skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virginia Military Institute's math department decided they'd solve it by just writing their own open source books:

https://www.vmi.edu/academics/departments/applied-mathematic...

My wife is a professor there and wrote their APEX precalculus book several years ago (why precalculus is needed for college students is another matter). The print price was raised this year but is still well under $20. I think I paid around $350 in 2005 for the text we used for 1205/1206 at VT.

VMI also does outreach to help other schools adopt their books and transition from whatever they'd been using. Excellent use of public funds IMO.
Interesting! Thank you
This is fascinating and harrowing, but I wish it contained more detail on why the devices were removed, particularly in Rita Leggett's case. The company that made her still-functioning device no longer existed, and trial participants were "advised to have their implants removed." But then she subsequently "tried to negotiate with the company?" And was then somehow compelled to have the device removed despite not wanting to--presumably due to some unarticulated consequence of not doing so; I don't think any surgeon would perform an operation like that without the patient consenting to it. I'd like to better understand how she was compelled to consent to the removal of something she "would have done anything" to keep. That seems like a relevant facet of the discussion of medical ethics.
That could be a good idea. It already works quite well the other way, to have a sort of universal way to distil requirements into many languages, as Fireship elaborated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO1mwxPNP5A

There are ways to coax the models into more and more convergent output (for now existing languages, like JS or Python), especially with contextual text. I think the Fireship guy got it to 80% the same output each time with a slightly non-zero temperature prompt, but it was consistent across many tasks which is fascinating (he doesn't fully elaborate on the set up like temperature/top-k - which must have been > 0 because it wasn't always the same output).

In many ways we are building flows of information, and as humans, we like to think back from the output through processes to the earliest building steps. maybe a new language could capture that, with intermittent steps not defined in the code - rather executed by recall from models or generated on the fly or by some kind of code-generation semantic cache- it would make for so much easier reading, debugging and reading. Afterall the main blocker to people, especailly business people, learning code is typically how disconnected most of the lines are from the actual output. Defining a class and then a main function is so illogical until you understand the frame. Moving away from that paradigm could open programming up to a lot of people who like talking about outputs, and first steps.
If someone believes their own bullshit/lies or not, you're just as bad off if you believe them.
> 15%tip

You mean 25% tip, minimum -- according to many POSs!
I really, really dig your sense of humor! Great stuff
Same experience here, I really wanted it to work but it often got stuck in errors or infinite loops. Hoping it'll improve in the next few months.
I love Brave, so useful.
I'm not sure how a "one-day anything" is supposed to get anyone to cave. This seems like those performative one-day big-tech "walkouts" where it's just people waving signs over an extended lunch break and then getting right back to work as usual. How does that practically have any effect?

"Go dark indefinitely until change happens" might get someone's attention. This is barely a blip on the radar, and even if there's a minor revenue impact, Reddit knows it'll be over in a day so they can obviously weather it.
> I did actually write a file system based message queue in Rust and it instantly maxed out the disk at about 30,000 messages a second. It did about 7 million messages a second when run as a purely RAM message queue but that didn’t use file system at all.

Did you try an in-memory filesystem through tmpfs?
> Like the famously left-wing Nazi's bookburning?

Like the famously left-wing CCP book burning:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China#Mao_Z...

Authoritarians exists on the left as well:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/psychologi...
I’m moving to Sweden from the Bay Area and this seems very low - I spend that for myself and my wife probably over two days (including coffees etc)… Is this the genuine average? It’ll make me swallow lower salaries a lot easier!
I want to go to the site of the CP-1 reactor. Not much left but a plaque, but that's where the modern age really began. Apparently you can buy some graphite from the CP-1 as a paperweight, but I'm not sure how legit it is. They say you can buy trinitite too, but the market has a lot of fakes.
"My god! It's full of API Keys."
drainage so the rails don't float off somewhere else due to erosion. not alongside them either. under them.
After making trillions
There's also the shutting down of protests that are loud because they are against one thing being heard. It is hard to determine whose free speech prevail there.
I'd call it satire more than sarcasm, my primary target is the kind of argument that blames the victim. In this case, children cannot vote and therefore it is the adults' job to protect them. By allowing them to work these jobs, adult lawmakers are exploiting people who don't even get a say. It's self-evidently abhorrent. If you disagree, how do you even begin the conversation? It's like arguing with someone who thinks a plate of human shit is delicious - it's such an alien and disgusting position that it's almost impossible to engage with, except, perhaps, with satirical contempt. Which is what I did.
If you reload it you'll get a periodic 503. It's not consistent.
Here is another interesting theory why the free speech was pushed back so much:

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/womens-tears-win-in-the-mar...

