skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, why not?

That's not what's happening in NYC, but, it sounds like a good idea.

While we're fantasizing about alternatives, I think we should stop having traditional classes altogether, and have them be ongoing modules. In traditional classes, they last 2 or 3 months, the teacher has a specific tempo of imparting information, and everyone is expected to absorb it at the same rate. But that's not true. People absorb the information differently. Kids who are slower in the topic don't have time to get it, and kids who are quicker in the topic have to wait around until the class ends for everyone. Or maybe some kids struggle, then suddenly "get it", but because they struggled at first, their grade suffers.

Let's decouple "demonstrate mastery" from "specific amount of time". Have an ongoing module. The teacher is there to help you understand a specific, limited topic. If you're quick on the uptake for that topic and can "demonstrate mastery" in two months, or a day, whatever, let's move you on to the next topic post haste. If you struggle with it, hang around until it clicks, no shame. If your life is going to shit for some reason and you need a break, no big deal, take a break, and come back when you're ready. It does not have to affect your grade because there is no conveyor belt along which all kids must move together, come hell or high-water.

That way the smart kids - hard-working, innately intelligent, prodigy, privileged, whatever explanation you prefer - can speed along as quick as they please. The kids who struggle can get the extra time they need to master the topic.

After they demonstrate mastery of the core program - those basics that all civilized people are expected to know - the kids can leave, no matter how early they got through it. Maybe they can apply to college, or get a job if they're old enough. Or maybe the school offers more advanced courses like multivariate calculus or novel-writing or whatever.
The "repent motherfucker" person just made cry with laughter. That's the funniest thing I've seen all week.
They're not Federal workers. How do you plan to force them to do their jobs?
I live in Ukraine and Bulgaria and throughout the entire pandemic, everything has been... available, and cheap. Including imported goods. In many cases, electronics are cheaper here than in the USA, despite 20% VAT.

There seems to be something going wrong in the Anglo countries to be facing such ongoing shortages.
Yes survivor/selection bias was mentioned in the article.

Agree about the Palo Alto observation, when I visit my in-laws down there I enjoy just walking around the old PA neighborhoods. It's like a free luxury house and garden tour. Total outlier nationally and probably globally, though, to be honest.
Audi is a VW subsidiary. And VW's CEO (Herbert Diess) has said they don't expect to overtake Tesla, they just hope not to die trying to survive the transition.
There’s plenty of options. Southern CA is actually a longer trip from China than Seattle Washington so basically any west coast port can be expanded. It’s really the infrastructure outside the port that makes Southern California ports appealing.
I could do it in Google Pay (you create a new payments profile for your new country).
That's what has been happening. California hasn't seen a new port since Port of San Diego in 1962 iirc.
The French Jesuit priest was one of the first industrial spies. He stole Chinese methods of porcelain manufacturing and sent them to Europe leading to a decline in Chinese exports of porcelain:

D'Entrecolles also wrote letters about how the Chinese raised silkworms, and manufactured artificial flowers and synthetic pearls, and practised oral vaccination against smallpox.[2] In 1734 d'Entrecolles also discussed how the Chinese manufactured mercury.[3]

As a result of d'Entrecolles' work, which has sometimes been described as Industrial espionage By whom? Citations required, Chinese exports of porcelain soon shrank considerably, especially by the end of the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.[8]

D'Entrecolles was also a translator of Chinese scientific works into French.
Some, but not nearly enough.
Continental diesels still have "TBR" (time between replacements) instead of "TBO" (time between overhauls). That's a huge problem preventing their uptake.
In Germany you have a very different relationship between unions and management, with unions sitting on corporate boards and management being in the union as well.

But American unions are legendary in the Western world for corruption and pugnaciousness which continues up to the present[1,2], which is unfortunate, and long term hurts workers.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/15/head-of-californias-l...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/11-union-officials-char...
I really don't see how their Android app support or WSL could realistically go from extend to extinguish.

I don't think Microsoft's MO is to completely dominate your entire stack anymore. They just want to make sure they form some critical piece of it so you can't get rid of them.
Often both are done, as with many translations of the Lunyu.
"This is an incredibly parochial point of view.", why? I don't really see how what you said and what I said connect.
Within the subset of certified, normal category piston aircraft, you will find one of these two on a sizable proportion of those airplanes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_O-360

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_IO-550

To my knowledge some ultralights use regular unleaded (called MOGAS in some aviation contexts) and of course anything that you can buy an airline ticket for outside of perhaps Alaska will use jet fuel.
I personally enjoyed analysis for its own sake. The calc sequence was a bit silly, like a cookbook, but there are some cool ideas in there that I still enjoy thinking about. Math maturity that came out of that (and others, especially number theory) has served me well as a conceptual framework in all kinds of disparate areas of my life.
Of course, with a 3070 and up you have to play with headphones so you don't hear the fan noise.

