skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to study mathematics, according to Niels Henrik Abel's high school teacher:
1. Never study more than one book at a time and never abandon a book you have chosen without working all the way through it
2. If you face difficulties, do not give up but instead go back twenty times if that should prove necessary and only then allow yourself to investigate another mathematician's solution
3. Skip over those parts that are of no challenge in order to get at what is new to you
4. Reflect over the reading, in particularly how the writer came to the solution and moreover, what the solution leads to
5. Investigate whether or not another transformation or substitution would have solved it in a better manner
6. Always read with pen in hand so that you can work out all the calculations and practice all the questions you encounter
7. Write up lists of subjects that afford you an opportunity to develop your own theories
8. Geometric reflections can be a suitable way of strengthening and securing one's judgement
Not SF, but at my big tech employer it’s 3 weeks of vacation, 2 floating holidays (which are really just vacation), 10 company holidays, and 2 weeks sick leave. After 6 and 12 years you get another week of vacation. So total is 27 to start, not including sick leave. I’ve heard more experienced new hires can sometimes negotiate in more vacation (up to 5 weeks) but I haven’t experienced that directly myself.

There are also all sorts of special purpose leaves (jury duty, infant care, bereavement, etc...) that can become quite substantial.

All that being said I’ve almost never had a boss who cared about tracking my vacation too closely, and I’ve never felt pressured to not take time off when I want to, other than a half dozen critical weeks a year.
CUI is replacing FOUO. It is not made up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Unclassified_Inform...

I actually received documents marked CUI last week.
A company that after multiple years has 4 developers (two of them founders and apparently primary authors of the software) indeed loudly screams "VCs hijacking" instead of "some dudes making a consulting+support company involving their open-source project".
In my country SMS has absurd prices, when Whatsapp showed up it was viewed as a huge blessing, no more having to pay at the time around 1 USD to send 1 message... (and if you had 141 characters? well, that is 2 USD now!)

Everyone here uses it now, and this include sevearl business and organizations, I heard even some government communication can only be done with Whatsapp, so basically we are stuck with it.
Is WhatsApp's server code available somewhere that I'm not aware of?
Okay but states, classes and parties are made up of men, and one individual often has limited impact, while groups can have much larger and longer lasting impact. Typically the best and worst of humanity has been achieved through a collective, and not through the individual alone.
Even been assaulted?

After a few times it gets old.
Maybe we should require that retail get 80% or more of their products from shipping locations that are in North America or the country of origin.

Globalization as always seems to cause a lot of major pains for the world. Global Warming, lower wages in the USA, legal sweat shops in other countries, etc...
Well, xCloud and Stadia are successfully doing games on an iPhone remotely using canvas and/or webgl and/or webrtc (I think?). Desktop is much less complicated in comparison.
WA and Signal make international cheap. SMS from USA to ZAF, IRL, CHE or BRB is not cheap.
It will be (hopefully), but it isn't yet. This crate doesn't even suppory S3 at all so far.
Right, and those happen at a pretty regular rate every year. If we suddenly have 50k+ more congestive heart failure cases, or 50k less, we can tell that in the statistics.
California was a paradise in 1970. Today it's much closer to hell. In my opinion.
The French didn't venture too far inland. They built outposts for trade, without any desire to rule beyond the walls of these outposts. Perhaps that's why the colonial legacy they left there is seen more as an inoffensive quirk.
> Is there really a connection there?

The parallel is that Pascal's Wager is an argument from fear. The Pascal in the game introduces his children to the concept of fear in the same way that the real Pascal proposes we should fear the consequences of disbelief in an unknown. Yoko taro then shows us what he believes to be outcome of the philosophy that underpins Pascal's Wager when the children destroy themselves out of fear of events that do not come to pass. They destroy themselves out of that fear of the unknown.
Asking for a non-paywalled link isn’t complaining.
1 Whale is the equivalent of planting thousands of trees. We just need more Whales...

Star Trek IV was prescient. Whales could save the world!
I never understand this reasoning. It's the same kind of thing that people do with Firefox versus Chrome: Mozilla does stupid stuff sometimes, so that makes Chrome okay. Signal does stupid stuff sometimes, so that makes WhatsApp okay.

Never mind that Facebook and Google are awful, user-hostile companies and neither Mozilla nor Signal has done anything even close to as bad.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Why does the alternative need to be immaculate in order for you to drop a bad company?
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Satellites (or rather low earth orbit) should be like a well kept house: "One thing in, two things out". But no, let's just not look at history and learn anything at all from things like pollution etc. and let the richest countries make a mess of everything until they see it's a problem and then they (we) will point fingers at poorer countries when they want to launch satellites en mass too.

Clean up the damn lawn!
Unpopular opinion, but people don't care, especially non-technical persons.

