skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, my mind doesn't work at the speed of that presentation, so I downloaded it in NewPipe and played it back at about 0.7 its original speed in VLC. After that it was fine.

I can't say I was always good at math as my marks varied all over the place but I never really had problems with calculus. Sure, some of its mechanics were a pain—awkward integrals for instance—but the concepts usually made sense to me.

As I've mentioned on HN previously, I'm a strong believer in teaching a simplified calculus to kids at a young age (in primary school). Early familiarization and appreciation of concepts such as limits and rates of change before they enter high school I reckon would greatly ease their burden of learning the subject.

This needn't be complicated, introducing calculus to kids with, say, versions of Zeno's dichotomy paradox can be easy and lots of fun for them—especially so when they're asked to solve the seemingly intractable problem of the frog in the center of a pool who never makes it to the bank as each successive jump he makes is only half the distance of the previous one.

Kids can clearly see the poor frog never makes it to the bank given those rules but their eyes light up when you tell them there's a 'nice' branch of math that can save him called calculus which says his feet are too big for him to drown.

Thus we've introduced calculus as a friendly helpful subject at a young age and not scary frightening subject it's so often portrayed to be. In this example we've introduced them to the concept of infinite series (and infinity), limits and how calculus can solve problems that cannot be solved by simple arithmetic alone.
Entirely impractical. The Back To The Future car-mounted fusion plant isn't going to be a thing, sorry.

You might be able to capture methane produced at a dump and use it to drive generators, but that's effectively waiting for large scale decomposition to happen.
> Because compiling on windows and deploying on linux/unix/etc, that was posssible 20 years before java in c/c++.

"20 years before Java"? That's 1975 we're talking about.

Was it possible to build a program on Windows 95/NT and then deploy that to a Unix system? Probably. But given that today this can still be quite a pain to cross-compile C code I bet it wasn't easy. Besides, "it compiles" doesn't mean "it works" or "it works on this other platform" (quite likely with a different CPU architecture), especially not in C. And few people were writing any tests in the 90s.

Java abstracted a lot of details like endianness, platform-specific APIs, etc. away.

> who uses that in real life?

There's quite a few cross-platform Java desktop apps; the IntelliJ IDEs are a good example (although they've since developed Kotlin, it's still the same Java VM). DBeaver is another example, openoffice.org used quite a bit of Java back in the day (although I think that's mostly phased out now) – I'm sure there are more.

And of course in the 90s you had Java Web Applets.

Java is a bit less popular for this than it was, but I've run plenty of Java programs on my FreeBSD machine back in the day, and I'm pretty sure "FreeBSD" wasn't really something the developers really thought of when they wrote it (I can't remember which off-hand, it was a long time ago but I have "fond" memories of dealing with the manual installation bruhhaha because of the license at the time).
chess as a closed system is definitely solved by AI, including bootstrapping purely from self-play.

the claim here is that applying physics/math/etc would be AGI-hard, because it involves the AI perfectly modeling a world it doesnt live in (the simulation problem) or understanding relationships in concepts without making jumps (obeying logic).
Believe it or not, Amazon is not a charity. I don't know why you expect them to hold on to employees who are evidently a loss to their bottom line.
Control+F4 switches between arbitrary windows, in most-recently used order.

You can rebind it in settings, though at that point you may as well get the bonus features of 3rd party implementations.
There are some programming languages where that would be correct - for example a `for i in range(n):` from python.
Kernel Tuner is great! Remember going to a tutorial at SC21. Would highly recommend the tutorials they used to get familiar as well (https://github.com/KernelTuner/kernel_tuner_tutorial)
Well, to be clearer, the first is just an article, but it talks about obese people, not all people. That's what I mean. Obese people are not all people, and studies of weight loss in obesity are on a few obese people.
This sounds a lot like Star Trek TNG. At least Picard has said something similar.

In a post-scarcity society, people work to elevate themselves.
Thank you! That is a quick (helpful) fix!

Beside of checks for the integrity of SelfSigned Certificates, I do not used this function directly.

My assumption about the TLS impact was based on the fact that [Certificate.Verify] uses internally [Certificate.buildChains] who calls [Certificate.CheckSignatureFrom], who has only the direct parents IsCA status, but not the full picture of the full path (and ignores it at the end, when missing on the root-Anchor)!?

