skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're throwing money away. Actually, I would be glad if this money was entirely used for research, because Intel and other US companies badly need it. But they will waste it on plants that are already outdated in the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is Intel giving this money to investors directly or indirectly in the form of stock buy backs. And nothing of this would be necessary if Intel had invested their profits in research, instead of sending money to investors to keep the stock price high and, consequently, their executive compensation.
I mean I came up with the list by going through the kinds of mindless passive entertainment that has little to no to negative intellectual or artistic value that either I or my coworkers (who are mostly Dads hence Vince Flynn) enjoy that I think intersects with HN types.

It's easy to call out the kinds of low-value activities that you don't personally enjoy or partake in. It's a lot harder and more uncomfortable to see them in yourself and have some empathy and not judge others too much for their brain-off vices.

Only when I die and see the big stats board do I want to know how many hours I've wasted on Slay the Spire. And while I love it dearly I can't really delude myself that it's anything other than Candy Crush for nerds.
Right, but certs get out of date unless somebody does something about it, that was my point.
In a free market they'll manufacture in China or Taiwan. US wants them to manufacture it in USA and it's paying for that.
Yes, Informatica was the one that came to mind.

We inherited some Informatica ETL workflows once at work. Nice at first glance with good logging, but peel back the surface a little bit and it was a dizzying level of hidden complexity. Some of this was business logic which was inherently complex, but it was so deeply buried in menus and abstractions with no easy diffing or version control...

Like the comment starter mentioned - who are these tools designed for?
Some background:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_pro...
If it's affordable and practical for one person/team to do it, it's probably affordable for two or more groups to do it.
It is funny that certain niche circles complain about the hive mind virus or whatever and that is by this definition a kind of brainrot to be complaining about that! Too funny.
Pick personal projects to work on (relevant to what specific skills you want to develop) and build them. The best way to learn anything is to get your hands dirty, struggle through problem solving, and develop a hands-on understanding for why/how to do things.
Yes, that is highly likely. Most causality flows in the same direct—from DNA variants through RNA variants, through protein variance to differences in phenotypes.

Many many exceptions, but this is the main causal flow.
>Yes, there has been spirited debate about a major shift in public health policy. Are you suggesting this is somehow bad?
Two things and two things only:

0. Writing a lot of bad code.

1. Reading a lot of good code.
I don’t think the fault line is forming on free vs non-free market. Tariffs aren’t free market either. Both parties have shown some openness to putting their finger on the scale. JD Vance even likes Lena Khan. It’s hard to understand tbh.
Ask HN: How can we make restaurant menus better with tech?
Most restaurants these days request customers to scan a QR code or pass a tablet with a menu pdf opened!

I find it very inconvenient scrolling up and down figuring out things.

How can we make menus better with tech?
Ruby is my least favorite part of Rails by far. The lack of type checking makes every single gem and rails update extremely dangerous in ways that are incredibly difficult to predict.

For example the redis gem updated to return an int from exists() instead of a bool like it did before. This doesn’t raise any exceptions because all ints work in if statements. They just always return true. Silently breaking all of the code using it. You can read all of the change logs and search your own code base, but will constantly run in to situations where another gems code is using the method that just changed.

As well as the fact that almost every method has one param “options” where the available options are never listed in the documentation and are impossible to find without reading the source code.

Rails itself I quite like for being an all inclusive framework that just works out of the box, but untyped languages should be avoided at all costs these days when we have much better options like typescript.
The product isn't Star Citizen, but the dream of Star Citizen's completion.
This is the only right attitude. Thank you for saying it.
You have read the actual manual for your browser? Multiple browsers? You didn’t google for the answer on how to refresh the pages? Somehow I just don’t feel like this is the literal truth.
The comments here are great and show that even if LLMs seem to provide an ability to need to code less, we actually can't stand that for me reasons either.
Low code tooling is alive and well in the entertainment industry. Node graphs are becoming very popular in game engines, shaders, procedural modeling software etc.

The king of low-code, spreadsheets, are still quite popular as well.
And ironically an Android user (well, an Android user that uses the "official" OS image from the device's manufacturer) is not the system administrator of their phone/tablet, unless they essentially break into it, or install a different OS image designed to allow root access.
i would not expect 1/0 to be zero. as you divide by smaller numbers, the quotient gets bigger, so i can't understand why someone would expect /0 to be zero.
The answer is obviously no, but I’m not the right person to explain (biochemist).

