skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes, those baby clicks on YouTube. Annyoing as hell. Stay away from broad affinity / in-market groups or you'll end up spending 20%-40% of your budget on channels for toddlers.

By time though you'll build up a nice list that you can exclude, but it's going to cost you in the start.
Did you use the NordVPN client, or stock OpenVPN?

And if the NordVPN client, what OS?
Are you saying that you believe that tilt is not a factor for seasons, and that it doesn't change between seasons...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season#Axial_tilt
"People are generally accurate in the real-time perception of their own actions, like hitting and catching a baseball, but we need a little extra time to process something unplanned, like an unexpected tap on the shoulder," he said. "When something is unexpected, there is a slight perceptual delay while the brain figures it out."

How completely fascinating.
> "There have always been paradigm shifts, therefore there will be more", isn't that the very definition of wishful thinking?

It'd be wishful thinking if there was no evidence to back up that claim. However, these paradigm shifts have happened in the past: hunter-gatherer society -> nomadism -> husbandry -> agriculture -> crop rotation -> industrialisation -> information age / green revolution -> digitalisation

Extrapolating from that there's no reason to assume this will suddenly end.

I'm in favour of doing realistic accounting. However, the original title was something along the lines of "In order to reduce energy consumption we need to give up growth.", which turns Jancovici's conclusion on its head.

Not taking into account or neglecting the GDP/NRJ part of the equation and solely focussing on NRJ/POP is tantamount to falling for the same defeatist Malthusian fallacy that we're doomed anyway.
> BoeingCalc, the precusor to the more famous VisiCalc

No way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc

VisiCalc: Initial release 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCalc

SuperCalc: Initial release 1980

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplan

Multiplan: Initial release 1982

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_1-2-3

Lotus 1 2 3: Initial release 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Calc

Boeing Calc: Initial release 1985 (6 years after VisiCalc).

As it was released, it could read "standard" VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 documents, according to Computerworld:

https://books.google.at/books?id=97eagSKygYsC&pg=PA48&redir_...

What's interesting about Boeing Calc is that it allowed storage of its documents "online". But it was surely only for specific local setup, so it was probably "on the local server."
The link just redirects to eu.usatoday.com's homepage for me :(
Gandhi famously didn't win but it was later discovered that he exhibited pedophile-type behavior as well as horrifically racist beliefs against Africans as well as possibly Dravidians (South Indians).
Thank you, finally a sane perso who understands how blazing fast computers are
This is not a dismissal. The work posted is important.
From the other comments that user's posted I can kind of understand their sentiment, they've tried to form an understanding from others and then found the same roadblocks repeatedly.

I have impaired executive functioning and this is basically my experience in tying shoelaces, I struggled to accommodate the mental model of the process myself so I sought out others so manage it to try and learn from them.

What instead happened was exasperation on their part and frustration on mine, so after repeating that a few times a year until I was 22 I just stopped and bought shoes without laces.

When you go at it for long enough without succeeding it can make the experimentation not very fun or interesting.

I don't think I'd call it a red flag for a PhD to have fatigued themselves out of interest in a problem, it's something that happens to everyone at some point.
Especially considering borders help you handle the device without accidentally touching the screen and protect the glass.

The borderless/curved screen trend is why I fear the day I will have to buy a new phone. Unfortunately, I don't see this trend reverting in the future.
Maybe we can figure out how to finance things we like without putting people in prison though.
It's pretty common knowledge. You don't need a serious amount of space, for example ECC RAM uses one parity bit for 8 bits to fix one bit flip or report 2 bit flips. Also disks use checksums which require even less storage.

Your situation is likely happened because of bad RAM.
Yeah, dropping a seed in and growing a chair very quickly sounds like it is in the same ballpark, or at least further along the spectrum of efficient computation. That seed (program) would very tricky to produce, though. Contrary to the current practice of writing programs relatively easily, but the machines to run them are incredibly complex, both to run and to manufacture. With the seed, though, the machine would be nature, 1=1.

I agree that there is no need to bring quantum computing into the discussions, but it is higher on the efficient computing scale. It also requires a lot of effort to come up with programs that make sense, and they use more of natural phenomena (superposition, entanglement, etc) compared to classical computers. It’s something to look at for inspiration, at least?
> They really should try to come up with algorithms that are more intuitively linked to a spatial comprehension of the numbers.

Have you heard of "chunking"?

This video shows old style long division (and you're right, the method is confusing). It also shows an easier method that is based on understanding numbers rather than just applying an algorithm by rote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2rBaSj2L74

Here's another explanation: https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-chunking
Stainless steel is not some magic adamantium that is completely unbreakable. You can choose thinner steel for the part that is designed to crumple, and it will crumple or fold as intended, just like any other material.

