skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As other commenters have responded, being able to navigate the DAG of citations would be a nice value add.
The mean is not so bad for many purposes because it is an expectation value.

If you add up your revenue, subtract your expenses, and divide by the number of customers that gives you a real profit number. (Condition how you define revenue & expenses) If that number is negative or positive it is meaningful.

The median on the other hand has a different set of problems. If you are running a game like Fate Grand Order you'd better cultivate the guy who spends $70k because he has to "catch them all". The median player probably pays little or nothing, but the guy who sells ero comics at Comiket complains about what it costs to get (say) Saber Bride, but it is worth more to him than it is to the medium.

Mean and median are terrible numbers to use for latency; what drives you nuts with your computer being unresponsive is not the median latency, but the 99% latency.
Mozilla did it back in the day with their Netscape browser (now SeaMonkey). Sure, so much third-party code had to be stripped out that the code didn't even build to begin with, but those parts got rewritten and the problem was fixed.

Blender also used to be a wholly closed-source product; it was opened up after the source code was "liberated" via a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding initiative - and it's now a successful FLOSS project. It can happen.
I doubt it's so much doing updates as it is about support. If they have a vendor app (like Square on a tablet to take payments) and that abandons older OS versions to lower technical debt or for security reasons then at least they can update.

On Android you'd sadly find the lack of kernel compatibility with the chipset means that ever happens.
This is still pretty common for things like self extracting archives on Windows.

copy /b "%windir%\system32\extrac32.exe"+inputarchive.cab selfextract.exe
That's a very pithy way of putting it
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I especially hate the name for the on-prem version.

Boss: "Why the [bleep] did you guys put our code out in Azure?"
Team: "No, it's on-prem -- TFS is now Azure DevOps."
Boss: "Why didn't you tell me that Microsoft was forcing us to move our code to Azure from TFS?"
etc....
How do you guys all seem to have these experiences? I'm in Europe and would not have a clue how to test this.
This is why I always took W Passyunk Ave coming home from work when I lived in South Philly. If you travelled at around 20-23mph, you'd hit green lights from the moment you got off the highway to the street you had to turn on. It was great, but since nobody knew about the concept you'd have a lot of people frequently stopped in the middle of the street or not moving at the right speed. I wish this was more common so it would be taught in driver's tests or something, that way people would drive slower in these areas and also get to where they need to go quickly.
Related story: Around the turn of the century I was talking to a VC friend about the dot com boom. He said "Watch out if the dentists start investing." Meaning, people with high net worth, inflated sense of knowledge, and not much tech savvy. Next teeth cleaning visit, my dentist enthusiastically told me about a start up he was investing in. Coincidental or not, the crash soon followed.
1 & 2 are political decisions, fueled by "nucleophobia".

If it can solve global warming in 20 years, that's an easy win to take. There is no emergency forcing anything faster, and I doubt that it's even possible to find a cure (that isn't worse than the disease) that works faster anyway.
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Iran has an incredibly rich culture that is (quite literally) thousands of years old and includes fantastic works in everything from poetry to painted miniatures to philosophy. The current political situation there is really a tragedy for world culture. I hope it becomes easier to visit within my lifetime.
> In fact, sometimes it's negative money (the journal charges you to publish, i.e. if it's open access).

Not just if it's open access: sometimes authors have to pay "page charges" or have to pay extra to include illustrations.
I like both Ted and the Media Lab. The work he did on Xanadu is amazing and heavily influenced the web. He can be goofy at times, but I think that goofyness is related to his ability to express thoughts and ideas others would dismiss. Today's goofy idea can become tomorrows serious truth.
Nuclear has huge hurdles and long implementation times because of hysterical anti-nuclear activists. It's not inherent in the engineering. If we care about climate change, it needs to be acknowledged that the activists created artificial delays and those should be removed forthwith.
"If your data comes from a probability distribution that doesn't have a mean then calculating the mean of your data is basically meaningless (no pun intended)."

I think this is actually the major takeaway for this sort of discussion. All statistical measures carry with them assumptions about the underlying distribution. When you blindly use one without verifying the underlying distribution, you are asking to be lied to by your statistics.

It took me a while, but I've trained myself to actively ask the question "is this appropriate for the underlying distribution" whenever I see a "mean" or a "standard deviation". Spoiler: The answer is usually "no"! Central limit theorem notwithstanding, we encounter a lot of non-Gaussian and outright pathological distributions in the real world. Average is useful for more than just Gaussian, but it means different things in different distributions, most of them quite unlike what our Gaussian-trained intuition suggests. Standard deviation is really Gaussian-only, or at least, if you insist on using it, you ought to pair it with the skew, kurtosis, or other measures of how non-Gaussian your distribution is. Remembering that there's only one way to be Gaussian but an infinity of ways to be non-gaussian is helpful too. This can be a helpful video to visualize that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzzv1biHv8
That's not so surprising, given, that psilocybin dissolves ego almost completely even at standard recreational dosage.

