skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there mere fact that the two of us can read the same political article and then debate the interpretation of "opposition" in this context lends credence the idea it is a statement of interpretive history, and not fact. Similarly, it is open to the reader's interpretation. You read it as making him sound like a union abolitionist, I did not.

I totally agree that "Lee owned other human beings" and "Lee fought against the United States" are factual statements, and could be fact checked. So could statements that "Prior to the war, Lee wrote that slavery was evil" and "Both Lee and Lincoln would be considered a racist by modern standards, and had very similar opinions on slavery."

I agree that facts can lead readers to misinterpretations. Given how hard it is to verify actual facts, I don't think it should be Facebook's job protect readers from facts which are accurate, but could lead to undesirable world views.

In this instance, one group clearly wants to paint Lee as a moral man trying to navigate the political and economic realities of the antebellum south. Another group clearly wants to paint a picture of Lee as a symbol of southern racism and oppression. These are interpretations of history.
Costco is near and dear to me too. Curated shopping with a promise not to cheat you creates an exceptionally relaxing shopping experience. Regarding their employees, one of my best friends has been working there for about 8 years now and continues to enjoy it. Costco has a very high yearly employee retention rate (around 95% as I remember).
Hey - this is perfectly reasonable and constructive feedback - thank you! I see your point that the polarization example can be explained using classical approaches. I wanted to explain it in terms of individual photons as I wanted to use this to help provide some visual intuition for qubits. Photon polarization is a nice, visual way of interpreting qubits and as such lent itself well to the task.

EDIT: I've gone ahead and added the footnote. Thanks for the suggestion!
The 3-polarizer experiment is a very cool way to demonstrate the weirdness of light.

And the idea of using sequential rotation to keep track of cumulative bias in coin flips is an interesting concept.

But ultimately I think neither one of those concepts really depends on the other in this experiment. Checking for light through polarizers is neat, but keeping track of any other rotating macro-scale object would work just as well. You can do the same thing by rotating a stick on a piece of graph paper. If it goes beyond your pre-determined test angle, you declare a bias.

As I understand it, the crazy thing about quantum computing is that you don't need to go sequentially; you can simultaneously compute every test flip in one step with qubits. That's why quantum computing could speed up certain calculations. (Note: please don't ask me to explain how.)
This is secondary market liquidity, yes? If so, there's unfortunately no demand till series C, and the board needs to allow secondary sales, which competes with the company's own ability to raise capital. We're seeing VCs at later rounds include cash payouts to founders to dissuade secondary market activity.

Also it's not either/or. Participating in a pool does not block the founder from liquidating shares on the open market.
Do you already know his real name in order to search it on Google?

If you search for "Scott Alexander" then, yes, Slate Star Codex comes up. But that's not the dots he's trying to avoid being connected. He doesn't share his last name on SSC, and his patients probably don't know his middle name.
There is a telegraf binary available here that connects to TimescaleDB: https://docs.timescale.com/latest/tutorials/telegraf-output-...

If you are looking to migrate data, then you might also want to explore this tool: https://www.outfluxdata.com/
From what I've experienced, the majority of the Bay Area is very liberal up until the point it actually costs them something - then it quickly becomes a conservative paradise.

People will shout and scream and boycott to make sure you can use whatever bathroom you choose. Or make sure that everyone respects your choice of pronouns.

But ask those same people to build more housing and provide ample public transit? Ask those same people to close all private schools and force people to use public school lottery systems that mingle rich, middle-class, and poor?

Absolutely never. They isolate into their communities and tell the folks trying to get in that their town is now full.
Another useful realization, after a witty quote attributed to Einstein, is to consider that as much trouble as you (the GP) were having with math, the grad student was having much more.
Roads? Where we’re going, we won’t have any roads
After a year or so lurking here, this is my first post. Albeit on a throwaway account. Just FYI. I ran out of room above.
They grow organically. One person finds it valuable and tells another person who joins, and so on.

Twtxt is a neat format. I personally don’t like the lack of new lines, but that’s part of its simplicity.
You don’t _have_ to pay estimated taxes. If you choose not to you just pay a penalty at tax time (essentially interest on what you didn’t pay throughout the year). It’s up to you to decide if it’s worth it. I freelanced for a few years and just paid the penalty because I didn’t want to spend time thinking about taxes more than once a year. For how much I was making at the time I was fine with this trade off.
Cough python cough cough
I would say that JSX is popular precisely because the cost of teaching it is low, which in turn is because of its similarity to other commonly used notation (HTML / XML).

