skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Algorithms are not simply math

I don't know about "simply", but algorithms are mathematical. I know so because everyone who matters in the field of algorithms says so (e.g. Knuth's "every algorithm is as mathematical as anything could be.")

Knuth adds: "An algorithm is an abstract concept unrelated to physical laws of the universe." so "in the same way mechanical engineering is not simply math" doesn't hold, or have even much bearing on the truth of the statement "Algorithms are not simply math."

> And if it were simply math, then there would be no way to work around those patents

How does this follow? It seems to be an implication out of nowhere instead of an argument.

> most open source codes are ... since

Another assertion presented as an implication. Following the same line of reasoning one could state: "Open source is not as good at producing kernels, mostly since proprietary vendors have a massively bigger pool of engineering" which by now has been shown to be false, in other words: a post hoc fallacy
Why I Got the Russian Vaccine
Your comment prompted me to dig up a Peertube instance list I'd posted elsewhere, I added it as a top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712951
Skynet is down.. Could this be alternative for Google sensure anyway??
A growing number of people think that the election is illegitimate, and your solution is to suppress them? That's a really bad idea in a democracy like ours that lauds our history of overthrowing a tyrannical government, and it is very likely to trigger a violent response.

Voter ID laws, paper ballots, removal of voting machines, and a promise to audit the election would basically eliminate the risk of conflict. Why not do those instead? Our democracy needs to be perceived as legitimate to survive, doesn't it?
Not only does the GPL seems like an extraordinarily poor fit for a recipe, recipes are generally considered to not be copyrightable in the first place.
If after 5 years you still need to spend millions of dollars to acquire a single customer - you have failed to reach product market fit.

If your customers aren't talking about you positively to others in the industry (even when asked to) - you have failed to solve a real problem for them.
Ask HN: Are there any complex lifeforms which don’t inflict harm upon another?
I hope that question makes sense. Of late I’ve noticed the death toll simply being a human inflicts on other lifeforms. That’s aside from eating them!

Are there any complex life forms that don’t hunt, or cause harm to organisms in their environment? Plants..? Sea slime?
I think his point is that you can hide in the "crowd" on a centralized service. In order to find one "perpetrator" you have to inconvenience a large portion of uninvolved people.

If there is a decentralized service that is exclusively used by "perpetrators" then banning the service will have a greater impact even if the ban is harder to implement.
“As long as you don’t” is doing a lot of work there. Humans regulate their eating using hunger and satiety. If you eat a diet that calibrates those well, staying at a good weight is massively easier.

There was a famous story of a man who lost weight eating a calorie deficit of twinkies. And it worked! But it’s also hard.

So the real question is whether diet soft drinks make it harder to feel sated eating an appropriate amount of calories.
Feedly RSS integration experience pretty trash. Fraidycat somewhat better. I wish there was service that converts twitter threads into HN / reddit format.
YouTubers have been complaining about YouTube for nearly a decade now :

http://angryjoeshow.com/ajsa/forums/topic/10325-youtube-beco...

http://angryjoeshow.com/ajsa/forums/topic/10553-youtube-copy...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200806101856/http://www.joueur... (fr)

But in 2013 there were no real alternatives. This has started to change in the recent years.
What broken logic is this? The system generally fails to catch cheaters, therefore it is unfair to be harsh to cheaters when they are caught?
Lower Socioeconomic Status Linked to Worse In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
AWS has become too complex with too many services and jargon to the point it's so hard to figure out what to use for a project.

Recently, discovered a great written guide by an ex-employee of AWS that cuts through all this.
The honest students will hand in their phones. The dishonest ones won't.
as an environmentalist, we've been saying this since the 70's. As an educator I'd caution against fear as a motivation for societal change, but I understand that many think that its good to cause fear and panic for the benefit of the globe and everyone on it (after all, we teach children to be afraid of dangerous things).
I could try to explain how banning the right (starting with the extremists and now including the POTUS and presumably about 20% of the USA) would just push them into the online equivalent of desert training camps. But why bother? People will just say "That's their fault". This is not a smart way to discuss policy, but I fully expect that this is what it will degenerate into.

"Banning them drives them underground where they can be radicalised by the actual nazis!" That's their fault. End of story, we can all rest easy knowing that if the policy is counterproductive, we meant well (everyone thinks they mean well) and someone else is really to blame.
Honestly i'm not symphatic with the method used by the instructor. I've seen it many times that instructors who waste time on such plans like bullshit questions are usually the ones with mediocre teaching. It seems clever at first glance but when you look further the question comes up why the students felt the need to cheat and that's where the important digging start.
Parler wasn’t pulled from Google’s app store for discussion of Conservative policy. It was pull for hate speech, incitement, and for the illegal conspiracies being plotted. Plus Parler isn’t enforcing their own terms of service.

