skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for fun, here's something more concrete.

Composing radicals can only express certain types of permutation groups, and it's not too hard to see how it works. The quadratic formula term `-b +- sqrt(a^2 - 4ac)` is basically exploiting the permutation created by `sqrt(b)` which swaps between `+sqrt(b)` and `-sqrt(b)`. A cube root `cbrt(b)` rotates between three values, which are separated by roots of unity `e^(2pi/3 i)`. A fourth root swaps between four values, which are separated by the fourth roots of unity `(1, i, -1, -i)`. Etc.

So the basic "building block" is "rotate 2 points", "rotate 3 points", "rotate 4 points", etc. Even those doesn't express very much: a generic cubic has symmetry S_3, which is arbitrary permutations of three roots, and even that can't be expressed with just basic sums of these, because the only way to get three-fold symmetry is to use a single cube root.

But take a look at the cubic formula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_equation#General_cubic_f.... Turns out if you nest them you can create more interesting symmetries. The cubic formula structure has the structure "sums of cube roots of square roots", which give six total values but really it makes three because of cancellation.

I interpret this to mean that as you try to make the larger permutation groups you're increasingly stressing the expressive powers of radicals. The quadratic did fine with two: the quadratic formula is basically "take the midpoint of the roots -b/2a and add the offset between the two `sqrt((b/2a)^2 - c)` with a plus or minus sign". The cubic formula gets messy because the roots don't have to be evenly spaced so you need a way to express that too. The quartic formula is insane (https://www.curtisbright.com/quartic/quartic-png.html) and involves sums of square roots of sums of third roots of square roots. So it is not too surprising that things fall apart soon after, apparently at the quintic.

The specific way that the quintic fails is that the symmetry group S_5 is not "solvable", which is hard to explain without a lot more space, but which basically means that it includes a list of operations (P, Q, ...) which when you replace them with their commutators (PQP^-1 Q^-1, ...) don't get any simpler. I guess that is what radicals don't do: commuting radicals always makes them simpler, and so at N=5 you hit a group they can't fake.
The only goods SLS has actually delivered are dollars to Boing execs and inefficient jobs across the country.

Most of the satellites the first launch carried did not work, it can't launch often enough to be a viable general use heavy lift launcher, it costs too much to launch, it's such a rough ride that scientific probes would rather take a few years longer to reach their destination on a smoother ride like Falcon Heavy. It can launch Orion but that's meaningless since Orion can't do anything on its own, and as mentioned earlier, it can't launch often enough to lift a second vehicle for Orion to work with.
Not sure it is worth spending any effort on this subject, however a ton of existing laws in almost any juristiction could be applied to this particular crime. I doubt the perpetrators would be caught, but I also doubt the punishment would be established via a legal system in a public setting anyways. Depending on what jurisdiction it is and who feels most compelled to punish them or not, it is possible they could be used as spies again for a different government. I wish I would be able to read the story behind the story eventually but I very much doubt it. The existence of a public key means there was in principle a way to verify the identity beyond doubt, though I don’t know how much longer this will be the case.
Only if you stay in the US. Any unexpected medical condition will take a bite of savings. Retiring in the US turns into poverty for many Americans.
Specifically it completely eliminates the need for a non-reusable launch vehicle as large as SLS.
It's run-of-the-mill disclosure.
It’s mostly about the programming paradigm.

@tonaljs/key gives you some specifically functional info, but the vast bulk of it as useful for non-functional analysis – though it does assume 12-tone equal temperament.
> We could redistribute their wealth and everyone in the world would maybe get a couple of dollars.

We often think of the wealth redistribution of billionaires as a liquidation exercise, but there are so many other methods of ensuring income equality that have nothing to do with that particular thought exercise.

The businesses could be broken up, they could be partially or fully surrendered to employee ownership, they could be forced to operate in certain ways, they could have different wage/equity requirements compared to non-oligopoly businesses. The options are endless.

Heck, we could just tax net worth to effectively force divestment.
This video explains why carbon capture is not a feasible solution, based on the limits of physics: https://youtu.be/mCnr0HwW28w

Summary:

- Carbon capture and storage technologies are not economically viable or scalable enough to meaningfully address climate change. The costs of capturing and storing large volumes of CO2 are prohibitively high.

- The scale of CO2 emissions is immense - about 50 billion tons per year globally. Capturing even a small fraction of this would require massive, costly infrastructure.

- Storing captured CO2 underground is challenging and expensive. There are no easy or cheap solutions for long-term storage.

- Relying on natural carbon sinks like plants or algae is not a viable solution, as the captured carbon is eventually released back into the atmosphere.

- The author is highly skeptical of claims that carbon capture technologies can have a significant impact on climate change, dismissing them as "greenwashing" and "vaporware."

- The author argues that the free market will naturally choose the cheaper option of simply releasing CO2 into the atmosphere rather than paying the high costs of capture and storage.

