skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they really invent it, though? It seems like most premodern societies functioned more or less like that it’s just that we have a lot more documentation from ancient Rome than other places.
Do you realize people have been claiming this for over at least half a century? Robots are dumb and most physical labor cannot be replaced by robots. Modern AI techniques do not improve on that, as they add unpredictability to the output.

See for example this article/threads from last week about a large US company failing to replace skilled work with robots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36828861

I guess we'll wait another decade before we can have this conversation :)
It's in the OSEP course. :)
I dont understand the point of this comment. You obviously need it to be a vector space before you can define an inner product. Inner product spaces are very special examples of vector spaces.
Is a national park "tarnished", if funded with tax money coming from a highly-polluting industry...?

As long as FF takes Google money, it's less money going to fund anti-web activities.
It makes sense from Apples perspective yes, I mean, after all third party repairs was seen as a huge threat to revenue.

As a user though, lol.
I love your coherence. Can you recommend a book (if you have read it) that explains in detail what you have summarized?
Maximisers vs. Satisficers (2021)
I would say it’s more the fact that many are written by people very new to programming as a whole. Lots of spaghetti.
> We'd have to reduce to about half of where we are now just for the fauna to stabilize

I mean the article states the tobacco photosyntesized twice as effectively, with RsRubisco, which is actually less efficient the GmRubisco. So food-wise it seems hypothetically achievable.

I agree we'd need massive conscious degrowth in every other part of the economy though.
so "scientists baffled and confused" would have been more accurate :)

edit: I'm overthinking this, but the word "scientists" does a lot of heavy lifting in the headline. The number of things the human race in general and scientists especially are unsure about is vast. Putting a person in a white overcoat, spectacles, and pen in their pockets to lead the sentence with authority doesn't give them a chance of not looking dumb. Scientists in media language are 100% of the time more clownish than even politicians or any other profession.

Even the content in itself is garbage, in which case the headline does justice, or there was in fact something news-worthy but the meta-analysis by this article has missed it.
"t should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter."
A better example I've seen for the theorem is that if you take a paper map of a country, messily schrunch it up into a ball and drop it somewhere in the country, there will be at least one point on the map that is exactly above the corresponding real point in the country.

As others have said, it's meant for mappings of the space to itself. So stirring the water, but not moving the glass.

But anyway, the theorem works only for continiuous mappings. The moment they started mentioning "water particles", instead of some hypothetical fluid that is a continuous block, the theorem no longer applied. You could break it by mirroring the position of every particle. There's still a fixed point (the line of mirroring), but there's no obligation that there's a particle on that line.
Drop your last paragraph, it goes against the HN guidelines
Taro leaves (rourou in Fijian) are cooked for a long time (for a vegetable) in order to break down the oxalic acid.
> I am all in favor of kids learning new things as fast as they want.

You sound like you aren't a parent, or you are a parent of very exceptional children who have enough willpower and ability to organize their schedule to actually do something like learning math.

My experience, especially with kids until high-school and even into the high-school is that unless there's an external framework which tells them how and when and from what book and so on they won't do a thing.

Of course it would've been easier if left to their own devices children could just somehow organize their curriculum, but that isn't going to happen. So, the adults need to create the curriculum. Not just that, mathematical problems are very hard for independent study. They absolutely require guidance. It took many generations to prove theorems we find in introductory math books. So, the question is less about the students and more about the teachers -- how do they structure and plan their guidance to be more effective. And for that matter it'd be fair to make a simplifying assumption that children are more or less the same, since the guidance and the curriculum are orders of magnitude more important.

Now, as to how actually do it -- I don't know. I tried my hand a little, and it was a miserable failure. But, to put this into perspective, Wittgenstein, the author of "The Tractatus", one of the founding figures of modern mathematics, tried to be a school teacher for a while, and also failed to the point of being hated by his school students.

When I reflect on the school curriculum from a college perspective, I cannot help but to shrug about how most subjects and problems seem like a worthless dead-end stuff... and yet when I tried to work with students through more important mathematical stuff -- it just didn't work. Zero retention and very little understanding to begin with. Things I thought elegant or simple don't generate anything similar to my excitement when introduced to the students. No number of "creative" ways to explain this stuff ever made it more appealing. If anything, it sometimes causes resentment because, compared to their peers, the students may think they aren't getting the "good stuff" because they cannot do some worthless thing their peers were taught the automation of.
> just creates the oxalate in the pan instead of your body and you can’t remove it

If that stops it from being digested and entering my blood stream that would still help though, no?

