skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read this carefully...

One way to prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers is by using the concept of contradiction. Suppose that there are only a finite number of prime numbers, say p_1, p_2, ..., p_n. Then consider the number N defined as follows:

N = p_1 * p_2 * ... * p_n + 1

If N is not prime, then it must have a prime divisor p that is not one of the primes p_1, p_2, ..., p_n. However, this contradicts the assumption that there are only finitely many prime numbers, since p is a prime that is not on the list. Therefore, N must be a prime number, which means that there are at least one more prime number beyond the list p_1, p_2, ..., p_n. This contradiction shows that our assumption that there are only finitely many prime numbers must be false, so there must be infinitely many prime numbers.

It's right! But there's a pointless appeal to the primality or non-primality of N. That can be cut out.
https://archive.ph/l2scR
>This is interesting but I can't help but notice how intensely performative these kids are as well, at least how they're characterized in this article.

I mean, they are teenagers. I said this in a longer comment in this thread, but teenagers tend to be performative. That's sort of the point of growing up and finding yourself.
Plenty of batteries on ebay and amazon!
Pentagon has received ‘several hundreds’ of new UFO reports
Hey, nice concept! I would very much like to play it if it were in the browser
> Want to hear a 1ame joke?

On both my computer and phone, your "l" vs "1" swap is obvious even at a quick glance. But "lame" and "lаmе" look exactly the same in almost every font.
You seem to think that Americans want a European-style society and have failed to achieve it.

We don't want it. We don't want to "fix" our tax system -- we want low taxes and lots of deductions, and that is why we have them! We want cars. We want suburbs. We don't want the government to be our mommy. This is not a failure, it is an intentional feature of the American system.

Also just remember that if we built a competent bureaucracy that enforced a nationwide ID system, it might be handed over to Donald Trump if he wins the next election, and he really could win. Every power we give the government, assuming that the government will be good, will also be given to a bad government. Sometimes it's better to refuse to give that power at all.
Prompt:

> is 1023^2 even or odd?

Response:

> 1023 squared is even because it is equal to 1,046,529, which is an even number. To determine if a number is even or odd, you can check whether it is divisible by 2. If it is divisible by 2, it is even. If it is not divisible by 2, it is odd.

> In general, any number that is a perfect square will be even if the number being squared is odd, and it will be odd if the number being squared is even. This is because odd numbers, when squared, always result in an odd number, and even numbers, when squared, always result in an even number.
Ugh, Three Body Problem is another show I'm excited for but have super low hopes. Another super hard to film show, but with excellent source material. I really hope Netflix and D&D don't mess it up.
The common reaction to "this process is too slow" is to ask the question, "what if we made it fast"?

As I mentioned the last couple of times this topic came up, I am concerned that the answers to that question that have already been offered are ignoring how the statistics of scalable system work and particularly where they overlap with the Rule of Large Numbers.

It's been suggested that if we want to go fast what you do is make a bunch of small reliable reactors and then co-locate them, but if you make something that's 10x as reliable, the assumption is that having 10x as many of them results in the same failure rate, and the same consequences. But that's not quite how statistics work, or for that matter equipment.

When you have 100 of something, there is always preventative maintenance or repairs going on. We have storage array designs specifically to deal with this problem in data centers by just letting equipment fail and then replacing whole units, because the labor involved with reacting to each event is simply too high. That's not particularly unique to IT. That's just a fact of large scale operations. You keep spare tools because some of them are going to break every week. You swap them out and -maybe- someone repairs them, or cannibalizes them.

With mechanical equipment, maintenance materially affects the reliability and safety of the job site. Suspending maintenance and repairs because you've been pre-empted by the failure of other equipment leads to risks stacking up higher and higher. Can I do scheduled maintenance on Reactor 3 if Reactor 50 ate itself yesterday? At some number of reactors, every plant has experienced one catastrophic failure. What do you do with that? What can you do with that?
> But they aren't standing up for themselves. They're standing up for decisions forced on them by their parents.

They're learning how to deal with adversity created by circumstances beyond their control.
Your phone calls out to you? I guess when I receive a message it does. But that's why very few apps are allowed push notifications.
> I cannot see why dealing with all the … unwanted things from windows can ever be better.

Because the amount of time spent on unwanted Windows things is radically less than the amount of time spent on Linux evenings.

Windows does by and large just work. Every OS has warts and bugs. I want to spend the absolute minimum time on them.

Linux is getting better and may not require too many Linux evenings these days. But that’s really only true if you’ve burned hundreds of hours dealing with increasingly obscure Linux errors.

