skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dense math can often be complex to decipher. Sometimes it feels like reading an esoteric codebase to me!

1) Yes in this case 0 is not included in N. I’ve seen N defined both ways depending on the context, so it can be confusing when it’s not given explicitly.

2) By definition, a series sum is based on the limit of partial prefix sums. E.g 1/a_1, 1/a_1+1/a_2, ... It is an interesting question mathematically, if the sum stays the same when you arbitrarily rearrange the terms of the series. In general the answer is no (see Riemann rearrangement theorem), but as this series is only made up of positive reals, it can be rearranged arbitrarily without change in how it converges (or doesn’t).

To the second part of your question, take any geometric series, i.e. A = {1, r, r^2, ...}, then it will converge. There are other classes of series that will converge in this case, and the conjecture is basically asking to characterize sets with diverging series as needing to be “large and dense” in a certain sense.
Yes. It is indeed losing its meaning.

This word has been abused to the point where it has become meaningless just like how I keep hearing the word 'literally' used in every sentence. Even worse, it's used carelessly as an insult to criticise others or used towards anyone who disagrees with them rather than describing the actual quick and automatic actions of an enity being closer to a 'robot', 'botnet' or 'aimbot-like' behaviour.

> Within the past few years, I have read a lot of comments in social media and forums where people respond with accusations of people being a "Russian bot" or "Chinese bot". I can understand what they mean if they use "shill", but using the word "bot" means to me that the original poster is an autonomous web scraper or automatic program to vigorously defend or attack something.

I think shill is a better word here to describe this. If people cannot distinguish between a real user account and a bot account then either this bot account has passed the turing test or Twitter is not doing enough to disclose actual bot accounts. They should do what Keybase did with disclosing bot accounts by signing them up differently and then tying them to the real account holder. Google ReCAPTCHA + phone verification for sign-ups solves the mass automated sign-up issue, distinguishing between real and bot accounts by linking them up with 'owners' would clear this mystery up.

> You can argue that programs like GPT-3 are generating the posts, but I think it's obvious by the flow and logic/emotional response chain between accusers and accusees that it is between real people because GPT-3 simply cannot handle pulling in knowledge of theory-building in a coherent, substantive way (at least not yet)

While it can generate very convincing sentences, it has the limitation of always accepting and responding to nonsensical input, especially in very divisive / heated discussions which is likely to be the case. The output will also be limited to data up to 2019 which it was trained on.

> My conclusion then is that real people are pushing their viewpoints still, not "bots", but I may be misunderstanding the way the term is used. Or, has "bot" changed in meaning/use? Is it just a word used to effortlessly shut down opposing viewpoints?

Exactly. This is almost exactly what this Twitter blogpost outlines about the misunderstanding of the word "bot" [0]. However, My point still stands: If the accuser cannot prove that a particular account has the properties of being a "robot" which issues replies very quickly in an automated fashion [0], then perhaps the fault is on Twitter not being able to find a way to disclose if these accounts are either a "bot or not". They should overhaul the sign-up process like the way Keybase dealt with bots: Link the bot account with a real account and disclose which real account owns that bot account.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/bot-or-no...
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Do you think it would help if it was open sourced?

Credit card info is handled by square who Iframes all user inputs so I can’t see it.

Password to unlock the pw you need a key, nonce, encrypted message. My server only ever sees the nonce and message. The user only ever has all 3. Even the bookmarks you create use hash-bangs which don’t go over the wire.

The hard part for me is conveying all of that without a wall o’text.

Maybe I can reach out to givewell, and get their thoughts. They’d bless it maybe?
Why is it useful for maps to be sorted by insertion order?
Effectiveness at using a language =\= effectiveness at implementing useful things in it
Then Amazon nukes your account.
This is fairly low effort, and it doesn't even take much effort to find flaws with Python.
I don’t get the part about unordered maps. Python never promised ordered dicts (until 3.7) it wasn’t a secret nor did you have any reason to believe that they would be ordered.

I mean they’re ordered now and that provide some benefit in terms of simpler code in some cases, but it was never a problem as such.
He has tons of fans everywhere.

'Ye but but' --looks at the fake news bingo entry-- 'Russia!'
1. Yes, as you say it doesn't matter
2. Order of summation doesn't matter when all numbers are positive

> Since A only contains positive integers doesn't sum of 1/n for all n in A always tend towards infinity?

no, think for instance sum(1/n^2)
EDIT: or sum(1/2^n) which solves Zeno's paradox (Achilles vs Tortoise)
I don't know, where you live, but in most of the world, certification/signing/encryption of RF-capable Devices/Firmware has been established rule for decades, with a few exceptions for dev-boards.
TPM, ME, SB, the_recent_grub_fixes,etc are all steps putting in place a pervasive infrastructure, that will enable truly draconian control over our computing devices for the key-holders.

