skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I help moderate a facebook group which gets a lot of attention from spammers - at least 90% of the accounts trying to join are bots. We filter them out by asking a few simple questions, which the bots cannot answer coherently. Someday soon, a spammer will get GPT-3 or something like it into the process, and then... whoo boy, that'll be the end of the group.
Great essays, shows that Fields Medal is doing its desired effects [personal opinion after reading].

For those that didn't read until the end, recipient of Fields Medal had a far greater "Cognitive Mobility" in which they opened new fields of research.

Those fields may as well be dead end, and even if they aren't their production in terms of papers are probably slow to ramp up. But those are the research we need as compared to certain fields, where the amount of papers being churned out arguably have a negative effect.
> There’s so much wasted time in the typical day

This is the most important thing to understand, at least in IT as a whole and in the integrator/MSP wrold specifically.

There were the times were the actual work didn't clocked more than two hours a day for months. Not because there was no work, but because there were meetings, red tape, e-mail chains with a dozens addresses in CC...
That was a really interesting talk, thanks for sharing! Have y'all given other talks? would love to learn more about your dev/release workflow
No doubt, why would uBlock performance be any kind of priority for Chromium or WebKit?
The Four Seasons is not homophonic music? It varies by season but IIRC there's definitely some homophonic writing in there.
Why you are not afraid: you make enough money to hire experts to shield you from making any business and tax mistakes.

An emerging hobby business makes enough money to warrant hiring some VERY limited services, but not enough money to hire a book keeper, a CPA, and any other services that a "real business" needs.

I converted a side-hustle into a "real business" that paid taxes for several years. It's not super hard to start a business as a beginner but you've got some hurdles to clear, more-so if you are selling durable goods as opposed to "apps". I made one single mistake while conducting out-of-state commerce that cost me thousands of dollars in one fell swoop: that was more than all the cash the business had on-hand. I had registered to do business in the other state and was trying to dot my i's and cross my t's and be above board, but the mistake was till mine though. I could have spent those same thousands of dollars to hire experts over the same course of time preventing all the wasted money, lost time, and headaches but my business would have made so little profit it would have nullified the reason to be in business as a real tax-paying business.

Along the way I began to see various things as "cost of doing business" which was useful. I was glad to have the experience, I reinvested heavily into the business to save myself time and effort. But I never made enough money to hire others to do anything that I could do myself. The "cost of doing business" part only works if you have regular positive cash flow too.

So again, you are trying to serve hobby businesses who are not profitable enough to warrant them hiring experts to dot their i's and cross their t's for them. They are correct to be afraid of lightly stepping into this world and you won't change that.
I've wondered if the onerousness of lesson planning is due in part to the extremely fragmented nature of American education, where every school district formulates its own curriculum. I'd be curious to know what it's like for teachers who teach a standardized, national curriculum like France's.
The problem with Python here is that CPython is not only the reference implementation but the de-facto specification. So dicts are still "supposed to be" unordered collections, but now dicts must also preserve insertion order as per the docs and the reference implementation, so now all alternative implementations must also conform to this even if it doesn't make sense for them to conform to it, or they must specifically choose to be non-comformant on this point.

Of course in this case, the order-preserving optimization was actually first implemented by an alternative implementation (PyPY), but I don't think that changes the issue.
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/10/starme...

I know this is brushed off or denied by the intelligentsia, and I know the ruling class (no matter what the party) never worked for the interests of the people but themselves, but nevertheless the working class is turning to conservative politics. The really sad thing is very few people on the left seem to be honestly asking why. What is their party doing so wrong that the least advantaged working class is voting for the parties traditionally associated with capital? Instead they seem happy making up feel-good stories about "the horrible uneducated racists voting against their own interest" to tell one another, and that is about the extent of their intellectual curiosity on the matter.
If/when the government (US or EU) goes after Apple for antitrust violations, they should use that same line of reasoning.
If you use 1 motor per wheel, at full torque you don't have double the power but the same power as one motor on the axle. This is the fundamental disadvantage of using one motor for each wheel, which is probably why Tesla engineers didn't pursue this route.

In addition, the extra weight also adds up, no matter how tiny the motor is. Essentially you are making each wheel heavier, adding to suspension woes.

The greatest advantage of individual motors is in cornering when you can precisely control how much power each wheel gets, and obviously on icy surfaces when you can lower the power on the slipping wheel or disengage it completely and drive power from even one wheel which still has traction and grip.
Nearly the same result can be obtained by torque vectoring, which is what Tesla employs. So for may be 20% less accuracy you can do away with the individual motors.
I'm not saying the technology would be prohibited... I'm saying that making copies of copyrighted works would be prohibited... which is the main way that a memex was meant to work.

