skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sociology degrees don't have to be so bad: Trying to make the field a science, especially a heavily statistical science, is a wide open field with some grant money available. But for both the statistics and the science, have to do good, original work. E.g., my wife got her Ph.D. in such mathematical sociology with professors Rossi and Coleman, each a President of the American Sociology Association: They were trying to be good at both the statistics and science, but there was plenty of room to do better than they did.

More broadly making some of sociology -- the scientific study of groups of people -- a solid science could have important good consequences for major parts of society plus at times some nice money made in business, especially advertising and social computing.

Warning: First understand some good science, best of all, physics, especially mathematical and theoretical physics. Then get one heck of a good background in probability theory, based on measure theory, and mathematical statistics, enough to do good original work in mathematical statistics. Then attack sociology and do VERY WELL formulating new theories to test and inventing NEW and powerful statistical means to test the theories.
Groupon recommends Mets games after purchasing Yankee game tickets
Does nothing to filter out bots. It just acts as a rate-limiter per IP address.
OT: Why don't most quad-copters/toy-drones come with blade protection that also duct* air flow for better thrust?

* tighter clearances

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I don’t know of any definition of “sex trafficking” in which it’s consensual. But just so we’re clear, here’s the relevant part of the quote:

> We literally had a conversation about how, on the off chance that they’re not there by choice, we could maybe help them.
It’s a pain in the ass to change the music so it’s easier to focus on it. Just my perspective.
And the New Silk Road project is aiming to connect this interests, while pulling those west Asian countries into their political sphere.
Why would that be a problem for an automated system?
It's written in a way to make you feel there's no problem.

The total land burned over the years accumulate. We may have a constant speed to burn all the forests left, but it's a deadly speed.
> Washington

Washington has no income tax.

We do have stupid regressive sales taxes.

and taxes on sugary beverages that don't include milk based beverages because Starbucks.
Multiple keys: yes, through a config file (can be also useful for team access). I'm not sure about "other forms of credentials" though. Pass is just a simple GnuPG wrapper if gpg can do something pass can do it too.
I love 1Password but haven't upgraded specifically because of the cloud service. All my stuff is already in Dropbox, and 1Password essentially came to it's old users touting a subscription fee to a functionally identical service. Why am I paying them every month to store my passwords when I'm already storing them myself?

I'm sure I'll have to cave at some point what with the ongoing march of progress, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth whenever a previously purchased product (i.e. 1Password) suddenly is asking for more money with no perceived benefit to me, other than getting to continue using a product I already bought.
It's actually interesting that there's no major American car in that list. Not even Bolt or Volt. :-/ Might not be much of a signal, but might be that the big 3 have really missed the road on EV.
The CD standard as the "Joe Average" is quickly changing. Anecdotally, as a younger person (recent college grad), people my age don't buy CDs out of necessity nearly as much anymore as they used to. We've gotten to the point where the vast majority of devices (car stereos, home systems, etc) have at the very least, an aux port. Adding on to this, the prevalence of phones as speakers and music players means that you hardly every "need" a CD. CDs are quickly going the way of records and cassettes.

We can see this pretty clearly looking at consumer reports[1], where you'll find that vinyls, compared to CDs, are actually being propped up largely by generations (18-44) that never properly experienced them. CD usage, on the other hand, is generally supported by older generations that are slower to adapt to modern streaming. Vinyl is almost vicarious nostalgia- most vinyl users I know (generally from the same age bracket) enjoy it as a deprecated technology that feels exotic. CDs aren't necessary for us anymore, and since we grew up with them, they aren't as enchanting and romanticized as vinyl.

[1] http://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MusicWatch-Co...
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/936/
How'd she do that?

How did she manage to not know the things you know? Probably by not being you.
It would be like - in a world where everyone used Uber, public transport etc - 5 old cars outselling 3 new ones.
Yeah absolutely. But have you audited the mobile apps or the chrome extensions, etc. (Extensions can update in the background without interaction)? Every time a new release happens? Those products are created by completely different developers.

Not saying that a company could not have a malicious release. It could. I just think the odds are much lower because their release process has better security controls and is generally audited better.
> on average the richest students had the best training and equipment, and as such developed into the best musicians

That's not a meritocracy.
Your average iPhone uses nowhere near as many parts and partners as even a mid-range car.

Plus, the iPhone doesn't have to go through rigorous crash testing, pass environmental regulations, and deal with entrenched lobbies.

The automobile industry is over a hundred years old. There are deeply entrenched players, unions, etc. that Apple would never want to deal with. Besides, profit margins on cars tend to be crappy, at least for anything with any mass appeal
Hey, glad you liked my two wishes.

Yes, data structures usually define programs. The code tends to follow more or less naturally from the data structure and the interactions with it.