In short, women gained much more influence in academia and other positions, and they are significantly less supportive of free speech than men. The theory is that this resulted in a feminization of political discourse.
GitHub support disagrees: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/35849

Clone = copy of code that you can sync with the remote on GitHub

Fork = copy of code that isn’t connected to the original remote. Of course, every fork involves a clone. But not every clone is a fork.

I could be wrong, but “fork” isn’t really a concept native to Git.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)
If netcat is installed, just use that instead (it's also better for non-telnet protocols). If you don't even have netcat but you do have bash, you can use:

bash -c 'exec 3<>/dev/tcp/$host/$port; cat >&3 | cat <&3'

(this uses `|` as a trick to run two processes in parallel).
O wow, TIL... thanks!
Google Cloud Skills Boost: Generative AI
I thought from headline it would be lawn darts.
Haha, sorry to dampen the joke then, I wasn't sure.
breathlessly approving tone of a language readme

What does this mean?

it has incredible comedic timing

How does text have comedic timing?
Because giving money as needed is expensive process. Quite a lot of paperwork to process and this can happen relatively often.
> Can my local LLM help me request a refund from a Shopify order or would Shopify have to fine-tune their own model? Then what? I download a 300GB file just so I can refund an order?

Clearly this isn’t an XOR proposition. Use web query to get relevant data (ie to generate dynamic prompt) then use local (ie private data) to calculate. Repeat ad nauseam.

Example: please get me the same vegetables I ordered last week from Whole Foods.
Still, C++ is very useful on embedded systems. This article is just about that.
You misspelled "OPOORTUNITY"
For dry runs on RDBMS' I usually put the statements I want to test between transaction begin and a rollback statements. Maybe dump some data before rolling back to make analyses and/or comparisons.

I guess this tool probably has more utility though.
Here ya go, I found one.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/08/30/more-so-t...

To be fair, I had to check out a few polling websites to find a study that said anything except that the vast majority of Americans support free speech.

But, to be extra fair, most studies did not distinguish older versus younger Americans either.

It's also worth noting that the difference between adults and teenagers isn't enormous, but it is significant.

And this doesn't show changes over time. I'd say it's more meaningful if teenagers used to be more strongly in favor of free speech, and suddenly weren't. But, we don't know that from this article.
It's obvious as "food digestion" or "breathing". Then once we read and learn about it more... we're surprised.
I never had one of these, but one of the earliest gifts I remember from my grandfather was a chemistry set which came with all the necessary chemicals to easily create a wide variety of poisonous and otherwise dangerous (explosive / flammable for example) substances. The book that came with it was very explicit about those dangers and explained clearly what one should do to be as "safe" as possible about working with those chemicals. Fun times. Truly educational toys are just the best.
Bootstrapping an alternative. Growing it from nothingness, being easily welcoming but not overrun by spam and malicious content. Getting to a critical mass before losing the goodwill with users and runway with whoever pays for this. This is a very significant moat, one that makes Reddit's leadership believe they can turn the screw without worrying about competition for now.
On the Proper Training of Tandem Captains by Experienced Stokers (2005)
There are many reddit clones. The value is completely in the communities and not in the technology.

r/all subs like r/pics are completely replaceable, but something like r/personalfinance is an institution that is not easy to replicate elsewhere.
Because of what exactly?
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I could be wrong. Absolutely. I am always open to more information.

However, I'm usually not wrong about these things. This pattern is so common in big pharma it's an easy bet right now.

Based upon the limited information released I would bet:

1) it has high odds of being very lucrative for a small number of people

2) it will be a net negative for patients^

^ Patients would be better off with more money and using an alternative treatment strategy. This drug is priced at $12,750 per month, according to Wikipedia.
Sounds like the MAGA movement in the United States. I share your sentiment of losing hope.
Yeaahhh ... the secure enclave seems to have pooched the idea of a USB stick booter. Restore Mode works fine.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but you can make a bootable USB stick from the installer app:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
The current debacle with Twitter's (lack of) moderation and "free speech absolutism" is one reason you might make an association between the far/alt-right and free speech* advocacy. All the Nazis who got banned under previous leadership came crawling back almost immediately, and a lot of people who are part of a marginalized groups prone to online vitriol bounced in turn.

