skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Socrates criticized writing itself: in Plato's Phaedrus he said it would "create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories" (274e-275b)

2. Leonard Euler criticized the use of logarithm tables in calculating: in his 1748 "Introductio in analysin infinitorum" he insisted on deriving logarithms from first principles

3. William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) initially dismissed mechanical calculators, stating in an 1878 lecture at Glasgow University that they would make students "neglect the cultivation of their reasoning powers"

4. Henry Ford in his autobiography "My Life and Work" (1922) quoted a farmer who told him in 1907 that gasoline tractors would "make boys lazy and good for nothing" and they'd "never learn to farm"

5. In 1877, the New York Times published concerns from teachers about students using pencils with attached erasers, claiming it would make them "careless" because they wouldn't have to think before writing. The editorial warned it would "destroy the discipline of learning"

6. In "Elements of Arithmetic," (1846) Augustus De Morgan criticized the use of pre-printed multiplication tables, saying students who relied on them would become "mere calculative mechanism" instead of understanding numbers

7. In his 1906 paper "The Menace of Mechanical Music," John Philip Sousa attacked the phonograph writing that it would make people stop learning instruments because "the infant will be taught by machinery" and musical education would become "unnecessary"

8. In his 1985 autobiography "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Richard Feynman expressed concern about pocket calculators and students losing the ability to estimate and understand mathematical relationships

I could go on (Claude wrote 15 of them!). Twenty years from now (assuming AI hasn't killed us all) we'll look back and think that working with an LLM isn't the crutch people think it is now.
All computation on device?
discourse is nice: https://mixpeek.com/community
This opinion [1] from the judge in his case indicates that the murder-for-hire evidence was admitted during his trial. The document outlines the evidence for all 6 murder for hire allegations and explains why, although not charged, the evidence is relevant to his case.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1391...
Ordered it; can't wait till it arrives Saturday. FWIW, I find HN book recommendations/mentions a constant source of mostly arcane titles I'd never come across anywhere else. True for movies as well.
I have been building my own app for this recently.

Its very early, but I have been shaping 3 songs with it already and am starting to get some friends to try it.

I am self taught with songwriting/music so I think it might reflect my own idiosyncratic songwriting process more than anything else at the moment.

Happy to open up a preview if anyone is interested though.

Shoot me an email if interested (in profile)
And the result is that there is no non-tedious way, intuitive or not, to scan a document to either Photos or to Files, which is how one would generally want to save a photo-like thing.
Never using inheritance is pushing the dogma to the other extreme imo. The whole prefer composition over inheritance is meant to help people avoid the typical OO over use of inheritance. It doesn't mean Is-A relation doesn't/shouldn't exist. It just means when there is data, prefer using composition to give access to that data.

There will be times when you want to represent Is-A relationship - especially when you want to guarantee a specific interface/set of functions your object will have - irrespective of the under the hood details.

Notifier n = GetNotifier(backend_name);

Here what you care about is notifier providing a set of functions (sendNotification, updateNotification, removeNotification) - irrespective of what the implementation details are - whether you're using desktop notifications or SMS notifications.
Future of AI being controlled by Oracle worries me
If the announced spending target is true, this will be a strategic project for the US exceeding Biden's stimulus acts in scale. I think it would be pretty normal in any country to have highest-level involvement for projects like this. For example, Tesla has a much smaller revenue than this and Chancellor Olaf Scholz was still present when they opened their Gigafactory near Berlin.
There are murderers who hardly do more than a few years in prison. He was jailed for much longer than what violent criminals get.
Spotify, TikTok, and if I’m feeling adventurous there is a site https://cosine.space that has a song similarity service.
Ulbricht was convicted of crimes by a jury of his peers though.

There are no mandatory maximums in sentencing guidelines. Just mandatory minimums.
That isn't fair, the point of the trial is to test whether something is to be acted on. To act on something that wasn't directly part of the trial is a bit off. I'm sure the judge is acting in the clear legally, but if someone is going to be sentenced for attempted murder then that should be after a trial that formally accuses them of the crime.
I know he was a drug addict, but a pedophile? I never heard about that, can you tell me more or are you just being weird?
> Are you saying I'm wrong about the definition? It's pretty universal: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21327

Yes, I would say it is inaccurate to say that a post doc position is about training. Unless you're referring to them training undergrads and grads.

I think there are 2 key things we need to note about your source

>> Which items or job requirements are most commonly used by institutions to define postdocs?

This is in the context of __hiring__. So they are looking at listings. I don't think just because you are saying that this job will provide training means the job is a training position. Or what we'd commonly associate with a training program, a junior, or anything like that.

