skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did fairly well in maths, and I still resonated with this. It wasn't until I was deep into university that I realized that higher level maths were a game of sorts. I enjoyed it to a point, but found myself asking "what's the point?". Calculus was an exception because it really does start with "how do we find an area under a curve" and ties in closely with the physics concepts of finding velocity/acceleration/jerk.

I think bringing interesting problems to students and enabling them to think about those problems naturally before introducing abstract concepts is always the way to go. Teaching inquisitiveness and building confidence that they can solve problems will serve them far better than more multiplication memorization.
Looks like the cloud providers are taking turns in destroying the internet. What could it be this time?

No backup or fail safes here but it seems the one who is guaranteed to go down with anything is Shopify.
This list omits the most important metric for Amazon reviewers: How much are they paid?
No, because Bitcoin doesn't turn back into energy. The energy is just gone.
It also encourages them to invest their money. The choice isn't either spend money on over-consumerism or lose it, the choice is either spend it or invest it so someone else can allocate more resources to what they are doing.
What you say is true. It's also not what I suggested.

With anything political, you can almost always find politicians contorting them for their own benefit. That doesn't mean the underlying concept is bad, only the contortion is bad.
>you only have to assume physics totally different from ours

You don't have to assume anything is true if you don't want to, but if you want to consider whether we're living in a simulation, it's probably worth considering.

>And what would be the point of this simulation that has been running for billions of years?

First, it's billions of years in our time. Second, what's the point of Conway's Game of Life?
High Resolution Tianwen-1 Selfie on Mars
This is awesome, I use evince and okular to open the pdf and could not find the table-of-content on the left side of the pdf readers, which is an essential feature for PDFs, can the PDF re-generated to produce that?
Bespoke messages based on the profile you're reading is always a winning strategy. My response rate went way up when I started doing this. The trick is to make a message that's curated enough to tell the person that you've read their profile while being short enough to not require a lot of effort to read (because their inbox is flooded)
I think the phrase "source code" is basically self- explanatory.
The world needs to toss the FIAT system....
So ... the DIY is subjective. You don't want to screw up and later have your laptop (and house) on fire.
Here's the thing; I'm operating in the framework I was responding to, where rights come from the state and must be exercised to be real.

If all rights come from society and I have no rights outside those society grants, and I am able to take an action not explicitly outlined as one I have the right to take by my society, and society does not punish me for doing this in any way - how do I not have the right to do it in the first place?

I believe that government is granted powers by the people. I do not believe that people are granted powers by the government. That's the fundamental difference. People can live without the government, the government cannot live without the people.

That means that if the government is acting against the interests of the people, the people have the right to reform the government.

If power comes from the government instead, the people have no right of reform save that granted by the government. This means that if the government doesn't want to be reformed, the people have no justification for reforming it.

As to your right to light things on fire, being killed by others etc - you have the right to kill other people, especially when they are trying to kill you. You may be killed in response, that can happen. That's the incentive for making a society, so people don't kill or rob you. You make a government and grant it your proxy to act in your stead - so you don't get to kill people anymore, but society will do it for you.
A little disingenuous of you to call it a religion first and then slyly acknowledge it is an ethno-religious group at the end. And it matters because jewish organizations are the ones leading the charge in practically all censorship going on in western nations currently.
Is it really so difficult to imagine a world where people spent less conspicuously, and invested more prudently?

In a sound currency world, interest rates are set by the relative availability of funds for investment - that is, they are counter-cyclically market-determined: if there is little investment, rates will be low, if the economy is booming, rates will naturally rise.

Secondly, the rate of deflation is determined by the rate of increase in the economy: if the economy is shrinking over time, there is no deflationary incentive to hold - so here again the currency is counter-cyclical, discouraging rapid growth while allowing for measured growth.

Is that sand? Or sanity?
But what's the advantage of hiding file extensions? Windows already asks if you're sure when you try to change a file's extension.
> Again, did Swiss citizens ask for it? It seemed like US politicians asked for it. Why should I raise my prices because you said you are losing customers to me?

Emphasis on US Politicians. I certainly didn’t ask for this.
At some point, don't you think it makes sense to just have oral exams?
Yeah, there is no good solution. But there is something that stinks about all this and ought to be addressed. I believe something like BTC aid incompatible with anything close to a real time market. It should be large block trades only. The supply of this thing is digitally constrained. The owners are unknown. How do we know this think isn’t in a perpetual pump-and-dump cycle? This is what it looks like.