Of course it's got its fair share of dumb gotchas, but I found it far easier to learn than, say, any of the myriad Rails DSLs.
Yeah I tried using this on our current project but it couldn't really handle Rails + all the gems we're using. I think it's very difficult to retrofit types onto a codebase with deep roots in dynamic code.
Hey, you're right you could use a stick on a piece of paper etc. Totally fair. That being said this is in fact a real application where a qubit can model things a standard bit can't. Professor Aaronson describes it in this paper: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/qcoin13.pdf. Additionally, it's described in his lecture notes here: https://www.scottaaronson.com/qclec/5.pdf
All the posts are viewable at Qmap.pub he posted less than 2 days ago. Encourage you to check it out.
Here's season 13 of rocket league. Free red delicious apple for the first person to correctly identify the shape of the curve:

https://2p1ipt36o1g23g1tt6ba5nou-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Oh, is it better to have an entirely text-based service like a phone book? Surely that will help with retention.
I can give you a reading list to illustrate the libertarian views on public choice and government intervention (perhaps starting with non-libertarian James C Scott's "Seeing Like a State", and including Bryan Caplan's "The Myth of the Rational Voter"), but I have to say that we're unlikely to convince each other (for reasons described by Jonathan Haidt in "The Righteous Mind").

Municipalities organized as corporations are not unique to California, but the "inc." at the end of the name doesn't change anything. A government is an organization granted a monopoly (or oligopoly) on the legitimate use of force in a designated geographic area. For a discussion on the philosophical problems with governments as such, I recommend reading "The Problem of Political Authority" by Michael Huemer.
Yeah, that must be what the article means to say. I think I was just stuck on phrasing like "brands don’t have to spend nearly as much money on marketing".

I'm not sure I'm convinced that per-unit is a great way to analyze marketing costs since if you air a TV ad, it reaches a segment, so to me it seems more like an annual cost or something. But I do get what it's saying now.
It seems like I have been infrequently using Audacity for close to 20 years now which is surprising to think about.

I've used it to slice up tons of live recordings, mix multitrack audio, clean up, remove background noise, dub aging tape reels to digital, add some post-production effects to music tracks, and teach my dad how to use free software to do some of the same stuff. Some of the work was for broadcast and digital retail.

My most frequent use in the past couple years has been to time stretch a random track once in awhile and listen to it in a completely different light e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJyxQjdib0

"Complete garbage" seems harsh to me!
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You’re definitely correct that NIMBYism is a form of conservatism (in the classic sense of the word), but what I find really interesting is how effectively NIMBYism crosses party lines. I’ve noticed both very liberal and very conservative people will both be anti-development, but their rationales will change. The conservative will raise objections around things like “neighborhood character” and “small businesses”, while liberals will raise objections around “the environment” or “displacing disadvantaged communities”. Either way, the resultant viewpoint is the same: everything is perfect the way it is right now and nothing should ever change.
Random testing in Indiana shows Covid-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu
Yet another lousy monad tutorial
Well said. This safety net is meant to help founders make better long term success decisions.
Outline link if you're medium-averse: https://outline.com/9nffJB
College Pals from China Became Among Most Prolific Hackers Ever
"The only kind of moderation that scales with the community is the community." - Jeff Atwood [1]

This always seemed like a powerful quote to me, not least because I seem to be able to keep finding new applications for it.

[1]: https://readwrite.com/2014/05/29/jeff-atwood-stack-overflow-...
CFBundleShortVersionString must increment too though. So if you join “${CFBundleShortVersionString}.${CFBundleVersion}” the whole thing must increment, and this explains why CFBundleVersion can revert when CFBundleShortVersionString increments.
Nonsense - they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after all! Jeff Lynne is a musical genius.
Cool reference. Thank you!
Javascript feature detection is much too late when you need to send headers with the HTML and browser vendors can't agree on the header values or change their mind on what things mean. Like the samesite cookie nonsense: https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site/incompatible-clie...

Assuming things like that continue to happen, what are web developers supposed to do?

I propose a Real-Agent header that includes browser name and version, os name and version, cpu type (maybe) and desktop/mobile flag (maybe). Or separate headers for each name/version data, I don't care, I just know I need real data sometimes, and some new weird server request pattern isn't going to work well. Then continue to send shakespearean sonnets in user-agent for all I care.
Starbucks worker admits he spit in officers’ drinks, bragged about it
>I created a sort-of wiki page of her in my personal notes app. But then I went to the actual page and found the same information there

Usually when I read wiki written by more than one man and need something more complex than "born xxxx, died xxxx", I feel like the page was written by schizophrenic with OCD i.e. the information is not consistent and writer is obsessed by formal correctness at the expense of clarity. Thus I cannot understand shit unless I'm already well familiar with the topic - but then what's the reason for me to read this article?
I agree. Turing.jl, which is one of the major PPLs in Julia, is also based around effect handlers and does not relying on meta programming for the inference part. This allows the composition of inference algorithms and makes it more easy to overload functions for specific behaviour.
Another DAW:

https://www.zrythm.org/
To get a handle on what 5 to 20% means in the context of Japan, I did some searching around. It turns out that the Tokyo Metro and BART have similar amount of track (121.2 miles vs 131 miles), though the Tokyo Metro has many more stations. If the Tokyo Metro was operating at 5 to 20% or normal, it is still exceeding BART's daily ridership.
I think the document culture does really force clarity in ideas. I think the lament on slides is often conflated with poorly crafted slides though.

