skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An aside: his UC Riverside page is full of interesting stuff: https://math.ucr.edu/home//baez/README.html
Where? I've been following this field for almost 30 years now, and I have yet to find a single publication where the produced result is useful in any way.

Why do we think it is more valid than Alchemy?
I wouldn't want to be Norway in a year with unusually little rain without being part of a bigger market.
> Of course, the bacteria are not harmful to humans or the environment, as seen in the chemical and microbiological tests that were conducted.

I have no idea why that would get an “Of course,”. But otherwise, ok, great, if this scales and makes it outside the lab. Which is a big if considering the details of how you starve the bacteria into eating iron quickly aren’t explained for a scale operation.
I don't get it. Is this a joke? It reads like Time Cube.
I actually find the forced structure of most non-math journals to be pretty terrible for readability. Why are results and methods forced to be separate? It means you have to play the 'connect the dots' game of figuring out which parts of the methods refer to which part of the results. This is obvious to the writer but incredibly challenging in some circumstances for a less-informed reader. Math papers do not have such forced separation and have clearly numbered claims and proofs.

An example is a paper with several mouse experiments. In results it'll often have a single section saying that mice were raised such and such under conditions A or B. They were treated with X or Y and samples were collected after certain times. But was Y treated on A or B mice? From results its clear that X was done on both but no mention for Y. I guess A is more the default and they'd have specified B if that were the case, so probably A.
I think you'd be surprised if you gathered data on amount of cursing which goes on in colleges when students have to face math vs. English or history

Also cortisol levels spike before a math exam compared to again English or history.

Notoriously math is the most hated subject/field. There is no point trying to hide it.

Unless one is a masochist, then it's desirable to be popular, and although the field cannot and should not be watered down for the sake of ease of access , I think there is lots of room before reaching that point, but nobody is interested in making such effort
Who decides what is median living conditions and how is that decided?
>> If you feel like you have to be defensive (per other comments here, it sounds like this isn't the first time), you shouldn't be responding.
> Huh?

Did a poor job of mixing pronouns. By "you", I was referring to the CEO, not you the HN commenter.
I linked to a PDF, not the whole site. Let's focus on the information in that document. Thanks.
It runs very performant for me. I use it daily at work.
If it’s bad enough, why not release a v2 of the library?
Are you suggesting the US government would buy-out Bitcoin?

I can’t see that happening, by any stretch of the imagination…
Chevron defense is separate and distinct from Auer defense. The Chevron defense applies to Congressional legislation, Auer is applied to an agency's own vague regulations. I have no issue with restricting the Auer defense. If an agency issues vague regulations, then that's their own fault. You're correct that they're both being attacked, but the underlying issue won't go away; Congress can't/won't dictate every detail of legislation especially when it comes to general/vague legislation. They have neither the inclination nor domain knowledge to do so.
Social media have become Bradbury’s parlour walls.
Another article premised on “sound money” and the money supply theory of inflation that understands neither.
Because capital is more necessary than many would like to admit. It's why a lot of the more common worker co-ops were essentially gifts to employees from the original founder. Bob's red mill, Publix, etc...
I’ve only ever seen powersave and performance being supported, on a wide range of laptops. With powersave being the default.

Powersave is noticeably slower on heavy workloads, and performance drains the battery on idle. So you have to keep toggling manually depending on your workload. Gonna try out this tool and hope it works.

Sad it can’t be built into the default governor. It’s not exactly easy to find these settings. There must be a lot of people out there with fancy hardware which they are unaware they are not utilizing to their full potential.
Note that iCloud Drive on the Mac is a bit random about when it decides it wants to sync files. I ended up abandoning that setup after too many times of being somewhere and finding my laptop never pushed up the latest version of a file.
That's the correct interpretation, should the preprints survive peer review and further research support the early indications.
It is far more likely for the government to step up investigations into tax evasion and money laundering. They will have the opportunity to take civil forfeiture in a whole new direction. Instead of a ban, it will be far more profitable for them to figure out how to get their slice of the pie.
https://caltechletters.org/viewpoints/feynman-harassment-sci...

https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-fey...
> So the problem isn't capitalism, it is corrupt democracy.

Keep going down the rabbit hole and the problem is corrupt humans. Transparency to enable everyone to keep everyone else in check is the only solution I can see.
It's pretty obvious at this point that bitcoin is digital gold. It's a precursor to something that is a real currency and the real currency probably can't exist without digital gold existing first.
Sort of meta, but why does plopdown.video require JavaScript? Without JavaScript enabled it renders as a blank page. The actual post is just text and images. Why put that behind a JavaScript wall? Doing so excludes all non-JavaScript-supporting browsers from viewing the site. That's also a type of open web failure, another example of the type of problem the article does a good job of dissecting.
There's a bit of a backlash again shutting down right now. Fingers crossed Germany doesn't get what it wants for the EU for a change, and that pans out.

