skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> rather than on the finding and promotion of undiscovered geniuses.

There's a catch in it as well, which is that you cannot really identify a genius up-front. A genius is, by definition, someone who thinks differently. A lot of people think differently. But the thing with the genius is that he thinks differently and correctly. The latter part won't be obvious until after the fact.

When Alex Ferguson started out as a Manchester United manager he probably already was a genius, but it wasn't obvious until many years later.

Same with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They probably had a genius vision for the company right from the start. But it's only in retrospect that we recognize that it was, in fact, a genius vision.

Finding a genius is, I think, almost by definition, impossible.
Some more fun examples to explore:

1. In the UK there was a TV detective series called "Inspector Morse". The composer of the theme music (Barrington PHeloung) included "Morse" in morse code in the theme. They then decided to start including clues in morse in the theme music behind episodes including red herrings so if you decoded the clue it might send you down the wrong avenue[1]

2. There are a number of cryptograms in the music of Alban Berg, including several suspected but which have never definitively been solved. An example which is like a crossword as you have put it would be in the violin concerto the choice of the famous corale and the way in which the text of the Bach cantata with the same corale ("Blessed are those who die in the Lord") refers to the dead child (Manon Gropius) the concerto was dedicated to. Getting that particular example to work is an amazing feat of musical architecture because the violin concerto is a serialist piece so he had to include the right part of the corale into the tone series for the piece in order to make it work[2]. It's also just an incredible piece of music in general

[1] https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20171107012243/https://www.laphi...
Those are normal prices.

https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2022-section-1-cost-...

> The average annual premiums in 2022 are $7,911 for single coverage and $22,463 for family coverage.

People get shocked by COBRA pricing, but it’s literally just your existing plan’s cost plus a max of 2% for administration. The real cost of health insurance is hidden from almost all Americans.
battery horse stapler in a playfair grid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair_cipher

Not the full cypher but just reading out the letters in the grid in a different direction.
I've never been personally attacked on Mastodon, nor, as a mature adult, would I really care if I was. The bigger problem I've found with Mastodon was how many large communities are ultimately dictated by narrow, usually politically oriented interests.
Yeah, hence 'fully'. Getting a new file system version isn't security (unless it's specifically a security flaw.)
I can recommend „The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac“.
I have practiced echolocation for fun. Getting some basic awareness from your surroundings is not that difficult, like detecting if there is a wall on your left or right side.

The difference in the sound response is subtle but clear. It's like tweaking the knobs of a reverb effect in an audio processing software.

It is not about detecting discrete echo pulses like a radar or a sonar does, it's about sensing a change in the "tone" of the sound you make.

In signal processing terms you're "measuring" the impulse response of the room around you.
This is just a marketing gimmick, it's been broken as a technology since its inception: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/improving-signals-...
I really like the various projects at https://suckless.org/
> I _could_ use Windows, and absolutely not Linux/BSD (for the programs/tools I need for work)

Are you sure of this? Wine (or Proton for graphics stuff) is pretty good.
This is sad, but basically every supermarket and corner shop has something like a foodbank by the door and I guess it would be included in these stats so not surprising. Also people with housing can survive in way colder conditions than they might think. It's a shame that all the wealth has been hoovered up from them by the upper classes and big businesses. Every time I see something about cost of living in the UK I think about whenever I want to do anything: theme park, attractions, hotels, restaurants everything is packed with people spending obscene amounts of money, loads of new cars around etc. It's truly a 2 tier system now and I guess in the US also?
Honestly I think it's all about priorities and budgets. Apparently even most rich company don't want to spend money to fix bugs. There's nothing that would prevent Apple to hire thousand developers who will just spend their time fixing old bugs and clearing bugzilla. You don't even need much skill for that, only determination and particular kind of character to enjoy this activity and there are people out there who like it. You can provide full support and backporting fixes for 3 years, for example, so people might choose level of stability by delaying upgrades and without fear of being left behind.
Another crucial contribution were [1]Zygalski Sheets.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygalski_sheets
Actually, this is a great idea. I also would like the idea to compile some quotes and puns into binaries.
Because the world would be better off having people of that calibre making progress on outstanding problems in maths than having one more mediocre restaurant in it
It's about a guy bragging about it later.

Some day ages and ages hence, I made an inconsequential choice, and THAT made all the different.
Then on what basis they are targeted by this lawsuit but not Apple or Samsung for example.
The statistics are nonsense and do not represent a significant population.

First of all, way beyond 11% of the population would be outside of the voting age, and/or unable to or unwilling to vote anyway.

