skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, that’s just not true. I live in NYC and the number of things accessible to me and my family via public transit or bike is mind boggling. Then, when we want to leave the city for a few days we rent a car. Costs less than car insurance would be over a year, let alone maintainence, upfront cost, etc.

Everyone can live their life in the way of their own choosing, I don’t begrudge anyone who owns a car or anything like that. But I assure you it’s very, very possible to be free without owning a car.
Sligthly OT, but I always have fun reading these maths posts here:
I enjoyed maths in University very much (I did CE) and the joy from my professors always inspired me. I'd love to learn more and dip into solving things with it (maybe with a hang towards numerics?).

But been out of Uni for 2 years now and haven't done much, so probably gotta relearn quite a bit. Does anyone have some good ideas where to start and find fun ideas? Not numerics, but I did quite a few projecteuler problems during my bachelors - maybe there is more like this? Any ideas welcome.

Or should I redo all tasks in my textbooks first? ;-)
I can tell you that I watched the recording, cringed for a few seconds and skipped it, and moved on with my life.
After the outrage, revisiting my 3 seconds of feelings, I tend to agree that destroying nice things isn't a great thing to do in an ad.
All publicity is good publicity? Maybe not?
But that first line is a statement about something related but different (the question is about largest root, this statement is about any root), and the term "random polynomial" without specifying anything is used throughout the rest of the content
> Git is _incredibly_ complex to understand

No it isn't. Git is just blobs, trees, commits, and refs. Git isn't easy but it's conceptually simple. I'll take simple over easy anytime.

If you could explain the concepts Grace is built on, that'd be great!

> If you're one of the probably 20% or so who really feels like they understand Git

Again, blobs, trees, commits, and refs. I don't know all of git's crazy commands, but they can be explained in terms of these four simple concepts.

> As for local, well, if you're working with a team on GitHub or GitLab or Azure DevOps or some other hoster, you're already doing centralized VCS, you're just using a decentralized VCS to do it.

No, that is still fully decentralized. Each team member has a full copy of the repository, which, if GitHub or GitLab or Azure DevOps or whatever suddenly disappeared could be promoted to be the new shared source of truth.

At my $job-2 we were using GitLab but it often went down. I just set up a git repository on one of my servers and authorized everyone's ssh keys: it took me ten minutes and we had a way to collaborate even with GitLab down. Yes there weren't pull requests or anything, it was just a dumb repo used over ssh. But that was the whole point!
It's en vogue to elevate your personal negative experiences above all else, and to make them known as publicly as possible. It's not always honest. You can go online and rage about how offended you are about something, and then ten seconds later be laughing about whatever nonsense tiktok decided to show you. It's disingenuous theatre for social media points.
> I can't think of the last time I saw someone say anything positive about corporate content.

A few obvious ones would be: Apple events, anything related to OpenAI or SpaceX.

When I look at influencers, especially those who are selling supplements (Jones, Rogan, Huberman et al.), I see that much of their overall content is purely business-driven, yet people engage with the content and recommend it to others quite willingly.

'Earned' content partnerships (and access journalism) might not be as obvious, but on the sending end it sometimes does get treated as part of corporate content marketing. An example off the top of my head here could be a rather old but influential megapost about Neuralink on Wait But Why – something I'd read start to finish and enjoyed.

All of that said, I think these proposals to have content partnerships and 'brand exposure' without full transparency (as OpenAI is anything but open and transparent about its algorithms) is just another creeping tentacle of sighs the tragedy of the commons.
Absolutely, I have to review contracts on almost a weekly basis, all of which say what I have to do and it's usually waaaaay worse than anyone here would want.

I spend way too much time pushing back on over zealous requirements.
This should be labeled as 2017. Anyhow, what funny is: "Owned by BMW, ReachNow is a subscription car rental service that competes with Car2Go". This was 2017. Ever since DriveNow (ReachNow) was merged with Car2Go intro ShareNow, then sold off to Stellantis, now it's being rebranded as Free2move, as the branch of Stellantis that's managing the company. Plus, they're completely out of the US for years already. Lots of changes since the original article.
This really has nothing to do with 'victim culture'.
Thanks for that book, and congratulations on the second edition. I'm a backer (via Kickstarter - the first project that I supported IIRC) of the original version, and I greatly enjoyed reading that and tinkering with the algorithms.

I hope this version goes as well as the first edition! You deserve that.
What IQ loss? IQ scores have consistently increased over time
I don't think the ideas matter. It's even possible (though unlikely) OpenAI could have some great new angle on social search or whatever you're suggesting that makes them big money. The point is that it's tangential to the need for bigger and bigger AI advances that are already priced into the market. If there's an indication that's stalling, the industry will feel it hard, regardless of whether someone invents a better search engine.
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> It accurately shows how tools are being replaced with digital and cloud.

