skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
War and Peace was the first book I read as an adult (at 19) and I was blown away. Definitely opened my mind as to how great a great book can be, and raised my standards for what I'm willing to spend time on reading considerably.

I think this was one of the best things that happened to me for my reading habit, and I'm incredibly glad I stumbled upon it sooner rather than later.

The only change I'd make, if possible, would've been to read it at a younger age (12-14) so my perception of what books can be would've been expanded sooner and I could've branched out from my comfort zone at the time.
Get outta here, Guam—hater.

Kidding, people!
You don't need to innovate on the foundation of your product. It's a game engine: If it fulfilled your needs when you started, it's fulfilling your needs now. With open-source solutions A) you can't have the rug pulled from under you, as you have a perpetual license, and B) you can fix/modify/add things yourself if the business needs arise.

With a proprietary solution, you might get A, but you have zero hope of B. It's an objectively worse proposition.
Rust's async model pretty much requires Arc, and reference counting is a simple form of a garbage collector...
our solemn vow to continue degrading the performance of the swipe keyboard for nearly a decade is unmatched in the industry
I have several friends who are middle aged and still get together and just chill and jam in the garage.

Not all of them played instruments in youth or had formal training. And if you have a bad experience you may not want to continue. I wouldn't hold that against anyone.

But it's not unheard of among band geeks to play in adult hood.

Ugh, on a related note, I'm a bad friend because I haven't kept in touch with them for a long time. Good fucking people.
Well, here in the Bay Area, baseball and soccer are about $250 each per season (equip not included). So just 1 a season (fall/spring) would run you $500 at Little League and rec (soccer).

Now, having coached a number of seasons, and having played sports at a high level in my youth, I can tell you that if your child is playing one season of rec per year, or honestly, not doing competitive sports, there’s no room to stand out at the HS level, and be considered for a college scholarship.

Now, I didn’t receive a college scholarship for athletics, but I’m certain being a 4y letterman and 2y captain and nominal valedictorian all played a part in my college acceptance letters, and significant reduction of post-collegiate debt at a tier-1 school.

I also had peers who didn’t do club sports in their HS sport until HS (i.e. switching from baseball to swimming) and they were granted scholarships.

The big point being: if you think sports are important (totally subjective and personal; I’m not going to argue for or against), you need to pursue club sports and move beyond rec.

Another (bonus) point: there’s tons of grift in club sports. I can totally see how someone would end up in debt, especially with multiple kids. And, I deeply sympathize with them, and hope that I’d be savvy enough to not get caught up in the game.
Since when has MySQL almost died?
Oracle poured good commitment on it.
> Using 'real' as the goal kind of misses the point

It misses the point of the question "is math real"?

Tbf, i am actually sympathetic to the position that "realness" is not really relavent or a well defined term when it comes to what is basically a descriptive language of patterns and relations. But "is it real" is the question we started the thread on.
To the 1.7 billion people that use TikTok
Why do you think it was scammy?
That was a great read, thank you. TIL about TEB, and how at one point they were investigating coal slurry as a fuel? (Although tbh that sounds like someone having fun on Wikipedia).
So is Marcus Aurelius

https://www.bing.com/images/create?q=Marcus+Aurelius&rt=3&FO...
> Americans have higher average incomes than almost all Europeans, but they also emit far more CO₂ per capita, don’t have guaranteed paid vacations and live seven years less than Spaniards.

And have no job security, and have to pay for their own healthcare, and childcare is thousands of dollars a month. Anything else that can be added?
Given that logics (of all sorts) are subsets of mathematics, I'm not sure one can convincingly hoist (any) logic above all other mathematics to make arguments.
you can still read the flagged and dead comments. they are NOT censored. they are hidden to get out of the way, but they are not removed. if you want to know what is being flagged or dead, you can go and check. i do. that's exactly the point.
Care to share these examples, in a scientific (n > 30) manner that can’t just be attributed to model nondeterminism? I don’t follow these threads religiously but in the ones I’ve seen no one has been able to provide any sort of convincing evidence. I’m not some sort of OpenAI apologist, so if there is actual good provable evidence here I will easily change my mind about it
Finally, my hoard of 200+ new journals (bought from Walmart, Ross, Amazon, AliExpress, Temu, 1 at a time over the period of 3 years) will come to use :)
https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavi...

"Elixir is a dynamically typed language"
I'm a long time nexus/pixel user also considering switching to iPhone. For me, it's more about wanting a good integrated smart watch, and the pixel watch seems overpriced and has a weird half-baked FitBit integration in typical Google style, and I don't want a Samsung watch or generic fitness tracker.

One thing that's been holding me back, though, is notification management. I love the little app icons at the top and the pull down shade and such. I don't have that much experience with iOS, but it seems notifications work fairly differently. Has that been an issue for you?
Which are, quite a lot of people.

