skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this list of challenge theorems managed by Freek Wiedijk has encouraged math formalization in general, and been good for all.

That's certainly true for Metamath; once the progress of Metamath was tracked against this list of 100 theorems (around 2014), a lot more theorems from the 100 theorems list were added of course: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jcLOp_jF4sPrVPdPedL_...
but in fact more proven theorems were added in general:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TnuBekyUP918smZeJRD0...

Metamath's state is a little amazing; it's tied for third place, yet there is very little built in. For example, numbers are not built-in, they are a derived construct. Metamath didn't even have a decimal number representation until 2015. When you truly start with just logic and set theory (specifically ZFC) it's a lot of work to get to just the basics, especially when you have to directly show every step. Each of the systems listed here are worthy systems. I work most with Metamath; this video I created explains more about its background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WH4Rd4UKGE

I think mathematical formalization is important, and in the long term that needs to be the direction of mathematics in general. It's too easy to make "proofs" that have errors that slip by. Automated theorem verification systems don't get tired and give far more confidence that proofs really are proofs. If math is all about proving that certain claims can be proven from well-accepted assumptions, then we need to make those proofs more rigorous.
I fail to see how this ties into your original point.
I got a dell XPS 13 this week for work and its absolutely insane. Best laptop I have ever had and I have had macbooks. I'm running Fedora 29 on it and it works perfect. The battery life is amazing, I'm seeing about 10+ hours while running Gnome and a bunch of dev tools. Made sure to pick one without a nvidia GPU. The only thing I can fault it for is you can't open the hinge with one hand.
Like this:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/08/the-turktrust-ss...

Anything that gets into your bundle establishes incredible power over you.
Come on... C doesn't initialize memory, doesn't manage memory, doesn't verify bounds for buffers, etc.

It's especially unsafe to write C.
Lately I've been wondering about the reasoning behind these hellish flat keyboards, and then I thought of the Touchbar and the following popped into my head: the ultra flat keyboards are just a segue into a new form factor with a full screen, tablet-like glass bottom half replacing the keyboards altogether. The current situation is just apple's way of getting everyone one step closer, while they work their way up (or rather down) to that goal.

Does this make sense to anyone else?
Those numbers can't be right. That's only double what an iphone has.
There’s no “what if” about it. Amazon.com’s UX has always been chock full of dark design patterns and incongruous UI choices. The same is true to varying degrees for many of their platforms and products. It’s not really a huge deal, although it is one of the big reasons I don’t feel like Amazon is very trustworthy.
I would have thought this day and age a DNA sequencing company would have a big splash about privacy on their main page. I didn't see it.
Delaware and New Jersey banned child marriage this year. I expect many other states will soon do the same.
As others have said, the real issue is how they get all the way down to $200. Sale of personal info?

Maybe when we get a clear answer, I'll consider checking my genome. But not before.
> Huawei has completely opened its source code and hardware to several governments, including UK, Canada and Germany, for security testing. Their findings are much more informative and objective.

What does this even mean? If I give a batch of governments some of my super secret text files and pinky promise that's what's in the hardware I'm giving them, they should believe me?

The US can be trusted to advance its own interests. So can China. Everyone else had best evaluate their threat vectors and find out where their interests conflict with bigger and stronger interests.

Your comment history might have predicted that you'd comment on this topic. You don't have many other interests.
Swish is cleared by the Bankgirot system. I'm not completely sure about the technical details but there is no card involved.
This is common theme of Evan Williams startups. He starts a company to build new blogging platform because last one sucked. Enormous amount of head spinning marketing is done to acquire millions of bloggers. Then the company is sold to suckers for few billion dollars. Most talent leaves and the sucker aquirer freezes the product in zombie state. Ev Williams then starts another blog startup because his last one sucked. Next up: Medium.com.
Large international dealings are never about 'truth' - they are about the balance of a web of geopolitical issues.

Also, this is not paranoia, it's a geostrategic fight based on the reality that a) China and US/West are doing a lot to actively spy on one another b) they're in a trade war.

Also China does not have an open market for US/Western products and I don't see any reason why the same rules applied by China to the West should not apply to Chinese companies coming to the West. That would be closer to 'fair free trade'.

But yes - if the hardware and software are both open for inspection - that is a kind of 'truth' as you say.

and companies should then be able to decide for themselves.