This is the best feature of the new Apple CPUs if you ask me: silence.

Now to wait for a decent desktop...
No, fish actually has super fancy autocompletion with suggestions, which is even more complicated and visually messy than the zsh defaults. Furthermore, none of it can be disabled in fish. (This is why I don't use fish, fwiw.)

On the other hand, you can disable all these advanced features in zsh and get something a bit closer to a bash readline shell, with a few extra features. That's what I use.
I wasn't proposing adding yet another change at the time. I'm saying if the capability were already in place, dealing with breaking changes would have been easier.

The whole reason this thought popped in my head is that I still have people asking today: "Tried to run your script, and I got a syntax error...is it broken?". When the issue is that the default python on their box is 2.x.
I'll take it as no data then.
If this is the case, some communication about it would probably go a long way
> They're already number one, worldwide, and by far.

Source? The only info I can find in a quick search shows they have the largest single factory, but other manufacturers are larger in aggregate, and Telsa is only a small part of the overall market: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1246713/largest-lithium-...

edit: here's a better source, showing them not even number one for Electric Vehicles https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-10-ev-battery-makers
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> He acknowledges that serious talent exists.

By writing my comment I meant that a serious talent is not enough

Also:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/work-hard/

>Relying on intelligence alone to pull things off at the last minute may work for a while, but, generally speaking, at the graduate level or higher it doesn’t.

>One needs to do a serious amount of reading and writing, and not just thinking, in order to get anywhere serious in mathematics; contrary to public opinion, mathematical breakthroughs are not powered solely (or even primarily) by “Eureka” moments of genius, but are in fact largely a product of hard work, directed of course by experience and intuition. (See also “the cult of genius“.)
There is no doubt Vikings were in Pre-Columbus America.
Head of California's largest union arrested for theft, fraud
I'd like to see how that App would work with me sitting here fonts cranked up to 175%. I've never heard of a setup like that though - it sounds like it'd be surprisingly intricate to actually configure.
I think premium brands aren’t about the materials as much as they are about signaling brand values. A Porsche draws on foreign luxury ideas for playing a rich man, but a Tesla is for role-playing iron man with fancy new tech.
The taycan is not appealing to people who want a car of the future in the way the model s is. This value is intrinsic to the Tesla brand and the utility those customers get (over the costs of maintaining that brand halo) can be captured as margin for a long time to come.
Can you explain your unit economic analysis?

They have made a Mac Pro desktop for several decades. I am trying to follow your reasoning for Apple to sunset that category of workstation as a result of transitioning to Apple silicon, but it is not working out for me.

My logic leads to a cheaper-to-produce-than-Macbook workstation in an updated Mac Pro chassis with best-binned M1X Max parts in the Spring followed by its first chiplet-based Apple silicon workstation using the same chassis in the Fall, followed by an annual iteration on Apple silicon across its product line, on about the same cadence as A/A-x iOS devices.

Part of my reasoning is based on the assumption that Mac Pro sales generate more Pro XDR sales displays at a higher rate than Macbook Pro sales. I think the total profit baked into an Apple silicon Mac Pro + Pro XDR is big and fills a niche not filled by any thing else in the market. Why leave it unfilled?
> funneling [sic] the kids who are the best artists into elite art programs to foster that ability

The city I live in has several such schools and does exactly that, so I agree.

> all children deserve enrichment

This seems almost like a contradiction in terms. If all children get enrichment then surely it stops being enrichment.
> "...essentially using regulatory capture."

no, it's not even remotely close to regulatory capture[0]. it's closer to cornering a (labor) market, which has nothing to do with the complicity of regulators here. california labor laws aren't being explicitly and specifically written to favor the longshoremen's union--that would be regulatory capture.

the main reason labor unions came into being is because companies, as they grew beyond human scale, began exerting highly coercive leverage on labor markets, sometimes via regulatory capture. some unions can sometimes exert political power, but that's not a regulatory capture mechanism, that's just regular politics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
It helps to think of the CA government as a natural disaster. It's the natural product of affluent, well-intentioned know-nothings without the humility to stop and think that maybe, just maybe, they don't know what they're doing when it comes to meddling with the economy.
Setting aside the fact that stores only sell milk and all get it from the same set of farms which usually have their own trade group, monopoly if you will, why should regulatory capture favor your preference over theirs?
>But the real competition doesn't start until the Japanese manufacturers get into the EV game.

