skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too late to edit, but I wanted to add hard numbers to this from [1]:

"the survey shows a drop in real terms (accounting for inflation) of 42 percent in median earnings from an equivalent of £18,013 in 2006 to £10,497 in 2018" [for those with whose primary, but not necessarily only, occupation is writer]

" It is a striking result that, as households, writers are doing rather well. Average (mean) earnings are over £81,000 per annum, typical (median) earnings £50,000 per annum." The median was lower than I remembered. (The UK disposable (post tax) median income is around 30k, which for a single earner household means around 39k gross, but will be a lower gross income for a two income household; if the writer earns the median, they'd meet the UK median disposable household income if the other person earns only 24k, so the majority of "writer households" are well above the median despite the low writer income)

"The fact that this household ‘subsidy’ is needed to make a living may contribute to the lack of diversity among writers. It is well known from demographic data (confirmed by our survey) that writers are mostly white (94%) and live in the South East. Is writing becoming more elitist as a profession?"

[1] UK Authors’ Earnings and Contracts 2018: A Survey of 50,000 Writers <https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2019/05/02/uk-authors-earnings...> (2019)
It's way more complicated than that and also not the only event which happened there.

I can see that the West have no reservations about them participating in trashing the country, though.
The sound is an internal meme where the linux devops would regularly have to drop off calls to talk (restart to unmute :)).

On my desktop I couldn't even boot installer without running with safe mode, otherwise I'd just get stuck on a blank screen (ancient 1050 TI GPU and standard desktop components otherwise, so not exotic/new stuff).

I've used linux desktop for >decade and Gnome shell feels like home but these days I feel like I don't have the time for linux adventures. Maybe I'll mix it up with my next device, but I'm not reading great things about AMD power modes and Linux.
> You will be hard-pressed to find another modern project as obsessively minimalistic. ... This follows self-imposed constraints, predicated on a belief that smaller and lighter is long-term better.

the reason: obsession and self-imposed constraints.
More likely the Docker Hub rate limit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24262757 and the following exodus and confusion
A single man can throw the catalytic converter in the back of the truck. It can also be sawed off with a 50€ battery angle grinder in a few minutes.

A single man cannot throw a 500kg battery bank on the truck. The battery bank in many EVs is a structural part of the car and very well protected from the underside for a reason.
I am assuming they had pretty high costs, more than 120 employees working on more than 10 different games, none of which was profitable. Offices in a high-rent European city for all these people and so on. Then comes marketing

The blockbuster hit was actually the first game, with success never to be replicated
Free? You don't pay taxes whatsoever? That's odd.
What? EVs are still way cheaper to run than petrol. Apart from the electricity being cheaper (substantially so, if you have any clue and charge when it's cheap), they also require much less maintenance. The batteries are lasting a lot longer than anyone expected as well. One of the reasons battery recycling isn't really happening yet is there aren't enough batteries from the first few generations of EVs that are in a state where they need recycling. The main blocker with EVs has been the up-front cost, which is still high compared to ICE, but rapidly falling as mentioned above. Charging speeds and range are one of those things which people worry about when they buy an EV and then don't worry about after they buy and drive one: even with the fairly barebones charging infrastructure that exists now it's not actually a big practical problem.

And if I were around for a carrington event, I'd much rather have a big EV pack that can run my house for a while than an ICE, especially since I could recharge it with solar. The renewable transition, with a big shift to more local generation, is even more resiliant to a disruption of the power grid, and that resiliance is further enabled by EVs.
Pattern Matching.

People naturally pattern match a problem to a known solution.

And as you get older, your mental repository of seen patterns gets quite large.

The problem with this is, it’s difficult to come up with an innovative solution if you’ve already seen a prior pattern for the problem you’re solving.

And as such, you become less “innovative”.

The flip side to this is, it’s common for someone earlier in their career to “reinvent the wheel”, because they hadn’t seen a pattern yet for the problem they are solving.

Sometimes though, they will reinvent it in an innovative way.
> 3,757 what?

3,757 of reading comprehension.
You need car manufacturers that propose models with seatbelts so you can choose a safe option. After some years anyone agrees seatbelts are great and then they become required.

Responsible parents could choose a platform over another based on what they want for their children but that’s only possible if this option exist. It’s a mental health issue versus free market business, and we know what side wins when it’s not regulated.
They mean that they have an overall positive opinion of Homebrew, more than “not bad” but less than “amazing”.
I suppose it's a bimodal distribution: very high effort and very low effort will both have near-perfect grammar, albeit for different reasons. Since the low effort applications dominate in volume, the discriminator learns perfect grammar to be a negative signal.

