skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always wondering the answer to this question:

Why does multiplication coupled with some sort of integral calculus work the way it does? We multiply to get moments of a distribution, we multiply to convolve, we multiply to get the work done on an object. I suppose the answer is multiplication allows us to scale some function f(x) with some function g(x). But I guess I want something deeper and I feel like I'm missing it.
It’s quiet too, which I love.
"But it's not at all clear or intuitive that jumping from 3 to 1,000,000 doors should lead the host to open 999,998 other doors rather than 1 other door."

It SHOULD be clear, because you have two givens: 1) Monty never reveals the car. 2) He opens all the doors except 1.
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I had both experiences and found neither valuable. I am in awe of anybody who can learn a foreign language full-stop.

My French teacher fully explained the grammar most of which passed me by since, certainly in my case, one doesn't really rationalise their own language in terms of technicalities.

My German teacher just pitched up on day one and spoke nothing but German. Two years later I was absolutely none the wiser. I could quite honestly have been listening to white noise.

That anybody "picks up" a language is something I am amazed by.
There's nothing about "voxels" that implies raytracing has to be used.

And marching cubes is actually a method to get rid of voxels, in a sense. You don't use marching cubes if you want that ridged low-res voxel effect.
Why /s?

Anyway, turtles float. Spaceship re-entry vehicles float. Coincidence? There are no sharp edges on turtle shells, showing they've evolved to produce a detached shock front. I think that makes a convincing case that turtles are from space. Nothing else looks like them[0] on this planet, further buttressing my argument.

[0] Tortoises don't count.
Does anyone know if this type of litigation is to do with the presidential election? Bytedance seemed transparently political at least. Is this too? Or does the DoJ just move insanely slowly AND with no consideration to political events?
Just like in languages like C++ you cannot force stack allocation/global memory segments, which is the only way to make RAII work.

A new without delete, not only causes a memory leak, it also leaks whatever else could be released by the destructor.

Same applies to Rust when heap memory gets forgotten.
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Hi!

Well, yes, ossia is initially based on a score paradigm, but our main dev @jcelerier added a node-base system recently, which kind of turns it to a node/patching system for mapping and interconnection.
However, as I said, we don't nearly have such a variety of processing blocks yet - there is a clear API to make new ones, though.

For those interested in such mappings systems, there is also http://libmapper.github.io/ that might be of some interest...
You mixed that reputation up with Lenovo thinkpads. Apple keyboards break down after several years with the touchpad and butterfly keyboard disasters are even unusable afresh. You cannot replace anything, and are way overpriced.

Thinkpads on the other hand are like Toyota's
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The anti-drug war.
Not disagreeing with you, but it might still be ok. I don't believe early fission reactors were cost effective either. If we build a few with heavy subsidies and create an economy around them, we may get more commercial players involved, and a lot more investment dollars chasing the problem.
"In 2017, when United Airlines reduced the weight of its paper in its inflight magazine, it saved nearly 770,000 litres of fuel a year – or $290,000 in costs."

This hit home.

770000 litres of jet kerosene translate to 2100 tons of CO_2 emissions[0]. That's the emissions of more than 200 average Germans or 50% of the emissions of over 400 people.
Cutting one's emissions by half is most likely not easy at all, so maybe even more people would be required for an equivalent reduction in emissions.

Now: if someone at an airline thinks that the inflight magazine feels cheap now and that it should be printed on better paper again, it would wipe out any emission savings that hundreds of people could ever hope to achieve personally. Makes one feels a bit helpless, doesn't it?

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosin (Look for "Kohlendioxidemissionen bei Verbrennung").

Edit: the point I wanted to make is that a willy-nilly decision of someone with sufficient influence can have way more effect that intentional decisions of average people could ever have.
Given that it provides mostly luxury services, it's quite easy to get rid of these 2%. Nobody is going to suffer from not being able to take the plane to go on a vacation.
Muslims first came into Kashmir as refugees when they were fleeing the caliphate.

Muslims got Pakistan and were through in ethnically cleansing the country.

Kashmir & Pakistan is a lesson for the rest of the world, particularly Europe on why Muslims can not be trusted.

Where they are in majority, they have no problem carrying out genocides and ethnic cleansing.
When they are in simple minority they carry out riots and secession.
When they are in small minority they cry "Islamaphobia" and want minority privileges.

This above seems to be universal and is said to be inline with their teachings.

