skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trajectory, maybe. If generations of moving east-ish (from Alaska) always got you to better lands, where do you suggest walking next? East!
And yet semantics like that drive massive influence over civilization — it builds into the rhetoric and narratives people affix their instincts upon.

So, there’s value in observing them.
Netting mostly. Only downside is that these do not last forever and are made of plastics (PE, PEHD, PA, ...).
As an aside, sir, I’d like to share my feelings here. For some reason, your username stands out for me, so I get to notice your comments here often in the topics that I am interested in. And I always enjoy your perspective and wisdom, and appreciate what you write. Sorry for this off-topic, I’ve just found an opportunity to share this.
Disagree. I was lonely in my teens, but ever since I met my wife I haven't been lonely. Ever.

Married for 10 years now.
Big discussion two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31435407
Missing words: wife, husband, partner, friend, child, mother, father, children.

Even accepting the success criterial of "get rich" or "be important" some of the above are going to be fundamental for 99% of those who manage to reach the end line.

This article contains bad and harmful advice that will hurt many people.
In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted their French masters and founded a nation
right, and start with the short deck version to have more fun :)
Why are the mutually exclusive?
I've found using tinyurl (or hosting/redirecting the download page yourself) is generally best for that.

I use AnyDesk - it was the first one I found which requires no installation (and when I got access, I added a link on the desktop and start menu). However, it requires extra clicks to access sensitive things (device manager at least).
Netflix to pay $59M to settle Italian tax dispute
...and potentially a more comprehensive answer: RobotShop has a good list of platforms at varying price points (mostly under $5k) and in various form factors: https://www.robotshop.com/en/robot-kits.html
>In a corporate setting, the advice on: Get good at sales, Be hard to compete with and Build a network, will get you much further than working hard. Working hard in large corporation will in many case only grind you down, if don't manage to make your work visible. It's not only in the US, other countries don't view working hard so favorably anymore, and I think it's due to it being tied more directly to stress, rather than success. Hard work alone will make a person stressed, but does not guarantee success, selling yourself and networking will be much more likely to result in success if applied alone.

>Overall it is good advice, as a whole, perhaps more so if just want be happy in you profession, feel secure and have a sense of belonging.

Something is missing in that formula because this is exactly why we have the toxic culture we have in a big corp today killing creativity, promotion first attitude, and all kinds of politics. It's pretty screwed up. People are not robots. I hate these pieces of advice that treat people as soldiers with no emotions. If you want to go A you have to do B. then it will work. Yeah right...
True, but this means that the ROI for any method of recovering energy from any process' waste heat plunges as the temperature differential drops.
Thanks so much!

I know that my outlook is a bit orthogonal to the zeitgeist of this community, but I love tech, and love people.

I don't think we should be forced to choose between them.
Yet definitions are paramount. If we don't know what we are talking about, there is no point in talking.
Don't you always have one stored for "that one project" which may come one day?

I do...
Anything smaller than 80% (TKL) feels cramped to me. I wonder if there is an 80% keyboard with qmk and bluetooth support which I don't have to assemble myself, or at least not solder it all. Any recommendations?
The better the experience is for the programmer, the more users will say "y'know what? This doesn't quite do what I want, I wonder how I change that" and presto, they're a programmer now.

We would never have had Hypercard if it weren't for Smalltalk and Alan Kay, and we've never had a platform as good as Hypercard since. That's a crying shame.
i started programming at age of 12 in school and got paid with 14 through my first internship

luckily for me the show never stopped and i don’t regret missing parties and not connecting to others

the difference between me and my peers today is that i can afford to do whatever whenever, because i don’t have to worry about money and for them this luxury was only available temporarily and they didn’t spent that time wisely to build useful set of skills (in their teens)

the only thing that changed for me is what i program and for who

but i kinda don’t get how programming can be boring when there’s so much you can do
Any experiment has an abstract result. For example: If throwing a rock from the tower of Pisa gave us result that acceleration of gravity on Earth is 9.8 m/s^2 then that number will be exactly same for throwing any other materials from any other tower on the Earth.
Sorry to pile-on on the disagreements, but I also try to keep my scripts as external dependency-free as possible (at the expense of reinventing the wheel a bit) so that I minimize supply-chain attacks, and to keep things as future-proof as possible.

For that, some of the included libraries really ease the pain of having to reinvent things like text-wrapping, special cases when iterating over things, creating TUIs, etc.

