skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The role of the assistant is to help the assisted realize his or her goals. In your own work, you can do whatever you want. Sachs is saying only that when you are working as his assistant, focus on implementing his ideas instead of yours.
That's the definition of p[H]. The definition of the "real" pH is the -log of H+ activity. H+ activity is the concentration of H+ * a coefficient. In practice, the coefficient is considered to be 1, however there are cases (such as extreme concentrations) when that approximation isn't valid.
SHA256 was chosen over SHA512 because the two most popular 64-bit ISAs (x86-64 and ARMv8) both define instruction extensions to provide hardware acceleration of SHA256. Hardware support makes SHA256 much faster than SHA512 in software, even on 64-bit processors.
If you're looking for a more scientifically inclined video about this topic, take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw

(The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences)
Some genius at my company decided that ~180,000 Windows endpoints needed "localhost" removed from their hosts file, which has resulted in millions of requests per minute for localhost hitting our resolvers just to return 127.0.0.1.

My guess is that it was some hack they tried to disable IPv6, but aside from the insane load it added to the DNS infrastructure, the other result is that if these machines talk to a malicious resolver, their traffic destined for the loopback interface could end up going anywhere and being captured by anyone.

Great job!
It's "too needed to fail" - and there's nothing to supplant it.

And it's finally starting to catch on, 10 years late: Google's primary web domains, Facebook, AWS, Comcast and Time Warner cable internet in the US, most LTE cell service in the US.
+1 for the attempt, but the Fastcompany article is very weak at best, and doesn't even cite relevant studies to debunk the 5 points. It even manages to misquotes its own sources.
Yes, it had lots of citations. Gizmodo stripped out all the links when it posted it, though, because insane shouting matches are more profitable to Gizmodo than discussion.
> is no one in the world you find more attractive than your current partner... would you be tempted to cheat? If not, I give up.

There are plenty of people whom I find less attractive than my current partner that I'd happily sleep with.

Of course, I would first ask permission to do so... and if not given I wouldn't be tempted to cheat. That's like asking "would you be tempted to steal if someone doesn't want to sell something to you?" I'd hope the answer is always 'no', not "yes, but I wont' steal because I'm afraid of being caught".
There is enough redundancy between portions of the 7th and 8th ave lines to permit partial shutdowns and yet five years in they still can't seem to finish their hurricane repairs.
Geo-Scalable (Big Data or IoT) Architectures?
Can you share your experiences building an application that has to be :
- geo scalable : allows for ingestion of data from nodes that are spread across the globe (possibly like IoT).
- semi-structured data : data that is not all sorted out. scope for new devices to send data that is not yet known
- has an single-pane/portal/api that allows for querying aggregated data from different locations.
IIRC Harvard listed 2.5% of people graduating from that same class of 2021 as being Native American or indigenous people from Pacific Islands (don't remember what they were called precisely) which are actually 0.2% of general population.

I strongly doubt you can make an argument that these people are there on merit alone.
Think of the rich! Barbarians!
I bet you're an excellent party ventriloquist. ;-)
Those also don't really play a role in the professional life of a physicist, nowadays you really do stare at computer screens a lot and try to find things in data, it's not like physicists sit around and discuss many-world theory as part of their day job.

These are just the popular things that make it out into public discourse
Seems to be working fine for me on iOS. Any particular page that's broken for you?
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fz-AowdiL8 - a 1 hr webinar from the folks behind Microsoft Press' recent Software Requirements books (Seilevel) on how to document these requirements and make sure folks are on the same page.
This would be okay, if the officer explained to the thief that this was wrong and suggested other means of getting what he desired, like lending money from friends, or using Kickstarter or social networks or maybe even church (if this works in Canada) or whatever.
The acceptable follow up would be to analyze for groups of kids under risk and have educational meetings at school.
What the officer did seems right, but it might have gotten lucky. This will not be enough in a generic case.
Yea, sorry if you got your hopes up. The .info domain and low price seemed a little over the top. But, I came across it a while ago and had to link it based on the GP's post.
If your disk head is writing the temp file, then it can't be sitting idle waiting to fsync. And it'll eventually write as part of checkpointing.
> ... the vast majority of engineers at Google are doing the equivalent of string concatenation ...

wait, what? is that even remotely true? that sounds unbelievable on its face.
We met at 10 years old and are getting married at 24. When we really started dating three years ago, about a month in we did a spreadsheet of ~270 questions about how we wanted to live. We blindly answered so as to not concede or compromise in our answers. VLOOKUP and merge answers. 90% of them are basically identical. The remaining 10% are completely predictive of current and perhaps future points of disagreement and contention. All around it worked infinitely better than prior relationships. We assumed since we had been friends for so long that we could just build the love part. The byproduct of that has been growth mindset around resolving issues and making decisions that makes us extremely effective at helping each other achieve our goals and get our needs met by the relationship. I think a good litmus test for a relationship is how safe you feel talking about long term issues and resolving points of contention. If it just seems normal, invest there. If it is extremely hard to raise those issues, don't.
Here's a blog post that provides some support for the OOP's viewpoint (esp. as it pertains to STEM careers).

