skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found the context in which I’m solving a word problem to be the most critical piece to accurately solving it —- and the reason they aren’t that great.

Oh, I’m taking a test it over polynomial expressions —- I already know how I’m going to solve whatever word problems I run across.
If that's supposed to be an analogy, it's a pretty poor one.

A still poor analogy but a bit more suitable to this case: the power company notified me that there's a problem with my electrical wiring. I'm fixing those issues in my house and warning the neighbors.

Neighbor has the same problems or worse but they are not fixing any issues.

Unless it's a zero day exploited in the wild, it's not "on fire", it's preventing one.
still trying to decide if youngins and littluns are the same group, or if one graduates from littlun to youngin.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233640-700-3-of-the...

Item #2 in that list:

https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/
>Are we blaming traditional media companies for the content overload shitshow we now find ourselves living in?

I am absolutely blaming them for this shitshow, yes, if we're defining content overload as the self licking ice cream cone of viral news.

What happened here was a parallel evolution. On social media, whatever got the most eyeballs got the most clicks and thus the most ad revenue, and engineers tuned the algorithm to exploit this.

Traditional Media sees this, and strives to do the same but the difference is that they are (and now arguably were) speaking from a position of moral and institutional authority, and have since diluted their brand and standing with clickbait, stories that were published without proper vetting, getting things outright wrong etc etc. That's their own God damn fault. Nothing was stopping say NYT from developing their own Substack or a version of it.

>Older and wiser now and I realise personally that the trust problem is something much more than something for 'others' to step up and fix, but substantially in how I myself consume content.

Again, you post on HN. You're an extreme outlier with the self awareness to know that certain media consumption habits are unhealthy and likely divinate a worldview where a reality forms based simply on what's in your newsfeed and not any underlying truth.
> The DCF makes sense because receiving a dollar tomorrow doesn't have the same value as receiving one today because in the second case I could invest it in the risk free asset and get more than one dollar tomorrow. This doesn't apply to human life.

Sure it does, since it's Effective Altruism we're talking about, so it's (i) literally about socially investing money and (ii) it's choosing between spending it on things anticipated to generate compounding returns like economic growth or carbon control or health and education (all likely to have indirect long term benefits to solving whatever humanity's future challenges are too) versus spending it on stuff which serves no purpose in the foreseeable future but is hypothetically critical to the hypothetical risks faced by hypothetical humans in the hypothesised future.

And also because even if cash couldn't be invested [risk free], humans would still apply a discount rate to the future because of uncertainty and time preference the author discusses. Needless to say, there's a lot of uncertainty about the needs of future generations, and just as it's pretty normal to care more about your own child than kids in a faraway land, it's pretty normal to consider hypothetical third millenium transhumans on Alpha Centurai essentially irrelevant to your priorities.

(I mean, trying to avoid human extinction is pretty worthwhile for its own sake anyway; invoking billions upon billions of future humans spread across the galaxy because everyone thinks your project has an astronomically small chance of actually saving humanity is just Pascal's Wager in scifi form)
>It's pretty clear that ddevault thinks that Gemini can replace a large fraction of the web (which is the issue under dispute).

Replacing a large fraction is EXTREMELY different than replacing the web which is how you originally phrased it.

"Large fraction" is also extremely vague. Unless they've stated a quantitative amount of the web which they think this can replace then this argument is pointless.
I agree, and the premise of going in on a programming contest with a team is presumably that you are all capable of solving some problem on your own. I was merely arguing that there is value to be had in numbers greater than 1, but not numbers greater than 2, in my experience.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04272-x
You're right, the authors argument doesn't make sense.

We should put off problems now because they will be cheaper and easier to solve in the future because technology would have improved.

Putting resources into technology now instead of solving problems that can be put off will help to ensure that.
English is critically important to help you understand complex written works and to write in a way that is clear and doesn't make you look dumb. Advanced chemistry might be useless, but basic chemistry/physics is useful. And I feel that people would understand what they are doing a lot more if they understood physics a little better. For example a lot of people think a cone makes amplifies noise rather than understanding that it simply directs them in to a smaller space. Chemistry helps you understand why oils stick to your hands and don't wash off until you use soap.

Basic math is very useful but highschools go so far off basic math that they teach massive amounts of seemingly useless stuff.
My friends were adamant that the US did it to steal Iraq's oil. Last time I checked, the vast majority of petroleum exploitation contracts didn't go to the US.

