skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
last year I did that, I just did it without worrying about time, year before I did it as fast as I could ( as did a bunch of other HNers ), I got a fair few top 100 placements and finished the entire thing....super stressful, but fun. Last year, doing it in a relaxed manner, I never finished them, I'd just keep putting off doing the next puzzle.

This year I think I'll just watch from a distance. I think it is really worth doing it as fast as you can at least one year, it really highlighted a bunch of areas I was quite rusty in.
>Riemann hypothesis for example

I'll recommend reading the chapter on the Riemann Hypothesis from the book: The Millennium Problems by Keith Devlin.

https://www.amazon.com/Millennium-Problems-Greatest-Unsolved...

That has about 42 pages of prose describing the problem in layman terms. I'd think someone who tackled high school math should be able to follow it. Dr. Devlin also has a good Coursera course on an introduction to mathematics.
This idea needs to be put to rest. Shine the critical light of examination on this "belief" that the most reliable way to expose bad ideas is to expose them.

Have you seen this tested? Have you evidence that this works?

Crucially, does this work at internet scale or in social medai-esque content environments?

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I can say that we know for a fact, that exposing conspiracy theories by letting people broadcast them independently is a sure shot way of having them infect more people.

We've seen this evidenced all over web forums, and social media. Bad ideas get amplified. Worse, the more complex the logical counter argument, the far better the bad idea will fare.

Here are what we know, for certainty:

1) People DO NOT want to spend cognitive power.

1.1) Content that forces cognitive expenditure will gain fewer views and therefore be harder to go viral.

2) Emotion driven processing is cheaper.

2.1) Therefore emotion engaging content will proliferate

3) this is worsened over general demographics

3.1) Proofs or logical arguments that require more than common knowledge will need novel approaches to propagate.

Our human web of knowledge is a growth medium that suits conspiracy theories, self referential beliefs, and superstition.

Reason is the interloper here.
/r/wallstreetbets exists for a different reason, but it got exacerbated by everything you mentioned above.

WSB members have come to realize that so-called "financial professionals" by and large have no scrying crystal into the market. WSB got there because of the democratization of knowledge that the Internet has caused.

And before you cite some unicorn like Renaissance, that's generating 40% YOY for 20+ years, keep in mind that unicorns, while rare, do exist. Microsoft, Uber, Google, Apple, etc., so forth. How many "investment professionals" would have recommended you dump all your money into these companies when they were but fledging entities? Or even when they went through tough times?

No, I think WSB is doing a service to humanity. They're exposing the smoke and mirrors behind Wall Street.

Good on them.
Ahh cool! I hope it takes off :) it looks pretty great.
There's two ways to interpret the constitution: the honest way, and the way where you pretend that not only were the Founders of one mind on what the Constitution meant, but also that you can read that mind two and a half centuries later.
Webkit was likely "saved" by the original KHTML license being GPL. At the time, Apple were wise enough (or desperate enough) to figure that they could work with such a license, although they were eventually careful to chisel out anything they could into BSD-licensed modules. And still they had to be dragged into the light more or less kicking and screaming (e.g. they had no public VSC until KDE people kicked up a stink in the press, and were just throwing huge swaths of code "over the fence" like they still do with XNU).
Agree. You might be better off sticking with DS and finding a different company with better management. Even as a SWE your satisfaction of that job will probably depend on the company and manager that you work for.
Can you share Why are you questioning Hungary ? What led you there and what has disappointed?
> 24h sleep

I advise anyone reading this and experiencing similar sleep pattern or fatigue to visit their doctor. This could be anything from diabetes, iron difeciency, Vitamin D difeciancy, and whole other things that could be wrong. Please don't use someone's else experience as the whole truth.
> A couple of times I think I was coming down with something, I slept for more than 24 hours with only pee breaks. And I woke up feeling fresh as a cucumber, as they say.

I don't really take sleeping that seriously in general, but I used to get sick pretty frequently (sick enough to not work, a couple times a year). Nowadays I have a routine, and it's not so different: if I feel a tiny bit sick, I go home, lie in bed, and order semi-healthy Mediterranean food (I have specific cravings when I get sick -- is this common?). I stay that way until I can't stand being in bed any more. I also avoid any source of stress.

The number of days per year when I'm sick has probably gone down by a factor of 4: I get properly sick half as often, and when I am sick, I get better much faster. Almost as importantly, getting sick is no longer "miserable" in the same way. It seems a substantial part of the misery of being sick (with something mild, like a cold or, at my age, flu) just comes from trying to do things you shouldn't try to do. Lying in bed and executing a nap/snack/pee/read loop... that's not so bad.

