skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens if they aren't able to sell off the assets at a high enough price to pay the inheritance tax? Does the amount owed scale with how much the assets are actually able to fetch in a mass sell-off like this?
So, for those not in the know? Ghidra is software/ software language for reverse-engineering? So I feed it the .exe file and it will try to tell me the original C++ code?
https://archive.vn/AQNdv

https://youtu.be/o5c_XZaArH4

https://youtu.be/pFDD_NxtKZ4
These rules of thumb are useful, but in the real-world I find the use of startup files to be very inconsistent across different platforms. Oftentimes I someone will override the default behavior, sourcing files in different conditions or order than you would expect. There's really no substitute to reading all the startup files in /etc and ~. Sometimes it's even necessary to inspect the binary itself when you find that a shell has been compiled with non-standard paths.
Several years back I was looking for an adjustable desk and was not liking the prices. I ended up buying this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-62-in-Adjustable-Height-Wo...
One problem with mathematical difficulty is its “invisibility”. We can’t see how other people are thinking, how they solve the problem, how they struggle. And sometimes, we cannot even explain our thinking!
That’s why making thinking visible is so important! Because only then we can learn from the others, they can learn from us and we can see where it’s right and where is wrong.

One way to making thinking visible is to apply thinking routines, like:
- what are given?

- what are the unknowns?

- what do we know?

- what do we need, how i can get there? (strategies)

- choose a strategy and explore it

- rethink the strategy and optimize it

- connect and reflex

Once we practice thinking routines, we will find it increasingly easier to explain our thinking and even be able to debug our work. If your class also applies thinking routines, it’ll get even easier for everyone to learn and understand each other.

I recommend the following books:

- Polya, How to Solve It

- Velleman, How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

- Ritchhart: Make Thinking Visible

Mathematical work is basically a series of equivalent transformations and logical reasonings, starting from the given informations to get where we want, thus once we knew the why, it should not be too difficult to explain our work because most are self-explanatory.

Hope it can help.
Policy stability overall is valuable, but staggered terms can provide for continuity of policy without changes that are too rapid.
He’s Biden his time.
I have to agree with you themacguffinman, for years I tried getting my mom to use Linux, but it never stuck. One year for Mother’s Day I got her an iPad and she’s been happy with it and I rarely get tech support calls.

Although computers are a great innovation and the human mind is powerful I think that the abstract thinking required to use computers to their full potential isn’t distributed across the human population evenly. There are so many problems that can’t be solved with computers either.

Before you used to have a separate device for every activity in your life. Phone, video camera, scrap book, magazine etc. Now all those functions those items did can be rolled into one device. My mom can’t handle that her iPad is something more than a camera/Facebook machine. She asked me to delete Pages, the word processor that came with it, because she never uses it.

I think most people just want appliances. That’s what their minds can handle and that’s what the market responds with.
They did use robots leftover from the Lunokhod lunar exploration program and a robot sent by West Germany, however the radiation level was so high that they failed almost immediately. They had to resort to using "biorobots", as they cynically called the soldiers used to clean up the site. I'm not sure if modern robots would fare any better due to their higher complexity and use of lots of electronics which is sensitive to radiation.
Ask HN: How do you find help?
Hi HN!

I am working on a project that I would like to push to fruition. I have knowledge in software development, and I definitely need some guidance for other aspects of the project. I think the best way to learn about these aspects is to find experts in those fields. How do you find experts, and how do you reach out to them for help?

Thank you!

kovek
I've heard people chime in that China used Draconian methods to contain COVID, but what Draconian methods did they use?
We get it. Facebook sucks. Don't give your money to them.

Problem solved.
Arab trade groups boycott French products over insults
Conway CPU in Hardware Memory?
It is possible to create a general purpose, Turing
complete computer using Conway's rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831268

Is anyone aware of what hardware circuits would be required if you wanted to create this in hardware memory? What does a single "Conway memory cell" circuit look like?

It should be possible to implement this circuit on an FPGA.

In addition, rather than loading the FPGA with a general purpose "Conway CPU", one could optimize it for the particular problem (e.g. matrix multiplies).

It seems to me that implementing the CPU "in the memory" would overcome the "memory wall" problem (moving data between the CPU and memory).
GitHub Pages: Websites for you and your projects
How is the RIAA still a thing? They came after me in the early 00s for running an indie napster server https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNap
I think the main benefit of single file is that it will be easier to used in other projects, but this is just my assumption.
I have a cat and I'm going to move cross country soon and the cat has made it oh so much more complicated.
It is a huge generalization, but nowhere did I use ‘all’. The closes I came was saying ‘most’.