Second, how could these people even rent or own a property without an ID or otherwise function in society? You cannot even get a library card, cash a check, get a bank account, or receive government assistance without an id. How are they able to pay any bills or receive income? Does cash sprinkle from the sky? Very few actual, able, or potential voters fit within this extremely small group.

Third, if a citizen is unable or unwilling to travel a short distance to obtain a simple id for $25 in order to ensure basic participation in society, are they likely even able to understand for whom or what they are even voting? Also, if they cannot travel or afford to travel to get an id, how are they even able to travel in order to vote, get groceries, get medical care, or anything else for that matter?

Fourth, if a citizen has no id, how can you know they are even a citizen that is able to vote in the first place?
I don't want to correct a biologist on a subject that they're clearly an expert on, but the discussion on sex seems like it's missing a lot of context. I wonder if they are making the mistake of thinking everyone is referring to the word "sex" in the same way?

The author seems to be talking about sex in terms of gametes - i.e. sperm and eggs. They make the claim that there is an absolute sex difference between male and female sexes in terms of this gamete structure. I am happy to take them on their word on this point.

But this is obviously not the only definition we have for sex. Individuals in a gonochoric species have a sex that in most cases corresponds to the gametes that they can produce, but this is not absolute. In humans, we know that intersex and possibly even hermaphroditic individuals can exist: these people certainly do not conform to a perfectly binary sex distinction. So clearly there is a definition of sex - and a widely used one at that - where the author is incorrect, and human sexes are more complicated than a perfect binary split.

This obviously doesn't invalidate the rest of the article, but it does suggest that some of the issue may lie in communication rather than oppression. For example, the author links to the "gender unicorn" model, but this fairly plainly discusses sex as a medical phenomenon (where it is typically assigned at birth, corresponds to reproductive organs, and where some people will not clearly fall in one category or another). This is presumably not being used by the same people studying evolutionary biology, where sex is an expression of gamete-based reproduction and - at least at a population level - binary. (Or at least, if it is, I imagine it will be within a specific context.)

Looking through some of the evidence linked by the article, this seems to be the case. For example, the article links statements from scientific groups claiming that sex is a continuum, but the statements are very clearly in response to decisions that would affect medical care for humans (where it would be incorrect to assume a strict distinction - if anything, medicine is the study of exceptions to the norm), and do not in principle disagree with that continuum being bimodal in respects to gamete-based reproduction.

Similarly, the author cites another article that they believe restricts discussion on reproduction to species that don't have binary sex. But my reading of the same article is (a) that it is exclusively focused on educating students (rather than wider scientific discussion), and (b) arguing for more examples rather than fewer to help students understand that reproduction can be much more complex than the traditional "sexual/asexual" model that they are often taught before university.

I am not in academia, so ultimately I can't tell the author that what they're experiencing isn't true. But as someone reading their article, I came away with the impression that the author would do well to read through some of the sources they cite with a more open mind, and attempt to understand why some people are concerned about biological gender in humans being restricted to a binary state.
Humanity is missing a thing that allows us to pass on learnings and experience.
Generalization is a intellectual shortcut but, the bubble that the stereotypical typical Williams collage student was raised in supports this problem.
I don’t know exactly what a “cancel” is, but in my mind, the behavior isn’t a left / right thing- it’s an extremest thing. There are plenty of examples from the right extremes, including banning of books and the unashamed desire to repeal the legality of gay marriage.
Extreme political positions require a clean message of good and evil, and in my view, the “cancel” of anything (eg nuance) disrupting those messages is a broad issue in the future of our society and culture.
Interesting. For me they help follow what he's saying: after a few minutes I can peek at the doodles and I remember what points he touched.

I never thought some people might dislike that part, but now I see you and a sibling comment do.

I wonder if it's good for people like me (who don't know much about music theory) and bad for people in the field. If this is the case I believe it's a good choice: the audience of non experts is much bigger and thus the majority of viewers finding this helpful will outweight the problems of those who dislike it.
Give people a ticket and a hole punch. Most polling places are schools so I'm sure we can come up with enough hole punches.
Luck, connections, and determination in that order to get me in the door.

Luck for having computers around all the time and the privilege of being able to have worked on them and spent lots of time with them growing up. This gave me a really big head start. Luck also for turning some smaller gigs into much larger ones, because the opportunity is not something anyone can really replicate. Most companies explicitly shut off upward movement especially for lower stage positions. I ended up at the right place at the right time with the right skills at a role ancillary to good software engineers. From an ad for a part time low level position off of craigslist.

