skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a specific example, our high-school math curriculum taught a lot of calculus, but framed it incorrectly as being a useful tool that people would use.

One day at FedEx the BoD (board of directors) was concerned about the future of the company and as part of that wanted an estimate of the likely growth of the company.

In the offices there were several efforts, free-hand, wishes, hopes, guesses, what the marketing/selling people thought, etc., and none of those efforts seemed to be objective or with a foundation or rationality.

We knew the current revenue. We could make an okay estimate of revenue when all the airplanes were full. So, the problem was essentially to interpolate over time between those two numbers.

For the interpolation, how might that go? That is, what, day by day, would be driving the growth? So, notice that each day current customers would be shipping packages, and customers to be would be receiving packages and, thus, learning about FedEx and becoming customers. That is, each day the growth would be directly proportional to (1) the number of current customers creating publicity and (2) the number of customers to be receiving that publicity.

So, for some math, let t be time in days, y(t) the revenue on day t, t = 0 for the present day, and b the revenue when all the planes were full. Then for some constant of proportionality k, we have

y'(t) = k y(t) (b - y(t))

where y'(t) = dy/dt the calculus first derivative of y(t) with respect to t.

A little calculus yields the solution.

y(t) = y(0) b exp(bkt) /
( y(0)( exp(bkt) - 1) + b))

Seeing how the growth goes for several values of k, pick one that seems reasonable. Draw the graph and leave it for the BoD.

That was a Friday, and the BoD meeting started at 8 AM the next day, Saturday.

First thing at the meeting, two crucial BoD members asked how the graph was drawn. For several hours, no one had an answer. The two members gave up on FedEx, got plane tickets back to Texas, returned to their rented rooms, packed, and as a last chance returned to the BoD meeting. FedEx was about to die.

I did all the work for the graph, the idea, calculus, arithmetic (HP calculator), but didn't know about the BoD meeting. Someone guessed that I did know about the graph, and I got a call and came to the meeting. The two crucial BoD members were grim, standing in the hallway with their bags packed, and their airline tickets in their shirt pockets.

I reproduced a few points on the graph, and FedEx was saved.

So, some math saved a business.
Sure but it feels it's in same place IBM was 20 years ago.
> Ukraine was supposed to be neutral

According to? It was supposed to be sovereign. It gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for guaranties of never being attacked... Russia can't be trusted.

>there has been a faction that has wanted to push NATO boundaries east

Well, NATO membership works like this: Countries ask for membership. It's not "NATO" deciding "hmmm, let's expand east". You must be confusing with Russia expansion, forcibly annexing land, with all the war crime and deportation. Ex-soviet countries know what it's like to be occupied by Russia, so they want to be part of NATO. I'm sure you can see the difference.

> Putin has been responding to the antagonism with bold and efficient use of force to advance Russia's national interest in the face of such aggression.

Bold and efficient use of force??? Like, bold torture? Efficient killing and starving POWs? Smart kidnapping and re-education of Ukrainian children to draft them to fight against their own people? Yeah, what a genius. You're nauseating. You're talking just like a nazi would.

I think I'll stop there, I don't think it's worth discussing with people who casually admire war criminals.
I don't think that's true for everyone. Your math PhDs and enthusiasts appreciate math as beautiful in and of itself. The disconnect might be that they forget many others do want skin in the game, and that makes the teachers not understand what the students need.
In the context of AI, it's a term that I borrow from human cognition to describe rapid calculations without external aids.
Oh, yeah, you're right. It seemed like OP was trying to prove he could "bare bones" it because the article was about how to avoid everything but a framebuffer, so I thought I'd offer this up... LVGL is as bare-bones as it gets!
What living with long Covid looks like. Dianna (PhysicsGirl) livestream
>Just like Capitalism, that term is too vague to be useful.

I disagree: vagueness of words is very useful, so useful it can keep billions of people (the smarter the better) in a Stockholm Syndrome like situation indefinitely, including defending it against anyone who tried to liberate them.
Why I'm embarrassed to be German [video]
inspections/regulations aren't the cost center here. the big guys (a 4 company cartel) get to use literal slave labor to do the butchering, processing, and packing.

meanwhile a local farm has to hire a local butcher.
Not on sale, but these guys have it (or what I think is the same thing outside California) for $8.50
https://ranchfoodsdirect.grazecart.com/store/product/bottom-...
https://youtu.be/OS_3a8vtGYI
Globalism hurts everyone except capitalists.

Western canada has a ton of high quality trees. So furniture companies should move to this place, buy cheap input materials, create local economy, add value in a healthy way, and profit properly. Instead locals trying to do anything are killed by global pricing and it destroys businesses. It costs thousands of dollars more than it should just to make a CRATE to ship anything else. Absolute the opposite of proper sustainable economy
The other thing is how is that a benefit?

