skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not op, but I remember what got me into sciences was the “kids soviet encyclopedia”. Specifically the physics section.

We had “big soviet encyclopedia” and “kid” one on our bookshelf (A point of pride for my grandparents). Nobody told me that by “kids” the authors meant “teens”, so around 13yo I devoured those books whole.

Taught me structure of the atom, chemistry and lots of fascinating physical phenomena. And made most of the physics material easy to grasp up till last HS grade.

It had little maths, concentrating more on the understanding rather than the rigorous descriptions, which made the maths to describe them quite obvious, when I had to learn them in school.

Not sure if the current state of wikipedia is better or worse for that purpose- it was much better structured and paced for sure.
Don't worry. I'm sure the police will believe you and help you out. /s

What you've described is pretty much the scariest thing I can imagine as far as computer crime goes.
> Or, in other words, the performance difference comes somewhere else than the choice of programming language.

We're comparing the code generated by a compiler or VM/JIT of a specific programming language, not the programming language itself. I'm amazed that this is even up for discussion in the article. It is clear that even with the same language there can be differences in implementation. Here is e.g. a measurement series I did to compare different Smalltalk implementations (LjSOM is mine): http://software.rochus-keller.ch/are-we-fast-yet_crystal_lua.... Smalltalk is a tough nut to crack because nearly all statements are closures; the Open Smalltalk VM team invested two decades to achieve a decent performance, but it's still quite behind e.g. V8 or a statically typed AOT compiled language. The Are-we-fast-yet suite (https://stefan-marr.de/papers/dls-marr-et-al-cross-language-...) gives more credible results than CLBG (referenced in the article) from my point of view because of the stricter rules the implementations have to adhere to (in favour of fair comparisons) and the larger benchmark apps. In return, the implementation gives significantly more work, but it is doable and worth it; here is one of my implementations that helped me significantly improve the compiler (still in progress): https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/tree/master/testcase... this also demonstrates that - given the same platform (LuaJIT bytecode) - Oberon+ was implemented with much less effort and a much more performant result than Smalltalk. And the comparison is "most likely not wrong".
Also, Eragon.
In the other hand if you see the time investment as a hobby, then the cost of your time is negative.
Same. I usually open our company's MatterMost in the first tab when I start (the only one I leave open all day), and will clear out anything else if I'm done with some task that required them.

If I want to read something later I'll find it with DuckDuckGo or just the browser history. If I use it often the address bar will prioritize it so even just the first letter of the URL will show it at the top of the list. For sites that I search frequently I use DuckDuckGo's bangs directly in the address bar: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.
Apple isn't trustworthy.

I bet this stance changes in under five years.
Why could an airship not be made using a vacuum instead of a lifting gas?

A quick google reveals that someone has thought of this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship and it seems like it might not be possible with currently available materials.

Would it be possible to reduce the density of helium for the same pressure by electrostatically charging it to make the molecules repel, effectively turning the airship into a giant capacitor with alternating +ve and -ve sections?
Not an individual book, but the entire Revelation Space series is one of my favorite SF piece ever.
I don't think market rate means what you think it means.

The way for this to balance is for good people to get remote jobs to pay them enough to stay. The difficulty is that more good people are now available via remote, to press down on salaries.
You are right, although it is only another 250 on top of an existing 8,750.
and electricity and water and water cooler breaks
> The whitepapers provided by Apple do not say what the human reviews consists of.

At minimum what we know is that each flagged image generates a "safety voucher" which consists of metadata, plus a low-resolution greyscale version of the image. The human review process involves viewing the metadata and thumbnail content enclosed in each safety voucher which cumulatively caused that account to be flagged.
It's a weird article. I think this idea of 'Russian math' is very nebulous, and is probably used as marketing tool nowadays by some schools abroad. I have graduated from one of the top physics/maths high schools in Russia, and yes we had great math education there, but that was an outlier. Outside a handful of schools the math education is pretty dismal.
And even in the good math schools there are different ways of teaching maths. I.e. there is a famous system of 'sheets' where the actual teaching of formal theory is very limited, while most of learning is done by solving problems (given to you on a sheet) and then presenting solutions to the teacher. But it wasn't used in our school for example.

What definitely exists in Russia (or at least some big cities) is a system of free after-school classes, where you can go and learn how to solve olympiad-type math problems and become more interested in maths. That is definitely extremely useful to identify a few people who are talented in maths.
Or pulsesms if one wants a zero config solution, albeit proprietary:

https://home.pulsesms.app/overview/
Why was digitizing the collection not mentioned at all?

It’s a million items. That’s not that many to scan in and make available, right?

