skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought some aspects of how mathematics is taught has been wrong for a very long time. Part of it, I think, are people working as teachers/professors who are really bad teachers.

As an example: One that stuck in my head from decades ago was solving the Fibonacci recurrent relation. At some point the professor wrote down “r^n” and somehow “r^2 + r + 1 = 0” shows up.

When asked where r^n came from he said it was just a guess. When asked how or why not guess something completely different, he said “that’s how we solve these problems”.

And that was that. Nobody in his class understood this and myriad other areas in math where the answer seems to be “and then a miracle occurs”.

There are many YouTube math teacher who are massively better than most university (and below) instructors. My guess is this is because they actually love what they do.
This works both ways. Weaponising the non-voting chronically online naysayers to rile up your own base who _will_ vote.
Weird that this shot to the top of HN and immediately flagged off the front page before any discussion
I don’t think socializing at work is bad, but depending on it I think can be: you may not get along with your coworkers or have any common interests, and the ones you do might leave/depart anytime. you shouldn't expect or need them to reciprocate

Having a strong social life outside of work insulates you form this
> I imagine “connoisseurs” would try to disagree, but Mr Coffee makes a legitimately decent all-in-one machine for $230 - the One Touch CoffeeHouse.

The Specialty Coffee Association has a certification program and list of machines that have passed:

* https://sca.coffee/certified-home-brewer

Units by Cuisinart, GE, Oxo, and Zwilling are on the certified list and can be founded listed for US$ 230. One of the main items for certification is getting the water consistently to the correct temperature.

Or you can spend $30 on a dripper and $50 on a (simple on/off) kettle:

* https://cleverbrewing.coffee/products/clever-dripper

With the difference going to a good grinder so you're making coffee with fresh beans.
I think a standard library is not negative, but rather acts as a multiplier for decisions. The C++ std::unordered_map designers made a bad decision (requiring buckets to be iterable) and now, like you say, it's hard to get people to use the superior absl::flat_hash_map. But if the standard library designers make a good decision -- for instance, Python's extremely well-designed dict that is fast, insertion-ordered, and forms the basis of nearly every object -- then everyone gets to reap the benefits without the cognitive overhead of figuring out what the best hash map is.
Well, it is Wells Fargo who are one of the most garbage banks on the planet. A mattress is safer.
Then flag it, too. HN shouldn't be the torch & pitchfork store.
First and foremost never consider a credit union a "smaller bank" the rules and regulations around credit unions are very very different than commercial banks the biggest being they are coop's i.e member owned, and non-profit.

second yes a large bank like JP Morgan Chase has most assets, and is "to big a fail" so institutional collapse is impossible, however they also are soo big that your individual account means nothing to them and they have no incentive to provide any customer service at all, which results in a numbers of horror stories where accounts are locked, cancelled, frozen for months or even years with people unable to access funds or at the mercy of the large institution for when or if they will ever get their money back. Where the local branch you go to has zero power or authority to help you, or even access any real info about your account, and to get any info it is a exercise in calling 100's of different helpdesks...

Sorry I will take a Local Credit union 100x, secure knowing that even if the institution were to collapse and credit union have a very very small collapse rate compared to commercial banks, my deposits are fully insured anyway so my money is safe, and I get 1000000000% better customer service.
I know it does (having grown up around the industry), but I don't think we need to go to such extremes. Lots of things have environmental tolls that don't receive anything like a tenth of this sort of absolutism.
That's an especially poignant view; you can see the activity start strong last year and then fade out until it just ends.

Rest in peace, Bram; thank you for your work.
> The company pays 6430 for social security (calculated as a % of your salary, so this is effectively your tax even if on paper it's the company that pays it.)
> - You pay 1270 for social security (on paper you pay it but the company gives it to the tax office directly)

A contribution towards your pension is not a tax. It's a deferred payment. You will get that money later, with interest.

> Tax rate for capital gains is capped at 26% no matter how many millions you're earning.

Capital gains taxes charge you for the nominal increase in the value of the assets you sell, which means that you pay taxes for inflation. For example, if you bought an asset for 100EUR and sell it one year later for 103EUR, you will pay a capital gains tax on that 3EUR difference, even though you may not have actually obtained any benefit if inflation was 3% that year, so you are actually worse off than you were.

> But if you're truly rich, you don't work, you have assets that appreciate for you

You will pay taxes if they appreciate, but you won't get your money back when they depreciate. You are taking a risk.

> This does not take into account that as a rich person you're going to be spending less of the money you earn than a poor person so you're paying less VAT (sales tax) as well

If two people buy the same asset for the same price, they both pay the same amount in VAT. If the rich person ends up buying more stuff, they pay more VAT than the poor person.

