skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Responding to William here because I was once a student and collaborator of his.

I was long considered "bad at math," a thing my dad said about himself* and an excuse that I readily took on when I got bad grades. I got a career in web development straight out of high school, and that carried me for several years until I got bored and resumed community college classes for enrichment. I took calculus and a beginning algorithms/data structures class my first semester. At the time, I still wasn't ready to jump back into calculus, and only showed up to the algorithms class. I was intrigued -- proofs had a direct application to my life! Later I would realize that programming taught me the basics of rigor and abstraction in a language I was willing to hear.

Thus began my mathematics career. I always had one foot in the computer science, and one foot in the mathematics. The proofs I saw in analysis were... fine, I guess, I got good grades because I did my homework with enough time to focus on it. But William exposed me to a world of computational mathematics that really carried my interest. From there, I learned new classes of algorithms, hairy implementation details, and more. My experience there was incredibly beneficial to my programming experience.

So my path was crooked: programming, then math, then back to programming. It is undeniable that these skills are heavily intertwined. Even if that undergrad analysis course feels like an inapplicable stumbling block along the way. Most mathematicians I know only used calculus to hone their symbolic manipulation skills.

* parents: watch your &$%&@@&$ mouth
There was a period of time not too long ago when every big tech company fancied itself as being a "holding company" (Alphabet being the most prominent example). They thought that just like Berkshire their original function would be forgotten as all other bets around it bore fruit and expanded exponentially. That strategy didn't quite work out for any of them. Turns out creating and sustaining one successful company is a miracle, let alone a dozen.
> We want to emphasize that all the student authors in this paper worked really hard on what could have been a very interesting and valuable paper had the data been collected with consent. The many problems with the published work were not the fault of the students.

This is the conclusion of the memo. The problems with methodology are clearly a secondary concern. They also seem to imply that issues with consent are solely or mainly the cause of the methodology problems. This could be true, but idk.

This is my opinion as an MIT grad who still views OCW content and similar content from other universities from time-to-time.

(Complete speculation: I almost feel as if certain professors or lecturers are “embarrassed” about their content.)
"obviously broken" isn't the only option besides perfect, so we'll just use the term "not perfect" here, and believe me, some of them will let you know what isn't perfect about it when you ask.

then you focus on that.
Well, in a way, it's not "just words" or "experience?" It took me a long time to love the law, well after I was out of law school -- which was basically getting over the cynicism. It's just overwhelmingly the best method of dealing with perhaps the MOST DIFFICULT task possible, resolving disputes between/among imperfect unpredictable humans. The "messiness" of it is just as much a feature as a bug, and thus the most important part really does become, for lack of a better way to say it -- "faith?" in law?
The title literally says it's GDPR violation, presumably an issue because the parent company is Belgian.

It probably doesn't violate US laws because the US doesn't have Constitutional privacy protections or much in the way of toothy privacy law. But many of us think it should. Before someone replies with 'lobby for changes to the law then,' that's exactly what I'm doing - working to build a sufficiently large constituency for such change that it will be able to exert some political leverage.
They’ve run their franchises into the ground, it’s that simple. Come up with new IP.
There’s a good HN client on iPhone called Hack that’s roughly modeled after Apollo
No, it's based on a lot more than that, like how long you've been in the system, and average age of account. This is why you can be radioactive despite never having missed a payment on anything -- because you never carried debt.
I wanted to go this route with a game I'm working on, but the poor implementation of mobile browsers kept it from being viable for me. Technically it's all possible on the web, it's just being held back by those who want to funnel people to their walled gardens IMHO.
The logic is good but implies you MUST go for it. I can’t imagine he’s so stupid as to not see that. Crossing the rubicon means you can’t go back.

I am reminded of the story:

Chen Sheng was an officer serving the Qin Dynasty, famous for their draconian punishments. He was supposed to lead his army to a rendezvous point, but he got delayed by heavy rains and it became clear he was going to arrive late.

