skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, when Larry Summers and James Damore are mentioned in the paper, Hill references a blog post on the Heterodox Academy website (i.e. references SH17a and SH17b in the paper). Ironic because Heterodox Academy was founded partly to chronicle illiberal behavior on university campuses. To clarify why I find your bringing up Damore ironic, I'll say that I don't think it's particularly relevant to this discussion, and certainly not damning. (However, it does contribute to my feeling that this paper doesn't belong in a pure math journal.)

For what it's worth, it sounds like the Summers/Damore discussion was added at the suggestion of the referees or editors at NYJM. If you look at the arXiv history, Hill and coauthors didn't include included mention of Summers/Damore until version 5 of their paper. (It disappears at version 8. I would generously guess Hill removed it because he didn't particularly agree with NYJM's suggestion.)

Finally, for those who are concerned that the mention of Summers/Damore is damning, here is what Hill says about Summers/Damore in the NYJM version of the paper:

"A resurgence of controversy came after the VH was linked to the forced
resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers and the firing of Google
engineer James Damore."

"VH" is variability hypothesis. My point is the paper does not endorse either Larry Summers or James Damore. It just mentions that the topic of the paper is a contentious one, as proven by the controversy surrounding Summers and Damore, and that the hope of the paper is to provide a concrete (if simple) mathematical theory in which to investigate VH in the evolution of species. If it weren't the variability hypothesis but instead Anderson localization, I think it's clear it would have received neither fire nor fury.
In Minneapolis some of our streets have these white posts stuck inbetween the car lane and bike lane. They mostly solve the problem of cars drifting into the bike lane.

https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2015/09/minneapolis-break...
I always wanted something like this. Previously I'd set up custom spreadsheets to do the fretboard highlighting like you have. Fantastic work and great effort - thank you!
This all just reminds me of the obsessed Wile E Coyote and his ACME gadgets to get the Road Runner.

Meanwhile, the Road Runner goes about doing what Road Runners do, unhindered by Wile E Coyote's wasted efforts.
As a very long time Android user (since HTC Hero), I've recently switched to the IPhone for the exact same reason. I was a big fan back then, but lately I'm starting to be put off by Google, for instance the late reveal of mettling in the US election etc. At least you gotta give Google for partially admitting it by removing the "Don't be evil" motto back in 2015. It's only MS, Apple or open source here from now on...
It's hard to deny that there is at least some influence there. Like LogDevice, the zlog project [0] is influence by CORFU (separate sequencer, write striping), but both use different storage interfaces / strategies.

[0]: https://github.com/cruzdb/zlog
There is value to be had from a forest other than visiting it. That includes the things we can learn from its ecosystem (e.g. antibiotics developed from jungle fungi that are going extinct); improved air quality; and impact on climate, erosion, etc.
It's not clear from the article, which side of Kleiner Perkins was Meeker on: early stage of late stage?
IPAs are definitely a very popular type of beer, but I don't think I've ever seen a brewery that only does IPAs.
Ask HN: Your great learning experience
What was one memorable learning experience you had? What have you learned, and in what setting? Was it from a great book? In a great class? Working on an open source project?
Oh gosh. TIL.

Edit: I'm actually truly grateful, I'm sure this bit of knowledge saved me some of my hair in the future.
He's asking for you (or someone) to say how the book is wrong, in a way that deals with the substance of the claims of the book, rather than just with a few specifics.
It's almost as if the person commenting has no economic education whatsoever.
Yes, having kids is (currently) still the main way to propagate our species. It may not be so in the future and/or when lifespans increase many times it may make more sense to make much fewer kids.

Even today, with a global fertility rate of 2.5 children per woman and a population of over 7 billion people I don't think there's any need to worry about biological mandates. On the contrary, I think that in developed countries where each human being consumes much more (and consequently generates more waste) than other countries the birth rate should be heavily lowered. Of course, our economy/society may not be engineered for that but better start doing it sooner than later.
I'll throw out there that unaligned, unintended instructions can give an attacker more options from an ROP perspective. But it's only a small benefit for the attacker. And for something like this 30MB binary it's six of one, half dozen of another practically speaking.
Monitoring network traffic isn't going to help if that traffic is encrypted in transit. You can see data is going out, and to which IP address, but you can't really determine what's going out. You're not really going to be able to distinguish spyware from checking for updates unless there's an unreasonably size of data being sent up.
I bought an e-bike. Because I can keep up with car traffic on most roads within the city, I am usually in the far right lane of the road and haven't had any problems really. You do have to be extra careful when changing lanes though.
It’s still feeding Facebook the company and ultimately rewarding privacy-unfriendly business models.
There are literally thousands of eyes that look at kernel sources. Google even pays 1e5 usd if one finds exploitable bugs in their code. Yet security-related bugs stil pop up regularly.

