skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you could probably build an entire course out of following a button click into a browser, and dissecting all the layers along the way.

What happens when you hit the mouse button? Let's break open the mouse and find out. This leads to a pretty simple circuit, until you hit the MCU doing USB communications. What is an MCU? It's a small computer with a processor, memory and electrical inputs/outputs. USB is pretty complex, but you could emphasize that there's a power line, a return, a data in, and a data out line. I'd probably skip electrical encodings and the details of USB protocols at this point. The computer is the USB host (server), and the chip on the mouse is the client. You could then open up the PC, follow the path through the hardware to the OS. At this point you get to explain what a driver is. This leads to application code and OS APIs. This leads to the coordinate system in the OS and monitors/touchscreens, which finally gets you to the browser, html, css, javascript with ajax (browser inspection tools), http, https and certificates, tcp, ip, ethernet frames and wifi (wireshark), network cards and their management, looking at a network card, dissecting an ethernet cable (crimping one), taking apart an access point, switches, the gateway, the internet, ISPs, servers, databases...

I think the point would be to emphasize that there are no black boxes, give a good overview of how things work, and hopefully find a couple kids who really like some portion of all this and help them start some more advanced projects.
Can we please stop posting those pointless paywall articles here? Thank you.
No it really is not. CPI-U is manipulated to make it seem like inflation is almost at zero therefore limiting the cost of living increases for SocSec and other government programs.

So instead of having a 2% CPI, we actually have closer to 9%

It also allows companies cover for Wage Compression because many employers base at least part of annual raises on "Cost of living Adjustments" so if the government is saying Inflation was 1.9% well then the cost of living adjustment for my salary may be 2% with another 2% for performance based or 4% total. But if actual cost of living went up by 9-13% which is likely my real buying power for the next year dropped by 5%.
Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
If your GDP is $100 billion and your growth rate is 0%, you're still adding $100 billion to the economy every year (assuming that not all wealth is not consumed within the same year).
I think you're asking for the holy grail here. Everyone would love to have such a thing but nobody thinks it's likely to be possible.

So they settle for much smaller targets. Either of understanding how much simpler systems work. Or of trying to understand a little bit the effect of tweaking something in some more complicated model.

Perhaps you should think of these two approaches as analogous to doing simple chemistry (what shape is a sugar molecule? A DNA molecule?) vs trying out drugs (if you eat the bark of this tree, you don't get malaria! Let's refine that stuff). Both can be useful, but they are very far from a unified theory of how your body works.
It's asset inflation, which is where most of the Fed's inflation (eg many trillions of dollars of overvaluation into the stock market) via artificially low rates has gone since the Clinton and Bush years when they helped to spark the stock market bubble (#1, #2 and now #3) and then the housing bubble that way. Then they openly admitted to intentionally reinflating the housing market with their various market interventions and low rates.

Whenever economists claim inflation is low, they're almost always exclusively talking about traditional consumer goods (in which case it is low for the most part). They comically go out of their way to ignore the inflation in housing, healthcare, education and various asset classes.

Warren Buffett likes to regularly point out that the Fed's rates act like gravity on stock valuations. The lower the rates, the less gravity. The same is largely true of how housing is affected by the Fed's rates. If you want to absolutely crush housing prices, push Fed rates back up to where mortgage rates are at 15-20% again. What that all really means is, the lower the rates, the more asset valuation inflation occurs. It's just that for amusingly convenient reasons (ie to pretend inflation is lower than it is), most economists like to pretend that asset inflation doesn't count as real inflation in their models.
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Agree with you, it's impossible to compare numbers of data breaches. It's possible to compare reported data breaches, but every source is different, as its almost impossible to collate every single one reported or known.
That'd make sense, the current Twitter format is awful to follow a conversation
Would you wear / use this? for mental stress and focus improvement?
looking for real feedback here, trying to iterate on design and value proposition to help with stress and focus in the workplace. using a new type of neurotech sensor that works like a deep pulse oximeter, it gives a specific location reading of blood flow in the brain (kind of like a local fMRI). qs; would you wear the headband form factor? do you need to know when to take a break? would Video based experienced to help calm or stimulate your mind in 5-10mins be more valuable/worth to pay?
Efficiency gains from technology advances in past 20 years have masked inflation. Look at industries like houses, healthcare, and education which tech hasn’t optimized to the same extent and you see massive inflation
That my company was acquired, but with a twist:

I wasn't an early enough employee to have any significant equity or options, although I did receive a four-figure payout, so not nothing. The new parent company eventually eroded everything we loved about the work and culture, which gave me the push I needed to find a higher paying job with a much better environment and overall working conditions.
Hiding the research as breeding 'better' foxes for fur is fine with you? That's what those culled have been used for.