The more you read the docs, the more you appreciate the thought and effort of the Python developers in making things useful and convenient for everyone.
The three easiest ways:

1. provide ample habitat for predators of said insects
2. grow a surplus so there's enough for you and the bugs
3. use the partly-eaten produce in sauces, jams, stews and other meals where presentation doesn't matter
If by defeatist attitude it is meant acknowledging the reality that some people have a head start or immense amount of luck than I'm not only a defeatist, I am a Christian during the 31th December 999, 11:59:59PM waiting for the apocalypse.

I have a family relative, one of the most lazy people in the world, that some day found herself rich. How? Hard work? Business value? Education? No, she discovered she had a grandaunt and that she would be the heiress of three 300000EUR houses, plus half a million euro. The scene seemed out of a 90s love comedy, if only it weren't tragic.
Second order effects from global warming striking in synchrony with resource depletion and biodiversity drop looks pretty consumption -civilization destroying to me. Definitely 10 Billion humans don't have a happy life in 2100. Then again if you ask a 4th Century AD farmer about the Roman Empire they would probably give you a shrug.
I almost didn't click on this, expecting a lot of righteous ranting, but it turned out to be the best on-the-scene report from Ukraine that I've read so far. I don't completely agree with his analyses, but he makes an impressive effort to plainly report what he sees.
Do you have any better definition of math then "that what mathematicians do"?
Was talking to a young guy the other day about learning poker, he said, oh I'll just play in red dead redemption, apparently you can play poker in it :-)
Years ago when I was into keyboard layouts, text expansion, that kind of thing ("efficiency!"), I realized what's the point of typing the same letters faster, if most of what I'm typing is redundant, ie. pure overhead?

How many letters could be removed from a word and still uniquely identify it? eg. typing -> typg, uniquely -> unqy.

So I thought of applying this process of iterative letter removal to the entire English language: keep removing letters until you conflict with an existing (shortened) word. You'd start with the most commonly used words, so they would be assigned the shortest words.

(Though perhaps a better measure would be typing effort, ie. how much of a pain it is to reach for each key...)

Of course you wouldn't actually communicate in this language, you'd use a text expander software to replace them on the fly with the full words (this exists and works great).

I never ended up doing this, and forgot about it until now. (It would probably only take half an hour though, might do it this afternoon :)

Other fun ideas: make a crappy speech synthesizer, made up of tiny samples of your voice, and a codec that compresses audio of your speech by converting it to a sequence of those samples. (Also works for eg. music, see also: MOD files, which are like MIDI but with custom drum and instrument audio embedded!)

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Edit: Here's a first draft https://gist.github.com/avelican/fa34a425770c3a8f914c96d75e2...

Used a naive approach, just start with the first letter and see if that's taken, then the first two letters and so on. The output is not optimal and be compressed further (but my lunch break's almost over ;)

Also this one is based on a word frequency list based on Wikipedia, which results in a weird word list and unusual words (that Wikipedia really likes) being near the top of the list. I'll have to collect some of my own conversations and run it on those.

Here's the code if anyone's interested... less than 20 lines of Python (what a great language)

https://gist.github.com/avelican/58f1468df04c3ff542e03288bfd...
It would be mind blowing to watch and many were watching. Big theoretical benefits for social cohesion for culturally disparate people. Whole is greater than the parts.
Very nice, detailed and even actionable. It brought back memories of a recent interview process where I was given several pre-interview assignments, spent several hours on them, but nobody at the company ever mentioned it. Did anybody look at my work? Who knows. Really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Greetings, YC Founders
Keychron K8 looks pretty close:
https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k8-pro-qmk-via-wi...
Can this method be applied to photographs directly, or does it need all the camera positions/orientations/intrinsics explicitly?
"Apple shipped me the repair kit they use to replace batteries, so I can replace the battery in my iPhone".

Better?
Price: $549 USD

Wow...I would love to and there isn't anything close to my quite big city right in the middle of Europe but this is just too high for such a passive fun project.
Sounds a little like ADHD to me. Try tackling your ideas in different ways and don't be discouraged by abandoning projects either. You still learn from every time you attempt to tackle something.
Truth exists, but the definition of truth Twitter, etc. use has a nasty habit of becoming false later.
What ML are people actually wanting to do on M1 laptops?

I was under the impression that outside toy problems, you can't really get decent results unless you have a TPU or fleet of GPU's for training. If you just train on a laptop you're shooting yourself in the foot compared to someone who gets the same job done 10x faster in the cloud (usually with free credits).

Obviously inference is still possible on a laptop for many models... but not many 'hacker' tasks involve only inference.
Beautiful car. I wish modern cars looked like this again :)
Hi all, I'll just nip this in the bud: Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Hoping to provide value now that I've decided to stop lurking. I'm curating archaeological news for a project and figured I'd share.
If you're talking about Libratus (the CMU AI that beat poker pros in heads up no limit), then that's not true I believe.

