skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems notable that while map is mentioned there is no performance measurement shown for map. To me The proof of the pudding would be in map performance.

In my spare time I have been building various versions of the nbody benchmark to try out different fundamental data methods, arrays, objects, immutable or not etc. Every alternative version is, of course, slower than the original mutating object version. In principle however, many forms should be optimisable by a 'sufficiently smart JIT' to be at least as fast.

It would be nice at least for a JavaScript engine to be able to do in-place maps on arrays defined from literals or single creation points like map/filter etc. , and have only one copy.

For instance.

{
let x = [1,5,9];
let q = x.map(a=>a+1)
}

The JIT would have to determine that

. x held the only reference to the array.

. x.map is the last reference to x

. the array in x was not modified between creation and last reference.

. the used version of a=>a+1 returns the same type as it is passed

To place the result of the map into the same memory as the original array and assign that to q.

Of course in this ultra simple example an optimizer could just figure out that q is [2,6,10] and never used anyway so throw it away. but in real world code you can frequently have arrays like this that are only ever used as a source for a map, especially if you do q.map(something).map(somethingelse).map(anotherthing).
Xinjiang province is 1.6 million km^2. It's larger than France and Germany put together. There are plenty of reasons to want to go there.
My dream would be an organized network of city sponsored docked electric scooters/bikes that would be accessible through already existing public transportation subscriptions.

But instead of that we have 10 different companies flooding cities with thousands of vehicles knowing very well they will never ever be profitable until there is only 1 left and they can finally increase their price.

Cities could even offer proper employment status and salary to the people taking care of the fleet instead of the current less than ideal reward system.
I use Library Genesis for a lot of academic books I definitely wouldn't buy—I need like one chapter or to take some notes, then have little further need for them, and they're usually $50-150 and still expensive or hard to find on the used market, so somewhat out of my worth-purchasing-for-convenience range—but would otherwise have to track them down on interlibrary loan then wait for them to show up.
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NYT attempt at presenting mass shooting stats
Please stop this, you are being deliberately obtuse. This is neither a forum where such laws apply, nor an instance of what the laws around age discrimination try to address.
This somewhat more fancy implementation of that idea is used on many German websites: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff or https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy
Some U.S. citizens have committed acts of mass murder.

Al Queda is also a loose organization without explicit membership, etc.

I don’t see any difference between the two organizational structures from an anti terror perspective (though Al Queda might sometimes organize humanitarian actions — Many Islamic terrorist groups have a recruiting arm that does this sort of thing, and I can’t keep them straight anymore)

...do you see why your view is absurd? I can paint almost any group with that brush.
Old NYT article on mass shootings in the US versus the rest of the world. There are some good studies quoted in here, but, oh my, the first graph and the lack of explanation at the beginning... A case study on how not to present stats on a controversial topic. Total guns? Not per capita? Is that mass shooters per year? Huh?
We need to fix Social Security Numbers and the entire SSN system of identification and stop with this insanity around protecting them.
I think that's the styling for a:visited. (It links to itself.)
Imagine trying to create a pronouns dopdown into some employer form. You either fix the list, and inevitably be accused of lack of gender sensitivity when a new pronoun starts to be used; or leave it free form, and run the risk of some candidates entering "their magnificence, Klingon commander" as their preferred pronoun.
I wonder which is more likely though. An unpublished and non-PhD author being published in a journal after submission, or that same author being allowed to publish on arXiv.
My guess would be on arXiv.

If you really have a decent breakthrough, I'm pretty sure your best bet is to directly contact some relevant people in the field.
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Which Charleston?
It wouldn't even had made it into the media
Could the link be updated from the Netherlands version of the page to English?

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2019/08/04/dolphin-progress-rep...

The blog is still in English, but the rest of the site isn't (which I clicked onto afterwards).
What would that fixed child tax credit be? 75k/year to cover education, healthcare, food? Probably not and it would be closer to 15k. It all depends on what kind of families we want to support: some may be happy with 15k.

Not only housing is expensive, there is a good chance to lose this expensive house over a divorce.
I subscribe to two of the sites you listed because it doesn't cost that much and it is more convenient to pay for it than deal with fidgeting with incognito mode, erasing cookies, using a 3rd party site to read, etc...
How to Jump on a Rocket Ship
Please note that 'FFA' in the above should be 'FFL'. Chalk it up to an early morning brain fart.
I don’t think that the irony should be lost on you that this generation of service offerings do not guarantee reliability on purpose. The onus is on the developer to make a reliable system out of faulty pieces.

