skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood nearly zero of all mathematics (beyond the elementary school stuff) before I've found betterexplained and some relevant YouTube videos. I could learn formulae and some typical solutions by heart to substitute values and solve some exam problems but hardly ever understood them. I felt school/college math pure waste of time as I didn't actually understand anything. Things like betterexplained were a blast that opened an entire new beautiful exciting world to me instantly.
>why do I care if the other males notice

This is how I can tell you're not a woman.
This is the sad part. I live in a suburb of Houston, and while it’s certainly nothing like NY, it’s still near a major city. Comcast is the only game in my apt building.
> What is it about open source that it can't attract UI/UX designers to try and contribute?

Well, presumably they'd want to be paid.
> no practical benefits

... except being a tax-free investment that will likely hold value forever (because it’s effectively unique) and is often easier to secure than more typical assets (because it’s hard to resell without very specific contacts).
Others have face the same problem and solved it by "feature unlocks", i.e. Working Copy (https://workingcopyapp.com/), which sells 1 year "pro" unlocks, and all features released during that year remains active even if you don't renew your pro unlock.

It's not a subscription, as the software will continue to work just fine when the pro unlock expires, but you don't get new features.

This of course puts pressure on the developer to keep coming up with new features, but then again that's the developers job.
Elon is a mini Hitler.
Context. You see not just the thing currently executing, but also the things remaining to be executed - which allows you to mentally gauge which of them may slow down.
I've lived in China too, and you've definitely drunk the koolaid.
> which is a whole other argument, and one I've had, and lost, on several occasions

Care to link to it if it's available? I am curious to read that debate.
Love the idea! Especially in the age of Robinhood, I can really see this taking off (and I hope so too I'd love to use it).

Sok sikert :)
> Cassandra (https://scylladb.com) and Kafka (https://vectorized.io) have already been rewritten once in C++, with massive latency and throughput improvements.

It is not a single dimension problem as they try to frame it. Performance is a single dimension of systems. Java with GC is a memory safe solution compare to C++ (hello segmentation faults). The reason why the C++ implementation is faster is not that it is written in C++ but it is written using a different approach. There are plenty of Java HFT systems that run circles around C++ systems yet we cannot draw a conclusion that Java is better suited than C++ for HFT. Implementation details matter, code quality matters and performance does not come purely because you pick a particular programming language. Btw. most of the systems which I was working on using Cassandra instead of ScyllaDB because the companies were not ok switch up for some performance gains (because Cassandra was performant enough for their business use case). I think what you receive as superiority is not as clear cut as you try to make it.
It's important to keep in mind when reading anything about GPT-3 that the stated objective in training it wasn't to produce any kind of AGI, but specifically to see if a model could perform context-specific language tasks without first being fine-tuned to the specific context. For example, GPT-2 (GPT-3's predecessor) was originally used in AI Dungeon, but it first had to be fine-tuned on a large corpus of choose-your-own-adventure texts. GPT-3 doesn't need to be fine-tuned—it just works.

From the original paper:

"Here we show that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches. Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters, 10x more than any previous non-sparse language model, and test its performance in the few-shot setting. For all tasks, GPT-3 is applied without any gradient updates or fine-tuning, with tasks and few-shot demonstrations specified purely via text interaction with the model."

Of course, it makes sense that people critique GPT-3 in terms of its actual progress towards human-like intelligence, since every news publication writes about it like it's Skynet and OpenAI's stated goal is AGI. I do think, however, that we miss all the parts of GPT-3 that are exciting and innovative when we view it through the binary of "Is it really understanding as a human does?" (Not that you were reducing it to that, just speaking about the conversation around GPT-3 more broadly.)
My guess is always that if a designer comes along and suggests a new interface or creates design components that can be used that maybe need some engineering resources the priority will always be on "let's make it work first and support all these edge cases we programmers like to think about".

With most projects already stretched pretty thinly on engineering resources that's the natural outcome even if it would be better to have less features, but easier to use for a beginner or regular person before building out the whole thing.
>What is it about open source that it can't attract UI/UX designers to try and contribute?

How would UI/UX contribute? Would you want them to do a pull request with wireframe mockups?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4-io-boa...
I hear you :) but IIRC the US "rail guns" are generating muzzle velocities in this speed range (?)

