skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know some students who excelled at this kind of problems when they were in elementary school and now possibly on path to be good researchers in math and theoretical CS.

One is doing math PhD at Harvard; another received a PhD in theoretical CS from Berkeley with stellar track record (over 20 papers when he graduated after just 4 years in PhD--many/most in top venues, as well as perhaps the most prestigious best paper award for CS Theory PhD student when he was in 2nd year). Not all went on the research path though; some are working in applied software engineering. A few who did math undergrad degrees at places like MIT but I'm not sure where they are going next.

Another conspicuous example: Terrence Tao was also the youngest ever International Math Olympiad gold medalist (he won it when he was 12-13!).

There appears to be a significant correlation between subsets of people who are good at certain types of math and theoretical CS research and at solving this kind of problems when younger.

I read that there are mathematicians who focus on solving problems and those who build frameworks. Perhaps the skills for solving these problems are closer to the former?
> Mostly he sold ads on his Instagram to other teenagers looking to promote their own pages, apps or online storefronts.

This is so MLM-esque. You can get big because I got big and if you follow me and do what I do, you'll get big like me too.

Meanwhile, exactly no value is being created. We need value creation not ... piggy backing? What is it? You might learn how to persuade people or know what people will click on or generate ad revenue, but what are you creating? What are you doing that makes the world a better place?

What practical skills are you improving or sharing or developing that will move the world forward?

The value appears to be merely convincing someone that something without value has actual value.

He wanted the clout to convince people of something that people shouldn't be convinced of. Don't go to college and get an education, because you can make 10k a month regurgitating someone else's meme photos.

Frankly, I don't understand it. I don't think it's good. Yes, in the article, there was mention of someone who appreciated what he was doing because it made them feel better, but so would developing a skill and being a productive member of society.

I can't see how the instagramification of the world is a good thing.

We were at Thanksgiving dinner and my friend's 8 year old was glued to his iPhone. He had almost zero interaction with anyone except to say, "I turned it down!" after he was finally called out at the dinner table for a super loud music video that started playing and the old folks around the table could recognize the song. It was ironic because finally those without a phone could connect to him by the sounds that had the prior part of the evening been distracting noise. We couldn't talk to each other because we were so aggravated by the phone.

You can't even get away from the internet when you aren't on a computer anymore. It's infiltrated every aspect of life. People don't share their lives in person anymore. If you ask how someone is doing, they say, "Didn't you read my feed?"

No. I didn't read your feed. I want to connect with you in real life. I want to create something with you if it's only a conversation.

I don't know what to do or where to go to change, but I fear the opportunities to rectify this bad direction are diminishing.
Life imitates art:
https://www.theonion.com/sony-releases-new-stupid-piece-of-s...
The term AI winter is IMHO misrepresenting the true state of affairs. Since day one, the field's modus operandi was one of overpromising and underdelivering. That has not changed. We see how Alphabet plows billions of dollars into DeepMind [1] and all they get in return is a series of game-playing bots. If unproductive activities are defunded, this creates an opportunity for productive ones to thrive. "Winter" is not a suitable word to describe this.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/deepminds-losses-future-artifici...
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed the forum software behind https://forum.dlang.org/ offers NNTP feeds. More web forum software should do that.
I bet most of them use the same password with that same username too.
I'm suspicious of some of your numbers. For example, what does this line mean: "The rotor’s mass of such a turbine is ~20 metric tonnes. (About 75 million metric tonnes of oil)"

Where does the oil come in, and why is the ratio 3.25 million to one?
I like to think of arxiv as the holding area for anything that COULD be peer reviewed.

Advantage is we get to see stuff now, not after it gets accepted at by a conference or journal. Disadvantage, we have to filter on our own.

Twitter and sites like arxiv sanity preserver are helpful for filtering.
FTC=Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Correct, because everything is dynamic, including the search terms, eyeballs, and competition for keywords. It's pretty simple economics - once I find a way to spend $50 to make $100, it's only a matter of time before other people discover something close enough to make me spend $75 to earn $100. Then $90. Then (conjecture), winners curse takes account and people are spending $110 to make $100 (once Neil Patel's audience hears about it).

With the tactics being gobbled up by the Red Queen effect, you have to move to strategies to win. The OP writes about a pretty good one.
While you’re numbers are wildly off base, that post represents a critical misunderstanding of what’s involved.

