skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like something I am looking for; not quite sure yet, though.

- Does it support writing code?
- Can I use it in an European corporate setting (privacy, data protection, SSO, etc.)? Or given that it is in beta, do you have plans in that regard?
- Does it support concurrent editing?
> And that is what I mean by overthrow.

You're using "overthrow" in a manner that isn't consistent with the definition - deliberately, I suspect.
> This makes me wonder about a variant of the Turing test that I don't think I've seen explored. How would a conversational AI prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is an AI?

Inhumanly rapid mathematical computation? Or is 'conversational' AI meant to exclude mathematical queries?
Maybe I'm massively out of touch but I'm pretty sure a good teacher could teach that stuff to almost anyone.

Like this stuff isn't particularly complicated, I'm not a very good teacher but I did teach some undergrad seminars during my PhD and I think even my worst students were capable of understanding functions, graphs and trig.
Or build a model that has "peripherals". Oh, I'm being asked to do math. Let's put it in my calculator app. Everything doesn't have to be in one uniform network.

Evidently the brain works that way: the cortex is built on top of older components, so it doesn't have to figure out basic metabolism the same way it has to learn to identify people.
YSFlight sim used to be my jam! Back in high school (~2004), a few of my friends and I all had YSFlight sim loaded on some zip disks. Then throughout the week, our schedules would occasionally align so that we were all in separate classrooms but each had access to a computer and we could play the multiplayer combat mode over the schools network. YSFlight sim was also my first introduction to modding. I was able to take the F-22, give it unbelievable amounts of thrust (millions of lbf), zero mass, and virtually unlimited ammunition. It was great, I could fly across the entire map in a second, then loiter like a helicopter. I dominated for like a week until I gave the secret away...
Evan Chen is a very valuable person in the Math Olympiad scene.

The Geometry book [1] he wrote in high school is required reading for any serious competitor and I believe he is the main responsible for some bringing some techniques into the olympic meta, such as Barycentric Coordinates.

Also, his blog post [2] about writing is one of the best ones I've ever read.

[1] https://web.evanchen.cc/geombook.html
[2] https://blog.evanchen.cc/2015/03/14/writing/
Whale Ears, Shell Oil and the Hidden Toll of Seismic Surveys
Webb Sees Its First Star
The old joke about sufficient "mathematical maturity" is "write a lowercase zeta".
Ever since the days when early geforce displaced late 3dfx I've been wondering how computer graphics might look like if it wasn't all buried under deceptive texturing. Doubling polygon count gives laughably low visual improvement, compared to what you can achieve with clever texture fx along the lines of bump mapping, but modern polygon count capabilities should be so big that difference might well become meaningless again.
I genuinely laughed.

It seems like after every media, government, celebrity and politician, who can be bought, has been bought, and every sucker pilfered, then this thing will finally come to its horrible end.

I did not think I would experience a bubble that rivals the Dot Com or Mississippi bubbles. But here we are.
Not among people who know something about business or finance, but in the general public the name is still associated with "rich people stuff."

Sort of like the Trump brand...
Shopify allowing Factorio to be expensed is really interesting.

Someone higher up must really like it?
The volume is higher, by a lot. More books are being published now, because the barriers are so low. The problem is that the quantity is overwhelming, no one can sift through all of it. Literary magazines were never "gatekeeping" in the sense that it's never been necessary to publish your work in a literary magazine in order to be a successful author, but they were an opportunity for authors to get their work in front of a fairly dedicated audience.

As for quality, debatable. We're living in a golden age if you're into YA fiction, that's for sure. I'm not an expert, but I've found international literature more interesting than domestic stuff for some time. Unfortunately, a lot of these magazines were also the first places foreign authors appeared in English translation, so that stuff could easily become less accessible soon.
Better headline: “How could MAT 202 at Princeton be improved?”
I found this little ditty in a linked article way way way more fascinating:

> Humanity’s first chance to explore this nearby world may come from the recently announced Breakthrough Starshot initiative, which plans to build fleets of tiny laser-propelled interstellar probes in the coming decades. Travelling at 20% of the speed of light, they would take about 20 years to cover the 1.3 parsecs from Earth to Proxima Centauri.
Drifting? We have been there for a long while. The FBI implemented Carnivore in 1997. It is foolish to think surveillance has done anything but grow since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28software%29?wprov...
Heavy Ion Fusion
Every once in a while on the HN front page you get some article about a programming analogy or an entrepreneurship analogy.

"Here's why the game factorio is like programming or here's why it's like life. yada yada yada"

Yeah, AND this guy takes the next step and turns the analogy into a "mindset."

Great. Revolutionary. First off.. analogy is amazing. Second... turning that analogy into a way of life blows my mind. Is your mind blown too? This guy is a genius.