They just want a good UX, nothing more.
Eh, that just sounds like central bank going into retail business, nothing more. They'll upgrade their systems to match that of retail banks to manage retail customer money. I still don't see any actual innovation, just monopolization of lending industry.

I don't understand your example about money self-destruction. What's the actual innovation that will make this possible and why it's not possible now?
>white supremacy

And another term loses it's power due to overuse and being diluted into meaninglessness.
Sure it is. It's a narrowly-tailored hypothesis for the observed phenomena that as I mentioned is easily falsifiable. It's probably wrong, but makes an apparent good faith effort to consider alternatives (calcified mineral deposits on the ground or salt corrosion on rover surfaces). It's not like elaborate fantasies of alien civilizations building a giant monument of a human face.
Not disagreeing but from Bitcoin, ethereum to DogeCoin they are all tied to the whims of non trust worthy persons.

What if satoshi (unlikely but maybe the Fed itself) decides to liquidate its position of at least 1M Bitcoin. Ethereum foundation forks ethereum again to roll back transactions. Or Doge is uncontrollably minted (I don’t think it has a supply cap) or Elon decides to stop pumping it and decides to dump it.

Everything else in between is just a bunch of discord/telegram armies pumping for their own interests. I just that’s great so long as you have the social credit to be on the inside.
You're acting like when you prevent people from coming here, they vanish into thin air, rather than go live somewhere else that's worse for the planet.

For instance, city families use far less water per capita than rural and suburban families, and they produce fewer "capitas".

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-residents-praised...

And compare "water used in California to produce almonds exported to other countries" versus "water used for all SF/LA homes and businesses" below:

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/LA-vs-Exports...

Similarly, when you take people from elsewhere in the country and move them to places like San Francisco, their consumption of fuel and electricity go down, as does their production of garbage.
Yeah, they figured at that early point in the chain's life, having one hacker control so much of all ETH in existence was worth saving it.

It was a hard coded contract change to fix the exploit. No rollbacks though, the funds that were already stolen, stayed stolen. They had to be 'stolen' back, recovered, using the same hack the hacker was using.
If its origins are from a biolab in China, that means the precautions of at least that biolab in China are inadequate.
Here's a list of dams and reservoirs in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in....

You'll note that there was one completed in the 2010s and one in the 2000s. There were 33 completed in the 1920s.

The US produces 30 times as much as it did in 1920, in real terms. It is "economically plausible" for a nation 30 times richer than it used to be to produce some tiny fraction of the infrastructure it used to produce.

Californians might not want to build reservoirs, Californians might be too incompetent to build reservoirs, Californians might prefer blaming a snowpack that melts out slightly earlier to building reservoirs, California might prefer saving snails and slugs to building reservoirs, but California, undeniably, has the money to build reservoirs.
Boto typing stubs are changing this. Prior to that I'd of agreed 100%.
A point of diminishing returns, I meant.
He's not a marketer. He's a software engineer. At Google. They do make outsized salaries.

He's not donating to charity out of guilt from working on ads. We know this because he was giving large amounts to charity well before he started work on ads. His behaviour hasn't changed.

I understand you're interpreting it as, "Really, I'm just doing this (distasteful) job to make money." That isn't how the author meant it. It's more like, "Ultimately, the reason I work at any job is to make money. But here's why I think this job in particular makes the world better."

I'm curious though. If you didn't think he was working for the money, and you also think he feels that ads are bad, then why do you think he chose that job?
Well, it's not necessarily easy to leave. Getting into the US is hard and Canada seems to only be marginally worth it, at least the last time I researched that.
My Anecdata - I moved from London to SF ~4 years ago (working for the same FAANG company before-and-after), and have never even bothered looking at my PTO accrual because a) I wouldn't even spend it fast enough to run it down, and b) my managers have always been very clear that I should take whatever PTO I want whether or not I officially have hours accrued.

Officially, though, I (just found out that I) have 20 discretionary days per year (plus American holidays).
Used by real companies at scale. The primary maintainer of the largest one even works at Amazon, though I don’t know if they use it in a network-facing way there. You can also do what folks do in other languages too, and put nginx out in front, if you prefer.
Ha - Gary Kildall (who missed the opportunity to be Bill Gates) is a host.

Good Atkinson comment that illustrates how powerful of a tool this was for verticals: "A whole new body of people that have creative ideas but aren’t programmers will be able to express their ideas or their expertise..."
Money is definitely digital already, but I think the important aspects of this are the various implications of the central banks adopting modern tech.

Take China's e-yuan:

1) You directly have an account at the central bank and spend from it through an app

2) Central bankers can trivially apply stimulus instantly (no fuss about the $1200 like we had)

3) You can do crazy shit in times of recession like money that expires unless you spend it on goods in order to increase the velocity of money

4) Money laundering would be pretty hard.