If you misdesign the key data structures of your program it will balloon in size and complexity. Edge case bugs will swallow you alive.

If you make it just right typically (almost) everything will fall in place. This is still true in 2019, even with all of the distributed aspects that have been added to most programs/systems of programs.

I agree about that book, it's good stuff.
Maybe. Views of the EU were more negative in French polling than in the U.K. in 2016. Holding a referendum on Frexit was one of Le Pen’s campaign promises. (She lost, but still got 1/3 of the vote.) Further political unification may or may not make France more pro-EU.
So we agree then that when the system says "I am free of errors", some (most?) of the time it's a lie ? ;)

All models are wrong - some are useful.
Which content management system(CMS) would you recommend for bloggers
What's the age rating of your game? Have you communicated that to the ad networks? I'd hope they wouldn't serve casino + pr0n ads into "3 and Up" games o_O
The term was coined during the Renaissance...
I missed the recording part, and, yeah, gdpr for sure.
Just hit the stop button on your browser right after you browse to the article, the payload activates asynchronously so if you stop the page from fully loading, it won't come up.
> One of the problems with (and arguments against) carbon taxing is that you'd have to apply it globally to maintain a level playing field.

That's what tariffs are for.
I'd like to see a plot of "most cells in an organism" vs "average elevation/depth of habitat".
A species doesn't really need to be "useful" in order to survive. It just needs to reproduce or continue living. We haven't stopped reproducing as a species. I can't imagine a future where humans decide to let ourselves die out just because we've built lots of amazing machines that take care of all of our needs.

> Only a few will survive, supported by technology that they no longer understand.

I think the human population might shrink to somewhere around 10-100 million over the next 10,000 years. It's hard to conceptualize, but humans were around 10,000 years ago, and we'll be around 10,000 years from now.

I personally believe that we're heading towards a utopian future, although there will be a lot of serious bumps along the way. Maybe we'll agree to maintain a population of 10 million humans on earth, and there will be many more living on interstellar arks that are slowly heading towards distant planets. We will have achieved immortality, so the birth rate will be very close to zero.
Usually it doesn't accumulate as new trees grow in the place of burned trees.
PowerShell Core and Azure Functions, How-To
I remember maybe 15 years ago a service for storing your passwords online. They claimed they where unhackable and became very popular. Then they got hacked and all passwords dumped.
That Epstein could get himself into Gates' personal space once is something I explicitly accounted for. What I continue to sincerely doubt is that he could do it twice. For the first time, Gates' default allow policy would allow him to get close. But after Bill Gates has told his security team "this guy is a pedo freak, never let him approach me again", would that not be the end of it?
A Universal Metamodel
Whale Songs Have Dropped the Equivalent Of 3 White Keys on a Piano In 50 Years
As well you should be. Don't fly drones at low altitudes around wildlife, please. That sort of behavior is why people are calling for and making these more stringent regulations.
I think bad products do either too few things adequately or many things badly. Good products either do a few things well or many things adequately. Great products, on the other hand, do many things well, by appearing to do fewer things. Additional features are designed, in great products, to be discovered as you need them.
A good amount of the uncertainties involved in climate science, though, can be laid directly at the feet of the Right, and how they've undermined and obstructed science for decades to enable their corporate donors to continue polluting the planet. Perfect example is when global warming was rebranded to climate change, largely by the Right, after which right-leaning politicians have spent every moment saying "See they had to change it from warming to change! They clearly don't know what they're talking about." Or that they've defunded departments showing the ample data on Climate Change, or instructed various departments to not use the language. Anything they can do to shut it down and make sure their corporate donors don't have to lose a minor bit of their bottom line to, oh I don't know, perpetuate the SPECIES a little longer.

IMHO such flagrant and destructive distortion of truth, especially with such an existential threat as Climate Change is, deserves some criminal charge on the order of Crimes Against Humanity. I've been watching this charade play out from inside Republican ranks for decades and whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.
Those giant boats are incredibly polluting.
I just want to know why anyone will personally need 1.5TB of ram in their personal PC today. I'm not saying that 128gb is all we need. I'm sure in the future, we might all have 32TB in our future portal device. But what sort of work load or app could you possibly need 1.5TB of ram for?

