skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, at a certain point, you're just abstracting logical thinking in general and calling it "math". You can say the same about baking, working out your schedule ahead of time so you can pick up your kids and have time to buy groceries, or trying to sort your playlist of non-album singles in a way so that you optimally position each song in a way that minimizes how jarring the switch from one track to the next is

I feel like the whole point of "math" is to abstract these natural patterns so we can like... write them down and investigate them further. We have a limited mental capacity so we abstract it into a syntax/system of meaning so that we can let the paper or the computer do some of the memory work for us.

If you're doing it in your head, sure that's a skill, but is it really math?
"About to adopt" sounds pretty far from accurate to my reading of the two sources? It sounds like this is still under substantial debate.
One might expect this to mean that they might someday announce a dreamcast mini. I will choose to believe this even though I don't actually believe this.

Anyway Yu Suzuki can always just make a kickstarter for a shenmue specific dreamcast mini and get another $4 million in 2 hours. I want another chance to donate $10,000 so I can get Ryus jacket.
According to the WaPo tracker, police shot ~150 unarmed people last year. But this includes, per WaPo, people engaged in such activities as "gouging out the officer's eye." I think it's probably safe to assume an order of magnitude less people were literally just standing around or sleeping (is that a reference to Taylor? FWIW, that ended up being Twitter misinformation - she was awake standing next to her boyfriend, who was firing at the police through the door), for about 15.

I would imagine it's a pretty good guess that police already tase at least 1000x that many people every year. I'm having trouble finding good national LEO statistics, but "Taser International" claims 900 Taser uses a day. I don't think we should do anything to encourage that.
It got to the point for a while there where it was like having pop-up ads all over again, except this time the ads were all for the site I was currently reading. This will be abused if it's not opt-in by default (as in I need to specifically enable the feature in the browser before it starts asking me if I want these notifications).
I switched my build server (I code on my macbook and build on a machine in my basement) to FreeBSD. Just for fun though, I didn't have any pressing need to switch off of Linux. In fact, there isn't really much of a difference. The terminal commands seem more "Unixy" and "oldschool" and also more sensical/sensible.

I tried to run it on a laptop, but driver support lags behind Linux (which already lags Windows). Driver quality (which affects things like wifi connection stability) is also worse (anecdotally).

The major selling point of BSD seems to be servers. There are tons of interlocking security features like jails and capabilities built into the kernel.
> They just created some dedicated touch UIs for core functionality, and optimized the higher-level UI elements for touch control.

One should note that the changes Microsoft initially made to support the Surface (and touchscreens in general) so deeply compromised their desktop OS's design and functionality that many had to be reverted for the next OS release; many other "features" have continued to be among the biggest usability pain points for the ecosystem.
Mongol conquests were roughly comparable to the European conquest of the Americas. Both toppled great empires and may have killed ~10% of world population in a few generations. And both were more noteworthy due to their large-scale success than their brutality. While both waves of conquest were brutal even by contemporary standards, they were not extraordinary brutal. Being an absolute monster is a part of the job description of a conqueror.
Terminator is a notable original CD title, not a port unlike a lot of its cousins.
We have a Pro and basically the only advantage is illustration via Apple pencil. It’s even more frustrating to type on than a phone, and every external keyboard I’ve seen requires a flat surface (no ergonomic typing on your lap). In hindsight I’d rather have spent the money on an M1 MacBook Air and a Wacom tablet.
I like Callin — I listen to Wes Yang and Jesse Singal on there. It seems like every show has a technical glitch or a user who doesn’t understand muting/unmuting, but overall I like it.
yes, combination of video and covid caused my company (in bay area) to stop flying large numbers of employees to the mothership (in basel). People used to go for a 2-day mini-conference (1 day to fly in, 2 on the ground, 1 to fly back) without even adjusting to local time zone. Entire business sections of planes reserved. Not anymore. Company is in top tier of profit margins.
Huh? A tax wouldn’t have stopped the most recent Texas school shooting. A felony for not paying taxes seems needlessly punitive btw
For anything widely available, I believe they’re very easy to jam? I don’t know if jammers have been widely distributed to police departments though.
Go find an x86 laptop that gets the same performance and battery life in a similar form factor for less than $1200
Collecting zero-party data on your Shopify store
I wonder whether the threat of attack from North Korea is felt in daily life in Seoul.
Well, we could promise someone a stable guaranteed 20% APR and defraud them of their life savings, thereby driving them to suicide
> Is it only me who’d like a 15 inch air?

yes
More reliable method I've found is creating a bookmarklet with this as the url:

javascript:window.location.href="https://archive.is/newest/"+location.href

Click the bookmark when you're on a paywalled article, and it'll redirect to the latest archived version of it/
Looking for help to do a data job in Korea
Hi all, my girlfriend lives in Korea and I'm looking to move there with my skillset, it's difficult so far but I got hopeful to ask here due to an earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910964).

