skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is only partially correct.

First, in many case, beyond just math, academic instruction does not directly apply to practical application. But, the reverse is absolutely true. Experience with practical application very closely correlates to better academic performance. The key that you missed is practice. Instruction is helpful, but it isn't practice. Practice is also the key difference between graduate education and high school or undergraduate education. Yes, in graduate school there is still instruction but you are expected to use that instruction in more abstract ways to achieve some condition.

Secondly, higher education is mostly about signaling. It is about other things too, but signaling is first. Examples include the social consequences of where you go to school, the major you choose, grade point average, who you meet, and so on. Compare those factors against professional education, like continuing education credits for law or medical licensing. Nobody cares about the signaling around that professional continuing education, because you are already employed and the goals of that signaling are already achieved.
Yes exactly. He, and many others, get the causality wrong. The extrapolation is not wrong because extrapolation is always bad but partly because the knowledge spurs people to do something. Moore’s law is a good reverse example of this. It’s not magic, humans invest massively in making it happen.
Perhaps. Another possibility is that the same societal shift that drove the UK to give up the right to be armed also pushed them in the direction of giving up other rights.
Wonderful site in mobile.
Given the fact that Firefox was ailing long before mandatory signing, this seems like a clear no?

Besides, this isn't "safest and best for every user", just like the quality vs speed tradeoff in your friend's story is not something he can decide entirely on his own for his customers (though there are other complications in real life)
For PDF paper readers, is the Remarkable’s 11” size sufficient? I have the Sony DPT 2nd version at 13”, and it’s perfect viewing experience. But projects like this keep drawing me to the Remarkable product.
"Minimum wage legislation emerged at the end of the nineteenth century from the desire to end sweatshops which had developed in the wake of industrialization.[17] Sweatshops employed large numbers of women and young workers, paying them what were considered non-living wages that did not allow workers to afford the necessaries of life." ...

"The earliest minimum wage laws in the United States were state laws focused on women and children.[25] These laws were struck down by the Supreme Court between 1923 and 1937.[25] The first federal minimum wage law, which exempted large parts of the workforce, was enacted in 1938 and set rates that became obsolete during World War II.[25]'

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...

We know your scenario isn't true because there are plenty of white-owned businesses which knowing hire undocumented workers in order to pay them sub-market wages with poor working conditions.
As long as you can directly write registers, you can screw it.
Berlin is filthy and seems to have only gotten more so in recent decades.
those are still technical merits/non-merits, albeit on the project management level.
I don't think I'd go around telling people that. My education has been very helpful, and knowledge sticks to knowledge your whole career. To think you learned nothing applicable in a 4-year CS program honestly tells me more about you than industry.
Google's Thirstiest Datacenters
It's cool to see bake go GA. We've been supporting bake at Depot [0] for a while now and it is a unsung hero when it comes to building multiple images in parallel.

We help many folks adopt it for their monorepo setups in particular. With Depot, folks can get the highly parallelized builds right out of the box, but bake takes it to another level by allowing you to define all your image builds in one place like an HCL, Compose, or JSON file. We've added some extra spice to fan out builds across multiple BuildKit instances [1].

If you're interested in bake and want a go-to guide, we wrote this blog post a while back: https://depot.dev/blog/buildx-bake-deep-dive.

[0] https://depot.dev

[1] https://depot.dev/changelog/2024-06-07-depot-cli-bake-multip...
You've never submitted anything before, but now was the perfect time to pile on and post some more Musk related bait. Because there isn't enough of that already?

I wouldn't normally flag that because it's not off topic, but there's just too much boring Elon Musk spam. The HN feed is clogged with redundant crap.

The mass flagging is justified, it's within the site's rules, and it keeps the front page interesting. Keep flagging, my dudes.
Does anybody know if the results can be saved to file, or the results somehow retrieved?
Run Deepseek from fast NVMe drives
Testing extreme NVME offload (4 x Gen5x4) for DeepSeek R1Because PCI-E 5x16 (~60GB/s) is close to dual channel DDR5 bandwidth, this is the cheapest method to run huge models. Code: https://github.com/BlinkDL/fast.c
I'll work for minimum wage if you're going to offer me the kind of training described in this article
Is it impossible to just delete the rust parts and go back to pure C?

That ship could come back to port anytime.
Most of the RAM usage would likely just be executable files that are mmap’d from disk.. not “real” RAM usage. But, also, the 1000 users in question wouldn’t all be connected at the same time… and I honestly doubt they would all be assigned to the same server for practical reasons anyways.

