skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you are working on a course of study under guidance, you probably won't go chapter by chapter. Indeed, you won't even read it linearly.

Once I finished my coursework, I tend to have a problem and go searching for material that may get me some traction on it. So a lot of keyword searches, a lot of reading prologues (prologues are where the author tends to give his conceptual overview of what the material in the book is for...I've learned a lot from reading random prologues in a math library).

Once I find something that looks interesting, I'm usually down to a few theorems or definitions that I think will give me traction. Then I start poking around the book or any other source I need/can find to figure out what I need to understand those definitions/theorems.

Usually at some point it becomes clear if they're a) irrelevant, or b) partially relevant. If (a), I drop the entire line right there and go back to searching. If (b), I start running counterexamples from the problem I'm working on against them, looking for where it breaks and seeing what I can salvage.

Prologues usually read like a novel, but occasionally stopping to look up words, so more like reading a novel in a foreign language. Once you're into the meat, your rate of progress is typically measured in hours per paragraph or days per page. But you probably only end up using ten or twenty pages out of a two hundred page book in this method.
Check out the VSCO app. It's a photography community where there's no publicly visible like/re-share counters (though the actions themselves exist).

They deliberately put the entire focus on the photo and the photographer and not on the comments/likes/share, etc.

It's an example of deliberate product design that ecschews the trapping of more popular social media. I know there's a couple more examples that I came across recently but I can't think of them at the moment (I think SnapChat also gets some credit here to some extent).
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What you're describing will only work against current publicly available tools. You can't fool the tools that you don't know about as easily. Would you bet your career against the next few years or even decades of AI research just to publish an anonymous paper?
Let's also quote @empath75 which @dmerfild is answering to:

> Free speech means no one is forced to do business with nazis.
Send Marriott an Erasure Request now and maybe next time it will not be your data: https://opt-out.eu/?company=marriott.com#nav
Well, the stiffling of funding to symbolic AI is a real danger. The field just keeps shrinking. And it's not just funding. Many people entering machine learning today would simply not know a predicate if it leaped up and bit them in the existential quantifiers. They also have no idea that the field they are now joining en masse actually started out with learning in the propositional calculus, neither do they understand why it then moved to statistics.

In short, there is a real risk that researech funding will go to support research that doesn't know its elbow from its knee, done by people who don't understand what they are doing (because they don't understand what was done in the past). That is not a rosy situation.

I get the counter point- I'm myself a bit annoyed by Marcus' insistence on how deep learning is not true AI. Very few people really expect to see "true AI" in our lifetimes. A classifier that works well is probably the best we can do and it's very reasonable that there is such excitement about the fact that we can do it. But if we spend too much effort developing classifiers, well, we'll have great classifiers. And nothing else.

And then- what?
Science has a significant reproducibility problem.

Maybe it's a bit much to say it's no longer interested in explanations, but there's a lot of bad science being published.
Why wouldn't you read it as "we eliminated 675k racially-motivated stop-and-frisks, and are left with 10k non-racially-motivated ones."
Yeah, it's super annoying. On mobile you are out of luck but on web I just manually set the
-webkit-user-select and user-select CSS properties to false.

Sometimes I shudder to think of a future where websites would render some server-generated image version of their website (think Flash) so that users couldn't possibly dare to change the experience of their website from the corporate-approved one.
In general, you are right (excluding the usage of word "Nazi"): private entity can deny services to other entity. However, in legal practice there are exceptions to to the rule, e.g. when the entity which denies is a monopoly (even locally defined), or services are too essential. I'm not in position to decide if it applies to the situation described, but worth keeping in mind that there are limits.
I'm interested in a proposed value/penalty for individual and combinations of data. Even if it's a paper napkin approach.

Full name, probably not worth even a penny? Full name plus address plus phone? $0.05? Passport number alone? I have no idea, maybe zero, but full name + address + phone + passport + social? Could that be worth a $2 per instance for a fine?

What about direct compensation for the person whose information is leaked? I've read recommendations people should get new passports because such information can be used to track people's movements across borders
https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/history-search

So what if the per instance is really worth $110 (base value to replace the passport)? If 100 million people are affected, that's $11 billion. Not including fine. The Starwood acquisition was $13 billion.

In other words, it could nearly bankrupt the company, if it weren't for the success companies (and markets too, really) have had at shifting the burden of breaches away from the company, an effectively freeloading.
But Valve doesn't charge premium prices..
Sounds like the early days of YouTube, Reddit and others. Fringe groups are always the first to seize on new platforms where they can get in front of new eyeballs and aren’t yet drowned out by quality or truthful content.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare the content on a startup platform to a well-established corporate behemoth.

