skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the inclusive or [0] from the context.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63998/inclusive-...
A friend of mine from high school is working on a SNES tracker[0]. He’s deep into this space and could probably answer your questions if you catch him on stream[1]. He also authored many of the sections on the SNES development wiki linked by the article (under “bazz”).

[0] https://github.com/bazz1tv/snestracker

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/Bazz1tv
My experiences as a math major at a prominent university were even worse. In upper-level courses, professors would work through one problem on the board for the entire class. Turns out, they'd do it wrong about half the time. The next class (usually a few days later), they'd spend 30 seconds saying how they made a mistake here or there. So your entire instruction set was incorrect, solidified in memory for days at best, then we're supposed to divine which part you did incorrectly in 30 seconds! And then many of the professors had what was, at best, a tenuous grasp of the English language - which matters a lot when teaching complex subjects in English to students. And we were supposed to learn in these classes? Jeez it was awful. And these are the people at the top of their field, paid to do research?

Engineering classes were hit or miss - some were great, taught core concepts really well. Others turned into awful mathematical formula applications / regurgitation with extremely dubious accuracy.

Needless to say I don't have a great respect for math as an academic discipline, despite really liking math.
> It only appears as up and down to you on earth

Up and down aren't anything but appearances. And since we evolved on Earth, with gravity, our experience of "up" and "down" are specifically caused by indicators that tell us which way the center of our planet's mass is. Sure, it's all perception via our sensory systems, and they can get distorted, so we could sense "up" as toward the earth if something in our sensory system gets messed up (pun in that metaphor hah).
Tuple https://tuple.app/
Assuming OP was an undergrad, it’s totally fair to assume that the prof in question was trying to euphemistically say that they weren’t good enough for the class, especially since “mathematical maturity” is something of a term of art in the field. I don’t think it’s worth putting down teenagers for not understanding the nuances of every single bit of terminology in a field they’re dipping their toes into, the expectation should be that professors be more empathetic to that.
"What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger" -Nietzsche
Bit of a side bar but the physical properties of parts of the human body are just amazing.

For example, the coefficient of friction for cartilage is 1/10 to 1/100 that of ICE [0]

0 - https://teambone.com/education/education-clinical/orthopedic...
This, exactly. I work with similar modems daily. The first thing I do is to run the AT command for enabling adb. From there you can do whatever. The modems are quite beefy, 100s MB of RAM and multiple CPU cores. They even come pre-installed with a http server, ftp client, ALSA and much more.

Also, if you really want to get creative, I think you can just dump the firmware, which is just normal Linux. So just dump it, mount the filesystem and make whatever changes you want then re-flash.

The quality and security of the software in these things is absolutely bottom tier.
Delete every CSS declaration (both inline or stylesheets) from every website and see how easy it is to read them. Not very, huh? Same deal with accessibility.

You can't "just OCR stuff" without losing all the visual meaning in a page. Just like we use borders and paddings and colors to hierarchize information, screenreaders use an information hierarchy too so users can conveniently navigate around.
> at least some parser will choke on them

Ah the never ending joy I get by putting a 1GB file as the robots.txt or even having a 1GB `favicon.ico` file.
It's always been a bubble, but it used to be a very small bubble. Then in the mid-XX century it grew to become a very large bubble, which appeared to have become self-sustaining. The internet seems to have changed that, possibly because it removed the real economic structure that sustained such bubble.
Yes, and they are active by default.
At least a couple that I know of.

There's RoboRace: https://roborace.com

I don't know much about what they are doing now but in 2020 they got some coverage for an issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fdUx6d4QM

And there is the Indy Autonomous Challenge that ran a head to head race at CES this year: https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/autonomous-challenge...
> Forbes

> Good news

pick one.
A class doesn't become bad enough to write an op-ed about for that alone. There must've been multiple other issues for this class to have a 2.7 rating.
To quote Thiel, "competition is for losers."
I know what you mean - but I genuinely read more essays/articles now than ever before. There are decent recommendations everywhere, least of all HN itself.
This sounds like a perfect intersection of a few interests of mine so would be super interested in learning more. What type of help are you looking for?
It was a part-time masters program, 2nd semester IIRC.
It's like tinnitus. It's bearable when you get a mild case from a concert and then it goes away.

But when it sticks and you're at your second decade of 24/7 eeeeeeeeeee in your ear, at times it gets to you really bad and you just want to claw your eardrums off.
That page is scaling wrong on Firefox for me.

Each section doesn't fit on my screen by itself like I think it intends to.
A little over a decade ago, before SSDs were commonplace, there was a HDD shortage caused by a flood in Thailand ruining factories used by some of the top storage brands. Here's the Backblaze side of the story detailing what it was like to weather this challenge: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/

I preface my comment with that just to establish I remember what hard drive prices were like back then and what they were afterwards. The prices never really came down, at least not to what they had been, ever.

