skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you are saying that there could be aliens that would percieve 1+1 as 3

Nope. More likely they'd skip the concept of "1" and "+" and "3", but that's also more specific than what I'm saying.

What I said was that your stated evidence doesn't support the claim you made. Multiple people didn't come up with the same branch of mathematics completely independently. They did so from the same foundations.

[EDIT: Oh yeah, also said that aliens may be using compeltely different math. See below for explanation of that.]

> how would that even make sense?

I've no idea. That's the point.

> If our society is built by mathmatics that can be seen as wrong by aliens,

There's a difference between wrong and incomprehensible.

Think about some of our foundations:

- We think of numbers as deterministic. We've come to understand that the universe is probabilistic.

- We think of numbers as continuous. We've come to understand that the universe is discrete.

- We think of a table as a distinct thing. It's actually a bunch of atoms bonded together that are constantly shedding and gaining atoms. Oh, and that table over there is welded to the floor, so it's actually bonded to the floor in the same way, yet we think of the floor (and entire building) as a different distinct object.

These new ideas are comprehensible to us, but kinda weird and foreign. Suppose instead of starting with the naive view of determinism, continuous space, and distinct "platonic" objects, you start with the weird reality where those aren't true. What will your mathematics look like if your foundational mathematics is based on that?

Do you think in terms of "1" and "1" and "2", when you don't think of two tables as two items? Do you think of deterministic addition when your perception of the universe is non-deterministic?

And these are just variations I thought up using my human brain based on things that human brains have managed to understand. I'm saying "hey, completely differently structured brains could think in a way our human brains don't understand". "But that makes no sense to my human brain" is pretty clearly not a refutation, and asking for an explanation of it also misses the point.
People hating Bill Gates have always been a minority. I was a Mac user on the late 90s internet, and "Windows rules!" was the theme of the day. The less technically savvy had even less reason to hate him.

The people who think he set things back horribly are not a majority of the general public in any age group.
Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)
Spotify’s advertisements in which millennials exclaim amazement at the idea of playing music without an internet connection.

Probably accurate for some tiny portion, which is astounding no matter how small of a group that is.
That's not a definition supported by any literature I've read. Seems like you're moving the goalpost because you don't like the definition. For what it's worth, radix sort is listed on the wikipedia page for "Sorting Algorithms", and its runtime is listed as O(n * k) where k is the number of digits per number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Radix_sort
I was just thinking about this the other day, in the context of ancient texts referring to things being written down. You come across phrases in ancient accounts like "it is written ....", and in a world where almost all information and news came from word of mouth and rumors, something being written down made it inherently more credible.

Today everything is written down, much if not most of the information we receive is via written documents, especially online. There is a level of bias and intentional misleading that is often hard to believe. Hearing something from a well informed friend seems far more credible than a news story now, since you can't depend on journalists to research and relate the available information without intentionally withholding, minimizing, or amplifying to create a narrative that is in line with what they want people to believe.

I'm not screaming 'fake news' here. An example would be an NPR story that claimed a certain person, previously employed in a professional field, was 'unable to find work' for 6 years. Clearly the person had struggled with substance abuse, but that was never mentioned, and the narrative was 'In This Economy' despite the fact that if you show up drunk to job interviews that is an essential fact in a human interest story about a person being unable to find work. The journalist and/or their editors wanted to write a story about how hard it is to find a job 'in this economy', so they hid facts that didn't reinforce that narrative.
Some entrepreneurs in Adelaide recently developed a fully electric utility vehicle for use in agribusiness and mining. It's based on a 79 series LandCruiser (which are still made brand new) and it has 350km of range. I saw some people scoff at that, but mining and agribusiness have the ability to introduce infrastructure, and these vehicles are work vehicles for use on site. Well managed vehicle and battery stocks could see these running 24/7 if need be. Have some solar on site or a grid hookup and you'd never have to worry about fuel logistics for the light vehicle section of your fleet.

https://thedriven.io/2019/10/24/first-electric-ute-engineere...
MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
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Blacklisting Domains with Postfix
I like this - and, critically, there really is no reason why free market solutions can’t be creative or innovative.

A challenge is that many solutions to problems like unemployment have difficult to quantify primary effects - e.g. actual jobs created - while they have easy to quantify opportunity costs - expected return of investing capital in ETFs, or something.

My point is not the details, or to say that creative solutions can’t return more to the community or country than the financial costs of creative solutions - merely that those in the positions to propose these solutions are frequently unable to adequately model the return.

In another post a few months ago, there was a discussion that the government shouldn’t have to propose an ROI (in the context of building new infrastructure)- but it was pointed out that frequently these projects are financed with debt, and that lenders dictate a return.

