skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you were born tall and with a commanding voice

I've always assumed that a "commanding voice" is not something one is born with, but something one develops over time.
Can it call customer service and navigate the menu than wait on my behalf ?
An ergonomic keyboard with good tactile feedback would be my holy grail. If someone knows of a good one, please send it my way.
People without media and politicians are not that much better.
Square roots are not some "mathematical trivia", they're amongst the most fundamental operations in mathematics.
If a private key is available, the public key can be derived from the private key using scalar multiplication. This is how ecdsa.GenerateKey works by itself - it first generates a private key from the provided random byte stream and then derives a public key from that private key.

I don't see how this can be a security risk, but allowing a public key that has a curve but a nil value is definitely a messy API.
> From my weak understanding, it’s the only ally the west (USA) has in the Middle East, so they’re important strategically

Nope, the US has bases in Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Djibouti and is friendly with the regimes in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42205295
> despite unlimited levels of political hostility, abuse, and algorithmic shenanigans from the ownership

This was happening before Musk bought it but now that it’s coming from the socially unacceptable side of the political spectrum people don’t like it
Insurance companies don’t actually make very much profit. I don’t recall the exact number, but something like 80-90% of premiums taken in are paid out in claims. Insurance companies are an easy target though, since no one wants to go after the doctors and hospitals for charging too much.
Yes, and a bad threshold like "cars have to panic stop if a car is under 200 feet ahead" means everyone could get stuck with a sucky implementation.
yep easy to guess
"Defense minister [Gallant] announces ‘complete siege’ of Gaza: No power, food or fuel". [1]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-ministe...
> I'm fond of saying "You can do anything you want, but wanting is the hard part", because to truly be a grandmaster, genius-level mathematician, olympic athlete, etc, requires a dedication and

I was having a problem agreeing with this subthread, and I have you to thank for putting it into words that I can finally formulate my disagreement against.

Have you never met one of those people for whom they did not need to "want"? They could literally phone it in and still do better than anyone else, no matter how dedicated they were. Even should practice/study be necessary for them, they benefited from it to some absurd proportion that I couldn't even guess to quantify. I've known more than one of these people.

I think most believe they don't exist for two reasons. The first is the ridiculous number of television shows and movies that depict motivation as being the key to success. We're just inundated with the (unsupported by evidence) that this is the means to extraordinary genius. Second, I would say that this is the most comforting theory. "Why yes, I could have been a gifted whatever or a talented something-or-other if I had put the time in, but I chose this other thing instead."

Maybe some would say we all need to believe this, that a society that doesn't believe in it is harsher or more unkind.
You can set them off in accessibility settings https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/reduce-onscreen-motio.... I agree it's not something they make easy though. A lot of cool features/customization like that is in accessibility settings.
The US has several allies in the middle east. Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar all have major non-NATO ally status with the US, the same status as Israel. Jordan in particular is a very close US partner.

I should add, none of these countries are treaty allies of the US, i.e. none of them have a mutual defense treaty with the US. The one country that is a treaty ally of the US in the region is Turkey, though that relationship has been strained in the last couple of decades
Four bad moments in five years? You should tell us your secret.

All kinds of things can go wrong when programming. Sometimes you don't have control over them. Very often you can't reliably predict them. You get better at knowing yourself and what to watch out for with experience, but even the most experienced programmers run into unexpected issues. And have bad days or weeks.
Israel wouldn’t exist.
Tasers fail frequently and knives are extremely deadly within a certain range. Yours is a very unconsidered opinion; not really helpful to this debate.
Imagine our world was extremely similar to how it is now in any way you'd care to imagine, except two things were different.

1. Everyone (young, old, poor, rich) thinks that maths is interesting and fun and beautiful and important. Not important "to get a good job" or "to go to a good college" or "to be an impressive person", but rather important because it's fun and interesting. And maybe it also helps you think clearly and get a good job and all these practical things, but they're secondary to the tremendous beauty and wondrousness of the domain.

2. Everyone believes that barring actual brain injuries people can learn mathematics to a pretty high level. Not Ramanujan level, not Terrence Tao, not even a research mathematician at one of the smaller universities, but a level of extreme comfort, let's say a minimum level of being able to confidently ace the typical types of exams 17 and 18 year olds face to finish secondary school in various countries.

Would you claim that in that world - people think maths is great, and that anyone can learn it - we'd see similar levels of ability and enjoyment of mathematics?

