skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the opposite.

There's proof that there's an infinite number of prime numbers.

EDIT: It's actually a pretty simple proof.

First, recall that any composite number can be made by multiplying primes. If a factor is not prime, then it can be broken down further until you end up with only primes. For example, 60 = 12 * 5, but 12 is not prime and can be broken down further into 3 * 4, but 4 is 2 * 2. So the prime factorization of 60 is 2 * 2 * 3 * 5.

Second, assume that there is a finite number of prime numbers, and label them p1, p2, p3, etc, all the way up to pn, where pn is the highest prime number.

Multiply all the prime numbers together and add 1. Since this number has the form p1 * p2 * p3 * ... * pn + 1, if you try to divide it by any prime number, you will still have a remainder of 1. Therefore, this number will be prime.

Therefore, because you can always create a new prime by multiplying all primes and adding 1, there are an infinite number of prime numbers.
2. Embedded isn't going anywhere. If you want a career, not just a job, embedded is going to be here in 20 years. As opposed to the "hot" things... where will they be?
They might be too young for the office...
Just to chime in as somebody who's taught data viz for years: I didn't hear anything in your story for you to be embarrassed about! Accidentally re-inventing the box plot just means that you're thinking at the same level as Mary Eleanor Spear and John Tukey, and in my book that's something to feel pretty good about. :-)
In a few weeks I'll have completed every MIT course required to earn an undergrad EECS degree minus the physical education credits. It took me about two years. Some of the courses on their OpenCourseware[1] were a bit out of date and I supplemented the MIT courses with a few additional courses from Harvard (I'd read on HN that CS50[2] was worthwhile and was not disappointed) and Stanford[3]. I did not spend even one penny. Then again, I also won't get that very expensive piece of paper we call a "degree" so it's definitely a tradeoff. I'd already paid for several expensive pieces of paper so it didn't seem necessary to me but I can definitely appreciate that having at least one matters. MOOCs give you the same knowledge but they really don't at all give you the same credentials. It's silly but it's reality.

Most of the more popular courses have discord or slack where you can work with other participants. A lot of the CS courses have automated the grading of problem sets. CS50 uses GitHub to submit and grade assignments, for example. There were a lot of frustrating moments for sure but I definitely spent a lot more time with the material and learned a lot more than I would have if I had been given more "support" like you get in a typical classroom. There's definitely a tradeoff. It worked great for me but I had a genuine interest in the topics. I'm also 32. I don't think for a second I could have managed to get as much out of MOOCs as an 18-22 year old.

A minor complaint given that the superb education cost me exactly $0.00 but there are a lot of really good free courses available but you have to hunt for them. For example Paul Hegarty teaches a really great introductory course on developing for iOS with Swift and it's freely available to everyone but it's not listed on Standford's online catalog and the iTunesU version is woefully outdated. The latest version[4] is available on YouTube and even has a dedicated website. I can't even remember how I found the newer course. I also stumbled across "The Ethics of Technological Disruption"[5] by looking at Stanford's YouTube channel playlists. Like the Swift course, it wasn't listed in the university's catalog of free courses.

All that is to say, it's entirely possible, if you're willing to put in the effort not only once you're in the class, but sometimes just to get there as well.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

[2] https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/

[3] https://online.stanford.edu/search-catalog?free_or_paid%5Bfr...

[4] https://cs193p.sites.stanford.edu

[5] https://techethics.stanford.edu
Are you from any of those countries? If not, how do you know?
Question: What do you consider ‘intelligence’?

I mean, we don’t need to look outside our own planet to find traits of what I consider intelligent behavior in other species.

I have a feeling that if we find an alien species it wont be intelligent, simply because we won’t define it as such. They might even have technology we couldn’t even begin to understand, but at the same time they will probably fail at exhibiting something we consider basic. And worse, they will have no way of being taught.

