skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that people with some advanced math education are just better at reasoning and more successful in general. Teaching some people arithmetic and others the "rest" would be a huge shame.

It's doubly damaging in countries where the government works by majority voting. I saw that when comparing family members (one of whom dropped out after middle school) watching the news. They just don't have a good enough understanding of basic math and logic to have a useful opinion, so they take the mental junk food some politician throws at them.

All of that to say, teaching as advanced math as possible to as many people as possible is in everybody's interest. It's not about enjoyment or being able to write proofs, it's about developing children's and teens' reasoning skills.
This so hard. I like to think of the make targets, e.g. build, test, install, etc. as an API that should be consistent across repos. This really helps with cross team collaboration. The details of how these tasks happen is free to change at will without the need to “distribute” these changes to developers. There’s no disruption to anyone’s flow. Plus, with a little documentation, on boarding new developers is so much more simple.
When you read 'Nobody does that', it is a shortening of "Nobody [credible] does that[, until a revolutionary argument is provided]".

Random opinions are collected from the bar, and that is a place where you go voluntarily. Of course you will always find people defending any possible position. Frequently, historically, it had not even been a rational stance out of a rational instance.

There even exist games on it: defending random positions a an exercise for rhetoric and forum practice; Richard Osman invented one for television, named "I could not disagree more" (e.g. «We should avoid a third world war» // «I could not disagree more. If a war is inevitable, I will prefer it to be waged in the "Third World"». Absurdity on absurdity).
Free will. Or if you’re not into free will then $GOD’s plan. Can’t fight the latter but the former can come at mortal risk to the individual. Often does.

Primates seem to be into dominance games and disliking other groups. People are just better armed, funded and staffed.
If I dont want my video data being requested by police and I dont want it being sent to china, are reolink a good option for cameras from what you have seen? Great work
Imho, the "FUD" is largely right and most cloud platforms are indeed illegal.

However, due to enforcement being absent or taking ages, there are too few legal decisions and big expensive enforcement actions that one can point to. Currently everything is really still fear, uncertainty and doubt, the hammer hasn't come down yet. I'm not sure if it ever will, at least not before EU institutions or other member states such as France force Germany to stop dragging its feet.
If you want some excellent(the best I've ever seen) resources to learn about mathematics in general, https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown arguably has the best content for learning about maths. His videos singlehandedly made me much more interested in maths than any textbook or teacher.

He not only relates topics he teaches to real life examples of using them, but his main goal is to provide an intuition for a lot of the theory that goes behind the maths we learn.

I understand what you are saying about abstraction being used to create elitism, and I think that you need to have a concrete understanding of an idea to understand an abstraction/generalisation of it. One problem with a lot of maths we tend to learn is that it's often taught in the reverse order of how it's discovered. Typically, mathematicians intuitively "know" that something is true(I think the term for it is a moral proof, but I could be wrong here), and then work their way up to a rigorous proof. In my experience, the maths I was taught was often starting with the rigorous proof and then the intuition behind it.

This style of teaching is good for passing an exam but it does leave gaps in groking stuff you learn. One question I always had was "how in the world did the mathematicians that discovered this come across this?".

Good luck on your learning journey :)
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That's just my take from reading history. I think it's the general consensus in scholars who study Nazi Germany that the Nazis had the support of the population after having gained power. Evans [1] e.g. goes into depth on this, though I, unfortunately, don't have the time now to look up any references.

[1] Richard J. Evans - The Third Reich in Power
GDPR fines can be massive, look at the list here: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ (sort by the fine amount)
I'll stay on topic. If I was somewhat combative towards you it is because you made very big statement which in my opinion are simply inaccurate. My tone was somewhat harsh but your comments are in my view simply wrong. They also give the air of a somewhat condescending know it all (of course Typescript won!) which is a bit childish and can be very annoying to read, and this is going on quite a lot here with many other people who've seen the tech light and now need to hammer it into us commoners heads.
Anyway looks like we've beat this horse to the death.
In theory, I agree : it's probably everyone else that should be taxed instead.

The issue here is that at the very bottom you end up with really nasty vicious poverty circles... and now that I think of it, we don't know in advance what kind of combination of minimum low power and low time fraction of guaranteed supply is the best, and how you combine market discovery for that with regulation...
But this isn't Reddit. If I wanted a popularity contest I'd be on Reddit, or Twitter or Facebook.

I want intelligent questions and answers and a basic respect for learning and knowledge.

To me it just shouldn't be acceptable to downvote a (non rhetorical) question.
Not necessarily considering that he wrote that the Go version tries to avoid memory allocations.
How are there no constraints with AI? I'm not arguing that this piece is good art, but rather that "AI" is merely a tool, with limitations like any other tool. In fact, considering how aesthetically uniform (centerless, fragmented, "dead") works using Midjourney and similar programs are, these programs strike me as extremely limited, little more than artistic crutches for producing novelties that will almost immediately become dated.
ITE – Integrated Terminal Environment for DevOps
I created this open source project that aims to be an integrated terminal environment for DevOps.