>> Is intended to provide training in research?

The wording here is important. Personally, if you asked if a postdoc was __intended__ for training, I would agree. But if you asked if I thought you should expect to be trained during a postdoc I'd be more hesitant. Certainly that depends. If I hired you as an L4 at Google, and said there would be training, what would that mean to you? Do you think it would be fair to say? What about at an L5 (senior)? L6? L7? L8? Certainly not at L9 or L10, right?

There's lots of things that have an __intended__ outcome but don't have the outcome. Momentum is a bitch and when we're talking about institutions, well momentum is a really powerful force. So I wouldn't take that source as a cout de eta for concluding that a post doc is about training the post doc. Honestly, I feel like a postdoc is closer to taking a L5 and saying we're training you to become an L6 or eventually L7. And certainly that's not a "training position" in the context of paying someone as if they are inexperienced. You can always gain more experience.

> Government research labs also have their own "postdoc" positions which can be pretty much normal pay.

FWIW, if you work at a government lab like LBNL or LLNL and take a __staff__ position then your compensation is going to be much closer to the base pay of a big tech. It's quite common to see these people jump ship and triple their salaries (sometimes they return. Often because it is nice to work at labs). I've seen people do this fresh out of PhDs, no postdoc involved. The postdoc positions pay lower.
Sure. With rock & roll, the pencil is sometimes not large enough to rage against the machine properly and a heftier implement is necessary.
Where's the paper bag that holds the liquor?
Just in case I feel the need to puke
If we'd known what it'd take to get here
Would we have chosen to?

So you wanna build an altar on a summer night
You wanna smoke the gel off a fentanyl patch
Aintcha heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews
And I always loved you to the max

David Berman, from Punks in the Beerlight
ASCII 1963 was the first version of the standard and it had ←
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/366707.367524

The 1965 draft had _ instead
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/363831.363839

The first standard edition with _ was 1968 https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc20

The 1977 version is also available https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/FIPS/fipspub1-2-197...

Xerox PARC used ASCII 1963 (for reasons I have yet to unearth) so its programming languages Mesa and SmallTalk used ← for assignment and camelCase to separate words in identifiers. This stylistic quirk was carried over to later object-oriented programming languages.
I was thinking running it in my home lab server as a proxy, but yeah, scaling it to the browser would require some pretty strong hardware. Still, maybe in a couple of years it could be mainstream.
> Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it.

If you had a trial and they can't prove that, then yes it means you are innocent of this charge in the eyes of the law
Is it this simple? Calculate the first N terms of the Fibonacci sequence
>This could have waited until after the midterms.

He promised to pardon the rioters during the election and it didn't hurt him. I think he decided it wouldn't hurt him (and Trump cares bout that first) and if he thought about the midterms ... maybe won't hurt then either.

Congress isn't directly involved in any of this anyway.
He was convicted and the party of law and order typically views these punitive post release measures to be part of the punishment.
In what way? They weren't the first search engine, or advertising on the web?
> I disagree 1.0 is more precise one than 1.

It depends on the context/subtext: Is the other person trying to communicate something extra by adding the .0 portion?

Some are, some aren't. A programmer might use it to distinguish a data-type even though they are otherwise equal, an engineer might use it for significant-figures, etc.
He first read the article while sitting where Ulbricht was when Ulbricht was arrested.
^ for start of line predates the ADM3a
I used to do this with small windows applications earning some couple of hundreds but it always stayed as a hobby because of how it was such an unpredictable variable in my life.

I have now shifted my attention to my new product, finding a balance between one time payment and recurring payment by providing option to buy an item with “unlimited edits and yours forever” with a one time payment while still having other items to upsell to the same customer.

The release went all right, and as expected. Hopefully if the numbers are good, I might share some insights otherwise keep on.
complexity has to live somewhere, code anxiety was a real thing for me
"the average American brain sample with concentrations of 0.5 percent plastic by weight. That’s about the weight of a pencil in your brain. Think about that."

A related JAMA paper[0] suggests that the olfactory bulb may be the pathway to the brain via inhalation. I'm going to start rising my sinuses at night and in the morning as a precaution. A simple way is to put table salt in your palm and then water and inhaling the water from your palm. Not sure it will help and there are likely micro-plastics in the salt and water.

The good news is that in animal studies (I forget the source) the amount of plastic in the body levels off unless the amount of the plastic in the environment is raised. But I can't recall if also goes down in the body if environmental levels decrease.

