skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting with first algebra through my applied math Ph.D., nearly everything important that I learned I got heavily from independent study. (1) Loved plane geometry. Slept in class then worked ALL the more difficult supplementary exercises. (2) For my first year of college, went to a cheap state school, partly because I could walk to it. They put me in a math class beneath what I'd had in high school and would not let me take first calculus. For their class, a girl I knew also in the class told me when the tests were, and I showed up for them. For calculus, I got a copy of the book they were using, not a bad book, and started in and did well covering the first year. For my sophomore year, transfered to a fancy college, took an oral exam on first calculus, then got into their second year, did well, and was caught up. (3) Linear algebra? Sure, went through Halmos carefully word for word. About a fine point, wrote a letter to Halmos and got a nice answer. Also worked through Nering's book -- Nering was a student of Artin at Princeton. Later did a lot in linear algebra applications, e.g., in statistics, numerical issues, etc. (4) In grad school, got pushed into their course in 'advanced linear algebra'. When the course got to the polar decomposition, I blurted out in class "That's my favorite theorem!". Blew away everyone else in the class. Partly intimidated the prof. In grad school took an advanced applied math course then in the summer went over the class notes word by word. Wrote the prof a letter improving on one of his theorems. Back in class, took a 'reading course', and from the study in the summer saw a problem and solved it with some surprising math, two weeks. Later published it -- so, technically it was a dissertation.

Point: Self study can work well. Obviously: Once a prof reading research papers, nearly always have to use self study, and the papers are generally much less polished than good textbooks.

So, I recommended to students short on money just to do some self teaching and show up, demonstrate what learned, and ask for a scholarship.
With the Weimar Republic, it was specifically section 48 of their constitution which granted emergency powers to pass laws and the normalization of its invocation, paired with a dysfuctional legistlative body that was the only check on that power, that allowed the measures to be taken that culminated in probably unconstitutional passage of the Enalbing Act that killed the republic.
Nice anecdotes you have there, but history suggests that you might have a bit of myopia.

1. Abraham Lincoln said "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Whether you agree or not, some people think we may be at that inflection point right now. If you think American citizens haven’t lost substantial freedoms in the recent past, then you haven’t been paying attention. Is it at the level of “destroying ourselves”? To be determined, but the potential is there, and some folks really aren’t shy about trying to implement that a policy of reduced freedoms.

2. There are many cases in the last 100 years or so of authoritarian regimes rising because people want order during a time of distress — Saddam, Hitler, Mao, Lenin, and others rose to authoritarian power by offering stability during unstable times. They were welcomed with open arms, and often times people (including and especially the military) were willing to give up their freedoms for this potential for stability. Some folks think that the US is one big destabilizing event from welcoming an authoritarian. You may think this way of thinking is hubris, but none of us will know that it happened until after it has occurred.

I’m glad things have worked out for you, but I hope you have open eyes about how things can go south, as they have in the past.
Sure, we could always make a different term for monetary inflation and avoid the ambiguity with the new definition but that doesn't fix the underlying point.

Monetary inflation is an important concept that is now almost entirely ignored. An increase in the cost of goods can be interesting, but its a second or third order effect of an extremely complicated system.

Price changes are meaningless without context and extremely difficult to understand with context. Money debasement, or inflation, is easy to understand and is a primary input to the system rather than a downstream effect.
It was in the article...
Sure, but what are they gonna do? Fact check you after you win? We already see that nobody cares about that. If the dem's actually cared about the people they say they represent, they would be trying to win even if it meant overpromising or getting down in the mud. How is it helpful for trans people that that the people representing them are getting voted out? How is that helpful for laborers, poor people, rural people, etc? Just say you'll give em money, get elected, don't give them money (they'll just forget so whatever) and then try to do some good from the inside by enacting policies that will help people out. I think this article spells out the problems with the democrats: https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/11/01/why-arent-harris-a...
Why couldn't they just support the buyout? I don't care if US Steel is owned by a foreign company and I bet most people don't, so they aren't getting votes by being protectionist. If they support it and it doesn't work out (because let's be real, how much could the government do here), then just blame the republicans or something. Boom, you get to support something good, then get ammunition to show how the republicans messed something up due to their protectionism if the deal falls through.

Obviously I'm frustrated, but it's truly wild how ineffective the democrats are. I think them trying to be so upfront and politically correct all the time is a losing strategy for them.
and yet if it had, it would.
>People can't afford their basic needs.

Wage growth has far exceeded inflation in the United States. Americans as a whole have never, in history, been wealthier or consumed as much. This is one of those fun "you don't know what you've got until it's gone" things where people bought into a political narrative to such a degree that in their world-leading affluence they truly think they are hard done by and wronged. I sadly feel that a lot of Americans are going to learn that there is a long, long way to fall.

