skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking here specifically about how to solve the problem of academic fraud- not how to solve the problem of treating trainees more fairly. That's an important problem also, but not what my comments were addressing. Still, I'll share my thoughts on that also.

In my lab I voluntarily pay competitive industry level salaries- I pay solid 6 figures to postdocs, usually about 2x what other labs pay. I often pay my trainees more than I make myself, and I often only hire one person on a grant that most people would fund a whole lab on.

It's a gamble, but it seems I get more skilled people that stay longer, and can actually afford to live, which works better than having a few more people that are all super stressed and looking for a better job. So far, it's payed off for me, and I would recommend it to other academics.

Second, very few of my postdocs and grad students actually want low paying academic jobs. Most want to join the biotech startup scene, where they'll make a lot more than what they'd make as an academic, and the demand for people with their skills far exceeds the supply. I am giving them the training they need to actually get those jobs, and succeed at them while paying very well in the process. I talk with them about what they actually want- and I make sure it happens for them to the best of my abilities.

When I was a grad student/postdoc, I really wanted to become a PI, and was worried it was a ponzi scheme because so few people ended up doing so. But when I was actually a postdoc, I realized most of my fellow postdocs were highly competitive for faculty positions, but still choosing not to do them by choice. Many were even receiving academic offers and turning them down for industry offers with much higher salaries. I was even co-recruited to a tenure track position, along with a respected colleague I was really hoping to work together with for decades- his co-acceptance of the offers was a big reason I chose this institution. About a week into his academic job, he got an 'offer you cannot refuse' from a startup and left on the spot.

But overall, my situation is someone unusual- mostly because my field is currently in extremely high industry demand. There are indeed a lot of grad students and postdocs making pennies, and with no real job prospects beyond a tiny shot at a faculty job.
Oh come on; "Jack the sound barrier; bring the noise."... That still rocks, or slaps, or whatever.

And you can't tell me you don't shiver if someone says "I'm sure he'll listen to reason.."
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies to LLMs as well!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Exploring FinceptTerminal (OSS) with DeepSeek R1—looks promising for AI-driven trading. Curious about its strategy performance, execution speed, and risk management. How well does it handle real-time data and regulatory compliance? Would love to see benchmarks or live market results!
> Not to mention it saves a TON of time.

Depends on your workflow. I looked at the projects GitHub and I'm confused where the lazy part comes from. The UX seems more complex than just plain git which is much simpler for me. But I rarely do anything other than checkout, add, commit and rebase. And most of them are aliased co for checkout, ci for commit, etc and the rest are tab completed. Starting a TUI and navigating menus would be a waste of time for me.
Foreign aid is never the kind of altruistic giving you and I might do. There is always a quid pro quo.
This one?

https://github.com/pypy/pypy
A professional workflow for translation using LLMs
I find it interesting that GPT-3 was available as an API for more than a year without generating this much excitement.

It wasn't until chatgpt was released that we fully grasped the potential of AI, leading to a surge in innovation every week.

Regardless of any criticisms, it's undeniable that OpenAi played a significant role in accelerating the progress and acceptance of AI in our daily lives.
Maybe this would make sense if you saw the whole world as "kids" that you had to protect. As an adult who lives in an adult world, I would like adults to have access to metal tools and not just foam ones.
Agreed! I just read some of the story of his life told by his friend. Mark sounds like he was a top notch human.
I once worked on a janky, held-together-with-duct-tape-and-bubblegum distributed app written in Microsoft Access. Yes, Microsoft Access for everything, no central server, no Oracle, no Postgres. Data was shared between client and server by HTTP downloads of zipped-up Access .mdb files which got merged into the clients' main database.

The main architect of the app told me, "Before we came along, they wer doing all this with Excel spreadsheets. This is a vast improvement!"
> There's no ethical consumption under capitalism

I've seen this catchphrase thrown around a lot online, but I've never seen anyone explain how consumption becomes any more ethical under any other system without leading to other systemic problems

"Consume less" seems to imply that any consumption is unethical by default. If that's the case, then the only way to consume ethically is by minimizing consumption

This seems like a reasonable stance, but it leads to other problems. Who gets to decide how much is enough?