Question: is it true though that both hardware and software are in fact fully open? How do they maintain their IP in this case?
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Lack of soft skills can be managed around, albeit not as easily in this age of open plan offices. Andy Warhol was a self proclaimed asshole, but I still would have hired him for an art installation.
Incremental staging of the next commit is absolutely a valuable feature.

I'll often touch multiple files over the course of a few hours, sometimes for slightly unrelated changes, and then want to pull apart the changes into several smaller logical commits. Sometimes a couple hunks in a file might need to go into Commit A, while others go into Commit B.

You can do piecemeal adding of hunks via the CLI, but the interface is horrible. Being able to simply click "Add Hunk" in a GUI is incredibly valuable (or even in some cases shift-clicking a couple lines and "Add Lines").
I also considered this since I dock my MBA most of the time and frankly even on the 2018 the graphics are incredibly weak. I needed some portability though.
There is a law in China that says citizens and corporations are required to cooperate with its intelligence services

Of course US corporations are just as beholden to government directive. e.g. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/04/how-american-companies-...
The equivalent proof in Metamath that the square root of 2 is irrational is here: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/sqr2irr.html

"The Seventeen Provers of the World" compiled by Freek Wiedijk shows proofs of "the square root of 2 is irrational" in a variety of systems, making it much easier to compare different systems.
http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/comparison/comparison.pdf

For example, the Metamath system literally shows every step, no exceptions; many other systems only show a program script to enable the computer to re-discover the proof (instead of being the actual proof itself). Which is "better"? Well, that depends on your goals :-). But it's much easier to compare systems by showing an example.
n-reduce online incubator did that. they tried to monetize it and failed. (or they couldn't figure out how to monetize it)

the incentive was that everyone was coaching everyone else (in their small group), so you support others, and get support yourself.

i believe there are several organizations that provide this kind of support. mastermind groups do that too i think.
Link to privacy policy: https://us.dantelabs.com/pages/privacy-policy
I remain to be convinced that Apple or Samsung are any more trustworthy than Huawei. It's all made in China. While these manufacturers may not be sneaking backdoors into devices, since this might be caught, they likely are being compelled to disclose designs to be analyzed for weaknesses. It doesn't really matter if some of the design work is done in California.

I wouldn't have substantially higher trust in something made in the U.S. or other "five eyes" countries either. These governments do not respect the privacy of their citizens, as evidenced by the NSA's recent breaches. Some countries do slightly better than others (e.g. Canada probably isn't as bad as the U.S. yet). However, on the whole, privacy rights seem to be on the decline in these countries. Treaties and cooperation between the security agencies of these countries drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
I've been running Ubuntu Gnome for years at work, and it's great, and I think maybe the next machine I buy will just run Linux. Then randomly after some recommended update the headers are hosed, and I can't not my machine. And if I could, I wouldn't know how to fix it. Linux is 97% there for me, and every day it gets a bit better. I still worry about those updates though.
Thanks for the mention of bookmark-archiver! WARC support has been high on my list for a long time, but unfortunately, I have a day job that keeps me super busy.

Also, the author, Antoine Beaupré is also an engineer living in Montreal who works on mesh networking stuff, are we the same person?! I just sent him an email to make sure it doesn't land in my own inbox...
what is it with people these days having a desire to reduce everything in the world to a binary yes/no, true/false, is/isn't situation?
My team at work. We are racing to an important deadline. Everyone is working well together. Its just fun.
I guess if you're just an everyman or everywoman -- one with no info relating to national security on your device -- it could be better to own Huawei to avoid abuses of authorities inside the US[1]?

Particularly if you are a woman, minority, journalist, or business-owner, as [1] highlights, you may be safer from such abuses.

1 - https://theweek.com/speedreads/651668/hundreds-police-office...
You reasoning misses an important aspect: the incentives.

Does China government have the incentives to take the advantages when it has the opportunity?

Does Huawei have the incentives/disincentives to/not to respond to the demands of the government?
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You're not the only one to think of this! Here's an article about a patent they claimed earlier this year:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/27/17058616/a...
Well, I think his book very clearly spells out the other problems with those kinds of organisations. :-) Definitely not my thing, but I have a more nuanced view of things these days.
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How is the FISA court independent? The US government can strong-arm corporate partners to do virtually anything they want, and can not only threaten jail if you ever talk about it, they cloak the whole thing -- even for the most banal thing -- as classified so it's impossible to contest.