That being said I checked out bitchute for videos on fringe chemistry demonstrations that wouldn’t survive on YouTube. Some pretty cool stuff in that category. But still haven’t been back there because the production values of most are just terrible and painful to watch.
I don't get your historic analogy. Yes, you could make a game that rivaled the games of the big guys, all on your own. However, there's no way you could've gotten your game into the major sales outlets without a publisher. That publisher would've never given you a 70% cut. In that regard, you're far better off now.
Even in the 1940s, most middle-class families owned at least one car. But during WWII, gasoline was rationed so people did drive less for a few years.
I find this a bit funny. You are comparing books that are used by advanced undergraduates or graduate students to a book written essentially for the subset of programmers with almost no math background. There are beautiful mathematics books by Springer (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics), Carus Mathematical Monographs and Dover that provide both intuition and rigor at an introductory level. The main problem for a beginner though is knowing where to start and getting a survey of the arena they are entering. They might think linear algebra is adding vectors together with a vector being just a list of numbers.

This book hopefully fills that gap. There are other introductory books like Mathematics: Its Content, Methods & Meaning by Aleksandrov and Kolmogorov but that requires a serious investment of time.

Lastly, I apologize but I am going to rant about this physicist phenomenon. I am a physicist myself (high-energy theory) that entered quantitative finance after my PhD (a heavily disliked field on HN). I found a lot of physicists outside academia who tend to be aggressive and condescending and often haven't actually gone through the rigors of a PhD program themselves. Maybe it makes one feel smarter to tell other people that they are reading easy books or can't jump straight to Landau or Bourbaki (those two couldn't be more different but you get the point) and there are no other physicists around to correct the notion that there are multiple ways to gain knowledge and build intuition.

It doesn't matter who says what about which book. Sample some books, find what you like as long as its not junk science/mathematics, do plenty of exercises, and try to derive things yourself and don't fool yourself that you understand something deeply by studying it for a year.
-fwrapv gives you the desired C semantics.
I think we're going to see a massive migration over to C# and .NET. Even if the prices were reasonable ($15,000 per processor?!) the overhead of license compliance is way too high.

The major apps will obviously not be re-written but all the little utilities and glue will move pretty quickly.
So you agree.
I like that HN has an upvote option, but I wish the numbers were hidden from me. I get pretty distracted
I noticed already for a longer time how Facebook Inc. is restricting more and more what you can do with data on their websites, sharing stuff like video's and pictures outside of their domain is nearly impossible, and now you can't even select comments anymore. I suggest Facebook takes notice of the story how PayPal only started to become successful when they made it is easy for their clients to get money out of PayPal. In the early days it wasn't easy to get your money out of PayPal, PayPal thought it would be good for their financial numbers to try to keep user's money on the PayPal's bank account. But users stopped using it, because you couldn't get your money out easily. Only when PayPal decided to make it easy to get your money out, users started to come back. And guess what, users didn't take out their money en masse, it was enough to know you could get it out easily anytime you wanted to. I feel the same is with how Facebook Inc treats users data. Using Facebook's websites is like being in a prison, you can't get data out of it, it's annoying and I noticed I just stop using it more and more.
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I wish there was some real rapping to go with that demo
And as an American I’d rather the British be doing it than the Russians or Chinese.
The intent of the plugin should not be illegal - that is what this battle is ultimately about, and this takedown action is essentially baseless bullying via the legal system. Each party to a transaction has their own desires, and what these companies are ultimately trying to do make you conform to their internal business desires post facto.

In any transaction there is a demarcation point where interests meet and then part. Businesses have gotten used to this idea of decommodifying [0] their products rather than competing - spamming restrictive clickwrap "licenses" etc. So much so that we view common sense rights like "first sale doctrine" as a friendly exception rather than the bedrock norm. A website telling you how you must/mustn't display the page you've retrieved is equivalent to a retail store demanding a share of your business's profits if you use their products commercially. We can envision such a scheme being cooked up with "terms of sale" and blah blah, but people would rightfully not stand for it - markets and society simply cannot function with such top-down control.

The only difference here is that civilization needs to re-figure these things out for the digital world, especially as frivolous overenforcement appears to be much easier.

[0] Adding unnecessary complexity/restrictions to make their market less efficient. See also: net neutrality.
Can you cite somewhere where somebody has said that thousands of men, women and children are terrorists?

I've heard claims that there are terrorists among the thousands of men, women and children seeking asylum (or work).

Fake news is not just made up stories. It is also misrepresenting the words of other people to support your political motives.
One suggestion is to allow further segregation of permissions for functions like SLEEP, BENCHMARK, etc. A front-end request has no need for it.