During the competition, Libratus used 4 million core hours on the Bridges supercomputer for analyzing it's prior gameplay and changing strategy.

> During the tournament, Libratus was competing against the players during the days. Overnight it was perfecting its strategy on its own by analysing the prior gameplay and results of the day, particularly its losses. Therefore, it was able to continuously straighten out the imperfections that the human team had discovered in their extensive analysis, resulting in a permanent arms race between the humans and Libratus.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libratus
> If you choose poker instead, you'll just breed a gambler.

Huh? Chess is fun, but deals in perfect information at all times. Poker teaches a person how to make decisions with imperfect information, which is how most life decisions will be made.
The days of soldering are far behind us, pretty much everything these days is hot-swappable. It sounds like keychron would be a good fit for you.
You're describing stenography, see for example https://blog.zsa.io/2107-steno-tutorial/
Does anyone use an Apple m1 and just run a virtualized linux fulltime ?
> make a huge amount of money or to create something important

That doesn't mean the advice is not good. Change the telos a little
and it mostly still applies.

It's possible to make something important and not get rich. I'm happy
having done that and live a (economically) modest life. The most
important yet contentious point, I believe, is this one:

> Be internally driven

My feeling is that true freethinkers with the courage of their
convictions are less than 1%. I also believe that for most of us, it's
actually something that holds one back from wealth.

I won't quote it chapter and verse, but what I believe the author is
describing in the last part of this article is not an entrepreneur
per se, but an "activist". Or rather, what has come to be labelled
in this age of tedious conformity and wannabeism as "activism" - that
being the sincere desire to change the world for the better. And all
the better if that can be separated from the distraction of ego and
personal wealth.

The unfortunate requirement of modernity is that money is necessary
for action. Words alone may make a difference, but money helps. Since
most so-called "successful" people are merely building fortunes to
enable their real success, the telos or vision of their life, the
distraction of making money as a step can be excused.

But I would add one last point to the article to make it more rounded.

14. Don't lose sight of your original, real motive.

Along the way many an ambitious person is overwhelmed by their
"success", be it money, fame, or power. The cautionary narrative
archetype is of course Tony Montana (Scarface). They forget their
essential self-hood and the seed from their childhood that really
drives them.
I am serious, thank you for asking.

But what is “it” which is not worth the risk of being hit? It sounds like you are advocating agains the general concept of crossing roads?

Onviously people shouldn’t throw themselves in front of speeding cars. Nobody in the tread or elsewhere is advocating for that. You should check that the incomming traffic can see you and has enough time and space to stop and then you should cross in a manner which makes it easy to predict what are you doing.
Comparing a 35W prototype from the 1900s with a modern 35W PV panel isn't very fair though.
Teach your kids things you enjoy teaching them and they enjoy doing with you. Raising kids is not an optimisation problem.

At a kid level, both chess and poker will basically be the same anyway. It’s about fighting frustration and taking the time to think about what you are doing and a lot of memorisation. It’s going to be probability tables for poker and a tone of tactic puzzles for chess.

At this point and to play the optimisation game too, if you want to give your kids a way to work on their memorisation and dedication, you would probably be better served by having them learn to play an instrument. It’s also a creative outlet and is socially useful.
Not all issues have to be "both-sides"-ed.

You really think it'd be more controversial if Apple were to ship a standard, iFixIt style replacement toolset like everybody else does rather than two suitcase-sized boxes weighing a combined 80 pounds with a 1200$ deposit and further require a call to their support line to validate the parts in order to change a battery?
Can Biden Forgive Student Loan Debt for College Undergraduates? It’s Complicated
I was responding to your apparent claim that experimentation is not possible in mathematics. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant.

From Halmos' quote from the wiki page:

"Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. You want to find out what the facts are, and what you do is in that respect similar to what a laboratory technician does"

- it sure sounds like he thinks experiment/experimentation a key part of maths.
Broadly true, but shorter periods of food deficit leading to decline in population are still possible.

The last agricultural famine in England was only in the 17th century.
It's understandable though. These are inherently political questions and people are locked out of that process. And there really isn't an objective solution to balancing those factors

I have worked in air quality assessment and you see something similar. A single development usually has statistically negligible effect on air quality. No measurable impact on health. But that isn't really the whole story. Vehicle exhaust absolutely does effect health. It is understandable that people object to that on a specific case by case basis even when tacitly consenting at a societal level

But mostly I think safety is used as a proxy for other things. Adding a lane to a highway can have a safety justification even when the real purpose is something else. Everyone is lazy, and the degree we allow a sense of entitlement changes over time.
25+ years of use and my scandi-Kona is still going strong.
AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache
> no humans - no need for computation.

