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Although, when I learned foundations of mathematics, every function was a set, and if you wanted them, you'd get plenty of junk theorems from that fact.

"Everything is an object" is for boys, "everything is the empty set composed with copies of itself via the axiom of pairing" is for men ;)

Go is also winner take all. It's psychologically satisfying to have a big win, in the same way that it's psychologically satisfying to achieve a brilliant checkmate, but in any ordinary game or tournament (outside of certain gambling setups), a win by 1/2 point is the same as a win by 20+ points.

Yes and no. One could say this of any game with points where the margin of victory doesn't affect long-term outcomes (e.g. most ball games).

A win by 1/2 point or 20 points it suggests a very different relative skill between the two players. Similarly the custom of the stronger player playing white without komi suggests that the point differential matters.


Not necessarily. In go you often calculate the score and come up with a conclusion that by playing proper moves you will lose by a small margin.

So instead you launch a desperate maneuver in a hope to either turn the game around or lose by 30 points.


I see what you're saying; this is true for any game scored win/loss. Even gridiron football if you're down by 4 points with time almost out you won't kick a field goal (worth 3 points).

Ah, so it's free, but you still have to wait 3 months. Just a question...what are you waiting for?

Of course the answer is all the things that aren't free, refinement, testing, bug fixes, etc, like the parent post and the article suggested.


> I never got why compilers don't have pluggable syntaxes.

An interesting question, but the answer is "because it's a bad idea" that doesn't actually solve the problem.

That said, the right way to implement this is as a "transpiler" that compiles one syntax into another. And only the people who want to use it pay the costs.


> An interesting question, but the answer is "because it's a bad idea" that doesn't actually solve the problem.

This doesn't really explain anything, and it isn't clear that both of you have the same model of "the problem" in mind.


The usual way people get here is that they didn't realise programs are for reading by humans. That's why we have formatting conventions (the compiler doesn't care but humans do) and so it's also why a single syntax is important.

If there are six syntaxes for a hypothetical language L, then either every L practitioner must learn all six syntaxes (ew, no thanks) or most L programmers can't read each other's programs and so it's basically unmaintainable.


Statistical control is a very specific term: https://entropicthoughts.com/statistical-process-control-a-p..., and one which you'd expect anyone with a significant interest in Deming to understand.

My expectation is that Lorin would read the parent comment and say some variant of "oh, whoops, I didn't check." As the parent noted, it's not really that important to the overall point.


If the rate limit is reasonable (allows full download of the entire set of data within a feasible time-frame), that could be acceptable. Otherwise, no.

I don't really want to be a manager of humans, although my role as an engineer is a leadership role that has some overlap.

But I'm acutely conscious that in the 5+ years that I've been a senior developer, my ability to come up with useful ideas has significantly outstripped the time I have to realize those ideas (and from experience, the same is often true of academics).

At work, I have the choice between remaining hands-on and limiting what I can get done, or acting more like a manager, and having the opportunity to get more done, but only by letting other people do it, in ways that might not reflect my vision. It's pretty frustrating, to be honest.

For side projects, it's worse. Most of them just can't be done, because I don't even have the choice.


> At scale humans accept new things slowly.

I think this is true, but there are big differences. Motivated humans with a reasonable background learn lots of things quickly, even though we also swim in an ocean of half-truths or outdated facts.

We also are resistant to certain controversial ideas.

But neither of those things are really that analogous to the limitations on what models can currently learn without a new training run.


> They will sometimes organize recruitment very openly, using the same channels you use for recruiting at any other time: open Facebook groups, Reddit threads, and similar. They will film TikTok videos flashing their ill-gotten gains, and explaining steps in order for how you, too, can get paid.

> As a fraud investigator, you are allowed and encouraged to read Facebook at work.

I tend to believe this, but it would be a lot more compelling with links to a case where Facebook/TikTok posts were useful evidence.


There are tons of these out there.

In late 2024 there was the whole "Infinite money glitch" tiktok trend that was just check fraud.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzp7y8e7vo


Good example, though my impression was that was a quasi-viral TikTok trend that caught up random fools, not organized fraud?


Is that contradictory? Seems like organized fraud would need a supply of random fools, and a viral trend, if you can manage one, isn’t a bad way to get that.


Organized fraud preys on disorganized fools, but this fraud didn't require or benefit from organization. You could just go do it on your own, and pocket the money until you got a visit from the cops.


You need a central actor who is benefitting from all the fools


Yeah, I fail to see the organization.


This is a poor example though, because I don't think anyone got away with it? And it was viral, but not organized.


Here's a rap video, the entirety of which bragging about fraud against the government:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ck7hTsug8

"I just been swipin' for EDD

Go to the bank, get a stack at least

This ** here better than sellin' Ps

I made some racks that I couldn't believe

Ten cards, that's two-hunnid large"

(For context, "EDD" is California’s Employment Development Department.)


With Google I can find out that he was prosecuted after his video came out. I'll count it. https://abc7.com/post/nuke-bizzle-rapper-edd-fraud/12024561/


It's interesting to note that some states restrict the use of rap music lyrics as evidence:

https://legalclarity.org/using-rap-lyrics-as-evidence-in-cri...


Very related Key & Peele sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs


Much better bangers about fraud:

Dead Prez - Hell yeah: https://youtu.be/kGjSq4HqP9Y?si=_z6jb0Vfo7_PiITQ&t=82

Maxo Kream - 5200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kC9j6Zp-kg

Maxo was actually arrested for racketeering, though not due to this song specifically (I don't think).


European regulators and courts have placed a lot of scrutiny on big US tech companies, with frequent fines for privacy violations and potential anti-competitive behavior. Also as noted upthread, they're investigating Meta and Twitter on this specific issue.


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