>You mean leftside selected economists with their own agenda.

If you really look at everything like this, that's incredibly sad and self-deluding. Trump's economic plans are scattered spitballing that sound like something the most ignorant person just randomly contrives. There is literally nothing Trump has proposed that would in any way improve the US economy or reduce prices of anything. But they absolutely would do the opposite. No one, ever, has convincingly described how Trump is going to improve the economy. It's just random score-settling and self-enriching nonsense.

>He had the lowest unemployment numbers in decades.

In Trump's first term he was constrained from doing much of anything, and actually accomplished shockingly little policy, just coasting on Obama's policies. In this term he will have zero checks. He can actually do the crazy nonsense he has proposed, and destroy the country.

There are two possible paths ahead for the United States-

-economic calamity with zero upside where people learn that tariffs aren't some magic thing that other countries pay. Where inflation truly starts going wild again, while federal services collapse and the oligarchs reap. Musk, Bezos and crew will never have it better. Many Americans will have it much worse.

-...or..., and what Trump voters repeatedly reveal they are assuming in voting for him, he just lied about everything he says he's going to do to get a vote and actually won't do anything much at all beyond some corruption and self-serving.

Either is pretty terrible. But here we are.
> After all, the primary purpose of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation was to try to capture enough Israelis to force a prisoner exchange and get their own people back

You can't possibly believe this when there are numerous confirmed reports of entire families being massacred with 0 hostages taken. If your purpose was really to take hostages; those could have been easy bargain chips; instead they raped them, murdered them and paraded their bodies in front of cheerful crowds.

If the central point of the operation was to grab hostages; their whereabouts and well being (or at least survival) would have been central to the whole ordeal; instead the were disseminated with little to no proof of life. It doesn't even appear that the Hamas leadership knew what to do with them, or even had them accounted for and located.

The goal of the attacks was to inflict a major blow to the Israeli government by forcing a strong military response that would delay the normalisation of the relations between Israel and other arab states. To do so Hamas was wiling to sacrifice civilian blood which is exactly what is happening now. They placed their hideouts in schools hospitals, and NGO headquarters to maximise the political cost of any military operation. Hostages were "nice to have" as they were supposed to further increase the pressure on the Israeli government by people who would be pushing for their return.

They did not anticipate how far BiBi was willing to go and they are definitely paying for it in blood now.
It is a great word spoken. Written it is visually identifiable as a symbol. It also seems to break every rule of naming, and is almost nonsensical.
> How many breaches of privacy by large orgnaizations occur in the EU? When they occur, what happens?

Malicious non-compliance is still common IME. Enforcement is happening but has been focused on the very large egregious abuse so far only.
> The only exception which comes to mind is Splatoon.

It does, but it's hidden behind an unlisted button combination (Zl + Zr + L3 for Splat 3) and every player needs their own console and copy of the game: https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/The_Shoal#LAN_Play
Harris significantly outspent Trump, particularly in key swing states.
I didn't realize I was talking to central banks here, that's good to know.

I believe your argument, though, is that those in power can redefine existing words to whatever best suits their current needs and we should all accept that and not consider why we had the original definition in the first place?
Nazi didn't resonate, besides he isn't literally a Nazi. All the other faults I mentioned though are literally true. Need to find the thing that makes him look weak to the demographic you are targeting and hammer on it.
I find it funny to think that SnapChat did the opposite and removed Chat to become Snap.

Either way it’s a bold move. It’s clearly easier to type and say. I wonder if they found GPT is just too unpleasant to say so trying to switch the brand is worth it to them.
I think it's a really responsible decision by SpaceX to not put their StarShip stage into a full orbit until they have demonstrated the ability to get it back out of orbit.

They should be applauded for this, along with their iterative approach.

Note that this next test will demonstrate re-light of the engine in space at micro-gravity. This is the demonstration needed prior to putting the StarShip in orbit. We'll probably see a full orbital test for the flight after this one.

They could have easily put previous tests into orbit - it's a fairly minor change to their existing regime and they have plenty of fuel to use.
Russia invaded Ukraine with ~170,000 troops. When it turned into an actual war instead of a quick regime change, they had to hire Wagner and draft prisoners until they could train up troops to send.

Do you seriously think Russia was going to be able to attack another country if they took over Ukraine? 170,000 wouldn't even be enough to actually hold on to Ukraine (in Kosovo, we needed 1 soldier for every 34 people to preserve peace, that would be over 1 million Russian soldiers in Ukraine to occupy it).

