skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books do not make you better at math. Working math problems makes you better at math. Go ahead, down vote all you want.

Reading about running does not make you a better runner. You can watch 1000 marathons, sprinters, Olympians. You may get _ideas_ for running, but it will never make you a better runner. To be a better runner you have to do it. To be a better programmer/mathematician/physicist/whatever, you need to go work at it.

I suppose I am just taking action against how the question is written, but I see a lot of people seemingly hoping that "if they just found the correct book, tutorial, or video, they would be better". A lof of those people are my students. When I ask how many problems they have worked, I typically always get the same response. Zero, or the bare minimum.
I mean, there's a whole book that's popular dedicated to saying "yes" to every opportunity you're offered to improve your "luck"...
I would add understanding the reasons for definitions, how they fit together with theorems, lemmas, corollaries, proofs, and some basics of the format of proofs. You can find good explanations through Google.

For more applied or computational branches of math, I'd also add how to check your answers by using numerical methods or a computer algebra system if possible.
great overview of the AI opportunity for devtools. I'm always surprised at the number of devs who reject Copilot based on contrived bad output or licensing grounds. We need to learn that the stuff that AI can do is the stuff we don't want to do anyway.
I've been trying to use ChatGPT productively by asking it instead of looking up docs or search Duck Duck Go.

I'm becoming more and more disillusioned. I was sceptical at first, then thoroughly impressed by all the blog posts, but actually using it is extremely frustrating. It's really good at composing answers that look plausible, but it just has no idea what you want.

The only thing it is truly good at is composing unnecessarily verbose responses to spam emails.
Reminds me of the scene in Cryptonimicon, again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866629
TRAINS, GIVE US TRAINS
If that was the case old clothes would produces far more lint in a dryer because the dryer would keep damaging them. Instead the reverse happens with new clothes produces vastly more and it tappers off.

They do cause damage, but it isn’t the overwhelming source of damage.
Previous discussion focused on AV1/AVIF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26901801
Not saying that LLMs are particularly data efficient, but in their defence, they don't only learn what a human learns in a lifetime but throughout the whole evolution. There may be information encoded in our genes that LLMs need to learn from the training data
I'm about 30 and have only ~4.5k€...

Not because I didn't save more, but because I wasn't able to save more. I do look brightly towards the future and hope I'll turn for the better.
I agree with the poster 100%. In so many UIs it is literally impossible to guess what drawing represents on and which represents off. Toggles, and even multi-toggles until there are at least 3 states are unreadable. It isn't even "just avoid skeuomorphism", it is just awfulness.
> You don't have to be tech literate to know that the man spies on you.

The article is about __HOW__ the man spies on you.

> At some point people are responsible for their level of ignorance

Sure, but my point is that we shouldn't enable that ignorance by making people feel stupid for not already knowing. That's not helpful to anyone involved. I'd explicitly consider this a worse position, which is why I'm complaining.
METARs are perpetually down. one funny thing about them, they are deemed to be a critical service which requires something like 99.99% uptime to be in compliance with the FAA regulations governing service delivery. to get around this, a METAR is considered up as long as it has power, regardless as to whether it itsproducing data or providing accurate readings.

the technology was certified and frozen in the 90s. many of these devices are running windows 3.1 for networking!

they cost more than 2 million dollars a piece to install (at least around here) and require 4 trips per year to calibrate.

since there was little incentive and herculean constraints for the team in charge of METARs to improve the situation, another team at the FAA decided to create their own non certified version. to be installed in places that can't afford a METAR. They were able to build a better system using the same hardware but updated software for a hardware cost of $80k, 250k installed. this system only needs calibration once every 2 years. so it represents about a 1/10 cost of install and 1/8 cost of maintenance.

naturally this pissed off some people. I'm not going to get into internal politics beyond saying the project is currently frozen until a number of large efforts imposed on the program are completed. I believe it will still eventually come out because the cat is out of the bag and there are many groups desperate for a better alternative.
I only use the MPC 4000 for sequencing I need to talk to this shop you are using these things are getting harder to get parts for. I wish someone would make a replica with a copy cat OS
If I were a student, eager to solve math problems and become better at math, no book would be better than any other book at presenting and guiding me to problems that would improve my understanding?
I was about to post the same.

Is this person still alive to tell the other story?
Teaching Kids to Program with Hedy: A Gradual Programming Language [video]
It's impractical for everyone and impossible for some people to interpret every question through the lens of the person asking the question. The use of American euphemisms is constantly changing and it is unreasonable to expect non-native English speakers or neurodivergent people to keep up.

