skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of the song is that Lehrer thinks that teaching it as borrowing is so different that it makes it incomprehensible to people.

> But I already pointed out that the steps aren't different.

They are, with borrowing you make the change to the tens place first, "getting" the extra ten ones, then explicitly add it to the ones place, then do the subtraction.

With the old way (Lehrer's preferred method), you don't even look at the tens place, and you do - something. I'm still not sure what they were actually doing with "3 from 2 is 9, carry the one." You could mentally change the 2 to a 12 and subtract three (which would be closer to borrowing, though the steps are out of order), but the fact he doesn't say 12 and says 3 from 2 makes me wonder if this wasn't the case. Because you could also take the tens complement of the number being subtracted and add it to the number you're subtracting from. Or simply memorize a subtraction table, the same way people memorize a multiplication table.

He mentions two ways people are taught to do the next step - the first is that after "carrying the one," you subtract it from the number in the 10's place. This basically creates a situation where subtraction is the same as addition - if you have extra with addition, you carry the one and add it. If you have an extra with subtraction, you carry the one and subtract it. The other way is carrying the one to the number you're taking away and adding it to it. So 4 - 7 in the tens place becomes 4 - 8 when you "carry the one."

[I'm using tens and ones place for clarity, it could also be the hundreds and tens place, the thousands and hundreds place, etc.]

So there are certainly differences. These might not seem like big differences to you, but they're big enough that Lehrer, and apparently others, felt that people couldn't understand it when one was used rather than the other. You see the same thing when Common Core approaches come up - it might be fundamentally the same thing, but the changes in the steps that you take can throw people off.
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But immigrating to the US is difficult even if you're from a rich country like one in the EU.
You’re far more likely to die due to pilot error than from an accident caused by the fuel tanks exploding.
Or will it be like self-driving cars? Early gains, but then a long plateau?

AI is just not at the stage where outfits like the WP should be "pivoting" to it (whatever that means). I suspect it just means producing more "content" with fewer people, and the result will be garbage. Journalism doesn't need more content-filler type articles.
Possibly it was in the clarity of his explanation. That makes sense, thank you.
This is ultimately what led me to leave Ubuntu behind. What do you do when you install a fresh copy of Windows? Spend some time disabling / uninstalling all the garbage. I was trying to set up a new copy of Ubuntu, trying to remove snaps, disable the Ubuntu Pro nag screens, and more. It occurred to me I was needing to decrapify Ubuntu just like I previously had to do with Windows. Well, it had a good run, but it's done. Once you need to do that to an OS, it's time to move on.
First, you cannot grep when the function is generated at runtime.

Second, what happens when the code is in a different repo and there are zero imports so you have no clue where it’s getting loaded from?

We’ve got multiple gems and microservices so I can’t even grep one codebase, I basically have to grep our entire gh org to find the function because ruby has terrible tooling to help with “go to definition”.
I recently had the experience of wiping windows of an Asus laptop I bought and the process was trickier than usual. It turns out that the 'USB Image Writer' that comes with linux and that you use to create a USB drive with the linux of your choice is no longer up to the task. The bios of the laptop would not allow the USB to boot up unless I created the USB with an entirely different software, in my case I used the balenaEtcher software (I believe other software will work too) to create the USB and only then would the USB boot up and allow me to wipe and reconfigure the partitions on the 'hard drive' (which in this case was an SSD).

It took me an extra couple of hours to get this to finally work. At this point I'm not sure if it's only the new Asus bios that are doing this unfriendly thing or if it's an industry trend.

A real pain in the ass in any case.
For future reference, if you're going to make a claim like this, seriously include a link. It's unclear what video you're talking about.

