skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but sometimes it is the kid who accelerates themselves (and their parents would have no sense of the material).

Just in case you are a smart kid in high school, or helping one, Do Not Skip Calculus 1 in college based on taking the material in high school. This can be a very dangerous mistake.

If you are really confident, then get the syllabus for Calculus I from the college, and do problems from the textbook. Taking Calculus II as a first semester freshman can be very tough.

Do this only if you are confident and bored with Calculus I. Rushing foundation studies is the wrong choice for most students. I made this mistake, and thought I received honors on my engineering degree (and was a Masters student in my fourth year) -- Calculus II was the lowest grade on my transcript. Good luck.
> it is pretty sad that the GNU project name is being involved in this drama

Extra sad since Leah was one of the few high-profile people willing to publicly defend RMS, a position I really respected: https://web.archive.org/web/20210826050949/https://libreboot...

And I can't blame her for not feeling that way any more:

[lammy@emi] curl -I https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html
HTTP/2 301
date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 04:04:13 GMT
location: https://libreboot.org/news/gnuboot.html
> Since auto formatters disallow ascii art or custom alignment

This is not a universal truth. I've worked at faang companies that don't even do this.

In fact many great comments I've seen have been ASCII art diagrams. Those should be encouraged.
I have a Samsung an android tablet with their pencil. Using Krita for drawing I think it’s pretty amazing. The UI is kinda desktop but the brushes are amazing.
"Be glad you weren't killed, you ungrateful swine" isn't the tone cyclists should be taking in a thread about dignity.
Do you have a more specific example? Xiaomi's site, Mi.com, for instance doesn't seem to cover every EU or European country (e.g., Bulgaria, Croatia, Norway, Switzerland, etc.). Are you referring to OPPO or OnePlus as a "cheap no name Chinese phone"? They account for about 10% of the global sales (as does Xiaomi).
The idea is awesome. I'm going to have to try it out. It'd be cool if ssh-keysign could use this agent!
>This is incredible and feels like the most sci-fi sentence I've read in a long time.

And that is sad part of so called "Tech" today. Zero appreciation of it outside of the minorities.

They are doing is on a massive scale, extreme precision, high cost of electricity, insane difficulty in both designing chips and production.

And yet HN thinks all the hardware chips today are over priced and absurdly expensive.
It's a mix of Hwang, Steorn, and Theranos. I'm just in it for the popcorn reading at this point. I no longer fear that it will be validated and destroy society.
"eventual downside"
> or take more up front

From https://www.sagaftra.org/were-fighting-survival-our-professi...

Us: We need an 11% general wage increase in year 1 so our members can recover from record inflation during the previous contract term.

Them: The most we will give you is 5%, even though that means your 2023 earnings will effectively be a significant pay cut due to inflation and it is likely you will still be working for less than your 2020 wages in 2026.
Problem is, current level of car usage is absolutely unsustainable with current co2 emissions targets, even with electric cars if they use coal.
Seems reasonable that such a pressing tech gets a high reward. Say, $200M for each inventor, then humanity is set?
Nothing in this article assumed that the functions in question were linear and/or being approximated.
> Peer review is what happens when your peers ...

I would add: when your peers' review commentary is public.
From my world experience, this is a pure Americanism. And Americans broadly seem to care a more about status than the other 95% of the worlds population.
Oh, 100%. But you can do some pretty amazing things with fine-tuning LLMs too, and that is very compute intensive. Not to mention it's ridiculously hard even getting access to a cloud GPU instance nowadays.
I don’t believe the sexes of the offender or victim matter much when it is between an adult and a child. Always wrong and that should not be sidelined or downplayed.
One in five Texans lives in a floodplain, state’s first-ever analysis shows
Calibration is like wheel alignment. What is happening here is :

Changing tires for same brand and model car came from the dealer. Car no longer drives in a straight line, steering wheel feels wobbly at certain steering angles.

You saying its a wheel alignment issue.

Replacing TPMS sensors with ones from the old wheel set. Car magically starts driving straight and no more weird wobbles.
An entertaining documentary on the subject is https://youtu.be/ett_8wLJ87U
I think I understand it, let's see if I can explain it. Hopefully I'll say something useful.

Take a vector for normal space, [x, y, z]. We say each component of this vector is one dimension, so this one is 3D, and each of its three components can vary. Two such vectors are different if one or more components differ between them. Treating a function as a vector means treating each distinct possible input to the function as a distinct component.

For example, consider the integer function f(x) = x^2. This can be represented as the vector [..., 16, 9, 4, 0, 4, 9, 16, ...] Where the complete vector has as many components as integers. Since there's infinitely many integers, there's infinite components, so instead of 3D like the three component vector above, this vector is ∞D.