- The author is critical of climate change denialism and the "seductive lies" told by those who dismiss the scientific evidence.

- The author acknowledges that future generations will have to deal with the consequences of the current generation's unsustainable energy use and emissions.

- The author suggests that public perception and psychology play a major role in the lack of action on climate change, with people preferring to believe comforting lies over inconvenient truths.

- Overall, the passage presents a bleak assessment of the feasibility and likelihood of large-scale carbon capture and storage being implemented to meaningfully address climate change.
The article within mentions, among other fields, non replicability in cancer research.

I recall reading a few years ago about the inability to replicate computer science papers.

You have probably heard about the Harvard professor who specializes in dishonesty being caught out for fabricating results (not the one caught out for plagiarism or reduplicative language depending on who you ask).

Or maybe you remember the "research" for the most dominant reading programs being debunked and exposed as a, essentially, cult of personality that left kids unable to read but the cultists rich.

Iow, a fair amount of Modern Science is post-factual, and oriented towards publication and money. The field doesn't seem to matter.

There are many reasons why "Science advances one gravestone at a time"...
He talks about in his streams how horrible the communication he’s received from AMD is. From what I listened to, it seemed like that was more of why he was giving up initially. Why do a bunch of free work for a massive company that won’t even communicate with you? Especially when he’s doing them a massive favor for next to no investment on their end?
Conflict of interest disclaimer. It's pretty standard in journalism.
That’s crazy they’d have you use a programming language instead of a DB GUI or cli.
My comment doesn't say that psychological sciences are less real sciences than the real sciences. It's wishing we also had studies to see if even studies in the real sciences are replicable (and, when they aren't, do they self correct?)
Thank you so much for these recommendations!

This is excellent and I highly recommend everybody watches both, starting with shorter one.

Casey, the CEO is super interesting and inspiring.
tl;dr: no, it's not.
I struggle with the same problem. My strategy is to wake up early and get at least 10 minutes of creative productivity done in the morning.

Sometimes this is just 10 minutes and I move on.

Sometimes I get in the flow and work for a few hours.

I tell myself to embrace my mediocrity and just produce, in spite of the fact that this probably isn’t the best piece of work out there.

As long as I actually do a bit everyday (writing, coding a side project) I’m satisfied.

As a semi-related aside, one of my favorite poems is by Charles Bukowski. Try not to fall into the trap of “Air, Light, Time, and Space”: https://wordsfortheyear.com/2014/10/15/air-and-light-and-tim...

Good luck!
Naw, Windows Explorer is basically useless for productivity. No QuickLook, no spring-loaded folders, can't show directory sizes in list view, for some reason it sorts directories separately from files(?!?) so you can't just type to jump to files, search is still atrocious etc etc. It's just so barren.

No the Finder UI is far superior. The part where it falls down is just in sheer bugginess and performance. And Apple of the past couple years has shown it does not care about fixing bugginess or performance on any of their platforms.
Late third millennium BCE is the era of written history in Mesopotamia. There are documents with dates. There’s some debates about how we might line up their dates with our calendar, but the discrepancies are nowhere near 500 years.
Privacy is not deserved. Privacy is a right granted in the US constitution.
The article makes some hard to digest claims, for example:

> According to six Israeli intelligence officers

Not 1 reservist, or 2 retired officers, or 3 contractors, but 6 active serviceman - whose day to day job is to figure out how to hide secrets.

There are more statistically impossible statements.
It happens, but mainly in places like gas stations. And payment processors (Visa, MasterCard) don’t allow businesses to charge different prices to different cards.
There is a pretty broad spectrum that encompasses almost every human alive between homeless orphan and Jenner
> macOS outstripped its ability to throttle filling storage

Does it actually do that? I.e. stop the user from writing new data when storage space is extremely low?
Oh man. I love this encylopedia. Once, I found a little website that had a series of increasingly difficult, Project Euler style coding problems. After a while, it turned out to be a google recruiting tool. But while I was playing the games, I had to use the OEIS more than once. It’s such an obscure, nerdy tool. I realky like it.
You bring out a statistic of 9 children carrying out suicide attacks in 4 years when a 1,000 times that were deliberately killed by Israel in 4 months?

You do realise that statistically that argument is insane by several orders of magnitude?

There is no rationale, or sane, argument for killing this number of children indescriminately. Never mind the tens of thousands that have been disabled and maimed.
Windows XP explorer didn’t even have tabs.

Also, macOS shows external drives on the Desktop and the Finder sidebar by default. The basis for your conspiracy theory is just plain false.
This isn't my area but I feel like they might be kind of easy to define. They're wrappers around their inner companies. I'm sure nothing has been done because pretty much every corpo lobbyist represents a company that uses them.
Definitely crazy bias, but it isn't that low.

