skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mandatory for the degree, that's the motivation. It's typically required for all students who didn't score high enough on entrance exams or take enough math courses in high school. They also likely don't talk to their advisor and say, "I want to take something else, like prob/stat or calculus, to substitute for this requirement." STEM majors will find it easier to substitute another course than non-STEM majors (because they likely have the background to skip it from HS course work). Engineering universities and the like usually send their first year students straight to calculus, though.
The first thing that came to mind reading your question was that I've never had a perfectly successful project. There are always failures along the way - even when the project meets the goal. So, thank you for giving me that little gem of a truth!
Absolutely. This is a distinguishing mark of experts in any field: they are quick to construct situations that disprove their mental models.

So instead of looking for corroboration, they actively set up a situation which they think could disprove their hypothesis. This is a very economical way to zero in on truth.

It's also why I ask seemingly stupid questions when someone teaches me something. It's not that I don't think I know the answer -- it's precisely because I think the answer is obvious. One out of fifty times the answer is different, and that tells me my mental model is seriously flawed and I should question everything else I thought I just learned.
My extremely limited experience says you are correct. Even my company has started investigating VC and M&A even though they have been very adverse to it in the past. It seems they will only do it if they can secure a controlling interest (which seems to imply that opportunities for VC controlling interest, or basically early buyout, are available).
Wow I thought you were exaggerating. That is one awful page. It feels so... hostile.
Prices didn’t come down because HDDs were becoming obsolete and on the way out. This is more akin to the DRAM price shocks that have occurred over and over since the 80s. Long term the price still trends down.
From the article: "The issue, of course, still lies in the money. Many of these smaller corners of the internet can't afford to pay writers, like a larger magazine with institutional funding can. And writers have to eat and pay bills, too."
Nobody is born knowledgeable, and asking questions is almost always better in the long run than looking smart while staying ignorant.

There there are ways to make questions sound less dumb, mostly involving that you made an effort at finding a solution. "Why is the sky blue?" sounds like a dumb question, "I saw that liquid oxygen is blue, is that why the sky is blue?" sounds much better (even though the assumption is completely wrong)
Another fantastic resource (SDK + example codes):
https://www.chibiakumas.com/6502/snes.php

And also accompanied by a book:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08W7DWZB3/

It's awesome. Not many new materials dedicated for good old game console programming. BTW, the book also covers Nintendo, Gameboy, Sega, Atari (!!), etc.
Astronomers are known to backronymise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE
I once renamed a Ubuntu .ISO file to favicon.ico and placed it in the root. Some greedy bots choked on it, others had more sense and timed out.
So many of the people there haven’t really done much either.

It’s hard to do anything meaningful career-wise before 30.
Every major news outlet gets purchased by some rich entity. WaPo by Bezos, Boston Globe by John Henry, Rupert Murdoch with WSJ... this is why it doesn't really matter if they are money-losing operations. Their value for pushing narrative vastly exceeds their P&L
Presumably they mean proportional-width rather than monospaced.
$5K USD for a chance, I think it's probably closer to $50K for a sure thing, I know a number of people who made the list. Sometimes it comes as part of a VC investment package and is considered part of the marketing spend. Other times it's through (very) personal connections with powerful people. It's not too hard to find out who those powerful people are you just have to do a bit of hustling.
That is a beautifully simple and informative landing page! I especially like that there isn't a clutter of menu options. You scroll and click on what looks interesting to you. I'm guessing someone will complain the link to the documentation is at the bottom, but for an early stage where acquisition matters, this is so clean. It forces me to learn about the app rather than making me focus on the site structure. Another bonus is the lack of complex movement and parallax effects.

RSS is a nice extra.

Is there a way to demo the example in graph mode without logging in?

One annoyance: in the web example, the full row is clickable for tags to expand, but then you have to click the text on the sub-tag (despite the full row being highlighted).
I don't blame the dev at all, I'd've probably taken the same deal, but an Exit To Community would have been a baller move: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community
How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke (2020)
There are pockets of new literary work being produced. The cultural soil is not suitable for its widespread proliferation, so one really has to look for its rosebuds and morel clutches. What we select for as a society are dandelions, and literature simply does not possess the ability to reproduce in such volume.
At some point you get too many parameters, so you pass a struct, which basically means that struct turned into an object. (one interesting difference is that you can pass more than one different struct to that function which is the equivalent of subclassing; but with more permutations possible. Thats actually interesting).
I think this is closer to reputation laundering.
Tell me about it.

