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I'm not a hipster but I have a vinyl record collection. So do my friends, we trade records and each have very different collections. I enjoy "the ritual", it allows me to recollect who gave me an album or the night I went to the show. None of my friends organize our records the same way. Some are chronological by release. Some simply alphabetical. Some chronological by acquisition date. Some combine an element of genre, whatever that means to them. It's a deeply personal thing but we can still share parts of it.

In life we get to have different tastes, having a record collection is one of the ways to celebrate that.

I don't appreciate being talked down to about my personal choices or how I derive enjoyment in my own time. I'm also not impressed by your straw man argument against these "hipsters", why are they so bad anyway? Is it because you perceive hypocrisy in how some hypothetical person lives their life?
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One could cluster theorems and types by “connectedness”, but even then, I don’t think “algebra” would stand out as separate from, say, “geometry” or “number theory”. Those are just stickers ignorant humans put on things they thought to be significant entities centuries ago.

Chances are not even “arithmetic” would stand out as a separate entity. Even if it did, the computer couldn’t give it a name that makes sense to humans.

And b) ‘useful’ isn’t mathematics, it’s physics/biology/economics/whatever.
> "We’re finding that we don't really understand the limits to life,” Sherwood Lollar said...

As is often the case:

What we don't know > what we think we know
Yup, those were the two web "stacks" I had tried before PHP - around 1999 or so. At the time PHP did feel amazing compared to Classic ASP in VBScript (shudder), and I never really felt comfortable with Perl.

There were other things like Zope and Roxen/Pike around back then, but I never used them. Ah and OpenACS/AOLServer which was TCL from memory.
We’d miss eink, guitar hero, Lego mindstorms, Scratch (though we’d have Blockly), and wireless mesh networks (though DARPA prioritized that too).

I’ve used the Oblong system & it’s pretty cool. The concept of each pixel having a 3D coordinate in a multi-display room is very interesting.

I would have expected a more recognizable list.

Are there similar lists for other universities?
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What authority is inherently vested by having invented dynamite and wanting to be remembered as something other than a "merchant of death"?

Obviously this is not just about pedantry for its own sake; this is about attacking economics as an illegitimate pseudoscience. But right or wrong, it's still not in any way making a novel statement or argument about anything. A lot of people think economics, economists, and central banks suck. This is common knowledge.

It's utterly useless to debate whether a broad field of study is supported by "authority". If there were a Nobel prize in climatology, would it have any impact on a reasonable person's assessment of the legitimacy of climate science or their attitude towards global warming? Of course not.
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The authority coming from the Nobel name, which the money is co-opting.

"The interest is to be divided into five equal parts and distributed as follows: one part to the person who made the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics; one part to the person who made the most important chemical discovery or improvement; one part to the person who made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine; one part to the person who, in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction; and one part to the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses. The prizes for physics and chemistry are to be awarded by the Swedish Academy of Sciences; that for physiological or medical achievements by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm; that for literature by the Academy in Stockholm; and that for champions of peace by a committee of five persons to be selected by the Norwegian Storting. It is my express wish that when awarding the prizes, no consideration be given to nationality, but that the prize be awarded to the worthiest person, whether or not they are Scandinavian."
I understand privileging buses but under what pretenses should we privilege taxis over transportation network companies?

If anything, only pool ridesharing companies should get the benefit of these intracity HOV lanes.
Is C#.NET not a proper programming language?

The worst thing about excel is the standard Excel library, and the perlishness nature of the UI's "render text into data types by heuristics, not simple consistent rules"
Understatement:
https://youtu.be/Yd4exe1aPfA

Scary:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

Scarier: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FrqGY6sJpck
It helps, in most conversation though especially in philosophical ones, to be clear of what you do and do not mean by words.

For students (and this work is aimed at a university philosophy of comp sci course) the exercise of thinking through (and walking through) definitions is also useful.

Philosophy can (and does) get stuck in the weeds, and there's a great deal of philsophy (much of the religious bits, though not all, and certainly others) which was simply based on bad premises and/or logic.

The value in revisiting it is several-fold.

- You can recognise which present-day discussions are actually very-well-trod ones in the history of philosophy. Whilst some of the questions may indeed be unanswerable, identifying some of the more glaring errors of reason or fact can at least move you to more interesting areas of disagreement.

- Much of philosophy provides tools for thinking through questions. Aristotle's Organon (and Bacon's Novum Organum) literally means (new) tool.

- The history of philosophy says much about how we ended up thinking and/or knowing what we do, and where we (very frequently) got mislead along the way. Even the false turns are useful to know.

