skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to write articles and read articles written for me by others. Ideally as few as possible should profit from this process.

As google is now a turd, not just no longer capable of delivering this service but actively destroying the good part of the web by refusing to index it.

It is my attention, it doesn't belong to anyone else.

My access to information and educated opinion is a far more integral part of the greater economy.

Google is like a screaming man at a town meeting making sure no one else can get a word in. The meeting is now pointless.
I wonder what percentage of people are aware that their car is tracking them at all times. Surveillance capitalism is scary.
Ask HN: Self-studied math but can't enter college due to bad grades. What to do?
I'm a 20-year-old Singaporean who got rejected by the local university as my high school grades were terrible. However, I have self-studied a good amount of math in my free time, including the standard undergraduate fare and some graduate-level topics (e.g., measure theory and graduate real analysis from Tao, computational complexity from Arora–Barak, etc. — as evidence, I have written detailed solutions on my website [0]). As additional proof of my geekiness, I also have 0x$5d.60 in Don Knuth's Bank of San Serriffe [1] for finding bugs in his books, making me the 14th richest person there.

But I have little to show for all of this — no fancy grades or awards, and no publications either. I'm not sure what to do at this point, since it'll be another year before I can apply to any universities.

I'm quite lost. Should I just find a job? Should I push myself towards publishing something? Should I sharpen my programming skills and try to get hired? I'd love to just be alone and study my own math, but it seems that it is finally time for me to face the real world.

What should I do? Thank you.
(I will do my best to answer any questions you may have!)

[0]: https://boonsuan.github.io/misc/
[1]: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
That’s the same question as “how do you ensure complete trust” which is, of course, not possible. That doesn’t mean that “distributed trust-based blacklisting” still isn’t better than what Google is offering today, which is nothing.
Buying from Amazon can be really frustrating to buy from. I was looking for wool the other day. 100% Australian wool. But it’s spun in China. 100% Canadian cotton yarn!!! Spun in China… it’s hard to find something not made in China even if you’re willing to pay for it.
> What if you limit accounts to real people and

In China, all social accounts must be associated with a phone number, and phone numbers are tied to government identities. It doesn't stop any manipulation of scores and rankings.

> then keep track of their credibility?

It is very likely China will do that too soon. I think you can already imagine the ramifications.
I think you are kind of ignoring the issue that parent brought up.

The hn machine is not all that smart and can easily be gamed, and would, if the stakes were to become high enough. Farming hn karma by making pointed statements on crowd favorites (parent named two, oss licensing or privacy also spring to mind) gets you your 10k, no originality or honesty required, in no time.

What's protecting hn is a lot of moderation + relative irrelevance. If those 10k were to systematically bring you enough eyes (by driving search results), you are in effect printing money. There is no reason to assume the number of people doing it would not scale with the return attached to doing it.
This is an interesting comment. I agree that, “there are limits to rule based systems”. I think there is much less potential for abuse though. I don’t know what the solution is. I’d love fore you to be right and judges to have a keen sense of “I know it when I see it”. Something tells me they don’t though. Power is too corrupting.
It sounds like the frogs are native to his location. Why is the article framing it as invasive species?
An unpopular opinion coming from a place of experience is hardly “unsubstantive.”

I have insight into this topic and I am completely correct.
I have done nothing but lay out the reality of the situation, and did NOT engage in flame baiting.

I think you are out of line on this one. However, I will refrain from commenting on this topic in such a manner.
My rule of thumb is if the media wants me to get upset about an issue I try not to.
Burning wood from a managed forest is close to carbon neutral; burning gas definitely isn’t.

The points others make about the health dangers of woodsmoke are well taken; but from a sustainability perspective, burning gas is worse than ‘good’ wood.
Some Thoughts on Twitter (Continued)
GoKey – A simple vaultless password manager in Go
But that’s the wrong way to look at this. You can’t just compare dollar for dollar while ignoring the effects of millions of companies closing down and never reopening.
if this becomes popular, that same industry will recruit gangs to manipulate this new system.

source: worked in ads and search for decades, incl google.
Honestly I was more wondering about the 48 hour fasts. At first glance, I'm assuming it might impair recovery over the long term if the regimen is high enough intensity. I would assume if you're in more of a maintenance mode it could work better or even in a deficit
I don't think I've ever had a memory leak or crash with iTerm in the many years I've been using it, so I'm surprised to hear of your experience.
Building a blog with reactive components
Why? We're social beings and it is extremely important for children to be with other children, especially in a setting where not all of them are best friends with each other or family. How else would they learn social skills? You seem to assume that it would be good if school was dispensable, but why would you think that?
> Right now it is extremely difficult to build your own web crawler that would compete with Google.