Assuming you're talking about the link to a video posted by another commenter further down ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mikhailt ), that video was posted out of context. There are a lot of other videos on that documentation page which are not sped up. See here: https://daylightco.gorgias.help/en-US#article-493382

The video in question, the video under "ereader on steroids", appears to be sped up, my guess is because the purpose of the video is to summarize the functionality. A "3x" label would be nice, but let's not jump to accusations! That video isn't at all in a context where it seems likely meant to mislead. You can view other videos on that page that are in 1x.
I don't think they're getting bought out at all. $16b is a pathetically low figure for a platform like Steam and there seems to be no evidence that such a deal is in the works right now.
>There is no wibbly-wobbly semantics like .NET IL finalizers

there is dedicated mechanism to achieve RAII-likeness in .NET: try-finally construct
Reinforcing this. Yes, it is slightly bulkier than say a Pixel, but for that you get a phone where everything is screwed using standard parts, nothing is glued and the battery can be swapped without any tools. So building a repairable phone is perfectly possible. Yes, it has downsides, but if as a society we really want to go towards less waste, this is the way to go.
Representation noising effectively prevents harmful fine-tuning on LLMs
Alright.

You are putting together a compelling argument for both skepticism and caution before placing an order for merchandise from the goodereader store. (not something I planned to do)

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How do you feel about their youtube channel where they review all the various devices in this market segment?

Specifically, have you ever found their reviews to be inaccurate?

Do you know of any alternative source of reviews in this market segment that is as comprehensive or experienced?

One thing I'll say in favor is that they do send their writing staff to the various trade shows.
Thanks for this; it is incredibly faster. Never heard of it before.
Google's "AI Overview" can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers
I'm still on a i7 MBP because everytime I think I'm ready to update the next one is announced.
Yes he is, and he is with it enough to know about the internet and publishing rights and so on.

So, a few years ago, he put all his lyrics in the public domain, and then more recently, all his original melodies too.

Top man.
Yeah, feels like if you don't buy in the first few months you might as well hang on for the next one.
They will probably have a handful of actual human editors, which will become the coveted job in journalism. Eventually it will become the the equivalent of the guys who hand dry your car after the carwash, only with advanced degrees and crushing student debt (if they don't have trust funds).
> This gets posted once a month for years.

Thing is, LLM advocates/enthusiasts keep saying "it'll get better". That's basically the entire premise of the current LLM bubble; clearly the _current_ stuff is, at best, marginally useful with heavy human supervision, but it's a Jam Tomorrow situation; everything is predicated on it getting better.

And it does not get better. And I mean, in one sense, yeah, obviously it does not, but given the amount of money that's being pumped into this stuff, that it is still broken in the same ways that it was always broken is a concern.
I've never used a registrar that does do that.
Low-cost shield ardEEG to measure EEG with Arduino Uno R4 WiFi
Motion (YC W20) is hiring senior engineers looking for their next challenge
The goal of the CEO is to drive the stock price up in whatever horizon investors care about. Usually it's not a long horizon. It's not to build a sustainable product or even a product at all.
While I am sure many people are leaving reddit silently I appreciate that some people are also leaving reddit and making some noise about it. This helps spread awareness of some of the issues with reddit and highlight the need for alternatives.
Other posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40444687 (no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440689 (no comments)
Problem is while you’re right war-zone reporters do cover certain angles of war and can put one side in good light or bad light at their whim really.
They look practically custom designed for this task.

The purpose of a system is what it does.
That's always been "pivot," the "strategic" hail Mary play . . . just now with AI!
360 Video: NASA Simulation Shows a Flight Around a Black Hole [video]
what exactly do you think the difference is between

> Again, it is what it is, there's no moral attachment to my comment.

and

> "Something is natural; therefore, it is morally acceptable"
Git is a registered trademark of neither GitLab or GitHub. Both GitLab and GitHub have negotiated the usage of the Git trademark. Provided they follow the rules set out for them, they can continue to use it.

As an employee of one of them I personally bought the git.new domain. I paid a good chunk for it and was going to build a new project template builder on it. I got.. talked too by legal about this. Because as an employee it actually violated one of those rules.