No it doesn't.

Throwing away all other sentiments, I really would like to see a 100lb digital piano replacing a 500lb upright piano while keeping its action, feel and sound, if not a grand piano. That hasn't happened yet, not even remotely, after all these years of technology advancenent. Anyone who is serious in learning and performing piano would be doing that on a real piano. And of course iPad isn't even in the conversation -- what can you do with a touch screen?

Which is exactly why I find this ad ridiculous.
Boeing 737 catches fire and skids off the runway in Senegal
What bothers me the most is the casual destruction of perfectly functional, expensive (for some) items. It’s glorifying waste, and I’m sure there are individuals or families that would kill for the chance to get a piano, a trumpet, or the insanely overpriced Macs they can’t afford, while Apple is crushing them just to sell us more ewaste (seeing how apple in particular is at the forefront of anti repair)…
Elon Musk's Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design
Someone made a nice reversed version:

https://youtu.be/XYB6JJoDSuk
I agree with the title, but not the content.

Apple didn't change, they were always pushing for a premium tech product at the expense of everything else (personalisation, repairability, upgradability).

And it's the "artists" workers that for years supported Apple by making it their go-to work platform.

They are waking up to reality, and dislike it.
With a kitchen and a washer/dryer?

I have a stayed in hundreds, maybe into thousands of reputable hotels in many countries over 40 years.

It is such a drag when this tired line comes out. 98% of our AirBnB stays have been fantastic, and I have cooked out of many food markets in lots of interesting places. Including Romania. The host interactions, often through side channels, have been quite cool in close to a dozen cases: theatre tickets gratis in Paris, local pointers that are truly local in some places.

But all good things must come to pass, and it seems likely that the enshittification process has terminally afflicted AirBnB. In the future probably we'll be joining the rest of you in our sterile "reputable hotel" rooms, eating out of the adjacent dreary (but sterile!) industrialized corporate food processors (aka "restaurants"), all of which might as well be located in the same interstellar spaceship, no matter where the nominal physical location is claimed to be. A dreary future.
If that was the intend an animation that doesn't literally crush things would have worked much better.
Let it fall into a black hole and let an iPad emerge or whatever.
The dramatic effect of a hydraulic press adds nothing positive.
The WHOLE point of the ad in the first place was to make people feel strong positive emotions toward Apple products. It turns out they misjudged and for many people it didn’t evoke the type of emotions they thought it would. It’s not like people are up in arms about a spec sheet.

I think you are being extremely irrational in expecting people to not feel passionately about random things. Companies spend insane amounts of money influencing consumer sentiment for good reasons.
I believe Amazon and Google have the ability to buy single episodes or single series, or rather I'd say I've seen it in the past.
As a games industry (where Perforce is by far the most common VCS in a team of any reasonably significant size) person, we absolutely do not give a crap about source-available or otherwise. We want tools that work, even if we have to pay for them.

None of us have time to delve into the workings of a source control system to troubleshoot problems instead of working on our .. work.

Sorry if it sounds harsh as that is not my intent. My suggestion is you spend much more time on making sure your system is reliable and has proper support (even if paid) instead. Bonus points for easy GUI interfaces that artists and designers can use without shooting themselves (and their team!) in the foot.

No one loves Perforce, but it works well enough and nothing else come close to it for the games industry.
Not to derail this conversation but...

When I'm explaining AI stuff to family, the example I use is classification and I specifically use cats and dogs. I use the analogy of how you teach a toddler that this is a cat and that is a dog. Essentially repetition. And at first they get them mixed up and the parent will say "no, that's a dog" when they think it's a cat and so on.

But essentially, for a child learning the difference between a cat and a dog you only need to show them a handful of each and they'll generally get it from that point on.

That being said, why does it take ML millions (or billions) of images to be able to say "that's a cat" when a human does it on a handful (might be up to, say 100 but my point stands). Why can ML not do that yet?

I'm a dev for many years but not in AI, hence my ELI5 question :)

Edit: If the answer is massively long and complicated, perhaps if you could point me to some text (book, paper etc.) and I can read at my leisure.

Edit2: I just thought of something. Is it related to whether the child sees a still image or a live cat? So, for example, a still image is a single example of a cat standing in a particular position etc, whereas a moving, live cat, would be interpreted by the brain as many many still images, all processed individually? The end result being that, in fact the child, when seeing a live cat, actually sees thousands or millions of still images of the cat? It just popped into my head there :D
I used to use AirBnB extensively when I was a digital nomad. After the pandemic I took my wife (I was newly married post-pandemic) and my stepdaughter on their first international trip and had booked presumably nice AirBnBs to stay at. Every single AirBnB was somehow not matching its description, had problems, and was owned or managed by a bland company where we had no interaction with our “hosts”. We cancelled the rest of the reservations and switched to 5-star hotels for the rest of trip.

