skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that most humanities degree holders that I am aware of do not agree that humanties events can be expressed in numbers. They can't comprehend anything rather than over simplified stories. What I mean by degree holders, I mean Phd degree holders, professors.

What being said in the article reflects misunderstandings of math from the arts and humanities community. What they need is a general understanding of discrete math rather than specifically statistic. Calculus is valuable to STEM because of the smooth and continuous natural of macroscopic world. Contrast that cultural/social/econ events are discrete. If you want to draw a beautiful smooth line which fit so badly, that do not tell the whole story. However we see people drawing line cut through a circle in a graph in most humanities papers and they claim there is a positive relationship whatsoever.

And here is how flawed the survey is.

>>> Survey target: Majors that require calculus were excluded.

>>> Many high school math topics were unimportant to college professors. For example, most professors said they wanted students to understand functions, particularly linear and exponential

Linear functions are already taught in pre-calculus. You want calculus but you don't want calculus.

>>> the ability for patterns and relationships and make generalizations

This is unrelated to math. More related to IQ. Seems that students in the non STEM realm generally lack the ability to find patterns as professors witnessed. People should take more concerns on this phenomenon.
I don't really think the phenomenon is anything other than people selfishly wanting their belongings to be saved over another passenger's life.
Yes, I get the impression it only runs on Linux? And we're supposed to infer that by the fact that it's "distro-agnostic" and sometimes the word Free is capitalized in the middle of a sentence. Because if you're in the right place, you're already running a Free OS.
UK's first air capture plant is turned on to remove CO2, turns it into jet fuel
Only if the other country demands it. The US allows dual citizenship.
"employees who work outside of standard hours by choice, to better suit their schedule or to pursue personal ambitions, report no negative impacts and even a slight uptick in their wellness and productivity scores."

So, if, like alot of Hacker News readers, you're hacking away on your next startup idea after hours, you should be fine.
You seem like an absolute joy to be around.
We have laws in our country to be able to do something against organized network of regilious people which would use their power as an organized group to take over some "components" of the country and keep that for mostly themselves (I guess in the economy). A sort of safe guard against religious in-betweeners.
> The true magic of the early web was somebody genius but decidedly untechnical like David Bowie shitposting at his own fans.

No, the magic of the early web was that people treated their online identities as a secret alternative life, rather than a resume for recruiters, friends, potential partners, and other real-world acquaintances to look at.

The Internet of today is little more than a (distorted) mirror of people's offline lives. That's why the problems of today's Internet are the same as the problems of the real world. By contrast, the Internet of the 90s was an exciting world of its own, with rules that were dramatically different from those of everyday life.
Yeah Bayes' Theorem and confidence intervals, population vs sample means, and margins of error are all things any college graduate should understand. When you realize you can bake correlations/associations to imply whatever you want, you start taking any percentages people toss around a lot less seriously.
I did and sorry, it honestly seems like you've never considered any of this before whenever you wrote what you did, and generally have zero clue what you're talking about.
> many startups are now choosing to leave the capital city they once flocked to because of the rising cost of living, low funding, and lack of diversity, according to TechCrunch.

Texas in general is having brain drain. Some due to politics, some due to systemic factors that made the areas relatively less desirable in the past.
Thanks, my page also was lacking in exposing my RSS feed. I'm htmlstupid and so massaged what you did for your site.

That's two of us now that have exposed our RSS.
The computation in calculus was the hard part... the intuition made complete sense almost all of the time. In stats it seemed the other way around. Interesting that you seem to feel otherwise, but different strokes.
I grew up with a C64 when I was 5-6 years old. My “uncle” cracked games under the alias “THE SHADOW” and sent me boxes of 5-1/4 disks. When I was 7 and bored one summer I went digging in our basement boxes and found a disk organizer full of “business” software. When I got GEOS running I remember becoming so upset with my parents that they “hid” this from me. To me, GEOS made my toy a “real” computer. I played with GEOS all summer. Such good memories.
> None of these communities will attract today or tomorrow's David Bowies.

I kind of get what you're saying but I'm tired of people who act like "shitposting skills" are a useful quality trait. Similarly people who just can't not let something be.

I kind of dislike "forced kindness" as a community philosophy (I've met way too many people IRL who have a net persona of "super kind" and turn out to be, glibly, sociopaths), but "please don't be insufferable" is a nice rule of thumb for communities. Plenty of cool stuff made by people who are merely a little annoying. Meanwhile too many places have "those people" who just won't let something go. Let people keep their honor!
NeurIPS 2023: Expo Day
Americans trust in institutions is probably at an all time low due to rampant corruption across the board.
Can't believe I forgot to remove the new YT tracker. When sharing with timestamp it's a bit more insidious. D'oh!
Primary school common core math is focused on teaching numeracy and conceptual understanding. Students who want a future in mathematics or related fields will take more formal rigorous math in secondary school, often via a "compaction" program that resembles older math programs that result in completion of Calculus by the 11th or 12th grade.