Record companies freaked out when people started using Napster, a Memex for music. I'm sure the same would happen if I were to download an article from the New York Times, for example... and repost it with a copy of my notes added.

The copying of material is the thing that is just a no-go these days.
Simulation is a way to form a solid hypothesis. It’s not evidence though.
It used to be common knowledge that home ownership was the bedrock of American civil society. There's nothing like a 30 year mortgage and a couple of kids to keep a person locked in.

My editorial opinion is that rich people got greedy and stopped caring about the middle class and upward mobility. They saw houses as an investment opportunity they could sell as securitized tranches to overseas buyers. So it's grab as much cash as you can and write opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal about how this new generation is lazy and doesn't want to work.
Current motors are enough for public road non-tow performance. I don't see practical significant advantage.
Until and including FSX there were still many things carried over from the sublogic days. Like the key indings, picture in picture modes etc.

Msfs2020 was a clean room rewrite though so there aren't any there.
- Tesla doesn’t offer LiDAR sensors, even if it’s clearly the best technology to use for the autopilot.
The US is just a pretty expensive country. The cost of labor (highly correlated with wages) is pretty high compared to Europe even outside the coastal cities. Maybe not 4x though.

It would also be interesting to compare educational outcomes in particular US states to particular European countries. I suppose that the quality of education may be as unevenly distributed across the US as it is across Europe.
Ah, thought goto usage was considered harmful.
>I do not believe in an all powerful and loving god because there is simply too much needless suffering in the world

I'm suspect that's not the only reason, but I'll ask just in case: how much can suffering be reduced without the abrogation of free will?
Thanks mate, been looking for this for ages!
They absolutely do. I benefitted a lot from sports as a kid. You just don't need to put as much money into them as many schools do. For example many schools nowadays have their own pool, or multiple stadiums, dozens of teams with multiple long distance travel a year, and so on, while a lot of that could be using shared infrastructure or done outside of the school.

And often the vast majority of the money in sports is concentrated towards a very small fraction of the student population, often for regional pride above their self-actualisation. A lot of high school athletes are quite miserable or do it out of social pressure.

I'm not saying we need less sports, we can just do it with less money that is better allocated.
> With one exception, only people with a Ph.D. in mathematics have
received Fields medal

Who was the exception?
Currently not working and won’t start until January. I left my last employer after 10 years and can speak to my most recent time there.

I found joy in my technical work, solving problems, and often breaking them down and bringing clarity to others. I got the same satisfaction that I get from working out. I did some technical work myself, and a lot of my time went towards meetings and design reviews with other engineers. It was rewarding, and I enjoyed mentoring and seeing people get promoted and progress in their careers.

I didn’t find joy in the layers and layers of bureaucracy and management, who often had no idea what was going on. Many of my management peers were clueless, obsessing with how to build their empires and get their promotions, instead of actually investing in people.

I was in meetings where engineers would literally break down in tears describing their situation. Their management chains were atrocious at managing their people, driving things to completion without stressing everyone out, etc., but they excelled at managing up. When I felt enough was enough and pushed these people to do better, it reflected in poor feedback for me. At one point, I was asked to not be a third party in these matters, to let things be as they are, and avoid forming close relationships with these engineers. I was told directly to focus on productivity and organizational goals.

I thought this was bullshit. Obviously it’s a small world and so I didn’t piss on the table on my way out, but I resigned. Wrapped up things I was driving forward or did a proper hand off. Bye bye!
Rock crystals found at Stone Age ceremonial site in England
America is not a leader in vf, no doubt because of all the amber waves of grain we have. Japan, Korea, UAE and other nations where food security is national security are taking the lead.

It's moving away from niche (tony restaurants can have fresh vegetables picked daily in December, while veggies from Argentina are still 7 to 10 days from farm to fork, so it's not as fresh).

Aeroponics is a bit harder than they make it out to be. (some plants just can't live without dirt, and you need to inject oxygen to prevent root rot).

Hat tip to Dickson Desponmier, age 82, who 'invented' vf, even though he's a parasitoligist who studied the worm you get from eating raw pork (long story).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier
Are Finland's schools like my city? 30% of its children descendants of slaves? + 10% illegal immigrants? A good few percent homeless, parents in jail and/or hard drug addicts. 20% with both parents working 100 hours between them. Some bring guns to school. Teaching isn't all about teaching.
Which "above comment"?
I made a small gadget that displays a count down until your next appointment: https://github.com/jareklupinski/count-down

The hardest part was getting the actual calendar data from Google.

