skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I get it, I’ve heard that argument and I see the logic behind it. It’s a “victimless” crime.

There are two issues I can think of that I would lead one to different conclusions. The first is that of consent - do I consent to my hard work being used without any reference to me and my effort? Would I have made the effort in the first place if there was no recognition?
The second is the following example: I quit my job to write an encyclopedia, something which is sure to benefit humanity. I toil day and night in order to one day sell it and get bread on the table. I finally publish it, but the next day another publisher copies it and sells it for cheaper (which they can afford, because they’re not paying me!), gobbling up my publisher’s market share and hence making me penniless, since the publisher has no money to pay me. Do I not deserve justice, considering the encyclopedia has sold a million copies and I am struggling to make a living?

The point is that the world is much too complex to draw a straight line between physical and intellectual property. A lot of us - and the vast majority on HN, I can imagine - work “intellectual” jobs in order to afford “physical” food.
You are reading way to deep into it. It's just a simple transformation and really not that interesting at all.
It's not "favoured". Crypto use is a tiny subset of all financial activity criminal included. "Ignorant" is not intended as an insult, it's merely accurate. You appear not to know some things and I've tried to help with it.

Money laundering alone is estimated in the trillions per year according to the UN. This is significantly greater than the entire value of all privacy coins combined:

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/money-laundering/overview.htm...

Eg, even if the entirety of Monero was purchased only for money laundering, it could only account for 0.1-0.2% of the total that occurs. Where is the other 99.8-99.9% being conducted? What systems are "facilitating" that?

Well, everything that isn't crypto... banks, cash, checks, etc.

As I pointed out at the beginning.
Calculus I, Tom Apostol

Introduces calculus using vectors from the second chapter. For me, it was a very natural and intuitive introduction to the topic.
But it's the US, it's the bastion of democracy.
Govt here doesn't put backdoors, doesn't sponsor crypto companies, doesn't target individuals and ship them to overseas camps to avoid torture laws. Wage fake wars.
Doesn't use it's intelligence agencies to interfere with other countries. Oh!
Would you rather them go out of business? Or downsize to only be available in high density, high income areas? I honestly don't see an end game, do you? The hope was that self driving was close and they just needed to capture market until then and then remove their largest line up and print money. Obviously, self-driving is very far away, especially in poor weather.

Also, I don't think "regard for drivers" can go much lower. I do agree that their pay would suffer post merger as they lost the need to be even remotely competitive but I think there is a lower limit where drivers won't drive for net $3/hour.
Then said commentator should obviously spend time writing with more clarity so their intended connotation is understood rather than using rhetoric that points to the state of the road surface. Anyone who's spent much time discussing and fixing real issues, rather than writing off whole cities as intractably broken, knows what I mean.
> A sentence that reads "I am going to eat nothing but vegetables from now on" doesn't mention meat, but you can infer that I won't eat meat again from the sentence.

TBF, there is no mention of anything remotely similar to "I am going to eat nothing but vegetables from now on".
revisionism is a dangerous endeavor. react is vastly more popular than rails but doesn’t exalt any of these so-called bedrock of rails’ popularity and longevity. rails appeared at the right time and commented itself as the go-to framework for web development. it enjoyed a monopoly of the worse-is-better crowd’s time and energy. it had a curious coincidence with agile manifesto and the surge for software-as-a-service business. in my opinion, it cemented its place. it’s losing now, to both rails-esque and anti-rails framework but it will be a while until it isn’t among first 3 recommended frameworks for building web/API-based software. the doctrine is largely nonsense.
Eh this is coming from the guy who potentially staged a coup against himself in a power grab
>Also they're not real Leica in case you care.

I dont :)
Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned? (2019)
Rare and record setting if you ignore the records set in 2021? What other years should we ignore to make this clickbait legit?

"This event won’t reach the heights of the punishing heat dome that obliterated records in the region in June 2021"
The Chinese government, like the US government or any other large national government, is not monolithic.

Having information available for easy perusal via a commercial channel (which is potentially not even illegal) is very different from having information accessible via use of national-asset intelligence capabilities. Information which can only be obtained the second way is almost certainly going to receive different treatment than the first.

There is value in making information more difficult (and more illegal, and less socially and politically acceptable) to access, even if that control is not 100% effective or if there are still ways of getting around it.

Increasing the friction involved in accessing personal information is an imperfect win, but a win nonetheless.

For most users of commercial software, your system is penetrable and should be considered insecure against a nation-state level attacker willing to spend a 0-day on getting in. But that doesn't mean you should just leave everything hanging out in the open where any doofus can get to it, or voluntarily hand your information over to an unfriendly government's partner corporation. At least make them work for it.
Norway actually dominates the US in GDP per labor hour. Japan doesn't compare favorably, however they have a lot of other factors to consider in the equation beyond CEO salary. They have an extremely productive manufacturing sector, but a less productive service sector, and the service sector drags down the average.