On my personal desktop right now. I have 20gb of ram and over 250tabs open on Firefox, spotify, VCode, Postgresql, pgadmin, multiple evice & fbreaders, rabbitMQ, some nodejs servers, 2 linux containers, 1 docker container, mysql server, 10+ xterm sessions, a few screen sessions and I'm using 14Gb.
> The crime rate sky-rocketed, job rates feel, and everything went to pot. [0]

> 0: https://www.areavibes.com/keokuk-ia/crime/

Heh, I find it darkly comic that the livability score of your town is one point _higher_ than San Francisco's (as someone who's been here since my teens, a bit over a decade, and still loves it). I'm not really sure what that says beyond the fact that sites like areavibes have never been particularly useful, but it's interesting to think that the exact counterexample to your description of your city's pathologies curves right back around by at least some metrics. Again, taking for granted that this captures something useful, perhaps it's just "second-tier" cities like Phoenix that are making out well in the bifurcated economy.
The early portion of my career was python. Coming from OCaml/Haskell. I couldn't really deal with J2EE.

But I've seen a frustrating trend recently. Where companies on languages like C#/Java. With a massive code base are moving to Python. I often get recruiter calls to lead a new python team, transitioning away from (Java/C#/etc).

The sole reason, is it takes to long to develop a feature in the legacy language. Which is resultant of outdated software and practices. I generally try and steer them towards CI/CD and newer lighter frame works. But someone way up heard python was the hot new thing. Now all critical back-end services must be in python.

To add to this I pushed for type hinting. But type hinting will "slow down developers". Part of the problem to me, at least. Is the person dictating development frameworks, languages, etc. Isn't really a coder, and heard about thing X at some conference.

I like python, but it's an infrastructure quick scripting language. Additionally a lot of the good python devs I know shifted over to tensor flow and machine learning.
Vinyl is way more popular than old cars.
The fact that they hug the terrain and go down when they can implies they prefer it lower and only climb that high to clear the mountains. For planes doing 500+ mph air resistance is more of a thing. Then again the jet stream could be handy for them if blowing the right way.
Unless somehow you are part of the state.
Old dude with a single young lady (possibly daughter or grand daughter) is something I've certainly seen. But a veritable entourage of young women? That's something I can't say I've seen.

If that is common in those locations, I'll be avoiding them.
It looks like autocorrect wasn't sent in the clear at least according to one report.

This[1] report on this incident (commissioned by the wallet creators) makes me skeptical that autocorrect or Google was involved at all. I think some sort of malware or phishing to steal the seed was a much more likely attack.

[1] https://medium.com/@cipherblade/how-not-to-react-when-your-c...
The plutocracy, though...that’s the actual problem.
Just like we've made economics into a heavily statistical "science", yet one half of economists are never in agreement with the other.

Once free human beings and their choices are in the mix, the combinatorics are astronomical and largely beyond science. Then the whole enterprise degrades to the cataloging of noise.

edit: This part is even worse:

"nice money made in business, especially advertising and social computing"

So now we're using the recently cataloged noise-envelope to help corporations extract even more money from the plebes who subsidized the cataloging in the first place?
> The argument is that "we should tax externalities" is an intellectually lazy justification because it includes costs but not benefits.

So far, that doesn't seem to be more than an assertion!?

> People should find a better one.

So ... because people supposedly justify taxing only the negative externalities by claiming that they are taxing all externalities, they should find a better justification for taxing only the negative externalities (but keep ignoring the positive externalities)?

> We've never used fossil fuels because people have a political love of fossil fuels;

Another assertion?

> we use them because they enable great works.

So? How is this rather uncontroversial statement relevant to the question of whether taxing externalities is a good idea and of whether positive externalities are being and/or should be considered when doing so?

> My line is that we should either use the cheapest energy (before any government efforts to pick a winner)

Does that translate into plain English as "we should ignore all costs that third parties have to pay when determining which energy source is the cheapest"? And if so, would you also say that, say, industry in general should use the cheapest materials and the cheapest equipment, where we also ignore all the costs that third parties have to pay when determining which materials and equipment are cheapest (such as healthcare costs for poisoned/injured/disabled workers or people living close to the factories ...)? Because workplace safety standards or environmental protections are "the government picking a winner"?

> or nuclear as the most technically excellent energy source.

So ... you suggest that we should use the cheapest source, except for nuclear, which we should use regardless whether it is the cheapesst, because you have decided that it is the most technically excellent energy source?
It depends what the digital recording is mastered for, really.
This is correct, but neither does the WeHateCaptcha approach. Thus spending time is better for the environment then spending energy ;)
Sure it is, GP is just pointing out that attaining that skill is not a thing of equal opportunity.

All one is guaranteed in a meritocracy is that the most skilled person available reaps the benefit. However, a pure meritocracy does not guarantee who and how those skills are developed.

IIRC this is one of the big criticisms of meritocracy as a form of governance—a system of skilled individuals is not necessarily a fair one.
A reminder that the members of the EU Commission are proposed by the collective ministers of all European governments, appointed by the group of all EU Heads of Govt (prime ministers/presidents) and ratified by the EU Parliament (directly elected).