I'm not sure there's even a way to actually get my iCalendar from my iPhone :(
I saw an E-Mercedes in my neighborhood today. It was half minivan, half future, with a full plastic front, mostly transparent with no ventilation. What the heck, just.. why? I experienced a visceral negative reaction, like seeing a stillborn child. What are the people who make and purchase these physical atrocities thinking? How do they sleep at night?
very cool, thanks for the video, enjoyed it, as well now being aware how easy it would be to 'project this' into something in the future should the need arise :-)
The market leader is a system called Epic. It's like the SAP of the medical industry -- universally kind of hated; but it works well enough once set up.

I'm sort of surprised you haven't encountered it yet (and that the people writing responses to your comment haven't either).

Here's a PR piece about their secure video chat feature. (They also support emailing around photos, and the app has a built in camera, but that's old news, and not in their PR blog reel)

https://www.epic.com/epic/post/expanding-telehealth-during-t...

They are doing some interesting stuff with outpatient monitoring and treatment-specific workflows, apparently:

https://www.epic.com/epic/archive/epic-outcomes
Calm down, you’re attacking some kind of strawman representation of who is on HN. Has it occurred to you that a non-trivial subset of the HN commenters are scientists?
"It usually descends into absurdities where you are supposed to find this rare unicorn brand that has the proper quality (for now, who knows next year!) then dose it at some exact time before bed time, but avoiding calcium or citric acid or something because that would nullify it etc etc."

The body is a complex system. Just because our minds prefer simplicity doesn't mean our bodies will respond simply. People that are into the minutiae of nutrition and supplementation are obviously willing to do their homework to get the benefits.

"Supposing the supplement even ever worked, it simply is not practically useful with such constraints. I'm not going to get a PHD in fish oil quality in order to achieve some single digit risk reduction of heart disease."

Nobody is asking you to do anything. We live in a society where most foods are fairly processed, most supplements are bogus, most claims are BS, etc. There's an overwhelming amount of data on the benefits of Omega-3s now, and to get the benefits you need to actually take quality Omega-3s. Rancid fish oil won't give much benefit, and most fish oil is likely shit. The supplements industry isn't regulated like medicine.
I see things quite differently, perhaps because I worked at Motorola in the early 2000s when the same thing happened to feature phones.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.“

The American market for a lot of things is extremely lucrative on a per-capita basis. So you go and base your business on serving it. And then a growth industry turns into a mature industry, and all your fat margins disappear.

The American smartphone market is mature. The American smartphone market is becoming boring. The number of people getting a new phone every year (or two or three) is rapidly declining. For a growing number of Americans, all phones are good enough.

Fixing the “problem” of the carriers in the US isn’t going to move the needle:

If you get paid by getting a lot of American clicks on breathless articles about new phone features or new phone software, your revenue is in an irreversible decline. Americans largely don’t care!

Pivot or die
kind of comes with the 'high performance' part. When have those cars never looked douchie? If you want a functional electrical car there's Renault/Hyundai/Honda
? Atomatons ?
I did not negotiate this but we get some Fridays off and I use unlimited PTO for the others to make it a 4 day workweek (except when oncall).

When there’s a deadline or shits broken Ill put in the effort but for the most part its a 4 day workweek and its great.
a freedom of information request resulted in this being released.
I eork a "9/80" schedule, which ammounts to working 9 hours M-Th and alternating between an 8 hour day on Friday and having a Friday off. So I have a 3 day weekend every other weekend.

In my company, it's something that every "creative" employee has the option to do. It's based on the idea that we're billed out to clients hourly and all of our work should be scheduled a bit in advance. Fridays are staggered though, so there should always be some availability.
While I like the technology aspect, I am secretly rooting for expensive cars to become uncool.

Small boring self-driving cars, possibly collectively owned instead of big expensive individually owned cars often used as a proof of social status.
obligatory GOML citation

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/connector-conspiracy.html

connector conspiracy: n.

[probably came into prominence with the appearance of the KL-10 (one model of the PDP-10), none of whose connectors matched anything else] The tendency of manufacturers (or, by extension, programmers or purveyors of anything) to come up with new products that don't fit together with the old stuff, thereby making you buy either all new stuff or expensive interface devices.
Hmm. I'm sorry but I can't promise that. It isn't part of the HN API, though I can understand why people use it since Firebase offers it.
I certainly dont. I've spent too much time on blind though where I think that idea came from.
Trading Places Plot (1983)
But what order are the bytes being chomped?
Non-native speaker here. Don't "correct" and "right" have the same meaning? Do most American/European native speakers feel so strongly about using "correct" in a conversation to show agreement?
He’s describing a form of “cooperative overlapping”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/opinion/interrupting-coop...

Things like this are cultural and learned. I think for many people it isn’t until they first hit a radical change of frame (say, going away to college or moving to a new city) that they realize there even are different conversational styles.

