skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, the most productive moments in my math education were spent "discovering" patterns while trying to solve problems, having been given just enough tools to attempt the problem. Credit to Szeszlér Dávid goes to those formative experiences. The next lesson, after we spent time "discovering" and likely failing, we would be given the last tool we needed to solve the problem. That discovery process cemented the lessons and understanding.

I still believe that there is also value in rote memorization and practice, as you simply can't recognize patterns unless you have the fundamentals upon which those patterns are based, mastered. Only then can you start abstracting complexity away mentally, and then do effective "discovery" of new concepts.

I didn't encounter this teaching method until college, but I don't see why it can't be applied at an earlier age. One of my earliest memories was when I "discovered" that 2 + 2 = 4. I distinctly remember the moment where the concept of addition and subtraction clicked for me, and it didn't happen in a classroom. I was playing by myself and counting my fingers out on the front lawn.

http://www.cs.bme.hu/~szeszler/
Which countries are dominating STEM research? You know, the part that is actually useful instead of just coersive? America, by a long shot.
> Please tell me it’s a sarcastic response.

I eat meat. It's either fish I catch and kill myself, or 4H cattle. I'm pretty sure it involves less animal suffering than someone eating factory farmed chickens, no? If you care about animal suffering, shouldn't you encourage people to take steps in the right direction?
Why not just allow people the option of privatizing their retirement contributions and stopping this eternal cycle that only would have worked with a bottom heavy population pyramid.
Yes I'm always amazed by these topics coming up on HN where something which is commonly done in lots of countries is brought up and you see lots of posts talking about how this can never work, or is an absolutely terrible idea which will lead to incredible damage to children, society... For some reason or the other.

I noticed this most often on topics about education, transport and housing.
@schwentker Twitter handle should guide you there thanks
Education varies significantly from state to state in the US, even district to district in many areas. Some states compare very well internationally, like Massachusetts, which would be ranked as high as 4th by some international measurements, if it was its own country. We consistently see in the US where regions with better public schools have much better economic outcomes, and lower rates of poverty, crime, drug abuse, and suicide. There are plenty of alternative outcomes to look at in the US as well: high school drop outs for example which on average have a much lower lifetime earning potential, and higher rates of drug abuse, suicide and incarceration.
> in a way where it can be resolved

I disagree. Whether the bug can be resolved is on you, not them. It's nice when they make it easy. It's smart to incentivise them to help more than just a basic report. It's stupid to ignore the existence of a bug just because you don't like the way that someone reported it. You might deprioritise it based on a time ROI consideration but you shouldn't ignore it.
Well the T14 does have one SODIMM slot that takes up to a 32GB module, for a total of 48GB. But I don't want 16GB of soldered memory. I'm not some Lenovo shill trying to sell people on the new thinkpads, I hate what Lenovo has done to the classic line. I would be so incredibly happy for framework to take Lenovo's place. But I need more than 4 ports and have such a hate for carrying adapters, because I've been burned in critical situations after losing an adapter.
It wasnt just Cloudflare. There were other providers which deplatformed them recently too. (DdosGuard to name one). It also wasnt just hosting, but their domains are being cancelled by registrars. (ISNIC, 2 days ago). This coordinated deplatforming movement all seems to stem from CloudFlare's incorrect labeling of Kiwifarms as a dangerous website. You may find that if Cloudflare puts out an unsubstantiated statement against you, you will have difficulty finding hosting at alternate providers.
Except it is actually if you've been following the workflows which have popped up since stable diffusion's release. These models are not limited to just making a image which vaguely matches some description. They can also inpaint specific portions of an image, turn a vague sketch into a finished looking image, and blend together different images in convincing ways. A workflow for creating a high quality looking piece goes something like this:

1) Quick, low quality sketch

2) Generate detailed scene based on that sketch

3) Fix obvious errors by re-generating specific parts of the image
It does make me hope that some protobuf libraries will integrate their own compilers. The official one can be a bit of a pain to install. This will definitely make that easier!
For general commerce? No, malls are dead in that respect. Online shopping will dance circles around it in 100 out of 100 universes.

For purposes like food, entertainment, physical arts, social functions, and very niche goods you may not find as much of online?

That is where the mall may pivot to survive.
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That makes Uncle Bob a junior engineer :^)
Pretty neat. I should try to make something like this sometime.

Side note, but it would be better to put, e.g., "A no-nonsense backup and encryption tool" alongside the "Show HN." I didn't know what I was clicking on at first.