If we want to move away from ROI calculations, and worrying about unquantifiable primary effects, a critical component IMO is that we can’t really pay for them with debt.

If you pay with debt, you are beholden to a real, quantifiable cost of capital. If you fund with cash, or equity, it gives you the freedom to pursue preference over return, or theory ahead of evidence. Startup funding works this way for a reason. Creative solutions require freedoms not always afforded by a time-bounded and certain cost of capital.
Internet usage starts with users querying information they want, and services learning/adapting to deliver information in a format/context based on their activity. This has created some stellar search tools, a personalized network of services and communities available to people, and made the internet a paradise for new content from all over the world.

Despite that all the information in the world is available to us, we only seek out what we want to see/hear/read and then get fed new information based on those queries. It doesn't lead to free exchange of ideas and values, it has created polarized societies where we are digitally segregated by our own sense of identity and community.

People talk a lot about the political side of this, the "echo chambers" online. But I think it's worse than that. We see racial segregation on Twitter, feedback loops of content on YouTube that reinforce themselves, news outlets tailoring their content for users that reach them from their own site and optimizing for usage metrics that feed usage metrics... and we all are in love with it.

It reminds me of Farenheit 451 in the sense that this almost-dystopia wasn't created by some fascist dictator or single-party state; we built it ourselves. We wanted it.

That's not to say there isn't beauty on the internet, and we live in an era where more people talk and share and love and fight more than ever with language and ideas. It's just a strange departure from where most futurists thought we were going to be.
Cause historically we can trust vendors, right guys?
I can’t judge whether he was a good CEO or not, but, goodness, that dude lived the company. He was an exuberant uninhibited promoter. More than Evangelizer. The guy didn’t care what people said behind his back when he got all sweaty, nope, he was there to promote the company. A great cheerleader for the team.
Can we please get Paul Krugman off the New York Times editorial board? Or at least include a disclaimer that he doesn't know much about most of the things he writes about. He got his Nobel prize from a career working in a pretty specific scope. I am tired of people taking his articles as works of a god.
Correct. As long a linking is dynamic, Qt doesn't care how/where the Qt libs are distributed. They typically recommend bundling for Windows and using system packages for Linux.
They end of the skeuomorphic interface was the end of usability. UI design went from functional for a wide audience to "looks good in a demo". This coincided with the rise of web apps because unlike desktop apps using native widget sets web apps are a "blank slate" as far as UI design goes.
Noise.

Auditory:
I can't tell you how accustomed to hearing stuff constantly everyone is. Cars (even just the tires on a busy street), Air Handling, Refrigerators, Beeping timers (ovens/microwaves/calendar reminders).

Visual:
Web notifications, web advertisements, billboards, "news," spam phone calls/texts.

Social:
Many people have an expectation that sending a message entitles them to an immediate response. In the age of quick answers from Google, people often forget about slowing down for the speed of thought.

Mental:
We (humans) can only make so many decisions in a day yet we are overwhelmed with false dichotomies constantly in order to choose one or the other of basically the same thing.
That lease start fee has gone up about 3x, to about 6k, so obviously it was not enough. And at that rate people are better off getting a new car via a typical lease agreement.
So the world was free of bigotry prior to social media?

Does it matter what one is extreme about? Shouldn’t we be extreme on certain issues, like the difference between food and cyanide?
I used to study ants;Diacamma sp. in India (not the pheromone laying one). These ants transport individuals through a method called tandem running.

There is also traffic-jam in this species if we narrow the path. Here, also there is no change in dynamics in the way these ants relocate even when there is traffic jam (to be published). Interesting to see similar methods adopted by ants even though the transport method is different.
Google Coral moves out of beta
Beyond the Holacracy Hype (2016)
If you get a long enough break from work your hidden inner voices will start talking. You will discover that your identity isn't tied to your work-for-money activities.

IMO (I can't be sure of course) you simply never got off the hamster wheel for long enough to give your inner voices a chance to speak.
And people around you had relevance. Your librarian was relevant as a gatekeeper of information. Now we are isolated and even if we do get the best information, we are somehow not satisfied. People are becoming dumber as information is becoming more available, a paradox.

Meanwhile, we are centralizing these institutions and therefore power brokers are being more disparate from the powerless, using the technologies that were supposed to give voices to the masses. Now the masses can enforce you to only speak in lock step with them.
we're all going to have arthritis in our thumbs from typing on our phones so much. I got a hand MRI for a separate injury, but my doctor noticed I had early signs of arthritis at a relatively young age. it's a lot more common because of heavy smart phone usage.
When wielded properly pencils are indeed dangerous, even more dangerous than swords in some cases. But less dangerous - in the general case - than say a gun or a knife which is why we call those weapons in the first place.

