skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the article references the graph.

Where is the raw data? This gets back to the data literacy issues. How do we empower people like you and me to know if the BKS got those numbers accurately and from where? I'll look on their site for taw data inputs. I couldn't find easily, but I am sure they have. But also let's find what kind of employment they have and see what it gets them. A graph doesn't tell me that.

Also in the article it has been going down 107 months (so approaching ten years, not just since 2017 at the start of his tenure). I did not think he has been president that long, and if we look at just the graph, except for increases in the end of 2009, it seems to have been going down with some consistency since then at similar rates. Just look at the graph. So what are we crediting whom for? Why do we assume if it happened in 2017 it is an immediate consequence of presidential action at that same time that year? Also kind of dubious to me.

Do you ever worry that your opinions motivate how you see data, not the other way around? I do a lot and why I also generally worry about political administrations in all countries who reference their success with correlation and not causation in this way. These kinds of conversations keep telling me they have won the perception game and we do not care to run a government like a business project and measure our success. Maybe if anything a weird ad campaign where we throw money at problems and if people's behavior changes we are certain it is the ad campaign in a vacuum and without real evidence.

I hope you understand why I'm not sold on your example. Thanks.
That sounds heavy
Okay, so this is a way to generate a sampling in order, so you don't have to keep a sorted list and your run time can be k instead of klogk. Mostly.

The body of the post, with its talk of strict timing and sample bias, had me thinking it had some clever way to pick a random number from 1 to n in finite time. But that's not actually possible to do with a random bit source and a non-power-of-two n. If this algorithm hits certain rare values it will re-sample the RNG.
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Inline base64 shouldn't have any head of line blocking or slow rendering issues, unlike embedded images-as-mime-attachments, which will normally result in one HTTP request to gmails servers per image, and without QUIC you'll get head of line blocking and limited/no HTTP pipelining making that very slow.

Inline base64 should perform fine for small images up to ~10k images I'd guess on most hardware.

If your email contains more than 10k math equations, perhaps email isn't the right tool...
You sure you don't mean converting digits to hex instead of rendering? The constant rendering of the hex digits as the work progresses results in a ~3x slowdown for 100k digits in my testing (see my other comment in this tree).
I’ve been building a forum. The software part is done, I worked for like 9 months on and off to get it deployed, and now I just don’t have the motivation to do the work involved in building the community.
Which is funny, in the analytical world differentiation is easy and integration is hard, but in the numerical world it's the other way around.
You also need to remember that the Prius Prime has just a laughable battery capacity relative to a Tesla. Like less than a twentieth of the batteries.

Among other things this means you can meaningfully charge the Prius's battery from the solar hitting it on a daily basis, even though it would take weeks to fully charge a Tesla.
Are you working in operations and infrastructure? My take is that writing enterprisey applications you are not exposed to those tools.
I'm in ops.
The JIT optimizes them away:

> The IsSupported checks are treated as runtime constants by the JIT (when optimizations are enabled) and so you do not need to cross-compile to support multiple different ISAs, platforms, or architectures. Instead, you just write your code using if-statements and the unused code paths (any code path which is not executed, due to the condition for the branch being false or an earlier branch being taken instead) are dropped from the generated code (the native assembly code generated by the JIT at runtime).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hardware-intrinsics-in...
"The combined tax payment is less than the 1.6 billion euros the finance ministry had been seeking from Google"
That thing looks an awful lot like a quad bike with two extra wheels.
NOTE: This comment I wrote is totally wrong. I haven't had my morning coffee yet. H_n - H_(cn) ≈ constant, not diverging (for 0 < c ≤ 1). :)

Yeah, but the k ~ n/2 case (in which inverse selection and normal selection have the same runtime) is still Ω(n log n) (equiv Ω(k log k)), which is still "slower" than the presented algorithm.
I think saying 'written in X' != 'has API wrappers for X' .
The highest-rated panels do about 200W/sqm.

Very roughly, it looks like the prius has a 1.1sqm hood, 1.7sqm roof and 1.1sqm trunk. That's 750~775W worth of panels.

The prius has an EV range of 25mi with an 8.8kWh battery, that's 2.8mi/kWh, so with the 3.9sqm worth of high-power panels above and assuming full sun (full power production) you'd gain a range of 2.17mi/h.
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Isn't caesium kind of hugely expensive?
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I actually thought it was the worst part of the article because it fails to put the statements into context.

Let me quote from "0 And 1 Are Not Probabilities"[1].

