skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're really asking what the point of humor is, I don't think there's any answer you'll find satisfying. I'll take a stab at it though.

In this case, it functions as a hook; it's there to give you a slight chuckle before diving into a long and relatively dry informative article. It's some clear sarcasm makes you evaluate the supposed assertion made - that people who push for IRB evaluations are meanie-heads - and challenges any preconceived notions you might have of it being a simple "this is good" or "this is bad" thing either way because of course it's not that simple. This invites the question to the reader: if it's not as simple as that, then how is it actually?

Of course, if the tone doesn't land and you read it as a factual statement - and, importantly, it's so distasteful that you immediately bail and don't read the rest of the article to see what it's actually about, and just assume it's a petulant tirade against IRBs - none of that works. If you're at all interested, I would recommend reading some Adam Mastroianni / Experimental History posts, as it has a very similar feel but plays to the strengths of the tone a bit better (IMO). This one [0] actually touches on the use of humor in scientific papers, and I think makes a pretty good case for why clinical language isn't necessarily a good thing.

[0] https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-...
The interview process for a place like Microsoft Research is essentially the same as for a faculty position - give a talk on your research, spend the day talking to researchers about your research, their research, convince them you have an interesting research agenda. Have dinner with more researchers, for a notionally more relaxed discussion :) [Tried, failed ;)]

As with university recruitment, this isn't a case of "you must come from specific pipelines", but of "you must have done interesting research, have an interesting plan". It's just that those two criteria are strongly correlated...
They used SPARK instead:

SPARK is a formally defined computer programming language based on the Ada programming language,
intended for the development of high integrity software used in systems where predictable and
highly reliable operation is essential. It facilitates the development of applications that demand
safety, security, or business integrity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
> Like the race or location

If all you have is a racism hammer, everything looks like a racist screed I guess.

The only point I saw made is that cultures matter. There should be nothing wrong with that. You're reading malevolence into it. Stop that, please.
and stealing secrets for their home country
The biggest implication of this is that you can no longer buy e-books in amazing and read them on a NON kindle device.

On the other hand, I’m not sure if it was possible due to DRM.

Anyway, things like this just piss me off. I kind of succumbed to the idea that I don’t own movies and music, but I just can’t contemplate the fact that they took books away from us (yea, I know that technically you didn’t own kindle books anyway).
it's not their fault Google came along and used that name, but they did, so here we are.
Not sure why, this is like fallacies 101. Just because many other surrounding applications are inconsistent in their presentation, that doesn't mean this situation should be worsened.
That has already been the case with Asahi Linux - for years. It exists as a series of forked packages.

The thing is, you do still have to present a light at the end of the tunnel. If, after years of time investment and proven commitment, you're still being fed a bunch of non-technical BS excuses and roadblocks, people are going to start getting real upset.
I believe a masters has helped me stand out as a candidate at least. Plus, I learned a great deal about computer engineering! The fundamentals have come in handy.
The MIT "living wage" figures are, to put it lightly, utterly deranged; more a statement of the purveyors's ideal of a first-world standard of living than a reflection of reality. If they are to be believed, then evidently grad students—or really like, half the population??—must not be alive.

As maligned as the poverty lines are—and they do have plenty of shortcomings—they are still a far closer approximation of "the true cost of living in a modern economy" than this drivel.

†No, really, go compare the "living wage" figures (https://livingwage.mit.edu/) with AMI stats (https://ami-lookup-tool.fanniemae.com/).
In my experience, when it's other people deciding the priority of your tasks (usually your boss), the distribution is 150 P1 tickets, 3 P2 tickets and 1 P3.

This is when the underrated skill of saying NO pays off massive dividends. One long-term client once told me the thing he appreciated the most, compared to most other consultants, was that I wasn't afraid of pushing back on his requests and saying no (within reason). Probably the most valuable feedback I have ever received.
Wish I could up vote this more than once :-). It also is why people had books of 'logs' back in the day that were just the log10 value of a given number.
> HN flagging, censoring, and condoning what amounts to fascism rather than promoting rule of law, common sense, and freedom of speech

To be fair, HN kind of has to do this. Y Combinator has close ties with the world's richest man; he is even scheduled to speak at AI Startup School. Otherwise, people like dang and others may be subject to retaliation.
The article includes a description of the feature that was copied wholesale from this HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41897425#41897573
So for those of us who aren’t hanging on every update in the Python universe, what is the default sort in Python now? All I recall is that Timsort got dethroned and the author seems to be behaving like it’s some big secret to be kept from the plebs.