I would guess that the bonnet will move backwards and slide over the windshield, and the other part of the front (up to the front wheel wells) will be designed to crumple.
I think it's more like 99%.

When I was running advertising for a small business we put vouchers in to track advertising. The only people who brought in vouchers were people who were already customers who said they were already coming. So, we spent money to reduce our revenue. (I do the same, hunt for vouchers after making a buying/visiting decision.)

I was on national TV and national radio (UK) - none of that blipped our visitors/revenue.

Only thing that ever definitely worked was handing out flyers and chatting to people in the street (and being top of Google SERPs).
This conflates open source with companies using open source as a competitive advantage. For the latter, yes, cloud is eating their cake.
Holy hell, Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize?! I'm was familiar enough with him to know he's disgustingly immoral, and never imagined people back then would have been stupid enough to give him that award.

With 2 members of the committee resigning in protest, it seems not everyone with power to award it was so morally corrupt.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A50BB9C34AB36B3

For anyone interested in going down the rabbit hole of those infinite levels.
How many SWEs make more than 350k? Probably less then 30k
Fascinating. I didn't know, either.

After looking at the English Wikipedia I found that

a) what I learned in school is long division

b) the notation with the dividend and the divisor separated by a parenthesis and the result on top of a horizontal bar is totally alien to me

c) I've never seen short division before

d) the German Wikipedia doesn't even have an article about short division
Is anyone interested in amateur digital archiving just destined to losing it all in the long run?

You'd think there'd be a market for long life HDDs.

Edit: Yes, you could just replace old hardware with new hardware, but it creates so much waste...
Okay, we have deviations from the mean. They are (0.1, 0.1, -0.1, -0.1). Or we have deviations from the mean (0.2, 0, 0, -0.2). I think is is pretty intuitive that in the second case the deviation is larger. In the first case there are only two differing values that are 0.2 apart. In the second case there are three differing values and some are 0.2 apart and others are 0.4 apart. Also, in the first case there are two pairs of equal value and in the second case there is only one pair that is of equal value. The squaring and rooting does this for you. Of course, other functions could do a similar thing for you. The squaring and rooting has nice mathematical properties especially if you consider the variance, i.e., omitting the square root. That is much more differentiable than an absolute value.

Also, consider that the correlation coefficient consists of similar formulas. They all look like the theorem of pythagoras. This ties in nicely with the fact that observables can be seen as having angles in between them where the correlation coefficient is the cosine of these angles.
> But why not use the abs function or operator rather than squaring and rooting?

You can. It's called the mean absolute deviation. Which one you use depends on your application. If you just want to give a summary of how spread out the data is then either would work. Lots of people say that we should use the mean absolute deviation as the default rather than the standard deviation.
While I've always appreciated some music due to some amazing specific technical aspect, such as Jacob Collier's harmonies or Steve Vai's guitar skills, the records I'd take with me on a desert island tend to consist of very simple elements combined and executed just perfectly. And by "perfectly" I mean with all their imperfections and unquantifiable emotional appeal, which has very little to do with the level of technical prowess. I guess what I'm saying is that for me, taste matters more than skill in music.
They are actively trying to make it difficult use Twitter like that. They measure that 15 mins of your in a day and every test they run shows by showing you meaningless latest dramas, making you angry and write sarcastic bits triples your engagement and time spent on the site. The value spent to you, the real value, doesn't mean anything, it works directly against their financial interest. Stay strong :)
From Wiki: "Those who become whistleblowers can choose to bring information or allegations to surface either internally or externally. Internally, a whistleblower can bring his/her accusations to the attention of other people within the accused organization such as an immediate supervisor."
At a glance, it seems to do the same as `git checkout` and `git checkout -b`. Can someone give a TLDR about the difference?

Edit: gonna be fun to see how guides like https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/using-branches/git-c... are becoming outdated in a way where switching/checking out doesn't mean the same thing anymore, but the article uses them interchangeably
It’s kind of an interesting edge case.

Trademarks don’t have set expiration dates, yet 1/4 of Disney’s toys are for someone else’s original IP. Snow White, Peter Pan, etc and nobody seems to have a problem with this. In fact the oldest US trademark in use fall under the same heading with a Biblical figure Samson wrestling a lion.

And in fact Trademarks do go away without Defence. Which means they can be abandoned at which point it’s fine to use em.
Frink is a mainstay on my phone, despite its not being open source - I make an exception because it's so darn useful. I don't use its programming features, though - it's kind of hard to be bothered with a weird language on a phone, even if unit-awareness is a great feature.