Why should I be excited that "it creates its metal anode the first time it is charged"?

I mean this question in ELI5-fashion not in a disparaging one.
CEOs love borderless talent until they realize that it exposes them to borderless corporate income taxation...

This isn't like the old days when Apple and Microsoft could exploit international tax loopholes. Those loopholes are gone, and transfer pricing (aka mandatory profit for related-party cross-board transactions) is now mandatory. In some countries, there are proposals to to tax transfer pricing income even if the entity as a whole is not profitable, and this is on the table for the next OECD guidelines. Countries are also no longer willing to accept the ridiculous under-valuations of migrated or licensed IP that Apple and Microsoft got away with.
> Except, I know how to slice and dice text with awk

I meant to say something more like "if you need to learn awk to do it, you may as well learn Perl instead". I figured from context that if you're "considering using awk", you don't know it, or you'd be "using awk". But no matter.

Perl can do everything Awk can, at least as well if not better. As fiddly, arbitrary, and limited, as Awk is, it's a lot less language, and that does come with advantages.

But I know from experience that you can learn the Awk subset of Perl as easily as you can learn Awk, and then you have a basis for extension to more tasks of a similar nature. If you want to see what I mean, there's a utility a2p[0] which translates Awk to Perl, this suffers slightly from machine translation, but it's a good demonstration that Perl can do everything Awk can in not just a trivial sense, but in the sense that it's designed to make Awk unnecessary.

So if you can get over whatever aesthetic hangup you have about Perlian line noise, you might discover you like it. Anyone using Awk "very regularly" is leaving a lot of potential on the table by refusing to learn Perl. Then again, sometimes it's best to stick with what you know.

[0] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.8.6/a2p
They'll make you return to office after forcing you to work remote, just long enough to find a foreigner to take your job oversees.

Capitalism. Check mate.
I don't think people with e-bikes even pedal into the orange zone. It's more of exercise theater, to borrow a term. HOwever, I do hope e-bikes start to overtake cars as modes of transportation in temperate climates.
I think you are on to something, but I still dont get why they would be priced at luxury rates in some place like Montana. I would think there would be a long list of potential sellers.
“Our original configuration was fully HTTPS-enabled; however, we had to adjust this when browser manufacturers started blocking HTTPS websites from loading HTTP streams.

Approximately 20% of the stations featured on Radio Garden are accessible via HTTP streams, which would become inaccessible if we switched entirely to HTTPS. Given the recent changes in Chrome's behavior towards forcing an HTTPS connection, we are considering moving back to an all-HTTPS setup in the near future.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/RadioGarden/s/0FByul10C0
DOJ antitrust case could cost Google 50% of US mobile searches in the US
“View via iOS Flet app” is not “enables developers to easily build realtime web, _mobile_ and desktop apps in Python.”
I don’t know what vite is. Should I be interested? (Trying to keep the JS part of my app as simple as possible without a lot of deps.)
in america the meat processing companies use prison labor paid in pennies an hour. (along with child labor)
>Could you bring any example where non-testable hypothesis have mattered in science, or even have been proposed?

If you think of science as just a collection of empirical data, then you won't find any value in untestable hypotheses. If you think of science as an enterprise that's aimed towards explanations about the world, then conceptual data matters. Interpretations of quantum mechanics are a fruitful ground for non-testable conceptual work to be relevant to science. Here is one example[1] of the Many Worlds interpretation providing conceptual and intuitive support that helped advance quantum computing.

But beyond that, what an experiment tells us depends on our conceptual framework. When we hear a click in a Geiger counter, are we merely detecting clicks in this particular device, or are we detecting electrons out in the world? This isn't something that an experiment will decide for us. The conceptual framework we are operating with allows us to say the click isn't just the detector going off, and our model of these clicks isn't just predicting when this device will click in the future, but rather that our experiments are detecting the existence of actual electrons too small to interact with without special devices.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/59346/does-quant...
So we use a bunch of different search algorithms to find your competitors vs. the standard keyword search style matching done on most search engines.

It's completely free to check out so try it out and let us know what you think!
It calls into question the byline "which could mean lower energy demands."

Ie: more efficient steam engines lead to both an increase of steam engine throughput as well as coal consumption, an increase in AI efficiency can lead to an increase in training throughput and energy consumption.

The paradox is a result of prevalence scaling faster than efficiency and efficiency driving prevalence.
You had me at first half lol.
That's a loophole, though, hopefully it'll close in my lifetime
No friend, it's also absolutely the data that's collected and how it could changeably be used for good or bad and vice versa at a whim down the road. If modern times have taught us anything it's that centralized troves of data almost inevitably get leaked and misused sooner or later. You're ridiculously naive if you trust anyone with that kind of information no matter how nicely they presented their reasons for wanting it.