I'm just confused at how spinach can be both a calcium-rich food and rich in a chemical that extracts calcium from the blood.
Not to sound snarky, but is there any example where theoretical computer science has actually been useful? The results are often like "Here is a proof this will be slow if you scale it up enough" -- "Yeah we knew that for 20 years, it doesn't matter"
You seem to have a very bleak view of humanity and social interactions. I don't entirely disagree with your analysis (see also: Mutual Aid, by Piotr Kropotkin) but there's more to collectiveness than pure utility.
It always seems like that in the present but we can usually see more clearly how brilliant people in the past influenced things. There's too much noise in the now. We hear all the voices and they average out to mediocre thinking and discourse. Only decades from now it will be clear who the geniuses among us are and what long lasting contributions they are making. The same way it always seems like current pop music is garbage, but the oldies are golden. We just forgot about the old garbage and kept listening to the good stuff.
So what is Rutkowski's journey, his story, his sufferings, his trials, his tribulations? If that is how it came to be that I see a work of art in his style, what is it?
The art (style) I can see for myself, but that journey can't be faked.
Bear in mind, when silicon foundries say they have an Xnm process, nothing in that process is actually Xnm. TSMCs 2nm process does not make transistors 2nm wide[1]. They are in fact, approximately 40-50nm wide. The process number is a marketing number, and what changes each generation is actually transistor geometry (here you'll see terms like FinFET and GAA transistor and such, plus some process improvements that cause "half" generations)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

But yeah, the fact that latest process nodes actually increase in cost is why people say "Moore's law is dead". Performance improves, but to keep the trendline roughly exponential, many things have had to give since the late 2000s. Such as: cost per wafer, power usage for max performance etc.
Lots of good 1st hand accounts in the comments on that vid.
In typical OS definitions, a file descriptor or file handle doesn't do anything, it's just some abstract way of referring to a position in a file uniquely. You can ask the OS to read data from the position in the file that the file descriptor points to, or to write data to it, or to map a segment of it into your memory, or to tell you other details about the file. But the file reader, and the file writer, and the file mapper etc are all parts of the OS, not the file nor the file descriptor.

In this sense, the GP is right - to respect OS terminology, in Go we should write

fileReaderWriter := os.Open(path, "rw")

Since os.Open doesn't return a file handle/descriptor, but an object capable of reading or writing to a file. This is different from C, where open() does return a FILE*, which is just a handle to a file which you explicitly pass to read() or write() or mmap() etc.
"if all those assholes stopped having kids"

So to save humanity, humanity must be destroyed?

Also, who do you think, will take care of you, when you cannot anymore, but there aren't people anymore doing it.

Robots? Well, hopefully they can take care of themself then. Or is this the whole idea? Pass everything on to the machines?
I have this analogy stuck with me: «Classes should be deep, not large». Which means: imagine a thin rectangle, but very tall, which stands on its thin side up; now, the X-dimension is the price you have to pay upfront to understand an abstraction ("interface") and Y-dimension is what you get once you understand it. The ratio between the two is the "leverage" you get from that abstraction.

Now imagine a perfect square: you gain as much "leverage" with your abstraction as you get functionality out of it: this the prime example of your dumb setter in Java, because it takes you exactly the same effort to learn what it's doing, as for you to do it yourself.

Again this is a picturesque analogy.
People are extremely risk averse nowadays. The same way children could play outside alone before, and can't now.
Exactly. But we're on a US site where shitting on anything China is almost a guaranteed karma boost. Some posts are literally impossible to downvote.
The article is by no means perfect, but that "howler" sees completely fine to me. If you want to prove something is a vector space the standard way would be to prove that all the vector space axioms hold for it.
If the goal is to prevent brigading then works that have very few reviews wouldn't need to be protected. That combined with restrictions on reviews before publication might be a viable approach.
[writes a ton of slander]

guys guys sorry I was wrong! but I've left the lies up, whoops how clumsy of me
I should’ve clarified I was referring to the old (2021) article at the OP when I was talking about the high quality.

The recent ones haven’t remained in the same pathway unfortunately.
The leading causes for 'unintentional injury' deaths in the USA (age 1-44) are:

1. Drug overdose

2. Motor vehicle traffic

Maybe there is a need for regulation? Especially if you consider that the USA has 2-4x more road deaths per million people compared to europe. Safe technoligies through regulations are one aspect in addressing this problem.
> Microsoft Office

Do you know Libre Office ? Also, don't have these horrible ribbon thing interface.
>I think you can get a 2TB ssd for like a 100 bucks nowadays. They are dirt cheap.