> In probabilities, 0.9999 and 0.99999 seem to be only 0.00009 apart, so that 0.502 is much further away from 0.503 than 0.9999 is from 0.99999. To get to probability 1 from probability 0.99999, it seems like you should need to travel a distance of merely 0.00001.

> But when you transform to odds ratios, 0.502 and 0.503 go to 1.008 and 1.012, and 0.9999 and 0.99999 go to 9,999 and 99,999. And when you transform to log odds, 0.502 and 0.503 go to 0.03 decibels and 0.05 decibels, but 0.9999 and 0.99999 go to 40 decibels and 50 decibels.

> When you work in log odds, the distance between any two degrees of uncertainty equals the amount of evidence you would need to go from one to the other. That is, the log odds gives us a natural measure of spacing among degrees of confidence.

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QGkYCwyC7wTDyt3yT/0-and-1-ar...

Edit: formatting
They'd get more power from putting a giant windmill on a Prius.
Does any one know why the url says 550 million ?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-google-tax/go...
Any feedback is very welcome!
50km a day in charge capacity is the absolute best-case scenario. In reality you should count on half of that.

What you gain in additional charge will offset the AC power draw you need to cool down your car after you parked it in the sun for a full day.

A more effective solution would be to have a carport with a solar panel roof (10~15m2) that way you have shade, affordable panels, and an actual charge capacity of about 50km. It doesn't move with the car, but since we are talking about work commute your car will probably be parked at the same location for 5 days/week during peak sun output.

Mind you that the panels used on the Toyota prototype are still very expensive. At current prices they probably don't make economic sense.
My boss never accepts calendar invites for meetings, and may or may not show up to the scheduled meeting.

Brilliant filter since people will ask again if she's really needed, vs just invited for show.
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Also, total numbers aside, the War on Drugs was tailored from the start to affect blacks more.
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The 20% employee discount must certainly help. That almost evens out the markup on all their products over regular grocery store prices.
There would be a lot of permits though, delays, etc. I like the idea of having smaller panels as one offs.
>I still think than having PV installations over every parking lot makes more

If this was a planned economy I would agree and vote in the next party meeting to put chargers in every parking lot and power them with transparent PV over the parking spaces.

But since I live in a capitalist country I can't make other people invest tens of thousands of dollars just because it makes more sense than putting solar panels on my car. I mean, in some cases I still can, but there's a significant market for the people that can't effect such a change and have to make due with the less efficient solar powered car.
Here is how I would do it. Pick a prime p bigger than N. Pick a random permutation of Z/pZ. Pick an initial state. Advance to the next state, to cycle through all the values exactly once.

You use rejection sampling if the state is greater than N, so as long as you pick p close to N this should happen very rarely and be amortized O(1).

If N is big this advance to the next state can be encoded easily as a multiplication by an element of Z/pZ (multiplication followed by modulo p), and you will cycle through all the values because Maths.
If N is not so big you pick a few (m) elements of Z/pZ to represent your permutation, and you use the first number as a multiplier mod p the first time, then the second number as a multiplier mod p the second time, and so on..., and you will also cycle through all the value, because Maths as long as you don't get a 1 while multiplying sequentially your m elements.

Don't forget to stamp it good enough(TM), if not use Dual-ECC.
Why don't you stick to the energy growth rate (instead of the 4.72% velocity growth rate) and then use the relativistic formula of the kinetic energy (in which the relationship between energy and velocity is not quadratic — the quadratic approximation is valid only for small velocities)?
The previous post explains why IRC is ‘broken’, so to speak. http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/05/14/the-next-part-of-the-...
So forgive me, because I'm a very ignorant person:

Why don't we just jail executives responsible if they consistently fail to abide by the law?
A couple dozen people change at the top but literally everyone else stays on, including all the criminals in military and intelligence. It's an absolute joke.
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But it can get towed. Like a person would if caught with fiscal fraud.
I am not into shares really so allow me the question: does someone know when these shares will "launch"? Couldn't find a date and honestly don't know where to look exactly.
If we all do exactly the opposite of California we have a chance.
Why else would so many flee such a beautiful state?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-04-02

An extension of this I find even more surprising
I disagree, look at quines. Systems can contain copies of themselves if they can be compressed.
Interesting, I can see 10TB for € 47.88, even less if you don't pay VAT (20%)
Seems correct to me. People don't read text, but they'll look at pictures.
Caesium is the easiest metal to ionize. It also has a fairly low work function. So it is easy to turn the metal into a plasma.
> I think one of the key issues is that illegal behavior by these companies almost never leads to the prosecution of decision makers

I think, despite the title, this isn’t actually a criminal case. It’s Google taking advantage of that Irish tax loophole.
I actually checked how much is 550 GBP because I thought they confused with the currency

but then I saw this sentence in the article

"The settlement comprises a fine of 500 million euros and additional taxes of 465 million euros, Google said in a statement."
They specifically say that a nice thing about Vitter's algorithm is that it produces its results in sorted order, and that it's easy to shuffle them after they've been drawn.

