skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The thought isn't particularly new, but it's nice to see the myriad examples compiled like this.
> phd students love doing supervisions, they literally queue up around the block for the teaching experience and the tax free cash

Maybe they have no choice and are being exploited. PhD students current and former that I've spoken to definitely think they are being exploited.

As examples, look at the comments from actual PhD students and postdocs on this page.
A quick reminder: If you are on the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc), you can follow people on BlueSky and vice versa using Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/).

I personally haven't tried it - if people know any interesting folks to follow who are on Bluesky and not Fediverse, please post their profile!

Also, some people on Mastodon are/were very much against this bridge. I believe the author made some effort to make changes to appease them. So don't be surprised if you see articles from 5 months ago attacking it.
None of this has anything to do with technology itself, though. All tools used by humans will be put to the purposes that those humans bear.

The positive power we were attributing to the technology itself back in the '90s was really just the expression of the intentions and worldviews of the people who were using it back then, which was a self-selected and decisively non-representative sample of humanity.

After a couple of decades of tech usage expanding more and more broadly, we've seen a regression to the mean that puts Eternal September to shame, and we've discovered that the mean really is quite mean.

A lot of people disillusioned by this are unfortunately not disillusioned enough, and instead of taking things to their logical conclusion (that utopianism applied to the world at large is not just unattainable, but destructive, and improvement only comes from fostering a great plurality of local contexts so that at least some of them can diverge positively from the global mean) they want to transfer their utopian aspirations to some other global project.

Unfortunately, that other project is often politics, and if you think that failed utopianism in the tech world has had a bad result, just wait until you see the level of havoc that failed utopianism in the political sphere can wreak! Well, we don't have to wait for it -- the past hundred years of history provide copious evidence.
Thanks.

I don't know how much the internet changed or I changed. Finding some niche forums on Prodigy (so not even the internet) and talking to a small group of people felt a lot different than just going to reddit and finding a forum for whatever random thing I'm looking up.
I think it would be very __impactful__, but it is not really useful for humanity, rather opposite.
The only part of that that applies to my friends is living in the US. Programming pays well just about anywhere for that area even if the absolute numbers are less extreme.

I also don’t mean early retirement. Still, combine minimal schooling, high demand, reasonable pay, and the basic financial literacy of working with complex systems adds up over time.
Niche forums and gaming communities? HN? They've grown up, some have become braiwashed by corporate culture, some have wives, kids, dogs, cats, mortgages.
this tbh.

the only reason crime and punishment isnt a short story (which it was planned to be) is that dostoyevsky lost a lot of money drinking and gambling.

so he stretched it out every way he could conseivably do so, as he was paid by content length
Here in France, we have strict laws, and on-calls MUST be paid in some form or another. When we were bought by a US company, mgmt tried to set up on-call shifts for us - we had never needed them for the 10 years prior -, until they learnt of labor laws and went "fuck it, you're on call mon-fri, 10am - 6pm". I'm forty, have a family, and no amount of money could justify that I can't shutoff my phone at night, or prevent from going on a walk on weekends because "uptime". I've never been so glad of french worker protections.
They really need to just kick him out of tree. Quit playing games with him and put bcachefs out of tree where it belongs.
The fact that you have to take a pay cut, rather than find another employer at the current level, is evidence that the original salary was well above-market
I feel like you aren't reading this in context? It's important the author address the obvious reply, and they clearly state those efforts are not enough.
DoE is the department of energy. The department of education is ED.

I laughed out loud when I saw that McMahon was his pick. A fucking wrestling star for the department of education. This is Idiocracy.

Also I laughed because otherwise the fear takes over.
I released VizTracer v1.0.0 after 4 years
In a way it kind of exists, you have Gopher and Gemini. The main links I know of.

gopher://sdf.org

gemini://sdf.org and gemini://gem.sdf.org

I already moved my personal WEB Site there, and there is interesting content there. Maybe "we" should migrate there and leave the LOL cats to the WEB :)
> They picked the most (…) the most AI-like human images

Why do you think so? I didn't see that explicitly claimed in the post (or did I miss it?)
The article is talking about full-on lectureships, for example, this part-time role, initially advertised as full-time, according to the article:

>> One of Oxford’s top colleges, Christ Church, which had an income of £42.6m in 2022-23, is currently advertising a stipendiary lectureship in modern European history for £15,244 to £16,983.

For comparison, 15-16k was the range of my PhD stipend at Imperial College London between 2017-22 (I never got a clear answer what it was supposed to be exactly, from the admin, so I had to estimate it from my monthly pay, which fluctuated). It always stayed below minimum wage (so I didn't have to repay my undergard tuition fee loan). That's normal for PhD stipends, but it really shouldn't be for a lectureship.