On desktop, for calculation and unit-conversion, I've completely replaced it with Qalculate, which doesn't have a programming language but does have a symbolic solver built-in, which is surprisingly useful for general calculations: you don't have to rearrange your calculation so the unknown is by itself, you can just write the equation from your textbook and replace the thing you want to know with 'x'.

Frink's "Sample Calculations" segment is an amusing read, in much the same ticklish way as xkcd's "What-if" series.
Are you saying that cops would prefer to shoot gangsters through normal glass than just arrest them at home?

I don't think Australia has any issue banning things, it did guns and cracked open encryption. You're reaching for a conspiracy.
Definitely. You might like - https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-seth-lloyd%E2%8...
Vulnerability Research: Hunting for Filesystem Bugs
> In other professions, it's not "lying" or "dishonorable" to present your work in the most clear and understandable way to others, it's a basic condition for entry. I don't see how software's any different.

That's because you joined the "it's a story" camp without noticing. If you instead view git history as a sort of gentlemen's audit log, then "refactoring" it is indeed both lying and dishonorable. And in no other profession it would be OK to mess with something used for review / audit purposes.

Personally, I'm in favor of the history/audit log view, because you can't predict today what information you may need in the future, and refactoring git history throws away a lot of historical context.
This is not true. I have encountered several times on systems with ECC memory where MD5 values for large archives change on magnetic discs. No read errors or SMART errors. I have a HDD (1TB Western Digital Green) in my desk drawer that does this after a couple weeks of cold storage.
> if I yank it yanks the visual line, but I expect it to do all

I'm not sure what's the problem with yanking, but probably you want the behavior of kill-whole-line bound to C-M-backspace by default.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki...
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Not really something to be proud of. You basically have just admitted on a forum for programmers that you don't have very much insight in algorithms.
Not GP, but I'm certainly in the story camp. My commit history is not an audit log, it's documentation about the choices I made while writing my code, and a tool that helps me combine relevant parts.

In fact, I'm sure that you're lying too: every time you Ctrl+Z in between commits, you're removing parts of your audit log. Choosing when to commit is telling a story.

(Unless Fossil/whatever system you're using stores every character you ever type - I'm not familiar with it.)

Edit: To use an example from the article:

> Yet, sometimes we come upon a piece of code that we simply cannot understand. If you have never asked yourself, “What was this code’s developer thinking?” you haven’t been developing software for very long.

With my commit, I'm telling other developers/my future self what I was thinking, rather than having them try to figure that out by themselves from my code. The assumption there is that I'm better at explaining my thinking than my code is.
And my good self in 2010.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1556257

I'm not bitter though. Not any more.
Curious - what are your complaints on these programs? My main one is that they are slow to create archives and rsbep only does error decoding, not erasure. I'm working on an alternative tool that is much faster, but curious if you have any other feedback.
Under the philosophy of the FSF, that'd be the "commons", i.e., the users of the software take on responsibility for adding new features or fixing bugs that affect them, and then contributing it back.
This may work:

https://outline.com/4wdE3t
Hi, signed up for a free account, but access was not granted. Email is in my profile, if you would be so kind to help.
Is this the same Olin Shivers as [0]?

[0] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95333577/olin-shivers
Right now AMD mobile chips are still less power efficient than Intel's.
React came out the same year they bought Oculus, so there might be a long term plan to first conquer the world of webdev, get the devs used to that paradigm and then integrate it with VR and funnel the devs to their own platform in the long run.

This could explain the unneccessary complexity of the vdom for normal websites and apps. In VR you need high staedy framerates, the vdom could be used to shorten the round trip from client to server, as some kind of framebuffer.
Even if, and there is good evidence to believe so, Slam was a fraud, I don’t see the core tenants of On Killing to be falsified:

- Most humans naturally don’t want to kill

- Getting soldiers to do so causes them serious trauma

The psychological model put forth in On Killing matches the Milgram Experiments. The specific elements being proximity and relation to both the authority and the target.

Modern armies have adapted their training to account for the proposed human reluctance to kill a fellow human and seem to have lowered that threshold effectively.

Further, other historians have found more evidence to support the notion that most soldiers did not partake in killing. These include muskets containing multiple balls, or staging a battle against a band of cloth, finding much higher accuracy than when firing at a real enemy.

Then again, the author claims that violence in media is partly at fault for our current woes. A notion that I believe has been disproven.
I think two things happened which effectively destroyed p2p - for the music-sharing case, for me specifically, at least. Streaming and greater official release of bootlegs, demos, etc. For me, there is so much available through these channels, that I don’t even consider p2p as an option.
Seems to be misfiled, trip reports generally should be under https://www.erowid.org/
Profit is already in the ROI target.
That's great!