Once your kids get into higher grades, you may end up seeing them be taught the "tricks" that you may have come up with yourself as a math person in previous years. These solutions leverage the students ability to have a functional mental model of how the math works, even if they haven't done as much rote memorization. In a modern world with calculators everywhere, it's better to teach students to be able to identify incorrect calculations quickly over repetitive practice on large, complex sums and products. (Times tables up to 12x12 are still ubiquitous and emphasized, as having those down helps a lot when doing other math.)
I didn't think its hardware requirements were that exotic? This was a fairly generic PC clone laptop. I knew another guy who ran 3.x on a 286.
The message is arrogant but it seems very direct to me. He directly asks if you know what you're talking about. And assumes you don't, offering a way to help.

This is blunt and uncaring, but is in no way passive aggressive. The engineer probably didn't even mean to be aggressive. I read this as he fully believes the consultant has no idea what he's talking about.
> This is the best way to circumvent the politics and corruption.

Maybe in terms of personal responsibility, but definitely not from a societal point of view... It would distort the market by having more expensive baby food tested more often (the people buying more expensive baby food would have the money and the time to do more testing)
> instead was just memorization and 'plug and chug' style learning.

Kind of surprised to see that, my experience with college calc was it was so heavy on memorization, that was my struggle.

i ended up failing out of school too, lol. i was clicking around khan academy recently through their calc stuff and was surprised i struggled so much with it, 15-ish years ago.
In Tears of the kingdom you can shoot muddle buds to monsters and they’ll start fighting each other.
Unfortunately the videos on the showcase page don't play on Firefox or Chrome (Windows): https://www.pitivi.org/showcase/
Musk hasn't demonstrated any ideals or principles. He has only demonstrated impulses.

A year ago he would not reinstate Alex Jones:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/21/elon-musk...

And his supposed "free speech absolutism" is nothing but hypocrisy:

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rcna81961

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/twitter-s...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/elon-m...

Musk is an attention seeking narcissist. He is determined to turn himself into a cartoon and he is succeeding.
Index Ventures has the money. But the truth of the matter is that even most US VCs aren't willing to shell out 2B valuations for a company with no revenue.
> Section 6.3 We may share personal information in connection with a corporate transaction, like a merger or sale of our company, the sale of most of our assets, or a bankruptcy.

>Section 6.5 Except where explicitly stated to the contrary in this Policy, in some cases, particularly given the limited amount and type of information and data collected through omg.lol, we have not restricted contractors’ own use or disclosure of that information or data. We are not responsible for the conduct or policies of Stripe, or other contractors.

INAL but that seems pretty cookie-cutter "Company is not ruling-out selling your data to others".

https://home.omg.lol/info/legal
Hence why I said 'this particular line OF COMMENTS' and not 'this thread'.

Security and privacy are not the same thing, nor are they directly related. Lack of privacy can literally be designed into a secure system, which is one way of describing how Chrome works. It doesn't really matter how you choose to esoterically define the words if everybody else's meaning is different.

When people talk about Chrome being secure, they're talking about the browser's resistance to being compromised by a third party. It's that simple. Nobody cares that you have some esoteric view whereby Google's inherent lack of privacy protections, wherein Google is able to collect information about the user through their browsing habits, is also part of the browser. That is a matter of privacy, not security, and Google very clearly sets out all the ways it collects information about the user in its various policies. Security relates to whether third parties - using the browser architecture itself as a conduit - are able to compromise the browser in such a way as to obtain or manipulate user information, data, or elements of how the user interacts with the system, in a way that is not approved by the user and about which he is likely unaware. Every user of Chrome agrees to Google's collection and use of certain data, and ergo such data collection does not involve security issues whatsoever. That you might disagree with Google's privacy policies is not to the point. Note that if the aggregated user data were to be surreptitiously accessed by a third party, this WOULD be a security issue - but that isn't what we're talking about, is it?

If talking about security, Chromium has been the most secure browser for at least a decade. Safari and Firefox are significantly worse at security than Chromium browsers are. That's not really debatable - just go look at results of the various hacking contests, look at the number of active exploits and how long they are in the wild and unpatched, etc.

On privacy, Firefox is undoubtedly better, although Mozilla has had snafus over the years. Mozilla also literally makes something like 99% of its revenues through agreements it has with Google search, so go figure.

One final note - as has been the case for at least 15 years now, Firefox with uBlock Origin and NoScript and a few other addons are probably the most secure you can get, albeit at significant cost to usability and convenience. When discussing security I think it's inherent that people are discussing the vanilla, out of the box install of a browser. Having said that, I currently use Brave and find it to be the best mix of features of Chrome without the rest of the Google privacy problems; despite being a very long time Firefox user, it just isn't good enough these days, although if Google succeeds in killing adblockers in Chrome I'll have to move to Firefox regardless.