I believe what you're thinking of is TA work: "marking lab reports or programming assessments". I did some of that, during my PhD. I don't remember the pay rate but it was less than minimum wage and the jobs were part-time and didn't last for more than a semester obviously. That kind of job is, indeed, ideal when you're looking for "a little side income", but a lectureship is supposed to be your main line job, not a side hustle.
That's entirely my point? You can turn Slack off. You can't turn off the coworker who constantly comes to your desk to interrupt your thoughts.
My bosses already don’t believe I need to collaborate closely with my coworkers in person, or they wouldn’t have shifted three quarters of my team’s headcount offshore.

The sole content of the RTO “collaboration” controversy as applied to these big global companies is whether it’s better to join Zoom calls from your desk in an open office, or from home. The answer to that is obvious to anyone who’s tried it.

Tech offices only work to the extent that everyone in them is wearing noise canceling headphones all the time - a technological simulation of not being there.
I encourage you to listen to the 4 part series Elon Musk Unmasked [1] from Tech won't save us.
His motivations are definitely not for the betterment of the average person.

[1] - https://techwontsave.us/episode/189_elon_musk_unmasked_origi...
The Next AI Battle: Who Can Get the Most Nvidia Chips in One Place
Adopting an existing well-established style guide is a good way to make these sorts of questions go away. https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
If the fox jumps northeast preferentially prey facing that way will see the fox more often. There is some equilibrium here I can't calculate but that was the thinking behind my joke.
he bought full and entire control of America for measly $44bn, likely will be viewed later in history as the greatest investment ever made :)

he didnt buy twitter to make money off it, he bought it to control the masses and swing election - mission accomplished
Or something against neoliberalism.
How do u get better at problem solving? Leetcode?
>Why?

Because it's waters down the massive suffering of people living under these dictators had to endure. Musk may not be a good guy by modern ethical standards, but he never caused millions to die or suffer like Mussolini so please lay off comparisons for which you don't understand the historical context.

You basically show you have no idea what you're talking about with such gross comparisons.
USA household energy use by home building type
I lived with three of them, they loved doing them
I think you may find that any project has no proven benefit before that benefit is achieved. Your argument is an argument against doing anything at all.

If you wish to argue there is a risk of global scale damage, then you should demonstrate the risk. I'm not arguing against avoiding risk. I'm arguing against assuming risk and conflating high risk and low risk forms.

What energy production would you find satisfactory? What is unsatisfactory.

Attacking power-point presentations, mail text and funny cat pictures as the cause of people having to leave their homes is assuming undue impact of a small subset of behaviour. What is the actual impact of the behaviour you are criticizing? Is it insignificant in comparison to the resources predicting the path of a hurricane? I assume you would consider that a more worthy cause.
That’s about an earlier engine. Quite different.

(Regarding the original question, yes, of course there are sequence numbers. The “recommended readings” at the bottom of the page are worthwhile.)
> I was a bit annoyed that it singled out Oxford

Oxford singles itself out as elite, thus "good to be able to put 'Lecturer at Oxford' on it [the CV]!". They are being held to that standard.
Fishtank Live Web Developer Interview (Exclusive) [video]
The "Bad" is just a playful endearment, not an attempt to establish a definitive collection. Discarded as they were, van Gogh's or Kafka's works could have just as easily been part of this... had they been found behind dumpsters or at flea markets in the Boston area.
No, this is way too small and close for that.
For https://www.checkbot.io/, I did posts on reddit, hackernews, producthunt and directory websites, and also put time into writing relevant articles that I can post links to. After the initial effort, organic backlinks and Google traffic have built up over time. Its search rank within the Chrome store is pretty good too, guessing large numbers of positive reviews helps here.

Feels like there's a lot of luck involved here as the search algorithms could change whenever, but building up good backlinks and reviews is going to help.
Why Naming Variables Can Distinguish a Good Programmer from a Bad One
The only reason in many cases other search engines are 'better' at spam is the lack of attention given to it for SEO optimization. It is in many ways akin to saying Macs don't get viruses; rest assured, there are, and as Macs become more prevalent in the business sector for office use, there will be a huge incentive to accelerate it even more.
Bugatti and McLaren are in the same league as Mercedes?

Mercedes has always been the car for the middle class to aim for to show you made it, if that was the kind of thing that was important to you. Sure they also serve the upper class, but then again Volkswagen has Audi for that. And I'd be surprised if sales of the expensive models made the lions share, but I have to check.

But at least in my bubble I see even folks with money turn away from these kind of cars. It's like the car is losing its role as a status symbol.
Some nerds got it. See Richard Stallman. The GPL is based on the inherent badness of mankind and finding ways to protect against it.