Edit: all the way at the bottom of page 6: timsort+powersort
I read this entire post because the man deserves not only to have his say but also to have his say listened to.

That said, I detect a lot of one sided thinking in his post. He took on an incredibly difficult challenge, faced huge opposition, made incredible technical accomplishments and he feels entitled to a standing ovation. When what he receives is criticism, entitlement and obstructionism he takes it personally. If he did all of this work hoping to get accolades, fame, clout, influence then he did it for the wrong reason. There is a mismatch between his expectations and the reality of the world.

In the best of worlds, we do the right thing because it is the right thing, not because we hope for a pat on the back once it is done. In dharmic religions (e.g. Buddhism), one of the principle mental states one is to aim for is detachment from the outcomes of our actions. Suffering is attachment and Martin is clearly suffering. The other thing in Buddhism is recognizing the suffering in others, and I see a distinct lack of that recognition in Martin's post here. He acknowledges his own abrasiveness but not once does he show compassion for the maintainers who have suffered everything he has suffered, perhaps even from actions Martin himself has done.

Martin has several outcomes he wants, mostly his changes (including the inclusion of Rust) being welcomed in the Linux kernel. He is attached to those outcomes and therefore takes it personally when those outcomes are not achieved. Taking a step away from this attachment is a very good step. IMO, his desire to push for these outcomes has been a significant contribution to the toxicity.
Sounds great.

> The Galleri test is available by prescription only.

But JFC I can't stand being required to get permission from one of those glorified bureaucrats just to collect data on my own body.
Violations of federal regulations (rules) are usually handled as administrative or civil matters. Prosecution is very rare and only possible for a limited set of rule violations. If you're contemplating doing something in a regulatory gray area then you can ask the competent agency for a formal opinion letter stating whether that thing would or wouldn't be a violation. They are required to issue those letters although it can be a slow process. Once you get an official approval letter that generally shields you against any sort of enforcement action.
Payment card networks have delegated authorization plans, where if a major processor goes down, they will still route transactions and use a simplified secondary network for making approval decisions.

It's called "stand-in processing", and I assume it's the inspiration here.
None of that implies that it would make sense to actually do Freud based psychoanalysis today or that some 50% of psychologists do. All of that are historical achievements of severely outdated theories. Outdated, because they were shown wrong and discredited.

It is not easy to do psychology as a science, it is way less precise and less measurable then comfortable to geeks here. But it did made massive progress in between Freud and now where Freud was abandoned due to being non scientific.
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Someone is trying to stump The Onion by making a proposal so absurdly stupid that it cannot be parodied.
Crime money laundering mastermind for pothead teacher smuggling marihuana.
> I still don't understand there isn't a supported version of LibreOffice that I can pay for

But there are, and has been for years, such versions: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-in-business...
This should have been part of the HS curriculum.

Logarithms pop up (IIRC) in 10th grade, and ln(x*y) = ln(x) + ln(y) is usually explained as part of that. What many teachers completely fail to teach is that it's not just a formula to memorize, but that it has profound implications on how you can do math. As you discovered by yourself. (Kudos!)

It is, with the right teacher, a super-exciting story with lots of colorful history & characters. You can even guide your students to come to that some crucial insight. Alas, few teachers have the necessary amount of passion to make that come alive.

But that's probably why few people write about it - for most, either their math interest got murdered in HS so they never get to look at it, or they did learn it in 10th grade and so consider it not worth mentioning.

(Corollary - we all should write more about the cool realizations we had, even if they're in retrospective "well known")
Will a Chinese fab achieve volume production at <N nm nodes before 2030?
Metaculus isn't the be all and end all, but it looks like a prediction market is putting the chance of China achieving 2nm in the next 5 years down to a coin flip.
I feel like Asahi is pretty nice as a lightweight daily driver for web browsing, web development, and stuff like that. Obviously, heavy duty tasks like gaming, CAD, photo/video editing, etc are not quite there yet. I bought an M2 Macbook Air and run Asahi Linux full time and it's surprisingly smooth and bug-free (even smoother than my Arch Linux desktop tbh).
If all cultures are forcibly considered equal, one corollary to that is that a culture itself can also never improve, or fail, because then a comparison to itself from a different age would also be forcibly considered to be equal.