(Editted to make clear I meant EU wide, not within Germany)
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031...
Rather than working backwards from "666", isn't it more direct to observe that Man was created on the 6th day of Creation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day
I'm talking about the Adoptium (née AdoptOpenJDK) builds, which are made by IBM. IBM aren't involved much with OpenJDK, but they can still run `make` on server farms. Although Eclipse OpenJ9 is yet another IBM project.
I'll just let your irrational, absolutist comment serve as the cliff's notes; thanks.
For example in Typescript, you can specify whether a parameter is allowed to be null in the signature of a function. If you do the compiler will make sure that you don't accidentally pass a null value to that function.

function foo(x: number) {
return x + 1;
}

let y = null;
foo(y); // compiler will flag this
except that mathematicians like to use shortcuts notation everywhere, shortcuts that only them understand... For example P(A|B,C) ?= P(A|B;C).

Moreover, mathematician seems driven by a frugal principle. They try to condense their though in the smallest number of symbols. To me it's like writing a Perl program with the shortest amount of text. Of course, the result is right, but it's super hard to understand.
If you don't want to be kind to others then that's on you
> By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation...the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to...inflation

This is a pretty simplistic view as for most of the last few decades Europe and Japan has been expanding the money supply without causing any deflation - and still caught in a deflationary spiral.

But the question of money supply should be flexible - it has to be. Eg if US population expands and the economy expands every year you need more money every year. It was a problem with the gold standard - you needed to get more gold in order for your economy to expand.
I respectfully disagree with your disapproval of my comment here, I agree that my opinion is quite strong but I don't think it is offensive.

Given that Quantum Computing has yet to deliver on its promise after decades of work and huge investment, I think it is safe to compare the field to other fringe science that once occupied some of the best minds on the planet (like Newton and his obsession with Alchemy).
Same as we always do: planned disconnection and blackouts to manage demand.
I get where you are coming from but to me this wouldn't make sense given that they work there in the first place. Same goes for the network team serving the content etc. You start working there, it would be unprofessional to refuse to do this. Quit (or never start working there) if it makes you feel uncomfy.
Idea: a simple service that takes a URL and discovers stuff like this and spits out optimizations.
Fair, fair. My comment was pretty tongue in cheek anyway.

I was going to suggest to the GP that they take a screenshot, and then process it later on, when they do their weekly review or something. If the URL isn't fully captured in the screenshot (because smartphones are woeful pieces of dogshit remember), then they could search for the article. Adding that extra friction is a Good Thing in my opinion, because it forces you to consider whether accumulating all that extra burdensome information is worth the friction. But your solution is smoother :)
I used the 2nd edition of this textbook in my undergraduate studies extensively (linguistics). Coming from a non-technical background and starting to take technical classes, certain chapters were wonderful ways for me to bridge that gap. Specifically the second chapter on text normalisation helped me apply things I’d learned in 100 and 200 level classes and ultimately set me on the path to becoming an engineer. And I still use that text processing knowledge a lot in my day to day work.

I’m forever grateful to the authors for making these drafts freely accessible (there weren’t many copies of the second edition in my university library!)
Jurafsky’s introduction to regular expressions was the one that made it click for me. Both in terms of use case and syntax.
null/nil can only occur in scoped use cases (Option<Foo>, Foo | null, Foo?) and so the compiler can warn you when something could be missing and you don't handle it without being incredibly noisy.
I'm a grad student and I don't know what you are talking about. The local library software is not better than Google Scholar, in fact it's only good when you know what you want to find already and there is a paper version in some of the libraries of the university (top-3 of the country). Otherwise GS and Sci-hub are doing the job very fine.
Sure. You're linking to a document showing work performed by someone with a clear anti-vax agenda: https://i-do-not-consent.netlify.app

Again, not saying she's wrong, but we should be transparent about her agenda and biases, so that people can take them into account when interpreting the data she generated.

--- EDIT:

And while we're at it, your account was registered 8 days ago, and in that time you've submitted twice on this topic: this post, and also a direct submission of Jessica Rose's slides. Any personal agenda or relationship you'd like to share?
On my Alienware AMD laptop, lm- sensors detects nothing. Do you think your program would help me on it? It doesn't support Linux but I'm running Ubuntu on it anyway. I have issues with screen brightness, fan speed, and battery life. Otherwise works great.
For different values of "not working", there was Moonlight: https://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/moonlight/
> it won’t succeed as a currency

Whilst I can appreciate why people think it might not succeed as a mainstream consumer currency — do you recognise how successful it is becoming as an asset, like gold?

Worth a read: https://www.lynalden.com/gold-and-bitcoin/
It's kinda funny, the Japanese anime space has explored the idea of a metaverse extensively if this is the case.

