skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think geometry and trig are pretty related, and have a lot of relevance in calculus especially multivariate. To your point geometry is also the first place formal proofs take shape. That said I think geometry and trig could each be a quarter of a year long and be taught to the extent needed for almost any pursuit, with supplemental at point of need. In my education geometry and trig were two entire years, and it was so dull I lost all interest in math until I took calculus. I agree a probability course would be useful, but I don’t think probability before calculus is an awesome idea. Statistics and probability can be taught at a rudimentary level without calculus, but insight really requires calculus and linear algebra. I found taking a non calc stats and probability course made the calc version harder.
But you mostly need the money, not the headcount
Legitimately, do you believe that people posting on internet forums is an effective means of getting someone to change their minds?

My take is that by the time the poster goes through the effort to post, they have adopted [insert view here] into their personal belief system; they're not seeking answers.

Don't most studies show that fact based arguments only cause people with faulty beliefs to dig in further?
They know who all the password sharers are. They've spent months, or even years running models to predict the fallout if they cut off password sharing. None of the actual results are going to be in any way surprising to them.

So while people here think they're doing this to their own detriment, their legion of scientists have already told them the end result which is obviously not detrimental or they wouldn't be doing it now.
Well, it felt unsustainable to me. Logging everything by hand was very tedious and it would have been a real pain to keep it up long term.

Maybe I could do it if I had some good tools to make the logging easier. I know lawyers are often required to log where their time goes in 15 minute increments, so it’s possible those tools already exist. I should take some time to look into what’s out there.
Ask HN: What percentage of imitation are all your actions?
I have a hypothesis that this percentage is equal to the percentage of water in the body of a particular person, but I do not know how to prove it.
This could be for a number of reasons, such as:

- Wind speeds are from GFS forecasts and cover quite a wide area
- The realtime generation data from the balancing system isn't 100% precise and is averages over a 30-minute period
- Some wind farms are simply much more efficient, especially large offshore ones
- Individual turbines might be down for maintenance and/or not running efficiently
- Localised issues like wake effects and turbulence

I'm not an expert in all this though so take it with a pinch of salt – I'm just very interested in it all and love making visualisations about it.

All that said, one of the intents behind creating the map is to highlight exactly this sort of stuff and to spark a discussion around why it might be.
Microsoft has to be calculating whether to (temporarily) pull out from the UK as a result of this.

Their sales there are in the neighborhood of $5B annually (~2% of their overall run rate). Add a guess of $500m for Activision's UK sales for a total of $5.5B.

The hit to sales would be temporary; the UK government would eventually capitulate as their citizens revolt at not being able to buy Windows or Office. (Yes, there are other options but a sudden loss of access to Microsoft products would be devastating.)

Based on the numbers, it's not clear to me that the UK has the leverage to stop this merger. If they were still part of the EU, this calculus wouldn't begin to make sense.
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It's doomed. Now investors will expect larger and larger quarterly profits.
When resources of a private company seriously outweigh those of a government, it may become a problem; see "banana republics" [1]. That is, regulations cannot work against a sufficiently overwhelming force.

"Snuffing entire sectors" is unlikely, even though buying and shutting down a potentially viable competitor is not uncommon in the business world. Google in particular bought and eventually closed a number of startups, but, to my mind, it was mostly because they did not happen to be fast enough growing, not to kill competition. There is some research [2] showing that companies do buy other companies to kill a competitor, but this is very far from being the majority of cases.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Honduras

[2]: https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/do-companies-buy-comp...
That's the kind of garbage results you get when you run a study with only 20 participants. Also they changed to both mediterranean and ketogenic? Wtf
> AWS is all separate parts that are stitched together thinly.

Yeah I always hate this when I have to work with AWS. All their services feel like they were designed by completely different companies. Every management interface looks and feels different, and there are tons of services that do almost the same thing so it's not clear which would be best to use. It's a maze to me.

Luckily I don't have to work with cloud a lot but I really prefer Azure where everything is in the same console and there isn't a lot of overlap. But cloud guys seem to hate it, not sure why.
This German Wikipedia article has a list of all "Autobahn-Behelfslandeplätze", and it looks like out of originally 29, only 9 are still usable: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notlandeplatz_auf_Stra%C3%9Fe#...

Trivia: Ramstein Air Base was originally also an autobahn air strip used by the nazis during the last months of the war, then the US forces occupied it, and the autobahn had to be rerouted.
Don't go too heavy on the salt.
"Move fast and break things" isn't entirely inappropriate in the world of non-consequential software, i.e. software not affecting lives or money. But for software affecting lives (people could die) or money (deposits and transfers could go awry) then "move fast and break things" is unethical. Obviously this bit would apply to things such as cars and airplanes, too. You really don't want us building the controls of a nuclear power plant, do you? Probably not.