This assertion simply doesn't make any sense to me.
There is more to North America than the United States.
We're not trying to do Apollo again. That would be easier, but we want to build a base this time. For that we need to send a lot more mass and it needs a lot more fuel.
That's just straight up not true. The $3bn were never meant to fund the entire project in the way you imply.
> for pretty much the whole 19th century

Not sure what you're refering to, the 1873 panic wasn't exactly the finest hour for US economy. I guess that's not what you want to get back to.

As for the rest of the 19th century, the data we have is mostly consumer price indexes, but I can't recollect another durable deflationary period in the century.
Added to the legitimate reasons to disagree with Trump’s first term too? It’s not like we’re jumping to something new here; we’ve done it before
Why would this lower prices?
> AfD is set up for a big win, so that will be that.

The AfD is currently polling at about 18% of the vote. Alarming, yes, but nobody wants to work with them. The next government will likely be CDU led, with either the SPD or the Greens as a junior partner.
You realize though that Trump’s policy plan is more inflationary than Kamala’s right?
> The border deal provided amnesty that is clearly NOT in the interests of uneducated and poor citizens.

You should inform yourself about the bipartisan border bill that Trump killed at the last moment. The "amnesty" thing only exists as a propaganda talking point. The bill tightened up requirements for asylum and imposed automatic deportation rules.
First thing I thought of. “Man, I’m just so tired of these Star Wars.”
We know why. They are ignorant, don't care, or duped. There is no reason to vote for a person morally bankrupt and doesn't have any reasonable solutions to problems. A person with felonies can't even be on a Jury in this country, and people elected him President after his attempt to overthrow the government? I would struggle to hire him to mow my grass let alone run the country. This whole "You need to talk to us" is ridiculous as the positions.
> 1) It's very hard for a woman to be elected president.

The UK voted for Margaret Thatcher three times (1979, 1983, 1987). I'm sceptical about claims that the 2020s US is somehow more sexist than 1980s Britain.

Maybe, it is easier for centre-right female leaders to win than centre-left ones? Maybe the first female President of the US will be a Republican?
Does this not take in to account lyrics in musical movies? I looked up Across the Universe and it reported zero name drops despite there being at least a dozen.
The site I linked above does that for LLaMa 8B.

https://transluce.org/observability-interface

LLMs don't have enough self-awareness to produce really satisfying explanations though, no.
I have never heard Trump say he hates immigrants. His wife is literally an immigrant. Do you actually believe he hates immigrants?

Actually hating immigrants and being politically (and sometimes factually) incorrect are two different things. The latter is forgivable.
Having lived in NYC, Broadway, off broadway, off off broadway etc. look like they are thriving. I don’t think recorded media comes even close to the novelty and spectacle a theatre production is. Have small towns really lost all their theatres?
You don’t watch Fox News or listen to talk radio… it’s a nonstop drumbeat about how Kamala is a communist who will forcibly trans aborted prison babies. And “migrant crime” is up 10000000% and they’re lazy but also taking the jobs.
It's extremely common that legitimate critique gets used to illegitimately attack people doing things differently enough that the relative importance of several factors change.

This is really, really common. And it's done both by mistake and in bad faith. In fact, it's a guarantee that once anybody tries anything different enough, they'll be constantly attacked this way.
> They’re literally trying to find out when they exclaim that question.

I've seen these conversations happen thousands of times in political communities online, before you know it, the person trying to understand starts getting angry at some point, and both people are calling each other names. Very few people truly want to understand the other side. If you want to understand the other side, the first step is to listen, and not say anything (don't try to defend your viewpoint, this isn't part of your goal, and it will derail it), ask questions, and agree to disagree politely.
Not on my phone.

(Pixel 8 Pro, Firefox)
And a lot of people don't realize that "wholly owned" is just a legal construction, it does not mean that they have any say over what the corporation does, how the corporation does that, or that they have any kind of access to any money in the corporation's accounts. The foundation owns the corporation, part of that ownership is that they can't run it. If they did, they'd no longer be a separate non-profit.
Which is why I find it exciting and am stoked every time I see progress made.

Howevever, it's hard to view an announcement of the next launch with some minor additions to the experimental flight, as the most exciting space news today. Future launches, once they get the license updated, will he more exciting.
> We were talking about dev enviroments on desktops, not independently scalable components.

Your dev environment is expected to mimick your production environment, not the other way around.
> This all makes complete sense since most people don't care about the cause in itself but about how prices are changing.

I would hope that isn't true, an economy would function horribly if we only cared about the price change percentage and didn't care why it happened. If prices went up because most people had more money to spend you should act much differently than if prices went up because supply collapsed, for example.
I have a group of friends I know since middle school. They created a band when we were ~15 and did not stop. When we were 30 or so they were having regular gigs in bars and auditoria.