For some reason you were downvoted down to oblivion, and I think that was unfair.
Probably goes in the same category as other defense spending. Short term plan is to defend Taiwan and hope nothing goes down. Long term is to ensure that we won’t have to in the future.
Yeah, I believe that coming from the guy that pushed the Foxconn scam deal in Wisconsin.
Don’t give tax payer money to a profitable company.
Ironically, I have read parts of the international building code when I needed to build the building from which I wrote that comment, foundation to studs to Romex to drywall, and also lots of instructions printed on things like bags of concrete, drywall tape, etc., but never for a browser or a mobile phone. I guess you could infer where I think my expertise lies and where it doesn’t. :)
Because of your comment, I spent some time reading about DSP. https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-books/scientis...

Chapter 14 demonstrates how digital filters can achieve perfect linear phase accuracy. Chapter 17 demonstrates how digital filters can also compensate for the phase inaccuracy of physical filters. Blew my mind when I read that. I can't thank you enough for spurring me into reading about this.

The book calls "pre-ringing" ripple and overshoot. Ripple happens on both ends, the ringing before, and the delayed peak after. (See the step response examples in Chapter 14, page 267.) We also call it the Gibbs phenomenon, a necessary effect of a bandlimited Fourier series reconstructing a discontinuous waveform. Analog filters don't have ripple because of they exhibit exponential decay to a step function, necessarily a non-linear phase response. Symmetric ripple and overshoot in the filter step response demonstrates a linear phase response (Chapter 14, page 268). In fact, I would call the pre-ringing a desirable trait for dealing with audio: a reconstructed bandlimited phase-accurate signal will enter the ear in the same way as the original non-bandlimited signal (unless >20000 Hz actually matters). Additionally, we likely want a windowed sinc filter (Chapter 16), which deals with the 1/x ripple decay of the sinc function with acceptable stopband performance.

So, with all of that, I see how modern codec chips can achieve a nearly linear phase response in the 0-20000 Hz range, with -80 dB of aliasing noise at 20000 Hz, during both recording and playback.

For recording, these modern chips likely use a cheap physical low pass filter, followed by sampling at a high rate, followed by a digital filter, followed by downsampling. For playback, do the reverse: the chip likely uses upsampling, followed by a digital filter, followed by a delta-sigma circuit (or some other DAC), followed by a cheap physical low pass filter. Check out the block diagram of the ALC892. https://www.alldatasheet.com/html-pdf/1137676/REALTEK/ALC892...

Utter DSP victory.
For strategic reasons, TSMC is also not doing their latest and greatest technology nodes in the US. They don't want the US marching into the fab and handing the secrets to Intel in case of a "national security emergency."

The AMD option is already called "global foundries" for good reason. IBM is also out of the chip fabrication business, having sold their assets to GloFo.
Instead of subsidizing, perhaps there are areas where the state could reduce regulatory overhead.
that's really just an encoding of the number to help you understand how the hell you got here
Yes, they're complaining about the obvious result of a monopolized market. If these companies were around, we would certainly have options and Intel could die quickly and without problem. Now we need to throw new money at a bad investment (Intel will continue to be a bad company unless they replace the whole management and change their culture).
Yes, it's all good and nice that your types are sound and you don't have panics, but I feel like this could get you in trouble in the real world (gleam also uses this division convention, and people very much use gleam for "real world" things). Suppose you took an average over an unintentionally empty list (maybe your streaming data source just didn't send anything over the last minute due to a backhoe hitting a fiber in your external data source's data center) and took some downstream action based off of what you think is the rolling average. You could get royally fucked if money is involved.

Crashing would have been preferable.

1/0 = 0 is unsuitable and dangerous for anyone doing anything in the real world.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861
Doesn't seem like any further discussion will be worthwhile or constructive for me. Sorry, hope you understand.
Category theory is not “purely functional”, it is about morphisms, and morphisms are more abstract than functions.

Category theory envelopes relations as well, as well as arguably anything else that can be formalized.
My issue during my undergraduate days was that the textbook didn't come with solutions, and I really don't know how to unstuck myself when I got stuck (except asking the TA in the office hours).
Yes, Aristotle most certainly climbed on the shoulders of countless "giants" before him. The last rung of the ladder, his own teachers at Plato's Academy are even known. So, inate talent combined with a ready pool of prior knowledge, basic enabling information technology and favorable economic conditions certainly make all his polymathy and conceptual breakthroughs plausible.

But the mystery thickens again if you consider the multiple centuries of the Hellenistic and Roman eras that did not continue the pattern, even though economic conditions and the number of educated individuals kept growing. Let alone the subsequent extremely long "dark ages" where economic conditions did deteriorate but pressumably there were enough courts and monasteries to feed a few pioneering scientists.