Sadly a soft government has proved time and again its inability to protect its citizens from Islamic genocide.
But with random seeds not
It can be a business investment. I sometimes send work to third-world countries via Fiverr, and these people definitely have decent hardware. They buy and write off their machines like any other business in the world.
Maybe they just all went the wrong path when it comes to managing complexity : trying to much to abstract it away with abstractions like kubernetes.

https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin...
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It's a pointless argument. Apple aren't doing anything intrinsically wrong by offering a proprietary model. Your requirements for a device are just different from the requirements of most of Apple's customers. The solution is just to use something else and not worry too much about what Apple is up to.
Are you sure that is not part of their QoS programme? Normally there are some Fair Use policy known ( or not ) within the network where top 1% ( i.e those who are using the most Data ) would be slowed down. Especially on 4G Mobile Network where capacity are limited.

And it would reset every month.
"Once you develop intuition, probability is really quite intuitive"

That's a tautology.

Plenty of studies, such as the work by Kahneman and Tversky, show that humans by default have incorrect statistical intuitions. These faulty intuitions are hard to overcome, even by a considerable amount of training.

> The Monte Hall problem is more of a curiosity than a fundamental principle!

It's quite straightforward conditional probability. That so many people, including trained mathematicians, get it wrong is quite illustrative. And it's not unique ... the coins and drawers problem is similar, and one can craft many others. MH is not a mere curiosity, it's simply well known.
I have lived abroad for about 20 years now, when I am back home it is always a painful exercise to remember some Portuguese slang and street expressions.

Naturally after a couple of days I am back home.

It isn't worse, because thanks to Internet I am able to keep in touch with my native tongue still.

So yeah, I do believe his memoirs.
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Poor man's sleeps (various NOP loops) are just that. In all cases you should try and utilize on-chip sleep instruments, timers most probably.

On a Cortex-sized MCU that is most probably as simple as installing appropriate interrupt handler and launching the timer by writing appropriate data to some register(s).
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That's true of every industry. It's all 1% here and 2% there. We can't ignore something just because it's 'small' in regard to the total.
Are you still using that Note 1? I had one for a long time too, but at some point gave up on it. Curious if it's still viable today - Custom ROM or anything?
Sounds like you respond more strongly to the social aspects (eg feedback mechanism) of forums.

If you can figure out how to leverage that for channeling into a book or blog posts, that'd probably work.

Maybe the technique mentioned by the OP about "releasing each chapter online as an ebook" would get you some of the way there?
The company I work for builds enterprise software, so the key question that has to be addressed is "does this solve the business problem?". Most of what I review are implementations of some form of standard supervised learning model that has been tweaked for performance at scale, but I also see unsupervised learning, causal modeling, optimisation and some statistical analyses. As such, the criteria changes depending on the particular problem and I'm afraid I can't give detailed examples. However, in the case of an implementation of a standard supervised learning model, some common criteria are:

1. Is the statement of the business problem well-defined with a clear outcome that can be measured? Does it change for different clients?

2. Where is the data sourced from? Who or what created the labels? Any known discrepancies or errors (systematic or random)? Is it standard across clients?

3. Is the model appropriate for a) the problem to be solved b) the data available for training and validation?

4. Is the model performant with regards to the specified performance metrics? What's the cost of a false positive/negative?

5. How often will the model be re-trained? What's the justification?

6. Has the model been validated on data that is out of sample (usually includes out of time and out of population)?

7. Have biases in the data been identified? What has been done to address this?

8. What assumptions have been made about the data? Have these been tested?

9. What second-order effects do you anticipate will result from putting this model into production? Will these affect the data being collected and used to re-train the model?
Here in Germany it can be quite wet too, but in a heated room, even clothes directly out of the washer, without running the dryer, would dry over night.
But yes, hanging up damp clothing assumes it would dry reasonably quick :)
Outlook had a weird fallback in its CSS, instead of sans-serif it had "sans-serif", so some would look for a font called sans-serif, not just use the default sans-serif font.
When I lived in Latvia I found it impossible to even hear where words started and stopped for the first few months. Was a humbling experience.
Actually, COMAC has the C919, which will have it's first delivery as soon as 2021.
I am one of the benfactors of your book.
I heavily relied on it while trying to parallelize an ancient geophysical inversion code.

Didn't think i'd actually be responding to an author whose book I have spent multiple hours with.

Thanks for the great book!
Brain does not count. It updates/alters its structures - the process which humans model with numbers and back propagation.

Numbers do not exist outside of human cultures.
Speaking as a user, I don't particularly care if the widgets are native or reimplemented - what I care is whether they look and feel native. E.g. on Windows, a Qt or even a Tcl/Tk app can easily look "native enough" that nobody will care.
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What percentage of the economy is it though?

What percentage of human time is spent on airlines
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> Do you believe that a US judge can issue a summary judgment against a defendant based solely on fairness,

As Italian, I don' t believe USA can deliver justice at all (I can make tons of examples).

Se also Assange.

To make it clear: this is a discussion board, someone said it's not unlawful, I replied unlawful it's not the only thing that matters.

