skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought that robotics devices like Roombas ought to add some mouse sensors on the bottom for odometry. It seems like it would be a lot more reliable than wheel odometry while being super cheap. Mouse sensors are frequently used in college and high school robotics contests for this purpose.
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>> Oxide is pretty much the company I dream to work at, both for the tech stack, plus the people working there.

Thought I was the only one :P
It's a research paper. You can write a theoretical paper and let others apply it practically, which others can figure out the practical aspect and report results of benchmarks, or others can also build on the theory.

This paper only has 2 authors. The other solvers are probably applying technique specific tricks and speedups, and you're working with approximate optimization, it's not that easy to move everything over.
Huh? By calling Google's 1-800 number? How does one "work" with Google for their own investigatory needs?
in case you didn't know neato is suspending operations and closing up shop
Citation please. Rational entertainment would predict poorer people playing the lottery less than rich people, which afaik is not how it happens.
It’s too bad MSN wants me to read this article in an app when I open it on an iPhone. It sounds like an interesting topic.
I think they are utterly ridiculous. Get a decent canister vacuum that plugs into the wall and you'll have clean floors in 15 minutes (or less if your house is small) with no frustration, no ugly charging station to trip over, no batteries to catch on fire or require hazmat disposal when they don't work anymore, no apps, no accounts, no spying.
I have never used monolith to say with any certainty, but two things in your description are worth highlighting between the goals of WARC versus the umpteen bazillion "save this one page I'm looking at as a single file" type projects:

1. WARC is designed, as a goal, to archive the request-response handshake. It does not get into the business of trying to make it easy for a browser to subsequently display that content, since that's a browser's problem

2. Using your cited project specifically, observe the number of "well, save it but ..." options <https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith#options> which is in stark contrast to the archiving goals I just spoke about. It's not a good snapshot of history if the server responded with `content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1` back in the 90s but "modern tools" want everything to be UTF-8 so we'll just convert it, shall we? Bah, I don't like JavaScript, so we'll just toss that out, shall we? And so on

For 100% clarity: monolith, and similar, may work fantastic for any individual's workflow, and I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum; but I do want to highlight that all things being equal it should always be possible to derive monolith files from warc files because the warc files are (or at least have the goal of) perfect fidelity of what the exchange was. I would guess only pcap files would be of higher fidelity, but also a lot more extraneous or potentially privacy violating details
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“Most people who are talented or smart are scared of doing things”

I have noticed this a lot in my career, I think it’s because these people self identify as smart/talented and every time you attempt some task, there is the possibility of failure - and for the “smart” person, failing at a task takes a stab at the heart of their identity. Self cushioning in a cloud of rationales “well, I can’t do X but at least I’m smart” means that if “being smart” is ever questioned, the possibility of them failing terrifies them.

This causes a paralysis.

Its total nonsense of course - the path to any success is littered with failures - failures are prerequisites of success, and are not optional.

I was an A student in school but I wasn’t naturally an A, I had to work for it, and I watched myself pass all of the “natural As” who snickered at me, told me my ideas were impossible, and then tried to join in when I showed them they weren’t. This went on throughout my career and is even happening now, there are people MUCH smarter than me at work, but through sheer willpower, grit and never giving up I have already achieved what they were telling me was impossible a year ago. This includes people like heads of departments at top tier universities - I was told my one that my idea on catalysis prediction was crazy and wouldn’t work - this man was the head of a certain department at an A-Tier US university, working in catalysis for 20 years, 6 months later, I have achieved it. Just keep working, asking questions, and adjusting course every day. If you’re gritty enough you can do it.

I often wonder if this kind of “identity bounding” as well as “fear permutations” are the downward pressures on intellect in the Darwinian sense
It’s hard to compare people in different eras. Erdos certainly wrote down a vast number of notes that didn’t become published. I think much of Euler’s volumes that are mentioned in the link you supplied would be considered notes nowadays. Erdos also worked in an era where collaboration became essential. In Euler’s era that wasn’t as essential as it is today. Euler also worked in an era where there was a lot of low hanging fruit so to speak. None of this diminishes Euler’s accomplishments and he is certainly regarded as a greater mathematician than Erdos.
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the disruption was on the channel, not the service or product...to disrupt once again some other aspect would need to change, like going virtual, or embedded, or i dont know, web4, bit$, quantRSA, ...
Would Internet Brands buy it?
Probably via police inquery?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc...
Are you aware of e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-documents... ?
That ventures wildly into whether the realm of physicalism explains malaises that happen in the "consciousness" realm. spooky
The digital surveillance industry fended off any sort of straightforward general regulation so long (eg privacy and antitrust), that now the backlash has built into a witchhunt that's just lashing out at whatever social ill the yellow press focuses on this week. It's essentially a double win for these companies that are content with high barriers to entry and regulatory capture, but a grave destruction of individual communications freedom.
I also worked on PSGroove.