This seems like pretending there is nuance that there simply isn't. The system is a charade around the reality that US intelligence has virtually identical inroads to US corporations.
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It's more accurate to say "the king". People still want a king. I hope Trump critics can start identifying this soon...
Allegedly everyone engages in corporate espionage.
I have nothing against the article, but I don't think you have to be superficial to see a bait and switch. The article trades throughout on the idea that Choc is a cultural touchstone in NYC, but the closest it comes to investigating that is quotes from one shopkeeper. There's a brief with a signmaker who doesn't admit an association with Choc, and then a lot of typographers.

This approach frustrates me in other media - it's especially common in podcasts. Sometimes the author finds something that interests them, but ultimately feels they have to sell the story with a different hook.

I wish authors would instead take it as a challenge to get other people invested in what captivated them. For example, the story could have pretty easily owned the obvious Asian restaurant association up front, but deliberately explored the font origins anyway (and maybe more specifically in that context).
Towns obliterated by fires just don't happen often enough that we need to make forests "no-go" areas. Even if one town per year were completely destroyed it wouldn't be sufficient justification because there are many such towns and the probability of a specific one being destroyed is still a once in a century event.
Just run a vm with linux in it and do most of your work from there? Can do the same thing if you were stuck in windows too.
WoW this could be quite exploitative. I think the people who really need this service would avoid reading your emails, this service may not be really helpful surely it will make money by exploiting the weakness of people with low disciplne or distracted mind due to various reasons or things happening in their lives.
Snowden and Trump both showed how brittle the societies are that we are living in
I built one called Firestr. Check http://firestr.com

I didn't use a framework and built it from scratch. Maybe there is some code there that can help you understand how this stuff works.

The whole app is an environment to make p2p apps in Lua with a built in editor. Not sure there is anything easier than firestr to build p2p apps. Check out the Lua code for some examples here https://github.com/mempko/firestr/tree/master/example_apps
And the rate of errors is..?

The same genome sequenced two times - how many differences between two sequences? Please, don't tell me it is none.
I find it very sad. I used to work on the team that rendered the front page 'customers also bought' ads, and we were incredibly serious about avoiding dark patterns. We even had a training programme to make sure we knew the personalization principles - erring on the side of over informing the customer, etc.

As a random dev in a different dept, I even got the first iteration of the Amazon app's notification ads pulled temporarily. They were badly implemented (they advertised a product, but linked to something different, and there was no obvious way to turn them off), I felt they reflected badly on the company, so I filed a ticket and it actually got listened to.

All that's gone out the window now. Every time I see the Prime clickthroughs, credit card deals, 'lightning deals' which are only about 20c off the normal discount, etc, it makes me grind my teeth.
Which is exactly what I was talking about, and it is 100% true that they missed unit sales virtually every quarter this year. They weren't "unattainable numbers." They had beaten those numbers consistently over the years, but now somehow it's "unattainable." Ok. Despite what you think analysts don't pull these numbers out of thin air. They talk to insiders, they talk to suppliers.

Don't let EPS beats fool you, some of that comes from share buybacks or write-offs. Apple is/was buying $100B in shares back. For every share not in float, that raises EPS. Generally analysts account for this, but if a company has been aggressive one quarter on the buy back desk, they could get it wrong.

Apple is a great company, I don't get why people are so in denial that sales are slowing (that doesn't mean they aren't growing.) It's a natural part of the cycle. Get over it, it's something Microsoft went through too. There always reaches a point of market saturation. No need to fan boy over it.
I believe in the future it will be basically free to sequence the genome from a strand of hair. Given that, is it reasonable to try protecting your genome data?
I highly doubt that these fires create an atmosphere of ~90bar with wind speeds in excess of 300km/hr, and temperatures averaging about 450C. The surface of Venus is a type of brutal that we don't experience on Earth, luckily.
The alternative to Huawei for telecommunications equipment isn't a US corporation so framing it as the US vs China serves no purpose. I'll be happy if neither the US nor China made telecommunications equipment for countries.