Aside: I suggest in the future—if you want to avoid pedantic comment like these—that you reword your last sentence to include intelligent life on earth, e.g. “The notion that earth is the only planet to harbor intelligent life...”
Boiled skin-on potatoes are good; complex carbs, Vitamin C and B6, potassium, fibre, water, but maybe lacking in hipster value.

Simple carbs are great for physical activity in proportionate amounts, but fairly terrible otherwise.

When I had a heavy manual job I'd come home, have a cold beer then knock back a litre of orange juice, probably containing 100g/4oz of sugar. Seemed to go to muscle glycogen though occasionally I'd rush :-)
I think I see my CPU dripping out the side of my laptop.
Funny, just a while ago was pondering on what a "github for hackers" would look like.

My personal answer would be: it should be a hackable webapp, where users can implement or tweak features at will.

The ingredients being the usual:

- a plugin system

- a function hooks system

- many, many available options that are never taken away (i.e. breaking API changes).

When was the last time you used a webapp even remotely like that?
Ford has $150 billion in debt. 50x the size of Ford would be an enterprise value of $7.5 trillion, even if Ford's share price was $0.
Yes I've tried that but I can't seem to fool my subconscious it seems.
True. In America, it's a comedic trope -- when two people wearing the same clothes encounter each other, both of them feel the need to go home and change. It's kinda funny.
It’s OK to make money from your open source [audio]
There's absolutely no evidence that the NYT intended to publish Carlson's home address. You only need to think for a moment to realise it's completely not what it does - what do you think the reporters are, walking around wearing Vendetta masks and shouting "EXPECT US"?
You should also be able to consider the logical possibility that Carlson was talking bollocks.
And then weigh the two possibilities against each other: NYT doing something that it never does (please cite last time you saw it give someone's full home address, rather than "tidy suburb in Pensacola") v Carlson spouting bollocks.

Dismaying that there are people who would lack so little logical capability to be found on what I thought was a site for coders.
This is one of those messages that seem obvious, that it is hard to deeply appreciate, until one works underneath a director or boss that creates chaos.

If you and your org aren't willing to confront and fix these behaviors... run, don't walk, to the nearest exit.
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This is awesome! Thanks for posting - I think I can use this where I work. I am wondering though.. how do you allocate time to work on the design doc? I'm sure sometimes it takes a day but other times it can take longer and if there's a review needed then it would take even longer. I work in a agile/scrum team - how would this work fit in there?
Loans can be at least partially discharged in bankruptcy, so that is incorrect. They are more stringent, but with the current public perception of college loans, judges are more likely to agree that the conditions this must meet are true.

Secondly, college is free for a lot of people, as in some states anyone making less than $20k/yr goes to a state university for free. This isn't incredibly obvious, and some grants received may be relatively unknown, such as a grant from a college that's not on their website of $7k a year for low-income students.

You also can't generalize everyone's feelings. Some people aren't compatible with trades.
The difference is most of those language don’t proclaim to replace C and are explicit in support of C.

Rust evangelist promote Rust as replacement for C and frown upon anyone who has a contrary view including direct attack on those opinion.

Rust has a value like other programming languages and not a panacea As you said, it’s just not a C replacement for another decade or two or may be never.
To be clear here: these are only circulating cancers. Cancers that break through mesenchymal barriers or can affect the blood are not very common. It's great, amazing even, if you can catch them. But many cancers will never show up in the blood. Still, great work!
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been doing my research (sorry I have limited guitar knowledge, I am learning Spanish flamenco now).

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings

You might be referring to:

Neil Young -> "B-F-B-E-G-B" or "D-A-D-G-B-D"

Joni Mitchel -> "D-A-D-F-A-D" or "G-G-D-G-B-D"

Which ones are the correct ones?
Garmin Venu vs. Fitbit Versa 2 – Compare the Differences
It's contractually forbidden.