Even to prove things formally source is not that essential. One stil needs to know details how code is translated into the machine instructions. But then to show, for example, absence of code path that copies user location into network packet one may analize machine instructions.
I just wish the EU would step in and demand that all hardware is actually owned by the person who buys it, so we didn't have to root devices in order to get some privacy.

Apple hardware is nice, but also expensive. Further, a lack of options is a bad thing. Apple is now basically monopolist in the space of privacy-respecting smartphones.
I really really like this and will for sure use it! Thank you for this!
I was just responding to the parents' particular example, not trying to come up with a complete theory of the value of forests.

That said sick and dead people and climate change are typically not good for GDP.
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I'd cycle to work, and many other places, if there was a physical barrier in place for bike lanes. I have been hit driving often enough to not want to try my luck cycling.

The plastic white posts are better than nothing, but still not enough IMO.
I used to do a lot of security-auditing of C/C++ code. In those days I started off using RATS, and other automated scanners.

Generally though I found they produced more noise than value, so these days when I audit code I do it from start to finish, though I'll certainly have a quick-glance at any code that involves:

* fopen

* popen

* getenv

* or bind/accept

I guess that means "no", not really, and despite that I've reported (security) bugs in applications as diverse as Emacs, Firefox, and GNU Readline.
“There is an all-too-real possibility that other nations will attempt to leverage our actions in China in order to demand our compliance with their security demands.”

He's absolutely spot on.
Then you're not speaking in economic terms and it's a pointless conversation. If you're trying to say how much a national park is worth, you need to speak economically. Saying a given parcel is "worth" $1 million doesn't mean you should sell it for any amount more than that. You can still think it's a bad idea in the long term to sell for ten times what it's "worth."
The basic idea: fret a string on one of the indicated spots in the diagram, pluck a string. Then pick another one, and do the same thing; now you have a melody starting.

Moving on: divide that pattern into interlocking "boxes", and memorize the fingering pattern for each box, and how it dovetails with the adjacent boxes.

Some boxes have a transition where there are two notes per string; this is good for staying in a tight position, without much finger stretch. Three-note-per-string boxes are good for shredding.

If you have this overall pattern memorized and well rehearsed under your fingers, you can easily improvise to most music (at least that with Western roots around diatonic scales). Listen to the track and play a few notes by ear. Within a bar or two, it's obvious which pattern you are in and from there you know the rest of the picture instantly, and can "break out" all over the fretboard.
Here is an example:

On the first Friday of every month when the Employment Situation report is released, we get new analysis on jobs created, hours worked and hourly wages. This is great information, the only issue is that the hours and wage information is an average, not a median [2].

If economic reality changes to a point where citizens/politicians/economists become concerned with income inequality, this measure begins to lose it's significance. Average wages could increase while median wages fall. It is still "empirical evidence" but it isn't necessarily measuring what we think or want, labor force participation rates before/after women joined the workforce is an example. We should always be questioning the validity of our economic measures over time.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/us-nonfarm-payrolls-aug-2018...
[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm
Hey HN, here’s the result of gathering as many tech talks as I could find and then trying a bunch of ranking heuristics to find one that produced reasonable results. I’m currently using the lower bound of each talk’s Wilson score confidence interval based on likes and dislikes.

I find good tech talks to be a combo of entertainment and broadening my toolbox of programming concepts. When I hit good talk I generally do a double take, “wha, I have not thought that way before.” There are definitely some good talks in this list.

There are a few great “Awesome Talks” lists that I’ve enjoyed perusing, but I’ve found that talk title intrigue does not seem to correlate with talk quality. So in lists of 50+ talks I have a hard time finding the “next best talk”.

I’m keen to get feedback on the site as is but also if there is interest in a “top tech talks” in the last month (or X unit of time) style of digest.

Hopefully there is a talk in here that gives you a double take.

Enjoy,
~yaj
Not to mention that it was never 100/0 even for non-homemaker work. Lots of working class and lower middle class women worked outside the home even in the imaginary golden age of the 1950s.
> Maybe if the incumbent party is getting "terrorised" in the polls in a run-up to an election, their challengers may suddenly find themselves guilty of producing "terrorist" content?

... because no one who interprets laws does so with any regard to their purpose and therefore all laws which govern speech will be enforced arbitrarily and inevitably lead down the slippery slope towards maximum tyranny and censorship?

>I can definitely see something like that happening.

I can definitely see that not happening, or at least not succeeding when it's attempted, because it could happen now with hate speech laws, yet politicians haven't successfully had their opponents arrested merely by declaring their opponents' speech to be hateful.