Ibn Khaldun predicted this.
>For every person who desires to learn for it, there are also folks who want to do as little as possible

You're right, of course, but then it seems like the question is the following: which of the two should the class serve?
Move a DietPi or Raspberry Pi OS system to a USB stick/disk or an onboard eMMC
A step-by-step description how to move a running system booting from an SD card to a different location to avoid SD card lifetime issues:
https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=1236
Forbes used to have a lot of brand appeal, but I don’t honestly know anyone who still takes them seriously. I feel like their contributor program really killed the brand for anyone under 40
You'd think they're introducing general purpose AI, but no, it's just a font.
I learned that working on a project you care about is the best tutorial you can do in order to learn a particular technology or framework.
Real world summary for anyone graded by NPS: if you got a 10, you're meeting expectations. Anything else and you're getting a write-up.
Yah... I won't try to paint a pretty picture of it, but that article (as well as any other "alternative treatment" on wikipedia) portrays it pretty negatively. There definitely have been a couple of studies and papers (on both kambo and on some of the individual constituent peptides in the secretion), but the article states otherwise. In the traditional context, Kambo wouldn't ever be called a "cleanse". Traditionally, it's used by a few Amazonian tribes to remove what they call "panema" (which is essentially bad luck, mostly in regards to hunting. Not being able to bring back food has consequences for the community), to increase strength and stamina, and as sort of a "vaccine" (immunity booster). The "removal of toxins" or whatever is a hard western woo spin on it.
I built this chess website so that my Dad didn't need to install an app... just click a link for the latest move:

http://chextmate.com

Sessionless, all state in URL.. no registration ... not sexy, just simple. (and buggy)
They also have native Rust libraries - I just made a worker that's an SMS gateway for Canadian tide data, it was a really fun project.
"Literary magazines are failing because people have wild takes these days" sounds like a huge leap of logic and embodies the sort of irrelevant dismissiveness that HN commenters tend to have regarding non-technical topics.

As someone else pointed out below, speculative fiction magazines are doing just fine, and you'd be hard-pressed to find ideas that WOULDN'T be considered "wild" in the field of SciFi or Fantasy.
cant make this shit up. wow.
> Hold on - They are raising funding right now, but planning on bringing you in after fundraising?

That's right.

> Do you know how much equity they have? How big is this "founders pool" of equity?

They're saving approximately 7% for ESOP and proposing < 10% equity for me depending on my base salary with co-founder title and may be a board seat later.

I think I agree with what you're saying. It does feel like a regular post-funding early hire.
It's a bit weird that it would load asdf despite --no-userinit. Maybe there's something in your system init. In that case adding --no-sysinit in the command line might help.
“ The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable.

Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows.

To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable... that’s the point.”
Looks like they they do have a variable font for Plex Sans

https://github.com/IBM/plex/tree/master/IBM-Plex-Sans-Variab...
I've just happened to stumble on this discussion on a C# 11 feature, where someone who I think is on the language team (HaloFour)says ".. using source generators for AOP has been effectively rejected by the language team ..".

https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/5735#discus...
I have been writing a book about the fundamentals of large-scale distributed systems over the past couple of years.

It’s not a best seller, but thanks to it, I connected with engineers all over the world who I would never have met otherwise.

https://understandingdistributed.systems/
In my experience this attitude is extremely widespread amongst university departments. I think it's a simple combination of elitism and poor training in pedagogy (unlike school teachers, university lecturers typically undergo no mandatory training in teaching).
Enso OS – Believe in Greener Computing
I cancelled my longstanding subscription to the Paris Review shortly after their change in editorship. It was absolutely painful to do so. It once felt like a thoughtful well-curated window into the emotional inner lives of others. It has comforted me through weird life circumstances better than anyone I know could.

Somehow though, technology has challenged the meaning of what an inner life is. It has turned insides out. Competing with that has made recent literature feel like an identity based gimmick to me. It tries to capture an audience moreso than wait patiently with something strange and unique. Or the selection process which rewarded nuance has stopped functioning.

It's tragic because our shut-in shutdown often trivial feeling lives bear a great need for elevation of the human experience these days.
> the thing answering the math portion of the questions is definitely a computer

The conversation has to be computer-mediated since there's no guarantee all parties are human, so this seems to reduce to the "human using a computer" case, which would qualify as "not an AI".

> Even looking up random facts, the computer will be faster

On reflection, I don't suppose there is any reason we should require there only be one human at either end of the conversation. Maybe we have one person carrying the conversation (to provide a consistent "voice") while others operate equation solvers, Wikipedia, etc.