Any single function is representable in this way, so each distinct function has its own unique infinitely long vector.

So each different function is a different "point" in an infinite dimensional vector space.
It's amazing how you post this and a bunch of cyclists come out, elbowing each other aside to be the first to act out their most obnoxious stereotypes. "Yeah, we bomb down the sidewalks at 30 and categorically refuse to yield to pedestrians while shouting 'Share the road!' at anyone using an engine, and you should be grateful we didn't get in an SUV and plow through a daycare center!"
When you've got someone with the pattern of behavior detailed in the grandparent comment in conflict with someone who appends "Defend Richard Stallman!" to all their emails including takedown notices, how can anyone think we're anything but a bunch of fools?
Even if you’re a heavy user of AI for coding you have to read what the AI wrote. Code isn’t like other writing where you can skim past letters and your brain will fill it in for you. In code, each character is significant with even the case of single letters being important. I think it makes sense to optimize for clarity. Additionally, vim keybindings are significantly more awkward on non-monospaced fonts.
But if you can get credit for Calc 1 and Calc 2 because you took the BC AP Calc test you should do. Starting Calc 3 as a freshman was great because it was a much smaller class.
Yield % in Samsung and TSMC are pointing to different things. And knowing Samsung and TSMC, the first may have overstated while the latter may give you a conservative number.
I agree with your general point about the romanticization of no-car life. I grew up without a car in a walkable city. It was nice but there are legitimate trade offs.

My mom used a wheelie cart to do our shopping growing up. As a kid I thought it was embarrassing but now I get it. Cargo bikes are another good option. Having to carry home groceries without some sort of cargo apparatus like that does suck, even in nice weather.
I looked at the data for the continental us and deaths per vehicle-hour is flat as a fucking strap when graphed over the last 30 years.
They're just dog whistling about racism, because if you read their comment at arm's length, you would realize that it itself is a negative "modal" argument of the exact form that it seeks to decry.
Well put! I'd add this:

Let's not beat around the bush: People who control tech companies have certain ideological leanings and would rather not let people with apposing ideological leanings benefit from using this technology in a manner that does not align with their own leanings.

However, they don't yet know how to control this technology to achieve this alignment but they also need to innovate and release products lest they fall behind.

That's why they employ "safety researchers" (bullshit job) and lobby governments to dull their knives. They can't rely on normal alignment methods alone because the "others" will also be able to use it to realign their models. Bullshit jobs and government is all they have.

And regarding why they wont take a balanced and nuanced look at this tech, I believe they have and they don't like the change in power balance it brings.
I'm pretty sure that https://bazqux.com/ is a one man project.
Yeah because that's the error interface? It's literally a method that returns string.

Unfortunately, I guess after the fact they decided pattern matching was useful, so they did it via reflection (errors.As). But they don't warn you that errors.Is might return false for a true errors.As, it is certainly a mess, but the pedagogy could be improved.
Just like their auto caption / translate, it'll be free, you won't be able to pay for it, and it only work on Google-approved viewpoints.
Could you elaborate on destroying society? Wouldn’t validation of these claims be good for society?
Er, no, I specifically said iOS plus AppStore and Android plus PlayStore, as it's from there that users get the functionality that's not part of the core-OS, and even allowing for the apps Apple & Google publish themselves I don't believe there's any one product manager that decides what features the full set of such apps should offer.
and just be shear coincident two screens, the broken one and replacement, match calibration data completely?
I thought they would feather the turbine blades so that they didn't generate rotation. Maybe that failed as well?
Algorithms you'd want to do something like this would be dithering and quantization, just incase anyone is interested!
> You can get an object.Tree of any commit hash from a Repository with its TreeObject() method.

OK, but I am not dealing with a commit, as mentioned in the issue and my previous comment, I am dealing with THE INDEX and working directory, not a commit.

> I don't recall offhand how to get an object.Tree of the working directory or index (perhaps from the Repository.Storer?)

right, so you can see how its not as easy to hand wave away the problem as you initially thought.

> worst-case you could just create a new commit in order to get a hash and then run the diff.

no, I am not making a commit just to diff the working directory. would you tell someone to do that with the command line tool as well?

> The package is more read-oriented than write-oriented; the docs specifically say it "covers the majority of the plumbing read operations and some of the main write operations".

cool, we are talking about a read operation, no writing is being done.

> If you're trying to diff working directory modifications, that's a write-path use-case since it implies files are being changed / you're not trying to diff two pre-existing commits.

no its not. I am not writing to anything, only reading.
It's actually a lot more complicated than that, but that's some of it.

First, creating lesson plans/assignments (and grading them) is extremely time consuming. So it's completely reasonable for teachers protest having their workload increased.