I don't understand why people feel the need to defend Chinese mega corporations.

edit: I managed to offend a few people with this comment
Flipkart? Not sure on the scale, but it has way better ui. I usually search in flipkart then buy in amazon unless it very low in flipkart. Amazon has very good service hence prefer to buy there.
To add to this, what is described is called Shared Source, not Open Source or Libre Software. Microsoft does shared source with numerous governments and universities, but your placing complete trust in the vendor that the code they show you is what is in their distributed binaries, esp. with how many compilers output different binaries when recompiled with the same code.

The only way to even start considering any of the current telecom vendors (including Huawei, NSN, etc) as not malicious is to have them offer their code under a libre license that bars tivoization, otherwise there is no guarantee that you can load the firmware they gave you the source to onto the LTE base stations sold your company.
They've been trying to make things thinner / lighter, and they're trying to do that to the keyboards as well
Spatial OS is not Google offering by any means. Google is simply huge investor in that company and those folks are using GCP as part of investment aggrement. It’s a dumb move by them but it pays their bills for now.

But you are correct. Taking dependency on Google services like maps, offers, product search and other APIs have previously bankrupted few folks. Also, as a user I avoid buying stuff like movies, music, storage space, photo storage etc because it could just disappear tomorrow.
All I and others are asking for is some hard evidence. Either the company is engaged in unsavory behavior or it is not. You can't be ambiguous about this and expect people to play along.

Given how easy it should be for a capable government like the US to find something like this (especially given how common huawei gear is) and how "friendly" the US has been with China, I would expect to have seen at least some evidence surface by now. In fact, I would take the lack of evidence as a testimony to the innocence of huawei and the security of their hardware.
Whistleblowing always makes it more difficult for the human rights violators. Some of these people will finish their workday in government or tech companies and be with families and friends who really don't care about their actions, but even then, they still have to wonder and worry.

"Do they think I'm spying on them, after Snowden reported that NSA men passed around private images of girls they found? Will I be named in the history books as a monster?"

It's always worth it. It's karma.
I would say people like me who have serially owned Macs are the MOST disappointed with the new design choices. It really seems like Apple is losing their vision with these "innovations"
My 2 cents on the cloud front is that I never did learn to find my around GCP, and could not even find out how to sign up for Azure 2 years ago. AWS was easy to navigate, and the others were bewildering.

Maybe it would be different now that I know my way around these things, but the only really usable cloud services I've seen were DO & AWS (DO was the simplest).

edit - I wonder why my experience has felt so different from everyone else. I use AWS in part now because its so easy to work with (besides the billing page)
Film and music.
I think social graph segmentation will prevail in coming years. Traditional platforms create a superset of all your social circles (friends, work acquaintances, family, peers), which--in my experience--makes it awkward to be yourself.

Furthermore, pooling social circles as such tends to fuel a social competition that distracts you with vanity metrics (e.g. likes/followers) and sucks the fun out of connecting with others.

I'm building a product called Saturday[0] to solve this problem. It's a video app that's built for groups. You can create private groups and any member can add videos they capture with the built-in camera.

[0]: https://thesaturdayapp.com
Uh, hardware being open means nothing. Your supplier can swap your standard chip for a spy chip and open hardware will not be able to help you catch that.
Not everyone here is a 'professional' software developer. Git does have a steep learning curve.

(I've used git extensively for years, just playing devil's advocate)
imagine all the CS research that relies on the STL expecting it to behave optimally
There was supposed to be a Google Voice API. Never happened.
I think decaying batteries might drive people to get new machines? Just a suspicion. They do it with iphones :p
Often the best way to find what I’m looking for is to google the product with “site:amazon.com”. That’s not a great endorsement of their search functionality.
I previously thought I may have ADHD, but after seeing a GP-refered psychiatrist who said “no you have anxiety instead”, I assumed him to be correct and dropped the idea.

Now, despite having largely learnt to manage said anxiety, I still have a massive problem with “avoidance”; do you think it is perhaps worth revisiting the potential ADHD?

I do find that Ritalin helps tremendously, but obviously I do not have a prescription, it’s something I only take when in supply and I have a pressing deadline.
It affects people differently so she may be better off than the person in this story, but no doubt it's a real burden to most sufferers. My good friend has it and I've watched him struggle for fifteen years now. There are alright years, terrible ones, and some in between. It's a terrible disease.
I actually came up with the name before Google announced that project, so I'm going to be stubborn and stick with it. :)