Nah, not a small task but you can break it down into well understood problems that have known solution.

The hard part is ranking everything.
Status, Vulnerability, and Status Vulnerability
Would be still a big disaster
There are plenty of cheap logic analysers that don't make this mistake.
> assume things about the author that are hilariously and transparently false

I run into this, a lot.

I'm 60, and don't hide the fact. I get "OK, Boomer"'d* all the time. It sucked, when it happened when I was still looking for work, but it's mostly amusing, these days.

It appears that the very fact that I exist, is enough to drive some folks into a rage. It seems to piss them off, even more, when they find out that I'm actually fairly good at some of the stuff that younger folks are into.

I had an interaction, some months ago (maybe more. My enfeebled mind has become palsied with eld, and I lose track), with a chap that just started slapping at me, out of the blue. When I suggested that it might be better to try making friends with me, rather than starting our relationship with an attack, he admitted that he is (and, I guess, many others, are) pretty upset at my generation for making a hash of the world.

Can't really say I blame the sentiment, but, in my case, that's hilariously off the mark.

I just suggest that prejudice/bigotry (which is what ageism is) tends to be fairly destructive, and seldom gives positive results.

And, course, in some contexts, it’s actually illegal, but that doesn’t seem to deter many folks.

I also get attacked because I'm an Apple developer. That's not new at all. I've been weathering that, since the 1990s. The ageism is a lot more recent. I suspect that may have something to do with my well-coiffed pompadour, taking on a rather fetching shade of gray.

*At 60, I'm not really a "Boomer." I'm in that weird generation between "Boomer," and "X." We're the ones Dazed and Confused was about. My older siblings are "Boomers."
With modern technology there are much more interesting things you can do, esp if you combine with battery storage and real time pricing.

One of the main issues is that for residential pays a flat rate all the time. There is no incentive for people not to use electricity during those huge peaks which really drives generation costs. Ideally people would not cook/clean/heat water/charge anything during those hot summer afternoons or cold dark windless evenings. Your electric water heater is a good example of it could be saving costs by charging when its windy/sunny/low demand periods and even better lower water temperature so wont be so hot when prices are high. Smart EV charging is even more important, if you leave the car plugged in every night, but with logic so some hours it'll charge quickly and maybe some nights not at all.
I love how this is a problem that a huge number of people have worked on for around 20 years and have thrown stupid amounts of money at and people just jump in and boldly proclaim that they have the answers that just popped into their mind. Peak HackerNews.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290617
I find Neil deGrasse Tyson to be a terrible science communicator, especially since a few years back. Just look at the man's twitter. Putting him and Carl Sagan in the same sentence is almost insulting x)
While I agree that ANNs are probably a poor model for how the brain really works, your comparison isn't necessarily a fair one. While ANNs start their learning with an empty/random state, the human brain starts with a bunch of connections that are pre-encoded in DNA.

With that said, my guess is that we'll probably have to take a few more hints from the biology of the brain before we are able to achieve "human level intelligence".
They could host ranaviruses, destroying purposely their services to agriculture in entire areas. This is serious money.

Children shouldn't be encouraged to mess with the hard work of environmental conservators. In the same way as they should not be encouraged to unscrew and collect things from major engineering works like bridges or railways.
I had nmap screenshots presented as a penetration test. I don't mean "in a penetration test, with some text". I mean a penetration testing company embarked on a two week engagement to review an application I had built, and they literally handed in a screenshot of nmap on their own letterhead and called it the report. I was pretty livid.. there a lot of shortcuts on security I was actually hoping to get a drive to improve, but instead I got hauled to "please explain" what this "port 443 is open" report means.
I work in the UX space. My team presents new designs and features to customers before building them. We actually sit 1 on 1 with a customer and show them mockups and such of some future idea for the product. One of the questions asked to customers is something to the effect of, "Looking at design A, would you say it looks more or less 'modern' than design B?" This is usually the justification higher ups use for making these changes. I'm not saying this is a good way of product direction (do customers really know what they want?) but this is usually how the justification happens.
Can anyone clarify a few points for a layman?

- Is this really FTL transmission of information?

- If so are we then able to retrieve (examine) the information at the other end without it being corrupted?

- What implications does this have for Einstein's theories? Do we place them into the same category we did for Newtonian Physics where they're ok for some applications but ultimately an approximation?
Erm, it's VW due to overtake Tesla for EV sales by the end of this year.