Second, things like gifted classes and magnet schools create a "creaming" effect, where the best students are pulled from regular classes and either sent to a separate school or in separate classes with high performers. If you're a math or English teacher that's getting professionally evaluated based on your students' performance on standardized tests, you are strongly incentivized to keep any high performing student in your class - the existence of gifted classes and magnets hurts you.

In the tech world, we sort of had a version of this during the Ballmer era of Microsoft, where engineering managers were sometimes reluctant to grade top performers too highly in fear their best developers will get reallocated. Some managers would give elite team members bad rankings just to keep them captive.
There was no third party display, replacement one came off another working ipad.
I use Linux almost exclusively too(Except for things I can use an Android tablet instead for, I really only use actual PCs for programming and media creation). But I often strongly consider switching to Windows, although cost and inertia stop me from actually trying it out.

I think there could be a year of the Linux desktop, and I would love it, but the current Linux community would hate it(As is, they hate most of the stuff I like about Linux, like DBus, The Init System We Only Name to start Flamewars, NetworkManager, etc.

FOSS in general just has way too high of a tolerance for problems. Users seem to see them as a normal part of the experience, rather than as things that are not supposed to happen on a modern system.

There's kind of a culture of "It's free, if you don't like it, fork it and fix it", but you can't actually do that yourself unless you've got years to spend to try to make something resemble commercial software, and there's not much interest.

I'm not sure how to solve the issue of FOSS being unappealing to most..
How would RTSC destroy society?
yea i really have no idea what he is talking about

it's sad when people are so confidently incorrect
SGI Octane: What can a $30k computer from the 90s do?
Is BERT the ultimate midwit tier algo?
The age groups are not all that important, since the number of heat-related deaths is so small. It's fine to make a graph that shows both, but scaling the axis that way is at best incompetent.
Functional code is better than non-functional code. What good is libreboot if you can't use it? You're more than welcome to use the now-maintained notgnuboot.vimuser.org or libreboot censored if you hate binary blobs, and are also more than welcome to try to find hardware that doesn't have closed source blobs built in.

I love free software, and will never stop, but "Libre" is only great in a vacuum.
Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss
Many such cases!
stroustrup switched to using a proportional font in TC++PL 3rd ed. i really didn't like it, but i know quite a few people did. all comes down to taste as far as rendering is concerned, i suppose. but the program text must be able to be rendered in either a fixed or a proportional font, and look sensible in either. and that is not so easy.
I guess it makes sense that they put them near major roadways, for easier access, but I find driving through a wind farm to be intensely distracting. The rotation of the windmills during the day, and the strobing warning beacons at the top at night, really tend to pull my eyes off the road ahead.
As someone with severe Asian flush, with an overactive ADH gene (gene that converts of alcohol to acetaldehyde) and 2 defective ALDH2 alleles (gene that breaks down acetaldehyde into harmless byproducts), I wish there is a way to repair these genes using MRNA. I don't feel even the mildest buzz from alcohol but I instantly get a hangover when I drink.
What we need is a CDN that deploys to ALL edge nodes
What we actually need from CDNs are configurable static deployments of our content to ALL edge nodes!
Yes, from my memory of when a popular fantasy writer was in the mainstream discourse for a while, anybody that even said something remotely negative to her and advertised their location as in the U.K. immediately shut up and apologised after likely receiving legal threats. No anti-SLAPP regulation, either.

I believe it's because they can sue for damages related to the tarnishing of their image, though that may just be universal.
> Then there's some discussion about who the people who created the video are and the letters DOD appear but I have no idea if that means "Department of Defense" or some other acronym.

I don't think there's any mention of "DOD", it's just a screenshot of a low-quality discussion in yet another discussion board where people were asking "So who the fuck is this guy?" (i.e., the guy who's saying it's probably a scam).

* I probably should have mentioned that this site is roughly a Korean equivalent of 4chan and the discussions are generally low quality and filled with swears. But the screenshot of the Facebook post seems genuine.
> It is actually truly revolutionary to disagree with it, e.g., take the stance that capitalism is an effective way of organizing labour.

Ah, the status quo, truly the highest form of revolution.
I mean, the most obvious would be António Egas Moniz. His discovery that got him the Nobel for Medicine both didn't work and caused so much preventable illness, injury, and death that it is actually banned in many countries.
Look up "staple foods" and it will be a rare list that doesn't START with (let alone doesn't contain) rice. But that was just one example of something that Costco sold for years, and then didn't have for years. They may have it again now, but I've given up wasting time looking for it there and now buy it at an Oriental-foods market.

I don't go to Costco "first" in most cases because trips there are far less frequent than regular grocery-store trips. I keep a separate shopping list for Costco, which includes the core items I've been buying there for years. When the list gets long enough, I make a special trip to Costco to restock. That's why it's infuriating to find that a bunch of the items have suddenly disappeared.