About me, I'm a data scientist with experience in ML through Python, SQL and associated packages for over the past 4 years. Also worked on data migrations and have been a team lead for over a year. Currently working at a large bank in the Netherlands, also worked in the logistics and telecom industries.

All help is much appreciated! :)
Buy it, enjoy the novelty for 30 minutes, put it in the closet, forget it existed, sell off at garage sale 2 years later for a pittance.
There is a lot of statecraft behind governments promoting this myth, so I wouldn't be reading into it too much. The countries listed want as high as possible of a population of scientists, and they will forecast doom and gloom to try and convince anyone with a passing amount of patriotism to work in those fields. There never was a clear proof that we needed more.
This comment sounds like the exact same hopium I heard about Intel in 2016. I get what you're saying, and there are definitely smaller changes packed in here, but my point is that Apple's performance crown is looking mighty easy to usurp right about now. Hell, they even showed a graph with the i7 1280p beating the M2's single-core performance by ~20% at the WWDC today; they know they're on notice.
That Pro is the old design. It's just Apple's usual thing of keeping an old design of a product around to serve some kind of gap they see in their market - it creates a confusing product lineup because this means you have:

New Macbook Air: New design & M2 chip

New Macbook Pro 13": Old design & M2 chip

Macbook Pro 14" & 16": New design & M1 Pro/Max chips
The people who don't know don't care usually, or they'd be buying a lock that costs more than $5-20. Either because it's protecting something of low value, or they don't know how to quantify when something needs more value, or because it doesn't matter.

For instance, if you have a shed with windows and a hasp on it, that it has a $10 master lock on it is the least of your security problems.

If you're storing $100m in gold bars in said shed, putting the $10 master lock on it is also probably the least negligent thing you're probably doing.
iPad has had multi user support for quite a while, it is necessary for schools, etc. I set it up via Configurator 2. It isn’t difficult. Send me an email if you need help getting it working, happy to help!
I'm thinking of New Zealand. We frequently hear of people who can't get some expensive treatment because it's not funded by the government. Can you say for sure that every medical treatment available in the US is funded by your government? Will they even fly patients to the US for specialist care if it's not available locally?
FYI- If you meant to edit your post it's not showing up as fixed for me at least.
I honestly would love to see Nintendo have a direct competitor again. Another company that isn't chasing resolution and fps counts, but focusing on family and group gaming.
> but most countries that have negligible mass shooting events don’t have better mental healthcare or particularly great gun ownership databases

I don't know what countries you're referring to "that have negligible mass shooting events" but I guess within the developed world "most countries" here is "every country other than the USA" ? I mean I'm open to other suggestions but, sadly and tragically, it seems to me the USA is out in front to a significant degree.

Saying that those other countries "don't have better mental healthcare" might be technically correct (or it may not I don't know for sure) but what does it mean when large swathes of the population in the USA can't access it anyway ? How many of those who perpetrate mass killings in the USA are actively being cared for ?

I don't know how to comment on the gun database thing. These other countries have gun databases but the key thing is you just can't buy a gun unless you have a very good reason to own one. When you can buy a gun it's not an automatic weapon. I mean I can't think of a developed world country, other than the USA, where it's possible to buy or own such a weapon legally. So regardless of the quality of such databases, and I'm not saying they're better or worse, the main thing is that there's just not many entries in such databases.

> Something fundamental has happened to American culture and it’s not clear what solves that.

I agree and I'm deeply sorry for it being the case.

I read an article recently I now can't find which discussed the Las Vegas[1] killer and attempted to put him in set of men of a certain age who have economically "failed" (I don't like that term) and how that was viewed by US society in a less forgiving way than in other countries and how it also led to lack of treatment for depression etc. I thought that was interesting but as I can't find the article it doesn't take us far. If anyone recognises it I'd be interested to know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting
Clever. You win the Gymnastics medal for that one.

This guy barges into a harmless, humorous back-and-forth about nothing, that doesn't even involve him (or you), with a pedantic "correction" about nothing.

