skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This struggle was reflected in our exam averages, which were, respectively, in the 50s, the 60s, and the 30s.

As a non-American, I’d like to know what this even means.
Percentage?
With 100 meaning aced, and 0 for “handed in a drawing of a spider?”
Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesis
FP is best paired with a type system. If you're not using Typescript, then functional Javascript can be hard to follow. The reason is that without types, usage of functions like `map` require you to grok the implementation details of the callback, so that you can understand what the resulting object looks like, and then you have to hold that type in your head going forward.

When you're using a typed language, it's just that: an implementation detail. All that matters is the type you get out, so you can start ignoring all those details and just focus on your program at a higher level, like "first we start with an array of id's, then we map that into an array of employees, then we reduce it into a sum". Much harder to make a mistake compared to "okay, I'm going to maintain a running counter. Then, within a loop, take an id and find the employee, then add the employee's salary to the running sum. After all this I should have a total salary value".
Woah. Very cool. You seem to make it really easy for people to get started and tick a lot of the boxes around privacy.

Today's been a bit of a nervous day for me actually haha, I didn't really expect this attention. Open sourcing just felt like the right thing to do for this app and because I just don't have all the skills :D

The spaced repetition at the moment is for the highlights. All highlights get marked at an initial level 0 and then move up or down depending on you reviewing them.

Eventually gets to the point where a highlight is shown to you yearly.

In the future I was thinking of doing some spacing around finished books or articles. Things like - you finished reading X 10 days ago, what do you remember?

But don't think I've thought through the details around that enough.
If they increase, it's despite of inflation - not with inflation.

Simplified example: the value of most stock companies depends on their projected gains in the next few years. A projected gain of $X in 5 years will devaluate over time as inflation increases, simply because $X in 5 years time will be worth considerably less than $X today. As inflation rises above a healthy 2-3%, it hurts the actual gains and thus the connected stock. You can counter such things by keeping interests low (as they've been doing for a while now) but that party has to end someday.
yeah, concerning the feature in the apple ecosystem to share your location with someone else is great, i just wish it had a feature that alerted the you whenever someone used it to locate one of your devices. That way if say i went to the big state fair with my friend and we shared our locations with each other in case we got separated but then forgot to shut it off. If a few days later i got notified that my friend had just located me i could shut it off and/or have a conversation with them about boundries.

The airtag/tile makes this much harder, perhaps the airtag should loudly beep or notify nearby devices whenever it's being actively located.
Why? Mozilla was one of the last companies giving people what they want, which is a web browser without tracking and without bloat. This to me feels like Mozilla's management has abandoned the values that made me choose them over Chrome.
I assume this is another cash grab by Mozilla executives as they squeeze the last of the value out of the movement they've tanked.
> But in general you should expect that if you remove one system you are going to see short term loss at a minimum

Yes. As any system/platform change. They are called business expenses.

> Eventually you likely end up with a system

That provides advertisement, and there are dozens of replacements (there were probably hundreds until Google)
"In a shocking turn of events:" -- That's what I would say without even reading!
Ah, bless you kind and noble stranger! Adding that did indeed suppress the message. Thank you.
If Mozilla's browser supports a way for advertisers to track me, be it for attribution, fraud prevention, targeting or any other person, then what is the point in using it over ungoogled-chromium? Mozilla's reputation in my view has sure taken a beating these last few years, and without the details of the proposal (thanks to their own fuckup), it's hard not to assume the worst.
I had a similar experience but the Space Exploration mod has made it feel like a brand new game again. I haven’t even reached space yet, but lots of the recipes have changed in ways that are more interesting (e.g. the introduction of glass, stone plate, the extension of the burner phase, etc) than a straight replay would be.
It's like a software project with complete and correct specs and no users. Everything you love about programming and none of the things you hate.
I think their site was one of the first places I ran across AVIF (AV1 image files) in the wild.

I had assumed it was a CDN they were using but this suggests they may have done it by hand, which is cool.
Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control: Books, Videos, & Course Material
You can assign a shortcut for that.

Mine is Alt+Up/Down for history previous/next.
Slavery is the equivalent of cheap oil: it doesn't absolve the nation from the need to build something meaningful with it.
How Einstein arrived at his theory of general relativity
Not true, you will receive notifications as usual.

You can choose to supress indefenitly.

Source: have iCloud family with like 10 airtags.
> For our attacker model, we assume that an initial compromise has happened on the target device through the software supply-chain similar to the incidents at SolarWinds [8] and CodeCov [7]. For example, a regular update of the device’s firmware might unnoticeably add the necessary code for sending and receiving data through a built-in LED.

