skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The findings, however, suggest that students are more likely to draw comparisons with “Robin Hood”.

This is interesting to me as it seems to suggest something I'm slowly coming to realize: In a world where many are simply pulled along for the ride, piracy is for an honest consumer one of the most powerful ways of protesting in the realm of digital media: You can have your cake and eat it too - abstaining from funding things you disagree with while still being able to get hold of material needed for your education or media that might even be required to stay relevant in your social circles.

In short, for some ideologies it is a very powerful and disruptive tool. It does however assume pirates are mostly people with good intentions. I would love to know more about the distributions of why people actually pirate.
We aren't spherical philosophers in a vacuum. We are emotional animals trying our best. This fact requires constant consideration and management lest it all come crumbling down.
The decrease of buying power, post Covid, makes this pretty much moot at best. It’s sort of depressing to think that even if I had children, or magically qualified to attend a prestigious school like MIT, I’d still be surely priced out. Just like I am buying a house. Making $200k a year ensures I’ll never own a home unless I want to move to an area I don’t feel safe in. I imagine having children make that trade off better, but not without substantial intrinsic costs to one’s self and one’s children. If someone makes $199k at this point, they’re likely unable to afford a home in any major metropolitan area. While being able to have your gifted children receive a free education is great, I imagine many folks will push ever so slightly past that, assuming two years working parents, by the time their children would be of age to go to school.

It’s just depressing. Sorry, I’ll go back into my hole.
I had assumed that they were there to hide costs for things that would not bear scrutiny but that still needed to be paid for. Not just speaking expenses for ex generals, but also supplies provided for operations that many of us would be horrified to find out about.
Pix? I don't think Boeing ones are luxury branded ones, but I might be wrong.
Dirac was not working in vaccum . Klein-Jordan equation was the simplest and the most obvious extension of Schrodinger equation in relativistic manner.

So historically, Dirac was focused on correcting the Klein-Gordon equation, which had issues with negative probabilities and describing electron behavior. His goal was to find a relativistic equation that resolved these problems while maintaining consistency with his own matrix mechanics formulation of quantum mechanics.

By extending his matrix mechanics formalism, Dirac derived an equation that not only addressed the issues with the Klein-Gordon equation but also predicted the existence of antimatter. I would argue that Dirac's approach was consistent with his established framework, and while he found renormalization mathematically unsatisfactory, it does not diminish the validity of his method in deriving the Dirac equation. I doubt he focused on any elegant solutions, he was actually quite happy working with matrix mechanics framework.
> IMHO cleve tricks like "domain fronting" is just freebooting

What do you mean by "freebooting"?

We added domain fronting support to the OpenConnect TLS-VPN client _in 2022_ because it is still working and useful for many people working in censored countries and environments. https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect/-/merge_requests/...
I wonder how deleting emails works with sarbanes oxley? don't you have to keep any records that may affect the bottom line, down to the individual who created the information item? that's what they told us back when S-O was introduced.
If anything, it makes me sad that Google sat and watched OpenAI tarnish public recognition of AI, and meanwhile no one had figured out realistic digital persona reconstruction from Twitter logs applicable to arbitrary users. I've made so much of my "effort" into the Internet digital corpus with that purpose in mind!

Note to future digital me, do as I did 2007-2014. I approve.
Technically he can't run again so he doesn't need any money for his own campaign. However, he might reward donations to his friends in the MAGA Cinematic Universe.
> You were absolutely, unequivocally were dodging the commenter's question.

Because I didn't answer in an hour? I'm not glued to HN all day to argue. And if I don't feel like engaging with someone looking for an argument, I don't engage them.
There are countries with free public respected universities. So yeah not a human right but not that far off depending on where you live.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Calling greed a virtue is certainly a thing a person has said.
Or... Just use an OS that includes it by default. Way less convoluted, and I don't have to redo things on updates.
> Presumably yes.

I think presuming people want this is like presuming they want 3rd party tracking cookies or that they want their online footprint profiled by the likes of data brokers and palantir and so on. Uninformed consent is not the same as support. Adult humans are mostly smart enough to change their preferences away from convenience when they understand it has bad consequences.
If you want to censor online platforms' discourse, or to apply censoring defaults to what users see, you're welcome to go to North Korea. Sounds like exactly the sort of place you'd love.

See how cheap and easy ad hominems are?
I remember the neighbourhood where I grew up. The roads were great until the cable TV company slices them all open to put their cables in. Then the patches would never hold, water would get in and under the road when it rained, and the roads were terrible for years.
I've seen a steady number of cyber trucks in my area, but I can't say I've seen a single Lightning. It seems like there's some appetite for the cost range, but is it purely just Ford isn't cool enough?
Visualizing failure has helped me. It’s well researched, I believe.