Good day.
“OS/2 is the dominant workstation product”

In what universe other than maybe some banks was that the case? 1995 was the era of the commercial UNIX workstation.
It's wild to think about how anybody found info back in the day. Forums were probably the big one I guess? There was always something magical about being linked to forum and finding a wealth of info there, and entire domains of knowledge.

FWIW stuff linked from HN & friends is not always the best, but I am pretty agressive about sticking RSS feeds from blogs that get linked here. That gives an inflow of interesting stuff people find. It's not a thing you can do in one go, but after a while you have a lot of neat stuff from people who cared enough to post it.
I've never understood the "calculus vs statistics" argument. Calculus is an unquestionable prerequisite for any meaningful statistics work.

If you don't understand the concept of "integrating a function" they how can you possibly make sense of virtually any part of statistics? 90% of practical statistics can be boiled down to understanding the basic algebra of normally distributed random variables and then doing basic calculus on the result.

Statistics without calculus is the worse kind of statistics where students are taught to blindly throw tests at a problem without having a clue as to why they are doing this. Statistics without understanding is worse that no statistics at all.
Not related to security, but I was quite surprised to see how far PHP has come since I used it many years ago: [PHP doesn't suck (anymore)](https://youtu.be/ZRV3pBuPxEQ)
> The total amount of recovereable uranium in the oceans is in the billions of tons. Orders of magnitude more U and Th in the crust. Fusion energy seems possible and the total solar irradiance is astronomical. Self replicating solar system probes, that would turn us into a Kardashev type 2 civilisation, are also conceptually possible, and could use only resources from other planets.

You are greatly underestimating how fast exponential growth gets out of hand.

At 1% annual growth in human energy use starting from where we are now, in around 9300 years our annual energy use would equal all the energy in the Milky Way galaxy. By "all the energy" I mean all the energy including the energy we'd get from converting all the mass into energy (E=mc^2).

12000 years from now, so a mere 2700 years after we are consuming an entire Milky Way per year, our annual consumption would equal all the energy in the entire observable universe.

There are similar limits if we look at population growth. At 1% annual population growth we would need the mass of the observable universe to make all the living humans in about 12300 years.

For population growth another limit 1% hits in 12000 years is space. Assuming no FTL, since every human is close to Earth now in 12000 years every human has to be within 12000 light years of Earth. The volume of a sphere of radius 12000 light years divided by the population after 12000 years of 1% growth gives a volume available per human that is about equal to the volume of one person.

One I've not calculated is what the limit is when you combine 1% energy growth and the speed of light limit on how fast we can expand human space. Long before the earlier limit of 12000 years to needing all the energy in the universe we'd reach a point where the energy density in human occupied space is enough to turn human space into a black hole.

If anyone wants to calculate that limit I'd love to see the results.
It is not about the time on the clock, but who controls that clock. If it is the employee they are happy!

Get the 1am lover to do 9-5 they will be as miserable as the 7-3 guy
being woken up a 1am
Half-Life just had its 25th anniversary. It’s crazy to think there were only 5 years between those two titles.
I'm in the "creative" field (aka, visual time-based arts, so to speak, but honestly, it's "work," and in the same vein, every other job is teeming with much-needed creativity that often doesn't get translated to visual arts, but that's an aside). But this is how I approach my work as well. All that is to say, I really appreciate this post, and it's very validating to whatever I've experienced in the "creative" visual arts field. Which to me kinda points to larger meta patterns that emerge from work in general.
I think its because of how its taught. one thing is its often for a lot of people just learning for the sake of learning once your doing anything like algebra or harder.
You have to imagine after this insanity with the women in Texas with a medically necessary abortion* that companies have to be rethinking hiring there (and women have to be rethinking living there frankly)

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/12/10/...
I think the point went over your head (which just further proves mine).

Hint: Perhaps read the original output more carefully: "For example, the addition of two numbers, 2+2, can be seen as a repeated application of the multiplication operation,". Or are you counted in the majority of that 120,000,000,000?
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that the marketers who wrote this have probably heard of a control variable at some point in their life.
Summary: White students can cheat in other, undetected ways, which gives them an unfair advantage.