If you know the right people, you can get access to complete toolchains built in secret for compiling iOS apps on Linux. It's a lot of engineering work but not technically impossible. But it's all very hush-hush because going up against Apple in court is terrifying.
Delicious possibly returning this summer
Can we be realistic here? I am 100% behind zero emission electric vehicles. However, we are still 10-15 years out from even reaching the necessary infrastructure to support more than 10% market pen. Certain patents will have expired by then. I also despise the fact that Tesla was largely funded by US tax payers and they will likely shift majority of manufacturing abroad in the near future.
To me a core problem is that the market is segmented into a handful of oligopolies. People sometimes say "can't you sell your software elsewhere", and while I can sell a chair at another store, if somehow chairs had to be compatible with tables and somehow there were only like two or three kinds of table in the world and all of them had this weird chair restriction and it was all based on weird artificial interoperability barriers... I just don't think the people who thought through these laws--even the DMCA (which is all about this stuff and wants it... but only so far! it has explicit exclusions based on principled stances taken by congress that are now obsolete) and even the people at the EFF who try to fight it (based on my work with them and extensive discussions with some of their people on our shared projects)--considered what asymmetric encryption and tamper proof module digital rights management technology does to competition (where the case law and legislative intent had always been that these kinds of restrictions should not have much merit: see Sega v. Accolade as a landmark case, wherein Sega hadn't no right to try to lock Accolade off their platform _and everyone liked that and consisted their lack of such right to be important for competition_ and yet now you can build that lock out of encryption and no amount of reverse engineering is guaranteed to break it and all of the assumptions that "software interoperability" is even possible have been destroyed).
It's an other reason I wouldn't trust a fully DIY degree.
I may be wrong—I own no TSLA and I'm pretty much the furthest thing from a professional investor—but I didn't think the comment about being "the climate change" company was actually about warm fuzzies, I thought it was about the potential financial upside.

My understanding is that very likely—whatever green energy technologies win out—energy storage and load shifting will be a major issue.

The entities that can build energy and power storage effectively and at scale will have a new and large market opening before them.

Tesla is in a decent position—by being near the front-edge of battery production and scaling there's real room for Tesla to be a major player in the world energy market.
If it is just nonsense hate, what's the big deal?
It doesn't seem so bad to me. Fetch Metadata will be handled by your framework of choice (Rails, Django, etc) & COOP is a single header that can be deployed by the security team in your app or at the edge. TrustedTypes are the only thing that will really cause developer headache I think.
How do you make money on climate change? Buying Tesla is one way.
I think a design doc is for when you don't know enough to spec a solution.
How was Tesla funded by the tax payer at all?
It's a very nice idea, and I hope you implement in a great manner!
Only thing I disaprove is "Being a founder just got riskier" on landing page lol
Why do you think they will shift manufacturing abroad in the near future? The factories in China are building for the Chinese market to avoid import duties.
Just from reading their page and being familiar with the formats you mentioned:

vs. protobuf: ion is self describing, vs needing a schema

vs. thrift: similar, thrift needs a schema to interpret a binary file

both thrift and protobuf are really binary formats, though they have a canonical textual representation, it's not actually used to serialize. Sounds like ion supports serializing as text as a first class concept.

vs. msgpack: ion has a corresponding text format, whereas msgpack is only binary. Additionally, ion has a symbol type, msgpack doesn't.

I think the biggest benefit here is that it's a new chance for a format that fixes some of json's rough edges to gain critical mass. There's probably nothing ultra special about it that hasn't been solved in other formats, but maybe the timing will be right and everyone will just adopt it as a json replacement (sort of how people just gave up on xml and switch to json seemingly overnight). It's impossible to predict stuff like that.

Edit: upon noticing that it was released in 2016, it seems less likely everyone will jump on the ion bandwagon ...
We wrote our O'Reilly book, "Programming Quantum Computers", precisely to fit your use case. It assumes no advanced mathematics, doesn't shy away from really delving into how algorithms work, and also has an online simulator to let you experiment with actual code. I am of course biased, but I would say that it's the resource out there requiring the least mathematics needed to get some practical knowledge and a chance to experiment in code:

https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Quantum-Computers-Essenti...