My claim is that we don't live in "Math-World", as described above, but "Anti-Math-World". And further, that anyone suggesting things have to be the way they are in Anti-Math-World is not only wrong, but also fundamentally lacking imagination and courage.

Kids are told week in week out that maths is stupid, that they are stupid, that their parents themselves are stupid, that the parents hated maths, that the teachers are stupid, and then when they end up doing poorly, people say: "ahhh, some kids just aren't bright!"

Parents who like things like learning and maths and reading and so on, have kids that tend to like those things. And parents that don't, usually don't. Saying that this somehow tells us something concrete and inalterable about the nature of the human brain is preposterous.

It's a card that's used by grown-ups who are terrified by the idea that our education systems are fundamentally broken.
This is pretty interesting. I did reasonably well in maths up to the A-levels, and then absolutely collapsed in university. I never got a grade better than B- in any maths-adjacent class. Discrete maths was my worst topic, I barely scraped a pass. And the irony was that I majored in CS and physics.

I should probably find a time machine and re-do everything.
Yes, it can do that very well. It actually will do the conversation for your. For example, if you are asking about something you can tell it to call customer service XX (and provide phone) number and mention what you need. The assistant will navigate the menu, wait, and then talk to the customer service representative
Are there are that are compatible magnetic switches that one could use as a drop in replacement?
it wouldn't pop out of existence magically
Rotations and spin are deeply tied into the geometrical nature of a space. It's not just you. It's core to understanding the nature of matter itself.

Cartan had only just invented spinors as an object in themselves (ignoring clifford) so a lot of the physics stuff was done in parallel or even without the knowledge the mathematicians had.
> It’s an emergent ... property in a sufficiently used system

This is also a sufficient description of "social contract" for this context.
What does “waymarked routes” mean, exactly? And same question for the OP.

Doing OSM editing from Mapillary imagery in various US states, I find that the roads that have roadside signage as “official bike routes”, predate modern safe(r) bike infrastructure. These are often highways that frankly look like death traps: no shoulder, high speed limits. Especially when so many North American long-haul cyclists now are riding “bikepacking” setups, it may be preferable for a router to prioritize quiet agricultural tracks and other unpaved terrain over the supposedly official bike route.
I have never disagreed more with a comment. You can fully decide that you're not interested in mathematics, after having taken all of the math classes that you could possibly be offered before university, without ever encountering a proof, or even a mathematical definition.
While I don't know what these oats are a reference to, I can't help but think of the absolute classic Fresh Oats from this LGR video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSxaUHT3yoI

From back when LGR was still reviewing silly games and edutainment games
That's Amsterdam. I'm betting in small towns (not to mention rural areas) in Netherlands the opposite beliefs are much more popular.
As someone with a lot of research experience in this area, I was expecting something more fluffy but this was actually pretty good.

There's a lot of research into some of these ideas at the moment. The terms they use aren't necessarily the same but many similar ideas. I think for the most part, the evidence in support of many of them is fairly weak but at the same time many of these ideas are much harder to test well than it might seem at first. I give a certain amount of pass to people trying to test them because in this area, trying to pin down something often is a bit like trying to study an individual cloud: you can kind of see it there, but if you were to try to measure its boundaries and dynamics, it would be harder to do than it might seem at first glance, and you'd end up more easily making very general observations about it than you might like.

One thought I had when reading it is that people's environments are much more stable than is usually recognized. The piece acknowledges this somewhat, but I think it's more of an issue than most like to admit. Even when someone tries to change it, it can be difficult, because assets and SES can be difficult to change, other people resist it due to their own incentives like the essay points out, and even when other people don't really care much they often will resist it unintentionally due to schemas about personality change and so forth. "Once an X, always an X" regardless of whether you're talking about vocation, career, social characteristics, whatever — even though that statement isn't actually true beyond some kind of general sense of it. Or they just are used to seeing someone in a particular setting and so don't see them in another.