Andrew Huberman popularized this recently, but I realized I have been using it from much before that and did not even realize it.
If ChromeOS and Android end up in different companies it might prevent them from merging and thus lead to greater OS diversity.
I am feeling the humor behind this sentence if only I knew what BM is.
Yes it is, see page 12 of [1]:

> As set forth in Section IV, the PFJ prohibits Google from offering Apple anything of value for any form of default, placement, or preinstallation distribution (including choice screens) related to general search or a search access point.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223...
That certain countries both now and in the past have had significantly higher mathematical ability among the general population and much higher proportions going on to further study suggests that ability isn’t innate but that people don’t choose it. In the Soviet Union more time was spent teaching mathematics and a whole culture developed around mathematics being fun.
Perhaps it is recycled aboard the large armored satellite or propelled into the Earth's atmosphere so it can burn up.
If you’re interested.

https://www.goacta.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The-Cost-o...
The way you write this implies that it is somehow an intrinsic fault of the DoJ and not the fault of monopolists like Google with the massive resources to slow walk these kinds of things, or the effective lobbying of the Obama administration followed by four chaotic years of Trump.

Never forget that corruption is always to blame for these failures, not the noble people who try and fix these things with flawed institutions.
Yet to meet anyone who could have bought a full fat commercial Autocad or Solidworks license as a 13yo kid.
Even more so 20 years ago.
What does "not supported" mean?

Does it mean "you can probably get this to work, but it's not my OS so I won't go out of my way to help you" or "the build process depends on something only available on macs"?

There isn't an obvious reason it wouldn't be possible to build on linux or WSL at least on windows.
> you could fund a lot of bat reserves in perpetuity with even 10% of that money

Ya but funding bat reserves has nothing to do with a long concrete box, unless it also literally is a bat reserve. The money for the bats can come from the bat fund, and the concrete box should be able to come from the concrete box fund, if there's not enough for both, figure out which one is more impactful for the people paying the taxes and persuade them to let you save the bats, or let them do it through personal acts of charity.
When you compare the campus of MIT or Harvard to the average university anywhere else, you’ll find… excess. Lots of it.
Scratching the Surface: How geology shaped American culture
Kindergarten means different things in different countries, and that's probably the source of confusion. In Europe, it usually means a program that gradually transitions from daycare to a proper pre-school as the kids get older. Starting ages vary, but it seems to be 2.5 years in Belgium.
Considering the things the US funds in the open, even when doing so directly violates US human rights law, I shudder to think what would be covered up.
Costs ballooned in real terms.
I wonder if a big enough ad spend at X would be enough.
Because I can't see current techniques for creating LLMs fixing the pre-training problem. Right now big tech companies are training LLMs on, well, pretty much all human knowledge ever assembled, and they're still pretty dumb. They're wrong far too often and they don't have the capacity to learn and figure out things with a limited amount of data as humans do. Also, it's pretty clear that LLMs are flatlining.

Now, they are good text interfaces. They're good for parsing and creating text. There even seems to be very, very basic thought and maybe even creativity (at a very, very basic level). At this point though, I can't see them improving much more without a major change in technology, techniques, something. The first time I saw them I thought they were just regression analysis on steroids, and not going to lie, they still have that vibe considering tech companies have clusters up to 350k H100s and LLMs still are dumber than the average person for most tasks.

I'm currently creating an app that uses an LLM as an interface and it's definitely interesting, but most of the heavy lifting of the app will be the functions it calls and a knowledge database since it needs to have more concrete and current knowledge. But hey, it's nicer than implementing search from scratch I guess.
D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify
No, it's not. "Grift" is a count noun. You can't say "grift is occurring here"; you can say "a grift is occuring here", or "grifts are occurring here", but not just "grift is occurring here". Meanwhile, "graft", in the sense of the abuse of an office for personal gain, is a mass noun and can be used this way. Perhaps the commenter's mistake was leaving out an article rather than using the wrong word? The latter seems more likely to me, however.
Async/Await Is Real and Can Hurt You
Looking at history, anything in its first few iterations costs insane and stay as luxury or is sold at massive loss. Once the research goes on for several years, the costs keep coming down first very slowly and then in avalanche . The question always remains to which one can continue “selling at a loss” long enough to last the point until the costs continue going down while people are used to paying standard price(see smartphones), or the product is so market dominant that competition does not have resources to compete and cost can be raised(see Netflix).
Well the thing to note here is that "grift" is a count noun. (Their definitions as verbs is not what's relevant here!) You can't say "grift is occurring here"; you can say "a grift is occuring here". Meanwhile, "graft", in the sense of the abuse of an office for personal gain, is a mass noun. Perhaps the commenter's mistake was leaving out an article rather than using the wrong word? The latter seems more likely to me, however.
Which are surely, totally not ingesting every iota of data they can get their hands on (legally or not, including your prompts) for training and the soon-to-be born “embedded ads”.
Very cool, how does it work? (even if just at a high level)
Bachelor of Memes naturally.
>We have to establish that it's even possible to answer these questions.