How do you represent a chemical structure mathematically? Is it a graph? Or something else? It seems more complicated than just a simple graph structure.
The Supernova at the Bottom of the Sea (2015)
> How do you link GDP growth and population growth?

GDP growth and population growth are inherently linked: In order to provide sufficient resources for a growing population resource production has to increase, either by more energy input or by more efficient production.

If on the other hand population growth suddenly stopped and consumption per capita remained the same the only way for GDP to continue to grow would be to increase output per unit of work (i.e. the GDP/NRJ term from article).

> Why would an ever growing population even be a goal?

It's not as if someone purposefully sets this as a goal. Population growth given sufficient resources up to a point seems to be a naturally occurring phenomenon.

If on the other hand we decide to deliberately constrain the availability of resources this in turn means putting a constraint on population growth as well. Ultimately, this means deciding who gets to live and who doesn't.

If for whatever reason population growth stops naturally there's no need to establish growth as a goal for its own sake. However, artificially constraining growth seems inhumane to me.

I can't remember the exact quote but somewhere in the epilogue of the first Dune novel Frank Herbert has planetary ecologist Liet Kynes say (or rather write because he's penning guidelines for educating the Fremen) something along the lines of: "Life is its own tool for ever more efficiently making use of the energy available within a system."

In my opinion, that's a profound insight.
Ugh, yeah. So this benchmark is comparing apples to oranges.
Barriers to entry (network effects) :/
> Surely a better approach is to record the complete ancestry of every check-in but then fix the tool to show a "clean" history in those instances where a simplified display is desirable and edifying, but retain the option to show the real, complete, messy history for cases where detail and accuracy are more important.

This is one thing (but not the only thing) that I intensely dislike about git vs bzr. Loglevels are not particularly new and can be applied so directly to the VCS log that bzr log has a level option.
It is kind of looking like the prize for Dark Energy was awarded for a nonexistent phenomenon. The dust hasn't settled, but it will or should be very embarrassing if it turns out so.
You sure they weren't all just thirsty for some free world dollars?
Superconductivity Theory Under Attack
What is going on? This was actually submitted 11 hours ago, but now re-appears under the same HN URL on the front-page, saying it was submitted only 1 hour ago?

On top of that all comments on it seem to have shifted by like 10 hours as well (busyant's comment is actually half a day old by now, not 40 minutes).

You can see the timestamps don't match up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=breck (says 11 hours ago).

Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=busyant (says 10 hours ago on his comment on this submission).
Long division is just polynomial division with x = 10.
I am quite offended that this guy complains about people who claim that they have great benchmark scores and then he does the very same. Can't we make buzz about achievements without attacking others?
Nowadays it also adds quotes to filenames with spaces or special characters if the output is a terminal, to make copying and pasting easier.
Without the provisions of the AGPL, an Amazon could co-opt some GPL'd (or even more permissively / less copylefted licence: MIT/BSD as examples), make extensive changes, use the code as part of an online service, and have no obligation to provide source to user(s).

Under the AGPL, the source-disclosure provision persists.

In both cases, Amazon is doing software development, but in the first, they're not contributing back to the codebase. In the second, they are.

Amazon are maintaining the software. Along with other users.
I am a math professor. I teach in a SLAC, St Michael's College in VT. In our state education majors must also major in another subject (on an approved list). Every year we graduate one or two future Elementary Educators who are math majors. They take the same courses as any other math majors, and do just as well.

One thing it helps is that they are quite employable since their resume stands out.
And suddenly another small subarea of maths starts to make sense for me. Thank you, and thanks to everyone commenting in this subthread.

I too have a problem with math tools passed down without any surrounding context - without telling why are we using this formula, instead of any other variant from the family of formulas that would satisfy the same goals. I'd have much easier time dealing with statistics in school if someone told me that a) deviation with ABS instead of root-square is also a thing, and b) we use the root-square one because it amplifies offsets from the mean.
item 2 could fall under rico same as Trump offering to ask for bribe..its illegal to ask for a felony to be committed.

a former IL governor got caught in such a thing and prosecuted all because he asked for someone to commit a felony in connection to bribing
Woman handcuffed for not holding escalator handrail wins in Supreme Court
Likely the 2nd chance queue.

This is a process HN has devised to give selected submissions another chance at the front page. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
> While I am sure there is some engineering student out there griping about having to take a psychology course, they don't seem to complain as much as when non-mathy people have to study math.

I don't know in your school, but in our people would complain and complain and complain about even theoretically having humanistic course compulsory. And those courses were designed to be free grade and any expectation on student to actually put effort into it caused complains. I did not wanted them either, it is not like I would just complain about other people.

Nobody expected tech students to read Shakespear much less analyse it.