Shameless plug dealt with, the text I'd next point you to for being grounded more in the Real world rather than Hilbert space is Mermin's. Modulo his insistence on using the term QBit rather than qubit, it's a great pedagogical work by someone with a very deep understanding of quantum mechanics. It's also in hardcover, which also helps lend it more weight:

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computer-Science-David-Mermin...

As others have recommended, anything by Scott Aaronson is gold. Computational complexity is his passion, and although I think his work is very thorough and accessible, I would suggest it's a little less hands-on. However for very, very deep insights there's nowhere better to go. Alongside his book, Aaronson's blog at https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ is also revered by both QC enthusiasts and professionals alike and a great place to follow debate on the latest developments in the field.

The most mathematically demanding text (or most thorough, depending on how you look at it) I'd consider is Nielsen and Chuang (a.k.a "Mike 'n' Ike", a.k.a "The bible"). It's slightly out of date in some more recent concepts regarding the implementation of quantum computing (not wrong, just a tad incomplete), but is still solid and indispensable for the core concepts and insights behind quantum computing.

If you're interested in the physical implementation of a quantum computer (i.e. what does it _look_ like inside), then Mike 'n' Ike is the only one that will come close to satisfying you. The real world is so damn messy, and quantum hardware is no exception. QC tech moves fast and the money is still on the table as to just what that tech might look like inside the million qubit quantum computer of the future. Mike 'n' Ike does discuss some specific types of qubits, but I'm not aware of a book providing a truly comprehensive and up to date description of today's most promising approaches.
What other classes that you've tried would you recommend?
This appears to rule out the optimistic 1.5C scenario.
In what way do they not "own it"? They've been owning the fact that it's a closed system for 40 years, when tech nerds complained about their products being "appliances".
Protobuf/Thrift are schema-based serialization systems.

Ion is directly comparable to JSON/MessagePack/BSON/CBOR.

I would expect Ion will have slightly different time/space tradeoffs than the other binary schemaless formats.
This is awesome! Btw, I personally think that it'd be better to have orchestration feature for a complete music.
Doxxing is fine because it's not murder? You don't even have the beginnings of a point.
> and it the only company with increase in # of deliveries among the 10 largest autos globally

I'm sure others have commented, but this is some real silly logic. Yes, going from (fake numbers) 100k -> 110k cars sold is a lot easier than going from 1M -> 1.1M.
Previously (2016, 165 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11546098
That's not really how that works. Just don't make it the only language you know.
It is true that for some many it is challenging to have a high quality online course.

I believe some courses could be taken online. For example, here is an amazing course on Algorithms and Data Structures by Robert Sedgewick https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1? at Coursera. It works really well for the online format. So, not all online classes suck.

My major was Physics and I was teaching all five years of the Graduate school. I do not have a slightest clue how is it possible to teach Physics remotely at the acceptable quality.
lovely- the demo could have a little wider view of the fretboard, maybe 6 or 8 frets at a time.
I work in an agile/scrum team. Do you have any experience in tracking the design doc work in this type of environment? It's hard to estimate how long a design doc would take since investigation into the solution and conversations with stakeholders could expand it.
Violence has always been a part of "play"--and we as a human race seem to have survived thus far without breeding a massive army of cold, unforgiving, killing machines who see murder as childplay.
Was Library Science required, or was it a general requirement that you picked Library Science for?

(Having a hard time seeing Library Science as a specific requirement.)
Quibi’s subreddit is just PR people pumping the service
Electric vehicle tax credits?
I do think Tesla is way over valued at the moment. How could they be worth more than the market cap of all the vehicle companies combined? There isn’t going to be largely more numbers of vehicles bought each year.

