skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a doctor as opposed to an AI researcher, so many of the choices this study makes are baffling to me.

First of all, why just one heartbeat? You never capture just one heartbeat on an ECG anyway, and "Is the next heartbeat identical to the first one?" is such an important source of information, it seems completely irrational to exclude it. At least pick TWO heartbeats. If you're gonna pick one random heartbeat, how do you know you didn't pick an extra systole on accident? (Extra systoles look different, and often less healthy, than "normal" heart beats, as they originate from different regions of the heart.)

Secondly, why heart failure and not a heart attack? One definition of heart failure is "the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs," which can be caused by all sorts of factors, many of them external to the actual function of the heart - do we even know for sure that there are ANY ECG changes definitely tied to heart failure? Why not instead try to detect heart attacks, which cause well-defined and well-researched known ECG changes?

(I realize AIs that claim to be able to detect heart attacks already exist. None of the ones I've personally worked with have ever been usable. The false positive rate is ridiculously high. I suppose maybe some research hospital somewhere has a working one?)
Someone at work has it and constantly complains about it because while using his phone for payments he has to look down at the phone for a while so it unlocks.
Check out Mattermost Team edition[1], it's easy to set up blazing fast when properly self-hosted.

[1]https://mattermost.com/download/
You're absolutely right, this wasn't in OP. It seemed like a minor detail at the time.

What should the mnemonics be called? SubX is already quite verbose. Would you be willing to put up with long names like `add_immediate`?

32- vs 64-bit is certainly a subjective choice. I outlined some reasons for my choice a year ago: https://lobste.rs/s/jkmwer/what_are_you_working_on_this_week.... But 64-bit is certainly a valid processor to target.
What altitude did it reach?
Cheers! The project is here: http://joypy.osdn.io/ FWIW.

The Prolog code is under the ./thun subdir. I apologize for the state of the repo & docs. I need to go through and update everything.

If you look at the Python code the vast majority of it is the type inference module and the library of functions and combinators. The parser, main loop, and most of the library are trivial. Most of the joy.utils.types module is a crude re-implementation of a subset of Prolog and can be discarded. The Prolog version of Joy is even shorter than the Python version.

The Joy compiler (which is only about half done) is really tight and simple (Joy doesn't use variable so no need for a symbol table; Joy doesn't use subroutines so no need for a call stack) and the last half of the functionality won't require double the code.

Meta-programming in both Joy and Prolog is really easy and powerful, and Joy in particular lends itself to a kind of Huffman encoding of your graph (Joy code forms a simple DAG.)

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I want to repeat, Mu is really inspiring. I'm looking forward to watching your progress. :-)
Even better, d0lph1n
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So what's the "without a Congressional declaration"?
Maybe I had a heavy lunch and dozed off at my desk? Or fell asleep at the beach/pool/park, or any number of plausible scenarios that don't involve living with a crazy person.

These aren't super common situations but they do happen, and a security flaw like this can be the difference between someone stealing an electronic brick and someone making off with corporate secrets and customer PII (if it's a work phone).
It was done to Ulbricht:

> But at 3:15 p.m., the quiet was broken when, out of nowhere, a young woman in street clothes charged toward Ulbricht yelling, "I'm so sick of you!" and grabbed his laptop. Ulbricht leapt from his seat to grab it back, when the half dozen other readers at nearby tables suddenly lunged for him, pushing him up against a window.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dead-end-o...

Though the British police are using it as well:

> Undercover surveillance officers trailed Yew and waited for him to unlock his phone to make a call - thereby disabling the encryption. One officer then rushed in to seize the phone from Yew's hand

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38183819
Really interesting. Didn't even know that this existed! Will definitely be checking it out and using it in future projects!
Pilots have been famous for wearing big, complex watches for as long as there have been pilots. In the old days, an accurate timepiece was critical for things like dead reckoning navigation. Tools for those tasks eventually got built into the planes themselves, but by that point the watch had become a part of the image of being an aviator, in the same way that leather jackets (originally worn for warmth at high altitude) and mirrored sunglasses (originally worn to improve visibility when flying sunward) did.
The two crashes are the final outcome of a structural failing of Boeing at all levels, from engineering to manufacturing to management. The fact that they did not speak out until it was much too late is evidence of that coverup, if they had been up front about any of this the second crash could have surely been avoided and if they had simply done the right thing and name the 737 differently and obtained proper type certification without MCAS it would have avoided the first one as well.
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"Mu doesn't have every feature of modern compilers and OSs, but it should hopefully give you a view of something simple working from end to end that you can then carry with you when making sense of more complex systems."

Awesome, that's what I was hoping for: something that will lower the entry bar but still provide useful education for the greater world.
Perhaps useful for early beginners, but visual keyboards lack the tactile feedback from the sharps.