I will say that what remains on my list has been pretty steadily available for some time now, with occasional outages. There are quite a few Kirkland products on there. Their peanuts (in the white-labeled metal cylinder) are outstanding, for example.
Further:

The CO2 Coalition was established by William Happer, a senior director with the White House National Security Council under Trump. The coalition received donations of over $100,000 from the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Mercer Family Foundation of Robert Mercer and Rebekah Mercer, as well as $50,000 each from the Searle Freedom Trust, the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Achelis and Bodman Foundation.

For insight on people like Clauser and Happer, I recommend reading Merchants of Doubt, the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway or the 2014 film.
fun fact: an average "policy debate" speaker speaks 350 words per minute and is completely unintelligible to an average person. They speak faster than auctioneers. A "policy debate" is not your average debate and is more like its own sport. The goal is to cram so many arguments into the limited time that your opponents cannot address them all.

Watch these and you definitely cannot understand them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrTYHn1Am0c&list=PLHaG-zIzA-...

Even the Onion could not have written a better skit.
Fuel Logistics for a Pacific War
How I designed systems in the early 2000s when procuring hardware had large up front costs including building an on prem server room with raised floors and non water fire suppression systems is different from how I design systems now when I can create my entire server infrastructure by using a text editor and creating a yaml file.

The considerations I take about scalability, RTO vs RPO and my entire system design and process decisions change when I have unlimited capacity and the ability to scale to zero.

My experience programming in 65C02 assembly in the 80a doesn’t make me a better developer today.
When you write the entire system in python instead of using python to coordinate programs and libraries written in other languages.
Thank you. I laughed out loud. Also, this is true.
> It's mind numbing and comes off as sophistry.

It is mind numbing. IMO it's also a fair bit of sophistry, but it's at least sophistry that involves some amount of concept compression. Ie, you can't quite unpack those concepts into a single paragraph of similar size.

Also: please remember, in these conversations, that we are talking about things written by teenagers.

> Does this actually have a meaning?

Yes.

Here's a much better but slightly lossy way of saying this:

If you talk about North Korea only as a threat to be contained, then you can fall into the trap of forgetting that it's a country of humans. That could be a bad trap to fall into for a number of reasons. One reason: if you forget about your adversary's humanity then it becomes easier to commit atrocities. It's easier to "contain the communist threat" than to "fire bomb a village". Instead of rushing ahead with policy decisions that manage North Korea as an abstract security threat, we should first try to understand the various perspectives of people within North Korea.

Hopefully easier to understand.

The reason it's not pure sophistry is that there are some details I left out -- the second sentence of the original, in particular, has a fair bit of additional stuff packed into it. And the last sentence of my version is a bit over-simplified. Fully expanding everything might take a page or so; idk, I'm too exhausted to try :)

But that's the basic idea. And, more to the point, that's the level of detail at which this idea that would actually matter in 99+% of debates. So that's probably how it should be stated.

You can't learn without making mistakes, and these types of things are great teaching opportunities.

On that note: this type of writing also happens in Mathematics and especially in documentation of complicated software. We have a sequence of long sentences relating fairly abstract concepts. If the reader already understands each of those concepts and how they typically interact, then the reader can piece together the meaning of the sentences quite quickly. But for a reader without that context the paragraph is utterly inscrutable, appears to be nonsense, and takes hours to unpack.

The key observation here is about technical writing in general. Describe the basic idea without too much jargon. It's okay to remove some details and over-simplify! Then, if the reader needs more details, give the more precise statement. The expert can safely skim to the precise statement. Everyone wins. What a useful teaching tool!

Aside: I've always found public reaction to these think pieces off-putting. I think of debaters as kids learning how to engage with ideas. The incredibly public and harsh critiques of their failures seems... mean spirited. People will actually project all the ills of American politics onto something written by a kid who is making his first attempt at packing a lot of concepts into a small space. I tend to be a bit more sympathetic, since I see highly practiced professionals fail at this task all the time.
What?

> Tiegs argued that “100 percent” of sex work is human trafficking

He's completely upfront about conflating all sex work with human trafficking. I genuinely don't understand how you could read this and not get that the point of the "trafficking" rhetoric is shifting the definition to encompass what's not generally considered human trafficking.
This. American high school debate format makes no sense. This is just the latest contradiction to be heightened.

Debate is just not a thing that subjects itself to being gamed in this way.
Interesting. I never use the dock, so the most frustrating thing to me is when it pops up under my cursor and gets in the way of a window. Hiding it is the first thing I do on every Mac. I wish there was a simple setting to disable it completely.
Computer Users Tape System (1976) [pdf]
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