All that to say I expect this SSD shortage will play out the same way.
Enemies Can Use Your Prediction Markets Against You
Up and down are perceptions that we evolved specifically to indirectly sense gravity. "nothing to do with" is wrong, it's like saying that thermometers have nothing to do with temperature because various versions of them can get miscalibrated and are really visual devices.
Bet Ukraine wishes it still had nukes.
I do think there's something being lost online in going from print. I don't mean that in a nostalgic, wistful kind of way, I mean it in a functional, ergonomic, I want useful information kind of way.

The problem is that I'm not sure how to pinpoint exactly what it is, or if it's a combination of things. Certain things I feel really confident about, but others are more like guesses. And I worry that some of that knowledge that's there in print stuff is going to be lost forever as everything transitions to the current reading UX paradigm.

Ads are kind of interesting to me because people complain about them, but I've realized gradually that I liked a lot of the print ads. They were relevant and usually not intrusive. If I was reading about X, in X journal, the ads were targeted to someone reading that material in that outlet, and were there for me to see if I wanted, and if not, not. Online, they're obnoxious, intrusive, and irrelevant -- even when they are tracking me! (That last part is the worst part of it actually.)

As for other stuff I'm not sure. Flipping through pages is just faster sometimes for browsing? Maybe eink would be better? But I tried that and it was slow and only would do a small fraction of what regular screens (and print) could handle.

I think it's possible to duplicate print experience, maybe be even better than that and laptops/tablets/phones. I'm just not sure exactly how to it should be done.

I don't miss the physical volume of material print would take up. But there are certain things about it, and how it was edited, that was better.
What Does It Mean to Do Things That Don't Scale?
"Cultural cognition" being the key concept here.
No one can have an enjoyable and helpful reading experience by picking a textbook or applying for a random course. Instead, reading the history of mathematics to learn about topics and their background would be a great way to capture the idea and a good starting point to find your favorite area. I recommend searching for Paul Lockhart's books, Mathematics in Western Culture by Morris Kline, and Famous problems of geometry and how to solve them by Benjamin Bold.
The filibuster is just a rule that the Senate made for itself. If you have 50 Senate votes to actually get stuff done you can get it done by changing that rule.

What the Democrats had was 50 votes to wring their hands and say it's impossible. Maybe they have 48 votes to get it done, maybe fewer. But they don't have 50 votes to actually get it done, so it doesn't get done.

It suits several Democrats (famously two, but the real number is likely more) in the senate to say they can't do anything, but that isn't the case, it's a lie. You've probably told lies just like it. Oh, I can't come to the your party, so sorry, we have to er, see my wife's parents yeah. You don't want to go to their party, but you say you can't even though it isn't true.
tons of places like that near me. it’s the norm. but very clearly the parent is talking about places that don’t do that. and your earlier response was much more hostile than this. more like how dare he want good in person service?
List of Forbes scams

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-incomplete-history-of-f...
> His answer was that I may just not have the "mathematical maturity" for the material. I was so discouraged that I dropped out of the program.

There's a problem with making a statement like that and not following it up with what you need to do gain the needed "maturity". Even adding "maybe you should take this course over here and come back to this one in a semester..." could make a world of difference.
France is smart to think ahead and budget for Germany’s future energetic needs.
Maybe the class did have pre-req? I mean i think it is obvious that a class called "Hard problems in combinatorial optimization" is aimed more at future Mathematicians/Computer Scientists than people who want to take it for the fun of it.
UK regulators accept Google's Privacy Sandbox promises
Dunno how other search engines do it, but I only ever read 512Kb from a connection :P
Impressive how back then was possible and "relatively easy" to understand how microchips would work, and also to see what new possibilities they've opened to the general consumers.
At first I thought you were saying that doing arithmetic by carrying is not really a human trait, but on reflection, I think you are saying that carrying methods are inherently mistake-prone, regardless of who or what is using them.

I feel it would be a very big deal if GPT-3 (or this variant) was carrying, even if imperfectly, but other comments here seem to be suggesting that, on account of the way all input is tokenized, consistently doing arithmetic by carrying would simply be outside of the set of transformations it could perform (though some results that look like it might arise by chance.)
The economic reasons for the failure of these types of publications seem pretty obvious. The bar to "putting your stuff out there" has never been lower. These magazines cannot be gatekeepers any longer. While at the same time attention, that dreaded currency, is being spent on a wider and wider variety of pursuits.