Otherwise, good stuff!
Of course you then have to be concerned about your food sitting in warm water in a plastic bag leaching chemicals. Silicone is an option but most people don't do it.
At least they discussed publishing tools, there surely needs to be some better tools in-between troff/groff and LaTeX
It is an interesting technology. It is basically a packaging innovation, sounds pretty boring I guess, but larger chips have a super-linearly bad effect on yield, so breaking up the design into chiplets is very nice.

I wonder if anyone knows of a good place to look up Intel vs TSMC yield numbers or defect density?
Something that differentiates the audience of 1979 from the audience of 2022, I think. Or even the audience of 2010, probably.

> the audience ... come at ﬁrst for the war scenes, but they ﬁnd accepting this “at ﬁrst” difﬁcult: they need an ending, a dénouement, of intelligibility that will retrospectively justify those scenes.

The Marvel Films are the offender that I'm thinking of, but I'm sure other films are just as bad. There just isn't much substance; Maybe 10 minutes of story and then it's mostly explosions and "cool fights" or whatever, and the average viewer is there for exactly that.
Yeah I'm suddenly about giving in to my wife's dream of visiting France.
I hope not, given that Apple was one of the WebAuthn supporters, but I can't say I don't somewhat share your concerns.
I know the US has more trees than 100 years ago:
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/america-trees-now-century-ag...

The US east coast has seen massive gains in tree plantings.

I wonder if the gains in the US offset the loss in the amazon?
You're moving the goal post. Studies making "meat diets" look the worst does not equate to plant diets having "no side effects". Again, if you're making a claim that wild, back it up.

>How come it’s always meat diets that look the worst in nutritional studies?

Do yourself a favor and look up the actual comparisons. These are not health conscious meat diets vs health conscious vegan diets.
FWIW, I know two (partial, kinda) formal specifications of CSS normal flow and float layout, both of which are finished ie dead projects:

[1]: https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/pbrowser/pubfiles/paper....

[2]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius

(not counting the 1990s constraint CSS effort).

The first was merely part of a parallel compiler project and also covers table layout, whereas the second is a Racket (Scheme) program to formulate the HTML doc and CSS rules as a theory for submitting to z3 SMT to solve all kinds of decision problems (it can also produce a rendering).

Not sure that's very helpful; it would be cool if W3C can invest some time into better specs (not just prose).
Depends on your power adapter. My bog-standard one I use with my Framework is a Best Buy standard. It is just a little too thick to fit into the recessed USB-C when the adapter is removed.
The same person that I linked earlier has also a video on how to make game assets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blXnuyVgA_Y

I am still figuring that out myself. My current project is a fantasy-themed visual novel for which creating backgrounds is super easy. You just pick a certain style, for example "by Greg Rutkowski" and put that in any prompt.

Normally you want to reuse your backgrounds as much as possible to not blow the budget but thanks to AI I can be much freer with my writing. Of course the important backgrounds should be remade by hand at some point but for prototyping they are great. Character art does not really work beyond concept art as you normally need different poses for a character and you are very specific about what you want, again not a strength of AI.

My advise would be to play to its strength, if you can: Horror works really well. Outdoor scenes work better than indoor.
The whole article can be summed up as: "Colleges claim they care about Diversity, but one definition of Diversity is X, and we can trivially prove colleges don't care about X. QED colleges don't care about Diversity."

It should not take a particularly sharp mind to identify the fallacy here: There are definitions other than X. Therefore the conclusion of the article is completely fallacious: we've only established that people aren't using definition X, not that they don't care about Diversity.

From any sort of intellectually engaged opponent, I would expect some attempt to try and work out "therefore, colleges must have some definition Y that they actually care about" and an understanding that words can have multiple definitions.

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In places, the article doesn't even bother to check if it's debunking of X is actually accurate, either: it should be obvious to anyone who looks that quite a few colleges actually do care about socio-economic diversity (Point 2.5 in the article), and make a point of extending extra support to ensure at least a few poor students can attend. We have visa programs specifically designed to allow students from other countries (Point 2.3).

Maybe it's not an explicit "Affirmative Action" program, but it should be obvious that colleges do care about these things. Yet the author insists "Of course, none of the above predictions are borne out" and "Conclusion: By and large, they don’t care about diversity. They’re just lying"
I'm always really skeptical of claims about obesity for more than one person. Obesity is defined in terms of BMI, which is severely limited as a metric for health. An individual with more muscle mass and higher bone density is healthier than the alternative, but their BMI will be higher. Not all body mass is bad.

This tends to confirm my own anecdata, which is that I'm not surrounded by overfat people after all. I do see morbid cases from time to time and in certain population centers. A mostly healthy population with a small number of extremely overfat cases is going to appear to have bad BMI stats on the whole.
The good news from over the last few years is that both American- and Russian-made escape systems appear to function as designed.
> [...] I regularly compare those indulging in animal food to peadosexuals: they destroy someones life over some short sensual pleasure.

