skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please stop. What you're doing in this thread is...I'll just say indistinguishable from trolling and leave it at that.
It's hard for me to provide a specific example because (for me) it applies to many different fields of advanced math. It seems like people who are good at math have some preconceived idea in their heads about what the purpose of a math concept is going to be and that helps them to make sense of new concepts faster. Maybe that's what people refer to as a 'mathematical intuition'?

To me (who is not naturally gifted at math), it often seems like math has no specific direction; it appears to explore almost every direction arbitrarily. I can't usually tell which part is supposed to be interesting or potentially meaningful so I don't know what to focus on or what to look for when I'm learning it.

It's like if someone gives you a confusing and vague instruction or question, it helps if you know what the reason is. Like if someone asks you "what day is it?", it helps if you know the intention behind the question or else you can't know for sure if you should answer with "27th of September" or "Wednesday". You don't fully understand the question without knowing the intention behind it. To me, learning math presents a much more extreme variant of that effect.
The amount of people who use YouTube to listen to music around the world is massive.
>it's impossible to know whether any of the Chinese brands are actually trustworthy and of high quality.

IMO people buy cheap generic Chinese brands for the same reason they buy cheap dollar store products. They're gambling they can pay 30% the price for 90% of the function. Amazon reseller premium = they're paying slightly more for returns in case things break. They can save more buying from Ali resellers. Even more while temu subsidizing orders. The only people looking for quality are people who order from resalers of established PRC brands, i.e. Xiaomi. In the days before Amazon cracked down, you had brands like MPOW decide better marketting strategy was to give people gift cards for reviews and give no question asked replacements well outside of warranty period. Pretty win-win for consumers.
I love 3d graphics on the web but man it seems to be an infinite security hole
Shopify requires you to build out performance marketing strategy and with the IOS changes, targeting has lost efficiency. It’s more expensive to acquire customers.
> people on iOS monetise REALLY well compared to other segments

And therein lies the motivation to "open up" Apple's ecosystem, people just can't stand looking at all those dollar signs without being able to get their hands on them any way possible.

"So Apple just gets exclusive access to their users' money?!?" Well, they are the ones that built and maintain the ecosystem. Everyone else just wants to get in there and extract wealth like slash-and-burn rainforest developers or strip-miners.
I like the concept. My GPU and browser weep with lag. Its a very impressive slideshow.

I finally managed to highlight the starting sphere after several tries. At first I wasn't sure if it was loaded.

Of course, I'm only using a 1.8 GHz Celeron with onboard GPU and 8GB Ram in Firefox, so... not exactly high-end stuff.
Archaeologists: Roman soldiers used this built-in fridge to keep their wine cool
Of course it's expensive.

You have to put a multi-year old sheep through a 6 month gestation period (and most will only go into heat during certain times of year), out of which you are likely to get only one or two lambs, each of which when slaughtered provides at best 10kg of marketable meat, if that.

Compare with chickens (massive egg output, so you get infants practically continually, or cows which while they have many of the same drawbacks, are far more productive, hundreds of kilos of meat from one animal isn't unusual.
Microsoft required PC manufacturers to have IE installed along with Windows, which is shitty, but not nearly as shitty as preventing users from installing Netscape, which they did not do.
Arm is practically as complex as x86... It supports multiple varieties (e.g. v7, thumb, thumb2, jazelle, v8, etc), lots of historical mistakes, absurdly complex instructions even in the core set (ltm/stm), and a legacy that is almost as long as the x86. It even has variable length instructions too...
Anti-viral drug backfires: Covid drug linked to viral mutations that spread
Thanks for the great ideas! A lot to think about :).

> Whatever you decide, remember that everyone has their unique strengths and challenges.

Right, this is something I've tried to focus more on lately. Improving on my strengths to make myself more valuable, which I hope will pay off in the future. I used to focus on trying to mask my weaknesses, but that takes a lot of effort for little benefit and doesn't seem sustainable.

I appreciate all the ideas. It helps a lot, I wouldn't have considered tech writing at all for example. Consulting has worked well in the past, but because of my lesser-than-average social skills it's not easy to find clients.
But people have a choice. They can choose Android, but they don’t, even though they know iPhones are locked down. By this point, you have to assume that the people who buy iPhones are okay with it. Apple doesn’t have a monopoly by any means.
That's WebGL. This engine seems to use WebGL2.
1. Beware of the German ideas how to make the world happy.

2. Beware of the ideas based on Marx how to make the world happy.

Never worked, but its combined effect can kill dozens of millions
The Luddites were free people who knew a trade that machines were threatening to make obsolete. The slavery situation is nowhere near comparable. Slave owners didn't care one iota about their livestock, they were a means to an end. Did the Luddites capture or enslave anyone? I think this comparison was made solely to raise the temperature of the conversation.