Why not just require any circulating pictures be scanned first?
but my cost of living is now higher when Im using more electricity and water at home, and i had to refurbish my room for home office.
This notion that “American” math and sciences lag behind the world is one of the greatest lies ever told in my lifetime. And for the record, there is no “Russian” math or “Chinese” math. Mathematics is mathematics. Where the US approach differs is that they are not requiring high level of math on general public. However, if you are gifted and/or motivated, you have access to unparalleled resources.
One thing I've never been quite clear on:

> If it weren’t for Einstein’s relativity, you might think that, with each second that passes by, you’d simply increase your speed by another 9.8 m/s. If you started off at rest, it would only take you a little less than a year — about 354 days — to reach the speed of light: 299,792,458 m/s. Of course, that’s a physical impossibility, as no massive object can ever reach, much less exceed, the speed of light.

> The way this would play out, in practice, is that your speed would increase by 9.8 m/s with each second that goes by, at least, initially.

From the point of view of an external observer, this seems clear enough: the ship's acceleration would reduce, at first gradually, then ever more sharply as its velocity approached c.

But what about from the point of view of the ship's crew? Would they also measure a drop in acceleration -- e.g., would they weigh less?

Or would it be that they would measure the same acceleration, but the final picosecond (according to their clock), which would without relativity push their velocity to and past c, instead stretches out infinitely, thanks to ever-increasing time dilatation?
person can't reasonably compose and send SMS at a rate of more than 3 or 4 per minute.

People at least used to use SMS as essentially a chat protocol, with each message often being only 1 or 2 words. 10+ messages pr minutes could easily be reached if you where having a conversation with someone.
Right - a cleaner brings massive value (no one will work in an insanitary environment, so they in a sense underpin all work) but seeing as the labour pool is large, cleaners don't get paid a lot of money.
Don't forget, to the CEO and their cronies you are all just peons. If they could pay you nothing at all they would absolutely do so.
Upstash is hiring remote engineers
To be fair, SWATing kills people. Death is generally considered a non trivial and also life wrecking event.
I see, still seems like a good deal to me - cutting 2 hours for 10% that is. Depends on how much you value your free time I guess.
I was hoping there would be discussion of this point higher up in the thread, because I had essentially the same reaction as you while reading this passage. I'm no expert of machine learning, NLP, or linguistics, but this struck me as a pretty obvious flaw in the author's argument.
That is based on the pretty bold assumption that SV salaries are the actual "market rate" while it is much more likely that the true market rate is much lower and SV salaries are inflated.

There is enough talent outside of SV that is willing to work for much lower salaries. Actually there is orders of magnitude more talent of similar quality/intelligence available globally.
don't forget the coffee ... lots of coffee.
Mentioned it before, but I started with ClassPass (on Android) right before the pandemic started. Tried a few gyms and workouts, found some I enjoy, and now sticking to a routine of five HIIT / spinning workouts per week, albeit as direct gym memberships. I'd say I'm the fittest I've ever been, and improving.
Man, this counter-question is surprisingly good at exposing the dogmatic "all disparities are caused by *isms" thinking in people. Bookmarked!
JSX means you're actually programmatically generating your UI, rather than just injecting some stuff into a template and/or worse, bolting on logic by abusing the templating language. My mental model when using JSX is pretty much the opposite of that of the PHP 4 days of yore.
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This.

Combined with the unpatched remote-root-via-phone-number disclosed in the Pegasus leak this boils down to a single-click "destroy this person's life" tool.
It's not just benchmark tasks, but I think perceptions of progress get skewed because we're in an uncanny period where NLP is good enough for many industrial applications but unsatisfying under detailed scrutiny.

- Online translation? Not for a literary piece, but it will still let your e-commerce site get the gist of a customer complaint.

- Authored text? Not good enough for direct consumption, but pass it through one intern and you get a much faster rate of e.g. satisfactory social media responses.

- Frustrating phone or bot interface? Average customer spends 10% more time, but the company saves 50% of its costs.

Most of these applications transfer some burden downstream, but not all of it... so it is having big impact on the information supply chain. I don't expect those applications too be exciting to many people here, and especially to AGI acolytes, but lots of technologies have gone through this maturity curve: (1) solve toy problems, (2) solve lame but valuable problems, (3) do interesting "real" things.