Much more value having the fingers on a real keyboard and hearing each note's pitch.
I think it's "Piece to Camera", which took quite some digging to find!
Here [0] is a 45-minute radio show/podcast in which a presenter and three academic experts discuss The Epic of Gilgamesh. It moves fast and covers a lot of ground.

(I recommend this series, In Our Time, whenever I can. Many jewels in the back catalogue.)

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080wbrq — but also on iTunes, etc.
I was under the impression that the linear spike engines also used the mechanism of the air pressure keeping the gases in the right shape?
For a TL;DR this is a good video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGIiO1APig

I remember EverydayAstronaut had a chat with Elon Musk about aerospikes recently, don't know if it was featured in the video.
> The "goto considered harmful" was the start of this and the overall pattern has not improved with age.

I tend to agree.

Has someone made a

"considered harmful" considered harmful?
Why do that when this is such a minor issue that doesn't 99.9% of their users.
Custom archivers, in many cases. The ArchiveTeam are a part of that (they're independent of IA, but work closely with them).

Feedback to info@archive.org also generally nets responses, though you may want to give that a week or so for them to get back to you.
As in they weren't willing to wait for any open standard, nor spearhead one themselves.
Hospitals & hospice are the ones who're gonna suck up all that sweet 401k money eventually anyway, in most cases. Inheritance is dead for the middle class—the elderly are, in the best case, sustained by their retirement accounts until they get sick in the last 5-10 years of their life and the healthcare industry siphons off all their money.

So yeah, go ahead and hit my retirement account for 20% in exchange for fixing healthcare—properly, like a real friggin' modern country I mean. Seems like a bargain.
>> in that post, Swebs was making an argument that UEOS/UEIS has already been settled by observation.

> At most that was just being wrong, not having a circular argument.

I did not call Swebs' argument circular. I will repeat, for at least the third time now, that my comment about circularity was intended to forestall the use of a circular argument, of the sort that you have acknowledged is possible, in attempts to correct it.

>> I don't have measurements, Swebs didn't have measurements (though he thought he did), and it has become clear that you don't have measurements either. Maybe someone does, but they have not yet shown up in this discussion.

> That doesn't matter...

It is not intended to be an argument for the circularity of anything, it is simply a reply to your comment about measurements, pointing out the lack of them in this discussion.
I've never received an sms marketing message from GoogleFi in 4 years.
Is this view of FP based on actual experience maintaining a non-trivial program written in an FP language? In my experience, FP doesn’t necessarily add a lot of unnecessary complexity. Sure, languages like Haskell are perhaps initially a bit more abstract when learning them, but once you know the basics, you can write pretty straightforward code in it. You can also do crazier things, but there is no need for that in most software.

Keeping a functional style, regardless of the language (although FP languages lend themselves better to this) can help in keeping code more decoupled, since you have to be explicit about side effects.

I think that both FP and imperative languages have places where they shine, and I freely switch between them depending on the project. Given how much some imperative languages have recently borrowed from FP languages, I think that this shows that functional programming has some significant merits.
Half maybe, but not less.

I’ve read a lot of book abstracts (from getabstract.com) of business or pop science books in about 6 to 20 pages. They really do seem to contain all the pertinent points, but in my experience you read them, nod your head (“that makes sense”), and then the next day have forgotten all about it. Zero retention.

A book, by contrast, is much longer and, yes, repetitive, but also gives context, examples, applications, anecdotes, etc., and in my experience all this seemingly superfluous stuff helps with retention.
>>that when people talked about enjoying the ride, that's what they were talking about - the tedious stuff

It sounds like a rationalization to me.
Someone posted something in public space, and wonder how come people interact with it. :D

If you have a PR tab open for people, or issues then why are you complaining that they are using it? Make your repos private and stop complaining.
> ... given that he has doesn't have any kind of formal training in it.

As someone who does have some training in it, I can say that "best space content on YouTube" is akin to "best brain surgeon in a room full of circus clowns."

He gets a lot of stuff right, don't get me wrong. But the appearance of credibility is down to enthusiasm, specialty of focus, and editing and delivery. It's fine as far as it goes, but it's infotainment. It's more important that you be entertained and feel smart than sit down and struggle with the actual application of engineering principles and achieve any kind of reliable knowledge.
This book (Data Science Bookcamp) uses actual Python code instead of math notation. https://www.manning.com/books/data-science-bookcamp
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"Coding the matrix" was the breakthrough for me in grokking linear algebra, and this is what it does. Things are explained in terms of matrices and the mathematical transformations, and then explained in terms of python data structures and a loop over the elements. And most of the examples are computer science, like rotating images.
Driving school 2017 is a great place to work for
My cost of a knowledge worker is based out of Ames, IA. Not precisely a hotbed of 200,000 salaries. But it is indicative of a professional and the indirect costs associated with employing them (payroll taxes, health benefits, bonuses, etc).