And you even manage to use the word "literally." Why not just sit this one out?
Leading off with a glib remark, but: now that HTTP is no longer a transport protocol (QUIC is), do we have to rename it? :)

Seriously, as I said in the RFC9114/HTTP3 spec[1] submission, it's so cool to have this split.

QUIC is so capable, such a neat set of ideas for a transport (although I have some deep laments about it being woefully anti-extensible[2]; to use QUIC you essentially have to fork it & start your own new protocol). That HTTP can express itself in terms of another spec is one of the most compelling, longest-hardest won & best victories for "abstraction" (or layering) that computing has seen.

That we'll be able to iterate on HTTP in new ways, by having a common semantic base, keeps the future open & iterable. (e.g.: HTTP over PCIe? Why not!) Huge wins.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31647033

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402311
Whether they run in docker or not has very little impact on the memory usage, especially on Linux where the overhead is tiny. In VMs, YMMV.
This was not an option until MacOS 12.2, and AFAIK is not "officially supported" or even documented by Apple. Can you link to somewhere where they describe supporting this?
From the reviews I've seen over the years for the Rk3399, even when the software side is all working, it seems to be a bit of a disappointing chip.

My guess with a lot of RK3399 devices popping up is due to a couple of things: 1. The limited supply of budget SoCs due to the chip shortage and 2. Rockchip trying to clear stock for when RK3588 boards finally start to ship. Of course, we'll be back to square one on the software part.

I do see the Jasper Lake mini PCs getting cheaper and cheaper, and I see that as more of a competitor to SBCs as there doesn't seem to be as many stock issues compared to Rpi4's and by the time you buy a Raspberry Pi, SD card, heatsink and power supply it does end up being not much cheaper.
I started a math tools company (mathpix.com) and I could not agree more! US needs humanities far more than STEM. US is extremely strong at STEM and extremely weak at humanities. This includes understanding of the real world and human affairs. Young people now have zero understanding of religion, the military, geopolitics, or really how to think critically about ANYTHING related to social sciences. The truth about the reason for the death of social sciences in the US is a dark and complex one, I’m not even so sure that truth is even important. What matters is what’s next, and it had to start with a little bit of realist humanities education for young people.
Engineer Who Fled US Charges of Stealing Chip Technology Now Thrives in China
Nice you managed to categorize the work of this person who's been around 20 years longer than Gladwell. The important thing is that you found a way to place yourself above them without ever making a real criticism :)
> Perhaps if the author had a better attitude towards education and was capable of appreciating the value of mathematics (or more generally, science) in everyday life (to say nothing about the importance of this in democracies), then he would not hold this infantile opinion.

Caplan has a doctorate, teaches at a university, has written several books and home educated two of his sons to a level where they published academically before they entered university. He’s also more well read in philosophy and literature than average though that is a low bar to clear.

If you don’t think a professor of Mathematics, David Edwards, understands the value of Mathematics why do you think you do?
I agree, Google Chrome is malware. As in these cases it is actually just notification API subscriptions, a feature browsers chose to implement.
Do you use “math” and “deductive reasoning” to refer to distinct activities?
Many better locks from a picking perspective are only mildly better from a physical security perspective.

If someone has brought tools (portable angle grinder, hydraulic bolt cutters, or a prybar) sufficient to take out most locks, they'll take out most locks unless you upgrade A LOT. At which point they can usually use the same tools to defeat the hasp, and you're still compromised.
I've used calculus very little, algebra quite a lot. One of the side-benefits of learning calculus (apart from reading others' work) is how much solving those problems reinforces your algebra skills.

Solving one scary calculus problem thrown at me as an undergrad - an integral - resulted in a solution which broke it into 16 separate integrals. Days of algebra were involved.
microdosing
What in the actual fuck? Apparently I must be in "the 10%".
I've tried a few different books, including Land of Lisp, PCL, SICP, Chassel's Introduction to Emacs Lisp, but what I'd recommend head over shoulders above them all is buying a copy of Touretzky's Common Lisp: A Gentle introduction to Symbolic Computation. It's wonderfully thought through, really helped me finally grok elementary stuff like what a cons cell is, exactly how apostrophes function, what asymbol is, and a lot more. It's not meant to be comprehensive, it completely leaves aside CLOS, but it's left me with a damn solid foundation for working with Lisp.
I disagree with many things he says, but don’t think he can be dismissed so easily. How many other public intellectuals have even attempted, let alone nailed, anything like this?

https://www.econlib.org/my-complete-bet-wiki/
Huh, that's a new one.

