skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4 years of full-time undergrad is not far from that. It certainly varies per university but where I'm at you have to take 5 classes per semester, 2 semesters a year for 4 years to get an engineering degree, with the expectation each class will take 8-10 hours of your time a week (predictably very few students finish on time), for 17 weeks each semester, for around 7000 hours of work.

You then need 2-3 years of supervised work before you are considered to be a full engineer ~ journeyman, so add in 4000 to 6000 hours on top.

On the computer science side if you don't go for engineering, you have just as many classes, and you're generally not considered to be a real, productive software engineer out of college.

In another country I studied in, to get a CS degree you need 5 years of specialized postsecondary education, and 6 for engineering (highschool ends a year sooner). That's 8500 to 10200 hours of full-time specialized postsecondary education, only for you to be considered barely useful when you come out.

As far as I'm aware in most places in the world it's even more for teachers, who deal with a normal 4 year undergraduate education, and on top of that have around a year of supervised internships.

I think it's less about bigotry towards plumbers and more about prejudice towards cops.
Aristotle is reasonable because (1) logic and (2) it's going to be a core part of any Great Books curriculum so it's part of the core as opposed to specifically "mathematics". But if you're going to read Aristotle and Russell with the justification "logic", you must include Goedel and Hilbert.

Agree on Descartes and Darwin, but they're both sort of canonical in Great Books reading lists. Honestly not sure why Descartes is considered so important to the history of ideas, particularly in Mathematics where there are so many other very worthy minds and texts to study, but shrugs.
Are your referring to Eureka Math? (What is usually incorrectly called "Common Core")

New Math is from the 1950s-1970s and almost entirely abandonesld except for some gifted/enrichment programs.

Wikipedia says:
> Topics introduced in the New Math include set theory, modular arithmetic, algebraic inequalities, bases other than 10, matrices, symbolic logic, Boolean algebra, and abstract algebra.

Eureka/Engage is a very watered down version of that (but still decent.)
> My understanding is the majority of people on Earth stay within days walking distance from where they grew up.

I can't see where you're disagreeing with me. What I'm saying is that people aren't choosing democracy, they just happen to live in one, and aren't willing or able to give up everything in order to move to a country that matches their political beliefs better.

> there are numerous countries that if they wanted could easily cover the costs related to relocating anyone

I don't understand what this means. If who wanted? Are you saying that there are lots of countries that are paying poor people to immigrate to them?
It's an interesting approach. They do like the classic sources.
I've at least skimmed more than half of those titles, long after college.
It's amusing that they have students read Pikkety's "Capital" before Marx's "Capital".

You don't want to learn geometry from Euclid. You read Euclid after you already know geometry, to see how he built it up. Similarly, you don't want to learn calculus from Newton. Or physics from Aristotle. What you're seeing there is people trying to figure something out before the tools for the job were developed.

There are great papers in engineering, where a theoretical advance changed the world. They're not well known. These should be as well known as the "Great Books".

* Maxwell's paper "On Governors". In a few pages, he invents feedback control theory. People were building steam engine governors but didn't understand stability and lag. It's a milestone in that it's one of the first times abstract math met practical engineering and the result worked.

* Shannon's discovery that telephone toll switches could be reduced from needing O(N^2) relays to O(N log N) was one. Suddenly, combinatorics went from a useless abstraction to a huge financial win for AT&T.

* "Rational Psychrometric Formulae", by Willis Carrier. Least click-bait title ever.
Basis of air conditioning. It's how you make an air conditioner and control both temperature and humidity at the cold end, rather than getting cold, humid air out.

* Von Neumann's Report on the EDVAC. That's better known. It's how to make a CPU. He got all the basic architecture right, except for index registers.
iPhone not surprising given supply constraints. Mac feels a lot more surprising given the success of Apple Silicon.
FWIW, my reMarkable 2 _does_ feel like writing on paper (IMhO it's superior to paper in most ways except perhaps very very fine details). It is however a more narrow-usage device which is both good (distraction free) and bad (distraction free :)
Maybe things are different now, but last year, it took me six months of telling them I wasn't interested before they finally stopped bothering me.
I agree that the article doesn't really bring up anything new or interesting.

