skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metamath has tactics, but they aren't part of metamath per se; they are part of the tools that you use to write proofs. You don't make the rest of the world run the same proof search you did hundreds of times, finding the same proof every time, when you could just write down the proof.

I'm aware this is an entirely unfair comparison. Coq and Metamath aren't doing anywhere near the same amount of stuff, so of course Metamath will be faster. But the question is: are you doing what is necessary? Is running omega all the time a requirement for large scale proof checking, or is it just the way Coq does things? I think you will find that it's not necessary in the abstract, but it's also pretty hard to write Coq any other way. (To be absolutely clear, I don't mean don't use omega, I mean use omega once and generate a proof, and don't make the rest of the world have to re-run your proof script.)

The sizes of things are actually hard to gauge in Metamath if you want to compare LOC to amount of human work, because what you see in a Metamath file are actually the output of some honest to goodness "tactic" or high level user interface. No one is writing asm here.

If you are not writing lemmas, and are relying on Coq tactics to rediscover the proof all the time, well, that's just demonstrably slow and redundant. In Metamath we use a combination of tactics to find proofs and optimizers to extract common lemmas and use the library of existing lemmas effectively; the Coq model leaves no space for the optimizer, so you get something... suboptimal.
Well I'm an Indian and I do have an Indian accent. Not sure why that is bad. It's just an accent. Not something to be ashamed of. And if you find it funny then hey at least you got a good laugh! I don't find it offensive :D
Kindle is stuck in the iPod model; it is a device that supports the wider Amazon market place, like the iPod was a way for Apple to lock-in people to itunes. It is great if you want to sell hardware, but don't expect any innovations on the software side.

Some of the blame lies on the publisher's feet. They literally colluded to stop Amazon's rise. However, Amazon did not think of reading as an activity you can create a platform around. You can, the rising popularity of Pocket is testament to that fact.
> I would love to read the high-level strategic thinking behind that.

1. It was the time of "One Windows". It didn't run Windows, and Windows wasn't going to ready to run on a wearable anytime soon.

2. It was expensive to manufacture. Curved screen, curved batteries, 2 rigid bodies. Everything about the industrial design was completely custom. It was amazing we even pulled it off at all.

3. Microsoft is afraid of entering new HW territories, HW tends to lose a lot of money.

4. Windows Phone died, which shouldn't have had an impact but it kinda did mentally. Users were actually evenly split between all three platforms, (which means Windows Phone users loved us!)

5. No one was willing to put in the actual engineering effort needed to do it properly. The entire team was burning out and we were bleeding people. Consumer hardware is not supposed to be at a 1 year cadence with only 1 team doing everything. Doing it that way also means you don't get a chance to make any dramatic changes, we had to only make small iterative improvements because if you only have 8-10 months to get boards up and running, get software ported over, and then finalize everything, well, you are working insane hours just pulling that off.
I don't see the connection between the ribbon and the awful Metro design style. They couldn't be further apart in every way. It might look unfamiliar, but it still packs a ton of functionality into a small space, emphasizes the use of deeply structured alt menus and has tons of customizability. None of which shows up in Metro.

Also, I want to know what brain dead MS designer decided that multitasking different control panel windows was a Bad Thing, and put the whole settings section into a single window that can't be separated. Do these people even use their own OS?
the entire IC uses AWS. They have their own private AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/
> Texas has a separate electrical grid from the rest of the US.

This is interesting. The Wikipedia article has this gem:

"The Texas Interconnection is maintained as a separate grid for political, rather than technical reasons"

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/08/why-texas-has-it...
The electrical grid is one of the more subtle, but critically important points I hadn't considered.

I think the DoD's decades long reliance on AD and Windows in general gave MSFT a pretty huge advantage as well. Imagine trying to shift away from that Windows only world in any meaningful way in an organization and bureaucracy of that size. What a nightmare.
My question stands unanswered and further communication in this topic is likely fruitless.

jakeogh, I wish I could say I wished you the best, but I'm not a fan of conspiracy theorists and I'm not a fan of this game you're playing trying to convince people that anyone still believes in Pizzagate. Reality is already complex enough as it is.

May the Triluminati treat you gently for doing their bidding, whether or not you know you are.
If you make the width of your browser small enough, the article will collapse and you can read without the gif in view. But, yeah... that GIF was so wildly distracting I gave up reading it.
Not only that, but JavaScript can get you owned, and any code loaded over a non-https connection could be rewritten in transfer. Remember: all Tor exit IPs are publicly known. Tor users are easy to target.

If you use .onion services for anything... interesting, you should also be aware that the first step an advanced attacker might do with a compromised site is to try and completely own all browsers visiting.