For example: in US it is not unlawful to not pay maternity leave, it's unlawful in Europe.

It's unfair in general, so, in my opinion, unfair laws should be changed to make society more fair (as fair as possible)

That's the point.

The power Apple detains make opposing to some of their rules unfair (and impossible) hence the laws are somewhat lacking somewhere.

You probably don' t know him, but Enrico Mattei was killed because he broke the seven sister's oligopoly.

When companies are too powerful, they are dangerous.

When they have global power, they are globally dangerous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Mattei
It doesn't seem like the case itself is political, since we've been hearing about it for quite a while now. Most of the naked partisan attacks have been (thankfully) easily debunked; e.g. the supposed case of discarded ballots in a swing state, which turned out to be a manufactured hoax and was exposed as such pretty quickly.

The timing may be political though. We shall see when they file the case.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this: https://findka.com/blog/essays/ (a project idea I'm thinking about doing). I wonder if preference for essays/evergreen content (as opposed to news articles) would be less affected by day-to-day context.
I strongly disagree. Grammar is a great tool for an instructor to organize their teaching, but a terrible way for students to think about language. Yeah, to read or speak you need to internalize those rules, but you don't really need to put a particular technical name on them, or think directly about them.

I think the step from "slowly doing grammar while I try to understand" to "I'm so good at grammar that I just understand" doesn't work that way.

I was taught English from 6 to 18 in a very traditional, strict, grammar-driven way and learned nothing. All spaniards go through the same type of lessons and very few can understand anything at all after years.

At 18 I stopped any classes or studying but I got satellite TV, English computing magazines and shortly afterwards the Internet and then just learned all the English I needed to get by without much conscious effort.

A few years ago I got interested in Danish and in about 4 months I could read regular novels at a decent pace just from Duolingo, newspapers and subtitled TV series.
I probably could do the same with any language just with enough motivation.
Yes, because the FUP is 2 Mb/s and after 200 GB.

I don't use that much in a month as this Internet is used only when I visit my parents' house and stay for a week or so (though I'm staying now much longer because of COVID, less than 1000 people live here so it's safer and also easier to stay locked down).

My use a DSL connection because my mom streams TV shows and that would eat all of the data allowance quickly. She doesn't need speed though, and DSL is fast enough for HD streaming.

This is most likely a technical issue with this base station, since when I had relocated the service to a different city I had no issue with the same SIM card and modem.

Other people too experience it here, but aren't impacted enough to continuously complain.
Who is Linus Sebastian, why should I care about him, and why I should consider his case typical?
Sorry to be blunt, but imagine the CO2 savings if every passenger went to the bathroom before the flight.
Similar things can be said about computers: the Mill CPU is simple, small, cheap, fast etc and of course can't actually be bought right now.

Vaporware is a real problem in every discipline.
Qt at least has Gammaray for introspecting running apps.
The Secure Enclave is just a part of the T2 chip. My understanding is that this is similar to if you jailbreak your iOS device, you won't get any special access to the Secure Enclave.

And as I understand it, it's also the Secure Enclave that enforces the attempt limits.
I think there is no other good alternative to learn about real-world software architecture (besides working experience, of course). Most of the books about the topic focus on theory and "happy" patterns. Once you have read those books one lacks total touch with the real world and how architecture is applied in real software.
Outlook now uses the Chromium engine as it renderer (instead of MSHTML) so I guess it doesn't do this anymore?
They're not wrong, though - Rust really doesn't need implementation inheritance to be considered OO. It just needs some notion of object identity, and virtual dispatch - and it has both.
We keep trying to make airlines work with a ton of taxpayer bailout money. I wonder if its time to just face the obvious problem that airlines may not be a profitable way to transport people over long distances, and perhaps consider alternatives? Would high speed rail be more profitable once the initial investments are made? Are there alternatives?
> Filevault and by extension Touch ID are more or less crippled

Sorry, what does this sentence mean? That someone with physical access to my machine can now unencrypt my FileVault encrypted hard drive?
Another approach that can be interesting for advanced learners, i.e. you have taken classes for a couple of years[+] and are living in the target language country:

If you've enjoyed a non-fiction book in English, for example, pick up the equivalent translation in your target language. It lets you compare and contrast; and the experience can also be richer.

This definitely requires good discipline, but it is rewarding :-)

[+] using the reference "B2" or "C1" from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...
Or you know, somebody is ACTUALLY worried about the FACT that we've fucked up the planet, as a species, and that within 10-15 years we're going to experience it, and it's going to suck WAY worse than this "little" pandemic we got going right now.

Just saying how your post looks in perspective, bragging that you're not sure if you could've been arsed to learn programming if it weren't for a video game ...