- All of Boolean logic grew out of philosophical logic of the 19th century. An obscure text that happens to be one of the handful (literally five or six) cited by Claude Shannon in his foundational work on information theory. (Shannon's work is remarkable on numerous counts, including not only founding virtually an entire new science, but reviving an all-but-dead niche of philosophy, and having scarcely any references.)

- The ethics of tools and their use is ultimately much of what they're all about. That and their unintended, especially negative, consequences (a topic not touched on significantly in PoCS so far as I've read).

- Philosophy also provides ontologies and taxonomies of subjects and areas. These are useful for understanding them, and help one grasp the landscape. Realising that as you've been driving down the road, the trees you've been seeing are actually all of the same species, or that the road is a loop and they're actually the same tree, is useful. Ontologies also lead to identifying characteristics, capabilities, and limitations of tools.

- There are a wealth of references given, most of which should prove highly illuminating and/or significant. Given the perennial HN question of "where do you find material to read", I'd dance and wave and whistle and whoop and say HERE!!!

- There are a tremendous numbers of models and myths surrounding all human endeavour. Philosophy helps identify the valid and invalid, separate wheat from chaff, and sort gold from bullshit. Again, the tools, models, background, and ontologies here help with that. Given the copious gobs of bovine matter and fad-driven-development in CS, IT, SV, and HN, you'll be ahead.

I've been doing this myself over the past few years, by the way.
Yeah, med school is the only “brainy” career path that endures military-style hazing on a ritualized and widespread basis.
Examining Gender Bias in Languages with Grammatical Gender
The first-class auto-differentiation seems to me like the special bit in Julia for machine learning (not only neural networks). Flux/Zygote is only one of the tools for that (but it is indeed what I view as most promising at the moment). Do check out cassette as well. However, for the restricted set of autodiff supported by libraries like Tensorflow, basically any of the Julia tools are good enough.
Honestly, I think the near constant exaltation of problems like the Riemann Hypothesis, P=NP, Fermat's last theorem, etc. is more damaging to the field than good. Many of these theorems have dubious application to anything practical were the theorems unquestionably proven. Subsequently, it frequently gives the impression to a lay observer that mathematics is all about number theory and tackling pointless puzzles.

Going into undergrad I was briefly discouraged from going into mathematics because this was the impression I got. They're interesting to think about, but I didn't want my future to be firmly situated in inapplicable theory.

I say this knowing there is plenty of work to be done in the applied mathematics, especially in trying to simplifying the understanding of complex problems. I'd like to see more of the glorification of moderately hard problems which take more time to explain but are well within the grasp of people who start working on it, than easy to explain problems which will likely never be in the grasp of anyone.
I don't see how CDs, in the abstract, can really be different from records, in that, surely you could apply a suitable filter to a CD decoder to make the output sound exactly like a record. Especially given modern computing power. It's just that, I assume, people have chosen not to.
*directly. Sports programs help with recruiting and alumni fundraising. Both of which are profit centers.
Looking at the pinnacle of performance is distracting. I coach little league. Every year I see kids with amazing talent drop out or not scratch the surface of potential due to a variety of factors, most of which boils down to lack of time.
Sorry, but what is a particle?
> (e.g., t=18, which is divisible by 32)

Did they mean 3x3x2 instead of 32? There is no way 18 is divisible by 32 in any common sense of divisible.

> This explicit sequence of instructions, which is determined by the prime numbers, causes a robot to look drunk, if and only if the Riemann Hypothesis is true!

So, do they look drunk for large walks? That sounds like something that is easily computed for tens of thousands of steps.
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Yup, and there are reasonable rules for drones (such as an FAA regulated flight ceiling of 400ft and you can't fly within 5 miles of an airport* ). Following those rules is fairly simple, and at least DJI's app makes an attempt to let you know when something is amiss.

Follow those rules and you're riding the bike path, not mixing in with major air traffic. Hence why flying a drone is nothing like flying an airplane.

* for certain definitions of airport
Ah yes because Russia is the place where you sue the police and win...
ANY examples of life simpler than a bacterium

Viruses are much simpler, for one. Or perhaps you don't consider them to be life forms. Either way, if you understand how bacteria operate at even the most crude level, you'll realize that they (all bacteria, collectively; individually, they're specialized, of course) eat basically anything and everything in terms of organic molecules.