I'm appalled the NTSB hasn't reigned in Tesla. I'm cynical enough to start wondering what officials they've "bought off."
Why is it that the opinion of a "digital" Reporter and Management Professor are peddled as absolute truths?
I'm sure they are very intelligent people, but every time someone who hasn't spent any time writing software tells me what they think this or that will do I have to take it with a grain of salt.

There is so much more to software development than just spitting out code.

I feel like the same people crying wolf about AI/ChatGPT are the same ones who would push the idea of lines of code a day = productivity.
I'm sure it will displace some people in tech, no doubt. But maintaining code, coming up with requirements, devops/ci/cd, testing, support, etc are still a very necessary thing whether or not some silly service generated your code for you or not.

I remember when I graduated college my first employer was eager to use a low/no-code tool to produce applications. Everyone there claimed it was the future of "programming" and software development. Drag and drop coding would make it so the business analysts could "write code". How did that turn out?

I am skeptical of those who claim "IT'S OVER!!!" when they do not seem to understand the whole picture of writing software.
I'll probably eat crow in 10 years, but for now I will just continue on enjoying "coding". When the day comes that AI replaces my job, I'll learn something else. Writing software has done nothing but helped my ability to learn something quickly.
Rockets (especially SpaceX ones) can fly without fossil fuels. Hydrocarbons can easily be synthesized with thermal depolymerization or wasteful processes like how we make ethanol from corn.

That's to say nothing of how all the oil fields we've tapped are the easy to get ones, and the deep sea holds a ton of oil.
Haha thanks! All I did was use React for front-end, prompted GPT-4 in playground for a couple hours to iterate on its behavior to get it where I wanted it to, and then NextJS framework to hide environment variables like my API key.
I enjoy YouTube movies model for that reason, I wouldn't mind an overlapping service of all streamers and just pay to rent / buy almost everything on-demand.
We want to keep the earth habitat habitable for humans.
Here you go: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/
Most grants fund large projects out of which smaller papers are written. I don't think any grant is funding individual papers like you seem to imply
And not just that person, but everyone else as word gets around. Another commentor mentions Wall Street Journal; I’ve often considered subscribing to WSJ, but the horror stories I’ve heard about unsubscribing have pushed me away.
FWIW, adaptive cruise is part of autopilot (along with lane keeping), not FSD. FSD is intended to drive the car in all situations, way beyond lane keeping. AP is included on all Teslas now, FSD is a very expensive option.
> Mastodon doesn't really have a good concept of unifying profiles in that way.

I think you're looking at the problem from the wrong angle. There's no need for multiple profiles if you can easily participate and be a part of both communities but at the same time not be a user of any of them.

That's the benefit that Mastodon doesn't have, because their model of how federated communities should work predates ActivityPub's spec finalization.

I think your use case would be satisfied if as a user you could "subscribe" to all activities generated on a server (or multiple), while your account would be on another one.

ActivityPub makes this flow relatively simple, and one of the projects I'm working in the space has it as a design goal: small instances addressing themselves to communities with relatively low numbers (500-1k people), but at the same time the participation and receiving of updates from any other community in the network would be a click away.
I guess directly associated doesn’t indicate the direction of the correlation. The paper could use another round of edits, there are several confusing phrases.
“I think [AI] is the single most likely reason that I will personally die.”
If you're looking for more a more traditional style I've heard good things about Michael Penn at https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelPennMath
There are some Korean shows that don't do that and have more realistic/older characters, e.g. "My Mister" and "Liberation Notes". It's a bit of a niche but there's good work in that area too.

Since virtually all Korean dramas are in mini-series format, the right way to do it is to basically wait until the year's awards season, see which dramas of the 200+ the industry produces annually made the cut, then pick the 2-3 you find interesting and watch those.
Here's a userscript to block any arbitrary keywords:

[1] https://gist.github.com/surprisetalk/462789361723211fcda71e1...
> I think the market will always demand one audience.

What? Ever heard anybody say "follow me on Twitter, Instagram and Youtube"? There are plenty more, all have a niche. Snapchat, Twitch, Tiktok, you name it. It's already a pluralistic world, and one more participant in the "open and free" niche is likely to have its place and fans.
Care to share the name of that textbook?
Wouldn't say math loses usefulness after trig. But rather, due to how it is (usually, my experience being in Chile) teached it rapidly becomes too abstract, decouples from its "real world" use cases and then it is easy to forget the forest for the trees.

The Mathematics for Machine Learning book[1] exposes this as a top-down vs bottom-up problem. While both approaches have pros and cons, a sweet spot may lay somewhere in the middle and that needs you to embrace some inevitable backtracking (i.e. college curricula should not forget to add some courses where world modelling using the math and throughfully explaining why that underlying theory and math is actually useful in describing and/or predicting reality).

PS: I also think there is still a lot of focus in resolving problems manually.