Governments should step in. If the only way to buy it is to commit to holding it for a while or to buy it in large blocks then maybe we wouldn’t get the kind of market we have today. One that is hurting lots of people.
"a reliable price" until the bubble pops?
When I need to copy a slice it's usually a []byte. I'm looking forward to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45038
All of the criticisms seem relevant to me. There is definitely a political bias, legally speaking, on this topic, so that makes sense. Maybe they could have tried to make it clear this isn't exclusively the result of conservative policies, if that's the case, but their criticisms are hardly misleading or irrelevant.
Freenode is IRC – commit to update Freenode policies
> ideally we should be increasing the pay of those jobs.

The pay of which jobs? The ones that require a college degree or not.

> Not because of competition but because not all jobs require a college degree

And are the number and prospects of these jobs increasing or decreasing?

I also find this whole conflation of having a college degree and being an elite silly. The problem seems much less to be that we have too many educated people and seems much more that wealth is concentrated by the small subset of wealthy people who "got here first" and then get the compounding returns.
Consider the physics of the simulator is literally the physics of our current universe. It need not be running on a binary substrate, the computation platform could just be the mass of the universe over time.
I'm a loud snorer, I see the marketing for Sleepbuds says they help sleepers from being disturbed by snoring. Do you know if it effective for snoring?
DHL to Portugal: $137.71

Anyone have any idea why shipping 22 pieces of dead tree is so freaking expensive?
It's a direct reward for energy production, which has always been well rewarded. There is no reason to think PoW mining in any way rewards efficient energy production more so than any other use of energy.
There are other studies on the effect of AZ half doses, because of the "Italian mistake" in GB, which was submitted to the European approval agency, so it became public knowledge. The sample size was over 3000, the effectiveness was over 95%.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1737/.

"When a datacenter catches fire, we just rope it off and rebuild one town over."
Compute power requires money though, no? Whoever has the most capital now controls the BTC blockchain, which happens to be mostly miners in China. It’s a lot easier for me to stake ETH than to buy hundreds of GPUs.

And my reward is linear with how much I stake or put down, whereas with economies of scale in mining the reward is more like quadratic. Seems to me that with PoS the rich get richer linearly, with PoW the rich get richer ~quadratically.

If I spend 0.01% of what the Chinese miners spend on my mining setup, I’m not getting 0.01% of the rewards.
A low inheritance tax can't possibly be worse for building intergenerational wealth than a high one. I'm not sure what your point is.
> Why shouldn’t a country be selfish?

Why shouldn't everyone be selfish? Because other people matter, and because if people work together and cooperate, which includes making some sacrifices, then everyone gets better results in the long run.

> Isn’t that the point of a country: to promote the interests of the citizens of that country?

That's one view (nationalism, if I'm using the term correctly), but certainly not the only one. There are higher purposes than one's personal interests.
I dunno, I save somewhere between $500 and $1000 a month by working remote. Going back to the office is going to suck.
Written over many many years by experts of a field, and the end result is at most somewhat complex, nowhere near the complexity of even the monolith SPA of your favorite website.
To this audience yes. My wife a 38 year old college grad in law school has no clue what source code is and she’s married to a computer programmer.
Leftism in a nutshell: biting the hand that feeds.
Yeah it's a really good point that additional security for the blockchain has low value. Really the total mining reward (txfees + subsidy) should adjust to offer just enough security. We now have the mechanisms in place to do something like that through DAOs, however it seems hopeless to apply that to Bitcoin, they are so resistant towards any change what so ever.

It's wild that it took the bitcoin subsidy less than 2 decades to become far too high proportional to it's externalities.
What if you don't believe 100% of capital gains over a certain acceleration threshold are "earned" by the colloquial definition?
> why not do both, and more

Presumably because they have limited capital and can't solve all problems at once?
Didn't work on my AMD 3700x + 64GB + GTX 1070.
Windows 10 is updated and nvidia drivers too.
Got only a black screen after clicking "play"
:(
Tested both 2.52 and 2.47 versions.
Take their guides with a bit of a grain of salt. Having gone through Apple ACMT training back in 2015, many of the iFixit guides have recommendations or procedures that do not follow official Apple guidelines. In most cases it doesn't matter, but it can come back to bite.

For example there are torque specifications for some of the screws in the trashcan Mac Pro. I doubt getting the torque wrong would cause any issue, and Apple is probably being a bit pedantic. However, iFixit's thermal paste application article specifically recommends spreading thermal paste with your finger[1], which is a TERRIBLE idea and goes directly against Apple repair procedures.

So use common sense when working with iFixit guides, they should not be considered replacements for official Apple repair guides, though they are far better than nothing, which is what Apple provides to the general public :).

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Apply+Thermal+Paste/744#...
Who is saying they are going to do something better? You gave a couple of options, and I pointed out there was an additional option. They are still just options absent a commitment to a plan, and there's no indication anyone has set out any actual plans.
Yes, and this is exactly what Jeff Booth explains in this podcast way better that I ever could:

How Inflation Is Stealing Your Wealth | Jeff Booth | Pomp Podcast #572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuCqFjU9Wi4
We have our moments. But relying on rationality is an assumption that will bite you in the ass every time. Just look at markets, even when there's a clearly superior option, there's been plenty of times the inferior product wins.

