skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hard disagree that undergrad level Analysis or even just the trickier corners of vector calculus are within the bounds of what programmers can easily pick up without dedicated and guided study. Everybody's gangster until they have to parameterize some bullshit helical structure in R3.

Comparable levels of programming, what we expect of CS juniors, are regularly picked up by "the guy who is good with Excel" in office settings as it's mostly a function of experience and exposure, not theory.

And now my worthless anecdotal evidence: I self taught myself into professional programming and it was a simple matter of banging my head against a wall until shit started working. The feedback loop, "did the thing crash or not", permitted me to learn on my own. I wouldn't even begin to understand how to self-teach myself Stokes Theorem or some shit, and have zero ability to author the proofs required to reach the conclusions higher level mathematics are built on.
Ironically, you might be increasing Google's profitability if the searches you're taking off their platform aren't really monetizable.

Ex: "what is the tallest mountain" isn't really monetizable whereas "best bbq restaurants in Nashville" is very monetizable
Writing assembly language is a rather specialized skill that few people need to master nowadays.

Being able to read it, on the other hand, I find really useful for debugging. You can follow execution into places where you don't have code at hand, find code that was not translated the way you expected (e.g. due to surprising aggressive optimizations), etc.
More than that, the criminal could have been a neighbour piggybacking on his WiFi.
#c-jeopardy is great fun as well.
Don't you mean 0YYYY?

(kidding)
> They seem to agree on one thing: from a workaday perspective, math is essentially useless.

The creator of Dilbert advocates stacking, namely learning multiple skills and combining them to achieve better results than any single skill can. His advice applies to maths as well. I work on distributed systems as a generalist, yet I find maths, time and time again, career changing. A few typical examples: queuing theory that helps improving latency of my services by more than 10x. Statistics to identify patterns in data, which led to a new product. Time series analysis that led to a new system. Data mining and information retrieval in search and recommendation for continuous improvement of my search product. Linear algebra, calculus, and combinatorics as foundations to identify or prove certain properties of my systems for later optimization. And in general, the ability to understand papers (or at least know what to learn to unblock myself) to stay on top of what's going on in exciting fields.

One does not necessary need maths to build systems, but boy it is satisfying and career-rewarding when I actively look for real problems that scream for some maths. What's most amazing is that we don't even need graduate-level maths. Entry-level college maths play wonders most of the time.
I think this is a huge problem.
> He could simply have chosen a different macguffin, but Tolkien had a weird way of fixating on things that he'd already written.

Tolkien pulled much from older myths, of which Tolkien was a leading scholar. The Ring as a driving force (and its power and the consequences of that power) was not an invention of Tolkien's; Tolkien didn't get the idea from the Hobbit. Wagner famously used it in the 19th century, and likely myths, on which Wagner also relied, preceded Wagner.

I think your description is a common process of many (most? almost all?) artists and creative workers. Creation is not making things in a first draft out of whole cloth. You don't know where you are going or what will work. It's not unlike a startup in that respect (please let's not get carried away with our frame of reference): you have some great ideas and talent; you develop it, often in unanticipate directions; and eventually you find an application for them - sometimes completely unanticipated, even from a side project.

> He began his book as a direct sequel to The Hobbit

Where does Tolkien describe that?
I think this is an incredibly farfetched position. Google has more hardware, several orders of magnitude more data, highly-developed experimentation capability, and at least equivalent ML expertise compared to anyone. If something chat-GPT-like ever actually starts to take off as a product, Google will clone it and crush it.
But it's faster to use a QList<Whatever> than having to do the same in C (repeat for all the non GUI classes that Qt brings in).
The society of agents idea helped me understand politics more.

Of course he applies the idea to a single mind where each agent is a neuron / set of neurons, and in politics each agent is a mind.
For Tesla.
Another advantage of Nuklear is that it has a pure software renderer back end that comes with it. If you're developing on a system where you don't have OpenGL or any of the other myriad of software/hardware renderers, nuklear is pretty handy. It makes it easy to write your own driver for custom/embedded systems.
No, you fail to argue that "legitimate" and "secret" are opposites.
Not them but I def would. I built a fintech/econometric-lite system in python years back and it was mostly just taking in a ton of “obvious” knowledge and realizing the cool stuff you could do in practice
Something appears to have changed in ChatGPT and its answers to the political orientation tests have mostly gravitated towards the center.
Commits are not signed and approvers do not sign anything either. Nothing stops a malicious Github employee, bribed maintainer, or someone who simply phished Github credentials from making a fake PR as someone else then approving it themselves or serving manipulated git history only to CI/CD systems.

Major supply chain attacks like this have happened in lots of other package managers and most OS package managers at least learned their lesson and signs everything. Most package managers are blindly used in multi billion dollar applications, so they are a huge target for attack.