The main thing to consider is this: what's the point of diminishing returns? Are we missing out on eve greater GDP per labor hour because CEOs are only making ~250x the average worker salary? Could we 10x our GDP per labor hour if we paid them 2500x? Or is it possible that CEOs would work just as effectively at "only" 30x average worker salary?
> This won't work because this riles up people, but we should rile up politicians, not people.

There's a well-known essay that explains why this is effective. It's titled, "Letter From a Birmingham Jail”. Highly recommended.
This is unrealistic. Tons of "seasoned" ObjC programmers will take one or two orders of magnitude longer than an hour to write home-grown replacements for all the functional methods, and they frequently turn out limited in some way, or at least less performant.

Maybe you're implicitly arguing that those developers are irrelevant to the conversation of Swift vs ObjC, and I would disagree there too. Languages need to strike a balance between catering only to the most highly experienced and specialized developers, and hobbling themselves to be "idiot proof".
It is a kompromat generator to blackmail the next Teixeira.
Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts
Somewhat related, there are people who say aphantasia can be cured: https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/i-cured-my-aphantasia-wit...
On the contrary, these things are on a spectrum. In many places elections are not fair, but they are also not completely controlled either -- e.g. someone can bias the election results in their favor by 10 percentage points but still lose if something happened recently that caused their support to drop by 30 percentage points. That is the reality in many places (and that type of unfair biasing happens in bastions of democracy in the West too, e.g. gerrymandering). The peaceful transfer of power is much more crucial than the election being *perfectly* fair (because we hardly have perfectly fair elections -- "mostly" fair and "well representative" is what we can hope for most of the time).
I get it, but the launches are always about what you can now do then slowly followed with "some partners can register interest".

For example for palm/bard this was my experience:

"Hey we have this amazing LLM!"

"Great, given you are a company can I pay you money above your costs for this service?"

"No but you can register for updates about when the wait-list will open"

They announced cool features for Google docs as well that I can't use.

Some of the things I've seen announced were maybe a year ago and still nothing. Just a wait-list or less.
Alternative Press Center
1) Potentially less toxic than the average twitter post that you see, which is very different

2) Doesn’t mean it’s not a horrible thing to build and add to the internet’s decline
That was a fun read. But it was written at the height of interest in chaos theory and so some of the curious things it talked about, like the Feigenbaum constants, went nowhere
Ask HN: What are the most amazing algorithms?
What are the most amazing algorithms you know. Not boring stuff like sorting.
> No self-promotion or any CTA’s in the text

What is a "CTA"?
> I'm also reminded of that fake story from the WSJ about American chips being hacked

Unless there is hard proof of anything I always assume news like these is the usual suspects warmongering.
Well then again, the articles they write and post (seem?) To have value, as they are written "with reaserach, without bs" and on newsworthy subjects...

I see this less as "gaming HN" than "realising what the niche is" and fulfilling the niche. I guess I'm fine with someone posting first about a subject that will be there anyway? Maybe I'm not seeing something.
MSI has by far the best BIOS team.

AsRock has the best technical support.
> Presumably politicians execute the collective will of the people. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a democracy.

And, arguably, its not, even in what are perceived as “democracies”, because a narrow elite controls the media narratives (even the apparent conflicts in the media are largely between factions of that narrow capitalist elite), controls public perception of reality and the available perceived space of political options, and thereby directs society even in the presence of the superficial forms of democracy.
Seems like a natural progression of a person's interests. When I started reading HN in ~2009 almost everything on the front page was new to me and I spent a ton of time reading articles and comments. Now, I've had almost 15 years of working and reading and studying and the only things that I don't have at least some passing familiarity with are extremely technical or news or political things that largely don't interest me. I spend a lot less time on HN now than I used to and I don't think it's because the site got worse, just because my interests have moved past what the site offers.
Imagine the worms put on phones of employees of various tech companies - specifically datacenter employees in various commerical and government agencies - recall the STRAVA scandal which revealed secret military bases...

The TikTok angle is like stuxnet for that type of corporate/gov espionage....

Its ludicris how poorly the USG has handled this.

But then again, you have so many people in congress with dual citizenship (which should be illegal and a capital crime IMO)

but then look at the spouses of lawmakers, their investments, their citizenship, their network ranking over the time their spouce was in congress, and their kids...