What does more reliability mean when that was expressly not a target to begin with?
Only 36% more than usual? Something tells me that if you were told you had to pay 36% more in taxes next year, you wouldn’t think that’s an insignificant amount.
Monads Explained by a 15-year-old
I'm a recent PhD graduate that focused heavily on publication and collected ~20 publications. I think the situation with peer review is worse than discussed here.

Peer review:

1. dramatically reduces the pace of progress

2. exacerbates publication bias

3. creates a false sense of accomplishment

4. creates a false meritocracy

5. creates many perverse incentives

(3) and (4) unfortunately wrap into grant financing as well. The merit of your research isn't measured on its impact on the human condition, but on it's 'impact' factor (a measure derived from your publications).

The gatekeeper problem here is pernicious as well. If you become a highly cited author your ability to get/maintain financing improves. You also become a gatekeeper as a peer reviewer. Which means that you are now strongly incentivized to accept papers from people who cite your work or align themselves with you, and reject everything else.

What is absolutely amazing here, is that the peer review process is opaque. It is my belief that if you knew who reviewed which papers you would quickly discover that mild to severe abuse of peer review is the norm, not action by a handful of bad actors. This is because the entire academic reward system is wrapped into the process. Getting your name on a big paper can have lifelong ramifications on your ability to get grants, start companies, do consulting work, etc.

Peer reviewers should probably get paid for the work. If they don't get paid then their incentive to do review must come from somewhere else, vague notions of improving the field don't cut it. Peer review should obviously be transparent. Some people might be uncomfortable signing their name to a paper rejection, but its time to get over that. A small payment might help reviewers overcome this discomfort. It is bizarre that peer reviewers don't get paid. Peer review is valuable work if done right, and without payment all the reward of being a peer reviewer comes for the wrong reasons.

Finally, I agree with some other comments. Publication should not be contingent on peer review, it should come first. This would increase the pace of progress, reduce publication bias, reduce the false meritocracy, reduce the ability for bad actors to censor research, and more. The cost would be a larger number of publications, but perhaps this would help people realize that many of the publications coming out right now are of little value.

Transparency is badly needed in many facets of academic research. My company made a site that helps bring transparency into literature review (sysrev.com).
This is one of the dumbest lines of argument I've read here. On the level of "you can't punch a person, it's only their face that can get in the way of your fist." I'm getting all kinds of enlightened today.
I really like that if it's just a simple <a href>, I can completely understand what it does and the code is very short.
Boeing build processes that build aeroplanes. Those processes swiftly mutilated and killed hundreds of
people when the product was unleashed. The response from Boeing was 100% sociopathic.

You may find that OK, if you wish. You may choose to do nothing.

We don’t, and won’t.
> The lawsuit said GitHub had an obligation under California law and industry standards to keep off or remove the Social Security numbers and personal information from its site. The plaintiffs believe that because Social Security numbers had a fixed format, GitHub should have been able to identify and remove this data

I can't wait until I get to debug our first build that won't run because we uploaded some data, however broadly that ends up being defined, with 9 digits in a row...
Is this true? I wasn’t aware that websites could capture your find-in-page searches. I’d be interested to know if they can capture your key events when the find-in-page box has focus. Intuition tells me they can’t, and that it would be outside of the websites “sandbox”. But I can’t say for sure.
> And yet none of such import on the world stage that you can name it

You're demanding that an alternative value system have value to you BEFORE you will consider it. This is not very realistic or sensible for obvious reasons.

You're also suggesting your socialization is an inevitable product of human nature. Evolutionary Psychology has been split down the middle on this subject for some time,so I'm skeptical that you can resolve the debate that actual experts can't.
About 11 cubic kilometers from an area of 2,166,086 square kilometers. Or about 5 millimeters thickness?
>China is far more active/aggressive (and amoral) in the affairs of its people domestically and in its regional sphere of influence than the US generally is.

That's the point; it's aggressive in the affairs of _its people_. That being said, I'd disagree that the US generally leaves countries in its sphere of influence alone: the war on drugs for instance resulted in a massive amount of violence and suffering in Mexico, America's southern neighbour. America installed Pinochet in Chile, and also created various other banana republics in South America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic). America is one of the only countries in the world to tax its citizens regardless of whether they live, and imposes so much bureaucracy on dealing with them that there are even European banks that refuse to serve US customers: https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/reaction-to-us.... US intelligence agencies somehow convinced the New Zealand spy agency to illegally wiretap Kim Dotcom (NZ is a close US ally): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9569986/Kim-.... The US embargoed Cuba for decades; China trades peacefully with Taiwan.
My take on energy storage is this: Ultimately, hydrogen is more scalable than almost any other energy storage method, save sodium/air batteries (if we can figure that out) and using electric vehicles as batteries (dependent on consumer behavior to scale).