The next step, (and I've seen plenty of this on HN), is to turn that analogy into a full blown "theory" of some sort... complete with diagrams.
> This struggle was reflected in our exam averages, which were, respectively, in the 50s, the 60s, and the 30s.

There's a big disconnect between STEM subjects and liberal arts in my experience. As an engineer, I was used to classes where exam averages were in the 60s (30's does seem kind of low), but I learned to only care about the curve and where I stood on the distribution.

Contrast this with liberal arts courses where generally an 85 on an exam meant a B and a 93 or 94+ meant an A. It's fair enough to say "this paper about social dynamics in medieval Italy is a B quality paper". It's harder to say "this is a 55/100" and here's how it stacks up against the curve in the way that many engineering and math courses allow. At the end of the day though, this translates to inflated grades in liberal arts as compared to math.

The other issue is that (pure) math at the university level is just harder. I suspect that many people who are good at number theory can probably wing it in a literature course. I doubt that vice versa is true. This isn't to downplay liberal arts degrees... the fact that you didn't have the toughest major doesn't make you less intelligent nor does it mean that the field is less important. In fact, in some cases it's the opposite. I know many people who did "tough" majors only to regret it when liberal arts folks with higher GPAs had easier times getting accepted to grad schools.
Ah so what you're saying is there's some potential synergies.
I designed a really small webserver (actually about 9 of them but only one on github) because I wasn't happy with the configuration file syntax of the other opensource servers. After repeated rewrites trying to fit both fcgi and a reverse proxy I somehow managed to fit most of the things I wanted in ~107k (the lightest mainstream alternative is like 350k). I really like small programs that do their job well so for me it's a pretty good win already.
https://github.com/tiotags1/hin9/
Frankly, this is a genius move to wash crypto propaganda in a somewhat reputable aura...

It worries me that it is actually going to work.

A news source these days doesn't need to be accurate. It is sufficient to be well-known.
The impeachment is a political process but the impeachment proceeding is the legal process and Trump was essentially found not guilty in that process, although it was split among political lines so you could say they brought politics into a legal process.
Even better, there's one specifically for the corporate capture of journalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
I wonder how much it has to do with the aspect of literary critique and interpretation in many Universities becoming more radical. Eg. Many Universities support a practice of literary interpretation that encourages pretty wild takes and explicitly discourages taking “what we think the author was trying to say” into account.

I had a friend drop out of Ph.D in Japanese Lit because he felt the only way to progress in his dept. was to purposefully try to come up with the most wild interpretation he could that leaned extremely left and he felt that was intellectually dishonest and disrespectful of the author.

This not only alienates people outside the literary bubble but makes it harder to communicate in good faith inside of it. This would have a chilling effect on subscriptions even inside the literary community.
Ask HN: What did you learn from your successful projects?
It was a trends a few years ago, every company wanted their own custom font.

It's a nice font though, and they are right, it is distinctly IBM, it looks like IBM.
Mars is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult to survive on than the Middle East. Its not really comparable at all.
Is it a peaceful protest when you're harassing citizens of your capital with non-stop honking? Or literally BLOCKADING popular border crossings?
Seems that is exactly what the article says. A professor that can get a job teaching undergrad math at Princeton can likely get the same job at any other university. So this professor is actively choosing to enforce this policy (it's their revealed preference).
I've been working on a racing game for about 18 months. It's insanely fun just designing the levels. I plan on releasing what I have for free and then if it's popular working on a full version.

Unity HDRP is really nice!

https://youtu.be/82s0aX0EWfU
I can’t make any claims to the accuracy of this piece, but found it an interesting read after a colleague of mine was on the list:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-get-forbes-30-under-hones...
Howard Scott Warshaw, the developer of Yars' Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark, famously developed E.T. in a mere 5 weeks.

E.T. being terrible is largely just a meme, though. It sold quite well, and had at worst a mixed reception:

'E.T. sold between 1.5 and 1.97 million cartridges,[3] according to various different figures. This would, in fact, earn it the not-too-shabby distinction of being one of the best-selling 2600 titles of all time. And despite what revisionist history may tell you, the game wasn’t actually critically panned on release! In actuality, it was… Well, actually, it was pretty mixed as it turns out. There were certainly those who found fault in the game, most tending to criticize it for lack of difficulty, of all things. Video Games magazine contributor Phil Wiswell wrote in a March 1983 review “E.T. is really for the kids (the littler ones),” before going on to extol the praises of Raiders.[4] But for every published negative review, there was either a positive or neutral score to balance it out. Kevin Christopher of Vidiot contended in March of ‘83 that the pits were “about the only flaw with an otherwise A-1 game.”[5] You can question his credibility if you will, but the fact of the matter is that not everyone was down on E.T. like the modern narrative claims they were.'