FFS we are still arguing over Biden's ties to money laundering in Ukraine and China, but we dont talk about the GOAT of grifters ; Mitch McConnell?

the CCP has more backdoors into the USG than they do with just TikTok ... and lets not even talk about Israel's backdoors which are actually a front-door-fire-hose.
> LLM is fundamentally information processing technology. Not the path to AGI, not an emerging sentience.

This logic doesn't follow - AGI will be, fundamentally, information processing technology, just as the human brain is, fundamentally, information processing technology.
If you’re an attractive TikTok/YouTube/twitch/whatever streamer and start making sexual content for your fans I bet that is not that difficult
I'd love one, honestly. Fonts do get updates, especially fonts patched with the Nerd Fonts extensions... would love to be able to update mine in one go.
Per that Navipedia article, the Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS) of QZSS also allows for ionospheric correction data for the Indian and Pacific Oceans, which could be helpful for other GNSS systems:

* https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/QZSS#Centimeter_Lev...
It does. "I couldn't care less" is a common term and "I could care less" is a misunderstanding.

I'd hope more people would realise they're saying they _do care_ about something they're claiming to not care about. It sounds stupid to a native English speaker.
by what metric specifically?
Interesting! I'll look into that. I'm about 1/3 into The Information, from the same author - also a good read for anyone interested!
Does "common" hardware support nonstandard exponent lengths for floats?
A citation is needed for the number of iOS projects that have more than a minuscule amount of code at the application level that risks memory unsafety.¹ The value proposition becomes stronger for the system frameworks that the app consumes, of course. (Although even the stdlib dips more than once into memory-unsafe Swift for performance.) But this brings us to another of the points from the article: is it really best to use one language for both use cases?

¹And additionally for whether those project would eliminate such code if rewritten in Swift.
Hosting with oracle doesn’t change a thing. Just because the data would be on US servers don’t stop the data from being accessible from outside of the region.

And is it really that hard to imagine a world where a hostile and ambitious nation would seek to leverage a technology platform to listen to sensitive conversations? The US has done it in the past and you better believe China will be doing it too.
It is not about conviction. It is about harassment and defamation, for example in the following forms:

- Police stalking (legal in the Netherlands, practiced but denied in many other countries).

- Police asking neighbors questions, thereby ruining your reputation.

- Database sharing with e.g. the U.S., leading to further scrutiny (or denial of entry) abroad.

- Not getting a government job.
>working on removing the disclaimer

This is a sentence on a website. If they wanted it would be gone in 5 minutes. You don't need to "work on it".
It's actually easy to copy files by accident in windows. Although I think they should prompt the use about whether they want to copy the file rather then add a undo operation.
> And then he calls the people who call him out on it pedophiles.

> What point are you making?

That your statement was inaccurate.
It's bad enough getting profiled by the likes of Equifax or some landlord app or bank redlining. It "might" be worse getting profiled as "crime-prone". By any organisation with power over your life, public or private.
Fascinating that there are so many chaos theory texts in this thread.

It seems like this subject lends itself to good textbooks.
I find this comment chain extremely bizarre. One, that somehow getting step-by-step explanations to problems is "sleaze", but two, that you're all convinced that Chegg is only used to cheat. I used it throughout college to learn how to do the problems because it broke things down step by step. All of my classmates did the same. Professors would never teach how to do all the edge cases and if you know anything about high tier math, there are a lot of them, and Chegg was good for this because it was unlikely you were going to figure them out on your own. It was either Chegg or some YouTube video with 100 views by a kind man with a heavy accent. At the end of the day, homework only accounted for a small fraction of the total grade compared to exams so I don't know why you're all so salty about this thing existing. It doesn't somehow make you automatically pass college (maybe in Covid times only, hence the stock skyrocketing).
Same. I read almost half the book in one sitting when I initially picked it up, couldn't put it down.
in my rudimentary understanding, the knowledge would be useful more in an aggregate nature. finding effective ways to target include/exclude propaganda and gathering real-time data around memes/info sharing topics that relate to whatever information campaigns they are currently running. lies seem to spread faster than the truth, and very few places are as actively in use as tiktok.
3090 is such a great value right now especially if you can pair two for less than $1500.
I really like Courier New but I like DejaVu Sans Mono (https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/) more. :)
Gilbert Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra" made it all click for me. I read it at the beginning of PhD studies and in a few weeks it all made more sense than during all of my Master's studies before.

Coincidentally to this question, he will live stream his final lecture on Monday: https://grinfeld.org/strang/

I was amazed reading that, as I wasn't aware he even lectured anymore. And after googling a bit and finding out he is already 88 years old, I was even more amazed. What an amazing human being, probably many thousands of people in the sciences and engineering owe quite a bit to his life's work.
Neuroplasticity is supposedly on a constant decline after childhood. Also processing speed, working memory, long-term memory. Offset by increased experience, of course.
I must have missed the day in finance class when they covered the magic return/risk point where it went from being an investment to being just savings.
I'm with the author. Also,

> Header files. Wait, what?!? Yes, I prefer having header files to not having header files.