Using hydrocarbons to make stuff has zero direct impact on climate. CO2 requires carbon to end up in the air not turbines.

PS: Global annual electricity demand is ~21,000TWh. 25% of that is 5,250 TWh. A 5 MW turbine at 40% average output produces 5 * 0.4 * 24 * 365 = 17,520 MWh so you want 300,000 of them.
This comment seems like something others will want to see. Before the title is corrected (five hours so far), the comment is useful for people who didn't notice the wrong date, or did notice and wondered if anyone had emailed the mods. After the title is corrected, the comment is a useful place to explain why the mistake happened and learn a little about the process that changes the titles.
The context is that live streaming should prevent abuse of this sort.
Why would it even matter to a Chinese hater such as yourself if you've only read the title anyway?
Indeed, the uncertainty principle arises directly from the Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem! [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3135
If you really want to email a GitHub user, find any of their commits and look at the raw details (hint: add “.patch” to the URL). The email address will be in the author field.
it doesnt matter what you sell, but who you sell it to
Interesting. Could have opened possibilies for intelligence to have utility. BTW parrots are quite dextrous with their feet and tongue.
Yep. But the same is more or less true of many pharmaceutical opioid preparations — they may contain paracetamol, binder, or filler in addition to the active opioid compound (e.g., Vicodin). I think it's fair to call the broad category "opioids."
It would be more helpful to know how much carbon an average turbine "costs" and how long an average turbine lasts and how much electricity it produces.

I think most people are aware it costs a lot of carbon to make anything, windmills being no exception.

You sound like you might know some of the specifics, so I'm hoping you could inform us further.
If you know the shape of the wave you can do a lot better: for example, for a sine wave you can measure the distance between (interpolated) zero crossings. That's what I do for https://www.jefftk.com/bass-whistle

I think you can do even better than that by noticing the shape of the wave, and then you're only limited by the precision of your hardware.
Interesting, that looks like exactly what they're talking about. Are you a subscriber, and if so how are the charts?
Yeah some people determined like me probably tried over and over until it succeeded, it was a bit scary clicking refresh during the actual payment (although was monitoring my credit card charges, was prepared to cancel extra orders and at worst return extra stuff) , fortunately it went only once despite multiple refreshes until I saw the confirmation page.

Other people probably just went directly to stores.
Is it possible that your experience is an outlier, and not generalizable as advice?
Learning how to create games with Unity is fun. If you want something more basic with immediate results, RPG maker was always a grand fascination.
EU antitrust regulators say they are investigating Google's data collection
Ok, I sheepishly deleted the image because it had some PII.

It showed how the extension presents info like resolution, both a/v bitrate, total throughput, and more.

I used to use this extension to force a bitrate, but Netflix removed the ability. Was super useful when you were stuck watching 144p and Netflix refused to serve you anything better despite your connection improving.
I've always highlighted my comments in bold green. They've never been minimized or backgrounded.
Things are getting built for the 1% because they have the economic power, but I'd imagine OP thinks this is undemocratic (which it is) and results in many people becoming underserved by software companies (very likely).
Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)
It's really easy to "mindread" that somebody is doing something for malicious reasons.

But that's frequently enough incorrect. Setting up a "virtual truce" where we all forgive quick apologies leaves us a little happier IMHO. Yeah we might be a tiny bit naive for this, and some bank robbers might slip through the cracks, but a less anap-judgy world is a nicer place to be overall (at least from my experience).
Santa Cruz mountain lion elevated mercury levels linked to coastal fog
Can someone elaborate on "Backchannel.app" thing ?
There are some customers who have "pain points" and may deserve
"empathy" but are much less likely to reveal this to your call
centers. Persons with certain mental health concerns don't use Netflix
streaming because there can be a trigger from a preview (or even a
single picture) of an item they didn't select. These persons prefer
DVD-by-mail.

You can fix this. Somewhere in your account preferences UI should be a
streaming option (maybe with an innocuous name such as "manual") that
provides this one key benefit of the DVD-by-mail experience. You don't
need to promote this option (other communities can do that for you),
and you can make it extremely unlikely to be enabled accidentally. You
should have time for design and implementation before Mental Health
Awareness Month (May of each year).