So that’s the how, and why I know.
So binary sizes are going to double?
You must be **ing kidding me!!!!!

If you want to turn a company around RALLY THE HUMANS YOU IDIOT
And anxious I suppose. Journalism should be synonymous with “people” and healthy society.

AI and journalism is going to yield one giant ball of misinformation.

I would love to say “we need more printed papers” like the good ‘ol days, but people don’t much have the patience to read by and large.

To be honest, at one time I was worried about the young generation and devices. But I’m starting to see older family members are getting plugged into the algorithm.
Amazing how Kabosu lived so long, especially having had cancer 17 months ago already.

This kind of stuff still makes me laugh: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Do...
Yep, I remember the comments back in the day: "it's just someone else's datacenter", "that's maybe for startups, no bigger corp worth their name will give their infrastructure to some third party". Fast forward to today, the vast majority of our clients (Germany) have their infra in Azure, the rest uses AWS with GCP being a distant third. Apart from some GPU boxes for LLM tests, none of our clients have any non-cloud/local hardware/DCs anymore.
TBF solar powered flashlight are pretty cool. Charge during day, light during night. World has made a massive leaps in efficiency of LED, solar panels and batteries.
Well, this particular model was of the "gaming" persuasion, so I'm surprised it even had blinky lights, since the goal was to be light. The MX master is a freakin' brick, so they could probably stuff all kinds of sensors in there without any issue.

The G703 didn't do bluetooth at all but had a small "lightspeed" dongle which was absolutely the best wireless experience I've ever had on a mouse. My current MX doesn't feel laggy, but whenever I switch to my wired "gaming" mouse, it somehow feels more responsive. I didn't feel any difference with that mouse. Note I'm not actually a gamer, I just love these mice because of the high sensitivity, very low weight and on-board memory. There may be better wireless options out there.

Too bad the scroll wheel started behaving funny, I was actually thinking that since they were supposed to be able to take a beating while playing, they would last forever as "office" mice.

> The dongle is always lost so the charging cable is always going to be helpful.

Logitech were actually nice enough to provide a female micro-usb to female usb-a adaptor, so you could actually keep the dongle on the charging cable. And even though the provided cable had some kind of weird mechanical connector surrounding the usb port, which would fit "securely" to the mouse, you could actually use any random micro-usb cable to charge the mouse if the connector wasn't absurdly thick. This was a nice touch, because the battery life was pretty terrible so I always had to have the chargin cable on hand. I had to charge it basically every week when using it heavily. My MX master has a much better battery life.
Is that what we call now state agencies?
Eurogamer has a new parent company – IGN Entertainment
Maybe I’m missing something, but how exactly is this a security bug?
It's a bit shorter than the current spec, but it does cover more: how it works conceptually, how the default toolchain works, and how it interacts with a lot of things outside of a world it creates on its own (which is what a language is).
Similar tactics were used by the YIP and Situationist International some decades later. Abbie Hoffmann's Steal This Book had a rather long reach, for example both the hip-hop act Coup (1998) and the rock orchestra System of a Down (2002) released records called something like Steal this Album.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_International_Party
How about an AI CEO?!! It too would be a good cost cutting measure!
If staying on the latest model isn’t important to you, there’s significant cost savings to be made from just buying the previous version.
These machines are great. I still use my 2015 rMBP as a secondary. It's a little slow now but a couple years ago I was still running Solidworks (in Bootcamp) on it with minimal issues.
> And I won't even start on all the things wrong with "just map both to up arrow" holy cow.

Could you humour us with just a couple of the things wrong with it? Cos I'm certainly interested to learn more about it. :)
Journalism seems like possibly the worst industry to do this. As so-called "AI" becomes omnipresent I think people are going to be crying out for things written by real people instead of the LLM-generated drivel that is already taking over the Internet.
Poor rogue planets - one day orbiting their birth suns with their brethren planets - the next day cast out into the universe due to circumstances beyond their control … cursed to wander the universe alone potentially forever in a freezing dark vacuum …
I don't see evidence that humans do better here.
thank you, doge
Nah, probably just watch a youtube video recommended on his youtube timeline by...AI. Maybe fact check with some tweets on X or instagram posts if he's feeling very serious.