Though that was very much a team effort, I knew nothing about USB before working on that. From memory, my contribution was mostly tweaking the code until it worked, I think my PS3 was the first to be exploited by PSGroove.

Though, I wasn't happy at merely copying the sequence of packets USB that lead to an exploit, so I spent some time trying to get a better understanding of how the exploit worked. That document is the result of my efforts.
Maybe it got better but when I was using RN, it felt fine at the first 3 months; then we found out that it is a hell to work with JS and React Native dependency. To the point we needed to forked multiple project to make it worked. And in the end, we still need a considerable native code for our app. It might just be better to start from scratch with native iOS/Android.
And as with electronic voting, the contract will go to the lowest bidder with the worst security, not the company that's got the CS chops to do it right.
Legally, NetBSD isn't actually Unix. The brand doesn't mean what people seem to think it means.
I wish I can remember how I even learned LP tools existed. I started with this:
https://coin-or.github.io/pulp/
Every time an integer feasible point is found during the iterative process these algorithms use (branch and bound), you get a new upper bound on the global minimum. It’s not clear to me how these dynamically generated upper bounds highly specific to the particular problem relate to the upper bounds of a more general nature that R&R produce.
Doesn't the mention of titanium here seem wrong?

If the Electra had been built of other metals, say aluminum and titanium, there
wouldn’t be anything left but free atoms floating around.

Titanium is supposed to be resistant to corrosion in seawater due to the oxide layer that forms: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.5301/jabfm.5000387

Titanium is reported to be highly resistant to general corrosion in seawater.

...

These properties make titanium suitable for a variety of applications involving
seawater, starting from thin-walled heat exchanger tubing, with consequent good heat
transfer properties, up to submarine hulls, ships, platforms, desalination plants,
salt production evaporators and water jet propulsion systems.
> Have Chinese based electronics improved in the last decade

You would surprised. The answer is yes and yes. Roomba like robots are dominated by Chinese companies and they are the most advanced manufacturers technology wise as well.
I have one thought on FTL travel. Creation of a “naked singularity” by spinning a black hole fast enough to counter the forces holding it together. However the singularity will remain incompatible with our universe, and will then spread at the speed of causality popping, destroying everything in its path. But within that new universe, it might be possible.
> Now I understand that they would be nothing more than an excuse to wire advertisements directly into our brains

Unless you can afford the Premium+ subscription, of course.
Lollol thats what i half remembered.. i guess then what Terence Tao meant by higher order is lower order in the featured artiicle!
I mean, I phrase it as "my dream job is systems integration at Sun" (but Oxide is the living equivalent)
Archive.is or whichever tld they are using today is much more lax on content moderation. I have yet to encounter an administrator-banned domain restricted from public (or any?) access there. Because archive submissions are user initiated the scope of content at archive.today is more limited, but it also displays what pages users found worth archiving.

Long term the reliability of archive.today seems to be in question. I believe the owner is mostly privately funded, but I wonder if that has changed as other parties took interest.
Writing a Windows app, MacOS app, Linux app, iOS app and Android app is a nightmare because of the insanity and divergence of the SDKs.

They could all have a common API with OS-specific extensions - but instead of that, everyone is trying to make their own API. As a result, developers just write everything in electron/WebKit/WebView.

I wish there was an open standard API for writing native desktop/mobile apps that OSes could adhere to (that the EU forces them to adhere to, haha).
Thanks so much for elaborating!
It’s not an ad hominem to suggest that someone is wrong or mistaken about a point of fact when that’s the context of the discussion.

Determinism is a distinct concept, and while related to nominative determinism, in the sentence I used, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the word nominative is an adjective modifying determinism because nominative determinism is itself a distinct concept that functions singly as an appositive after an independent clause and a colon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apposition

I’ll admit that you are free to disagree on this point or any other I have made, and I wouldn’t consider you wrong to do so. My remarks regarding what you posted in response another person in the thread were meant to contrast our views on this matter. Clearly, it’s implied that these are my views, and it’s okay to be wrong, and I’ll admit that I may be considered wrong myself by you, but to say so isn’t an ad hominem because we were both making truth claims with the unstated assumption that we each believe ourselves to be right. It’s not an insult or claim for/against you personally or regarding your character. It’s just how I view your claims on this topic as evidenced by your comments.

It just seems needlessly pedantic to derail an entire thread to call someone out for supposedly miscounting words when it’s literally beside the point I was making, but I respect your difference of opinion.
Not good enough. Didn’t want google to know the kid exists. Too late.
A blockchain is just a technical implementation.

