skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From the discussion here, it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place. Somewhat surprising.

Not surprising at all. It's a forum run by a VC firm populated with a decent number of people who are wannabe founders, trying to jump on the latest fad, hoping to win the startup jackpot.

And (way back when it was small), I think a big part of the appeal was you could rub shoulders with some VC people and founders who actually made it.

> It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research.

I think it does occur to people, but that's a choice for nepo babies and aspiring monks.

> It’s always talked about as if getting a PhD is just another rung in a long ladder towards… earning a lot of money? Not only that — it’s apparently such an obvious fact that it’s an unacknowledged (though implicitly present) assumption in almost every comment here.

I don't know about "earning a lot of money," but the whole PhD thing seems to have gotten super exploitative. Passion is one thing, but it's not a good thing to get taken advantage of. IMHO, long and difficult educational programs should be designed to guarantee a high chance of a reasonable stable and comfortable outcome.
TLDR: The future of GPLv3 does not hang in the balance. The future of the "you may remove further restrictions" clause is what is at stake here.
First thing I think about with "rainbow" and "data structures" is rainbow tables.
Sorry you had this experience with Zed. We've seen a few reports of issues with our python integration (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23170, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/22426), and we'll be taking a look at these next week. Please do a file an issue for performance problems like this, it's a bug if Zed isn't fast for your use case :)
“Collapsed” It was acquired by UBS in 2023.
Gary was a visionary: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
79% accuracy. Useless
> Everywhere there is state/municipal owned utilities it's almost always considerable cheaper than private.

Not everywhere, it's really the regulation that matters, not just the ownership - here in Alberta we've got a market where we get municipally-owned utilities where we still get high rates comprising of energy fees + transmission fees + distribution fees.
Citations?

As far as I can tell, the first mention of a "Department of Government Efficiency" came from a Musk tweet a few weeks before the election. And Trump announced he would implement the idea during an announcement in early September (https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-government...).

Hardly a key pillar of Trump's campaign.

In fact, I can't find anything specifically related to government efficiency in any of the decisive reasons as to why people voted for Trump (https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-the-...). Ironically, one of the listed reasons was that people believed he would "fight for and protect Medicare and Social Security, with no cuts."
Studying science history basically my entire adult life im pretty sure you'd have to go back many thousands of years for this to be true
How strange it is to hear what I still think of as "normal software development" described as a novelty.
Hard to say. People certainly seem pretty motivated (and better equipped than 10-20 years ago) to create content for money. It just feels like there is less whimsical, fun expenditure of effort.
Depends. there are several different tests. Many are testing a for more things. I'm pretty sure the person I knew above who died a year latter had a basic test and we don't know if the better ones would have caught hers in time.
Fortunately tech bros like Peter Thiel are backing an "All Drug Olympics"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/01/31/billionai...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU
On H1B, its abuses, and big tech capture in general, it's a shame we can't generally admit that the democrats are terrible on this without others perceiving this as an endorsement of everything the other side wants to do.

Both major parties suck really bad here. I'm not partisan anymore, I'll vote split-ticket for whatever individual best represents my individual interests because if I'm going to exercise my apparently useless vote, I might as well use it to meekly voice my preferences in the extremely remote chance someone will decide pretending to give a shit would be helpful for them.

Our problems predate the current regime and they'll last past it. Pretty pessimistic if I'm honest.
I just shared this with folks, it looks incredible! I’m giving it a try myself too.

By the way, I was trying to use a bunch of one-liner SQL statements to explore the data, and it seems like the editor doesn’t handle comments very well. Is there a way to make it work better?
Maptun and Sac Are Reviving Saab in Taiwan: Bold Move for the Brand's Future
The problem is that Apple does DP Alt mode in a different way top everyone else, which apparently requires a large amount of changes to the kernel
this “top 10” your LLM hallucinating? :)
Made one with me and my date this year - my running shoes haha
https://audio.adauris.ai/v2/widget/Z9c9GirxT8VF1q1NRDh6/Lwqj...
Do you have any recommendations for "the kind of book you work through"?
Is money printing the problem? I'd say the amount of money in circulation since the 2000s has massively increased not by government printing but by overvaluation of virtual financial products, including stocks.
Yeah, I'm fine with there being a market where private generators can sell power to the grid, but the poles and wires need to be publicly owned.