If it was just politics then Google would also pull New Republic magazine.

Apple has said that they need to step up their moderation game and they can get back into the App Store. I’m guessing that would be good enough for Google as well.
Me I would have fired this teacher.

The purpose might be legitimate, but if you can remember your student years, you can imagine the stress that could incur the fact to suddenly encounter a question that they have no way to be able te reply.

Imagine a student that was well prepared for the exam, and suddenly there is a question he is supposed to be able to reply as it is in the exam but in no way related to what he prepared. Some stressed students could suddenly feel insecure and wonder what they did badly during their revision.

Also, it is like the police creating an illegal situation to catch someone. Would have the students attempted to cheat if there was not a question that made no sense to them?

As the article indicate itself, more students than usual went to the bathroom for this exam...

It is like a cop coming to you and saying "do you want free drug?", you reply ok and then he arrests you for drug possession charge...
I think they call themselves Western chauvinists (meaning something about Western culture being superior), not white supremacists.
That's a shame. App store and hosting are both interesting, important but different topics.
Yes. Absolute majority of software developers in Ukraine work as contractors with rate fixed in USD/EUR.
I'll add my own anecdote. I have donated to Wikipedia sporadically over the years, and they asked me to take part in a sort of round table interview / qualitative study.

In a room of other Wikipedia donators, maybe 1/3 of the people there didn't know that the information was entirely community driven, and when they learned, a handful of didn't think it was a good idea!

It just shows how much Wikipedia is just taken for granted, when in reality so so much effort goes in to keeping it free, ad free, open, and accessible to everyone.
Same logic how laws are more lenient and forgiving and full of 2nd chances for minors.
Blender – The Big Picture
People have a right to any platform they are able to create. The problem with centralized social media is that it is a monopoly with legal protections and is able to essentially exclude people from the de facto town square.
You've saying this since the 70s, how much change on people minds did you achieve without fear?
How difficult would it be to turn a restroom into a faraday cage?
It does affect Canada sometimes already (example, winter of 2014)
There seems to be a general assumption that pre-internet technologies didn’t change people’s behaviour or dramatically alter the contours of their life decisions, which is of course very wrong.

There’s no possibility of a decline into an idiocracy because we’ve been in one since the dawn of civilisation. Since we have this far lacked the technology to modify ourselves directly, we’ve offloaded any of our super-human goals onto our environment in a symbiotic dance with the gifts evolution has bestowed upon us. There isn’t some inflection point where computers are a catalyst into an imagined decline: they are just part of the evolving process. Perhaps direct augmentation will change things, but that is unlikely to be available to us in the near to medium term.

People’s desires and perceptions have been shaped by–and in turn shaped–thousands of years of technology at this point; from fundamental tech like reading and writing through hygeine and mass media. Rolling back one layer is not particularly important.
I'm not saying Google, Apple and Amazon have broken the law. If Parler sues them, then the courts can decide that.

I'm just expressing why I find this disturbing; as you seem to too.

In the long run, the market will solve this problem by creating alternatives. It is just a matter of time.

I can still express why I think these companies are taking the wrong actions and believe that they have the right to take those decisions. And that there is sensible alternative to a market economy.
The whole shuttle designs was simply not a good one, it has a lot of compromises and false assumptions.

The Soviet version where you simply have a space plane on the side of a independent booster was much better design that had much broader use case. It would have been much easier to build ISS if you had that capability.

Remove the Solid Boosters and make the Core Booster better to further reduce risk.

Once you are there you can just make the first stage land like SpaceX Falcon 9 does and have the Orbiter land like a plane.

Even better to put the Space plane on top of the booster, rather then the side to reduce risk.

And if your at that point, you realize you don't need the massive cross range capability, you can remove the massive wings.

Then you are already pretty close to SpaceX Starship design.
People would invent more codes if browsers would actually allow MSE.. Safari is today's gate keeper of many things. Just like Microsoft in 90s.
> I missed these complaints when platforms didn't grant ISIS free reign to spread their propaganda.

They existed, it's just that it takes a lot of courage to speak out against deplatforming ISIS, so most people just stay silent in public. I was fairly outspoken about defending their right to expression, but that was only to "safe" groups of friends rather than the general public. (Of course, now that ISIS is basically dead I can be a bit more free with my words and admit to disliking them being censored)

Regarding your kids agitating example, as a society we already do plenty of brainwashing of kids, it's why our ideas of right and wrong are so different from 200 years back.