For example: when the customer initially selects manual, the screen
could say "We get it! Netflix will not show anything about an item
(such as a movie or TV show) unless you have entered its title." You'd
need a reasonable similarity algorithm (e.g., "13 season bachelorette"
matches "The Bachelorette Season 13" but doesn't match "13 Reasons
Why"). It's OK for the UI to ask occasionally about moving away from
the manual option (e.g., "Should Netflix suggest any movies or TV
shows for you?").
I would try several different approaches in your content. Don't get hung up on what you think is relevant -- what matters is what google thinks is relevant. Since they don't tell you precisely, try a few different variations -- going for maximum diversity, since you're in a search optimization grid like the board game Battleship.

You need to try things that are as different as possible. Don't rewrite it -- explicitly take different approaches with the goal of making them very different from each other. Then run an experiment.
So SMS will be actually removed as a service?
Would this be considered fraud eligible for a reversal if they had swiped the same card? (Eg the store chip reader was broken)
Why would you put antennas behind the moon?

I read the article: these antennas are radio telescopes (or perhaps just do the same job). So they're using the moon to block interfering radio signals from Earth.
Receiving two 4K streams is ~50mbps. This is a pretty common modern use case for home internet.

At 1000mbps downloading any file takes roughly the same time, regardless of size. Offsite storage becomes practical for multimedia files.

Not every home benefits from 1000mbps, but it’s very possible to be a home that does. I don’t have a lot of data stored on disks in my home, because I know I can always download it quickly, even if the filesize is 100gb.
I rather assume that was why they were taking pictures in the first place.

I have a much harder time understanding why though...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with putting up a renewable energy source using hydrocarbons if alternative sources of materials and transportation are not available.

If it were up to you then we'd all wait until renewable energy would be able to produce all of those goodies and move them around but then it would never happen in the first place.

This is called a transition. You could make the same arguments for electric vehicles and they'd be just as broken.
It's not hard from Hong Kong (you do need a China Visa) - essentially you take the Hong Kong subway (last bit's really a train, but part of the subway system, light blue line) to Lo Wu, exit the subway, walk thru HKG immigration exit, cross a bridge, thru China immigration, back down into the subway (green line), 5 stops to HQB.

It's worth hunting down one of the Hardware hacker oriented maps like:

http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/File:Hqb-map-front.png

or

http://www.seeedstudio.com/document/pdf/Shenzhen%20Map%20for...
The Pauli Exclusion principle also fascinating with regards to music, if you consider that waves must be engaged, but only some intensities and some phases will do.

Hollow cavities and their acoustics explain the living potential of sound, much like how electrons become the living potential of the electron cloud. Does it make sense to consider electron clouds of smooth/continuous volume/loudness? Or are we certainly limited by the electron states?
The part you buy is dns that runs on ethereum (iirc), but with artificial scarcity because they want to make money. This part is completely pointless, because the actual system could work as well on ens directly, or even dns.

The actual urbit is like docker with standard API for communication between all apps on different containers, but it runs on a lisp-machine like architecture, except instead of lisp there's a new esoteric language called Hoon.

If not for the scammy wealth extraction attempt with the name system, I would consider it to be in the same general category as TempleOS - a form of art.
anyone that cares who wrote a piece of technology is part of the problem
Is there something similar on Linux? I'm tired of using netstat -anp | grep $PORT and then searching for that process. This is a nice utility.
Ridiculously overcomplicated, and almost entirely unique to GNUnet:

https://gnunet.org/en/architecture.html

My uncharitable guess would be that most of it is completely unusable outside the context of this project.
I found the descriptions to be far too abstract and mysterious. I guess it gives the project a sort of cool hacker vibe, but I really just want a few screenshots of the interface of the actual OS. As it stands, I have no clue whether it's an actual operating system like Windows/Linux/MacOS or if it just vaguely fits the definition of an OS.

I've seen in other comments here that it's both an "Overlay OS" and a VM that you can supposedly run in the cloud or on your laptop. First, what exactly is an "overlay OS"? Am I understanding correctly that this would be running "on top of" an existing OS? Maybe something like the "Seamless mode" in virtual box? Second, how is it being virtualized?

Ultimately though, it looks cool, but I think just putting some screenshots front and center instead of abstract graphics explaining metaphors about the design would go a long way.
Just like mass murders, these stories seem to be popping up everywhere in the US.