Note that according to the definition of a weapon ("a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage") a pencil can be classed as a weapon due to its use. Which is a perfect illustration of why men with pencils (used as weapons) are more dangerous than men without.

So thank you for making my point.
ahh thank you.
This sounds like it's coming from someone who has never had to help relatives fix their broken Windows PCs localized in a language spoken by only a few million people.
For a long-term perspective, all world should converge on one medium of exchange and everyone must learn that. I'm not suggesting an English hegemony here. We need to avoid balkanization.

Arabic language has subsumed many local languages to be dominant in that part of world. A Bedouin feels a cultural bias towards Arabia if he starts coding in this language.

I'm from India and non-Hindi speaker; if coding is done in Hindi it's cultural bias towards Northern India as opposed to where I'm from.
That was distinctly not the philosophy of the Chicago Bulls and Phil Jackson.
Show HN: HN: Scalar Beats SIMD: Turbo Base64 Faster Than Other SSE/Neon Libs
The whole page appears as blank to me (Windows, Chrome, no addons, incognito mode).

I suspect that actually reading the article is unnecessary at this point.
> It doesn't lead to free exchange of ideas and values, it has created polarized societies

Technology created polarized society? Before internet search, we were better educated and understood each other better?
Yeah, the Surface line was the first time since the original iPhone that I was actually excited about a piece of hardware.
It makes "fresh water" out of undrinkable water. There are enormous amounts of the latter.
I think Bill has finally won; through the sheer power of money and time/patience. Even people on HN love him now. :(

The power of focused PR is amazing.
Similar stuff happens in a ore mine in Sweden with freight trains going downhill to the coast from the mine.

https://www.schaeffler-tomorrow.com/tomorrow/76/index.html
Exponent: The Second Estate Era
I've never understood why this happens. Is it my phone sort of ACKing the call back to the tower? Because it has to be my phone sending something back, right? Random cell signals are hitting the speakers all the time.
I wonder how this affects their costs of serving a query. BERT isn't exactly computationally cheap to evaluate.
There's already been one allegation that a vehicle-mounted LiDAR unit has damaged a camera [1].

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lidars-las...
As an expat all of my life, I’ve really noticed this in the last 5 years. It’s also extremely hypocritical because I find myself walking around in places I have lived before, or been to many times, and feeling angry at the “tourists” ruining it.
Ask HN: What is your best little-known paid mobile app?
> ong the voices Microsoft needs to hear the most. Apparently, Microsoft has dipped only a single toe in the river that flows to the future."

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what did he perform? can you expound more?
People talking loudly to themselves on the street (if they have airpods in).
Polynote – The Polyglot Scala Notebook
I hope her employer had a bus factor > 1.
Why would you give your credit card to a random, uncredentialed person on the street just because they claim to help animals?
How many iOS NN Beta users are on the ‘old phones’? I think this is a serious problem because then you don’t catch the problem before the iOS is out of Beta.

Same at Microsoft (in Norway) where every developer is eligible for a new PC every year.
It's entirely doable. Tesla packs are already close to 400V and it's totally possible to go much higher. Keep in mind that every battery is a resistor so the voltage across each one is still tiny, even if the overall series voltage is massive. The reason power transmission equipment looks so weird is A) because it handles 345,000V and B) we have a lot of it and the chunky transformers and bare, massively spaced out conductors are way cheaper than wrapping everything in teflon.

Also, pretty much all EVs have a 12v lead acid cell somewhere. It's kinda dumb but it's the cheapest solution to having 12v for relevant systems. The pack/charger voltage is stepped down to charge them.
I hope so too. I’m looking forward to seeing how much better the state runs what then will be a department.
Netflix Open Sources Polynote, Machine Learning Workflows for All
Maybe not the tallest, but still the 3rd tallest, and completely dominates the Great Mosque and the Kaaba.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d0/80/35/d08035e818165925562b836e7...
Social democrats won out last century over more radical socialist (in the west). Turned out marrying capitalism to socialism isn't that easy thou.
It doesn't. SAML is a competing standard with the OpenID standards and is primarily only used for internal SSO within an organization. OIDC/OAuth2 have gotten broader adoption across the web.