The thing that makes something like bitcoin decentralized is that it's built on consensus between participants: when you make a transaction, you publish "I'm sending $x coins to from $y to $z", signed with your private key, and once enough participants agree to add your transaction to the chain, it's "real". This is why bitcoin transactions can often take radically longer than other forms of payment to resolve. NFTs work the same way: You say "I'm paying $x from $y to $z to buy this picture of a monkey".

If you were separating the payments from the items, you need some entity that agrees "yup, nytesky paid for this item and so they own it". And once you need an entity for it... you may as well skip the blockchains and just use a database.

For what it's worth: this is functionally how most NFTs end up working. The entity selling them just takes payment via ethereum or other coins, but at best what they're storing on that chain is a pointer saying "oh yea, nytesky bought this thing that we store elsewhere".

If it's starting to sound like a big scam... that's because it is. "NFTs" is basically just a fun buzzword for "we figured out how to hype up and grift assets without actually having to like, have assets to sell. We can just generate them out of thin air and then convince gullible people to drive the price up".
Indeed. Negative-sum games (like lotteries) are a form of consumption. From the player's perspective they should be compared to other forms of consumption like buying a beer or a rollercoaster ride. You do it for temporary pleasure, not as an investment.

Most players are fully aware of this, just as most beer-drinkers drink in moderation. (See Brenner, Brenner & Brown for more data.)
I did not volunteer. As I would not accept it given the current risk level, or costs. But there are people who would. And as that risk is reduced, and the risk window pushed back, more and more people would, so the sum total of people dying after using a device over ten to fifty years would increase, but the result of the technologies widespread use would be rapid improvement in it that we would all mutually benefit from.

Consider cars kill easily a million people every year, and they are totally normal. Thats not some crazy experimental technology. People decided. Cars are/were worth millions of deaths.

If you are still not convinced, consider what I said but in the context of airplanes in the 1910s.

Nobody should be forced into it. I did not say they should. And they should be well aware of the risks. Short term and long term. Potential unknown risks as well. But poeple use technology and enjoy it, despite dying from it.
MMm, but it _is_ over diagnosed and medicated.
The Third Dimension was added sixteen years ago.

Feel old yet?
I have a cheap (well, also old, there wasn’t too much else back then, it’s 10 years old) iRobot Roomba 620 and am very happy with it. Extremely repairable, which is not something I read about modern ones of any manufacturer.
The main difference between buying an NFT of a painting and buying a real painting is that in the latter case, you possess a painting, and in the former case, you don't.
I genuinely don’t see the problem.

I live in CA. I can go to the store and buy a box fan, and I can buy them online and cheaply. I can buy little clips for holding filters on box fans. I can buy MERV 13 filters at any hardware store or online, and the ones in store are sold at competitive prices and are from real brands that aren’t making up the specs. I can buy actual air purifiers from many vendors, including IKEA, which sells genuinely excellent purifiers.

So what if I can’t buy that hilariously overpriced LASKO kit? I dislike nonsensical CA regulations about as much as anyone else, but this example is silly. I can spend less money to buy a LASKO box fan, a nice set of clips to hold a filter on, and a better filter. Although Amazon is really not a fantastic place to buy just one or two filters — Home Depot or ACE is better.
> The red tape, permitting, and labor costs are market-derived cash extraction mechanisms. Your problem is rent-seekers, not government.

Red tape and permitting is government, though. Rent-seekers in government, maybe, but government nonetheless.
There's been more than a few of these "nature solves NP-hard problems quickly!" kinds of stories, but usually, when one digs deeper, the answer is "nature finds local optima for NP-hard problems quickly!" and the standard response is "so does pretty trivial computer algorithms."

In the case of TSP, when you're trying to minimize a TSP with a Euclidean metric (i.e., each node has fixed coordinates, and the cost of the path is the Euclidean distance between these two points), then we can actually give you a polynomial-time algorithm to find a path within a factor ε of the optimal solution (albeit exponential in ε).
I think you’re vastly underestimating the destructive nature of porn. I’m no longer watching porn, by the grace of God.
It might not be that hard if you're not wanted for murder. David Wolfgang Hawke aka The Spam Nazi aka Jesse James managed to live in BC, Canada as a wanted man undetected by law enforcement for the remainder of his days, until he was found shot to death in 2017 (possibly related to his secret crypto fortune, but that's pure conjecture at this point)
There’s some pretty nice stuff you can get. Vacation packages as well. Just takes forever to earn enough to do anything useful with.
There was a good show on this recently, 20/20 maybe?
Inconsistency is not always obvious. You have to work to arrive at it and uncover it.

All proofs by contradiction would be entirely trivial otherwise.
So I hash some combination of ID, name and birthday and send it to Facebook to create an account. Facebook relays that hashed info to a government server which responds with a binary yes/no.