As to why Tesla could be the winner? One reason is that all the other automakers are failing to produce mass market EVs that anyone wants to buy.
I always wonder what kind of cool stuff HN inspires. There has to be tons. Is there a list?
Interesting they don't have a kotlin or swift version. Do their iOS clients just communicate with plain json? Are they all secretly written in javascript?
Damn, it even has very obvious machine guns.
There are some painpoints that are being addressed:

1) timestamp : I have had issues with a round-tripping timestamp representation quite a bit
2) decimal : currency is denoted in decimal rather than float and shows the Amazon retail heritage. This is very useful.
3) symbols : I've had cases where symbol table/dictionary would have made big difference in serialized size
I mostly agree, but I think there are some caveats here. If the duration of immunity is shorter than expected, or if long term health issues turn out to be fairly significant and prevalent, then Sweden's strategy won't end up looking too good.

And of course the other caveat is that when these strategies were implemented, the number of unknowns about COVID was much higher. So even if the outcome of their strategy ends up being acceptable, that still doesn't mean they made the correct decision base on the knowledge that was available at the time.
Future-looking means considering both upside and downside. A company like VW and GM is all downside. Back when TSLA stock was at $200, TSLA had a lot of perceived downside as well. The "word on the street" was...

- That Tesla would be going bankrupt any day now. That they were insolvent. That they were "structurally unprofitable".

- That Elon was personally broke and was about to get margin called on his lavish lifestyle and multiple mansions.

- That no one would buy a Model 3 without the tax credits.

- That the factory in China was just a mudfield and a marketing campaign.

Today TSLA has now cleared hurdles for becoming ~0.8% of the S&P500, which opens up ETF demand for an estimated 25 million shares, and is uniquely showing growth in the most challenging auto market in history.
Not to defend TSLA's valuation, but the argument of other car giants being "able to flip a switch and make something better" has been proven wrong many times. There are plenty of rational "TSLAQ-arguments", that one is no longer on that list.
Eulid 300 BCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_theorem
"Contemporary Moral Problems" with a professor who resembles Captain Kangaroo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kangaroo).
Ah but that's not what this game is about. It's about what you can prove. And conjectures are by definition things you can't prove yet. So the longer they stand and the more paths they block the more frustrating it gets.
Thanks for the link. v0 cli was written in gerbil scheme (http://cons.io) but I couldn't get it to statically link on linux so I'd still have deps in the form of dynamic libs. Then I found oclif which while depending on node has a lot of what I need and will allow me to ship/iterate faster ... If the spec/features/api was fixed, I'd write the thing in golang if only for the static binaries and cross compiling but it's a relatively joyless/cumbersome language IME, so node for now at least.
> It seems to me as if all these testimonies could be referring to a discussion of wise philosopher kings [EDIT: e.g. Persian Zoroastrian kings] who are able to predict the future through their understanding of the heavens and the science of nature.

Makes me wonder if that is the particular sort of "philosopher king" Plato had in mind, rather than a more general smart guy with the final say-so. The former would resonate, at least a little more, with modern desires to apply empirical methods to sociological and political problems.
I kept a mailer supporting hb 6, the law in question. Or rather, a mailer opposing the petition to put a referendum on the ballot that might have overturned the newly passed law. So much about that process was crooked, including the efforts to foil the petition and keep the referendum off the ballot, up to and including organized intimidation of those collecting signatures for the petition. [1]

The mailer says on one side:
Don't give your personal information to the Chinese government! Blah blah several paragraphs of misinformation. Decline to sign! Save our jobs! The other side says, in part: In the coming weeks, don't give the Chinese government your personal information, email, address, cell phone number, or sign your name on their petition.

The thing I noted at the time was that the guy behind that mailing was the former campaign spokesman for our attorney general. The attorney general is sadly still in office, and as far as I know not indicted (yet), but it's nice to know he's not involved in making these prosecutions, which are strictly federal right now.

[1] https://www.ohiocitizen.org/hb_6_referendum_faqs
Microsoft Office is finally getting rid of the Ribbon