[1] https://mml-book.github.io/book/mml-book.pdf, page 13.
Intermediate German student here. I haven’t studied German in about seven years. I found the example story surprisingly easy to understand. I wonder if that’s because it was generated by an LLM, which is mostly trained on English and is generating, basically thinly veiled English story in German.

I know I’ve seen a lot of complaints on the Latin sub Reddit about GPT generating really bad English sounding Latin.

However, for learners coming from English, this may actually be a benefit as you can get exposed to reading way faster. And ultimately reduce the time until you can read Kafka and Goethe…

Bravo!
Disappointing -- no figures for anything like a measure of "core" inflation, not for either prices or wages.

Closest we get is this:

> In the UK, food and non-alcoholic drink inflation is the highest in 45 years, with prices rising by over 19% in the year to March.
I could see this being not dependent on any third party apis too

1. pgVector

2. huggingface or sentence embeddings like sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

3. openassistant or some other open model for the chat part which you could fine tune on your own documents to get jargon and style down.
No, you have not fixed the article.

You've made it a different sort of wrong.

"Another probing sequence used in Python dictionaries is quadratic probing" is contradicted by the very source code you link to.

Compare your "but it can also cause some slots to be skipped or repeated" with dictobject.c's "repeating that 2^i times generates each int in range(2^i) exactly once (see any text on random-number generation for proof)."

How are you coming up with all of these wrong things? Start with why you thought Python used MurmurHash3.
And as someone that's recently left Twitter behind where that would've been unthinkable a year ago -- it's clearer than ever to me now that none of it matters. If I were to lose everything on Mastodon tomorrow, oh well.
Oh no, he has actual experience in the field he is commenting on! This means he knows a lot more about this topic than most of us.
Similar situation for me.

I've had Netflix since it was DVDs by mail. I still pay for Netflix, but rarely use it. First time my sisters can't use it I'll delete my account. I honestly just don't use it enough to justify the price.
https://github.com/neutralinojs/evaluation

8MB vs 42MB for electron. That's pretty real savings IMO!

It's also using the existing shared libraries on your system, so there's a very real chance a lot of this 8MB might be ready resident & take zero additional space. It'd be great to see what the memory impact of launching a second & different app would be!

Personally I think the Electron hate is because people think every Electron app behaves as badly as Slack. Honestly 42MB is not that bad. But it hurts my soul that each app has it's own static copy of the browser, means there is zero chance for sharing. If you are running 2-3 apps it's fine but I want a world where we can potentially have dozens or even a hundred little gui apps running & it works fine, no problem. That would be on par with native apps & this is a clear demonstration of one way we could get there.

The missing next step is that this system launches a mini http/websocket server to run. It'd be interesting to explore using a lightweight Sandboxing multi vm to host apps on, might make the server side lighter weight too. Wasm, or cloudflare's workerd... The CRI folk have been busy building support for managing work let like things like this, & desktop could definitely pull some wins, now that folks like Neutralinojs and Tauri are starting to do better at desktop webapps.
> which throws a bit of water on the fears that Microsoft would turn Call of Duty exclusive.

No it doesn’t since Microsoft is doing just that with Bethesda. The Minecraft acquisition was at a time when MS had no good will and needed to earn some, plus it’s a lot of children playing that who can’t be bullied into buying another platform. This is not the case with future releases on games that basically every adult who plays games takes part in.
Maybe true 11 years ago, but today? GPT can write more material than we could ever read, and it's high quality writing.
Tale as old as time, this is the 'Dollar Store' [1] model as well. Come in, offer shit products for cheap, drive other businesses out, raise prices.

[1] https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/how-dollar-stores-contribut...
Thanks a bunch Amey. Means a lot coming from a customer success leader like you.
Just added guest users. Try it out!
I second that. 3b1b is fantastic for developing a more intuitive understanding of mathematics. In my experience, having that intuition makes all the difference.
one network can be amplified by other networks.

for example, i'm not on tiktok but i still see tiktok content everyday on twitter, instagram, and reddit. and sometimes the news.
Then the dinosaur king named Bowser conquered this Mushroom kingdom, until a time travelling plumber...
Based on you looking to have 30k per year, maybe consider looking into the Financial Independence community and their considerations on this. Sounds like you could be pretty damn close to FI with a conservative safe withdrawal rate.
The weird thing about newsletters
Umm thoughts and prayers? It's not as if their house is being washed away :) They just have a busy day at work. Keeps things exciting :P
It's more that chains of trains of thought are used to derive knowledge, and said chains can be distributed across space, and across time, so you can't necessarily attribute a single place.
I was just wondering when LWN was started, it feels like it's been around forever...

"When LWN was initially designed, at the end of 1997..."

I love the content at LWN and that it's STILL going strong for so damn long. It's hard to beat the content there.
To me "canceled" is only bad when it's cut short like Firefly. Maisel had a good 5 years/seasons worth of run. Otherwise you can say "canceled" about every show that isn't running today...