*Despite the "free speech" language used in the Twitter conversation, I think free speech is the wrong term to use here anyway since Twitter is a private platform, and private platforms are free to enforce their ToS and moderate accordingly... but it's the term that proliferates so I'll use it regardless.
Impossible to say since you don't say where 'here' is.
Saying humanity will be extinct in X years is completely unsupported by even the most dramatic predictions. If you believe it, you are on equal footing with the people waiting for the four horseman to show up. Teaching that to children will probably be seen as child abuse by the children who are being taught it today.
They do indeed. Railway tracks under compression from overheating are prone to bend like spaghetti (this is bad!).
Here's the non-size-limited competition winner, for the curious. It's freakin' incredible - and 23 minutes!, but you can skip from 5m - 8m (I think extended for music):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CxkTwJoAzBE
None of those things are responsive to the question: What existed 1000 years ago that humanity could use to make the planet uninhabitable?

If you don't have an answer to the actual question at hand, it's okay to say so.
On a side note: The Eye is back up!

Fuck yeah <3
Do we really need a big part of the community to have a good "forums for everything" site?

To me it seems, that 99% of Reddit is just "content fast food" and low quality comments.

If we would get just 1000 HN users to use an alternative, that could already be something.
Maybe, maybe not; it's hard to tell: how many folks are willing to stake their livelihood on saying "no" to a potential mob of progressives that will 'cancel' them? Saying to them "what is written is written; make your own (new) stories with the words you want".
A friend of a friend - who was actually an infectious disease doctor - picked up TB while working in Africa. They had to do a video call with the local health department every morning for the health department to witness them taking their meds. If anyone was going to follow the treatment regime it would be the infectious disease doctor.

TB isn't a joke.
Forcing people to look at very large ugly corporate statues because you have bad taste and too much money is profoundly selfish.
Inflation skyrockets, because essential goods, services, housing, etc are NOT uniformly distributed. One can't print 50 million homes, even though a govt can distribute £x per month to all of its citizens. This is one of the reasons why the wealthy class don't keep their assets in nominal currencies (say, pounds, dollars), they would rather own assets (homes, businesses, land, shares of companies that produce goods, provide services, etc). As currency gets inflate, debased, printed on demand, borrowed (pick the right phrase depending on one's political inclinations, ideologies), the price of underlying assets (commodities, land, businesses, etc) also rise.

That's why non-uniform distribution of money doesn't have the same effect. If a country were to print £500 billion, and just hand out £500 billion to 10 wealthy people, it won't bring the same inflationary effects on housing/rentals, food, services and goods. However, if you print £10 trillions and distribute to everyone who makes more than £60K per annum, yes, housing and other stuff skyrockets.
>Of course free speech would be extremely important in countries like China or North Korea, but we don't really have access or impact to those countries.

So you think countries without free speech would benefit from free speech, but you don't think countries with free speech would be harmed by reducing free speech? That seems quite shortsighted to me.
2018: Modeling of Blockchain Based Systems Using Queuing Theory Simulation

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8632560
"of which book banning is a historically symbolic example"

so yes, that's why I used the word "historically" and...

"(it dominated in previous times like the McCarthy era)"

...noted the dominance of the right in previous decades.
Haven't heard of it, and I couldn't find the phrase "piecewise-linear interpolation search" online at all. Care to share? In particular, how are the pieces determined?

The Google paper is "The Case for Learned Index Structures" I think? This paper discusses index structures to be stored along with the data, so it's not directly comparable to the OP, which starts with the sorted data alone. Google's use case is so dominated by lookups that as far as I can tell they don't even report on the time to construct the index. I'm not sure the same priorities hold in every domain.
That's easy to claim. I'd like to see actual numbers and I doubt UBI proponents only want to make admin savings!

More bluntly: I call BS on that argument.
United States Postal Service on GitHub
I agree that "dead naming" and other LGBT-related concepts are anti-intellectual, but it's not clear that any of your examples are at all related to free speech. A part of the problem is that "free speech" is mostly a buzzword, having no clear definition or meaning, except through case law.
https://sparcopen.org/news/2023/congress-introduces-bill-to-...
I graduated from a US university in 2018 and my favorite math course was taught by a professor who told us at the start that the textbook was just his course notes, which he provided a PDF for, and we were welcome to (and encouraged) use the text as open-notes in our exams so long as we had a printed version of the notes.

The class proceeded to be one of my favorite math classes, and it was so incredible to have a text that was deeply integrated to the course--because it was just straight up what he lectured from. I wish more of my courses had been that way.
I love the idea of this, but I see one huge obstacle to making this happen: the current property owners.

The whole reason we're in this situation is because the power asymmetry between property owners and renters seems to be growing at a significant rate. Rapidly rising property values benefit property owners at the expense of the renters and redistributing the rights of a property owner to the community would have massive ramifications for how real estate is valued.

