skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They read the figure correctly.

Unfortunately the study authors didn’t provide the underlying data that created the figure in a consumable format, so it’s hard to draw conclusions.
Yeah they've improved spotting in the game immensely after a rocky couple of attempts. The lower res of VR actually helps a bit there as well. The hardest part is ID though where the res does work against it a bit. There is zoom in VR as well which works pretty well. I find it a bit easier than a flat screen overall.

VR absolutely shines for gunnery though, I got a lot more accurate just making the switch. In particular I never really got comfortable with a TrackIR it never felt quite connected in the way VR does.

And then just for immersion its really fun, personally I don't think I could go back. I'm just running it on the Oculus Link with the OG Quest so no worries about lots of hardware needing to be setup. I just plug the cable in, use the hand tracking to start the link and launch into IL2.
It's weird seeing this here, I made a small PR to it that was merged to add a few statistical functions back in 2017. Good plugin though!
The saving grace of crypto ofc is that it is EXTREMELY top heavy, so even if there is $1tn tied up in crypto, probably under 100k people control 95%+ of it.

And good luck leading the revolution, Winklevos twins…
I am not a mathematician or math teacher and I would not call myself a maths enthusiast, but what were you trying to learn?

For the usual undergraduate courses, there are Schaum's outlines, which are cheap and usually OK for self-study. There are also explanatory books that you might find helpful, that might not form a whole substitute for a textbook - an example would be Div, Grad, Curl, and All That for vector calculus. It's a bit of a trick to find them on Amazon and through other searches, but you can get practiced at it.
Author here. I've heard that before. Maybe I should really rename. Got any suggestions? "osms" (OSM search) might be misleading because it reminds me of SMS. "osmfind" is a little long for my taste, but well, maybe it's better than "osmf".
If you disallow something and it still get crawled, doesn't that reveal them as bad actors?
> Multiplication on a number line? I guess you can take X and repeatedly jump by it Y times.

Of course you can, but it's not intuitive to most. Most notably it requires understanding that in 3+4 you start at 3 and move 4 spaces to the right. In 3x4 you start at 0 and move to the right 3 spaces 4 times.

Kids absolutely do not grasp commutativity immediately. That they can solve 3x4 is 12 and 4x3 is 12 is not the same thing as understanding with confidence that nothing changes between these swaps.
Thinking that it is a rationalization is often times a rationalization by those who can't fathom turning down money.
> If I were smarter than I am, I might have went deeper on this regard.

Can't tell if this is deliberately ironic...
UK's CMA accepts Google's post-cookie pledges, Privacy Sandbox plan
https://github.com/homebrew/brew#donations
Yeah, thinking about this more definitely makes me curious about what their targets are for this. They paid a fair amount of money up front but keeping the lights on is basically trivial.
Also went to an ivy and found the "math for non-majors" to be pretty well taught & very manageable - although I did have pretty solid high school math.

I did not have the same experience with my first physics for majors course - which was taught by a guy who talked into the blackboard and spent the entire class writing on the board in a fugue. Made me switch majors.
> I suspect that many people who are good at number theory can probably wing it in a literature course.

At the high end, humanities and 'softer sciences' courses can require a huge amount of reading and rote memorization. You end up skimming through entire tomes and trying to figure out what you actually need to read in detail, because it just isn't feasible to deal with the workload any other way. That's just as hard and painful as a course in number theory, just in a different sense.
Isnt' that basic set theory as a prereq
When the author described this specific math class as a required math class for Engineering majors and not math majors, I spotted it for exactly what it is: a weedout course.

It's intentional.
So the 75%+ who don't pass this course don't graduate or what? They have to change degree?
At least you had math. At my school, they only taught "History of Math," and didn't have any affiliations with other programs/schools to fill in the gaps. Pretty awful!
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>We know the path we chose, limited global use of fission power, mostly avoided nuclear weapons proliferation, and did avoid nuclear exchanges. So it's provably a successful (or probably successful) path.

Only if you value the lack of nuclear exchanges over the impacts of climate change. Which one of the two is more likely to cause a mass extinction type issue on the planet, one puts the control in the hands of people and the other the forces of nature.
Thank you for the suggestion. Readex is incredibly readable and beautiful at the same time.
Try this and see how it goes.

Firefox with uBlock Origin (not to be confused with uBlock), NoScript, uBlacklist.
I am really tired of the cherry picking in this thread.

That there were Christians who opposed slavery does not mean it's central or exclusive to Christianity. Christians also justified slavery with the bible. https://time.com/5171819/christianity-slavery-book-excerpt/

That there were slave holders who justified their view in science does not mean that it's central or exclusive to atheists (see citizenship rights for slaves in the laicist French revolution)

>Consider Thomas Jefferson,

I'll consider Thomas Jefferson who readily incorporated slavery in his business while formulating his Jefferson Bible.