[1]: The CEO told the congress that they had 150M users in the US. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/tiktok-now-150-mil...
The onwards, I started carrying a second phone.
I don't think Nexus phones were built by Google. They always had a different manufacturer, unlike the Pixels.
STR.”what is so bad about \{this}?”
WiFi adhoc speed increases are why most people don't complain about iPhones still using USB2 wire speeds. I wonder what the AirDrop speeds would be for a WiFi 7 enabled iPhone.
A big problem is the differences between each countries needs. Securely connecting to your banking and payroll and also the difference needs between different countries tax systems. Europe needs lots of currencies and vat tracking vs USA needs doesn’t usually want all that.

I would say that many businesses just want a desktop based system and web based has security and maintenance requirements they just aren’t interested in.
also donating right now
I just use Firefox Focus when I want to keep it simple. Works fine on both android and ios.
I actually had a different company in mind. I'm much less familiar with Oracle.

The one time I bumped into Larry Ellison, he managed to come across as intensely competitive, in just a moment. I'd guess that's probably reflected in his company.

Does Oracle seem a steady in-your-face aggressive, and you know what you get?

Or is more a cyclic and plotting: in-your-face shameless when they can get away with it, and makes nice when they have to, while running long-cons (some of them very underhanded)?
I don't recall tell anyone to STFU, I'm just doing what you said, voicing my objections. The brand is tarnished in my eyes by their use of the name of a first nation.

I think your comment is pretty good evidence that I haven't shut down any discussion, I just know where I stand on the matter.
On my laptop even a demo with 5000 records a second seems almost too few for Kafka.
lol https://twitter.com/BrettFromDJ
Wait. Someone returned a drill bit (a wear item) for replacement?

Crap like that is why companies have walked away from consumer-biased warranty policies. LLBean had to change theirs as well: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ll-bean-changed-its-retu...
Anyone got it to work with Nextcloud?
Unfortunately, it takes extraordinary effort by the math teachers to make Mathematics interesting to students. Even if some of the teachers are willing to put the effort in teaching this wonderful subject in a way that makes sense to students, it's not possible to turn all mathematics teachers into teachers who understand how mathematics MUST be taught.

I hope all these books, YouTube videos, and websites can help in making students curious about mathematics and explore further on their own. It is hopeless to even expect the school systems in US and a lot of other countries, to change the way their school systems work - teachers are not given enough time to spend on the topics in mathematics. It takes lot of extra effort by the students.
The SAC Museum Wikipedia page links to the website page on this craft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command_%26_Aero... https://www.sacmuseum.org/what-to-see/aircraft/sr-71a-blackb...

Quantum navigation systems could also determines position from quasi-stable astral signal sources FWIU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36222625

Sunstone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)

Amplituhedra and cost of calculation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron
I made an example "digital sextant"/navigation computer in JavaScript. Sadly most browser's support for controlling the camera limits its usefulness, but I am typically able to get within 10 miles of my actual location. I made it mostly as an example of how the algorithms work for a talk I gave for the Louisville Astronomical Society.

App:
https://www.celestialprogramming.com/apps/celestialfix/sexta...

Talk (with very low audio):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAqcZYmWjA&t=5s
Pointing out a specific bug with functionality is not the same as saying “in general the quality of GPT answers has decreased over X months” especially when that bug is in a realm that LLM’s have already been provably bad at.
> As an aside, what workloads require true multithreaded reactors as opposed to a runtime which uses multiple singlethreaded reactors?

For example, DataFusion spreads query processing over multiple cores by having the data flow be a "streaming DAG of record batches" (or something like that), as in futures::Stream.

https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/

https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/execution/trait...
People listen to music while hiking for the same reason they listen to music anywhere. They like it.
> if we suddenly built a million “luxury” apartments in each major city

How would you realistically "suddenly" build a million apartments? Is there enough labor in the country to do that? Enough land in each major city? A million is a lot. Some ddging suggests San Francisco has about ~400K housing units, is adding a million realistic? Let alone suddenly?

> there would be a bit of competition for tenants

But no builder will build apartments that might have to be rented at a loss if the bidding war takes prices too low.
Yeah, neural codecs are pretty amazing. The most incredible part is that they can do compression well across the temporal domain, something which has been non-trivial.
The Western world is who froze their assets :/
I set em up, you guys knock em down.
That does look terrible.
Higher probability to die from gunshot wounds and traffic accidents(anything out of car a multipke of that)
They probably do, but idk, I've never considered 3NF or the preferred type of DBMS as part of someone's personal identity. These are just tools.
That’s smaller than all of Sony was in 2011, er, 2014, well.. one of the previous hacks anyway.
The car makers are not "democratic." It is mostly a handful of out-of-touch executives forcing everyone to go their way. A lot of is driven by the PR fallout of dieselgate too. The line workers and engineers are not on-board. Also, if you listen carefully you'll realize that most executives are not on-board either. The CEO of Stellantis have repeated questioned the direction of the BEV mandate.