Well crafted slides force a similar degree of clarity when approached with the same level of intention. The problem is that most people are poor presenters, and presenting is a learned skill.

Documents gone bad encourage people to write more words than necessary which, when used for simple tasks, result in large amounts of time wasted preparing something that no one reads.

I think one downside of a document culture is it leaves less room for selling an idea- which may be less important in the decision to light up a new business unit, but put at a disadvantage work that is primarily visual in form.
Are we sure this is not a Submarine (PR-placed) article?

"In a normal Costco purchasing example, a company might sell their product for $0.95 and Costco might retail it for $1.00. This would result in a 5% margin (in reality the margin is a bit lower, but let’s use these numbers for estimates)."

That just rings really false to me.
Tolkien was inspired by his WW1 combat experience
Synfig for 2D vector animation:

https://www.synfig.org/
I think I agree with you.

I would say this trouble comes about in programming though, in the form of DSLs. Anyone who's worked with Rails knows the pain of having to go look up the non-obvious syntax for xyz specific file that you haven't touched in months.

Maybe you could say this is a problem with large software systems in general - the problems they solve often aren't that complicated (especially if you've worked on other similar software), but learning all the names and patterns and existing features creates a high barrier to entry.
It's more than a compiler problem: Go modules contain assembly routines which assume the Go calling conventions, so changing the convention is now quite breaking.

There's a lesson in there about success, or something...
Costco is unique in that they require you to show a card for entry. Department stores commonly have more than one entrance on different sides of the building. Not every store models itself after a department store layout, though. I'll admit every time I enter a Costco from one corner, it does feel a little strange and crowded. But it's a smart idea, yes, given the constraints Costco has.
CSV: yes if they request we’ll happily provide.

Anonymous: yes it’s an option on our grant screen

Specific efforts: yes on the grant screen we enable donors to add a “specific need” they’d like their grant to fund.

:-)
This is a list of different multimedia related tasks that you can do with Debian, from DAWs to animation:

https://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/
> It's been huge leap in reducing cost to build, distribute, learn and use apps.

Citation needed.

20 years ago you could make a commercial app with a GUI in no time with things like Delphi or Visual Basic.

Now to do the same we have to learn several standards and languages and libs/frameworks and build tools and server admin tools and...
Hi - thanks for pointing this out. I've added a note clearing up that as you correctly write the quantum interpretation makes sense at the single photon level. Obviously it's hard to generate and manipulate single photons without the right equipment (especially with a phone like in my case) but I do believe this still provides a nice intuition for what's going on. Thanks for your suggestion!
Yeah I had the same issue and have been following the Typescript thread on GH for a while now [1]. But I agree, I actually like using untyped JS for development.

What I do now is throw a "tsc --noEmit" call before tests/prod build to type everything before parcel runs. Works well enough.

[1] https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/4022
Right, so your entire analysis is useless. You're not rejecting the state because of any real principle, but rejecting it axiomatically. And then, you also axiomatically decide that private property is fine. This doesn't come from any social analysis.

Also, Lysander Spooner literally is against private property. He was part of the Socialist Internationale. The validity of his rejection of the state on basis of unjustified hierarchy also led to his rejection of capitalism on grounds of unjustified hierarchy. Instead, he was a mutualist. You know, the political economy for which one of it's foundational texts is What is property, which coined the slogan : "La propriété, c'est le vol", by Proudhon.

Bastiat attempted to use this essentially anarchist analysis of the state, but exempt private property from it by inventing some weird standard of government action that has no deeper justification and is pretty much axiomatic.

This is a huge simplification, but if you want more detail you can read "Why Anarcho-capitalism is not Anarchism" either on the Anarchist Library or, if you use Debian, via apt-get install anarchism.
That is kind of crafty. I wonder if they intend to continue this with macOS 12 or to return to single version numbers?
Cache effects mean this is not a pure tradeoff.

Any inlining routine needs a cost model. From the article it seems like Go compiler's cost model is not yet well tuned.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912455 Lots of comments on this story here.
You're conflating ranking and matchmaking systems.