>Or consider German Americans

Maybe recent immigrants were driven by a desire to contribute to their new home?

>Maybe there are other examples but I’m unaware of any.

Unclear how superficial or cynical this is meant. WWII could come to mind.

Really, yours is the first account I read of the Civil War as a religious crusade of the Christian North to finally bring god to the heretics of the South.
I’ve worked on a bunch of projects and had a few that were reasonably successful. First thing I learned is that engineering is only half the battle. Marketing, support, and administration take up just as much time in the long run.

Also, architecture matters. It feels like you’re saving time cutting corners early in a project but every time you do it you’re increasing the complexity adding more features later. The trade off of course is that if you expect a perfect architecture you’ll never ship anything.

One other thing, build products that you want to use, but don’t expect that that automatically means there’s a market. Your judgement as the product’s creator is extremely important and users don’t know what they want, but products that take off virally are hard to predict.
My friend has 600+ hours played of Factorio.

He just beat the game for the first time. I bought it, we played multiplayer. And I taught him the mantra "great is the enemy of good enough". Our run took 14 hours.

I also know many people like this at work, and wish they could have the Factorio experience.

If you refactor at the first sign of trouble, you remain blind to totally new to problems just around the corner.
the cynical take is: that’s the whole point of the presidency in the first place. Have one guy who is technically in charge of the machine, the machine commits countless crimes, then after 4/8 years you pin all those crimes on the single guy you selected, go “whoops! bummer about the drone strikes!” and then pardon him.
that's a performance optimization. you have other performance optimizations available often, with tradeoffs.

FP is a higher level paradigm so you might have to trade off with performance too
This is exactly the point I am making -- Apple has made it EASIER -- which xoa was arguing against.
That page says "... we adopted the vertical stroke and right angle of the interior counters, which contrast nicely against the rounded curves of the exterior stroke," and gives the example of the capital 'B' from the IBM logo. But the actual font doesn't do that at all. The 'interior counters' are rounded in the capital 'B' of the font.
Oh wow! Thanks for the link! I don't see it on there, but that list is for PC fonts, and this was a Unix workstation. I think it may have actually been antialiased, though I can't say for sure.
This problem isn’t about map(). parseInt takes a second argument - a radix - and map passes a second argument to to the callback: an index

The normal solution is to write an inline function; “shortcutting” it by just passing a named function directly can be nice when it’s appropriate, but it often isn’t what you want to do
...and I thought Amway was bad!
Sane implementations do not read more than 500KiB of robots.txt contents.
If you want to get to AGI, it doesn't really have to be a remote possibility with current techniques.

The only thing current techniques would have to do is build something that improves itself intelligently enough.

Then the next iteration and the next, until you get to an iteration in which AGI is a remote possibility with current techniques and implementations.

We're currently far from AGI, but I'm not sure we're far from a thing that can make a thing that makes a thing that makes something like AGI.
It can be in some cars, but with sporty 6-speeds in particular it can be very difficult to tell if you're in reverse or 1st just by looking because the shift gates are so narrow. My VW is even worse, because you get it into reverse by pushing the shift knob down and then basically shifting into 1st.

Of course not knowing which gear you're in when you start the car is less a problem with a manual - interacting with the gear lever is a much more normal and automatic (irony) part of the driving experience so if you start rolling the wrong way you just pop it into a different gear and move on with your life.
>I mean, out of most of the analogy examples posted to HN, Factorio is actually a good one

I think all the analogies I've seen are good. The problem is they're obvious. They don't really bring anything new to the table.

Great you identified an analogy. Big deal?
A lot of companies use it currently as a job application submission. At least from what I know.

I guess they have a product that is similar to lever or greenhouse atm
It's a "weed out" class. When a huge number of people want to be STEM, but there is no way they're going to last, it's better to have a tough class that sets that expectation early, so they have time to pursue a more achievable major. In my case, huge State university, Freshman year Physics was the weed-out class. It was not advanced or (to me) particularly difficult, but there was a LOT of content, we moved very fast, and the workload was punishing. If I recall correctly, our first class was over 1000 people in a huge auditorium forum. By the time we took final exams, we were down to around 100 people.
Hah that sounds exactly like my uni.
I got crushed by a class in environmental humanities. Not due to a lack of comprehension of the material but because I didn’t understand the technical aspects of writing literary analysis (extreme focus on close reading of the language used where I tended to focus on the abstract conceits). It felt equivalent to taking a class in graph theory without first taking a proofs/discrete course and everyone else in the class had. Great class though - I think about the texts all the time
Here is my take:

This class seems to be a filter class. A class designed to sift out students that would not cut it in a engineering/science curriculum. They are not designed for students to learn, they are designed as a barrier. That in itself is fine if it happens early enough so students can regroup and reevaluate what to do next with their lives. What I don't like about this is that there is a mismatch between what colleges are saying they want to do and what they are actually doing. They should actually state that in the name and description of the course. I wish schools would be transparent so they don't waste the money and time of the students. This won't happen of course, we will just continue the kabuki dance.
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_322c88882cda5c3c1edc6d5c18...
Are you familiar with spoon theory?

https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illne...

