skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had never read anything of his, but just now read through an article[0] and it seems like our observations match up (if only due to the shared ethnicity of our souls).

Do you know which of his works pertains most closely to his thoughts on "what should be done?"; where he writes more on non-religious faith, and "taking the meaning given to live by real humanity and merging myself in that life?"

[0] https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/06/03/tolstoy-confession...
What is Clojure's main selling point?
> You can configure your shell using a web interface!

Think about that for a while.
Gensim – a Python library for topic modelling, document indexing
In 2021 they ask for money for a humble browser. Burn!
> Some of their processes are _years_ ahead of what anyone else can get their hands on

They are about a year ahead on CPUs. But pretty much everything else (screens, camera sensors, battery) has been on a par with, or behind what everyone else is doing.
Work is a human need (by the way, how can it be virtuous if it's a need?), but working the entire day, without autonomy, and having you life depending on it is neither a need nor virtuous.
cool. i don't know what to say. this is like too much to process. you are willing to let the most vulnerable, the poorest of the poor die because they can't afford healthcare because you are concerned it will cause a rise in interest rates in future, economy?

no wonder i live in a third world country where you can get medical attention regardless of who you are.

yeah, last year or so, a scheme was launched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayushman_Bharat_Yojana

cover of ₹5 lakh (US$6,600) per family per year

for a country where unskilled labourers earn "Rs. 500" or $10-12 a day, this level of cover is like magic.

the 50 mil population, almost half the population is covered by this scheme alone, not to mention almost free government paid hospitals and dispensaries and other stuff. do you think for these many people, economy and debt and savings matter when their loved one is suffering and they don't have money to pay to a doctor?
A significant portion of Apple profits is from the store, and the store has profit margins well in excess of 90%.

> Apple has never had a monopoly on anything.

We'll see what the EU antitrust commission says about that, so far there's been no legal decision in an independent jurisdiction yet.
If you really want things to happen fast, you can also take a look at api platform:

https://api-platform.com/
"Oh, and also that the universe exists at all"

That's the one to keep coming back to. Could've been nothin.
3 year Linux Sysadmin, here my 2c:

Buy ASAP both "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook" and "Practice of System and Network Administration".

UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook -> Will give you the necessary tech skills and concepts. This is a sysadmin bootcamp.

Practice of System and Network Administration -> Will show you how to the job right. This is more like 'how to manage' an operations team.

Each book is massive and will take you 1 month to read. I suggest you start with UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook.
Can anyone explain what the deal is with the Segway c80 and its "non-functional pedals"? I found a review here (https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/segway-emoped-c80-hands-o...), but even its author wasn't sure why this, er, vehicle, has pedals that you can't actually pedal without falling over. So I guess the pedals are there so it can be classified as an ebike and not as an e-scooter for tax/legal/whatever reasons?! In Germany IIRC the rules for an ebike which you can use without a license plate (same as a "classic" bicycle) is speed limited to < 25 km/h and that you actually have to pedal (however little) to get it to move, but I guess the regulations are different in other countries...
Here's what developers get for their 30%, and yes for very little effort on the developer's part:

- 24/7 worldwide availability, instant payment/app download
- Easy re-install after deletion, you still own the app even if deleted
from the device
- Region restriction
- Separate app pricing by region
- Revenues paid to developer from multiple region currencies without
conversion fees
- Tax calculation and collection
- Instant customer refunds
- User rankings and reviews
- App store advertising in category listings
- Video previews of the app in operation
- Packaging of media content allowing developers the ability to load game
levels as needed. This allows a user to start playing your game quickly.
- App sales stats
Unlike AMD for 5nm, Intel was free to fab their chips on 7nm at any time and chose not to. It's not an analogous situation.
I use KBibTeX.
Warranty doesn't mean much to me. I'm an outlier who enjoys repairing their own devices. I recently repaired a week old laptop that arrived faulty (trackpad was messed up) instead of mailing it back.