It's as unelected as the US Supreme Court is - which means - technically unelected, but definitely reflective of the wishes of the electorate via the people they elect to populate it.
Give or take 2 of the 5 largest OIDC providers. This change broke form_post in OIDC, so every app using it (low 5 digit count) needs to update and redeploy.
Can you clarify what you mean by standard QM? I had taken your usage of "standard QM" to mean, as you used it in context, to be collapse interpretations, but strictly speaking standard QM just concerns itself with quantum systems and is not incompatible with MWI.

Edit: it's too late to alter my original ancestor comment, but I think the way I wrote it may have yielded a misunderstanding. I didn't mean to suggest that MWI has value because it can predict phenomena. I meant to say that it has value because it is a metaphysically cleaner model of reality than the collapse interpretations.
Well that's silly. A 1kg drone does nothing compared to Navy active sonar.

edit - Not sure about the downvoters here, it's an established fact. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-military-son...
Something like Perl6 grammars[1], or maybe Rosie Pattern Language[2]? Of course Perl6 regexes also go well beyond regular expressions, and I suspect they could be used to match context-free grammars if pressed hard enough. Both P6 grammars and RPL are based on parsing expression grammars, and there are also tools/libraries for many other languages based on PEGs. But now you are entering in the scary realm of parsers and parser generators and all that jazz, and can debate how easy to use they really are.

[1] https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars

[2] https://developer.ibm.com/open/projects/rosie-pattern-langua...
You are looking at this as a CD vs Vinyl battle. Vinyl found a niche and never died entirely. Now CDs are dying because of downloads and streaming and you're saying "why the resurgence vinyl?"

There is no resurgence, perhaps a Renaissance in vinyl, but what you're really seeing is just the fall of CD down to vinyl's levels.
Very hot and cloudy, and/or blocking lots of sun.

That would do a number on edible plants, farm animals and power supply.

Alternatively, if we run out of arable land and don't develop hydroponics enough.
Book Summary: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Why didn't you just rewrite it? If I have 500 lines that is a mess. It's getting rewritten. If you don't understand it enough to rewrite it, then you probably don't understand it enough to even maintain or change it. In my opinion, first thing I will do is dissect it till I understand it, rewrite it and move on. 500 lines of code ain't shit. I will kill the monster before it grows.
The point is that you can't possible know what every single user will ever want to do. Thinking otherwise is entitlement.
Feels like a pretty drastic over estimation.
In a meritocracy the most talented, hardworking child would have received the best training and equipment, not the richest one.

A pure meritocracy doesn't even guarantee that a child could be wealthy without having talent. As soon as
someone with wealth but without merit is able to obtain economic goods (such as the highest quality training and equipment) that are not
obtainable by those with merit, whatever system you have ceases to be a pure meritocracy.

It's not a meritocracy.
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I'm sure there were early cases of bad audio engineers introducting digital clipping during the digital mastering process.

You mention that "it's getting worse", but it's unlikely that you'd be able to find a release mastered/remastered with noticable digital clipping within the last decade.

As one example of how basic a concern this is for digital mastering, Apple's "Apple Digital Masters" (formerly "Mastered for iTunes") program strictly limits it, recommendeds testing for the existence of clipping both pre- and post-encode, and provides tools (afclip, AURoundTripAAC Audio Unit) for helping to do that.

Generally, "loudness wars" refers primarily to dynamic range compression, which can easily destroy a track (in the musical sense) even if there is zero clipping.
Well, I think we have an answer to "what end" now.

Yes, if you have a deployment strategy where you can reproducibly deploy from your source code repository, then you don't need to back up the servers. But until you've tested that that works, and I mean really tested it, you need server backups.
1/2: ensure drone operators are familiar with the other rules. imo licensing should be required to purchase a drone with much stronger punishments against unlicensed operators, otherwise idiot operators will result in further regulations on use.

3. obviously necessary

4. Drones are a public nuisance. The sound, having a dot just floating in view, zipping around - it's annoying and even scary to bystanders.

I own and fly several drones, but I was relieved when America started banning drones from wilderness areas, national parks, and many state/city parks. The serenity of those parks is far more valuable than private drone photography / selfies.
That is some IYI shit right there. Gell-Mann, remember it.

Plants have evolved over millions of years under sun/soil constraints, and I predict there will be 2nd order effects they‘ll soon become aware of. Not to speak of the fact that artificial light will never be cost competitive with the free thing.
>Who has been seriously injured in Canada by drone accidents?

With all due respect, that is not a particularly valid point, I mean, the people that just got your 5 dollars (and soon will get another 10) will readily tell you how that never happened because unauthorized drone flying was forbidden before that happened and probably expect an applause or a pat on the shoulder for being so much efficient in preventive measures.