That said, "can an AI prove it is not an arbitrary number of humans with access to arbitrary computation and knowledge bases" probably isn't as interesting a question.
> so that stuff could easily become less accessible soon

Surely if there's no lit magazine to publish them, they'll publish their stuff on the web? And then it'll be available (even if translated with Google translate).
I like learning files and sockets once the syntax is a familiar and then branching out to error handling followed by more advanced topics and then circling back around to testing. Project based learning resonates best with me, hands on cements knowledge rather than pure theory.
IBM had a really good font I liked circa 1991, and I'd love to be able to find it. Does anyone know what this font was? It was a serif font that was (I think) the default terminal font on the RS/6000 at the time. (Or at least it was on the machines we had at the University of Michigan.) The machine I used did not appear to be running XWindows. It looked like a terminal emulator to me. Anyone know what font that was? I think it may have been mono-spaced, but I'm not positive. I was using it for writing code.
> Ah, the joy and horror of rich text editors.

The problem: there is no money to be made in writing software libraries these days, no matter how much a working solution is needed. So sadly, we're going to be stuck with all these suboptimal solutions for many years to come.
There are some good reasons why an organisation may demand time tracking. If a customer is being billed for time of course you have to track it. If you work on multiple projects and they all have separate budgets - ditto.
Instead of having to download and serve a separate font for each style (bold, light, etc.) it's just one font that interpolates those attributes resulting in much smaller font sizes. Here's a list from google fonts just to see some examples... https://fonts.google.com/?vfonly=true
Then I remembered they started out as a typewriter company

IBM made computing machines for 20 years before it entered the typewriter market.
> These language models feel, to me, like the unfiltered self.

A generator-critic framework with multiple rounds of iteration would improve on the limitations of the LM.
I thought about this a lot. In college I often failed and teacher would look at me dumbfounded (followed by the traditional "it's trivial"). Very discouraging indeed. Years later I revisit some things, and without struggling too much, I get insights and ideas and overall easier time actually solving things. So in the end it does look like some "maturity" was lacking. Now it's bothersome that schools can only operate on people with magic maturity and other people are left on the side (the school as semi-comb theory) and I wish we could have some pedagogical light on what is that missing maturity and how to grow it explicitely.
My experience with the book and its patterns has been that there's an issue and some developers recognize that it could be best resolved with x, y, or z pattern. Then the developers go to extreme length to make sure the implementation adhere to the the 'principles' or 'spirits' of those patterns, so much so that it creates unnecessary complexity (e.g., unneeded layers of abstraction) and friction in other components (to accommodate the 'purity' of that implementation). What's worse, it's very difficult to challenge such implementation in code reviews, since it's originated by GOF, which automatically makes it legitimate. The worst part, though, is that you have to maintain the implementation, any deviation from those patterns is seen as corner-cutting.
I wonder if these quotes are all accurate? Some of them are very good indeed.
Multiplication on a number line? I guess you can take X and repeatedly jump by it Y times.

> Doing the math out helps build an intuition for things like commutative properties and what not.

Well yes, but that's the things in boxes example. Doesn't matter if there's 3 boxes of 4 apples each or 4 boxes of 3 apples each. That takes like 1 lesson and most kids understand it intuitively anyway.

I remember we had 1 lesson of introduction and then a whole semester to learn multiplication tables and use them to solve simple word problems with multiplication. I'm not sure how that time could be better spend thinking about multiplication in abstract.
> Her education is not somebody else's responsibility - it's hers. If she legitimately wants to learn, she already has access to the sum of human knowledge at her fingertips - for free in many cases.

Exactly. My first reaction to the article was, if you are interested in linear algebra, why don't you learn it over the summer in your free time, using one of the many sources available for free online? That's how I learned ordinary algebra. Why is paying expensive tuition to Princeton the only option?
Seems peaceful to me, altough certainly breaking some laws.

Also known as civil disobedience.
>People bought books and magazines convinced that they were paying for distribution costs; in fact, they were also retroactively paying to produce the material.

This was the whole "Why aren't ebooks a lot cheaper?" theme. A lot of people assumed that most of the cost was in printing, shipping, and selling physical books whereas that was actually a pretty small slice of where the purchase price went.

And this isn't just a literary magazine thing. My understanding is that science fiction magazines, and I assume other niche publications, are struggling as well. And it's mostly not a case of going to Kindle shorts or whatever. For the most part, short stories, etc. just aren't really much of an income stream for most authors any longer.
The notable difference is that they don't have a monopoly on violence
Maybe one of these? https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Yeah, you can almost hear the whooomp of a CRT monitor powering up.
The real question is in asking, what are you going to use the programming language to build?

If you are going into a Math heavy domain, you are going to use a programming language to solve math problems, and hence involves learning Math.

This the same problem, with whiteboard leetcode style problems in interviews. Most people fail to understand why they have to put in months to years of practice into a domain to which doesn't concern with their everyday work.

On the other hand there is tremendous shortage of people with skills for real world problems and applications.
My birthday was yesterday. I have now lived 80 years on this planet. Seen a lot, done a lot. Do I feel old? Absolutely not. Few aches and pains and other physical problems I let my doctors worry about.

