skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post shows clearly that geometric intuition (other, perhaps, than drawing a parabola crossing - or not crossing - the X-axis) is not helpful at all understanding and solving a quadratic equation, while elementary algebra indeed can and does; the imaginary unit, then, appears naturally as the square root of the negative unit (which leads to the need to extend the reals); if anything, the approach that you advocate would make the kid's head spin (no pun intended) with the result being the total loss of the ability to think about things in a simple and natural way.
It depends on what you buy. The best thing to buy would be a currency like Monero where you're actually anonymous.
It's interesting to see that even on HN people don't know the difference between correlation and causation.
Twitter is a platform used widely by some of the most powerful people in the world and in the US government. As a result, there is plenty of justification and precedent for said gov't to regulate their security practices and procedures. To illustrate this point, I doubt you'd have any sympathy for Twitter if they had been sending their passwords over http.

Now, I don't think the government is prepared to do this proactively and effectively, but the idea of a telco that advertises resilience to hacks (whether through social engineering or technical incompetence) sounds like it would be quite appealing to a growing segment of the connected world and whatever such promises that find success in the marketplace might be used to inform legislation or regulation, eventually...
Quote: "Glucosamine is a polysaccharide that is found naturally in cartilaginous joint tissues, bones, skin, ligaments, and nails"

Why not just eat natural sources like cartilage, bone broth, skin etc ?
How did everyone miss this ingenious policy that immediately solves poverty.

You can't have a low salary if everyone, by default gets a high salary.

All the worlds problems instantly solved.
Tons of amazing music with totally new sounds comes from people 16-20 years old. For the right person, it doesn't take a decade.
Nouveau is a highly capable open source driver for NVIDIA GPUs based on reverse-engineering.

For some older card generations (e.g. GTX 600 series) it was competitive with the official driver. But in every hardware generation since then, the GPU requires signed firmware in order to run at any decent clock speed.

The necessary signed firmware is present inside the proprietary driver, but nouveau can't load it because it's against the ToS to redistribute it.

Most GPU features are available but run at 0.1x speed or slower because of this single reason. Nvidia could absolutely fix this "tomorrow" if they were motivated.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-...
I was under the impression that because he was charged as an adult the info would be released.
>I have never used a credit card when living in Europe, it was a debit card... but it is effectively debited at the end of the month only. So you have to pay in full at the end of the month.

This is pretty much how the high tier credit cards work in the US (or atleast how the people who own them say they work). The CSR has some insane 28% APR, way higher than Chase's mid tier card. Amex's premium cards (Gold, Platinum) also work the same way.

In your case, what happens when you don't have enough money at the end of the month? You are effectively in debt.
Is there a specific statement or position from him that you think is incorrect and colored by his falling stamina due to age?

> should be running a large critically important part of society.

Or maybe this ties into our perception of what he's specifically running as the director of NIAID, the research and advisory arm of the government rather than CDC, the public health and policy arm, that has been largely muzzled during this pandemic.
Isn't the ultimate goal of technology for no one to have to work unless they want to, while providing utopian material abundance to everyone regardless of whether they work? Of course this isn't possible with our current level of technology, but isn't that what we are striving towards?

I mean, what's the point of building AI and robots and advanced energy sources and bio engineering if they don't fundamentally improve the quality of life for everyone? I certainly don't think there's some moral requirement to force everyone to work.
That's a bit like saying that a movie is a collection of single pictures.
If you're lexicographically sorting, maybe? But if you're doing that, 3.10 and 3.2 won't sort correctly, either.
The MIPS Open ISA project was actually shut down after only a year. [^1]

POWER has technically only been "open" for a little under a year. OpenPOWER was always a thing, but this used to mean that companies could participate in the ISA development process and then pay license fees to build a chip. This changed last year when POWER went royalty-free (like RISC-V).