We really did it for nothing but pain and suffering for millions of innocent Iraqi people. And the weakening of our own economy.
Thanks so much for the thoughtful response! TigerBeetle seems very cool, I hope to dig in and learn more about it at some point. As an aside, your Twitter thread on macOS fsync behaviour was very helpful for me!
I imagine there's a major attitude difference in the support model for SoCs made for Chromebooks and laptops compared to the ones for smartphones. Smartphones on average are kept for barely over two years in the US, whereas people hang onto a laptop for nearly 5 years.

People are used to desktops and laptops chugging along until they get tired of them being slow, rather than their device or OS vendor cutting them off.
That section just explains that the count should be updated every ten years, among other things. It doesn't say we need some useless government organization to spend billions of dollars to tell the federal government what they already know. We just simply need to update the count of free persons. That's it.
I enjoyed math in my Physics classes because of the real life context it is used in.
To be honest, who cares what some nobody hardware hacker thinks? They won’t accomplish a tenth of what the astronomers, scientist and engineers working on JWST will.

The twitter nerd celebrity machine has gone topsy turvy
That is imo a bad fix, because it would be very easy for Google and Apple to make sure the technical specs are unreadable and the bootloaders complicated to use, without much recourse for the lawmaker.

Comparatively, it's much easier to make a law targeting the stores that's hard to avoid.
Is this an objection or just a corrolary?
ha! modems. we were all too busy trying to figure out Who Shot Jr(tm) to be worried about the internet! i can only imagine the forum insanity over that consipiracy
Seriously, I feel you should write a blog post about this types of reporting strategies that describe the work that are both accurate and palatable to management (and perhaps most importantly avoid despise from other developers).
Either way, there is no point in vaccinating the unvaccinated cohort that you mentioned.

If you are right, most of them have natural immunity and the data proves that this is already better than the vaccine, so what's the point? They are already doing ok, and vaccination would then move them to the vaccinated column and count their immunity as a success for the vaccine, which is unscientific and dishonest.
In school back in India, I quickly learned that I dont like Math, I just find it too difficult specially concepts like polynomials, trigonometry etc but I had very strict parents and they would not be happy if I failed in Math so I had to come up with a plan.

So I used my superpower, turns out I had good memorisation skills, so my plan was to memorise all the questions (and their answers) which were asked in exams for the last couple of years because most of the questions are randomly picked from the same set of questions which were asked in the last couple of years.

My plan worked and I got good scores in my Math exam, my parents were happy.
Fine-grained sandboxing. Memory-safe languages. Safer syscalls (e.g. returning EFAULT when calling "execve(pointer to null array)").

There are lots of ways to improve the current state of security.
Sure, but I bet those people aren't getting access to multiple transit providers in a carrier neutral facility, and they're going to have a hard time getting a BGP session or even justifying their ASN application. Where are their priorities?
I think the current affairs piece does a terrible job of representing and critiquing the argument. The blog post in the OP is much better.
Amazon Paid for a High School Course. Here’s What They Teach
If we're talking about Machine Learning in particular Turing deserves a mention for his 1948 paper The Unorganized Machine. It's insane to me how this anticipated neural nets and genetic algorithms at a time when computers barely existed.

https://weightagnostic.github.io/papers/turing1948.pdf
That's good, at least sense prevailed and it's preserved.
> That exactly is the trust problem. Why would trustworthy people even try to gain power, if the public assumes that those in power are untrustworthy and corrupt?

To improve society.

> And why would those in power remain trustworthy when the incentives are clearly in favor of abusing your power and the public assumes that you will do that anyway?

They were never trustworthy to begin with if they do that.

Trustworthy does not mean "acts to benefit themselves over others at every opportunity".
I came here to write this, and also to say that on a software team, for example, where the problem is complex, no one person may have a well rounded enough or deep enough grasp of the problem, goals, limitations, etc. to come up with an optimal solution on their own. This is why we have businesses in the first place, to organize teams in a greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts kind of way. A very basic example of this might be a UI designer coming up with a number of potential interface ideas for a particular problem users are experiencing, and an engineering choosing the design which will cost the least dev hours. Iterating on sketches of such potential solutions will almost certainly get to a better solution than the designer just making a choice their own favorite design and lobbing it over the wall to eng.

Not to dismiss the psychological safety point the article makes, which i believe is very valid.
Read the comments on any HN thread about Mars colonization. They generally go along the pattern of:

+ I am so excited about <potential of this development/timeline/discover>, what an amazing step towards Mars colonization.

- Mars colonization is a waste of everyone's time. It's a giant distraction, and a truly gargantuan resource sink, that doesn't get us anything meaningful. We should be focusing on immediate problems, like hunger and climate change and nuclear weapons and toilet paper shortages.

+ Mars colonization creates redundancy for humanity against extraterrestrial existential threats. It's important to direct our efforts to ensure that <some tiny fraction> of 'humanity' can survive an Earth-killing cataclysm.