Another issue that's maybe murkier is the essay is a bit loose about person characteristics, even at a given point in time, versus situation characteristics. I don't know that it affects the arguments very much at all, the points still stand, but it sometimes drifts into talking about "personality" when I think it really means something more relational, like "role" or "interactional pattern" or something like that.
Looks really nice - congrats on the app :). I can't test it since I don't use iOS. But if you ever make an android or web browser version - happy to play :)
Equating GDP per capita with the quality of humans is... a tad inhumane. Individual influence to GDP per capita is non-existant for the vast majority of people, even in the richest countries.
This awesome, that can help a lot of wasted time, I will try it out
Now in certain regions cattle are bred for being hardy and general overall health in extreme climates, quantity of beef production vs resources that are put into a herd financially... Such as:

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

There is also the aptly named SQUARE MEATER which maintains the rectangular cow aesthetic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Meater
This is why WebUSB/WebBT is a good thing, you can build configuration tools that run anywhere and are easily ported offline or replicated.
Allow me to introduce you to the Hague Invasion Act, signed into law 22 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

> The Act gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".[2]

If you dig a little further, you'll notice that it also applies to "military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand."

I wanna emphasize: This pre-dates Trump, Biden and Obama. This has been a law for over two decades. It passed both the House and the Senate with very little opposition. Both parties voted in favour of it.
They wave with the "antisemitic" flag and no-one dares to object in fear of being called antisemitic. Just see the mayor of Amsterdam.
> I didn't know the licence and had a look, but I don't see what is bullshit with it.

I just think it's a proprietary license that is trying to LARP as an OSS license. It sneaks in language that makes it so it's unclear how much it will actually cost you to use it. It makes me terrified to import anything touching it because I don't want to risk accidentally costing my employer millions of dollars.

I don't really see how it's "pretty close" to an OSS license. Part of an OSS license is that I can use the code for whatever I want, which is decidedly not the case with BUSL. I do appreciate that stuff eventually becomes Apache, so I guess that's better than nothing, but I'd rather just avoid the stuff entirely, or only use the Apache licensed stuff.

I also don't really like the idea that I could contribute to Akka, have my contributions being monetized by Lightbend, but I'm not even allowed to use my own contributions without paying them a fee. I know that CLAs aren't exactly new in the OSS world, but at least if I were to make a contribution to Ubuntu, I'm still allowed to run Ubuntu server for free, with my contributions included.

I guess the license just kind of feels "Bait and Switch" to me. It tries to get you to think that it's OSS and then smacks you with a "JK IT'S PROPRIETARY".

> If your employer is not providing its software open source, there is nothing shocking to have to pay for the software used

Sure, except in the case of Akka there's enough competition in the Java library world that I don't think that it's worth it. Vert.x is comparable, and the license is less likely to accidentally cost me lots of money.

I mostly think that Akka's licensing is way too expensive too, again especially when you consider that there's a good chunk of concurrency libraries in Java-land that have more business-friendly licenses.
I remember reading a thing that the reason why like day care late pickup fees are borderline extortionary, is that if they make the late pickup fees reasonable, then the average person will consider it a fee for service and not a punishment and use it more. Likewise, 5 cents for a plastic bag is like now you’re providing a service with expectations.
Gallant's position is that there are no innocent people in Gaza and that they should be starved to death. He's said this many times:

https://x.com/KhalilJeries/status/1853905224320372923
Do we have many examples of cases where countries have held US soldiers or commanders of allied nations captive without repercussion?
DOJ demands Google sells Chrome and possibly Android
Could use mobile phone haptic feedback technology in the keycaps, or maybe in the body of the keyboard?
back when orkut was a thing, google did this one weekend with internal employees. some co-workers participated; unsurprisingly they all said it was _very_ disturbing.
The `dimensional` library doesn't provide this, no. However, it's easy to 'tag' data in Haskell using phantom types. For example, for vectors in reference frames:

newtype Framed f a = MkFramed (Vector a)

add :: Framed f a -> Framed f a -> Framed f a
add (MkFramed vec1) (MkFramed vec2) = ... add vec1 and vec2

data ReferenceFrame1
data ReferenceFrame2

v1 :: Framed ReferenceFrame1 Double
v1 = ...

v2 :: Framed ReferenceFrame2 Double
v2 = ...

main :: IO ()
main = print $ v1 `add` v2 -- will not type check

There might already be a library to do this
Dynamic Kubernetes API Server for the API Aggregation Layer
"It's the economy stupid" is what I would say. Mental capacity is capacity. Most of us don't study math not because we don't want to but because we can't.

I bet if you asked in a survey of people that if you were given a UBI that covered all your expenses and needs what would you do? It would be perfection of the self or art. Both of these are what is practicing and learning math.
Another related effect of this is Protocol Ossification [0] which happens when implementers of a public API/Protocol surface area take implicit dependencies on common but not standardized behaviors of the API/Protocol implementation.