- lithium has scarcity issues which will only get worse with electric vehicles
- liquid batteries likewise require some more rarer elements, corrosive enough to require
- underground storage (of air pressure, CO2, etc) requires caverns/mines on site
- pumped hydro has even tighter site constraints
- biofuel/synfuel is decent for mid-to-long term storage, but slow to generate
- flywheel has energy density issues

Hydrogen, your main limits are basically steel for tanks, and some rare metals in catalytic amounts.

There hasn't been enough incentive in energy storage deployment to push the scaling up and costs down. But I think we are closest to an "embarrassingly parallel" deployment of hydrogen as energy storage.
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Not OP, but i dont think they would have an issue getting hired at any good tech company worth working for because of that.

As an anecdote, last year we hired a woman who outright told us she would like to start working next month, but then would immediately need to take 4-6 months off for a paid parental leave, as she was due somewhat soon (i forgot whether we provide 4 or 6 months; i think it is 6, but i dont remember 100%).

She was a good candidate, so of course we hired her, she worked for about a month, and then went away for the parental leave. Then she got back to work after her leave, and everything went on as normal.

We also had candidates before who went on parental leave on their first day of work, so they essentially had paid months off before they even started working.

For the record, it wasn’t some obscure small family-run business, it was at one of the big N companies.
Here in the Virgin Islands, much of our personal water consumption comes via rainfall we capture from our roofs into our cisterns (big underground swimming pools). Even with that I still need to truck in water a few times a year when the rain hasn’t been sufficient.

My roof surface area to consumption ratio is such that this system works pretty well for me (big roof, small human). However with a farm the roof surface area to consumption ratio is flipped - big fields needing water and little to no roof (maybe a tool shed or garage). And you can’t increase roof surface area since that would block sun from the plants. Industrial uses also have a poor ratio. Dense usage of water in a limited size building.
In my experience, a good project manager makes a good team fantastic. A bad project manager makes a good team dysfunctional. While I can't speak for all the project managers you work with, one who can turn a good team of more than three or so engineers fantastic is worth significantly more than one single good engineer.
Implementing a Photo Stylizer in Python Using a QuadTree Algorithm
My project just delivered MVP 1 which automated a certain infrastructure build process that was previously a mix of manual, semi-manual (people running scripts by hand) and automated. In parallel to that green field development I also fixed the issues with the previous solution. Happy path for the old tool is down from 20+ days to 4 and dropping, happy path for the new tool is hours.

Now that I've delivered those improvements my boss added reworking the software stack that feeds my current system. He also said to me "Oh, BTW RIFs are coming, take that how you will."

So I'm not certain if at this point I'll be RIFd right after delivery of a complete retooling of our infrastructure build process.
> ...the US Bill of Rights, only guaranteed a level of protection from government and law enforcement as opposed to saying that people deserved some standard of comfort or whatever.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights for more on this.
Actually, in California at least you -do- need a drivers license to operate the scooters.

(Which was annoying for me as I don’t have one because I always lived in cyclable cities in Europe)
I get that. Sorry my reply wasn’t very clear. The article gives examples of how politicians and policymakers have “weaponized” peer review to silence critics. The author proposes moving away from peer review (and the gold standard it sometimes represents) as a way to solve this issue.

In my reply, I was just pointing out that peer review still plays an important role in the development of knowledge and I was wondering if alternative systems that could replace it would actually be feasible. That lead me somewhere off topic.

By the way, the “weaponization” of peer review is nothing new. You can see it used in the past to discredit research linking smoking or lead to health issues. You can also see of the possible risks or benefits (depending on your point of view) of rejecting peer reviewed research in the anti-vax movement.
I'm going to propose something that is unconventional today, but I believe will be standard practice at somepoint.

Overtime we have shown that many mistakes are made in labs and we know that many experiments are not replicable.

I think its time that we ask researchers using public funds to film their entire experiment from beginning to end. Every pipette, every prep etc.

Peer review should also have a video audit. Then a replication in another lab. The cost of ensuring results are what they say they are would be offset by less wasted research dollars on false rabbit holes.
I saw this thing somewhere in XVIII century book... Fresnel lens? What's so new about it?
Is that really the point?