Chen turns to his friend Wu Guang and asks “What’s the penalty for being late?”

“Death,” says Wu.

“And what’s the penalty for rebellion?”

“Death,” says Wu.

“Well then…” says Chen Sheng.

And thus began the famous Dazexiang Uprising, which caused thousands of deaths and helped usher in a period of instability and chaos that resulted in the fall of the Qin Dynasty three years later.
Yup, that happened after the car was repaired from the deer strike. A few years later it got hail damage, the insurance company wrote us a check, and we pocketed it. The hail damage wasn't noticeable to our eyes, and the car should probably not have been on insurance in the first place.
I don't think you can say what Prigozhin said yesterday about the war and then get people to participate in it under your command. He was pretty crystal clear that the war was an unjustified clusterfuck.
There are only so many hours in the day. Instead of politicians spending time working on this, how about working on any of the other more important problems out there. Like homelessness or wealth inequality or the increasing political divisiveness?
> To be strictly accurate, Germany doesn’t have a constitution since a constitution must be voted in directly by the German people according to the Grundegesetz.

yawn

Not this argument again. It has been refuted time and again:

https://anwaltauskunft.de/magazin/gesellschaft/staat-behoerd...
"I'm committed to reaching my target weight by 2050, but I'll probably die of diabetes before then..."
Correct, if you have no credit history then financial institutions are not as confident in your ability to pay back loans. This is not remotely comparable to reducing people's social credit for associating with political undesirables.
why not both? :)
Hah, clearly you have no idea of what you are talking! In order to ascertain the general level of humor of a programmer, you would have to assume all programmers are equivalent! Furthermore you would be assuming that there is one kind of humor, which is clearly a fallacy. Finally, the amount of "terribleness" you allude to cannot be quantified in such a way as to distinguish an objective level of quality. Therefore you are clearly wrong! Try doing some research before you share such a naive opinion in the future.
To be clear though, there is no convoy on earth that the US Air Force can’t strike.
I just played this game to completion. Very fun.
If you wealthy you can filter your water and pay for best organic food. However, no amount of money will buy you different atmosphere. And wealthy people sets agenda for governments.
Luck, experience, and lots of Leetcode. Networking can get you a referral for an interview, but you definitely need the former.
https://theaireport.substack.com/p/the-ai-report-5-gpt-4-ace...
That's not a good assessment at all. Because no one holds the government or its police to that standard.

Do you know how many problems in America regarding human rights stem from qualified immunity? Don't let that BS keep spreading.
>They never claim to serve Australian food.

They did, though. Pitching "walkabout soup" as a "unique presentation of an Australian favorite". And, a pretty regrettable suggestion at one time that a Blooming Onion was "Ab-original". Something on a barbie they should have called prawns, "Brisbane Shrimp Saute", and more.
To be fair, the report shows coding benchmarks the only benchmarks it lags 3.5 behind.
> Countries like Vietnam are the exception, not the rule.

I don’t think this is necessarily true. They probably end up with a lot more dead kids as a result of this.
The source (is cool to have) but it does not include any installation instructions in the slightest. Also it sounds like you would still need to "sign in" even if you built it from source.
I wasn't making the comparison, I was correcting a misrepresentation you made about the US credit scoring system only penalizing you for not paying debts.
That’s called adjusting strictness flags.
I always thought one particular line was interesting:

Magnus: "I'm worried I might pass out, fall and die"
Alex: "If passed out in your car on the highway here, you'd still be dead".