That being said, you can take proactive steps to defeat this. For example, the default Hash for strings in .NET is randomly seeded each time a process starts[1] in order to strongly dissuade folks from taking an implicit dependency on the underlying algorithm which is not guaranteed to be stable

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification

[1] : https://andrewlock.net/why-is-string-gethashcode-different-e...
What consequences? Even Trump isn't going to go to war for Netanyahu.
I think a very nice middle ground is when you decide to remove something, to mark it as deprecated in the next major version, and remove it in the one after. Not always possible, but IIRC React does this; so I'd frequently upgrade, then start seeing deprecation warning messages (in dev); I'd then have a clear signal before upgrading to the next version. It helped that major versions did not arrive often so making this kind of change was only occasionally necessary.

A bit trickier in this case no doubt; and trade offs. Ive not minded the React updates over the years, but busting out the Go code I wrote many years ago and having it still run flawlessly is amazing too.
I think now that some time has passed we have to start evaluating the effectiveness of some of these anti-pollution anti-carbon anti-plastic measures that society has been adopting

Personally I think this outcome should have been kind of obvious. Stores switched from having an incentive to give out as few plastic bags as possible to save money to having an incentive to give out as many as possible to make money

I also think changing single use bags out for re-usable bags has largely been fumbled as well. The re-usable bags take more energy to manufacture and when they inevitably end up in landfills they take much much longer to break down

The ratio of how many times you have to use a re-usable bag before it offsets the equivalent number of single use doesn't add up to me

There's probably more needed here to make this effective, like bag recycling/return programs or "need a bag take a bag, have a bag leave a bag" sorts of systems

I've been playing around with the idea of a network of "bag rental machines" you could put in grocery stores that people could get bags from for a single shopping trip, and return them to somehow

Somehow I don't think chains making money off selling bags would be very keen on the idea though
the essential idea is that personality is malleable, there are concepts in NNs that are analogous to experience we can use to name, deconstruct, orient, and contrast, and as a way to exercise some agency over our own personalities.

you can choose it, and like "the five monkeys experiment"[1] after a while, you don't remember the things you don't believe anymore.

the author used trauma, env change, extreme experiences and psychedelics as examples, but something as simple as reading a book or a comment on a forum can detach us from beliefs and ideas that moored our personality in a local basin. we are the effects of feedback, so change your feedback.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-ex...
Are there any social media services that you do see the point of and add value to your life?
Doesn't the environment already affect genes albeit on huge timescales like millions of years? Then the more clear question becomes how to accelerate mutations and for one individual person instead of through delicate and fallible processes like generations of species made through costly reproduction acts like civilizational projects.
Well, this thread for me was literally about:

"Russia will not use nukes."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197260
I'm honestly not sure why we can't have those 0.01% actually do the job. Like I get the optics are terrible but I think were I standing at the gallows I would prefer my hangman enjoy his job, less total suffering in the world created that way.

I think it's a holdover from a puritan mindset that work that needs doing but is unsavory— slaughterhouse workers, exterminators, executioners, and well… this are only okay if the person doing it feels bad the whole time.
Sure, issue is, if OP math checks out, currently everyone already voluntarily agrees to international law - ITU coordinating LEO orbits that extends to 2000km, meaning hard to clean >400km orbits is going to be filled with 100,000+ megaconstation hardware in next decades, substantially increasing chance of kessler. Op propose limiting >400km orbits... which means US is going to be unhappy sharing space with PRC megaconstellations. PRC not going to accept limiting >400km orbits without openning more <400km orbits because it means ceding advantage to US who locked in high% of <400km orbits since US grabbed megaconstellation spots earlier. So either everyone shares / free for alls <400km orbits, or everyone suffers Kessler, in which case whoever has the most space hardware might end up losing the most.
Why LSP? On two-sided markets and N*M
Thanks for the explanation.

So you don’t think the 1:10k odds compounded over every space launch are enough to be a problem?

I was thinking that maybe as you get to a scale where you have things coming and going all the time, and each time they have to pass through the debris layer, and if they have bad luck they become part of that debris, that eventually you get to a point where even just passing through that layer is untenable. But you don’t think that is likely even for a society sending out interplanetary vessels every day?
Very effective!