Connections because I had a friend who had the patience to show me what to do and guide me on what to focus on. It wasn’t perfect but it helped a lot. Also got me in the door at the first job by recommending me as someone who learned fast.

Determination in forcing myself to do the practice and try to learn and build things that got me into the first gig.

After even 6 months of the first job everything became easier, companies would reach out to ME, I’d get incredible amounts of traction and my salary kept going up. Just getting the foot in the door matter immensely.

Also there’s plenty more in the luck column, mostly around privilege.

I’ve had many many friends who were capable but could not replicate it. I feel fortunate for the opportunities I was given early on. I wish there were more opportunities for capable and smart people. We as an industry treat junior engineers as if they have a disease.
It's also quite meandering, and for people unfamiliar with music theory, it's probably not helping much.

I know several better channels for getting the theory - including analyzing genres or songs, but most are focused on instruments + theory or composing + theory.
Wouldn't Scholze be a counterexample to the thesis that young people can't do fundamental contributions?

I would say that it supports the idea that only young people are able to change the fundations of maths, while older people can still use the existing techniques to push the bord, specially on those super technical fields where experience and knowledge are an advantage.
You will not distinguish an echo, just a change in the "tone" of the sound you make as it reverberates in your surroundings.

The echo pulses are there but just milliseconds after the sound you made. It will all blur into a softer or harder reverb depending on your surroundings.

To hear an actual separate echo pulse, it would need to be 20-100 milliseconds later than the original sound. That corresponds to a large hall tens of meters in size.
Trying to make sense of one person in a position so atypical isn't going to work unless you know them personally.

It could be a master plan for world domination. It could be a bluff that backfired. What he does with it is what matters.
But the rest of that sentence is “.. unless your machine is slightly older in which case just throw it in the Bin and drop another $2k on a new one like it’s no big deal.”
The park of Facebook that I was really in to was being able to store all the information about my social life. Tagging photos, making journal entries, checking in at locations, keeping track of birthdays and whatnot.

Before all the newsfeed stuff it was a pure reflection of who I was and who I surrounded myself with and it was glorious.
Run a different operating system, or run it air-gapped, or sell the machine back to Apple and let them recycle it. I don't know why you'd choose to 'throw it in the bin' that's insane. I think it's pretty great how Apple will buy back my laptop from me for 1/4 the price after a few years. Other manufacturers don't seem to do that.
Why do humans so often exaggerate their perception of credibility?
Streisand effect (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect), anyone?
Shonibare on Picasso, masks and the fashion for black artists (2021)
> undergraduates are still producing new results, every year, in numerous REU programs around the US alone.

Speaking as a former undergraduate math student producing “new” results in REU programs, all but a few of these results are completely negligible. There’s still a genius here and there though.
Can you folks hear yourselves? "Radical left" here, "radical right" there, is there anything else in this world? Like moderate left, center, moderate right, and anything in between or perpendicular to that? I understand you have a war to fight but the first victim seems to be reality here.
> Then why would you police my language and demand I use the exact same terminology for a very wide range of body sizes/masses?

I never said anything about the language you should use. I said "that is really fat though". This is all pure projection on your end.
You don't need to "advocate communism" to "critique the capitalist system".

Anarchists, bohemians, ecologists, distributists, nihilists, existentialists, hippies, traditionalists, some religious groups (including some christian demominations) and several other political or social movements and philosophies do it - in fact, one could also include social democrats in that.

Not to mention that advocating communism is not the same as advocating Stalinism or Eastern Bloc style opression (as is often implied), not anymore than advocating capitalism is advocating for the attrocities made by capitalist countries.
People think the US has an election integrity problem. Therefore the US has an election integrity problem. The system must be broadly trusted. And by "broadly" I mean "overwhelmingly within any given subset of the population", not just a particular filter bubble.
I was today years old to learn that something like this exists. I'm a coder, and I love music. I know how to spend the next couple evenings. That's awesome!
The public distribution scheme is riddled with inefficiency and corruption.

My family is one beneficiary being below poverty line, You had to entertain the worst of lot, the local corporator, the PDS contractor so you get your PDS every month. There was also no fixed date by when it would be present, Most of the times the contractors are cheaters who replace that rice for a worse quality of rice(Almost always the grain in small)

I can promise you, That the 2 rupees rice is not tasty. It's horrible, It was not 25 kilo per month, If I remember correctly it was around 4 kilo per person per month till bjp came to power.

BTW, It was started by late CM of AP, N.T.R.