Now we can discuss whether such an approach is immoral on its own, but we should probably get off our high modern horses and judge things from perspective of given era. And breeding animals for fur was totally acceptable. In fact, it still is in all countries on earth and for some time will be.

Btw are you vegan to have at least some grounds to claim any moral superiority to that research?
Excerpt:

"The problem is this: The laws of quantum mechanics insist that information about the past is never lost, including the record of whatever fell into a black hole. But Hawking’s calculation contradicted this. He applied both quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity to the space around a black hole and found that quantum jitters cause the black hole to emit radiation that’s perfectly random, carrying no information."

IF Hawking was wrong (remember, I said "if"), then the following identity would hold:

Radiation = Information

Also... There's an interesting philosophical question brought up by this... what is randonimity? How does one mathematically determine that something is random? Perhaps "random" is just a human word we use to explain/label a pattern that we as-of-yet don't understand... The history of mathematics is a history of patterns that were not understood at certain points in time, that became well understood at later points in time... So I ask the mathematical community: "define random". If "random" is just a series of numbers which have no apparent pattern, yet fall into a statistical distribution, then I'll bet that a future mathematician will show that the digits of Pi (or groupings thereof) to fall into the same statistical distribution as a "random" sequence of numbers... In other words, if this were proven, then if someone looked at Pi as that statistical distribution (without knowing anything else about Pi), they'd assert that the number series was random, when in fact it was not, that is, it was generated by an algorithm, the algorithm for Pi... which can be thought of as Information, whether you look at that information in algorithm form or outputted digits form...
I think that's where I'll be going just after I pass the sign that says, "abandon hope all ye who enter here."
> the center of people seeking jobs and companies that are the definition of growth

I discussed in many threads closely or loosely related to this topic and many HNers don't share this idea.

You can be a dev in any kind of company and hold any type of beliefs. Outside of SV and a few other places being a dev isn't that crazy money/career growth wise.
Many people say quit, I'd recommend not rushing in to that. If you're burnt out the last thing you want is to get on the interview treadmill then a new job where you have to prove yourself again. My advice to "burnt out" people is to step back and relax, try to do minimum hours and stress for a while, maybe take some vacations. When you get older you see how many people wasted their lives spending all their time on work its crazy.

It could be you just are in a bad team and maybe you can move internally.
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Finding a new job might be easier. Don't leave until you have secured a new job. Allow for some time before you start in your new position. Life is hard, don't take any advice from the internet - make up your own opinion.
But aren't cryptocurrencies technically a subset of cryptography ?
Second this, and I wonder how people who live near the equator respond to seasons and light vs. people closer to the Arctic circle.
Hello HN!

I've seen the programmers stone website a few times here and I've done a small redesign to make it more readable for the modern web (both on desktops and mobile devices).

The website is still lightweight and doesn't use any javascript, and I think some of you will appreciate that.
Start with the question, what are we educating them to become? I'm more on the side of recognizing daily problems in terms of general information theory concepts. Sorting, Bayesian probabilities, graphs, abstraction, iteration and recursion, data visualization examples and techniques, logical reasoning (conditionals, contrapositive case, LSAT level stuff), privacy & security, and then maybe to write some basic functional programs to solve real world problems using a social network graph.
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Give or Take some stuff mentioned in here: https://notes-txt.com/curriculum.html

To sum it up: soft skills, social skills, leadership skills, meta-skills and abilities to help you deal with life.

While these aren't related to IT, they help you in any knowledge area (including and not limited to IT).
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> Who's been in charge for 16 years, and who just happens to be a military general and the eldest son of the previous prime minister.

That actually weakens the claim that it's a military dictatorship. If the army is controlled by civilians, its not a military dictatorship. If a person becomes leader of the military due to civilian connections, then it's not a military dictatorship.

A military dictatorship is when a person becomes civilian leader by virtue of their military leadership. If the son of the civilian prime minister first gets to take over the army, it doesn't change the fact that he's fundamentally a civilian and the civilians are controlling - inside and out - the military. It reinforces it. He led the army and the country because of his civilian credentials.

This sounds more like rule by and for a family or a small group of elites.
Actually you can opt out nowadays. For Samsung smart tvs:

Menu > Smart Hub > Terms and Conditions

Inside there will be several terms of these tracking companies. Go inside each and all of them and check the box:

I don't agree with these terms

There. No consent for track.