It’s not easy to estimate the real RAM usage with back of the napkin math.
I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs. | Operator, the new AI that can reach into the real world, wants to act like your personal intern. Here’s what it’s good at, bad at — and when it went rogue.
Linux based smartphones will sell like crazy at that point.
There are zero indicators for that happening. In fact, if history is by any means an indicator for the future, we might see these dying out over the years in favor of new hyped ones and C standing against the time. Zig is nothing so far, personally I believe Rust has some staying power for now, but we'll see. As for C, kernel C is not all that C where C was led to in recent years.
I’d like to read books about random topics and this one is interesting, but 304 pages? It seems publishers demand most nonfiction to be that page length
With SSRIs you have a one in three chance for any number of the following side effects; many of them permanent, even after discontinuing medication (if you actually manage to do so, since SSRI come with severe withdrawal symptoms):

- sexual dysfunction

- loss of emotion and creativity

- drowsiness

- insomnia (including real fun stuff like night terrors)

- fatigue

- nausea

- tremors

I'd hardly call that safe or manageable.

With even the most potent psychedelics such as LSD, on the other hand, there's merely a one in thousand chance for severe side effects.

I'd go as far as prohibiting the prescription of SSRIs for all but the most severe cases (such as a severe depression where the patient is actually suicidal). For everything else these drugs are commonly used for, e.g., mild depression, OCD, or IBS, there are other - in many cases better - options with far less devastating (if any) adverse effects.
Of course it's ok to block something they judge to be harmful as much as they can. That is their explicit job as maintainer is to make exactly that type of judgement.

If they are overstepping, then Linus will make that known. Until then, apparently they are not overstepping.

And he can use that image if it communicates the concept he wants to communicate.

It sounds like a valid image to me to apply to the concept of polyglot.

He is saying that "If there is really no way for a rust driver to exist all by itself without any of the c code having to do anything special to accomodate it, then so be it, I guess rust doesn't fit here after all."

rust devs are saying "you're not even helping a tiny bit!". I am saying, no, they're not, so what? They don't have to. They did not request what rust devs are trying to do.

The concession rust devs got to proceed to attempt to use rust in the kernel at all doesn't promise almost anything beyond "well you can try". It does not promise to facilitate that try at all really.
How GitHub Is Losing the AI Code Battle
Games for Large Language Models to play against themselves
Great. So they won’t mind ponying up to pay off the ISP. Subsidizing people to live there is part of it.
Very nice potential in this idea. A few related use cases I would like:

- population density

- average cost per square foot

- distance from river or lake (I live in Chicago)
Author here, willing to know what you folks think! :)
TIL universal app means it runs only on iOS
Endangered Archives Programme
People are also sued over books
Quarter million new technology jobs - is this the part where AI takes our jerbs?
I've used Gerrit myself for nearly 10 years. I recognize it's strengths and like it for what it does. I also am comfortable with mailing lists and Git Hub and Git Lab. I've lived in "both worlds".

IIUC, the Kernel project doesn't want to use it because of the single-point-of-failure argument and other federation issues. Once the "main" Gerrit instance is down, suddenly it's become a massive liability. This[1] is good context from the kernel.org administrator, Konstantin Ryabitsev:

"From my perspective, there are several camps clashing when it comes to the kernel development model. One is people who are (rightfully) pointing out that using the mailing lists was fine 20 years ago, but the world of software development has vastly moved on to forges.

"The other camp is people who (also rightfully) point out that kernel development has always been decentralized and we should resist all attempts to get ourselves into a position where Linux is dependent on any single Benevolent Entity (Github, Gitlab, LF, kernel.org, etc), because this would give that entity too much political or commercial control or, at the very least, introduce SPoFs. [...]"

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250207-mature-paste...
my "own inability to contribute"

Wow, didn't expect someone to pull off such accusations so quickly the SECOND time.

