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Ask HN: Pop-Math Book Recommendations
Do you guys have any math-themed books that present the subject in an interesting way? It can be general (e.g. about the most important problems) or more specific (e.g. algebraic geometry, analysis).
"FTC charges Adobe their annual Business Practices fee"

Not to be a pessimist, but what's the chance this is just another suit that's a rounding error compared to the revenue Adobe gains from these unethical business practices in the first place?
We evolved in an environment of conflict and scarcity. Our brains don't know how to handle the idea that we are no longer subject to those kinds of constraints.

Of course it's also possible that being perpetually on guard for limits and risks is part of how we avoid them. The catastrophes don't happen because people thought they would and took actions such as investing in next generation energy R&D to try to avoid them.

It's probably some of both.
Does choosing a word that implies something not imply some kind of intent in wanting to have the receiver take something from what was implied?

Perhaps there is some kind of social embarrassment in renting and thus apartment owners have come to try and differentiate themselves by using what originated as a legal term?
If you want an idea of what undomesticated cattle look like head over to the American midwest and observe the Buffalo. Or go to Africa and check out the Sanga.
Maybe Elise Stefanik was just really upset that she had to side-load the sketchy DJI APK on her Android device?
My understanding is they can do AST based translation and then use natural language translation to change variables.

So they can switch the language, but its limited to the quality of natural language translation of variable names.

The RTL langs and the different numbering system, from our interview, seemed like the hardest parts she had to tackle.
'It is hubris to think a fungal pandemic can't happen to us'
He probably meant it takes more effort to create mocks for all the negative cases. In most cases you won't have the time or the bandwidth to do this.

Try mocking DB triggers, views, access rules etc in mocks and you will know why most teams don't bother mocking but use the real thing instead.

And about the comment about him being a CTO. Well he is a CTO and you?
This is why Western drone startups keep failing against DJI. The consumer and prosumer drone market do not want AI-driven flying autonomous robots. They want high-quality cameras that can fly.

When the Western drone startups fail at that they will turn to AI, agriculture, LIDAR/mapping etc. But all the money is in the consumer/prosumer market where DJI is earning billions every year which also makes them able to outspend competitors in the professional drone markets.
This is a fantastic idea, Jonah, and I hope you see it gain widespread adoption!

Have you connected with folks like board game geek or other groups that might be a way to shift towards a large platform?
> telling people whatever they wanted to hear, abusing therapy speak to manipulate people, and it established a pattern of dishonesty.

I read that article in NY Mag prior to my comment, and then again after this comment. That wasn't my take-away. Sounded like a guy who got real famous and started to play the field, albeit badly. There was no evidence (that I recall) that Huberman acted this way in previous relationships, and no evidence that he will continue to act this way.

Not great behavior, not going to excuse it, but hardly the behavior I would say makes him a bad person. My opinion is philandering is relatively common behavior for people (men in particular) who achieve a certain level of fame and/or status.
https://visitidaho.org/things-to-do/museums-exhibits/butch-c...
Pressurizing the tanks.

Consider Apollo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_command_and_service_mod...

> The command module attitude control system consisted of twelve 93-pound-force (410 N) attitude control thrusters, ten of which were located in the aft compartment, plus two in the forward compartment. These were supplied by four tanks storing 270 pounds (120 kg) of monomethylhydrazine fuel and nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, and pressurized by 1.1 pounds (0.50 kg) of helium stored at 4,150 pounds per square inch (28.6 MPa) in two tanks.
Also to be clear, his [torture] paraphrase is referencing GP's reference of Winston Smith's torture in 1984.

>electronic equivalent of Winston Smith with the rats.

I don't think quotes were used so egregiously here on their own fwiw, but combined with the allusion it's hard to follow.
Have you ever bought or sought out to buy a "local book"?
As an Android user, it matters because our clueless iPhone user friends don't understand that their phones only send us shitty quality media.
if the original pandemic was catastrophic, people would want to be prepared.
Isn't that rather slow - or do you mean for each run of unit-tests.
Boeing is a word that looks like a proper noun and, more importantly, is a much more well-known company than DJI. Moreover, for those of us who don't know it's a company, DJI looks like an acronym, so the writer should have clarified, aka defined it.
"Bias in relation to what?" is the huge unanswered question I left the article with.

Are we even talking about the same thing when we discuss this topic? Are we talking about bias with respect to the training set, or bias in the training set with respect to reality, bias with respect to our expectations, or bias in reality? Each of these are completely different problems and each have different causes, importance, and consequences.