Unless you're paying Apple for it :^). Hope you like 12x markup to go with your 1TB SSD :^)
I pay ~6€ for 1TB of storage on Hetzner managed Nextcloud instance, that is 0,005859375€ per GB. Obviously, that is not a back up solution or a back up solution for the "PARANOID tm", but come on, 0.25$ per GB is a ripoff
I wonder what the possibilities for a fundamentally different manufacture method are. For example, what if we could program a layout into DNA and have biological agents construct it?
It appears to be a bonfire of vanities on all sides. One side goes "I use the trust you invested in me to block you from project resources, because my other project is soo much better but has less name-recognition." The other side goes "We are more pure, more righteous, and more petty at the same time! Let's show the other side by registering a confusing domain name and release a similiar but still different software with a long blurb why the other side is bad and must be destroyed! Oh yeah, and let's write scathing e-mails so nobody misses that we are petty."

This seems so weird to me. Why invest the energy? In the olden days we'd just fork and get to work.
From C64 DTV to Tilt5 Jeri Ellsworth
“We are not cheating” (YH Kwon superconductor comments)
A cell still needs its DNA (to make proteins among other things) even when it is not dividing.
It's not just a way to do that. There's no point imputing a motivation you made up to the other person. It's doing exactly what you're saying they're guilty of: assuming.
There are interesting analogies to some current developments in AI to be made:

- the Internet and especially things like Twitter makes "clustering" way easier for geniuses and people that (want to) advance human knowledge; but this only works for people and areas where the "incumbents " are used to it- very visible in current (OS) LLM Research, which is mind-blowing in my opinion.
This is different to older methods of Sharing Research (journals and conferences) which were way slower an more lossy (only successes shared).

- If we reach AGI, one could describe it as an (almost, only Ressource-constrained) infinite cluster of geniuses ..
Seems like the ultimate "move the goal post" art of debate to me.
I've noticed a cognitive decline in myself the past couple years. I'm in my mid 30's though so I assume it's more related to long covid. One of the biggest side effects of long covid for me was horrible insomnia, which was killer. The insomnia is mostly gone, but I'm still not my previous cognitive self. It's terrifying to be honest.
So, how do we stop it?
Why is there so much drama around libreboot? I would prefer the software responsible for booting my machine to be trustworthy and boring, all this drama certainly doesn’t make it so. Perhaps more resources should be spent on supporting hardware newer than ~10 years instead of infighting?
What is a good hobby for an entrepreneur
The importance of hobbies for entrepreneurs and how they can benefit not only your personal well-being but also your professional growth and success
As someone who has nothing to do with the army/military. There's two principals that I've always liked about it, maybe more but two stand out.

1. No one gets left behind.
2. People work together for mission wins and mutual survival.

I have had a rough time in my professional career finding either of those at places of employment even in small bits. my latest job being the best at it but still struggling sometimes.

Maybe that gets romanticized a bit in books and movies, but I think companies would be way more successful with more people operating on those principals.

US industry teach us to fiercely compete, be an individual, destroy our competition. US military says almost the exact opposite barring that the competition is outside your group. Somehow these are both the best but seem to be at complete odds with one another.
Because this can kill people. Lots of them. And not just the users.
.... Because of cars...
When I last looked, the intent was that eventually ECH endpoints offer the same effective service that you got with Domain Fronting, but without messing with the backend in a way which is disruptive for the cloud providers so they support it.

Encrypted Client Hello is the in-progress work to have even the client's initial contact to an HTTPS server be encrypted.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-esni/

Why would ECH be fine when Domain Fronting isn't? The problem with Domain Fronting is that we get surprised too late with the actual request. We get what appears to be a legitimate request for this-thing.example, so we do all the work to respond to a this-thing.example request and then... swerve, sorry I changed my mind, my request is actually about hidden-service.example.

With ECH we (but not an adversary snooping the connection) know immediately that the request is for hidden-service.example and so we don't waste our time setting up for the wrong work.
Why would it be necessary to read the autobiography of Uri Geller before pointing out that it's full of crap? That's a waste of everyone's time.
Anything at scale. Anything that uses a database. Anything that uses anything smarter than bubblesort to organize results. Anything that uses a tree (or a trie) internally to represent the data and make some sort of order from it. CS isn't just about "hey this thing is slower than this thing", it's also about making things possible in the first place. If you've used Google (or Facebook or Microsoft or Netflix), they're only possible due to deep computer science work. Which videos gets chosen to be stored on the edge cache? Computer science algorithm.
I mean, yeah. Fritz Haber was a productive genius.
Quality of sleep makes a huge difference to your mental faculties. If you could bottle it, the effect would be a multi, multi $billion drug.
Going too fast will cause other issues. Unless we get a decent world war or another covid going the elderly aren't just going to drop dead.
Interesting timing... A few weeks ago I evaluated using tarsnap for my business and ended up going for borg + rsync.net, for some of the reasons pointed out in the post. It seemed like the more "professional" option (the website was clearer and the service didn't require me to top-up at irregular intervals). I guess I'm not the intended audience of tarsnap.
Doesn't sound like something I want at all.
So? A shovel can kill people.
There's absolutely nothing laudable in that at all and it screams of drama queen. "Lesser coders" - well that's is one person I'd avoid at all cost. Also, empty barrels make the most noise!
But the formats using Robert's Rules or similar structures are least affected by this.