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...

It seems there's good evidence that on average, biology affects career preferences to an extent. (Preference differences were even shown in 2-day old infants and (with a rather large standard deviation & n=41, iirc) primates.

The OOP's argument, to me, seemed to be primarily against institutionalized discrimination (e.g. affirmative action), which seems reasonable to me.

Not that status quo is OK. But there are probably better ways to help -- like programs aimed at introducing girls to computer programming, for example.
There is no way Google will fire him at this point.

His career will stagnate, but somehow I doubt he cares.

There is no way he would've sent this out if he felt that he was a tiny minority with this view.
We call it Spotify week. First week, suggestions are amazing. Second week they are great. From then on, they are terrible.
Always look at memory management is more general, and perhaps even more useful, advice than look at the memory management for this one project.
I actually think this is the wrong approach. You don't get to reap any benefits until you start eliminating the old system, and with the parallel approach you defer that cleanup period until the transition is complete. It'd be far better if adding CBTC yielded the cost savings of eliminating the old system now as it rolled out. That requires more complex inter-op systems and more expensive upgrades to trains, but both of those things are not the constraint. The core constraint is the time you can shut down the subways for in order to do track & signal work in place. When you have a critical constraint, you should do lots of extra work in other places to maximize the productivity of the constrained operation.
This remains valid under the draft.
I thought you had to manually mark the method (and/or the recur site) for scala to do tail call optimisations.
Quickbasic was great, fond memories of typing out hundreds of DATA statements for game sprites.
Universal? Node.js is little more than an orchestration layer and a poor one at that considering it crashes when an error isn't handled. It's concurrency model - async i/o - is inferior to Elixir's actor model and Golang's goroutines and if you want computation Node.js will have to hand-off to something else. The only thing Node.js has going for it, once you subtract the hype, is that you can reuse your front-end Javascript devs. What a claim to fame.
> Literally nobody takes student loans that they are capable of repaying.

Probably one of the most incorrect sweeping generalizations I have ever seen.

I finished my BS in CS about 3 1/2 years ago with about $44,000 in student loan debt. I'm currently on track to pay them off within the next 3 years. It'd probably be only 1 or 2 years if I didn't buy a car.
Lots of sites seem to be doing it now. Off the top of my head I know that Box and Spotify both do it.
Isn't it legal in only a handful of counties in Nevada, though? So, wouldn't that mean it's not really an entire state full of freedom, just a few enlightened counties. Also, as I understand it, the only legal prostitution is within licensed brothels. So, no independent contractors allowed anywhere in the state. That seems more like rent-seeking by brothel owners rather than rights for sex workers.

I'm not saying it's not a positive thing that prostitution is less criminalized in some parts of Nevada than in the rest of the US. But, it's still pretty repressive and it still victimizes sex workers in the general case by putting their livelihood at the mercy of brothel owners.
"The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted."

Per the article itself.
And yet half the people in here are citing Jordan Peterson as if he's an expert.
I know there was such suggestion, but it still does not cover my full comment. Also "valuearb" says there was no chance, but I say there were alternative ways and indeed there were. Atomic bomb is costly and takes time to produce, but the US just took the easy path and it does not change the inhuman action for the two bombings to the cities.
Most languages don't limit stack size at the language level, but at the impl. This is true for Java and for C++.
I've noticed some people on Twitter, including Susan Fowler and Kara Swisher, saying free speech is only a protection against government intrusion and doesn't apply in the corporate sector. That seems to be mirrored in this article.

The only thing I'd say is that those people should think carefully. Denouncing and shrinking rights such as free speech and normalising their role as negative rights when it is convenient to do so will work against their agenda, and is in common with how people like Trump view other rights
Ugh, I did the same thing. Similar results.

This is something I feel that he genuinely wanted to discuss and was open to changing his opinion given that his assumptions/research was challenged. This unfortunately didn't happen.
The baby boomers cry about millennials killing X industry while in the same breath cry about millennials acting entitled for demanding reasonable wages.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDQqtCyUwAAUp6e.jpg
Chapecoense crash survivor emotional at Nou Camp ovation – Mpelembe Media
I'm not a physicist, but it was my understanding that pilot-wave theory and Copenhagen QM make identical predictions (each is a mathematical reformulation of the other). If that's true, then how could any experiment favor one over the other?