Some nerds were autocrats and sleazebags but they just needed to gain dominance for those traits to appear.
Well, maybe it's because I'm Californian. I don't think I'd call myself an insider, I never worked at Google and I'm from Sacramento (which felt painfully un-cool back then!). And the Google I'm talking about would be staffed by Gen X'ers/Xennials at the time mostly - Someone who's 25 in 2001 was born in 1976.

I don't think an embrace of cyberpunk ideas, whatever those are, was entirely mainstream, but the idea that the world was opening up, the internet interpreted censorship as damage and routed around it, and it would help bring down dictatorships, was definitely in the ether.
And the huge corporations lobbying to outlaw import of reasonable cars..
When’s the last time a junior engineer was hired at a US tech office? Onboarding hasn’t been a thing for us in the Bay Area since ZIRP.
An OCI base image of Fedora CoreOS with batteries included
How can you be so certain it hasn't landed on YOU?

After all I mentioned that corruption has gotten better and you responded with a cookie cutter response about authoritarianism, which is not necessarily the same as corruption.

You've basically eaten Russian talking points and regurgitated them wholesale without even stopping to critically think about context.
Then contest the development of nuclear power plants, not the generation of electricity in general.
Then some sessions get a shitty link and others get a better link. Your bandwidth may go up for a benchmark of a lot of concurrent sessions but your latency will be random and all over the place.

Doing it at the packet level in theory gives you the ability to exploit the aggregate bandwidth for any session but as OP noted you still have all the latency problems and middleboxes getting in the way.

QUIC by the way solves the middlebox problem and you could put individual QUIC streams on separate connections to solve the head of line blocking that can appear but I feel like that’s closer to the TCP session thing where you only benefit the use cases that set up multiple streams. HTTP3 where this does happen may not benefit though because bandwidth tends to not be a problem if your rich enough to afford multiple links in the first place (ie more latency sensitive). This could be useful in places if you build a custom end to end solution for video streaming where you put the time-sensitive parts of the video on the lowest latency link and let the rest of the video buffer across all links. It’s a very niche use case though and not worth the effort I think.
Tiny anecdote: I worked on the campus of a children's hospital. The pharma reps had parking right by the main entrance. The parents of sick children? Expensive, paid parking a mile away.
The fact that radial coordinate is timelike inside the event horizon doesn't change when you change coordinate systems. The radial direction remains timelike in kruskal coordinates. Direction being space like or time like is independent of coordinate system.
> it's influence of the entire industry for it's own profit

I continue to be fascinated by how easy people priorities profit over doing the right thing. Sometimes they don't even stand to personally gain all that much, they do it for the benefit of some soulless company.

If you aren't actively making things worse for the general public I'll even let the sole focus on profit slide, but how can you justify to yourself going out and actively causing suffering.

Things like pensions are frequently refusing to invest in weapons manufacturers, because of the harm their products do, but why? At least they are honest about what they do and they can justify it.
> Whereas CoC-driven development risks leading to a chilling effect where you no longer constructively argue about stuff, let alone in a passionate manner (that, admittedly, risks going the wrong side of the fence on occasion), and just let shit pile up

Based on what data?
I don’t believe the Dead Internet theory, but I can see how people got there.
Admissions know his name and the name of the school, which helps find specific students.

It’s easy to miss, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes up as “Hingham High School Harris” brings up the relevant info. Further, his parents suing may be a larger issue for a college than his behavior.
It would seem that what was put into the report is clearly wrong (in this case from generative AI, but regardless of where it came from, it would still be wrong), so it is still legitimate to mark those parts as wrong. There are other things too which can be called wrong, whether or not the use of this generative AI is permitted (and it probably makes sense to not permit it in the way that it was used in this instance), so there are many reasons why it should be marked wrong.

However, if the punishment is excessively severe, then the punishment would be wrong.
As someone who grew up poor the idea that tech would automate the unpleasant work carried with it the obvious point of who would pay me for the pleasant work and without money how would I survive. So a tech utopia like that described by the author would require at least a Star Trek level of communism which to me always seemed incredibly unrealistic. The post might as well be ‘I wanted techno communism and didn’t get it.’

Technology is treating me well and I hope that continues to be true for a long time. I mainly worry about the sociopolitical consequences of the mass disenfranchisement of the middle classes but the middle class is so folded in on itself that it’ll likely disappear in with a whimper and we’ll end up with a 3rd world level of inequality. While not as nice as more egalitarian societies they do largely continue to function with a surprising degree of stability.
Some of the comments in here are all in on "I'm going to take half the money to work remote and not have a commute" but were apparently not on board with "I'm going to spend more of that double-salary to live close" which is a contradiction I find interesting.