Although for me "metaverse" is the stuff Marvel does to ensure every super hero becomes dull and boring
When you leave the company can choose to buy back (essentially refund you for) unvested shares, in which case they take back the unvested shares. I imagine any company doing well will buy back the unvested shares.

If the company needs the cash more then maybe they'll let you keep the unvested shares, but since your usually-Common-Stock strike price is typically a lot less than what investors will pay for their Series-X shares it's likely they'd rather take back the Common Stock (?) even in cases of one or more transpired or likely down rounds (?).
I mostly use the YouTube app on my google TV which is notoriously... behind the times. I will look for that thank you!
I went to an experimental public school in Slovakia. We were allowed to diverge somewhat from rules ministry of education prescribes for the ordinary schools. So the teachers had more freedom in doing whatever they wanted. Usually it worked well, but sometimes it didn't.
A piano with MIDI (USB preferably) and something like Ableton Live might work. Get the full Max and you can code your own devices.

https://cycling74.com/products/extendmax

Even Max4Live has Node, so it's not exactly limited if you don't want to spend the extra money on Max.
My company bought the default MacBook pro M1 by mistake, so a ridiculous 8Gb. I will get a 16gb soon, reducing the need to spawn a cloud vm often.

I like to have more ram to run the full development environment independently of the other developers. We use a few software services that love to waste memory.
What exactly is the long term? 3M is 120 years old. Ford motor almost as long. DuPont was founded in the 1800s. Proctor and Gamble was founded in 1837.

All are still profitable today and in relatively good health.
C++17 introduced std::optional and std::variant, but they're not used by the standard library in 2021, as far as I've seen (unlike Rust which is better off for using them). It feels quite like a missed opportunity to produce more ergonomic APIs (though the inability to produce an optional<T&> is limiting, and std::variant is inefficient at compile and possibly runtime and apparently can't be fixed because ABI). I'm not a Go user, but I dislike multiple competing approaches to problems without clear guidance or fully embracing newer approaches.
The current economy already has marginal income/wealth taxes to divide resources in a more “fair” way. Obviously they can and should be tweaked as changing parameters call for it to be tweaked in order to achieve whatever goals society is working for (such as a floor on standard of living).
In sufficiently advanced CPU vs. CPU, the Black side would definitely resign on the first move.

However, assuming White has a 10% higher chance of winning in games between 2 Human players, that still leaves a decent margin of error for the White Human side to blunder during the game, so Black CPU wouldn't resign. This is assuming CPU doesn't know about that individual Human's blunder history.

Basically, CPUvCPU would definitely see an instant resign. In HUMvCPU, only the Human should definitely surrender as black. A Black CPU will keep playing in case the Human blunders.
Ask HN: How do you control your physiology for peak performance?
When I don’t like how something was done in a Go codebase, I’m generally SOL, since it was repeated so many times that there aren’t enough hours in the day to change them all.

When extremely motivated, I’ll script manipulation of the AST, but that’s a pretty extreme thing to have to do.
> paying employees the minimum amount possible is efficient to you?

Did pay go down? I don't think that's accurate.

Paying a bunch of excess employees, yes, that's not efficient. That's practically textbook inefficient.

Are we really on a forum run by a VC debating capitalism?
> Eg if US population expands and the economy expands every year you need more money every year

You really don’t. This is one of those weird Keynesian constraints that doesn’t actually match reality. Deflation is totally harmless as long as it’s predictable. A fixed money supply in particular (which is deflationary if the economy is growing) is great specifically because unit purchasing power tracks total productive output.
None of these claims sound reasonable, so I'd like to ask for some solid peer reviewed sources backing those.
>Third, bitcoin is more secure than gold. A single bitcoin address carried on a USB thumb drive could theoretically hold as much value as the U.S. Treasury holds in gold bars — without the need for costly militarized facilities like Fort Knox to keep it safe.

BTC does not eliminate the need for security. The USB in question would need military grade security, and the exclusivity of the claim of its holder over the ledger entries recorded in it would never be demonstrably secure, because BTC's value is information that can simultaneously exist in multiple locations.

The article reads like a high school term paper. BTC is a fiat currency whose scarcity is determined by the actions of some random computer programmers who, for now, aren't leveraging that power for their own personal benefit. Gold is a natural element whose scarcity is a function of the laws of nature, and there are no people today who can measurably exercise their own power to reduce its scarcity.

