skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re a Linux distribution and you have the source code to the software you distribute then the responsiveness of the maintainers doesn’t matter so much: any change to a library which is compatible with the previous version (in the sense that you could dynamically link to the new version instead of the old version) is going to be compatible under static linking too.
Rob and I going back-and-forth. :)

Not sure we tried this with channel-based audio though...

Prerecorded material not recorded binaurally is not binaural content. I am a purest though.
Note: LCC enables all loudspeaker listening experiences to be experienced binaurally, in the free field, acoustically speaking, regardless of the content (unless it is mono content).
Interestingly, Elasticsearch exposes something similar to this, based on a Lucene level feature that enables index level sorting.

You can specify such an index level default sort (similar to what they use custom IDs to achieve) and it will use skip lists to make searching with that sort faster. It will impose an indexing overhead but I would guess for usecases like this it could make sense.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/index-sorting-elasticsearch-6-0
Any change from approximately zero is large.

Nyc has had several months without a single murder.

When quoting percentages, it is helpful to establish what the baseline is and how it compares historically.

Previous “slowdowns” by the NYPD have resulted in a drastic reduction in reported crime in NYC.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nypd-slowdowns-dirty-littl...
This helps me out in arguments about whether a corporate priesthood is just throwing its weight around and hiding behind moralizations to do it. Thanks, Unilever!
will you use state of the art time series forecasting? https://paperswithcode.com/sota/multivariate-time-series-for...
If so how well do GRU-ODE-bayes perform in practice?
The article didn't raise the possibility of the virus attenuating (as Italian doctors suggest). Is there any evidence of this?
I think the error is in mistaking knowledge for wisdom. Knowledge is a powerful tool, but without the wisdom to productively apply it, can be used for great destruction.
The Mosaic law actually has something kind of like this where you can't lose ownership of your allotted farmland. Thus, at minimum, everyone owns a valuable asset and thus some net worth. (Data is sparse on whether this law was every actually followed or the effects.)
Intel’s Sample Factory speeds up reinforcement learning training on a single PC
Not sure as it is very hard to get an answer from Payoneer at the moment.
Disbanding all traffic police also seems to be very different from disbanding all anti-crime units.
I've always had great experiences at the Microsoft store especially with purchases and replacements. Right after the pandemic caused Microsoft to close all their physical locations my Surface Pro 7 started getting green spots on the screen that I've been waiting for the stores to reopen to get replaced.

Hearing the news today that the store wasn't going to be open I decided to try the online support and it is a total mess. I tried to use text chat but after an hour my position in the queue actually went up. So I decided to have them call me which the wait took much longer than quoted. Then I spent over an hour on the phone with a representative for what they even admitted was obviously a manufacturer defect.

They didn't want to send me a new device before I shipped them my RMA unit so they expected me to be without my laptop for a week while they processed the claim. Then when they finally caved they couldn't tell me how large of a hold they would put on my card while before my RMA reached them.

This whole process would have taken 5 minutes at the store, and I would have walked out with a new laptop right then.

All in all I feel like all my Microsoft hardware products just massively depreciated in value.
So, you haven't provided _any_ citations or even vague references to Wikipedia articles, rather you just called their opinion FUD and left it at that. How am I, a 3rd-party observer of this thread, supposed to extract any value from such statements?

The person you were quoting did not provide rock-solid proof that having police helps reduce violence, but they did provide a citation showing that:

> Violence against persons in poor (51%) and low-income (50%) households was more likely to be reported to police than violence against persons in mid- (43%) and high-income (45%) households

from https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hpnvv0812.pdf

So you could certainly argue that they are actually irrational to call the police and thus the higher rate is explained by them incorrectly thinking police would help them. But it's tricky to argue that with no data :)

Cheers
> hotels for homeless

you mean like homeless shelters?
Wait, am I just completely misreading this or is this contradicting itself?

> the research team found that Tor users made similar quality edits to those of IP editors [...] and first-time editors. The paper notes that Tor users, on average, contributed higher-quality changes to articles than non-logged-in IP editors.

Is it similar quality or higher-quality now? The text also appears (word for word) on the linked website at nyu.edu. Reading the original paper, guess what I found?

> Using hand-coded data and a machine-learning classifier, we estimated that edits from Tor users are of similar quality to those by IP editors and First-time editors. We estimated that Tor users make more higher quality contributions than other IP editors, on average, as measured by PTRs.