Vandalism or destruction of property is nowhere near as insidious as the erasure of an entire culture and squeezing money out of them for literally generations.

I'm not convinced you have a clear view of who the Luddites were. We should look back at that situation as a hint as to how we should move forward with technology in society, if we make that choice. Choosing to leave certain people behind and not offer retraining or some other opportunity is exactly what creates the malice that would motivate a tradesman to destroy machinery. People know when they're being screwed or left out. So, maybe we shouldn't screw people over whose skills become obsolete by technologies. We should be forward-thinking and responsible in the effects our innovations have on our social systems.

Or we can blame individuals and call them names. Good enough I guess?
The enormous success of low cost manufacturers like PSA suggests that this is not true.
@solo_prono

3. I too live in a small town in the PNW. I am looking to build a business as well in the B2B space but I think we can maybe link up and just chat about what we can do to help each other!
x: @sirg_k
If you hit space bar to bring up the command selector and hit Edit In Game, you should get a view that shows you all the debug draw, gizmos, etc. Hopefully this answers what you're referring to.
Currently, the FTC suing them. Eventually, some sort of breakup and strict rules about counterfeits and house brands.
They missed the boat by first and foremost: the labor movement has a strange history of exclusion. While not nearly as true now up until the 50s and 60s labor unions where reluctant to unionize with women, people of color etc. as a united front with white male workers. In short, they screwed up here, bad.

Their second biggest mistake was not targeting middle management and white collar workers. Unions for a long time targeted only wage workers and/or workers in blue collar industries. The truth is, they would have held far more power if they were inside the office too, and middle management is key here. They treat all "management" as the enemy, instead of recognizing the potential that union members all in the management chain could be useful allies.

Thirdly, they're too antagonist when they do want to act in force. While I will fully cede its justified, because corporations are antagonists as well, it didn't have to be this way. There's a world where unions could be real business stake holders representing labor in a more direct way in the business and making workers equal partners. Seat on the board, board transparency, ability to bring board / executive issues to members etc. Those would have been far more valuable to workers than the always fighting mentality focused on extracting rather than sharing in the profits. This in particular feels like a uniquely American problem with organized labor relations though. Countries like Germany and Denmark handle this remarkably well by comparison. That said, going into these things defensively is the only thing that works in today's atmosphere, and I don't blame them, I wish though, we followed a better model on both sides.
I'll put it on my calendar! With all there is to elicit dismay, it is a welcome breath to commemorate that on that day, we did not get hit by a bus!
I don't know what I'd use this for, but the pictures are hitting that part of me that loves grayscale Palm devices really, really hard.
While I appreciate the effort the author has clearly put in here, Im not sure the visualization provides much in the way of practical intuition. These seem to essentially be mechanistic explanations of the rote bits of matrix math.

There are already rich geometric interpretations which provide useful intuition for that generalizes, rather than just demonstrating mechanical details.
I 100% agree. In the past, I've written good cover letters and they've been crucial to getting job offers. Hiring/tech culture has changed where cover letters are largely meaningless. And wish that weren't the case.

And I don't think writing a cover letter is going to harm your chances at a job. Or if it does, you might not want to work for a company that penalizes them anyway. But the attitude of "well I don't want to work for a company that doesn't read my cover letter" isn't really viable as an applicant as it rules out a lot of opportunities for work.

The whole situation is so silly too because a nice cover letter can make rejection emails nicer, like "we enjoyed your cover letter and your joke about the thing, but ...". I'd like to think that makes it easier for employers to send rejection emails because they can say something that sounds genuinely positive and personal instead of cookie cutter fake encouragement; "I'm sure you'll land on your feet!" So it makes their job better and probably would help avoid getting hate mail from people acting poorly. It's a win all around. But it's just a race to the bottom at this point.

Anyway sorry for the rant. Thanks for the replies. I agree with you 100% and wish cover letters were more meaningful but for every one of you that reads them there are nine who don't. So I'd just ask, don't be surprised if people don't write cover letters anymore.

I mean half these companies, especially the "always hiring" ones aren't even trying to fill positions, they're just signaling growth to investors. Sending anything to them is a waste of time.
Finding product market fit: how do B2B startups use LLMs to differentiate
> Nothing stopping you from using the browser on your Switch to go do instacart.com, tho.

You can't just open up a browser on the switch (or a ps5 for that matter). You have to use a workaround to access the browser that's only intended for viewing help/regulatory pages and interacting with wifi captive-portals. I guess they're really mad about the browser exploits that hit them in previous gens. (although, doesn't matter if you still have any browser access)

It's on about the same level as escaping the UI on a touchscreen kiosk to access the web.
Nice!! The Racket code is clean and easy to read. I have never tried doing graphics with Racket but I might try it. (I am currently writing a Racket book: “Practical Artificial Intelligence Development With Racket”. The examples will be very similar to those in my Common Lisp book, but written from scratch in Racket.)
https://www.ibm.com/power? Too obscure?