And in a few places, NLP is moving on to (3). Tools like Grammarly are actually a better experience than most human editing loops. I would also put NLP-backed search in this category -- anyone who Googles is having a much better experience because of modern NLP, without even needing to be aware of it.
> On 17 January 2021, SIGMET 3, issued by LCLK MWO, contained forecast of occasional severe turbulence between FL260 and FL390. The SIGMET message was received by WSI Fusion interface. However, the text in the message was formatted as “BTN FL260 AND FL390” which was not a recognized format to the WSI Fusion. Consequently, the WSI Fusion could not compile the message and stopped analyzing the SIGMET information at the characters “FL260” because the free text ‘AND’ was not compatible with the software programming language.
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Or massages, child care, game rooms, or any of the other ridiculous perks. The company could start rolling those back if enough people wfh.
It's weird how directly the incentive is to increase your carbon footprint.

They'll essentially pay you more for contributing to congestion and pollution.
How well does this work as a daily driver? I heavily rely on my smartphone.
Yes, most ordinary service contracts are "unlimited" for personal use.

A "person" can't reasonably compose and send more than 3 or 4 messages per minute on average. Send "too many" as defined by the carrier and you will likely be cut off.
Well, 'preferred' as in 'different from all the others in a way even aliens would recognise' (ie in accordance with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle ).
It's not just marketing. As I understand it, purporting to provide a public good can help in antitrust negotiations.
You could return to the office.
I'm guessing you could at least use them to:

- Maneuver, like a sailboat.

- Decelerate. Shut off your thrust and dump the light-absorbing covers to reveal mirrors, for 2x the deceleration. Photobraking?
We're talking about employees moving to cheaper areas. I'm pretty sure the housing costs (mortgage or rent) largely offsets the additional costs.

I still think Google shouldn't do that, it's cheap to do that and they don't have to. However even with a 10% pay cut, employees moving from expensive areas such as Silicon Valley or the Seattle area to a cheaper one like some city in Oregon, the standard of living still goes up.
It might be helpful to compare your comment to the comment by pnut[1].

I think the two of you have similar experiences, but a very different reaction to this article.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127075
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AWS free credits are great - until you run out of them. This can force startups to go out of business, or at least to rebuild with a different cloud provider.

At the same time there are lots of startups who never use all of their AWS credits. Why not share?

CreditHero deploys your stack into the AWS account of another participating startup with low usage. You effectively get extra credits, and they get more usage that allows them to claim more credits.
Now in the USA, the accelerated math classes in high school are banned, because they are racist.
Well, the 'point' is traveling faster than the speed of light.

You are quite right that no matter nor energy nor information is traveling faster than light here.
Given how many new ways there are to divide the eligible universe of workers (remote/office/mask/vax/woke), all while the sector is still expanding, I'm really excited to see the comp packages skyrocket, for those willing to optimize!

The pay is starting to get interesting!
AFAIK sugar in Europe is mostly refined beet sugar, while refined ir brown cane sugar costs much more.
A human at Apple likely doesn't get access to anything. I assume it would be part of the police group under strict restrictions checking these.
I remember WhatsApp used to save each received image to the iCloud Photo Album. I remember one day going to my album and seeing several memes and pics I had received but never saved.

Having 3rd party apps that have access to the photo album being able to do that makes it a bit risky to have iCloud.
Honestly I'd rather get shot dead by a SWAT team than implicated for something as atrocious as what this tool is looking for. I imagine many people with a family would feel the same way.

It's an abomination that will destroy innocent people. The engineers behind this no doubt think it's fool-proof because they believe they're leagues smarter than any of those pesky naysayers ("hey, we're Apple").

If we've learned anything about Apple this year (as if we needed the reminder) is that their software is nowhere close to as flawless as they seem to think it is.
Gitlab implements this compensation model openly(to the point where there is a calculator for it!) - I don't remember how well it was received when it was first announced, but looks like Google is applying a similar idea.
It's right they don't penetrate. However, the lungs is one place they don't need to penetrate, they get direct access to some very valuable (to us) cells in our bodies, which are especially vulnerable to cancer, and do grave damage to them. From 10 to 1000 times more damage than equivalent energy gamma or beta radiation, according to Wikipedia. Radon as a health problem isn't some crank thing.
Very thin, very expensive, very low atomic mass number beryllium windows.
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Which cloud provider doesn’t do this and would be unable to do this at any point in the future?
One of the best resources out there to learn about API hacking has to be OWASP Juice Shop https://owasp.org/www-project-juice-shop/

We ran it as an exercise at work to learn about security vulnerabilities, and it was great fun and highly educational. Really recommend it.
None of the systems current or proposed scan local files. They all work on cloud storage. You could not use icloud and none of this change would affect you. Also I don't believe anything in icloud is encrypted so they could have scanned it at any time.
Aka. a Schelling point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_point_(game_theory)
To stop jumping you need to explicitly size yet-to-load sections. Without JS this means giving images explicit sizing, with JS this means any section can be dynamically loaded and, therefore, jump. So good design takes into account dynamic loading and places size bounds accordingly.