Almost the same wording and contradiction again. There is a subtle change, namely that the "of similar quality" judgement is a result of hand- and machine-classifying, and "more higher quality contributions" is the judgement of a metric called PTR* . There might also be a difference between "similar quality edits" and "more high quality edits" (e.g. Tor users might do more crap edits and more great edits by one metric but simply be about average by another metric), but I'm not sure if that's just random variation in phrasing or intentional.

* PTRs are "persistent token revisions". I don't find it very succinctly/adequately explained at first use, but probably if you read the whole paper it makes more sense. To my understanding, it's basically just how much of the contribution was later changed (within a fixed number of subsequent edits), presuming that if it was largely left unchanged, it was probably a welcome and correct edit.

While the article and paper are all positive, I'm not sure whether this might just be because of course we'd all love to hear how great Tor users are (many of us are also Tor users: we like to think of ourselves as freedom fighters, privacy advocates, etc.), but I'm not sure that's what this unambiguously shows. Perhaps it's worth the moderation effort to unban them, perhaps not. The paper does acknowledge this to an extent: "We simply cannot know if our sample of Tor edits is representative of the edits that would occur if Wikipedia did not block anonymity-seeking users."

Perhaps, instead of ban vs unban, we just need another system to anonymously contribute changes, like a moderation queue, which would make it less attractive for vandalism.

(On StackOverflow/StackExchange, anyone can edit without logging in and not even your IP address is shown. While moderating it, I very very rarely see trolls or spambots there. I'm not sure if that's because of some magic system I don't know about or if it's simply because a manual review filters all the garbage and there is no point in trying.)
Another facet of this phenomenon is American political discourse spilling over into countries where it doesn’t make any sense. I see it in Ireland for example.
Other than a great marketing job by the US military, we don't do anything to attract the best and brightest to government service. Reagan did a good job of poisoning that well.
I see everybody commenting on the substance of the post: which is good. Seeing the post as a stand-alone, almost ahistorical, statement.

But I'm wondering the strategic part, the this-moment-in-politics, may be part of why we're seeing this now, too.

For a while Trump seemed pretty indestructible. FaceBook could hover in between Trump and his opposition, stick to the middle ground.

Now it looks like Trump is down by some pretty serious digits, and Biden is up. This would be the right time to maneuver for a Biden Presidency, before it looks obviously self-serving.

By doing this now, if Trump loses, FaceBook will be closer to the post-Trump middle. It's certainly better than being stranded with a bunch of terrible alt-right press and Congressional investigations, with Trump unable to offer any governmental protection.

While you never know - Trump could win! - the Trump-is-leaving-so-prepare-for-post-Trump-times scenario is looking more probable by the day.

For the average person, "who knows" and "anything could happen" may be good enough. It isn't for megacorps. So when the betting odds change, they change with them.

Remember, Zuckerberg is a guy who bet big on Insta as the future beyond FaceBook, 6-10 years into the future. It only makes sense that he'd seriously think about 4 months into the future, to consider the impact on his business. And adjust accordingly.
>In the case of the data-backed nonsense it’s been used to justify holding people past their prison sentence.

I'm not sure why you assume that it's keeping people in prison and not being used to let them out.
I wouldn't take seriously some random hack claiming physics ph.d.s don't know QM. Physics is defined by how physicists practice it.
What's the real performance of the system so far?
you probably want ltsc, which is a newer branch

completely unrelated: ebay is great, isn't it?
That is a main reason in my mind. The virus burned through the easy to infect really quickly. There is also something to be said for the evolutionary benefits of being less deadly, as a virus.
There's a question of scale and context. If there was a bar that could (a) fit two billion people into it, (b) work hard to ensure they're the only bar in the world, (c) allow powerful political groups or even foreign countries to (d) use misinformation to sow conflict and violence in a way that was (e) invisible to any one individual in the bar, well in that case I would probably be wondering what was going to be done about this problem. However, I wouldn't trust the owners of the bar to do anything about it.
To be fair, we've been alive at this point twice that long... kind of hard to blame 15 year old me for poorly predicting events more than 15 years out. ;-)
It sounds to me that:

1. The NYPD isn't trying to replace their police workforce. They've simply stopped policing.

2. The current social ajd political environment would cause a hike in crime-rate regardless of police action, and it's not easy to disentangle the effects.
Love this a lot! The author is right on most (well, all) of the statements.
The answer is the same reason you build anything: there was a need for it, especially in the early 2010's for the language.
Actually, this is a very serious topic, and TFA is wrong in a number of ways. HN commenters being able to say so is everything that's right with HN. My own commentary on TFA is all over the comments on this HN post. I put more effort and detail into my comments on this post than GP, but GP is not wrong.