And yes, in general, the max pathLen helps only to restict the impact of a specific (delegated) subCA compromise, not for a full root CA key leak. But I expect to see a well prepared narrative about a (revokeable) SubCA as most likely response, to protect the Root-Anchor itself. (What a happy co-incidence that the most Root-Anchors do not declare the planned SubCA strategy via maxPathlen upfront.)
The number of fat people who consume less energy than they expend is literally zero. Nice try redefining "very fit" to mean thin, btw.
I think it’s a little naive to equate “on-demand learning” with essentially learning frameworks or tools.

I remember early in my career when I got a request to make a graphic slowly start to circle around a user’s mouse as they hovered over an area of the page.

I couldn’t use a tool to solve this problem. I used on demand learning to go back to high school trig and figure out how to animate something in a circular motion.

My point here is that often on demand learning and conceptual preparation merge into the same thing and aren’t mutually exclusive.
Yes! Especially in the 90s. The multi-platform story for most things was SO BAD for SO LONG. Now we have better toolchains and we can deploy to most systems easily, but that's a historical aberration. We spent a lot longer struggling in the dark.

That's not to say that Java provided a "good" cross-platform experience by our current standards - but the fact that it provided it at all was huge!
‘AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows,’ says Microsoft
I was curious, and it looks like they made it hard to enforce, capped at a year, and require a garden pay (50%) period.

https://www.upcounsel.com/non-compete-agreement-enforceabili...
A few billion people in the world who consider it a sacred book, to begin with. And historians, obviously.

But this is like asking “well clearly Romeo and Juliet was a fictional story, who cares if we find out that Shakespeare didn’t write it”.
Not much.
Yes, e.g. the phase of a photon from beam 1 may be highly correlated with the phase of the second (or, e.g. the polarisations may be highly correlated), but they will still behave as two particle beams.
(Yes, I am a physicist, at least I was 30 years ago;-0).
Long quote, but very relevant:

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

― Ira Glass
I wish I could acquire anything by bending spoons, but Uri Geller would sue me for copyright infringement.
You do not need Google analytics, or anything similar to “measure how your users interact with your site”. Wtf?
McLuhan came up with the term "Global Village". I remember that term being bandied about a lot in the early days of the internet, which was going to turn us into a global village: one big happy worldwide community in open communication. I rolled my eyes at the idea then.

But at some point...I came across what he'd actually written (or anyway, a summary of it). It was not a cheesy Disney "It's a Small World" vision, at all.

His point was that a world centered on books is different than one centered on speech--direct or online. There's a sense of truth: it's that thing resting on the shelves in your public library. There's only so much room there, and there's a competition to contribute to it. Each field had a few recognized authorities, and then a handful of dissidents (who were in a direct debate with the authorities). The bar to joining those groups was high, and there were a whole slew of gatekeepers. And we knew what an authority looked like: they wore glasses and tweed suits and you saw them being interviewed on TV (or, earlier, you read their editorials in the paper). If you met a guy on the street who had figured it all out, you could roll your eyes and tell them to get writing: if and when you read their book, you could consider taking them seriously.

But with the onslaught of new media, we're moving to something like a global village. A real village, recognizable to someone who grew up in one: a place with gossips and busybodies, a tribal place where rumors spread wildly and every 'fact' is he-said-vs-she-said. There's a cacophony of voices and perspectives. The people who talk the most and the loudest are the authorities. An authority is just a talking head on a screen, being shouted at by other talking heads--and anybody can get a camera and become one on YouTube.

Note that the older, book-oriented world isn't correct. It can be wrong, and resistant to change, and the authorities can all be stuffy old white guys propagating their specific idea of the world. But it does give most of society a sense of structure. There is the general sense that there's some bedrock truth down there under all the the noise and debate.

Not so in a global village. Truth is just what we decide it is, today, and tomorrow (if a different set of busybodies and gossips gain the upper hand) it may be different. Your truth might not be the same as my truth--and maybe we ought not to be talking with each other anyway, since we're from different 'truth' camps. If we're in a debate, there is no authority we can reference: no library, no expert, no foundational text. It's just your word versus mine, or your friends vs my friends. How do you even go about establishing that sort of central authority in a system based on transient, immediate interactions? Truth and authority are temporary, and communal. There is no center.

I remember thinking, back in ~2009: "This guy's got a point." And now...?
Reflecting on Transducers
> Java abstracted a lot of details like endianness, platform-specific APIs, etc. away.