Have not tested network wise if the tracking persists, but in theory, removing consent should mean they can't collect it.
Very impressed to find Jancovici here. I've been watching his intervention for 6 months and I found he has one of the most rational approach to our coming world. It is bleak but not desperate, although his main message is : technology/economy (based on our consumption of fossil fuel) will not have time to catch up on the coming catastrophies and the inevitable pic oil.
We have shaped the world to our convenience now we have to adapt to it and the illusion of infinite resource needs to end or it will end us.
Perhaps latency of different types of computer storage

i.e. an updated version of https://imgur.com/k0t1e
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Wonderful post, I wish you well on your journey friend. As a father of a seven year old boy who is already being buffeted by life's challenges, I also find this topic somewhat depressing but you expressed it more eloquently than I ever could.
Sure. It's just mimicking those traditional advent calendars, counting the days until Christmas with a surprise present or treat for every day to enjoy. Every day, one new puzzle unlocks.

On top, the story that unfolds during December might refer to Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny, or elves and reindeer. The programming challenges are open for anyone.
HN: "You can't talk politics here!"

Then I see this on the front page--which is political as hell. That any of this is a "problem" that needs to be "solved" is a limousine liberal fiction--pulled out of thin air to preserve their sanity in the face of a Trump presidency.

Michael Moore called it before the election--Trump was going to win because the Democratic party under Clinton and Obama abandoned the working class. Not enough money to address Flint, oxy, and joblessness--but somehow, there's always room on the credit card to bail out Goldman Sachs, or destabilize another middle-eastern country.
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I caught wind of the series a few months back, and hunted the episodes down as well as I could. I'm up to 56 Up and I've found it really interesting especially given the timeline on camera is roughly in line with my father's (before he passed away a few years ago.)

The biggest takeaway for me was that, while you can't necessarily 'see the man' in a seven year old, you can most certainly see the seven year olds in the adults. Everyone's just trying to get along; but we're all still just kids inside, a little scared and a little uncertain about how to deal with the world at large.
"magic internet money"
Ask HN: Inspiring stories of failed YC founders. What did happen with them next?
Stories of successful YC companies & founders are well-known. But it is only a tiny part of all amazing & talented people from YC universe. It could be even more inspiring to know stories of people with not so lineal success path as YC -> Series A-B-C round -> Exit. Are there founders who failed & crashed their first YC company and then succeed with the next one? What are their stories?
Did the creator himself seriously think Bitcoin would be the end of banks?
To make it concrete, if there are two people in the economy: Alice and Bob. The only products that are exchanged is clothes and shoes. Every year, Alice sells 100 Galleons of shoes to Bob and Bob sells 100 Galleons of clothes to Alice. So the GDP of their economy is 200 Galleons. But assuming that shoes and clothes don't decay in one year, Alice and Bob will become wealthier and wealthier in apparel every year.
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I could reply to any of the many plain wrong comments but let's consider this one:

> Corporations desperately pursue continuous growth

Greedy corporations make more stuff to increase profits although people don't really need or want it.

But with all those unsold products and undelivered services, how on earth do greedy corporations make money? Maybe people actually need that stuff or simply want it for $reasons?

> The end result is a sort of "Red Queen" effect where everyone is forced to compete harder and harder just to maintain his/her existing standard of living.

That isn't true. First, no one is "forced". Only the government can force you to do something even on your own property or on your free time. If you have a problem with that you should be anti-state (or at least anti-tax, so that government doesn't need to collect tax or doesn't have resources to come up with schemas for, and means of, coercion).
Second, the value of money is eroded by state-controlled central banks, not greedy corporations.

> We know that the more extreme a competition becomes, the more ruthless the participants become, often to the point of acting immorally.

If they wrong you, you can sue them (assuming the government doesn't indirectly or directly participate in the scam). Also "immoral" isn't necessarily against the law. Look into the actual violation and if it is illegal, consider why is can go unpunished (say, the silent theft of workers' savings though the expert-recommended 2% inflation rate).
Yes, the Busy Beaver function grows faster than the functions I gave, basically it behaves like f_{w^1_CK} (although this does not really make sense because w^1_CK, the Church Kleen ordinal, is not recursive).

By "ultimate generalisation" I was speaking about a family of computable functions that ultimately grow faster than other functions you could cook up by hand: you put all the recursivity in the ordinals, they are there for that, and logicians are very good at constructing very large (recursive) ordinals.

