skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Japan’s economic prominence was based on a 50 year de facto worldwide monopoly on applied mathematics.

I remember this very comment from many years ago, but I've always wondered what it meant. Could you possibly flesh it out?

As an aside, I met you at an HN meetup 7 or so years ago in Tokyo, how time flies. Hope all is well.
Just to be clear, did they fire anyone? Kicking a mod out isn't the same as firing. That's not to say it's completely harmless, just different. I'm just wondering for me own knowledge.
> everything you know is wrong

"MK Ultra is real therefore every other fringe conspiracy theory is too" feels like dubious logic to me, to say the least.
This 100 times. Form over function is apparently more important these days.
> Describing it as parents "complaining" about homework trivializes our role as the ultimate arbiters of our kids' best interests.

Right, aren’t teachers more often saying that parents care too little about their kids’ education?
Would you have trusted Epic?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/363357/google-irks-epic-games-by-...
For public transport or work commute,they don't need to fly that high. Maybe worst case they will be allowed at low altitude over water ways or low enough to where pre-emptive air-bag deployment would make it safe. In many ways hover craft is safer than cars I think,mostly because of the space available and lack of breaks (they say most car fatalities happen when people hit the break out of panic).
And goto being used for error handling is pretty stock standard across most C codebases I’ve worked on or seen over the years, so I’m not sure what the particular gripe is there
I don't have any graphical glitches with the nVidia Web Drivers. I've used them with a GTX 970, and GTX 980 Ti, and GTX 1070, and a GTX 1080 Ti over the years. They have consistently worked fine.
“Many” users?
And even when someone has known preferred pronouns, is using gender neutral language problematic anyway?

I can understand people being upset by others using gendered pronouns that are not aligned with their own gender identity, but are there any people who've declared a preference for "she" or "he" or anything else, who'd be upset of offended by the use of "they"?

(I quite often stop and rewrite a sentence when posting places where, I don't know the readers well enough to know their prefered pronouns, and my usual approach is to reword using "they"...)
It's a shame you included the last part, otherwise it's an insightful comment.

Effective change requires tact and self-discipline.
I think is interesting to apply this reasoning to entrepreneurship. When you are receiving no salary and possibly even investing your money on a company.
As a busy international business traveler, exposed to all sorts of virus and bacteria, I've tried and tested a lot of remedies. I've found the single most effective mucalytic is fluimucil (acetylcysteine). It's over the counter in most countries. One tab in a glass of water like an alka seltzer. Symptomatic relief in minutes. No drowsiness either.

Breaks down phlegm -> Reduces throat irritation -> Reduces coughing -> Reduces spreading.

Once the phlegm is under control, it's much easier to figure the rest out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire is relevant
Interesting that you're a new account that has only ever posted in this thread in defense of Schmidhuber.
Since this is quasi-political, using a throwaway

But I noticed StackOverflow in 2016 made a really good choice: Having their code snippets in MIT: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/271080/the-mit-lice...

But based on this drama: I'd consider SO a platform to stay away from.

Let me be clear: Acting like a professional and an adult is an essential when communicating with me. Regardless of what the subject is or how dear it is to you. If someone had an opinion on mere speech - they could take a walk and understand other people have feelings and lives to live, not just them.

I wish we began to make a standard for people to keep their composure and communicate better. I see two sides: People who are willing to spoil relationships and burn bridges over political nuance of the week, and a voiceless majority who have the same exact problems, but are willing to take a breath and work it out.
You jest but the netbsd toaster is closing in on 15 years old https://www.embeddedarm.com/blog/netbsd-toaster-powered-by-t...
> Robinhood doesn’t event pay out dividends.

Hmm? Of course they pay out dividends. I don't even see how it would be legal for a broker to keep a customers dividends.

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001227206...
I think it's possible in a technological sense -- my understanding is that we can produce enough food, and little technological development from where we are today is necessary to scale this to 12 billion people. It's distributing the food -- transporting it, dealing with economics/politics that is difficult. For example, western countries could in principle, but won't in practice, just provide food to north korea.

I think it's going to be incredibly challenging to avoid potentially catastrophic harm to the environment due to politics and incentive structures. As far as food goes, beef and pistachios stand out to me as particularly environmentally harmful/wasteful, due to methane from cows and enormous water requirements for nuts, and it's not clear that anyone can change incentive structures to sufficiently change peoples' habits regarding these foods. (though in the grand scheme of things my understanding is beef and pistachios pale in comparison to habits such as flying for climate change.) I usually see people who think about this topic discourage the idea of technological development as a magic bullet, but I'm biased in this direction (it's also fitting for people who read hacker news) -- advances like impossible foods are inspiring to me. They've created "fake meat" aimed at traditional meat-eaters, allowing people like me to keep our luxurious food preferences in a manner that's much more environmentally friendly. They've had an impressive amount of success so far, with deals with chains like Burger King. If they can convert a sizable fraction of meat-eaters, they will have made an enormous impact on climate change.
Multiple programs can interact with data on iOS - but you have to explicitly give the app access to the file.
> I think this advice is cutting your nose off to spite your face.