Also, we had near absolute free speech on most of the internet for most of the 2000s, so your fearmongering there rings hollow.
This is true about the US. Nonetheless, every day people need to be hospitalized with covid or stay home because they’re too sick to work.

So over the long run there’s much more turmoil of the type you speak of. But I agree the US needs a better system for letting the contagious stay home.

Perfect needn’t be the enemy of the good though. If, say, 45% of people could isolate, then having them know they’re positive could help too.
As much as that sounds like a good idea, at most schools you can’t just share the name of cheaters with other faculty due to privacy issues. Yes, I’m not kidding.

There’s also the issue that students can appeal and the process usually takes a good amount of effort. But a student who might be looking at another year of tuition and delaying graduation has massively more incentives to challenge it than an assistant professor who is trying to keep his/her head down and get tenure. And that’s why sites like Chegg get away with it.
Treason trials sound a lot like truth and reconciliation to me.
Also political scientists from eminent universities in the US and Britain were heavily involved in the renewal of democracy in Germany. With the Germans they designed a system that is more democratic than those that existed in their own countries. The system is designed to operate as a coalition government. No one party can dominate, but because of the coalition system mainstream centrist views get properly represented while extremists get some presence in the Bundestag but are unlikely to be needed to form a coalition and will never be in a position to dominate it, like they have done in the US.

It’s worked out pretty well for the Germans, wouldn’t you say?

The US is a two party state. So extremists just need to infiltrate one party to corrupt the system, especially if the other party is not providing competent opposition.

Currently the security of democracy in the US, and therefore the balance of power between Russia, China and the US which is the basis of world peace in so much as it exists today, rests in the constitutional procedures of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party as much as it does in the US constitution, who sets those rules? Do Americans memorise them in school?
Top Ports in 2020
I encountered questions during my time as a student that I wasn't able to answer. I never thought to cheat.
If there was more research into anabolics / safer steroids it would go a long way into getting people motivated withvisible short term results. Maintenance is easier when there's gains to maintain.
Akamai is fronting InfoWars? Didn’t know that.

EDIT: Just checked and it’s resolving to Cloudflare IPs where I’m at. Same same but different I guess.
Great question - equally so: how much change on people minds did you achieve with fear?

The answer to both is that we need to do something different.
Afaik, generations that grew up in violent times are more violent then those who grew up in peaceful times. Being used to violence, seeing it and/or being traumatized by it offsets whatever lack seeing the cost does.
Also because of the banning of lead in many products...
I used to think differently, but I am starting to agree. Part of the issues with current generation of software is that it is effectively intended for masses, who barely understand what is happening under the hood or what is possible resulting in software that looks pretty, has severely limited options and constantly calls home for 'diagnostic' purposes.

That said, commercially, it is hard to argue with adoption as a metric. Problem is, focusing on that metric results in the same bs as in the real world: consumer ( crap tier ) and business ( good tier that tends to have good options if you are willing to spend money ).
This article is mostly a paraphrase of this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/e8f0z1/not_my_r...

Which has this edit at the bottom:

> Edit 2: Hi guys I'm writing this 5 months after the initial post. I'm glad this post is getting attention again and I'm once again receiving messages from people wanting to get in touch with the professor or students from the class, so now that this post has run its initial course, I'll burst everyone's bubble by admitting that I mostly made this story up. It's based on a real incident that happened in my department a couple years ago, but I wasn't in the class personally, I only heard about it third-hand from someone I didn't know that well. So while the general plot and end result of the story is true, I changed some details to keep the professor and school anonymous, and took creative liberty in writing it from a first person viewpoint. Unfortunately the part about my department letting students go to the bathroom during exams with their phones was true, and is still true to this day, and to my knowledge the incident this is based on is the only time that a professor actually took a stand against this shitty policy.

> So yeah I don't know the professor personally since the class he taught is not part of my program's curriculum, so I won't put anyone in touch with him or anyone else who knows about the real incident and could expose his identity.

> Before anyone reports this for being fake, I will once again stress that while I changed the details, the actual events played out in a similar way and the real professor did in fact get his revenge on the cheaters.
You would need to remove the Solid Boosters first to make it worth it. If you do that hydrogen becomes a bad choice.

So you should have built an RP-1 or Methane single booster without solids and then you could have done it.
China’s digital currency: the beginning of the end of paper money?
You're absolutely right, but here's a counter point of view. People are not more likely to use Ecosia and click ads than they are to use Google and click ads. Ecosia is trying to give you a "greener" option to something you will do anyway.
You really should be looking at good old fashion Dedicated Metal if you really want low pricing.