5) Being able to easily build fintech products on top of it, instead of depending on dumb solutions like Plaid.

This sort of thing would be gamechanging IMO.
I'm not even Indian and it's shocking that anyone thinks unification around Hindi will happen. Good luck getting Dravidians onboard with cultural imperialism from the north. To my mind the legacy of English colonialism allows north and south India to remain unified because there's a "fair", common third option provided in cultural conflicts between the north and south. That is exactly what the English language is as a national choice.
Unsurprisingly there's some regional variation. Wikipedia says "Central Standard Swedish /ʉː/ is near-close near-front [ʏː]." Note that [y] and [ʏː] are not the same, but very close. Fascinating!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology#Vowels
Microtech MAKORA II D/A OTF Knife 106-11
Figure out a way to breed whales - lots of them... 1 whale = thousands of trees... though the real cause is they help increase phytoplankton... if we could make boats that somehow release the same stuff the "whale pump" does while they travel, perhaps we could raise phytoplankton numbers... or some other mechanism to do the same...
And the end of privacy.
Small correction, put the money directly into the consumers wallets.

Since the wallet itself would also be implemented as a bank account, likely controlled by the central entity they would be able to monitor both it's balance as well as where money is spent and transferred to. This enables the implementing of monetary polices such as "Here is $100 to spend on local restaurants within 30 days. Any unused money will be removed on the 31st day."
I still feel you're missing some key aspects here.

Pure thrust isn't really what is required to win an air-to-air battle. The US found that out with the F-4 in Vietnam (still one of the fastest fighters ever built). Straight line speed is mostly irrelevant today - being hard to see and target is far more important, followed by launch detection, maneuverability and countermeasures (the latter two of which only matter if you can detect a missile launch in time).

Air battles today will be fought well outside line-of-sight - and it's unquestionable the US has more advanced air-to-air missiles at this point in time.

That said, the J-20 might have more thrust, but it's heavier, larger, and has less capable armaments. The Chinese are not known to possess advanced aerial refueling capabilities either, which is why they have to incorporate more fuel capacity and range into their designs.

None of this takes into consideration that F-22's and F-35's do not operate alone in theater. The US also possesses advanced AWACS capabilities, which can spot and designate targets for fighters from hundreds of miles away from the AO.

> I haven't said the F35 is a turkey. Just that the US decided that other matters are more important than thrust and range for the F35. It may very well have been a correct decision.

I think the US is learning an expensive lesson, and will have to expedite it's Gen5+ or Gen6 aircraft programs to compensate for the very expensive and hobbled F-35's that are being produced today. The F-35 program tried to achieve the impossible, and failed. It's not a horrible aircraft, it just isn't a good enough replacement for all the roles it's trying to fill...

Today, the US has unparalleled experience in operating modern warplanes - lessons that have mostly been applied to Gen5 fighters like the F-22 and F-35 - lessons other nations have to borrow or steal to compete. I feel it's very unlikely either the latest Gen5 Russian or Chinese aircraft can really compete toe-to-toe with a wing of F-22's complemented by F-35's and E-3 Sentry's.

As an aside, Wikipedia and other online sources only list US aircraft's unclassified capabilities. True capabilities will far exceed what is publicly released in nearly all cases - meaning the data provided should be considered a low-bound for capabilities.
Companies moving to hybrid remote/office working will allow much more people to work at companies in California without paying the house prices there.
As a resident of California, I would greatly prefer fewer people. Losing population isn’t necessarily something negative in my opinion.
I love that essay, and also this little tidbit from Wikipedia:

> The vocabulary used in Uncleftish Beholding does not completely derive from Anglo-Saxon. Around, from Old French reond (Modern French rond), completely displaced Old English ymbe (modern English umbe (now obsolete), cognate to German um and Latin ambi-) and left no "native" English word for this concept. The text also contains the French-derived words rest, ordinary and sort.
Do you live in California?
Nope. I don't, and I never have any issues with not having it. I communicate with my wife's family through Signal and everyone else through SMS, and my not having WhatsApp has never even drawn a comment.
Motive isn’t evidence. I haven’t seen any serious criticism of data collection methods. Just doubting results based on “stood to gain” is silly unless there’s actual evidence.