Ah, the standard phrase used when people try to get you to work against your interests.

The rest of your post amounts to: "Doing the imprudent thing X worked out for me this one time, so everyone should do it."
Sounds like almost exactly where I started from.
Depends on the game your making but be careful of libraries. Game programming is very different from other types of development. SDL is a good place to start. Godot seems find as well.
You'll want some form of architecture that updates components of entities all at once rather than foreach entity object updating its physics, then sound, then tracking etc
This is for performance and debugging reasons.

This is a good start
http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/01/05/evolve-your-heirachy...

Source - Just finishing up this game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1058510/Zunius/
Art, code, music and sound done by me

Drop me a line a leonf at coafresearch if you want to chat further
DAV1D vs. LIBGAV1 Performance – Benchmarking Google's New AV1 Video Decoder
I have a friend who works as a tax auditor and audits telecom companies to verify a specific tax. When he does the audit he gets the ENTIRE billing information. What is interesting to note is that there are certain taxes where the law allows the telecom to determine how much cost is required to comply with the tax (employees expenses) and then offload that cost on to the end-user. So the tax that the customer pays is actually the tax going to the government and some of that tax is also going to pay the employees hired by the company to comply with the tax. Without much surprise, the amount of employees required to comply with the tax seems to increase each year and most of these employees are never fired or let go. There is no incentive for the company to cut costs when the taxpayer is paying for the employee's salary.
> the majority of people just want to live and be kind to each other

Once you realize that people's politics reflect their values and the problems they see in their world (and which side they've bought into), it becomes a lot harder to stigmatize the other side...or even take a side.
A new New York Airways?
No, I'm saying I get to decide what I say, not you. If the gender neutral 'they' ,' you' etc aren't enough for you then we don't need to speak with each other.

What's impolite is demanding I conform to your view and forcing me to learn some words you made up and use them every time we speak.

And again, it's a self-applied label.

Don't force me to use your made up words, I won't tell you what to do with your life.

ps- I grew up in the 80s when gay and trans people were very much oppressed, unlike now. I stood up for their rights, got in actual fights for them on several occasions. And now im called CIS scum for being a straight male.

I have family members I've had to stand with against other family members because they were gay. I love them dearly and even to them I say 'I respect your liberties, please respect mine'.
Sounds more like the worst of both ... have to set up all those connections, power, still need a PC, but lacking the convenience.
Sometimes people exclusively use "they/their" to refer to trans people who prefer "he" or "she" as a way to try to publicly demean the person's transness. This isn't a rare/theoretical occurrence.

Most people understand that using "they/their" is a good default when you're talking about a specific person who you happen to not know the gender of. People get that using "they" isn't necessarily an attack, but if you for example do it in response to a message where their gender is made apparent, or if you only do it when talking about trans people, then it quickly starts looking rude.
this is a feature and not a bug
> The announce of the imminent advent of the Quantum Computer seems to be recurring every few months these last few years because it's a moving target.

That's mostly misreporting by the media and perhaps d-wave overselling their capabilities. If you actually listen to experts they're far more guarded in their statements.
Thanks! I've been taking guafesin and claritin (helps prevent immune system over reaction). Also on a "tea break" as that's probably not helping. Any other advice would be very much appreciated.
> I'd like to think the majority of people just want to live and be kind to each other

What you're getting to is the Golden rule in almost all human civilizations: treat others as you would like to be treated. The problem is when this rule broke down because the majority's "would like to be treated" became a hate crime to a small, but vociferous, radical contingent of the population.
If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product. In this case they’re selling your order flow.
A lot of people leave some money in the sweep account, so it's liquid for future trades. Or leave it for a few days after a sale before transferring it out.
Coding tests give the appearance of an objective interviewing process, but I haven’t seen evidence that such tests have predictive value. People who don’t perform well don’t get hired, so their possible contribution remains unknown. I have not seen companies track coding test skill and correlate it to job performance. Mostly these tests give the subjective and often irrelevant hiring process a veneer of rigor and objectivity.

In many, if not most, interviewing and hiring situations the candidate’s personality and presentation will have more effect than technical skills — we form impressions of people in a few seconds. Coding tests look like the main decider but human nature tends not to work so rationally.