I couldn't agree more. Header files are searchable, by arbitrary independent tools, and support discoverability. Generated Swift interface docs force you into Xcode, yield zero discoverability and can be searched only after you generate them and have them open in the editor. You're generally much more dependent on Apple's shitty incomplete documentation.
I would say the offer won’t be higher than the current stock price given how hard it is to make money
Not in Las Vegas, cabs still reign. Sure you can call an uber/lift and wait ten to 15 minutes or hop in a cab that's already there and be on your way.
Second on Martin Kleppman’s book - really good. I have it on my nightstand as type.
Policies accelerated the wealth of the 1%, not computers.
> I'm starting to become fatigued

> Causing anxiety

The news is literally designed to do that to you. Stop consuming so much of it for your own mental well-being, and that of everyone else you interact with.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35908120
Euclid's Elements. I was gifted at most everything language-related in school, but I was complete dogshit at math. Studying Euclid changed my entire perspective. I don't think I'd have had the self-belief to do programming without having read it.
Who uses TikTok for sensitive information? Government access to TikTok user data is of limited additional value compared to whatever TikTok sells to large advertisers and analytics partners.
asrock hasn't been a subsidiary of ASUS for 20+ years, but its complicated because they're owned by Pegasus. Pegasus was created in a restructering of AsusTek, so its hard to say whether or not asus still owns them or not but at arms length. They're both companies that were spun off but the corporate structure is complicated.
I've worked on research estimating prevalence from imperfect tests, and something that concerns me about this study is that they aren't showing the error bars for their estimates. Typically, you would report a confidence interval for prevalence rather than just a point estimate, and the confidence intervals can often be fairly wide. There's two sources of uncertainty here, the assumed probabilistic nature of the diagnostic test, and uncertainty in our estimates of the sensitivity and specificity.

I think this paper by Peter J Diggle [0], gives a solid methodology. Instead of treating sensitivity and specificity as fixed values using sample estimates, you can model them as each having a beta distribution. In this case these beta distributions can be found using a Bayesian treatment of Bernoulli trials.

[0] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/eri/2011/608719/
Thanks for linking your game! I love how fast it is. One thing I would like is the ability to work backwards from the end--on the challenge problem yesterday I got all the way from "artist" to "chess", only to find that neither "chess" nor "checkmate" nor any other chess-related word I could think of met the 30% threshold to get to "check". That was frustrating.

Maybe have a button to flip the direction of the word chain, so you could work from either end and meet in the middle somewhere.
It benefits TikTok competitors.
A good test for an AI would be if we excluded all human text mentioning consciousness, experiences, emotions etc from its training data. Then, when it would still start talking about consciousness, that would be strong evidence that it has consciousness: If it did invent the concept by itself, and mere imitation can be ruled out.
How to Design Programs: https://htdp.org/

I already had a strong programming background in Java, C, JavaScript and PHP. I thought an introductory programming class at the Master’s level would be a waste of time. Going through rigorous program design in Racket was a mind expanding experience. I was amazed how much programming we did before reaching the assignment statement (set!) otherwise the first thing taught in typical introductory programming courses.

The format of the class was a big part of the experience though: all assignments pair programmed and then presented to a panel by a randomly chosen member of the pair.

A close second would be PLAI: https://www.plai.org/. As experienced through the Brown University online version of the Design and Implementation of Programming Languages: https://cs.brown.edu/courses/info/csci1730/

It gave me a very thorough and engaging grounding in the various programming language idioms and constructs and how they actually work.
Both vertical and horizontal are pretty simple with Elixir and are done in essentially the same way.
Meanwhile, the CCP can just open their huge wallets and pay US-based data-brokers for all the private information of US citizens that they ever dreamed of ...
Big AI firms will offer their own legal(and more) LLM services ?
The type of banning of apps you propose is state-sponsored censorship. This is done in China as a routine matter, such as with protest or VPN apps.
> the CCP can have this access lawfully, is this something unexpected

Oh it is completely expected.

People have been warning about TikTok for years, and yet those people get called crazy.

The US should have taken action against them years ago.

We can still fix the issue now though, by creating a targeted law against them.
Same. You’d think competition would have mattered.

Sometimes it really is a cartel.
Magic Webstore: your entire store is contained in your magic string
Imagine if Apple when launching a new iPhone would first launch to a small country for testing, like Philippines or something, and then slowly expand worldwide. That would drive consumers nuts.