If each individual decides for themselves, then we clearly have a problem because some people will never be satisfied. If everyone lets them continue, then they will hoard resources for themselves. This is sort of the situation we're already in

However, if we have the group (community, society, country, whatever) decide "how much is enough", then we have to have a group mechanism for making that decision, like a council, or government department

Then we need another group mechanism to enforce it, police, courts, etc. "Ethical consumption" becomes very authoritarian very quickly

If the idea is "We could have ethical consumption if people would just consume less" then you don't even have a starting point because "people will never just

So feel free to consume less if you think that's more ethical. That's what I try and do, myself. But I know that I cannot simply expect others to do the same, and I also don't really have any interest in policing how much others are allowed to have
DeepSeek o1 o3-mini coding test experiment results [video]
Business and technical analysis of DeepSeek's entire R&D history with extrapolations:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67a0d59b-d020-8001-bb88-dc9869d52b...
we are looking for active contributors.
There are things people can't do by themselves and instead must rely on government, police for instance.

There are things people can already do by themselves, give money to association that helps people in need is one of them.

Imo that's what differentiate gouvernement budgets, taxpayer money shouldn't be used on things they can already do themselves if so they decide.
They serve different use cases. The function JIT pattern being a manual opt in it can be much more aggressive by only supporting restricted language patterns rather than... the entire thing. They can also use bespoke annotations for better codegen e.g. you can tell numba to only codegen for i32 -> i32 -> i32, rather than lazily codegen for any a -> b -> c.
What's wild to me is Stephenson nailed this potential threat back in 1995. There's a tight couple paragraphs in Diamond Age that rather presciently detailed the shit outcomes expected from a fractured media landscape.
Almost all space opera is positive, not depressing. In case you are into that.
Yeah. Honestly, I think Redis is very often overused and likely makes stuff slower.

If your application is only running on one computer, and especially if it's only running in one process, you will likely get better performance using a big ol' thread-safe hashmap that's global/singleton. You pay basically no latency cost, no (de)serialization costs, and the code is likely going to be simpler.

I've seen people who seem to think that just inserting stuff into Redis will somehow automatically make their code better, only for the code to actually become slower because of network latency.

I've also seen people use Redis as a way to have global variables because it's too hard to figure out how to scope stuff correctly.
OpenAI response to DeepSeek: o3-mini reasoning model
It's interesting how we're sorta circling back to these concepts with drones today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog
I know Sam says AGI is close, but has he ever actually said that it will "probably happen by the end of the year"? I don't follow his pronouncements very closely, but I don't recall noticing him actually going that far.
> Before my son was born, I struggled with the question of how much time to take off. Obviously, taking a month off would be fine. But if one month is okay, why not two? Why not four? Why not a year?

I resonate with this. I didn't feel this nonchalant i.r.t. time when my first 2 were born, but I did feel this way when my 3rd was born back in Nov. I questioned a lot why I work so much, and felt like I've been missing things with my other kids that I shouldn't have been missing, even though I only work 9-5 most days, and I see them any time I go grab a snack or grab coffee, or when they randomly burst into my office to ask me to come check out a magna-tile tower they made. Somehow I still felt like I had been missing out on precious time with my littles, and it was hard to want to go back to work.

But I think it depends on your financial stability at the time, because even though I was running the same business when all 3 were born, I only very recently felt stable enough to not have to work. I still remember the intense stress of feeling like I had to go back to work with the 2nd -- which was around the time I quit my job to go full-time.

I admit, I failed my wife during that 2nd time because I went back to work too early after he was born, and I would learn years later that she felt very abandoned. This time, with the 3rd, I was able to take over 8 weeks off (closer to 10 if we're counting sick time).
> The US is the country that was defeated in one day of fighting against Hezbollah, and that has invaded Canada... four times and lost? I forget.

With regards to Hezbollah, there wasn't really a strategic reason to actually fight Hezbollah.

The war of 1812 was actually between the UK and the US and their troop numbers were comparable. Very unlike the situation today and the UK is not likely to get involved at this point.
This is not my experience at all, o1 fails in the same way 4o does.
If the new director is an outside hire, then they won't value OP yet by definition.

However, they will be looking to figure out who they can rely on for technical expertise, so there's an opportunity there.
In the example I'm using the instruction tuned version of Qwen2.5-7B to generate the insights
This sounds so wild. Surely it would be much more efficient, for space and picking up, to have containers for trash.
Ya future seems good
I was responding to the following

> I guess when it's your censors in power, big government is fine and dandy.

Perhaps I misunderstood, but my point was that scientific truth should under no circumstances be subject to political point of view. If you want to argue against scientific result you do so by producing a scientific argument.
I've been using 520-530-540 on a bicycle and ride every day but only need to charge once every three days or so, but these came with microUSB ports.
The DIY-spirited software scenes were so thoroughly commercialized that appealing to their aesthetics is now in the past.

FFS, the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" is based on a venture capitalist co-opting a rebellious term to convince a bunch of impressionable youths that they can have this alluring label and that the cool kids software club is actually working for his vc firm.

