skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't help for two reasons
1) If the has has enough bits to be useful for blocking, it's trivial to reverse
2) Even if it did make the IPs anonymous, we want to be able to email the NOC at whoever is sending the abusive traffic, so they can go investigate
This is a nice legend about the secret recipe. However production differs oflver the world. I.e. I'm the US the sweetener is high fructose corn syrup, while Europe uses Sycrose.
I believe you're thinking of Paul Lutus. I just searched "apple nasa engineer" on DuckDuckGo, and his Reddit AMA was #5 and fit perfectly to what you described.
I need to come up with a way to remotely shut up Jesus in case the "Left Behind" books are right and He plans to slaughter millions of people with His voice.

I'm learning a lot about audio engineering and wave mechanics.

( I also co-wrote a story about what happens if I fail, which you can read at https://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/LeftBeyond.TalesFromTheBeyo... )
The point is that, for largely existing political coalition reasons, people are trying to make a class problem be about race because it makes it align with the base of a particular political party. Police unions lean Republican, so Republicans have a political need to defend them, so if you can pit black people against the police then you can get them to vote the way you want without actually giving them anything. And then you don't have to worry about them getting together with poor white people to ask why housing costs so much and there isn't more economic opportunity for non-megacorps.
Inflation/deflation is a proxy for population growth + productivity growth + looseness of monetary policy.

Loose monetary policy can't be maintained forever (You get stagflation, which is even worse - just ask Japan), year-over-year productivity growth can't be maintained forever, and the subject this thread is discussing is 'what happens to the economy when population growth goes negative?'

So yes, a deflation of 0.5% wouldn't be devastating. A deflation of 3% would be a stop-the-presses-the-world-is-going-to-hell-we-need-a-new-economic-system event.

The problem is that you can't loose-monetary-policy your way out of deflation, because one of the factors contributing to a loose monetary policy is how willing banks are to lend money to people. In a world where the money base is shrinking year-over-year, in aggregate, lending money to people is a terrible idea, because there won't be enough money in circulation next year to make interest payments. This leads to a reduction in lending, a reduced appetite for risk in lenders, and a reduction in the amount of money created by fractional reserve banking, which further pushes you into deflationary territory.

It's a vicious cycle that you can't escape.
>I found a USB 3.0 SSD was ten times faster than the fastest microSD card I tested

I looked it up because i know enough about hardware that this shouldn't be the case (even with a cheap SD Card). Seems it's a limitation of the Pi's SD Card slot.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/raspberry-pi-microsd-...
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That does sound challenging. APIs and service change too. I can't imagine how complex that can get if something stops working.

Still when you succeed perhaps the next goal is to simply specify what sort of compute function, the scale and risk tolerances, and let the patterns be assembled accordingly.
While the chapter and verse were only introduced much later, the Judaic explanation of the scriptures, especially the Pentateuch, has been referencing parts of it by naming every passage (of 3-5 chapters) by the first meaningful word. This was done in writing as early as the Babylonian exile, as can be found in the Babylonian Talmud. Even now in traditionally written Tora scrolls, there are no chapters and verses, but one searches for the name of that Parasha to find the relevant portion
Are you saying the gamecube didn't have networking support because it required an additional peripheral, or because you weren't aware of the whole 8[1] games that had either LAN or online capabilities?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube_online_functionality#...
It's kind of a "continued learning" requirement, a little. Work doesn't always have the problems (or funding for them) that grow you in the right directions.

Open source is also a sort of portfolio for many people, I think. Resumes can only tell you so much; code speaks volumes. It pays, just not directly or immediately.

Though my first job in Silicon Valley-sized tech was at Netscape, and I got that specifically after writing some big open source patches for Mozilla. So it can sometimes pay more directly.
Representing musical and audio (sample) time in ways that maximises reversible conversion between the two of them. Musical time is typically spoken of (in western culture) in terms of "bars" (or "measures") and "beats". The relationship to audio (sample) time is defined by a "tempo map" which defines the number of beats per minute and the number of beats per bar.

The mapping between the two is monotonic, non-linear, and can be stationary. If the tempo map is allowed to contain ramps (accelerando and ritardando in music speak), there are implicitly exponential sections in the function that maps between them.

Using floating point arithmetic leads to errors that have immediate effects. A musical time that should be considered to be at sample N is instead considered to be at sample N-1 or N+1.

It's surprisingly hard to do it correctly.
I wouldn't find value if arguments about the Confederate flag or the morality of eating meat ended in that level of nonsense.

We're trying to talk about reality in a way where we can make decisions about it. If only 63% of people can agree that "true != false" then it will be impossible to build any arguments on top of priors.
I don't know if it's exactly what you describe but Hasura compiles GraphQL queries and mutations to SQL (for Postgrs).
There is a Switch game on the list, which isn't a trivial thing.