> The reason it’s nice for an algorithm to produce results in sorted order is because it’s easy to randomize the order after the fact.
> A group of infantrymen should have no problem getting it back upright.

Well sure but why would they use it in action aside from the fun factor of seeing this lumbering contraption (and at 1400kg empty with a top speed of 8km/h "lumbering" is putting it midly) flail and fall over every few minutes?
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I do agree with you. The fact that people in the feds that have been in a state prison refer to it as easy street is deflating. The local places I have been are much worse. Manhattan/Charlotte/Hampton Roads are all really, really shitty.

Truth be told, if you have some minimum level of funds available and you are within regular travel distance of visitors the federal system is not bad at a camp or a low.

The existence of a straight-to-camp prisoner is a little silly to me. Camps should really only be a stepping stone down from higher security level on your way to release. The feds could save a lot of money by sending people with 18-36 month sentences to a modified RDAP program while living at a halfway house or home confinement. I fully believe every one in the federal system should be participating in an RDAP-type program to evaluate their criminal thinking and have better availability to skills training. Prison and Oren Cass' book "The Once and Future Worker" really influenced my thinking on what should be done to help.
From the article:

> The settlement comprises a fine of 500 million euros and additional taxes of 465 million euros

500M EUR -> $550M. The distinction between fines and taxes presumably matters for accounting?
The described bit operations are only suitable when the input range is a power of two, whereas your described math is suitable for almost all systems. That part of the article would do better to explain that you simply want to map your highest value to 0xFF and your lowest to 0x00, mapping linearly, rather than talking about mapping bits. (It also doesn't mention HDR or 10-bit output, both of which could improve visual quality in CRT emulation.)

Also, by implicitly doing the mapping to 8-bit first and the gamma stuff later, some precision is lost, but this shouldn't be a concern until you reach around five input bits per component.
Could you share more about why you are surprised?
Tldr of the algorithm from the paper:

Instead of choosing random numbers to include in the list, they're choosing the gap between numbers. They derive the distribution of this gap then approximate it so it can be calculated quickly.
> Because the amount of energy captured by such a minuscule surface area would barely recoup the inefficiencies of the added weight

Is this actually true? Solar Panels don't have to power 100% (or even 20%) of the car to still be super useful on an EV.

An EV with a solar array that generated just ~0.7kwh during 6 hours of daylight, would still be charging itself an extra ~20 miles of range per day while parked. That's significant enough to be worth it to me. And that range can add up (imagine being parked at the airport for 3 or 4 days, and having an extra 60+ miles of "free" range sitting on your car when you return)

Alternatively, that electricity could power an AC outlet or an air conditioner for camping trips or remote work while parked or whatever. "Dog mode" could keep parked cars safely cooled without draining any range.

My EV sits outside an office, in direct sunlight, nearly every business day. And it's battery covers 70% (but not all) of my daily commute. Even if solar panels aren't the most efficient use of that space, surely they're better than nothing, right? Every watt from that solar panel, is a watt I didn't have to pull off the grid, or an ounce of petrol I did not have to burn.
That is answered here: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/05/14/the-next-part-of-the-...
It would. The original problem is to draw a subset of tweets.

If there's a chance to randomize the entire tweet archive, then it's a shuffling algorithm now.
"The settlement comprises a fine of 500 million euros and additional taxes of 465 million euros". Probably it referred to the fine in USD
Both sides had ads and propaganda, but it seemed like the anti-Brexit side was much more aggressive. The front page of reddit was swarmed with posts about how Brexit would be the end of the world and that anyone who votes leave is literally a Nazi controlled by Putin and yadda yadda yadda.
Across the EU most universities have tuition costs of <$100 per month. The bulk of that usually goes to a public transport ticket.

For people who can't afford that, there are usually some forms of getting it for free.