I mean, sure, if you have the ability to compromise the airgapped device by running code on it then you could presumably be doing a lot of things besides just leveraging potential LED line of sight.
While I feel your point is incredibly pedantic, perhaps I should have qualified with some form of "at least X% of people that do not have rare genetic disorders can learn math, X >> 50". However, I think such statements are usually implicit when talking in generalities.
To this specific point, SCIFs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_info...) are (allegedly) protected by faraday cages.
> I don't understand why I'm supposed to believe that Facebook would ever have beneficial insight to add to a privacy standard or that it would ever do anything other than try to weaken the standard.

I don’t think that’s why you want FB/Meta here. But you want to make sure this is useful enough for the ad companies so this actually becomes a solution. If you build a super private solution no advertising company wants/can use, then you’re just wasting time.

Assuming the competition is standard built by Google within itself, this makes sense.

(Meta employee, don’t work on ads, opinions my own)
Man, this is such an incredible feat of engineering. I’ve been building systems for a long time, but if you gave me the constraints for this one (we’re shooting it into space, flying it a million miles away, and oh by the way the optics need to be perfect when it gets there, and then we’re gonna use it for a couple decades), I’d laugh you out of the room, not because I think you’re wrong, but because my faith in ANY system working that long is nil - and these crazy bastards actually Did it.

These are the kinds of things that make me want to remove “engineer” from my job title - there are levels to this stuff, and Webb makes me feel like a kid building sand castles.
As a high-schooler I did a summer course at Columbia about "graphics programming". In the morning, the instructor would cover the very basics of the theory of what we were trying to model, from the physics of it to the math required to represent the physics. The point of it was that, starting from scratch, we would build our own little ray-tracer in C++.

The course lasted 4 weeks (and was intensive, we were in class 5hrs a day if memory serves me right). It may have been the most unique and interesting educational experience of my life. There was so much motivation to LEARN the math and physics, and I vividly remember going home and looking at objects, and thinking about the angles that the light would bounce off of objects, etc. Plus, there was something truly empowering with starting from a completely blank sheet of code and building something like this, fully understanding what each part of the code was doing.

It was this course that introduced me to vectors and vector operations, as well as matrices, before I fully dove into them in school. It was absolutely perfect. Ever since I've had a soft spot for linear algebra, and am often disappointed at how frequently I've encountered it completely in the abstract, when it may be one of the topics in math that you can most readily connect to interesting, non-trivial real world problems.
Inflation is currently high everywhere, not just the US. Can't blame that on the current administration. It might influence it a little, but things like energy pricing (which has gone x4 in just a year or so) has a lot more to do with it.
>Tech’s Ender’s Game //

Spoilers!?!

Playing Factorio is actually doing some sort of real-world silicon design, or when you I'll the aliens you're really killing aliens... ?

Not read the book, only watched the movie. Probably someone will come and tell me I misunderstood it.
Regarding Wordstar:

- There are editors with key bindings similar to Wordstar, like JOE.

- From what I remember of Wordstar, it used formatting commands which begin with a period on a new line ("dot commands"), such as:

.op

to "omit page number". That's reminiscent of troff, which also has dot commands. So basically, I suspect you could have a "vaguely Wordstar-like experience" if you learn a few troff dot commands and use JOE to edit the text. Of course external tooling is used to compile the troff to PDF and whatnot.

- There is also something called Wordtsar: http://wordtsar.ca/ This looks to be a Wordstar clone that the author mainly develops on Linux.

Hey look, someone in May 1985 was asking in comp.unix.wizards if there is a way to convert Wordstar fiels to Troff.

https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.unix.wizards/1985-May/01371...

That would be right around the time I would have been typing out grade 8 homework in Wordstar, running under CP/M via a Z80 coprocessor card inserted into my Hong-Kong-made Apple II+ clone.
> If you're headed for abstract algebra, where intuition breaks down, this approach might be useful.

I don’t even buy that. Instead of trying to take away the examples and spatial content of a very concrete subject like basic linear algebra, much better would be to give people a lot of concrete (geometrical and otherwise) examples so that their algebra course is better grounded, before just dumping them into abstract definitions and expecting them to symbol-twiddle their way to solutions of unmotivated problems.

For anyone wanting to learn about e.g. group theory, let me recommend Nathan Carter’s book Visual Group Theory http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/ncarter/vgt/
Absolutely. If the attitude of people were - 7% inflation? No problem, let's just not have an increase in unemployment or a recession then I'd at least be sympathetic.

Instead people say "I can whip inflation without raising rates, increasing unemployment or causing a recession." What do you get? A recession. Rising unemployment. And inflation too.
I feel bad for the author. One day she will buy a well written, well illustrated, accessible math book for $15 on Amazon and realize the debt she accumulated from Princeton was not worth it.
FWIW, you can choose to "View final document" which gets rid of all the proposed vandalism. Still really bad that the default view contains all the proposals.
For anyone looking, I’m sure they’ll revert it soon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KpdSKD8-Rn0bWPTu4UtK54ks...
I tried Solana and it wasn't nearly as open. Most contracts are closed source and even if you did get the source its difficult to confirm its correct due to a more complicated build process. And the devs don't really care that its closed. I wrote my thoughts about Solana block chain.