OVH, Hetzner or ScaleWay. Apart from Hetzner they other two also offer VPS as well.
Are you lazy? Do you hate working out? Do you want to spend the least amount of time exercising as possible?

If you are a programmer, this may be you! It is certainly me.

For the algorithm junkies, I present you with an efficient algorithm for working out.

It is based on a well-written, concise guide from one of my close friends on high-intensity interval training (HIIT): https://www.notion.so/So-Many-Gains-So-Little-Time-Effective...

The pitch is: muscle mass is very important to quality of life and longevity. No, you don't have to be a gym rat, working out 5 days a week to get a toned body. My friend argues (with much research) that you basically need to work out once, maybe twice a week - VERY HARD - to cover your weight lifting needs. Cardio is separate but need not be excessive (e.g. run twice a week for 20 mins + get up and go for a walk everyday). If you're serious about this just once a week, you'll by and large get the results you're after.
There are some important distinctions between Black Lives Matter and Trump’s camp.

BLM’s mission is to strengthen democracy and justice with the unfortunate side effect of the fringe propagating violence. The core and leadership would rather the violence and property damage wasn’t taking place.

Trump is an authoritarian who is trying to subvert democracy, and his supporters consider violence to not only be acceptable but to be a necessary virtue.

If it were possible to remove disinformation, violence, and property destruction from each movement, BLM would still have an important message, while on the MAGA side I’m not sure what values would remain. What’s the coherent message beyond spite toward the left?
Source please ?

Wikipedia is not completely clear about the subject ("customized Mastodon fork") :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
How did we eliminate the possibility of a proton in the midst of a muon being smaller than one near an electron?
No concrete details. No school. No teacher name and not even a class name. I call fake!
Wait, Why are students allowed to have a powerul internet machine with them during the test?

In India, all students are supposed to turn off their phones and keep them on the teachers table for the whole duration of the test. Having a phone on person is deemed to be cheating and failed in the test.
Are you currently looking for a job? I have some folks who need firing and I’d love to hire you so you can fire them with your script.

:/
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> A democracy cannot exist without compromise.

I think this is a key point that is currently at quite a low ebb worldwide. The appetite for compromise seems to be at an unhealthy nadir.

I understand that, when you think you are right and the other side is wrong or even evil, it can be difficult to want to compromise.

People are quick to cite polarization as the source, and yes, sure; but what causes and has caused this polarization? It's not like the world was never polarized before.

If the general decline in violence is true, such as claimed by e.g. Pinker (Better Angels etc), then maybe we are not actually more polarized than ever before? But the evidence seems conflicting at best.

Anyway, I don't have any answers.
He didn’t recommend it, just talked about his own experience. i’d rather hear openly from personal experiences and make up my own mind rather than policing speech because it could be “dangerous”
Last time I looked it was half baked and not easy to use, has it changed in recent years or months and can it be considered practical in a way that let's say Matrix is?
^ the irony
>Whatever happened to JPEG2000?

its shipping in RED cameras under the name REDCODE ;)
Huh, I'm surprised I never saw this. Thanks for the link
I don't think this is a good parable (regardless of veracity).

Occasionally students get hung up on difficult questions, determined to solve them, losing time for the remaining questions. Yes, this is an anti-pattern, but it is a fact of life. By incorporating an impossible question, you waste the time of honest[1] students.

Some will recognise that the question is impossible and move on. Some with good exam technique will know not to get stuck on a problem they can't solve until they've had a go at all of the other questions.

But some honest and hard-working students will have got a worse grade than they deserved because of this stunt.

[1] Consider, as well, 'desperate' students - students who need a certain grade for some reason or another. Maybe this class isn't these students' priority, but they need to pass to be able to study the classes they love. An impossible question could drive these students to cheat, when they never would consider it otherwise[2][3].

[2] Consider the detail "about half the class left the room to use the bathroom during the test - far more than the usual".

[3] This bears resemblance to vigilante groups targeting peadophiles. I don't know what to make of that.
Thank you for improving things and sharing.

I use numpy & pandas, lists & dicts every day. I read your docs/github page, but can you help me see the value?

However, I do think there are lots of common tasks that need to be done with lists that should be methods rather than fancy footwork =)

For example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3462143/get-difference-b...

As you allude to w your zip loop:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1919044/is-there-a-bette...
What about the dudes with zip ties?
A Warm Up for Capture the Flag
I found this comment shocking. The worst teacher in the world does not justify cheating. I have had truly horrific teachers, and I never tried using this as an excuse to cheat.
There is also the question if the teacher should be concerned with the test at all. Cheaters will sooner or later find themselves in a situation that demands knowledge and experience. Would this have been a job interview then there is little chance you'd be able to cheat your way out of such a situation.