I'm curious about the actual volume of literary work being produced compared to days past. For those who still partake: is the work still being produced? Is it harder or easier to find? Is the quality changing?
PR move
Again, I mostly do agree with you, especially as you get to more creative fields. I think what I would rephrase as is: given my genetic makeup, discipline is more likely to yield benefits using openAI Jukebox rather than guitar or piano.

On this topic, if you have not already, one of the best movies I have seen in last couple years: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11423784/ (is on netflix in the US).
Not only urge them to oppose it, but make it clear that it's a dealbreaker.

I will vote you out if you support this bill. End of story.
Maybe next, but surely already current step. Many people are already on that rhetoric.
Some level of pre-existing immunity due to prior exposure to other similar coronaviruses is possible but hasn't been confirmed.

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(21)00571-3/ful...

Many patients who are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 quickly fight off the infection with an innate immune response before the adaptive immune response really engages. That can happen with no pre-existing immunity. Some people just have better immune systems.
Sympathize with all the comments about the horrific web page.

More concretely, is it too much to expect that fonts have ligature support by default? I get it that certain fonts, for historical and aesthetic reasons do not support them.

For me, having ligatures, especially in a fixed width font I'm going to use for coding, is a deal-breaker.

YMMV
Absolutely true. I only have weird smells sometimes, while my wife still suffers loss of appetite and a reduction of energy levels. It's been 6 months since we recovered.
Look up setting up a Helium hotspot or AKash node.
That sounds like either an absolutely terrible teacher, or a terrible program. Why were so many people enrolled in a class that less than 25% would pass? I'm not American so I don't really understand the course names but I guess a class just called "Algebra" shouldn't be too hard? Stuff like basic groups/rings/fields or is it a more advanced class?
These are the steps:

1) Perform as best as you can in the interview.

2) Ask the recruiter explicitly what level the hiring committee decided to put you at. This generally won’t be negotiable since it depends on your interview performance.

3) Go on levels.fyi and look at the data points for such company/level, especially the recent ones, and try to stay towards the upper band of the spectrum.

4) If the offer that comes in is lower, politely ask your recruiter to match those you see online, referring them to the above link if needed. Confidently say that if they won’t be matched you will not be interested in pursuing the opportunity (just say this if it’s actually true, since there’s a real possibility they might call your bluff).

My split is exactly in line with what you can see on levels.fyi, so please refer to those data points.
I've been very happy with 64tass for 6502 code: http://tass64.sourceforge.net/ - apparently supports 65816 as well.
Can someone please add a (2018) in the title :-)

OK font, pointless website and not a smart choice of name, when we hear Plex the thing that comes to mind is the Plex streaming/home DLNA software [0] we all know.

Well to be honest, the first thing that comes in my mind is the PLEX programming language [1] for Ericsson telephone exchanges, that I know and have used in the past.

[0] https://www.plex.tv/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLEX_(programming_language)
There's so much "dem boomers and normies don't understand technology" in this thread, not to mention hyperbolic statements about the end of all privacy, and I feel fairly confident that the vast majority of commenters have, like myself, not read the bill. Not that most of us are likely to understand precisely what it means without a legal background anyway.

Is there a competent analysis of the bill I can read? I think this is the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/353... which to my untrained-in-law eyes seems to do nothing more than establish a commission that makes recommendations to service providers.

Like, don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's good reason to oppose this, I'd just like those arguments in a form that isn't a bunch of nerd-oriented rage-porn.
It makes sense, propaganda to drive crypto scams
There's barely any uptake in Canada.
Not that it matters, the only way you'd get a one-time key to trigger alerts for others is through a PCR test, which public health, as of this moment, will not do PCR test for symptomatic people unless they're in a high risk group.

Went and donate blood mid Dec 2021, it's one of the things that I kept up, because people still need that stuff. 10 days later, I get a email from them saying that I may have been exposed. While it's nice that they notify me, it's not from public health's contact tracing.

We've tried nothing and it doesn't work.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel have been publishing a series of talks on Youtube. They're awesome. This is one of my favorites.
Another opt-out route, which I am currently going down, is using Google Docs as an RTE and then just doing a good job of importing from it.
No, those aren't abusive teachers. That's the standard approach to teaching STEM subjects in most of the worldwide. I'd say the abusive part is the often-unspoken expectation that students are going to sneak around department policies to find ways to check their work other than handing it in.
The name really stuck out to me, it's also the name of a product you stick up a babies butt[1]

https://frida.com/products/windi
It's really very simple. Math is a self-study subject. The axioms and relationships are described on paper in very clear language. How to reason and internalize those axioms is entirely up to the reader. Each mathematician or practitioner builds their own models and tools to absorb the content.

