skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Will the former be able to excuse himself, despite bad calls?

Apparently yes. For example, here's what Dr. Fauci was saying about HIV/AIDS in the 80's. [0]

[0]: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/fla...
I think they were joking about a fictional cognitive risk that could crash your brain. There are real cases of information that glitches your brain, like the McCollough effect. Can something exist that glitches the cerebral cortex instead of the visual cortex?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect
I looked back through your comments and noted you posted a similar Ask HN a couple months back... look if you are a CTO and have a reasonable network (or can quickly build a network) there are plenty of companies that would take you in a sales / pre-sales engineering type capacity on the basis that you:

a) presumably understand tech / can learn quickly
b) will have street cred from your past experiences
c) will presumably bring some kind of network / rolodex with you

So, don't stress - if you can put a confident foot forward, you probably have more going than you realize. It's just a matter of how you sell it to a future employer.
We focus on human causes because we connect to them better. And because for many many people these are the concrete things that can understand when I’m a stressful situation. Abstract problems like decades of “capacity management” “workflow improvements” and “right sizing” are so abstract they don’t resonate with someone who is standing in an er in pain. They aren’t dumb they are stressed out. Stress is basically fight or flight…it makes us stupid.

Stress is why I made the firefighters put in safety glasses and got angry at them that I couldn’t find my glasses. Both while trapped under a literal oak tree
It doesn't matter what the contract says, if Spotify accedes to his request, which is what TFA says. The contract can't forbid him from asking, and they agreed.

They didn't have to, but it's probably best for them that they did. They want to be in a mutually-beneficial relationship with their artists. They don't want the artists to see them as somebody who will force them to do something they don't want to do. Artists already have a dicey relationship with them, since they keep such a large percentage of the revenue, and it's likely in their best interest not to aggravate it further.

The artist wanted out, and they parted ways. The revenue lost is much smaller than the amount they're paying Rogan, so presumably he's making far more for them. If it means that a ton of other artists are about to demand the same thing, then that's a bridge they'll have to cross, because they'd be in a no-win situation.

I doubt that will happen, in which case Spotify deftly avoided creating more ill-will. If it does happen, then it's an indicator that a huge number of people Spotify considers important disagree with their stance, and they'll have to think about it.
Yes, or look them up on LinkedIn. Plenty do the reverse as my username is my name.
> In the long term it might be easier to terraform a planet like Venus than it is to terraform a planet like mars.

One day on Venus is 224.65 Earth days. You won't be able to change that, even in the long term.
> it's drivel, no better than "find the perimeter given a=5, b=6."

Not only no better, but actually worse - if you add a word problem around the problem that doesn't fundamentally add anything or make the problem easier to understand [0] all you've added is another layer of text to parse through.

[0] Sometimes it can be helpful. Adding a relevant layer of physicality to help reason about the problem can be nice, especially in calculus.
Assuming that you're a software engineer in some kind of capacity because it's HN. If we put it into Big-O terms, reducing transmission via whatever means affects the exponent of the spread, whereas adding hospital capacity is a linear response. At a certain quantity adding hospital capacity makes sense, but at some point you can't beat the dynamics of the situation and the required hospital capacity can quickly grow hundreds of times beyond what exists, if, that is, you don't contain the spread.
Triangle Grids
Hey team,

Congrats on building something great. I've dealt with teams in the past that got very strict with cloud costs, and I wish I had a tool like infracost when I was on those teams. In fact, I started building an MVP for a very similar tool before I heard about infracost.

How difficult was it to build your pricing pipeline in the beginning? When I was building my tool, just getting and organizing the cloud prices from the major cloud providers was the biggest hurdle that prevented me from moving forward. I can't imagine what it was like for your team to build the MVP. It's unbelievable how opaque these providers make a lot of their pricing.

Thanks again for building such a useful tool!
"Satellites are livestock, not pets"!
See here:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-o...
This article is from 2016 and is out of date. E.g. the headline image is https://www.google.com/maps/place/OR-202,+Oregon/@46.007843,... which as no censorship.
If you can uniquely identified users in a way that cannot be spoofed then you can remove freeloaders by any criteria you wish.
Interesting. In this take, what are the limits to freedom? Your right to swing your fist and all that. If your actions are limiting what I can do, is that not curtailing my freedoms?

Edit: to be clear on where I stand. I think you can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't affect me. If it affects me, maybe you should still be able to do it, but then we need some thought and discussion and isn't an automatic right because "freedom".
In my opinion serving up 2/3 cups of a semi-solid cheese and reserving a quarter of that demonstrates a quite excellent intuition about the problem of 3/4 of 2/3. Probably 3rd-grade children would be congratulated upon discovering this strategy.
His compliment of Ariane 5 tingles my French pride. So annoyed when watching the launch live to see all the ameritards in youtube chat saying "what why is it not spacex" grrr. And we did it for free to boot.