(Obviously not everyone could choose to live closer without driving up the prices even more in the short-term, but the value of money-vs-commute compared to money-vs-remote doesn't seem directly comparable to many people.)
Rest in peace Marshall
Not a good example anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/google-cracks-down-o...
After a high intensity job with a short, city commute, I moved away and had a new job with an ~hour, drive commute. For a few years, that drive was amazing for being able to mentally prepare and decompress from work. It made it so easy to leave work at work and there was a long separation between them. I really needed that at that time.
Product Management Is Dead?
AI isn't killing product management - it's eliminating the busywork. While document creation becomes trivial, the strategic work of connecting today's activities to customers' desired future becomes more crucial than ever. This "death" might just birth something better.
For example in NYC, population peaked in 1950s around 8M, went down to 7M by the 80s. Losing 12% of your population can make housing pretty affordable. Population started increasing in the 90s, re-crossing 8M around 2000... and ~9M today.

If one wants to be really pedantic, a lot of that growth was in outer boroughs that were relatively sparse in the early/mid 1900s.

Manhattan is still below its peak population of ~2.3M in the early 1900s. Fortunately we don't have overcrowded tenement housing anymore. Manhattan population was about 2M in 1950 and bottomed around 1.4M in 1980s.. so a 30% draw, and is now at about 1.7M.
Maybe not in rich countries, but internet and smartphones in poorer countries were definitely viewed in a very positive light.

Specifically, "Digital Inclusion" was a term I remember from before smartphones became popular, and how important it was to get everyone on board. Well, smartphones were what brought internet to them, and this progress was celebrated.

With Social Media it was a bit more complicated, as it only became accessible to the general population of poorer countries at the same time it started receiving criticism internationally. They don't remember Myspace.

(EDIT: Maybe you're talking about the article in general, but the paragraph the text you quoted comes from is about smartphones, social media and internet)
NASA SC24: NASA-GPT: Searching the Entire NASA Technical Reports Server Using AI
Yep, noticed the same. I and others have pressured executives to give exact argumentation with data and motivation.

All 7 of those people (in 3 different contracts) have failed to do so. At one point they said a variation of "because I say so" and that was that.

A lot of more liberal-leaning people don't understand the power-play games that many of the people on top love to play. One could argue some of them long stopped being there for the money and only do it for the power-play, even.
It depends on what kind of academic work you're looking for, right? If you're going for a teaching career, then yes, of course you need to have some teaching experience. If you're after a research career, e.g. a research fellowship like the ones from the Leverhulme Trust or the Royal Society of Engineering, then you really do need an astounding publication record and I don't reckon that having any teaching experience is going to help you with that.

Not least because in academia, either you teach, or you do research. You can't do both.

>> Teaching is a great filter. It makes sure they stay up-to-date, they are technically good and they take pride in their research field.

If that's your experience, that must be something that depends on the field of research and we must be in different fields. In CS, teaching is indeed a good filter- in the sense that it separates the teachers from the researchers. I have the direct experience of my PI, who has not done a day of research after becoming a lecturer. Because there is no time. Teaching takes so much admin work that there's no time left for research. I mean any above-junior academic position takes too much admin work, but teaching really gets the cookie. My experience so far has been that senior academics who still take an active role in research find ways to avoid teaching like the plague. Although you can't really escape it. You'll at least mark some papers in your subject, whether you like it or not (and with TA-ing from PhDs or not).
I think the throwaway actually raises the valid point about the rule being an exceedingly broad catchall. The type primed for selective and weaponized enforcement.

That said, the kids are clearly defenseless in this situation, for blatant plagiarism as well as just being just being factually incorrect in their report.
This is a great write up, and one that hits home for me.

When I was younger, in my teen years (~2014-2020), I imagined the future only to be better than it was right now. The technology would only keep getting better. People would use the internet (especially social media) and become cleverer, less xenophobic, and more open to all kinds of cultures. We all would be getting richer, quality of life would only increase, no more wars, yadda yadda. It was so obvious that liberal democracy is the only right way forward, the pinnacle.

(when I say "we" I refer to the collective West)

I'm quite disappointed with how so many things are turning to shit right now. I know, I know, what I wrote above probably sounds like "the end of history", which has been recalled even by its originator by now. Nostalgia probably also plays an important role – things are much simpler when you're not an adult.

But still, we had a good thing. We had it all.

I keep hoping we will get back on track.
Just wait and see what he'll do to the federal workers, before he gets to screw up Mars for good. Maybe replace them with AI, since that's the current hype train. Think of full self driving but for government.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/24303594/elon-musk-haras...
Some of the most bullying behavior I have seen online is by nerds, sometimes nerds old enough to have come out of the 1990s internet. It’s not only that non-nerd bullies, too, got access to the internet, it is that modern society (both outside social factors, as well as internet-related developments like the rise of microblogging that doesn’t encourage nuance and rewards partisan performativity) can lead nerds to act harmfully.