* Gentoo: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-announce/message/dc23d48d...

* Debian: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/07/msg00...

* NPM: https://eslint.org/blog/2018/07/postmortem-for-malicious-pac...

* PyPi: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8hvzja/backdoor_in_...

* Ubuntu Snap: https://github.com/canonical-websites/snapcraft.io/issues/65...

* Arch Linux AUR: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-July/...
While we're talking alternative LoTRs, it's worth having a look at The DM Of The Rings https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 which manages to use all stills from the LoTRs films and tell a completely different story, in the same vein as Darths and Droids https://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html .
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> It's immoral to force someone to do something they don't want to do.

I'll remember this the next time I need to pay taxes, am drafted to serve in the military, or have to abide by a court judgment I don't agree with.
So by that reasoning if the FDA made abortion pills OTC and anyone could order and use them, no one would be helping them take it, so it wouldn't be about assistance anymore. Yes they could use a coat hanger or chew up a bunch of juniper bark/berries, but that has a lot of risks.
Incredibly detailed and interesting, but seems like it wasn't all that secret, just not widely known?
Then you are going to know that the friend was messing with your hardware key. Better that than finding out they are willing to betray you by stealing from you.
The content you are talking about wasn't on Netflix all the time. They were constantly churning the catalog and still do. There are shows from some of those places right now. Netflix has always had a limited catalog based on how much they wanted to spend on licensing. For example, they have CBS shows like NCIS and NBS shows like Seinfeld right now. If Netflix had all the shows all the time it would likely cost as much as all the streaming services combined to support the licensing costs.
I'm not missing any point, but you're missing one:

I'm pointing out that you don't rule the world, and Walmart will exist whatever you do. Some people seem to like it.

Your only other option is to lobby publicly for the changes you favor.
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Thanks for sharing. I'm about to build a 20-30m long installation of LEDs and I've been working out the power distribution needs and such. This site is a perfect resource.
Similarly, the past situations where I've wished I had lens tilt available (to give the appearance of greater depth of field), were I taking those shots today I'd probably be looking at using focus stacking instead.
Exit bags typically use nitrogen because it’s easy enough to get and inert gas asphyxiation is probably the most painless way to go that doesn’t leave too much of a mess.
Elon Musk margin requirements, from Tesla proxy statement
While searching for info on Elon's margin call exposure, I found these stated requirements, which are likely to be stricter than what he could get from Morgan Stanley. It makes me wonder if he is in compliance:

In order to mitigate the risk of forced sales of pledged shares, the Board has a policy that limits pledging of Tesla stock by our directors and executive officers. Pursuant to this policy, directors and executive officers may pledge their stock (exclusive of options, warrants, restricted stock units or other rights to purchase stock) as collateral for loans and investments, provided that the maximum aggregate loan or investment amount collateralized by such pledged stock does not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total value of the pledged stock.
But also, at the same time, the small ethical run business is more likely to survive, keeping the option open for other people to join you. Walmart will still be around doing unethical things, but some people will have an ethical place to work at or shop at.
I quite frequently encounter code that can be made much faster (at no significant loss of value generated) by sampling or using other statistical techniques to reduce precision.

Also flows and buffers in the software that can be improved with queueing theory. Logic that can be simplified with boolean algebra.
I believe one thing which came really natural was to think in virtual machines, to see a programming language as something which acts upon a fictitious environment, where certain instructions map to certain consequences. Of course programming and mathematics are very different activities, but one core principle that I always relied on was thinking in abstractions. What option do I have to manipulate the environment and what invariants are there? How are complex thing constructed out of others?

>It seems to me that math-first people would probably find C to be an abomination.

I certainly don't. You might do so if you wanted programming to be an expression of pure mathematics, but I do not think that is the right approach. C does well for what it is an abstraction over an underlying, real machine and thinking of it as an abstraction is the right thing.
MJIT pastes together snippets of C code that implement Ruby VM bytecode instructions. It then hands off that C code to GCC which compiles it to native code while the Ruby VM is running.

YJIT compiles from Ruby VM bytecode straight to native code using a JIT technique called basic block versioning (which is slightly different from how JITs like V8 work because the unit of reuse is a basic block instead of a function).

There’s more information in these links:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zO9_uTaELCw&feature=shares

https://shopify.engineering/yjit-just-in-time-compiler-cruby
Any idea where the history information is saved? (previous passwords and their dates)
See presenter notes
The context was clearly bodily autonomy, and France doesn't have a draft.
> I'd argue both are horrible trade-offs and can be somewhat lessened with better regulations.

I don't see how that's possible. Sure, the egregious cases by healthcare professionals can be prevented, but I don't see how you can prevent the soft pressure from friends and family, or even just self imposed guilt on the part of the patient.