The real defniition of "open" is can you answer the following questions in the negative:

- Do I need to pay someone for a license to implement the ISA?
- Is the ISA patent-unencumbered?

RISC-V was the only game in town for a long time and thereby attracted large companies (including NVIDIA) and startups that were interested in building their own microprocessors, but didn't want to pay license fees or get sued into oblivion.

[^1]: https://www.hackster.io/news/wave-computing-closes-its-mips-...
I'm not normally one to defend Nvidia (paratiulalrly not from my Linux laptop), but at least the Xbox and PS3 issues never really seemed to be their fault from what I've heard on the grapevine.

Xbox: The Xbox's security was broken, and Nvidia apaprently took the high road, claimed a loss on all existing chips in the supply chain (claiming a loss fo the quarter out of nowhere and tanking their stock for a bit) and allowed Microsoft to ship a new initial boot ROM as quickly as possible for a minimum of cost to Microsoft. When that new mask ROM was cracked within a week of release Microsoft went back to Nvidia looking for the same deal and Nvidia apparently told them to pound sand and in fact said that they would be doing no additional work on these chips, not even die shrinks (hence why there was no OG Xbox Slim). There are other reasons why Microsoft felt like Nvidia still owed them albeit, but it was a bit of a toxic relationship for everyone involved.

PS3: they were never supposed to be the GPU until the eleventh hour. The Cell was supposed to originally crank up to 5GHz (one of the first casualties of the end of Dennard scaling, and how it affected Moore's law as we conceived it) and there were supposed to be two Cell processors in the original design, and no dedicated GPU. When that fell through and they could only crank them up to 3.2GHz, they made a deal with Nvidia at the last second to create a core with an new bus interconnect to attach to the Cell. And that chip was very close to the state of the art from Nvidia. Most of it's problems were centered around duck taping in a discrete PC GPU into the console with time running out on the clock, and don't think that anyone else would have been able to deliver a better solution under those circumstances.

Like I said, Nvidia is a scummy company in a lot of respects, but I don't think the Xbox/PS3 issues are necessarily their fault.
Ask HN: Why did this article just silently disappear from the front page?
I managed to take a screenshot that shows this link on position 9:

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres-why/

But after I read it, the 'discuss' link leads to empty page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24014806

Why was it removed?
Because the amount of story that the creators want to tell requires more than 2 hours.

Shows with 50 or more episodes in the entire series may take years for the whole series to come out. But they never really try to go more than a year without releasing a batch of ~10 episodes.
Then Wayland is kind of stupid. Why is that restriction needed or why do the developers think that it is a good idea to have it?

For example, when the user has arranged the windows of an application in some way, and then wants to save and then restore the placement of windows, how should it be done by the application?
No, nobody should ever make more unemployed than unemployed, and that just shows that we need to raise the minimum wage -- not lower unemployment benefits.
>Should anyone ever make more money while unemployed than when employed?

No, but of course the fault lies somewhere between unemployment being too high and wages being too low.
If I had to speculate, I'd say the lady has 90% of the hardware that enables empathy, just that she doesn't feel pain, she cannot empathize with pain and things deriving from pain, just like I can't empathize with bats using ecolocation.

Perhaps she empathizes with other, more positive emotions.

However, psychopats surely do feel pain, but they lack the hardware to feel the pain of others and much more.

And sure, there's the fact that you can learn to voluntarily turn off your empathy.
So parenting isn't useful and children should pay their parents? - Just to show that there are other factors at play as well and not all can be measured in money.

To go back to the Microsoft case: They played the market well, that there are no alternatives in some areas and a new owner has hardly a chance to go there.
No, the economic policy for keeping our economy from entirely imploding, instead of just partially imploding as it actually has done, has been to introduce an unusually high unemployment benefit. Raising wages has been a beneficial side effect.

I say "has been" because, again, the CARES Act supplementary benefit expired today, with no clear replacement plan in sight, and no equivalent replacement plan anywhere on the horizon.
> We didn't keep track of exactly which version was used for which calculations, because that's simply very demanding in the middle of a complex research project.