Practice empathy. Guess at others' intent in order to do your best to give others the information that they want. But then insist that they use plain English in the future and that doing otherwise is wrong.

https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication/
Making a living off ones art isn't easy. It's hard work generally just polishing the skill to a point people might appreciate it enough to pay for it in some way - then starts the hard work of getting people to watch, listen, look, etc. If you manage that without some stroke of serious luck it can be years to build a sufficient base that a high enough percentage of them buy something every release or whatever your output is.

Like the quote says, a lot of people quit. A lot that don't quit don't make it either, and the lucky among them end up sort of art adjacent. You aren't the host, but you're a writer, you're not a rock star but after your band fell apart you ended up doing sound and lights at a venue you frequented, you're not Ira Glass but you're a producer or editor.
ChatGPT had possible options....then I saw the politics were more important....so yeah. Of course it's crap...it was a smoke screen like FSD a la musk....stinks
That doesn't mean that Americans are more brutally honest in social interactions. In my experience, Americans commonly (admittedly, not always) avoid topics and observations which they think a listening party would find uncomfortable.
I had this same issue just a few weeks ago. I recall being asked for my 2FA on a few separate occasions and could never disable it or switch to a new authenticator app even though I had backup codes. However, I tried it a 3rd time one day and for whatever reason I was able to do it. If I recall correctly, it suddenly gave me the option to instead authenticate with my password again, which I did. Good luck!
> and the left size has an odd number of factors of 2 and the right side has an even number of factors of 2, a contradiction.

Can you explain this step further?
How is a regular user supposed to think of all this in advance? It's ridiculous. Securely proving your identity in case of loss of proof of identity is hard enough with just passwords. With 2FA it's pretty much impossible.
I think I share your perspective now.
and yet certain things work for strangely large percentages of people. And yet the classics have found a certain "Human experience" .
Yes, more like, "wanted" (to do) it.
Presumably the person ordering these drugs is already providing the site with payment information (credit card) and a shipping address... seems like anyone suing for this information would probably start there rather than with google analytics.
Makes sense to me. If every living being has 50 % chance of survival, so does every living human being, no matter what minority we are.

Not sure about the rest of Thanos's logic, of course...
If they go after him as the trigger puller, they'll never get a conviction. If they go after him as a producer on the film I give them a 25% chance at a conviction. The armorer on the other hand, I'm figuring about a 75% chance of a conviction for her.
I mean the thing with the raspberry pi in your example is there is even cheaper microcontrollers that are just about as easy to develop for as the raspberry pi. The ESP’s of the world are almost an order of magnitude cheaper and are specifically designed for such scenarios.

However those ESP chips ate the lunch of a whole line of other more specialized microcontrollers. So your argument still stands.
What kind of Oil it generates? Where it can be used?
Burning plastic however, has high temperature requirements to avoid giving off toxic fumes in the smoke, which I think you would reduce by doing a conversion to oil first.
This is really cool. Upon further Googling, readers may be interested in https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/12/using-ebpf-in-kubernetes/

If you can go beyond Kubernetes, I think that'd give Odigos more staying power.
Naturally some integrations are out of your hands, AWS Fargate being one (https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/1027). However, if you could get integrations up and running with the likes of Fargate, Fly.io, Render.com etc. That'd be amazing.
> Pushing on abortion was a good way to get people riled up to vote for them

But why? Why did they have an audience? Why did peddling abortion restrictions cause people to vote for them?

I'll tell you why. Because we intentionally gave them an citizenry equipped with the kinds of beliefs and moral compasses with which those sorts of arguments resonate. We spent decades raising people to think that human life is infinity valuable and that even the risk of harm is tantamount to blood in the streets. We have been raising people to err on the side of restricting people's freedom in order to prevent harm, both real harm and the statistical hypothetical small harm. We have done this on purpose so that people become outraged when they hear that some employer's machinery does not conform to the latest safety standards. We have done this so that people shun people who engage in slightly dangerous behavior. Of course, everything has tradeoffs and as a side effect of this we have created a society of people who are happy to err on the side of the fetus to the detriment of the mother's bodily autonomy and vote accordingly.

In short, we are reaping exactly what we sowed.
Many of the critiques of this piece are well spoken to by Dr. Jordan Peterson when he says it can be quite troubling to a person who senses things are not right in their lives when we say things like "You're ok", "Don't be so critical" (ie call this situation "good") . etc. And he mentions it can be quite distressing because if now is "good" then a) what hope is there? They're experiencing suffering/distress and we've now told them to just suffer it (and now in silence). and b) it disarms the one true lever we have in life, thoughtful action. and often people who are hypercritical are paralyzed by self-doubt/fear/perfectionism.