When I was discussing with the owners of the bars, I always asked "why us?". They would often say that we were the only ones that did not look desperate to get a gig.

And that was true: we all had high paying jobs, they even self produced a few CDs for fun (and Christmas presents). The band was always for fun because nobody relied on it for their life.

When I read many comments here I realize how lucky we were.
It's disingenuous to compare Apple's advertising to Facebook and Google.

Apple does first party advertising for two relatively minuscule apps.

Facebook and Google power the majority of the world's online advertising, have multiple data sharing agreements, widely deployed tracking pixels, allow for browser fingerprinting and are deeply integrated into almost all ecommerce platforms and sites.
I applaud GP's effort at also avoiding shipping cliches like Olympic-size swimming pools.
> Might be a good learning experience for the Red states.

There's been plenty of opportunities to learn, facts don't matter apparently.
I guess repeating his words are a bigger sin than speaking them in the first place.
Factorio on a Pentium pro sounds very tricky to do effectively. Half Life still is great but the graphics in HL2 make it more immersive. That's slowed but I wouldn't cite 98 for that.
"Even if so, this isn’t Twitter, and it may not work." Is this person under the impression somehow that what Elon did to Twitter _did_ work?
The whole area has this bubbling activity marks, and it's a large gas extraction field. The only reason they don't solve the mistery is for the clicks.
I have no other tangible way of making people feel the consequences of their shitty actions.
The blame for why nobody says Donald goes to Walt Disney.
read it as sAIDEcar
Kamala dominated Trump in their debate, but clearly it didn’t matter.
Personally, I think it was the Joe Rogan podcasts (they got an insane number of views). I figured Trump would win the Electoral College votes, but I was surprised when Trump also won the popular vote.
"Fix everything or else we'll elect Hitler" well they certainly can't fix everything so I guess they might as well resign themselves to having Hitler elected. Why even bother trying in that case?
Us third party voters need to work together for change to the voting system, no matter how different our politics might be from one another. In fact, us working together despite our different politics would underline our point: democracy is about everyone having their say, not about agreement.
100%

There are some great recordings of music out there but fundamentally their sum is worthless up against a society where there is music and dance being performed all the time.

Maybe modern medicine and food abundance is worth it but the imitation of art is a poor substitute.
As much as you can say (perhaps not hard numbers, but as a percentage), what was the savings to the bottom line / cloud costs?
I've seen no data showing Gen Z support for Trump, and I'm interested if you have some. I'm seeing[1] an 11 point lead for Harris among the age 18-29 group. That's much more narrow, of course, than the margins in 2016 and 2020, so I guess Gen Z is more supportive of Trump than Millenials were at the same age.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
This situation already happened with X/Twitter when the Brazilian Supreme Court attempted to compel Elon & co to disclose the social media accounts of alleged rioters. Unfortunately, it seems few people learn from even recent history.
Starship – Fifth Flight Test (SpaceX channel) [video]
> I don't understand this perspective.

It's because it's not based on fact. These people (rightly so) hate Putin. But just because you hate Putin does not mean he is capable or intending to be Hitler.

Same actually goes for Trump actually. Just because you don't like the guy doesn't mean he's literally Hitler.
Thank you, I'm re-evaluating some of my opinions.
I’ve only seen exit poll demographics for key states. Republicans won college white men but only at 50%. He performed better among married white men (28% of sample) than non-married white men (20% of sample). Looks like his biggest gender gap is among suburban whites. Looks like his most-supportive crosstab is evangelicals, happy with the Supreme Court, whose primary issue is banning abortion.
> No we don't need to change the system on the basis that it leads to outcomes you want.

I definitely agree with that view. But maybe we could/should change the system on the basis that "the majority does not agree that the system is working".

While measuring that is hard since you would always tend to find that the system is working if it favours the candidate you like; there still is a significant number of people both left and right leaning that agree that the bi partisan winner-takes all voting system is fundamentally broken.

If only for the fact that a president can ben elected by winning less voices than his opponent, thereby showing that some votes are worth more than others.
Worse in some ways, better in others. The old individual plans usually had serious limits on coverage of pre-existing conditions. And they had lifetime coverage limits which could be exhausted by a single serious illness or injury.
As I get older, I grow increasingly weary of this kind of condescending rhetoric. As an example, where were these educated saviors when there were calls to "defund the police"? Most low-income neighbourhoods want more police presence[1], not less because crime hurts them personally and not just in an abstract way on some spreadsheet.

You can't "save" someone without understanding what their day to day problems are.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-06-04/gallu...
What they can do is (in England & Wales, for example) is to impose a confiscation order on you so when you do end up liquidating your easily traceable crypto current, they will simply come after those assets.
Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election