Elon "Electric Jesus" Musk only does it as a business model. He'll never do important national stuff that go beyond budget efficiency.
Well, I'm quite confident that a species that figures out how to travel at the speed of light (which is still very slow if you consider that the milky way is 100,000 light years across) will no longer depend on a 9 month biological process for reproduction.

In fact, it's really questionable if the human species will still exist in its biological form. AI might already meet human intelligence within decades and then exponentially grow in might from there. Add this exponential function to a timeline of thousands of years and where do you end up?

Current humans? I don't think so.
OP is clearly referring to censorship in the "admin bans you from their website if you say things they don't like" sense, not the "government throws you in jail if you say wrong thing" sense. These conversations tend to become unproductive and devolve when folks conflate these two senses of the word censorship.

IMO, we should use "content moderation" for the former and "censorship" for the latter, congruent with historical usage. But people who are against content moderation will claim I'm being biased, even though I view the whole debate as a bit of red herring that distracts from the real issues. So I'd settle for "private-sector censorship" and "government censorship".

But in any case it's almost always counter-productive to conflate the two, to the point that it's a logical fallacy which should be named.
This doesn't seem like a zero knowledge proof to me. It seems like, for this to work, you have to have a prover, a validator and a 3rd party. By revealing the authentication to the validator, you are providing them information.

I know where something is on the grid, check these coordinates, and if it's there, give me a yellow hat...that is easy. If I see you have a yellow hat, I know that you know where the thing is. If I could prove that without disclosing the actual coordinates, that seems more zero knowledge to me. An example might be if you overlay a layer on the infinite plane, blacked out all, on the transparent layer, save a one by one square, and aligned it to the spot that had the easy emoji. Thereby, I prove to you I know where the easy emoji is, without giving any info regarding where it sits in the plane.

However, this isn't my field - just my thoughts.
Tax loss harvesting alone has more than paid the 25 bps fee that Wealthfront charges. It's a no-brainer to me. I'm very happy with Wealthfront.
Interesting take, I guess trees can be pretty cheap if you grow them yourself.
Ah yes, Cosmos-style.

I'm not sure it "wouldn't have been that much more expensive" though. Building and testing these things takes a lot of effort, time, and thus, money. Even at just 5% of the costs we're talking about almost $500 million (and it would likely be much more than just 5%).
Me too, as to do so you'd need to solve P == NP - we can split the $1million 50/50 if you like.
I'm normally in favour of hyphenation, but apparently browsers can't do it well. LaTeX is still unrivalled.
So it’s OK to be cruel to species that aren’t endangered?
Pre-render Blazor WASM App pages for improved performance and SEO
Considering it's:

• short enough, and non-novel enough, not to count as a copyrightable work

• explicitly described as malicious in the accompanying documentation

• not viable for use in a cyberattack (since it can only be run once you've already won)

• doesn't actually work, due to a typo

you probably haven't broken any laws. But, again, I'm not a lawyer; please seek legal advice from an expert in the laws of your jurisdiction if you want an accurate answer.
I was looking for something that was a red flag in here, and could not find one. The only thing I could find is that the solar business is not doing well and that is just a drop in the bucket at this point in terms of revenue, its not even really material.
OK I see they do this every 5 years so it should not be that extreme (I only hold it in various tax sheltered accounts now).

One step further is to hold the index funds and bonds yourself, that is not exactly rocket science.

I would also say that if you have 6 million USD that is a bit different than most wealthfront customers I think.
One problem is the way Gemini and Mastodon (and even Twitter at one time) are often promoted:

> Once you have a client that supports it, you’re free to enter the ecosystem. Once there, you’ll notice that it is composed of many vibrant communities. There are artists creating cool experiments, writers and essayists pouring their hearts and brains out, etc. You can find a tribe for you or start a new thing.

I assume this is true for the person who wrote it, but finding people who are interesting is often a problem. There is lots of noise and I have trouble finding “vibrant” communities that are relevant to me. I’m following only two interesting people on Mastodon after several years and I found them because links to interesting things they wrote were posted to a link-sharing site.

Specific examples beat abstract arguments. The best way to promote Gemini would be to quote and link to interesting content you found on Gemini.

And that means you’re playing the same social game as everyone else, doesn’t it?
This is a really cool concept. A lot of my "web foraging" (love that expression) or data foraging really is exactly what he's mentioning here.

Also made me think of a related extension https://braintool.org/ - whose job is to grab and organize your bookmarks into an org file.

I could see these two concepts being combined for pretty powerful bookmarks / personal knowledge-base without relying on a server and/or without having to go through extra steps to get the data out.

The custom selectors on Electric Tables is pretty cool, too - kind of a web-scraping light for ad-hoc scraping.

