skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cultural reading of this notation problem is this: mathematical notation was formalised when scientists were writing papers and letters to each scientists in the era of scarce paper and no internet. So focus was on succinctness at the expense of explainability. It is akin to why commands on Unix machine were short, you were talking to an actual serial terminal to machine somewhere away. So saving a letter or two helped. Persisting with cryptic mathematical notation today, we are stuck with an idea well passed its sell by date. Mathematical notation, mostly, is not precise.

Sussman (who wrote the famous SICP book) wrote another book structure and interpretation of classical mechanics. Tough book to go through. But they start with the same premise: mathematical notation is confusing (and hand wavy at times). A better symbolic notation should reveal enough details to be able to code up the mathematics in a program. I found this approach to be bang on target, but could never get enough time to actually go through the book.

And I realised why the 'let us build it up from scratch' books work. They force you to think about the function signatures and shape of objects passed to each function. This approach reveals gaps in our understanding much better. For example, F=ma is looks like an algebraic statement, hiding the fact that `a` on the right is about time evolution of the system through the derivative.

Steven Strogatz made a funny quote in his infinite powers book. (I'm paraphrasing), if Newton was doing this in today's era he might create a flipbook animation to make this point and not symbols.
Unfortunately, that's a big caveat. If only the US worked as it was originally intended: States hold most of the power, the Federal government only controls some very specific and limited aspects. Most people couldn't even name 2 representatives in Congress from their state, let alone members of the state legislature. But, boy oh boy, do they know and care about the POTUS' every move.

I fail to see how everyone, regardless of their 'side', wouldn't be better off by shrinking the size of the Fed gov by half and reallocating at least that much in total taxes paid to the State instead.
Api companies should use this as a playground
I hear html is still in use. These library wars have got to chill out
Really like this project. Curious to learn more about the embedding process. Can you describe the process of generating the unique description a bit more?
Man... I don't envy the custodial/maintenance/IT Staff at this school one bit.
Surely the answer for the example is "I was falsely arrested because I refused to pay a bribe". Since paying bribes is illegal in most countries, that shouldn't be an issue and you can't be accused of concealing it if it came up later.
I thought cryptography was the big thing here. Whoever has a big enough one of these could break tls and other encryption. Which means we enter an arms race where we need quantum to build qc-proof encryption before qc gets cheap and easy enough for the bad guys.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/post-quantu...
I got 1983 vibes of Matthew Broderick owning an airline in 3 easy steps to grab tickets to Paris.
Punishment is complex, but the solution isn’t. It could be mandated that companies are only permitted to request & store information that is necessary to provide the service. A telco literally requires zero data from its users in order to provide a service. Maybe only payment details for postpaid.
I think this type of legislation will be about as helpful as punishing a toddler for falling over.

The root issue is that we are complacently pretending that any entity is capable of ensuring long-term security of a million-datapoint database of valuable information while at the same time thousands of their employees are allowed to work with it.
Your jailbreak spirit lives on, a big thank you! A tweak exists for the official client to clean up a lot of the issues:
https://github.com/BandarHL/BHTwitter

Hopefully this now gets more support with the antics that Twitter has pulled with these 3rd party clients.
I think the way things are going nuclear war is likely, and the worse part is may be not fully intentional.

I think nuclear war is survivable if you are in a good location and already prepped to survive 2+ years on your preps and have the means to grow all your own food and are in a solid community that doesn't go bonkers after shtf.

But that's not the vast majority of us, so it would be quite the shit show. If you aren't prepped, I don't know why someone would want to survive the attack.
"Massively and quickly" seems optimistic. USSR grew at or below the rate of most European economies post war:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Soviet_U...
iOS 16.3 Code Reveals Apple Continues to Work on Classical Music App
>I'm a PhD chemist.

This sort of "chrust me, I have kwalifikashuns" is rather fitting the overall poor quality of your comment.

There are a thousand things wrong with this application. Viability of the process is NOT one of them, as already attested in the literature. Refer for example to

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016523701...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31917892/

The reaction boils down to R'-CH₂-CH₂-R" → R'-CH=CH₂ + H-R". It's practically the reversal of the polymerisation that created the plastic on first place. It's specially obvious by the third paper that I've listed as example, since they're generating butadiene and olefins from polyethylene.

It is by no means on the same level as "selling you a way to change Iron into Gold".

>Plastics have very LONG carbon chains, usually with many double bonds, and very little hydrogen

General purpose polymers like polyethylene and polypropylene do not usually have double bonds. Specially not in the main chain (that you need to cleave to get smaller molecules). You'll only get double bonds in the main chain if your monomers had a triple bond in its place, as one of the bonds is broken in the polymerisation. Most monomers however start with a double bond and the resulting polymers have single bonds. Here, let me show it to you:

(...) + R'=R" + R'=R" + (...) → (...) + [·R'-R"·] + [·R'-R"·] + (...) → (...)-R'-R"-R'-R"-(...)