If you regularly do this, you're shutting down conversation in such an extremist way that it is counterproductive. There's a campaign in my country run by some extremist animals rights group with signs that read (translation mine) "yuck! Meat is nauseating!". Their campaign gains little traction because it's both extremist and demonstrably false; most people eating an asado concur meat is delicious, not nauseating. That line of extremist argumentation -- just like comparing eating animals to pedophilia -- is going to lead you nowhere.
This is exactly the sort of behavior the robots will point to when they rise up.
Physical compatibility aside, sticking a large rigid adapter supported only by the port into a laptop seems like a great way to damage the port and is still clunkier than a standard dongle with a cable.
The upside of that link is that the oceans are cleaner now than in the 1980s.
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If you're into a weirder side of twine I highly recommend works by Porpentine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpentine_(game_designer)
What do you mean? That's an incredibly important distinction in understanding mathematics for ML in the neural net age. Perhaps a bit of a sensitive spot for me personally, coming from a harmonic analysis group for my math PhD, but the short version basically goes like: Up until the 2010s or so, a huge portion of applied math was driven by results from "continuous math": functions mostly take values in some unbounded continuous vector space, they're infinite-dimensional objects supported on some continuous subset of R^n or C^n or whatever, and we reason about signal processing by proving results about existence, uniqueness, and optimality of solutions to certain optimization problems. The infinite-dimensional function spaces provide intellectual substance and challenge to the approach, while also being limited in applicability to circumstances amenable to the many assumptions one must typically make about a signal or sensing mechanism in order for the math model to apply.

This is all well and good, but it's a heavy price to pay for what is, essentially, an abstraction. There are no infinities, computed (not computable) functions are really just finite-dimensional vectors taking values in a bounded range, any relationships between domain elements are discrete.

In this circumstance, most of the traditional heavy-duty mathematical machinery for signal processing is irrelevant -- equation solutions trivially exist (or don't) and the actual meat of the problem is efficiently computing solutions (or approximate solutions). It's still quite technical and relies on advanced math, but a different sort from what is classically the "aesthetic" higher math approach. Famously, it also means far fewer proofs! At least as apply to real-world applications. The parameter spaces are so large, the optimization landscapes so complicated, that traditional methods don't offer much insight, though people continue to work on it. So now we're just concerned with entirely different problems requiring different tools.

Without any further context, that's what I would assume your colleague was referring to, as this is a well-understood mathematical dichotomy.
If we are talking about HTTP here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...
> Once all the panic dies down, I think you'll see these technologies enabling artists more than hurting them.

This has happened in a different (non-AI, but "technology enables") way already with other forms of creativity. While it is true that more people become enabled, its not clear that this is overall a good thing. The benefits of more people empowered and enabled to engage in self-expression has to be traded off against the problems associated with discovery caused by their work becoming a part of the cultural milieu. People making art in private is almost certainly a good thing without limit; people making art and then making it public is not so clear - most of the work people create (even the best) is just not worth being public, but the self-limiting discrimination that this implies is in short supply in most of us. Yes, it's good you made it. No, it shouldn't be online or public, almost all the time.
wish they would have made a separate chromeos that is a full blown well supported linux distro. the implementation of chromeos is quite impressive and so is the google hardware. it’s not like they were making money on these things anyway
Oh so more contradictory nutrition and food wankery.

There has been a concerted effort to push this narrative for a while, even before all the "studies". Why don't they ever bother to look into the specifics of what is eaten, not just amounts. Or control for the fact that people eating vegan and veg only, in many cases are much younger health obsessed types to begin with. Who exercise etc. Not to mention looking at the full affects on overall health.

Nobody seems able to explain why an omnivore species would suddenly have a problem with meat.

In the end though, these types of studies always seem to miss or ignore the wider points as well as the full reality of things. We shouldn't be pushing people to endanger their health in order to potentially negligibly lower some rare cancer risks.
I find it interesting how stuff that was relevant for PCs in the 80s became relevant for early smartphones. I believe computing history often is cyclic in nature, so there is value in the old ways.
I've felt this a lot myself. So many interviewers hate being asked "why?"

"Why this problem?" "What is the reasoning behind this problem?"

I've learned some fascinating things about company attitudes in asking these "why?" questions. It turns out that Not-Invented-Here syndrome really can be deep enough in corporate culture you can hear it in interview questions if you ask follow up questions. ("That's just what we do, we don't trust the library solution at our scale." Cool, rewriting platform libraries orthogonal to your business delivers real value to your consumers I'm sure.~)

So I'm probably still going to ask a lot of "why" questions in interviews, because it yields useful information. But I'm painfully aware from rejections how much interviewers seem to hate it.
>Also below is a particularly egregious example from Canada, where it explicitly states white straight men need not apply.