Also, I did not expect to see Object Pascal as the scripting language!
I'm doing the hardware part of a CB packet radio infrastructure that can be deployed quickly after a disaster, and allows basic BBS functionality in addition to passing messages, and works with existing cell phones.

It's inspired by the CellSol network in the "Left Behind" novels.

Schems and code are at https://www.aaronswartzday.org/lora/ and we could use help.
> just spreading corona

And causing riots, billions in property damages and innocent civilian lives lost (even before we’re considering the corona).

At this point the BLM movement is a clear net negative for society.
The term 'refugee' does not even appear in the article.

... and while people do talk about 'climate refugees', nobody is talking about them 'overwhelming us'. And FYI it definitely does not take too many people to overwhelm a social system with benevolent impetus, as we saw starkly in Sweden, 2016.

As for the materiality of the article and what should set off alarm bells:

"“For example, it appears that the USA is entering a long period of decline in many aspect of its society, with a potential for a more rapid collapse in the coming decade,” said Steffen.

"Samuel Alexander, a lecturer with the University of Melbourne and research fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, told Voice of Action that the coming collapse would not be a single black or white event.

“With respect to civilisations, what is more likely is that we have entered a stage of what JM Greer calls ‘catabolic collapse’ – where we face decades of ongoing crises, as the existing mode of civilisation deteriorates, but then recovers as governments and civil society tries to respond, and fix things, and keep things going for a bit longer,” said Alexander.

“Capitalism is quite good at dodging bullets and escaping temporary challenges to its legitimacy and viability. But its condition, I feel is terminal.”

"“As economies deteriorate and as inequalities deepen, more people get disenfranchised, incentivising resistance and sadly sometimes making people look for scapegoats to blame for new or intensifying hardships (e.g. the so-called alt-right),”"

“I think global capitalism is realising that the parasitical nature that has emerged (where the top 1% own the vast majority of the world’s wealth), can only be sustained for so long,” said Buckley"

We have:

A) America in social decline (political statement)

B) the other boogey man 'capitalism' as the root cause obviously!

C) The 'alt right' (are we talking about the environment here?)

D) Researchers work cancelled for ostensibly political reasons, which is not good, but it's also not objective either.

So the problem with the article, is that a lot of the authorship is deeply ideological. This is hard issue to escape when trying to put an economic value of such things as 'pollution and traffic' vs other elements.

Far too many references to their representation of 'inequality', and major gaps in their assumptions as to how that leads to social decay, for this to be a serious treatise on climate.

And of course, no mention of Nuclear Energy, which is odd, given 'existential threat' you'd think we'd try to use something that is already fairly well proven.
What is so special about Hong-Kong? It is a territorial dispute, it happens often in the world, and there are not protests and boycotts every time it happens.

Just look at the Wikipedia page here, it is quite long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes

And for Honk-Kong, we already know how it will end. Hong-Kong will become part of mainland China in 2047, that's the deal. That's unless China changes its mind, which is unlikely.

The way the US treats the Hong-Kong case is not "a freedom and civil rights issue". It is for Hongkongers, but for the US, it reeks of a proxy war. The US doesn't like China, but they can't fight directly, so instead, they support Hongkongers who oppose China.
Some pre-7 versions of iOS would adjust the sheen on certain graphics (like one of the Settings icons, if memory serves) based on the gyroscope, so as you rotated the device the specular highlights would appear to move. Not exactly the same, but similar spirit.
Harvesting Hydrogen from Nanogardens
The structuring of simdjson is considerably easier to read if we rely on -O3. In order to get the same performance at lower levels of optimization we need to do a lot of manual things that make the source code quite difficult to read and work with.
We have started experimenting how to do it with simdjson, though :) https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson/pull/947
Check out https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ which is basically just a tool to help people do password authenticated key exchange when establishing ephemeral connections.
I got a little lost when you tried to compare musical harmony to societal harmony.

With regards to musical harmony, is it possible that it's more or less random? I know multiple cultures have different definitions of musical harmony. I suspect the evolution of hearing also contains random elements. Similar to language, it's not so much about an inherent universality, just a universality we can all learn and agree on.

Thoughts?
The gish gallop is still extremely effective online, as you can see it in widespread use in almost every HN comments section. Simply quote every 3rd sentence of the source comment and reply with 'citation needed'. This takes 30 seconds and will tie up the other side for hours. When they finally collect a reputable source for every claim, just repeat with sample size, perceived bias of the publisher, or 'did they control for X?'. Even if they eventually untangle themselves from this web, you've won anyway because you framed the flame war about the truthfullness of the base facts and not their policy positions.
Google/re2 forked due to “leftist propaganda”
Difference Between Good Debt vs. Bad Debt
Training neural network to distinct Pepe the Frog from Kermit the Frog.
I certainly agree that so much about school is problematic and could be improved, but ...