I don't understand why he talks about anti-plagiarism policies, though, instead of the "test banks" used by white students.
I would like to see the basics linear algebra taught in high-school. Lack of knowledge of linear algebra is extremely insidious. If someone who doesn't know calculus encounters a calculus problem, they recognize it as something they can't solve. If someone unfamiliar with linear algebra comes across a linear algebra problem, they see it as an extremely difficult algebra or trig problem. I've personally seen programmers apply trigonometry to problems that only require addition and subtraction to solve.
Most people don't want to learn to fish in their quest to make a seafood dinner.
I get what you mean, but I think its a little ridiculous to call a chronological sequence of commands and their output in an org-mode file with running commentary NOT a CLI session. I could have done essentially the same thing by recording my session using the "script" command and adding commentary by starting commands with #. If it was 1972, I could have just marked up the paper output of my ASR-33 session with pencil and stuck it in my notebook for later.

If this is "organizing things spatially on screen in a way that's meaningful to you" then I honestly don't know of a way of interacting with a computer that isn't that.
Considering that having a complication during pregnancy could now mean either jail time or death, I don’t know why any well off professional with options would choose to continue to live in Texas.
Tech books will still be useful in the future in a few ways:

- When you're first learning a topic, ChatGPT isn't as useful because you don't really know what questions to ask. It's useful to get a broad overview guided by an expert so you can learn the concepts, and more importantly the vocabulary, which you can then use to dive deeper into parts you're interested in with ChatGPT.

- For really new stuff, ChatGPT obviously won't have any training data. So the books will be the only real resource until the models are updated.
Yeah, for sure nginx with openresty. :)

So less of a hack, and more of a "hey, that's the way it works" - or - Clark's third law is highly dependent on your POV and aptitude.
I agree. This requires a healthy workplace though.

I worked somewhere, well two places where I was literally taken to task about how long something took. Repeatedly. They didn’t care about why, just that it wont happen again.

It didn’t: in both cases it’s time to fire up Word again and edit my CV (pretty much the one reason I use that program!)
haha yes it was entirely possible with gpt4v. literally just screenshot and feed in the images and text in chat format, aka “interleaved”. made something similar at a hackathon recently. (https://x.com/swyx/status/1722662234680340823). the bizarre thing is that google couldve done what you did, and we wouldve all been appropriately impressed, but instead google chose to make a misleading marketing video for the general public and leave the rest of us frustrated nerds to do the nasty work of having to explain why the technology isnt as seen on tv yet; making it seem somehow our fault

i am curious about the running costs of something like this
> and that FBI Director Robert Mueller was a demon.

Well, he’s creative, anyway. That’s a Charlie Stross storyline.
It should be, but the change didn’t have it as a setting.
Yeah I know it will work with the git backend, still not sure what the native backend can/will bring, documentation on it seems to be pretty sparse.
Ask HN: How to create llama.cpp LAN server on a Mac Studio?
I know how to use llama.cpp and run local servers in terminal, but I want to be able to send API requests from other machines on the network (or even out of network if it's possible). This Mac Studio is located in my company office and I should use the company VPN to connect to it (I can SSH or do Screen Sharing).
> If this is a growing trend, it begs the question. What will Austin have to do to remain the darling of the tech world?

I moved to Austin in 2008. The locals had a “go home, we are full” ethos at the time.

Looking back in history, that same vibe shows up in the 90s, 80s, 70s and before.

So, it’s somewhat presumptuous of the author to assume that the people who lived here when I moved here or live here now ever desired to be the “darling of the tech world.”

The article also doesn’t mention all the hardware we had way before metafaceboinstagramoogle showed up. Amd and National Instuments and Dell. Not to mention Apple has a huge campus. Richard Garriot, creator of ultimate online and a ton of gaming shops are in town. We’ve got a major university, healthcare, and a diverse number of other industries already here.

Austin likes what’s in Austin (minus the grumpiness about traffic and regressive state politics). If Silicon Valley likes that too, cool. If not, I don’t think we’ll be worried about it too much. I’ll just keep remote working like I’ve been doing for the past decade+ and paddle boarding on the weekends.
Minecraft. Triggering it so skeletons kill creepers was the primary way to get music discs
or they can take a 1 hour flight on southwest for like 50 bucks.
One cannot state the value of being able to make changes to prod quickly. Your entire world changes when you don't have a 30 minute "code to release" cycle (or god forbid a 6-8 hour one).

At the very least extremely liberal use of feature flags is table stakes for helping ops teams stay a bit sane.
Wow, this is super cool! From the code it seems like the speech to text and text to speech are using the browser’s built-in features. I always forget those capabilities even exist!
Consider an FPS AI with perfect tracking and aim, or a starcraft AI with perfect blink stalker micro. It's a smart play, but not fun for the player
TikTok to invest $1.5B in GoTo's Indonesia e-commerce business
Part of this comes from its simplicity. Maps are relatively fast to make. DoomBuilder and TrenchBroom have made more 3D maps practical. Duke3D and its engine has a smaller yet continuously active community. There are others.
The currently-linked article seems like a poorly worded and edited synopsis of the article at https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/is-the-texas-boom-town-of-.... Should that be linked at the top instead?
Awesome, needed this!