We usually associate ourselves with ego and death is tightly linked with losing of ourselves.

But after you experience ego death once, you quickly realize that you're no longer afraid of death because there are no one who dies.
Wow, this man sounds like a really good sport and knows how to enjoy the present :) I wish I could be more like that.
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I wonder where/how you can get it. Are there any medical tests going on that you can participate in?
My understanding is it's actually a limitation of the Intel C++ compiler they use but I can't confirm this. On Windows it bakes in some conditionals to check if the CPU is GenuineIntel before doing some things, on macOS it doesn't bother.
This is really cool actually, some nice advice and tip even for startup enviornments.
>What makes people so blind to the simple solution of the problem we have now?

Chernobyl and more recently Fukushima.

You might say those were caused by outdated tech or bad management. I'm someone who doesn't think my local or national government would be immune to those failings.
I FFT incoming sound buffers, and if the 2KHz band is the highest for a suitable number of consecutive frames, then I send the email and stop listening for a few minutes to avoid double notifications.

2KHz is the frequency of my machine's beep. Just triggering on overall noise level alone would notify me each time the machine goes into spin, but using the FFT allows it to be more discerning.

(I'll try to publish the code soon.)
Well the regions with the most wind tend to concentrate in Western Europe, conveniently with lots of Atlantic, North Sea, and to a somewhat lesser extent Baltic coasts. Summer winds down in N Africa.

I include Norway as we're talking about Europe, and there are two interconnects coming with the UK -- one in progress, one planned, and other EU-Norway links coming. UK has about 5 others in progress to Netherlands, Ireland and elsewhere. There's loads of new interconnects in the pipeline within the EU and to surrounding. I've even seen Iceland in one interconnect proposal, which was somewhat surprising. Proposed interconnects to N Africa less so. There's lots of suitable onshore sites too, mainly in spots where other uses of the land are limited.

Politically not at all unthinkable though -- think of most nation's reliance on imported coal, oil, and gas, much of it for generation. That's more risky. Two way interconnect agreements are much less risk by comparison to import only, often from volatile oil and gas states. Reduced reliance on imported fossil energy is one of the big reasons it's heading that way and started in the first place.
Sounds like builtwith.com for codebases. I wonder if one can run it against all company repos and generate an accurate stackshare.io alternative.
Not just a checksum, a cryptographic signature, which verifies both the contents, and that the contents are from the owner of the key.
D is fun! It's so easy to get started. Rust has an initial learning curve that just doesn't doesn't seem to fun to me, but I guess I'll have to actually scale it some day.
This is the most ridiculous recurring accusation against someone who has championed the human-oriented use of computers since day one and it's partly his work that means we have PCs at all. So, firstly, Ted can program, secondly, there are versions of Xanadu and ZigZag you can download and try.

Bill Lowe of IBM fame on Ted;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kasu0BhRFGo

A zigzag demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yFcJXBMGQQ

Finally, the man is 82, and deserving of respect, not some flippant, inaccurate, badly argued and frankly idiotic comment.
A person I know was given thousands of dollars to pay for their home office setup. They got a modern desk, chair, giant monitor and pretty good computer. This kind of setup would make working from home much more attractive IMO.
> I know several people who graduated from the Media Lab with masters/doctorates, and they are all of this exact mold: taken captive by pipe dreams and their own delusions of what this stuff could do, while their advisors are churning through students and packaging new narratives.

I have a pretty hard time with the theory that Doctoral MIT graduates are an exploited underclass.

Doctoral students everywhere are overworked and underpaid. Same as almost everyone, really. But the Doctoral students do get to walk away with, and heavily monetize that credential at the end of it.

And if they are doing work on aspirational “pipe dreams” pursuing a dream of the future that doesn’t pan out? Rather than what, punting on the dream and getting back to the hard work of CRUD apps and monetizing clicks?
I use an old Android phone as a dedicated Kodi remote for a media center PC and my old Nexus 7 is pretty much exclusively for reading Jojo's manga.
I've only had issues with the software for school in the nights before I had to submit work.

For exemple, I recently had to give back a work on matlab.
And at 9 pm it didn't show up in the windows menu.
So I tried to run the installer that was too long, until I found out you had to use a flash drive.