One important implication of a ChatGPT centered web is the removal of reward/credit to content creators. Now when you Google for something you'll probably arrive at some StackOverflow, blog, or Reddit post where there's at least an author's name attached to an answer. But ChatGPT just crawls that content without citing sources, reducing any reward for contributing. Maybe this doesn't have serious implications - after all most people contribute under pseudonyms, but its worth bringing up.
I was in the same boat! But your description summarizes things both more succinctly and eloquently than I could have managed.

If you’re holding off on reading Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” because of the title (like we were), please give it a shot.

I almost wonder if the title is made to appeal to people more ruthlessly ambitious than I and maybe nudge them to be a little more understanding of others and make them more socially successful to boot.

I found Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” to be somewhat similar in that the title seems to be targeting highly ambitious people while the subject matter is useful to a broader audience. But I think that book only has a couple sections of interest to the OP. There are also some faint religious undertones to the 7 Habits that may escape the notice of or not bother most that I am unfortunately predisposed against.
The documentary “6 days to air”shows how insane this is…

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076781/
My point is that it's perceived that way within America. But the internet is larger than just America. And presumably/hopefully ChatGPT gobbled up all kinds of data originating from other countries.
One well-guided missile can be infinitely more effective than 1000 poorly-guided missiles.

Unless you are seeking a penetration aid against defenses, I don't see much point. There are far cheaper ways to deliver mass on target if you simply want to spam the enemy.
TFLite is designed for this:

> It has been tested extensively with many processors based on the Arm Cortex-M Series architecture, and has been ported to other architectures including ESP32.

https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/microcontrollers

Additionally there is an optimized kernel for ESP32: https://github.com/espressif/tflite-micro-esp-examples

Edit: personally, I like the Sipeed MAIX for this application, although the software was pretty annoying when I used it (in 2020).
We're going to have to agree to disagree on that one. I love that macOS uses the command key for traditional CUA bindings, leaving control sequences open for me to continue using my Emacs style keybindings in all cocoa text widgets.
I think it's also worthwhile to point out that federal departments like FBI (which require a bachelor's degree) tend to have lower rates of misconduct. There's at least a small amount of self-control and critical thinking needed to graduate university, which presumably weeds out some of the more unstable candidates.
Ask HN: Books your kids like most
I was thinking that a good way, perhaps, to get my kid (4) more interested in books would be to read him books with interesting characters, in a way that can perhaps rival the TV and YT junk.

Rival not in the sense of screen-time but brain time - the time his brain spends processing and imagining those characters which provide very little value.
Someone once stated that every observable behaviour will be depended upon by someone sooner or later.

I can only imagine someone going to great lengths to avoid such "a stable order of operations was never guaranteed" discussion by just randomizing the order of execution or something similar (I bet someone will then use that as a seed for prng).

edit: skipping the first paragraph lead to repeating hyrums law.
Mob engineering: you don’t have to read the documentation if a million other people also do not.
Is this even a real company or some kind of elaborate joke? Their Twitter kind of looks like a parody.
I personally don't own any and I'd be curious if they were included in the installed devices or not count.
Sure, but you still haven't explained what the alternative is that you are proposing or how it would be better.
If you wanted to you can sign in to Messages and enable general SMS messaging from your device. I send SMS through Messages on my Mac all the time without any issues.
Yes, for a while, you could look at it, but not use it.
> Other contamination was also found in or on: three buses, 42 houses, fourteen cars, five pigs, and 50,000 rolls of toilet paper

Why such a large figure for toilet paper? Is it somehow more easily contaminated by radiation?
> There seems to be a decent selection of works reckoning with American slavery, which is good, but if I recall and AFAICT not much about European colonialism, the Holocaust, CIA-backed coups in South America, the horrors of Stalinism, rising Asian powers, the postmodern condition, any post-sexual revolution gender politics...a robust knowledge of the Greeks is all well and good, but I don't know if that's enough to be a well-rounded citizen of the world, these days.

Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, most college grads (let alone non-grads) from traditional programs that weren't poli-sci or philosophy would receive a better "citizen of the world" education from reading and understanding the first couple books of The Republic than they evidently picked up in 17 or more damn years of formal schooling.

They could literally exceed all that education in a lazy Sunday afternoon, because despite all those years they somehow failed to appreciate what the questions even are and that those questions aren't as easy to dismiss as many pop-understandings and pop-philosophies suggest, so they end up with these embarrassingly-bad ideas about it (and are often weirdly confident that they know it all!).