We won't know until we try. Like Poincaré conjecture was pending for a century.
Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was 'the most-streamed sporting event Ever'
Correct. It is just that nobody is paying attention to that.
Without further reduction in battery costs, this exponential growth will turn linear again.
If unauthorized copying is akin to preventing a potential sale then using a gym for an authorized/non paid amount of time to try the gym without paying is not stealing.

Doubt anyone would be put into jail for doing that. At worst if done maliciously then they might be asked to leave or trespassed.

Creator of the thing sets the terms. People have the ability to not buy it if they do not like the terms. But they do not have the right to alter the terms via stealing.
Let's compare apples to oranges then:

You grew apples, I grew oranges.

Are you entitled to my oranges just because you grew apples?

If I mapped the area around my home, am I entitled to your efforts in mapping other areas of the world?
Agree. I’ve been trying to learn ML and data for a few years now and, around 2021 I guess, realised Maths was the real block.

I’ve tried a bunch of courses (MIT linalg, Coursera ICL Maths for ML, Khan etc etc) but what I eventually realised is my foundations were so, so weak being mid 30s and having essentially stopped learning in HS (apart from a business stats paper at Uni).

Enter a post on reddit about Mathacademy (https://www.mathacademy.com/). It’s truly incredible. I’m doing around 60-90 minutes a day and properly understanding and developing an intuition for things. They’ve got 3 pre-uni courses and I’ve now nearly finished the first one. It’s truly a revelation to be able to intuit and solve even simple problems and, having skipped ahead so far in my previous study, see fuzzy links to what’s coming.

Cannot recommend it enough. I’m serious about enrolling in a Dip Grad once I’ve finished the Uni level stuff. Maybe even into an MA eventually.
fundamentally, windows gained popularity as a personal computer

that translated well into business since people were familiar with how to use windows

the efficiency problems microsoft faces as an organization are disjointed from people trying to stay in touch effectively.

ai solves a lot of problems people can imagine having when being pitched the equivalent of digital timeshare, which mathematically does well when projecting for growth, but the vast majority of people look to get out of their timeshares when it becomes a burden on their lives.

slop is a new term, but why do we all know what it means already?
Mortgages seem constant in financialized economies, nobody can afford a home anywhere today.
Does your time feel respected when you're leaving the Kindle app to open a web browser, search for the book that was next in the series, buy it, and get back to your Kindle app to continue reading ?
> how do you think they "respect" your time more than other smartphones?

I have an iPhone. It just does its job. Updates in the background. Repairs are a peach, especially by mail. They don’t spam me.
Maybe I got confused, but how do they then count the newlines in all the previous chunks? That information is still needed to calculate the line for a specific position in the last chunk
libgen is the modern library of alexandria. and it is free as in beer. thank you russians
and who is funding them? how are they paying for their servers? a product can't be free, someone somewhere is paying for it. the main question is why are they paying for it.
> I agree with the sentiment of this. I think our obsession with innate ~~mathematical~~ skill and genius is so detrimental to the growth mindset that you need to have in order to learn things.

I strongly believe that the average human being can be exceptional in any niche topic given enough time, dedication and focus.

The author of the book has picked out mathematics because that was what he was interested in. The reality is that this rule applies to everything.

The belief that some people have an innate skill that they are born with is deeply unhelpful. Whilst some people (mostly spectrum) do seem have an innate talent, I would argue that it is more an inbuilt ability to hyper focus on a topic, whether that topic be mathematics, Star Trek, dinosaurs or legacy console games from the 1980’s.

I think we do our children a disservice by convincing them that some of their peers are just “born with it”, because it discourages them from continuing to try.

What we should be teaching children is HOW to learn. At the moment it’s a by-product of learning about some topic. If we look at the old adage “feed a man a fish”, the same is true of learning.

“Teach someone mathematics and they will learn mathematics. Teach someone to learn and they will learn anything”.
Are you suggesting education is like potatoes?
If you find it hard to control your eating when you always feel hungry, taking a drug to reduce your feelings of hunger is self-control. It's exactly looking at your body as a system and controlling it.

Maybe you can titrate off the drug and in a perfect world, the hunger signal doesn't come back on all the time; that'd be great. Maybe, while on the drug, you've developed eating habits that you can continue while off the drug, even though you feel hungry all the time, again. Maybe, it's just too hard to ignore the hunger signal, and you need the drug for a lifetime.