Well POSIX dates from the late 80s. That's not cross-CPU, but at least cross-OS, which is what Gates was really concerned about.
Not a physicist, but if you put one beam through each slit, it's no longer the double slit experiment. Instead it's just two single slits. So no interference pattern, just two spots of light.
a full year before the iPod, I remember getting the Creative Nomad Jukebox (https://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/technology-flashback-crea...) with its whopping 6GB of space and showing it off at school. it had a great display and the icons on the physical buttons were worn off from me pressing them.

more importantly as a kid from a tiny country, Mr. Sim and Creative Technologies showed promise that you could make an impact in the global tech scene and become a billionaire without being in real estate or oil or some other calcified industry. thank you and RIP.
Mature fields ideally are driven by theory. Newer fields are driven by experiment, until the theory catches up.

I've learned that it is a waste of time (and brainpower) to blindly tweak code without understanding the algorithm, hoping it will magically work. Yet, I've observed many newcomers to machine learning essentially doing this. It might be somewhat useful at this moment, but if it is easy to do then it will likely become automated.
Congrats, Andy.

I have been reading Andy's blog for some years now. Though the main focus is on his own products and his product development experiments and experiences, many of the posts have good advice for those wanting to create their own products for sale. There are also some interesting interviews with other product creators.
They are also in the process of acquiring Activision and World of Warcraft...
Soon... soon...
Fear is the first step in taking steps to compete. Its an acknowledgement of the threat from a better product. If any company doesn't have that they will fail. This can be seen during the ballmer era where he totally ignored the threat posed by iPhone and ended up conceding entire mobile os market share to Apple and Google.

Whenever questions like why are they afraid of progress, it's for common good etc come up (which I feel are based on morality) , it makes sense to imagine yourself in their shoes and see what you would do.
If they had even a 10th of the organisation of Montreal they wouldn't have such problems. They're relying on the wrong tools.

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/montreal-snow

And this article makes it seem like a huge investment, but in reality these workers do other jobs most of the year, in construction, roadworks, gardening, waste management, etc.

It really seems like NY are wedded to their old ways -- something that was a sensible reuse of an asset (garbage trucks) has solidified into the only possible way to do it. It might be bureaucracy and unions, unimaginative leadership, or inability to allocate the cost due to politics, but it isn't technical.
I think you are misinterpretating my comment!

I specifically said 'It didn't really go anywhere" and pointed at the Ethereum (aka crypto) Web3 library!

I was expanding on @DonHopkin's comment "The original Web3 stuff that came less than a year after the Web2 stuff in the early 2000's".

In my view back then it was dumb (Web2.0 was still a new thing) and was just an attempt by the Semantic Web fans to get some hype. It didn't work.

(For better or worse I work at a Web3 company so I'm reasonably aware of how it is used within that community today)
Huh. Everyone is different I guess. Again, this sounds like a personal hell for me.
Wouldn’t that activate the F1/F2 function of the currently in-focus application (with F1 often being “help”)?
Your comment reminded me of this NYT article "Human Contact Is Now A Luxury Good" [0]

It does seem likely that folks without solid pre-existing meatspace networks will be stuck trawling through an online ocean of Garbage PaTches looking for real human contact.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20220609073819/https://www.nytim...
Profound
That sounds random to me. I meeting can be scheduled if needed.
I never got as far as running my Spring Boot application on fly.io. Killed after a few seconds. I’d love to know why. https://community.fly.io/t/java-app-is-killed-on-startup/837...
Kudos to you for accepting that it might be stupid. A lot of people say things with complete certainty these days when what they're talking about isn't in their area of expertise.
> You aren't a musician if you aren't playing with other people and in front of audiences.

That’s a terrible attitude. There are plenty of, for example, solo piano players who love playing, but aren’t interested in either being in a band or being a celebrity playing for other people. They are every bit a musician as you are.
> Despite his skill, he turned away from the environment he associated with music, an environment he found distasteful and anti­thetical to his being.

This seems to apply in other fields as well by the way; the correspondence to "the YOLO guy" for example is striking.
Sorry I'm on my phone right now so can't test this out so what does this do exactly?

I just have my formula bar set at 3 lines and F2 edits in the formula box always. I find that works well for me.

What frustrations do you have with the default setup?
I mean, I was trying to be fair by counting L2 and associated logic. If you only count down to L1 (and no, Zen4's 15-cycle latency L2 is not comparable to Apple's L1 that achieves a 3-4 cycle latency; Zen4's combined L2+L3 averages close to Apple's 18-cycle L2), then a Zen4 core only takes 72% of that 3.84 mm^2, or 2.76 mm^2. M2's P-core is estimated at 2.756 mm^2 if scaled to match M1's density, or 2.519 mm^2 if you accept Apple marketing's scaling.

And the M1's P-core was 2.281 mm^2.

