skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do the people who still want more tax cuts really think this can go on forever? It's really scary that deficits are going up while the market is booming. In the 90s at least the deficit went down during the bubble.
More like 6/4 = 2×(3/8) but 3/8 is not a scalar because it also carries division and subdivision information, and × is a new operator that is barely similar to multiplication.

________

A time signature N/B is actually a tuple...:

(division-of-N, subdivision-of-N, B)

...with units:

(beats/measure, base_notes/beat, base_notes/whole_note)

...where division-of-N and subdivision-of-N are inferred from N (see explanation at [0] and table at [1]).

E.g. 3/4 is actually a tuple:

(3 beats/measure, 2 base_notes/beat, 4 base_notes/whole_note).

________

The × operator works like...:

A × (N/B) =
= A × (D, S, B) =
= (A * 1 division, D * 1 subdivision/division, B / 2)

...where X is a unitless scalar.

E.g.

2×(3/8) =
= 2×([division-of-N-3, subdivision-of-N-3, 8 base_notes/whole_note]) =
= 2×([3 beats/measure, 2 base_notes/beat, 8 base_notes/whole_note]) =
= [2 beats/measure, 3 base_notes/beat, 8 base_notes/whole_note / 2] =
= [2 beats/measure, 3 base_notes/beat, 4 base_notes/whole_note]
= [division-of-N-6, subdivision-of-N-6, 4 base_notes/whole_note]
= 6/4

________

_UNINTENTIONALLY BURIED THE LEDE, IT'S HERE_

But honestly this just works only with traditional time signatures which follow this neat table-simple-compound-duple-triple-quadruple nonsense; for other compound N like 5/4, 7/4 etc. it won't work.

E.g. 5/4 is either (2/4 + 3/4) or (3/4 + 2/4) depending on the song (can't think any of the former off the top of my head, but Mission:Impossible's theme and Take Five are representatives of the latter). It can even be (1/4 + 3/4 + 1/4).

Or, like Gorillaz's 5/4 which sounds like (2.5/4 + 2.5/4) (which I'd argue is actually not 5/4 but 10/8 and the guitar definitely sounds like it). Also the lyrics+drums are actually in 4/4 so it's just a polyrhythm and both rhythms synchronize every LCM(5, 4) = 20 beats (4 guitar bars, 5 lyrics+drums bars) and in fact the macro song structure changes every 20 beats instead of 16 like in traditional 4/4 so maybe it is 5/4... or 10/8. Or 4/4 with 5 measures per hypermeasure? Or both? Or neither?

It's all just implicit. It's on your ears. Listen for the subdivisions.

This IMHO is the right way to look at time signatures.

[0] https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/15

[1]

- N=2 simple duple - 2 beats/measure * 2 base_notes/beat = 4 base_notes/measure
- N=3 simple triple - 3 beats/measure * 2 base_notes/beat = 6 base_notes/measure
- N=4 simple quadruple - 4 beats/measure * 2 base_notes/beat = 8 base_notes/measure

- N=6 compound duple - 2 beats/measure * 3 base_notes/beat = 6 base_notes/measure
- N=9 compound triple - 3 beats/measure * 3 base_notes/beat = 9 base_notes/measure
- N=12 compound quadruple - 4 beats/measure * 3 base_notes/beat = 12 base_notes/measure

Notice how N=3 and N=6 share the same base_notes/measure hence the confusion.
Is there no option to rebuild an artificial ear drum? Is your ossicular chain also shot?

Regrowing your ear drum is not going to resolve nerve damage, though: it'll deal with conductive hearing, not sensorineural. I'm sure you know this already.

As someone who is losing hearing due to a degenerative disease, I am sympathetic. The worse part of it for me is the severe tinnitus that came along for the ride. It is challenging in so many different ways, not the least of which is that it is completely invisible from the rest of the world.
If what you’re saying is true, it will be obvious. I haven’t seen any backlash as you describe yet.

