skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing rarely discussed with the rise of big data is how to do efficient querying, especially at scale.

I've had a ton of data science interviews which ask how to reimplement binary search from scratch (which I would never do on the job), but not anything about how to do efficient JOINs and query nesting.
I agree with you, probably 100% at the end of the day. But I don't agree with your first post that seemed to tell readers that there was no distinction.

The convention is that these two time signatures stand-in for two different actual perceptually different music feelings.

The "tactus" (the place we feel the beat) certainly can be subjectively moved to different levels in the hierarchy. Furthermore, you're right that the bottom number is basically just a notation preference (6/8 and 6/16 are effectively identical, though nobody uses the latter).

But the whole point of anyone describing the difference between 6/8 and 3/4 is that they are using the convention to describe the actual feel difference between dividing the same amount of time into 2 vs 3, the hemiola issue.

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

I basically was taking issue with seeing a reply to a post that was highlighting this difference that is a real perceptual one (not just a notational one, but described, unfortunately, with focus on notation) with the claim "there is no difference".

I apologize for the aspects of my reply that were ad hominem instead of just critiquing the post itself.
I want so badly to like Radiolab, but honestly I feel like it's produced by ADHD'ers, for ADHD'ers.

Hell, I feel like it gives me ADHD just listening.
my favorite part about finance and wealth accumulation is that the most sophisticated thing an enlightened person in the general public is going to say is something about relative standard of living and maybe inflation.

so it reaffirms an actual holistic challenge to the financial ecosystem is a long ways off and basically never going to happen.
In theory if you could mix the oceans faster (I know lol), you could begin dissolving the deposited calcium carbonate at the bottom and buffering the oceans with even more bicarbonate ions. Unfortunately this happens naturally on the time scale of centuries, which is super fast for geology but not great news for corals.
Youtube-dl, then play at your desired speed in mpv, xine, mplayer, or VLC. Keyboard control to skip forward and back. There's mps-youtube for audio-only playback (it also supports video).

Even with this, shitty production -- say, couple of jokers' completely unedited stream-of-blather 2 hour vlog that only got remotely near the point by 20 min in, but failed to hold together through the 30m maark, where I bailed (skipping through, aggressively) -- is intolerable.

Mind: there is very well-produced material. Lectures, audiobooks, documentaries, etc. But like any large complex work, it takes skill, preparation, a goal in mind, and time.
Doesn't this imply it's best for people who aren't ADHD?

Wait, what are we talking about?
If "big data" informs you that a group of people (race, geographic location, nationality, occupation, gender, etc) is less likely to say, pay back a loan, or successfully complete 4 years at university, or avoid insurance claims... must that be anything-ist? Or just a fact? Or, as your post suggests, are you obligated to throw out the conclusion and just assume the inputs must have been "flawed data"?
That's a bit relativistic; no? How could something that dies at a mere gram of arsenic have survived for so long?
McCain joined the Navy in 1958, the US wasn't at war in Vietnam at that time.
Sure, but you'll have to pick your poison.

Most of the time people need to eat and feed their families so they do whatever gets the quickest buck. The ethical calculus is really that simple. As humans, we have a hard time extending our concern to people we don't know and will never meet.

Many (most?) companies and many boards/ceos are like this. They don't care if they're squandering modern tech for dumb or unethical reasons. They have a responsibility to the families and employees to make money and keep people fed.

I guess in the end I'm just rendering judgement on capitalism. Sorry it's not more insightful than that, but i don't see how free market participants (sellers) can drive ethics at all.

Someone like Rand Paul might counter that the free market will make ethical choices if fully informed, but I don't see how consumers at this stage can really be expected to be fully informed (or even act reasonably).
Certainly, but that doesn't make it okay. In general things weren't rosy with his political career, his reputation for being a "maverick" that would buck party leadership was laughable since he ended up toeing the party line more often that not, even when he decided to speak out against {X} idiotic move they made he would still put a "Yea" in for the vote.

With that said I think he genuinely wanted what was best for the country, even if we never saw eye to eye on what "best" actually was.
My comments were in bad faith, parodying anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Thank you for being patient enough to post the level headed comment you did.
Yes. Guaranteed convictions yield inflated statistics, which bureaucrats then tout as evidence of their value and need for (greater) funding.

Paywalled, but excellent paper on this phenomenon: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=low...
Well given that even at our current population levels we're headed for a massive catastrophe unless we implement quite radical measures to reduce our carbon footprint I don't find it very comforting that we'll top out at 50% more people.
Basically, you get C++.