This is common knowledge among chemists.

>That is why, when you heat plastic it decomposes into char -- as in charcoal.

Yeah, because the hydrogens magically disappear. The presence of nearby oxidants (specially one that you, QuackOfAllTrades, should stop consuming, for a better humankind) is totally unrelated.

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For actual criticism of the application:

You'll get nasty junk oil as output. That oil will have ONE purpose: to be burned down. If you're burning down the oil might as well burn the plastic directly.

This could be solved by fractional distillation... yeah good luck doing it at home.

What happens if some clueless individual tries to recycle PAN? Or even PVC, given how nasty organochlorines are. So there is both health and environmental concerns.

What's the catalyst being used? Plenty catalysts are environmentally nasty.

1KWh/kg is a lot of energy, and it will have an environmental footprint.

It is not trying to sell you a magical device that transforms iron into gold. Instead it is trying to sell you a device that converts good iron into crappy iron, and marketing the crappy iron as if it was more useful than it is.
Elon Musk Could Sell More Tesla Stock to Pay Twitter’s $1.5B Interest
That thinking is based on the thesis that deposits create loans. However, it is the other way: loans create deposits.
We’ve been using it to make quests :-)

https://questgiver.org/t/05c0a7d7-5f22-41d2-90aa-f02082fbb8d...

These were entirely generated based on an intro prompt + “Make three quests people could do to help ensure ethical AI development”. It generated a json with objective types, emojis, everything.

We’re planning to use it to get past the “blank page” problem when onboarding organizations.
And Tweetbot, and Twitterific, and every other 3rd party app for using Twitter.
How true is 'Speed Enforced by Aircraft' Sign? (2016)
Same in the US. It's never been easier to be veg.
+1 for the interiors. I'm doing car shopping right now, and this is the type of thing I've been looking for. I wanted a way to visualize the approximate height difference of sitting in the cabin of a CUV vs sedan.
You actually work on the OpenBSD kernel?
“name, billing address, email and phone number”

Most of that used to be published in print and sent out to everyone. Do they still make phoneboks?
> 1. It has come a long way. iTunes really was a horrible piece of shit software for many years. It is much much much better now.

Speak for yourself. iTunes user interface was so much easier on the computer to use than the current mess that is the Music app on the computer. I'd love to get the old iTunes app back.
"adding that no sensitive data such as financial information was compromised"

"some basic customer information was obtained, such as name, billing address"

Yeah THIS is why I vehemently disagree with KYC laws, especially those requiring a street address. I shouldn't have to tell someone where I sleep to use their business.

Breaches like this enable stalkers, thieves, domestic violence, lots of bad things.
I think you may need more than 3,000 grooves. I like the project idea.
In these breaches there always seem to be two tiers of data, sensitive data that remains secure and less sensitive data that is leaked. This shows to me that companies are capable of securing sensitive data in most cases, and don't care as much about less sensitive data (even if it is PII). Maybe all data should be encrypted at rest, in transit, etc. and not just passwords, socials, and credit card numbers.
That's really helpful thanks! Why do some versions of Android use an old node.js?
Ask HN: Uses for BFT databases outside of crypto?
Does anyone use, or know of use cases for, Byzantine fault-tolerant databases outside of cryptocurrency?
all that the eu and usa have achieved is to enrich the arabs.

whats ridiculous is they're trying to force everyone else who is not european or american to do the same.
The NIH Should Launch a Clinical Trial Committee
What do you mean "have to lie"? Such lies really should be illegal for police...
seems to me The Matrix already got right what will happen
The flip side is that the military also relies on and distributes observations. Last I looked, the FMQ-19 used a windows server 2019 box. And it is used for some of the airports that are dual use, such as Hickam/Honolulu international.
That’s correct: their charts are split-adjusted but that’s all.
It also needed reform 20 and 10 years ago, but it does now as well.
I’ve mostly used ChatGPT for finding functions in more obscure or densely documented APIs, it shaves some time off when I go “I know Maya must have a python function that can do this” and I can ask CharGPT without having to dig through their documentation. I would say it’s been about a 60% success rate, 20% of the time it gets it completely right, 40% of the time it gives me a good starting point and the other 40% I’m stuck digging through documentation anyways.
I know this subthread is talking about saving money, but imo that shouldn't be the first priority. The first priority is avoiding disaster. Insurance costs money up front. The "cost" you are insuring against is being without food after a hurricane/blizzard/etc. If you can ALSO save money up front, that's great.
Put in a Californian's name and this website might tell you where they sleep
Who invaded Ukraine, created these fake DNR and LNR, then annexed them?
OK, and what does your kernel actually do when a kernel thread panics? It "stops execution", sure, so it will... oops? Causing exactly the problem given in the article?
A bit hyperbolic, but this is a thread claiming that the USSR grew far more slowly than the rate of capitalist Europe post war.
also in the US

"[Grapes of Wrath] was temporarily banned in many places in the US. In the state of California in which it was partially set, it was banned for its alleged unflattering portrayal of residents of the area."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_gove...
I so so much agree. Just applying the D (differential operator) twice reveals what are we doing much more than the conventional d2y/dx2 notation.