Reactive libraries/frameworks don't explicitly make this worse or better, except their presence implies a high chance of dynamic loading and, therefore, more opportunity for bad design. In addition most component libraries fail to communicate /who/ needs to size a component and if it is ever dynamic. It really doesn't help that most 'official' examples fail to resolve these issues.
Everybody was so sure that working from home in a low cost of living region with SF salaries was going to make them rich. The few voices who warned that it also meant a bigger pool of potential employees with lower salary demands were ignored.

And so the cycle continues.
Even if we assume that this is a big problem, identifying it is the easy part, the harder part is coming up with a solution.

If you just think about this specific issue, then it seems obvious that the solution should be to change the syntax to accommodate what other C-like languages are doing, but if you look at the language as a whole will see all the other problems that get introduced, making this change less straight forward than it might seem initially.

My recommendation to the people that want to see this changed is to do the work to understand enough about Zig to be able to produce a proposal and see how that goes. There even are ~regular meetings where a guest can participate to present a proposal to the language design committee.

That said, here's my take (just to clarify, I'm not part of the language design committee): I think it's fine as is and the solution is to just use blocks the right way.

In other comments people showed the example of encapsulating a while loop in a block, but that's just an artificial example that I agree doesn't seem too convincing. The reality is that leaking a variable is not terribly bad per se, it only becomes bad when a function has a lot of things going on and also maybe multiple loops, like you mentioned here:

> Exposing 100 variables to a larger scope than they need to be sounds like a source of bugs to me.

My argument at this point is that if you have a function with multiple while loops and enough things going on that leaking a variable would be a problem, then you should have blocks in place already, which in other words means that it's not the while loop that needs to be artificially wrapped in a block to overcome a language limitation, but rather that the loop + its surrounding context should be wrapped in a very natural block regardless.

Of course having the ability to use a while loop to restrict the lifetime of its index would be better, but what I mentioned just now about wrapping each context makes me think that it's not that bad of a problem and, on the other hand, the design problem I mentioned in the beginning makes me think, given what I know currently, that this might very well be a sweetspot despite the "common sense" complaints that people have.
Yea its quite expensive to live here so he will probably get a pay increase.
The data is not sent to a "police group", it is sent to NCMEC.

From Apple's FAQ:

Will CSAM detection in iCloud Photos falsely flag innocent people to law enforcement?

No. The system is designed to be very accurate, and the likelihood that the system would incorrectly flag any given account is less than one in one trillion per year. In addition, any time an account is flagged by the system, Apple conducts human review before making a report to NCMEC. As a result, system errors or attacks will not result in innocent people being reported to NCMEC.
There'll always be people at office, so I don't think so.
(Unsounded is not the best fantasy story nor the best fantasy story told in graphical medium, but it is one the best fantasy webcomics around.

But yeah, magic as a secret language (or version where knowledge of the "true names" of things grants power) is old as anything. LeGuin's series was one the most popular studies of the idea, but it crops up in many mythologies. TvTropes has an non-exhaustive list of works that use the idea:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LanguageOfMagic

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueNam...
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5% sounds ok. If they reached out to you. Then maybe you can negotiate it down some.

There are private equity markets. You might be able to talk to a broker at a company that handles private equity (JPM?) and explain what you want to do. I would think their cut would be lower than 5%, but I have no idea.
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Because employees in the office are more productive.
You're pretty lucky. Years of forced kumon led me away from math.
The calculator is no longer public.
I prefer a different Rawles, James Wesley Rawles to be exact.
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As I understand, the crew would not notice any difference, since time is slowed in their frame of reference relative to that of an observer.
Backup is a good point:

- Apple: “Backup your phone to iCloud, it will be safe there.”

- 5 minutes later: “We’ve wiped your account because of a photos of (porn actor here) which is not CP but technically minor at the time she filmed.”

- “Also we’ve wiped your iPhone because we couldn’t knowingly let you keep that. Good luck contacting your parents, we’ve deleted your contacts. Good luck! PS: We’ve reported you to the police.”

- Also you can’t connect to your iMac now.
> It has nothing to do with what the model is being used for.

I may be misunderstanding this passage of the article, but I thought the author was claiming that machine learning (specifically training) was equivalent to compression, while language understanding is equivalent to decompression. Therefore, they can't be the same thing. Why does language understand have to be analogous to training an ML model rather than using an ML model for inference?
10+ messages per minute might be reasonable in a conversation with a single individual/phone number. The same with all different numbers may not.

The point is that the actual definition for "personal" use may vary by carrier but be aware there is one. If you are sending "too many" messages to "too many" different numbers, you are likely to be cut off.