This is what I love about programming languages; it's a true marketplace of ideas. There's something out there for everyone, and a project of every flavor. You see this happen all the time with languages projects, especially opinionated ones, where someone likes the general vibe of the language, but wishes it were more like something they are more comfortable with. But sometimes a language just wants to be where it is, especially when it's run by one ego. Programming languages can be very personal things for their authors, much like a novel is for writers.
Valley dove
Password Cracking in our own lab. pt 1 – Hashcat [Only for Educational Purpose ]
Not the person you replied to, but I think the issue they took was with the phrasing ‘accidentally fired’, which could be (mis)read to imply user error instead of malfunction. I know I read your post in the former sense until I saw this one and read the original more carefully
Yes! Haven’t had a chance to play around with it but I’ve been wanting to. See AVDepthData: docs at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/avdep... and reference implementation for streaming depth at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avfoundation/camer...
Ternary Trouble in Perl
I agree we in a horrible, crisis situation. I simply believe pointing to overpopulation as a primary cause is wrong headed. The world's nations could stop a country's worth of energy use tomorrow by banning bitcoin as just a single example. There are other, harder examples but the (awful) problem of stopping runaway really doesn't seem related to a "booming" human population - the quote I originally took issue with.
You can saw whatever you want. What you can pay to have broadcast on television is another matter entirely.
I am glad in hindsight your understanding of the situation was so clear. I promise you at the time things where not a black and white. Also he joined the military as a graduate of the Navy Academy way before the war in Vietnam was a real thing. He was a brave, honorable man deserving of our respect. It is easy to sit back after the fact and make grand judgments.

“John McCain and I were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds, and competed at the highest level of politics. But we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher – the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed. We saw our political battles, even, as a privilege, something noble, an opportunity to serve as stewards of those high ideals at home, and to advance them around the world. We saw this country as a place where anything is possible – and citizenship as our patriotic obligation to ensure it forever remains that way.

Few of us have been tested the way John once was, or required to show the kind of courage that he did. But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own. At John’s best, he showed us what that means. And for that, we are all in his debt. Michelle and I send our most heartfelt condolences to Cindy and their family.”

-Barack Obama
I'm sorry, I must be missing the part where your link says that pause is not a valid action available to the bots just as it is available to the humans.
Ask HN: Is commercial nuclear fusion feasible in the near future?
Jupiter Broadcasting host some really nice podcasts

https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/
Apparently, there was mostly miscommunication and the two of us probably agree entirely at the end of the day. The ad hominem aspects of my post weren't warranted really, and I don't care to explain why I fell into it in this case. I didn't mean to be snarky or violent or anything.

Anyway, the post I was replying to didn't say that the difference is due to convention, it asserted the difference didn't exist.

And I stand by my points about rhythm (which I think @nerflad would agree with in the end incidentally).

The "strong and weak" part from Wikipedia only exists in music in the mind of a person. It's not musically strong or weak based on physics of sound waves. Whether something is loud or quiet can be relevant to describing rhythm generically, but music is 100% subjective.

Human beings predictably experience certain musical things in certain ways, especially those from the same music cultures. But a full 100% of everything in music is only music when there are listeners (or just imaginers) having a subjective experience. Otherwise, there is no music. Pressure waves in air or dots on paper are not music.

I don't care what Google's dictionary says. Describing a trite, pithy one-sentence thing for a complex concept is necessarily going to be simplistic.
I think it's perfectly rational to play the lottery, as long as you are completely aware of the odds and you are happy with the value of what you are buying. Same as with anything else you buy.

I buy a megabucks ticket about once every year. Sometimes twice. I buy it for a little bit of fantasy. It's totally worth the dollar. In reality I'd hate to win a big lottery because the evidence is pretty overwhelming that it would ruin my life (not the financial aspect, I could handle that bit, it's the social consequences that would make me wish I had never won).
This is a very weak, thoroughly tasteless comment.
He was truly one of our last great Republican leaders.
In my case it is picked up either by mechanical arm, or by a guy bringing it to the end of the garbage truck and truck doing the rest (did not find why they run different trucks each time) Seems to last just fine.
You were completely and indisputably wrong about McCain and his stance on torture. He has always, always been against it and never wavered.
No standing politician can cure our existing politics
My town in Japan has 7 different categories of garbage (it's different for each city). They wouldn't take my plastic garbage for ages because I didn't know what "puramaaku ari" and "puramaaku nashi" meant. Eventually I figured out that it was "pla-mark", or the plastic recycling mark. So you have to put plastic with the recycling mark in "puramaaku ari" bags and plastic without the recycling mark in the "puramaaku nashi". You're required to write your name on the bags, so they deliver your badly sorted trash bags to your door :-) I think it took me about 3 months to figure it out. I had a mountain of plastic trash in my shed that I slowly disposed of over the next year. At least here it's a very effective method to get people to do their sorting. People even clean their garbage!
I'm not sure I agree with the article's main warrant for its core argument (i.e., the "but they're wrong" part):

> But there’s an extremely important caveat: Students aren’t fleeing degrees with poor job prospects. They’re fleeing humanities and related fields specifically because they think they have poor job prospects. If the whole story were a market response to student debt and the Great Recession, students would have read the 2011 census report numbering psychology and communications among the fields with the lowest median earnings and fled from them.