Of course you need to trust that the hash is not reversable.

That doesn’t stop kids from using Facebook, but it stops kids’ ID from being used to create an account.
Lotteries are a comparatively cheap form of entertainment.

Rich people can go to tennis matches, get a pilot's licence, and buy stock options. Poor people have much fewer alternatives.
Down by the river.
Mixed feelings about the Steam version personally. The ascii version characters were all direction-neutral. All the Steam characters and creatures look straight left regardless of the direction they're moving or which way the object they're interacting with is, and I find it immensely disorienting.
Use Lisp or Smalltalk?

They have an "image" which contains everything (including the system-provided libraries), in a single file, and rely on the development environment to navigate to classes,functions, etc.
The UK also sells CBD vapes, I wonder how this will change that.

I would imagine their wording of whatever they put in place will be broad enough to cover just anything disposable that produces vapour
I didn't think low-latency high-quality voice chat would make such a difference over our current ChatGPT chat, but oh my, I think that really takes it to the next level. It's entering creepy territory, at least for me.
I honestly don’t even know anymore if I’m living in a cracked / badly modded version of the sims, how can one wake up in the morning and seek for a safety exemption regarding

I quote the article: She noted the exemption Boeing had sought "involves an anti-ice system that can overheat and cause the engine nacelle to break apart and fall off. This could generate fuselage-penetrating debris, which could endanger passengers in window seats behind the wing."
There's nothing wrong with any of them, given they're walled from public access/internet safely.

Smart lights with a protocol such as zigbee are lifesaver for example. Doesn't even need internet. Also work with normal switches etc.

Also nothing wrong with VR or LLMs either lol.
I think we're talking past each other. I took "expected" to mean "expected by society in general". Teenagers are generally expected to get regular driver's licenses and learn how to drive a car (although many of them don't even do that anymore). It is not common for people to expect a teenager to have a commercial driver's license and know how to operate an 18-wheeler.

Now, is it possible that in the 1970s your dad had an unhinged boss who expected a 16 year old to reliably operate commercial trucks without any training? Is it possible your dad is an exceptional driver who managed to do this? Sure, both of those things are possible. Is it a reasonable thing to expect from any randomly selected teenager? No.
> Pretty sure dark mode is much easier on the eyes at night at least.

This is very subjective. I personally find it much more difficult to focus on dark screens and they tire my eyes more. I'd rather turn the brightness down on a light theme than need to have it cranked up to full on a dark theme.
What privacy violating details does WARC retain?
Would a mathematician weigh in on who had more impact?
Artificial neurons learn and exhibit awareness while playing Pong (2022)
In the context of higher order functions, tail call elimination allows for the avoidance of building up intermediate stack frames and the associated calling costs of functions when doing things like composing functions, particularly when calling large chains of nested function calls. The benefits of TCO for something like mapping a function can also be pretty large because the recursive map can be turned into a while loop as you describe at the beginning of your comment.

The optimization of stack frame elision is pretty large for function calls on the JVM and the stack limits are not very amenable to ‘typical’ higher order function ‘functional programming’ style.
Alcohol and tobacco websites have been doing fine without checking IDs.
> The biggest problem with this is how we would define “porn”.

I wholeheartedly agree. And that’s a problem we should lean into and solve. Its difficulty doesn’t make it less worth of solving.

> The horrors and dangers of porn are squarely a domestic and family issue.

Therein lies the problem however. Every systemic issue in our world begins in a family or domestic situation of some form. While I am well aware and also concerned about the implications of government overreach here, I don’t think we can throw up our hands and say, “Meh”. At a minimum it can begin with education. We can teach people about the destructive nature of porn (and social media).

The fact that this impacts every family, domestic situation, and therefore indirectly or directly touches every single life in our society actually kinda makes it a great candidate for government oversight.
I have heard this argument before but I don't get it. Especially since evidence seems to show people generally have concave utility for money. (Under the assumption of concave utility, insurance is a better deal than it seems, but lotteries a worse deal than they seem -- even when one diversifies.)

What is the exact shape of the convex utility function you theorise these people have? And what data supports that?
Can you share what you achieved? Your prose makes a lot of sense. I’m curious if it’s from experience or just sounds good.
You seem to be confusing problem formulation with the problem solution. It is true there is a standard way to exchange the problem formulation through something like MPS (though it seems AML's like AMPL etc. have taken over). All this format gives you is a standard mathematical formulation of the problem.

However, the solution is something very specific to the individual solver and they have their own data structures, algorithms and heuristic techniques to solve the problem. None of these are interchangeable or public (by design) and you cannot just insert some outside numbers in the middle of the solver process without being part of the solver code and having knowledge of the entire process.