On the embedded side, NXP (former Freescale former Motorola) makes them, as does 'Macom' (former AMCC via some hedge fund gymnastics...never heard of them either). Others like Xilinx probably still have licenses to produce. And you can still get the rad-hard RAD750 from BEA systems, for your outer space or post-apocalypse needs.
is it? that would pretty much make GTA a non-issue if they all said that it was going to be returned.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily (in fact practically exclusively) for political and nationalistic battle, and ignoring our many requests to stop.

We've cut you a ton of slack for years. I bent over backwards to try to clarify the intended use of the site, on many occasions. But this sort of chortling flamebait makes it clear that you don't want to use HN as intended. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not a coincidence that Bezos ran for the hills exactly like the Google founders did, with the anti-trust writing on the walls. Bill Gates did the same thing as well (although he stuck it out a bit longer), exiting with the anti-trust heat.

They're all terrified of the invasive investigations and what could be revealed, the scrutiny they'd be persistently under, and the time demands involved (it's no doubt miserable battling the government in a major anti-truist suit).
I, for one, do not look forward to having to sideload Facebook, Instagram, Google, Gmail, and every single other megacorps app just because they want to track my every click. I would rather give power to Apple than all the other companies.
And then if the stock price goes astronomically high for some reason, they split it, double the amount available and then sell it back out, generating money out of thin air.
> What is the rationale* for VAT? I have never, ever understood this. If you are an individual, you pay income tax on your earnings. Why should you be taxed on your spending as well?

> 'We want to use the money for worthy purposes' isn't a rationale. A rationale is a reason people should pay.

I could equally say "You pay VAT on your spending. Why should you be taxed on your earnings as well?". Ultimately governments need taxes and take them where they can find them.

The benefit of VAT is that it's a tax that's harder to evade, because the rebate system means everyone is reporting on everyone else. A high VAT rate is also a way to do stealth protectionism without falling foul of the WTO rules - domestic producers can pay de facto higher salaries (because the VAT revenue allows you to reduce income tax) whereas the full VAT rate gets paid on foreign-produced goods.
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Most Indian/Pakistani stores usually have goat meat available. Its commonly used in curries, pilafs, etc.
So why have existing taxes on guns and ammunition not been struck down?
Once again a good time to remember that there were multiple perfectly good package managers available when Homebrew was invented, they were more future-proof (by eg not putting files in /usr/local), and everyone only switched to it because for some reason Ruby programmers wanted all of their tools to be written in Ruby (and possibly by people with waxed mustaches.)
Lamb chops with mint jelly was a fairly regular dinner item when I was growing up (1970s). Seems like my mom might have prepared mutton occasionally but I don't specificially remember it.
I guess you either are unaware or have an outdated device. I have Brave set to the default browser on iPadOS and iOS.

There was/is previously a restriction on including dynamic content or non UIWebView/WKWebView rendering, but I'm unaware of current IAS-MAS policies.

You're also demanding the impossible/very difficult because mobile browsers don't support extensions. It's just not a thing.

Also, Firefox is already available for iOS. If it doesn't meet your requirements, then it's FOSS and you're welcome to contribute improvements that meet your requirements.
In Boston area supermarkets I see limited displays of lamb chops and other cuts of lamb regularly priced around the same as lower-mid cuts of beef, roughly $8-$10 per pound, sometimes less on sale. Legs are usually imported from New Zealand, which considering it's halfway around the world the price is quite impressive. We usually make stew or curry. My dad roasts it. I have a feeling a lot of local non-immigrants don't know how to cook lamb, let alone goat or mutton.

Goat shows up at some of the Caribbean and South Asian markets and take-out places.

I don't recall ever seeing mutton at any local market or menu. This 2016 forum thread advises asking some specialist halal or Armenian butchers: https://www.hungryonion.org/t/places-to-buy-mutton-in-boston...
It's unfortunate that fuse-t follows the same closed source model as MacFUSE did. It's really holding things back.

I was hopeful that Ganesha NFS [1] would suffice as a bridge for the various FUSE filesystems I need to use with macOS, but alas, they have abandoned the FUSE interface and moved to FSAL/FSAL_VFS [2].

It would be really nice to have a clear path to building a copy of Ganesha NFS that supported a whole host of the great FUSE filesystems out there built to this API.