Hyperthreading barely costs any area, but anyway I guess you can say that thanks to that plus the clock speed advantage, Zen4 gets like 15% more performance per mm^2 than M2 P-cores? That's not a massive improvement by any measurement.

(as an aside: if annotations of Zen4 I've seen are correct, its branch predictor has almost as much SRAM as the entire µop+L1i+L1d caches. Which... actually I can completely believe of TAGE)
The problem with food is that you can't cut it completely like drugs or cigarettes, rehab schemes are not going to work because the temptation and use is always there, multiple times a day.
I can't find the quote, but I reminded of something from an early electronic music pioneer.

They talked about how electronic music would lower the barrier to making music, and remove all that tedious time spent on the mechanics of playing an instrument, allowing people to focus on the music itself.
How do you deal with the loss of F-key functionality by applications that use it?
Fair enough about the not dredging up comments thing, I shouldn't have piped up, but you're taking this as waaay more of an attack than it was. The more nicely-phrased version might've been something like "If you're only casually acquainted with this debate, and are thinking of reeling off a low-effort paragraph or two of rebuttal, it's probably not going to go anywhere because his position on this famously contentious and vitriolic topic is well-studied." It wasn't phrased that nicely, because I like and respect Scott and find these threads a little triggering, but it was a mildly rude comment from the sidelines, not an accusation of devilry or a claim to be refuted. The "weird fixation" and "bogus argument" stuff is a little over the top.
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? (2020)
Example from the same site: https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-ste...

Personally, I'd struggle to not capitalize things. It's just automatic.

I do believe there was a bit of a fashion to not capitalize things for a while too; I remember some people doing it on the interwebz.
Are the phones of Russian's soldiers connecting to Ukranian controlled telcos? If that is the case, it sounds a bit stupid.

Or is the US that provides this information? Getting the location of devices via the services that run Apple Maps or Google Maps or from various social media that US intelligence has access to (TikTok, Youtube etc.).
Agreed. I personally have seen divorces and breakdowns of entire families and friend groups of my colleagues, but what is most important is making sure that they stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and look to further improve themselves for the company.
Inflation puts to rest any ideas about that. Most of the observable universe is outside our future light-cone.
I think the comment here by Calogero, who appears to be Reid's attorney, is that the flabby arms were something that clearly distinguished Reid from the actual thief, indicative of the 40 pound difference. The implication is that the facial image was the sole similarity, and likely the only thing the police considered when jailing a completely unrelated person from another state for a week.
I still have some lawn darts at my parents house that were illegal even when we got them. Javelins were banned in my state for track and field too.
I don't care if humans can suffer. So much postmodern abstract art is so low effort and 'edgy', I can not consider it art. Is this part of the exhibition, or can I throw it into the rubbish bin?

It's not about whatever the author felt creating it.

It's only about what I can feel when I see, hear, read or perceive the art. The author disappears and is only relevant through the art.
Ken Thompson prototyped the first version of UNIX in assembly language for PDP-7 in three weeks, while his wife was away on vacation. One could argue Ken Thompson/Dennis Ritchie/Doug McIlroy have made a remarkable impact on laying out the principles behind the future of computing even today in such a short time.
IDA has a free variant. Did you tried?
Also, are you aware of the new Advanced Formula Environment?

https://youtu.be/yIAl1XbuVzU
Having felt both “brain hunger/body hunger”
And “obesity hunger/glp1 hunger” they are very different. The glp1 drugs remove a compulsion to eat that many thin people just don’t have. It’s like being a smoker, and then nearly instantly no longer craving cigarettes and finding the smell of ciagrettes unappealing. It’s not a remotely subtle change at all.
This sounds like basic math. The Tesla semi has allegedly 900 kW hour batteries and they needed to go three times longer than a 350 kwhr. So how about you get a Mack truck with a 900 kilowatt hour battery or bigger?
> truth claims or the veracity of stories

But that’s not what “forgery” indicates: it’s about the authorship and/or the intent to deceive readers.
yeah I did. None anywhere
You are really blind to the amount of established infrastructure needed to get dinosaur juice to all the boonies.
I like to do multi-line formulas and use indentation as well.

To insert a newline you have to press [Alt]+[Enter]. To indent you can’t use [Tab], so you have to manually space it out.

My script swaps the [Enter] key behavior so regular pressing inserts the newline and Alt+Enter commits the formula. It also converts a Tab press to 4 spaces (rather than focusing away from the bar)
There are a few examples of where this is done.
One that comes to my mind would be JOSM: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
You download one JAR file for any platform you intend to run the application on. There are installers for convenience but the JAR file works just as-is.
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