They're in exactly the same position as the targets of Socrates' "what is justice, actually?" question at the very damn beginning of the book, thinking they have a simple answer for the question and that their answer's more-or-less adequate. That's how far all that education got them. No-where, in other words.
It is a common theme for a comment to be buried if I mention church. Even when it is on-topic.
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> Think of a slider of sensitivity; we're currently closer to the insensitive size, because we're a high-growth business.

If the big-tech layoffs are any indication of a general trend toward belt-tightening, then reducing headroom, and even over-subscribing servers shared-hosting-style, must be tempting.
are you sure? a friend of mine born in 1973 has both austrian and german citizenships. which in itself is a fluke because neither country recognises dual citizenships. but with such a law in effect it should not have been possible to get the mothers citizenship from either country.
I’m able to do it with a less powerful chip, albeit low resolution and grayscale.

I’m hoping to make a pest detector for my automated hydroponic garden. It seems very tractable at this point.
Yes, clearly the officers were just confused and trying their best when they beat him to death. If only someone had told them not to do that.
> Someone once stated that every observable behaviour will be depended upon by someone sooner or later.

......... Hyrum’s law?
We pull out every property data from your Salesforce and allow you to create business rules. For instance, you might want to be alerted if an amount in Chargebee is different than the opportunity amount in Salesforce. Our UI is 100% no-code.
Your standard for saying A is more X than B is a bit strange. For me, all it means is roughly that when picking two individuals from A and B the one from A is more likely to have greater X (assuming here the distributions are not weird).

This is in itself useful information, at least in principle. To take the political correct example, let's say that I am a bissexual man. A priori, the probability that I will be attacked will be greater when dating a man. Is this useful? I don't know. That will depend how strong the difference is in the first place and how fast I can update my estimation based on new information.

How can you be sure than men are intrinsically more violent than women anyway? Couldn't it just be because of the way men are raised (i.e. the patriarchy)?
TouchHLE: An iOS 2.0 App Emulator
That’s why we can have fake Matt Damon (a.k.a. Jesse Plemons)
"a tiny bit more info"

that is... maybe overly polite.

It needs info. It needs LOTS of info.
"a tiny bit more info" is not helpful when there is no info to begin with.

"minimalist blogging platform" tells me ONLY that there will be a blog produced at the end of my endeavors. The site itself doesn't even say minimalist. It says "extremely simple". Is it a static blog? Is it a dynamic blog? Does it use Markdown? Does it use a WYSYWYG editor? Does it even HAVE an editor? Does it have themes? Is it even themable? Can i get my data out of it? can I have my own domain? If I don't want to use my domain, what are my domain options. Is any part of it configurable? Is it open source? Is it minimalist, or is it simple, or is it both?

No-one should sign up for blogging platform soley because someone claimed, without any supporting evidence, that it's "extremely simple"
The battle of Stalingrad: A decisive turning point in WW2
One of the earliest forms of combined-arms warfare, perhaps?
I'm not an expert in this area at all but my understanding is that the differences are not all like 4X more violent but due to the nature of distributions, a small difference in the median of a distribution can lead to an enormous difference in the tails of the distribution.
Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says
Replied to every cold email guru on Twitter and trained email bot
Never been good at outbounding, so created a cold email sequencer trained on templates/converting emails from twitter "Gurus". Let me know what you think/would like to see built.

p.s. try Funny tone
Also, it is based on what sorts of problematic queries they get. It’s a reflection of bias from users of the system.
This was my first thought. Didn't even think about the cops, they do what they do, but they're operating in a culture, not that they're not wrong, but it's stupid all the way down. If I lived in Berlin and my kid wanted to ride their bike to the Dunkin Doughnuts in fucking Amsterdam, I'd tell them to update me every so often over the next couple days, and let me know if you quit and need to get the train home, but I'd wish them well and send them on their way.

That's also not to say that there's no car dependency there, but it's not as ruthless and overbearing.
On the other hand, the system for finding non-garbage content is the same: read publications and writers that you (and other real people you know) already like. If there are 10 good websites and 100 garbage ones, you probably find out about 2 or 3 of the good ones by word of mouth. If there are 10 good websites and 10^32 garbage ones, you will still be able to read those 2-3 good ones.
Engagement with fact-checked posts on Reddit
Cloudflare's R2 (S3 Competitor) has no egress fees.
So I read this explanation from Matt Levine a few weeks ago and it sounded convincing.

But now I’m wondering, that was because the collateral you post against your short was assumed to be posted with the entity you borrowed the Tether from.