It also seems like a different problem than single use plastic regulation.
Reusable straws are different because they are very difficult to clean and they are rigid, meaning many disabled people cannot use them at all (someone with distrophy or distonia may end up biting down on a straw, so you don't want to have a metal or hard plastic straw between your teeth when you do that).

So the difference between reusable and ond use straws is that reusable straws are trotted out as a "just do this" solution for straw access by people who don't know what's going on, and one use plastic straws are things that are necessary for disabled folks to engage in everyday life.
I think you mean enthusiastic, curious, focused, or interested. Not passionate.
You can totally do that with a small house and a nice piece of land. Doubly so if you have a significant other to help even with a low income.
I regret that I only have one upvote to give here. This is probably the most perfect, succinct statement of the problem.
Interesting conjecture at the end; GCHQ retained two Colossus machines until the 1970's. The Russians knew that Colossus existed and GCHQ knew that the Russians knew. Why retain Colossus - people tend to say that it was because there were networks of rotor machines in use in less sophisticated countries, but given the us or them nature of the cold war it seems unlikely that there was sufficient value in retaining them through the 50's. My guess is that there was some sort of elaborate counter bluff played out with the Soviets; that they believed that the Brits thought that they were unaware of Colossus and so would be duped by traffic sent over rotor networks... but what was in it for the Brits?
Indeed, I wasn't impressed with the game but that's partly being unused to the controller and mainly being previously spoiled by multiplayer Doom when a friend brought his laptop over and 4 player on my college LAN.
It will take a lot more time, but I think that decentralization will win in the end.

Society could not operate without social contracts and those social contracts are founded on certain universally agreed upon principles of fairness.
As the fairness of our economic system comes into question, more people feel justified in exploiting loopholes within social contracts; this causes social contracts to lose their integrity in the minds of people; which further exacerbates the problem/behavior.
Eventually, there comes a point when most people are cheating the system; at that point, the system can no longer function and it collapses.

Centralization creates an unfair economic environment because it limits the spread of economic opportunities. Most people already see centralization as a problem; as a source of injustice and inequality.

Just as the process of acquiring private property (as a result of wealth accumulation) becomes increasingly unfair, social contracts founded on principles of ownership of private property are themselves becoming weaker.
I also work in scientific computing, and I love Jupyter.

I think out-of-order or unknown-order execution is the biggest source of my own mistakes / bugs. If the order in which your cells are executed affects your result, you've got a bug waiting to bite you or someone else. I've been there. And we tend to run cells more than once, while refining our work.

This potentially affects reproducibility, which is a tenet of scientific computing. So it's important in our world.

I personally think there might be a couple of ways to deal with this issue. One is to put handcuffs on Jupyter and inadvertently make it more difficult or cumbersome to use. But this might be valuable if the size of your project and importance of your result warrants it.

Another way is for us to recognize that at some point we have to grow up and learn some techniques from the programmers. In my revisionist history, software engineering began when programs got too big to see the whole thing on one screen and intuitively understand.

One of my little habits is that I do a "restart kernel and run all cells" when I'm ready to take a break or close out at the end of the day. If if fails, the causes of the problem tend to be superficial, and nothing to lose sleep over.

Another habit is to take cells that work and are nice, and enclose their innards in a function so that their impact on the global variable space is minimized. This can be done during a sleepy time in the afternoon when you're not really in flow anyway.
Are you kidding? The shell is a massively important part of modern computers, and making it more expressive would be a huge win. You might be familiar with TermKit[0] which also tried this.

[0]: https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
It’s not the easiest decision. Regarding loans, repayment should stop once you go back. Regarding income, it’s hard at first. You might have to downsize, but also research cost of living. Depending on where you go to, it’s doable. Some universities have housing for people doing their PhDs and for families which is cheaper.

