skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying we should defund math. I'm saying that it's perfectly fair and reasonable to think through how much sense it makes to allocate research funds for pure math. More specifically, I'm pushing because on the idea that it isn't okay to discuss this because past math successes have been useful in other areas. People really seem to cling to this argument and it doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe, at the end of the day, after thinking about it, it will make sense to continue funding pure math or even fund it more.

I agree that having a top number theorist teach Algebra I is a waste, but it's not a waste having them teaching undergraduate abstract algebra or number theory. The bigger issue is that in many places, there is very little expectation of teaching quality. I'm not sure this is connected to the issue of competition over students. The average math undergrad isn't picking a school based on how many Fields medalists it has.

I should say that I took number theory in undergrad from a top number theorist, and he was a phenomenally good teacher. I could have taken abstract algebra from him, too, if I had timed it right. Taking the craft of teaching seriously and being a good researcher aren't mutually exclusive!
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I think that future generations may forget most details of our way of life. However, as you said, it won't be due to lack of a historical record, but instead it will be due to a lack of interest in uneventful details combined with a plethora of information. I think with history we often have no clue about certain details even though the evidence is right in front of us; it's just not something we find interesting.
None of this would have had anything to do with PCI (nobody gives a shit about PCI; the worst shops in the world, the proprietors of the largest breaches, have had no trouble getting PCI certified and keeping certification after their breaches). At much smaller company sizes than this, insurance requires you to retain forensics/incident response firms. There's a variety of ways they could do that cheaply. They brought in the IR firm with the best reputation in the industry (now that Google owns Mandiant), at what I'm assuming are nosebleed rates, because they want to be perceived as taking this as seriously as they seem to be.

It's a very good writeup, as these things go. Cloudflare is huge. An ancillary system of theirs got popped as sequelae to the Okta breach. They reimaged every machine in their fleet and burned all their secrets. People are going to find ways to snipe at them, because that's fun to do, but none of those people are likely to handle an incident like this better.

I am not a Cloudflare customer (technically, I am a competitor). But my estimation of them went up (I won't say by how much) after reading this writeup.
With some people, there's a big difference between their outside voice and their inner monologue.
> In Common Lisp, you can invoke the COMPILE function on a lambda expression that you cons up at runtime and that never is in a textual representation.

Ah, I see. This actually clarified some of the apparently contradictory stuff I have been reading, thanks.

> As a general rule, don't reimplement a Lisp except as a learning exercise

Oh, I am much too nuts for something as simple as that, I am actually planning to write a GPU-targeted language with ALGOL-syntax and Lisp-metaprogramming and REPL-driven-ish development. Wish me luck!
I'm trying to decide whether there is a real good opportunity to learn in that. If you are working full time and going to night school one night a week, and you don't feel excited on the day you have night school - you've chosen the wrong field to retrain in and will likely end up in the same place. Important information
I guess some people are good at multiple things and others (me) aren't good at any.
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I love that the favicon for the 2023 results is a Doge, lol: https://satcompetition.github.io/2023/results.html
Youre seriously defending these disturbing and threatening letters and tweets? Disagreement is fine. Wishing people dead is clearly not fine. I guarantee he is going to quit or be fired.
When my wife was pregnant with our first kid I did this for a while. She was exhausted and went to bed early and so did I. Bed at 8, up 1-3, bed 3-7.

I got a ton done in those two hours. I remember looking for an e ink display to use with my computer so I could do it by candlelight, to no avail
Tan blamed Boudin for physical attacks on Asians.”

There’s a fair argument that Tan is joking about violence against people whose policies are facilitating actual violence.

Were that so, why would there be a rise in crime targeted at Asians across the the US in recent years?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-year-after-atlanta-and...
I was directly affected by this.

The recall was handled by a third party company, with a third party domain. All communications came from the third party domain.

I was unable to communicate with anyone from the manufacturers domain.

So I had to respond to emails from shadysounding.com and give my info to phone numbers on www.shadysounding.com.