My advice, for what it is worth, is to find some things that you enjoy doing. It can literally be anything. If you are an introvert do things by yourself. Do not force yourself to be around others excessively. If you are an extrovert find things to do with others. That is the real key to happiness. I am an introvert and do things that do not require me to interact with others. Makes me perfectly happy. I have friends. Some of whom go places with others and do things constantly with others and that makes them happy. You will see by my list below that I am a card carrying introvert.

I decided to learn programming. Now I am on problem #50 of the Euler Project. I am, by own estimation, a pretty decent Python programmer. I found bread making some time ago after I retired and bake things for myself and lucky friends and neighbors. I travel. Been literally everywhere with a smile on my face and a walking stick in my hand. I now have time for reading now. Just read The Fatal Shores by Robert Hughes. I love history after hating it in high school. Walking: walk 2-3 miles a day. Ukulele: one of the most relaxing instruments in the world. I love sitting down for 30 minutes and working on a song or two. Then there is backgammon. I am a backgammon fiend. Play it daily. Have become a 'feared' player because of how aggressively I play.

Point is: have a variety of interests, some of which can be passions. Try something and if you don't like it find something else. If you are an extrovert, find a group of people to do things with. Forget stimulants like alcohol or drugs. Life is stimulating enough. Wake up every morning with plans for the day.
Even if we completely screw up liveability on earth, it's probably still going to be way more hospitable then most planets we can reach.
I feel like maybe you've missed a lot of what gaming has had to offer, like you've only ever seen FIFA and Call of Duty ads and nothing else about modern games. A stab in the dark at what you might find interesting: Try "Outer Wilds" by Mobius Digital on a friend's Switch or something.
I do agree, but this is particularly egregious. Like "Al Capone takes 20% stake in Chicago Tribune" egregious. Did they not notice the Sicilians when they were negotiating or...
I think "silver spoon" tax has a nice ring to it
You are in for a treat.
Faster Python calculations with Numba: 2 lines of code, 13× speed-up
>And to wit: speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror periodicals are doing quite well.

Is that true? e.g. http://www.mcwetboy.com/mcwetlog/2007/10/the_decline_of_the_...
> Given my situation, how would you try to convince me that I should learn math

I wouldn't. I would say, if you don't need math to accomplish anything you want to accomplish, and you're not interested in it anyway, why bother?

If you are interested in it anyway, then you should not need anyone to convince you that you should learn it. You should just go learn it.

> how would I teach myself the actually interesting parts without getting bogged down by doing lengthy calculations that a computer could do

First, if you don't understand the "lengthy calculations", you will have no way of knowing whether the answer the computer spits out to you is correct.

Second, doing the "lengthy calculations" is sometimes the only way to learn the "actually interesting parts". If you haven't done the grunt work of solving some problems from start to finish in a subject area, you don't really understand it. You might have a sort of vague conceptual overview of it, but you don't really understand it. So you need to decide whether a vague conceptual overview is enough for you (for many people it is, and if you don't need to know the subject for anything essential, it might be), or whether you want to really understand it.
Reducing consumption is part of the solution and only on some countries.
Solar panels are also part of the solution but batteries might be more toxic/dirty then nuclear plants.
What I've noticed when talking to non-tech co-founders that come with domain expertise/contacts or business chops is that they tend to figure that they can build an MVP and likely find product-market fit through a combination of founding engineers and contractors out in eastern europe. So they really don't want to give up equity. And later on bring in an external CTO to tidy up if necessary.
Right, but I'm thinking more of whether you live in a developed country with decent public services. In huge swaths of the world building with pure wood is asking for a lot of trouble. (Happily (?) it's too expensive in most of those regions to be very popular.)
Murdoch actually made his money in media. What makes you think the WSJ would be money-losing?
We have been doing it sustainably for hundreds of years. We've also been doing it unsustainably for a while, too. Different things happen in different places.
Agreed. But also, there were a few missed optimizations.

The most obvious (to me) is the constant indexing into pigs. It was hit on in the article (and gave a 25% increase in speed), yet I don't think the author went far enough in elimination.

Pushing the pig_j lookup up into the "for j" scope instead of computing it on each inner loop would have likely saved a large number of the lookups.

In fact, I'd guess that'd be one of the optimizations that rust pulls out. Python is far less likely to pull those sorts of optimizations.
> and in terms of product launches it’s completely ambiguous how much faster we’re going to be.” isn't nearly as easy of a sale.

Which indicates there really isn't much quantifiable value in the refactoring, and it's probably a poor use of developer time.
I like to think we've improved our technology a few orders of magnitude in the last 1.8 million years.