But can’t people make deals where they post collateral with a proper bank, and then if the counterparty goes bankrupt you just pay the estate back worthless Tether and keep the dollars posted with the reputable bank?

I’m not involved in these types of dealings so perhaps this is a silly question but I would have thought this was how things were done.
Used to be that SMS was popular everywhere EXCEPT the US!

We finally caught up, and everyone left us behind again.

I suspect the primary reason is it's a big country, and texting nationwide has been effectively free for a long time. Roaming/international calling and texting has been a disaster in Europe forever, and more people are texting across national boundaries there, so there was more of a reason to switch to something like WhatsApp. Also, related, data service has been expensive in the US for a long time.

Messenger apps in the US are most popular among those with family ties across international borders.
Related to compressing data before storing on SSD:

Blosc - faster than memcpy()

https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc

On right circumstances Blosc is so fast that even speed ups reading data from RAM (read less, decompress in L1 and L2 caches)
>taxes owed...

Reuters reported that Shell is expected to pay no taxes this year.
The creators twitter post https://twitter.com/hikari_no_yume/status/162127141792370688...

The emulator is written in Rust and the site is created with DashCode ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcode )
Minor Standard Library Changes in Go 1.20
One thing people don’t always know is that all figs have _at least_ one dead wasp inside. That’s how they get pollinated.
...which is still a very, very serious danger to public health? Particularly since symptoms might not be as acute?

Downplaying the seriousness of the Australian incident is a really weird flex. The lost source was still easily lethal.
Do they solely rely on FTE talent acquisition teams or do they also lean on partners --which they could presumably pull back on.
For those who don't know, there's a very significant movement happening within factions of the US government to push disclosure on potential non-human intelligence visiting earth. This 15 minute guide is worth the read https://www.uap.guide

Other significant efforts searching for alien life include the Galileo Project by Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home

Edit: For those who don't know, the 2022 NDAA was passed that included legislation the protect whistleblowers from disclosing to congress about unacknowledged black projects regarding reverse engineering programs that congress was not privy to. https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/uap-related-provisions-of-th...

> ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense, acting
through the head of the Office and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall establish a secure mechanism for authorized reporting of—
(A) any event relating to unidentified anomalous phe- nomena; and (B) any activity or program by a department or agency of the Federal Government or a contractor of such a depart- ment or agency relating to unidentified anomalous phe- nomena, including with respect to material retrieval, mate- rial analysis, reverse engineering, research and develop- ment, detection and tracking, developmental or operational testing, and security protections and enforcement.
I agree that the $10 quintillion value is dumb--but it's not the cost of getting it to earth that determines its value. I.e., if it cost you $9 quintillion to get it here, it's not like you could say $10 quintillion - $9 quintillion = $1 quintillion in profit. The limiting value of the asteroid would be the total addressable market for those materials. I.e., if the total addressable market for nickel on Earth is $63B, it doesn't matter how much of it you bring back, your haul won't be worth more than $63B.
RCS has no E2EE solution.

It's a proprietary add-on by Google and since it's not part of the spec will simply be banned by many countries.

It would take the entire industry back to the 90s where governments, carriers and rogue actors had free reign to access any data they wanted.
Nope. Sorry. Your personal politics and opinions can be objectively, morally, ethically, legally, and practically wrong. On the topic of "woke" content, e.g. rainbows, gay representation, black history, etc., being against people being allowed to express themselves in ways that affirm themselves in ways that are best for the mental health and well-being, being allowed to love whomever they love without fear of legal or moral backlash, teach the true history of a people including the icky parts that certain demographics would prefer to keep hidden from the sunlight, and exposing the injustices of this country from a historical and contemporary context, IS morally, ethically, objectively, practically, and hopefully someday sooner rather than later legally wrong.

Your opinion, thank fucking god, does not matter. It's not "groupthink", insofar as all we are are just people who agree that treating human beings with basic dignity regardless of their social or racial standing isn't groupthink, just common fucking sense and what a decent person should do at the barest of minimums. And if you oppose that, guess what? You're on the wrong side of history, society, and progress. IF you don't like it, you're free to leave. But we're not going anywhere, so try not to cut yourself while seething at our existence.

Also make sure you subscribe to Discord Nitro, so you can upload longer clips of you talking to your camera in the cab of your 2017 Ford F150 Superduty wearing wraparound shades.