(As others in this thread love to point out, this doesn't work for people with bad sick leave, or stressful jobs, or single parents, and so on and so forth. That's a strong case for sick leave etc., as far as I see.)
>I also wonder how much culture clash there are for foreigners working at these companies e.g. how do they handle conflicts or disagreements with seniority.

Can't speak for startups but megacorps started in the last 10 years tend to be pretty chill places to work with good pay and perks. My current team is managed by a foreigner and there's a 50/50 split between local and foreign engineers. I haven't personally had any issues attributable to culture, they can still happen but you tend to have to go looking for them.
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I agree with your message in general, however believe that the new M1 Mac mini has the best (and sufficient) cooling among the new line up.
I haven’t done drugs for at least a decade and wasn’t particularly addicted to anything but there is something to experiencing those different head states.
If you are using windows server, data deduplication[1] is available on non-system volumes to do exactly this.

If you're using a Windows client, there is a way of enabling this, but it's not exactly supported, for a variety of reasons.

[1]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data...
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I disagree with the premise that regulations are necessary. They're bandage patch solutions.
Artificially restricting the number of people who can go to medical schools by imposing ridiculous requirements is not going to make better surgeons; it will mostly just drive up prices like in the US.

About food regulations; if a product uses dangerous chemicals (for example), in a proper free market, that should give alternative products a competitive advantage. The problem is not lack of regulations; it's the lack of a free market and free exchange of information.

Regulations exist to prevent abuse. If companies couldn't get away with abusing their customers (without going bankrupt), we wouldn't need regulations in the first place.

In any case, large corporations which essentially have immunity from the law usually find clever ways to work around the regulations without fixing the underlying problem.

A better solution would be to stop propping up big corporations with infinite fiat currency; big corporations are riddled with blind spots and they are devoid of any sense of accountability due to inherent flaws in the concept of corporate personhood; big corporations are not meant to exist and they wouldn't exist if not for all that free fiat which is creating an artificial anti-competitive moat around them. Competition and churn is necessary for a proper functioning capitalist system.

Our current monetary system is all about propping up zombie corporations by giving them unlimited free money which allows them to get away with everything.

The way our economy works now is basically like a son who is CEO and who keeps getting caught doing drugs and getting in trouble and then rich daddy keeps bailing them out over and over again and then bribing journalists to keep quiet so that nobody finds out... Regulations are the equivalent of sending the son to rehab; except it's all a PR stunt and the son will be back to doing drugs and causing problems within a few weeks. The solution is to fire the spoiled brat and let someone else do the job; someone who is passionate about it and can do it right.

Supply-side economics have distorted the way people think about the economy. Instead of figuring out what consumers need and working backwards from that, companies are constantly trying to figure out how to use up all available resources (e.g. capital, people, raw materials) and then resorting to advertising to convince consumers that they need whatever it is that they ended up producing. It's madness. All the talk about 'product-market fit' is delusional; it's mostly about fitting the customer to the product than the other way around. Advertising and A/B testing is not about improving the product to fit the user, it's about manipulating the user to buy the product.
I will read this a bit later, but is the idea to extended the structure of the tangent space and make it a full geometric algebra?
> How about merely building a business?

More people need to be told this.

The combination of work ethic, of risk tolerance, and of perseverance against ridiculous odds that is required to build a Tesla, or an Apple, or a Whatever, is extraordinarily rare
I try to not eat for an hour or two before bed, but it doesn't often work out that way. In many places, I have food available to me around the clock in nearly unlimited quantities, which I also think is not natural and potentially harmful, but them's the breaks.

When I wake up, I usually don't eat for several hours, nor do I have any desire to, as my digestive system is still "booting up". I have heard countless times from various wise beings that drinking a glass of clean water after waking up is very beneficial, so I do that. Sometimes it is yesterday's tea, though.

My ideal eating technique is once a day, and then maybe a few light snacks here and there. It's to avoid processed food, meaning anything which I didn't see its original form of and wasn't prepared by someone I know, whether it is grinding up or mixing, and to avoid things with multiple ingredients.

However, because I co-exist with others who are not as far along as me, I stray from this quite a bit. I partially alleviate it with occasional water fasting to give myself a chance to clear out the junk.

(When I say "natural", it's shorthand for "how our life was for millions of years and what evolution tuned our bodies for".)
By the way, there's a crowdfunding project to improve Linux touchpad support titled "Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?".

I don't know how successful that project was, but it might provide some ideas around crowdfunding improved hardware support.
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Pretty easy to "pledge" by clicking on a twitter poll. maybe 5% of that will actually turn into real money
Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) is a desirable feature. You're not getting a 60W CPU in a 13" form factor, but you can get a 28W CPU that will run at 28W indefinitely while also being able to temporarily boost to 60W when needed and thermally able to.
+1 for Dr Chuck! Echo your sentiments exactly.