Doing the bare necessities of science (recording methods for results) can be almost automated:

Put all code in Git
then in your script add something like:

git rev-parse HEAD >> run.log
Show HN: Grimoire of a Nahual (Side Project VLOG)
Hey yall, so this is my new side project: An occult adventure serial fiction about sorcerers in the southwest free to read on Medium called "Grimoire of a Nahual".

To write the story, I am using Ron Edwards "Sorcerer" RPG, so that's what makes this interesting: I don't know where the plot is going beforehand, so its all a surprise to me too.

The other one is that it is actually a hypersigil, this is based on Grant Morrison's theory on the intersection of Cybernetics and the occult principle of "As Above So Below". Supposedly, the in-game universe is a microcosm of sorts, and the main character is a sort of voodoo doll with my face on it that is able to interact with that universe. Changes in that universe should have echoes in ours. That's the theory at least. Hopefully it's true! This is an experiment to test that hypothesis.

The first piece of software that came out of this is a die roller simulator powered by NextJS

If yall have any creative side projects, share them here! This came out of yesterday's thread about Developer VLOGs on their side projects, but I wanted to make it more than just a talking head.

VLOG: https://youtu.be/tr_EgGlfQ4Q
Chapter 0: https://medium.com/grimoire-of-a-nagual-kingdom-come/grimoir...
What is a Hypersigil: http://cyborganthropology.com/Hypersigil
Sorcerer RPG Die Roller: https://sorcerer-rpg-dice-roller.vercel.app
Is a Cochrane review really a primary source? They're meta-analysis, which I'd think of as secondary.

In the case linked, the analysis seems pretty unequivocally to not support supplementing:

"We found no evidence to support antioxidant supplements for primary or secondary prevention. Beta-carotene and vitamin E seem to increase mortality, and so may higher doses of vitamin A. Antioxidant supplements need to be considered as medicinal products and should undergo sufficient evaluation before marketing."

Did I miss something?
I don't think luck has anything to do with it.

If some people find this process too burdensome, that's their right. But plenty of skilled engineers that I've worked with don't see it as being jerked around. At the very least, I find it less burdensome that turning coding into some sort of live-performance (which an in-person coding test inevitably is).

Personally, I don't judge an hiring process primarily by how convenient it is for me. I judge it by how likely it is to be a good filter. If the company I'm applying to has a hiring process that is effective at selecting good candidates (along a number of different dimensions) then I'm more likely to enjoy working with the people there.

From this perspective, homework assignments are a good filter, and so companies that use that approach seem like better places to apply.
The push against "victim blaming" is not about removing any possible role a victim would have in their victimhood. It is about destigmatizing victimhood and not blaming victims for things that are out of their control or that any other reasonable person would do.

Let's imagine a situation in which someone breaks into my house and steals my TV. I deserve a decent amount of blame if I left my front door wide open before it happened. I deserve much less blame, but still some blame if I left my front door unlocked. I don't deserve any blame if someone broke down my front door to do it.

In this situation, Twitter left their front door unlocked.

Furthermore, Twitter is not even the primary victim here. The biggest victims are the people whose accounts were stolen and the people who were tricked into losing their bitcoin.
This seems like a flawed, and emotional, interpretation.

Edit: I say flawed because, of course, the point stands regardless of how difficult it is to raise wages.
"Not seeing" race denies systemic racism.

https://www.oprahmag.com/life/relationships-love/a32824297/c...
Putting my "free market" hat on for a moment, the people who are risking their lives are in an advantageous situation for bargaining. To some degree, it worked too! Lots of stores and delivery services appeared to be paying more.