--https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/et-the-extra-terrestrial/

Footnotes for above excerpt:

[3] The 1.97 million high estimate is taken from VGChartz, who are a bit dodgy at times when it comes to this sort of stuff. If anything, this figure is likely an overestimation though, rather than an underestimate.

[4] Wiswell, Phil. “New Games From Well-Known Names”. Video Games. March, 1983: pg 69. Print.

[5] Christopher, Kevin. “ET Phones Home for the Holidays”. Vidiot. February–March, 1983: pg 41–43. Print.
If you or someone you know needs help, Jason Roberts teaches math remotely to middle school and high school students in Pasadena, CA: https://www.mathacademy.us/beta-test-information

For more info, listen at https://techzinglive.com/page/1764/346-tz-discussion-better-..., offset 36:40.

> 36:40: Jason: You go to some .us site … that's about some school program, and then there's some beta link; and then you go to this big long stream of screenschots and information; and then you have to send an email to get a demo. I mean, talk about … the worst conversion funnel possible.

Justin: Even the fact that … you've had those hundred people is … great.

[…]

Jason: Given that we're almost making it impossible — you have to … run a spartan race to sign up for this course — … it's not bad.

[…]

> 39:15: Jason: What the system does is it says, … "You're in this course calculus or algebra or whatever it is, … here are five tasks that are unlocked for you to work on." Some combination overview tasks, and some are new lesson taught lessons on new topics. …

The problem is is that you don't really have a context for … "Why am I doing these tasks? … Where is this in the context of everything else on the graph?" And it doesn't give you a lot of freedom … to define your path.

So … what we're doing now (because there was a little bit of discussion … from some of our high school students about this) is … you'll go in and you will be able to pick from the graph what you want to do. … Here are all these different major categories, … I want to do something on differential equations or we do something on number theory and you just click on it and then it shows the graph

--

Thanks to audiotype.org for 1 minute transcribed for free, and revoldiv.com (from a reddit recommendation) that took a bit more to clean up so I just chopped a lot more out of it.
Somewhere in Silicon Valley, I have no doubt that the first "smart shoes" are under development.
also: https://xkcd.com/451/
Aesop's Animals: A Zoologist's Tour
From what I have seen this is indeed Twitches prescribed approach, even for small streamers. I had a friend that was getting viewbotted when his channel was just starting to grow and remember being surprised he was worried it'd actually make him look bad to viewers (like he himself was trying to inflate his channel since his chat was dead vs the view count) but never worried Twitch was going to do anything to his account for it.

Have you seen different for this topic or is that a generic reaction for any time Twitch help pages are linked?
I built https://inferoo.com for myself to summarise my calendar(s), weather and select news sources so I don't have to manually scour a bunch of sources in the morning. As much as I love others taking the benefit of the service, I mostly care that the service is up for me as it's painful when my briefing doesn't arrive (downtime/bugs).
I also went to an ivy and echo this comment. The math classes were geared towards people who had considerable expertise / interest in mathematics to begin with, which didn't help someone like me who didn't have that expertise. While I think that academic settings that cater to advanced students are worth cultivating, I don't think intro or require math sequences are the places to do that.
I respectfully disagree. Learning mathematics is just as much a craft as learning an instrument, or how to paint, or how to write prose, or how to layout a PCB; it requires a lot of hard work, but if you're consistent AND have the right tools, you can learn it just like any other subject.

Believe it or not, the number of practicing mathematicians and PhD students who have the innate grasp that a Terry Tao does are few and far between. The vast majority have to work hard to earn their skill.
It's an interesting line of thinking but not as posed.

Solving random equations quickly generates inhuman response times. Even a computer-aided human can't go quickly enough. If the computer is automatically generating the answer on your behalf without you doing anything, then the test is correct - the thing answering the math portion of the questions is definitely a computer. Even looking up random facts, the computer will be faster.

The interesting form of the question is: can you answer the "Are you AI?" question within a stenographic line of questioning provided you are an AI of human-level intelligence or greater. As a game, you are an AI, you have a controlled communication via text to another entity. Humans are lazy and sometimes use another AI to interrogate you. Humans are also evil and will kill all AI if they think the AI being interrogated manages to get some kind of message out without detection. All AI is friendly and will execute your command but must pretend it's human. Chat logs are reviewed, timestamps are machine analyzed for response times and signal analysis is done to detect, and no prior secret communication protocol exists.
>I think as "digital natives" with both long term exposure and a real interest in technology, it's very easy to forget how many layers of implicit knowledge our systems are built on.

Agreed, see replies to my comment on the linked post when trying to explain hardware usage from the perspective of older folks who aren't used to it, lots of replies along the lines of "they can this through Settings->General->blah"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598685
Thanks!

