skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got caught cheating in my very last college course so can never get my PhD. I use to be atrocious at school bc I had adhd and was about to drop but did a complete 180 and finally learned how to learn which changed everything. I discovered my love for Math and my immediate and only goal from that point forward was to get my PhD.

My temple became the library and would go there immediately after class and every weekend at 8am. I graduated at the brink of COVID so could no longer go to my favorite and on my very last final of my college career couldn’t take the noise of my roommates cheering me on and also just wanted to be done to used chegg on a small part of my test and got caught.

Do I deserve to get my PhD? No. Why? I showed my academic integrity can’t be trusted. Do I still want my PhD? 1000% Yes. Do I regret my decision? No.

My school told me I could either not be awarded my degree or receive it with the exception that “cheater” be branded everywhere on it. I originally wanted to go with no degree at all but figured I’d own up to my mistake and use the label to rebrand myself as someone who learned their lesson and won’t make the same mistake again.

During COVID I obviously couldn’t find work so utilized my spare time to pick up a new hobby and landed on tinkering. That lead into my discovery of software and the rest is history. I fell in love with software engineering and have been doing it for the past 4+ years.

I’m extremely proud of myself and all that I’ve accomplished because with absolutely no incentive or motivations or even help I managed to learn a new subject completely on my own. A cheater can post code that isn’t theirs’ to their GitHub over the course of 4 years however a cheater can’t show you 4 years worth of work. Also if you think a tech job might’ve been my motivation, I did try to obviously get a job but failed at yet another goal and quit several months ago. I’m working construction but still learning and coding each and every day.

A PhD is becoming an expert in a specified subject and then thinking up an idea no one has ever had before and backing up your ideas with proof. In a PhD program you are given unlimited resources to make that happen. I think (big emphasis on think) I can do that completely on my own. If I’m being honest I’ve actually already begun and don’t know if it’ll work out, come to fruition, or even be read but at least I tried. If I try the only cost is my time but if you’re in a program it costs time and money.
> Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor.

They didn't show those 'complex brain circuits' were not present in common ancestor. Am I missing something and this is well known? There is also nothing about fish. I suspect such complex organisms cannot exist without "excitatory and inhibitory neurons" the article talks about.
Discussion (233 points, 1 day ago, 132 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027150
Yes when new models come out it feels like breaking up.
Discussion (187 points, 1 day ago, 288 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026934
I have no roof but I would happily have a day of battery around in the bad weather and use it to drastically cut my electricity costs in good weather. In a world with competitive grids or grids that couldn't charge negative, I think some regulatory complexity would suddenly evaporate and someone much like the paradoxical utility sponsored energy saving consultant might show up to help me do that.
Yes - I mean in the private sector, hiring an employee is what, 1.4-1.6x salary cost? NIH indirects mirror that.
Analysts welcome ACID transactions on real-time distributed Aerospike
Weaponized Open Source
It was worse than that in the UK! The incumbent party lost 69% of their seats (20% was the vote share).

365 -> 121
We use Mermaid!
Oracle (Sun) never released LibreOffice, despite what this article says.

LibreOffice continues to be a fascinating C++ codebase. If you want to work on a large scale C++ legacy product, then I'd say this is the best codebase to work on.
Comments like this are why people find transactivists so irritating. Whether they happen to agree with them or not. No-one even mentioned transgender issues yet here you are bringing them up to start an argument. Not everything is about trans you know.
Playing the... angel's advocate...

There's no reason why a subscription model could not also be used to subsidize people who can not pay, other than that companies are structured to extract as much as possible (by law, if they are public).

There are good network effect arguments about why this strategy can be effective, not simply 'altruistic.'

Ads simply make the extraction happen across the board, except that the ad model somewhat privileges technical users who know how to circumvent ads.
Well, more of the discussion is at: (39 points, 3 hours ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040828
Their motto is "move fast and break everything"
The source code version of that is CVE-2021-42574, and they have a website:

https://trojansource.codes/

Basically it's possible to hide some code that looks like comments but compiles like code. I seem to recall the CVE status was disputed since many text editors already make these suspicious comments visible.
Let's say the maximum amount allowed by a company is determined by the number of people that have a controlling share in the company. If one person controls the company, it's still $1B; if there's 8 people holding 51% of the shares it can hold $8B, etc.
This assumes that I already have "my" IRB. Most people who want publish an informal online survey do not.
I would be surprised if much of that funding went to constructing those fancy buildings - donors who want their name over the door like to do that. Keeping the lights on, air heated/conditioned, stockrooms stocked, etc don't come cheap. Let's also remember that the government doesn't _just_ get all the research output from that grant money, they get a pipeline of researchers (and undergraduates) that feed industry (plus world class research facilities that can do more research, beyond what the government directly funds). And that's a large part of what has made the US so economically successful, and such a desirable place for people to learn and work.