I'd only cut the antennas in a last case scenario. It's more likely they'd have a connector or I'd try to de-solder them first.
This is pretty understandable because:

1. They explain all abbreviations at the top.

2. There is a lenghty text explaining the formula.

3. It's mathematically pretty easy if you know partial differentation.

Also scientists and engineers write pretty horrible code....
Probably because TSMC 7nm =! Intel 10nm
> Only reason I don't buy one is because cycling as my commute is a great fitness for me, and going electric I would lose that.

People vary, of course, but my own experience is I ended up getting a lot more exercise after going electric.

I go on longer trips, and since I'm not scared of ending up 'stranded' from being exhausted somewhere far from home, I do it more often and put more power into the pedals. Of course that means going faster, but that just means I get to see more of the terrain.
When did AMD and Qualcomm ever exclusively operate a cutting edge node? Apple would have had to deal with reduced supply, but so would every other player.
I thought about buying an ebike. I especially thought that going further than normal is indeed a great feature. Though, I've noticed just any decent second hand Dutch bike with a few gears will provide some of that as well since it allows you to give the maximum output that you desire.

What I'm scared off with ebikes is that I'll be going too fast. On normal bikes I already go too fast. I recently got in an accident by getting stuck in the tram rails for the first time in my life and that went fine because I was cycling about 20km/h, but even the notch up to 25km/h or higher, I wonder what would've happened.

I used to own a scooter that went 45km/h and had one very nasty fall from that once.

With both these accidents I was in retrospect quite lucky in an unlucky situation. I guess it doesn't help that The Netherlands doesn't care about cycling helmets and that I also would never want to wear one.
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How many miles do you get on one charge?

Also how do you store it? seems impossible to bring one inside / in the elevator and let alone a walk-up?
From my (pretty good quality, fwiw) LeeHoo Coffee Maker box:

"On a comfortable weekend afternoon, sinking into the red-and white check chair to watch others pass by, you can relish on the leisure time, relaxing with freshly brewed coffee by using the commercial coffee maker and the gentle humming of a girl singer."
How to get OAuth access token without resource owner consent?
Instead of zero sum thinking why don’t we change policies that allow for more housing so the market can work effectively.

Taxes don't create abundance, capitalism does.
Greg, thanks for posting this, this is all very good insight especially about how to approach people with an opening. For many, that ability to know what to say does not come easily and your pointers are helpful.
It's been over 8 years for me with you wonderful people, thank you all so much for the immeasurable wisdom you have imparted over the years.
The longer list of ten words that make up the 'Word(s) of the Year' from Collins (a publisher of dictionaries in the UK)

NFT: non-fungible token: a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a collectible

climate anxiety: a state of distress caused by concern about climate change

double-vaxxed: having received two vaccinations against a disease. Also: double-jabbed

metaverse: a proposed version of the internet that incorporates three-dimensional virtual environments

pingdemic: the large-scale notification of members of the public by a contact-tracing app

cheugy: no longer regarded as cool or fashionable

crypto: short for cryptocurrency: a digital currency used for online purchases

hybrid working: the practice of alternating between different working environments, such as from home and in an office

neopronoun: a recently coined pronoun, esp one designed to avoid gender distinctions

Regencycore: a style of dress inspired by clothes worn in high society during the Regency period (1811–20). Also called: Regency chic
Often books assume some prerequisites, the question here is the level of those prerequisites. Some books try to include all the necessary background, others assume a pre-existing base level of knowledge.

Different authors, different books, different audiences, and different contexts.
> Was surprised to have that learning moment in the middle of the exam and not prior…

Better than at the end of the exam...
> Wouldn't be much more practical to use all of those talent and ideas to help to improve the extant bash shell instead?

Yeah, good luck with that.

It's a garbage pile of code that creates an interpreter with piles upon piles of undefined behavior that random scripts out there in the world rely on.

I don't even think it was a working CI setup.