If everyone tries to be an engineer or doctor because that’s the only way to have prospects in life, something is broken.
lol. the evidence of said concentration camps is s photo of a finger and weight loss. You gotta be kidding me CIA shill.
So what's the punishment for a people whose national pastime is bombing brown/yellow counties and actually killing millions? Before anyone starts crowing whataboutism, I'm just curious what their standards are for themselves. There seems to be none, and this is just typical political grandstanding missing much integrity or character.
Maybe but as the kids get older you the time back and your more efficient with it as a result of those early years... I think at least I’m faster and smarter now then ten years ago... maybe I’m losing my eye sight and my hearing or maybe it’s true :)
> Radio Free Asia. CIA proapganda
> Evidence is a photo of his finger that looks like any other finger, and weight loss? lmao
There's nothing about javascript that makes it particularly suited for "web applications". This doesn't seem any more ridiculous than, say, using python or perl.
I don't think that's the right way to think about this situation. The fact that Lee Kun-Hee is dead means that the family's efforts to restructure the company, consolidate power, and offshore assets is complete. Elliot Management called out Samsung five years ago for malfeasance but their efforts were stymied by a government led by the former disgraced president, Park Geun Hye.
Read Dijkstra’s essay on notation[1]. Not only is it very sensible, his reasons for using it provide general insight.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/E...
"How China Slowed Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Surveillance, Enforcers" https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-slowed-coronavirus-lo...

"China, Desperate to Stop Coronavirus, Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/business/china-coronaviru...
People need to also know that it extends to Oculus. I can't wait to see these companies broken up. There is no reason FB should have ever been allowed to buy IG and Whatsapp either. Hopefully we come back to a sane view of antitrust soon.
Wait till you learn about US history.
Building my own Anki, but focused on language learning for couples, so you'll get nudges. Both from the app, and from your partner :)
Ah, yes, if we just work 160 hours per week we can just about get it done at the originally estimated time.

I guess that means you can take an hour long nap every day to recover before your next shift.
It must be pretty slow if you have time to change the settings while it is converting?
> I think most people just want appliances. That’s what their minds can handle and that’s what the market responds with.

TO expand on my other comment on this thread, I think what we need to do is train the next generation to handle and demand more, rather than lock them into appliances based on what the older generations supposedly can't handle. Maybe we need to look to historic systems like Lisp machines, NLS (the subject of Engelbart's "mother of all demos"), or the original PARC Smalltalk system to recapture a more ambitious vision for personal computers, from before Apple decided that they should be appliances.
That being said, I'm not sure that we're actually leaving our bull run. We keep getting more efficient. Sure, we don't have flying cars, but for example, we've connected the entire world via the internet, and it's only getting better. The milestones of obvious tangible technological progress -- supersonic travel, life extension, etc. are different. We've had real progress, but in more abstract ways, along a different axis.

Perhaps because we've been progressing mostly along that less visible axis, we've forgotten how to dream big in the tangible, physical world.
IIRC the planet comes from the direction of the core, which the protagonists assume implies from the core... but it could have just been travelling through it, no?

As for the FTL limit, I always thought the causality is the reverse - that compute power that the Beyond has is because their computers run on the same physics that allows FTL travel.

If FTL was driven solely by compute, then you'd never have a clear boundary in the first place - just shorter and shorter hyperspace jumps, perhaps until the point where they become infeasible (because the amount of time it takes to make one, including compute, is more than just travelling there). But the way the book describes it, the boundary is qualitative, and FTL drives plainly don't activate once in the Slow Zone. Ditto for FTL comms.
Touche! i need some more focus too!
I believe that is an edge case and you know it
Wanted to add, that I also ponder if Mass shootings are a form of this internal anger suicide but rather than internalizing the anger as self loathing they externalize their desire for non-existence as being the result of others actions so they want to lash out before they achieve the same results.
Also don't get your account suspended for any reason or you'll lose all your games as well.
It is amazing to watch the article omit the beheading of the teacher when it talks about Macron's "attack" on the Muslim community, or the shooting spree at Charlie Hebdo, when it talks about the "widespread anger and outrage across the Muslim world" that the magazine drew.

One would be truly puzzled at the French reaction, if this was their only news source.
Man. I blew the whistle once on a boiler room and said "NO" to the magic question (made by the SEC over the phone - no docs). I told them I felt like I was stupid to take the boiler room's advice and deserved my market losses, and that the $1000 advisory fee had been refunded by the credit card. I received email for about 3 years about 2 and then just one guy that were/was locked up for the scam.
Wonder how many remote root exploits your system is open to.