Direct money transfer is a better option every single time.
Blackberry/RIM would still have a place today if they had not chased the market.

A focused business device with reliable and secure communication between employees and management, as well as a week (or two) of battery life and hardware focused on stable input by hand? There’s still a hole in the market. When was the last time you absolutely trusted iOS to deliver a notification to you?
The minimum price of a product is the price of manufacture minus the value gained by the seller by selling a product (e.g. door-buster sales). The maximum price of a product is the value gained by the buyer from buying a product. This creates a window of possible prices, with a final price only determined by negotiation. That negotiation may be explicit ("I'll buy from you, but only if you drop the price 15%.") or it can be implicit ("This product is just sitting on the shelf, so I'll drop the price 15%."), but it always exists.

By stating that the end user should only consider the price relative to the value gained, that is stating that the end user should give up all room for negotiation right from the start, and pay the highest price from the window of negotiation. It is not irrational for a buyer to negotiate a lower price, perhaps by waiting for the price to decrease over time.

Heck, it can even be worth it to avoid/boycott a product as a way to influence the starting point of future negotiations. None of these strategies are by any means "irrational". What would be irrational is to accept the highest possible price without considering the range of negotiable prices.
We really just need a clarification/ruling that ANY telemetry is not essential to providing a service and thus requires informed consent before it can be collected and consent cannote be required to use the service. And then enforcement against all these applications.

I don't think adding technical layers to block these data leaks is going to work long term.
Doesn’t matter. People will lose their national id’s anyway and whiners would complain that the system is unfair because 11% of people lose their id’s and are unable to get a replacement. They will claim that getting a replacement is an unfair burden; some of these people cannot get public transportation from their cave in the middle of the Texas desert.
My understanding is that the Fields medal was always meant to be awarded to someone young and on their way up. But then it became the medal, the Nobel prize of math.

Maybe we just need a new Nobel in math.
Another one in the books. It reminds me of the quote stating whether the research is flawed or otherwise, only time will tell.
This certainly validates my instinct. I haven't used APFS on any drives that I intend to move back and forth between machines. By that I mean that I cheerfully use it on internal drives. And I don't worry about things like external time machine drives which are basically tied to one system. But I don't use it on a drive that I might need to take both directions between different systems on a regular basis.

An investigation that would be more interesting, I think, than this version number probing would be testing what happens if you plug drives from systems with new APFS versions into systems with old APFS versions. Do the old systems take the drives into read-only mode? Is there some flag on the filesystem that indicates a minimum version that may write to the drive, which might make an older system mount the newer formatted drives read-only?

That's not how I use Mac OS generally, but I could see it coming up in my house. My wife is happily using a 2015-ish MBP, which won't get Ventura and probably won't be upgraded for a couple of years given the light usage it sees. It's entirely possible (if somewhat unlikely) that I could find myself wanting to plug in a drive formatted by a newer Mac.
It is an interesting architecture. Flink for real time feature computation and Kafka to share training samples with clients for low end to end latency.

Nothing on use of embeddings for similarity search, though. I assume they are using FAIS?
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Only one of them, really? My experience is that iOS is full of ads for Apple's services.
Apple’s bargain with Beijing: access to China’s factories – and consumers
Forgot to link the actual source of those estimates [1].

Also, in regards to the alignment issues, Chris Froome has also complained of similar issues [2] with disc brakes. He’s a seven time Grand Tour champion, is on the board of Factor bikes, has an army of professional mechanics to maintain his bikes for him - and he still runs into issues. So not just me.

[1] https://prodifycycling.com/bike-disc-brake-guide/

[2] https://road.cc/content/tech-news/chris-froome-still-has-dis...
I would argue that India's present success is in spite of the government, not because of it. The sectors that have seen the most success in India, namely the telecom, IT and services industries, were also those that were the least regulated (because our politicians weren't smart enough to even begin to comprehend technology to regulate it before it really took off in a big way).

As for the being a nation state part, sometimes I think we would have been better off in an EU type situation rather than being one large entity.
https://archive.ph/CIIc1
What kind of subscriptions were being considered, if you can still recall?
Alex Ferguson might have been a good football manager, but he wasn't a genius - and I say that as a Man United supporter. He didn't advance football in any significant way, and even towards the end of his career he was somewhat naive from a tactical perspective.

He was just a good man-manager in what is a sea of managerial mediocrity - football management is largely restricted to ex-pro-footballers who can't do anything else. Rinus Michels was a genius, Arrigo Sacchi was a genius - they actually advanced the sport.