The proliferation of books, web sites, classes, and bootcamps for technical interview prep demonstrate Goodhart’s Law: job seekers optimize for the interview rather than honing job skills and learning business domains. Interviewing well has obvious value for getting a job, but doesn’t necessarily predict adding value to the business.

Companies want people who can (at least appear to) immediately write code. Employers rarely invest in training or mentoring, there’s no apprenticeship path into programming for most of us anymore.

In 40 years programming I can’t recall ever having to invert a binary tree, or find a cycle in a linked list. Understanding basic data structures and algorithms has value, but companies don’t lose money or go under because of those kinds of things.

Sadly I find that trivial tests like FizzBuzz continue to work at weeding out a shocking number of people who simply can’t write working code. That says something about programmers at all experience levels: an inability to translate requirements into code. Employers should focus on identifying that ability, rather than mastery of technical arcana.
I'm not sure it would be less confusing to name the ISA 'RISC' instead of 'RISC-V'. The 'R' in 'ARM' stands for 'RISC'.
Yep:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-10/australian-flu-sea...

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-21/queensland-flu-sea...

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-18/influenza-spike-ma...
Very fair point. I definitely agree with you and the article in general -- demographics definitely deserves to be the #1 big important force that will shape the world.
One possible atypicality, is that Harvard freshmen have had unusually "excellent" pre-college teachers. Teachers clearly presenting well-organized information in an easily-accessible manner. And so are less likely than students with poorer teachers, to view understanding as something one creates for oneself, by wrestling with the material. So the wrestling of active learning is interpreted as a teaching fail. And the class overlaps and emphasizes the rude awakening that their pre-college learning strategies are no longer sufficient.
[I've been an engineer working on this vehicle for the past 2 years.]

Hi HN! It's great to see lots of interest.

One big reason we went public with the project is to help with recruiting, as we're starting to scale up our hiring for lots of positions, including testing, manufacturing, and every sort of engineering that you can think of.

The team is super strong technically, and is full of people with interesting backgrounds, from former Tesla execs to competition wingsuit jumpers (Seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk1ChndsN8Y).

The whole "flying car" industry has a high hype-to-substance ratio, but I think we're the real deal. The jobs page is here: https://kittyhawk.aero/heaviside/

I'd love to talk technical details on here, but we're still keeping pretty quiet about specifics. All I can say is that our test video is real footage, and not a render ;).
"Mac users are trained to care."
Wrong set of priorities I think. And how are they being "trained"? They go to special courses or they just listen to a big ads telling them what they should like?
I have an experimental version which works with Turk Telecom. Contact me if you want to test it.
>The more common scenario is for the cookies, chips and coke to come from the respective aisle-long displays at the supermarket.

I'm not sure I see the point here?

>Ready to eat frozen meals tend to be high calorie as well.

They can be, but I wouldn't say they tend to be high calorie. Most of the cheaper frozen dinners tend to be somewhere around 500 calories. Only the larger, more expensive, higher calorie dinners tend to get near 1,000 calories.

>As for eating out, fast food is bad, but fast casual is worse.

Fast casual doesn't mean Red Lobster or The Cheesecake Factory. Chipotle, and Panera Bread are examples of fast casual restaurants.

All you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster, the pasta cabonara with chicken at Cheesecake Factory (~2300 calories) and your personal pie at the pizza place put on more weight than convenience store snacks. Plus a few beers or glasses of wine, a margarita or two -- pretty soon it adds up.

For all but the pizza place your getting close to $100 meals there. The number of people who are eating like that regularly enough for that to be the primary cause of them being overweight is relatively small. And when you consider that obesity is negatively correlated with income, I don't think those restaurants are having a huge impact here.

As for a personal pan pizza. A pepperoni personal pan pizza at Pizza hut is only ~600 calories, that's less than a burger and fries at pretty much any fast food restaurant.
Your quote refers to the "jesus nut": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut, which doesn't apply to newer helicopters.
Yea, that specific number fits into 2 kilobytes of memory, but it’s so large it’s hard to compare it to anything.

Which is why I suggest comparing it to the number of bits required to encode the universe. If all you wanted was to store a single arbitrary number and could read write the universe you could do anything out to 2^(10^(80 * k)) where k is larger than 1 but I suspect below 100.
As someone who learned English mostly from entertainment or practical needs (online, living in a non-English speaking country), and never really spent much time "learning" rules beyond 12 — no more than my birth language, which I statistically mastered — I very much disagree, if you stop there. This is the old view of learning, and it's just wrong cognitively (neurologically).