I would love some other recommendations though. So far I found Binance Smart Chain to be the most open and easy to navigate.

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-solana-b...
Learnawesome is very nice. Curating learning paths is a real pain these days. It's amazing that there's so much information available, but it's now almost impossible to make decisions. So I think there's a lot of important work to be done there to make it easier for people to reskill and keep learning.

Do you mean that they aren't available as offline or vs code plugins? I personally use Bear locally. I find it's minimalism refreshing.
How bad of shape is Forbes in to take that money? I mean let's be real, Forbes is a pretty terrible outfit to begin with, this just solidifies it.
You don't have to throw away the result.
That's what the State Monads are for.
Immutable State is Ok.
Memoization is Ok.
Gambling and unregistered securities are fundamentally very different things. Gambling is activity where usually house is guaranteed to win, and player is guaranteed to lose.

Unregistered securities are just securities, but not government approved. Generally it is believed that unregulated securities are way more risky. However also government approved securities can be scams or bad investments.
Long term profit would be higher than 2.5 billion. MS is not going to buy a game if they don't expect that profit somewhere. Again, short term profit vs long term gain. Notch took the money and put life on creative mode. Sounds fun, gets boring quickly, and as we can see they turned into a lonely hermit. They ruined not only Minecraft but themselves.
There's even hard data on this with regards to alcohol and cocaine that show that some people are predisposed to have a higher risk of addiction. With alcohol we know it's at least partially hereditary, so people with histories of alcohol abuse in their families are often told to be extra careful. I would love to see more research on this and even the ability to give individuals info on their own risk levels.

The only thing that seems to be near-universally dangerous in terms of addiction are opioids. But even still, most people who try heroin or get prescribed oxycodone never become addicted.
What a sad story!
The point of "No True Scotsman" is that you have your own definition of high quality OOP, which is not universal. Maybe yours is the right way of doing things, IDK. But I think others would probably prefer different definitions. For a lot of people, this variation in opinion of how OOP should be used can lead toward a conclusion that OOP in and of itself is a confusing concept and difficult to get "right".

Some people, myself included, just try to avoid this complication altogether, by separating data from logic.
They have different purposes. Jupyter is not a editor, it's a tool for quick data-sciency scripting.
Maybe explicit dissonance, but I assume most people are in cognitive dissonance with their view of reality, they just brush it off fast enough.
Adding `--no-sysinit` suppressed the message and allowed make to proceed.

The build then hangs on not finding lfp.h header file (which is part of libfixposix which is in FreeBSD pkg repo but without the header files.

<...>/common-lisp/nyxt/_build/iolib/src/syscalls/ffi-types-unix__grovel.c:6:10: fatal error: 'lfp.h' file not found
#include <lfp.h>
^~~~~~~
1 error generated.

It's been too long, can I just download the header(s) and put them somewhere (where the compiler will find them)?

- - - -

FWIW, at the start of sbcl compiling Nyxt this warning is printed:

> WARNING: You are using ASDF version 3.3.1 (probably from (require "asdf") or loaded
by quicklisp) and have an older version of ASDF (and older than 2.27 at
that) registered at #P"/usr/local/lib/common-lisp/asdf/asdf.asd". Having an
ASDF installed and registered is the normal way of configuring ASDF to
upgrade itself, and having an old version registered is a configuration
error. ASDF will ignore this configured system rather than downgrade itself.
In the future, you may want to either: (a) upgrade this configured ASDF to a
newer version, (b) install a newer ASDF and register it in front of the
former in your configuration, or (c) uninstall or unregister this and any
other old version of ASDF from your configuration. Note that the older ASDF
might be registered implicitly through configuration inherited from your
system installation, in which case you might have to specify
:ignore-inherited-configuration in your in your
~/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf or other source-registry
configuration file, environment variable or lisp parameter. Indeed, a likely
offender is an obsolete version of the cl-asdf debian or ubuntu package,
that you might want to upgrade (if a recent enough version is available) or
else remove altogether (since most implementations ship with a recent asdf);
if you lack the system administration rights to upgrade or remove this
package, then you might indeed want to either install and register a more
recent version, or use :ignore-inherited-configuration to avoid registering
the old one. Please consult ASDF documentation and/or experts.

But when I look in /usr/local/lib/common-lisp/asdf/asdf.asd it has:

(defsystem "asdf"
:author ("Daniel Barlow")
:maintainer ("Robert Goldman")
:licence "MIT"
:description "Another System Definition Facility"
:long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
:version "3.3.4.7" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
...