Just an interesting perspective on danger. If we were to run the numbers, am I safer as Alex free climbing a wall as I am Regular Bob driving on a highway to work?
Still works on reddit, though it wouldn't surprise me if they removed it at this point, they seem to be reneging the minimalistic clear and open parts of their interface.
Exactly. I also find it funny about tech workers on a tech forum who work for businesses that earn 20%+ profit margins even at $100M+ revenue, something almost all other business other than pharma and oil can only dream of, falsely pointing fingers at price gouging.
Per capita emissions are a distraction. The earth’s atmosphere doesn’t care how many people were involved. What matters is total emissions. On that front China leads by a factor of 4 or 5 over India and the U.S. which are roughly the same.
Original paper is on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08997
> PS5 controller blows the Xbox controller out of the water

In which PvP shooters are you currently ranked Diamond or higher?
It seems to not be needed or used. My take from the thread is that F-Droid complains about the library reference present in the source code at all. It does not know the library is not linked in the F-Droid build.
This is very sad. YouTube has done this to a lot of content creators over the years, so there is no sign they have any intention of fixing this trigger-happy problem.

Most of those content providers survived the hit, but they didn't get so much of their money withheld. This channel will be out of 4 months of payments before YouTube will even begin their review.

It is sad to see what happens when a site's profits are more important than the content they produce. Look at the difference in YouTube's handling of this, and the support pouring out from within the comment section. It's two completely different worlds.
Depends on where the threat is coming from, obviously.

There's the Pentagon, Raven Rock Mountain Complex, Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Complex, the Greenbrier bunker, the Peters Mountain facility, 33 Thomas Street, nearly a dozen aircraft carriers, Camp David, and god knows how many military bases.

Or he could just board the doomsday fleet of E-4Bs and stay in the air
no natural mechanism to defend those rights

What do you think political organizing and direct action are? There's more to politics than legislation and litigation.
> you need a small qualified team

That's the problem.

> I once pitched an off-the-shelf program to a corporate, which would have cost 10k to roll out company wide.

$10k, plus the effort to actually deploy, train, etc. And what happens if you need to roll back? What criteria are you checking against? So many questions.

> Better that than letting someone later claim that 10k was wasted.

Listen, I don't disagree with the idea of small, qualified teams being great. But I've also seen a good number of people who think they are qualified push things through that were really just bad ideas. This comes from smart people, too. Smart at what they do, but not at the specific thing they are trying to get done. It's just outside of their wheelhouse.

> Which brings us back to well resourced, small teams, of competent people.

Yep. Easier said than done.
The proposal is clearly for energy storage, not as a primary energy source.

To that extent, it resembles other synfuel concepts. The principle difference being that iron-as-energy-storage entails reduction rather than synthesis, in the chemical sense, for hydrocarbon synfuels.

There's a lot to be said for options which provide long-term, "shelf-stable", environmentally-benign, high-volume energy storage with convenient storage, handling, and utilisation characteristics. I've looked with interest on petroleum-analogue hydrocarbon synthesis (Fisher-Tropf) and alcohol (Sabattier) processes for some years. Both have long (multi-decadal, approaching a century) of established use. Yes, the overall process is lossy (as little as 15% net energy recovery), but there are applications for which there are very few alternatives: powered heavier-than-air flight, marine transport, mobile use, off-grid primary or back-up power systems, heating, and industrial applications.

I think I'd made abundantly clear that the abundance question is pedantry.
We only spend ~$50B annually on infrastructure. Things could be a lot safer if we spent more on infrastructure.
Footholds that look like absolutely bomber granite can exfoliate under a fraction of your bodyweight because geological time is now. One of the sturdiest cliffs in Canada, the Stawamus chief, has seen several historical rockfall events in the past couple years. The vast majority of the rock climbers climb is at least a little bit chossy in a way, limestone and sandstone always have small breaks, granite is more solid but when it breaks it's often enormous chunks. You must not have climbed a lot if you've never witnessed freak rockfall, there's a reason why most cliffs are littered by a talus field at the bottom.

And that's not to mention loose rock above you which you can't even see and that could rain down on your head. It takes a bird standing on a ledge knocking down a softball sized people for you to eat it in the noggin and fall, or wind, or just being at the wrong place at the wrong time (I've coreshot a rope when natural rockfall rained on me while climbing in a funnelling feature, shit was scary).
People can make normative as well as descriptive statements.
> I once pitched an off-the-shelf program to a corporate, which would have cost 10k to roll out company wide. But the procurement process demanded a proper evaluation first, which eould cost about 5 times that.