I assure you these people are way more likely to feed into, y'know, policy institutes like CATO, Hoover, or Brookings. Nonprofit boards have little use for the kind of manic nihilism policy debate breeds in its most dedicated adherents. (A lot also go into Big Law or lobbying.)
Why does a new and possibly healthier ingredient need to imply overconsumption?

And what exactly is overconsumption? Isn't it eating more than our body needs? If I eat more of an ingredient that provides fewer nutrients then there is no overconsumption, correct? Or are you looking for a world where we should only eat the most nutrient dense food because of ?
> git-lfs, as in the binary, CLI application is the only (open) implementation in existence. There is nothing else.

There’s at lease one in sapling and Mononoke.

https://github.com/facebook/sapling/tree/main/eden/mononoke/...
That is wild, wonder if there's an asmr for it
Why? All of them coexist and most efficient ones get preferential treatment, for example priority on intersections/semaphores, more direct/shorter paths for mass transit and bikes
What's not that good is the train quality/frequency/price, for this Switzerland is much better (pricey but good quality and frequent), but NL is still ahead of many countries even in this regard
Probably a cruise going in Glacier Bay National Park.
I am not sure I fully understand your question, but I’ll try to answer the question I understood. Very generally, every field of math I know concerns itself with mappings and what they do (e.g. matrixes are mappings, as are metrics and norms). The differences between the different areas of math (oversimplified) is that they concern themselves with different kinds of mappings. The area I specialized in was partial differential equations, here the mappings of interest are solutions to partial differential equations (usually generalized functions). One of the important questions to ask is of these functions are continuous, differentiable, or any other of the many variations. All of these properties are defined over how a function maps an input to an output.

BTW: There’s usually an infinite number of solutions to a differential equation, and IIRC (it’s been a while) those solutions too form a vector space.
Tomato is a fruit. Most fruits have quite a bit of sugar in them. So no, it isn't surprising that tomato soup has sugar in it.
I looked in the mirror and stepped on the scale. I'm at a very healthy weight. You sound angry.
You are presenting it like "certification" is some kind of guarantee. The reality is that it isn't. Industrial accidents happen all the time and it remains to be proven that certifications and regulations actually improve anything.
Related reporting:

[0] https://www.thefp.com/p/judges-ruin-high-school-debate-tourn...

[1] https://www.thefp.com/p/personal-tweets-lose-high-school-deb...
Both. Doesn't matter how you make it: juice is pure sugar.
Ha, when i was too far ahead (around 11yo), I got put in a separate room with two girls with a similar "problem", no teacher.

Nice girls, very innocent. Eventually the rest of the class started catching up with our math progress and by the end of the school year we were let out of the cage.

It was a fond memory, I am not bitter about it, still remember some of the gags.

I dont think i lost that much, my math interest was more of a natural force rather than whatever i did in a repetetive schoolbook. And maybe I gained some social skills instead?

Just a little funny way of dealing with it
Red Hat and the Clone Wars VI: Obfuscating Kernel Code for Fun and Profit
With the corollary that the laws are complete.

YAGNI takes a back seat to algebraic closure.
> The leading causes

Did you just make my point? Drugs are already very regulated.

> Maybe there is a need for regulation?

Probably not.
Stealing people's land to build a casino is no more or less moral than doing the same to build a copper mine.

However, only one of these is actually going on.
Abuse of the court system is a criminal offence in many jurisdictions.
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$1M Will Go to the Mathematician Who Busts the 'ABC Conjecture' Theory
hey! one of the creators here, appreciate you guiding people :)

Can you tell me more about Safari version / device? It works on Safari for me!
Thanks for the TL;DR
Just so long as Stormtroopers aren’t doing the aiming.
And a condition we can induce in another animal. If we can't cause it in another animal then we can't test a drug against it. There are a lot of diseases that can make no progress under this model which we can not induce in animals or humans.
Competition with "mature nodes" is different in the sense that here one company (like TSMC) will be "competing" with itself. They will just stop building next gen fabs if their chips wouldn't sell.

> That's not strictly true, performance of a transistor still has value. Companies like Apple pay premiums to get in early on leading edge nodes, more per device than the mature nodes they move from.

Apple can't increase the price of their product arbitrarily. So if the price per performance increases, the new iPhone would be slower than the old one. Maybe people will still buy it if it has better power efficiency, but that is a trade-off which has its limits.
I've read this before, and I still think it is pretty remarkable for its clarity and the amount of useful, actionable judgement that it contains.

A question: The article is from 2014. So almost a decade has passed. How, if at all, would it be different if it was written today?