skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I get what you're saying, and clearly there is "more stuff", I think we shouldn't discount how progress can make things simpler on this front. Proofs we learn are usually much more refined than the original versions. Notational improvements and more interesting abstractions mean we can cover more ground more quickly.

Another angle here, I remember seeing a study where some children were just... taught algebra. Like given high school algebra classes in 3rd grade, and kids were able to absorb all that abstract reasoning "just fine" (according to the study).

Of course there's only so much abstraction that can be done, but I think we shouldn't assume we are at the end of history on much of anything (except for parsing algorithms)
Please don't bring the 35 year flamewar on rec.audio.high-end here.
I predicted that it would end up this way way back in the 2000s when mobile was “the future” and was going to supplant all other forms of computing. I just saw it as obvious due to the walled garden nature of the system. It prohibits so much innovation so all we get is surveillance and addictionware plays.
Nope. The public key is not reduced mod anything in RSA. The large semiprime the user calculates is emitted explicitly as part of the public key and is used as a modulus in RSA operations.

Factoring that large integer directly yields the user's private key.
Everyone forgets about the CIA triad - security is not just about confidentiality, but also integrity and availability.
Ah, LGP-30! A few years back I had the chance to write some code for LGP-30 (emulated) as part of a CTF challenge: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/defcon2018-assembly-polygl...

It’s such a weird architecture by modern standards - self-modifying code is the norm and you have to pay attention to the rotational speed of the drum. I can only imagine what programming on a real one must’ve been like :)
It's also unclear how much of Zhang's recent work is recent ideas, vs ideas he had decades ago but only were made presentable recently.
Definitely - it's mostly to clear out the cobwebs and get back to normal rather than a long-term thing.
You don't need a Cartesian Theatre

Thank goodness.

I don't understand how your post sits opposed to mine. They seem to be in agreement?
From my point of view, China's attacks in Ukraine, and obvious elephant in the room, 'unlimited alliance' with russia providing russia the full opportunity to wage the war has cost them greatly. Why is China doing this? They need the wheat. Brazil is getting awfully rich off china exporting them food; food is this important to china.

Lets not forget their military encroachment on india's north; clearly doing exactly what russia did to ukraine. Japan should be far less worried than india. Invading japan will be extremely difficult with near certainty of wmds becoming involved. I expect a war with india's north at the same time as japan and taiwan. This will certainly happen if midterms destabilize the usa.

Then the whole 'south china sea' which is really about fishing and the food as well. Hard to feed that many people, but they have population decline set in stone, so they have gone 'zero-covid' because the nightmare of population decline. But gotta feed their people, cant let them die. Though I bet there's some hidden old folks not getting red. Not to mention they arent vaccinating their elderly... they need less of them.

Coming back to OP. Japan is reading the writing on the wall. China has all the factories and a 500 million strong standing army; front lines likely to be older folks. Then also are tremendously destabilized because they seemingly let a virus out of their lab.

All this japan-Britain thing really is about is saying 'we do actually have friends, leave us alone.'

The whole 'taiwan' thing is silly to me. China already owns them, just as they own hong kong more than ever. There are more countries in the world who acknowledge palestine as their own country than taiwan. Taiwan literally has 0. At most they have an independence movement? So what?

The bargaining chip taiwan has was amazing investment in chip fabs. Except europe, usa, and many others have decided to spend billions and make taiwan irrelevant. The moment the many new fabs go online, taiwan...
So they lifted almost twice my home country's population out of poverty in 15 years? That's impressive. Also, how did India got to have so many people?
As if... it's made to be build-able by third parties, eh?

I never managed to build Firefox nor Ungoogled-Chromium.

I'll give this new browser a try.
The Eternal Triangle, With Brigitte Bardot playing part of hypotenuse.
> The government has mandated that they will shut down perfectly good plants, taking nuclear from 75% of generation to 50%.

A plant that is aging out or reaching the stage in its lifetime when it needs a $1.5/W refurb isn't 'perfectly good'. Nor is a much newer one that is corroding due to major design faults and is off half of the time.

Replacing them with energy sources where total costs are lower than running costs is just financial sanity. At least until there is a large enough renewables fraction that storage is a concern.

> Hmm, maybe they'd have more money to fund things properly if they were allowed to charge the true rate for electricity (instead of letting other companies arbitrage for free), and weren't forced to buy renewable electricity at high prices?