> Schools are functionally no different from part-time prisons.

A prison by definition cannot be part-time ; ). Plus, it's a totally unfair comparison. Schools are intended for everyone. Prisons are intended for a specific subset of people deemed to have broken a law.

Schools are for children. Prisons are for adults.

And so on.
I will say that I’m not really interested in talking with people I necessarily know. I want to talk to people who have well thought out arguments that are non obvious.

Take what you will from that and good luck.
Networking, engagement with peers, connections to incubators and startups.
> The symbolism is extremely obvious and pre-dating even the “discovery of America”.

Like anti-racists or BLM-activists care about facts.
Apologies for the "editorializing". I believe the title is more descriptive than the original linkbaitish: "fork without leftist propaganda".
The plans, and implementation effort, are focused on getting ParMinor upstreamed so I suspect ConcMinor will stay at version 4.06.

I think we were all surprised by how well ParMinor performed. There's work on-going to see just how far ParMinor can scale and there's also a few tricks we might be able to do to make it scale even better.
Compartmental models are not typically covered in an introductory epidemiology course.

Usually not covered until an advanced methods course.
Instead of this cancel culture BS, maybe we dedicate more effort and outrage to real problems—-remember cancer, inequality, poverty, global warming, runaway national debt, defense issues, deforestation, plastic waste (and rain, apparently), clean water shortages, etc. Hey but let’s make sure we rename that default branch to main or remove specific keywords from code bases (none of which has anything to do with race). It’s fine. Those real problems can wait for some day.
I worry from this brief description that you may be ignoring cultural aspects to our perception of consonance and dissonance.

Also, harmony itself is a distinctly western concept whose musical role expanded dramatically with the advent of polyphony. Many (most!) musical cultures around the world don't give harmony much, if any role, and place higher importance on melodic structure.

Also, music harmony and the other kinds of harmony you mention seem to me to be related only by the language used for this particular metaphor. There seems to me to be no likelihood of there being any interesting relationship between musical consonsance and "harmony with technology and harmony with nature".
Up for Grabs
6 Rules for every technical founder to succeed in a startup
If you see an abstraction does not fit, you have the choice to consider it incomplete or unsuitable. If incomplete, you can fix it (assuming write access). If unsuitable, you should "back it out" as you say.

In my opinion this distinction is applicable and thus useful in contrast to whining about leaky abstractions: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/leaky_abstractions.html
there are, can even make your own. One quick example https://www.amazon.co.uk/MakerHawk-Upgrated-Raspberry-2-5-In...
> Does this mean that a user can use their identity on two separate sites, and those two sites can't collude to build a shared profile of the user, without the user's permission?

That's precisely what it means. User IDs will be unique for each site and I'm hoping to anonymize email addresses as well, similar to what Apple has done for "Sign in with Apple". Some companies might be required by law to collect some PII but in that case their needs will be vetted before.

> Does the user have to choose a specific server to be involved in all their identity interactions? If the server stops working, does the user lose their identity?

I'm currently building this as a centralized product so no, there is only a single server maintained by us. I'm mostly concerned with building a great product but the prospect of decentralized, verified identities is also very interesting. I'd love to see what that could look like!

> Also, is it possible to create an account without a phone (or rather without a SIM, since those are often tied to real identities)? Does your proposed system assume that people can't register multiple identities (using multiple phones) if they wanted to?

The current product is in the form of an app so you will need a phone but you won't need a phone number (or SIM). An email address is currently required though.

My current system assumes one identity per person but it's fully possible to have multiple devices which acts as that identity. This might change depending on regulation though and is not set in stone.

If you have any more questions I'd be happy to answer them!
With Ray not having released a 1.0.0 version yet, does that give you any pause about adopting it for a professional project? In the article, you've given it an A for maturity, but the criteria didn't include versioning.

I've worked professionally with data scientists, and we've used both Dask and Ray with some success. Scaling pandas will be an issue for a long time to come with a lot of data science code being written in Python with Pandas.
I know a lot of them, most notable one being: Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Or: Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Yes, this is exactly why simdjson wants padding. It certainly doesn't need the string to be embedded in source or any such nonsense.

I wish there was a standardized attribute that C++ knew about that pretty much just said "hey, we're not right next to some memory-managed disaster, and if you read off this buffer, you promise not to use the results".

It is awful practice to read off the end of a buffer and let those bytes affect your behavior, but it is almost always harmless to read extra bytes (and mask them off or ignore them) unless you're next to a page boundary or in some dangerous region of memory that's mappped to some device.