So I don't know why it thinks there's "an older version of ASDF (and older than 2.27 at that)" registered there, nor why it thinks I'm using 3.3.1.
In banks in engineering it was once explained to me, that dev salaries require a title (in comparison with other staff). Hence ordinary developers are often titled AVP, VP or AD.
To save someone else a search, HPTA is, according to Wikipedia:

The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis (HPG axis) refers to the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and gonadal glands as if these individual endocrine glands were a single entity. Because these glands often act in concert, physiologists and endocrinologists find it convenient and descriptive to speak of them as a single system.
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Hi, Edmund here. I wanted to address some of your concerns since I built Pelm Connect.

Regarding the similarity in design, I believe this is a result of both of our products finding inspiration in Plaid. Plaid has played an insurmountable role in the fintech boom, and I’m sure most could understand why companies like Pelm and Arcadia would look up to them for inspiration.

Regarding the similar copy in our documentation, this was something Pelm could have handled better. Our intention was to find a template as a starting point to work off of, and in hindsight, we should have just started from scratch. We’ve completely rewritten our Pelm Connect documentation.

Please understand that we had no malicious intentions and did not mean to discredit the hard work of Arcadia. We believe that Pelm and Arcadia have the same goal of democratizing access to energy data in service of making the world more sustainable. We’re excited that competition in the space will spur innovation and help us move closer to solving a dire problem.
Given that the warning is, as you say yourself, legally required, what do you consider to be the most likely primary reason for it being published? It being legally required (and the consequences of violating that), or "knowing journalists would see this"?

Especially since this wasn't the first report where it was included...
I don't think that a compact fusion powerplant specifically is needed. But I do agree that a truly self-sufficient Martian colony (I.E. able to exist for more than a few years without ships coming from Earth) would need a gargantuan level of infrastructure to have even a small chance of being viable.

From a standpoint of reducing emissions on Earth, it would be cool to see Elon Musk's best take on how to build a practical fusion generator though. I've heard of a few potential paths that could lead to net power much faster and cheaper than ITER. Supposedly superconducting magnets have gotten considerably better since ITER was proposed, and since power output in a tokamak reactor is something like the third or fourth power of the magnet strength IIRC, there's potential for a newer and smaller reactor design to outdo it in both timeline and cost.
Forbes is about as a good as business insider. They are really bad journalism. Forbes is only known for its list of wealthy people which is not something I would want to hang my hat on.
Just what is it with extra privileged people and being allergic to admitting it.

You seriously, honestly, from the bottom of your heart, think that 90% of the 70k people living in the Complexo do Alemão are just lazy and don't fix their lives due to sloth?

Before you start, I'm happy with my life and my circumstances.
I described how this works in the original post. They do send an SMS with a link to unsubscribe, but that only cancels future charges, not the original one. And it's possible that a lot of the scammed people don't see it on time or confuse it for another purchase they made. Especially since the presumed targets are children. Then even if you unsubscribe, you still get a bill from your carrier. I had to pester both this firm and the carrier to remove the charge.
The link labeled “IPA overview” is NSFW.
OP comment has to be sarcasm. No other way to read it.
This is a really deep point. A math professor at The University of Chicago wisely pointed to me as this being a super important thing to keep in mind when teaching (I've gone into secondary education). Often the material you are and how well the student is receiving has a much smaller impact on the student than what the emotional experience of it communicates to them about their own capabilities, including their chance at continue to struggle through the material in the hopes of fully grasping it. Especially in the latter years in school, it seems you find a lot of teachers who almost revel in making their courses "impossible" for kids, which can sometimes be very motivational for extremely high-achievers but absolutely devastating to a well-intentioned student who is having a challenge with the material.
lol, Circus Circus really had a lot of hard to find games, around that time. I too once spent an entire family vacation in there, playing Crazy Climber (another game with dual joysticks).
Java runs on anything. Thats sort of the whole point of the JVM. Xbox one and PS4 were perfectly capable of vanilla Java Minecraft. There's no need for seperation, they just want two games for more money.
AMD's Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go
There’s builderment, that is kind of a simple factorio but without creeps (or main character for that matter)
I think this is mostly a technical requirement related to signing authority (e.g. for lots of things you need to be an officer).

Of course, the VP being the threshold target role for this is a choice, but it seems to be useful in contexts like banks to have some sort of dividing line.
If there is no way to disable this 'feature', I will stop using Firefox entirely.
Safari is less resource hungry on Macs :)

Or was before the last "redesign".

I guess ungoogled chromium might be a solution.

Or: what's a decent ad blocking solution for modern Safari?
Why is it certainly tidally locked when Mercury is not?