If you run JavaScript, you're just waiting for someone to poke a hole in whatever sandbox protections the Firefox base of Tor Browser can provide. Example: https://threatpost.com/tor-browser-update-critical-flaw/1458...
Probably amazing, while a small minority of the triggered will get all the news time as usual.
I have a small device in my pocket that provides access to nearly the sum total of human knowledge.
I use it to get into pointless arguments with people I don't know and look at pictures of cats.
(I wish I could claim that as original but it is something I read on the Internet. Between cats. :-/ )
How does it fundamentally differ from blasphemy laws?
Yet it's common for lesbian women to be friends with ex-partners.
Is it? After you hit your number of free articles for the month, then yes.
They're making progress on it: https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/1262
$1B/year is quite a bit, would have been 4% of AWS's business. I suspect it will positively impact Azure more but havn't paid much attention to their numbers.

Not that it's relevant, but I actually signed up with Azure a couple months ago just to build an open source project on a cloud copy of Windows 10 with Visual Studio. I still ran into a bunch of problems with licensing type stuff, and wound up getting calls & e-mails from a sales rep. I'm glad there's some decent competition, but definitely prefer Amazon.

Edit: Corrected percentage, thanks to statguy.
Perhaps he can campaign on that for 2020
FWIW this happens on reddit too as so many posts have clickbait titles, people are trained to go directly to the comments to find out the non clickbait version.
You should be a little careful about using this term; it has a pronounced ideological origin you might not want to affiliate with (or maybe you would, who knows). Raymond did not invent the notion of a circular or illogical argument.
> The Kindle can’t even display web pages well! Its browser is slow and bad, though if you do manage to navigate to a page with an article on it, you can enter “Article Mode” and have a mediocre reading experience.

This statement is made as if the author thinks rendering the contemporary web is a trivial achievement.
Pleased to meet you!
What are these "highly effective" options? Why would you say doctors choose to kill people with chemo instead of these options?
What difference does it make whether globalization hurt "the american worker" more than some people estimated? What really matters is whether it hurt them more than it helped.

That may well be the case, but it isn't obvious.

Also, what about "the non-american worker"? Did it hurt them more than it helped? Is there a comparative disadvantage?

Also, why the focus on workers? What about the young, the sick, the elderly? Could an aging society's welfare be improved by being shielded economically from younger societies?
Intensive DNA search yields 10 genes tied directly to schizophrenia
From the link, could anyone explain why there is a $148 million dollar contract for F35 testing expected to be completed in 2032? Why would it take 12 years to perform testing?
> Another example. Gmail launched 2004. Imagine if 2002 a senior leader at Microsoft had burst into a meeting of the Hotmail leadership team and started shouting "Why the hell do other email providers even still exist? And why the fuck do I have to still delete emails every couple of days? I want every other free email provider out of business right asap. Lose money on it, I don't care, just make us the best!"

I can easily imagine this. The outcome would be that I would go outdoors, raise my hand, and ask "Any company out there willing to pay me to leave?"

Tell me: Did Google have a senior leaser burst into a meeting and start shouting "Why the the fuck do I have to still delete emails every couple of days? I want every free email provider out of business right asap. Lose money on it, I don't care, just make us the best!"

Is that how Gmail became dominant?

If your goal is to only employ one type of person - uber competitive type who cannot motivate themselves without wild pep talks - you're going to miss out on a lot of talent. I'll happily employ bright people who don't want to work for/with you.

Always problematic to assume that what works for you works for the majority.
What about the Post is related to this, specifically?
But I think the main difference from today versus, say, the late 90s, is that the top companies will pay so much more for top talent. The old tradeoff used to be that mainstream companies would pay a little more, but if your startup went public you'd by like 10x ahead. Now though, I've seen cases where even if your startup does have a really strong exit, you're only looking to beat a FAANG salary by a modest amount (an amount that may lead to an extra nice vacation or two, but nothing that is going to qualitatively lead to a different standard of living).
I assume you mean worse. Driving on the left was worse because the steering wheel was also on the left, reducing visibility. For some reason Swedish car manufacturers in the 60s, which was a big industry, didn't produce cars with the steering wheel on the right.
That depends on the browser.

For Chrome, https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/19glyg/how_to_...

A bad default that has to be edited by hand, in a tucked-away location.

This is awful.
I always found the term “Foodies” strange. Given that we are hardwired to enjoy food and literally need it to survive, something is terribly wrong with the person’s health if they’re not a “Foodie”. Have you met someone who says they hate food and they only have it because their bodies need it to survive?

