skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory robot vacuum root links and info:
https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud
https://dontvacuum.me/robotinfo/

I have an S50 rooted through this information. Now it only talks to itself and we control it through the webpage hosted on itself. Still has zones, schedules etc. It is brilliant.
10 years ago, Captain Crunch was my next door neighbor. Yes, that Captain Crunch. One time he asked me, in reference to the actor's name being mentioned in the media, "Who's Brad Pitt?".

I laughed my ass off, because I decided he was the only person in LA County to have asked that question anytime recently. Incidentally, I guarantee you he has no idea who Diego Maradona is.

Crunch also once asked me, 2 days after the election, "Did Obama win?". He was traveling overseas and was "out of the loop". I saved the email and laugh about it to this day.

(If you don't know who Crunch is, and you're using this website, that's funny.)
On the eink kindle, I paid for ad removal just in general principles. I probably could have lived with the lock screen ads, but the home screen ad was unacceptable. Vast majority of my book purchases over the past ten years have been ebooks. I’ve gone a bit sentimental in thinking of the book list as my library. And I didn’t want a billboard of any sort in my library. Real or virtual. Have a feeling there are at least dozens of us who are that allergic to ads.

I have also purchased a Fire during a Black Friday sale. Got rid of the ads on that one too, but for free since some nice person over at xda made an automated process for that. On a side note, with Termux it isn’t entirely horrible as a 7 inch laptop when paired with a hinged keyboard case. A portable system at a similar price to a Pi.
It's not FUD just because you don't agree with it.

Having control is great when someone's breathing down your neck, but for a lot of organizations you'll not have people breathing down your neck as often on AWS. (At least in terms of the service itself, bad code and bad deploys are still a thing)

It's different tradeoffs and the vast majority of shops are not set up to compete with AWS in terms of uptime.

I'm not an AWS apologist by any means and in fact I've been moving services off AWS over the last few years, but I can't abide your claims of FUD.
They have a couple birds up there with lasers. As I understand it, the unit price for the necessary actuators is too high right now to deploy thousands of them.
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MmHmm is by Phil Libin, the erstwhile founder/CEO of Evernote[1]. I stumbled on it when looking up old connections for something I'm doing now. Here is a video of Phil introducing MmHmm[2]. In my very limited and a few interaction with him, I found him to be a kind person, and was super responsive to a small guy when he was very busy, and around its peak with Evernote (2010-2011).

While waiting for MmHmm's invite, I got invited to try Around[3]. I haven't tried MmHmm but it seems to share similar features with Around. I find Around nifty while pitching prospective customers but rather too-much-ado for, say, our team meetings - face-to-face visual meetings with audio.

After a while, all the bells and whistles wares down and we want to just stay at the basics. Just my thoughts from our small team's experience.

1. https://evernote.com

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8KhKBLoSMk

3. https://www.around.co
I’ve seen videos from guys building laser equipment and supposedly a powerful enough laser can punch through typical mirrors and specialized ones are required.
In college I played with a variation of this where you fix the size of the collection to a power of 2 (sprinkling in zeroes/repeated values if needed): you make your initial guess for where to look is just by taking the top bits of the searched-for value, then estimate the number of slots off you were from the top bits of the _difference_ between the value you found and the one you want (clamping your next guess to the first/last item if you'd fall off the end otherwise). In the concrete example I was playing with, it worked to just stop there then do linear search, but you could be cleverer about how long to iterate and when/how to bail out to something with a better worst case.

As Lemire says the problem (a good "problem"!) is that hashtables and B-trees can be quite fast, robust against different distributions, and you have them right at hand. It'd almost have to be some weird situation like you're handed data in a format that kinda fits the requirements and you're looking for how to work with it in-place.
This made my day. The passion, work, but also completeness that you get blasted in your face is amazing! (amazing to the point where I re-watched it a few times, on the big screen as well)
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If your beam is perfectly coherent, then its cross section has the same area regardless of the distance, so you should be getting full power. However, no beam is perfectly coherent, so it’s still O(1/r^2), and the better coherence, the smaller constant you have hidden in the big-O notation.
A strategy in use since the 1970s is to quit interpolation search when it starts picking values too close to the edge of the range, switching to binary search afterwards. That's a well known technique for finding the roots of polynomials.

>This being said, I am not aware of interpolation search being actually used productively in software today. If you have a reference to such an artefact, please share!