People who are sick often have to deal with depression. Feelings of being helpless and worthless are only going to be made worse knowing they are effectively choosing to be a burden by not allowing themselves to be killed. I would imagine a great many people who are not ready to die would do so out of a sense of shame or guilt and that seems really terrible to me.

Palliative care and avoiding treatment that unnecessarily prolongs life can go a long way to easing the difficulty of dying from illness and I think are more humane than asking, explicitly or implicitly, for the disabled or dying to decide when they should die during what is certainly already a very difficult time.
And you're really almost hitting the point directly - but this guy just seems to "want" to be the owner of a tech-startup, rather then someone with a good tech idea who then turns it into a successful business.

Everyone is selling a dream, and people are willing to buy because they fall in love with the "idea" of the dream - I think unless I had some actually insane, never thought of tech, I would NEVER want to be a tech-startup. Everyone is trying to take advantage of you to fulfil their own dreams, ironically
> A person must have the right to chose the terms of their own existence.

I don't think this functions as a principle. It only seems like it applies very narrowly to the situation of ending one's life.

People don't have a right to choose where, how, or to whom they're born. They don't get to select which aptitudes they have or where they struggle. There's very little they can do to change a great many things about their lives, but this doesn't strike us as a "violation of their rights" as much as "a fact of the human condition."

I think you need an argument as to why the specific situation of choosing how and when to end one's life ought to be different.

Death does come. When and how is (usually) not chosen by the person who dies. This seems like it's as much a part of the human condition as the randomness around being born.
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This deserves to be expanded on: I very much see the need for innovation in OS research. But I just don’t see anything in BeOS/Haiku that would address any of the big challenges for operating systems. Which in my mind include the following:

Can we get away from the “leaky bucket” security paradigm where despite all of the best efforts and gradual improvements, prevalent operating systems “keep on giving” in terms of exploits that are discovered all the time. Is there something akin to what Rust is for programming languages?

Or what about an operating system for AIs? Is the current stack of Linux, GPU drivers, and some ML SDK on top an adequate answer for emerging AI applications?

Or if you still believe in Blockchain applications, what about a native OS for that?

And the list goes on.

All I see in Haiku/BeOS is a pretty, albeit dated user interface. Someone educate me what else they bring to the table.
We can regulate the behaviors of doctors and staff in hospital to ensure they aren't pressuring people to make the choice due to costs. We can fire people who do so.

Anecdotal tales of incompetence do not justify the removal of a person's basic right of self.
I ran NEXTSTEP 3.2 and I think, 3.3, on both 486 DX2/66 and original NeXT hardware. At one job I ran on a 25Mhz Mono slab as my daily and only machine. I did Web surfing, email, used VarioData for the home-built sales/contact system, etc.

There were some pieces that were slow, but overall it was a fantastic experience. The "Shelf" was great; I would store commonly-used docs there, reference materials etc.
My main issue is:

1. The ORMs are really not updated to utilize these useful features, largely because they try to support all the databases, and end up supporting really just the ANSI standard set of features, with maybe a few extensions.

2. Without the ORM, you're writing SQL-as-string, and its as demented and awful as one would expect of writing all your code inside a random string. It doesn't help that all SQL features are made inconsistent language-wise, so you're basically guaranteed to have at least one syntax error using anything novel (with an utterly useless error message from your favorite SQL compiler), which can only be caught at runtime (because your IDE's DB linting and language support is also limited to mostly ANSI SQL, because they also try to support all the databases).

3. If you make it a stored proc/function/view, the DB IDE tooling is shit across the board. They're all miles behind any decent app-lang IDE in terms of features/tooling they provide. It's actually impressive how pathetic an environment DBA's put up with. You're really not going to get much more support than an autocomplete on table/column names, and maybe datatypes.

So ultimately, the act of writing SQL is terrible compared to doing your normal app-logic. The only reason I'm willing to put up with it is because the positives of using an RDBMS properly dramatically outweighs the negatives. But that tradeoff isn't immediately visible to the novice, so this absurdity of reimplementing SQL with not-SQL becomes reasonable.

The engine is beautiful. The relational algebra -- glorious. The language, tooling and ecosystem? It's all stuck in the 80s.
Hehe yes i agree fully, was a bit of a tongue in cheek statement.