It’s not too hard to understand why different people prefer Linux, Mac, or even Windows. They all have pros and cons.
That’s what I thought, thanks for the clarification! Kind of interesting how it’s all progressed.
Tesla FSD fails to see the broadside of a parked boat and tries to run into it
In which case, get vaccinated, and wear a mask yourself, if that concerns you. For those of us who have had COVID and recovered quickly (like myself, in ~2 days), you need to convince me that my mask-wearing protects anyone else, when they can wear masks themselves if they are so inclined. Even then, with 58% of COVID hospitalizations being vaccinated, and over 82% of the nation having had COVID at some point (according to IMHE), mask wearing and vaccination appears to be a deferment on the inevitable.

> There have been cohorts of people wearing masks all day every day for many decades now. Has there been any evidence of the effects you outlined?

Said masks were generally worn temporarily, not all day, every day, for a job. When worn for long periods of time, before COVID, OSHA actually had forbade it unless there was air filtering and frequent replacement (minimum daily). The way we wear masks, without filtering and with (in practice) no frequent replacement, would have been illegal to compel any person to do a few years ago, let alone study the safety of.

Edit: Also, on that note, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072811/. It's a long-study on the actual, real-world risks of mask-wearing. It's not concerned with risk/benefit, only the risk side of it, but it shows that masks are far from the risk-free preventative measure we pretend they are. If you already had COVID, looking at what they document (and this is the NIH, remember), it may be worse for your health to continue masking.
Oh man, it's SUCH a problem with non-fiction. Books like Atomic Habits and Deep Work are great, but both feel like they could easily be about half as long.
It takes too long to build primarily because opponents tie things up with lawsuits and challenges. Federal research money is available for competitors but not nuclear. One Utah Senator tried to for something like fifteen years to get money to build a modern thorium reactor sample plant. He never succeeded but there was plenty of money for things like Solyndra.

Thankfully thorium research has become so attractive that it's now attracting private money but we've lost a couple of decades.
YouTube recommended this guy to me last week despite having never been interested in a dome. It’s truly odd how the algorithm works.
>The phone is calling out, begging you to pay attention to it

No, it doesn't; it's you who carves to escape into the phone. I wish it would call me sometimes to at least remember to keep it charged.
It is based in French software... so... maybe?!
There likely will not be more than a few stills worth of interest, this happened very quickly judging by how far out the street is contaminated.
Whoops.... you're right.

Longest I've heard him speak somewhat coherently without insulting someone living.
Sounds like someone should try to animate that!
2 ways I know this works:

- the drive can request the key on each boot
- the drive stores the key in the firmware, but part of the de-provisioning process would be to reset this key
Oh yeah I'm in the same boat right now; it's easier to throw features at the wall to see what sticks, but the success rate and is lower and "worthless" effort is higher. Hard to resist though, as someone technical!
Tangentially related, but as everyone here seems to enjoy talk of nuclear [things], it’s worth a recommendation:

Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel ‘On the Beach’.

If you want high-level spoilers, Wikipedia is your friend. I shan’t say a word other than that it’s a terrific little book that I can’t believe I’d never heard of. I just read it last week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
Maybe after that tanks, they can hire him again as a Criss Angel impersonator. He does seem to have formidable powers of telekinesis, the money just flies into his pockets!
> Amazing to see how efficiently some of the biggest grifters exploited this dynamic to funnel money straight from investors and into their own personal net worth, while building businesses that couldn't have possibly been profitable. It didn't matter, though, because they needed the sense of scale and growth to continue grifting investors.

Matt Levine had a great theory on this. It basically boiled down to:

"If I wanted to short the VC market how would I do it?"...and basically point to what Adam Neumann did:

I can’t quite say that Neumann improved the allocation of capital, but there are certain parallels. Neumann too … look, here I am speculating, and I don’t mean to speak for Neumann’s subjective experience of his WeWork career, but from the outside, in hindsight, objectively, one could describe it like this: He spotted a bubble in venture-subsidized fast-growing money-losing capital-intensive low-margin tech-adjacent companies, noticed in particular that SoftBank seemed to be on the long side of that bubble, and set himself up to profit on the other side—by raising money for his own ultra-unicorn, by setting up the governance of that unicorn in a maximally self-interested way, and by selling and margining a bunch of his personal shares. 6 When investors like SoftBank were frenziedly buying unicorn stock, he was frenziedly selling it. He set himself up to profit from the collapse of the unicorn bubble, and accelerated that collapse. Lessons were learned, and he taught them. Now he’s rich.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-23/how-do...
There may be facts that make it not only reasonable but prudent for the equity holders and executives to buy assets for use by a business. For example, imagine the that the business can’t get a line of credit independently but the founder can individually. The founder could buy an asset and lease it back to the company. While there is a clear possibility of unjust enrichment by acting against the interests of the company there are mechanisms in corporate governance to review and sign off on these types of transactions by having the board review the details and ensure that the terms are the same as would be in place with a third party. For example, that the lease rate was what a random sample of similar market leases.