And I have not reason not to believe, that somebody somewhere is waiting for a pre-text to implement full vertical stack control in law for his (region/country/domain). Perhaps "so that we can ensure, that the contact-tracing app gets installed everywhere, otherwise we'll all die!!11!". Or protecting us from Terrorism; that usually does the trick. This argument also works surprisingly well to argue against backdoor-less encryption protocols. See e.g. Australia (iirc)

Do you not perceive a similar evolution?

Note, TP,SB,ME could in theory be used to build "secure" systems, but currently they are (also) used to secure the PC against you, the buyer/user.
It does get a little more involved in Erlang/Elixir though. It has a built in GUI program called 'Observer' that can even print out a real-time visualisation of your object and process tree. Amongst many other things.
I render such emails in browser and it is rarely lossy. It is based on munpack and some hacky scripts. Basically construct a html page with all the info and attachments and open it in browser.
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Disagreement with post doesn’t make it shit. Diversity of opinions is great.

But calling the post shit instead of providing any arguments definitely does not make a constructive helpful discussion. Such comments are just noise.
I never understood why voting remains such an issue.

Why not have the credit card companies handle voting? The cost of a card with the chip is less than $2 isn't it?

The card is swiped into a reader, the ballot is displayed on screen, choices are made and confirmed, a laser printer prints out a paper ballot which is dropped into a secure box.

We would know within 1 hour of polls closing the accurate tally of every race.
Imagine that everything is prohibited but hiking.

Soon the trails will be full of hiking newbies.

It was impressive the number of people « discovering » they like jogging in Paris when it was one of the only outdoor activity authorized...
Wait until you get to picture #30 1875 Howard County Sheriff's House and Jail
"S62.4 News - this just in, proximate spatial anomaly gives some stars unprecedented redshift; could wormhole be to blame?" /fiction
Meanwhile there are whole legitimate industries banned from adwords, like repair and data recovery _if_ you arent a huge corporation. "We need to discuss Google's anti-repair advertising discrimination." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBJ2LD-Dao

Btw Youtube has no problem runing those scam bitcoin ads https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/i877ci/those_fake_... /

or pr0n blowjob banners for that matter https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/i87jfj/vpn_cumshot...
It makes execution reproducible.
I guess if you want a pseudo map/list where ordering matters? But truth is semantics of a 'map' have no implicit ordering (at least mathematically). The fact some languages offer this as a convenience is great but its hardly fair to complain about languages that do not.
Soho is packed with outdoor diners.

I went from phone call to CT Scan in 17 mins at NYP hospital.

Museums open August 24.

Whole Food delivers to my front door. Your local herb friend probably does too. And how many Apple Stores?

Got my new NYC lease. Landlord raised the rent. Guess he’s not buying the doom and gloom?

NYC will do just fine. We’ll figure it out.

:-)
Perhaps Amazon would require third-party sellers to have liability insurance or post an adequate bond to cover claims for goods shipped to California.

Sellers then might need to increase prices for goods shipped to California. Alternatively, they could be "not eligible for shipment to California".
From S62's perspective, _everyone_ is moving. They would infer that S62 is the oddball, and not the galaxy around them.
So the author is sad because Python 3.8 fixes things... too late for their taste? And they, "as an author of another programming language" would've known better and never made these "mistakes" to begin with? Get off your high horse.
No. It has the same meaning. The layman just wildly overestimates the current capabilities of AI. The average Twitter user who sincerely accuses another account of being a “russian bot” actually does think it’s some autonomous entity regurgitating propaganda.
Solr is amazing and I wish there was more buzz around it
I have an online eye test (easee.online) which we are expanding globally. Would be interesting to connect to an ophthalmologist telemedicine platform. Can we connect? My email is in my profile.
Try to load the reader view of those pages. Works most of the times. I even set sites like medium and forbes to autoload the reader view :)
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I think parent is using “shit-post” to describe a negative post.

Like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting
However the author did not mention stable order does not come for free. It is not a trivial decision to make, between ordered and unordered dicts.
This is a good place to ask this question: Lately, we’re trying to buy products on Amazon only if it says, “Sold by Amazon.com.” Is that a good way to ensure that the product is not counterfeit? The assumption is that if Amazon is selling something directly, it would be getting it directly from the real manufacturer.
“Somebody” ignored the wisdom of Lisp, which was
“everything is an expression and evaluates to a value”
(no statements vs expressions), and made assignment a
statement in Python years ago.