Plural? Which, other than Toyota, could imagine competing with Tesla in EV?
Yes, Nvidia GPU's are a major reason I switched to PC about 3 years ago. That and I can upgrade RAM and SSD's myself on desktops and laptops. The power from professional apps like Solidworks, Agisoft metashape, and some Adobe products with a Nvidia card and drivers is like night and day with a Mac at the time I switched.

Does Apple have any ISV certified offerings? I can't find one. I suspect Apple will never win the Engineering crowd with the M1 switch... so many variable go into these systems builds and Apple just doesn't have that business model.

Even with these crazy M1's, I still have doubts about Apple winning the Movie/Creative market. LED walls, Unreal Engine, Unity are being used for SOOOO much more than just games now. The hegemony of US centric content creation is also dwindling... budget rigs are a heck of lot easier to source and pay for than M1's in most parts of the world.
Nice catch on using enormous values of y, where indeed it isn't just denormal values of x that cause trouble. Still not a catastrophic-cancellation problem, though. Let's look more closely. Suppose x is very very close to 0. (In particular, close enough that x-1 is indistinguishable from -1. This is not a source of trouble in this case.)

The weights w1,w2 are -1 and +1, as before.

The numerator is -10^50/x - 10^250. The denominator is -1/x - 1. If x is large enough (which it is in the cases that give spurious infinities) the first term in each of these is enough larger that adding the second doesn't change it; so what you're really computing is (-10^50/x) / (-1/x). And if x is small enough that 10^50/x is infinite, then boom.

Something similar could happen even without numbers as large as 10^50. If the value at 0 were 3 instead, then values of x bigger than 1/3 the largest representable non-infinity would produce the same problem. Using f(0)=10^50 enlarges the range in which this particular overflow happens by a factor of 10^50, though.

The fact that this isn't an exotic catastrophic-cancellation problem doesn't, of course, detract from your original point (with which, for the avoidance of doubt, I agree): a calculation that can blow up for certain exact values is likely to misbehave for values that are merely close to those, so testing for the exact values is likely to be a very bad idea.

If I were actually writing something that does interpolation in this way, I would certainly not want to trust that checking the results for infs and nans was sufficient (without, as you say, either proving it or finding someone else who had -- but I suspect it's actually only almost true).
For the adventurous, I can't find words to express the absolute wrath of information found in the 'PS3 Developer Wiki' [1]. Countless people around the world voluntarily sharing their research to build one of the most complete sources of information of an enigmatic console.

[1] https://www.psdevwiki.com/
Why is 10^9 a magic threshold?

What's your actual "you've provided too much value to willing participants" amount? If she negotiated royalties of 20% she would have been a bad person? If she put her money in an index fund and it doubled every 10 years, she'd become immoral later?
For comparison, Mac Pro (Late 2019) 16-core:
1104 Single-Core Score, 15078 Multi-Core Score
China's Impact on Private US Space Companies
For some reason the vast majority of houses are ugly for the following reasons: the proportions are off.

I mean, I understand the need to have smaller lots. But, if you're going to have a small 3K sq ft lot then you need to limit the width of the house to allow at least 20' on each side and raise the height of the house to two stories, if it's more than 800 sq ft.

Another big reason for ugliness is the extremely shallow and underdefined rooflines typical of ranch house style. You need to have steep well defined rooflines that give the house shape. And add a small stone tower off to the side to make it look even better.

Another big problem is the 2 or 3 car garages which always have to be immediately infront of the house which makes it look like you'r coming home to a parking garage and not a home. Put the garage in the back, where it belongs and have a 6' wide small driveway with nicely paved bricks.

Another even bigger problem is the propensity of people to put down pavement EVERYWHERE. the driveways are insanely big. the streets are waaay to wide. and then if that's not enough, they fill up the backyard with pavement too. If you take an arial shot, you'll notice almost half the lot is filled up with pavement: talk about ugly.

And, there's no trees. Why? it doesn't cost much to put down some trees. it makes the neighborhood so much more beautiful and even decreases the temperatures in the summer. you could even make them fruit trees so people can get free food.
>This port is not automated, and it's entirely because the unions want their money.

And ports cost money because ports want their money. People need money. To live.

If automation is set up with the express purpose of reducing worker leverage (and it often is for infrastructure projects) then it doesnt make sense to clutch pearls if workers then strike.

If a few days of strikes are so expensive that the automation gets called off... well, maybe it wasnt about reducing costs. Maybe it was about power.

Driverless trains are similar. They don't save passengers money.
Microsoft already sells an Android "phone" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-duo
That was the actual point.
> You're totally right, but I see a lot of folks around me making absolutely bonker claims on these M1 devices.

Fake news happens on HN too. Apparently. Sadly.