We now know that Neumann had access to large personal lines of credit from large banks secured by his we work equity. So these transactions allowed we work to have access to properties without taking on liability for a mortgage but enjoying perhaps a more reasonable landlord that wouldn’t terminate a lease or refuse to renew in order for extract the value of renovation (which is unfortunately really common).

I am not justifying any particular action or transaction, just saying 1. The facts matter in this situation because it could have been totally in the company’s interest 2. We should equivocate we work with others like FTX where the facts appear that they told customers they would safeguard assets as a custodian (which has a very specific legal definition and set of obligations FTX must abide by) but then used the assets for risk taking investments without disclosure or Theranos where they knowingly lied about their technology it’s efficacy and prospects for further advancement. Both of those were fraudulent misrepresentation.

We work was instead a related party transaction that arguably has a win-win for both parties and was signed off by the board after full and complete disclosure.
In my area, cases are rising fairly rapidly and certain hospitals have begun to rescheduling electives on the basis that they're overstressed. This is concerning because winter is just getting started and transmission rates when people are indoors are higher.

That said, I think the seasonal wave we're anticipating is a product of when our winter hits and how hard our winter hits - other areas might have very different experiences overall.
I've been doing these for almost 2 decades and regardless of the amount of rationalization and propaganda thrown at me, I still believe they are worthless and a tool of corporate oppression. These ideas have been borrowed from something everyone should be able to hate equally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-criticism_(Marxism%E2%80%....

It doesn't really matter what you write there, as long as it's not negative. If it's negative, it can be used against you. If it's not negative, it can be spun as negative when the external reviewer of the self review adds their comments. It's a tedious exercise with little to no benefit for the employee.
It's worse than that. VCs are mostly investing other people's money and earning management fees. Even if all the investments go bust they do well If they've managed to amass a big fund.
I am surprised that people are surprised.

Claims are easy to make, there different degrees of evidence, and Eufy failed at a low bar.

to some extent if they had a bug bounty for reported issues that with give some confidence; albeit confidence to the small proportion of people who are wary of claims.
I'll say it again.

If Elon is truly worried about his children's safety - irregardless of the baby mamma - he simply needs to stop using/owning a private jet. If he time shared or chartered a jet it would be impossible to know which jet to track on a regular basis or who was on it. It would also be cheaper for him since he is homeless. Better yet use the airlines - better for the environment like a Tesla. The information he wants to censored from Twitter is publicly available. This is his only option.
I don't them use my devices outside of school projects and keep them busy doing things outside the house.

I realize this is easier for me than most as my oldest is only 13, we homeschool, and we live in a very rural area with high community engagement. Meaning the social pressure to be online just isn't currently there.

Once they have a job and can buy their own devices they can do what they please. Hopefully, the disdainful tone I use when explaining social media companies to them fully sinks in by then.
Is mach principle apply in general relativity
It's literally the definition of a slippery slope argument.

> A slippery slope argument (SSA), in logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is an argument in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) effect.

Small first step => significant negative effect

"centrally managed, and cryptographically-backed state identification cards, complete with RFID" => everything the parent commenter said, basically
I personally don't think it's reasonable to assume that something intended for human consumption would be served hot enough to fuse one's labia to one's thigh if spilled on one's lap. In light of that, "personal responsibility" doesn't seem to be very applicable in that particular case.
Breaking an IPv4 Address Range Up into CIDR Ranges in Lucee CFML
Everyone talks about taxing him. What about not subsidizing him in the first place? Without carbon credits and low emission vehicle credits he'd have gone bankrupt long ago.
Burning wood/biomass or gas generated from biomass releases the CO2 that has been captured by the plant while growing. Replanting the same plant will capture the same amount again. It’s effectively solar energy using photosynthesis instead of solar cells. So it’s a renewable energy, as long as you replant what you harvest.

The problem correctly pointed out in the article is that often the replanting comes after the harvest, or does not effectively happen at all - at least for wood pellets.
On the one side we have 20 million people dead. What's the counter factual of how many people would be dead if we'd been less myopic

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-deaths-cumulative-...
Many countries don't allow for double citizenship, but sometimes they have to make exceptions because some countries don't allow you to renounce to your nationality
droplets and airborne is a somewhat arbitrary distinction pulled out of .. thin air.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

Whether the droplet/aerosol float through the air has to do with much more than particle size.