Corrupt politicians and corruptible laws laws do exist, but outside of a totalitarian regime, obvious misuse and misinterpretation of the law (particularly where free speech and politics are concerned) tends to be challenged by the system, because people within that system have a vested interest in maintaining a balance between societal stability and personal liberty.
EquipmentShare (YC W15) is hiring software engineers to connect construction (KC)
"Radical inclusion" is one of the guiding principles of Burning Man: https://burningman.org/culture/philosophical-center/10-princ... I don't think it's particularly political.
> The bicycle is a great way to exceed "walking distance", but why should that even be necessary in day-to-day life?

Uh... because I want to visit friends? Go see a show? Explore? Take a job that's not immediately next door? There are a million reasons why.

You know what cities were insanely walkable? The endless concrete enclaves of Khrushchyovkas in the USSR. Walkable does not mean pleasant.
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Slightly off topic, but do you have any Relay resources you recommend, both for client and server best practices?
When I was learning theory, my teacher taught all his students, regardless of their instrument, on piano. It's the most neutral, in terms of scales and chords.

Guitar, on the other hand, usually has multiple valid fingerings (on different strings) for the same chord inversion. Part of the process of learning new chord voicings on the guitar is learning the same chord everywhere it can be played.
When I get new Lenovo laptop, I immediately throw away their drive, put a bigger one and install Windows 7 from scratch.

At least for some time, this was not good enough. The shipped crap/spyware in the firmware and exploited Windows Platform Binary Table to inject their spyware into freshly installed Windows. So, even a clean disk and an official Windows CD didn't evade the spyware:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nas...

Luckily, desktop Linux/BSD is probably too obscure to be on their radar.
On the flip side I've been working on the same project with lots of progress but no publication for years. There are drawbacks.

I need to graduate at some point and I am afraid my lack of publication will hold me back. I have been working on this project for years and have no feedback from the community. There may be things I've been missing for a long time.

There's a balance to strike here.
Marketing people working on strategies, sales people making phone calls, managers planning something, maintenance people replacing something. Lots more.
I don't dispute that, but I'm not personally concerned about them. We have our own hawks and would-be world-beaters.

I'm also not concerned about China econimically annexing Africa. It's between them, and you can't say the West has been terrific friends to the nations and peoples of that continent, can you?

And I think the renaissance of the Silk Road would be amazing. A massive river of wealth and culture spanning the whole of Eurasia, vibrant and alive again after ages fallow. Merv was considered the most beautiful city in the world for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv

My issue is with things like the sabre-rattling in the South China Sea, and the attempt to establish a stable society through mass mind-control and thought-policing. To my mind the legitimacy of the Communist government comes solely from the performance of the CCP in maintaining order. I think working toward economic well-being is a fine way to maintain order; but trying to cover up the "June Fourth Incident" is incredibly, wildly foolish.

YC just announced that they are going into China, and all I could think of was, what will you say when they ask you to call it the "June Fourth Incident" instead of "Tienanmen Square Massacre"? You're not naive, you must see that moment in the future, or have some idea to dodge it somehow? Will you kowtow?

To sum up, I like China and Chinese people; I don't like the CCP but only because of personal beliefs and preference; I don't think I'm capable of judging something so huge, that tries to run such a large and old nation. Nevertheless, some of their policies seem to me to be both odious and self-defeating. I'm alarmed that such an important source of world stability as the government of China might be acting foolishly. I mean, if we are going to elect a human cartoon character to our highest office I hope somebody is going to try to act like a grown-up, eh? The last thing the world needs is for the CCP to try to get into a dick-measuring contest with us in the sea, or demand to control the information everyone sees, or round people up into camps. Let's all settle down and make some money, because it's going to be expensive to cope with the weather from here on out, for everybody.
Yes, the generation that fought the Nazis, white Christians, would now be called Nazis. Hell, you get called Alt-Right believing anything before five years ago.
I'll admit, "all time" is slightly inaccurate. Actually, now I'm curious how far back my data actually goes.
Edit: this actually became a bit off topic..

I say this as an old apple fanboy. The apple products are by far the best privacy wise, but I recommend against them anyway. I like Mac os, but feel I can't pay apple any more money.

I have repaired enough phones and computers to recommend people to not use apple. Unless you there is a class action lawsuit they won't extend warranty, even for obviously faulty products.

The last 2 years I have fixed more than 5 broken macbooks that Apple refused to fix for less than $400 with 10 minute solder jobs, and I'm just a hobbyist helping friends. Two of them were fixing issues that Apple had already "fixed" by doing what could be called the worst solder jobs of the century (one was actually just using a rubber pad to push a chip in place instead of doing a proper resolder. According to the guy linked later in this post this was apples official fix :( :( :( ...)