This was the philosophy of Algol. That is why ":=" was invented there. From Lex Fridman interview I understood that Guido was not educated enough to understand some issues, and tried to fix them afterwards. :-)
NumPy another Iverson Ghost (2018)
Related: I didn't see mentioned on the page, there is also a visual novel game called Eliza, named after the same subject, and the in game Eliza follows a very similar script to the text screenshot shown on the page. It's an interesting game if you like visual novels, and it explores a few other concepts beyond the human machine relationship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_(video_game)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/716500/Eliza/
He’s not some random guy.
> a https bypassing proxy

Any particular recommendations? I have a similar need.
Indeed, a record of proof of the transaction instills more confidence in the system (i.e. votes aren't just in this "black box") and provides a redundancy in the case of issues with the electronic system.
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Coming from Erlang to Elixir - I find Elixir docs lacking in both coverage and terseness.
Coming from (the much-maligned) ActiveRecord, I wasn't really impressed.

It has this cute macro-based syntax, and that seems to inform even the "functional" API as well. Yet when you I wanted to do something just a bit more advanced like joining on an association whose name I don't know in advance (or, say, want to parameterize the function with), I had to resort to writing a macro myself and then eval-ing it an runtime.
Almost any hash table implementation will give the same iteration order for the same sequence of insertions and deletions across program executions. So this would already be true even if the order was not the insertion order.

Golang starts iterations in a random position each run to prevent people from relying on the ordering.
When they have become what they want, they quite well look male/female so you don't have to remember anything. Indeed, you'd have to make an effort to get it wrong.

If they are transitioning they're very forgiving of genuine mistakes.

Your links don't support your position - did you read them yourself?

"Good News: Law Penalizing “Misgendering” with Hefty Fine and/or Jail Time being Legally Challenged" (california)

"Misgendering is not a crime and not a hate-crime, no. However, it can be a hate-crime if done in combination with another criminal offence, which suggests that the offender is motivated by a hatred for transgender people." (UK)

"California health care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” decline to use a senior transgender patient's “preferred name or pronouns” could face punishments ranging from a fine to jail time under a newly signed law." (california)

so as you see it's mostly about intent.

I don't think you actually know any TG people.
A program that let remote machine mount the entire filesystem of local machine, then chroot it to execute the command on the remote machine.

It implemented a FUSE-based network filesystem intended for ad-hoc use just for this, with some obvious optimization for loading all dependency at once.

As the result, remote machine need no preparation other than ssh access.

It's... interesting.
For example the system used for postal voting or more exactly early voting in Finland is one where there is time period(around week) when voters can vote in any early voting location around country, or in such places like embassies around the world.

The process is same as regular voting. Only difference is that vote is enclosed in envelope which is enclosed in second envelope and shipped to voting precinct to be opened later and counted with rest of the votes. During the voting process identity of voter is verified.

There is some risks here, but there really isn't much to fix that. In the end if you trust enough the step between voting and shipping votes it's very decent. Anonymity is there and also voter is verified.
I get why a CI/CD approach is taken with modern languages but you can't revert changes with programmimg languages like you can with APIs. My view is, long-term supported new features are fine but deprecation of existing features and code breaking changes should be constrained to a major version change (like 2.7 -> 3) and that should happen at most once in a decade.

I wish more programmers that work outside of the tech industry would contribute to these discussions.
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And don't forget that the US operates on the Electoral College, which a shocking number of people don't even understand. Since each state has different rules about their EC delegates, popular vote does not necessarily equal winner...

Now try telling that to people when there's a big screen with "official" numbers that were all provided electronically an hour after polls closed...
> Does anyone think it would make sense to create a drastically simpler set of web standards, so that making web browsers would become much simpler?

Everyone wants simplicity but nobody agrees which parts are the superfluous ones. As long you pose the question vaguely enough people on HN will agree because any engineer knows "simplicity is good". But if you get more concrete about what to remove, watch the pushback:

- Lets remove https, http is much simpler. (The privacy and security people will protest: We wanted simplicity but not like that!)

- Lets remove all accommodations for accessibility - who cares about that stuff anyway? (Well at least the people who needs it does!)

- Lets remove flexbox and grid - table tags and spacer gifs were good enough for everyone when I was young! (The law of conservation of complexity: You move the complexity from the browser implementation to the design implementation. Since there are more web designers than browser developers these days, it is not a good tradeoff.)

- Lets remove colors and fonts and interactivity, the web is only intended for reading science papers! (Yeah just like the printing press was only intended to print the Bible, doesn't mean it it wrong to use it for other stuff.)