In what world would there be a conspiracy to reduce california population by 200k?
OK, we've changed the title to the article's title, which is what the site guidelines ask people to use (except when misleading or baity- but certainly not to make it more misleading or baity).
There were lots of news stories of how it was changing wrt to people here illegally. The supreme court even stopped some of the challenge of it, right? The article doesn't break that part down at least from what I could search in it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/win-trump-sup...
Pure gold. Wow. Thanks. That made my day.
It's not for everyone, but I stand by my assertion that 100,000,000 feel otherwise and would choose to live here if we allowed the housing supply to meet demand.
Here in Brazil there are essential services such as scheduling a doctor's appointment that effectively require Whatsapp.
Ah, nice! And there's the "FPE from cycle walking" that I used. (I can't remember at that point if that technique was suggested to me in IRC.)
This and the HyperCard Bible were my most read books as a kid
Your state’s unfunded pension obligations say otherwise. You’ll want help paying those.
Yes become the abuser instead...much better plan.
Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016)
Exactly this. Java-the-language is so simple that Java-in-practice is disgustingly littered with verbose patterns to accomplish really basic abstraction concepts, annotations that may or may not work at runtime, and runtime reflection with unsafe casting because of type-erased generics.

Java codebases are way scarier than Scala.
There's an app, Silence[1], which encrypts your SMS if your contact uses it as well. It does so over the actual telecom SMS network, and doesn't break non-Silence user messaging either. Been using it for years.

[1]: https://silence.im/

edit:

F-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.smssecure....
> money that expires unless you spend it on goods in order to increase the velocity of money

So, a gift card, but for everything?
I literally said that to a department head once. My job was in jeopardy the next day, even though the policy says that it should be ok that some people never go higher.

More money would be nice. $100k for Philly region COL would be nice.
Fire season is more like hell on earth than paradise, unfortunately.
We should be building Fabs in California, Cars in California, getting the smartest people in the world here, in solid numbers. Perhaps we’re in a global competition and we’ll not be the largest economy soon, perhaps we’re too busy with pronouns to notice.

People pattern-matched that the house prices always went up, assumed it was an axiom, and that drove us into a recession. Gavin Newsom will observe that California always grows and people have been talking of leaving the state for years, they never do - axiom. Basically, physics (cause-effect) stops mattering if you pattern match history.

Biggest threat to California is being taken over by the employee-bureaucracy class - that never has built anything. It is in their nature to pattern match so de effects of actions and treat them as axioms, and they miss the big picture, and they’re consistent as hell in it. And they vote very left.
Also, apparently they include Goolge play services and wont permit an F-Droid maintained version from federating. Correct me if I'm wrong, I saw this on the Signal github re F-Droid packages.

This along with the parent post, are red flags.
It only makes sense for a retail bank to hold onto that money if it doesn't think lending it out beats holding it on a risk adjusted basis.

In other words if banks are sitting on money, they think the risk of not getting it back is worse than the interest they would be getting. Your argument requires them to be wrong about that, which is pretty unlikely given the number of financial crises we've seen caused by a glut of bad debts.
All my friends are on whatsapp. Even when some switched to Signal, others simply declined ("I don't need another chat app").

It's a pandemic. I haven't seen my friends in a year. I want to have the option to talk to them. Due to health risks of my spouse, and due to vaccine delays, I will not see them until autumn.

Blocking Whatsapp may very well amount to cutting off a lot of contacts for me - not that I have many. More social isolation is a high price to pay at this point.

Don't get my wrong though, my soul burns with seething hatred for Whatsapp and Facebook over this. If I'd meet someone working for these companies, I might very well spit in their face. Heck, if any of you work for these companies, shame on you. You are taking advantage of the situation, of people being isolated. And you know it.

But yeah - around these parts, Whatsapp is THE message app everyone uses. And it's sticky. Very much so.
The majority of water problems come not from a few entities consuming massive amounts of water. Why we allow growing almond trees in an arid climate is beyond me.

After that, you have smaller but water intensive businesses.

Being suburban doesn’t mean you waste water. I live in the suburbs and our water use is minimal. I use water saving shower heads, I turn off the water during most of the shower. In fact, the water never runs for more than two minutes. I wash my car extremely rarely. I don’t water a lawn. I only water a couple of small potted plants. I have water saving toilets.
So America's done enough? With our lavish lifestyles, large suburban homes, one or more cars per household, eating out all the time, running the heater or AC half the year, unparalleled rates of consumption?

All of that and yet we are supposed to be comfortable telling people in China one generation removed from levels of poverty Westerners could not even fathom: "no, no cheap electricity for you! You're the ones who need to sacrifice!"
It's because "standard" Markdown and many other formats already support HTML. If these kind of components were vended as standard web components, they could work in existing Markdown files and workflows.

My team is also working on code sample editor and preview components, but as web components for this reason: https://polymerlabs.github.io/playground-elements/
I don't know how widely known this is among the HN crowd, but: Sennheiser did professional audio equipment for many decades before they entered the consumer market. To me, it sounds like they're returning to their core business.
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This shows a very useful function for English as a lingua franca. When it’s almost nobody’s first language (it isn’t mine), it removes the political element of who’s first language gets used
But then what would you use to visit mozilla.org?
They are willing to share the dataset, just tell them what you want to do with it.