Don't take my word for it, though:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8&t=0s&index=3&list=...
I assume his editor is still vi.
> I am making these decisions so that I can shift my full attention to a long-term project to write several books on various milestones in the historical foundations of computing, of which The Annotated Turing was the first and Computer of the Tides will (I hope) be the second.

I wasn't aware of The Annotated Turing. Can't wait to read these. Must be awesome coming from someone who has taught and guided millions.

> And who knows? Perhaps my best and most enduring work is yet to come!

Of course, can't think of it any other way!
> It's a marketing decision to push people to buy $170 airpods

FWIW, my lack of headphone jack had nothing to do with me buying $170 airpods. The product sells itself. It literally felt like something out of the future when it launched. Opening and closing the lid makes me happy on a daily basis. I can't think of a better use for that $170. It's a product that is pure joy to use, and completely eliminates one of the biggest annoyance factor in my daily life: tangled headphones, and worse, that feeling on your ears when you accidentally tug earbuds that are in your ear. So frustrating!
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You'd think, right?
But it's really not a big issue with a properly structured court and justice system.

Most of EU has judges that are interested in a just resolution, not just being "an independent arbiter" of two researchers.
And that’s just the start. Cambridge Analytica comes to mind instantly, but what other nasties are lurking about down there?
Those benefits are really over stated. Even the slightly bigger RISCs will convert into internal micro-op for various reasons generally. You can even see this openly in the RISC-V BOOM HDL.
I'd add that a significantly under-discussed element of safe biking infrastructure is safer intersections. My city has lots of bike lanes that are sufficiently wide (and many that aren't) and no consideration all at for how a cyclist is supposed to safely traverse an intersection. My commute requires me to cross several lanes of traffic to get from the bike lane to the left turn lane on a road where cars go ~40mph - there's no way to do that without a significant risk of getting clobbered. That's to say nothing of the potential for someone hooking right through me when I go straight at an intersection as apparently no one checks their side mirror before turning.

Unfortunately even cities that consider biking infrastructure often seem to ignore how to connect bike lanes in a reasonably safe way. The only city I've seen that does this is Portland, OR and they make heavy use of separated paths to do so.
> Why must [nature] be harmonious?

Because if it's not harmonius is collapses. And we all die.

But yes, there's no real reason for it to be harmonius, just like there's no real reason humans (or any other life form on Earth) need to exist.
> If you are comparing economic well-being, use GDP per capita.

If you want a simple unidimensional measure, either median personal income or median household income (each has pros and cons) per capita is a much better GDP per capita; GDP per capita tells you the ratio of aggregate output to population, but nothing about economic well-being of the people in the economy.

It wouldn't hurt to look at more than one number and consider, say, the 20th and 80th percentile as well as the median.
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Hangovers are hell in that environment. If you got to burning man for the free drinks you're an idiot and won't come back. MDMA is fun to make a night of but not the drug of choice out there.
I remember they acquired StrongARM. Why did they sell it?
That is no accident.

A requirement for clear speech is clear thinking. Very clear thinking is required to be a successful polymath in a technically challenging field.

In order to accomplish in a technical field, such as math, you need to think very "efficiently". It is possible to do this by spending so long coming up with a mental model of a specific area that your thoughts are efficient, but cannot necessarily be communicated to people except when their mental understanding is a reasonable match to your own.

However you cannot do this simultaneously in a great many areas. Therefore a polymath must find ways to construct models that are both simple and efficient. The underlying simplicity of their understanding then becomes evident in how clearly they can explain a precise understanding of whatever they are talking about.
Contacts are essential. Even without my balaklava, my hat bothers my glasses, making them press into my ears.

Also, my Asian nose doesn't hold glasses very well. Once while biking in the summer (with sweat dripping) they fell off in traffic. I was basically blind. It was terrifying.

Thus, contacts.
We use 3 log levels:

- Debug: should not show up in normal logs but you can turn it on down to a specific log message in a running process without restarting. We use structured logging so we have the additional ability to turn on debug messages down to a specific key=value pair (or set of key=value pairs).

- Info: An interesting event occurred that someone might care about. This could be an error that we were able to handle or just some important event.

- Alert: An error case that should not happen has occurred and someone needs to look into it. In addition to logging the event, an external system should be notified (e.g. create a ticket, page someone, send an email, etc).
If tracking is going to give me much better results, seems worth it. Would a better positioning be "safe" tracking (whatever that would exactly mean)?

I'm not sure matching Google, but a little worse, is best objective.