I don't know how there are still some that haven't worked out that a privatised natural monopoly is one of the worst ownership structures for anything important - as if multiple other companies could ever build a other electricity transmission networks on top of each other in the same area (or water and sewer systems, etc.) and provide actual competition! It's impossible and ludicrous.
I wonder what the nm even means. It’s already just a marketing term for others. Are the claims from Xiaomi exaggerated?
Why do things like this get flagged at all?
As it should be, a political executive branch is not a democracy it’s a monarchy
To add to this, I remember a story my father told me. This is off the top of my head and a few years ago so it might not be fully accurate.

My father worked as a banker for most of his life and when he was in his late twenties he got a position to oversee a smaller investment bank. This is sometime in the late 90s. When he started, he took a general look around, checked with everyone how things are going and happened to meet on of the few IT people working in the building. When the IT guy realized that he was speaking to a new person who might be able to change things around there, he was elated and told him that there was an issue the previous boss never took too urgently, even though it was quite critical. Apparently the servers that were running pretty much all of the transactions of that investment bank were located in the basement of that building and have literally never been migrated, upgraded or anything else. The servers that were left over from that time was literally one running machine and another machine that had died a few years prior that was now only used for spares in case anything on the singular still working machine broke. Since the hardware was so old, there apparently weren’t many replacement parts left and the ones that were left were incredibly expensive due to many bank depending on those specific servers.

Anyway, my father heard that story and immediately got the guy the funding he needed to migrate to a newer and better system. Sometimes I think about this kind of stuff, we think banks are really resilient (and they try to be), but I wouldn’t be surprised if setup like these still exist somewhere because people are too scared to touch them.
the man literally has a full wikipedia section header: "Anti-vaccine advocacy and conspiracy theories on public health" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...
Only sometimes. A generalization like that is false. Until we have more data we won't know how the risks play out .
> It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research

Why is it surprising? The market is saying most people don’t have that privilege and academia is still in denial about that and completely out of touch, your surprise suggests you are… in touch? if this was a standardized test question, which you’re probably good at, you would not choose that answer

Both the private and public sector have co-opted university credentials as prerequisites for employment, leading a different audience to demand and feel entitled to being accepted at universities

I will give you something though: I agree this is all a mistake and the universities will outlive this 100 year folly of the plebs wanting to be there for employment, and revert to being half millennium old networking and refinement clubs for upper class children
The time of evaluation driven development
That is a very differnt problem.
https://apnews.com/article/jpmorgan-chase-bank-earnings-prof...

Speaking of "math that ain't mathin'" what about the fact that their best year ever was a year while they had a shitload of remote workers?
The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action
> But an insanely ruthless businessman.

Only according to his own self-propaganda.
Sounds like my personal git repos. God help us all if I ever need to share them, but I doubt it.
You may be misreading these numbers. It’s effectively 7-8% of the respondents who identify as non-heterosexual, which seems roughly in line with the general population (e.g. [0]).

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1270166/lgbt-identificat...
Alphabet is most probably the greatest human invention even more than wheel.

It's truly the original "bicycle of the mind", without it human progress is greatly hindered and inhibited [1].

"The Phoenician system is considered the first true alphabet and is the ultimate ancestor of many modern scripts, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic" [2].

[1] Bicycle of the Mind (45 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20712009

[2] Alphabet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet
A lot of what is being created is fairly derivative though, it's often more like a grift than an act of innovation. Actually coming up with something new damn near requires a fair bit of cognitive surplus.
This is good. The regular olympics is already an "all drug olympics". This will just increase visibility & safety.
This reply is extra funny given my edited message. And it might still be true.
Historically AI has been pretty bad with this. Machine learning is famous for finding solutions that pass all the test cases in out of the box ways but don't do what you want.
Forget What You Know about LLMs Evaluations – LLMs Are Like a Chameleon
Some people study things that require actual equipment. People who have the money to run a nuclear physics lab in their house are very rare.
You can also self-host that part. OpenWebUI integrates very well with searxng.

But kagi does a good job too, indeed.
even more stupid are Democrat party leadership who could have won past elections in a slam dunk, have they had thought about transition strategy in advance
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I have onboarded dozens of Data Engineering graduates in using Spark.

In the beginning this was with Scala and every single one struggled with SBT.