In that spirit, I welcome your dissertation on how the Germany of 2024 is equal to the Germany of 1944.
America runs on the myth of "If you work hard enough, you'll succeed.". If you believe this, and you discount the role external factors has played in your life (who your parents are, whether you were discriminated against, that chance meeting with an investor who happened to like the same football team as you and gave you your break), you'll believe the opposite "If you're not successful, it's because you're lazy.", ignoring factors like poor education or hard luck like illness or accidents.

And so the poor get viewed as lazy grifters, while the billionaires are the piously hard-working...
You can also be certain when reading a Zig post you will see "Why would I use Zig over Rust?" or "Isn't Zig unsafe?"

They cant help but proselytize. Its like talking to my recent born again christian friend who cant help but steer every conversation to Christianity and reciting scripture. It's infuriating.

Though TBH it very much feels like the cult of OOP that rocked the 90's. And look where that paradigm is now ...
No. They're removing the ability to download the books from their website in a format which can be manually put onto the device.

If you get ebooks from places other than them, you can still manually transfer them to a Kindle, regardless of whether the Kindle is online or not.
I'm sorry sir/mam, but that is simply not true.

All you have to do is read comments from members of the Rust community online, in every public forum where Rust is discussed in any way.

Understand, I am not trying to villainize an entire community of software developers; but for you to say something that's blatantly false is to just stick your head in the sand.

You should try and read the words people write. Opinions are not formed in a vacuum.

Edit: to be clear- I have no problems with Rust the language beyond some ergonomic concerns. I am not a Rust hater, nor am I a zealot. I do advocate for C# a lot for application code though. But I do not deride others' language preferences. You should not dismiss my observations because I used hyperbole. Obviously not every Rust dev thinks you can't write a secure C/C++ function; don't pick out the one hyperbolic statement to discredit my entire post. Bad form.
IDK... if a profitable market is up for grabs, $$$s are not a problem. The financial system is quite comfortable fronting cash for factories making in-demand products.

Have people suddenly forgotten that markets and enterprises exist, and are quite good at making products. Chips are not minerals. The state department isn't a tool for this job.

In any case, TSMC is currently within the US sphere. Nvidia makes most of the capital gains. US government gets to deny China. US companies get good chips. Where's the upside in blowing all this up?

Perhaps pulling the security guarantee and greenlighting reunification under PRC is the destination, and onshoaring Taiwan's critical industries is deemed prudent in advance of this.
This is really lovely. It makes me happy that you invested time into building this for other people.
Why not develop a distro based on BSD/darwin kernel then?
Here are the software requirements (inferred from the commenter):

- (1) the C code will be refactored periodically

- (2) when refactored internally it can break C code, but the change author should fix any breaking in C

- (3) Rust must not break when (1) happens

It's the Rust devs' job to meet those requirements if they want to contribute. It looks in the video like they don't understand this, which is pretty basic.
> Doing a real service to the American people by exposing fraud and corruption.

Musk spent $260,000,000 of his personal money funding the Trump presidential campaign and has been rewarded with a new government agency, its actions kept confidential by Executive Order, with himself appointed to police his own conflicts of interest. That is corruption.
Conversely, if you are doing a PhD, network with other scientists. Organize conferences and workshops, try again and again until you publish in a high impact journal, do minor contributions and insist on adding yourself to other people's papers, post on twitter and linkedin, talk to local newspapers, make yourself known. Apply for grants early , and add them to your CV so you get more grants later. It doesn't matter if your science is trivial or useless, you will have made it, get more grants, get invited to give talks, get to join committees and publish even more of the same. Bonus points if you belong in a protected minority. Academia has been gamified
The guy who made the original hypotheses disagree with you. The issue is that data are not solid and are not widely replicated. And especially, the point is overstated.

The guy who made the original hypotheses also literally says that marshmallow test is bad proxy for the trait under question.
> Patching ClearType would be the first step to fixing this issue.

And what would be the others? The hopelessly huge number of screenshots for example will forever have the regular smoothing baked in.
Hehe same here, I thought my monitor burned out.