Went (going?) through it. My wife is doing her PhD. From 2 really good incomes to one stipend. We don’t live in campus housing so it’s more expensive (savings helped here initially), but we do know of others there with their spouses and some even with kids that are doing good. I found a job after getting here which helped.
>For a system to be completely free from censorship, it needs to have a [moat (aka Own Ad Network)] around it:

It looks like "free from censorship" and having an "ad network" are contradictory properties.

If one invents an uncensored website e.g. "www.uncensorablecontent.com" -- that allows any content (including uncensorable child porn and uncensorable beheadings), advertisers like Pepsi and Toyota will avoid it. The site's freedom of speech ideals become radioactive to advertiser funding.

Unless you're deliberately foregoing mainstream advertisers by intentional design. That's fine but that also means you're limited to niche advertisers which also means your content creators will have a smaller revenue pie to receive ad payments from.

Those economics creates a feedback loop because the content creators making mainstream videos (e.g. harmless pop music videos or gardening tutorials) don't need the freedom properties of UncensorableContent.com and would just use a centralized site like Youtube because the mainstream advertisers are there and that's where the money is. Therefore, through the self-selection of certain content creators being restricted to outlets like UncensorableContent.com, it evolves to become a haven for unsavory content even if the architectural intention was to be a place for everybody's "good" content.
That would be fantastic but I won't hold my breath. Improvements could be made but at the scale they operate at it's probably not ever going to be great.
This is really hard to do btw .. all you are saving for is the down payment. I think housing in Toronto is overvalued big time and have not invested. That thesis seems to be materializing but it will likely take some years to play out. The issue is that the high end of the market has fallen more than the low end - the low end has even got up. So saving cash was a bit pointless. Unless I save enough to buy the whole house in case (impossible), I will end up having to get financing at a higher interest rate. I did the math and it is frankly worse to buy a low end house in Toronto today than it was when the bubble was in full swing (mainly because interest rates are higher now).

Lesson learned ... next time, get in on the start of the bubble.
Not sure if you remember but a few decades ago the message was the opposite. Paper and cardboard packaging, grocery bags, etc. were environmentally damaging, plastic was seen as far friendlier (no trees cut down), and much more recyclable.
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>I would have NOT been able to work remotely my first year, I needed way too much mentoring and help to continue learning.

I work mostly remote these days--in tech but not a developer at a company with a lot of people who are remote to greater or lesser degrees.

I can't imagine having started out that way though. Communications mechanisms and so forth were different at the time but I can't imagine starting out without physical proximity to co-workers.
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Popper sounds like a dude. We shouldn't confuse this apparent irascibility with dogmatism. He was passionate about his ideas: he published them and read criticism of them. He changed his mind about the testability of evolution, and other things.

Intellectual humility is not the same quality as personal meekness and geniuses have always had difficult personalities. Philosophers doubly so. How could it be otherwise? How can one create new stuff if one is too agreeable and too susceptible to groupthink?

Btw, the reason falsifiability doesn't have to be falsifiable (by experiment) is that it isn't a scientific idea; it's a philosophical one. It is potentially 'falsifiable' by criticism, however.

The best modern Popper proponent is David Deutsch. See his books The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. They're both packed with interesting ideas and arguments. He says that Popper did indeed solve the problem of induction. And here's a recent paper of his on the logic of experimental testing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02048
Not so easy!

I thought my peers who were buying houses in 2009-2010 were "buying at the bottom." And I was a bit envious, honestly. Turns out, prices dropped for 2-3 more years after that and the bottom was Q1-2012. Some of my 2009 friends ended up selling their houses for less than they bought them for.

Of course, this illustrates perfectly why your house isn't an investment - your life circumstances determine when you buy and when you sell, not the market.
> you can always count a song in 6 in 3.

You would lose something by doing so; when a song is written in 6 it's because (unless someone is playing silly buggers) it has some kind of 1-2 pattern. For a lot of songs in 6, if you want to count something smaller you're better off counting it in 2s (with some level of triplet-pervasiveness).
Different disabilities will have different needs and remedies. What a blind person needs will very much differ from what I need.