I have from 25-50 or maybe more things I need to get done in my normal everyday life - most of which either improve my life in some significant way, or improves someone else's in a way that pays my bills. I run out of spoons about 15 before I need to learn a new something that will add minor improvement to my life in some way. This includes things like holding down a key longer gives you the alternative characters for it, or a new operating system or device, or all the little features on my TV or the many thousands of ways Alexa can be harnessed to do some really cool things.

On a day where I have nothing to do and I feel particularly inclined, I might learn one of those things - but chances are I'll spend it doing something else that brings me joy. Cooking, spending time with loved ones, going for a ride on my bike or a swim. These are the choices and trade offs I make. Admittedly, that hampers my ability to use certain devices because I don't understand them completely, but it gives me time to enjoy my life in other ways.
> These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take a job.

I mean, I suppose we can forcibly employ everyone? Anyone not employed in two weeks gets contracted out to the IRS or whatever.. but that doesn't seem to be the goal.

If you aren't looking for a job, and you can't take a job.. you aren't going to be employed. That isn't some kind of "only the strong survive" thing, that's just a tautology - you must in fact apply for jobs to get a job.

Why do you think "people who aren't looking for jobs aren't employed!" is a response here?
It's the opposite. This page is specifically made for people who do have time to spare. You don't go to IBM.com to find your next font -- you go to Google fonts or any font "buffets" where you can preview hundreds/thousands of fonts and pick the right one.

If you landed on this site, it's because you found IBM Plex elsewhere and decided to take some time to find out more about it. And IBM knows you have a choice of thousands of fonts, so it purposely wants to go overboard on the presentation, show you how much thought went into these fonts, and hopefully even make you a bit nostalgic or emotional.

It's also a typography presentation, anyone viewing it on mobile isn't really the target audience anyway.
Awesome! I'm pretty sure I came across your app when I was looking for open source systems to integrate with. I'm going for the big ones first (transportr (navita), onebusaway, OSM...), but if I do end up needing a standalone app, yours looks like a great base.
It also happens with EU spec machines and their respective EU power supplies. Could be that some of these older homes aren't properly grounding some outlets, so regardless of what you stick in there, maybe you're not getting a ground.

Despite how dangerous it sounds, I've never heard of anyone having a real shock... so I guess it's fine.
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I have been thinking about it too. I think you definitely need people who are more algorithmically inclined in software, but you also need people who can "engineer".

My current take is that the tech industry is so young that we are still struggling with proper definitions of titles and division of labor.

In my experience, after school I could do all the hard mathy/algo/data structure things, but I had no idea what REST even meant. So all startups instantly rejected me, while FAANG was very excited to have me. I felt like a huge imposter also, because if I were smart, how come I didn't know all the cool stuff that people at hackathons know.
Well as a physics grad who struggled with first year LA and a parent of a current university student I can fill in some blanks. Linear Algebra specifically is a superpower these days and I was very excited to do the best I could to help by daughter get past the barriers I experienced and learn it well.

I failed. I found her course to be not only sink or swim, but actively hostile to student learning. As mentioned in another post, assignments and quizzes were returned weeks late with little helpful coaching. Assignments very often worked with higher levels of abstraction than presented in the lectures, for example the first time she saw a matrix of functions was on a homework assignment.

Furthermore there seemed to be no additional help for Linear Algebra. To my great surprise the math department had no facility for matching students with tutors. The university math help center was almost exclusively oriented towards calculus and had no resources for Linear Algebra. After weeks of searching online we finally got a call back from a third party tutor, only to be informed that this person (a grad student in math) couldn't help us because the assignments were "too specific to the particular course."

The _only_ place I've ever seen someone show any creativity and ingenuity in teaching linear algebra is 3Blue1Brown, but obviously even though he's got a whole linear algebra series it's not a complete university course, nor is it meant to be.