This is also my response to that note in the article, interpolation search has been well-known in the numerical methods world since ancient times. ;)
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Fusion 360 and Blender are fundamentally different tools. Stickign with Fusion is probably the best course of action if your goal is to 3D print a part.
I'm so happy I learned that there's a "line rider demoscene" today.
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The last time I saw John Conway, he was giving a talk on games at a donor dinner for MSRI. I was there because I'd worked a math movie. John needed a volunteer to play against him, one of those stick games on a sheet of paper. He'd already indicated a winning strategy no one else in the room had mastered, so of course there were no takers. The director David Eisenbud gave me one of those "this is why you're here" looks, and I joined John at the podium. He swiftly destroyed me, though some claim I won a game that wasn't credited to me. I drew my best laugh expanding the game board to renew my chances. Alcohol was a factor for all concerned.

John loved math more than anyone I've met. After large lectures, he'd make the most time for random non-mathematicians drawn to the talk because his work had attained cult status.
OpenSCAD is another option... but it's a pretty different approach.
This is what Lenovo does. I ordered my AMD T14 on Nov. 3, most estimate has it shipping Jan 17. Original estimate when I ordered was Dec 10.
Ignoring the other criticisms because they generally seem valid, to everyone saying that proof of work doesn't matter because bots can just use more machines, that depends a lot on the economics of any specific automation project. I scrape a little data here and there, and a reliable proof of work system costing ~20s on a commodity core would make some of my personal projects cost tens of thousands of dollars monthly. Maybe that's worth it to someone (e.g. if they have an army of hacked machines without anything better to do), but I think it'd keep a lot of the riffraff out.
People make the best use of what they have, what they know and what they’re willing to spend money and time on. i dont agree that people have chosen not to have privacy or portability or the other things you mention, they simply dont have an option in the market, they dont have the money, they dont have the knowledge (PGP? Cmon my mum can barely find Outlook and the New Email button).

The industry needs to do better, this argument is a cop out.
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I wouldn’t say likely, but it is certainly possible. The Chicago machine was still a thing back then.
In this case there actually is a benefit.

I've seen issues where people weren't able to communicate with customers because someone's running a mail server that rejects email based on the RFC-Clueless RBL or its predecessor, RFC-Ignorant[0].

I've never in history seen postmaster@domain every receive anything but spam, and I have seen it receive so much spam that I would never identify a legitimate email amongst the screens full of junk if one ever did arrive.

[0] http://rfc-clueless.org/pages/faq
I like that this isn’t Google and isn’t tracking people. I tried this on its own homepage. I didn’t find it a whole lot easier (I was asked to choose photos with boats in them), but it was a little more easier than the blurry photos on reCAPTCHA.

What I didn’t like: when I looked for pricing information, I saw that there’s a free tier and there’s a “Contact Sales” tier (for enterprise). There is no intermediate level if you want finer control and just want to know how much that could cost. If anyone from hCaptcha is reading this, I’d strongly recommend adding one or two more tiers or expanding the feature set of the current free tier, at least for some level of granular control.
That would only be true if there was a tradeoff inherent in technology people prefer. There isnt, but the best technology often has the worst privacy and most anti consumer practices because it makes more money
You can’t afford to do that to every 1500-byte packet at 10-100 Gbps.
> So... then what's the point of a status dashboard?

Exactly. Apparently it's just a marketing tool if you believe parent comments...
What I've learned is the game theory of this. Isolating early just means you are lonely longer, because many will defect and air travel and live it up, until the flights stop going.

If the government doesn't take decisive action early, then I will chose camp defector rather than camp sucker.
Actually, I lied, they don't move... checked again
Its more complex than that. People aren't given a choice of "This is the pixel phone with spyware and this is the pixel phone without spyware, they cost the same and are functionally identical"

They are shown a pixel and nothing is said of privacy, and then if they know to dig deeper and find an option with more privacy but much more expensive and lacking massive amounts of features.

In some cases its impossible to avoid a trade-off. A bigger battery will result in a bigger phone so people who say the would buy a bigger battery phone end up not doing that. But for privacy, there doesn't have to be a trade off.
The problem occurred when they started forgetting not to be evil

Edit: Flagged? Really? Too many sheep on this forum
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You don't want to pivot on the average, you want to pivot on the median. You will gain the most information with every step if 50% of the probability mass is above your guess and 50% is below.
The way ahead should be an independent entity who audits systems and has responsibility to certify that the dashboard represents a true and accurate view of the actual status. Like is done so effectively with company financials.

Oh, wait! EY, PWC, and who can forget Arthur Andersen!