I can't help but think that at least some people are uncomfortable with reality being reflected back at them. When we generate images conditioned on occupation, should they reflect the racial proportions documented by the BLS[1]? It feels very, "I don't care what you do about them, but I don't want to see homeless people." Being confronted with reality is deeply unsettling for some people. Likewise, I'd be unsurprised to hear that some people would be uncomfortable if images generated by conditioning on occupation did accurately reflect reality because in their minds, reality is more diverse than it really is.

1. https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
You don't need to care about that anymore it is rolled up into the battery product.
To be a fly on the wall at Planet Fitness HQ right now..
Someone at SpaceX is spending the holiday weekend bolting a row of passenger seats into Dragon.
The Republic Ireland is rolling out fiber to all properties. The standard rate for gigabit fiber is ~60 euro at the moment, less if you just want 500mbs, so SpaceX was just responding to competition as fiber got to more and more properties.

Getting Starlink a few years ago was the first time we had reliable internet at our family farm, and we were stoked. We also started getting better and better service as fiber rolled out across the country, but we never got above 250mbs. Now that fiber is here, it's no longer necessary except perhaps as a backup.
I'm sure you're right that third tier Chinese cities are awful.

But major Chinese cities are very far ahead of America in terms of infrastructure. Similarly DJI is very far ahead of any of its competitors.

Banning Chinese things because of politics is one thing. But pretending it's because they're inferior is just ridiculous.
You obviously didn't read the link, it's way worse/more direct than you are thinking.
virtually every battery technology in existence today got created in a non-production environment

a less blunt critique would've specifically identified why this breakthrough is similar to the last one that didn't make it past the lab

surely there's a large enough sample set of past failures to choose from since there are claims like this every week
Did anything ever come of those proposed "cancelling subscriptions must be as easy as setting up the initial subscription" laws?

I kept hearing about them in discussions about the infamously impossible-to-unsub NYTimes subscriptions, then nothing happens.
Hmm. So the FTC has no power to enforce the rules it makes? Has to resort to lawsuits?

How about the other US government agencies regulating ... something? Is the FDA as toothless as the FTC?
Venice Might Remake Itself as a Contemporary Art Hub
This is true of literally everything in the new economy.

Internet? Wait until the moment your "promo" cost ends and your bill goes from $80 to $150, threaten to quit, oh wow magically you can have $80 again and a free mobile phone line.

Any subscription service is like this. I sometimes grab a Blue Apron when it's 65+% off which is anytime I want. My ex used to do this with clothing subscriptions, up to 80% off.

There are laws against things being "always on sale". But now they're just being used to punish lazy customers who don't keep up on their promos. Only lazy or ignorant people pay the "real" price.

Oh hey would you look at that, another billion dollar IPO with no plan for profitability went bankrupt. Weird.
I've slowly been working through SICP, currently on chapter 3: https://mk12.github.io/sicp/. There are lots of other websites, but what sets mine apart is the exercise solutions are written as modules with explicit dependencies on other parts of the book, and they are tested in three Scheme implementations. I describe my approach for this here: https://mk12.github.io/sicp/exercise/language.html.
Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log (2019)
It's not always possible to say definitely is some text was AI-generated or not, but one sign that it is very likely AI is a kind of blandness of affect. Even marketing text carefully written by humans to avoid offensiveness tends to exude a kind of breathless enthusiasm for whatever it's selling. If marketing text is oatmeal with raisins, AI text is plain oatmeal.

It's possible to adjust the output of an LLM with temperature settings, but it's just fiddling with a knob that only vaguely maps to some control.
One of my sons schools had a case where someone was suspected, and from my understanding the school spoke to the police about it, and given the lack of any concrete evidence against one specific they, opted to send out a school-wide e-mail encouraging parents to talk to their kids and check their phone instead. Not a funny e-mail to get but frankly I'd rather that than find a random teacher had been tasked with it on the basis of suspicion that someone in school had been spreading something.
Nah these kids weren't british.
The data is correct, but bad. What do we do in a case when we can't fix the source data?
The Peter principle is the default state.

You might have to up your political game if you want positive change that would benefit you and the company.

Also, how many other layers of paycheck-collecting managers are there between you and the CEO? If there are too many, they might not care about competency and favor rapport, relationships, and leverage.
Metadata about someone's sexual activity is super-valuable to advertisers. Categories of services and products are too many to list here, but they include prophylactics, ED medications, STI medications and treatments, sex toys, pregnancy and maternity products such as pillows, stretch mark cream, pregnancy tests, and ovulation tests, private investigators, couples therapists, divorce lawyers, etc., etc.