(Also professors and post docs in many areas can make a lot more in industry, so let's not knock them too much if a university wants to look at least a little attractive to them)
Scala is hardly some obscure bespoke language. It's a top-20, maybe top-10 programming language, that's been around for 20+ years (and had far fewer breaking changes than Python over that time). Most Python translates directly into Scala, but with the benefit of a proper sound type system and full IDE support. And it's a great language for data munging.
It is not a zero sum acceptance.
This is almost what is happening. Rate payers are paying less and less in order to compensate for production cost, and increasingly more in order to be connected to the grid and that the grid is stable. For the moment that cost is mostly attached to how much energy is consumed as a matter of billing, but that can change.
me and my Aeropress on search for the perfect espresso bean:
https://audio.adauris.ai/v2/widget/Z9c9GirxT8VF1q1NRDh6/NaUz...
I am talking about lack of pretty standard features, not bugs. Having more users would not help there. And in general, you dont need a huge influx of users, and you definitely you dont get as much help from users who are not going to put at least some effort in the feedback they give. You want users that are conscious enough about what they are using to give useful feedback and/or support with donations. I am pretty sure that some people still are attracted to running an experimental version of linux.

Imo modern linux experience is much better than the situation you describe, at least as long as you use certain type of hardware. In the past it was definitely harder. But wrt asahi, I want the "luxury" of using an external monitor with my 13" macbook air, and sadly, while in the past x86 machines I put linux I would put some effort and get AMD mesa drivers to work, I cannot do that here. I respect the effort put in the asahi project, but calling it suitable for a daily driver is misleading, unless you specify exactly what sort of daily driver you mean. Stuff like using an external monitor is pretty basic in my book of daily usage.
Because V and W weren't firmly established as their own letters until later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V

> During the Late Middle Ages, two minuscule glyphs of U developed which were both used for sounds including /u/ and modern /v/. The pointed form ⟨v⟩ was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form ⟨u⟩ was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas valour and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed as "haue" and "vpon". The first distinction between the letters ⟨v⟩ and ⟨u⟩ is recorded in a Gothic script from 1386, where ⟨v⟩ preceded ⟨u⟩. By the mid-16th century, the ⟨v⟩ form was used to represent the consonant and ⟨u⟩ the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter ⟨v⟩. ⟨u⟩ and ⟨v⟩ were not accepted as distinct letters until many years later.[3] The rounded variant became the modern-day version of ⟨u⟩, and the letter's former pointed form became ⟨v⟩.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W

> The classical Latin alphabet, from which the modern European alphabets derived, did not have the "W" character. The "W" sounds were represented by the Latin letter "V" (at the time, not yet distinct from "U").
Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug
Do you only declare the file names, or also file content and owner and group and everything up front?

Sure it deliberately has a bunch of restrictions in its base form. But in order to use it for anything you have to write custom actions or download and execute custom actions others wrote. And this will mutate your file system and run arbitrary executables.
No, a 40 year old codebase with only 25 years of commit logs. And the initial commits during the Sun releases are insane - they took a bunch of commits, mashed them together and then added them as a single commit with a log message stating what all the commits they munged together did. Nightmare fuel.

Excellent lately though.
> Sure somebody might not have Python experience, but it's pretty easy to just not hire someone who says they don't know Python and isn't willing to learn for the role.

This works just as well for Scala.
Not quite, but it was the closest pithy quote I could think of to convey the point that things can be false for a long time before they are suddenly true without warning.
I'm another one who's had two colonoscopies. Try to schedule it for the morning so that most of the fasting time will be while you're asleep. The prep is not a lot of fun, but it's only about half a day and it's very much not as bad as gastroenteritis or anything else that'll give you a good bout of diarrhoea.
Well, anti-US sentiment isn't weird when the deranged president of your military superpower former ally to the south proposes invading you. Stay sane, if you can. Hug your cats. (:
Protocol Labs here — are you familiar with Fluence or Bacalhau projects? Those might be good starting points.
Maybe modeled after browser dev tools. Big display at the top, small repl at the bottom with a dragged to resize. Also tab structure and the “menu” are chewing up a lot of vertical real estate for two classes of data most users won’t see as separate.