I find it hard to understand how a country can be so good in some ways, but so terrible in others. Is it just because the successful truly extract all their wealth from the more unfortunate?
Was this a subtle reference to a sweep and mark algorithm?
You don't need to do a fourier transform to measure a frequency, though. It doesn't really need anything special to measure the frequency of a 440 Hz tone to six digits or so given a single cycle. With some trickery you can get right down to 10-20 ps resolution, which would give you approximately eight digits from a single 440 Hz cycle. There is no frequency-domain effect here that would prevent you from measuring the time interval of a single cycle more accurately, except that it simply gets difficult on an electrical level when we are talking about resolving sub-ps intervals.
Using hydrocarbons to make stuff has zero direct impact on climate. CO2 requires carbon to end up in the air not turbines.

Where do you think CO2 ends up when you use hydrocarbon to make steel or aluminum?
We are at very early stages, figuring out if we can use Hammer2 file system as content addressable storage system.

Our needs are such, that writes are relatively rare, and go into one cluster, while reads of our blobs, need to go to geographically distributed nodes, whose disk topology is different (less capable) than that of a muster, plus they have somewhat-unreliable connectivity to the master.

So Hammer's network-problems-tolerant streaming replication and offline de-duplication is attractive, at least conceptually.
Nice to know I haven’t been imagining things! In 20 years of flying it’s really seemed to me like I’ve had way more high-surface-wind days (which I’ve arbitrarily defined as >20 kts) than when I started. It used to be a rarity and now it’s well over half the days of the year.

I know there’s a lot of local variation, but even with that in mind it’s been noticeable.
That's great! I actually want to build this as a client app for matrix.org backend. If you don't mind, could you share a few use-cases or feature ideas that would appeal to you?
Does contributing to Linux not count? Some things are hard and ultimately fail. It's impossible to have any success without toleration of the possibility of failing.
My TV (Vizio Smartcast) has an diagnostics panel that tells you your input resolution.

So -- assuming the input device isn't compressing and then upscaling, which a Chromecast wouldn't -- it's easy to see the resolution, for Chromecast, XBox, whatever.
1. freeze property taxes on residential construction
2. local government is running out of funding
3. local NIMBYs want theirs home values to rise
4. government prioritizes commercial development permits (no frozen taxes)
5. area becomes more "desireable" as the number of jobs increases
6. housing fails to keep up with growing number of migrants
7. rent and home values rise quickly and become unaffordable
8. NIMBYs introduce rent control
9. developers cannot recoup their investments and leave
10. households with (two) incomes become homeless
11. people start living in tent cities or their cars (we are here)

What a shitshow...

Freezing rents or property taxes just delays the negative effects and perversely make it harder to implement a long lasting solution. Frozen property taxes lead to high house prices which lead to high property taxes on the next assessment. At some point the theoretical property taxes become so large it is no longer possible to unfreeze property taxes because home owners cannot afford them. The threat of high property taxes would force NIMBYs to optimize for variables other than their home value. The goal would be to provide as much housing as is necessary to prevent yourself from being priced out of your neighborhood.
Learning from Cryptocurrency Breaches
Sure, wind turbines are large structures that take energy to build. But they are mostly made from steel, one of the most recycled materials. Glass is equally well recyclable. And you make wind turbines once and they need little resources for the rest of their lifespan. Currently their lifespan is 20-25 years, but as the technology matures and new turbines stop being massive improvements over older designs that lifespan will go up. For comparison a coal plant lasts about 40-50 years, and is also a massive heap of steel and concrete.

500M tonnes of steel over 10 years is ~3% of the worldwide steel production, for some context.
Does not allow for spaces in usernames, only searches for the first word before a space.
many of my teenage years were spent downloading the "A" set of floppies over 28.8k modem, until I befriended somebody at a university who downloaded the whole thing to a QIC tape and just mailed it to me
I guess that's why the body stores fat in the first place. Having done some intermittent fasting and a little 2-3 day fasts, I have seen the longer the fast the less urgent my hunger pains felt.
This story is probably great motivation for some redit subs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/intermittentfasting/
It was only temporary part of russian empire (for about a century), with every attempt to fight it drowned in blood. During that time russia tried to exterminate any self-identity, forbidding to even have a name and calling it "north-western area".
To get an idea of what was happening in that region historically you may read about Great Duchy of Lithuania

Another point to consider: much of the Rus (Ruth) that russia claims to be descendent of is modern Ukraine and Belarus lands, and historically they were figthing most of the time with moscow armies.
He’s always had some very strange ideas. He wrote a book that had the central premise that we are all made of the dust of a dead god.