All the subculture has been thoroughly power-washed out of any commercial useful corner of their online communities. You can encounter more pressure to be a milquetoast office-job persona in the open source space than your actual office job.

We're in so deep you can't even see how deep we're in.
I’ve got some tough news for you -

Career growth is (almost) never a completely straight line.

You will be promoted into positions, using languages, in domains, all of which isn’t “your” language or “your” domain.

If you’re being asked to do it that’s because someone recognized your innate skill and ability and is hoping you can apply it to this new team. If I were you, I would not let them down.

Lean in and do what you do. If it means re-tooling, then do it.
Unfortunately, there is only a ‘treatment’ group but no control group (aka non-repeatable treatment), so it's hard to draw conclusions from it.

Also, the Poland location could be another explanation: if your neighbor is Russia, with whom you have (let’s put it mildly) a long history, but you’re also a NATO member under the U.S. nuclear umbrella, you have plenty of reasons to appreciate the aforementioned country. Disclaimer: just another possible explanation.
> Lua and similar tools can go deep into the runtime they exist in, altering system state and messing with system memory if they want to

That's not correct, when you embed Lua you can choose which APIs are available, to make the full stdlib available you must explicitly call `luaL_openlibs` [1].

[1] https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#luaL_openlibs
Oh damn, you are right. It's my first opensource project and I didn't thought about it
Ive been interviewing at start ups to get out of my contractor job, but recently I gave up.

I had this one interview where I had to remove nodes from a linkedlist. Pretty trivial, right? It is, but as I was writing out the solution, probably for the 200th time, I thought "Ive never used a linkedlist, ever"

And I thought, I just cant do it anymore. I cant reverse one single more binary tree. I cant listen to some CTO tech bro in his early 30s explain to me why I need to be in an office he'll never set foot in for the 'company culture'.

Ive had so many interviews just like this. Ive done 7 hour on sites where you break down algorithms, system design, app development. Its brutal out there, no one seems to have any idea what their looking for so they just put you through the ringer.

So now im not interviewing, Im happy and content in my bank programming job. Im probably not a very good programmer, thats okay, Im a wonderful partner, family member, musician. Ill get by, hopefully, for another decade until everything collapses.
Don”t most banks offer this exact service for free? My credit union calls it “bill pay.” I use it for exactly the use cases you list.
Could you give an example of where a philosopher has impeded science in the way you describe? Where it has been not just irrelevant, but obstructive? Irrelevant is fine - science and the philosophy of science have different goals. You might as well say that chemistry is irrelevant to mathematics.
Yes, in some cases location-based pay is a thing.

But $150K in Detroit feels a hell of a lot richer than $250K in SF.
So the birdkill is actually from a separate focal spot near the absorber where standby heliostats are focused? Interesting, I did not know that! Makes me wonder why standby heliostats would need to be focused at all? Couldn't their aimpoints be randomized over a much larger volume near the receiver, while still being standby and able to quickly move back onto the receiver when needed?

By the way, I’m happy to find someone with CSP knowledge on HN. Are you working in the field?
Consumption has a bit of a bad rap. In my view, perceiving consumption as automatically unethical requires some particular interpretation of ethics that might not be taking into account human flourishing. Human flourishing is generally accompanied by reducing local entropy through consumption of energy and resources—capitalism or not. It does matter if that is ethical or not—whether it causes suffering of living beings, whether it is sustainable, etc.—but that is separate matter.

In that sense, capitalism is a decent system that does not inherently dictate whether consumption is ethical or not. You are free to (and should) make ethics part of the value. If you like what your neighbourhood bakery makes freshly, you buy from them and thus encourage and enable them to make more. You benefit, they benefit. They give you a good price, but you do not buy more than you need (how much bread would a healthy person eat anyway?) because your neighbours also enjoy it. If you determine that a company is unethical, you vote with your wallet and buy from another (and tell your friends). You do your best.

What breaks this overall pretty sound logic of “give value to people who create value to help them create more value” in practice is a bunch of not unrelared to each other things like bad actors, information asymmetry (usually in favour if producers; in extreme: lying), or poor mental well-being. These imperfections lead to regulation (not without its own can of worms) and open up avenues for, indeed, unethical consumption.
The success of major bestsellers depends entirely on how they trigger the fantasies and wish fulfilments specific demographics.

The Da Vinci Code hit the religious/occult conspiracy theory market, which was huge at the time, and added feminist overtones about the "divine feminine" which appealed to most female New Agers and a good few male ones.

His other books didn't have those ingredients, and they were less successful.