I’m glad the recall list wasn’t leaked. Otherwise there would be tons of ID theft.
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Last time at a pharmacy, I saw they selling these tapes, to my surprise, quite many brands are making these. I thought it was a niche market, but after tried it anyway, I can feel the improvement actually. (Isolated case)
What's an AV going to do about the fact that Okta got popped?
You can't make that assertion based on this article because it doesn't have enough information. People – especially children and teenagers – can commit crimes, even terrible crimes, and still have the capacity to feel empathy.

It's these kind of wild views that see all criminals as irredeemable Hannibal Lector type monsters that barely qualify as human that led to the militarisation of the police in the first place. Well, one of the reasons anyway.
Yeah, though I just yesterday discovered Novaspec and CL-community spec which actually makes it readable.
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So then I am not wrong that I do all my git commit messages via the "-m" commandline option with a short phrase like "frob the baz"?

(Initially I started using -m to avoid getting trapped in Vim. But even after I gained the option to use e.g. Notepad++ as the editor, I never saw the point in using anything more than "-m 'message'".)
This message confused me on a few dimensions, so I translated it a bit:

"State subjective perspective as objective fact. Cast shame upon the OP for not pre-aligning with said belief. Put the responsibility on the OP to prove that they are not deserving of shame."

I grew up in an environment where this kind communication was sort of the default, hence why I was curious and wanted to drill down a bit and give it some thought. Of course, many people agree that Twitter is more unhealthy than healthy. But that's not entirely the point here, I think.
Enterprise is moving away from tape to optical for archival (or so I've heard). It is rumered that AWS S3 glacier is mostly optical storage, for example.
Burned CDs/DVDs/BDs have a pretty long shelf-life, but the pressed ones (that you can still buy at stores!) will last much, much longer.

The question will be how long can we keep buying players/readers.
They still get Sunday though. With a 6-day week period, the Christian holy day (along with Muslim and Jewish holy days) would often clash with a work day.
It's not meant for MR like this. An immersive app for YouTube that let you have a window management experiece closer to the Vision Pro would be welcome.
You’ve just described Google which derives most of its ad revenue from ads it places on the search engine that’s crawling the public web. It has always been thus that derivative products that provide a meaningful transformation of the input is a wholly separate piece of copyright.
When you have that amount of money, most things are for sale.
The social model of disability can be useful, but it has its limits. Unmedicated-me pisses me off too.
I am not quite sure how your post relates to mine, but your struggle seems tough. As someone who also has ADD, I can sympathize.

Consider letting go of your strict expectation of measurement (a blood draw, for example, wouldn't evaluate if you're feeling better or not, nor would a thyroid test), and evaluate for yourself if a treatment is making you feel better or worse, more effective or less, over a sufficient observation period. If worse, bring it up with your care provider.

Also consider the possibility that ADD isn't something you can therapy away, but it is something you can control some negative side effects of, with medication, and honestly it's kind of a superpower. Many successful people have had it.

Anyways, I'm sorry it's taken so long for you to feel good about yourself. That sucks.
Can we associate your name w/ the application in some way? Or would you prefer to remain anonymous?
I'm amazed that someone who has been this badly burned by a corporation controlling their API access would even think about writing another app that uses third-party APIs, to be honest.
> There's also an argument for LVT applying to government land, just so that the public and decision makers are acutely aware of the rents being extracted from the public, if it's a parking lot or something like that.

How is that supposed to work, you tax the government and give the money to the public? It's not really going to affect their behavior if they're just paying a tax to themselves.
> Join these two relatively simple pieces together and you have a complete Lisp compiler system.

I see, this clarifies things a lot. Thanks.
it's paper that can write into itself
Yes but the GP's point still remains, they shouldn't have removed it from ANY device.
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If the data from Gaza were included, a new scale would have to be invented. R.I.P.
I have a feeling is going to be a speedrun of the reddit saga. Google obviously doesn't want a smooth youtube experience on vision pro.
Why though? Audio jack delivers pretty much all you need functionality for headphones and plenty of existing hardware. iPod Shuffle 3d gen was tiny, had only 3.5mm for data transfer and charging.