And of course, they are quietly sabotaging everything behind the scenes. There's a reason why there is a e-fuel exception, and why the UK sudden moved the deadline back 5 years. There is not much real support behind the scene. I expect the BEV mandates to be abandoned in due time.

Note that FCEV subsidies didn't really exist in the past, outside of tangential subsidies that targeted at all green cars. The real target would be refueling subsidies and deployment of infrastructure, which have only recently started to happen.

What you're doing is regurgitating the same anti-EV argument used against BEVs. Remember, BEVs were at nearly zero before the mid-2000s. And compared to the ICE market, it is still tiny and mostly irrelevant. The moment the government take hydrogen cars more seriously, it will take off.

It's also worth noting that diesel got to >50% of the market in Europe before rapidly dying off. It could easily happen to BEVs too. It is not a real, organic market. It is mostly due to subsidies and heavy-handed government mandates forcing companies to make them. Take that away and the market will disappear just like it did with diesel cars.

Finally, the tides are starting to turn. You are repeat claims that in direct contradiction to the OP itself. A sign you aren't even paying attention before spamming your BEV propaganda. People are starting to lose faith in BEVs, and the problems will get louder over time.
I kind of think the core of the question of if math is real, is if abstractions are "real".
They can it would just have to be a separate private branch. This is how SDL amd others do it.
There's also one at the March air field museum (attached to March ARB, née March AFB) in Riverside, California.
> they produce roughly 75% in the US

Some of the wafer fabs are in the US, but most of assembly gets done in Malaysia
KFC really isn't cheap anymore. I went there the other day with some friends and was aghast at the prices. We left and went across the parking lot to the grocery store and got a big platter of fried chicken and a tub of slaw for less than half the price.
Official inspections can peek and poke the nukes a bit. But they can't really tell exactly how good the maintenance is. Similarly for a spy.

You are right that wholly non-existent nukes would be harder to fake. But covering up bad maintenance isn't quite so hard.

In your point's favour: Looking at the Russian military budget, they do seem to spend a lot on those nukes. Of course, funds could still be siphoned off. But having a big budget is at least necessary, even if not sufficient.
Cloudflare’s systems dynamically route traffic across the globe
It astounds me that this is still a problem in 2023.

I company I coded for surveyed the entire Fiji region in 1997, drafting aircraft at 80m ground clearance in long lines across both sides of the 180 longitude line.

Every single bit of commercial US GIS software available at the time was garbage and failed to correctly compute line lengths that straddled the 180 longitude line, areas of rectangles that did the same, correctly polygon mask etc.

Fortuneately we had in house software (that had the same flaws, considering it originated from Sunnydale, California) and source code so this became Yet Another Patch I had to write in on the fly in the midst of everything else to move forward.

I wrote issue tickets on this to ArcView | ESRI (of the day), the open GIS groups of the day, and raised it with anybody on relevant IRC boards | early reddit who was talking about their aircraft control software, etc.

I haven't thought about that for 14 odd years now .. but I really thought the base libraries in Google Maps would correctly handle geodesic geometry by now.
Didn't this happen to Sony already once before?
> A history of doing the right thing doesn't matter in the slightest

If we all thought this way, certainly there'd be no incentive for anyone to do the right thing at all? A good track record should be rewarded, up until the point when it stops. You shouldn't trust any company indefinitely, but there are a few that you can trust "for now".
I assume he means at the device level.
I was in NYC for the first time a few months ago in Hell's Kitchen. Looked out of the window from the top floor of a loft we were in and could see the USS Intrepid out the window. I wish I would have realized this sooner.
Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules
You're incorrect, you appear to be replying to the wrong user. Nothing in your link is relevant to what I've said.
The writing tool affects the choice of words and, by extension, the thought itself.

With a pencil you can rest the tip on the paper and you can erase its traces, but it has lateral drag and requires some downward force. The fountain pen requires no force, but you can't rest it on paper or it makes a huge blotch. You can't even leave it uncaped for very long, so it kinda forces you to be writing. The computer allows searching, copying and pasting, but every minor alteration in font or typeface requires cooperation from the software.
DJI is absolutely the Apple of the drone world
You’re joking, but it’s predecessor was actually DEF-F.

There aren’t many details but it’s some kind of electronic countermeasures/data collection system.