I don't give a damn how wholesomely the reasons for stripping one's ability to be private and anonymous are couched, they should be no excuse for actually applying such a magnifying glass to human lives en masse.
Java's James Gosling on Fame, Freedom, Failure Modes and Fun (2023)
It seems more happens in these anodes than in the electrolyte. How’s that possible?
I was a PM for a team like that. We did well - ended up making a 8-9 figure product line.

Most of us can speak English, and Engineering fundamentals like algorithmic complexity are the same all over the world.

Just pay in the 70-90th percentile in a region, force engineers to write design docs and PMs PRFAQs, make sure to have a quarterly touchpoint in person, and you'll get fairly proficient talent.

This is how the market is now that Eastern Europe, Israel, India, Costa Rica, etc all have self sustaining tech ecosystems now.

Evolve or perish if you want to keep your career.
That's one. Any others? You said "tons."

Go back to the #metoo coverage from 2018. How many mainstream media outlets covered those accusations?
"a new material made from modified starch that can completely decompose in nature – and do so within only two months."

Lots of stuff is kept by the retailer or consumer longer than two months; no one wants the container to decompose while sitting there.
I lived there. I traveled all over that area. The Northern Virginia counties are much closer to the culture in DC than the culture in Baltimore.
Step-by-step guide on how to find a great mentor for you
Were you involved with the project? I worked at msft back then and distinctly remember the office ipad team. I think ballmer actually let them release just the OneNote standalone app in 2013 iirc.
Marin sun farms sells butchered quarter/half cows for $6-7/lb. So not only is that cheaper the ribeye steak it’s way higher quality too. Unfortunately you’re buying in bulk and freezing.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/8/5594684/steve-ballmer-made...
Rebranding "remote" to "new phrase" will not make anyone forgive you for writing "remote" on job roles that are obsessed with sitting in an office. It's not a clever hiring hack, it just broadcasts that you like operating fraudulently.
This is great and matches something I’ve been doing for over a decade now. Writing in reflections, examining and cross examining.

The only thing I would argume with is:

> We just talked about it aimlessly, read randomly, and made small notes. This cost us time and caused confusion.

No, this is part of the process. It’s part of noticing and a precursor to the step of examination. This is data gathering.

—

The other thing I’ve learned over the years is that this kind of thinking/writing scares people.

I’ve made the mistake of sending an edited analysis to a cofounder. Because they didn’t have a similar practice they couldn’t perceive it as an examination of our startup’s situation, and instead received it as anxiety and uncertainty.

It’s unsettling to question assumptions.
Gosling announced his retirement this week. Made me remember this article...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jamesgosling_ive-finally-reti...
No till farming works.

Maybe the CIA will shift into doing things “for the better” so that inherent value is raised across the world?
The importance of worked examples in helping students understand new topics
All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the Google/Apple app stores, where there are 100+ solutions for the same problem, and all of them suck.

I wonder if we really did a good thing by building this "app culture" where everything needs a little "app" as a way of extracting a little more money from people. Although "app" means application, the word "app" is apt because it signifies the commercialization of applications into advertisements-as-a-program, in the same way that YouTube transformed videos into advertisements-as-a-video.

What a mess.
90% feature coverage, that's wild.

I wonder how many hours have been spent to produce this magnificent blasphemy.
cost of equipment

cost of installation

cost of maintenance

feasible, but costly. likely too costly for many
someone asked for a source, then immediately deleted their comment so here's one: https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...
Why does it happen? My CI launches separate kubernetes pod for every incoming task. If there are not enough servers, autoscaler will spin up new and remove it after some time. So there are not much expenses, we're paying for what we using. I feel that fast CI iterations are very important for developers.
Tracing Asia's History of Timekeeping
>they just got a few luck hits on the way down.

They're 10x bigger by market cap than they were when the essay was written. If that's failure, what counts as success?
Swiss farmers are highly subsidized and there are high tariffs for imports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Switzerland#Agricul...

This follows from Swiss neutrality -- you have to protect your domestic food supply to ensure food security.

Local milk might be more expensive than imported in Switzerland, but if you compare the prices of 1 gal (3.785L) milk in NYC (USD 5.53/CHF 4.96) vs Zurich (USD 7.24/CHF 6.49), it's more expensive in Zurich.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Lots of people interested in pulling the ladder. Fearing competition, are we?
At least the other side didn't pretend to have a free press. The problem here is to pretend you're in the freest country in the world while everything is being controlled by secret agencies that think it is all fair and good.
Absolutely, the point about memorization being a skill that can be improved with practice is so simple yet not understood by many
Looks promising! I'll definitely watch the progress of this. If you're the creator, just so you know, you shouldn't tag your videos for kids. It's not what you think. If you tag it for kids, it is ONLY for kids. Viewers cannot comment and can't save the video to any of their own playlists.
The idea of "whataboutism" as something not "okay" is a rhetorical manipulation tactic.
You can ask me questions like "How many words are in this sentence?" or to solve anagram puzzles because I have access to information at the word and the character level which the LLM doesn't have. Tokens matter because they are the bridge between the text the user sees and what the model sees and debugging of that relationship is helpful.
Lemme guess. The simulation did not include exposure to high levels of gamma radiation.