Related, but I've done a little bit of work with a nonprofit specialized in helping visually impaired / blind people get jobs.

Its actually requires a potentially complex solution. Website needs to have full ARIA / disability text in mind to use with NVDA screen readers. There's alot more UX and userstories in mind when it comes to building a solution for this. Not only that, a traditional job board does not really suffice IMO. It needs to be a full blown support network at least with visually impaired people in mind, there's 2 major organizations AFAIK that do this in america. The organizations does webcam-based interviews with these users, similar to more next upcoming Gen Z type hiring solutions.

I think disability job boards is interesting, but really its not that much different from a remote job for most people. Hiring companies that are accepting of flexible remote jobs are most likely equally accepting to people with nonvisually impaired or nondeaf based job board, because in the end it really doesn't make a difference to them from their perspective.

A remote job is the same, its wheel chair accessible but it does require more flexible hours. But it really shouldn't matter if you still get stuff done, and have async meeting standups, etc

Its important to note that visual impairment has a very wide spectrum of users. You have to seperate out how bad the impairment is, some can see things in low light, others have been blind from birth, while some have lost sight later in life. These drastically change userstories.

What a deaf person needs will very much differ from both those scenarios.

Visually impaired users require a much more sophisticated solution, deaf impairment I would argue not as much. They can still read a screen and communicate via slack etc, but issues with standup meetings etc.

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So the way I see it is thusly, with respect to different disability categories

- Physically impaired - same as remote jobs, but companies should have meetups done asynchronously

- Visually impaired - a company that is okay with someone completely remote and has support for aria across all the job needs. Job duties need to be very consistent, cannot be too flexible (e.g. startups)

- Hearing impaired - a company that is okay with communicating purely by slack, or accomodating this specific user with slack meeting notes, etc.
It's actually worse than just "virtue signaling". It sends a political hat-trick of bad to the right side of the political spectrum: It curtails real freedom, lectures condescendingly, and proportionally doesn't actually help.

The "straw laws" are tailor made for a backlash.
This is not investment advice.

Get Short ETF's: https://www.stocktrader.com/inverse-short-etfs-bearish-etf-f...
they're just spreading the notion that plastic is evil ... not solving a problem

Isn't there at least some possibility the former does help the bit with the problem? There's enough uninformed people out there. So while the straws itself aren't going to cut it, in general spreading awareness about plastic and waste in general might just get more people to be more careful.

Start putting up posters in the seafood departments of supermarkets showing a fishing net stuffed with 20 tons of rotting sea life that's still killing fish 15 years after it floated away from its boat

I'm not sure this would help more than other initiatives. Possibly, but still. In any case it is unfortunately quite non-realistic in this society.
I think when it is a company you worked for, you might be more likely to do it. You probably still have a bit of attachment to it.
Also eating shell fish (high energy + essential oils) and low maturity of human infants at birth! The second is really interesting, there is a hypothesis that an early tool used by humans would be a sling for a baby; enabling immature infants to be managed more easily. Menopauses and grandmothers come into play as well!
Tbh: I didn't read the document, only the table of contents.

I think one of the problems of set-theory and applictions is that it doesn't lend itself very well to computers. An immediate thought was software verification & theorem proving, but while it's used in modelling (for example Peano Numbers), the underlying theories should (all?) be type-theories.

But that's something i am definitly not an expert in. Maybe someone with real knowledge can help answer this!