Law of unintended consequences I guess.
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I wouldn't say I have the opposite, but I do feel I have so much more experience I can tackle ideas what I would have not even explored back in the day.

So in that sense, I explore more ideas as well.
Having been to car boot sales and seeing people selling 50 damaged (ie. ripped out) ebike batteries at once, I can tell you they are actively traded...
The amount of "cheating" (as in, notation/language abuse) in functional analysis is much worse than that. People routinely call points in L^2[0,1] "functions"... OTOH, I don't think it leads to serious problems.

OTOH, the lack of rigor is definitely one of the problems of contemporary math. Many years ago, when I was a student, I studied one paper, coauthored by 2 people - call them X and Y. X was a very established mathematician, Y was a relative newcomer. There was one (set-theoretical) argument I couldn't understand, so I asked Y (he was my advisor's friend) about it. He told me "yeah, X asked me this, too, and I told him to use Zorn's lemma, and after a moment of thinking, he said, «yeah, that would work»". I'm not set theorist myself, but it smelled suspicious to me, so I asked another friend, who knew much more about set theory than me. He smiled and said "of course it's wrong, it's a very common mistake".

Had X and Y written out the argument more rigorously, we'd have one less published result with no correct proof...

And I have quite a few other anecdotes like this, unfortunately.

One professor at my former faculty once told how he approaches refereeing papers. "For the first 30 minutes, I try to prove the main result myself. If I don't succeed, I spend the next 30 minutes trying to find a counterexample. This way I write most reviews in half an hour."

A few years ago I coauthored a book about non-linear analysis. Quite a few quite interesting topics. One of the coauthors insisted on writing out proofs in detail and rigorously, and now we joke that our book is the first one where some (quite established and known in this field) theorems are proved correctly for the first time. (And that includes proofs with gaps/mistakes in both research papers and monographs, btw.)
But still many men don't feel it is for them, so there is something missing there. Not understanding tiktok is therefore not just related to age, its also that tiktok is not interesting for a large part of men in general.
For years now, phones use UFS storage which is significantly more resilient to degradation. Which is why longer support cycles are necessary.
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Vector database is simply the intersection of something investors know has worked (database software) and something they hope will work (machine learning).
I feel like almost all the descriptions of advanced (university level) math concepts are confusing when you first hear them. For example, the definition of a Taylor series according to Wikipedia:

"In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point."

This kind of description really throws me off.
Especially "terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point." first of all, superficially, the different meanings of the words 'term' and 'terms' throws me off and then even when I get over that, it's not clear what is meant 'in terms of' in what terms? What kind of relationship are we talking about here? I need to keep reading a lot more to fill that gap... In the meantime, I'm in a state of confusion and will need to re-read that sentence later to make sense of it once I have more info.

I'm not sure how to solve that problem to explain it more clearly but it feels like definitions should gradually build up without gaps. Is it even solvable? I would prefer not having read that definition at all TBH as it only serves to confuse me, it has way too many possible interpretations. I prefer to jump straight to the formula.
Like I say, ideas are cheap, execution is everything. And as we get older, also mid-40s, we might prioritise better the frivolous ideas by dismissing them early, maybe.
As we delve into the 2023 Corporation Tax statistics commentary, we uncover significant insights into the fiscal landscape.
Why are you turning "at the expense of their users" into "at the expense of all their users"? Most people using a forum don't speak. They're readers who visit, gain some value, and leave.

You're even contradicted by the mods themselves: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65855608

> They said they wanted Reddit admins to realise that they rely on moderators to operate the site and felt that the only way to send a message was by harming Reddit's traffic.

That traffic was users, most of whom had no say in the matter.

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That's also why statements like this were especially ridiculous:

> "Our entire community is supporting us against this change," they said.

r/DIY was a community of 24 million people with decades of posts. A few dozen people got upset, queried a few hundred of those tens of millions, and now a significant chunk of the internet is just gone.

Content the moderators didn't own and didn't write is forever locked behind a monument to their tantrum.
Thing is, education is hard and individual potential also varies a lot. We see this with royalty, where you have literally a country's resources to groom someone into being a high level individual who can deal with most social situations, but having them lead and expand a whole country in another issue altogether.

You'll have some Louis XIV sometimes, and many Louis XVI the rest of the time, with sprinkles of Charles II in the mix to spice it up.
No. That’s not what I mean. I’m talking about big boogeyman of an EMP attack that destroys the either the North American electrical grid and assorted electronics or merely all electronics in a city.