A ranking system measures relative skill/performance levels. You can have a ranking system without using it for matchmaking.[0]

I don't agree that a typical 50% win rate[1] indicates a successful matchmaking system. For one thing, creating fair matches is _a_ purpose of a matchmaking system, but not necessarily the _sole_ purpose. For another, that people win half their games on average says nothing about how fair the matches were.

I think that fairness often gets prioritized over fun. Playing sports should be fun at all levels, but it's particularly important at the lower skill levels that the participants enjoy themselves. That's how sports grow and become cultural institutions. Being a low skill player in a silo of other low skill players is a decidedly un-fun experience that drives a lot of new players away from e-sports. A ranked matchmaking system could be designed with the express purpose of helping low skill players have fun and naturally develop into average skill players.[2] I wonder what such a system would look like.

[0] See FiveThirtyEight's Elo ratings for NFL teams: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-nfl-predictions/

[1] However that's measured.

[2] Under such a system fairness might be relegated to the seeding process for tournament play.
It's about the same as any other service, the only difference is every web app needs js. Try jumping into a python web service and talk to me about weeping from terrible tooling.
Every domain — every language — has its basic jargon, and algebra is no exception. I’m not suggesting that mathematicians simply replace every symbol with a word that hints at meaning; that’s too literal an interpretation of what I wrote. “exponentiate” is no more descriptive than “^”.

But there are alternative ways of describing that derivation that are not as symbol-manipulation heavy; you would certainly not communicate this proof in words to another mathematician — or to a non-mathematician — by simply reading your derivation (or your alternate, verbose derivation) symbol by symbol. Instead you would more likely rely on the meanings of the symbols.

Even in your verbose derivation, however, it’s worth noting that your new names capture the fact that b^x and log_b(x) are inverses, a key piece that someone unfamiliar with logarithms and their relationship to exponentiation now has a hope to understand.
The end of the arguably biggest fundraising spree this year
Oh great, we were down to like only ten thousand other intellectual provocateurs willing to discuss why black people have bad IQ genes.
There used to be some configurations that had kernelbase.dll but not kernel32. (Windows phone used to be like that, maybe windows on arm?) I would consider checking for ntdll instead of kernel32. (Or kernelbase if kernel32 gets file not found.)
It seems to me someone blocked on Twitter for alleged right- wing hate speech could easily demonstrate instances of left- wing hate speech which didn’t result in blocking on the same platform.

That would be analogous to the clothes example, right?
Is it just me, or does probability theory in general have fairly terrible notation? Ambiguity between random variables and their distributions because of them simply being distinguished by being upper-case or lower-case, writing likelihood functions alternatively with an L() or p(), and using p() (with different arguments) to refer to different probability distributions. Perhaps I'm just having such a difficult time grokking probability theory because it's just difficult stuff, but I often find myself immensely frustrated with the notation.
ERP Automation Benefits
Somehow this comment got me downvoted and obliterated all my karma.
Cannabis May Reduce Deadly Covid-19 Lung Inflammation: Researchers Explain Why
Author here. My point is that founders should avoid VC's like the plague if they can. Founders think taking $1m in funding validates their concept, but only the market can validate your concept. Premature scale will feel good at first, then destroy the founder and the employees who joined.

There are tons of methods to sell, and if FB and Google Ads (I am a Premiere partner of both) are your first avenue of selling, you will get destroyed. Try less expensive methods and only when you prove it elsewhere then try those very expensive areas.
> And we can’t consider an idea validated until it is brought to market.

I see you've designed your test to guarantee the result you want.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Flying Fuck
> To your coin-flip example, if you model a league in excel you'll find that elo actually results in a rank distribution very consistent with what your intuition would expect (given enough players and enough matches, of course).

This is incorrect. If you simulate Elo with a coin-flip, you'll get something that looks like this (11 players, 1000 matches): https://imgur.com/9O82pRj -- I think this will tend to a geometric distribution (not sure what the p is though, probably depends on the constants).
I'm not holding out hope for anything meaningful to come of this but big thanks to the court for standing up against mass-surveillance.
I mean, websites (and apps) are cross platform. That fact alone reduces a ton of development time and mental overhead.
Your estimation of the military is way off, I suspect.

Hey, these days the military is using consumer grad iPads, because they are cheaper and good enough.

There are more things in heaven and earth than just the military and SV.

One big example that's often brought up of military tech leading the way is programmable computers. And, yes, in our history that's what happened. But International Business Machines was hot on their heels purely for commercial computing. (If the militaries of the world hadn't blown up so many resources, business would have likely come up with programmable computers a few years earlier, thus completely eliminating the gap.)