Giving developers unlimited flexibility in how they create build files is a bad idea.
>We are working on enabling this feature for Trial and Starter plans, which have access to a limited number of monthly searches. [...] and theoretically, users on this plan could redeem more tokens than the limit of searches allowed on their plan (again, we do not know who the user redeeming the tokens is, or what plan they are on).

This doesn't make sense. Is this saying they're worried about a user on a trial or starter plan using someone else's tokens? That can still happen when tokens are disabled for trial and start plan users: the trial or starter plan user can use tokens generated by someone on an unlimited plan.
I’ve been using it since they where in beta and I’ve never experienced this.

I had one issue with closing an investment account, and they reached out to me to let me know there was an issue and proactively rebated me.
Agree. And for relative pitch training, I love this tool! The creator should read the paper to get ideas on how to turn it into an actual training tool for absolute pitch.
Is it time to worry about bird flu? [video]
Honda E?
>It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research.

That's why I did a PhD, but of course, I'd still like some job security at the end of the pipeline. Currently a postdoc.
I guess that confirms how Larry's own moral compass works.
All those "Negative user focused" are actually "Apple proprietary problems" (problems that exist only on apple because of their weird proprietary stuff with no standards following, ie, getting temp on any other system is dead simple). Not sure if you actually believe in your list or you just used an AI that made the mistake.

I counted paragraphs topics myself: History (3), Proprietary Hardware Problems (8), Kernel/Rust problems (8), Other/Quitting (7). Could be off by one or two because I'm not a machine.

Also, I note that you did not disagree with or object to my initial response (the one made before your edit) that it is indeed halfway down the page before rust/kernel stuff is even mentioned.

I think it is safe to say that both Apple and the kernel/rust issues matter here and trying to derail any discussion of Apple's role into even more rust ragebait threads in a HN topic full of them is counterproductive.
Decades of ignoring existing anti-trust laws leading to large conglomerates with monopolistic pricing power?

Unfriendly labor rulings like the time you spend in mandatory employer required security screenings doesn't count as paid time?

Do share with the class what you think is special about Trump running consider he's done it for 4 elections [1] and considered it against Obama (you may remember the whole birther movement).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_presidential_camp...
So they have us intercept internet traffic and pass it on to them, but they wouldn't want access to data in iCloud? Right, ok sure.

I don't know, or care, if we initiated it or the US - but I find folks from the US acting like it's some shocking thing is quite galling.
Echo(1) and Printf(1)
I've been paying $5 a month for over a year and have hit the 300 search limit only once. I feel like I'm pretty active on the web, but perhaps I just have days where I don't search as often as others.
this may appear reasonable but every single state swayed to the right. and country elected the most corrupt and degenerate person that ever lived on this planet. so you can look at this from “numbers” perspective till the Sun goes down but Democrats have fully lost their way and need a full reboot. shit they have been selling no one is buying anymore and GOP candidate in 2028 will be a lot less of a fraud/felon/… than in 2024.
You are reading that very narrowly. The paragraph is simply pointing out that solar power is cheaper when built out in a centralised way because of:
* economies of scale for construction and maintenance
* higher utilisation. They don't spell it out exactly, but it is pretty clear fro m the context that, "lots of self-generated power will ultimately be wasted", is eluding to a wider geographic area needing more panels to satisfy all demand when each house has an independent system, rather than being grid tied.
>This is basically leopards-eating-face territory.

young people are too poor and dont have much to lose.

They wanted a break from the status quo, some new faces, other than DC establishment in power, and Trump is delivering on that demand
> It helps greatly to learn new topics.

I guess when you want to learn 33% of something, but be told you learned all of it.

The link used to say there are 2 quarks, though it is now simply a display of poor security management.
some people put them where they shouldnt
Honestly, from the stories I hear... Obviously,the money is one factor, but even if people got a little bit more money, they would still go for a PhD (at least in europe, where you don't need to go under debt so much, if you need to). The problem is that a lot of people don't even receive more money than people with Msc or even less. That's just too bad (even if in some countries this is not only illegal, but people actually follow the law - which is not something you should take for granted).