There is no nonnuclear EMP weapon. Every proposed EMP attack is literally a hydrogen bomb delivered via an ICBM and detonated at extremely high altitude. That is the only way to deliver one to the proper place and the only way to deliver the required energy. That’s just the physics. Even then, the actual effect at ground level, is unpredictable because of simple shielding and atmospheric turbulence. But the undetermined effects aren’t what makes an EMP fantastical. It’s fact that it’s delivered by an ICBM!

The premise of an EMP attack is that somehow the attacker could surprise their enemy and land a catastrophic knockout blow near instantaneously (where “instantaneous” is defined as “between 10 and 30 minutes” (i.e. the flight time of either an SLBM or ICBM)) with little to no retaliation. A Launch on Warning policy (i.e. launch a retaliatory strike when an incoming missile is detected in the air) along with ground and space based surveillance systems makes attempting to execute an EMP attack suicidal.

Missile launch detection systems have been operationally deployed and maintained since the 1960s. They work. Launch on Warning has been the policy of the United States since the 1960s. Implicit in a LOW policy is that the retaliatory strike order is given in minutes from a detected launch. This means the retaliatory nuclear weapons are already sent on their irreversible course before any incoming detonation occurs. This is the defense posture a hypothetical EMP attacker is lobbing an ICBM into. This isn't fantasy. This isn't just math. It’s the explicit nuclear posture of the United States for the past 60 years. It’s what makes Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) work, and arguably has maintained peace between nuclear states for 70 years.

If an attacker has decided to launch a nuclear laden ICBM they just started a full on nuclear exchange, because that’s the response. No one is waiting to see where it goes. It’s “The missiles are flying. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.” Now. Given that you’re in an inevitable nuclear exchange, is it reasonable to waste a nuke on a roll of the dice on whether it actually do anything when you could actually blow something up? Nay! Knowing that you are being blown up?

On a related note, this is the exact situation why the proposed Prompt Global Strike weapon is suicidal. An ICBM armed with high explosives, looks exactly like an ICBM armed with nuke. Similarly, a kinetic energy hypersonic glide vehicle is not suicidal specifically because it doesn’t travel on a ballistic arc.
I mean, it installs stuff more or less reliably for me so I’d say that’s pretty great. I’m sure it has issues (I’ve had problems trying to install old versions of packages for example) but I don’t think I’ve ever had “brew install <whatever>” fail to install what I wanted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37642110
> Part 2 SQL[0] is declarative and intentionally doesn't have variables...

The issue I have with that is that making a bad decision for a reason doesn't change the fundamental correctness of the decision.

SQL semantics clearly support variables, because they are available as WITH ... clauses and subqueries. So either these elements are a mistake and should be discouraged, or the language has variables and they should be made to read like variables in almost all other languages for consistency and readability.

This is literally a cosmetic issue but a lot of thought on syntax has happened since the 1970s and there seems to be an overwhelming on-the-ground consensus that SQL's syntax is not the way to lay code out. The semantics? Great. But there is nearly nothing from SQL's syntax choices that is present in any surviving programming language since. Many of the more popular languages explicitly reject SQL syntax decisions like Python (significant whitespace), "function(arg,arg,arg)" instead of constructs like "VERB arg,arg WITH TEXT,arg TEXT arg" (everything I've met bar lisp) for functions and not replicating broken English (everything).

Variables are a different thing because the declarative nature of SQL is a useful property. But standard SQL overall does such an appalling job of handling syntax I feel confident that they have gotten this part of the syntax wrong too.

Gotten a bit off topic, just happens to be a thing I feel strongly about.
US vendors slept on 5G, and Huawei prepared end-to-end gear, from backend systems through antennas to handsets. This resulted in Huawei getting a lot more deployment in 5G, and triggered less than open retaliation. The handsets themselves were minor issue compared to possibility of China eating US' lunch on 5G.
This is such a bizarre comment. I run systemd a number of Linux machines currently but does that mean they are failing? Is taking advantage of systemd's features a failure? They run and do their function so in what sense are they failing or what does failure mean?
> Every modern car is filled to the brim of computers and Carrington events will likely wipe out all of them as well

This isn't particularly likely. Large-scale structures like power grids are much more susceptable to issues from such an event: smaller electronics are unlikely to be damaged.
It's not the "perfect grammar" that gets penalized (though ChatGPT grammar isn't really stellar). It's the part where the writing contains "little or nothing from the candidate's experience".
Unless you have a limited amount of time/energy and get it spent on fool's errands. Maybe youth is less conscious about this - time, energy, we have it all - while the older will rather throw the baby with the bathwater. Is there a golden age where these two tendencies balance each other? Or we can only get it in diverse teams?
Need to improve the chatgpt prompt in canonical's case. "Include some personalised examples such as *paste author example". Don't have perfect grammar - allow the occasional mistake but not too prominently."
Sorry to break it to you, but most mathematicians don't give a s*t. Even worse, a large percentage of mathematicians (not sure if "most", but I'm afraid yes) do not usually have "interesting and nuanced ideas" (nor opinions) on anything.
Proof: Code commits last month, https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/graphs/contributors