I think he has a point.

Maybe affirmations do not work, but some of the sentiment behind them could be powerful. "You have a sufficient plan to move forward, and you're a sufficient person to take those first steps".
A Course in Modern Mathematical Physics: Groups, Hilbert Space and Differential Geometry by Peter Szekeres

My intro to abstract math... Wide range of topics, very clearly written and very well structured. Sets, groups, vector spaces, tensors, topology, differential geometry, lie groups and more.

An Introduction to Category Theory by Harold Simmons

Very enjoyable read. You cannot go wrong with this as your first book on the subject.
>Google not allowing disabling or altering 2FA after resorting to a backup code is simply bad design.

You would think that using a backup code would prompt a "Do you want to alter 2FA?" work flow since the user is already at the 2FA has gone wrong point.
There is amazing video version of this, Journey to the Microcosmos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS2mdmt4JPw
Please read my entire post. Anti-democratic policies are enacted such that the resulting government isn't representative of the people.
I disagree with the very premise of this essay.

> Sounds a lot like cancer, doesn't it?

No, it sounds like running one of the most popular websites on the Internet requires well-paid employees, benefits, and infrastructure investment. 300 employees is two orders of magnitude fewer employees than Microsoft laid off this week. 300 employees to run one of the most trafficked and useful websites ever created is a strikingly small number.

Yes, I want wikipedia to have redundancy. Yes, I want Wikipedia to be resilient against incidents. Yes, I want them to have lawyers to respond to legal issues (both founded and malicious). Yes, I want them to invest in new projects that may or may not pan out into useful services like the ones I already enjoy (it's hard to appreciate how many Wikimedia offers).

If you told me that they spend $100M each year to keep the site online and running well, I'd believe you. A third of that is surprising because it's an astoundingly small number given the sheer amount of value that they create with it, especially for me personally.
This misses the point. Police departments are having a hard time recruiting; this is one of the reasons people don't want to work in these departments.

They certainly need fixing, but I'm also not convinced that doing so will make the defund movement go away. Voices within what we are calling the "defund movement" range from "change how funds are allocated" to "abolish policing entirely".

Ilhan Omar, as an example, said “The Minneapolis Police Department is rotten to the root, and so when we dismantle it, we get rid of that cancer, and we allow for something beautiful to rise, and that reimagining allows us to figure out what public safety looks like for us.”

It isn't exactly a call for abolition, but it is saying get rid of them and we'll figure it out later. Her voice wasn't alone; the Minneapolis city council voted 12-0 to completely defund the department and replace the police with "peace officers" who presumably would have had different obligations in terms of interacting with people.

That ended up never going anywhere; a spike in violent and property crime led the necessary city charter amendment to fail (Minneapolis city charter currently mandates a minimum staffing level of police, which it hasn't been able to meet since 2020).

The political motivations behind this far end of the "defund" movement argue that policing simply cannot be successfully reformed - that there is no "fixing" the police.
And how many coffee growers would it shift out of their current state of wretched poverty, downward into something worse?
could you not brute force them?
He made a children’s book using AI. Then came the rage
I rather give up my wallet than try to recover all the 2FAs on my phone.
Anyone else has problems viewing the video in landscape mode on mobile?

As soon as I turn the phone, the video exits fullscreen mode and the part showing Ankur floats above the controls on the right side of the video player so I can't reenter fullscreen
This is awesome! Request tracing is basically the fundamental building block to observability in a distributed system.

Doing it automatically is a huge win!

Congrats on the launch and I look forward to learning more!
Maybe the next million new jobs is just rebuilding a reasonable level of customer support at all tech companies, funded by modest usage fees

This already exists.

It's why if you have a certain bank balance, when you call the bank a human in your own country picks up and speaks to you in your native tongue immediately. And if you don't have a certain bank balance, you sit on hold for 90 minutes and are repeatedly told how important your call is.
Today is y2k38 (epochalypse) commemoration day
I used to think like this too, but I realized recently that actually the human brain doesn't train over ~20 years of data, it trains over ~200 million years of data. Human babies aren't an empty neural network with no weights, the entire network architecture and the entire set of checkpoint starting weights that the brain begins training from is encoded into the human genome. It would be silly to expect evolution to do anything other than this, actually.