All too often I find myself with a project that's not quite worth writing a scraper, but also worth building a Google Sheet around. Electric Tables seems like it could help those cases a lot.
Rancher Desktop 1.0
Isn't that highly subjective, however? Two people show up to the hospital feeling equally lousy, both test positive for Omicron. First guy says he's vaxxed and boosted, doc suggests he's fully protected, this is the worst of it, go home and rest up (which is exactly what a doctor told my father). Second guy says nope, I'm unvaxxed. Doc is probably going to admit this guy overnight for observation.

Multiply by tens of thousands, and you can project the effects on hospitalization stats, which aren't necessarily tied to the degree of illness.
> it turns out that manufacturing even a simple thing is prohibitively expensive if it's done at a small scale

You can overcome some of the scaling costs with 3D printers. It's pretty cheap to make fairly robust plastic parts with a 3D printer if you can do basic CAD.
My experience was that robo-investors are great until you need something special. Then they can become rather painful.

Exmaple: I got divorced last year. Betterment took weeks of time and many phones calls until they were able to figure out a way to divide our assets evenly, without a large difference in cost basis. Their automatic algorithm for dividing accounts just didn't know how to handle it.

If UBS figures out how to offer a higher level of service on top of robo-advising, that could be a real win.
Big Sur is the latest supported version on some Retina MacBook Pros, so it's not such a bad idea for Apple to still provide updates for critical issues
Adding the extra physical descriptions to calculus actually helped me better understand what the equations meant and represented. Definitely beneficial in some scenarios to some people
Here's my attempt at a quick recreation in MockRocket: https://twitter.com/DerekFeehrer/status/1486471488857378816

Definitely can't compete with those nice photorealistic reflections in Blender, but it's cool to see how close you can get with some of the other aspects in a pretty short amount of time!

2 devices + camera + laptop screen angle + depth of field blur, all animated in the same shot!
I think that act of translation is pretty helpful; it's not often irl math is presented nicely, but rather as a scenario that one has to solve. Translating a scenario into a math problem is practice for that, I think.

To try and inspire people, though, maybe word problems could be written to be more relevant
If you have the choice between taking an action that may potentially save billions and billions of future lives, or taking an action that may have an extremely marginal impact on a very bad, and yet not absolutely apocalyptic, climate change disaster, a longtermist would probably encourage you to maximise your impact by focusing at least some of your resources on preventing the more deadly scenarios (though not necessarily to the exclusion of dealing with climate change).
I've no idea how legit, or popular, this notion of longtermism is.

But it sounds like a great excuse to ignore almost all of the world's current or "in our lifetimes" problems, focus on a few very theoretical problems - of serious interest to only a few SciFi fans and longtermists - and proclaim it a virtue to do that. (While probably doing nothing whatever about any problem, beyond talking big and puffing themselves up.)
Well in the EU, those are basically non-binding by default. So not usually unless I want to go to sleep. But for everything else, yeah. If I rent a car, I read the whole thing right there at the counter. Buy a phone, same thing. If anything looks sketch I ask for a Print-out and do send it to my lawyers (this is why I pay €5 a month for legal insurance!) I usually hear back from them within a few hours. Why would anyone blindly sign a contract? Yeah there’s some dark patterns (like giving you the contract at the last possible second) but the only way to fight that is to be a dick and sit there reading the whole thing and clogging up the queue.
> I do not have any answers in which I am confident, just Socrates line on the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates who was censored by being executed because he said things the authorities of the time didn't like? That Socrates?
The article mentions "More drill and practice" ...

I don't think this is the right way. I believe something happens with math to many/most students which leaves them less than fluent in mathematics.

Somewhere along the way, they stumble for a few weeks and fall behind. Maybe their family took a vacation. Maybe the teacher's explanations don't make sense to them. And then there's a deficit.

Pretty soon, supporting that student through math becomes a whole lot more about drilling and memorizing strategies and understanding is deprioritized.

This becomes insurmountable, especially with the "layer cake" model of how math is taught in US schools. Pretty soon you'll never catch up in understanding. But you probably just attribute it to "not being good at math".

I'm working with a student right now, who is in precalc and "bad at math." He is actually really bright. Some missing knowledge and intuition about fractions has made everything since much harder. And the problem's never been fixed because he's constantly been in a survival mode in his math classes.

These students never end up doing the kinds of things that kids are ahead in math are taught to do to crack free-form problems:

- Make a good guess of the answer

- Form a mental picture and use it to select strategy

- Work a simpler problem and see how this can be extended

- Organize your givens ; use dimensional analysis for a hint as to what operations may be required or what picture should be drawn

- Look for symmetry and transformations that result in simpler cases

- Does positing an incorrect answer reveal any information about the solution?