And at the end of the day, most of the income taxes obtained by the government are paid by the upper quintile of the population. Which is to say, the working class enjoys social services they can't afford thanks to a small percentage of the population that pays on their behalf.

Not only that, Spain is one of the few countries in the world with a wealth tax, which starts once you reach 700k EUR, so it's not exactly taxing billionaires, either.
This may be wrong. As it happens, I can get it to work using different software without a user-agent header.

I notice this site does not accept TLS1.3. Internet Archive accepts TLS1.3.
The uploader of the video is speculated by some netizens to be an assistant professor at Wuhan University of Science and Technology, judging from the ip region (Hubei), match of a part of the screen name (xiang), match of major and the last name that the account disclosed in the signature of a submitted artwork

Speculations

https://www-zhihu-com.translate.goog/question/615790258/answ...

https://www-zhihu-com.translate.goog/question/615790258/answ...

CV in question

https://cy.wust.edu.cn/info.jsp?urltype=news.NewsContentUrl&...
“Lying” is not really all that illegal in the United States because of that pesky first amendment that people love to apply (and ignore) when it suits them.
If the earth runs out of helium we will just use low field MRIs that don't require superconductors (see eg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25441-6 ). Their resolution is lower than that of high field MRIs, but they still seem to be a useful diagnostic tool.
Rest in Peace! Thank you Bram for the wonderful contributions!
If they resolved this in just a few hours (as the article states) why should there be fines? Unless there was some kind of negligence involved anyone can have a technical issue. Software is just too complex now, especially when you are supporting legacy code from 50 years ago
You should do something that actually has a chance to work, rather than feel good about doing something that that doesn’t.

When your house is on fire, you don’t start shopping for sprinklers saying, “Good news everyone! The sprinkler system will be installed in three weeks!”, instead of calling the fire department
The inclusion of shell on the “loved” list for greenfield projects is enough to make me doubt the article’s thesis.
Kill the Boer Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and US
This is not it, they were measuring 30-day mortality, not just mortality during the exact days of the conference.
There's a big difference between filming a public servant on duty misbehaving, and I random person having a bad day.
It isn't; it's been around for ages and is specifically a trusted organization handling donations for open source projects.

Chalk the snotty comment, and irrational YC worship, up to your basic herd mentality. The author is, I would bet, a typical HN poster.
An astute observation!

More badges being more vain than less, should that push up or down one’s Q-quotient?
Are banned books good ideas? Maybe the ring of power is in of itself a bad thing.
But see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30322179/, a large meta-analysis that found no association between coffee drinking and Alzheimer's disease:

We performed a dose-response meta-analysis to summarize the prospective data on coffee consumption and associated risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. These studies included 7486 dementia cases diagnosed among 328,885 individuals during an average follow-up of 4.9⁻25 years. Meta-analysis of all eight studies indicated no statistically significant association between coffee consumption and the risk of dementia and no deviations from a linear trend (p = 0.08). The relative risk of dementia per 1 cup/day increment of coffee consumption was 1.01 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.98⁻1.05; p = 0.37). Meta-analysis of five studies that focused on Alzheimer's disease revealed no association between coffee consumption and Alzheimer's disease and no deviations from a linear trend (p = 0.79). The relative risk of Alzheimer's disease per 1 cup/day increment of coffee consumption was 1.01 (95% confidence interval 0.95⁻1.07; p = 0.80). These results do not support an association between coffee consumption and an increased risk of overall dementia or Alzheimer's disease specifically, but further research on the association of coffee consumption with dementia risk is needed.
They are a lot more likely to not fuck you over if they do. The big bank will have customer service stonewall you until you threaten to sue them enough times.
> Part of the power of social media, is that powerful people acting badly in public finally might face some public backlash or justice.

Who are the powerful people in your opinion? Does it depend on their skin color? Their gender? Their perceived wealth? Their looks?

Try hard enough, you can find any kind of hook that will justify public shaming because this person has privilege and so it isn't punching down. Of course, nevermind that, what use is it for someone in Seattle to join the shaming of someone in London, nevermind Atlanta?
There is absolutely a reason to run a model under such unreasonable assumptions. It gives an upper bound. If you ran that unreasonable model and found that the cancer risk was minimal, then you could say with confidence that under a more reasonable model that doesn't massively overestimate the level of exposure, the risk would not be any higher and would likely be a lot lower. As others have noted though, that's not the result that this model produced, so another more realistic model should have been run.
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There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when in public <<

this is the most incorrect statement i have seen today.
you should experience what happens if you walk up to a woman with a purse and start rummaging through it. clothes would be unreasonable as well, you should look under peoples garments and tell them about how unreasonable they are being .
A game requiring infrastructure means that the game requires someone to support the infrastructure, even if it's simple. For small projects or free games, your game can continue to have life if it doesn't require anything but the software to play it. And a $30/mo server cost is not cheap for a game that provides zero revenue (or even upfront-only revenue for a small indie game).

I'm always super happy to see when a game supports zero-internet LAN play. That means I'm still going to be able to play it in 15 years if I want.
Also check out the G-IOTA, it's sold under several different names but it's the best espresso grinder you can get for the money. It has flat burrs, which are superior to conical burrs.

https://reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/lw8pbo/probarista_gio...
Yes it does, the answer is both, but with the caveat that there were people focused on rolling the dice of luck to search for this.
People keep saying things like "humans always adapt to new technology"

Is that not the point here? Start at the basics - Agriculture has created a world where I cannot live off the land in my area. I would have to go to a location that is not dominated by an Agriculture focused society (condensed living with farms on the edges supplying food to the population via trade).

Look what happens to people who have nothing to offer for food. They become dependents of the state.

There is no reason to undermine the very real possibility that after another breakthrough or three in AI society is going to fundamentally shift in the impacted areas in a way where if you are not one of the AI people then you will have nothing to offer and thus you too will become a dependent of the state.

Hopefully non-ai society will remain able to function independently - with non-ai-boosted farms continuing to trade with non-ai-boosted workers. Maybe technological middle grounds get eroded and we see an explosion in Amish-style communities.

It is very possible however that the power of ai-based systems takes off and all the people involved with it simply completely ignore the rest of society, and the rest of society will be boxed out of the resources they need to live independently.

For centuries the ultimate reality check for ignore the needs of the many has been revolution. For all that time, surprise attacks, rebellion, physical power in numbers, etc, all existed.

Revolution is not going to be on the table with advanced AI. It's arguably already off the table, but if one side has advanced AI (not even AGI) and the other doesn't- its over. Automatic early threat detection, autonomous kill machines, control over all strategic resource and power generation, etc.

The only revolution still on the table is going to be political. We can absolutely succeed in preventing dystopia if we leverage the power of the state to actually be able to sustain 90% of the population becoming dependents
10% of US presidents were assassinated and 20% of them had assassination attempts. Congressmen have been assassinated, judges, state politicians, mayors. If you go into politics, getting made fun of on the internet is the least of your worries, you're going to need a thick skin. If someone is making fun of you on Twitter, at least you've got name recognition.
Someone should make a list of non-scam NFT sites.

Edit: some of my favorites below.
No. I think you are conflating the issues here.

In this case we aren't talking about changing some code in a .js file through a RFI attack. We are talking about changing the behavior of how the node.js interpreter would run the .js file because at the end of the day the interpreter itself is what is getting ran by the os.
The idea that 7% of American adults like lying on surveys is more believable to me than the idea that people think chocolate milk is not from added chocolate.
On my M60 keyboard, I can switch back and forth between USB and bluetooth with a single button press, which is super nice for running two PCs at once. When I switch, the color of the keyboard lighting switches too, so I can tell at a glance which computer the keyboard is connected to. All of that was easy by just tweaking some of the Python code that shows up as an external USB drive.

But with QMK/Via, you can't really tweak much on the VIA app. And the app itself is fiddly, where for my keyboard at least you have to select an old version and load a configuration file every time you want to tweak something. And it seems like you can't actually change much with the backlight, and there is no way to change the USB/Bluetooth state by key (at least on my keyboard).

To go deeper with QWK/Via, I'd have to recompile the firmware. Which is fine I suppose, but I'd also have to track down exactly what version of QMK my keyboard uses and get the code, if it's even available. Then I'd have to deal with a re-flashing process and a risk of bricking it. It's a much bigger headache than just tweaking some scripts on an external drive.
Protecting Inputs in Digital Electronics
Useful in protecting GPIO input pins of a MCU.
Presumably he doesn't care. How's his poetry?
To understand why, i think you have to know 2 data points

1) The first date (and then-current surgery schedule) at the point when the conference dates where announced.

2) The date (and then-current surgery schedule) at the point, when the doctor booked his/her travel plans.

Both lists and dates will help you understand if changes in information also resulted in the changes of mortality (by rescheduling hard cases to a later date, for example).
When you deposit money, it's no longer your money. You've now lent the money to the bank. That bank may or may not be worthy of your trust, and there are likely rafts of laws protecting you. But ultimately it's a loan to the bank. All you own is an acknowledgement from this institution that they owe you $x.

On the other hand, if you buy shares in the bank, you now own a chunk of it. Of course this isn't a feasible way to keep your day-to-day cash; we all need checking & credit accounts. But anything above the minimum is a risk, and a lost opportunity from investing returns you could've gotten from shares, bonds, or even the money market.

For that minimum expense float we all need to have, cash under the mattress is not that terrible of an idea, assuming you live in a safe place.

Something to keep in mind!
With the internet, citizens can anonymously criticize a politician, publish compromising information on the politician, ridicule the politician, and even call them insulting names!

With political power, the politician can restrict the freedom of the citizen, confiscate the property of the citizen, order the citizen to the front lines, declare the citizen a non-human, torture the citizen, execute the citizen, and exterminate the citizen's family. This has happened in every country on earth, including yours. It happens right now that you're reading this.

So the balance of power is far from being thrown by online free speech.
> They're in public. Their actions can be seen by anyone else in public who crosses paths with them

Yes, in public in that same instant - were public is constrained to be the people present there

Once it’s recorded it can be copied and transmitted to far off places and preserved in time
monontheism is far from an universal consequence of agriculture. It's really limited to Abrahamic religions and religions influenced by them.

Pre-christian Roman empire, Ancient Greece, China, India are all examples of advanced ancient civilizations that were happily polytheistic
"Humans with AI will heavily profit from Humans without AI"

FTFY
I haven't worked at many places like this, but the last time I did they had services that managed and operated on petabytes worth of data. The full suite of front end applications, rest services, ingestion services, maintenance, queues, billing, communication, scheduling and other systems is large enough that I probably only saw the source code for maybe 1/3 at most, let alone modified.

I do like local development better, every time it is feasible, but there's not much point in doing so if it can't reasonably reproduce a production system.
Sadly, I've come to believe that any story with FTL in it must be classified as fantasy. I might be willing to accept natural wormhole travel. Even with generation ships, authors vastly underestimate the difficulties of traveling interstellar distances. When authors posit intergalactic travel, forget about it! Galaxies might as well be pocket universes because they don't interact. (Unless they collide, which will happen with the Milky Way and Andromeda in about 4.5 billion years. Oh man if we can make it that long and have even slow interstellar travel, what an opportunity for exploration!)

But yeah, thank god most of science fiction is actually fantasy because if any of those things were possible, they'd immediately be used to destroy planets. Ships going FTL could be collided into a planet. Teleportation and easily accessed anti-matter could be used to annihilate cities - or planets. Most authors don't even bother building in reasons why that can't happen, its just that no-one thinks of doing it.

I think the limits of the real world are quite fascinating. It's almost like reality was designed to support a huge array of civilizations that cannot interfere with each other. Interstellar travel is so hard that any civ capable of it is going to be capable of executing technologically advanced projects over centuries or millenia, and I daresay such a civ is not doing it for conquest, but to discover and explore. If the urge is militaristic, then such a civ would turn on itself long before the project succeeds. There's a kind of poetry to it.
> If it is 'use rust' wasm actively downgrades the memory safety that rust gives you because many of the security issues that wasm has is a function of both the compiler and the operating system working together.

Can you say more about this? I’m using rust through wasm and I hadn’t heard of any security disadvantages of doing so. What kind of security problems are mitigated in a native binary that are problems in wasm?
It would be worth looking into the seniority of the doctors attending the meetings. This is purely anecdotal, but my town hosts some meetings and conventions, including doctors, and I've been hired by those events as a musician.

I'm always struck by how young the attendees are. They look like kids. It may be that meetings are more of an attraction for people trying to build their careers, make connections, and have a free vacation, whereas the senior doctors are happy to stay at home and man the fort, plus they have the usual obligations of older workers, such as families.

This is also the case at my techie day job: Most of the interest in attending meetings is among the junior engineers.
Rest in peace, Bram! Thank you so much for vim!
Ladybird browser July 2023 update: first full time dev hired [video]
Indeed, but the parent used a capitalized "Starships".

In any case, I think Starship's engineering, and particularly the Super Heavy booster, is bringing us a significant step closer to starships (in lower case).
Global heating has been thought to be occurring for longer than anyone has been alive. It's been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt for over forty years. There is no way for a disinterested person to look at the evidence and conclude this is anything other than a man-made crisis. Problem is a whole lot of the public doesn't care about the truth.

I don't know how a democratic society can deal with half its population living in a fantasy world. My guess is it cannot.
Personally I don't have a problem with crypto because it's being used to move drug money or ransoms around.

It's the exchanges that look to me similar to the people needing to move drug money or ransoms...
Is it private data of criminals and thieves? If that’s the case it’s hard to feel sympathy.
This is more of a quirk of which axioms you choose and which you discard rather than anything else. For instance, implicit in this model is a continuous representation of the universe, but the universe is not actually continuous!
Does anybody know the bit rates, bandwidth, spreading, coding, and packet sizes of the messages they send? It must take several hours to send a message. I also wonder what the minimum number of bits they need to send to recover control is.