(Each lends itself to a different set of intuitions; maybe one of those sets could prove to inspire better hypotheses for research?)
Stinging the Predators: Papers that should never have been published
You seem to have decided he was just out of place, but that's not what he said.

Being out of place and being unwelcome aren't the same thing.
Of course! Thankyou, that makes me much more comfortable. ZF+Con(ZF)+not(con(ZF+con(ZF)) is an example of what's sometimes called the self hating theory, which is known to be consistent if ZF+Con(ZF) is consistent (you said much the same thing in your original comment). As it's known to be consistent, you can't apply the principle of explosion to produce Not(Con(ZF)).

EDIT: Obviously I'm not really the sort of person to talk about this stuff with you because of how much of a neophyte I am. Perhaps this lecture would make it clearer? http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec3.html

In particular, the excerpts:

The Second Incompleteness Theorem establishes what we maybe should have expected all along: that the only mathematical theories pompous enough to prove their own consistency, are the ones that don't have any consistency to brag about! If we want to prove that a theory F is consistent, then we can only do it within a more powerful theory -- a trivial example being F+Con(F) (F plus the axiom that F is consistent). But then how do we know that F+Con(F) is itself consistent? Well, we can only prove that in a still stronger theory: F+Con(F)+Con(F+Con(F)) (F+Con(F) plus the axiom that F+Con(F) is consistent). And so on infinitely. (Indeed, even beyond infinitely, into the countable ordinals.)

On the other hand, again by the Second Incompleteness Theorem, ZF can't prove its own consistency. If we want to prove Con(ZF), the simplest way to do it is to posit the existence of infinities bigger than anything that can be defined in ZF. Such infinities are called "large cardinals." (When set theorists say large, they mean large.) Once again, we can prove the consistency of ZF in ZF+LC (where LC is the axiom that large cardinals exist). But if we want to prove that ZF+LC is itself consistent, then we need a still more powerful theory, such as one with even bigger infinities.
At what point does someone given these AA boosts at every step in their life (high school, SAT, college admission, job interview) no longer qualify to be called disadvantaged?
I'm going to invoke Occam's razor here. Let's simplify diversity and just look at height. Let's assume men that are short and men that are tall are biologically equivalent, meaning biological trait that might surface are evenly distributed. Now let's inject 100 men with varying height into the general population, and... Uh oh there's a skew in leadership position and income. Taller men have better positions and have higher income.

People who are taller all have tall coworkers. They work for a boss that's a little bit taller than them. Some of them start thinking that you know this is probably just natural, men who are shorter are just biologically unsuited to be a leader. They aren't aggresive enough and they just don't have as much drive, it's probably just written in their DNA.

The short men no matter how much they perform or how brilliant they are always seem to be sidelined for promotion. Some of them make it pretty far but they're performing 50x compared to their peers, and theyre always sidelined when it comes to executive promotions. Other executives think: "this guy is brilliant but what would people think about us... We better promote the other less brilliant tall guy. We could retain investor confidence."

Some of them break out and try to start a company. They can't get any funding, and no one wants to join their company. People think its a company run by a short guy, this guy is brilliant but he's not going to do well in the long term, so they end up joining start ups that have tall guys.

This network effects over a million times.

Now let's take people's perception, and assume people perceive men and women exactly the same. The catch here is that women are one standard deviation shorter than men. Just from height you'll see a discrepancy between men and women representation in leadership positions.

Let's end height discrimination first.

I believe this is a simpler explanation of the discrepancies in representation.
I didn't read GP's comment as saying there was a problem; it's not in conflict for the word to "fit existing convention and be understandable" if it's made up.
A man fell into the boiling lake on Dominica and was cooked to death in seconds so I'm going with that. But acid is made stronger by heat so it's not necessarily separable.
Once, in early 2002, when the index servers went down, Jeff Dean answered user queries manually for two hours. Evals showed a quality improvement of 5 points.
Any time I'm posting something that may endorse "the company" I tend to put that as a clear marker that I am likely biased in what I'm saying.

Also, most large companies have something in the employment contract that talks about what you are allowed to post online (especially when it relates to the company).
I've been in Cleveland 2 years and I have only went on dates with 2 people.

At my most recent workplace there was only ever one woman around my age. We went to lunch together and talked a ton so I think she liked me but I didn't want to date a coworker at the time. Other than her though, dating through work is apparently not an option.

But as for dating apps/sites and stuff I never get any matches.

So based on all that I don't understand how it's so commonplace for people to go on 10-20 dates. My whole life I've always just dated the first person that liked me, usually with years between girlfriends. Luckily they have all turned out to be great people but that's not something I can count on.

>I'm talking you literally make babies cry with your appearance, or you have a history of torturing animals, or something like that.