Also at this point I'm not even sure if "general" intelligence is a thing that exists or can exist. Humans have a specific intelligence which is very specifically designed for the world and universe that we live in. Intelligent machines will have to be similarly designed.
They're absolutely not - but the people that attack Amazon don't care about that. Amazon to many represents Capitalism, and so acts as a catchall for criticisms of Capitalism.

Ironically, small family shops use WAY more child labor, unpaid labor etc as a percentage than Amazon. They also produce more plastic per item, take only cash to evade taxes, etc.
that's how i knew 'voice stress analysis' tests were trash. when i was a teenager, it was all the rage for companies to put candidates through these and i'd sit there lying all the way through it and still get the job every time.

now, any of my ex's can agree, i'm the worst liar in the world and if that test thought i was being honest, there's definitely something busted with it.
One interesting thing about the AS/400 is that all or almost all of the userland programs were distributed/stored in TIMI (Technology-Independent Machine Interface) format. It's a bytecode that gets AoT-compiled to native code when performing the AS/400 equivalent of setting the executable bit. This allowed IBM to go through several generations of incompatible CPUs without customers visibly needing to recompile binaries. TIMI was a remarkable amount of forward thinking on IBM's part.

These days, the Android Runtime does something similar at application installation time, but TIMI was quite a bit ahead of its time. As far as I know, IBM never added ART-like continuous profiling and re-optimization features to the TIMI runtime, but it would be technically possible.
amluto (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34442824) already made the good points and I have been pondering the same thing.

What if the Dems got their game theories wrong: they decided making the Repubs look disjointed and in disarray was a better outcome than just voting McCarthy in without all the concessions. My best guess was they were really hoping to get a few defections to get Hakeem Jeffries. But what will be the consequences of the concessions and new rules?

Also one thing I still don't understand is, can anyone call the snap vote to oust the speaker? Or does that rule only allow Republicans to call that vote?
This reminds me of my pre-press days where we had a binder full of font sample printouts. Customers would pore over that for hours...
The alternative is picking a smaller company that might be an easier hacking target or might go out of business when you're not paying attention. I have a Protonmail account but I do wonder how long they'll be around.
I'm sure all of this will make sense to grandma, too.

(Gmail's main target is not devs, or even computer literate people. And owning a smart phone =! literate.)
>That's far better PR than them giving £1m novelty cheques to some remote city based charity.

How is it better PR if hardly anybody knows about it?
Show HN: Alternative to ChatGPT with limited downtime and unlimited calls
What exactly would yet another green tax achieve?

Fund underperforming government employee's pensions?
When recreational cannabis is legal, codeine demand drops
>Having access to notifications on my writs and being always connected felt cool and novel in the beginning, now it feels like hell.

There is an option to if you swipe down to turn off all notifications when you do not want them, or you can schedule it.
+1

Mounted a google drive as an FS on a linux box a while ago, worked very nicely.
This is really crazy to read about, and I am thankful you posted this.
Uh oh, I've got a flight in just under 4 hours...

There doesn't seem to be any flight delays though or notices on the airport website...
For the love of god just give me a native dark mode.
Thank you for Jitsi. I use it all the time.
The wages workers get aren’t because of lawsuit threats. I don’t follow that logic?

Compared to unions and socialist ideals, FAANG has treated workers okay because of the arbitrarily high income compared to when the working class gets even more exploited in other industries. Being better than bad situations doesn’t mean a good situation.

Some big tech companies were colluding to keep wages stagnant by not hiring workers at other companies. Wages were lower until the collision was uncovered and companies like Facebook came around and started paying more. Colluding against workers is not treating them well.

Pay and some stock options aren’t the only ways to treat workers better. Capitalism doesn’t have to control every part of why we are nice to other people.
Yes obviously, duh I know, but I just don't want notifications at all anymore.
> Books do not make you better at math. Working math problems makes you better at math.

But math books are often full of exercices that you are supposed to do! Actually reading a math book means that you try to anticipate the proofs before reading them, and you work out all the details and do all the exercices. Reading a math book and working math problems are essentially the same thing.
Likely. I live in the US, and the terms "liberal" and "conservative" are used to mean left/right in US politics. Thus, in US politics terms, your comment says "A left-leaning newspaper reports on the left-leaning WEF...".
We are actually doing technical deep dive on the next meeting of the OpenTelemetry Go auto instrumentation meeting in Tuesday. Will be happy to share the presentation afterwards.

In addition, we automatically create spans for popular open source libraries in use so you should also expect to see spans for database connections / cloud SDKs/ Kafka clients / etc. Definitely agree that manual instrumentation is very important in addition to the automatic one
OP seems to be the CEO of Retool.

Edit: he is the CEO
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