That's not to say these drugs are necessarily wonderful. Previous generations of weight loss drugs came with nasty side effects that weren't immediately apparent. Fen-Phen was a wonder drug until it ruined people's heart valves. Stimulant appetite supressants have issues because they're stimulants. Cigarrettes have appetite supressant properties (not surprising, nicotine is a stimulant), but they're cigarettes.

Personally, I don't have an overactive hunger signal; so when I eat poorly and gain weight, it's on me. But other people I know have a totally different experience with hunger. If your body is telling you all the time that you need to eat, it's hard to say no. Just like it's hard not to scratch when your skin is itchy. I can resist itchyness sometimes, but when it's constant, I'm going to scratch.
It is sometimes an option, not always. Depends on the cash flow of the business and current market risks. Not every business is automatically eligible. Small mom and pop restaurants often can’t get a loan on demand, at least not on predatory terms.
Certainly worth blowing up some russian ships to make sure it doesn't happen again
Who is footing the bill for the bankruptcy?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-overpaid-8000-percent... has a picture and it's a pretty standard run of the mill pump dispenser.
I’m sure the constitution will be changed to allow Trump to remain President, one way or the other way.
I also studied it and got several degrees, but I don't think that it actually benefited me. I think high school math is incredibly important to be able to think clearly in a quantitative way, and one university-level statistics course, but all the other university math... I dont think it helped me at all. I am disappointed by it because I feel that I was misled to believe that it would be useful and helpful.
No the black budget is a line item in the overall budget. Very few things go into it: even advanced weapons will be separated line items outside it.
I'm not a math teacher, but I do enjoy math, and I have helped several family members and friends with math courses.

I've long thought that almost all have the capability to learn roughly high school level math, though it will take more effort for some than for others. And a key factor to keep up a sustained effort is motivation. A lot of people who end up hating math or think they're terrible at it just haven't had the right motivation. Once they do, and they feel things start to make sense and they're able to solve problems, things get a lot easier.

Personally I also feel that learning math, especially a bit higher-level stuff where you go into derivations and low-level proofs, has helped me a lot in many non-math areas. It changed the way I thought about other stuff, to the better.

Though, helping my family members and friends taught me that different people might need quite different approaches to start to understand new material. Some have an easier time approaching things from a geometrical or graph perspective, others really thrive on digging into the formulas early on etc. One size does not fit all.
The article just lists existing beliefs (even mentions PAP) and some people believe it's problematic. Those beliefs look out of context of fine tuning problem, but they are presented in a rudimentary form, so can't be analyzed, so we have to accept these beliefs merely exist.
Their arguments are more against anti-trust. Consider these cases. They will be concluded by Trump’s AG. Which means a DoJ under Gaetz or whomever will have the power to put the country’s largest companies under consent decrees that can contain almost anything. (My guess is something about free speech and DEI.)
This has already been discussed extensively in prior threads, but the biggest question is, how does a spun-off Chrome get funded?

Chrome/Firefox/Safari all cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year to maintain. Currently, Safari and Firefox both make essentially all their revenue through default search agreements. Chrome, Edge, and now Brave are produced by companies that also own the search engines, so they're essentially a loss-generating product, that exist because they cancel out distribution costs that Google and Microsoft would otherwise have to pay other browsers.

But the DOJ order is also asking to ban payments between search engines and browser makers:
> As detailed in Section IV, the PFJ prohibits Google from providing third parties something of value (including financial payments) in order to make Google the default general search engine or otherwise discouraging those third parties from offering competing search products

With that revenue gone, the only real options to fund a browser are:

* Directly charge users for it. This is effectively a non-starter, because the vast majority of people aren't willing to pay for it.

* Insert ads or sell user data - users also hate this, it's probably not legal in the EU, and it may not be legal in most of the US in the future either.

* Use the browser as a platform to push some product that does make money - a non-Google search engine? A social network? An LLM interface?

Alternatively, a narrow reading of the proposed order is that this only applies to Google. In that case, perhaps Bing or OpenAI takes over all the distribution agreements and becomes the top search engine. Whether that's better for consumers seems fairly questionable.
That is the point. A legal time limited monopoly. But it has to be time limited or progress is stalled. Five years is plenty of lead time to be remain ahead of competition.
I recommend you list them instead of telling random strangers about the helpfulness of their responses.
Depends on where in LEO. Explorer I had a perigree of about 350km and lasted for 12 years, though the orbit was highly elliptical. 900km and above is stable for thousands of years and well within the (circular orbit) LEO ceiling of 2000km.