Also, not to nitpick, but a single gold bar also could theoretically have value equivalent to the entire BTC Blockchain. A single dollar bill could too. This would be the case if BTC was valueless. The article isn't very well reasoned.
Does the inability to jump to a timestamp adversely affect blind users?
Exactly. Evergrande is simply the tip of the iceberg. There is a huge amount of bad debt in the Chinese banking system that has been hidden for various reasons and while the most obvious examples are starting to explode the big fear (for Chinese leadership as well as foreign markets) is that once the first dominos start to fall the entire rotten edifice might collapse. China was an extremely bad example to pull and to be honest was just the sort of example I was hoping someone would bring up as a contrast to 'anglo-style democracies' because it is so easy to tear apart.
Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr Was in Charge, Not Trump
Evidence of Prehistoric Industrial-Scale Aquaculture in the Pacific NW
Reining in Tesla’s Driverless Carriage
> Its very difficult to be a "tourist" in Emacs

Exactly. Ironically, Emacs is also the place where transition from tourist to resident is the smoothest. You can stray writing and evaluating Elisp practically anywhere. (Almost) Everything is programmable via Elisp, everything is documented in excruciating detail, learning about any system attribute is two keychords away, there are debugging and profiling tools built in, and source code for very built in thing is available. If the target is to make average Joe into a programmer with least effort, things don't get much better than this.
How would you limit political power? Would you assign a person to ensure nobody else has too much political power? Congratulations, you just invented dictatorship!
The article fills in a little of the background to the massacres starting in October 1965. A little earlier, in mid-1965, "an attempted coup by leftwing army officers and, secretly, by agents of the PKI, in which seven generals were murdered,..."

The article doesn't say how many generals Indonesia had before the attempted coup. Obviously seven fewer after the attempted coup. I wonder what the surviving generals thought of the recent murders of their colleagues?

The article is written as though the surviving generals sat around afterwards waiting for Britain to incite them to mount a response. That seems unlikely. It would be more usual for the surviving generals to take the murders of their colleagues personally and to attempt a response on a kill-or-be-killed basis, without waiting for British incitement to rouse them to action.
I bought an olive tree and it yielded 2 olives now I'm starving!

Meanwhile Bitcoin is up another 50%!

Nassim has a bone to pick with Saifedean, whom he wrote the forward of "The Bitcoin Standard" apparently without understanding what Bitcoin was.

https://mobile.twitter.com/saifedean/status/1382408549343580...
Well-funded military is remarkably similar to well-maintainad roads if we look at consequences.

Putting questions about what is the optimum amount to spend to each. Both promote trade and large-scale division of labour. Both directly (road-pavers specialize at that, infantry specialize at application of force) and indirectly, by promoting people and goods movement.

Trade creates wealthy merchants, banks, and eventually further division of labour, manufacturing, large-scale specialized manufacturing and agriculture.

In a sence, it is military who we should thank for silicon integrated circuits.

We could agree or disagree about certain parts of military spending, but current global world would be unthinkable if huge armed forces didn't ensure peace for everyone.
100% true.

If a software engineer writes software that hurts people, they believe in hurting people and believe people should be hurt.

If they didn’t, they wouldn’t write software that hurts people.

The impressive amount of freedom tech workers have to choose what they work on means the ethical and moral issues with their production should fall on each person’s shoulders, but it doesn’t.
I think that quantum mechanics is a useful model and there is a lot of truth in it, but it is not the truth.

Using rock-solid math and physics I think you can do time travel and speculate about parallel universes, but I don't think we should blindly believe the models.

We should never confuse the map and the territory.
Giant Impact Origin for the Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces [pdf]
Taleb is a grifter and one of the IYIs he likes to complain about. Bitcoin people are deeply familiar with taleb, because they were interested in some of the observations he made in Antifragile and Black Swan - they’re already familiar with his objections to Bitcoin as well.
Honestly, I'd rather work in a company managed by a profit seeker rather than someone who sought personal power or fame.
Very interesting. Would love to try your application if you have your code published. I have been looking for something similar for a while.
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It seems a bit rich to look at a climate crisis created by current capitalism's "privatize the gains, socialize the losses" approach, note one recent small change nominally driven by a small subset of investors, and then declare investors actually good.

If you count all the times a major oil company made a climate-worsening choice because investors demand profits, and then count the choices like the one you point at, I'd expect it would be 99.9% the former.

And I'll note that the link you give does not include actually "reducing carbon emissions". They're promising to invest more in research. How will they pay for that? Selling more oil. So even if they do the research and even if something comes of it, there's no particular reason to think that on net this choice will reduce total atmospheric carbon.
Understood.

Unless there is a law, a fine, and an enforcing agency in place none of this local, organic, low-carbon stuff will come back to them in any meaningful way. They are safe to lie. And you provide them with a business reason to do so.

Your consumer decision impact might be the reverse of what you're hoping, is what I'm saying. Did you do your research?
I do like Notion. I have been a paying customer for the last year. But I find that it has too many limitations for how I work. Why can I not customize colors? Why is there no plain text block? Why is there not a simple table? So many basic things seem missing.