If you just want a very very fast growing function (but that is still computable, unlike busy beaver), you can do the a light busy beaver version: Beaver(N)=the maximal output of all turing machines T with N state where there is a proof in ZFC of length <=N that T terminates.

This function grows much faster than the other functions I described (basically it is a f_{ordinal consistency of ZFC}.
If you are interested in this kind of ideas, there is this reddit post that develops these ideas:
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/283298/how_to_compute...
There is also GDDR6. DDR4 looks slow when comparing both.
It’s definitely a very different experience watching it “live”, ie every 7 years, versus watching the whole thing from start to finish.

I think I started watching when 35 Up came out. I’m not sure I could bear to go back and watch all the earlier series in full, for the reasons you describe.
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How in the world is this "pretty practical"? It would be if people used this theorem to come up with an idea of SGD, but that's not what happened. SGD appeared as a way to overcome the practical constraint of computing full GD. Not to mention that "polynomial time" is meaningless to any practitioner.
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Require legally or require ethically, Mr TLA?
Yes! Unsure where I got 5.9 from
No, I read that in a publication of a medical journal.
It's worse. Elon Musk used to be bragging that they used consumer grade electronics instead of automotive grade (which is higher than industrial grade).

And it's already caused more issues: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...

This + the horror stories I read about getting replacement parts when you damaged the car is what keeps me from buying a model 3.
There's a lot of military SF (and, I guess, fantasy that I've never read as much of) that wants to mostly restrict the action to ground forces. The result is that they have to either just ignore the decisive power of air support or just come up with hand-wavy explanations for why air powerisn't effective in the hypothetical scenario.
Do you know if your assumption is true? GDP ignores depreciation/destruction.
Hey Michael, thanks for commenting! (And thanks for making f.lux which I've found incredibly useful for years!)

I strongly agree that it's important to change light levels throughout the day; it's very obvious that bulbs this bright suppress my sleepiness. I should probably add this to the post's FAQ so that people don't do anything irresponsible.

I do think that some people might get a mistaken impression of how strong the evidence is when you claim that "cancer progresses much faster in constant light" without citing or caveating that this is based on one study, in rats, where the treatment shone a light on them for a full 24 hours.
House hold energy use is pretty much insignificant except in locations where the AC runs all day.
while you can't necessarily 'see the man' in a seven year old, you can most certainly see the seven year olds in the adults.

That’s a very keen observation. Not quite as strong a claim, but it fits better with the minority of participants whose lives seemed to take an unexpected direction.

Growing up as a successive winnowing of possibilities; a lot of the winnowing complete as early as age 7, but by no means all.
If possible, take sometime off and practice DS/Alog problems on leetcode. I don't know your location, but, there are plenty of data engineering jobs available (in general). But you need to practice DS/Algo for clearing most interviews.
That's easy to say from the First World, where they already traded our (global) environment for (local) gains. But what are the people in poor countries supposed to do? Just stay poor forever?
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I believe the influence of the Russian disinformation was overstated that it could very well be declared fake news.

Which messages? Which groups were targeted? How many people did it hit?

It was targeted to increase distrust? On which platform?

What historically was regarded as propaganda could very well be dissected afterwards. I don't really see that here or any arguments that this influence cannot be traced.

I would be very surprised if Russia didn't try to boost their favorite candidate as a geopolitical rival, but to imply relevant Russian interference is an example of distorting the truth in my opinion. And not a trivial one.

Furthermore you are also implying that everyone having a somewhat dissenting opinion about unrelated issues to being manipulated. Some might take issue with that.
Question is whether you deserve salary gains to cover financial inflation, or if price cuts did to technology advancements are good enough.
It’s real, but it doesn’t always take the form of dollars (probably the most popular misconception). Warren Buffet is a billionaire, but most of that wealth is locked up in businesses that are producing products. If he really wanted all of that cash, he’d have to find a buyer or liquidate those businesses (probably at a loss).
Great article! Thanks for doing all of the writing that you did!
It is widely believed, but not proven [0], that Pi is normal. Nobody who knows what they're talking about would confuse this with it being random.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
> Am I in the minority thinking that “complexity is the cause of failure” may in fact be a useful and actionable statement? Start analyzing where complexity resides[...]

I think the spirit of the original statement is exactly that: complexity is the cause of failure is an awful conclusion to reach.

What you're saying sounds like you think it's a good first intuition to start going deeper and reach more specific conclusions.
How do they stop your breathing? And for how long?
>democratic and non-authoritarian

japan also has something like a 99 percent conviction rate, not sure how that aligns with being anti authoritarian.
Adults are children in bigger clothes.