I'd bet real money it ain't 0.
Or me any time I say anything negative here about cryptocurrency haha
Only One Thing Is Constant in This Life
In your native language you don't (generally) have a specific goal to learn that word. Unless you feel compelled enough to look at a dictionary or ask someone for a definition (which is basically equivalent to looking at a translation in the language-learning context), you often just live with an incomplete mental model, until it becomes gradually refined from repeatedly hearing/seeing the word in context.

This is required, to some degree, to become fluent (i.e. intuitive) in a new language too, which is why there is an emphasis on immersion/input in most language-learning circles/ideologies. But when you have an explicit goal, you're more likely to be compelled to want the mental shortcut/jumpstart that a translation provides. There's also the fact that, as a language learner, the context itself often isn't understood very well (or at all), which makes the natural process even slower. This is where the idea of "comprehensible input" comes into it, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_hypothesis
The Big Five mass extinctions, and especially the end-Permian one, were vastly worse than today's species losses, at least so far.
I'm sort of coming around to this perspective, but I think it's a bit rash.

I'd like to see something along the lines of "tariffs go up 5% each year, and will be dropped to zero when China drops the GFC". I don't want huge economic disruption for China or the US, but a slow disentanglement. And a clear carrot that lets them know it's not personal, the CCP just has to let its citizens talk with the peoples it wants to trade with. "Your move" to the CCP, while remaining positive about the Chinese people.
According to many he’s been dead since then, and his heir has just been trying to keep it all hidden because SK’s inheritance taxes could threaten the family’s majority stake in the business.
Let's be real: they don't care about VR per se. They care about it only insofar as it gets you to use a Facebook account.

This is what I see as the biggest overlooked consequence of web advertising--it's become so lucrative, that there is very little reason to invest in real/hard problems. All of the profits (and thus jobs, investment) is in how to tune the ad algorithm.

Making hardware is hard and risky. Selling hardware is hard. Writing games is hard. If you're lucky, a user buys 2-3 games per year, Oculus takes a royalty and earns $15-$30.

Which is probably about the ballpark amount they earn just from each Facebook user anyway.
>And then continue on to give tinkerers the same engineering access for tools for making things: CNC lathes and mills, etc. Then your "whoever you are ... you can do just about anything" part becomes even more powerful. My 2c.

We're close. Between home CNCing and 3D printing, both subtractive and additive machining processes are available and becoming more readily accessible for home production.

I've been excited about home manufacturing for a long time. It really has the potential revolutionize so many things in the world. The advancements in material research related to this has been pretty awesome over the last decade.

A world where any individual can produce most of anything they may need, using what will hopefully be more and more biodegradable and reusable materials.

Between that and small scale agriculture and power generation, this is where I really hope the direction the future goes.

A society built on small scale local first production that branches out further and further to a connected global grid. It gives power back to local communities, allows a trade network based on actual necessary commodities starting at a more local scale and scaling to a global scale seamlessly.

Something that puts the least pressure on the world while still allowing the benefits of a globally connected world.

So much amazing technology is available today to allow a smaller and smaller level of independence that can contribute back a lot to local society. Things that were out of reach 30 years ago or so are now within the reach of nearly anyone with small amount of resources and the willingness to learn and try.

To address some of the other comments here too. Educating enthusiasm to the general public is the best way to start. Whatever someone's interests are, there's a chance computers can be included in some way. Teaching people about how computers can help them with things they already enjoy will help them along the way to becoming enthusiastic about computers in general.
I understand needing to learn the basics from the ground up but I always get bogged down by going back too. I have started to wonder if its worth trying to self learn mathematics at all since even when I do make progress its so hard to remember. If there were a well categorized Leetcode for math problems some more might stick but I feel like thats not really the point since people always say higher math is about proving or understanding things not mechanically solving problems.
Cixin's name makes me curious about your scale for soft/hard. Would you consider "Three-Body Problem" to be hard sci-fi, or at least "down to Earth about what's practical"?
It’s always interesting to see how many startups there are which predominantly cater to other startups.

Given that most startups fail, it’s likely a significant portion of their revenue is essentially coming from VCs. VCs funding startups to capture a portion of other VCs money. It’s amusing to think about how much is just shifting around between firms
In terms of physics I think the Game-of-Life computer has the same scaling problem.

If a computer is built in a plane and you draw a line cutting it in half, the bandwidth across the line is going to be proportional to the length of the line (L). If the system as a whole is round, the area is proportional to L^2.

If the computer had a scalable 3-d structure then you would have the same problem with a bisecting plane (L^2) and the volume (L^3).

If you give up the assumption that an arbitrary half of the computer should be able to use the full bandwidth to talk to the other half, you can do better.