The Federal Reserve does a triennial Survey of Consumer Finances, in 2022 the median net worth for someone under 35 was $39,000. The average net worth for someone under 35 was $183,500, https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf.

So yes, it is true that the average 30 year old does not even have close to either $10 million or $1 million.
Yes but where you choose to draw the line on that spectrum is completely arbitrary.
Well, Google does exist.
For the overwhelming majority of internet users, it'll be their primary means of stumbling onto a website. And the pool of discoverable websites has been shrinking for years now.

A tiny fraction of internet users will bother with alternate means of finding websites apart from ads, Google search, or sponsorships.
This. I have ADHD. If I watch at normal speed, I get bored and my mind wanders.
I think you've got something backwards.

The arms-length principle is not literally a requirement to be unrelated. It is a requirement to act that way. If one brother sells another brother a moving truck for 40000 USD, it is an arms-length transaction. If he sells it for 1 USD, that is not. It's a non-arms-length transaction because of the value, not because they are brothers!

In some of the cases you mention, it's difficult to assess fair value even when it's determined by an arms-length transaction, so the sudden disclosure of a relationship would not make it at all straightforward to take anyone to court over it.

The commercial property without a tenant for nearly a decade isn't worth 40k USD / month. When you say "...these two companies signed a contract that values it at that figure as collateral for a loan...", you are describing fraud. That could arise not because of any plan of fraud prior to the loan agreement but because of one formed during it!
These are not intrinsically expensive chemicals. A small charity could give it away for free. I would wager dysfunctional drug addicts don't value their time too highly, and wouldn't be put out by having to talk to someone every day to get their fix. Meanwhile it's a great place to push interventions. It's obvious fundamentalist prohibition is straight up not working.
I'm not sure if corporations need a right to privacy...
I regularly run my Windows 10 NTFS drive down to 0 bytes free.

I'm always amazed at how the file system survives just fine, but the machine doesn't even crash!

I'm not sure where you got your experience from.
Why is the lease information a matter of public record?
we aren't very good at storing electrical energy just yet, but we have a couple hundred years of experience storing and using hydrocarbons. I'm sure you can read the pdf someone posted up above and get their take on it.
You're imagining things. Did you watch the video?
The Apple A8X is 10 years old.

The current iPhone processor (Apple A17) contains 19 billion transistors. So now we have 126 acres in a pocket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A17
The History of Autoconf
"You may be wondering, Why was Autoconf originally written? How did it get into its present form? And why does it look like gorilla spit?"
The replication crisis has been identified in numerous fields in numerous ways. Pharm industry budgets for it, for example.

The specific phenomenon described in this paper has been documented in other fields in other ways as well: retracted papers, for instance, tend to continue to be cited.
Backblaze Personal does support encryption, but it's always been incomplete. If you supply your own encryption key, it's true that Backblaze can't read your data at rest. But to restore files, you have to send your key to Backblaze's server, which will then decrypt the data so that you can download it. They say that they never store the key and promptly delete the unencrypted files from the server, but to me this is still an unnecessary risk. There's no reason why they couldn't handle decryption locally on the client device, but they justify on-server decryption in the name of convenience -- you can restore files via the web without downloading an app. If you're concerned about this, the solution is to use B2 with a 3rd party app like Arq.
15 was likely a pessimistic assessment. Likely calculated assuming that they have to use a regular old Starship (rather than a tanker variant) with near current specs, with no weight savings or any of the engine improvements, with conservative return fuel requirements. Basically, based on the data they had at the point of months before they submitted the proposal, when they were at the first iteration of Raptor and prior to all the different refinements they've been working on.

That said, that many launches is not that crazy and Starship wasn't the only proposal involving several launches and several orbital docking maneuvers. Basically all of them involved that in some form.

We've kind of been living in a bubble where any research on orbital refueling was forbidden by decree of Congress critters. But dozens of refueling launches should be well within our technical capabilities and SpaceX hasn't been the first one to suggest such systems. It's a necessary technology for realistically expanding human presence into space.
Good comment, but you don’t need to say #2
There are various valid use cases for companies without business. Examples include:

- International holding companies: if there is Coca Cola France and Coca Cola Germany that economically belong together, you might not be able to just merge them into one entity for legal reasons (both countries might require you to have a locally incorporated presence). So to ensure that both always have the same owners, you create an international holding company that owns both of them.

- Investment funds: investment funds (especially passive ones) are companies whose only business is to own shares in other companies. There is no "real" operating business.

- Feeder funds: sometimes, the law requires foreign investment funds to create a local shell company to be allowed to accept investments from local retail investors. In this case, the only purpose of the shell company is to fulfill local regulatory requirements with regards to the legal form if the investment vehicle and to provide investors with someone local that they can hold liable in case things go wrong. There is no real business in such companies.