Commenting that a comment is exemplary of all that's wrong with HN is... popular, I'll grant you that, but it grates, and it's not really right. It's a "shut up" argument. Just downvote what you don't like, upvote what you do like, and reply with detailed commentary where you have something important to say. No need to disparage commenters.
I hold a very similar view. It’s not a given however and we must fight tooth and nail for a good outcome.
9-10 years ago. Spanish Harlem during peak stop and frisk era/doctrine.

What I remember most was how routine it all was for everyone involved. Driver would sometimes pull the car up on kids drug raid style, swerving into the sidewalk. They'd turn on the high-beams and within a few words and seconds, it was a pop-up police lineup.

The only description of the suspects was this: a group of kids, one of them was wearing a bright hoodie. No one had even seen their faces. I was adamant about this as well but these cops didn't believe me. They instead kept asking me to "be real" with them and that I shouldn't "feel the need to be PC" around them. They acted as if I was self-censoring for virtue signalling instead of being honest. I just wanted them to log my IMEI and keep a lookout for my phone on CL/eBay because they had been doing press releases about it at the time. Apparently that was the less accessible option.

It scares me to think how much negative impact that one group of police might've had. When I think about how frustrated they became when I told them the truth over and over. Maybe they're used to more central park Karen type of crime reports.
Dynamic linking boosted performance for Solaris back around 2004.
These are not problems you face on production systems. We use windows exclusively (vaccine r&d), and our IT is easily able to control when and how updates are deployed on all of our systems. I have a W10 test box in my office that has been running without a reboot for 600+ days.

>Why would anyone use this platform?

There is no other system that takes backwards compatibility as seriously as Windows. Most companies like to keep their investment when they purchase high-value software. This is especially true for us when some of the software we use costs as much as a car.
That's what's happening with me as well. Unfortunately some payment came into my account just overnight and that's now frozen. I have switched to a similar service (TransferWise) for that specific affiliate but this change won't get in effect until next cycle - not helpful since I got this month's payment straight into my Payoneer account. Arghh.

I hope this affects cards only and not the funds as those were debit cards, not prepay.

[EDIT] Sorry, I think I was mistaken - the cards were prepay and only funds above $5000 were held by Payoneer.
Here is a link from Reuters. It has been reported elsewhere, but Reuters seems to have less editorializing. A lot of the other sources continue to say "this is 100% correct" or "this is absolute poppycock and should be censored".. Such is the state of debate in our age.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...
This argument is the same one used in the assault rifle ban debate. It's a false equivalency.

You can kill people far more easily with an assault rifle than a handgun. You can spread deliberate misinformation far more easily, quickly and widely on social media than in a bar.
Isn't that just the opposite tradeoff for code you call though?

E.g. lists are strictly more flexible than iterators since they are multi-pass and can index. If you take a return from lib func A and pass it to lib funcs B and C (possibly in a different lib), if A returns an iterator then you need to know what B and C are going to do with it. If A returns a list, you do not - B and C cannot affect each other in this way unless they directly mutate the argument, which is relatively rare and usually has very strong documentation and/or naming patterns to make it not surprising. And B and C and all their calls can change without you needing to change your code between them and A.

You can of course `list(A())` before passing it to B and C, but that's arguably defensive programming unless you know A returns an iterator.

tbh I'd say I see multi-iteration and indexing several times more often than I see iterator-only use in most code, and almost never see memory issues except in large or embedded systems. Gigabytes of RAM are standard now, and dumping a few thousand files into memory before processing will quite often out-perform a more memory-efficient streaming approach. In the rare cases where you do exceed those memory bounds, you're likely in a niche area (gigabytes of files, tiny memory space, significant computation cost) and are likely using niche-oriented libraries that benefit more from coordinating tightly than from being perfectly general.
Washington moves to mimic Beijing on tech subsidies
Interesting. Why not just use C?