As part of my job I interview a lot of candidates from FAANG companies. That's included several who have worked on Google Home and Amazon Alexa.

I've learned that on those teams someone's always trying to "innovate" with what they can do with an "always-listening" microphone. Lots of ideas go over the line of creepiness/invasiveness, but then the product management tries to come up with ways to make it "okay" again. "Well it's for their own good. What if one of these noises sounds like someone's in distress? Wouldn't it be super-helpful if we could save someone's life by calling 911 for them?"

At the very least some of these features have included trying to categorize types of noises and collect telemetry on them. When they happened, how long they happened for, and so forth. With an always-on microphone, there's no harm in just collecting metadata on when and how often noises that may or may not be related to sexual activity happen, right?

Any incidental information about identified voiceprints or locations that phones report won't be correlated by any human being, of course, but don't be surprised when someone starts getting ads for private investigators and divorce lawyers.

Speaking of divorce lawyers, I can think of some metadata for which they'd probably be thinking about a subpoena or two.
Still haven't clicked it, huh? If you did you'd see that the link takes you to straight to the moment in the video where he starts talking about functional programming.
For whatever it's worth, the original Predator drones were mostly based on off-the-shelf parts. Wired had a great story on their history in 2016/7.
Agent Mode in Warp AI
20 years ago the chance that someone could steal or abuse a child on or from the way to school was way much higher. People have already started forgetting about it. No phone = no way to track back the criminal or the crime.
Where are you getting your info from?

Typical OCaml programs, when compared to similar C++ would be slower but use less memory.

F# and Scala are both OCaml in disuse. I don't know what you mean by "reasonable"... but, if the idea is "easy to reason about", then these two don't particularly stand out much.

Languages that are easy to reason about would be generally in the category where you need to do fewer translations before you get to the way the program is executed (i.e. bytecode adds an extra step, thus making a language harder to reason about). Also, languages with fewer primitives are easier to reason about, because the program text becomes more predictable.

In general, "functional" languages are harder to reason about when compared to imperative, because computers inherently don't work in the way the programs are modeled in "functional" languages, so there will be some necessary translation layer that transforms an FP program into a real computer program. There are people who believe that FP programs are easier to reason about due to the lack of side effects. In my experience, the lack of side effects doesn't come close to compensating the advantages of being able to map the program to what computer actually does.

All kinds of behind-the-scenes mechanisms in the language, s.a. garbage collector, make the reasoning harder too, in a sense. We pretend that GC makes reasoning easier by making a mental shortcut: we pretend that it doesn't matter when memory is freed. But, if you really want a full picture, GC adds a whole new layer of complexity when it comes to understanding a program.

Yet another aspect of reasoning is the ability of reasoner to act on their reasoning. I.e. the reasoning might be imperfect, but still allow to act (which is kind of the human condition, the way we are prepared to deal with the world). So, often, while imperative programs cannot be formally easily reasoned about, it's easy to informally reason about them to be efficient enough to act on that reasoning. "Functional" programs are usually the reverse: they are easier to reason about formally, but they are very unnatural to the way humans reason about everyday stuff, so, acting on them is harder for humans.

"Functional" languages tend to be more in the bytecode + GC + multiple translations camp. And, if forced to choose with these constrains, I'd say Erlang would be the easiest and the best designed language of all the "popular" ones. SML would be my pick if you need to get into the world of Haskell, but deciphering Haskell syntax brings you to the boil.
Yeah, but this is not really a good design. The user's credentials need to be available to services like nscd. One way to do this is to run such services per-user, which then has the benefit of still being a least-privilege implementation.
I believe it's fed into fuel tanks as they are depleted in order to maintain pressure in the tanks. Being inert it doesn't have any impact on subsequent combustion or fuel reaction.
> No side effects, no mock to maintain, it also test your auth and permissions, almost 1:1 with prod.

Can also be used to test version updates of your DB.
"Racial" bias is a bug in people.

To the extent it shows up in "AI", that's just GIGO.

What surprises and disappoints me is how many people (not so much TFA, but many comments here) seem to be expecting AI to be magical pixie dust which gives "the right answer", instead of, you know, an artificial intelligence.
Nice layout of the connection pins, though I question your number assignments. :)
Bridging React Native and Rust Through JSI
You can blame the government policies and DEA's stringent rules, and I agree, but if they are going to limit it, maybe it'd be nice if the people who DO need it to function and not just so they can ace their finals in college, actually get it first.