I'd be super glad to be proven wrong, maybe things have changed in the meantime.
This block post, which has been referenced several times on HN, was a god send for me: https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner

I also used get hung up on “mathematical notation”. But it turns out the problem wasn’t the notation. I was just bad at math. Well, out-of-practice is more like it.

Once you have the fundamentals clearly explained and you’re doing some math on a regular basis the notation, even obscure non-standard notation becomes relatively intuitive.
Nice. Yeah it works great. I have an extensive set of git aliases. Yesterday I was merging a branch with `gmn` (`git merge --no-ff`, which is actually an alias to `g mn`, where `g` is an alias to git of course) and it gave me a fuzzy find of my branches through all the aliases.

Edit: also things like `kill`. `kill [tab]` gives you a fuzzy-find list of all your processes so it's way faster to use than ps | grep.
I use Powerlevel10k + ohmyzsh + Fira code + and the first google entry to "make zsh like fish". Usually takes me about 10 minutes to get set up in a new environment.

https://gist.github.com/abhigenie92/a907cdf8a474aa6b569ebe89...
What's a polarized plug got to do with it? All of the weight of the wall wart is above the plug vs hanging. I've had more issues in this orientation of the plug pulling out of the socket than when it is hanging from the plug. Even when the ground pin is on the bottom, if I put 2 wall warts on the same plug, one of them must be inverted to have both fit. The one upside down always has issues.
I sit here quite impressed with my Pseudo 50s SciFi book cover

https://imgur.com/a/NZuGTXU

However... This gallery on imgur gives a better idea of capability
https://imgur.com/gallery/coWN44P
If Bob was buying a second property to rent out to someone else to keep his wealth in a non-depreciating asset class, that is not the case.

If Bob was a first-time homebuyers, then he just got royally screwed because of all the speculation propped up by nigh interest-free lending, which was absorbed via inflated ask prices. There really is nothing natural about the economy of the last 15 years. At all.
> From what I have seen, older people in our trade seem to recommend against PHP due to it having a terrible relationship with consistency, functionality, performance,

As an older person in the trade, I don't agree with the other older persons. Only consistency is a problem with PHP code, and that is largely NOT caused by PHP. Inconsistency is the product of developers coding without any real thought about how to abstract things (ok, well, maybe not in the case of magic strings). You can do this with every language. Some languages do everything possible to force consistency, and developer still find a way to be delightfully inconsistent even with the syntactic equivilent of bowling gutter bumpers (see Cobol, Go, Java). Consistency is a developer problem. You can write great code in languages that are terrible.

PHP has never been slow (compared to other dynamic languages), or lacked functionality. If there is a rub on PHP it comes from no separation of code and presentation, which flew in the face of the MVC pattern which was THE WAY for a very long time. Now... well, JSX much? Anyhow, my team works with Go, JS, PHP and Python, and the code that takes the least effort to both extend and maintain is... the PHP.
Batteries are bulky. You get the choice of putting them inside the chassis, or alternately having a visible, highly obvious battery pack attached somewhere it will be immediately visible.

Scaled-up hollow chassises like e.g. R&M's at least look normal from a distance.
My suggestion to you is going to sound pithy, but its what worked for me: do problems. Lots and lots of problems.

Pick a direction (maybe discrete math, if you're trying to do CS) and get a book (I like EPP, as it is super accessible) and go, in order, through each chapter. Read, do the example problems, and do EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM in the (sub)chapter section enders.

Its a time commitment, but if you really want to learn it, this is one way to do so. IMO finding the right textbook is key.
>Since 2020, the Reclaim Your Face coalition has actively put pressure on decision-makers by uncovering surveillance, publishing research reports, and mobilising people for a society free from harmful technologies such as facial recognition in publicly-accessible spaces.

Emphasis mine. This won't do much, and all the surveillance data will be shipped to China anyway. You're already in their database somewhere and they know more about you than the rest of the West combined.
If Civilization was as random as real life, nobody would want to play it.