Edit: ouch that statement might have been correct if VW hadn't sold out annual production by May and supply chain problems hamper ramp up. So it's predicted for 2024 VW BEV sales will exceed those of Tesla.
> (disclaimer: lead brand manager, been at the table of a lot of the meetings where these logo changes happen.)

This is not a disclaimer. This is, in fact, the opposite of a disclaimer. It is a "claimer", if you will, claiming experience and authority on the topic.

A disclaimer is when you state a reason why people might want to discount your opinion, usually due to a conflict of interest. E.g., "I work at Revolut."
I don't think it's that new. It reminds me of the person in the 19th century who brought every bird mentioned by Shakespeare to America, largely for the publicity, and now starlings are a massive pest throughout the country.
Disappointing that this kind of exclusionary rhetoric gets play on HN.
I find this much harder to read, but I'm not dyslexic. I was expecting it to be easier to read for people without dyslexia as well.

I had no idea that dyslexics would rotate letters in their minds. As far as I understand that's what the heavy lower portions of the letters is supposed to fix. I find it really hard to read upside-down.

But I'm glad it helps people. It's really good to see it's available on more and more devices like my Kindle.
Sounds like failure in Biology education and people demand control of speech to fix it.

I'm very worried of the trend that everyone demands speech control to fix something they see as an issue(be it legitimate issue or not).

Netflix makes gay, Google make Woke, Youtube kills people with high voltage currents ,Facebook makes Nazi, TikTok kills the environment - depending on who you ask. I'm really getting very tired of this cancel culture. Destroy something, remove something.

Till very recently we had teenagers swatting(the practice of calling armed police with pretext of armed incident) each others when gaming. Is that still a thing?

What about actually addressing the core issues and introduce harm prevention mechanisms? I think the problems the social media causes is essentially dependent on something goes big too fast to have proper response. We don't really need to control speech, just need tools to cater to the new reality of fast spreading information.

If there's actual damage done, then probably that location needs better environment protection laws and institutions. People were destroying the envoronment way before the social media and that's how we have rules on waste disposal or animal farming.
"WSB weighted by quality"? What am I missing here?
It's a first course in programming, with occasional glances at other relevant topics, whatever the title.

MIT tried to do an intro course which was actually an introduction to principles, but the effect was so harsh that undergrads without previous background in programming were often advised to take a more conventional "intro to programming" couse first. The textbook, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", is still available -- but the course is no longer taught at MIT, after they decided it was no longer serving the needs of the students.
The cost of building a “general” search engine for the “whole” web is astronomically high, in the 10s to 100s billions. It’s not achievable, Google were only able to do it by growing as a business at the same time as the internet itself. I don’t believe it’s possible to compete with Google (or Bing) by starting at zero.

The route forward, and what should be advocated for, is a distributed network of search engines, each for a specific vertical. If it operated as a cooperative they could share expertise and technology, they could then build a “meta” search engine for the co-op that combined all the results from the specialist niches. Each member basically “owning” the “franchise” for a specific type of search or category.

So, I don’t believe a single non-profit is the answer. More a co-op type arrangement where the co-op organisation (which may be a non-profit) has a mission to advance internet search through it’s network and strategic investment.
That would be especially interesting for hours with negative energy prices (at least once they become accessible for retail customers). Also various appliances like washing machines or dish washers can be timed
Have you looked into the about:performance page? It might give you clues.
I track how I spend my time on various projects using Toggl
https://audible-converter.ml/

Spits out the command to use ffmpeg locally or can transcode with a wasm compiled version. Note you need to use mp4 to preserve chapters, flac output doesn't seem to include them
First of all, nowadays you should be using Lightning Network, where fees are negligible and the payment is finalized and settled in order of seconds. BtcPay server has first class integration of Lightning Network.

And second, even if you want to accept onchain payments, current onchain fees are something $0.2 for confirmation within an hour. Which seems reasonable for having final settlement without any intermediary of your funds this fast. Compare this with traditional payment options like credit cards where you are waiting often times 30 days or even more for settlement and as the OP illustrates, you are at mercy of intermediaries.
99%+ of people in the medical industry did not sanitize hands or equipment 100 years ago.

99%+ of people in the tech industry currently do not care to do the extra steps required for data neutrality, and privacy.

99%+ of people are lazy to the point of harming themselves and others.

1%- of people examine how the 99%+ do things and pioneer harm reduction tactics in spite of everyone constantly reminding them that no one wants their help.
I don’t think these ideas just popped into his mind. They’ve been discussed for a long time on HN, and some alternative search engines have started to incorporate them.