Hopefully it's mostly limited to discussions about Apple.
I think by "around the same time" he probably just means "plus or minus a few hundred years, before the Europeans". Point being that native collapse happened at large scale in multiple areas prior to European settling.
Put the same thing in a fanless laptop, that seems to last forever on a charge, then you’ll understand
nobody is arguing with your facts, just that your comparison is apples and oranges since the i7 6700k was released 5+ years ago.
I mean it either prevents new hydrocarbon from being built, or as we’ve seen in a lot of places in the US where coal is wildly uneconomic, it outright displaces coal.
It’s all about the RAM. 64GB would allow input of larger image sizes and/or nets with more parameters. Right now, the consumer card with the most RAM is the rtx 3090 which is only 24GB, and in my opinion overpriced and inefficient in terms of wattage (~350W). Even the ~$6000 RTX A6000 cards are only 48GB.
For 99.9% of people, if they don't store their passwords on their computers, they're either going to use weak passwords, reuse passwords, or both. This article is like saying that for safety, you should drive long distances instead of flying because planes sometimes crash and kill hundreds of people at once.
Explaining Ruby Fibers
You still need to learn their names and meanings instead of learning names/keywords and their meanings, minus symbols.

I'm repeating myself in hopes it becomes obvious that learning the symbols is not needed in other languages because the keywords are already the names we would need to learn anyway and, usually, also make it easy to derive their meaning.

Think of how you read code in an unknown language - you look for patterns you usually see and use the names of keywords and variables to understand both what's being done and why. With "vintage" APL, the symbols are opaque and you are left looking for patterns you probably won't be able to identify without first understanding what the symbols mean, because both syntax and alphabet are unknown.
There are outlets that try for 'as objective as possible' (albeit sometimes failing), and others that skew pretty hard one way or the other. From my observations, this one is more in the 'skew' category. The skew folks often cherry pick things, don't do fact checking and are otherwise sloppy. I'm wary of them - including the ones that agree with my point of view.
Is it optimized for mac?
Is it just me or is monospace text unpleasant to read? Obviously that’s not the case when I’m writing code, so maybe I’m not used to reading normal prose in mono typeface?
agree, they are an AI Company, a car company, an energy company (potentially), and a battery company.
I agree with your assessment. I guess I'm having a hard time coming up with any way to oppose these trends beyond finding them laughably absurd. Do you have any suggestions for how to seriously engage with proponents of these ideas?
Why do people care what their default shell is, when you can just “exec csh” immediately upon logging in?

Was this kind of shell changing disabled? Maybe there’s no way of doing that exec automatically? Is there some advantage to having your shell of choice explicitly listed in /etc/passwd?
30% would be insanely optimistic.
What sort of WebXR app? Game or productivity app?
My brother's motto is: if you're the fastest person on the road you don't have to worry about anyone behind you.

Apparently he learned that driving boats in the Navy.
Yeah but as it stands, those ports are better than California's so none of those factors matter, no?
Yes, that characterization is a bit more accurate.
Ah yes, the hidden wisdom of Bash. Avoid floats at all cost ;)

Practically, I find myself typing `irb` before every quick arithmetic session anyway... but w/e.
No requirements, no tests. There's a bunch of stories of indoor gun ranges being horrifically contaminated, due to lead from the primer compounds when ignited + vaporized lead from the back of the bullet (back of the bullet is almost always exposed lead core, so you get some vaporized with the explosion). Some maintenance workers, demolition crews etc working on these buildings have had terrible, life altering exposures.

I do a lot of shooting and avoid indoor ranges. They are so contaminated there are many cases of cops coming home and poisoning their kids due to contamination on clothing, shoes, etc.

I personally buy "clean fire" ammo, which has no exposed lead core on the bullet, and has clean burning primers. More expensive, but I like to keep my brain healthy, and I have kids that could easily get exposed.
and thank god for that. can you imagine theranos doing covid tests?
That's exactly what it's doing.
That's like saying The Apollo moon missions were meaningless because they failed to set up commercial hub on the moon.
It's crazy to think that, proportionally speaking, a trillionaire giving away a million dollars is like a millionaire giving away a single dollar.
Wow. Didn’t know about that one. Blew my mind.
Meh. The M1 is a node ahead and memory is placed on package. I'm trying not to be dazzled by the tech when it comes at the price of freedom.
The Germans would call this schadenfreude to the founder of Fox News perhaps:

Meanwhile, investors were given binders that made hyperbolic claims about Theranos’ diagnostic technology. One binder sent to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who invested $125 million, said, “Theranos offers tests with the highest level of accuracy.” The company’s technology, it also said, “generates significantly higher integrity data than currently possible.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude