skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting place to try to establish a new state might be some of the weird places that exist due to the ridiculousness of the India and Pakistan border (if they still exist--I remember that there was some talk of adjusting the borders to get rid of them).

There are (or were) some places where Indian territory was entirely surrounded by Pakistani territory, and some places where Pakistani territory was entirely surrounded by Indian territory.

But it didn't stop there. There were a small number of cases where within one of those surrounded territories there was an even smaller territory that was part of the other country. E.g., a small Pakistani territory entirely in a larger Indian territory which was entirely inside Pakistan.

Pakistan and India aren't friendly with each other.

So suppose you went to one of those innermost territories and convinced the people there to join you and declare themselves a new independent state. Say some Pakistani territory inside some Indian territory inside Pakistan.

Pakistan can't reach you to kick you out without crossing Indian territory, which India is not likely to give them permission to do.
It doesn't appear you clicked the article.

Microsoft Copilot is a full application, not a web browser.

In this case you can choose not to open the application, that is always an option.

Nobody is forcing you to use these tools.
Do you think all the people cleaning toilets for little money prefer their job over sitting in a comfortable office and getting well paid? If not, then there have to be barriers.

Here are some. You need time, you may need additional education before you can even start to tackle programming. You might have to move. You might just not be smart enough. You might not be an autodidact and need a teacher which might cost money. You need a computer for which you might not have the money.
> business customers, and particularly those in management, so it’s a small market

Is it really that small? It sounds like a massive market to me.
Unpaired surrogates are not allowed in UTF-16, so whatever Windows uses is not quite it.
"Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time. Too many users have viewed or downloaded this file recently. ..."
Agreed. The reply I was responding to went way too far in the other direction, though, which is why I took issue with it.
I think this was standing in line on ticket release day, not day of show.
Why are people obsessing about the overhead of two function calls? What application are you writing that needs to optimize passing millions of long file names in real time? Is this some kind of file path based video game?
There is no evidence presented in this article. At all. It has no references other than links to articles that show "learning styles" are a myth.

This is a problem because there is real scientific evidence showing that people do not have specific learning styles.

The ideas that the author proposes center around "do you want to" and "do you like". Don't you get people telling you that they prefer "kinesthetic learning" because they "like it" better? How does this differ?

The conversation needs to focus around *what methods are effective for learning* and *what makes them effective*. The rest is fluff, getting ready to be debunked next.

I disagree with the comments about "metacognition"... I agree that is critical, but I don't see any sign that this article is addressing that. Metacognition means thinking about what worked and what did not work while you were/are trying to learn. The only sign of that in this article is the one sentence, "Understand what works for you," that refers to choosing one of the wants or likes from the list.
Sliders are okay.

Editing photos in lightroom mobile works fine. Interfaces that are about swiping and sliding - from match 3 games, through tinder, to scrolling feeds - are very responsive.
Believe it or not, libertarianism is the entire bottom half of the political compass, and the vast majority of them are not anarchists
most people use phone cases
> If anyone downloaded already and could setup a torrent that would be nice.

That's exactly the kind of thing you can't really do without a clear license, as GP post insinuates.
As of this week, they made it fast again.
How is something like that verifiable?
Even 1.4 billion people can’t fill China’s vacant homes, ex-official admits
> Due to exposure to psychedelics I now have a vision of the world where reality is just another dream in an infinity of possible dreams that make up an infinity of possible worlds and ways to exist in this weird little universe of ours.

Cheers mate! I am happy to read things like this from people who are living a wonderful life and talks about it openly.
I wouldn't go that far - the paragraph says "yeah, everyone knows this is a thing in humans, maybe it's worse in LLMs, who knows, we really have no idea".
Git, for example, used by millions of developers every day.
Yes, it can theoretically infect any animal that inhales the arthroconidia (basically its spores), but there has been no documented spread from animals to humans or humans to humans.
Unfortunately it tends to do so randomly (was using foot for like 3 or so years by now). And in the end you'll only ever end up saving single digits of RAM. I suggest using server mode *only* on a RAM constrained device like a SBC or a embedded device (Tablet running Linux).

PS: i am issue number 3 hueh
Why would they want that many available, or installed? Those are two different questions.
SBS is well supported by the medical literature and extensive studies: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25616019/ (an overview)

This man was not committed to death row because of one doctor. He was found guilty because multiple people in his life testified he had a history of violently shaking and screaming at a child for crying.
You are being sarcastic, but whether an employer is self-hosting or is using cloud services (and which ones) is actually an important consideration for me, because it impacts QoL and is an indication of the employer’s values and competences.
The GA community in general is very small. So yes, tooling could be better, but IMO that is not even the problem. The lack of understanding how to use it is, because GA is not explicitly taught in schools or universities.

I have written a compiler which generates SIMD ready typed code for the desired GAs. You can then use that output as a normal library for your application.

https://github.com/Lichtso/geometric_algebra
>"untyped"

It's amazing because that's the diametric opposite of what I'd consider to be true this is what the non-GA approach does, and which we avoid!

The modern approach to GA, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane-based_geometric_algebra, distinguishes planes-through-the-origin, points, lines-through-the-origin, and lines-at-infinity. These four different types all get called "vectors" in the ordinary mindset. The cross product is said to take in two "vectors" and give you a "vector", but in reality it's generally taking two planes and giving you a line. This is talked about in the fourth paragraph of the wiki article :)
Partly yes. But in reality it is much try and error. It hasn’t mostly the hard math that physics has. It’s more “what happens most times has to be true because it is replicable”
Physics would be more “because this happens regularly it fits nearly this formula” and more science based on mathematics then try and error like chemistry.

Electrical engineering is more physics than chemistry for example
I'm guessing (it appears to be true) that every single one of the people writing about their issues here (1) didn't try Spin, because (2) they're intent on targeting a web browser as a runtime environment, and (3) Spin does not run there.

The DX in Wasm is pretty complicated, but it gets a lot better IMO through Spin.

But that was a marketing name and a campaign that worked apparently too well. I try to think of it as a naming failure, and tell everyone I can that Wasm isn't for web browsers. I mean, it can run in a web browser, sure, but if what you're building is a server, the chances that you're going to want to run it in a web browser in the end are practically nil, aren't they? (I guess for the author, that wasn't exactly true.)

And everyone I know is building servers, or something like a component that should sit behind a server, or libraries for command line. Nobody I know is building flash games, or planning on extracting compute out of their users who arrive via web-browser, none of our code needs to run in the browser sandbox, and nobody I know would pick up Wasm for that reason (unless by some fluke they really needed to do that, and it was the thing they had been told that Wasm was supposed to do. Which many people apparently have been told by now!)

It is for sure a thing that has been promised (Wasm is for web browsers) and must be delivered, but I don't think it's where the implementation of Wasm is going to take off right now. I think people need to take their server-side apps and achieve those 1000x performance gains that have been promised, reshape their runtime profiles to be serverless-capable as it's done with the Spin runtime, and then I really do think things will start to improve for the rest of us as the tooling matures.

If you spend a lot of money on servers and you can spend less money on servers by making them start up very quickly, and shutting them down when they're not actively serving requests, then you can save a lot of money. That's the story that Spin is telling, and that's where I expect to see the movement happening at first, especially if we are heading into a recession as has been predicted by almost everybody. If you are spending money on waste, now is a great time to try and cut it out. Web Assembly has great potential to help with this.
Just tried this. I find tapping to bring up the teardrop sometimes changes the cursor position.

It's quite unfortunate the paste button is not always shown when editing. At least the teardrop (if not an edit bar) should be shown when using long press spacebar to move the cursor.
Despite success with AI-generated stories, I'm not sure they're good for writers
Adding runtime benchmarks to the Rust compiler benchmark suite
Launch of AI-Powered Tutor
I built an Ai- powered tutor that gives students instant help on any problems by breaking it down in an easy to understand, step by step format. Please try it out and let me know what you think! This tool can answer questions in 10 different subjects including Maths, English and Science
Here's a quick response as I have to get to a sailboat race.

* Most research is limited; most test memory of pictures vs words (pictures win for most). Most educators of higher levels believe that there is more to learning than memory, but this is largely not addressed by the researchers.
* Most "learning styles" are established via questionnaire, not actually testing how people learn best
* Even the "Learning Styles is BS" crowd is starting to weasel out of the implication of their conclusion that everybody learns the same. They are saying things like "talent" and "context" etc. give differences in how people learn, not learning styles. A distinction without a difference IMHO- with the possible exception that you could argue that you are, for example, verbal for math and visual for history or something (because of context or whatever).
* I don't have a dog in the fight. I only want what's best for students, which means to learn how they learn. If they are all the same, so be it (but I would be surprised).
* More of my thoughts here: https://studyswami.com/are-learning-styles-bs/ and my conceptual take on how we should measure learning styles if we really want to research them (don't take the actual results too seriously).
>ringworms

Which for those who may not know is a fungus, not an actual worm
Sensory Input (Visual, Auditory, Tactile) -> Conceptual Understanding (Mental) -> Practice by Repetition (Mental + Physical).

"Learning Styles" thinking was based on the idea that step one was the most important. However, without conceptual understanding, learning devolves to rote learning. Without practice and repetition, long-term in-depth learning is impossible.

As far as approaches to learning, by far the best methods involve a fair amount of one-on-one attention. The quickest way to learn something is to have it directly explained to you by another person, with questions allowed. Similarly, the best way to test your own understanding of a subject is to explain it to someone else.

Of course, these are the most expensive methods of education, because they require a large investment in people - skilled teachers and other staff, and parking kids in front of Youtube videos is a lot less expensive (see also computer-automated grading of homework assignments and projects). Note that societies that don't place a high value on education are doomed to stagnation at best.

P.S. 'Learning styles' can be very important with dyslexia or dyscalculia, e.g. listening to an audiobook while reading along in a text can help the former, as does allowing calculators for the latter for the same reason. Students without these issues can adapt to different presentation styles without much difficulty, and if their school is any good they'll have access to all kinds of supplemental resources (libraries, tutors, access to online databases etc.).

P.P.S "Self-taught" is possible, but realistically it takes much more time and effort. Keep in mind though that an incompetent teacher is worse than no teacher at all.
It’s more like my metric is outright gaming.
> women simply didn't get get the opportunity to be "pioneers"

It is bigger than that.

Virtually no one had that opportunity.

Lamarr was lucky enough to be part of a very small élite where "her father was deputy director of Wiener Bankverein, and in the end of his life a director at the united Creditanstalt-Bankverein. Her mother, a pianist and a native of Budapest, had come from an upper-class Hungarian-Jewish family.". She had a lot more opportunities than most of her contemporaries.
Well run classes have the textbook chapters your suppsed to read for the upcoming lecture. So your ready and can interact and ask questions. Learning isn't supposed to happen there. Then it's reinforced with hw.

The lazy thing to do is sit down and have someone talk to you. So this doesn't happen in practice.
I agree with you.

I just feel that “giving the people what they want”, is directly translated to asking stupid questions such as “do you read fantasy or sci-fi?” Or posting new-age motivational bullshit quotes.

I don’t do that. I share my journey, and my insights from it. I share my experience. My up and down moments. And it between, promoting my products.

I know that marketing is work, and it’s a hard work. And I respect clever marketing. But like with anything else, it’s been reduced to simple and idiotic steps such as shoving your products down the throat of your users.

Here is a good example of a lame cold outreach https://x.com/skwee357/status/1705209267127558265?s=46

He sent me an email few weeks ago. I told him that my post is about OOP and not business name generator, and I’m not looking for collaboration. Few weeks later, I get the SAME email. Word by word.

I don’t want to be like this guy.
> otherwise the North Pole and Scandinavia, having super long days, should be hot during summer

They are hot during the summer, relative to winter. You’re assuming a particular definition of warmth/heat, but these places do have a summer that is much warmer, the average annual temperature swing of ~25C is similar to many cities in the US and Europe. (Which doesn’t answer your question directly, but does say a little something about the relative importance of angle vs length of daylight.)

*edit, btw check out plots of temperature during the day vs during the year. Angle affects temperature on an hourly basis. [1]

Here’s another article all about sun power vs angle, and mentions atmospheric absorption. Note that while lower surface angles receive less surface energy, it doesn’t change the angle of atmospheric energy absorption, and low angles increase the distance light travels through atmosphere. The atmosphere gets about a third of the sun’s energy absorbed by the earth, the surface gets the other two thirds. [2]

[1] https://weatherspark.com/y/9847/Average-Weather-in-Kansas-Ci...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance
March/April 2023 seems highly likely: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37631358>

<https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/24thunenmtg_minute...>
Taylor Swift explicitly put the blame on Ticketmaster for the entire 2022 fiasco [0][1]. There was no taking responsibility, and she certainly wasn't avoiding Ticketmaster during that event. If she's avoiding a relationship with them in the future (I can't find any evidence of that), I'd wager it's because of their technical incompetence in handling her volume, not the sale price and the scalpers.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/arts/music/taylor-swift-e...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/18/taylor-swift-slams-outside-e...
It's so frustrating because in the twisted universe where Thomas lives the ruling makes sense. To him justice is an algorithm that produces an outcome and only needs some minimum threshold of "overall the justice system locks up roughly the people we think it ought to" and all the appeals and after-the-fact proving your innocence gets in the way of the efficiency and to him, the effectiveness, of that algorithm.

And the thing is in a different context we celebrate this logic. When we do elections we don't really care about choosing the best candidate. We just go through the process, fight to protect the sanctity of the process because what's actually important is that people accept the outcome even if it makes so sense. Peaceful transfer of power and finality.
I wonder if there is a way to unboil the frog and introduce features in a backwards compatible way.

One way could be to implement some or all of this along with changes to Android's "spacebar drag" cursor movement mode. Currently it can only move left and right unlike Apple's touchpad approach. Maybe I'm missing something but it feels like you could implement a lot of the features through a keyboard touchpad while keeping regular editing clunky but familiar. By expanding on an otherwise very limited feature it might be welcomed by power users without depriving anyone of their existing workflow and muscle memory.

One problem that comes to mind is that people are used to selecting from beginning to end and triggering the interaction from the bottom of the screen gives very little area go down while keeping 1:1 movement of the cursor. It could be solved by having the cursor hit the "roof" until the users finger matches the translated position then switch to a scrolling mode at the edges.
Somebody Stole My Laptop, Then a Ragtag Crew of Strangers Got It Back
The two party system oversimplifies things, so you end up with "small government" and "traditional government" in the same bucket.
It's a disease that we run into in TB control programs in certain areas because it can resemble it on chest X-ray. Most people with it I've encountered did okay with modest or even no treatment, but I had one case who ended up with it chronically and all I could do was suppress it. Trying to control dust and reduce inhalation are right now the best options to prevent it, and everyone acknowledges it's nowhere near enough.
Well no, but we can totally solve the problem of under 16-year olds ruining their and other people's lives with these devices.
> I would want to make say $5k for five days of work

You completely ignore expected value. The most likely outcome is that you make nothing for your five days of work. A functioning market requires outsized returns to compensate for the huge failure risk that goes unseen.

90% chance of making nothing, 10% chance of making 10x your salary is a stable state that is not exploitable.
Yes. After all the alcohol limit of 21 is a massive success and leads to both people under 21 never drinking alcohol, and people over 21 being very responsible drinkers, enjoying one or two drinks in the evening instead of getting blackout drunk.

In light of these successes we should ban smart phones from under 16 year olds. Computers too, after all those can also be used to access AI tools. Anyone who says that adults taking the bare minimum of responsibility has anything to do with parenting instead of taking agency and responsibility from teenagers is just a small-government naysayer
> most modern software uses UTF-8

[citation needed]

UTF-8 is used for storage and serialization, yes, but most mainstream programming languages store unicode strings in memory as UTF-16. The notable exception is Rust, which does indeed use UTF-8 even in memory.
Most people have computers. You don’t need to be in any particular place to learn to program as long as you have internet access.

But yes, you might not be smart enough. Which was the point. The supply of people smart enough to program is smaller than the supply of people smart enough to clean toilets. Programming is a more complex and difficult skill than toilet cleaning, which is why it’s more highly compensated. So is being a CEO. Like these are clearly not equivalently difficult things, so why do you think they should be compensated equivalently?
Has recycling progressed far enough that these old computers are a "gold mine" and should be repurposed for that reason alone?

Or is it still "just" a energy efficiency aspect?
Nobody is saying things were harder they’re saying interest rates aren’t the problem. Note the principal on your first home.
I think most people would be in favor of more protections. But even Socrates argued for the death penalty. Upholding the norm of proportionality in Western philosophy isn’t generally seen as abuse.
> The conservative ethos is to reduce the power of the state to prevent abuse

It's not. Maybe you're thinking of libertarianism? The conservative ethos is to preserve and promote a social hierarchy. This requires both winners and losers.
My peeve with the URL bar in Firefox on Android is that there's no way to partially select. A tap places the cursor, and a long press selects the whole URL. There's no way to select the domain, or a value from a query string, etc. Simply supporting the normal text editing gestures here would allow this, but the developers have gone out of their way to make it impossible.
These photos are great!
Even if we banned GPUs, they could still be made (albeit slower) with a CPU.
People like this news, they’re good photos, and that’s all it takes for enough people to upvote. I for one welcome a post that’s beautiful and different. Definitely going to use these as backgrounds.
I mean, obviously.

Narratives are how markets work. Money itself is a simple narrative with complex dynamics.

I rather like https://www.epsilontheory.com/ for exploring markets from this perspective.
LA County Public health has worthwhile information including:

- number of cases by area

- incidence rate per 100,000 from 2003 - 2022

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/diseases/cocci.htm
I’ve been curious about this - has there been some analysis?
Ah, thanks, though that has some notable omissions. There's the note:

Authors such as Jane Austen, Miguel de Cervantes, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Rick Riordan, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Higgins, Isaac Asimov and Leon Uris have not been included in the table because no exact figures could be found.

Mao also seems to be omitted.

Certainty is a chimera.
I always used it literally:

“Deepfake”: a fake generated by a DNN, or tool chain comprised primarily of such.