They remove headphone jack in iPhone 7 and added USB-C in iPhone 15. So for almost a decade the only option was proprietary lighting or bluetooth, probably resulted in a significant amount of e-waste.
I don't think the Luddite position is that the employer has a moral responsibility to keep their employees employed.

As you said, it's "we as a society" needs to figure out a solution. If society ignores this problem, then I think the anti-technology aspect of Luddism is at least understandable IMHO.
Fine, then the only robocalls that are permitted are for public safety. All others are illegal.
They’re expensive as fuck though thanks to no investment in disc media.

You can get them for what $12.50 a piece if you’re lucky and I’ve heard it’s only worse in Europe.

That’s 12 times the cost of hard drives. Buy just 6 or 7 and store them offsite and you have something that is more robust.

Once you hit the 50TB level it becomes economical to look into late gen LTO (tape), perfectly good LTO-7 drives can be had for cheap.
not sure what you’re talking about but rents in SF are still very much down vs 2019

market has demonstrated plenty it can lower rents as is
There's no accountability when the police are legally allowed to blow up someone's home or kill with impunity. They will hide behind qualified immunity every time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68169406

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/amir-locke-shooting-no...

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1047085626/supreme-court-poli...

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-...
Perhaps an interesting note is that Apple should have added this particular model to the obsolete page when they updated it on 5 December 2023 [1] and 2 January 2024 [2] (as both were more than 7 years past the 27 October 2016 discontinuation date), but they forgot to add it until yesterday. They also never had it on the 'vintage' list at any point, as they have with other macs; instead it went straight from not listed to 'obsolete'.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231206074005/https://support.a...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20240107224531/https://support.a...
You are right (and very observant) that this is mostly Ekrich when you dig into it. I didn't realise this until quite recently, and I too had assumed there was a lot more work about this.

But what he's found in literature is pretty consistent, and biphasic sleep was once quite normal in a specific context: the siesta.

It's dying out in continental Europe alas -- a lost cultural touchstone -- and in the contemporary West, a siesta is short (literally a nap). But a traditional Spanish siesta is the best part of a sleep cycle -- a good couple of hours, with an hour's rest spread either side. More than enough that you could have four hours sleep overnight throughout the longer days and not be incompetent the next day.

My sleep is currently polyphasic, which is not a great time. But it has taught me that sleep in the absence of natural light (or the presence of consistent artificial light) does have a habit of going polyphasic.

I woke up at 4:15am after about five hours of sleep. I just cleaned a grill pan. I may go back to sleep again.

Sleep scientists seem pretty sure that polyphasic sleep is bad.
I'm not sure I'd go out of my way to use a laser to etch bits onto optical media for a measly 50gb. Maybe I'm jaded with my fiber internet, 1tb sd cards, and 20tb hdds but 50gb feels like an incredibly small amount of data.
A lot of bookstores and restaurants do more good than harm, and we tax them.
> Maybe that is the problem, it is seen as pro/anti X instead of facts/lies.

What I meant is that there are more notes correcting pro-China lies than anti-China lies. So the removal of community notes would benefit pro-China propagandists.

> If you ask this, you miss the point. How exactly do you expect me to tell a true note from a false one? The medium is the problem here.

Use your head. Do your research. Trust your guts. I think you're expecting impossible things from technology.

> As long as it prevails before the heat death of the universe that’s OK, right?

No, it's not right. It should be quick but I have no way to tell how long it took for the better note to prevail. AFAIK it is quick enough.

> The algorithm they use to present one community note can be used to capture feedback and sort tweets instead. Problem solved. People have better access to balanced views but are not being nannied by the platform or elonsplained what is truth.

Nobody wants that. With community notes you can choose to ignore the context but you see the tweet. With your proposal people would just no see some tweets, they would lose agency.
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Why is that? Obviously they don’t want a third party app to be that experience, but they make native apps for everything else.