Then it returned a lot of errors saying I didn't have the modules.

And I have the same issue with every damn software.

What should I do ?
10 years is s perfectly fine.

The idea that there is some tipping point in 2030 that must be avoided at all cost is just an internet rumor.
You still need a real serial but you can generate one pretty easily. Just need to check on Apple's website if it validates.

I have my PC with an AMD Ryzen 3900X running with macOS with working iMessage / App Store etc.
It's a story about a hairdryer going awry four years after it was bought. This isn't something I would even bother amazon with, it's on the manufacturer. If it was within the first year I'd expect amazon to get me a new hairdryer and that's about it.
Can anyone explain what this means for a noob?
You should talk to some teachers about the iPads impact on education. Teachers hate the devices in their classrooms. It makes their job much harder.
no, it means that the 'kettle' is a hypocrite. There is another saying, 'practice what you preach'. Don't hold people to a higher standard than you hold yourself
> I use IntelliJ for all my work, data or normal dev stuff, and it works great (all is python).

Can it show me inline plots and allow me to embed rendered formulae written in LaTex, images and video in between lines?

This is the reason people like notebooks.
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> What makes people so blind to the simple solution of the problem we have now?

People aren't always rational, people will strongly resist changing their current viewpoints and people will very strongly resist making lifestyle changes. Politicians know this also when looking to get elected.

Reducing meat consumption and reducing the number of flights we take are other areas people need to look at but you'll be met with the same problems at a personal and political level.
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Lower doses are more about the former, lots of introspection and viewing my life from an altered state.

Higher doses are all about the latter, a lot more ego death and huge weighty difficult to describe type emotions.
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Remember folks: lights timed for 40 are also timed for 80. /s
My stack of old laptops and computers is repurposed into a franken-cluster running various OpenStack services and testing applications on different platforms and performance profiles. Also handy for testing dweb applications and ideas.

Would be interesting to find a way to flash old dumbphones for something.
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This is very correct.
But you do not need to stay under the radar, just create a product that the PM in the big tech will never do.

For system products that would be:

1) Build on Kubernetes. This is the only true open ecosystem.

2) Go Multicloud. Always support at least three clouds.

3) Make the edge your primary target.
Prior to 2016, Octopus Deploy was the only popular option for .NET developers to automate their application deployments, and we'd single-handedly helped thousands of dev teams to go beyond "right click, publish". In fact, at the time, Octopus Deploy was responsible for a large % of the largest Azure deployments that were happening.

I had never heard of Octopus Deploy until 2018. There were plenty of ways to automate deployments for .Net over a decade ago. In fact, Azure Devops is basically TFS online that has been around forever.

This is like the company that said Apple “stole” their idea of using an iPad for a second screen for a Mac even though other options existed since 2010.
If these stats hold, the disease looks to have a mortality of around 2%.

Doesn't sound like a lot, but an R0 of >2 is concerning because of what it means for total infected. 2% of everyone within range of access to modern transportation is an awful lot of people.
seems like The Economist has circumvented bypass-paywalls...
Perhaps I'm just being pedantic or maybe I am misunderstanding.

The author claims to be IO bound toward the end. But they are comparing to two versions that are faster.

It is my understanding that IO-bound means that the IO subsystem is the thing which limits run time of the program. But the author clearly demonstrates that the IO subsystem of their machine is capable of supporting faster wc binaries.

So what am I missing here?
The German case confirms it is. A woman (from Shanghai, infected by her parents from Wuhan) gave a training seminar in Munich. She transmitted the virus to her German colleage (33 yr), but started to feel ill only on her flight back to China. (The man developed symptoms over the weekend, but his state improved, so he actually went to work on Monday, was hospitalized on Tuesday.)
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> * Declare Sci-Hub and its practices legal outright, and make it the new normal.

It's not exactly what you mention, but most Dutch researchers are legally allowed to freely share their work six months after publication: https://www.openaccess.nl/en/in-the-netherlands/you-share-we...

> Article 25fa of the Copyright Act (Taverne Amendment) allows researchers to share short scientific works (e.g. articles & book chapters), regardless of any restrictive publishers' guidelines.

> The maker of a short scientific work, the research for which has been paid for in whole or in part by Dutch public funds, shall be entitled to make that work available to the public for no consideration following a reasonable period of time after the work was first published, provided that clear reference is made to the source of the first publication of the work.
Here's a deck from the convicted con artist Anna Delvey, https://www.are.na/block/2250665

The strongest slide is the team, which includes 2 PhDs, and an MIT research scientist.
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Most live linux has support for saving stuff to the flash drive. It runs slowly but works.
Some organisations fund internal research so that they can demonstrate innovation to customers / investors, etc during marketing / sales, e.g. to differentiate themselves from competitors. If some of the ideas are in fact workable / profitable that is a bonus.