I've seen very spectacular footage of these rounds tearing a hole in the atmosphere ... so maybe our shared intuition isn't reliable...

or maybe once you get a cross section bigger than a playing card, things become.... interesting at these speeds at sea level;)
Weird, when I spent lots of time with Philosopher AI all I've seen is semantics in action. How else do you expand on a topic based on a simple question and keep the context? How can it then compress text to summarize it well? How can it obtain high level answers for complex questions?
Alternatively you can flash actions on the screen, even if the user cannot read or understand what these actions correspond to, it conveys the message that work is being done (it’s not hung) without lying on how far you think we are into the process (if you don’t have that visibility).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCION_(Internet_architecture)

its alive an kicking already
> 5000 mph
> a little extra air

I think this is actually a big deal.
There are three better open source alternative to this: Nextcloud, Matrix/Element and BigBlueButton. All three have a way better interface than this.

Nextcloud is more oriented towards storing files but recently gained tons of social features (video chat, messaging) and has since some time already document editing with LibreOffice online and a build in document editor. There are also tons of other features like LDAP integration, calendars, ...

Matrix/Element is oriented towards messaging between organizations and inside organizations. Element also support video chat and contains an Etherpad integration for document editing.

BigBlueButton is not great for messaging but is excellent for video chatting. It scale a lot better for big rooms than Nextcloud and Matrix because it doesn't use Jitst and WebRTC, but it doesn't include any document editing.

So yeah OpenMeetings is not really a flagship open source software and I'm wondering how it ended up in the front page of HN.
Memory Bandwidth in Apple’s M1 – *Coder Blog
The amount of complexity needed to lie to the user this way is becoming comparable with the amount needed to do the job right in the first place.
Because they've got more oversight - the 60s and 70s were a fucked time in general, my worry is that every other country has the same shit.

You seriously think anything like this survived a Trump presidency?
Most of the time this doesn’t have to be different, the conversation is likely a big enterprise customer says “do you have managed airflow? If not we might consider move(a little/some/all) of our workload to Google Cloud b/c they have it”

AWS: “we will build one in 3 months”

See. nobody care about the differentiator in big 2B enterprise business . It’s more about trust and migration cost
> TODO to go through and refactor to improve compilation speed. I wouldn’t know how to google for this other than using the word “performant”

But you already used the words naturally in your sentence, "compilation speed". A quick google search brought up lots of useful results with 'typescript compiles slow', 'typescript compile faster', etc.
I feel like this is a problem I've noticed with Apache projects in particular. I've used plenty of open source software with reasonably cohesive UI.
The persuasive way to use numbers
I don't think that's the full reason, there's a lot of designers on Twitter / Dribble / Producthunt that build side projects or share free resources just like programmers.
A simple method for sending pictures by wire or radio (1936)
The Future of Mac (Transcript)
A few years ago I learned about the Matthew Principle [0] on an Econtalk podcast or something like that. Now I seem to see it everywhere and try to figure out if these types of winner take all are natural or just set up by interested parties to minmax.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
Somewhat related to this, the BBC have an annoying habit of using a photo in a thumbnail for an article, and not providing the full-size photo anywhere.
Just eat less. It's not hard
Things like buildings attract taxation year after year. A piece of art will not. It’s also easier to deal privately without reporting it.
The site is kind of cryptic, I do not see any "About Us" or "Contact" links. Who are they? What is the purpose of the website? Why don't you have a cookie wall, are you not using them or did they forget it?

So many questions...
> With growing excitement, I typed the prologue into the console:
> Why is there something rather than nothing? How is it possible for Universe the exist?

It bothers me that the second sentence in the prompt has a mistake in it: "for Universe the exist" instead of "for the Universe to exist".
GM: New batteries cut electric car costs, increase range
Another massively asymmetric market. Yes; personalization helps, but most efforts are simply wasted because a majority of the jobs are inactive, overwhelmed, or just using interviews to get free help on their problems.
Just discovered html/css driven by JS? :Ð

The web stack is okay! The only glitch(es) are ppl users & the bad corps's added standards...
Server-Side Rendering in JavaScript: A Modern Approach
Nothing concrete, I occasionally moan about it on Twitter and here, and in person, for example here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856184

Ironically, given some of the discussion we've been having, the biggest problem with LaTeX is that it is, once compiled into a PDF, extremely non-accessible and that's very hard to fix (to really understand why it's hard to fix, you need to look at how LaTeX works inside, it's a rewriting system and at no point has anything like a semantic description of the maths).
I’m amazed at the high quality of the interface—this is clearly going to crush Zoom. If I were the CEO I’d step down immediately and I wouldn’t show my face for the rest of my life.
"Safer than stocks. The stock market is volatile and risky compared to property ownership"

That's a bold statement. Property markets can crash too. And what happens if a crappy tenant trashes the place, or the property turns out to have subsidence, or asbestos, or covered in dangerous cladding? And insurance doesn't pay (for whatever reason, plenty of real world examples of this)
Cunningham's Law comes to mind :) [0]

(Yes, I am aware that I totally missed the chance of going real meta here and called it Atwood's law or something instead)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_L...
When you say operate do you mean do all the work? Or manage the farm and hire people to do that?