I probably wrote more code in pull requests than your HN comments combined.
https://archive.md/pif2I
Ripcord demo'd their stack to me yesterday and the use of LLMs works great for OCR, so it is indeed possible.
Since overhead rates are negotiated with a separate federal entity, federal law requires NIH to follow negotiated rates. If they don’t want to, they have to justify their reasoning[1]. It’s remarkable that the reasoning they give in this notice cites rates paid to large foundations. The foundations have demanded low overhead bc the federal government has backstopped keeping the lights on. Without that backstop, the model will necessarily transition to researchers having to pay rent for lab space, electricity, supplies like compressed air, salaries for administrative assistants and the like. It’s unclear whether these things can be budgeted on a grant due to other rules. Remarkable that the administration in one go is trying to gut NIH. I would have thought that there would be more congressional resistance. More broadly, I wonder if we can look forward to more rules being published on Friday afternoons as a strategy…

[1]
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/p...
Not sure what concern you are addressing. I never said to replace radiologists with ChatGPT. My suggestion was to use it as a tool for further information.

That said, note that malpractice is in place for a reason. Everyone makes mistakes. We all have to go in to work even if we have a horrible hangover, doctors and radiologists included.
Interesting ideas. I respectfully disagree with all of them.

Do you have any evidence to back them up, or are you yourself "just [...] making things up that sound good" ?
PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours and No One Knows Why
All red since yesterday evening https://status.playstation.com/

Probably a botched software update or migration?
Just last week I saw an NP, PA - someone with both degrees, didn’t understand why they’d have both. This makes sense now.
It’s worth noting that negotiations of overhead rates requires extensive documentation and justification. So institutions really do have 30+% overhead expenses that have to be paid…
Great stuff. Could be very useful for market segmentation in Pharma
This is a strange theory. Since when did sub-minimum wage jobs become "their jobs?" And since when did poor whites get to create policy?
I mostly concur.

> consider offering an iterable or streamable view of the elements. This takes different forms in different languages and libraries: Iterator or Stream in Java

Side note: in Java, please do not offer your clients an Iterator. Not only is an Iterator idiomatically awkward to use, it also restricts your clients from even looking at it more than once. What you probably want is use one of the Collections.unmodifiableXxx() methods to wrap your Iterable in a read-only view. This allows your clients to do anything they want with the Iterable: use a for loop, stream it, or save it for later use.
Houdini’s 3D Voronoi tools are fun.
Seems this could be very helpful for pharma, like for market segmentation
They agreed to set up service in the falklands on the condition that they be allowed to have a monopoly. If you take that away you’re breaking a deal you made.
https://archive.ph/G9bKQ
There are indeed alot of text-to-speech options available. The key difference is that ClipCast puts the content into your podcast app by way of a custom feed. And IMHO has the most natural-sounding voices.
Android has very good reason to have such strict process isolation. For example, that third party calculator app I downloaded shouldn't be able to interface with my bank app. That said, I do feel it (Google) has used security as an excuse to build a walled garden.

How would you do Android differently?
I mean what you're saying sounds correct...

But honestly, the whole point of the original study here was testing something that sounded correct, and it proved to be incorrect.

So I have the same hypothesis as you, but the original study here shows the importance in testing things regardless of what sounds correct. It's way too easy to spread overconfidence using a theory which matches passes people's people's smell test.

I think this impacts mathematics education particularly acutely. Math is an area where theory rules above all else and many people working in the area apply theory to problem solving. But mathematics education is not mathematics. It is not theoretical. It is social science. Experimental evidence and testing is the way to make progress - not sitting back and thinking.
Check out Infosys "global education center".
Additionally, the base of the indirect calculation differs between grantors. NIH is MTDC (Modified Total Direct Costs) on top; Gates is TDC (Total Direct Costs) with their own schedule of allowable indirect costs. You have to do a line by line comparison to really evaluate the difference.

I was first surprised that NIH put indirects on top and wondered if they were done NSF style if that would help control costs more.
https://archive.is/GVcHb
thats exactly what they want, then they put on their sad face and tell congress "we just can't find anybody!" and voila, in rolls the H1B drones who work at 25% off.
Go back further. Minimums were applied to the railroad in 1909, pulling them up to the prevailing white wage when the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen became enraged blacks were working for cheaper.
Why would a Rust for Linux fork want to stay up-to-date with all the latest commits that are in C?

If all the latest commits in C are so useful, even to a Rust fork, perhaps the Linux C devs are not off-base that Rust isn't worth it for now.
No, the rust devs are saying “you do not need to accommodate” and he’s saying “I say no anyway.”
The Chinese National People’s Congress isn’t a legislative body, it’s a pastiche of one.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: 'there's no such thing' as artificial intelligence
Is there a way to use a monospace font in this client? A lot of the servers use ASCII art, but the client's default (only?) font is proportional.
Look, China is a big boy and responsible for its own actions. Taiwan has been an autonomous and sovereign entity for many generations. If China invades Taiwan there most likely will be war, if not then not.