Struggling is feeling "under", less than, overwhelmed, and it brings fear or anger as primary emotions — red signs that this isn't a good path. By that point, you've switched a lot of attention away from the problem to focus on saving yourself, because genetic legacy is funny like that.

If you're enjoying however, you're learning to the best of your abilities, cognitively.

This isn't to say that the greatest games aren't hard at times. Difficulty can and should be enjoyable (it means you're in the sweet spot for improvement).

This isn't to say that enjoyment and learning are related in general, beyond the former enabling the latter in specific contexts. But when you're struggling, you're indeed not learning, you're stuck; what you need is a new teacher, a new way to understand the thing, which may be yourself — at which point you begin to "play" with it as we say it (words carry all the answers we need, don't they?)

However it's done, learning feels very good, like this inner "win" or "eureka" feeling. If you're struggling, you've failed. Already. You're in above your head. Even understanding would be partial and based on weak prerequisites, it's doesn't bode well for the next chapter, or the next task. Difficulty and pain are hard, but the good kind of hard, the one that teaches you, when pain becomes gain; it's a well known "truth" of life and the body by athletes, and the mind works just the same.

In fact, the learning itself happens afterwards, when you sleep: maximum learning is enabled by sleep in most mammals apparently. Who would have thought the most active learner in class is the one dozing near the heater, haha.
Last time they tried to get a buck from me: they were bragging about building a "twitter like app" so students could ask lecturers questions without raising their hands.
Several months after the story was published someone actually presented a proof of concept demonstrating the practical feasibility of the claimed hack[1]. See presentation at https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9597-modchips_of_the_state (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA), and project website at https://trmm.net/Modchips

There's irony in how people repeat and share the technical rebuttals long after those rebuttals have been conclusively rebutted themselves. That in no way absolves Bloomberg, but the indignation of their critics is tiresome.

[1] Of course the specific details of the claimed hack were never reported, but the proof-of-concept fits the claims, and in any event is more than sufficient to rebut the rebuttals.
There's a world of difference between using gender neutral pronouns and purposely misgendering.

And even then, intent matters. Gender does not. I dont care who or what you consider yourself, I'm glad we as a society have choices. I want everyone to be themselves, again I've had friends and family memebers whose lives were ruined or made difficult for being gay.

But to tell me if I dont use whatever flavor of the week pronoun, I am harassing someone, and taking my right to speak for not conforming is facism.
That's awesome! I remember taking the SAT 1.5 years ago and noticing the correlation between my supplementary readings (i.e. HN posts) and the stuff on the actual test. Now I'm in college, and reading documentation and ML papers is significantly easier for me.

Ideally, you should be able to take the same knowledge and prepare for the PSAT/NMSQT, which can result in large scholarships. If you have any questions about the actual process, I can share some of my experiences with you (link in profile).

Good luck with your college search and applications.
SELinux actually does significantly reduce the kernel attack surface on Android, and it has made a lot of kernel vulnerabilites unexploitable on Android. This particular bug was simply one in the remaining attack surface.
That event is cited in the article.
Yeah that’s the rumor but allocations of any size can fail when kmem cgroup accounting is enabled and the container is out of space.
Sigh. Why do you mention religion? That is the largest disinformation of all to me. No matter which.

By that i don't even mean to disregard anything supernatural, spiritual, or whatever is above our current understanding of the ways in which nature works.

I just feel that any organized religion is a form of totalitarian gatekeeping.

Imagine for example some dystopic society where for whatever reason there is only one fast food provider with a limited menu available.
While fruits and berries do exist outside of the walled ghettos, but nobody dares to go there, because FORBIDDEN.

That is what every religion, church, sect, cult is to me.
Some asshole saying this is and countless drones repeating it for all eternity, which is not making it so, just an annoying loud drone instead.

Call it memetic pollution.
What on earth is a "neuro chiropractor"...
I am going multiplatform for my new GUI apps and I am actually considering game engines / rendering libs of which there are plenty.
If movie stars want to get paid and I can get their products for free then I will. Maybe they should fight for a society where not only the rich can get by.
It's a little hard to do for some devices but I often look for older devices that people have been using heavily for many years and still work. I check the internet to see what the most common failure points are and how to fix those failures.
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Execution is a good example — there are far more extreme punishments: torture in various forms, punishment of relatives, etc.

A fine is an extreme punishment for crimes like rape, while execution is not. (See the reaction to the Brock Turner sentencing.)
Since when is "we do it all the time" the same as "it's a good thing"?
"Something Americans wouldn't even know about", thanks for stereotyping 330 million people.