It’s worth the experiment.
The author explains in the README that this specific algorithm is not suited for some of the applications of Reed-Solomon codes, e.g. hardware RAID controllers or communication channels.

However, it is appropriate for protecting archive files against corruption, by adding redundancy that enables the recovery of the complete file when any part of it is lost, as long as the lost parts do not exceed the size of the extra redundant data.

I happen to add such Reed-Solomon redundancy to all my backup/archive files (using "PAR2"). For multi-terabyte archived data, the Reed-Solomon computation can be quite time-consuming, second only to compression, so a faster algorithm can be useful.
Reading some comment chains makes you doubt the average users reading comprehension... This was all said in the first comment.

The point is that the users likely don't want to only add one addon, but several.
It's not permissable to create addon packs as a compilation of a known working combination. Nexus does have something that lets you install multiple add-ons like a package manager but few exists, because it doesn't work well enough if adjustments are necessary
The Gift is also recommended by Margrete Atwood to all creatives. I read parts of it and found it slow and boring but then haven't stopped thinking about it since.

The way we exchange gifts at holidays used to be the way small economies worked, or so i recall the book saying. And thinking about a creation or work of art as being a gift to your community is an idea that seems to make a lot of sense to me.
Thanks for linking to more information about it.
lmao, feeling left out with no brown list then.
Add a thumbs up / down icon, and your average Facebook user would likely use it without knowing what it was.
What percentage of mobile phones in the us are not Apple or Samsung? How much wailing and gnashing of teeth would occur if Apple screws up an iOS upgrade that can’t easily be undone? Or just repeats what rogers and Facebook have done re dns?

Glass houses, eh?
I definitely don't do low carb diet, don't do any kind of fasting and I don't get any of this.

I can skip breakfast altogether, if I don't do any sport I can skip lunch too and don't feel much difference. My wife (and her side of family generally) is opposite - feeling weak and irritated when hungry.

Genes play a big role, as in everything body-related.
But a company like Google would want supreme control. They're not inclined to rely on a community for anything

Wikipedia shows it can work at scale.
Writing: A misunderstood activity
Rust device drivers in the Linux kernel
There is a dependency relationship defined in C3 for libraries, but there is not (yet anyway) any package manager to actually pull those from a remote repository. It just ensures they are present when using it.

The standard library is far from done, but I imagine it having a common core, supported by all targets. Then a common set of modules that are available on most but not necessarily ALL targets. Outside of that there are “standard library ‘extras’” which will only be of use for certain programs. Beyond that there’s the vendor collection of officially supported external vendor libraries that are not part of the standard library.
That's so true, and yet, I think your answer also explains why "what makes them so great videos" can work, in a way. The explanations given by Beato or whoever may be lacking in terms of the true why (is there really one?), but the enthusiasm of the presenter and the segments they choose to highlight can focus your attention on certain parts of the music and give you some of the insight they (apparently) have, even with it being unspoken. That's how it works for me anyway.

One thing I often notice is that if you listen to music with other people, you hear new things in it, because you are partially hearing it the way they do through reading their reactions.
Source lists from friends-of-friends.
It's still "just" next token prediction based on basic math. Yes, we see many astonishing results, at the same time, there is no magic to it. So I don't think that it's not clear what's going on here.
Now this seems like a dystopian episode of black mirror :O
> Why _do_ rockstars trash their hotel rooms?

I guess Girard's answer might be something about the power of ritual sacrifice, although it would not be mine.

> Were Greek philosopher poets truly musical performers?.

Don't know about anybody else, but there are some allegedly authentic recreations of Sappho songs on Youtube.

I have not read any of the books listed.
Even they often try to cross the line, all German public agencies including police are required (by law in the states, by constitution for the federal level) to answer journalists' questions.
What’s stopping you from continuing to read textbooks? Even for advanced subjects I’m sure there are always some books that are targeted to a broader audience and don’t go too deep into the theory.
It’s linked to too many hot button issues, and would have way more impact than just anger against a single cult.

If it was in the US context I would compare it to an alternative muslim cult founded in China and supporting the Palestinian regime. If someone shooting a US politician was found vaguely linked to that cult, it would be wiser to wait for a strong connection with the crime instead of just throwing around the information and have everyone go wild with the implications they want.
You would have a difficult time maintaining and gaining muscle mass with frequent, long fasts. Your muscles need protein to repair/recover/grow. If you don't provide it from food, your body will cannibalize it from wherever it can. This is one of the reasons it is recommended to increase protein intake, distributed throughout the day, when in a caloric deficit.