It's 7 years, and a minimum of 3 in-person court visits, plus any number of briefs, letters, preparation, and communicating with the plaintiffs (only some of this work is done by the paralegals; all the paralegal's work still goes through a lawyer). Perhaps you can be a bit more explicit in how you think all that effort wouldn't cost the firm millions of dollars?
Node.js web server that bundles and configures a lot of middleware so you don't have to.
Or something along the lines. Instead of hinting what is the gist of how it works, say it straight away.
Do what? Fix getrandom() or take advantage of getrandom() vulnerabilities?
If you like his content, Go with Scott Manley. He has at least some formal training as he is an astrophysicist by trade. Massive knowledge and in-depth bits of info.
I don't think these are comparable except that both are related to cultural issues.

Boeing seems to be short-cutting processes on safety-critical code.

VW was related to gaming a system for environmental compliance. While bad and a breach of trust, it doesn't carry the same immediate threat as safety critical code.
Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork
Driving school 2017 is a great place to work for and it is a great place to
Yes, the book really translates (at least) two techniques from aviation to the hospital setting: checklists and CRM (Crew Resource Management).
Encapsulation is trivial in FP tho.
> They turned checklists into an oppressive regime of documenting every conceivable step and path to the tiniest detail.

That‘s a shame since this exact pitfall is covered in the book when the first list he comes up with for an operating room fails spectacularly because it’s over-detailed. He has to circle back and revisit the checklists used by pilots and realized they only cover the most essential steps. He also discusses the difference between a pilot’s checklist and the checklists used in construction projects and why they have different levels of detail.
Sculpting a company, like sculpting out of clay, or creating a perfectly balanced 4 or 6 or 8 or 12 cylinder enging can be a "work of art". Creating a a system, and then watching it run, and tuning and adjusting and tinkering and improving (given that it is built on the most unreliable or unspecifiable of parts: humans), could be a joy in itself.

The sheer joy of creation and maintenance. Or, with the mental model of the organization as a developing child, an unruly yet talented child full of promise - raising it up to reach it's peak potential, like an athlete's father, like Tiger Wood's father, might do.

That sounds like a legitimate life work, and a hobby, and an interest, to me.

EDIT: The care-and-feeding of some of my long-running simulations, be they agent-based computational economics, or alife, give me a lot of joy, even after 20 years of watching them and nurturing them and tuning their parameters. (The results are can be quite surprising! I don't understand people who golf or fish, or that retire to do whatever retired people do, but starting companies or herding populations of computer programs is something I could imagine doing until I die.)
This is adjacent to the current lot, the stair in the background is not the current one. There used to be this paved area that went underneath the steps to the entrance of Hamerschlag. There was also a loading dock there where I assume this hexapod made it out from wherever in Wean Hall it was constructed. This area is now occupied by lab space and from above is planted with grass.
This has been a labor of love for Tim - and most of the space community has been watching for this to come out. He recently had a interview with Bridensteine at NASA (who despite expectations seems to be doing a amazing job at NASA) and a geek out moment with Elon Musk. He's shifting the reporting of space news.
It is almost like this kind of oral poetry is its own separate kind of "literacy" separate from being able to write and being able to speak conversationally. Definitely a different set of words and skills.
Well, just like every other edutainment channel out there like Veritasium or SmarterEveryDay. Nothing wrong with that, most of us are not trying to become aerospace engineers or physicists.
Maybe they want to avoid breaking scrolling with space and page down, which so many sites with headers and footers do by having the covered up text still count for positioning.
> A lot of the comments are fairly critical, but I think your move was praise worthy from the perspective of CO2 emissions alone.

If the goal is low or zero co2 emissions, there's a number of datacenters in north america powered from 100% hydroelectric. In British Columbia, Oregon, central/eastern WA state and in Quebec.
One thing I always want to see in a README: what command do I type to build and run this thing :P
The notion that we have no real-world experience with how modern skyscrapers behave in earthquakes doesn't pass muster, for exactly the reason you pointed out. Not only is the scientific research easy to find on Google, but we can see videos of events on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zw-BvKo0pI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gglhWS23HfM

The notion that bedrock is a requirement is also easily refuted by a simple search of the scientific literature. TL;DR: it's complicated, obviously, but one potential advantage of friction piles and a floating foundation is less movement.

We don't need to be professional structural engineers to reject such simplistic, categorical notions; they're patently flawed.
Different classes of data compress differently.

For complex reason, human language (spoken and written) is about 50% redundant, across a wide range of independent languages.

Tabular data can be vastly more compressible, and I'd routinely see 90% or better compression across a range of datasets (mostly business, financial, and healthcare data). Data of highly random events might be somewhat less so.