You misspelled 'fully exploit their monopoly rather than have a price cap at their claimed true cost of generation for 25% of it'. If €48/MWh isn't enough to pay for the upkeep then maybe don't claim it's cheap?
Covid can do some strange stuff. FWIW, I've found the Epley maneuver helpful with BPPV.[0]

[0]http://sanfordhealth.staywellhealthlibrary.com/Search/134,51...
Yes but the metaphorical name has obviously come about through a simile or analogy. Like a ship but in space going to stars. We can understand a cycle through looking at how we draw a circle etc. The words themselves are metaphors but when you explain them to a child for the first time you do it through similies and analogies. They’re intrinsically linked.

And I’m firmly in the camp that it is fine to use analogy in debate. Rarely do people claim when they make a comparison that it is a one to one mapping. Just that there are possible insights to be gleaned from the comparison which could potentially mean that we may be able to solve problems in one domain using similar solutions to the existing domain.

Take this quote for example:

> I hate all analogies with physical world, because the person tends to pick up the most emotional one. It's emotional because they picked the thing that makes my lungs bleed. C, with all its flaws, doesn't damage my physical health.

Obviously interpretation is subjective but this seems a huge misinterpretation of what OP was saying. To me, OP is clearly arguing that C code is damaging to the long term health of computer programs the same way asbestos exposure is damaging to long term human health and that we should consider replacing or retiring C code with modern alternatives like Rust the same way asbestos has been replaced with modern building materials. Saying that you don’t like the argument because bad C programs are nowhere near as damaging to physical health as asbestos seems like a bad faith interpretation of what OP was trying to say. I also think the criticiser may feel differently if he was hooked up to a life support machine that was known to have buggy c code but that’s by the by.

Hacker News seems to have gone really hellbent on this pedantic ‘this is fallacy x’, this is fallacy y’ stuff recently as if every comment is some kind of formal scientific paper. It’s really weird and I’m sure it never used to be like this. It’s sucks the joy and fun out of everything, I don’t know why people can’t just express interesting viewpoints here anymore like a normal conversation without the fallacy police showing up,
I'm happy enough with my Unifi Dream Machine, a couple access points and a single switch. I can't tell if Unifi is attempting to focus on business to the exclusion of technically inclined home users? I wish there was a wifi system with open-source firmware and fully wireless access points for the places I can't easily run ethernet but I don't know of any.
Horrifying. Some people are mad.
Its for graphics intensive work that the high res is needed, and 15" as minimum size on the road for graphics.
Why is that a trap. It stands to reason the little man requires only a smaller brain to process the tiny world of the homunculus theater. And the little man in his head is smaller still. At the bottom of the recursive stack is a single neuron. No contradiction.
It's not safer (and in fact probably the opposite) from a liability standpoint.
I think traditionally actuarial tables have always been based on given achieving the age of 5 years.
Flag the ones that violate guidelines (isn't intellectually gratifying). There's no downvote button on articles for a reason.
This is almost always what the contract with a content provider requires, and the content owner won't give content to you without you agreeing.

I would be shocked if that wasn't the case here.

For a content provider, anything else would limit the number of times they can sell their catalog, etc, which they aren't willing to do.

Also, if the MPAA/et al hadn't lost in court a few decades ago, they 100% would have sent goons to erase your VHS tapes :)

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

See the section on content protection efforts.
Regular check ins, whether or not there is an "issue", is a good way to keep a big issue from arising.
A patent clerk now is a technical job as well. It’s a flaw in peoples thinking that “clerk” implies something low rank.

If someone tells you they were a “clerk” for a Supreme Court judge don’t be surprised when later in life they have an impressive legal career
Misinformation and disinformation are just nuanced versions of wrong. The former means unintentional and the latter means intentional. The distinctions are useful here because the latter is a claim that the person spouting the information is corrupt and knowingly trying to propagate lies. This is more universally considered bad. People are wrong all the time, but most people aren't intentionally spreading lies.

Malinformation doesn't mean something is wrong but that it is misleading. This distinction is important because if you claim malinformation you actually aren't claiming that the information used is wrong, but the way it is is. A classic example of this is white nationalists using the phrase "despite being 13% of the population black people <insert something about crime here>". While the statistics may be accurate it does not incorporate the complexities involved which end up decoupling race from the statistics. To put it more accurately, this is an aggregation error (more specifically ascertainment bias, a form of collider bias on conditional probabilities). Without the deaggregation here it is natural to assume that the conditional variable here is ethnicity (the intent of the malinformation) but in reality this is misleading because the way the information was presented is not entirely accurate.

Malinformation is specifically difficult to defend against because one can google to confirm accuracy of claims. But in reality it takes expertise to dismantle the claims. It is preying upon people's naivety and inability to process information that they are not intimately familiar with (which is all of us, just in different subjects). So it is important to recognize that this form of manipulation exists. The defense is to maintain skepticism and consult experts. Looking for consensus among experts specifically.