- Extraterrestrial existential threats are unlikely and hypothetical on any appreciable timeline. We are spectacularly failing to deal with a short-term, man-made existential threat to our civilization. In the <near>/<long> term, I'd rather direct <gargantuan efforts required for building a self-sustaining Mars colony> towards saving <overwhelming majority> of humanity from <impending, obvious catastrophe>, than work to preserve <some tiny fraction> of humanity from <highly unlikely cataclysm that somehow kills off 100% of the people on Earth but 0% of the people on a hypothetical self-sustaining Mars colony>.

And so on, and so on.
Let's Encrypt revoking all TLS-alpn-01 certificates from the last 90 days
Jeeez this looks amazing! I can't wait to go home and try this!
It's an interesting thought exercise and I have some experiments I have to get running. Instead of half-assing a bad answer, I'll think about this in the shower for the next few days and try to return to this later with an actually well-thought out answer.

But to be honest, my intent was mostly critique. If you're taking VC money and running a for-profit entity where your paycheck comes from getting folks to talk about divisive topics, I view you as part of a profoundly horrible problem and assume that your position on the censorship spectrum to be mostly about market positioning.
Maybe they should get engineers to teach math courses the way they wish they had been taught them, rather than math people who sometimes still seem to think we will be doing this without a calculator?
Now that the folding trick has been proven and loaded into institutional memory, I'd rather use it, e.g. LUVOIR-A at 15m in diameter, planned for the 8.4m fairing on SLS but suitable for the 9m fairing on Starship.
"So, by all means, use Gemini. Just don't say that it's a "replacement" for the web (edit: not even part of it - Gemini does so little that the comparison is entirely invalid), or "better" than the web (or associated technology). It is its own thing with its own community that is entirely complementary to the web, and nothing more."

1.6 Do you really think you can replace the web?

Not for a minute! Nor does anybody involved with Gemini want to destroy Gopherspace. Gemini is not intended to replace either Gopher or the web, but to co-exist peacefully alongside them as one more option which people can freely choose to use if it suits them. In the same way that some people currently serve the same content via gopher and the web, people will be able to "bihost" or "trihost" content on whichever combination of protocols they think offer the best match to their technical, philosophical and aesthetic requirements and those of their intended audience.

Source: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gml
You are comparing very different standards e.g. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...

N95 – Filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Not resistant to oil.

Surgical N95 – A NIOSH-approved N95 respirator that has also been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a surgical mask.

N99 – Filters at least 99% of airborne particles. Not resistant to oil.

N100 – Filters at least 99.97% of airborne particles. Not resistant to oil.

R95 – Filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Somewhat resistant to oil.

P95 – Filters at least 95% of airborne particles. Strongly resistant to oil.

P99 – Filters at least 99% of airborne particles. Strongly resistant to oil.

P100 – Filters at least 99.97% of airborne particles. Strongly resistant to oil.

Additionally, see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/part-84
I've never experienced any of the issues you've mentioned and have been a user of AirPods since they were first released. My _only_ complaint has ever been battery life.

I've tried many other brands (I had lost two pairs of AirPods from all the travel I was doing) and everything else was an awful experience for anything but simply listening to something. I have to manually disconnect from my phone then re-connect to my computer (AirPods solve this), people could never hear me through the microphones, and generally I was better off not using the "controls" the other brands offered.

I really wanted to like cheaper alternatives, but they're just not good. AirPods, however, are fantastic.
sure - dm me on twitter
https://twitter.com/lzrscg
China's birth rate drops to record low in 2021
wordle-play.com fails the test. wordlegame.org passes. Implementations disagree, but I agree with how you are defining it should work.
The article said it was Young's decision.
Baby whale genetic testing may help save species
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it :P
The failure is with story problems.

Story problems are perhaps the most important part of math education. A story problem requires using math to actually problem-solve. But they are often terribly written and introduced too little too late.

In some of my classes, they were nearly ripped out of the curriculum entirely because students struggled so hard with them.
That would cut their market size and attractiveness to new buyers. If they choose to harm themselves, that's fine by me.
Developers can adjust their work style to accommodate a slow build process to some extent just by batching multiple changes into each build. I'm retired now but I never found a better way to work than keeping a notebook full of one-line problem statements created as bugs were found. Typically I would fix several of these then compile and test. That said my last employer a large networking company had power laptops standard for devs and normal laptops for everyone else.
I had an eastern European physics teacher in the 2000s. Our classes had word problems about baseballs thrown from the top of buildings to calculate acceleration/speed. I remember him saying "back home all our kinetic physics problems like this were about artillery".