Personally, I think it peaked at Civ II, exactly because after it every game tries to be more realistic than the previous ones.
As others have mentioned 'calculus' can mean one of five or six classes (I, II, III, advanced, diffyQ, probably more), basic differentiation is not hard, most of calc is some tricks a computer can learn or do better.

At least to my knowledge there is no 'theory of calculus' which allows one to solve generic integrals or differentials, calc is as much an unrelated art to comp sci as learning to play chess will help with accounting.
NUWA: A new machine learning model that turns sentences into images
More and more often, I am getting the following error:

Malware and Phishing

This site is blocked because it is a known security threat. Please contact your network administrator to gain access.

My assumption this is because I have Xfinity Business Class and it's blocking the site. But why would I be seeing this so often on a site linked from HN?
Roblox sues banned ‘cybermob leader’ for terrorizing the platform,its developers
I re-read what I wrote. You are right.

In my head the two were connected even though it was more of an afterthought and not part of the original argument. I apologize for that.

Regarding bio-weapons, assuming we will not end this civilization some other way, I do think that knowledge is a dangerous thing, but how are bio-weapons different from cryptography, 3d printing or nuclear fission. In a more practical sense, do you not think households may end up having gene editing tech in their garage, the way some are mining crypto now?

More to the point, establishment is only scared of things that undermine its power. Does that make crypto inherently a bad thing?
I guess now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, this has a higher probability of happening.
At that point, I may as well give up. I can continue where we left off once the other person brings up the subject, but being the one to correctly remember which conversation went with which person is not a game I expect to win.
Ebikes are in a weird territory between bicycles and motorcycles. I occasionally see ebikes clipping along at a rate that would make me a lot happier with a full face helmet and some degree of abrasion resistance and soft armor.

I guess this is technically true of bombing down hill on a conventionally powered bicycle as well (which I’ve done many times in shorts and with naught but an aerodynamic hunk of styrofoam strapped to my head). Still, I see ebikes pushing skin-removal speeds pretty routinely.

From my adventures in motorcycling, I know that ABS yields somewhere between 30-40% reduction in crashes. I wonder if any of the higher-wattage ebikes are starting to explore those kinds of things? Similarly, I just paid an eye-wateringly high cost for new motorcycle tires, that are marvels of engineering in their own right. I wonder if high-powered ebikes are starting to use high-tech rubber for safety.
If you use Integrant like they suggest, you don't need to do any of that for testability. You can just use the code you had originally and have a test function that just creates an Integrant system with all fake dependencies. Then you can just reuse that test function in every test, occasionally overriding one of the fake dependencies.
By the time Apple gets to the car industry, I reckon European antitrust will be knocking them over, hard. There's no way Apple can continue to play this game of lockout without attracting attention from international interests. The US doesn't care since they're domestic, but Europe's repeated questioning is preparing to reach a boiling point...
> if it's not, try intuition

If it’s not, the book is badly written. Most of the time, you can’t rely on a specific bit of notation to be consistent across books or articles. Smart arses who try to impress the readers with their fancy unique notations are the bane of scientists doing literature reviews.

90% of the time, there needs to be a keyword when a symbol is introduced, e.g. “where Λ is the time-dependent foo operator” so you can get a textbook to find what the fuck a “foo operator” is. Then, the first time you spend a day learning what it is, and the next million times you mumble “what a stupid notation for such a straightforward concept”.
>... I'd really like to learn "higher level than highschool" math...

This sounds somewhat abstract, as the math field is vast. If you consider the next level from where you believe your present standing is, I would try to revisit the college-level math which you probaby experienced back in time.

Generally, the textbooks rely on previous knowledge and gradually feed the new concepts, including the math notation as needed in the new scope.

I find it easier to get the feel for the notation by actually writing it by hand. Indeed it's just an expression tool. Also, you may develop your own way of making notes, as you go on dealing with math-related problems.