Princeton publishes a Mathematics Companion. It's a good book that covers a wide range of topics. The treatment per topic is rather brief and acts as a gateway into deeper study.
Hopin got 'Fastest Growing Product' Award, fires 12% due to unsustainable growth
I suppose that is universal though.
At places like Princeton, most people become professors because they are good at research.
What a load of old claptrap.

Just show me some samples.
Grading the homework is not the same thing as providing feedback. A big red X tells you that something is wrong, but not what you can do to fix the problem or even why that thing is wrong.
would love to see that game if it can be played today! there is a MMO version of Joust out there which is glorious
How did you imagine me to be a crypto fan??? I'm a total crypto-cynic sympathetic to the argument that it's all a speculative wasteful scam.
This type of experience was typical for me as an undergrad Chem major many years ago. Basically sink or swim, figure it out on your own, professors didn't care that O-Chem had a 50% fail rate. My P-Chem teacher told the class we could bring whatever materials we wanted during an exam, it didn't matter, he was going to "destroy" us.
This same bill was shelved once before due to outcry about it. They just keep putting it back out there (very similar to Net Neutrality). The key is, to continue the pressure each time it's re-introduced (which is hard, yes). But there is some precedent that vocal outcry and campaigns to write representatives does have some impact.
the 30 under 30, tho
Creationism really is the 2+2=5 of some ideologies. To believe in Creationism, you have to reject a lot of facts, a lot of which you can go out and verify yourself.

It looks like a major mistake to have coddled Creationists at all, at this point. Letting people believe falsehoods is the initial crack in the system that let in a lot of other toxic beliefs and behaviors.
Ask HN: Any other databases on single disk file like SQLite exist?
What are other databases like SQlite, which dont require spinning up a server & save data to disk instead? Does such a thing exist for specialized databases on a single disk (elastic search etc)?
Publishing online isn't actually free if done professionally, but I would guess that indeed staffing costs are the biggest problem for most cultural endeavors.
I thought it was common knowledge that this is the problem with intro CS. There are places that get much better results by making sure that either freshmen test out of the intro class or they all know equal amounts of nothing when they take it.
Because capitalism gives mostly money to people who exploit the labour of others.

You'll never become rich by working hard or smart. It's only possible through inheritance or extracting value created by others through profit.
I know I can be mistaken (I would never take any amount any way, finding out the true emergence of the arithmetic capabilities of the network would be a price that outweights any sum of money, even if I am enormously mistaken), but I want to raise the point so that it is in the back of our minds. It it were a "simple" backpropagation network, it would not be surprising that it is just solving arithmetic by "finding out the formula" (fitting) to sum from base ASCII to base ASCII (as long as the output is not longer than the ones from the training sets). The dataset certainly has an influence, but I would argue that you can learn very good arithmetic with very small datasets. Also, if the training process would use different operations I would argue that, as long as it fits polynomials well, should be able to solve arithmetic in ASCII within bounds (would not generalize well to numbers of lengths longer than it was trained with).
Oh, nice! Thanks for that tidbit, appreciate it :)

Edit: I'm an idiot, you work for Cloudflare, lol - I thought you were just particularly sharp-eyed
The school district my children were in fiddled with it. One of my kids got actively in trouble for the fact he could do the "real" math problem in his head and wasn't "estimating", despite also being able to estimate correctly on larger problems. It is the direction math education is going in the public school system, and it is the direction it has had for a while so it's not like this is really some sort of surprise. Standards will be lowered until all students pass. There are political currents in that direction, plus there's the ever-present fact that the easiest way to make a given school's performance go up is to lower the standards, and there are many entities with incentive to do that. If your local school still has standards, they may currently be the mountains still standing above the rising seas, but the seas are still rising.

In some ways I wish they'd just get on with it and leap straight to the logical conclusion of just officially eliminated the standards and passing all students guaranteed, so we can all get on with the task of dealing with the fact that such a credential would be worthless, instead of this long, drawn-out process of lowering standards while trying to pretend the standards aren't being lowered.

(I think the second derivative of this process has turned away from dumbing down. Pushback is really coming up in earnest. But it'll be a while before it so much as turns the first derivative back in the correct direction, let alone get to the point where the problem is largely fixed.)
IMO it has to do with the people around said math course, professors, students , etc... Some environments make academic life great, some others make it "miserable" as the author describes.

The advice I always give to young students (and a topic I'm writing about in an upcoming website that deals with abuse in academia) is find better people. There's (almost) always an alternative, find it and move to a better place; it's not always easy but it's easier than dealing with pricks for 2-4 years.
Well certain university courses in STEM are "weeder" courses, designed to be much difficult than they should be to push out the people who aren't serious or talented enough. I think this happens in particularly popular majors, where there are far many more people interested than spaces available. That's actually too bad--policy wise, artificially limiting the number of people with high-value skills isn't smart.