IMO, teaching these things -- strategies-- should be more the goal than doing lots of kinds of applied math work by rote in a way that deeply depends upon previous work.
If a policeman breaks into your house without a warrant it's illegal even if he is right and you are a criminal. Procedures have to be followed.
I think ESG scores and activists are concerned about greenhouse gases because they are inadequately regulated by the government and private initiatives are necessary to take action on them.

It is unfortunate that the previous US administration was rolling back air and water pollution standards and I agree with you that it should get more press, along with the dangers of microplastics - but I really don't think this is about "mega-corporation promoted value systems".
I think I've used almost everything I learnt in maths at school at one point in my adult life. And not just because I'm a programmer. The other day I was using trigonometry to work out how to install a projector into a room.

From what I can tell, most people don't do things like install projectors into rooms. They either get someone else to do it, or just figure out some placement that is good enough via intuition or trial and error. If people have jobs that require it, they usually remember the bare minimum for their job and aren't remembering general concepts to help them solve brand new problems.

If there is causality here, I'm not sure which way around it is. Either they don't need maths because they don't stuff that needs it, or they don't do stuff that needs it because they can't do maths.
As a non-chinese pinyin input is so much easier. One of the cool things about it is you can type a whole sentence just using the first letter of each character. Eg “wxzdnwsmbq” on my phone is sufficient to produce “我想知道你为什么不去”. In English I’d have to type the whole sentence “I want to know why you didn’t go”.

The other great thing about it is if you remember the pronunciation of a word but forget the tone and/or character, it’s usually automatically corrected.
To what extent do you think the "Discuss on HN" CTA on your blog posts has helped? Every time I see that I think it's genius.
This isn't at all true. Many free speech absolutists will happily concede the existence of dangerous speech and dangerous ideas.
Lead mitigation is pretty popular!
"How to growth hack your old website after reaching market saturation"
> But we (the People) don’t trust politicians or business leaders

Part of the problem is bad grouping. I trust some politicians, and some business leaders on some topics.

But it's too easy to raise your idols on pedestals where they can do no wrong and you trust them on everything. (Conversely, of vilifying an entire class)

I've watched it happen to a significant proportion of the US population. Ironically, in those cases I've personally observed, it actually started from a distrust of the "establishment".
A writer seeing the problems in the world slowly being censored, who hasn't been censored yet, is like a soldier writing about a war, who hasn't been killed yet. It doesn't seem that strange.
A lot of people do this very badly. They craft a brainstorming session designed to arrive at their pre-selected destination. They either design the process to steer the conversation, or shut down tangents as they go. This always feels manipulative and scummy.
I will concede that Gemini folk sometimes have a rather narrow definition of what the "essence" of the web is, namely, that the web is basically just a medium for hypertext. In the early days of Tim Berners-Lee this was true, though. And I still think that hypertext (as opposed to "web applications") represents a nontrivial fraction of the web (see Wikipedia and, to a lesser degree, blogs).

Drew Devault makes a very valid point: that the web today is at the mercy of Google, because it depends on browser technology that has become so complex that only Google (and maybe a foundation entirely dependent on Google) can deliver it. An ad company! So we (as humanity) have to find ways to replace the web, step by step. And Drew says it right there: "Gemini [...] addresses a subset of its use-cases better than the web does." And for the other use-cases (i.e., besides hypertext), other replacements have to be found.

So I still think that the marketing is way more nuanced than you are saying.
>What we really need is for every student to realize why math is useful -- so that if they want to, they can go learn it so that they can make some kind of technological contribution to the world.

That is what word problems try to instill.
A minimum viable computer w/ integrated keyboard & linux etc.. + use phone as the display.

That seems like a winning combination!
Meh. It's consistent with their business model. And talking publicly about it is also consistent with their business model. The entire debate is a red herring.
I give that recommendation for the same reason I floss my teeth when asking my children do so; it's modelling good behavior to establish life-long health habits. It's not that I think flossing is particularly effective at countering gum disease (compared to just brushing alone), but it's the mainstream position and I think it's better to model "follow mainstream science" than "repeatedly question the medical establishment without data". I watch the news and literature for occasional reviews of flossing and I would update my parenting if warranted.

The clear public health trend seems to be that we're going to see 2-3 revs of the vaccine booster per year, not that we're going to depend on natural immunity. I think it is almost certain that most COVID deaths were front-loaded and this will look almost exactly like flu vaccines in 3 years.
Announce your breakup in another transaction: "I no longer love my geeky GF".
> So it’s OK to be cruel to species that aren’t endangered?

Then my apologies, it's an appeal to emotions + moving the goalpost.

It's ok for people to do things you may disapprove of as long as it's legal.
Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far
We're not allowed to use the word brainstorming here in the UK, it's thought to be offensive to people without brains.