Today we take the scientific outlook and methodology as sort of de-facto winner, but there seems to be an element of cultural choice and possibly other factors that modulate the mindshare that ends up cultivating it.
Well no one is impeaching him with 2 months left
But once you go behind, it flips suddenly anyway so you could just as well have it be intuitively “halfway between the positive and negative infinities” which is at least fun and could spawn a few “Why is 1/x suddenly go to zero” articles on HN in 2053
> ...installing a different firmware but it looks really complicated to do...

It depends on whether someone has already created an image for your device.

If so, it's not complicated at all - download a few files, unzip, and type a couple of well-documented commands on a PC while the tablet is plugged in. It took me less than an hour the first time I did it, of which most of the time was spent watching progress bars!

If however your tablet is not in the list of 'supported devices' for the other firmware you'd like to use, I wouldn't try it at all. Likewise if the tablet's bootloader can't be easily unlocked; finding an exploit to crack it can be seriously difficult and time-consuming.

I hope that gives you an idea of how difficult this may or may not be - I hope your device turns out to be in the first category!
I guess I have voice dictation to thank for that one. ;)
I was going to say “not at all”… But not really, no.
Yup, it's usually one of the first few things that a Brazilian will tell an estrangeiro (foreigner) at the beach, right after the suggestions to use sunscreen religiously while out in the sun, doubly so if they're with their mothers.
> To that end, I wish the government just said, we’ve deemed you a provider of essential goods, find a way to get your company to invest onshore, or we will find a way to get your company to invest onshore, your choice.

Because some things are just too important to pay for honestly?
Same situation here. You're not alone. I think these posters just needed something to be angry about.
As a former employee, I can say it isn't. It's worse. A lot more of the great people Intel used to have left because Intel tanked and went nowhere while they watched AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and a whole bunch of other hardware companies go through the roof. It's basic economics for these people who have the ability to leave. Put yourself in their position.
> and he lied about that when he filled out some forms to buy the gun

My cousin went to jail for 6 months for this exact crime and he’s neither famous nor connected to anyone. (Granted, they caught him at the time it didn’t take years.)
Get lime juice on your fingers (or maybe the peel oil). Then touch a disposable transparent plastic cup. You will leave fingerprints, dissolved into the plastic.

Also I think googone is made of orange peel oil.
There’s already plenty of instances of the JLE doors opening out of sequence, misaligned etc. hasn’t stopped TfL from using them.
Ask your peers. As an ex-prof, one of the most prominent sources of missed potential I see in undergrads is not working with their peers. Like serious 2-6 hours sessions of collaborative problem solving.
It's basically like chama.
> the category theory view of a monoid as a one-object category is too abstract to be helpful

That’s not true at all! It goes to the essence of what it means for a thing to be foldable unto itself, ie.: the things that you can reduce() or fold().

There’s an entire paradigm of data processing where all you do is map-and-reduce, so there’s something very important and practical there.
I think the point is more that the noose is now tightening on these kinds of services. Real Debrid was the first top be targetted because they appear to be the biggest / most popular (from what comes across my monitor anyway), so I'd assume that wherever the bulk of those specific customers move to will be the next target.

(I don't totally grok what service 'Debrid' provides, but various people seem to rave about it. Currently looking up more information. Summary: Aggregator of premium access to a seclection of file hosting sites, plus caching of content that's popular amongst their Customers)
And not much mention of how you do releases and version control with low-code.
I'd think any such flip-flopping would have to be limited to whether to issue additional grants, rather than trying to cancel ones that were already issued?
Wikipedia article with many previous words of the year from various publishers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year
Menus suck because the tech sucks. Solution: more tech?
people begged for 1 streaming service

that had ALL The content

instead we got ~25 different streaming services that varies from country to country, and end up costing more than cable tv, if you want them all.
Advent of Papers (2024)
You should definitely memorize most of the "basic" (and short) proofs in some field you are super interested in. The intermediate and advanced proofs, only the outline is sufficient.
The USA is merely a global mafia organization
So police should only prevent crimes that directly hurt people?

so bike thieves or shoplifters are just safe now?
Article says Chicago.
And what of the other N million American parents of children in prison watching this? Should Biden have this privilege when they do not—is that the purpose of elevating one person to lead the country?
Advent of Papers: Elephant 2000
This isn't a "to big to fail" thing, it's a "we want you to do something, so we'll pay you to do it" thing.
Google Pixel with GrapheneOS might be a good choice for a security/privacy enthusiast.
I had a weirdly shaped tan for one year after being out in the sun 15 mins in Brazil.
Buy every restaurant a printer for $100, a few reams of paper, and a lamination machine
They're not the direct target of the right wing MAGA conspiracy attack machine.
Despite manifold evidence that they are. See the sbf case. They get implicated for being recipients of donations from a fraudster. That's not a serious demonstration that they aren't altruistic and don't care about helping others.
Call me crazy but I barely noticed on my “old” iPhone 11.