What are the ramifications for this? It means any sort of abiogenesis that takes place today needs to somehow avoid being immediately eaten by bacteria and then continue to survive for potentially millions of years in order to evolve into an advanced life form. Needless to say, this seems to be vanishingly unlikely these days.
Thinking in APIs and contracts always helps reduce complex problems to slightly more tractable ones.
It supported recursion in its microcode which is very unusual.
I'd add that the ritual around vinyl (i.e. manually adjusting tone arm, touching a vinyl and placing it on the platter, etc) is the part that people like the most, not the actual sound. I don't think anyone would be able to discern a new vinyl from a cd in a blind test.
If only there were a durable music format that had absolute perfect quality, didn't need special handling, no DRM, no compression artifacts, was stereo, and handled frequencies all the way down and all the way up to where humans can hear. Oh, the CD!
I don't find the arguments themselves entirely disingenuous.
I wonder if OP plans to submit the report for course credit too? It would probably get a pretty good mark.
In Boston because of traffic, even with dedicated bus lanes, bikes and/or electric scooters were always faster than public transit. Only downside was in the winter when bike lanes and sidewalks were covered in snow / ice.
If you play the sound through the air, which is an analog medium connected to your ears, haven't you un-quantized that nasty digital information before you can hear it?
dose anyone know how to get this dataset?
TVCs get many of the same perks full time Googlers do. You can always interview if you want to be a full time.
Long ago I read a story, which I can’t source now so it may be apocryphal, about author CS Lewis. As the story goes, after the Narnia series got popular, he made enough money to buy himself a very nice Jaguar. The first thing he did was to take a hammer to the car and dent it all over. His thinking was, if he did that himself, he would avoid the inevitable pain from every time someone slammed their door into his, or tapped the bumper in a parking lot.
Right.

I just meant that if you’ve read about it, it probably ain’t thoroughly alien to you.
Tenured professors have vastly better job security than anywhere in the private sector.
My comment wasn't a justification of allowing taxis to use those lanes, I was just pointing out how well they worked anecdotally.

I think the transit lanes can be used by buses, taxis, chauffeured cars, etc. Mainly for politicians/important people to get the airport or city quickly I suppose.

I think since taxis pay heavy license fees to the state (whereas Uber etc. cars only pay car registration like all other cars) allowing them to use the lanes has been justified by the city. But of course, these licenses aren't open to Uber or other providers so it's a difficult situation that does stifle competition.
Appears I am painfully behind js tech. How can starting a JavaScript interpreter be faster than compiled Go?
Right search , maps , YouTube all run smoothly because of a "mess". Google code is some of the cleanest most organized I've seen.
The school bus system is an interesting microcosm of transportation to look at; Over the last 30 years, bus use has dropped while [privileged] parents drive their children to school, wait in a carpool lane;

Interesting concepts

- Time Wasted in the pickup lane (and often the drop off lane)

- Traffic in the pickup and drop-off lanes

- High School parking lot size

- Use during inclement weather

In Snowpocalypse in Atlanta, a large portion of the mess was contributed to by the 3 trips; Parent to Home, Parent to School, Parent and Child to home; Instead of offering for parents to pickup their children from school, much of the traffic could have been resolved with the existing bus system; In the end; if chains were needed, it's easier to fit 50 busses with chains in a bus yard than 1000+ cars.
Where else? Venus' habitable period, if it existed, was quite short. It's gravity is also much higher and it is inward in the solar system. Even before it turned into the hell-hole it is now, dynamical models show that it probably sent few rocks our way.

The Moon appears to have formed without the resources to sustain life as we know it. There are great candidates for life in the outer solar system (Europa, Enceladus, Titan), but ejecta from these mostly get eaten up by the giant planets.

The only likely candidates for solar system origin panspermia is Mars, and maybe Ceres. Only Mars (and Earth) had the long wet period with open oceans, geothermal heat sources, plate tectonics, and sizable atmosphere. Mars isn't the only option, but the odds are way, way higher.

At least for life as we know it. But the point of panspermia is that it would be life as we know it ;)
I have some newly-released vinyl and cassettes I bought partially for the novelty, partially to support the artists (one artist I listen to releases only on digital and cassette).

I also thought there would be more nostalgia and fun in listening to vinyl, but after 30 seconds I'm now lost in the music and there's absolutely no difference in the medium it's being played on.

Until I hit the end of side A and have to turn the disc over.

(of course I don't want to diminish anyone's enjoyment of what they like - I have the stuff I enjoy doing that others find a waste of time - your statements just come off as too absolute - it's definitely a personal preference!)
From hazy memory there were two ways of configuring apache/mod_php.

1) The web server ran with a common account (eg www-data), and only had read access to users files.

2) The web server could be configured to run each site in the context of the file owners.

The advantages of 1) were that your website didn't have write access to your files. The advantages of 2) were that other peoples websites didn't have read access to your files, but your own site could overwrite them.

I only felt "safe"(ish) on a dedicated server, using option 1).
No it's not. Microsoft is way different from Google.
A backup that is deleted when the original data is deleted is not a backup. It's called a replicating clone. Backup can be restored even if the original data is deleted. Either they misrepresent or they don't understand what a backup is.
Exactly, it’s not so much “enemies of India” as it is merely differing opinions.