And you just ignore it as if it wasn't said. It really saddens me, the defeatism of the younger generation.

I'm just here defending that person because you called them "sad", called them out in front of everybody. Fuck you. Being worried about what is going on with the fucking world isn't sad. It's literally the most important thing we have. Minecraft literally pales in comparison. You can tell them it's off topic, but you can't just fucking call them SAD for being worried about it. Show some fucking compassion.
Papper magazine?! Why on earth they carry onboard a little warehouse of cosmetics, perfumes, plastic merchandise, and other overpriced tat no one buys? Yet it's the passenger luggage which they've (ie. airlines in general) always targeted with their ridiculous corporate cost-cutting policies.
I think this is great introduction for kids to learn what is corporate bullshit, what are buzzwords, etc.

"These are the only tools you will need to embark on this incredible journey to get your child prepared for the next IoT generation and solidify their role as a leader in technology!"

Those "incredible journey", "next IoT generation", "role as a leader", everything in a single sentence.

It also teaches kids that you can put link on a website, which you cannot click (again, good introduction into "modern" design which does not allow users to guess if something is a link, a button or just a text).

On lesson 1 Amazon, and other links are not clickable, they are just put as is:

"https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G8X7VM2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b..."

This gives us also a good opportunity to tell kids about spying and tracking in the Internet (this ref param, so useless for a users, so helpful to spy on them).

Another lesson is that sometimes links just does not exist or are broken, on lesson 2 we have:

"OPTION 1: Windows -> CLICK HERE to follow step-by-step instructions to set up on your computer." and, obviously you cannot CLICK HERE, because it is not a link...

One more lesson. People create content on some popular and well respected place, like Github, only to redirect users to their own crappy website with zero added value but with the intention to force someone to create account or sell something, etc.

Overall, pretty good stuff, one can learn really a lot (not about Python, however).
True, but I'd still go as far as to say the majority of illnesses western people in their 40's are suffering from could have been avoided with different lifestyle choices.

If I hadn't kept fitness and eating healthy as a priority for the last 15 years, my health would've been in complete shambles by now. I was pretty lazy and self-destructive through my early adolescence, and in my early twenties I was in terrible shape physically and had a lot of severe mental problems that I no longer struggle with. I'm extremely grateful to my 22-year old self that decided to try and turn things around, it didn't happen overnight.
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Huge Tridactyl fan here, it works beautifully. I am using it for over a year, ever since I spotted its mention at Suckless 'rocks' page: https://suckless.org/rocks/
Oh please. The exact same thing can be said for fish. How did the parent commenter know to create a file named ~/.config/fish/functions/foo.fish? How did the parent commenter know to define a function inside that file?

The point is, it's trivial to create an autoloaded function in both fish and zsh. You don't have to look at the man page each time, which is what was being implied in the comment I was responding to.

But to answer your question, you never need to call autoload with flags other than "-Uz" 99.99% of the time. So the idea that you have to consult the manual each time to figure out the flags is plainly not true. As for the fact that you have to call autoload to bring autoloaded functions into scope, what else did you expect? Fish's behavior of bringing undeclared functions into scope isn't exactly intuitive either.
>By definition of the technology that is NAND storage, an SSD

You see, I dont disagree. Apple was striving for an ideal that is not achievable. What they are aiming, trying and actually doing are three different thing.
> My background is computer science and I had a similar experience. Just a caveat: I'm not arguing that we should stop teaching theory, quite the contrary: most of the times we err on the side of the fluff.

Bioinformatics at my uni is just the typical CS minus some hardware stuff + molecular biology minus some chemistry stuff; in other words, I'm pretty close to CS, too. And I share your opinion — at least for me, I don't believe things until I see them proven.

> My point is just that lack of intuition/operative knowledge will lead to your theoretical knowledge of the field being less in-depth and generally less helpful to you.

In addition, building an intuition can help make the understanding come faster. To give you an example, I can stare at a proof for half a day and _then_ finally get it, but one clever diagram or a descriptive commentary can save me hours of pushing through the dense text — without cutting down on the rigour (as the proof is still there). Unfortunately, it seems that maths textbooks mostly come only with the former, or the latter, but not both.

> I honestly don't think it really matters what book you are studying as an introduction to a subject

I agree that it probably doesn't matter from the content POV (i.e. the basic definitions and theorems will be there), but it could matter if we take the intuition into account.

For example, in real analysis, there's baby Rudin, but there's also all sorts of books that include all (or most of) the content, but supply it with better commentary and/or illustrations to drive the point home quicker. And I'd day that's a pretty established field, too; probably more so than stats, in fact.
He's probably just winding you up.

I suggest you go out of your way to be nice to your mother, he will be so appreciative he will cave in and agree with you.

However, that approach is unlikely to work with Global Warming.