The control center changes I liked, and the photos app is mildly unintuitive, but I figured out after about 30 seconds…
i guess the 10 billion is based off of how long the service had been running, and how many users they had

and some avg streaming service monthly cost

and then you get 10 billion

but that doesnt mean all the users would have spend money on netflix instead... loads of people who pirate arent potential customers to begin with.

and does it take into account the price difference from different countries? i doubt it
DeepSeek-R1, a transparent challenger to OpenAI O1
"...but will constantly run in to situations where another gems code is using the method that just changed". I've worked with Rails for 20 years and haven't seen this. Have I just been really lucky?
I'm sure your test suite showed the warnings about the Redis `exists()` change for many versions prior to its actually being changed, right?
How very altruistic, eradicating malaria in one's own country. With that headstart, surely they must have finished curing it worldwide by now.
There's no such thing as a "gene for a trait". Just because some gene perfectly correlates with some trait doesn't mean that's all the gene does. There will be 1000s of things that gene does, and merely one of them just happens to be hair color.
A lack of selfishness at some level has the same problem as lack of an immune system. It encourages pathological behavior.

Too much has similar problems as an overactive immune system - it causes eventually self destructive pathologies.
openwrt supports zyxel gs1900 with 12, 24, 48 ports and even poe
> The only question is whether taxpayers will get the value and benefit from this investment.

Do I get a benefit from keeping a fire extinguisher in the kitchen if I happen to never actually need to use it?
I wish gitlens was in the GitHub.dev environment. I use it's like blame all the time!
Oh, I have one of those behind my my desk at home ^_^ upgraded it with a video-card, so it boots into CDM now, should do a new video.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y
The author really does mean memorize. To engage with pure mathematics, you must know the definitions, since the definitions are the bedrock of the subject. If you don't know the axioms of a topology, how can you check for yourself whether something forms a topological space? Or without knowing the exact definition of continuous, how can you know whether a proof of continuity is correct? Without knowing the definitions, you can't really know mathematics.

To be clear, this does not mean memorizing all the theorems. Getting to know the theorems (and solving problems) is what helps you internalize the subject. Math is the art of what's certain, and knowing exactly what the objects of the subject are is necessary for that. Theorems are derived from the definitions, but definitions can't be derived.

In my experience with a math (undergrad and PhD), I realized I had to know definitions to feel competent at all. In my teaching, it's hard to convince students to actually memorize any definitions — so many times students carry around misconceptions (like that "linearly independent" just means that no vector is a scale multiple of any other vector), but if they just had it memorized, they might realize that the misconception doesn't hold up. Math is weird in that the definitions are actually the exact truth (by definition! tautologically so), so it does take some time to get used to the fact that they're essential.
1/0 = 0 is usually not a practical thing, it's to satisfy that the output of the division operator stays in the type and you don't want crashes (a "feature" of ponylang and gleam, e.g.). Its kind of a PL wonk thing.

It's not at all a good idea for very important practical reasons as I outline in a reply to parent.
"Settled" does not mean "Dean did nothing wrong". It means "Google paid the plaintiffs a lot of money so they'd stop saying publicly that Dean did something wrong", which is very different.
forced veganism

i'd move
The attempt to "seize an illegal channel" invokes various of the lyrics from "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

How do you keep a wave upon the sand?

How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?
Well, compared to SF and Silicon Valley anyway.
Have you checked out sorbet?
Both are used according to wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brain_rot

Also, OUP and others have picked a number of words of the year having spaces:

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

For example, "goblin mode" (2022).

There are hundreds of words in the English language that contain spaces.
This is covered at the end the article:

> No one previously knew Arhgap36 could affect skin or hair coloration—it is involved in many aspects of embryonic development, and major mutations that affect its function throughout the body would probably kill the animal, Barsh says. But because the deletion mutation appears to only affect Arhgap36 function in melanocytes, cats with the mutation are not only healthy, but also cute.
How one could have spent any time at all studying Lisp starting in the 80s (!) and not understand what the word "homoiconic" means is baffling to me!
So is it more like there's some secondary "thing" that is for hair color and it looks at that gene to determine the color but there can also be another secondary "thing" such as hair length that also uses that same gene to determine that?