I would disagree with this statement. I have a pet AI program which can get some work done and gain some cryptocurrencies for that and pay for its hosting for keep doing that work. I am sure the AI will overlive all the humans and it really needs some computations for living.
Could someone explain why air is "pulled" through the filters (blown out of the box) instead of "pushed" (blown into the box)?

Does it increase airflow, or filtering, or what?
The 90% accuracy figure in the article unfortunately exposes the author as very ignorant.

On a German breast cancer screening population, 90% accuracy is abysmal as ~99.2% of cases are negative.
Just predicting „no cancer“ would achieve 99.2% accuracy.

Accuracy is a very bad metric for such highly asymmetric problems.

To provide some context:
The German screening system is able to identify cancer in ~6/1000 of patients screened, and missing it for the remaining 2/1000.

IIRC this is achieved by re-inviting in ~3% of cases to further examination, where ultrasound / needle biopsy / etc. can be done on a case by case basis.
Double, triple etc butting still exists but it’s not a marketable feature anymore now that hydroformed aluminum and carbon fiber frames have entered the market.
Also keep an eye out on all those extensions...
Community guidelines are fine - they are all you need.

Freedom of speech can be ignored - if the community guidelines say so. Similarly, if the guidelines are that if you 'offer up' you can be reinstated, and you are fine to do that, that's fine too?

We're in the world of corporate policy now. Laws have nothing to do with! These are private corporations, and their policies determine what's right or wrong on their platforms.
Parker (YC W19) Is Hiring First PM
> If you want to argue that the explicit Constitutional provision about fugitive slaves (Article IV, Section 2, last clause) is inconsistent with other provisions of the Constitution, you can try to make that argument

The fugitive slave provisions of the Constitution were, by definition, consistent with the Constitution, however morally repugnant they were. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, OTOH, provided for the summary detention of accused escaped slaves by affidavit without warrant or probable cause or even any establishment of a reasonable basis, denied accused escaped slave the right to be heard in their own defense, denied them jury trial on the accusation, denied them trial before a judicial officer on the accusation, allowing the accusation to be heard by special commissioners who were paid a premium for ruling that the accused was, in fact, a fugitive without even a pretense of evenhanded justice, and commandeered state officers to assist with enforcement. On any reasonable reading—notwithstanding that its purpose was Constitutionally valid—it violated the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 10th Amendments, and the suspension clause.

(The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 has a subset of the same problems.)
That’s true but if integration means that it’s very rare for anything to go wrong within the product’s lifetime that may not matter and in fact be a net win.

I’ve never had anything break on a laptop[1] I’ve owned regardless of brand since 2005.

I can’t be that atypical.

1. Apart from maybe the wifi on my XPS13 which I can just about live with by turning wifi on and off.
"The more I think about it, the more I realize Apple’s Self-Service Repair program is the perfect way to make it look like the company supports right-to-repair policies without actually encouraging them at all."
I agree with all that you said. It is a great feat to witness. But just imagine, multiple viruses like Covid-19 cropping up all at once. That’s where we will fail.
Yep, boredom is why I quit playing poker in casinos. I'm usually at a casino with friends to have a good time, but winning poker requires folding the large majority of hands [1], and it's just not fun. Craps with friends on the other hand, but I digress...

Also, very different than small poker games with friends where the point is hanging out and 'gambling' a bit.

[1] Tournament style is different from an open ended game.
You seem to be under the impression that developing palatable narratives for the less fortunate is an objective. Says who? Just because it doesn’t sound fair, that doesn’t mean we can ignore it’s existence. More harmful, we can’t coddle people into believing everyone is very much capable of success and it’s an equal playing field. It’s not.

Entropy and randomness exists. Agency exists. People don’t generally attribute success to solely one or the other. However, think about this: if the objective function is $10MM net worth, and there are two variables, luck & agency, and each variable has a threshold one must exceed before contributing to the objective function, it’s easy to see that randomness (luck) will contribute to your networth, more so than grokking (agency) it.

In other words, a small amount of luck has a larger effect than a small amount of agency. But, if small amount of luck translated to $10MM net worth, isn’t that lucky by definition? Conversely, if a small amount of agency translated to $10MM net worth, what does that mean? Can you say that it was all your efforts that solely got you to $10MM net worth?
I wish. I had to rip out one in-use for a project I was more interested in. Three is not enough for me. I didn't have much money when they were available though. So now I have money but buy nothing. Cue recession.
Sapiens by yuval noah harari deal with a lot of the things you’re pondering.
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