[0]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Perhaps. I can't think of why they ultimately decided not to move forward with it, but here we are.
>or attempted

That's a really low bar with that bit added. "I didn't say it would be easy" was his line about his token tariffs the first term ... then he never tried again for the rest of that term.
A New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears (2020)
This is not a government funded project.
Kindly, given your credentials, it does sound like your situation is a bit biased. That said, of course let me know where you are so I too can enjoy your luck.
Inheritance has no place in production codebases—unless there is strict discipline, enforced by tooling, ensuring calls only go in one direction. This Liskov stuff has zero bearing.
It isn't clear from your original statement that those voters aren't from Pennsylvania. I interpret your statement as discounting the weight of their vote on actions they care about. There are many perspectives, and the values of those who did vote in that direction are being addressed in some way.
Successful drug policy meaning what here?
Softbank is not exactly a green flag when using their involvent as a signal of "low hypeness". I still remember WeWork.
I enjoy soundcloud (and have a plus membership with them) but it for sure is a monster amount of play, skip, go to artist profile, play a few of their top tracks, repeat

I've had some good luck with surfing the IceCast directory in the sidebar of VLC but it often only helps discover music if they have their id3 tags configured correctly or that the dj is disciplined about doing track IDs

The BBC streams are great about both aspects if your interests are covered by one of their shows
It's so funny you mention that because I picked up the Daily Stoic a couple of years ago and have read it off and on. I have found it really enjoyable. Thanks for the rec!
I listen to NTS radio shows for music curated by a human and use youtube music for algorithmic discoveries
Yeah, this is absolutely light years off being useful in production.

People just see fancy demos and start crapping on about the future, but just look at stable diffusion. It's been around for how long, and what serious professional game developers are using it as a core part of their workflow? Maybe some concept artists? But consistent style is such an important thing for any half decent game and these generative tools shit the bed on consistency in a way that's difficult to paper over.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about game design and experimenting with SD/Flux, and the only thing I think I could even get close to production that I couldn't before is maybe an MTG style card game where gameplay is far more important than graphics, and flashy nice looking static artwork is far more important than consistency. That's a fucking small niche, and I don't see a lot of paths to generalisation.
> The only difference between DPR and Pabla Escobar

The only difference?
> I still remember the days when self-driving cars seemed just around the corner and inevitable.

Inevitable or not.. I did not consider the other things this would enable. like mass surveillance! I thought it was going to be a relationship between me and my car. I did not realize the relationship was actually me, my car, and the company tracking my every move.

That is how my relationship with tech became adversarial.
Someone mentioned generating millions of (very short) stories with an LLM a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577644

They linked to an interactive explorer that nicely shows the diversity of the dataset, and the HF repo links to the GitHub repo that has the code that generated the stories: https://github.com/lennart-finke/simple_stories_generate

So, it seems there are ways to get varied stories.
To me too. But life without parole seemed weird as well.
This opinion (after appeal) also details how they taken into consideration with sentencing. See pages 130-131

https://pbwt2.gjassets.com/content/uploads/2017/05/15-1815_o...
My questions were rethorical. I'm not thinking about who runs things.

I expect those who really understand those questions to get my point.
Usually check out the new singles or albums of the singers I follow. Some backgroud music of stores, shows, videos are also quite unique.
It doesn't seem to be a US initiative.

I'm sure they're getting tax credits for investment (none of the articles I can find actually detail the US gov involvement) but the project is mostly just a few multinationals setting up a datacenter where their customers are.
yeah it's a tragedy - those violent criminals should have received more time
What is the age of consent for whales?
I assume you mean "I could look up and see exactly the chair he had been in" figuratively?
Does https://github.com/persys-ai/persys-server run on the rpi?

Is that design 3d printable? Or is that for paid users only.
> f"{n} result{'s' if n == 1 else ''}"

n>1 is even shorter than n!=1

(also you wrote == instead of != your code is backwards)
Sure!

In that thread's comment, your “sequence” perspective makes sense; it’s clearly more complex than it looks from the outside, and I don’t envy the ontological challenge of deciding which submissions are repetitive or closely related. Still, from a user standpoint, it can feel inconsistent: sometimes S1 and S2 look almost identical, and the fact that S1 “won” first might be just because the earliest, most active users or moderators happened to see it and push it forward. After that, the community tends to gravitate toward S1 by default, so S2 never really gets a fair shake, even if it’s potentially more interesting or revealing. That's just c'est la vie.

But this thread feels like a good example of that mismatch. If S1 got topped while S2 was flagged or buried, and users are complaining in a relatively united way, maybe that’s a sign the initial choice favored the wrong post - or standing on the "offending" post (if no S1 is, in fact, present). Sometimes it’s worth re-checking whether the “winner-loser” framing actually got it right. A bit more leeway for topics that initially look flame like a flame war farm could reveal more thoughtful angles than expected, especially if the community is giving feedback that S2 might actually be the more worthwhile discussion (as we saw here - I think we're also seeing it in the Ross Ulbricht pardon thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42787555).