Often because that inferior product manages to exploit our irrational selves either intentionally or unintentionally.
Don’t lop HBAs and RAID controllers together. The former is just PCIe to SATA or SCSI or whatever (otherwise it is not just an HBA, but indeed a RAID controller). Such a thing is still useful and perhaps necessary for software RAID if there are insufficient ports on the motherboard.
From the chart:

Moderna evaluated in adults 18-55 (N=15)

AZ evaluated in adults 18-55 (N=41) and 56+ (N=62).

So yeah. Ok.
> that if someone modifies their own medical device and gets hurt because of it that they legally only hurt themselves because they had the right to make that choice.

Well, while this applies to medical devices, worth noting this doesn't apply to cars, for which safety inspections have existed in many states for quite a while.
Bought it now! I really likes Steven Levy's "Artificial Life" as a light introduction to this world. Sadly, the book isn't too far out of date despite being 30 years old now.
cloudflare gonna flare
I had a similar issue - I grew up listening to a radio or music or movie audio when I went to sleep. When I started sharing a bed with my wife, I switched to complete silence and had horrific insomnia for years - waking up at 1 or 2, and not being able to go back to sleep.

Now I use bluetooth earbuds and put on D&D podcasts, and I'm out in 15 minutes. If I happen to wake in the middle of the night, the podcasts put me to sleep again quickly. My biggest issue now is just not being able to remember where I fell asleep the night before.
Geothermal power in El Salvador represents 25% of the country's total electricity production.
As a cynical take: Often the real purpose of a war room is not to actually solve the problem, but to provide visible evidence of Serious Business™ Happening, even if it's all just performative. A product owner calls a war room to visually show higher-ups that things are happening and people are nebulously doing things and looking very serious while doing them. It's performance art, but it is re-assuring to the people paying the salaries.
Now a days a lot of games you can’t even do that. They run the games in a vm so crackers and hackers can’t mod it.
Very cool product, and major kudos to your transparency around hiring process [0]. Some folks will say that it's "fuzzy" and "hard to parse" but I think it's outstandingly humanized and friendly. My only critique is the values, which are strangely cryptic and a little "cliquey-sounding", but the clarity and openness of the rest is great.

[0]: https://www.notion.so/Careers-8b6817689d0e4b82b16fe8c9d31321...

edited to replace the word "tribal" which was inappropriate in this context
> I think if we approach the problem with that in mind we might win more people over than telling them "listen to experts", since for the past year and a half experts have been wrong almost as often as they have been right.

I was educated to fear more those who are never wrong.
> They were a lot like magazine ads, the website owners would run ads in the same broad interest category as their site.

Funnily enough, this is targeted advertising. Before the current shitshow, ads were targeted, then came tracking and they became targeted in a different manner. Now we block trackers and people decry "but how will they target ads?!". Well, the same way they did before.
"Efficient" energy production in practice today is energy production that maximizes externalized costs.
I think the type of person who tends to browse HN has a problem with latching on to phrases or ideas that "sound interesting" and then never doing any further research. I think it's where a lot of the rhetoric around 'elite overproduction' comes from.

> Colleges are really just real estate speculation businesses that also incidentally give you a degree in dentistry or whatever.

Why would that incentivize colleges to enroll more students? How does college as real estate speculation business work?
OBS is a great tool for customizing your video feed and the virtual camera works great on Slingshow. But, as the platform we focus on adding custom, interactive elements to the stage like a nametag with clickable links and calls to action that can open a form or website inline. Beyond that, the event image, logo, and brand color theme the entire event including the stage.
The Art of Problem Solving series has this. The Basics, Vol. 1, and Beyond, Vol. 2, are a lot like that. They aren't course material. AOPS has that with Prealgebra thru Calculus. These are distillations for contest math with explanations and problems.
Caveat: I'm not medically or pharmaceutically qualified

> What could be benefited by not approving it with all the pertinent disclaimers about effectiveness?

It prevents the drug being prescribed (at great cost!) to people who are desperate to try anything.

What would be the benefit of approving such a drug? Who is missing out by not being able to take a drug not known to be effective? I would consider it malpractice to be prescribed something not demonstrated to have a measurable positive effect. The human body is vastly complicated - we shouldn't mess with it without good reason.

> And to turn it around, what harm would it cause society if it’s not approved due to inconclusive evidence and helps only some people? (Assuming no hard side effects)

If it's not approved, then I would argue no harm comes to society. What harm is done if a drug that wasn't available before, still is not? Nothing has changed.

> Keep in mind, there are already ineffective treatments that sell hope and don’t help.