> Citation needed?

> I’m sure Apple has data.
These cards will simply move over to mining the next altcoin on the list, as they all did when Bitcoin was no longer profitable.
I am confused... wasn't Web Push already supported on macOS?
Well, yes. Cities must change. How? This article is way over-thinking it though.

Every single one of these office towers has an owner that wants to make a profit. They’ll do it if they can. Class A office buildings will take tenants from Class B towers, who in turn will take tenants from Class C towers. And if the zoning allows it, the Class C buildings will convert to residential. Because people really do like living downtown (even if you or me don’t want to). This is actually what the NYC mayor was talking about as an option but the article either didn’t realize it or decided not to engage with that idea.
> Apple’s implementation uses SMS as a backup.

I hope they'll go away from this, or at least give the option. I won't use their password/key storage until they do. 2FA is only as good as the weakest link, and SMS is the weakest possibility.
I mean, you just said it, your wife. X1 maybe went with this screen for whatever reason but there are other laptop options (XPS 13, Surface Laptop). XPS is even better than Air 3.5K 3456x2160. I think for newer consumers, they can more "easily" navigate through all these options to decide, well, I'm not a Pro (or not using it for Pro) and I will get Air. But in the end it's not a PRO level device and it's really sad that these GREAT devices are being overlooked due to this. As far as Air most PRO people wouldn't do with only one screen, or they want to us VM, or if they truly edit video Air won't have the AV1 and H264 extensions making it dog slow for that. In the end Air is REALLY marketed and sold to the web browser crowd, which is a laptop you can find easily for $500 and really great one around $700-$900 range, with the only thing you are losing is maybe that extra couple hours on battery life.
You might not be writing out integrals and derivatives by hand, but I think most engineers use calculus a lot more frequently than they realize it.

* If daily user growth is increasing linearly, total user count is exponential over time.

* If I have a radially symmetric shape it's center of gravity is going to be centered on the axis of symmetry - if the density is uniform. But if the density isn't uniform, where will the center of balance shift?

This is single dimension and multi-dimensional calculus, respectively. I bet most engineers use at least the former, at an intuitive level, on a regular basis.
> anti-intellectualist drivel

You're barking up the wrong tree. At worst it's elitist, not anti-intelectual:

"The math myth is the myth that the future of the American economy is dependent upon the masses having higher mathematics skills."

Just doubting the need for higher math skills to be massified, not against their being necessary, perhaps to an elite.
I’ve read that the Olympic gold medalist in archery specifically practiced the piano, basketball, and painting just to improve his archery skills. Skills translate.
I'd like to see a picture with the sails raised.
"Container Queries" WOW! This is a KILLER feature. Chrome doesn't even have this yet.
I don't recall owning a computer that was too slow to run Photoshop.

4k video editing - I admit is a valid use case, not something I've ever had to do. But I doubt most people buying these are video editors.
Excellent. I actually like Apple's practice in this regard: they have a barebones/baseline functionality but allow third parties to provide a value added replacement that can be a first class replacement.*

Apple is almost there with mail, addressbook, and calendar but perhaps surprisingly they aren't as seamless as it is with passwords.

* For example this allowed me to plug 1password into my parents' phones and computers and use the shared vaults to make sure I could help them get unstuck from various web sites. Plus when they pass on I'll still be able to help the surviving parent to get access to things they need from the other parent's device. The apple one is disabled so they can't even accidentally get something confusingly stored in it.
Indeed. Surely the development effort required is a rounding error compared to that expended for most of the other ‘features’ announced today. Totally inexplicable!
> Renewable energy is actually more on track to solve the carbon emissions problem than nuclear energy.

"On track to solve" sounds like a forward looking statement, which goes back to my issue of people insisting on solving today's problem with tomorrow's technology. You simply can't put shovel in the ground today and build out a green solution to power manhattan, but you can start constructing a nuclear reactor with a proven design.
I just got a private office in the center of Tokyo (Minato-ku) for about $400/mo. You can barely get a hot-desk in San Francisco for that price.
No, the answer is that we as a community ignore content behind paywalls and they will fade from relevance.
Is the paywall gone?

No!
There are many visualizations of the primes in 2D and many are fascinating. I've always wondered what it would look like in 3d or 4d or higher. what if the primes were mapped on to some crazy topological shape? Is there some shape and dimension out there that produces a "perfect" pattern?