IME Psychology and Communications attract students who are looking for an easy degree. Humanities majors are typically more rigorous than the Psych or Comm majors.

Psych/Comm attracts a lot of students who hate reading/writing and math equally.

> Or they would have noticed that biology majors make less than the average college graduate, and favored the physical sciences.

Again, IME, most of those bio majors are planning on med school, nursing, grad school, or teaching.
It's interesting hearing stories like this. One thing to remember is that for the same time you got to experience his presence while shaking hands, you were also a part of his life experience too. It sounds like you certainly remember him, but he likely remembered those experiences too (as is the case with other celebrities thought as "too important to care about those moments").
I found the black swan to be 80% fluff. Still a worthwhile reading, though.
He tried to do the right thing. Sometimes it came out a bit awkward like the infamous "He is a decent human being" comment, but his heart was in the right place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjenjANqAk
So very many things have changed in the world, it seems a little silly to try to pin this shift on any one thing. And if you want do that, why not pin it on the rise of tablets and smart phones?

We get just enormous access to so many things, all in the palm of our hand from almost anywhere. We can read, engage in meaty debate, watch movies, etc. all on a smart phone. Even a super cheap one.

Online forums allow for rigorous debate that previously was only found in colloquium at extremely elite colleges, like the tiny humanities school I wanted to attend but never applied because I didn't have enough foreign language to qualify.

On Hacker News, people routinely demand that you cite your sources. There are other forums with similar practices.

Meanwhile, that mostly doesn't seem to suffice for STEM subjects. I was one of the top three math students in my graduating high school class. I don't bother to identify as one of the mathy people on HN. Math discussions seem to be harder to have here than other subjects.

I don't know why that is. That's just my impression and I can't prove it.

Some subjects seem easier to soak up via online resources than others. And the STEM subjects are increasingly critical to making our internet infrastructure function and that infrastructure is increasingly part and parcel of other infrastructure. Department stores are dying as we increasingly shop online. You can't ignore the internet for most businesses these days.
So then they use encrypted messaging with plausible deniability (eg steganography).
The Rules of Time Travel in Steins;Gate – Biggest in Japan
Writers should take after leaked government cables. Those things are really no BS.
It doesn't matter, Australian politicians can't save the reef no matter what they do. The reef isn't dying because of pollution or whatever, it's dying because the ocean temperature is increasing and nothing we do will stop that in time.
All the more reason to constantly tell people the right thing to do and why and strategies to avoid letting fear and other emotions get the better of them in those situations. We can all be susceptible to such things, but with a little education and discipline can avoid making terrible mistakes like that.
What is asserted without evidence...
I did not mean to say it was considered rude; when people got robbed/pickpocketed it was not us as we didn't look like clueless tourists with huge cameras around our necks.
>Being unable to pay for something you need to live your life is bvb the same as having no agency over ones life.

Requiring someone else to provide something you need without compensating them with something they want in return (money or barter) is removing their agency over their life.
I learned Vim after switching to Dvorak, so the Dvorak positions of hjkl are what I'm used to. I don't have to think about the key I pressed.
Huh, nice. May I ask what school is that
Sort of. The stock started to go down in the Summer of 2001, but they didn't actually declare bankruptcy until December 2001. The Enron scandal became widesread news in October 2001. So, 9/11 was actually first, at least in terms of the public consciousness. Much of Enron's fraud had happened before then but it wasn't really known. The indictments of the CEO, etc, didn't actually happen until 2004.
He was very close friends with Joe Biden. Biden himself said on many occasions that if McCain ever called him up for help, Biden would be on the next plane to wherever he was in the world. I don't doubt that he had his enemies that hated him, but I doubt that sentence "he was not a nice man in private, very egocentric, and had a very carefully constructed and well-maintained public image." No one is perfect but there are more than enough honorable people that have painted McCain as both admirable, honorable and loved by them.
This is a very good example of the skimming reading example that is high up on the HN front page today. You did not read what I said nor did some downvoters; I say I am against this idea. BUT I was responding to someone saying 'we don't know how to solve most individual crimes even with unlimited resources'. I do not believe that is the case and this is one example of doing it, but no I am in no way advocating it which is what I say multiple times in my comment.