Had I taken this course when I was 18, I surely would have gone for a CS degree.
It's probably a hack, but you can try "backing up" your files with bup, restic or borg, and mount the resulting snapshot with FUSE
Here's my previous post about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23436809
Chiropractors are 100% quackery with zero basis in reality.

The entire field was based entirely on the idea that all diseases were caused by lesions of the nervous system (called subluxations) therefore all diseases could be cured by manipulation of the spine.

https://quackwatch.org/related/chiro/

https://quackwatch.org/chiropractic/general/

https://quackwatch.org/related/chirovisit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and_c...

No idea why you think your spine needs to be "snapped into place."
Any use of herbal substances for medicinal use is going to require research. Sometimes, the results of that research has the result that was hoped for, while other times it has different results. Some of these unintended/unanticipated results could be bad or good. How do you feel about pharmaceutical drugs? A lot of the pharmaceutical drugs are based on plant research including these hallucinogenic types. They have figured out a way to make a synthetic version of these naturally occurring compounds, and now own patents on them. Just look at how many versions of opiates there are. Does that make you feel any less neutral toward the pharma "medicine"?

I do appreciate the fact that your post is about self reflection on your decisions rather than the judging of others that do decide to participate.
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Data for past completion rates is available. I wonder how that affects puzzle difficulty tuning.

https://adventofcode.com/2019/stats
It looks like the M1 does run all out all the time (maybe because it never turbos that much to begin with).
> The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms

It’s funny, because when Facebook was new my friends and I flocked to it FOR the uniformity! Little did we know we helped contribute to the downfall of the free and fun internet :/
As an example of a measure I’d like to see for public health reasons, imagine addressing concerns for safety with a federal testing requirement which includes mandatory open data for all tests (no canceling if it’s not looking good) and C-level personal liability and jail time for any attempts to conceal problems or forge results to deter the next VW.
"People have been endlessly screwed over"

Heyzeus you have it easier than any generation literally in the history of civilisation.

Those just a little bit older than you were fighting in Vietnam, getting beaten up because they were gay, told to live in ghettos and denied jobs by banks and government because they were Black, forbidden from drinking from 'White' fountains.

Nothing anyone has faced 'since 2008' is existentially difficult, even this pandemic, while serious, is not that bad.

All of these poseurs on Instagram are laughable and ridiculous to anyone born before the internet because we remember what 'life was like'.

'Not being able to live you dream life / dream job' is not a form of oppression or existential life difficulty.

'Dumb Schemes' come and go. Amway used to be huge.
> Hopefully Microsoft can figure something out that is net-beneficial in some scenarios without going full-dystopian.

The chance of Microsoft not going full-dystopian is practically zero. It's an internal-political + trust issue, and they've demonstrated copious times they have no regard for human ethics.
I remember getting a dead PS2 to fix. It wasn't dead though, it was a staff unit at a pizza shop, full of flour, and just needed the lens cleaned with a cotton swab and alcohol.

I wonder what part of the optical drive is failing.
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If you have a difficult to treat condition doctors will completely ignore you, blame you, or just give you anti-depressants.
Some conditions have diagnosis times 5-10+ years. For me it took 20 years of asking. Then 3 years of dozens of visits to get answers.

At a certain point people give up and look elsewhere. Communities are friendlier. Certain things like diet changes or supplements can help.

Unfortunately it’s also were the crystal healers hang out.
For most on there it is with a small amount of disposable income or house money. But there are some doing it with the money they need to survive or retire. Or just don't understand the naked position they just screwed themselves with.
I'd like to know how distributed fact checking could deal with this example: trump's infamous comments about mexican border crossers including rapists and criminals.

From the quote, it is clear that the context is people crossing the border are frequently criminal elements, rapists being some of them. But every time I hear reference to this quote(except from overt trump supporters, who have their own issues interpreting events ), it is characterized as trump saying that all Mexicans are rapists. Literally every time I've ever heard it referenced, even from mainstream news articles.

How does one do distributed fact checking if there is a mass public delusion? At best, distributed fact checking can give you th concensus of fact checkers, which is not always the truth.
Maybe someone realized that plants need light?
You could probably sell a similar product with zero scientific research behind it and people would buy it. So please do post back when you publish results! Very curious to see if something like this could help me have better sleep.

Are there at least preliminary papers you can cite as the basis for this idea? because it sounds super interesting.
Apple made R&D facility on Tsunashima, Japan and they hiring engineers from camera industry.
Tesla was built by a billionaire. There was little to no risk involved.
https://adventofcode.com/2019/stats
Yes, I typically crave chicken broth. In fact, I know that if I find myself craving chicken, I'm probably coming down with something, and it's time to do what you describe above.