If the former, would you say what kind of farm it is, 1000 acre farm that’s easy enough to spend 15 hours a week seems interesting to me.
Well since you mentioned JS and Python, Programming in Haskell [0] by Graham Hutton is a very approachable text book to familiarize yourself with topics about functional programming (just a personal favourite).

And of course there is the mother of all software books SICP [1] (yes, it's free) – which is often regarded as the CS text book. It is very information-dense and touches on many parts of CS.

However, if you're struggling to build things, I doubt that books will do much good, since they usually cover theoretical aspects. For this I could only recommend lots of tinkering and practice and little half-completed projects, unfortunately.

Do you have some specific examples of projects/libraries where you got stuck? Perhaps we can get a better understanding of what it is you feel you are lacking then...

[0] https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/pih.html

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html
DataFusion is a tiny project maintained by few people. I am really hopeful that it takes off though.
It's not just that, certain pieces of equipment (combines in particular) are needed at the exact same time in multiple different places, and a delay of a day or even a few hours can be ruinous (if you don't harvest wheat at exactly the right time it can be more or less destroyed by the weather)
It's quite clear how this "magic" is possible.
Weather you like it or not, the future is a "product on a chip". That includes everything: CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, and assembly instructions for vendor-specific things like NSObject. This puts everything physically close together (efficient), eliminates all the protocol compatibility overhead (efficient), removes all the standards the company can't control (efficient).
The downside, of course, that this will be the ultimate vendor lock-in, which is hard to compete with, and can't be serviced by anyone else.
The upside is that the alternatives will always remain relevant.
> over the course of his medical education...he also got an MBA and has started on a PhD, because being a GP would be immensely dissatisfying to his intellect

To put it charitably, it seems unlikely that while in medical school someone can also complete a full-time two-year business program and start a doctorate. But taking the comment at face value...

There are plenty of specialties much more challenging than family med (which is what 99.999% of GPs do for residency). It's one of the least competitive and least well-paid specialties. This is why most of the med students who don't match end up scrambling into family med, because those are the (toxic) programs that have unmatched slots. If you don't own the practice you'll be lucky to break $200k cash comp without a post-residency fellowship. Infectious disease, pathology, and radiology are much more challenging intellectually and any surgical residency, including ones that you don't typically think of surgical like OB/GYN are similarly challenging. Hell, if you're in it for the money gynocologic ongcology and neurosurgery both have median cash comps well over half a million a year.

> Just 1) find a doctor who understands his limits and 2) approach the conversation as a meeting of mutually-interested peers logically discussing a problem (your health): one who has substantial headstart on the intimate, sometimes-inarticulable details of the problem, and one who has a substantial headstart on general research that's relevant to the problem.

I'm not a "peer" with my doctor because whether it's rote memorization or not, they've got at least 7 years of training I don't, and much more if they're a specialist and not a GP. You do not have a "substantial headstart" on any research relevant to your problem unless you've had it for years and are seeing a new GP just to get a referral to a new specialist. In which case, honestly, your old specialist can probably just refer you somewhere else.

This doesn't mean doctors know their limits, I've heard some absolutely boneheaded nonsense out of GPs who got out of their lane - my favorite was a 70 year old, borderline morbidly obese physician telling me not to do back squats below parallel because "it will destroy your knees," and he subsequently groaned when he stood out of the chair. But that's in the same vein as going into a GP because you've had bad headaches for the last two weeks and approaching it as a "meeting of mutually-interested peers."
Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine over 90 percent effective, interim data shows
This is absolutely right, and is not being highlighted enough in these threads. Outside of the dating sites, the numbers and the reality is not so bad. People fall in love with personalities, and personalities are presented to people longitudinally. In other words, it takes months to really get to know someone's personality. They can become attractive in ways that a dating profile would never show.