I’m Indian (though I emigrated to the west when I was a teenager), and I consider myself pro-Indian, and I also consider it to be pro-Indian to give a voice to India’s less fortunate population. Personally I support programs to reduce poverty with greater enthusiasm than I support space exploration. In my view there is nothing about that that is offensive to India, in fact it elevates the majority of India’s population.
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Although I agree with your sentiment, just preaching it wouldn't change them. That's the real problem that we need to discuss. And we're yet to know how to systematically educate ourselves and our colleagues to prevent a similar accident in future.
Except for the fact they both fly I don't see the similarities between PPL rated pilots and recreational drone flight at all. Recreational drone pilots do not fly in what most people consider controlled air traffic. A drone flight plan shouldn't take more than 15 minutes: check Skyvector for TFRs and NOTAMs, check Airmap for restricted airspace, send a LAANC to the local ATC, check local weather, and finally check the flight area for obstructions. That is literally it. Most recreational drones don't have the range to go out of sight.

If anything if we are using cars as a metaphor. Drones are like dirtbikes. They aren't allowed on public roads. But can be freely driven on private property and BLM territories.
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Or the sales of CDs have declined so much that they are going to get outsold by a niche product.
The rules in the U.S. aren't that different. I live equidistant between Midway and O'Hare in the Chicago area. O'Hare is one of the busiest airports in the U.S. and I don't have any problem finding places to fly. There are plenty of soccer fields and parks that are rarely used. Go early in the morning if you are particularly paranoid about bystanders.

I've found if you keep a respectful distance from people, nobody gives shit that you are flying a drone. If anything they're more likely to come up and ask questions, curious about what you are doing.
Viruses are life, but they depend on the machinery of other, more complex life to reproduce. Life doesn't start with viruses, for if it did, how would they reproduce?
I learnt a lot about design and coding practices at Google than anywhere else I've worked.
It's cause I know how little time I have to do stuff in my life already, and the idea that I'd spend my already scant time cataloguing bulky records and having to worry about them whenever I move is pretty stressful.
A well setup turntable, with a quality cartridge, while it certainly isn't zero wear, isn't far from it. We're talking hundreds of plays.

Turntables that trash records are usually shitty turntables that, if they're even adjustable at all, aren't adjusted properly.
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And [literal] tons of vinyl has suffered warping from heat, being stored incorrectly. Or degraded from just being actually played on a record player more than a few times. Despite not being impervious, CDs are far more durable than vinyl records.
I agree that if we’re pursuing sheer audio fidelity, CD quality is objectively superior to vinyl in every way. However (as others mention), many vinyl listeners are not after objective sound fidelity perfection: For them, the flaws are part of their “retro” charm.

However, one note about CD quality — it may not be as perfect as you think! A peer-reviewed meta-analysis has shown that humans can hear the difference between CD quality (44khz/16bit) and “high-res audio” recordings (e.g. 192khz/24bit)! The perceptual difference is relatively small, but measurable (assuming high quality speakers and signal chain):

https://phys.org/news/2016-06-people-difference-high-resolut...

I doubt 44khz sampling rate is a problem, but fixed point 16 bits per sample does seem fairly constraining, given how our perception of linear audio loudness corresponds to exponential increases in signal strength.

Also, if anyone tries to test it yourself, beware that it is actually quite hard to do so properly:

1. Any listening tests in a web browser will just resample to CD quality automatically anyway, because they just play into your OS’s shared audio mixing system, which mixes all audio sources before they reach your DAC, which usually resamples them all to CD quality in this process.

2. The above point applies to ANY app that doesn’t take exclusive control over your PC’s audio output capability, and even then there are many pitfalls where you can almost accidentally trigger a default CD quality resampling stage somewhere in the pipeline.

3. Be careful to ensure the audio file you’re playing wasn’t just a regular CD quality file that was simply upsampled to 192/24 or whatever high res rate it claims to be. Sadly, this happens a lot. Your audio file MUST be recorded AND mastered (edited) in the studio at every stage using high res formats.

4. Make sure your audio signal path doesn’t have any components introducing dynamic range (loudness) compression (many default to this, these days), or any other resampling, equalization, etc. stages.

5. Your DAC may not even support anything higher than 44/16 data streams, so resampling may be inevitable!

6. Make sure you played the audio samples on extremely high quality speakers (often costing many thousands of dollars, making this whole point moot/irrelevant for most people anyway). The vast majority of consumer headphones and speakers can’t render a low vs high bitrate MP3 very differently, let alone the subtle differences we’re talking about here.
Strongly disagree.

A major reason is that you can't really get away with the crappy loudness war style mastering on vinyl. Just because of that they sound way better than most digital masters.
I did both and I can tell you I became a much better engineer at Google. The "average" does make a difference.