It’s the exposition of things that “act” on lax query permission sets that “appear” read-only (but in fact have interrupt style executions) that leads to trivialization of abuse.
You can fool current attribution software easily. It gets better over time and what you're describing is essentially leads to an arms race of obfuscation software versus attribution software. I wouldn't bet that current obfuscation software would be able to permanently hide all traces of my own composition while keeping the paper coherent.
Back in the day, BeOS used to be quite more capable with regards to multi-threading. The used to demo this with multiple videos playing.

Does BeOS/Haiku still have a technological edge somewhere (compared to say, linux or windows)?
The only thing that almost annoys me is that Google ads are blocked on the redirect, but not display. So sometimes I click them and have to go back and click the organic result. I could probably tweak it.

I am running it on a old Pi B (the old one with an RCA jack). No issues. if I was sending to family across the country, I'd probably add remote access of some sort for myself.
Why do we keep getting this FUD on HN? Oracle is charging for updates to an unsupported version of Java that will be three versions behind by the time they start charging. That is not the same as "Oracle will charge for Java." Oracle is still releasing all currently supported Java versions under the same terms they always have.
How do you measure that (so accurately)?
I quit those tools too and realized the number of real relationships I had was dramatically lower than I would have guessed.

Leading one to wonder. If the friendships or whatever feelings these tools provide are placebo vs real. If something bad happens to you in the real world are the online friends going to help? Does support extend to seeing a number with a heart next to it. Does getting 1000 hearts replace the support of close friends when you experience loss?
Is being raised by ones uncle really more popular than being raised by ones grandparents, on a global scale? Somehow I doubt it. In many Asian countries being raised by grandparents is the norm but being raised by an uncle would be more of an uncommon arrangement.
not exactly known for its environmentalist tendencies.

I think that for once, the US regulations are stricter than the EU ones. Diesel emissions standards are higher in the US than Europe.
I know a few of them. I was one of them but on an E3 (Australian version of a H1-B). This is the problem with generalising, you screw over lots of people.
If you can provide some evidence that published ideas that have been soundly defeated get resurrected unjustly and that this has harmed progress, then you might have a point. This hasn't happened that I know of.

For instance, the best example I can think of are local, realistic interpretations of quantum mechanics, which most physicists consider to be soundly defeated by this point. However, some of them are completely warranted (like 't Hooft's cellular automata interpretation of QM), and the debate has actually driven some great work in quantum foundations.
While I am no Oracle fan, these stories seem to me to be click-bait. From what I understand, as long as you use the very latest version of Java then using Oracle Java is free.

I think Oracle wants to charge companies who require older versions of Java to be supported.

And then, OpenJDK is also free.

This seems like a lot of histerics about very little. Please correct me if I am wrong about the latest version of Oracle Java being free. You just need to keep upgrading.
Travis is limited. Stuff like this https://gitlab.com/codelibre/ome-model/pipelines/37267293 is several steps beyond the capabilities of Travis.

This is using platforms not supported by Travis, plus custom Docker images. And integrates with other GitLab pipelines, deploys to sonatype nexus, and stores artifacts for later use.

Even if you're not using the advanced features, it's still vastly better than Travis. The Travis stock images are so out of date it's not funny.
Six month old blogspam, but all it takes is a baiting title to hit the front page here. Hurr durr Oracle, hurr durr Java!
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Key factor in a farms pitch deck I wrote years ago: this indication recurs, so patients who catch the disease will need subsequent treatment, but due to how it happens this doesn’t qualify as a chronic condition. (Which would have made the trials much more expensive).

There’s a bit of kabuki in pharma pitches: on one hand you have to talk about how you care about patient suffering, on the other hand you need to cosmetically sugar coat yet emphasize the revenue model, which is what people really care about.

(Oh and the best pitch decks always have gory pictures in them)
From what I've read, urban areas are the refuge for monarchs since there are people like you that plant it, and areas that don't get pesticide applications.

It is rural areas that are blanked with pesticides that are the problem. You can cover large distances in the rural areas of the country where everything is sprayed and there is no milkweed.
Many right-wing Youtube personalities are civic nationalists, identitarians and (actual) classic libertarians or regular conservatives who are repeatedly de-monetized and have strikes put on their channels. https://i.imgur.com/29qnxka.jpg

If you actually hear what they have to say you'll realize all they are doing is criticizing the status quo, disagreeing with leftist positions and covering racial statistics that the mainstream media wont do. It's a stretch and really extreme to call anyone a Nazi which doesn't even make sense cause it just means someone who is a German supremacist and national socialist.