Indians are no more foodies than the Americans or the Italians or the Japanese. Food is a central aspect of basically all cultures.
'I'm being tracked' paranoia.

I have to force myself to stop thinking about the ways may daily activities can be tracked. I find myself feeling increasingly paranoid, especially when reminded that my actions are available to faceless people and how they help to train systems that then exploit my 'humanness'. In fact, I imagine they will get so good that they not only exploit me, but use that very humanness to veil the fact they are exploiting me!

Now, back to re-watching Silicon Valley before the season premier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

The good old "yet you participate in the society you criticize" non-argument.
What about the fact that privacy is becoming a thing of the past?
I don't have a hard time saying that people's live are a lot better when they make enough money to afford things like reliable shelter, a better diet, access to medical care (Chinese lifespans have nearly 2Xed in 70 years) & modern transportation.

In addition, while working in a factory making iPhones might not be the best of jobs, it's a hell of a lot better breaking one's back on the rice patties every day.
I would rather the military be less capable, because its current capability is being used for offensive, not defensive purposes.

If it's less capable, it's less likely to get embroiled in stupid imperialistic adventures.

Edit: I don't understand why so many people are, at the same time, so enthused by the idea of starving government (Because they think most of its services are a waste of money), while at the same time, insisting on spending more on the military than the rest of the world combined.
Enriched Environment Exposure Accelerates Rodent Driving Skills
I appreciated this blog post:
http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/
Epubs and Mobis are for all purposes identical and can converted back and forth with ease (they are both just HTML containers), and you can certainly sideload DRM-free Mobis on Kindle, so I don't see that as a major problem. What is a problem is the very poor handling of PDFs on Kindles.
The Commodore 64 is the best selling 8-bit computer in the world. Nobody really used the Spectrum outside the UK and eastern Europe.
My kindle is my most reliable piece of tech. I like that it does exactly one thing, really well. I appreciate a desire for more- but honestly, isn’t that what an iPad/iPhone is for?
Lol, I've been telling my kids for years, "I hold in my hand the accumulated knowledge of mankind."
Yes, but how many Model 3s will they sell when they start selling Model Ys? If they're selling 300,000 Model 3s a year, I would expect that number to decrease when the Y is released.
Wow what a course change. For the last couple years there have been articles on HN about how the JEDI requirements were written to specifically exclude Microsoft/ibm/gcp because the DoD preferred AWS so its selection was a forgone conclusion. Also coverage of the resulting lawsuits by those companies over the very aws-tailored “requirements”
I fear Google and Facebook far more than the US Army. I fail to see how rehosting ancient military logistics and business systems translates to a Lojack up our collective derrieres.
It's strange to see these two points mentioned. One of the great programmers I worked with always used mostly two character variable names and rarely produced bugs. His title was Chief Scientist.
Are you actually checking every paragraph, section, list, etc? There may be additional content with overflow-y…

(This is a real-world issue: In a write-up, you may want to present detailed data, but don't want to have every user, interested in the details or not, to scroll over several pages of extensive data. So the logical choice is to present a small, illustrative sample and have more in the overflow. The same technique may be used – and has been historically extensively used by the Engelbart community – for outlined text content.)
> Average or subpar men are essentially invisible in the dating market as evidenced by declining rates of sex by most people

That sounds circumstantial at best and in no way definitive proof.

> Dating Apps are part of the reason that birth rates are generally dropping in first world countries

That definitely requires some study before being considered true.

> Women while away their younger years in careers and chasing after unrealistic men before settling at an older age and maybe having 1 kid.

I'm not sure how career factors into all of this; I don't want to strawman you, but your phrasing implies that you dissaprove of the trend. Then, is the implication of what you say that women should focus less on career and dating when they're young and instead focus on getting married early and having multiple children?

Separately, how is only having one child necessarily a bad thing?
UAW members approve labor deal to end strike with GM; union selects Ford next
What do the military need 10 billion US dollars in cloud computing for ? Are they going to fork Bitcoin? DDOS attack? If they are for example going to archive video footage, it's probably much cheaper to print it to film.
Haha exactly, most of that comment looked like a glowing praise of that manager honestly! A rising tide should lift all boats - would be nice if GP posted whether the team also got any credits and rewards for being the LITERAL definition of Innovative Risk Takers!
AWS revenue in Q3 2019 was $9B, so it would be about 4% of AWS's business in terms of revenue.
Maybe it's for anticipated platform changes as the landscape of the battlefield changes?
Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country.