I can understand why C++ isn't appropriate for this. Object-oriented programming has little to do with linear algebra, and a nightmarishly-complex language that's desperately trying to reinvent itself also isn't appropriate for pedagogy. But you still need a lingua franca, a language you can use to express the relevant principles without trying to evangelize one arcane functional language or another at the same time like so many authors try to do these days.

Being a relatively straightforward procedural language, C works well for this purpose. Everybody doing numerical computing is at least familiar with the fundamentals of C programming, or should be.

Is there some institutional resistance to plain old C, or is it just a matter of widespread personal prejudice among both students and teachers?
I suspect people here can comprehend the idea without requiring a tortured programming-related metaphore.
The C++ FQA
Take a step back, I'm thinking in broad strokes before thinking about all the 'whatabouts' of security concerns/etc.

Of course we want some degree of commonality for the sake of minimizing resource use, but there's a huge question of what types of software would look like if it was developed by other cultures for different goals.

Regarding dynamicland, I think there's space for both a mix of personal and communal computing - we already have personal computers while working on wikis, google docs, etc. It's too early to tell what dynamicland or similar efforts will grow into, remember it's current state is "One step in a 50-year project".

> "So I'd split your question into two - why do people seem to prefer personal computers to public access systems, and why isn't there more investment in developing novel human-computer interaction paradigms?"

Perhaps it's partly because personal computers already lay better within the context we already live in - we live in homes generally with at most a nuclear family. Households do have shared television computers / home assistants but they're generally oriented around content consumption.

> "All things being equal would you really prefer to do your personal coding, writing, reading, online shopping, or other private activities on a system someone else controlled?"

Today we're already doing plenty of things on systems someone else controls - I think the idea is to do more activity on platforms with shared stakeholdership. This means having a commons for doing those activities, per Elinor Ostrom's 8 principles ( http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-princi... ).
Yes. And I believe it's not an accident, whenever I see an article posted on HN from nautil.us I expect that the science will be twisted to the point of inducing confusion, and I believe it's an "editorial policy" which stems from the fact that they are financed by John_Templeton_Foundation (1) "a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy after a career as a contrarian investor and wanted to support progress in religious and spiritual knowledge, especially at the intersection of religion and science." (2)

Of course, I don't believe that every article has the same bias, but I saw it appearing with certain regularity.

1) http://nautil.us/about

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation
My last windows install was about 30 minutes from boot to actually on desktop (very frustratingly interactive though, blocking the last 10 minutes behind that personalizing dialog)
Operating with a principled structure is the most important thing, in my experience.

You can grind in circles for ages with any topic or medium. The trick is to find a directed approach, which means getting a little more philosophical about it and then following through on that philosophy. Exploring simple themes like those in the ancient myths and legends, metaphysical ideas, moral reasoning, and technical philosophy like "what sorts of marks I can draw that successfully indicate the thing I see." These all come together when you go to make a completely realized, coherent performance or piece of media.

Identifying, respecting and following through on the conceptual structure gets you to passable skills of craft in most every field, and it's very available with effort and an existing appreciation of the medium: just start doing deep analysis of existing work. Take notes, write about the key elements using the concepts you know. Try to reproduce those parts you don't understand. Appreciation of the whole is always the first step, because dismissing any part is likely to mislead you.

But what you ultimately want to approach through the philosophy is chaotic interaction: "What happens when I put these two things together?" "I don't know." "Well, try it and find out." And then you're doing research - your philosophical framework should be strong enough to come up with a falsifiable hypothesis: "why does this joke work or not work? Because A, B, C." This is approached intuitively at first and gradually codified as you go on. You might come out of it with a singular work, or a formula for a whole set of them. It tends to be the case that career creatives can spend their entire life exploring and iterating on a tiny set of principles, which explains style distinction.

Edit: And I should add to this, "what are good examples of this in practice?" Improv acting is one of the best because it derives its energy and reliability from having underlying structure in the form of recurring characters and improv games. If the characters know each other and are familiar with a collection of games(which act as a kind of guard rail for staying coherent, a way to haul things back to creative productivity) they can reconfigure the scene in an instant and seamlessly recover from points where it slows down, and make everything look totally believable while still being surprising. I'm a bit too much of a deep-thinker to keep up in improv, but it's a useful signpost for "how do I get in that zone?"