I actually say in the first line 'which I am against', so definitely not advocating it. Just saying; unlimited resources really do give us ways to solve most crimes but we might choose to value freedom and privacy over solving all crimes, which I hope happens although many places, like London/UK already have pretty much blanket camera networks.
Political disputes are about identity because one side keeps insisting on making them about identity. When you attack peoples’ livelihoods based on their identity (e.g. threatening the jobs of transgender people in the military), you can’t complain when people get tribal. When you have police departments that target one group based on skin color, you can’t be surprised when they get tribal. Tribalism is how you protect yourself from threats to yourself and your family. Many people feel like they’re under attack, and when you’re under attack you don’t care about ideas, values, or policy.

I’ve seeing it happen before my eyes over the last 20 years. Where I grew up, lots of rich Indians and Middle Eastern people were Republicans. Identity politics wasn’t a thing. No longer. The current political climate is forcing people to pick sides, and people aren’t stupid—they’ll pick sides along tribal lines. You might not agree with your tribe, but you can trust them not to turn on you when things go sideways.
Tangential: I loved the appearance of the term, "Data Scientist". Scientists are domain experts. A biologist knows cell membranes. A chemist knows valences. For decades statisticians had been pitching that they were helpful without knowing the domain: appear-deliver-and-run consultants. It was wonderful to see a group embrace the importance of knowing the system that is producing the data. I regret the more recent movement of "data science" consultants who try to run models and AI without understanding the systems the data came from.
.48 higher on the happiness scale 0-10 probably isn’t worth it.
Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17203304 (647 points/85 days ago/515 comments)
PHP 5.6 is reaching the end of security updates in four months and 80% of PHP sites are still running it (or lower).

https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php
I suggest reading Matt Taibbi's book The Divide, mentioned in the article, if you want a bit more context around Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer's involvement in this. He rests the 'original sin' at the feet of Eric Holder and a memo he wrote during the Clinton administration, as it outlined the collateral consequences doctrine embraced by justice department.

It also had the most fascinating account of Fairfax Financial and a group of traders who shorted the company before trying to destroy it.
Yeah, and that's the other problem this article is pointing at--young children aren't developing deep reading skills like you have, because the girls are getting waylaid by social media and the boys by video games. They won't have the option of skimming the bad shit and deep reading the good stuff.
When articles like this give an income number, is that after or before taxes? If that is a pre-tax number then how can it account for varying tax situations (single vs married, deductibles, etc.) If it is after tax income, that number seems somewhat high.
Aerial Imaging. We use it for both photogrammetry and some aspects of image color correction based on its histogram. I imagine its used extremely often in robotics as well.
Thanks back! That show is new to me.
I’m very surprised. The moderators’ move is a way extreme to me. Unless they are personal attacks, deleting comments can never be good for the community. I cannot see any good reasons deleting those comments.
Not entirely. Some issues were fixable, like moving our RabbitMQ cluster away from RHEL to AWS. But others weren't. There was an upstream service we depended on that went down, that caused a cascading failure. It was the company's core product, a massive Java program running on bare metal that frequently OOM-killed our service, and even though it was the big money-maker, no team owned it, and nobody understood how it worked. I don't remember why our service had to share a host with this monster, but there was a good reason and it just couldn't be worked around.
I think, perhaps, you misunderstood the OP's objection, particularly with respect to feedback loops.

It may not be safe to assume the inputs are biased [1], but, then, it's also not safe merely to assume that they aren't.

What's particularly dangerous is to assume unbiased inputs if the subsequent conclusions (the outputs) then influences future inputs [2]. That's the feedback loop that can serve to amplify biases in the data/conclusions with each cycle.

> must that be anything-ist? Or just a fact?

To answer your question, no, it doesn't have to be anything-ist and is, of course, a fact. However, to characterize it as just a fact ignores that it may well be an anything-ist fact, if it had been based on anything-ist data.

Ultimately, this is just a GIGO [3] problem, a concept from early in "computing" (aka "data processing").

[1] which I'm substituting for "flawed", since "unbiased" was the OP's term

[2] for example, by setting interest rates which have an influence on loan repayment likelihood

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
This is sort of tangential, but I was wondering if anyone here who is a fan of David Foster Wallace has seen the movie on Netflix about him? I wasn't sure if it's good.
Edit: it's called "The End of the Tour".
Oh, I thought you meant yearly.
Technically it has been feasible for some time, the challenges are really political and social. I switched majors away from nuclear engineering when I realized that; political problems are not my thing.
Pretty sure I should do both.
Steins;Gate: The Kotaku Review (2014)
I have tried weed, and I really, really dislike the sensation of being high. Just assume that whatever possible drug intervention is out there, I've already tried.