I created two simple issues/task. Is anyone likes the idea and wants to contribute join the Discord server from the README file.
Yes. It took time, not effort.
Producing desalinated water and hydrogen from seawater using solar energy.
•Performing a multi-objective optimization to achieve the highest performance.
•Considering low, high, and no solar radiation operational modes during a day.
•Producing 4.33, 2.62, and 3.54 g/s of hydrogen for mentioned modes, respectively.
•Attaining 81.5%, 27.9% and 50.61% of energy efficiency for mentioned modes, respectiv

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03603...

Don't know how much merit this has
...How do you propose to write effective lefislation or statute without having at least some exposure to how the legal system works?

I mean, I get it. The bullshit our "enlightented" legalist class manages to pull off is legendary. However, unless you're willing to hit one big reset button, that's pretty much inevitable given we use a common law system. Over half of the law is completely disconnected from statute.
The website listed on their Github
Who would have thought that uploading business data (trade secrets) and personal data straight to servers that are known to be accessed by the NSA would be incompatible with GDPR? /s

The kicker is that EU companies are essentially paying to upload their trade secrets to their direct competitors in the US.
> An obvious optimization would be to utilize all available CPU cores by using the MapReduce pattern with multiple threads.

Nope, the GIL will make that useless. You need to actually implement the tight loops in C/C++ and call that with batches of data to get benefits from threading.

An obvious, but more expensive optimization would be to use a process pool. Make sure that all the objects you pass around are serializable.

Python makes optimization much harder than it should be. I hope the GIL gets the hammer at some point, but that seems to be a huge task.
It would be nice to see this benchmark in Node.js with streams
Wild guess… Schopenhauer, Einstein, et al, were referring to their peers and associates, many sigmas out on the curve. I’m imagining a sensor of the larger sample reaching the “reading limit”; it would make a neutrino detector look like fireworks at a disco.
It's just the cost of doing business for them, implementing and complaining with EU laws might cost even more than the fine
> Univocally mapping the rationals onto a set of contiguous naturals is extremely tricky, computationally.

It is not that difficult. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin–Wilf_tree#Stern's_diato... defines fusc(n), a function that’s fairly easy to compute (it is recursively defined, but only requires a recursion depth of the number of bits in the binary presentation of n), with fusc(n)/fusc(n+1) being a mapping from the natural numbers to all positive rational numbers.

That Wikipedia page also hints at how to implement the reverse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin–Wilf_tree#Definition_an...:

“The parent of any rational number can be determined after placing the number into simplest terms, as a fraction a/b for which greatest common divisor of an and b is 1. If a/b < 1, the parent of a/b is a/(b − a); if a/b > 1, the parent of a/b is (a − b)/b.”*

Repeatedly using that procedure, you eventually reach 1, and then have found the path from 1 down to your starting number a/b. if you have that finding the n for which fusc(n)/fusc(n+1) = a/b is trivial.
The first comment in your link says basically the same what you have said:

>This article makes far reaching societal claims with essentially no evidence.

and

>I suspect the author is making a good point, but it is far from adequately supported
Networking is I/O: API calls, database access, etc. - it's not just disk access. The article is deriving a generalised statement based on a very specific use case.
What a depressing reality where hostile US corporate data privacy practices and hostile US surveillance law take de facto priority over the EU's own privacy legislation meant to protect its own residents. I wish the EU politicians and regulators were more willing to enforce their own rules, and that the ECJ were more willing to be explicit rather than implicit about the meaning of its Schrems rulings, all of which would eventually force a privacy-protective solution to the problems you describe.

They have more power over MS than they think if they're willing to exercise it, but they're mostly not willing. (Examples like the Dutch public sector do exist, where they were able to get different terms from MS that are more compliant with the GDPR, including effective audit rights that have successfully verified compliance with these terms.)
It would really depend on the situation to be decided, whether MS would have to pay up, or rather the company using MS products to handle customer data. One can imagine a way to use MS products that might not be illegal, e.g. never use it to process personal data, use anonymized accounts that are not bound to a real person, swap around accounts and computers to prevent association with a person, etc. Then, all it would take for MS to get its 'get out of jail free'-card is to publish that in a whitepaper and make all the problems just be an unfortunate misconfiguration by the company using MS products.
Every message is deleted after 1024 seconds by default in any stream created on the fly by posting a message. New streams can be explicitly created with lower ttls that expire messages sooner. All streams cap at 1024 messages and are aged out like that if they persist longer than the ttl of the stream.
> Found a smoother way to sort numbers that reduced the "whirrrrrr" noise our disks made. It turns out this reduces disk failure rates by 1%, arrested nanoscale structural damage to the buildings our servers are in, allowed a reduction in necessary PPE, elongaded depreciation offsets and other things -- this one line of code has saved Google a billion dollars