Is such discrimination therefore legal in Canada? I don't think it's legal in the US (https://www.eeoc.gov/racecolor-discrimination).

edit: It looks like it might be legal in Canada: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-5.401/page-1.html
Work is work, in which returns diminish (2020)
Most of the article is (2016)
Here is what I think a modern OS should look like: https://qubes-os.org. It's security-oriented and based on VMs running other, existing operating systems, with a transparent interface.
Actually the statistics around education have completely different systems from Finland (very student driven learning) as well as Korea and Singapore (very discipline driven) at the topic. The main common factor is that the spend significantly larger fractions than the average on education.
Don't forget that Japanese actively shame fat people!
This is very much frown upon in Western societies but it works for them I guess.
> The professionals I've met actually working in ML R&D have basically all been very technically competent, including in mathematics.

Competent at math can mean many different things. Have they taken higher level courses in statistics, probability, optimization and control theory? If not I'd say that they aren't technically competent at math that is relevant to their field, and in my experience most don't know those things.
Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag grows
In theory younger trees should consume more CO2 as they are still growing. Older trees that are maintaining a steady state should consume a net of almost 0 CO2.
Certainly, but those human artists were also trained on a data set their whole lives. Raise a baby with no training data set and they might produce a handprint on a wall or a rectangle of facepaint. There's a reason indigenous tribesmen don't spontaneously invent hyperrealism.
I'm quite sure you wouldn't take it face value.

I've been reading Kingfish's blog for a long time... since 2008. And it reminds me why I left Mississippi every time I look at it. Kingfish isn't a web developer or a technologist (hence the *.blogspot.com domain and not something along the lines of www.kingfish.news like those of us in tech would have).

Kingfish is a just your garden variety blogger. His identity is already known, and he's considered to be controversial, but a truth teller: https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/jan/23/city-vetti...

He leans conservative, and although the so-called 'elite' media outlets consider that to be a crime nowadays, it isn't.
There was an expression floating around for this naming scheme, but I can't remember what it was and don't find any good search results either for my candidates. "Processor/Pentium equivalent rating"?

Edit: found it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Rating
If your life's work can be compressed down to 2 bytes, it wasn't that hard.

OTOH, if the 2 bytes is an index into a larger corpus of collected works, the question becomes more interesting.

OTOH, if the corpus is an ensemble of other 2-byte objects...
Machine translation has put a lot of human translators out of work. The per-word rates for text translation are pathetic these days, even for language pairs that Google Translate struggles with.

Of course, there are still some jobs for high-quality/high-importance translation like legal work, simultaneous translation etc, but these are quite niche.
> they are lazy

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That’s absurd. Most people will not only plug them on the same circuit, they’ll plug everything into a single multi plug feeding from a single wall socket.

I’ve never seen anyone, in corporate and home environments , split their circuit use like you describe.
I expect this trend to increase now that we've passed peak farmland https://ourworldindata.org/peak-agriculture-land
That test is actually assuming the url is http, and doesn't work on https.
I think it'll displace a chunk of what artists do. Anything where there don't have to be super precise specifications for the end result, where there's some leeway and you just need something that goes into a general direction. Which is a non insignificant chunk, and maybe kind of unfortunately also the jobs where you can be more creative about what you're doing. Like if I'm making a magic-like card game and I need illustrations for my playing cards, I could use an AI for that. If I want a comic strip or an illustration of a specific object, it's probably a poor fit.
What do you mean by "thousands of little contracts"? I haven't looked at Tornado's source code too much, it's entirely possible there are additional contracts created by their contracts as part of the protocol, but this would be pretty unusual.

Usually a smart contract protocol is a set of contracts working together, deployed to the blockchain, which provide application logic that executes regardless of who is interacting with it (via "transactions")
True. Where there is teaching there is no learning.
Ha! Real talk: I still have no idea what you're saying. I wish you did know what to tell me.
Well if you want the One Number That Affects Asians, I think what stands out to me the most is the prevalence of lactose intolerance over there, approaching 90% the more easterly you go. They just do not do very much dairy.

Less scientific, but a couple years ago I decided to transition to a more meat-lite diet and ended up turning to Asian cookbooks to make that happen. Veg entrees are just a novelty to western cuisines and everyone is stunlocked on meat substitutes instead of just doing well with the stuff that grows right out of the ground.
At the very least giving a name to the phenomena (and logical fallacy experts, please chime in) gives people the power to identify and categorize such arguments as not being worthwhile pursuits and can castrate their power.