They've started detecting incognito mode and won't show content, all you have to do is just use a completely different browser program like Safari if you normally use Chrome, but its different and changes for every site
Integrated in your work-load officially? That still doesn't explain stuff. Scrum-masters, please weigh in...thanks!
Bikes are much better in general, especially electric. However, if we are comparing to usage today, a tiny tiny fraction of bike owners commute. Most adults will probably take it out for a ride less than 10 times a year, and for a super short rides. I don't have any stats, just based on observations.

I am all for shared micromobility everywhere. Would love to see a healthy mix of scooters, bikes, and mopeds on nearly every corner (in dedicated converted car parking spaces)
What makes you think city run scooters would be so much more effective? I agree payment should be standardized and unified. But competition is a strong motive for innovation. For example, it could push providers to increase the range, safety and reliability, we could have self driving scooters that slowly go to the charging locations by themselves.
> What would be the alternative to peer review?

Replication. If science has a gold standard, it is this.
Yep, 8chan users wanted to be shittier than even 4chan would let them be.
The 757 has a wingspan 30 feet wider than the 737. If you look at a picture of the airplane, you can see that the landing gear is part of the wing.

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0f650e809408f3962a1ed0...
The author does not propose moving away from peer review and, in the conclusion, says it's a necessity for science.
Brother, those "data science types" are also people. Be respectful of other people.
Which is more likely: you get a paper, yet unreviewed for formatting and style by any expert in the field, accepted into a conference or journal, or you get someone with field expertise to review for format and style, and they let you post to arxiv?
Why is this flagged?

EDIT - OK I get it. It would be helpful to have levels of flagging. This was flagged because violated the clickbaitish title rule, but that rule is always in tension with the mandate to use the headline from the article. Next spin of HN would be enhanced IMO with a class of flags that offer the opportunity to propose a superior, alternate headline.

Of course I don't have to code the next spin so it's easy for lazy bums like me to heckle from the sidelines or flag trigger headlines instead of fixing things.
> To submit to arxiv you need to be approved by someone as a legitimate researcher, or beg for reviews from people you’ve never met without any anonymity.

I did not have to do something like this.
Yes. This was written before the VR boom collapsed. "Peak VR" was holiday season 2017.

The most successful content in VR is rather simple. See "Beat Saber", the most popular VR game.[1] That's from Hyperbolic Magnetism, an indy game company in the Czech Republic.

On the other hand, "Facebook Spaces" is a total flop. You can browse Facebook in VR. Nobody wants to.

So the author was totally wrong about VR being dominated by big companies.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1sw4lfwFw
And I was missing flutter, which is more grey bearded than react.
I explicitly said I was responding to the notion of "even" and not arguing against taxing in general.
> from functorflow import f, ff

Please don't give these functions simple names like "f". I often use these names as generic function names locally. I know I can use "import ... as" but doing so shouldn't be necessary and will result in everybody using different names, which will hurt consistency, readability and searchability of code.
1, 3, 6 and 8 are generally good

for the rest, a lot depends on what your goal in doing the benchmarking is and what your target and testing machines are. if you're developing software to run in server environments under load then the rest don't make sense to me. 5 means you may be able to continue to use your machine for other light tasks and still get semi-reasonable numbers, so it's a maybe

one addition. if your tests are relatively short (and shorter is better in that it allows you to iterate quicker), they won't be run under thermal steady state. fixing the cpu freq, or setting a conservative max, will help
Perhaps he had to manually type dozens of these. Anyone know how hard was it to access a photocopier in 1974 ?
Parent specifically said hundreds of dollars per month. Hundreds of dollars per year is not a lot of money to pay for music.

Also when buying new albums it is not unreasonable to expect the artist to get some money for their work. And its quite hard to reason that they do if they have to share your $10 subscription fee every month.
New long-term support version of Linux Mint desktop released
Excel for Experimentalists
Why has Excel been so overlooked by experimentalists? We found Labview and others too expensive and unfriendly for our instrumentation development projects, so we developed I/O capabilities for high performance electronics, com and usb port communications directly from the spreadsheet. We use our workbooks as a programmable controller, real time strip charter and controller, automation controller and multiaxis actuation controller. I've shared some of our findings on Youtube videos. (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFO-Hf95_98).
Joker fills in the scripting with clojure syntax quite well.
Replication is slow and can be extremely expensive. It's a good thing, but it doesn't serve the same function peer review does.
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I’ve got to say, I think the “common carrier” argument is suspect if you’re running targeted advertising and recommendation on the page, but GitHub isn’t doing any of those things.