More recently we've had Fifty Shades and Romantasy. Working out the demographics and the reader appeal is left as an (easy) exercise for the reader.

Harry Potter and Young Adult classics like The Hunger Games are a little harder to analyse, but not much.

Someone like Stephen King is less obvious. (For most of the books "horror" is the hook, but American small town relatability is at least as important.)

Writing quality isn't quite incidental. But it only needs to be above a certain minimal level of competence, nowhere near what's usually called "good writing."

Books which have "good writing" but don't trigger a large demographic of readers with specific fears and/or fantasies - of any kind - do not do well.
You can get the whole thing as a ZIP here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160912232844if_/http://www.rdr...
There’s a third option that I’ve run into since I’ve started learning how to create video content.

I have a bit of a background in print journalism so telling stories that convey information isn’t new to me. By the end, I was pretty good at conveying enough information in a limited number of inches.

Video is a totally different beast and short videos are very hard. I have a couple of 10 minute videos that may as well be presented in a foreign language that I don’t speak…and I made them.

Reading this, I think I’m just going to quit. It’s really not worth the time investment.
Not to rain on your parade, but my Chase app already has this ability. Don’t other banks as well?

Whats the upside of this option?
FWIW numba at least supports both cases depending how the decorator is used:

- if you just `@jit`, it will create a megamorphic function with specialisations generated at runtime

- if you pass a signature to `@jit`, it will compile a monomorphic function during loading
Plenty of languages have a framework to assist with shell/Bash scripting. Nothing wrong with that.

If you look at the Python build-in API, it's pretty terrible. In all fairness, Python strives to work equally well on Windows, Linux, and some other things. Good luck with that.

I prefer doing systems scripting in Python over Bash. But writing converting a Bash script to Python without "Pythonizing" it is a bad time.
Performance is not up to the mark but seems we can improve over time
Exactly my point.

By definition, tariffs (wherever they are) are always self inflicted harm on the opposite of a libertarian ideology where as cutting a contract because you don't like the company is exactly that.
This reminds me of a comment I read years ago, maybe on HN, from a younger person who thought The Beatles were completely overrated.

Like, sure, because you grew up on music that wouldn't have existed without them. You heard them thousands of times already in tribute from younger bands you like.

Context matters. There are cultural classics you just cannot understand without having lived in the times.
Why is the guide for "government workers" as in "federal government workers"? Why not just "a guide to use Signal"? Is this article intended to encourage federal government workers to use Signal to share official information related to their federal duties - where it would be untraceable and deletable? Because that would be...illegal.
Exciting – many landlords in SF only believe in checks for some reason
JSONBench: Data Analytics on JSON
Yes, many banks do offer this. But some neobanks don't. We're going after a niche market here :)
And one of the strongest militaries in Eastern Europe with a whopping 4.7% of GDP providing an independent bulwark against Russian aggression - fulfilling the exact role that Trump claims to want in Nato.
I'm sure Steve would understand Bill's need to keep distracting people from some of his edgier mores and friendships. (<cough/>Epstein<cough/>)
It's been two weeks. If Trump's second administration is anything like his first, he'll have his executive orders rescinded the second his butt leaves the seat and both sides will start sharpening their knives. We'll be lucky if Trump's rhetoric doesn't kill any more pregnant protestors this time around.

America's GOP ironically faces the same issue as the DNC, at this point. They can't elect a candidate that actually supports their beliefs, but they can get people to vote for an extremist that pretends to represent them. Today's conservatives have basically declared bankruptcy on the GOP's belief in smaller government, free trade and imperial detente. It's gotten to the point that "wokeness" is a relatively rational alternative if it means staying in NATO and not harassing the EU/Canada.
> Many amino acids can be created in two mirror-image versions, like a pair of left and right hands. Life on Earth almost exclusively produces the left-handed variety, but the Bennu samples contain an equal mixture of both.

This is a very strong indication that the amino acids in the sample where made by an inorganic process.
> "What? Where's the trick? He just bounced on his board"

That's the natural state of innocence - their reference frame is how the experience feels (I'm going fast and almost falling over!). When the scene takes over, the reference point shifts to how it looks - the raw experience is overtaken in importance by progress and status and comparison.
Updates on the Ada Ecosystem In the past few years [pdf]
More generally, a large segment of the population outsources their thinking to ChatGPT. The outcome of that will not be good, especially with the current mismatch between what ChatGPT actually is and what the public think it is. People will put too much trust in it, and it will ruin lives. Even for those it doesn't ruin, outsourcing your thinking is a poor way to get smarter.
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