Higher education really shouldn't be a matter of personal finances.
I find the same preemptive assumption from many people that they are incapable of understanding mathematics. The usual statement is: "I'm not a math person." This alone tells me how criminally warped their view on academics and mathematics must have been shaped, and how rotten we are at teaching concepts in a way multiple subsets of the classroom can learn at once.
You also need to consider that several people are processed through private facilities on their way to a public facility. CCA Youngstown and others hold prisoners before they are finally transferred to a federal facility. CCA Youngstown can melt off the face of the Earth as far as I am concerned.
It's actually a great idea, assuming that background light levels are properly taken care of and the camera is well calibrated to a linear colorspace. Unfortunately "pixels" don't really blend linearly when transferred over a composite cable and there are some games that use NTSC artifacts to achieve certain colors.
> The focus of a healthy prison system should be to rehabilitate people and help them turn their lives around so that they contribute positively to society.

Compare with this statement: "A well-run private prison system would be given financial rewards based on recidivism rates and internal violence, and could do so at less cost than state-run prisons". I suspect your response will probably be along the lines of "that's nice dear, but that's not the system we actually ended up with".

The alternative to privately-run prisons that actually exists in CA is not the healthy prison system that you have described, but is the state-run prison system: a revolving door into criminal training centres, with all the abuses you could expect from a system in which certain sets of people have near-arbitrary power over other sets of people.

> A for-profit company by definition seeks to maximize profits.

Yep, people who make money from a thing have an incentive for that thing to continue happening. Now, I challenge you to take a less narrow view of "profit", one that would include (say) a secure job that pays a good wage and comes with a cushy pension (and power over others for those that relish that sort of thing), and apply your reasoning to the state prison system.
just to be pedantic: macOS is Unix whereas linux is not https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3653.htm
> That’s not how this works though.

What youre struggling with is the counterintuitive nature of applied statistics vs pure math, and this is the point TFA was trying to make.

> You aren’t getting 80 more signups as suggested

TFA isnt saying you "get" more, but just illustrating how different 95 and 99% actually are. Its restating the potato paradox, linked elsewhere in the thread

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
So then it's not similar to a Ferrari getting a parking ticket, right?
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Laziness is the mother of innovation.

Hard working lazy people seek solutions to do the necessary work with smallest and most efficient way possible to achieve lowest level of effort possible.
There is a difference between wealth and income. The top income earners pay a majority of the income taxes. The lower income earners pay a much smaller part of the taxes.

A bunch of the super rich deal in wealth rather than income. Remember reading about tech execs with $1 annual paychecks? They earn their money differently and pay taxes differently.

I wish there was more online showing this in a simple form.
But on each draw you need to check if its a card you've already drawn. You can hold your cards in a set data structure but then you pick up the complexity of the insertion operation into sets. IIRC sets are basically hash tables that map keys to themselves. Insertion is O(1)...until you need to resize your table due to hash collision.
No problem, it looks great otherwise!
Well if you're mentioning Huawei copying Apple designs, Huawei still has a lot to cover to match Apple copying, namely how Apple copied a lot BrAun. A lot.
So, why did people vote this up to the front page, when there is pretty much nothing to see here?
Can you write DSL like the Rails router DSL in Python?

If so, how much work is involved?
Since we're take anecdotes as the standad: I've done research and read patents too. I found clever ideas in all of them.
That's about 15 euros per person in France.
Thanks for the response :)

If I go walking in the nearby bushland (in Australia) I will notice small honeyeaters and other bird life that doesn't come into the suburbs at all. It's amazing what secrets life keeps so close to us!
Ooh, this feels like it gets close to the solution!

It's not quite there as stated, though, since this algorithm requires O(k^2) time (where k is the number of elements to be randomly drawn) as you have to insert items into specific indices in the array.
It's important to allow protection for ideas/products/software/drugs that take a large amount of investment to develop. If you spent 10 years and millions developing a better video compression algorithm, why there should not be a way for you to offer it to market, but at the same time have it protected against copying.

Similar problem occurs in biotech, if you developed a drug and proved it helps cure a disease, usually it is trivially simple to create the same drug (generics). This means that without a patent, companies would lose part of the incentive to innovate.

However, if your patent is simple, it's an idea like pinch to zoom that realistically didn't need millions in research to develop, then that patent should not be granted as the purpose of the patent is not return on investment from research.
They're not gonna walk it out into a firefight but it makes sense for getting heavier weapons into the hard to get to places you inevitably wind up wanting them. This kind of vehicle is useful for moving all the weapons systems we put on top of M113 and Humvee chassis. Also, it's worth remembering that this is a prototype, not a finished system.
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Walmart sues Tesla over several solar panel fires caused by ‘negligence’
I expect Racket to be faster than CPython:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Note that the old C runtime of Racket has been rewritten to use Chez Scheme. The work is not completely done - but it is getting close.

Talk by Matthew Flatt on the rewrite (almost a year old):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09AJUK6IiM