These words do in fact convey a significant amount of additional meaning and the distinctions are important. Especially if we're trying to encourage more meaningful and nuanced discussions.
It's almost certainly about legal rights, not about storage of data.
I feel like the author just slightly reframed the term technical debt to being abount a mortgage and that's the article.
That doesn't quite generate a prime. It generates a number that's a prime with a very high probability. There's always a small chance that it's not prime but it's good enough given the tradeoffs needed to verify that it's prime with 100% certainty.
The reason the Cartesian theatre is problematic is that it pushes the work of 'understanding' or 'processing' down the chain for the homonculus to sort out. So it's not so much the recursive thing-within-thing size difference, it's more that it's problematic because it dodges the hard bits.
> Also, how did India get to have so many people?

Extremely high fertility rates.
I'd like to on the one hand...but I don't want moratoriums and people deciding they know what's best for the group to be a thing...so, no.
In my experience the overhead is only noticeable if you use Entity Framework Core to interface with Sqlite.

The native Sqlite wrapper libraries such as Microsoft's Microsoft.Data.Sqlite have faster performance than EF, but because you're forced to pass around SQL strings, most .NET dev's don't prefer to use them.
Laboratory Investigations of Shelter Management Factors (1965) [pdf]
A personal finance author I follow (Ramit Sethi) has a book-buying rule where he has unlimited budget when it comes to buying books because if even one line resonates with you / changes your life then it becomes much more valuable than the $10-$20 you spent on the book. I presume it's aimed towards non-fiction books, but some fiction books can profoundly change your perspective on things, and that's worth the investment too.

I mostly follow that rule, but with the caveat that I must begin reading/skimming it immediately after I buy it (otherwise it will just end up in the list of books "to be read"). Yes this means that I have an embarrassing amount of started books.
Yeah, "I like this site enough to help keep the servers running" was a much easier sell back when I was giving money to Brad et al to keep Livejournal running.
Personally, I'm not familiar with any double-space rule. I simply mentioned the Bluebook in response to the above poster's misleading argument that a legal convention is "dead" on the basis of style guides that aren't generally relevant to lawyers.
I linked to an article because articles tend to provide more context than the wasteland that is Twitter - the article itself links to the tweet.

>I bought a few King books as a teenager, and even though I was broke, I don't recall saying anything like "f--- that I'm not paying for books".

Yeah... but Stephen King didn't suddenly decide you had to pay a subscription to keep the book after you already bought it, did he?

>King thinks his Tweets are like his books! That's funny, they are not.

Pretending you can read someone's mind then disagreeing with them doesn't make a compelling argument.The value his account has brought to Twitter - for free - is worth far more than the shakedown cost for keeping his blue checkmark, and Twitter needs him more than he needs Twitter.

>His account serves his promotional needs more than it does the needs of people who like his fiction.

It doesn't. I guarantee you Stephen King doesn't need a Twitter account to promote himself or his work.
Unlikely. Your hypothesis wouldn't explain the significantly higher rate of vaccine induced myocarditis in young males compared to females. Infection rates are similar between the sexes so there must be something else going on.
What do you use to control it?
I wonder how much companies lose just because people hate being forced into things, and they develop a strong aversion to something they'd actually use otherwise just because its pushed onto them.

What's worse, this even affects the few who try to introduce new things respectfully, because people are so in the "IF SOMEONE OFFERS ME SOMETHING IT'S JUST CRAP I DON'T WANT" mindset that they reject new things outright.
Speaking of ads and marketing, to me, “Kroger” has always sounded like an awful name for a grocery store. It sounds more like a Capcom video game boss than anything.
We kind of had "organic manufacturing" before the industrial era, in the form of skilled craftsmen. Two of the main problems with this approach are interoperability and reliability. Reliability seems like a solvable problem for biology, e.g. genetic propagation. Interoperability seems like a much tougher nut to crack.
Yes. Or at least some sort of limit on the number of stories in one day. Both sides of it are annoying. There's a reason they say 'theres no such thing as bad press'
Indian government institutions like the police are too corrupt.
Eh. It depends on the rule set - go has many sets of rules, all very similar and developed in different countries and for different tournaments. In most of them, KataGo not only thinks it's won the example game, it HAS won the example game. I'm disappointed with arstechnica for not pointing this out (even if it's true, as I expect it is, that this case study has implications for adversarial strategies in other contexts).
That's binary size. Not code size.
> the first/fallen host (angel), the "morning star" (lots of repeated symbolism/imagery there throughout all four seasons)

Yes, absolutely.
That's what happens in most threads, though.
Not just considered, but seems likely. I have had a lot of trouble finding the key pair values with doctors to pursue any treatment down those lines. I also have ADHD and some other issues that make the diligent pursuit of treatment that is met without collaboration to be extremely difficult. I've found that the best way to NOT get treatment is to go into a doctors office with an idea of what might be wrong with me. I get the best results when I can compose myself enough to go in and complain about symptoms until they come up with something they think will help... which most of the time is 800mg ibuprophen or some weird pill that will reduce ear wax... but after a few visits they might say "GEE IT MIGHT BE BLOOD CLOTS".