I like the new colors tbh, but it's a very very very minor update and can't avoid speculating how much that thing cost Google, 5 x 300k/year salaries x ... 2 years maybe? Lol.
This is so true. I've been on Kagi since March 2024. On the occasion that I find myself on Google on someone else's computer, I find it completely unusable from a search result perspective. It's all just junk. Kagi has me as a paying customer forever.
This cuts so much deeper than it has any right to.
For me the killer kagi feature is that I can manually up and down weight domains in results. I can "pin" and always get wikipedia results or "block" and never get pintrest or raise or lower as needed. Brave search has a similar feature, but they only seem to support "block" not "lower", which is what I use a lot more often.

https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
And deletes them too.
Moving the goal posts already. No amount of evidence will convince you.
"Do what comes naturally" has changed a lot over time. Corporal punishment used to be natural.

Today, being on your phone is natural. But as a soon to be parent, I see the zombie kids on their ipads in public and there's just no way that's good for them. Which means I'll need to fix my own screen usage.

You mentioned the research that correlates large home libraries with success. A related study is that the number of words a child hears in the first 4 years correlates with success.

Maybe I'm a fool and it's psuedoscience, but it strikes me as plausible that a child who hears a lot more words will be better equipped for school (and by extension life). It's something I intend to do (by reading to my children, talking to them as I go about the day etc..).

I'm not sure it's something I would've thought about too much if I wasn't exposed to the idea.

Again, maybe it's rubbish, but my sample size is very small. I don't have 100 kids to test it out on. I don't take research blindly, but I don't think it's stupid to try and learn about ways to parent. And I certainly don't think the right way is what comes naturally to you.
The downside of this is that if you are not on a larger network, the IP address will probably deanonymise you. Kagi knows you are logged in, and if you open a private browsing window to do a spicy search, they could link the searches. Fast switching between modes is undesirable.
There are two types of VIP developers: those that stay in the shadows and do their work (think the Bram Moolenaars and Daniel Stenbergs) and those that seem to spend their entire time picking fights on social media and writing very emotionally charged blog posts that routinely reach the HN front page, because gossip and drama sells.
If you can't imagine a gap then I think it might not be for you.

I tried kagi after finally getting sick of some of my google results. Kagi was able to deliver on some of those results.

It's not like, shockingly better results. I do think they're better on average, but I'm not sure.

However, in the cases where I couldn't find what I was looking for on google and could on kagi, well, that's a binary result. I'll take the success and not the failure.

I was surprised by how much better I found the UI. That's actually the thing that sold me on the subscription to begin with. Going in, I would not have expected UI to sell me on such a thing.

I have since customized it somewhat; there are sites I usually really like results from and they are upranked, and sites I don't care for which are downranked. I've felt like this has lead to even better experience, but I haven't gone back to google to compare.
Nah. There's no valid reason for lawmakers to delegate so much authority to bureaucrats. We should eviscerate the administrative state and if legislators want to prohibit something then they ought to specifically write it down. If that means it becomes harder and slower to pass new laws then that's fine. It should be a careful and deliberative process.
Auto filter for sources, downrank sources you dislike, sort results by recency, have an engine that actually respects what country or language you're trying to search into, and finally present results visually the way you want them.
It's worth trying to use it actively for a month or so, and you'll see if you need it or not. I would not to back to google even if Google paid me.
It sounds like it is a pastime for the GP.

If it wasn’t then $100 is trivial for a business.
Hopefully heavy sanctions. The case backlog in many courts is already bad enough, without the judges having to double-check that every case cited to them wasn't hallucinated (or grossly misrepresented) by some lazy lawyer's pet AI.

Plus - how many hour did Morgan & Morgan bill to their client, for the "work" of preparing the bogus brief?
Or, since we pay for access to the internet, let's say like $80 per month for home connection, plus $20 per month for phone data, and the internet providers know the websites we visit (in Australia they have to keep this information for 2 years), and can approximate how much time we spend there, they could redistribute part of the $100 (50%?) to the website owners automatically.
They're removing the button to download the book to your computer from their website.

If you buy a Kindle book, or borrow a digital book from your library, you could then use the "Download and Transfer with USB" button to get the file on your device. You'd then use Calibre and the DeDRM plugin to remove the DRM.