Dating apps have artificially forced people into making superficial choices.
> when was the last time you've [...] seen a balanced view given on Russia-U.S. relations?

All the time. It's fucked and Russia fucked it.

The wonderful thing about being in a free nation is the access to the news of other countries. It helps you see which ones are the outliers. It's not yours.

> In the last three years the New York Times hasn’t reported a single positive story on Russia

Gee, I wonder why that might be? Nobody is going to write anything positive when a nation has expelled independent journalists, assassinated people in foreign nations, caused wars in others, been aggressively attacking fishing vessels, attempted assassinations of their own politicans, attacking their own citizens for their religion.

Who is going to care about human interest stories from such a nation?

What would be a positive story you'd like to see printed in that time frame? Name one.
So I guess since there is no commision all taxes, fees and inevitable maintainance and renovation costs are already priced in, which is not bad but interesting.

It's similiar to Real Estate Development Funds we have in my country but out of tha stock exchange.
You're correct that they aren't preinstalled, but once you connect to the internet they will be downloaded and installed automatically.
Also in the stock market you have some stronger notion of the efficient market hypothesis working in your (or better the average persons) favour
One can learn for free, the syllabus for various National exams are available for free, and then exam fees are low ( USD 15 for each of the US levels which are easier than in other countries).

The hand held radios themselves start at USD 35 for the Baofeng units ( though these are considered electrically noisy).

You can also install the EchoLink software on your smartphone and connect to the global Radio-Internet bridge network. No Amateur radio needed!
Sure, the web sites are blocked, but radio waves couldn't be. And traditionally there were always enough radio stations carefully built and sufficiently financed to cover the target areas.

RFA:

https://www.rfa.org/about/info/frequencies.html

VOA:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

A nice example of what one U.S. journalist knew regarding the coverage of North Korea in 2013:

https://www.northkoreatech.org/2013/04/11/us-wants-voa-rfa-t...
This is a really good question, and it's the exactly the kind of question which needs to be asked but we're very afraid of what will happen when people start thinking about things like that.

I'm going a bit out of bounds here, but I think we've already entered into an early phase of post-statehood already, but haven't really realized it yet. The American nation is completely subservient to those manning the helm of the financial structure and serves no other purpose to allow it to continue operating as smoothly as possible until there is no more profit left to extract. Politics and material conditions have become completely detached from each other, and I think the past two elections have completely proven this.

There are still large ideological and political voids to explore. Where are the non-Marxist populist economists? Where are the conservative socialists? Why must we choose between 1800s Marxism and 21st century neoliberalism? People have been crying wolf about fascism a lot lately, but I think it there is a real danger that true fascism will emerge in a serious way once again once the dominoes start to fall in a few years if viable alternatives aren't developed in the meantime.
do you know how your car/microwave/dishwasher/TV works, to the detail of the engine, the type of tires, and would you be able to repair/exchange/hack parts of it?
I don't, and I really don't see the point of knowing to be able to do so, as my hobbies/curiosity lies somewhere else -- for some, computers are just another household appliance (and a particularly complex one)
We live in an era when anyone can setup a multinational company.

If you want to limit your market, setup your own company and alienate your customers and limit your recruitment to a narrow field of people who think like you, don't be suprised when you don't attract the best talent
There is no independent media in China, your comparison is invalid. They can cry all they want about it - it's their own fault.
Am I the only one seeing the religious undertones here? :)

> “What is the answer to life, the Universe and everything? What did you mean when you said now I know but I’m too young to understand? How can I understand the answer but not the question?”
> The father put on a condescending smirk as he thought to himself, “I came up with the theory of everything. How dare a child doubt it?”

This maps well onto the christian idea of God, the father.

I guess we can read one of two things into this: AI has discovered that God is real, or humanity has discovered that anyone, even AI, can make up religion.
My longstanding explanation for this has been as follows:

* Improvements to open-source projects come primarily from developers scratching a personal itch.

* User interfaces are first and foremost a way for the application to communicate to the user what is possible and how to achieve it.

* If there's a problem with a user interface, it therefore most adversely impacts a user who does not yet know what is possible or how to achieve it.

* To fix a problem with the user interface, you must learn enough about the application such that you now know what is possible and how to achieve it. Hence the problem no longer affects you as much and is no longer a personal itch. So the problem doesn't get fixed.
What do you call "famous"?

I started reddit a year ago, I now have 3k karma and didn't notice any difference...
Nowhere in the article does it suggest that anyone lied about the books.