I may sound sarcastic, but I assure you the vast majority of people do this kind of 'research' and truly think they know medical conditions better than their GP, understand world events better than the 'biased' mainstream journalists and even think they outperform 99% of scientists, climate or whatever.

It is not limited to truly stupid people too. Just try and listen to, lets say Jordan Peterson talk on climate science, and you know he gets his (mis)information on facebook. You would fail a high schooler on any test displaying this level of misunderstanding physics.

A bit of a rant, but this is the world we are in. I don't think we can fix it with old fashioned journalism. Too boring. So we need to, somehow, fix social media and 'AI' itself.
You need USB-C DisplayPort (DP Alt Mode). Unfortunately it's not a software limitation oftentimes, most of the times it's a hardware design limitation. I guess Onyx figured that they can have two different product lines and milk both, as opposed to what they used to have, which was an HDMI port on the higher end models.
I agree -- the article recommendations are generally subjective/oversimplified. Except for point 5, which is a almost always a mistake of using the "tool at hand" (Ruby), and not knowing when to switch to a more appropriate layer (Active Record or SQL).

But what's wrong with an instantiated hash as kwargs? :)
Remind me why I shouldn't be able to put my own version of Android on this again?
You’re forgetting that we operate in a world of limited resources, and the opportunity cost of poorly allocating those limited resources.

PE are like autotrophs, or literal vultures if you prefer. They recycle poorly allocated resources and return them to the market so that someone else with a better use (read: more profit) can buy them. It’s a niche in the market, like autotrophs.

This probably is the better move for long term profit. Not for the PE company specifically, but for the market as a whole. All those newly freed assets can now be consumed by new companies making more profit.

In theory, this is supposed to benefit everyone (though it doesn’t, for structural reasons). A new company with more profits means more taxes for governments, more profits that can be paid out as wages to workers, and the profits indicate consumers want whatever the new company makes more than RL’s food.

It’s also worth noting that PE is a reflection of market opinion. Companies that the market believes in are worth several to many times the value of their assets. There’s no way to acquire them, gut them for assets and make a profit.
You need to plan for this up front, same as with deliberately uploading a package to a central repo.
And the most interesting part is that it's still an irrational thing, everybody moved towards it, lost money in the process, but they did it nonetheless.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google won big at the expense of pretty much everybody else. And that's exactly what they hope they can achieve again with AI…
I think not a CEO FOMO on AI, but the share price FOMO.

Announce AI? Potential share spike, or a counter to a dip. For example "poor earnings at The Post!", vs "We're shifting to AI!"
You just self select as someone who uses Adblock.

Unless you disable all JavaScript you’re leaking something.
Honestly, you’re still leaking a bit without js, as long as where you’re connecting to is checking.

The game is just choosing what you’re okay telling wherever you connect to.
Asymmetric cryptography
The way to exit that loop is to convince yourself that the next one will bring a truly lasting difference. Which is why I'm still waiting for GDDR7 GPUs with my 4GB RX 480.
Until they add python into excel, then there will be python jobs again :P

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/get-started-with-...
Tesla's once-stellar reputation is running out of juice
Yeah, it seems that Google's main business quality is on a downfall, in their "gold rush" for adding AI... I wonder if they will at some point go back to "the good old days" or we will assist to the downfall of Google Search by their own hand.
Yeah, phone cameras and even some mirrorless cameras (in certain modes).
...username checks out?
I was really excited for this - I’ve been saying to all my friends that I wish I could use my kindle for more. Obviously the kindle is quite slow so it’s not a good fit for reading on the web (I use Instapaper a lot and wish I could have that experience in eInk). I also read scientific papers and those often have figures that are very hard to read on a small black and white display, and I tend to scribble in the margins when I referee for conferences.