But, naturally, technology people can solve this better than anyone else, right?
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>I wasted many, many hours of my life
Seeing David’s passion for line rider over the years has been nothing short of inspiring. He’s a mathematical genius who brings that to play across everything from music to line rider to software. Can’t wait to see what they build next!
Geezus mate.

I'm lost for words.
I think a lot of people / services do something along these lines. Not sure if you saw this, but Netflix recently came out with a very nice blog regarding load shedding.

https://netflixtechblog.com/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-p...
has anyone seen "The Stacks Project" ? it's very technical but it's nice and collaborative https://stacks.math.columbia.edu/
Heyo! I’m the other half of Line Rider Review, the video essay channel David mentions at the start of the article. I’m not quite the historian Bevibel is, but if you have any questions related to Line Rider or its history over the past decade, I’d be happy to provide additional context.

A lot has changed since I started doing Line Rider art in middle school (here’s an old one: https://youtu.be/h__96TEF85g and here’s more what I do these days: https://youtu.be/o2XMFgk3JQQ). Forcing myself to learn editing software in middle school eventually helped me land video editing gigs before I transitioned to software. Line Rider took me on a fun path to get there :)

David’s always been an innovator, and I love seeing his stuff show up in unexpected places (though HN is probably the least shocking place I’d find this article)
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I've recently downloaded quite a number of Mac programs directly from the web, as well as from Steam. They work just fine, as long as they've been signed.

What makes you say that Apple has made a "decision to disallow installing apps that were not downloaded from the macOS-app store"? That seems kind of obviously untrue.

I mean, I myself sell Mac software outside the Mac App Store and have never had a complaint.

Maybe you were thinking of the iOS app store?
I cant wait to say "Hey, have you tried out oom-hoom?"
Is this really a problem? Async/await makes async simple, and using a store like zustand gives you hooks and [g/s]etters out of the box.
Interesting point. So do you suggest I intentionally "unlearn/forget" things?
Yes.

hCaptcha is not easy as is being claimed here. I have lost a lot of time and been blocked from much content due to hCaptcha.
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Taskell is exactly what you're looking for! https://taskell.app/

It's a bit fresh and needs to be fully fleshed out, but it's functional!
I think the ability for humans to build seemingly straight-forward and simple tools or building blocks that other humans then go on to create insanely complex things like this with is what sets us apart from every other species in existence.
I think a few of your boogeyman are out of date.

The militarized police force was bested by a couple hundred anarchists and no charges even filed.

The lack of access to medical care just spent $6 billion buy vaccines for everyone in the country.

The unchecked imperialism just drew down all their troops and is achieving real progress towards normalized peaceful relations.

A few of the others are quite on point though.
Yeah, it's the difference between:

"Your honor, as part of the settlement we admit to speaking with our auction competitor to agree not to outbid each other by a geographically arranged scheme, in violation of the rules of the auction"

versus:

"Huh, our team loves to do funny things with numbers and has this habit of putting our area code in the last several digits of any bid for our record keeping purposes. Every time we did it, we won the auction, so we kept on doing it as a good luck charm!"
> It builds character

That's awful and I love it.
This legit brought a big smile to my face. So much passion on display here.
Problem is that as user of the survey you can't verify that results are decoupled from the URL / login.
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Luckily, the same programs that leak memory are probably the ones that handle crashes poorly
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Because people don't respect other peoples things

Edit: Flagged? Really?
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Got links to any info about space-x using e-band inter-satellite links? I hadn’t heard that before.
This isn't super meaningful because "complex" is relative to the baseline of your species. What you consider complex is considerably different from what, say, a beaver considers complex—I'd much rather trust a beaver to make a beaver-dam than a human. I conclude from this is that it's the line rider itself that is beyond the capacity of most species, not the composition, which is of incalculable marginal complexity compared to beavers first inventing Line Rider before moving on to make dams. Not a great move, if I do dare to put myself in the flippers of a beaver—you'd have to invent language first, which must be a rather arduous task compared to doing what your parents and instincts teach you.

FWIW I have much greater hopes for humanity than this dedication to a line rider map. One day we'll intelligently compose into stopping global warming, I swear!
And I would agree with you... but... the vast majority of PHEVs (by number of models and by sales volume) are "mild PHEVs". Volt and Clarity are the exception, not the rule. Even the Prius Prime (the second, better Prius PHEV) has only 22 miles of electric range.
Commercial product links would be nice
Yeah, kinda. Rust is meant to solve memory unsafety, which is an even worse problem than memory leaks, especially when you're running untrusted code.
Wow, the very final sequence is really something. Awesome.
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"Yes, Minister, but I didn’t expect you to do anything about it. You’ve never done anything before!" -- Sir Humphrey
Very apt observation, I am quite confused why anyone would want their face on slides!
Yep. Everyone ships the org chart.
Great, you should comment about it like so.