Since then we only stay in nice hotels for these trips, and I can often do so for less money than an AirBnB would cost but with clear service and quality guarantees. Even 5-star hotels are slipping in quality these days, but are more worth the money than overpriced AirBnBs that don’t match their description or promise.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/206890/the-egg-biza... ?
Crappy game DRM implementations (looking at you SimCity) have now made it into real life
I think everybody agrees that that was the _intended_ message. But it's a forced transition. At the end of the ad there is _just_ an iPad. It's not as if the user has any choice now. And that makes the ad very weak. Why is Apple even going into the destruction business? They are supposed to be a creative (creating?) company, if it were an Lockheed Martin ad it would have fit ;)
Appreciate you taking the time to consider. I just feel I should note:

> I understand we do these things because we find enjoyment in them.

It's not that people enjoy making art (though they usually do). People have a much more profound relationship to art than that. I'll try to illustrate in a way that's more grokkable to the technically inclined.

Once I was injured and couldn't use a computer other than a phone for 10 months. I was very frustrated and depressed. I felt like I had lost access to a part of myself.

There were definitely moments that were soul crushing. In particular times when I couldn't get software to work, because I couldn't even extract an error message or any relevant telemetry from the confines of a nerfed operating system, so I couldn't even begin to troubleshoot. I wasn't accustomed to my computer being a black box I couldn't interrogate. It ran counter to my image of myself and my abilities.

One time, several years later, a friend almost spilled wine on my ergonomic keyboard (which I absolutely need to use a computer after my injury). I told them to be careful. They pretended to spill it again. I told them that absolutely wasn't funny to me. They told me I was overreacting.

Do you think that's because I enjoy using Linux and writing Python? Or do you think there could be a bit more than that going on?
Side note: because literally has been so often used to mean figuratively, literally is now acceptable to mean figuratively. They even updated the definition in the dictionary: the word now means literally AND its opposite.
I don’t know that it’s bad. I think it’s a fringe minority that think it’s bad.
You’re always going to have people who dislike these kinds of ads.

To me it’s more a metamorphosis rather than authoritarianistic crushing of the spirit.

Lots of Super Bowl ads are of the ‘stupid, dumb, frat/soro’ variety. Some are a hit, some are duds.

Maybe they tried being to clever by half. Let the ad run out; no need to apologize though.
Nah, it's not exactly like that.

I get through regular life okay, but this a $1T company with hundreds of billions in cash, profit driven, using child labor in China indirectly, and engaging in walled-garden policies makes it worse.

They make all these gadgets that replaces incomes from many manufactures and puts it on a single hand. That's bad enough.

Now, they destroy all these beautiful things- a piano, a guitar, a camera, and a lot of valuable things to make a point that this single silicon-made, soulless corporate company-produced, cheap exploited labor induced thing is going to replace them. Those things of aesthetics and soul are destroyed to give rise to this thing.

That hits hard for me. Seriously. I thought that I was being a real snowflake when this ad made me uncomfortable, but was glad to see this backlash in large numbers. Maybe people still have souls.

You can give a thousand lessons in "nature of real circumstances and geopolitics", and this ad with all its backstory will still be wrong to me.
The majority of noise is not from the ICE itself but from the noise of the tires on the pavement. EVs have the same issues as all other vehicles.
I don't think that works for the company or the dev. It turns history into a giant steaming pile of garbage instead of a series of meaningful changes. History will be riddled with invalid state: Code that won't even compile, code that compiles but just had something important deleted without yet being replaced, etc.
Most people didn’t find the ad disturbing, so the offensiveness is a relation between you and the content, not the content itself.
Extra conditions like this mean that the path we took would be rarer but doesn't necessarily make life any more rare. There could be plenty of other pathways to a stable carbon cycle. Or it might not even be a prerequisite, you could imagine a scenario where life gets a foothold then instigates the cycle itself.

We just won't know until we've found something. And for us talking now we probably just won't know.
People are forced to make work their purpose because we still need to do it as our primary activity.

Plenty of people spend their time different.

Plenty of people will learn how to do something else if they actually don't have to work.
I strongly disliked the ad. I also get through my days just fine. I don’t understand the insinuation that people who disliked it must be somehow unable to navigate daily life.

Here’s why I disliked it: I’m one of those people who finds themselves concerned and sometimes sad at the erosion of the humanity in art. Social media and AI are changing the nature of artistic expression in a way that often feels destructive. I’ve started to intentionally unplug and use devices less in order to stay connected to what I see as the good stuff in life.

To me, this ad is the culmination of what I dislike about tech.

If they had played the ad in reverse, I think I’d have really liked it. iPad as a tool for expression. Instead, it’s presented as a tool that supersedes expression. I suspect Apple was trying to communicate the former.