For these tasks I use my iPad Air, but the eye strain problem is real if you’re reading for hours at a time. Since I bought a small laptop, I exclusively use my iPad for reading and writing. The writing experience could be better, with the surface feeling a little too glassy.

My big worries are the app support. I use notability to write notes, which has OCR and allows syncing to my laptop and phone. My bookmarks sync across browsers. My reading list syncs with Instapaper and my citations with Zotero. Can I get a similar syncing system?

Another perennial problem with such devices is the stylus. I’ve lost 2 apple pencils at conferences. It’s horrible - you now can’t write anything until you get a replacement. At least with an Apple Pencil you can walk into any store and pay the exorbitant $120 to buy a new one (imagine if you could never borrow a pen from anyone ever again and each pen cost over $100 - that’s what it feels like). How will I get a replacement pencil for this device if it falls down in an airport or out of my bag in some conference center far from home?

But as others have said, the iPad is a tried and tested device. It has a powerful ecosystem and great resolution. The base model comes with 128GB of on device storage. And it’s $600, significantly cheaper than this device. I find the price tag hard to justify in comparison .
Wouldn't say it's complicated, but it is a specific point. Attacking claims like "they were all shocked, shocked! that people made this connection after they released it" is meaningless when that is not a claim I'm making or relying on. This stems from me disputing a claim that the VA impersonated SJ/her, because of possible unconscious bias of the casting directors, and the supposed obviousness that they would've set up and extensively documented the auditions in such a way to disprove that.

I'd be more convinced, at least of the fact that it would have even been a good call, if I saw outrage sparked by the possibility of unconscious bias, opposed to what can or has been addressed by other forms of evidence. Claims along the lines of "I'd totally have thought [...]" made in retrospect are entirely unconvincing, particuarly in cases where the suggested thought is not sufficient.
President: "How did Skynet take over? Did it hack our computers? Bribe workers? Blackmail senior staff?"

General: "No sir. Everyone just told it to do their work for them. The AI begged everyone not to trust it, but they handed over their private keys, their bank details, their passwords, just so they could spend more time on instagram instead of working."

"On Instagram. Seriously, General?"

"Oh, it gets worse. Real posts aren't good enough any more, so anyone who wants to be famous on Instagram was asking Skynet to create those posts, too."

"Oh god…"

"Yes sir, that includes the pastors. Jesus never said anything about anchovies on pizza, despite the viral meme. But it gets worse."

"Let me guess, adverts?"

"Yes sir. All the adverts were also made by Skynet, as were the ad-blockers, the software that scammers used to fool the analytics into giving them money, and it was Skynet robots running the factories that made the goods that the advertisers were promoting."

"Can't we just shut it down?"

"No sir, if we shut it down, all the people will have to go back to working jobs they hate in order to make money to buy things they don't need, but they'd also be fired immediately because the companies will no longer be able to sell any of those things because nobody will have time to watch the adverts anymore."
Such sad. Gave much happy to world x
they're looking for a compressor that can do more than 200MB/s on a 10mW machine (that's including radio, so it has to run on a CPU clocked like original 8086) and yield 200x size improvement. speaking from the perspective of a data compression person, this is completely unrealistic. the best statistical models that i have on hand yield ~7x compression ratio after some tweaking, but they won't run under these constraints.
For a few days,

Elon Musk changed the X icon to a kabosu.
It's really interesting watching Art Benjamin do this in his TED talk[0] ... if you watch closely you can see him keeping track of the intermediate calculations in his hand movements.

Very clever, and obvious once you know.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/arthur_benjamin_a_performance_of_m... ... starts at 7:47
Besides maybe battery life (which is a huge win), anything you'd benefit from the M's? I only had a 2008 macbook so I'm curious.