See the museum exhibit here:

http://www.sr71.us/sr_sensors_pg3.htm
You're implying a couple of things:

a) That movement is unrelated to diet, which is not true. Every moment that you're walking to the bus stop, that you're spending on the bus, that you're hanging out at the fat men's club is a moment that you're not eating.

b) That diet isn't related to behavior, which is also false. Being happy with other people likely reduces depression-driven eating triggers.

> Hunger is a drive controlled by hormones, and something in the Western diet has hijacked it.

Why does it have to be only diet and not environment? You could similarly claim that uncontrolled social media in the Western world is driving large numbers of people to depression and overeating.
[it] was so powerful that it could see the stars even in daylight

That's a very odd thing to say: when you're at 85,000 feet (as noted, the SR-71's cruising altitude), the concept of a blue "daylight" that blocks the view of space only exists below you, not above you [1]. There is not enough Rayleigh scattering at that height to get in the way of a camera looking for stars to map to a star chart. It's pretty much why they used star navigation: they're always visible when you're halfway to space.

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/blusky.html
macOS Sonoma and GPG Mail
Unpatched on a phone that was ever promised security updates in that time window?
How to Think Like a Developer: The Art of Problem Solving
You do not need to transmit the video first. But coordinate or interested person. Even a sport watch can be a security threat as demo by some exercise army personnel. They just know who and when and where these places are.

For the transfer part it is much harder as said and easier to detect in peace time.

But then what happen in war or proxy-war time. You have to know how many senior Russians are killed by using a phone …
I think a nice thing about Google is that it seems many people there still believe that to some degree.

We certainly believed it when Google started, and they were talking like the then-familiar Internet-savvy altruistic forward-looking engineer types.

Today, you can still see many examples of Google doing things well. (And of course many examples of things that we wouldn't have expected them to do, including some that would've gotten them ostracized.)
> Bedrooms are also required by law to have a window

Windows are required for fire escape, there are good reasons for that.
Agree - I know plenty of British and Australian doctors who routinely say "jabs" in their day to day work, it's a completely neutral term, if anything it'd go down better with patients than "injection".
That's a "hot take" but entirely wrong. All three of the major allies (US, UK, USSR) realized they needed each other, hence lend-lease [1], the "Germany first" policy (defeat Germany before Japan) [2] and the Malta conference [3].

Without American equipment, the USSR would not have had the supplies to push the Germans west. Without a Russian front, the UK and the USA might not have been able to dislodge Germany from Europe, and the UK may have fallen [4]. Without Britain in allied hands, it would have been vastly more difficult for the USA to stage D-Day, and they certainly would not have been able to provide the fuel for their logistical needs via the Pluto pipeline [5].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_first

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_Conference_(1945)

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto
It's a longitude issue, not a time zone problem.

The distance along the zero latitude equator from -179.99 W to +179.99 E should be relatively easy to compute and yet a large proportion of software in the mapping domain screws that up - even software that controls drones and| used by commercial pilots in the US, etc.
I don't think they used enough rivets.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/S...
Nobody said all reading had to be terribly beneficial. I just object to the idea that it necessarily is. That it’s not is fine.

Some folks claim it’s virtuous and better for you than, say, watching so-so TV shows, just because it’s READING, and I happen to think that’s plainly silly. And also that it’s fine that it’s largely not.

There are multiple ways I could have intended “easy to read”, and I mean that this, from the post I was responding to:

> It exercises your imagination, your vocabulary, and ironically your writing ability.

Is readily sacrificed, in most salable books, to avoid challenging the reader, because readers who don’t like to have any difficulty with a book are a much larger market than those who want that.

You would agree that “See Spot Run” may offer little improving to most adults, even if they enjoy reading it, yes? Then at most we disagree about where that line falls. But, again, it is fine if 40-year-olds like to read See Spot Run. There’s not anything wrong with it, it just bothers me when people paint reading as always some wholesome activity. It’s not—not always, probably not most of the time—but also that is OK.
That release is about using DJI drones in government and military installations. There is not a suggestion that DJI is being used to do wide spread civilian spying.

Meanwhile in the US...
C64OS the new OS for the Commodore 64
These real-life effects by our decisions in technology sometimes half way around the world are very interesting to me. Similar to how some poeple are unlucky enough to live in their communities geographic center that becomes the default location for GPS lookups for that location.
https://copenhageneconomics.com/publication/the-economic-imp...

Study that was linked in TFA which lists the benefits of adding another subsea cable.
Maybe that way they can tell which competing services are secretly scraping data?
What would you rather they do? Upgrade you to the current Premium plan, raising your price?
Considering that the average reading comprehension level in the US is 7th Grade, I think we're fine recommending that people read - even if they're reading trashy books.
They will bill you by the pixel. Usage metrics are streamed in real-time. You're gonna wish 480x320 came back.
Held in contempt of the senate