I'm grateful to the sacrifices of all the chickens I've consumed over the years. May their spirits feel my gratitude and find peace in helping me.
The Linux community won't go along with that. People keep buying laptops that don't support Linux then ask for the community to support them.
I have experience in tuning race cars of different kinds and I can tell you that bigger tires are not always better.

Light car with big tires is veeeery sketchy to drive in rain. I had a Miata with 225 wide super sticky tires and I couldn’t go over 60 on the highway without being very nervous. I went down to 205s and it’s way more street friendly.

Roads with some gravel, dirt, or otherwise not so perfect are also not great with too big of a tire because the car rolls on the little pebbles or rocks instead of shaping itself around it. The pounds per inch go down enough that the tire won’t get pushed around the rock to contact the asphalt.

There is a “safe for the average guy” tire width and a “experienced enthusiast that wants some extra Gs in the turns” width.
This is pure hustle. Love it.
> Anyway, I get it, those people are stupid. But they made money.

They are absolutely not stupid. Everything they're doing is entirely rational. It doesn't seem that way, because clearly you're not in the same circumstances as they are. Neither am I.

However, I completely understand it. If you're 22-25, not married, and have far more liabilities than asset, you have no reason not to trade on high margin with an options play and try to turn $50,000 into $2 million or more.

If you lose the $50,000, you can recover. If you end up horribly in debt, you file for bankruptcy and move on.

Given the current state of affairs, its completely understandable.
That sounds like a fairly typical transition into adulthood I would have thought. I know it was for me and my friends, when I was 21 staying up until 4-5am would have been fairly typical for myself, my brain was burning with energy during the night from my mid teens, by the time I was 24 my natural bedtime had shifted back about 4 hours to 12:30, where it's remained.
Right. This is Nature, arguably the most prestigious scientific journal in existence. It's not some "Increase Your Brain Cells With This One Weird Trick" clickbait article on Taboola.
> Baltimore said that he’s glad more people are talking about the problem, but that what’s really needed is “boots on the ground”: consistent money, time and leadership dedicated to actively bringing more Black tech professionals and investors into the industry.

That doesn't sound like "most companies" in the tech industry actively seeking and hiring minorities. Perhaps they do and articles like these are deceptive?
Yes, although if we were analyzing wear over time, when they get old (like dry rotted) they wear faster because they turn into dust much faster.
I always run it under a separate user account because it looks so sketchy

I thought it was sketchy by association. It used to be always recommended by sketchy pirate sites to bypass the download limits on sketchy one-click-hosters
The finished product isn’t considered toxic, but some individual ingredients are, including heavy metals like cadmium and lead, and high aromatic oils (more commonly known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or PAHs)

So, presumably non synthetic tires are actually fine. Though, it’s not clear if that was the intent of the article.
> If you cannot do a one click install

corporate IT security policies very often block installs of any kind.
Most of the solutions in this thread are simply not viable. Stuff like the Pinebook and Raspberry Pi are several magnitudes away from Apple's M1 SoC. No amount of hackerish imitation will bridge that gap, the laws of physics are not kind to consumer product hardware hackers. It is very obvious that most of the people commenting here has never held a soldering iron, nor taken a single computer architecture class. The only true way to match Apple on both performance and efficiency is to fund custom silicon. Cerebras needed 100 million to get started. Apple has already laid the architectural groundwork, a chip with similar performance numbers can probably be commissioned with ~50 million. Another 10-20 million for the emulator/hypervisor crowd to get x86 virtualization up and running. This could probably be done by existing players so the cost can be discounted. A crowd investing approach is most likely the best bet, with the initial rounds being led by a VC experienced in hardware.

This is the Sputnik moment for open source. Should ACPI (and its associated lassiez-faire mindset) become obsolete as a standard, then general purpose computing on consumer devices would become history.

All the comments about how Apple's Macs are not worth it are entirely missing the point. There is nothing comparable to Apple's M1 right now. Your Purism/Lambda labs/Starlabs/System76/Pine64 usual Clevo shell machine with Linux pre-installed would never be able to compete with a M1 powered system. This isn't about 16:10/3:2 display ratios, machined aluminium, or HN's favorite complaint: "build quality". Even a well-funded premium laptop company like Razer would not be able produce something to compete with the MBP if they don't have a similarly efficient chip. Forget about the bigger players like Lenovo and Dell. Intel and AMD dropped the ball big time, and if the open source community doesn't step up, then the future will be locked-down ARM systems. RISC-V will not be competitive for another half a decade and there is no guarantee that it won't be locked down if the community does not push back against the embedded hardware culture (where VHDL/Verilog libraries are referred to as "intellectual property") which pervades ARM's heritage.
Good way to minimize someone's pain and life experiences because others have had it bad.

If we're going to go full retard..., let's go:

"Black people shouldn't complain about slavery because they weren't systematically killed off by the millions like Jews."

What a fun game! Look, I can play it too!