Ugh. I'm just gonna do some deep breathing in cold baths, maybe DIY a hyperbaric chamber, get better at pullups, buy a rowing machine, and cut out sugar. Likely by the time that's effective the damage done will be compounded, but at least I won't be left in a holding pattern of how fucked US medicine is.
Could be from just “the internet“. But I’m wondering if people/bots are dialed up to 11 on outrage right now…
The latter. Under your proposed ideal, he wouldn't be able to defend such a thing, as he was an individual.
I hadn't noticed LibreOffice lags any worse than MS-office. But, if you haven't tried, for anything bigger than a chapter or so, do yourself a favour and try a "proper" typesetting system - LaTeX, SILE, or the like.

There will be a learning curve but I find my attention stays on the content, as I'm not continually distracted by the format issues that are better delayed until the text is complete.

You'll want a reasonable text editor with spell checker, preferably one that knows to ignore formatting commands. Note you will end up with PDF output - if you really have to submit docx, my condolences!
Tangential, but you can change the grid size to 5x5 which lets you have 5 apps in that bar. Settings -> Wallpaper & style -> App grid
correct horse battery staple something something
the path is just really, really clear
Arch Boot Process
> It also removed any desire in them to go fast on the street and do stupid things with cars.

This is one of the most important principles, akin to running away from a fight given martial arts training.
My wife jokingly describes what I do as “buffering” where I’m not paying attention and she will interrupt me and I’ll catch up, almost by re-hearing the last 2-4 seconds of what she said.

It’s a bizarre sensation but I wonder if it’s actually rather common.
I'm using malwarebytes windows firewall control and it does block itself. I'm constantly dealing with Windows 10 crying over defender not being able to update itself and popups that I may have a virus that is blocking defender from calling home.
Discovery. If you and another were texting each other via SMS, but signal was your app, signal would just upgrade your sms to a signal msg. You didn't have to have a conversation ahead of time, or save them in your contacts and let signal scan them - it just worked.

Discovering you're not limited to sms was nice, when now you have to have an aside - "hey, have you ever heard of signal?"
Twitter's layoffs were expected. You have to get rid of the political activists, you know there was going to be some. But something did surprise me. They fired the entire teams of the "curation", "UN human rights", "diversity", some other teams.

One of the key things: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/11/un-human-rig...

Apparently twitter just allowed the united nations to censorship subjects?

This is the same team which posted: https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1587777181081559041

Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. (Source:
@UNESCO
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𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏
𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆
𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍
𝐉𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒

89% of journalists killed are men and it's women journalists they are worried about? This isn't a joke...

Guess who facebook will be laying off shortly? It's going to be their political activists as well.
The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983
Can't help with the physics, but in addition to more variable times and potentially different textures that have been mentioned, the other convenience of boiling water first is that it can be covered without causing trouble (potentially saving some energy), while lots of stuff (including pasta) can't unless you watch them.

Pressure cookers always start from cold, although the pressure and the tighter seal change some considerations.

Not related to the question but buckwheat is a good pasta alternative, quick cooking and goes great with pasta sauce; should be much lower total energy use, particularly with untoasted buckwheat.
I agree with your critique, but you still see it being used a lot. There is plenty of unserious analysis around...

The better version is people living under x% of the average living standard.
I think you don’t quite have the right mindset for the purpose of stories. The point is “this is not important enough to interrupt my friends; but here’s what I’m up to if you’re interested”. It doesn’t matter that it expires, because it’s only relevant to what is happening now.

Of course it still has all the usual social media failings where it is used to make the senders life seem more exciting and fun than it really is but I see the point of having the option.

I especially like signal’s groups implementation. I have a couple of large group chats where I am happy to share my day with people but it’s not important enough to notify everyone’s phone and it doesn’t matter if they miss it.
I’m not sure. Could it be the stock riches? The near exclusive Ivy League hiring initially at least? The jars of candy everywhere and the onsite massages? Charlie Ayers as your chef (at least for a while)? Access to the inside track on news of The AI? Party 747? Or just surviving a famous interview process and having “Googler” be a sure annointment (inexplicably, now after we see the results) conferring status? Gosh I just can’t seem to put my finger on it.