Don't get me wrong, I love Texas and I love many of the Texans I've met for being some of the chillest, most down to earth, pragmatic and welcoming people I have ever met, but they are a bit weird about this particular issue sometimes.
Somewhat related to the ancillary debates around DoD contracting. A very well written longread "In Defense of the War on Terror"

I'm certainly in no position to validate its truth claims. But in the current climate. With Google withdrawing its bid at behest of its employees. Protests at AWS conferences over involvement with ICE. Peter Thiel arguing Silicon Valley companies should "do more" in the form of defense partnerships. And given the historical roots of the Valley. It helps to stay deeply informed and philosophically consistent in figuring out where you stand ;)

https://areomagazine.com/2019/10/25/in-defense-of-the-war-on...
Many governmental organizations do not need to have the most skilled or experienced. Different people bring different ideas, in government especially diversity is important. Moving the department seems like a great way to do this.

Those that choose not to move can leverage their experience in private industry.
The scenario that you describe is one of those cases where the party you empathise with most changes as you grow older.
This has happened to me multiple times on the HN front page today. I try the web links -- no luck. What's the point of having these articles on HN, if the more of them there are, the fewer people can read and discuss them without paying?

It's antithetical to open discussion and analysis.
A great reason for boycotting Apple products - there's no point in subsidizing a product that is feeding corruption.
And biology is chemical constructs, yet we don't call them chemical genders.

https://xkcd.com/435/
The built-in assembler was really not suitable for anything other than writing some small snippets to be called from Basic - the KERMIT/VT100 implementation I wrote, which was quite full-feature, was written using a 3rd party disk-based assembler, which was much easier to work with.
If you work for a tech company and the contract you sign at the beginning says you're paid every two weeks. If seven weeks pass can you just stop working and not be fired?

I ask because I'm trying to understand why someone would keep working. My only guess is that they're afraid they'll get fired and never paid.
The big problem for the kindle for news is the unreliability of updates. My wife has subscribed first to the New York Times and then later to The Washington Post on her kindle. Both subscriptions have randomly failed to update for days on end at times, leading to frustration and amazon customer support calls. We finally cancelled NYT and switched to the Washington post after a period of several days with no NYT updates. Sadly, the post is not all that much better.
You can side-load drm-free content on a Kindle, it’s pretty straightforward.
Microsoft beats Amazon to win the Pentagon’s $10B Jedi cloud contract
The report does a masterful job of obscuring the fact that flying a 737 Max at low altitude and full throttle will create an overspeed condition.

The overspeed condition was the proximate cause of the accident because it increased aerodynamic forces on the horizontal stabilizer that prevented the crew from manually overcoming the AND (aircraft nose-down) trim applied by the MCAS and also resulted in a terminal dive.

Turns out that it's hard to build an aircraft that is resistant to abuse by pilots with grossly inadequate flying skills.

Maybe Boeing should have taken the Airbus approach and have three independent flight computers vote on whether the pilot is an idiot. Oh, no, wait! They keep managing to crash those as well.
For the life of me I can't understand his prominence either. He seems profoundly lost and misguided, so much I take even his mea culpa with a grain of salt. I only can imagine that someone important considers him to be a useful idiot.
Funny, I heard the same story in Norway so it must be realnews.
Not sure if you mean now or a few years ago. Either way, don't believe all the stripe marketing hype.

I was working at a small startup circa 2015, around 100 employees. We looked carefully into payment providers to try to reduce costs. Turns out Stripe was very small, we would be their main customer with a 2 digit percentage of all transactions if we moved our payments through them.

Stripe had (has?) few customers and little volume. Meaning very little revenues, because that's a small percentage fee of all that. It was a fairly risky business and it wouldn't be sustainable without a fair amount of capital upfront and many years.
About 65% of all porn video streaming is on Azure media services. Robust as hell. So should be easy to support all those drone army feeds.
Its not Trump DoD. Its US DoD.
It IS trivial.

Now, I'll admit that there is an enormously complex process required to render modern html and css properly. But there are several engines that do this rendering and are available as open source. So it is easy to render web pages... use one of these engines.
10 Billion is quite a lot. And government contract is very stable income.

But I got your point on politics, that is something pretty unpredictable.
The podcast app has always been bad - since iOS 4/5. Just use Overcast.
How is "Trump's DOD" different from Obama's DOD?
You may be surprised at who tips the most generously in Ubers (and who doesn’t)
Building a Human Network, a CIO's Real Job
If it saves me a click on medium, it's perfect.
Auroral Observations in Assyrian Astrological Reports:Solar Activity 660 BCE
The monetary benefit is one big thing but in the B2B scheme of things , a big success story like this would be very easy to convince other government organisations and government in other countries to adopt Azure if they haven’t moved to the cloud already. It’s the new “No one ever got fired for suggesting IBM”.