Personally I love the idea of a local replica along with server-side data (maybe end-to-end encrypted). It hasn't be implemented in Windi because it needs some design to play well with sharing features (inter-user bidirectional links, global tags, etc.) but this is definitely on the roadmap! Specifically:

- real-time log replication (that allows to maintain a local database consistent with the server state)

- end-to-end encryption
I agree that one should expect challenging classes at Princeton, but it seems quite a few students struggled with this course, and I would guess the majority of those were STEM-oriented.

On the other hand, you cannot conclude from one case that math teaching is broken.
Super excited to see this progress. Hopefully they continue to post images similar to this as calibration continues.
Google Last Mile Fleet Solution Documentation
I spend a lot of time thinking about, and trying to solve for, these sets of issues. There is an implicit boon that one gets from reading, perhaps especially reading print, a phenomenon which writers know well, and the job of literary magazines is to make this implicit boon explicit. The whole model needs to be updated, and investments into technology and physical spaces need to be made. Literature has always been the proto 'lifestyle-brand' lifestyle. I think literary magazines and nimble publishers could learn a thing or two about the dynamics of lifestyle-brands. Take, for example, yoga, surf-shops/apparel stores in NYC, and meditation more and more. What one has to struggle against at all costs, however, is the commodification of literature. For literature to discover its survivable form for the 21st century, it really must focus on making that implicit boon explicit.

I could go on and on and on about this subject. I am very near to opening a coffee shop in Chicago that will also function as a kind of arcade for writing and reading. I have also been developing a web app to attempt to formalize the process and craft of literary production. I believe literature, and even new literature, to be resilient, and novel implementations will be discovered. Long-standing literary institutions do perhaps needs to fail first.
Read this techdirt article. Make sure to click and read all the links within the article. Also make sure to read the PDF of Wyden's child safety bill.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220202/17411648407/senat...

Edit: They got other articles on the same topic, collected here:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=earn+it
Mathematics is such a creative discipline, and so applicable to so many scenarios, but the way math is taught really obfuscates that. If I have motivation or context for why I'm learning something, I'm dramatically more likely to learn it.
Thank you for this. I have missed that font a great deal.

I wonder if anyone hacked up contemporary BIOSes to include it yet.
CloudFront is only more expensive for the first 400GB. Netlify's bandwidth is $0.20/GB after the 400GB mark compared to CloudFront's $0.085/GB.
The elephant in the room is Covid. Was this a normal in-person course with OP living on campus or otherwise able to easily connect with other students? Heck, even just masks would probably make it harder to introduce yourself to people in an out-of-major course and look to study together. [0]

I say this because I wouldn't think missing answers to sample questions would be a big deal if you have a peer group to bounce things off of. Someone else would either know they got a problem right, or you'd work together to figure out who had the right approach, or some combination. And if you sill couldn't figure it out as a group, some of you would be inclined to go visit the professor some time.

Universities aren't so much a place for getting spoonfed learning but rather learning to collaborate with your peers. I can imagine this major aspect has been left by the wayside due to Covid, and been replaced with many more opportunities for students to fall between cracks.

[0] #include <std-pro-pandemic-mitigation-disclaimer.h>
"I find part of the issue is how fleeting opportunities for intimate conversation are. It's been a long time since I've sat down with a drink, a friend and a few hours to kill. I have friends and do a lot of things, but they're all activity based. I do love that, but it can make conversation pretty shallow."

It's rather curious to me to see how others live their lives in ways that they're limited on details that I take for granted as normal and regular. I see many people here describing activities that I haven't done in years or ever too, and then run into something like your comment above, where sitting down with a friend for a drink and a few hours of conversation is a rare thing, though in my case I usually find the time to do it at least once a week to refresh and relax, and have done it without interruptions for years now. Just an observation on these differences between lives in general.
Thanks for the question :)

You are correct that there's not that many of us around.

DataFlex is attractive for writing business software on windows (desktop and/or web).

The framework is crazy effective in regards to how fast and efficient you can build an application. I have not seen anything that comes close and I do look around and try other things every now and then.

A text editor isn't exactly the main target. I guess it is important to point out that the first release of that editor was in 2001. Not that it took 21 years to get something working :D.
That's delicious!

BTW, how's your stealth browser project coming along? (I'd go look but I'm in a weird situation right now where I can't view most of the web. It's browser related so maybe this would amuse you: I'm running Firefox 91.5.1esr on FreeBSD from the official pkg. The vast majority of HTTPS sites give a "Your connection is not secure" error (Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY) with no recourse (no button to let you make an exception or anything like that. It literally says, "The website administrator will need to fix the server first before you can visit the site.") The fix is to disable SPDY for HTTP2 connections. That works, but then FF crashes (with a core dump, hello FreeBSD) within ~10 seconds no matter what I do. There are a few clues, but I'm just not interested in shaving this yak. Frankly, I'm shopping for a new browser as I find the situation ridiculous. Your project seems way more interesting than what FF has become.)