I think people often look at this with the "glass half empty" viewpoint though. "PERSON A MAKES MORE THAN I DO! THEY SHOULD GET LESS!" Why not think "PERSON A MAKES MORE THAN I DO! I SHOULD MAKE MORE!"
are you serious?

obviously he can't compete against the government's pocket
Can't the same arguments be made for something like having Huawei sold to Cisco or something? i.e. it's a great outcome for everyone except the target party.
There never was a Palestinian people or a Palestinian contry.

After last time the Jews (Israeli) lived there those areas went from being Roman to Turkish to British to being split into mostly Jordan and Israel. Jordan was the big part - for the Palestinian Arabs - and Israel was about the about 30 % that was left for Palestinian Jews.

At no point in time however before the Oslo process has there been a Palestinian country, only Arabs and Jews living in Palestine, better known as Israel until that massive propaganda effort last century.
Death?

One of the things that happens when consumers have options they didn't before is previously invisible preferences become expressible. What if the bulk of consumers never cared much about albums as coherent pieces of art? What if they only did so financially because it was the only way to get the separable pieces they did care about?

The advent of fast food has not exterminated fine dining. What's changed is that consumers have more choices. This did not signal the death of fine dining.
They broke enough of the theming API on every minor release that for a few years it was essentially impossible to run any GTK theme other than the GNOME sanctioned default theme (Adwaita). Adwaita was updated in lock step with GTK minor releases (by the same developers), and unaffiliated theme builders were left with periodic drops of subtly different behavior and no notes or tools on how to update their themes. It drove many of them away.

This was apparently a part of a deliberate strategy around GNOME branding. The GNOME developers wanted all GTK apps to have one consistent look-and-feel, they wanted people to associate this look with GNOME, and they wanted people to start thinking of GTK apps as "GNOME Apps."

More recently, they crippled existing functionality for server side-window decorations in Wayland (which literally every other toolkit supports), because GNOME decided to use exclusively client-side decorations. They vetoed all of the reasonable seeming workaround proposals, essentially telling developers to either use GNOME's decorations or to manually draw the close/maximize/minimize buttons.

Honestly, all of the crap that systemd gets should be redirected towards GTK/GNOME. I've never seen a group of developers act in such bad faith.
RedShift1:

> API changes every minor release.

vetinari:

> the changes were pretty minor.

Was this pun intended? ;-)
It's done by the window manager, which is integrated directly into Wayland. The tight coupling of the two is a semi-contentious issue.
"Our European visitors are important to us."

Yes, quite. I won't repeat the phrase that immediately came to mind when I read that, but I will say it ended with, "you News Channel 8!"
Net cash is "only" 81 billion and long term plan is share buybacks, they already bought back around 200 bil iirc.
Paying taxes in a country doesn't mean the realized income stays in that country.
> Yes, Europeans conquered most of the world

... and invented humanism and outlawed slavery (worldwide!) and decolonized their own empires. This is pretty remarkable and unique in history.
A T-shirt contest for Space Farmers
Salary aren't dichotomous to high and low.
I'd guess there's not much cause for it among computer science people. I've noticed this in the past: empirical disciplines are better at this stuff.

Still, I can't quite work out if a biology degree would cause somebody to understand it better..
Well, in corporate tech America management thinks that it is their money, they just haven't figured out a way to remove it from the company yet.
Responsiveness in terms of keypress latency has gotten much worse over time.
Tampa teen faces 30 felony charges for hacking prominent Twitter accounts
People did say things like you could have made a fortune shorting stock by tweeting something insane from Elon Musks account. I don't buy that as necessarily better than a Bitcoin account. Stock transactions are heavily regulated and monitored. You'd leave a pretty large paper trail of any stock manipulation you hoped to profit from.

Of course Bitcoin is highly traceable as well, so maybe the lesson is hacking into high-profile Twitter accounts just isn't as profitable as you'd hope?
Because there is not enough they want to buy strategically.
I don't think they're bragging. They're trying to dissuade the next attacker.
> I'm just telling you I find the question irrelevant. If you're threatened with total destruction and think you can win of course you should attack.