Easy to brush off things you disagree with as conspiracy theories but it's not intelligent.
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Amazon is liable to squeeze you out of a product you sell if it starts selling well. It's their platform, and they're a trillion-dollar company; there is almost no way you'll win.
I'm surprised OpenJDK is not mentioned. OpenJDK is the reference implementation, works very well and probably will be used in majority of use cases. (there are only handful of cases where one would need Oracle JDK)
I'd like to stress the point in the article about how important the . is to efficient vim use. https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-editio... completely changed how I use vi in this respect.
First people that keep suggesting this don't have any clue how big the Java world actually is.

There are lots of platforms where .NET has no presence at all.

Second, Sun also used to charge support for EOL releases, but it is cool to hate Oracle.
Love the misleading title
> Just because something is on the internet doesn't give you the holly right of getting it for free.

Why not?
The point of giving that example is to show that there are studies that examine the benefit of undefined behavior, and in this case measure the performance of dialing back some degree of that UB exploitation.

It's trivial to show that if you try to completely eliminate undefined behavior from the C language then performance will collapse. Even register allocation depends on exploiting undefined behavior—who's to say that some wild pointer you created didn't accidentally point to some local variable? The reason why you don't see any studies on it is that it's obvious.

When it comes to signed overflow, the status quo comes from two inconvenient facts: (1) lots of C code out there loops over arrays using int for indices; (2) lots of C code out there assumes int is 32 bits. The latter means that, during the 64-bit transition, no compiler could switch to ILP64 and was forced to settle on LP64 (or LLP64 in the case of Windows). Confronted with these facts, compiler developers did the best they could, exploiting signed overflow in order to provide sensible codegen for idiomatic loops in C on 64-bit. The real world is complicated, and sometimes the right solution to an engineering problem is messy.

Regarding the charge of incompetence, with all due respect, my friends who work on Clang and GCC are better programmers than 99% of commenters on this site.
Am I the only one who doesn't feel this way? These posts seems susceptible to positive response bias, but they also seem more common lately.

If you are like me you might be happy to know that there are other people who don't care about social media (being on it or off it or anything about it).
What you want to have is a trustworthy place where >99% of users can get >99% of software. You can have that -- look at Linux package managers -- without preventing side loading. And in fact that's necessary to prevent despotism.

The people operating the repository want people to use it. They don't want them getting things from untrustworthy places. But if they can just prohibit that, they can be tyrants -- refusing beneficial software that the user wants because the monopoly provider has a conflict of interest or is being coerced by someone else.

By contrast, if the user can load the beneficial application themselves then the repository has the incentive to prevent that from happening (and thereby discourage users from doing that in general) by carrying it themselves. And the fact that there can be competing repositories means that the one that carries the most beneficial software and the least user-hostile software can be the one that wins in the marketplace. But not if the vendor locks everyone else out and becomes an abusive monopolist.
I don't want to participate at all. What I'm saying is that I'm pro free speech and decentralization, but if all the content is just racist shit, then what draw does the community have for me in the first place?

Assuming the motivations behind them are genuine (a big assumption), then there's nothing inherently wrong with BitChute, Voat, Gab, etc. But the actual content on these platforms is the polar opposite of the "diversity of thought" they claim to promote. That may not necessarily even be the site owners' faults (again: a very generous assumption), but a set of circumstances that arises from who actually takes advantage of "free speech" in practice.

I don't have any good answer for how to address that contradiction.
Madrid is completely covered in the smell of diesel fuel. When I smell a diesel car drive by it reminds me of Madrid. It’s a great city but I can’t take the headaches and the smell. I am amazed people can live there.
Fascinating comment all around. I fully agree. It never occurred to me that “silent thinking” and “silent reading” are relatively new phenomena. But after reading this comment it’s so obvious that they are.
Nothing, just keep using OpenJDK or get support from another Java vendor.

Charging for support of EOL Java versions isn't new, even Sun used to do it.
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Whatever, don't do it China will. They'll make billions. You'll be pissed. No one will shed a tear.
Has there been any effort in the US to stop this kind of competition between states.
It seems incredibly damaging
The HackRF ($300) or RTL-SDR ($20, but RX only) are the go-to hardware for consumers/hackers. These devices are more limited than some of the newer SDRs, but the software support is a lot better.

For software, the HackRF is probably the best ecosystem. It's open hardware, and the firmware is GPLv2.

The software ecosystem for SDR is pretty messy, pretty much all of the consumer/hacker SDR software is hard to set up correctly, and Linux only. The easiest thing to use is the Pentoo distro, it has all of the common tools, up to date and included in the base image.
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