One thing I hadn’t considered until TFA is the effect of not being interrupted. I can definitely tend to drone on, especially if I’m explaining something. Unconsciously, I’m waiting for you to signal that we’re on the same page by taking the conversational ball and running with it. Failing that, I don’t really know when to stop.
> So now I am tainted too — if I hear you are a teacher then I will see before me someone who at best tolerates that level of crappiness in their workplace, and at worst actively takes part in it. Neither leave me with much respect for you, but I know why you do it: the kids.

I can't be sure those "jobsworths" are writing screeds online to rationalize their present (and future!) lack of respect towards teachers, based on nothing but a wild extrapolation from a personal anecdote at a private school.

However, I can be sure you are.

If you really want to get their goats, why not try this: stop doing it. Bam: taint instantly removed. What could be a more passive aggressive solution than that? :)
I commute about an hour into Manhattan, NYC, supposedly one of the few places in the US with decent public transit. It’s 50:50 odds that that hour is not only completely lost but spent in complete misery standing up and holding a tight pole on a swaying and swerving bus or train.

In isolation I would much prefer to drive in, traffic and all. But it costs too much, and I know that’s not a realistically scalable solution for many reasons. But that I even wish I could is representative of just how much I hate NYC’s public transit system.

Now I’m not a transit hater. I loved Seoul’s and Tokyo’s for example. But to get NYC’s transit, let alone any other American city’s transit to that level is completely impossible due to cultural and social reasons. And no - cars have little to do with those reasons.
I wish people would have just left Chris alone, but I think it's obtuse to dismiss Chris's behaviour as simply that of a "neurodivergent person". Acknowledging his strange and provocative behaviour isn't condoning the harassment he received.

Speaking of harassment, it's also misleading to refer to him as a the first "target". Kiwi Farms (formerly the CWCiki Forums) started as a place to discuss Chris Chan, but it was far from the only or the worst one. For example, KF was strongly against the "idea guys", who actively tried to harass Chris in real life.

There's lots of nuance here, and I think we ought to acknowledge what is fact versus fiction. Otherwise we're just talking about a made-up boogeyman.
My company switched to 4x8 and it's been great. I personally feel like I'm getting more work done.

I believe one of the reasons they did this was to prevent people from leaving the company and it's certainly worked for me. I don't see myself wanting to change companies as long as I stay in my current country (Canada). Even for double my salary I think I wouldn't move.
This reminds me of the Infinite Jest bits about Boston AA. David Foster Wallace portrays these as some form of radical honesty and radical acceptance...with the possible exceptions of justifications, excuses, or dishonesty, which get met with concern.
If you mean the documented API, it shouldn't be hard. If you mean reimplementing Firebase, that would be another matter.
Well then there was my math teacher in HS, who made me grade the homework during her planning period while she sold Avon to random people who came into the school and met with her in the math teachers' office. Not all teachers even try to do their job.
well sometimes (a lot of the time, actually) a train going from point a to point b relies on a train getting to point a to begin with, and that cancellation of that trip is likely the cause of the cancellation of the trip from a to b. so this makes sense, to me.
Excellent point. We are watching the same thing transpire right now with the white replacement conspiracy and the LGBTQETC groomer conspiracy. Six months ago, we watched this happen with the "the vaccine isn't really a vaccine conspiracy". This pattern is so old at this point, it's almost boring. When the talking heads all start telling you "No, X isn't really happening", "Why X is a baseless conspiracy", dollars to the donuts the narrative flips within 12 months.
I’m very curious which culture that is, if you wouldn’t mind sharing.

I tend to take some liberties when it comes to interrupting but am aware that it’s not always appreciated. Still I often find it crucial in order to keep information flowing at high rates. I try not to over or under do it but find it a delicate balance and am not sure I always get it right.
The Pros are volume and weight and the con is probably primarily price. Lower weight and volume means you have a lot more options on where they go and where you can put batteries that you couldn't before. In the article they mentioned the Koenegsegg Regera which is a perfect example of where this motor works well. A two-seater with an 1100HP V8 and 9kWh of battery that also needs world class handling makes weight and volume massively important and the MSRP of $4 million makes cost practically irrelevant.

The Gemera is a bit different but is using the same motor tech and you can see how it allows them to pack things very tightly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwlNqaz9q_0

For Tesla they already have a huge car with a battery design that works and a large area for the motors so re-engineering the S to make use of the space you save was probably not a good idea, especially when they are already building the roadster. I also wouldn't be surprised if its a bit of a Not-Invented-Here problem considering how much they value vertical integration.
Probably not in the first release, but hopefully after that.