Great. Now, put yourself in Ivan's shoes. NATO has encircled you, militarily and economically. Your military is second-rate, at best. But you do have six thousand nuclear weapons, which mean that nobody is stupid enough to mess with you.

... And then Uncle Sam starts building anti-nuclear defenses on your borders, with the long-term aim of eliminating the sole means of defense that you have.

If you're Ivan, to use your own words - of course you should attack! And what's the overall result? A missile defense system that is intended to save American lives actually ends up ending them, because its existence causes a nuclear war. It completely fails at its stated purpose!

> No reason to believe that in case of nuclear war Russia would outperform the US.

Outperform is completely meaningless in this context. Outperform means the difference between 68% of your population being killed in a thirty minutes, compared to 82% of the enemy's (With two thirds of the remainder dying over the next week). That's not winning. That's not outperforming on any metric that matters.

Once you're done firing nukes, you're country's traditional military doesn't matter because you no longer have a country. What you have is a humanitarian crisis, multiple orders of magnitude worse then whatever stupid geo-political spat your foreign ministries were arguing over.
In China they have a separate app owned by ByteDance called Douyin - in fact iirc TikTok was an aquisition that they then modeled after Douyin
Totally, but opening a bitcoin account with your license driver and moving stolen bitcoins there without any anonymization is another thing altogether.
I publish one five-track mixtape as a solo artist once a year; and whatever singles I end up just naturally doing, as well. It’s a nice method that has successfully netted me some actual revenue, shockingly.
That sure is a pile of quotes. I love the assumption that the problem is people just not wanting to learn how to fish. What has he, or have you, to back that assumption up? Evidence, please, not more assertions that read as if they fell through a hole in time from the red-baiting 1950s, when you really could just up and get a job that paid a living wage most places.
Under capitalism, no, that's not what anyone is working towards.
If you had read the article, you would know that pine needles are a leading cause of intense fire seasons...

Hence, harvesting pine needles could actually lessen the intensity of fire seasons, especially in drought-prone areas.
Are there not thousands of conferences each year? People giving talks at meet-ups, the yearly Apple developer conference draws thousands of people. All events that people sign up for voluntarily to listen to someone else talk about code.

As for viewing it; there are also many places where people participate in coding competitions or code golfs, where others judge and appreciate the code.

Is that really so different from going to a concert or an art gallery?
Haha.

I said essentially «there are many concepts involved which will take months to unpack, irrespective of which approach is taken, but in good faith here are some sketchy descriptions of what pictures you might draw if you wanted to start with a graphical interpretation ...»

To which you responded essentially «your sketch summary consisting of a few picture-free paragraphs aimed at an expert audience doesn’t completely describe all of a complicated set of ideas to a naïve middle school student anywhere near as well as 2 semesters of introductory algebra class does at covering a more limited subset of the same ideas, therefore it must be useless.» This after you earlier proposed an approach to complex numbers that optimistically will first be accessible for typical 3rd year undergraduate math majors.

This conversation is absurd. But all the best to you.
> The same goes for Wayland, by the way

Wayland happened mainly because they could get to 90% of Xorg functionality easily and ignored the fact that the last 10% would take over a decade to achieve parity on.
So these people just woke up one day and knew exactly how to make music?
The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries
Correct, the US doesn't only support totalitarians. However, it does support them. The US support for democracy isn't based on principles is my point, it's based on convenience, and the US will merrily crush a democracy and install a dictator if it's in US interests.
What you are saying is true of course, except nobody in their right mind should think that algebra lacks intuition and that learning it consists of rote memorization.
Yes and HN is the extraverts world. Just look at all the interesting submissions that nobody has heard of. Introverts did those things by toiling in obscurity and they will stay in obscurity where nobody will ever know or see because HN is a notoriety contest. It has to be because YC is in the business of selling the fiction of lucrative startups which do not exist in the real world.