Also, Christian can’t help himself but attach his apps to large companies that can cut him off overnight. Haha.
You probably should have at least an option to go to voicemail.

I do get messages from offices I don't have in my contacts database that I generally want to receive. Ignoring total junk is mostly fairly painless at least for me.
I feel like we are moving towards a service/subscription based economy. Which definitely makes some media more accessible and equitable, and might be a mutually beneficial agreement between the producer and the consumer.

But that does raise the question of ownership. Given that now some game companies are looking to turn even single player games into a subscription based model...
I have to imagine that spinning a disc is awful for battery life.
Samattical
I did none of that. Instead, what worked for me was to change my lifestyle. Paced walk half an hour and lift for ten minutes everyday. Reduce smoking to rare occasions. Eat less, lose weight, and finally get those teeth done.
My pings roughly 60-80 no matter if I’m going to a friends server down the road or across the world. Before starlink, my rural internet would be lucky to get below 120. For what that’s worth.
The lack of audio jack in my iPad Pro is the main reason why I abandoned music production on iOS and just do it with my Macbook Pro.
One tool that I think promotes commit messages like the OP is magit in Emacs. Before using magit, I always used `git commit -m '...'` and didn't realize that commit messages could be longer than a line.

I agree that this is a tooling problem, but magit is a breath of fresh air in many ways (including verbose commit messages).
Hope they're not gonna kill my Mid 2015 MBP anytime soon. With Open Core Patcher, it's still running the latest macOS.
> It means that the city can get money from them completely for free with no downside.

Let's apply this argument to the use of a head tax. Everybody pays the same amount unconditionally with no way to avoid it, so it's free money with no downside?
It matters how important the data is. It looks like my entire google photos archive is only 45gb and it would feel nice knowing it was saved somewhere else in a very stable format.
Here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, freedom of religion is a Constitutionally guaranteed human right. That is to say, the government shall not make special accomodations or exceptions for any religion.

That means churches getting to avoid taxes, unlike other not-non-profit organizations, has always been one of those things that should be resolved but hasn't because the people like breaking that law.

It's the same reasoning why "under God" should be removed from the national oath and Ilhan Omar should not be allowed to wear a hijab in Congress: Special accomodations and exceptions for religion are plainly unconstitutional.

Obligatory IANAL.
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> So I dunno, if you can afford an expensive Apple Vision Pro, I’d really consider treating yourself to YouTube Premium!

The reason I don't have premium (and one of the reasons I block ads) is that I don't want YouTube tracking my viewing habits, which I cannot prevent if I'm forced to log in to access premium.

It has nothing to do with monetary cost. I'm always surprised when I see statements like this one that appear to be completely ignorant of this aspect.
Are you sure? Most studies have shown the oppsoite. Or at least there’s a lot resting on the phrase “Carefully stored”. There are lots of ways CDs can rot in storage, not all of which are controllable or preventable.
I'm not looking from an individual perspective, but a balance-sheet perspective.

It's all lovey-dovey to see Free education as an investment and all, but at the end of the day, it's the accountant that will scratch his head looking at the red number on the balance sheet.

I share your idealism that education is more than just economics/investment and you shouldn't think how much you paid vs how much you receive, but when push comes to shove, and the accountant is knocking on your door in panic because the number have been red for decades, you have to face the reality and make (hopefully rational) hard decisions. And that's the part I'm talking about.

You can put your head in the sand and decades down the line to create a crisis like that of Greece, or you can see that to keep this system, you need to be smart and see things for what it is, and adapt the rules around it (such as incentivizing individuals, including from abroad, that is a net-contributor to want to come) while not losing the ideal.

But everyone having your ideal is fine by me. I'm the guy that got a free education(even paid) up to a Masters degree and moved country right after.
> but they make native apps for everything else.

They do. But it's difficult to call anything they make "smooth." Google does some decent backend stuff but their frontend experience is not.