[1] https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha
[2] https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/issues/759
I make curry out of lamb neck chops with the bones in. It's delicious and what else are you going to do with them?
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Here's your computer, your accounts, aaaaaaaand your shackles.
At least AWS gives me an invoice each month with a break down of fees. GCP just sends an invoice for the total amount. No detail, no breakdown. And I have never gotten any of GCP's many different pages under their billing system to spit out any numbers that make sense. Pick your poison?
I'll have to try OpenBoard. Right now I'm using ASK and I really want to like it, but it's just slightly too janky and rigid. The customizability is nowhere near good enough. There's too many behaviors that seem hardcoded and impossible to change. Like when my battery is below 15%, autocorrect and haptics are turned off. Who thought that was a good idea?! Now my phone is almost useless for typing when the battery is low.

I really miss Swiftkey :(
I always get downvoted for this for Craig Ferengi is a pretty boy and has to go.
3 nights in jail for all execs and managers who implemented this clearly illegal behavior and we’ll let it slide
Publicly traded law firms aren't currently a thing in the US, because non-lawyer ownership (or in this case, partial ownership) of law firms has been against legal ethics codes for a long time: https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/practice-innovat...
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Bell's Guide on How to Use a Rotary Dial Telephone
"Google Ngram Viewer n-grams are wrong".
There's some evidence that NAC can improve long COVID-like symptoms:

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/potential-new-treatme...

Other than antibiotics to clear a lingering infection, are there interventions that we might take in the aftermath of bacterial or viral infection to remediate long-term effects?
> Use of pointers required a written, approved, variance from the SW standards board. All the code was formally peer reviewed by at least 6 people. More complicated code would be reviewed by 20+ people - in the same room.
> same reason for why I don't eat an old cow

There are Iberian preparations for older cattle that are absolutely delicious, FYI. They’re premium priced, however, so I imagine there is care in what they’re fed and how they live.
No, in the Indian subcontinent, it is usually taken refer to goat because sheep are pretty much scarce (Maharashtra and Kashmir being exceptions)
> Does having a badge that someone is burning $499 a month on this increase attractiveness?

The badge signals two things:

1. This person is likely serious about finding a long-term partner.

2. This person likely has considerable disposable income be able to pay $499/month.

> You could spend $499 out at bars trying to meet people, and at least you’d get 50 beers in return!

If you're looking for a long-term partner, I think a bar is basically the worst place. Or maybe it's just a terrible place for me personally, since I go to bars, so a person at a bar is probably not a good match for me.
They weren't preventing you from installing Netscape. They were bundling IE with their computers by default, and less technical savvy people didn't know they could install and use another browser.
Unique body odor could indentify you and provide insights into health
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technologies?chang...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
Fun fact: if you don't care about the auto-regressive aspect of NeuralProphet (it's turned off by default), you can implement the core of NeuralProphet/Prophet (piecewise linear trend + Fourier on weekly/daily seasonality) in about 60 LOCs with no other dependency than either torch or numpy+scipy.optimize, and without having to deal with Stan or the very poorly chosen heuristics of neuralprophet.

Another thing that both NeuralProphet and Prophet do extremely wrong by default is uncertainty estimation. The coverage probabilities are way off.
I'd be curious if it runs any better under Chrome. Seems a lot of people are hitting Firefox issues. I'll be sure to test Firefox regularly though.
Hopefully, the limit does not exist.
What's the rationale for income tax? It makes no more sense to tax income than spending. I agree it's unpleasant to be "double taxed" but until the policy makers start listening to the economists it'll continue.
It's the classic data nerd trap.

"I'm pretty good at statistics and can predict things using software... I bet I could make money in the stock market"

And then they realize just how hard it is.
Alternate web browsers are allowed on iOS. The rendering engine is a boring, unimportant implementation detail that users do not care for. The success of Chrome for iOS is proof that rendering engine doesn't matter for diversity.
There’s maybe a chicken/egg scenario here. Perhaps, knowing the cut they would have to give to Amazon, they had no option but to manufacture in China?
Been getting shoulder on sale for under $7 a kg at Saccas in Melbourne
Apple relied on it being turned on and started introducing permission checks where you'd have things like "do thing as root" and check for some flag being set that is protected by SIP. If you have it turned on, there are no issues, because the check blocks both root and non-root users! But if you turn it off, now the "do thing as root" is available to any account because the flag is editable.
Yes - some of the complaints seem legitimate (e.g. burying search results really far low - that hurts me as a buyer, and hurts the seller).

But complaining that you need to use Amazon's warehouses to be part of Prime? That's rather obvious! You can always sell as non-Prime. Many do and are successful at it!

Basically, Amazon allowed many businesses to exist by creating a very convenient way to sell. Chances are a lot of businesses selling on Prime who are complaining would not have been able to exist at all.

(Source: I'm a former FBA seller).