But even after the money consideration... you still have all the "lost credibility" in the system, because the institutions are not properly funded, and also because science is very dependent on grants,politics, and stupid criteria + nepotism and corruption inside the institutions, etc. That goes beyond PhD applications to even "who can sell the coffee in campus". On PhD apps, I will never forget when one of my housemate just said to me that he would leave the country because one teacher said to him in advance that he would not enter on PhD, because everything was bought out.

I think this is only the ""beginning"" of at least 10+ years of colleges having a hard time/ losing credibility year after year (sometimes because they are failing, and other times because they dare to have opinions different than people like Musk, which is not fair for academia). Either way, should I feel sorry for them? For the institutions, sure. But for the people who rule the institutions right now? My only fear is that they will be substituted by even worse individuals.
Super neat UI, it really takes me back to when Flickr came out and looked so polished compared to anything else at the time. Love the flow charts too.
> But what's the difference between an example ("it’s such good pedagogical practice to demonstrate examples of concepts you are trying to teach") and an analogy ("now they have to spend a week thinking that monads are burritos and getting utterly confused, and then a week trying to forget about the burrito analogy"), and why is it completely subjective leaving us with no hope?

I think it's not that there's a difference per se between an example and an analogy, but rather that one has to recognize that even the best-chosen analogy or example won't save other people from having to go through the struggle to come to grips with a difficult concept. That is, from my point of view, the problem with "it's so simple, a monad is a burrito!" isn't especially the "a monad is a burrito" part (although I'd argue that that's an overly fmap-flavored analogy, it's not really the point); it's the "it's so simple" part. From this point of view, which is mine as a teacher, teaching isn't a process of finding the path that lets students avoid every difficulty, but one of helping them to avoid the avoidable ones, manage the unavoidable ones, and build their own mental maps so that they can eventually understand and navigate the terrain themselves.
> the Democratic Party is the most racist institution in the United States of America.

What a load of crap! How many Confederate flags flying for Repubs and how many for Democrats? Which party supported the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville?
I’m not a lawyer. NIL may be a murky area of this law based off of case law. Maybe this action is appropriate in the sense of being legal and within the norms of Presidential power.
They're saying that when someone uses a privacy token to search, they cannot track which account it's tied to. Therefor, they cannot track limits & billing.
Who would you say is the asshole here?

Is Banksy being a hypocrite?

Is Andrew Gallagher being rude to a great artist?
Machine learning could be hardware as well. I'm in integrated circuit design and there are lots of custom hardware AI accelerators in development. Almost all of the new grads we hire have a masters degree in electrical or computer engineering (not computer science)
> is Rails really that much better than the alternatives?

I really think so. I've _looked_. I've tried all sorts of other web frameworks. And, admittedly, I am most familiar with Rails, so I'm maybe a bit biased. But it's hard to find anything that comes particularly close to the productivity of using Rails. The tooling's great, the ecosystem is great, it's organized well, the documentation is good. It's just... really a pleasant experience to use.

Elixir's Phoenix comes pretty close, as does PHP's Laravel, imo. Special shout out for Rust's Loco, too, which is relatively new, but looking potentially promising.

I recommend giving Rails an open-minded tire kicking. I think you'll be surprised by how quickly you can get going.
Also it's constrained to "most people I've met in industry". If OP doesn't work with C++ developers...
> How many folks do you think ever have any real idea what they're voting for?

Easily not "most of them".

It seems we both agree that "most people voted for {this}" where {this} is any specific policy action is essentially bullshit exaggerated hyperbole.
I hope Protonmail picks up on privacy pass. It would be nice to fund anonymous Protonmail accounts with an anonymous “benefactor” account.
And you kept up the hard work in the office?
> it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place

Counter - I recently asked a faculty candidate how he would recruit curious, talented graduate students, and he said “I develop connections from interesting online communities like Hacker News.” I loved this answer because it’s consistent with my observations. HN may seem cynical but the average level of potential PhD students is higher than many alternatives!
I can’t find anything to support that.

The order as quoted refers to new joins:

> “Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused,” Hegseth said in a memo dated Feb. 7 and filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Which is consistent with Trump’s order from his first term that allowed transgender troops already serving to remain.

The only quote on current troops I found was:

> Hegseth said individuals with gender dysphoria already in the military would be “treated with dignity and respect,” and the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness would provide additional details on what this would mean.

Do you have a source for that claim?
Burning in woman's legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain
That's quite a defeatist attitude you have going for you.