But the sock puppet (or throwaway) accounts remain a nuisance, whether their positions are shared or not.

As I said, one can remain anonymous and comment without creating a new account.
> A topic of conversation doesn't have to be toxic to cause reasonable people to avoid engaging with it.

Sure, until people realize that politics have the capacity to impact their lives negatively, and then all of a sudden the rationality for discussing it is quite clear.

> One way of excusing yourself from such a conversation in a (hopefully) unoffensive way would be to make an honest statement like, "Gosh, my brain is so overworked right now that I can't even begin to delve into the nuance of that subject, but I hear where you're coming from."

I wouldn't characterize this as a polite excuse so much as an honest admittance—you clearly respect the other person enough to indicate an acknowledgement of the meaning of what they're saying and an incapacity to respond. That is, unless you're lying, which is clearly disrespectful. In that case a "I don't agree but I feel like it's unprofessional to engage in these conversations" would suffice.
Those aren't legs, they're guy wires.

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

I said the physics works. The engineering is a totally different question.
I really appreciate this line of thought. It can be easy to brush stuff like this off as frivolous, but when you look at it from a more primitive perspective, it really is amazing, and it truly seems to me like art
True, but remember that in the 80s the rules were different and players did not hesitate to tackle opponents. Also Maradona had to be more careful against England in a World Cup match than Messi playing against Getafe.
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Yep, and the fun thing is that every hobby and profession has its own jargon that binds and educates it members. It amazes me that DSLs are so prevalent in real life but hated by a lot of programmers when trying to describe the activities of people who already have one.
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Classification of finite simple groups, undoubtedly, is very long and consists of a number of works by many different mathematicians, but the difficulties presented by that proof are of a qualitatively different nature than those presented by the proof of the Four-Color-Theorem.

For the classification of finite simple groups, mathematicians comprehend the plan of attack broadly, are able to understand why it is true - and simpler second-generation and third-generation proofs are being published now (which of itself is evidence of improved understanding). The proof has resulted in new techniques broadly applicable to other problems, and new insights into the subject. It has led to the discovery of additional sporadic groups, and more connections between them.

However, the issue with the four-color-theorem is different: It's a proof that simply goes through all the reduced cases one by one, and checks it. Even if one had a lot of time, no mathematician should really bother reading through it, as there is no technique or idea one could absorb, and one would not really come out with any understand of why true or any way to apply it outside the problem. It is just mindless brute-force checking. It's like reading a telephone directory.

I am not against computational mathematics or computational proof by the way. I am also for proof-checkers. I don't dispute the validity of computational proofs, or question their philosophical status.

I do think one core aspect of the practice of mathematics has been in increasing human understanding of it, not merely compute things with symbols. Human mathematics is an act of summary/compression, and of translation at once (from a vast number of mathematical facts to the human language).

In this sense - in physics too, simple "laws of physics" like Maxwell's Equations or Newton's Laws are amazing because they compress so many different things one could observe and convey something essential about their nature in a way humans can comprehend and tinker with, to produce further artifacts - like the electric motor or the steam engine.

Nature (mathematical or physical) already knows (and operates within) its own laws, it is humans that need to be looped in. Hence my dissatisfaction of computer-generated proofs that don't enhance human understanding much.
Nah I missed this, thanks for the link I’ll dig in
As a user forced to use many apps and websites with a terrible user experience, I conclude that you can certainly have well-communicated loading times without me hating the product.

However, I will always avoid - if I can - using a product where the UI itself is slow, sluggish or bad. This includes many modern websites and also quite a few apps.

Responsiveness is the key. If I click on something, then something needs to happen. People can deal with a loading bar, but everyone gets terribly confused and / or annoyed by a sluggish drop-down menus, buttons that seem to fire only after a couple of seconds, or, my favorite, a scrolling action that is either sluggish or leads to load processes that interrupt itself.
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It’s about the second order effects of what it takes to keep an ecosystem healthy over a longer period. We might pay attention to individual “winners”, but it takes a healthy “scene” incorporating variety and scope for evolution & innovation, to keep the fun going. Otherwise it quickly gets stale/boring. If about as interesting as being isolated in your own sandbox (or soapbox, as it may be).
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