The schema ui seems to be big because of the graph display… which is not at all done baking yet. The hard part of displaying graphs is the pathing, and the very first one I opened has an arrow coming from the left, going across the mode, and attaching to the right side. In a perfectly horizontal line. That’s gonna need to cook a lot longer. It it worth having a bad vis over having no vis?
Because that’s not one-click setup or priced per request, which was the comment I was responding to was seeking.

And I did say at the end of my comment:

> Thing is, almost every self hosted app supports docker now and so if you like, install portainer on a VPS or NUC or raspberry pi and you’ll be able to set up most self hosted apps easily without touching the command line.
I mean, it's been in production for years, has a cap of £20k and I'm pretty sure the design of BACS means it's very difficult to recall a transaction after the 4pm time when the feature becomes available. Simon is probably in a very good position to know how often that sort of thing happened, if ever.

I'm pretty happy with them offering this based on my understanding of BACS, as a shareholder.
Why did he lie about the deaths of 83 Samoan children in front of the Senate?

https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-kennedy-vacc...
Modern Linux kernel is a corporate project which is open source.

It seems that it's impossible even for very talented folks to push such work load without corporate backing both without monetary compensation and other resources like non-public documentation. It is very impressive that Asahi team has achieved, but the more hardware advances, the less realistic is to support it on enthusiasm alone.
> Why would you do that?

I think they were offering that as a solution to the difficulty of finding new equivalent jobs quickly.

While it's true people can "just quit"... there's usually more factors that make that very difficult, like having enough money saved up to last until you get a new job, and actually finding a replacement job that pays enough to let them keep a similar quality of life as they have now.
It sounds like you don’t know how interest or debt works. If you have children, your children are going to be paying for generations
H5N1 testing in cow veterinarians suggests bird flu is spreading silently
While partly debated, the first part sounds like a prime candidate for Dunning Kruger effect in (historic) action
I have a CS PhD from a good (but not top 5) program and have published in top venues. I perceived my chances of getting a job at Microsoft Research (MSR) to be low (on par with getting a faculty position at a top place) and didn't feel like going through the unpleasant prospect of coming up with job talks and slides, sending off to universities while I'm at it, writing diversity statements, etc, for fairly low chances at getting something at MSR.

I could have gotten something at a 'lesser' place, but my guess is they'd be even more likely to be disrupted by budget cuts.

Even getting one of these roles though leaves you in a position where the next guy who wants to save money can just axe the whole division and then you're on your ass and due to a general paucity of research roles and high competition, this can be very, very bad.

I went bog-standard industry and the PhD probably didn't help much there. My industry job largely wastes my training and research experience. In retrospect, I was foolish to get a PhD and people choosing to not do so are generally making the right choice.
Linus Tech Tips did a video on getting internet between their main building and a new one this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9P_R-ApD-g
> This is like saying, "I bought a car and don't drive it." -- which people do.

Well, it is, but in the same sense, if you own a car for a long time and don't drive much, your per-km costs end up high (due to car components wearing out from age rather than mileage) and your essentially fixed costs (insurance, etc.) end up proportionally greater compared to truly variable (gasoline, etc.) costs.

And if you really don't drive much, you get additional problems; the typical recommendation is to drive a car a minimum of a continuous 20 minutes every couple weeks.
What is the bug number?
No offense but my comment was a response to the suggestion that someone who didn’t vote somehow committed wrongdoing. Not sure how a diatribe against the “evils” of the GOP voter persuasion machine speaks much to that. It’s obvious to me both parties denigrate the other candidate through media and publicity.

My decision to not vote for Harris boiled down to my opinion that she failed in her one duty as VP, which was to effectively step in and govern in the event that Biden was unable to function as president. That much was painfully obvious during his debate, which exposed her dereliction of duty.
I've never seen a language used for ancillary purposes be the make or break on hiring for a role, it's always just been expected that you'd pick it up as you go. And IMO, python is the least offensive compared to stuff like Perl, Ruby (for Chef) or whatever the heck Terraform is.
When I was in university, my instructor linked something like this for SQL practice (a crime solving minigame, just like this one).

I remember getting really into it, even going to the extreme of trying to find the most efficient one-liner solution.

Thanks for making this. I’ll be passing the torch by linking it to anyone interested in learning SQL.
You just proved the C devs point..
> From the discussion here, it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place. Somewhat surprising.