Seemed like some good real world application. Heh.
Simply installing http-server (npm) globally then running it on the folder will properly boot the system. But, the codebase is hardwired internally for the glitch site - those would have to be re-orged at localhost:8080 - including the bookmarklet. But, sigh, once you do that, there are still some improperly loading iframes to chase.
Added on debugging: need to add the node apparatus to make the zip-latest.min.js file for edits to take full effect.
Microsoft did spend billions of dollars trying make Windows Phone work. It comes down to chicken and egg.

Users don't want a phone with no apps, developers don't make apps for a phone with no users.

In some kind of theoretical sense it should be possible to overcome this with enough money. They could have given away a hundred million phones for nothing while making cash payments to app developers. It's an open question whether this would have cost them tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars.

What is not in question is that it is a crazy huge amount of money that maybe a half dozen companies in the world even have to throw around like that, one of them was Microsoft, and two of the others are Apple and Google. Apparently no one else is even interested in making the attempt.
Lets forget about everything divisive before omicron:

Cloth masks and omicron are pointless right guys?

It is less effective to the point of irrelevance for a virus that is less dangerous to the point of irrelevance

And we cant get N95s still so this is all theater to have said mandate.

Why/why not?
Except that with your second example the hospital isn't going to admit the patient for simply "feeling lousy". So, no, the assertion that this is how that stat has become inflated is not the actual cause.
I don't use my lessons on different animal species or cloud types in my adult life either, doesn't mean the experience of learning wasn't useful or important or that my teachers failed to teach it properly...
SDL 2.0.22: Prefer Wayland over X11
For people who know how to use search engines, PP's version may be better since it wastes less vertical space on HN.
How does any of that stuff relate to "stop trying"? It seems like doing something completely random out of the blue is the definition of "trying".
I got my first dose early April, which was pretty late looking at the numbers. I found this vaccination site because a friend of mine from Nebraska found some New York representative talking about this particular site on Twitter. Guess it got a lot of reshares and trended or something. I signed up and got a slot many weeks in the future. (At the time, the major pharmacies didn't have any sort of working sign-up system. I thought about writing an elaborate scraper to immediately notify me of a slot, but decided that was unethical and didn't. Also, very boring.)

For my third dose, that was last month. I think I signed up for my ultimately-canceled appointment early December targeting a date before Christmas. I ended up getting the shot in the first week of January.

I felt like I had to devote a lot of mental energy to getting the vaccine much later than everyone else, looking at statistics. I totally believe that other people said "I like the vaccine, but fuck this shit" and that's why they're not vaccinated.
> 6) Endless issues with Spotify "Failing to play song" when the audio output switches.

Are you on Windows? I have the same issue with iTunes on Win11
If you have planned to contribute $500K then presumably your plan involves making the money liquid with the necessary few days anticipation.

Also, my Wealthfront account is offering me approximately 25% "Available to borrow". I haven't tried it yet but I assume I could grab that immediately and then sell stock to pay back the loan.

I'm not challenging your claim that having a human financial advisor can be useful. I'm sure you're right; I just didn't think your points against the robo service were very strong.
It snowed really hard here recently. I went to buy two plastic sleds on Amazon, the type you find at a Walgreens for $5. They were $70. I've pretty much curbed my Amazon use for anything but niche hard to find items at this point.
I've wondered in the past if something like 1st.gov shouldn't exist, basically a Twitter clone protected by the 1st Amendment payed for by the citizens of the United States.
The D-Wave design is for quantum annealing, which is still super interesting and solves practical problems, in particular optimization problems. You can read a few summaries of the different systems and how they were compared to classical computers at launch in Wikipedia[0].

For a quick tl;dr: D-Wave computers can speed up certain optimization problems, but more than a few times it's been in doubt if they provide an advantage over classical computers or not (notice that a few times they compared against single threaded systems).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#Computer_system...
LOL. USSR had ceased to exist in 1991.
although I think it's great that it's getting shut down I don't like this part:

Amazon will pay $2.25 million to the Attorney General’s Office, which will be used to support the Attorney General’s antitrust enforcement, which does not receive general fund support.
> prohibited from profit-seeking

A more pragmatic goal might be that they are not ad or attention driven. It's the fight for attention (specifically "content" as a ruse to get you to see adds) that has led directly to the current censorship problems, as well as many other issues, in part because its created these big platforms that try to make everyone watch ads that are lightning rods for interests that want to control what people say.

I don't think subscription models suffer from the same problem, because their "content" is the actual product, not the bait, and so the communities they support are very different and their attack surface is smaller.
Cost overruns are expected for brand new tech. It’s hard to account for unknown unknowns.

Of course, endlessly spiraling costs is bad. People will disagree about what is acceptable here.