Of course everybody interested in math & it's applications should know really basics set-stuff. But I think, while foundational, set theory is just not that important to be super proficient in! You could write all the required stuff on a single sheet of paper.
Rates are up a bit from the bottom:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

I guess they still have some trillions of various paper though. Like:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MBS10Y

or

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST
Except that 50% of it is fishing nets, so this slow attrition won’t make an impact, even assuming people aren’t just fatigued after the straw issue.
To be honest, there is a virtue signalling aspect to all this, it's pretty obvious that companies exploit this to increase sales. In my very honest opinion, does anybody with a bit of sense really think the boardroom at $corp care about Gay Pride in any real and considerable way - other than to exploit customer's desire to show their virtue about it with flashy rainbow mugs?

I would be careful, since you quite quickly shot towards being bias, by disregarding any merit to the side that you very obviously disagree with. Just like how you said they deride, you just did exactly the same. How is the problem of devisiveness and the environment going to be solved like that?

Progress never comes from deriding IMHO.
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When people easily make mistakes like that. It’s usually the systems/process/design fault.
Depends if we plan on invading somewhere or not to my eye—it’s how our ridiculous level of defense spending will actually provide returns.
If you're not going to do something awesome why not work hard?

Broken down:

If you aren't going to do something awesome (like travel a lot), [then] why not work hard [instead]?
Cotton also absorbs water.

Most of the problem is that a billion pounds of fishing nets are left in the ocean every year, harming wildlife.
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Well, I will not advocate for any big brand here but it is also true that hidemyass, IPvanish, Purevpn has more than 50% total share of VPN users and indeed its true that new VPN services especially Private Internet Access is going great. I recently read some review of them at Bestvpn.co.
I don't see anything that doesn't meet those requirements.
I grew up in Portugal and in a poor region.
We were very privileged compared to our peers.
This is a huge barrier to today's decentralized systems.

I wanted to check out Mastodon and looked into setting up a node. It's a nightmare of rube goldberg machine dependency hell. It's not that I can't, but that I don't have time to mess with it.

If decentralized system designers want these things to take off they must get better at writing clean code with a good UX. Start with a good UX for admins: single install, dependent on not much more than maybe a database or language runtime, easy upgrades, and good docs about how to get started. Then as the product matures work up to UX for end users. You will never get to the latter if you don't plan ahead a little and avoid design and runtime choices that drag in heaps of complexity or limit portability.

Decentralized protocols are maturing, but UX is still awful. I think UX is half the problem.

The other half the problem is defending against attacks. In today's world where computer networks and even simple services on them like discussion platforms can be targets for professional criminals and even national intelligence agencies, anything that gets popular will get seriously attacked. Centralized systems are far more straightforward to defend: block IPs, kick off users, update software in one place, etc.

People like to hold up cryptocurrency as one system that has withstood constant attack, but that is only true if you limit scope to the protocol. As a holistic system cryptocurrency has been and continues to be successfully attacked with social engineering. Scammers are siphoning billions out of the cryptocurrency economy. On centralized economic systems like banks and exchanges you can ban, freeze funds, delist, and regulate.
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Maybe you're not spending any time outside of San Francisco and the other major cities. There is a whole other half of America that feels very differently about all this. There's even many people in the big cities who feel this way, but they stay quiet out of fear.
Comments like this will get your account banned. Please post something civil and informative instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you're super conservative, there are high interest savings, checking, and money market accounts, just requires a little homework to find the right one (and meet requirements if it's a checking account). I'm currently getting 2.26% in a money market account.
Unless you have a lot of money you really should buy a house with the intent of living there for a long time and you should be able to afford your mortgage long term. The housing market is even less predictable than the stock market.
The stuff in that document is all very fundamental and basic, and doesn't seem that abstract at all to me. If you want to do mechanical theorem proving, you should be(come) familiar with that stuff. Personally I like set theory as a basis, because it is so simple and intuitiv.

Obviously, professional set theorists go way beyond what is described in this document, but to be honest, none of that more advanced stuff seems very useful to me in practical applications in technology.
To obtain plastic, you need oil, which often requires removal of entire swathes of the biosphere. Funny how just one step can fool people like that.
Rates have been rising for the last two years.