In fact, it is often regulation that requires you to create shell companies. If you want to get rid of shell companies, you should start by removing regulation that requires the creation of shell companies with no real business except to satisfy the regulators.
Exactly. Where are the replications? Has the culture of research in general (not just in psychology) become so perverse that researchers have no incentive to conduct real research?

Unfortunately, I don't see gravestones as offering a good basis for rejuvenation. It's about the systemic incentives, not individuals so ossified in their thinking that they suppress alternative approaches and theories.
I don't know what to tell you if you sincerely think the Pentagon invests more than a tiny preponderance of its budget in Silicon Valley.
Interesting approach to just do json instead of protobuf!
>>> How does this hurt anyone though? That is not clear at all.

Allow me to make it clear.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1938-nazi-law-forced-...
How is the AGI going to do that. Make us eat too much ultra processed food? People are not that stupid.
The same youtuber proposed a fuel whose emissions would both reflect the sun's energy back and absorb carbon: https://youtu.be/hL3AZGw9xZM

Summary:

- Global warming is a massive, planetary-scale problem that has been building up over generations due to the burning of hydrocarbons. Reversing it would require an equally massive amount of energy.

- The extra energy absorbed by the Earth due to global warming is only about 1 part in 1000 of the total solar energy the planet receives, but this small imbalance has a huge impact.

- Sodium could potentially be used as a "carbon-neutral" fuel that absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere when burned, helping to reverse global warming.

- Burning sodium produces a dense aerosol that could help increase cloud cover and reflect more sunlight, further counteracting global warming.

- Using sodium as a fuel has significant drawbacks, including the highly corrosive and dangerous nature of sodium hydroxide in the exhaust.

- The best applications for sodium-based fuels may be in cargo ships and aircraft, where the hazardous exhaust can be better contained.

- Intentional geoengineering to combat climate change, while risky, may be necessary given the scale of the problem.

- More research and experimentation is needed to fully understand the potential and challenges of using sodium as a climate change solution.

- Solving the climate crisis will require a multi-faceted, global effort, not a single "magic" solution.

- The video presents a novel and thought-provoking idea, but cautions against overly simplistic or premature claims about its effectiveness.
...flagged? Really?

HN really is Apple Simp Central. This is literally just linking to Apples own status page
Transmit (by Panic) used to allow this functionality a while ago. The closest thing that would replicate some of the niceties of a Samba or NFS mount are taken care of by sshfs, but that utility is only maintained sparingly nowadays (and has a bunch of little quirks for use cases besides "copying files to and from the share").

I use Transmit sometimes when I'm just trying to copy folders and files and don't want to whip out scp, but otherwise, I like Samba and NFS, just... they're terrible in Finder.
I agree it's better than the 70's , I didnt grow up then but it doesn't sound great. That's why I was saying that I could have been hopeful about this getting better since at least the 2000s to 2010s. But more recently, it seems to be going backwards. In my home state of Florida there's a ton of laws being passed, book bannings, etc. that are incredibly awful and depressing that undo a lot of progress.

Gaza's closer to the Vietnam War, or the Global War on Terror - two tragedies that I at least hoped we could have learned from.
I'm pretty excited about YSH

As a heavy user of bash I'm fully aware of how unaware I am of everything that can go wrong.
Current Blue Moon is also a Starship style lander, just instead of Superheavy, it'll launch on New Glenn. It's also a refueling heavy, orbital depot focused lander. Only major difference being that it's hydrogen fueled, and one of their project goals is to solve boil-off free storage of cryogenic hydrogren in orbit, which also seems like a tall order.

Kind of hard to believe you think it'll land before Starship when New Glenn itself hasn't even had a flight test yet.
Wtf! I've never known that!

Of course I have anyone connecting to SMB://fileserver to make it convenient and stable across router reboots.

I didn't expect naming it to be an issue.
Well explain how it would be a bottleneck?
dotfiles live in your home directory almost exclusively.

Literally there’s no tooling I know of that will drop random hidden files.

The ext4 filesystem does have a special hidden directory for data partially recovered/corrupted
Here you go

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1938-nazi-law-forced-...
Well, this is why I brought up "where do we draw the line?" I am quite aware that the whole debate is about where we decide to draw the line.

However, you're obviously extending the logic far beyond the way I intended to extend it.

I'm really talking about something closer to "a median upbringing." Someone who saved up an attainable sum just by working a typical job or by obtaining a modest "middle class attainable" sized loan to seed the business.

Kylie started with a much larger seed: complimentary marketing worth actual millions. Not a $25,000 loan that was paid back via single store sales to start a sandwich shop like Jimmy Johns. (Which, I realize, is a decent chunk of change in 1982, but it's basically nothing compared to what Kylie started with)
All sorts of fun ones here. I like this one of a NYC subway line’s stops: https://oeis.org/A000054
Or boot it into Target Disk Mode using another machine.