- Lets remove HTML - people can just download PDF's!
"Worse is better" suggests otherwise. HTML conquered numerous existing markup languages (notably SGML). Though it had relatively little content compatability to worry about in 1990.

There are numerous "HTML page simplifiers" (most based on Readability's engine AFAIU), which might shim behaviour and compatibility for legacy pages.

And content itself is text, not code. Slavish backwards compatibility is not a strict requirement.
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There's early support for an OpenGL backend, which can then run on WebGL.
The trick is staying a very long time to re-normalize somewhat the behaviors. They stayed 8 days in a laundraumat to film people there.
Facebook also seems to have a particularly bad record for running this type of obvious scam ad. Think the main result of clicking the report button is that Facebook's algorithm now thinks I have an above average interest in fake news articles about fake celebrity endorsements of get rich quick schemes...
Does not look obviously negative to me.

Thank you for the link though.
That's true, though I avoid this problem by only opening HTML email from known, trusted senders where I consider it acceptable to signal that I opened the email.
I store all mails local. I can share my setup. I will take a while for me to find time and collect things in the same place. I will report back to this comment.
Now, imagine you are using Amazon.ca where many of the legitimate .com vendors aren't even there or are there and are price gouging or have massive shipping fees.

Amazon.ca has become such a cesspool and so much worse in the past 6 months, I've just stopped buying from it.
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Ruby does, too (DRb). Though one would need to set it up on on the production server to use it. That means writing some boilerplate.
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> their digital ID cards, which use an underlying blockchain-type system

The arguments outlined above are really hard to follow, and doesn't really help the blockchain voting case.

Unless something exceptional happened recently, Estonian eID cards are just bog standard ISO 7810/7816 cards.

No blockchain or blockchain-like system involved. Just regular X.509 style PKI. They were even affected by the insecure proprietary RSAlib code a few years ago, like so many others, and all cards had to be replaced.
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O.K. so we see the same things.

I can't discern from your writing tone, if you think the above is desirable or a train_wreck_in_slow_motion coming.

I think, it's the latter, not necessarily by direct effect, but by all the bad behavior this will enable in corporations for generations to come.
Note that a geometric series can also be a multiple, e.g. (a, a r, a r^2, ...). It converges if and only if |r| < 1.
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Imagine an omnipresent and homogeneous field, let's say an infinite field of corn. By looking at the corn, you can see how fast you're going, without that observation requiring the field to have a center.
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He deported Covid-positive people to Guatemala and has worked against the WHO, so... some of them, yes.
Not “almost any”. Good hashtables intentionally mix random numbers into hashes to prevent DOS attacks. And also, even if hashtables are stable, the hashes of the objects might not be (depend on the addresses for example).
Being from India, I'd like to point out that these groups of people you are talking about actually reinforce a gender binary rather than muddling it. Hijra are men who take on all the societal roles of women. They aren't "non-binary" or some "third" gender at all. They espouse and exude femininity, and in India there are two modes of being in society: feminine and masculine. Hijra do not add a third way of being that is separate from both masculinity and femininity.

I'd also argue that their existence is not a proof that Indians have different ideas about gender than Westerners. They are a marginalized people because most of Indian society thinks it is odd / unfortunate / a disorder to be a man and yet want to be socially a woman.

It isn't Western to have two gender roles in society. Men and women are different in lots of ways and it's valuable to society to reinforce differences between the two for the sake of procreation.
One including mutual authentication would be appreciated
If the cow is a sphere...
Literary world overwhelmed by 600 books to be published on one day
Then why do we call ACA "ObamaCare"?

The White House can propose and advocate policies, and it has an effect. Trump has promised to do the former and has never done it. Why is he promising to do it if it has no effect?
Funny, a very similar sentiment, but inverted was expressed in a rant about c# shared on here a couple of days ago - typing `foo.bar()` and implicitly discarding the result, because you assumed foo.bar() was a statement.

My first though was "that's the single largest cause of avoidable bugs in my python code".
So basically an ARMsrace against Nvidia?
No you are not. The PO handles over four hundred million pieces of mail PER day. The amount, even if every voter used the mail and every voter mailed it on the same day, would not overload their system. Heck it won't even reach sorting facilities all at the same time and some will lag over three days

All you have to remember about this story is, Democrats have promised to bail out the pension system of the Post Office and so the union representing them has thrown their support behind all DNC candidates.

You do realize that the big unspoken promise with an all Democrat Washington is they are to shore up ALL public employee pension systems which would make the debt that even Trump and the pandemic ran up look like pocket change.

America is on its way to be fleeced and the irrationals are lining up because they stopped thinking long ago when hate took over