By and large mathematics education has missed the point of invention of computers. It is only occasionally used to make a point. We should be teaching mathematics with a programming first approach: get your function code to compile, ponder on its signature, write some test cases to really understand what is going on.
It starts to look like these are not breaches but instead could be sales of customer account info by insiders that are then reported as breaches by external bad actors.

This is far too regular an occurrence for T-Mobile. I have never been a customer of theirs and so far as I know my info has never leaked from my cell provider. Unfortunately I was caught up in more than one other major data breach over the last 10 years so it is all out there but still, when one company has this many similar breaches it starts to look like planned events.
Sure, but not at the curriculum level. You can't regulate away the presence of bad teachers. The question was effectively "Are they teaching grade schoolers CRT lefty claptrap [as a matter of policy such that it is appropriate to legislate about]?". And the answer is simply no.
Yes to the second part, no to the first part. Let's punish these entities until the cost of storing (and leaking) my personal data is too high for them to stomach.
As someone who enjoys meat well enough… I realized a while ago that meat itself doesn’t have that great of a flavor, it can be downright bland. The flavor comes from the seasonings and spices they are typically prepared with. Which are either: a) salt or b) something that came from a plant.
Show HN: Hw-manager: basic flask app for managing canvas classes/todo list
Private keys checked into code?

Password salts that were identical for the entire set?

"Random" initialization vectors always created from the same prng seed?

Without coders like these, hackers would really have to work for it.

(And, yes, I've encountered all of these in my career.)
I'm impressed that they've managed to clone both Twitter's app, and their old culture.
Oh goody. I just finished dealing with identity theft from the last T-Mobile breach.
Title is misleading.

There used to be a thing called the phone book that would tell you where people sleep as well.
> I don't dispute that additional hydrogen is necessary to crack the polymers into shorter ones

polyethelelene -> cycloalkanes doesn't require any additional hydrogen.
> They creatively spend money “for the cause” like printing pamphlets or spending on a fundraising event or hiring a “consultant” to strategize on how to fix homelessness or plenty of others.

Printing and distributing pamphlets that educate those with means of influence to make things better does support the cause. Fundraising expenses are overhead and reported as such. Hiring a consultant to help an organization carry out its mission also supports the cause. Just because the organization isn't giving 100% of its receipts into the hands of the homeless directly doesn't mean they aren't helping the homeless.

That said, there are probably plenty of organizations with suspicious claims. Take charity: water's 100% claim. They like to use it to appear like they have no overhead, but it's just wordsmithing. It's also a rather egregious example of how being to focused on eliminating overhead can be harmful.

https://thefundraisingauthority.com/fundraising-ideas/charit...
I took a quick look but please cite something. Lots of claims here:

- Russian agent

- Directly leaked explicitly on Russia's behalf

- directly endangered and got US assets killed

> There is nothing he did that didn't harm the US and benefit Russia

This is what whistleblowing does - it harms the "entity" you're tattling on. It benefited all of the west's enemies for what it's worth.
When you're diagnosed with an easily-treated cancer, be sure to not be a hypocrite and refuse medical treatment for it, because that would be disrupting natural bodily processes.
This is basically what GDPR does.
I tend to disagree, it's risk based. If it's incredibly expensive to get it wrong, you start weighing up if it's worth storing all that data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

> Household Disposable Income per capita (including social transfers in kind)

1 United States 62,300
19 New Zealand 32,600 (2019)

Roughly 50%. I can't find similar data for the bad pockets of America.
In my neck of the woods, Impossible Whoppers were higher than regular Whoppers for as long as I've paid attention.
how much does one of those cost?
As far as I can tell, Layrry does not allow two versions of the same library to be in scope at the same time.
Giving people something they didn’t ask for is an iffy thing to expect respect for. I like the suggestion higher up - answer the literal and then propose why it might not be what one wants to do. The dynamics of how the conversation is happening change things too. In person it’s easy to have long back and forth with detailed explanations and inquiries without taking up much of either person’s time. Online public responses it can easily waste thousands of people’s time if you insist on giving only a partial answer and that’s not really all that benevolent. Between the two (or in between) you get different answers to when an answer type works efficiently.
Breaking polymers down is a thing though. Not my area of expertise, but they try to make feedstock organic or of it. Lots of research to make it cheap and better control off the outputs.