Anyway, I appreciate the deeper look at how you’re handling these issues. It helps me see why certain threads get the bird! I think, especially for you and because of the stated mission of HN, that you believe - even more than me - that it's always a shame when we miss the better conversation.
I am very sympathetic to the idea of voting just for Ross. It is unclear to me which candidate would be better, since neither of them are close to my political beliefs at all. It is a deadlock and I seem completely unrepresented. The consequences of voting based on any big issues I care about seems completely unpredictable; politics is a game of lies, smoke and mirrors. So I would perhaps rather vote for the candidate that would definitely save one person's life that is important to me.
>The question is first of all whether we have written them down anywhere

The only hard thing in software: papers please (easily accessible documentation)
> The presumption of innocence is a legal principle that every person accused of any crime is considered innocent until proven guilty.

That should be "considered innocent by the legal system". People are still free to come to their own conclusions--and act on them--even without a jury rendering a verdict.

Rather famously, for example, OJ Simpson was acquitted by a jury of murdering his wife. But most people these days would agree with the statement that he murdered his wife.
Allow me to plug a dictionary/thesaurus site I've been running for decades called OneLook (https://onelook.com). Although it's not specifically aimed at songwriters, it does attract many of them as users. Over the past thirty years, I've added all sorts of brainstorming features for creative writers—like the ability to search for words by description, to match words with a given meter, and more recently to discover which colors a word might evoke or vice versa.

(I’m also the creator of RhymeZone so I'll plug that too! I no longer operate it, but I can pass along any feature requests you might have to its new owners.)
That doesn't mean that he would want to be seen to be a pushover https://thehill.com/policy/international/5098063-donald-trum...
At least in computer science, postdocs have other benefits:

1) they can be well paid, like high five to very low six figures;

2) they can be an extra year or two to figure out your own research direction with some help but not much oversight;

3) they can be much easier to get than industry positions -- sometimes requiring little more than a solid publication record and advisor recommendation;

4) if you've been in a university environment for ~a decades and liked it, it might strike you as an easy path to keep doing that (this is probably the worst reason, though).

This is skewed by computer science postdocs at highly ranked schools, though. Yes, people taking these positions face opportunity costs, but the actual experience can be pretty nice.
He was being arrested in the article, not IRL. When I say “Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me” I mean that I read

> He went... past the periodicals and reference desk, beyond the romance novels, and settled in at a circular table near science fiction, on the second floor... in a corner, with a view out the window and his back toward the wall.

and realized that I was in the Glen Park public library, at a circular table near science fiction on the second floor, in a corner with my back to the window, and facing directly towards where the article had just said he had sat.
> The only difference between DPR and Pabla Escobar is that DPR was running his drug business in the 2010s instead of the 1980s.

Asserting moral equivalence between someone who ordered dozens of innocent women and children not just killed but dismembered - solely as a lesson for others. Orders which were actually carried out multiple times and DPR who was never charged, tried or convicted of conspiring with a supposed online hitman to kill a competitor (who both were actually FBI informants - clearly making it entrapment). Yeah, that's quite a reach.

Sure, DPR was no saint but why push for the absolute maximally extreme interpretation? Even asserting he "organized and operated a global criminal drug ring" is a stretch. My understanding is he ran an online marketplace which drug dealers used to sell to their customers. I'm not aware that Ross ever bought or sold drugs as a business or hired others to do so. There is more than a little nuance between 1) buying drugs from distributors, delivering drugs to buyers and collecting the money, and 2) running online forums and messaging for people who do those things. At most, #2 is being an accessory to #1.
Sentencing phase
Ah that's not strictly true. I believe Scotland is the only place in the world I am aware of where there is Innocent, unproven, and Guilty verdicts. I believe in reality a not guilty verdict is, we didn't have the evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt this person committed the crime. Finding someone not guilty is a legal term. Considering whether someone is innocent or not is more of a moral/factual term.
The Trump Memecoin's 'Money-Grab' Economics
It's funny how a pro china news is quickly flagged into oblivion.
I think the detail IS the art, or at least the strongest element that the artist wishes to demonstrate.

Removing the details removes the reference to the formula(e), which is the soul around which the beatiful pictures are created. In this case, the art is the process, more-so than the end result - which is a by-product.
Sure, you could also look for primes of the form 123…(n-1)n⋅n(n-1)…321.