book promo. If I believed the claim of there being so much risk related to AI and Silicon Valley I wouldn't put my book behind a paywall and would instead make it available to read online for free in order to encourage more people to engage and help spread the message.
> It’s unclear if Cutler’s attempts to use Meta’s internal censorship system were successful; the company declined to say what ultimately happened to posts that Cutler flagged. It’s not Cutler’s decision whether flagged content is ultimately censored; another team is responsible for moderation decisions.

> In a statement, spokesperson Dani Lever wrote “who flags a particular piece of content for review is irrelevant because our policies govern what is and isn’t allowed on platform. In fact, the expectation of many teams at Meta, including Public Policy, is to escalate content that might violate our policies when they become aware of it, and they do so across regions and issue areas. Whenever any piece of content is flagged, a separate team of experts then reviews whether it violates our policies.”
Didn't Zuckerberg just apologize a few weeks ago about censorship?
Parsing traditional 2D math notation is super hard problem and this is first public version. Things will get better with time.

But you hit the nail on the head with "narrow undefined subset". Documentation on Math Notes is almost non-existent. There are standards for math notation, so I guess they will announce it when they match parity. Again, too soon.

I agree that capabilities are extremely limited. More than CAS I would like to see native support for differentiable tensors – https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-2
Genuinely depressing. No amount of tax incentives for corporations and the wealthy could possibly be worth this tradeoff. The disproportionate amount of power that a small number of religious zealots have in the United States should worry all of us.
I don't know why you are even arguing here. This is pointless.

But either way, you responded to them first: https://imgur.com/a/Q7nFW8t

Be better at this next time.
Russia paying people to vote against joining EU, Moldova warns
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