You can always construct some historical and geographical claims and justifications. Haven't you heard, China is a near Arctic nation now.
This will have a really big impact on NIH research at academic hospitals and a much greater impact on non-profit biomedical research institutes (e.g., Salk).

The way these grants work varies across Federal granting agencies, but generally each university/hospital/organization negotiates with the federal government to figure out its indirect rate, which can vary widely across these organizations. For example, at some universities the indirect rate is around 40% whereas at other places, e.g., The Salk Institute, it is around 90%. So now, NIH is saying it is capped at 15% for _new_ NIH grants.

Note that NIH handles indirect costs differently than NSF. Each grant usually has a maximum amount one can ask for.

For NSF, that maximum amount _includes_ indirects. So a NSF grant capped at $1M will include direct costs (salary, equipment, stipends, etc.) and indirect costs. So if the indirect rate is lower at an organization, there is more money to spend on research.

In contrast, NIH grants have a maximum on _direct_ costs, so for an organization with an indirect rate of 40% would actually receive $1.4M whereas an organization with an indirect rate of 90% would actually receive $1.9M for the same proposal. For future grants, they would both receive $1.15M.

It has never really made sense to me why indirect rates should be negotiated and vary across organizations. That negotiation actually inhibits the creation of new non-profit research organizations, because it takes about 1 year to get everything set up with the federal government for a non-profit and then another year to do the negotiation stuff, before it can apply for a grant. Only then can the non-profit submit a proposal (with success rates of 10% in many cases). Then, it takes a year for the money to arrive due to the slow review process, if the grant proposal is successful. So if one wants to set up a non-profit research organization, best case scenario would be getting grant dollars about 3 years after founding.
Well back in the early 20th century I'm afraid that was mostly what was available to discriminated minorities. It's not just theory, it goes back to railroadmen being pissed blacks were undercutting them. They could not just outright outlaw blacks so they just got the minimums set to the prevailing white wage.
So now you can pay $120/yr for the privilege of being a Windows developer (and no other actual service), just like on (or actually somewhat more than for) iOS?
"The problem with Rust in the kernel is that the kernel has historically eschewed strong internal abstractions. The Linux kernel has no principled abstract architecture in the same way that Windows NT does; it has evolved very organically and even some of the most foundational subsystem APIs regularly see refactorings that touch almost every corner of the kernel."

And this is the reason why it's always regressing and never moves beyond alpha.
I've not seen a 'just-board' USB-C interface before; that in itself is as cool as anything else.
Perhaps Friedman's most widely known saying is that "inflation is a monetary phenomenon". In the last 30 years the correlation between money supply expansion and inflation has been low. OTOH the correlation between supply shocks and inflation has been high.

A real science would update in the face of contradictory evidence. Some economists have, but most haven't.
what was it called back then?
New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned
I was wondering all the crappy simulation software used in engineering that is still CPU-bound.
The outcomes of public policy throughout the 1900s, particularly pre-Reagan and post-FDR. Quite expansionary, but nearly all of the bedrock institutions most people have come to rely on and take for granted materialized in this period.

- The GI Bill

- Medicare / Medicaid

- Social Security

- Unemployment Insurance

- Regulatory institutions / policies like the SEC, FDIC, OSHA, and the EPA.

- The Civil Rights Act

None of this stuff just happens by accident, and these kinds of things definitely don't magically fall out of unregulated free-markets. And they DEFINITELY don't fall out of markets where the participants are massive corporate interests.

You need institutions whose focus is solely on social / economic wellbeing and who have the power and authority to provide it.

There are also plenty of modern academics, making things up themselves, who articulate similar points.

- Joseph Stiglitz

- Thomas Piketty

- Ha-Joon Chang

- Mariana Mazzucato

- Robert Reich

- etc
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Sort of typed this out before so just pointing at that comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42693234
That's interesting, but I think the preocupation with SPoF to be overblown

By that measure, kernel.org is a SPoF as well

Maybe we can figure out a way to archive Gerrit discussions

(offtopic note - don't upvote the comment you're responding to while you're commenting as you'll lose your comment)
I don't think that putting cache in .cache is bad, as long as everyone does it. But some programs (like VS Code and Chromium) decided that .config is a good place for their cache and local files, which I think is a bigger problem.
A Microbial-Centric View of Mobile Phones: Biotech Recovery of Critical Metals