If I could afford it in terms of money and time I would probably subscribe to all of them, I mean why not? To go see one movie costs about as much as a month of subscription to one streaming service. So subscribing to Netflix, Prime, Apple and HBO costs like going to see 4 movies per month, except you get more than 4 movies (I think a season of a good TV show easily worth multiple movies).
it's not about offices, it's about competition.

if the companies' activities affect competition in the UK then the CMA is responsible.

the hint is in the name: Competition and Markets Authority
What do you suspect the correlation is? And how do you define "imitation" here?
We are talking about safety and risk, not dick measuring the tech stack. Tesla has 150x the miles, which means that for the same risk level they should see 150x the problems. Maybe divide that by 3 to account for highway vs around town. I don't see 50x the number of "Tesla killed my dog" stories as "Waymo killed my dog" stories, so Tesla probably isn't taking egregious risks. What's your heuristic?
Nice tool, it just changed how we were resolving customer issues. A good keep
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I guess what he means is that the software itself doesn't provide any management for payment/subscription for access or features nor any advertising management.
I honestly don't know if you mean VOD streaming services or piracy.
Gah! I did not explain that right at all. I wrote that in the middle of travel.

The sort-of format is "Article title", article URL, URL to HN discussion or comment of interest, keywords or phrases that help grepping, newline after each line. I then use a simple grep script called looklink that just does a grep -ni $1 $home/doc/links/*

Why this route? Bookmarking in a browser doesn't let me add context and metadata to the URL the where a flat text file lets me do that. Plus I have to put in effort to add the link so you wind up with more focused and interesting links instead of a bunch of crap you thought you might be interested in. Meanwhile you cand find the actual link you want because there's no real metadata with it.
I generally agree with your premises other than Asian movies (especially Japanese) have always been considered amazing and were a major part of supporting arthouse cinema from the 60s on, it's Korean movies that have caught on. Kung Fu Hustle was literally the highest grossing foreign film in the US in 2005. Korean movies caught on not because of some change in Western aesthetics, but because they got better; Park Chan-Wook led the way.

I deeply disagree with your conclusion, however. Westerners have had plenty of opportunities to like (e.g.) Running Man since K-Dramas became popular. Plenty do. It's not a new exposure to something different. Any show with subtitles operates at a disadvantage; shows that have constant titles appearing and disappearing on the screen and also have subtitled speech are an extremely tough sell, especially since (e.g.) Running Man is dumb and it's target audience is going to be people looking for a laugh.

edit: you could get people used to the stupid noises and canned laughter, but all that stuff is usually used to punctuate the appearance and disappearance of on-screen titles.
Ok but a third of the population lives in tokyo and that number is only going up
I was going to make a snarky comment like "more people should keep their opinions to themselves," but that's not really fair.

More people should write if for no other reason than you get better at writing if you have practice. And even if you don't have anything interesting to say now, maybe you will later. It would be a shame if we didn't get to hear a brilliant idea just because the thinker felt their writing skills were substandard. Or worse yet, the ideas were dismissed because the style of the text was just a bit off.
Yeah, it's just fingerprinting.
This quote is by Dr. Paul Christiano, PhD Inventor of OpenAI's Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (RHLF).

Start of thread: https://twitter.com/liron/status/1650980681953198080

Full video, "How to Solve AI Alignment with Paul Christiano": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFkWb903aU
The biggest struggle to me for admins will be spam management.
> I think most of us would agree that makes sense? Eat like crap, feel like crap?

I’m just an average joe trying to figure out how to improve a diet, but I haven’t found much of a consensus regarding fats vs proteins vs carbohydrates.
If you're in the business of being a massive cloud provider, hopefully restarting a region is not an untested procedure for you.

You could always test this in a live environment before a region becomes open to customers.
I feel the real problem with Mastodon is that there's no way to reclaim an identity if a server goes down. The idea of a fediverse is to be robust against instances collapsing, but it seems the only way to move server is to leave a pointer on the old server.

Instead, you could put a public key on your profile and keep a local backup of your data and private key. Then if your instance dies or you get booted out (there will always be tyrants and schizms) you can still set up shop somewhere else and ping your old followers with a signed message.

Right now it's like a city with a lot of bars which is great except you can't leave and go to a different one with the same face.
Quantifying ChatGPT’s Gender Bias
Well good luck trying to teach your monkey to paint.
Let me propose a simple vocabulary refresher: feeding into an human eye is "showing", feeding into a machine is "copying". calling this copying "training" is nice and cute, but training is what you do as a human. As submarines do not swim, LLM's do not train: they copy information and extract similarities inside a neural net.
As for your mention of various "hilarious" scarecrows, it demonstrates that you know your logic is on shaky grounds.