Hah! I mean, if you can truly prove a business benefit by improving performance, I’m sure that you’d have a good shot at a promotion. Thing is it’s actually quite difficult to do so, and in the likely chance you cannot it just looks like you squandered a bunch of time for no reason.
If you do not correct (grading without writing it down), what is the point of the exercise? If you do correct, you know the good/bad students you just don’t tell others. I assume up the goal is dragging the students towards competence in the subject matter.
I was a bit surprised myself, but after thinking about it - the discussions under the Twitter stories that I’ve seen on the front page have mostly rapidly deteriorated to the point of being pretty unedifying for everyone.

That’s not surprising, since it’s a story that meets at the intersection of tech, business, politics, and controversial public figures. There are quite a lot of strong views on it, and in my experience this community doesn’t tend to deal in a particularly adult way with events like that.

That kind of discussion usually sinks pretty quickly - I assume mostly because of the algorithm down-ranking overheated discussions. Then you have the general leaning of HN towards a bit of a libertarian, counter-mainstream narrative - it’s not hard to see that the pattern you describe being a natural outcome of all that, no shadowy motives required.

It kinda sucks to be honest, because from many different perspectives it’s absolutely gigantic news with lots of really interesting stuff to think and talk about.
I think most of the problems came from EU data being sent to US located servers, that won't be a problem for silicone Valley and California laws
the last point was for a different thread but as u see platform has
been making sure i cant respond in timely fashion to all threads. I sequeezed it in there.

> The burden of proof remains on you. You need to find us an example of an outstanding writer who didn't read much. This doesn't even hold for the classics (eg, Marcus Aurelius or Plato) as far as I can tell.

I think it's fair to say that we don't actually know much about Plato. All stories being told about plato are in third person narrative.
I think you are contradicting yourself, Socrates and other ancients were a big proponent of discarding writing in place of dialogue. I think this should suffice as point.
Google's core services wouldn't work so reliably if they didn't value optimization and engineering. I don't work there, but I'm pretty sure that the SREs and the developers behind Search and Maps don't get fired based on how many products they launched.
No, California's data privacy law is far weaker than the GDPR, though far better than what most of the US has.
So read the article. It’s way better supported than this one. I’ll be interested in your reactions and happy to engage in a conversation. See you later?
You will get lots of captchas during login but otherwise it works fine. I begrudgingly use some Google services every day, but at least via Tor.
Yeah I’ve worked on non trivial javascript codebases where allocations and gc mattered.
Population and per-capita income figures typically include non-citizens too.
Is that improvisation or "testing" in the battlefield?
I use Makefiles anywhere I can fit them they're a brief respite from YAML hell. This issue was solved in 1976 -- I appreciate there's a lot of VC money in reinventing the wheel (and coming full circle) but I digress.
> this relationship is still beneficial to those laborers in Asia at least

I can’t take any opinion about Western saviours seriously.

Western currencies are over valued and propped up by colonial structures and theft.

Western societies exist off the back of outsourced labor - nearly equivalent to slavery, but sure let’s act like it’s /way/ better, since they’re not “owned” anymore.
So 3 enforcements in Germany in all of 2022, and the highest fine in Germany was 35mil. 35mil is how much for Microsoft? The yearly Office 365 fees of one of their DAX customers?
Nix & Make is the True Engineer(tm)'s Bazel.
Something I didn’t see mentioned enough in the discussion — Reading is also a fantastic antidote to mindless phone scrolling or web surfing.
I don’t get why maths teachers tend not to take the time to explain the definition properly. Even the symbols aren’t explained, they just assume students know the symbols.
I whole heartedly agree. But people have finite teen years, and finite attention.

Many simply aren't interested and seem to resent abstract mathematical education. And simultaneously desire better accountancy skills. This would be a way to achieve that
I wrote eight books, sold about 35 000 copies (fairly huge number for Czechia with its not-quite-11 million people), and I am also a programmer.

The similarities are pretty strong. In both cases, you need to express yourself so that the receiving party may understand you.

That said, human readers are a lot more welcoming and friendly consumers of your written work than computers. Positive feedback from computers is basically nonexistent.
That is of course an easy solution but I would argue that this is just throwing more resources at the problem. Not a very impressive optimization.

Emery Berger has a great talk [1] where he argues that it is mostly pointless to optimize python code, if your program is slow, you should look for a properly optimized library to do that work for you.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVUnCXKuNOg
This controversy is actually.. stargate.
Shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article
>If you've seen a homeless person screaming at their reflection in a car window and then punching it repeatedly until their hand seems broken you will realize that that particular person's problem is not the lack of a housing structure.