Absolutely, and they are, in my opinion, a work of evil. But the crucial difference is that such treatments (I'm assuming you're referring to quackery such as homeopathy) contain no active ingredient. That's why they aren't regulated. They can't cause medical harm because they don't do anything.
I wrote a couple of comments yesterday exploring the environmental questions related to Bitcoin in depth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450417

The short summary is that the environmental effect of Bitcoin mining is very small at present (12 GW consumption out of the world's 18 TW), but probably positive, because it slightly accelerates the renewable transition. But this could change.
For sure, but then you have to understand and research what you're investing in. We also end up with sky high (in my opinion unjustified) P/E ratios just because money doesn't have elsewhere to go and it creates all kinds of wild inaccurate pricing imo.

In this world where the currency doesn't depreciate like ~95% over a 100 year period, only investments which make sense will get money thrown at them.
Unplanned? Probably. But maybe it's not as a dire as you think? Azure Active Directory (auth as a service) went down for a while, globally, and life went on. Same with GCP and occasionally AWS[1]

I'm not saying there's no downside, I'm asking against the downside of engineering cost. And that itself carries risk of failure when you go live. It's not guaranteed.

[1] AWS is so ubiquitous though, that half the internet would be affected so it makes it less individually noticeable.
Weebly blocked Ukraine indiscriminately (2018)
Well, his final example suggests otherwise, but I kind of suspect that there must be something else going on there (that I'm too lazy to try to track down). Still, while fixing most floating point errors seem like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic, if there's one algorithm that's 99.999% accurate and another that's only 99.9% accurate, might as well use and be aware of the more accurate one.
Yeah, noticed my Shopify site was down and it's obnoxious it's the one thing I can't put somewhere else.
But ... it's entire existence? Like without the Oligarchs etc parking their money there it would wither away and cease to exist? I mean I am all for London having a diminished status within the UK, but that's taking a widely accepted fact (that a lot of laundered money goes through London) and blowing it way out of proportion.
Why not use jQuery?
It still baffles me how these laws have such broad support but ISPs and telcos are no where in the discussion.
> What about rising from rags to riches? In the US, 8% of children raised in the bottom 20% of the income distribution are able to climb to the top 20% as adults, while the figure in Denmark is nearly double at 15%.

Whenever these comparisons are done, they always use percentiles instead of raw numbers.

So let's look at raw numbers in USD.

In Denmark using Statbank
https://www.statbank.dk/statbank5a/selectvarval/define.asp?P...

You can calculate the 20th and 80th percentiles:

In Denmark(2019):

The 80th percentile is: 27,893.10 USD

The 20th percentile is: 59,261.18 USD

You can calculate the USA numbers from https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-perce...

In the USA(2019):

The 80th percentile is: 18,324.02 USD

The 20th percentile is: 81,368.00 USD

The US has quite a bit more gap between the 80th percentile and 20th percentile.

I am not sure the issue is mobility as much as the baseline income equality. I think it should be expected to be easier to go from $28K to $59K than from $18K to $81K. I have not seen any analysis on how easy it would be to go from $28K in the US to $59K or from $18K in Denmark to $81K.
> Or maybe the massive buildup of missiles and warplanes around China could be a clues?

If there is such a buildup (evidence?), it seems like a natural response to check China’s increasing overtures towards Taiwan, a key strategic ally.

There is no evidence that anyone wants a kinetic war for its own sake or that any development in that direction is ‘just’ a product of the defense industry.

China is involved in geopolitics and just as much as the US.

What’s curious here is not the invocation of well known bad acts by the US.

It’s the presentation of China as a benign victim who has no geopolitical ambitions, oppressive behavior, or political repression.
I talked about overall tax burden (what really matters) not income tax. And my core point was, I repeat, the central bank wants control and the least thing in his mind is investors protection.

But on the side of taxes here is the Dutch position...
"Which countries tax their citizens the most?"
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/income-tax-around-the...

Factor the famous Dutch fuel and road taxes ( not included), factor you do not have, as I stated, the levels of benefits compared to a Sweden or Denmark and tell me if its a great position to be in...
I doubt that.. aws is down sometimes too. Card payments are sometimes down, even 112(911) is sometimes down.

I hope you have everything redundant, including the CEO
It's a perfect example of incentives being wrong. If you're a huge corporation with land, property, and a tradition of relying on bequests and bloated fees, the reward function will optimise for more land, more property, more bequests, and more fees.

The nominal purpose - education - becomes more of a marketing exercise than the primary concern.
<<too many help vampires>>

This is my first time ever to see this description. It is perfect. I am currently sitting next to someone who is exactly this! I cannot figure out if this person is lacking skills or just plain lazy... but they sure take up a lot of my time compared to their net output!