Anyway their market cap now has tanked to 386B.
I was going to say a small cafe, but then I saw the size of the lot. That is three football fields right? That is a little too much for a coffee shop.
This is one of those subjects where people have all kinds of fantastic reasons why it should be forbidden until it concerns them or a loved one.
Lots of peoples reaction to this is that suicide is always bad when done by firearm because it’s gruesome or frightening to them. I would ask that these people introspect and ask if their own emotions and biases are leading them to this conclusion. If the goal here is to let people live and die on their own terms, then this seems like a particularly hypocritical take. I think to many, suicide by gun is favorable as more immediate, private, and time and place are entirely within your own control.
See also: The famous 1999 Christmas paper on MR imaging of a coitus. (Which won an Ignobel prize.)

https://youtu.be/OVAdCKaU3vY
Looks pretty cool but it also faces some issues with hallucinating. For example asking the chat for the you.com api docs will returned an invalid url returning a 404 for me
Huh, what was the bump for web3 before 2012 for?
If viewed in the narrow interpretation that you're presenting it, then sure, trying and failing at startups is "something other than God". Maybe that is his frustration.

But if building a startup is simply part of the process of tested faith through challenges, being stripped of ulterior motives, servant leadership, creating something from nothing, bringing order & structure to chaos, enabling people to feed families, then it's quite on par with discovering who God is.

Work itself is a divine activity given from the very beginning, certainly not meant to be our god but about as divinely predestined as one can get on the list of "things one can be doing". I mean shoot, one of the first tasks was to name things, what else is programming other than naming things?
> I wouldn't even begin to understand how to self-teach myself Stokes Theorem or some shit

Input it into a proof assistant, and rely on the same sort of feedback "does the computer accept your proof, or get stuck". The hard job of formalizing stuff for this purpose has seen significant progress, e.g. by the Lean mathlib project.
I'm responsible for the consequences of my actions and the complexity of the world is not an excuse. Regardles, this question doesn't seem to fall in a grey area; they are obviously criminals who harm others; the company that paid them was not trying to fend off starvation, but simply wanted to test some software.
True. I've to commit that I'm not a big fan of the classic approach of footnotes at the bottom of the page.

It doesn't feel like a very nice fit in the context of a digital reading experience. Forcing the user to leave the current reading position to get the additional information at the bottom of the page, and struggling to find back into the text.

But I guess this only applies to the classic implementation of footnotes at the bottom of the page. I assume there are better implementations with a more digital character available.
Many Be employees, including myself, ended up at Apple; some after a brief time at Eazel and others later on. They had, and continue to, make great contributions. As a former Be employee and lover of BeOS, I can say that Apple acquiring Be would have been a disaster for Apple. I have no ill will to Gil Amelio, Ellen Hancock, Steve Glass and the other leadership, but they didn't have what it took (other than the NeXT purchase) to pull Apple out of crisis.
See the cited paper by Locey and Lennon (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13062-020-00261-8) for a counterargument. The issue comes down to mathematical modeling of biodiversity and microbiologists are fighting about it. The fact that dozens of new phyla and two entire branches of life were discovered in the past 20 years is not disputed by either side.

A good backgrounder on this topic is "Assessing the global phylum level diversity within the bacterial domain: A review", https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2014.10.005
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>"The most common uses for LF photography these days are landscape and portraiture."

That large format landscape photo from the article with "infinite depth" is quite interesting.
For booleans I tend to prefer using “Enable/Disable”. In this example, “Disable Flash” with a checkbox that is clearly in an “Enabled” state can reduce ambiguity. Alternatively, displaying the state and using tooltips that describe the action can be great, but falls apart on mobile devices.
My probables is that 43% is incredibly low. It would score a D on Charitywatch: https://www.charitywatch.org/our-charity-rating-process

We can argue about that extra 30%, but it’s not what people are expecting to pay for.
The phrasing "terms of their own existence" is just a polite way to say, "You don't get to tell me I have to keep being alive."

Obviously, you can't dictate what things happen to you, only how you respond to them.
They previously said a $100m endowment would be sufficient to operate off of the interest. What changed?
You can check out LVGL: https://github.com/lvgl/lvgl/

It's geared more for embedded, but you can use an sdl back end for desktop (which might kill your light weight requirement depending on your strictness level). I wrote my own tty/framebuffer driver for it and use it directly on the frame buffer (not Linux) but it's pretty nice to work with. But if you need metal/openGL/Vulcan/directX and hardware acceleration, it's probably not what you're after.
Cool!

A couple of questions:

1. How did you gather the data?

2. What's the architecture / tech stack? Data store, data pipelines / back-end, front-end? The presentation layer looks really neat.
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> They have some token electric offerings, but don't seem particularly committed.

The Mercedes EQS achieves greater range than any Tesla in real world highway range tests:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/

So your claim is that can't Tesla can't match Mercedes' token EV offering? Why isn't Tesla showing more commitment?

Tesla doesn't match the BMW iX either. Or the Lucid Air. Or the Hummer EV:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/612030/hummer-ev-range-test/

It's like Tesla's not even trying.