Both are true. Neither will happen. So... yay society.
Who cares when it's the US. Laws only apply for the weak-handed. They controlled the Iraqi government anyway, and they were stealing all of its oil as they wished regardless. The reparations were only the icing on the cake.
It's interesting to see how the reactions differ between here and the articles on the ban on TikTok. And some even thought that the users who wrote to their government representatives were bots! Whenever the US bans or sanctions something, that impacts people, whether it's drone nerds or teens looking at silly videos. It just so happens that most people here seem to be outside of the TikTok target demographic, so we can't sympathize with a group that will be forcefully deprived of a perfectly functional product, but we can with the other.
Yes. I was trying to make a point an out absurt price differentiation based on location.
> just more "nice guy speak".

Not credible and tedious to boot. I know you just learned of this "nice guy" conceit, and you're all excited about it, but I hope you grow out of it soon. Just because you have a new hammer doesn't mean everything is a nail.
It's nicely presented, good job! Unfortunately with my free credit it came up half baked, as grayscale with some color splotches and without the background I described. The caricature rendition of my supplied photo is very good.
It really is a "big lie" kind of thing isn't it?
I don't understand why every estimate assumes Russian and Iranian engineers work for free and only include the raw material/components cost of these weapons systems.

R&D costs makes up the vast majority of the cost of Western weapons systems.
The problem is that the GP is just lying, straight up.
It is like when you start listing the insane things the CIA actually provably did and still end up looking crazy.
For those who don't know, the case against archive.org is pretty rock solid and justifiable. They had been operating a lending library of ebooks, where you could 'check out' an ebook file and they wouldn't let anyone else read it until you had 'put it back'. They had many options for evading DRM and told you to delete the file when you 'put it back' on the honor system, so this was already legally shaky, but during the pandemic they disabled the limits and let anyone 'check out' anything they wanted without waiting for a copy to become available - AKA hosting a pirate site for downloading unauthorized ebook copies, just with 'library' branding. That is what they got sued for.
Just for fun, I would love to power my Game Boy with a little tiny gas powered engine.
I'd argue that heavily lopsided TOS in favor of the company, that can be changed at any time by said company, and your access can be cut off unless you agree to the updated TOS, does not make a contractual obligation. In a B2C context, the business is the more sophisticated entity so it's up to them to make sure everyone knows what they are agreeing to. They could have put up a bold summary of "this is a yearly contract, you will be charged $79.99 to cancel, please type YEARLY CONTRACT in the box" somewhere in the signup flow. Had they done it, the case could be dismissed.
Right. I feel like people that say it's boring maybe aren't being creative enough. Do that project you've been wanting to do forever, travel, go camping, pick up a sport, play video games you missed out on, or just work part time at a place you actually enjoy. Being financially secure opens up a ton of possibilities.
Haha, guilty. But! The actual wires assigned to each pin correspond to the Sephirot. Keter is VCC and Malkhut is GND, etc etc :P
Information hierarchies are empirically important and are an essential part of communications design. Uniform syntax makes information hierarchies harder to parse, because the boundaries around different types of information all look the same. It's the same reason we have different sized headings, bold text, etc. They are distinct markers.

So yes, fewer symbols means easier memorization, but you could take that to the extreme and you'll find that binary is harder to read than assembly.

I think Lisp is really elegant, and the power to treat a program as a data structure is very cool. But scanning Lisp programs visually always takes me a little more effort than most other languages.
Good point but this is actually a very interesting problem that has me digging through the implementation of String again
Only if you can cancel your sub. They are taking money from my account even after 6 years, each month, and I can't cancel it. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40619329#40619770)
I love the intention of the law, but it's so... flexible... in implementation that shitty implementers ended up making the browsing experience horrible with intrusive pop-ups and geo blocking.

On mobile every page load ends up with me spending the first minute or so on page dealing with the half-screen "don't sell my info" cookie dance, followed with the ad-block pop-ups.
Helium is used to pressurize hydrogen and other gases to move them through the plumbing. This link says "before takeoff" but its also used after.

https://www.uky.edu/~garose/helium#:~:text=Helium%20is%20use....
Not so minor nitpick, but afaik you never got to purchase and own the software, you only purchased a license to it.
I’m grateful I have that choice to send her to a Waldorf school and I want more parents to have more options.