This attribute would also need to be understood by tools like Valgrind (to the extent that valgrind can/can't track whether you're feeding this nonsense into a computation, which it handles pretty well).
Sounds kind of similar to Yik Yak, except using social circles instead of area? Hopefully it ends better than Yik Yak did.
> the previously used terms for primary and secondary hard drives are an obvious example.

You mean master and slave? Was that hard?

Don’t be afraid of words. Be afraid of those who wants to silence the words.
As a father with a 12 year old struggling with math, to say something is extremely easy makes me think you have a better understanding of math than people.
There are no facts in the article to support any of their many sociological positions.

For example, that inequality of asset ownership leads to social decay. That there is even actually social decay or real instability in America.

One thing missed by in the treatise and a lot of comments, is that 'consumption' is somehow tantamount to 'resource utilisation'. Obviously, there is a correlation. But a considerable amount of what we 'consume' does not entail necessarily excessive resource consumption. Plastics, electronics doesn't eat up a lot of 'resources', though some parts perhaps more than others i.e. 'alkaline batteries'. Huge swaths of our consumption aren't even related to resources: entertainment, video games, software, social networks etc..

If they are really smart, they would take some time to decouple the 'resource intensive' aspects of consumption, with those that are not, and help industry to optimise along those lines.
I hope this counts as weird enough ...

PROBLEM:

If time travelers from the future were to visit you, it would be difficult for them to quickly prove their authenticity.

SOLUTION:

Temporal passwords. At the start of each year, you devise a new password. You commit the password to memory, but you never write it down or divulge it to anyone until Dec. 31, when you submit it to the Temporal Password Registry, which publishes it and promotes its dissemination.

RESULT:

Prior to their visit, time travelers from the future can look up your temporal password in the registry for the year in which they plan to visit you. Their ability to communicate a password that you have not yet shared with anyone provides evidence that they are actually from the future.

PROMO:

https://temporal-password.pressbin.com/index.html
Yeah, but you don't grow GDP 5% per year by shaving basis points off of vacuum tube manufacturing costs.

You grow 5% per year by putting physicists, chemists, and engineers under one roof and letting them invent transistors. Society at large will thank you, and the builders/makers/hackers doing dope shit will thank you.
I would think the DNA companies would support this.

Right now, I have no plans to ever get a test. My curiosity as to whether I descended from Dr. Zaius or Cornelius is not strong enough for me to risk having my information available for things like insurance companies dinging me.

On another note, I heard that the jury is still out on the lingering aftereffects of COVID-19, and there's a better than even chance that testing positive means that we can be discriminated against for a pre-existing condition for the rest of our lives.
> The Pi 4 is a big revolution, fast enough to serve as a desktop computer for most office people, students, and so on.

Even the Pi 3 was already good enough for most of those use cases. The main exception being browsing modern bloated websites.
Abstractions have other purpose than deduplication. They make it easier to reason about your code as well. It might be the smartest thing sometimes to abstract away the first occurrence in a method imho.
You're not going to "calm down radicalization" with phrases like "killing cancel culture" and suggesting that viewpoints you don't agree with on twitter/the platform as a whole as "unreasonable narcissists".
It's an online masters in computer science, a lot of engineering and science courses require labs that aren't feasible without being present. And even if most of your courses are lab free, from my experience there, I had a lab course most semesters, even if it was just one.
The human ear has an intimate relationship with the octave 2:1 and its ratios, so its very hard to believe the convergence of appreciation globally to be random. More dramatically, visualizing the harmonious ratios on objects such as Chladni plates (a field called Cymatics) reveals that there is something deeper to consonance and harmony than meets the number line.
Firefox + UB origin
It wouldn't surprise me if the periodic stylistic changes are analogous to fashion industry periodic makeovers, apparently a tool to keep users engaged and purchasing gadgets (plus a lot of sociological reasons) -- not necessarily for superiority to what came before in any absolute sense.
Consider the most extreme case: what if their prediction is so good that they can predict the exact amount of healthcare spending that you will incur? In that case there wouldn't be any point in getting any insurance because the insurer will charge you the exact amount that you will cost (+ their overhead, of course). You'll be better off paying everything out of pocket.
> I remember when using download statistics was enough. Developers still maintained software. No "trade-offs" were needed.

Do you remember applying for grants to fund software? It's tough out there, right now. Harder than it once was - software is more expensive, and funding agencies are more critical.
Why do you need 0.05 degree precision?

You can use Hall effect sensors to sense chainwheel teeth. Two sensors and you can get quadrature and direction. I've done that on a mobile robot. With analog-output Hall effect sensors and some processing, you can get sub-degree precision, although 0.05 degree is asking a lot.