But in the core of this you are learning the concepts and an approach to reasoning. Of course, for this path to have any practical effect, you would need to memorize quite a bit, some theorems, some methods, some formulas, some applications. Internalizing the notation will help you condense all of that new knowledge.

Picking a textbook for your level is all that is needed to continue the journey!
Ask HN: Influential factors to get promotion in IT industry
For the people working in IT industry, what were the influential factors in getting promotion in your career?
maybe the .xyz domain?
Yes, when I replace the it I will probably go for belt drive with a Rohloff hub.
I‘m thankful for nerds who make corrections so I can learn some interesting fact.
This might be true for the web but for CLI apps etc I don't think this holds the case.

It’s exactly 180 degrees for me. Node js just seems to be super fast. And with typescript its heavenly.

I don't make a website and working on node js is fun. In PHP it is like doing something esoteric. Just a simple argument parsing is so hard in php compared to node js. In nodejs I use meow and even without docs, I can parse cli easily. In fact, I think Rust can be more easier than PHP in many cases. I usually rewrite in rust for long term daemons. Also in php I need to install php I don't know why I should install php-pdo etc. I mean why not just allow composer etc to handle like just like node do? I am frustrated with php stdlib which seems to be fossil at the moment.

The thing I like about PHP is laravel framework where I can set up websites instantly. Node js is fragmented with adonis and many other micro-framework.
It felt wrong trying to pass mine off as an ebike even with a pedal kit, though everyone gets away with it here. Fortunately my moped plates just arrived which allows me to ride it in the bike lanes for streets where traffic is >30mph.

Gotta say, the sur ron is the most fun thing I’ve ever bought. I use mine exclusively for off-roading and exploration. Im not so patiently awaiting my 3.5 kwh battery.
> If you tip over an ebike it's a minor inconvenience

They're heavy enough to bruise, cause a sprain, or even skin your hands if you catch yourself badly. But generally that still counts as 'inconvenience', yes; you won't be taking any permanent or long-lasting damage.
> Ord estimates that there is a 1/1000 chance of an existential catastrophe due to a nuclear holocaust occurring this century—the same odds he gives for a catastrophe due to global warming.

I suppose the question is, how much could the risk from nuclear weapons be reduced if there were no civilian nuclear power stations in the world, and how much would that policy increase the risk of catastrophic global warming.

Personally I think that 30 to 40 years of over-provisioning renewables and batteries would mean that even cold winter nights with low wind speed would not require fossil or nuclear energy to supply a country's electricity needs, which means nuclear power stations would need to recoup their costs over only 20 to 30 years of dwindling use.

Perhaps the best compromise would be for new nuclear power stations to come with a commitment to run atmospheric carbon capture plants to remove a certain amount of historic emissions, so that their generation capacity isn't wasted.
PowerShell: Maybe the learning curve is steep or something, but the times I've had to use it I disliked it.

I want to like it. It's goals and purposes seem to be in the right place, but....

Nope.
> It makes sense to be conservative in deciding what material to put in the school library.

Does it? Is there actual evidence of harm from having these materials available, or is this really just pearl clutching?
For regular SS, it's like an annuity. For the disability portion, it's closer to insurance or welfare
This is the most beautiful formula in mathematics, because it includes all the most important constants e, i, pi, 0, and 1:

(ei)^0 = 1^pi
If you ignore neoclassical economy then please explain US involvement in Libya and all of Middle East wars.
You seem to be comparing the nominal TDP of AMD chips against the actual measured power of Apple chips. It's really not safe to assume that a chip's advertised TDP is well-correlated with real power consumption for any particular workload; a sound comparison requires matched power and performance measurements. This is especially necessary when discussing benchmarks that have a short duration or are a variable workload, because a single TDP number cannot convey turbo behavior.
> Regencycore

curious why they picked specifically that one out of all the -core words.
It's lisp on the jvm.
Was this the one you could overclock celerons to 733MHz? IIRC I built a cluster around 2000 based on these.