For instance, that "2-d" computer could be built in a 2 tiles x N tiles direction and the aggregate transfer of data between row 1 and row 2 scales as N increases, but in the other direction it does not scale at all.
if it's really 100x more potent than morphine you'd think any person that did have it in their bloodstream would not be all that capable of stating that they have not had their medication

This is off topic, but when a drug is 100x more powerful, they just give 100x less of it. So whether you get morphine or fentanyl the effect is approximately the same - and that's intentional.
As a former SCUBA diving instructor and dive master, teaching students not to hold their breath is simply easier than teaching people a technique that would take a considerable amount of time to master.

I have 5 classroom sessions of about an hour each and two pool sessions and 4 open water dives to take you knowing nothing to keeping you from killing yourself.

When I first got certified as a diver, I would suck down a tank in 15 minutes. By the time I became an instructor, my longest dive on a single tank was close to 1.5 hours and I had plenty of air left.

It would be pointless for me to try and teach breathing control techniques I was using by the time I became an instructor to an Open Water Diver student who will be lucky enough to remove and replace his regulator to pass the course.

We teach not holding your breath because most inexperienced divers will default to panicked fight or flight the second anything goes wrong.

Believe me, I’ve had to physically restrain students underwater when the reg fell out of their mouth and it took them more than 2 seconds to find it. They immediately want to shoot to the surface and 100% they’ll be holding their breath (another aspect of panic) if I don’t hold them down, put the reg back in their mouth, and calm them down.
Tracking Every Broken McDonald’s Ice-Cream Machine
Company will have to justify what is their business need for particular use of electricity.
If you delete your Google account, don't you also loose your Android purchases?
Anecdotal, but I’ve spent a good chunk of money on quest apps and once they announced this change, I haven’t bought anything new and honestly it has been in a drawer for 1 month. Prior I was using daily.

Next non-oculus standalone headset has my money.
I'd expect them to be able to finance paying the taxes with an equity collateralised loan. If not the entire tax bill, at least a big chunk of it.
I mean, they mostly want to run code third parties wrote not themselves and not just what the manufacturer decided to write. As you see in the router example someone game. As you see in the giant example of android/ios ("There's an app for that"). Even when there isn't an appstore like with desktop operating systems. Even when it's a pain in the ass to install third party apps like remarkable tablets. Even when the "thing" isn't hardware but a base layer of software like minecraft.

In fact, I can't think of a single example of a device that was popular, made it legal and not overly difficult to write and distribute third party code, and didn't have a thriving ecosystem.
What a coincidence! I am also writing my PhD thesis with pandoc and filters, but I use panflute for the latter: http://scorreia.com/software/panflute/
This is what the end of the dollar as global reserve currency looks like.

A major reason that the rest of the world still agrees to settle a huge portion of international trade in dollars is that we essentially have the only working pipeline system that can allow transactions for all of the different economies and currencies involved.

But many countries around the world are sick of it. We use it to enforce sanctions, implement foreign policy objectives, and force the rest of the world into a cycle of circular dependancy on our debt.

But enough major players are sick of it that it is falling apart. China, Russia, India, Brazil, most of the Middle East and a good chunk of Africa no longer see this system as providing value for them and they are eagerly looking for ways to settle trade directly in their own currencies and through their own pipelines.

If you notice Jerome Powell is on the first panel, which indicates that I think the US has accepted that this transition is going to take place and that they want to get to have as much say as possible in constructing the new system to get to try to retain as much of our power as possible.

But to me this signals the beginning of the end of the political era that started when the dollar was made to be the global reserve currency at Brettin Woods in 1944.
general purpose computers will exist, they are literally the building blocks. However, it'll be bad when you as a private entity can't purchase CPUs, GPUs, motherboards, the building blocks for building your own general purpose computing device. I don't ever see that happening since there will always be engineers, students, hackers, startups, how will any new industries form if they can't get their hands on the source materials?
I think his secret is that he’s a genius :-)
I've never owned or used a chromebook, but don't they all have a "developer mode" that removes most of the restrictions?
> Amsterdam doesn't mandate helmets for bikers

The whole Netherlands, in fact.

I was under the impression that very few countries mandate helmets for cyclists. Australia, NZ, anywhere else?
Appreciating the simple honest 'sold out to the man' announcement.
My dentist used this setup last time I got a crown. I got to watch as she adjusted the shape and then watch the milling. I didn't get to see it come out of the kiln, which I'm told is quite a sight since it's still glowing red hot when they take it out.

It's impressive tech and the crown fit better on the first try than my previous crowns that were done the old fashioned way.
Pretty ironic given how many americans here still believe they're the good guys when the national passtime is bombing brown/yellow countries.
If USB-C isn't an option, there are portable gaming monitors with HDMI inputs as well that are slightly cheaper, like the Gaems m155.