Lol! Are you new here? Y-combinator is literally about selling your soul to VC.
NYPD tried that. Law and order persisted.
I wouldn't be surprised if Banksy is a group of people. Like it was with those Spanish writers.

> Female Spanish thriller writer Carmen Mola revealed to be three men

> To everyone's surprise, Mola was not a university professor nor a woman. The authors, it turned out, were three established Spanish men, the screenwriters Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero.
It gives me an indication of whether my comments please people or annoy them, and encourages me to keep the two in balance so that my karma stays level.
> Efficient is not spending ~2h commuting each day, every day.

To collaborate with an offshore team over a video call.
The median is something like $130k according to the BLS. So it should be significantly more common than not. I haven't looked at the stats on distribution, but I would guess around 75%+ make six figures. How long current people took to earn that money is not really relevant since inflation would significantly alter that for people starting now. Many new grads seem to make $100k starting or hit that within 3 years. Someone making $75k 10 years ago would need to make $100k now to earn the same value.
The list of foolish things a person might do to squander a fortune is effectively endless, but one also has the freedom to refrain from being stupid.
This is super fun!

One small thing which would be nice is the ability to just download the sqlite database myself so I could use my preferred application to query it, and just use the site for the brief, notes and submission.

Also a nitpick, while you say it's for "learning" SQL, I would probably expect something a little more guided, or at least some example queries, if the intention was to teach SQL. As it stands, if you don't know SQL you're probably going be completely lost as to what you should be doing. It's really cool, just not specifically as a learning tool.
Yes, "get paid early" is a feature that US fintechs and banks offer, and have for years. So in the context of this subthread, it's all about ACH.

The feature is based on the predictable pattern of payroll direct deposits, and/or a pre-settlement view into the ACH transfers for the day. The latter sounds like what you are describing for BACS, but I don't know the UK details.
Yes. But that is not what OP comment is asking for. They want one-click. And request based pricing. I was explaining why request based pricing is infeasible and one-click install would price people out (because it would imply a VPS per service).

And I said the same thing at the end of my comment about the way people would host things using docker on a VPS or home server.

> Thing is, almost every self hosted app supports docker now and so if you like, install portainer on a VPS or NUC or raspberry pi and you’ll be able to set up most self hosted apps easily without touching the command line.
You can use Collabora's version.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/subscriptions/
And the "almost" is the problem. Making the grid fee semi-optional based on how much electricity you buy is a massive destabilizing factor.
It’s probably the guy from Art Attack
Yea, for example I want to use librecalc more but it only vertically scrolls by column and not smoothly. It's intolerably annoying to me. I cant figure out if there's any way to have smooth vertical scroll but so far no.

Never heard of onlyoffice thanks I will check it out.
Today but will that continue? We don't know. If ai really works you may need better in the future. Only time will tell
On a Mac, Python has always been a challenge.

Up until recently Apple only included Python2 and so developers used Homebrew to install Python3. Now it’s very common to find two versions of Python3 installed on a Mac developer’s laptop that conflicts with each other.

You really want to be using virtualenv.
I'm surprised that Lua wasn't included in the discussion. I'm not saying they necessarily should have chosen to use it, but it's a notable omission given its popularity as a config language.
US prosecutor in New York resigns after order to drop mayoral case
I agree. In the 2005-2015 era, I used to have admiration for those that worked at Google and wanted to be like them. Now I view them similarly to those who work at tobacco companies or payday loan companies. They've literally become the villains of the tech story.
Over half of LLM-written news summaries have "significant issues" – BBC analysis
a double-ended queue is often implemented using a doubly linked list (like the one in use here)

if you back it by two arrays then you can't do O(1) inserts in the middle (like is going on here)
PhD students are not paid a fair wage for their labor. Even if you like the subject and don't care about the money, you're putting yourself in an abusive position where you will be doing long hours for some of the worst part across "STEM".
The existing comments here already capture most of my thoughts on the subject: users reap benefit + shareholder loose revenue = disaster!

Disaster for who? Not the users that's for sure.

Another aspect of this in the US electric utility context is that if more power is genrated locally, and exxcess is distributed as locally as possible, then long distance distribution is reduced. THere aren't as many needs, and certainly this reduces planned expansion of long distance distribution.

However, this is also a "disaster" as defined above, since construction of those long distance transmission facilities are also payed for with public bonds and therefore direct taxpayer funding.

The economist never ceases to amaze in this twisted logic...
And yet, you are bringing made-up analogy that suits you to the discussion.