I suspect part of this has to with SAML using a more complex scheme and using XML, as opposed to OIDC/OAuth2 primarily being JSON based with very simple permission and identity models.
One of the options (at least, back then) was to control the rate of change. That makes these issues easier to deal with. X0,000 people this year, and the same next year and the year after, are easier to deal with than X00,000 people right now.
Wait until they find out LISP has no left-to-right bias and can be in any natural language
I don't mind it most of the time. I wouldn't mind if scrollbars would let you utilize them consistently though or at least work like a scroll bar should all the time. To be fair though, I've used plenty of desktop software with inconsistent scrollbar behaviour to so...
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

Being miserable because "there's no point in doing anything" is definitely a sign of depression if it's persistent and starts interfering with your life.

Not saying technology does or doesn't factor in here.
Yet more relevant than ever
>So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

Quote for the ages.
There's some juicy stuff in the recent Glassdoor reviews.
At then end of the day, a great many people, firms, and governments are finding that they care about the increasingly fragile set of design, engineering, and control kludges Boeing have had to strap on to the 737 airframe in order to 1) accommodate the initial low-clearance landing-gear design (intended to facilitate cargo handling), conflicting with 2) greater demands for efficiency through 3) ever larger ducted-fan engines 4) mounted ever further forward, and higher, on the wing resulting in 5) AoA control issues under high-throttle conditions answered by 6) a pilot control defeat countermeasure which has resulted in multiple crashes and the loss of over 300 souls.

The customer doesn't care about the implications of design decisions, until they do. Clean, simple, stable, predictable, maintainable, modifiable designs deliver quality performance over a longer period of time. Complex, kludgy, unstable, unpredictable, tightly-coupled, unmaintainable designs will eventually bite you in the ass, or scatter your body parts over the landscape.

The fact that the implications aren't clearly discernable in advance does not mean that they do not matter.
It's almost as if... shiny new technology can't solve the human condition. Have you tried turning it off, and on again?
Well, "it is written" was also a statement about the credibility due to an inherent bias towards the educated. Yes, you can't necessarily trust a journalist...but you certainly can't trust a friend's opinion either; they aren't even expected to be well informed.
You're correct but... the effect cushioning the brain is insufficient to withstand the rapid deceleration of a car accident. It would be hard to imagine a mass driver with low enough force that a human could live through it.
> the truth is, on balance free trade is better for the world and for every nation in it;

Well not quite. Free trade is better for every nation after they have achieved development and wealth. Pretty much all of whom got wealthy by pointedly ignoring free trade.

There's a decent book from 10 or 15 years ago by Ha-Joon Chang called Bad Samaritans that explores globalisation, free trade and in particular the insistence of WTO, World Bank and developed nations forcing free trade on the developing world as a condition of loan, or agreements.

He makes a pretty decent case that free trade is only suitable after you've arrived. More to the point, it's not mere theory, but an exploration of what has actually happened in various nations around the world.

Edit: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032019.Bad_Samaritans
A friend of mine got bit by this sort of thing when setting up their Amazon Echo on their iPhone. When they got to the page where they were supposed to choose a wifi connection, it was perfectly cropped and showed no indication of being scrollable, so they thought those were all the networks it could see and there must be something stopping it from seeing theirs. Being a curious person, I walked through the process with them and when we got to this screen I was also confused, but I tried touching and dragging the list and sure enough it scrolled. Surprise!
It seems like the tool was mainly invented to deal with the issue of hidden state in notebooks, but I don't honestly see what the big deal is. Jupyter notebook is a tool with hidden state being a gotcha that you can learn how to deal with extremely quickly. I've been a Jupyter notebook for several years so haven't had this problem often in recent memory, but I've led workshops where we teach users how to use the notebook. Inevitably hidden state issues come up, but students very quickly learn that restarting the kernel is a necessary part of the workflow and figure out when they need to do it.
That comment was correctly flagged because it broke the site guidelines, as does this one, in several ways.

Would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here? We ban accounts that break them repeatedly.

As for "Microsoft people on HN", that is a red herring. The OP is currently in the #2 position and hardly flattering to MS. Ditto for many comments in the thread. When you review the site guidelines, please note the one asking users not to post insinuations of astroturfing without evidence.
Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House?

Even if you didn't vote for Trump or don't like him, Trump has been critiquing globalization for years before he came to office especially with regards to China. Yet their conclusion is that he is a demagogue. The very people who cheered on the very globalization that made some of us rich but left many of our fellow citizens in the dust.

I assume they agree that the purpose of globalization was to make everyone better of not just some and that those that would benefit from it most should be paying back their fair share to the communities.

Today we have a situation where it's impossible to save your way to retirement, where the cost of living has increased and the middle class decreased and we did so while increasing the deficit of the country.
Also the constant comparison... and constant advertisements convincing you how you should be. We used to be able to just live and commercials were contained in commercial breaks and billboards. Now the content we consume is mixed with commercials in imperceptable manners.