So yeah, it's a damn shame, and IMO inexcusable. Linear Algebra is the foundation of modern data science and machine learning. Math departments should consider it a sacred duty to bring as many students as possible to at least some level of comfort and familiarity, but instead they seem to treat it as an annoying distraction at best, or a weeder class at worst.
No, that's doing more of the same. We want curious conversation here.
I built a free service that sends you email prompts to think about gratitude. If you reply to the emails, it collects your responses into a gratitude journal.

https://emailnotebook.com

Its primary purpose is to get me to build the habit, and so far it's working for that :)
I wouldn’t read too much into one figure that may represent 1-2 total observations (there were a grand total of 6 deaths in the vaccinated group, not broken out by age, and 14 in the unvaccinated). It doesn’t even explicitly state if they died due to Covid.
If the Incheon landings [0] had been a failure during the Korean War in 1950, it's hard to see how nuclear weapons wouldn't have been employed, especially as China was neither involved nor had their own.

And if they'd been normalized in a second war, even at tactical scale, it makes you wonder how the rest of nuclear history would have unfolded.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Inchon
Most or all of the major trust chains that underpin it are compromised, would be my guess.
> With regards to the MOOCs prediction, it is true that most education has switched online

That's just half of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) equation. Also, from what I read, almost everyone hates even that.
Yeah, but most of success in today's world is built off of the perception that others have of you.

In fact, some of the feedback I have gotten throughout the years is that I have lots of potential, I'm smart (smarter than I really am), well spoken (for an IT guy), etc. It doesn't mean anything because they always seem to think that I should be driving every meeting or conversation. If there's another person in the meeting with more knowledge in that specific area and I agree with their direction, why would I take over? So their perception is that I'm smart, but that I lack some other quality. My perception is that I'm dumber than the other guy but just smart enough to know to defer to their expertise. It leaves me stuck and unsuccessful.

I'm stupid enough to ask certain questions... which I suppose makes them stupid questions. If we are a company notorious for value shopping, and the company says we're seeing deadlines or capacity slip due to not filling open positions, and is costing the company money, risk of tech debt not being addressed... it's stupid for someone like me to question that, but I do. If it were really costing the company money, then wouldn't we increase pay or not force people back to the office to increase headcount? There seems to be a contradiction here, and the people in power don't have an answer that makes sense (possibly because there are things they can't tell a peon me).
Cool idea, would love to see an example of a typical email in the frontpage. Just to know what to expect
> driver who passed me on the shoulder ... with a 20+ mph speed differential ... is exactly the sort of antics I would expect from a significant portion of drivers who are trying to set time records in crossing the country

Your guess is as a good as mine. I would expect that for a 2800 mile journey, the priority is avoiding interruptions - eg crashes or getting pulled over because you've attracted determined police attention from other motorists calling you in. Reading about it, the whole thing seems like a game of coordinated logistics rather than extreme piloting.

> every single place there are more non-cop speeders than cop speeders, simply because there are far more non-cops than cops.

I'm sure we're defining speeding differently. On a road with average traffic of 75mph, I would only consider significantly over 80mph to be speeding in its own right. I see very few non-cops doing these speeds, whereas every moving state cop I see is cruising at 110mph+ or tailgating waiting to pass. You can tell based on how quickly they close distance from way behind you to passing you.

> You seem quite happy to excuse this behavior

It's literally the only way to have an interesting conversation about it. If cannonball run attempts become common enough where they create a statistical danger, then I'll be concerned about it. Until then, I'll stay concerned with the mundane-and-bad rather than getting worked up about the exceptional.
Amazing how a very costly to train system using billions of neural nodes on millions of dollars of compute performs more poorly than an 8-bit 1970s pocket calculator.

Not sure why people are expecting some sort of "intelligence" to emerge from a text generator model trained on Internet corpus data. GPT-3 doesn't calculate, it pattern matches.

I do get why people might be surprised, on the other hand, that it actually doesn't perform worse than indicated here. Maybe it's surprising upside. But since we know that the GPT is a transformer model, what it is doing is applying a probabilistic best-fit. From this perspective I can see how it is best-fitting data in ways that can provide these sorts of results, especially given all that training data.
i hope you don't ban the IPs permanently

nobody own their IP, and at some point a legitimate person will be assigned that IP

and most people who do bad things on the internet use some proxies, usually residential ones

it always makes me sad when people put such rules
Berkeley DB and variants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
I have over 5000 hours in Factorio. I am part of a group where several of us are over 5000 hours. Some of us have Autism. Some of us have ADHD. Some of us have both. The majority of us are in the tech industry.

The companies we work at have been made to understand that the factory must grow.
It seems like this is merely someone's opinion that Factorio may have some transferable skills, namely a mindset-- along with the limitations-- of automation.

I'm not sure why this would be so frustrating for you. It's not like the author themselves went down your slippery slope to full blown theory. If they had? Sure, that would be a bit of the usually breathless attempts at "thoughtleading", but I see no need for preemptive criticism.

Also congratulations for being really tall. I'm about average height.