Well if there was no delivery pizza, all power to them!
> Engineers in LATAM are increasingly popular

It's because of the tax holiday Costa Rica is giving [0][1][2], and VMWare's acquisition by Broadcom (they had a massive engineering campus in San Jose, Costa Rica) leaving a lot of Support Engineers and C++ Engineers on the market.

Czechia, Romania, and Poland did the same thing in the 2010s, Israel and India in the 2000s, and Taiwan and South Korea (in electronics) in the 1990s.

[0] - https://www.thegreenparkfz.com/

[1] - https://afz.cr/v5/en_us/about-us/

[2] - https://www.procomer.com/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Zonas-Franc...
Would you be happier if we were exploiting Eastern Europeans instead?
Ask HN: Get Support from Google Adsense
Hi HN --

I run a website (https://www.forth.news) monetized through Google AdSense. It's never made a huge amount of money, but there were earnings coming in.

Around midday July 1, everything went down to $0. Since then, as I check in to the console throughout the day, I see my impression count decreasing.

It just so happened that we were shared heavily recently, and have seen a tremendous amount of traffic, with suspiciously small results. (10.4K views with 85 impressions. Earlier today it was 133 impressions.)

When I visit the site, I see ads. The impressions at least initially go up on the console before dropping. I've posted to the community support forum to no avail, and cannot find any way to contact anyone at Google.

Does anyone have a way to contact the AdSense team?
TL;DR: Wi-Fi can already provide that signal.

We can already get full 3D pose estimation from Wi-Fi. Whether that's a good thing is a separate topic, but there's a recent paper[1] which also has a poster page[2] and a youtube video[3] embedded on it. The audio quality of the video is poor, however. There's a lot of echo.

This general line of work is what the comment from transpute[4] seems to have been implying. There's also a prior body of work on this which I'm not really familiar with.

[1]: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/papers/Yan_Pe...

[2]: https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/30463

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39oG-PJIZ14

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40893391
It doesn't matter if it's any easy language, a new language to learn is a new language to learn.

Same reason why NodeJs exists, you can use what you already know.
Oh crap I had this expressed once when I was self medicating with DXM.
During WWII Germany had limited access to chromium and cobalt so they developed alternative metallurgy for their engines etc. I know they nickel plated their cylinder bores. I’m sure there’s more detail available somewhere.
Potentially cheaper than the cost of human labor as it continues to increase due to structural demographics as the world rapidly ages.
A brief history of time – as told by a watchmaker
I think I was having the same issue
> What purpose does it serve? To absolutely guarantee that people who already served their punishment can never re-integrate into society?

That's exactly the purpose. I don't believe the average US voter really believes in rehabilitation and allowing prisoners to re-integrate into society. There are lots of ways that people are punished continuously after their prison sentences are over. Employers can discriminate against former prisoners when hiring them, landlords can refuse to rent them a home, and in many states, barriers are also in place that make it more difficult for ex-offenders to obtain driver’s licenses, to register to vote and to gain access to other public services like healthcare and education.
The latest stats I can get are from 2009, but it looks like Microsoft had over 95% of the OS market share in 2009. This was a bad take.

It also demonstrates how disconnected from the average person he was if he almost only saw OSX, when the market was 95%+ Windows.
This is a false dichotomy, gross exploitation does not need to present.
I love Anki, but it is a tough sell to Apple users because it costs 20 frigging bucks where on other OSs is free
That's the stated plan of conservatives.

Kevin Roberts (Heritage foundation president):
"And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/heritage-foundatio...

To gut the administrative state from within by flooding it with their own people.

There are two ways to see it:

1. Conservatives are silly and stupid people who dream big put can't pull it off due to incompetence, or

2. This is a real and imminent threat to society.

But it is not conspiracy theory without basis in fact. They are stating openly what they intent do speech after speech. and have 1000 page manual they published.
If barriers harm more than abuse then abuse should be accepted.
We're discussing whether this is a likely future direction for ARM, and whether ARM will continue to invest in this or push this as a key future direction. That is what you replied to. You've shown nothing other than ARM was interested in taking some research money in the past. And, frankly, you've wasted my time with links trying to figure out what you were saying (which turned out to be irrelevant).

Sigh.
Also sub range types, when clauses, ternary conditional expressions, anonymous subroutines, methods on values, and more.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40822633
It is challenging for learners who benefit from examples