Normally, the cost of COTS software is many times the sticker price. Deployment, ongoing training (of existing and new staff), adjusting policies, security monitoring, upgrades, etc., etc., all have costs.

Even if this was a "use once only and throw away" program, the cost of deployment (timetabling, writing and distributing instructions for use, etc.) and of ensuring deletion would be more than $10k in even a small organisation.

Proper evaluations take these costs into account. Bureaucracy is the worst form of management, except for all the others that have been tried.
No, but your company's esg score will
I read it as you need to stop consuming and start creating _something_ if you’re ever going to get noticed (we all need to be noticed, humans die when they are alone).

But creating something doesn’t guarantee you’ll succeed. A “You’ve got to be in it to have a chance at winning it” kind of message.
I think the joke is generally that it is the basic necessity and one would generally expect people to create a more homely environment (eg furniture for guests or eating, storage for clothes, maybe bookshelves with books or photographs or whatever). The joke is not ‘floor mattress bad’ it’s ‘no furniture nor decoration despite ample means = weird’. The thing you saw was just a derivative of the original meme which was a single mattress on the floor next to a phone charger.

I don’t really think the thing you saw was really trying to get people to be more consumerist.
Recent and related:

No, GPT4 Can’t Ace MIT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370685 - June 2023 (120 comments)
Yeah, I'm with you there, there's a big luck aspect it seems.

I think those things soloists they do in order to lower the probability of freak events (choosing climbs smartly, not soloing when they're no in the right headspace, practicing, being good at recovering from mistakes, choosing good holds, etc) makes it very skill-based, but they can never lower that all the way to 0%.
Paper didn’t include the exams themselves, please correct me if my understanding is incorrect.
Such a strange take. Of course any public appearance of any government head is propaganda. If propaganda ever has a value, it’s the assured image of a commander in chief in the war time, when the troop have to face a stronger enemy who outnumber them. They need to know their leader is there with them. It’s a matter of survival for Ukraine. Do you think a well shaved Zelenskyy in impeccable suits, sitting behind long table — like Putin — is more suitable?

What do you think all of Prigozhin’s videos are?
Take a look at tildes’s website. It’s orders of magnitude better, while still showing more content.
Sam had been saying it but few people trust he is telling the truth imo. Maybe he was.
US - build roads everywhere whether it makes sense or not.

US - build houses such that every individual needs a car.

US - build everything far away from each other so that each road gets a ton of mileage.

......

Also US - ours roads are crumbling and underfunded !

An obese man who eats 10000 calories a day will feel underfed if they don't get all 10000. But the lack of food is hardly the problem....
Why would you use an old browser? Are you not concerned with security?
I've referred to such reminders as "admonishments" which seems less pejorative than "scolding".
Thanks for this. I may look into wrapping it into a Home Assistant integration.
I thought it was due to import duties?
Perhaps it's more like the stores that play classical music because teens won't think it's cool to hang out there
I haven't seen this take here yet, so here goes:

My suspicion is that Prigozhin got recruited by a Western agency (CIA?) with the intent to destabilize Russia from the inside.

Key here is to discredit the Kremlin, by e.g. exposing or at least making them seem incompetent. Later a coup/revolution is staged to cause internal conflict and make Russia unable to continue the war in Ukraine.

Given how short this "coup" was and how easy Wagner seemed to get off with this stunt I suspect Prigozhin instead informed the Kremlin (or Putin directly) and played along. He would likely get supported during the coup by whoever recruited him. If this is the case those assets are probably arrested by now.
>if those cliffs are unreachable for a given ISA, they don't matter

By rice's theorem, for any ISA that has a jmp or mov, there is no way to know/prove/predict this. So you're still not saying anything useful.
I mean, the Pentagon doesn’t sound like being on airforce one ?
Why are all of Pi's four voices so goddamn annoying? It sounds like it's got a stick stuck up its ass that screams irritable and pretentious. Makes me want to punch that sucker in the face.
> That the Wagner group enjoys such popular support, while their Nazi sympathies are also common knowledge^ makes this justification questionable.