Image, audio, and video data, when in codecs is already highly compressed. When you're working with raw (WAV, TIFF, BMP, RAW) datatypes, there's a huge opportunity for compression, but mp3, ogg, mp4, png, gif, jpg, etc., are pretty highly compressed. There's a distinction between lossy (jpg, mp3) and lossless (png, AALC) formats. You get smaller files with lossy formats, but you're actually losing some of the original data, whilst lossless codecs allow fully reconstruction of the original source image, audio, or video.

Your comment about simulated universes gets to a key philosophical question about information, truth, and models. Generally, any representation we have of the universe is at best an abstraction of it, and hence a small, lossy, model.

This needn't necessarily be the case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
I think this is a challenge that the archive.org/wayback machine people need to tackle to keep the general web page indexing working, going forward.

To me it's kind of obvious that "custom archivers" approach isn't going to scale to the entire web. "Customer archivers" implies some set of rules per "site engine". The problem is that that are probably (guessing here) 1M+ unique "site engines", or whatever you call them. I.e. the web is way too diverse.

There probably needs to be something generic that works with complicated pages 95% of the time, without previous knowledge of the API structure/dynamic.

If "custom archivers" is the plan to tackle the archival of the web for the past five and the next fifteen years.. I really think we need to do better.
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This is another great New Yorker story on the Indian oral storytelling tradition which goes into the oral vs. written thing a bit (paywalled - sorry)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/11/20/homer-in-india
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I like my entertainment to also be reasonably accurate so I'll take it. He doesn't make me feel smart, but his content does fill a curiosity itch. Especially since I will not be considering a career in rocket engineering!
> Are you trying to say that math is hard because the teachers are withholding all the tricks?

Kind of, although I don't think they do it deliberately.

Things like teaching logarithms without a slide rule.

> Puzzles like this aren't found in mainstream math education contexts. As you acknowledged in your post, they are only found in math competitions. What do you mean?

You're right. Let me try again.

Check out William Bricken's "Iconic Math" http://iconicmath.com/ or "Proofs without Words" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words or the other 3Blue1Brown videos for that matter.

I think that most math seems hard to most people only because we are not creative in the ways that it is presented. We should use science to figure out how to present math so that people get it as fast as they can, in part so that we can find and concentrate on the actually hard math problems.

E.g. Alan Kay using Smalltalk to teach calculus to little kids in the context of modelling falling objects, to me kinda proves that it shouldn't take a whole semester to teach calculus to teenagers.
While less discoverable, bookmarks with %s allow "searching", or rather URL macro-expansion, for pages that lack search features.
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> First, when giving a presentation with an external monitor, I'd like to tag specific windows to be mirrored (and scaled, if appropriate) on the secondary monitor. That way I can still be messing with my instant messages or email in private (which you can't do if you are mirroring your whole screen)

You could start another X server for the secondary display and drive it via vnc or something like that. It's a different approach, but checks most (all?) Of the boxes.
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So you have some specifics in mind? I assume you’re referring to Ex parte Bollman

“That levying an army may or may not be treason, and that this depends on the intention with which it is levied, and on the point to which the parties have advanced, has been also stated. The mere enlisting of men, without assembling them, is not levying war. The question then is, whether this evidence proves Col. Burr to have advanced so far in levying an army as actually to have assembled them.”

In the Burr case no men where actually assembled. “No evidence existed that either Bollman or Swartwout engaged in any military activity or violent acts.” I could be misreading this but I believe the military acts of a non violent nature could still qualify under this definition. Though, it’s stretching the definition of war to call such non violent acts war, such is the way of such things.

In any case I believe the line for treason is close to but before what could be called “open war.”
It’s interview time for a whole bunch of hopefuls and this is a site that’s literally owned by yc ...
seems the consensus is that it's not inaccurate, they just didn't like the format of the contribution

so you can learn a lot from downvote censored comments on this site
Belated cultural note:

Both the article and many in this comment section are using the term "Hasidic" to refer to all ultra-Orthodox (aka Haredi) Jews. This is not the case.

As the article briefly mentions, Hasidism is a recent (~18th-century) ecstatic religious movement that split off from conventional ultra-Orthodoxy. Non-Hasidic Haredim originally called themselves Misnagdim ("opposition"), but these days are usually called Litvish ("Lithuanian", since that was the stronghold of Misnagdi thought). The two have since reconciled over their combined opposition to later secularist Jewish religious and political trends, and through the efforts/existence of groups like Chabad which blur the binary; but the separate identities are still strong.

Borough Park, the neighborhood the article is about, happens to be majority Hasidic, but also has a substantial Litvish minority which is subject to all of the same pressures and constraints that draw Haredim of all stripes to online businesses.