"There was just one literally tiny problem: “The physics of it is all wrong,” Marr says. That much seemed obvious to her from everything she knew about how things move through air. Reality is far messier, with particles much larger than 5 microns staying afloat and behaving like aerosols, depending on heat, humidity, and airspeed."
Apparently SoftBank backed out of that payment.

Neumann had lines of credit from banks secured by his wework equity. Kind of like a home equity line of credit but with stock instead of a home.
Most could ask friend or family for help. Not wanting to bother someone else is silly, since it results in bothering way more than one person.
I definitely read it. I have never worked at a place where it mattered. Maybe it would be interesting to work at a place where it did.
I reminds me of study methods that involve "memorizing" as opposed to thinking about the problem, and applying various methods to solve it. It can solve some algorithm problems at a certain level, but struggles at a detailed answer in some scenarios. I guess it's not surprise, given ML is essentially exploring the local solution space of some abstract problem; it reminds me of a Taylor series expansion or a breadth-first search of an abstract problem space.
I'd read Ron Howard was working on it, but that burned up in the atmosphere or something. Honestly, doesn't even have to be a movie or series, just give me an extended premium CGI flyby around and through some O'Neill cylinders.
Actually that's what Coca cola has been doing for years... and it's quite pissing up every european gov
Please, write more about the implementation! There is so little information on this topic in general.

Like, how does sorting pixel segments result in coverage masks? Is there an accumulator somewhere that isn't mentioned?
So I placed an order for a MBP 16" from Apple around Black Friday and UPS lost my package during transit. It was not lost after delivery. It's been over two weeks going between Apple's support team and UPS.

UPS tells me to file a claim on their website and they can't address this through phone support, but they closed my case. Apple tells me they are waiting for UPS to respond to them before they can refund my order.

I'm not getting anywhere from either party. My only recourse seems to file a dispute so I can get my money back to place a replacement order, but being blacklisted by Apple is exactly what I fear.

If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. I'd expect a company like Apple to have a better policy for replacing lost computers. While I understand fraud, I've made numerous purchases in the past with the same account.
Woodpecker can't even build with non-root images, so it's pretty far off. :(
No, you pay VAT/sales tax for stuff made in China. The company pays taxes on profits where the company is registered. When you pay for Netflix in France, you pay VAT on the transaction too.
> but I'm not a fan of this modern era of schadenfreude that seems to be ever present on tech sites.

I equally don't like the schadenfreude as you, but I also equally don't like the propping up of ridiculous business models like WeWork and Juiceros of the world that the media does.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Screen time limits, and try to offer lots of things to do. This is a lot easier with disposable income.
But without a simple bicycle and nearby park
can go a long way.

But the games, videos and internet are very addictive: when I was young it was just the dopamine hit of playing a game. But now it is culture. Friends at school are on Roblox, Discord etc. This makes it more challenging and more
fights and begging etc.

A hard one. As a parent a small part
of the role is to be the mean unpopular person sometimes ;-)
I do all my tax return stuff online with my Personalausweis. Once you got all your PINs and access codes it's quite seamless actually. You can even pair your phone with your PC and use the phone's NFC reader to read the ID-card.

That stuff honestly improved quite a bit in the recent years. Most of these services are just not advertised or integrated enough so far.
COVID symptoms (coughing in particular, which is a big spreader of particles) can last weeks. I don't know many people with multiple weeks worth of food in their fridge unless they have a deepfreeze (large chest freezer).
at some point you have to realize the overwhelming majority of people you're worried about being judged by aren't people whose opinions you'd care about if they were offered to you, and that being an authentic you is more important than the judgement of strangers.

A lot of people's lives could be way better if they internalized this.
The same business model weakness would exist -- in a recession, short term renters will stop showing up.

While they'd avoid having to pay rent in empty units, they'd still not any leases
I didn't finish the TV show (I got maybe halfway through), but my main problem was the changes to Hardin. In the book, Hardin is a shrewd politician, and there's nothing magical or blessed about him. He "defeats" Anacreon by exploiting their own dim beliefs in magic against them. In the TV show, Hardin is a warrior with a special "magical" connection to the Vault. That conveys a very different, almost contradictory message compared to the book.
If it makes you feel better, the majority of people dying of COVID now are actually vaccinated. So at least you can stop splitting people into in-groups and out-groups to wish death upon.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/23/vaccinate...
> In Dresden, Germany they still had cigarette vending machines all over town

We have those in the US, too. Granted, they're usually confined to bars, but there's no shortage of bars in the average American town.