Spending a decade without a housing structure and self medicating away the depression that comes with it is precisely how you end up like that.
Yup. EM could just make newTwitter work via a mobile web page rather than an app. No need to muck about with an App Store. Every phone has a browser. Or is an app needed to monetize users??
And you get 2-4 instructions per cycle on average.
That is true, but assuming file I/O is blocking you also have to pay for a context switch to take advantage of that.

But I guess you could avoid that using eg. io_uring.
Apologies if I misunderstand, but what you describe sounds like envy. And it is a pretty common thing, and something that people are in my experience willing to make certain accomodations for. "Flexing" too much on the less fortunate is considered to be in poor taste. Maybe they aren't willing to go as far as you'd need though.
>It is completely honest. On a fresh install of Windows, if you don't have graphics drivers, you can't run Vulkan or OpenGL. Windows washes their hands of any responsibility. You can at least run DirectX with software rendering regardless of hardware support.

DirectX with software rendering doesn't actually result in games actually being playable, unless they are 2d games that barely touch the GPU to begin with. So the software rendering fallback is completely irrelevant here, and what matters is what APIs will work when you do have the GPU drivers correctly installed. And at that point, it doesn't matter what degree of support Microsoft provides for Vulkan, only the degree to which the GPU vendor provides that support. (And the software rendering fallback actually makes it less straightforward to diagnose why a game isn't running as expected, in the case of GPU drivers not being installed. Plus, what game developer cares about the software rendering fallback enough to even test their game against it?)

So no, it's not completely honest. It's a disingenuous red herring.
Cool, what'a above the kernel?

Note: Hypervisor is not the right answer.
Journalists are allergic to external links unless they are ads. They need to keeps visitors inside their website to display ads or redirect them to ads, but not anything else.
Well, you got chickens and then you got corvids - and that's your avian intelligence scale, from 0 to 1.

Chickens are the dumbest animal on earth. They're dumber than fish. They're dumber than oysters. They're even dumber than people. They only survive because they breed so much and because we breed so many of them to eat them.

You are what you eat, we say. We eat so much chicken that we've become dumb like them and an animal that does something that a chicken would never do, on account of the animal not being terminally dumb as the chicken, strikes us as really clever. Hey, look at that clever bird, it learned to eat the toads. Yeah, duh. People used to come up with tricks like that all the time, back in the day, when they had to find their food in the wild. Nowadays the greatest challenge in securing sustenance is in finding which aisle the pasta was moved to every time the supermarket hires a new manager.

Intelligence is so overrated. What does it all lead to in the end? We've dominated our environment and now our environment sucks, and btw, it's also dying, with us in it. All those smarts that helped us eat wild animals and poisonous plants, they don't look that smart now, do they?

But maybe those birds, those "bin chickens", are really smart. They've learned to live in our world, even after we've covered up everything with concrete and cars. Maybe when we're gone they'll evolve into a better intelligent species than ours, make a better civilisation than ours. One that is not so smart that it can't avoid destroying itself.
Among the many other deal breakers to mass expansion of nuclear is the exact opposite of your point. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/11/05/how-does-russia-keep-si...
Since getting Covid, it’s been harder to put down the phone and pick up a book :( Sort of the opposite of that thing about toxoplasmosis creating alpha wolves.
You can use Processpool but at that point you’re way into re-architecting.
> Nope, the GIL will make that useless.

In Python yes. I missed that. The Go implementation would still benefit from multiple threads, wouldn't it?
Yes, sequential I/O bandwidth is closing the gap to memory. [1] The I/O pattern to watch out for, and the biggest reason why e.g. databases do careful caching to memory, is that _random_ I/O is still dreadfully slow. I/O bandwidth is brilliant, but latency is still disappointing compared to memory. Not to mention, in typical Cloud workloads, IOPS are far more expensive than memory.

[1]: https://github.com/sirupsen/napkin-math
Yes. But there is too few of them, and usually in situations where other companies can still wait and see. "We aren't Facebook", "We are too small to be noticed" and "but we had them sign a waiver" are still prevalent in most companies.

For things to change, there would really need to be something like:

- data protection fines the whole of the customer list of Amazon/Google/MS cloud

- data protection fines a high-profile company a lot of money for using Office365

- a court forces a public institution to cease using Office365 (no fines possible there)

- enforcement accelerates to a point where, from complaint to fine, things take only a few weeks, instead of a few years, so that lots of medium and smaller businesses are hit. Currently enforcement seems to be starting with the big cases, and being bogged down in the complexity of those.
Sorry, I didn't mean to claim that article that you sent makes false claims. It was just fun seeing a comment that claims about not well supported article, following the link, and seeing the same comment. Nothing more.