Edit to respond to the edit: highly sensitive people who have visceral reactions to stuff like this are canaries in the coal mine. We need them just as much as we need substantive discussion here. Some of the backlash also originated in Japan, where culturally this was quite offensive.
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Now think of how much of these items the budget of any given commercial could pay for.

Focusing on just the literal few in view in front of you is missing the forest for the trees.
If anything, an ad like this is too real and lets slip the mask that is "Apple is for artists". Nope, Apple is for expanding the existing Apple-only ecosystem.

A classic arcade game experience is not going to be reproducible with a subscription to Apple Arcade. A stradivarius violin is not going to be replaced by Apple Logic Pro.
Thanks but I saw the numbers, however to me the numbers just say "It's terrible" and leave me with the same question I had before, what's actually on the stack ? It's not going to just be empty space left there as a joke, are there... cached values? Pointers to something (what?). I suspect it's supposed to be obvious but I don't get it.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
If the purpose of an ad is to get people talking about your product, than i say that Apple hit its mark.
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I love number theory in the context of waves. Here’s an example:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.10751
Not as in depth as the abstract, but I found this to be a well integrated use of LLM's into a game: https://youtu.be/sUL0Z7PwanY
Concerns about data integrity across 263 papers by one author
I still think Apple should be pretty damn proud of the fact that so many generations later they still have a brand so powerful that this misstep can cause such a furor.

Any other company would have been able to put out this ad and nobody would care.
I’m not dismissing it, I’m just curious about it. For me, if I was having strong negative reactions to things frequently it would impact my wellbeing. I wonder if thats not the case for these folks.
I don't buy that. There's not a single major Western politician in government at the moment who's political path ahead would not be made easier by the wars currently ongoing to somehow stop and thus be able to chalk up a win for "increased global stability" and profit at the ballot box.

Unfortunately it's the politicians that are not beholden to ballot boxes that have no incentive to stop blowing people up.
From the other angle, what's the absolute crappiest anime you've seen and would steer everyone away from?

The stand out crappiest anime I'm aware of is the "Blade Runner: Black Lotus" series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner:_Black_Lotus

Truly terrible in every aspect. Story, animation, dialog, etc. Outstandingly bad. :(
At the bottom of the article: "a Boeing 737-38J, an aircraft that was delivered in the 1990s". So almost certainly a maintenance problem, not a manufacturing defect.
There is water on Mars, why not use it?
You are right, even now on my Linux laptop poweshell process takes 100-200ms to start while bash takes 5ms.
But these problems you mentioned are a specifics of a particular implementation, not the approach (objects instead of text processing) itself.
If the article is correct and it's a 737-300, then it's a very old plane built long before the recent Boeing issues.
> Yes, absolutely, it does. So does Git if you expect to push anything anywhere. And if you happen to be doing dev using Azure or GCP or AWS you need one too.

Sure if you want to push, but only maybe 10% of my Git commands relate to pushing/internet related stuff. The majority of my work is local-only commands that can be run on an airplane without wifi. Git lets me defer the internet required stuff to a later time. Its not clear Grace will allow me to do that at all.

Also I once had a case of working on an air-gapped network. That was an interesting case that I'm not sure Grace would be suitable for at all? Granted that's super niche.
I doubt you'd feel incensed unless you felt like you were also in the hydraulic press. Goodness, there's not any technology that would make artists as useless as their instruments and tools, is there? That would make this ad really relevant.
I don't care about Apple, so I don't care about the ad. It lowers my (already pretty low) opinion of them, but that's about it.

If this kind of thing was done by a company I'm a huge supporter of, sunk a lot of money into, one I personally promoted to my friends and family and one that was part of my personal and professional identity in some way, it might be very upsetting. I might feel betrayed.

Personally I don't get invested in companies or products like that. Maybe you don't either. The emotional reaction makes sense if there's high emotional investment. Whether the emotional investment is rational is an entirely different question.
I wouldn't say having some type of insurance == access to healthcare.

The increase in deductibles and decrease in % coverage throughout the course of my career has been shocking.
I don’t have particularly strong emotional reaction, but IMO the ad is horrible.

Destroying functional stuff with a hydraulic press is a waste of planet’s resources.

Destroying musical instruments, sculptures and other cultural artifacts is not too far from burning books, it’s barbaric.

Finally, I believe the ad is misleading because the ipad not gonna survive the press either. It’s just a consumer electronic device which doesn’t even have IP68 water protection.
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Some US folks here suggest that its some sort of PR smear campaign against boeing... how far from reality one must be to view all those recent news in such way.

Maybe they won't own it up again and blame it in some vaguely racist way on those incompetent african crews? Maybe they've learned. I am not holding my breath though
>How does one get through daily life _not_ feeling so strongly about things?

I feel strongly about important things, not all things.
Hardly, if done correctly, you're probably improving the CTR by reducing the number of ad impressions that would never result in a click.