Join the community, https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

Events, https://www.libreoffice.org/events/

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events
Nokia were already on a path of self-destruction before Elop was hired. Also, nobody forced them to hire Stephen Elop, it was their decision to hire someone totally unfit. As a company you bear the consequences of who you appoint as your CEO.
The main issue is that there is no consensus yet on how the API should look like. Considering Rust's backward and forward compatibility promises, committing to an API is an extremely serious step, all the more difficult when it's not clear what the API should be.

Instead, Rust is waiting for patterns to emerge in the ecosystem, so that the universal API is compatible with all of them. It's a much safer route, but it also means waiting for the ecosystem to fragment. This is where we are now, but it's necessary and will get better over time.

Edit: async readers/writers are a good example, because it seemed trivial to set in stone, except now we have io_uring that might require the API to move to the kernel instead of just holding &mut.
haha, check out freestyle fpv. you won't believe what the motors can survive.
nope. the US doesn't have the same military-civilian fusion that China has, given the latter is an authoritarian one party state.
Isn't Canonical famous for having one of the worst candidate selection processes?

Also, there's a lot of superstition and nonsense about how to succeed at interviews and job applications.
From little known indie studio Microsoft.
Apple lost that "shouldn't have to" when they decided to parent society by using theft as an excuse to serialize parts and prevent third party repairs.
Software engineers using tools like ChatGPT isn't really about trying to game the system. It's more about how out-of-touch the old-school job application process feels. We really just want to make things easier on ourselves. We're in a time where we're all about automating the boring stuff. Why? Because we can. The whole idea of writing a cover letter feels ancient. Honestly, when I'm shooting out a ton of job applications, it's a total drag to whip up a special cover letter for each one. Most of us are just trying to find a gig that matches what we can do and what we want to do. But nope, we gotta jump through all these hoops and write these fancy stories, even if no one's really reading them.
"and less apocalyptic"

Not if you happened to be the relevant parts of Europe!
A hydrogen fuel cell also vents and you can ignite the concentrated stream like a blow torch. At 5% the pressure of a H fuel cell, the battery probably vents less hydrogen.
It feels like the entire article was someone scraping the barrel. This particular point is absolutely useless, it’s as useful as saying 25% of book readers also have a pet hamster.
HN requires quite a lot of experience before you can post without worrying about downvotes, so its mostly older people here yeah. But at the same time that is why this community can stay so far ahead other forums, you wont find anything like HN with younger people.
> Are there actually any good studies that show this in a counterfactual setting? Like, do we actually know that spending time teaching maths (or, less plausibly, Latin) helps students aquire these abstract skills more than other subjects? Is this "transferability" of meta-skills a testable outcome?

We know that if you try to train someone in math (or in Latin), and they do well, then they will also do well at other things in the rest of their life. Some people would like to give the credit for that good performance to the Latin training.
Do you have data on white women dominance?
I'd love to have whole history movements explained through geography. Not the event spikes, but the large scale movements setting the trend. I believe much of history is the result of geography. Examples:

* Why was Rome, Rome? Well, Rome had a population of 1M. Which was incredibly unique at the time. This made the city able to conquer land very far off. How was this city size possible? Because water travel is very cheap, and the fields of the Nile are water-accessible from Rome. That's how you feed Rome. That's right, the same geographical peculiarity explains both the pyramids and Rome's greatness. It was Rome, but it could have been any other city on the Mediterranean shore. So much so that when Emperor Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople, Rome's population fell well under 50k in a few decades. That must have been quite the depression.

* How did modern societal freedom came to be? Well, before, 70% of the population was dedicated to agriculture. Then the industrial revolution liberated the masses, which had time for other more complex activities, etc.

* Why did the industrial revolution occur in England? They had mines that were filling up with water, and had to resort to pumping it out with steam engines... powered right from the mines' coal. This enabled a tight local loop of optimizing theses engines; which could serve other purposes later on, triggering the global 150 year trend of harnessing fossil energies.

We live in a complex system of intertwined material contexts which all stem from mother nature. Why not start modelling it as such?

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TL;DR: I don't know if there's such a thing as psycho-history, but there definitely is one named geographical determinism (which is under-studied, and under-taught IMHO)