My first job in industry outside academia was as a programmer in the 'Advanced Techniques Department' (a.k.a. Toy Shop) of a traditional UK engineering company. We were quite often incorporated into the agenda of senior VIP visits, and we were instructed to focus on the innovative aspects of what we did. I realised later that the demos were actually great training for me as well, giving me insights into communicating with non-technical executives. I also got to work with European partner research groups in industry (spells in Denmark and Germany), which was also excellent experience.

Incidentally, the ATD had much better tooling for AI research (Lisp and a small fleet of Lisp machines) than I'd used for research at Uni (C / Unix). I was also introduced to proper software engineering discipline. My productivity (in terms of demo'd systems / capabilities) was much higher than it had been as a postgrad, which I quickly came to realise had been undisciplined hacking.

[edit - refined the argument a bit]
The desktop is undeniably faster, but because of what I mainly use it for these days (digital art) I only really get benefit from single core performance and lots of memory. The difference between the 9900K and the 9980HK in this regard is imperceptible.

I'm just going to turn the desktop into a Windows gaming rig now :V
To help pay for tuition, one summer I drove a university shuttle in the evenings after finishing my work-study job. At that time, the lights on Walnut and Chestnut streets in West Philly were set up with green waves. The best place to ride the wave was obviously at its tail, entering each intersection a little before the light would turn yellow. Traffic there was light-to-none, and its flow far smoother and safer than at the front, where there were usually drivers pointlessly fighting to maintain their positions. I would watch them all just up ahead of me, wastefully approaching each red light far too fast, braking hard until it turned green, then rapidly accelerating to the next, repeating this insane processes intersection after intersection for a dozen blocks at a time, like some sort of mobile psychology experiment gone wrong. Because I was naive, I thought poorly of Pennsylvania drivers.

Later I moved to SF and experienced the same thing on Franklin and Gough, and realized the phenomenon was probably fairly universal.

Green Waves could be a great thing, but there's still the unsolved problem of human beings behind the wheel.
A cousin of this is what one researcher in the field of evolutionary machine learning called "dullwashing" to me in a conversation about academic funding.

If he wants to do some really interesting somewhat outside-the-box work, he often has to find some way to make it look incredibly dull and inside-the-box and incremental in order to convince some funding bureaucrat to fund it.

Most money is dumb and flows in a herd-like manner into things that look superficially like things that have been successful in the past. This includes stock market money, government money, and yes even VC money. You often have to trick the world into funding genuinely interesting or productive work. Without a bit of marketing money will just chase the latest bubble or fad. It's like you have to save money from itself. If truly creative and productive people don't lay on the marketing, money will instead flow to charlatans who do... see also WeWork, Juicero, etc.
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A few years ago I was considering open sourcing a small app I had developed a few years ago. Turns out it'd actually require a lot of work to remove dependencies on other libraries I'd used.
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As with most issues in security its a balance between usability and security. The real problem is the majority of the users will always try to find the path of least resistance. No matter how well documented a secure procedure is, if a user can find a oneliner they will use it instead.

I've seen this in other places as well. Vendor makes a comprehensive guide. Some people condense that to a minimum and will even boast they "made" an easier way to do X or Z, whilst ommiting all the caveats. Of course that will become the popular 'standard' people find. And they'll go complain to the vendor if it doesn't work without even reading the original instructions.
You responded to my comment about the timelessness of an aesthetic as somehow wrong because the underlying technology is not to your liking?

No one is agreeing or disagreeing with what you're saying because no one understands where you're coming from. You've basically said "Green is stupid because we're still using cars!"
I accidentally left my iPad in the seat-back on a recent flight — my case, it turns out, is a perfect match for Delta-leather-blue. Even though this is an iPad with cellular, I'd switched it to airplane mode and thus was unable to locate it with "Find My". After three days the airline hadn't found it, and I chalked it up to an expensive lesson learned.

On day four, I received a push message (from Find My) that the iPad had come to life. An airport staffer had found it and charged it up. Presumably it cold boots with airplane mode switched off, so it connected to the cellular network, received the "lost device" command, displayed my contact info, etc. I received a call shortly thereafter.

When I picked up the iPad at baggage services, I chatted with the staff a bit. They let me in on the "secret" that most airline employees never switch their devices into airplane mode anymore, and for this exact reason.