I'm apparently attractive enough that even straight men will tell me so unsolicited. As for mental health, the only thing there is ADD, most people who talk to me seem to think I'm really interesting and easygoing. I have a hard time reconciling all my feedback with the notion that I'm part of some exceedingly rare group that is undatable.

I don't know why I made this comment. There's not really anything for you to say in return. I'm just confused and it's got me down.
Off the top of my head, maybe something like:

1) Secretly compute a list of encrypted tags and associated, unencrypted scores.
2) Sort by scores.
3) Convert the highest N tags back to encrypted data.

As a plus, steps 1 and 3 should be embarrassingly parallel.

You are, of course, leaking a count, which can be important (but your opponent can already make inferences based on the amount of data you have stored...).
I have an unrelated question to the physics nerds. Is it even possible to determine whether the universe is deterministic or not from inside the universe?

Let's imagine a simplified example. I give you two sets of numbers (let's pretend they are atom coordinates). One set is purely random, another one is generated with a very simple formula (example: f(n) = SHA256(N + salt)). I will give you as many of the numbers as you want. Can you determine which set is which (if you don't know the formula ahead of time)?
What city in the US has a subway system worth bragging about? Philly's subway has 3% of the ridership of NYC's. It's not even in the same ballpark.
For some, AI is just another buzzword. :/
I think you missed the point. Nobody is shrinking or denouncing rights because right of free speech never protected against corporate sector sanctions. You are the one who is trying to expand free speech to protect you in places that no one intended.
All classified slides shown were from Snowden. One unclassified (but marked "Law Enforcement Sensitive") slide is from elsewhere.
Yes, there is a lesson there for all of us. For a quick (~4 hour) recent computer game on the same subject (very well executed, IMHO) check out Orwell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13549725
> While other screen readers seemed to work (NVDA) it is simply not feasable to ask my future users to switch to a different screen reader just for a single program

If there's a screen reader that works then the problem isn't with QT. This complaint should be aimed at the software that doesn't work or does only selectively; not at the people working for free who ultimately did provide accessibility.
I was reading the docs for Guile in this regard (https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Multi_00...), and even with language support, it seems like you still need to jump through some hoops to do the Right Thing in a multi-threaded program.

Seems like in any case, if I were using any of them in a threaded program, I'd want to isolate them from threads as much as possible. One of these days, in my Copious Free Time(tm), I'll take the time to actually look at an implementation to see how people have handled this problem. I wonder if any reasonably complete game engines use Guile, for comparison...
In general, laying foundations to any broad topic is hard! I imagine knowledge to be like pyramids, where the bottom support the top. But to support a tall pyramid, a large bottom is required. Thus, we get these obscenely difficult 'intro' books...
For infrastructural power generation sure. But for military use, off grid living, post apocalyptic scenarios, etc. it has merit.
It's more positive to see this app as the way he found to get courage to change his life. Paradoxically he is still following rules..
One problem I have is that I'll never get the chance to date enough people to discover what qualities I like in women.
I worked in the hostel industry for a long time. In "the old days", it was ridiculous to even travel with a cell phone. Laptops made no sense unless you had to work remotely. (I'd argue that they still don't make sense while traveling unless your work requires a laptop and you're going to work on the road.)

These days, the common areas of hostels are full of people staring at glowing screens, while hostel managers try to figure out how to get the guests to interact...
Great intro to Apache Hadoop
The saddest part about this spectacle is that the author and his detractors are literally talking past one another.

The author did not say that his female colleagues can't do tech. He's saying that the pool of talent in general population might not be the same size across genders. A quick glance at CS graduation statistics shows that is basically true today.

This is the same point that led in part to Larry Summers losing his job, when he dared wonder aloud about why there weren't more female academics.

If you're going to fire a man, you should at least do it for what he actually did.
Maybe the issue is that GP posted so many as once the they got flagged as possibly being spam/malicious/other desirable thing and therefore got put into a manual-verification bucket?
I don't know why those are directed at me. I didn't say otherwise!
The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond
There's an interesting article on the front page that firing this guy might be grounds for a lawsuit in and of itself. I don't think this guy should be fired. Google should make him an example of their willingness to listen, have thoughtful introspection, and consider all points of view. I truly hope this person is not fired. Free speech seems to only work when you're the majority.
Those are large programs, and well done in my experience with the ones I've used, but not particularly mainstream (OK, GDB is widely used).
Wow, it's not enough to even wait for this guy to get fired and then discuss, right or wrong, but they even have to write articles just salivating with the very anticipation of it...

This is a big group of people gathered around the stake chattering to each other in gleeful anticipation of burning a heretic. Even if this guy is wrong about everything, the spectacle is extremely disturbing.