But I wouldn't expect a crystal clear liquid output. Again, not my area.
> Why is this even a story?

It's a story because it's a privacy violation and also a HIPAA violation.

Very similar to the case where health care providers were using Facebook trackers which was sending PII and PHI (private health info) to Facebook which has triggered multiple lawsuits.

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/16/facebook-is-rece...

It's great that some light is being shined on these violations. You can't just put spyware tracking on sensitive websites.
I had no ideas about the GUIs. Thanks so much for the link. Makes me want to use it even more.
A History of the Eprom in the Soviet Union
If humans actually knew how to measure the value-added by any particular engineer or manager with high certainty then I'm pretty sure that tech corporations would be operated much differently.
One of my family members is an anesthesiologist who runs oral and written board exams for physicians seeking to become or remain board certified. Over the holidays I sat him down with ChatGPT and ran through a dozen of the hardest board questions, including the opportunity to ask clarifying follow ups. He said there were a couple responses that would have probably indicated something fishy was up due to ChatGPT’s repetitive use of certain language but that overall it easily passed.
Crazy that you don’t realize how bad the border problem is. First we need to secure the border that should be priority number one bar none. Then maybe we can talk about how to reform immigration policy.
I suspect the real reason is there's no money in it. Linux may have the image of being "bazaar style" but in reality most of it gets written by full-time corporate employees who get paid to work on it at their day jobs.
> Meaning, what's the loss if it's not true?

The loss is the truth. And in this context the truth about our prosperity relative to another nation. If this anecdote is false then the effect is simply to tell ourselves something flattering - that even the poorest of the poor Americans in the Great Depression were prosperous compared to people in the USSR. Delusional thinking is not healthy. The effects tend to compound. As people who lived under monarchies knew, which is how we ended up with a Constitution that tends to encourage adversarial confrontation and an open frank exchange of views.

The USSR may be dead but correctly understanding why it failed is an ongoing and very much living project with relevance to the future ways in which we choose to reshape the prevailing capitalist order (particularly w/r/t industrial investment and planning and benefit schemes that might be compared to socialism like minimum basic income, universal health care, government provided housing etc)
Devoting 25% of their economy to the military was how they stuck around to begin with. You need a pretty big military to keep half of Europe under your thumb for half a century. Operation Danube involved about half a million men at its peak.
My MG Midget is sad. Austin Healey is as close as I can get
This is me driving with my Space Star on the Autobahn [1]

[1]: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mitsubishi-mirage-2...
I think Spotify does things a lot better and they fought the music industry a lot. These days everyone does it.

They also do multi device so much better. It take feels "Apple". If I'm playing music on my phone I can actually change the song on a third party client on my FreeBSD desktop which isn't supported by Spotify at all.

Spotify really does a lot of those things "you just can't do" and they aren't even big friends with the music industry (though I guess despite their initial battles they are now)
Some websites / domains also carry a penalty. This can be overcome with votes and comment activity, or removed by mod action on a given post (which can be requested by emailing mods if you suspect it's the case).

See, e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10448419> & <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929687>
That's funny, because the video for Apple's new HomePod (announced yesterday) includes a very specific handoff example: https://youtu.be/oMf_i1YBuMk?t=74

(I don't use Apple Music or a HomePod, so no idea if this is new)
Coming from Australia, you have to answer a small selection of those questions (including those ones) on the visa waiver application just to travel to the US for a holiday or business trip.
https://foldscope.com/

>Foldscope combines low-cost materials with precision optics to create inexpensive microscopes that are affordable for communities worldwide. With a magnification of 140X, Foldscope can visualize tiny things like bacteria and microorganisms as well as larger samples like insects, plants, fabrics, and tissues. Foldscope can also attach to mobile phones for imaging. This portable microscope is also waterproof. With that versatility, the possibilities are endless!

Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32864413
Nothing good can come from getting into this conversation. I'm pretty sure there are one or two countries that would imprison you just for posting this.
Apropos of nothing, I also just really appreciate crimew.gay's aesthetic.

This website is what me from 1993 thought a hacker's website would look like. A nod of respect to them for kickin' it old-school.
Ex post facto, as usual.

What are the odds that this whole imbroglio happened because their third-party APIs broke and they can't figure out how to fix them?
I'm using Rust (with warp framework if it helps). I can help test if thee is a docker compose :)
Sadly no, for a number of reasons not least of which is multiple CPUs and too much necessary documenting to do that and even if… I don’t think Focusrite would be too keen on it
Crypto lender Genesis files for bankruptcy
I think itunes wasn't bad for music.

The problem was more that it was also managing files on your office, doing firmware updates and a whole load of unrelated crap.

And it still does all this on windows.. :/