I remember reading somewhere, that "Nazism" means something rather different in Russian culture than in Western culture. In the West, you say "Nazi" and the first thing most people think of is the Nazi mass murder of Jews, the Holocaust–that's what the school curriculum focuses on. But in Russia, you say "Nazi" and the first thing most people think of is the Nazi mass murder of Russians–that's what the Russian school curriculum focuses on. In the West, "Nazi=homicidal anti-semitism"; in Russia, "Nazi=homicidal Russophobia".

But, given that, what sense do they make of a group of Russian "Nazis" who support the Kremlin and fight its wars? It is a bit like if you met a group of neo-Nazis, and discovered they were all openly and proudly Jewish. If something doesn't make sense, people often just choose to pay no attention to it.

Similarly, the Russian accusations that Ukraine is a "neo-Nazi regime" seem ludicrous to Western ears – "Zelenskyy is of Jewish descent, his great grandparents died in the Holocaust, how can he be a Nazi?" But to most Russians, for whom the primary meaning of "Nazi" is not "antisemite" but "Russophobe", the idea that "Ukrainian nationalism=Nazism" makes more sense, and Zelenskyy's Jewishness appears irrelevant.
The 11% seemed odd to me... I selected only 3 violators: the car, the ambulance, and the police car, and those seem to be the only majority-chosen violators according to the graph so I would think I matched 100%?
He specifically avoided criticising Putin himself, assuming that his long personal ties, friendship and deep trust with Putin would leave his family sacrosanct. His attacks were on underlings.

This sort of thing plays out in the corporate world too. That is, a fairly senior OG person who isn't the actual boss has a breakdown or burnout, and takes it out by sending long scathing emails-to-all-staff, complaints to directors, etc, "secure" in the assumption that they're just playing out some long standing internal issues and that things will be put right. Sometimes it doesn't quite work out as hoped, and that person finds to their surprise that their removal is the outcome.
It is not exactly a pissing contest. The point is that Microsoft bought Bethesda, so theoretically they can make it exclusive to Xbox and start using it as a leverage. I question "comparable" here. The available data suggests they really are not.
I never said the system only penalizes you for not paying debts:

> It's all based on your debts, and repayment of said debt.

Absence of credit history is based on your debt (or more specifically lack thereof).
I think the conception is that work can be done to restore the reef and then this can be utilised to promote the newly revived reef to attract fish etc back.
But that’s something they should deal with internally. It is quite strange actually. The statement should also come from MIT’s public affairs office and not the professors themselves. So it looks like they are big mad and acting on their own to save face.
The atmosphere also doesn't care which governments are involved, or who is "leading". We need all the emissions to stop, this announcement is about 7.5% of the total which is quite significant. 12 more of those and we're done.
Bait-and-switch. No pun intended.
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It's not actually a prisoner's dilemma, that's a very specific game theory thought experiment that almost never happens in real life. I guess you could call it an arms race.
Well as of 2021 54% of German tracks are already electrified and have a 75% 2030 goal, so to claim it's going to take 50 years to do the other 46% seems wildly off base.
I'm far more worried about the people who think a man should die because the sign must be obeyed at all costs.

It's telling that 70% would apply immoral guidance. "Just following orders."
That’s also how you end up with a narrow mindset and limited value-add.

Exploring adjacent skills/subjects can have tremendous value!
Haha! I actually made the connection when viewing the recent Veritasium video on p-adic numbers. They were walking through an proof of how ...9999 = -1, because if you add one to it, it yield zero. I was like, that's just like two's complement, and how you represent -1 by filling the places with the largest representable digit!

https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2023/6/6/the-most-useful-n...
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