The main hurdle to overcome is finding the politicians you'd need to take power from property owners to give to non-owner residents, and the big problem (at least in the US) is that even at the local level, governments tend to be run by property owners and supported by property-owning donors. Money is fundamental to who gets elected, and as long as this is true, balancing the power disparity and giving real voting power to non-property owners to determine what happens to property will be a massive challenge.
That was Uber.
Stroustrup was already working at Bell Labs in the U.S. when he developed C++.
These CEO speeches and hang wringing seems more of a concerted effort to stop open source and protect their proprietary approaches than any actual concern for humanity.

“Only we can be trusted with this please forbid anybody else from touching it” is not an argument I’m generally open to listening to coming from the private sector.
For what it's worth, I've tried to find a Thunderbolt/USB4 C-to-C cable that can also carry 100W. The only cables I've found (that weren't obviously lying in the ad) were Apple's cables.

Even other laptop manufacturers have cables for charging and cables for high speed data transfer. Samsung's official cables seem to do either USB3 or high-speed charging, but not both at the same time. Lenovo has a Thunderbolt 4 cable (with no details on the power capabilities) or a USB 3.2 2x2 cable that can carry up to 100W. Dell Europe doesn't seem to be selling C-to-C cables. HP seems to sell a competent cable for one of their docks, but that's out of stock. Asus' cable is USB2 only. Acer doesn't seem to sell any cables as far as I can tell, except for a USB 3.1 cable for Chromebooks.

If you want a fully-featured USB4 cable, your only options are either buying a cable from Apple or going for third parties and with the prevalent scams on online web stores and the risk of burning your house down if the cable turns out not to be up to spec, getting good cables can be a real challenge.

Apple sells their cables for a ridiculous price (€150) but I wouldn't expect the average consumer to know where to reliably spend their €30-€50 for a charge cable. Device manufacturers really need to step up and sell some kind of certified cable that doesn't cut any corners.
Is “cancel culture” itself just not another form of free speech?
It all depends on how you throw them — they can come in at a pretty shallow angle.
Always request a separate laptop and phone for work, and always create a separate set of accounts.
Great point, let's just rename it ar.
Free speech is not just about not banning books. Things like cancel culture and social media censorship are mainly left-wing phenomena.
The children yearn for the coal mines.
"All sides showed remarkable restraint in actually following up on the threats. While the possibility of nuclear war was part of the backdrop, at least the impression was made that everybody tries to be as reasonable as possible to prevent it from happening."

Yes, but still all it takes is one crazy guy at the wrong position and time.

I am not ok with that and rather would have all the nukes directed towards the sky against asteroids.

And I am also not ok with producing tanks and artillery instead of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. But it is, what it is. Too many short sighted people in position of power.
Simplest way is to hire an expert. Look for a social skills coach.
Every time you upset your user base, you give them an opportunity to leave. Or, you turn your advocates into neutral. They stop being willing to do free work for you.

Reddit is dependent on free work. Moderators are a significant portion of that process, and they are the ones who depend on the API the most. If your moderators decide to do less work, your community starts going down in quality. If the community goes down in quality, they will make the decision that a smaller community is better than a poorly run community and someone else will capture that use case.

The question is if that will happen before an IPO. Given the climate, that IPO may be two years away.
> And then I use libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts.

Thank you for this! I know of and use some of these already, just from luck of discovery, and having a compilation of several more is so freeing!
Thats kinda lame... I was hoping there was software support for the GPU to share the framebuffer RAM with the USB4 controller, and there being some way for the OS to prioritize some fixed bandwidth to make sure it doesn't get starved.

Apple kinda has this in their M1/M2 SoC's where the GPU is entirely separate from the stream-data-from-ram-to-the-display logic.
it's too bad AMD doesn't have first class TB4 support yet, at least not on the consumer hardware i've been looking at
What are some of those Reddit clones?

Any of them decentralized, so there is no "one ruler" who can close down the thing in the future?
Get out there gently. Not everyone has to be a massive extrovert, and certainly not all at once. Some of it gets easier with gentle practice for some of us... And maybe read some of those words (and videos) online by people who know they have trouble with social stuff and how they make it work at least some of the time.

(I think of myself as fairly a introverted technical, but found myself putting down 'social' as one of my key skills on a grant application last week. And I may just have been out nightclubbing last night, not exactly being a wallflower, ho hum...)
You shouldn't but apply special caution towards your own arguments against someone you dislike.
Piecewise linear was one of the first things that I experimented with, but it is getting near to index based approaches, which is a different topic. It also is inefficient for non polynomial distributions. On things that approach linear, the extra steps to find the right spline can overweight the advantage of reduced error, so I think both search optimizations and building indices can coexist, shifting around where search should be the base case for an indexed search.

Building and maintaining indices is also not free, so it's interesting to try to do your best with much less index maintenance.