skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'm saying is that for the next few decades all the roads being built now with EU money will need to be maintained, and that will cost money, money that won't come from the EU anymore but will need to be provided locally, presumably from taxes.

Yes, that national or regional road that was modernised or enlarged using European money will most probably prove to be an worthy investment and money will be found to keep it in shape, but what about all the secondary roads or even smaller inner-village streets that have now been modernised and which will not bring any extra economic value whatsoever? Because using a gravel-road to connect 5 or 10 village houses is as as good as any asphalt-road, and, more importantly, is a lot cheaper to maintain in the long run. And when asphalt roads go bad they go really bad, with craters instead of the actual road, I've not witnessed the same phenomenon with gravel roads (they do get sort of bad but not on the same magnitude).
> who is not necessarily the audience that you actually care about

But see, that hits the nail on the head.

There's a reason papers are full of long intros, backrounds, and even mini-literature surveys.

Because the audience isn't just other tenured professors in the same subfield. It's the rest of the field, it's grad students, it's undergrads, it's researchers in other fields it might be valuable for.

It's also for people trying to figure out even which subfield the author is approaching it from, to contextualize the paper -- is this political science paper being written by a structuralist or a culturalist, even when they never explicitly say so, but it makes all the difference for judging it?

It's easy but short-sighted to assume you're writing solely for your peers. Thankfully, the "verbiage" and "fluff" you disdain is deeply appreciated by many, many other readers.

To reiterate: there are very good reasons for these standards. What's fluff to you, is extremely valuable to many others.
Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyorY1uIqiQ
Seeing they've been effective elsewhere, it seems to me this Argentinian lockdown is actually leaking, probably by people secretly defying the lockdown and or there's insufficient isolation between 'cells'.

I'm surprised the problem hasn't been solved by now.
Twitter accused of double standards over ban on tweets wishing death on Trump
Which is crazy, given the fact that Max Verstappen's Honda-powered Red Bull is the only car on the gird that can put up any challenge whatsoever against Mercedes and a Honda-powered Alpha Tauri _won_ at Monza (a circuit where engine performance is critical).
I grew up in a school with a culture similar to TJ but without an admissions process. I find it sad that people are trying to get into compsci just to get ahead in their career. It's also sad that Asian parents are pressuring and coercing children and teens into high-workload test prep classes, creating a toxic environment optimizing for top colleges with stratospheric admissions criteria, at the expense of mental health. Top college admissions essays select for self-aggrandizement, and they often have stricter requirements for Asian students.

I've heard that Asian (specifically Chinese) parents push for education because it was the only path out of poverty in China and after immigrating to the US, and others saying that in the US, pursuing high-income careers is necessary in the face of racial discrimination in broader society.
Sad story. I wanted to find some pre echo of the Streisand effect but that's not really what's going on.

John Perry Barlow or Steward Brand effect, maybe.
I guess it's treated like physical units and pseudo-units: 0,5l of beer with 5% alcohol for 3,50€, that makes sense, no? ;)

(IIRC German typography says one should put a half-space between quantity and unit, and if that is unavailable, no space.)
While I agree that the undergraduate ordinary differential equations class has major issues, numerical methods are not quite as easy and straightforward as you indicate. I've worked in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) before and often there is not a cookie-cutter algorithm you can apply to a problem like a RK scheme for an ODE.

The statement "you can obtain solution to any DE with any degree of precision" is practically not true for many systems. Despite massive increases in computational power, I don't know anyone who (e.g.) believes that turbulence will be solved any time in the next few decades solely by throwing more computing power at the problem. Through a combination of experimentation, analysis, and computation, however, we have made a lot of progress.

One major advantage of analytical methods is that they more easily allow you to see larger scale trends in the problem. If a computation is expensive, calculating sensitivities can be difficult, and in my experience sensitivities are found in CFD less often than they should be. Computation in some sense is more like experimentation: it gives you a local value. You need to do multiple runs to look at trends.

I think most people also underestimate how far analytical methods can get. In my PhD, I produced an accurate approximate solution to a nonlinear series of ODEs relevant to the problem I was studying. This gave a lot of insight into the problem that researchers using numerical methods for decades apparently couldn't figure out.

By the way, I approximated the unsolvable nonlinear system of ODEs there as a different nonlinear system of ODEs, albeit an exactly solvable system. Most people linearize, but that would have lead to a far less accurate solution in this case. Many nonlinear differential equations can be solved exactly; you can see a catalog of these at this website and in the associated books: http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/

It's really quite similar to integral tables. You look up the form of the equation you have and they tell you the solution (often with a proof or citation for the proof) or at the very least give you a head start if they don't have the solution.

I'm working on another theory project right now and I intend to use the same "approximate an unsolveable nonlinear system with a solveable nonlinear system" trick here.
Simple, F1 and nascar are both races. Rally is a time trial.

Generally I think people find racing more exciting.
“ if federal government didn't tax people so much, the state and local government could tax them more instead, to cover bigger share of the costs.”

I upvoted you and agree.

This is exactly my point, the power is at the federal level, and the state and municipalities rely on funds from ‘above’.

Here are some EPA federal grants for municipal water systems:

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/drinking...

Sewer overflow grant:

https://www.epa.gov/cwsrf/sewer-overflow-and-stormwater-reus...

I Googled “epa muni water grants”.
Labor mobility is really low in Europe. In france you can be tied up in litigation (tribunel through appeals) for 10 years easily on an employment termination (my info is from 2016 time frame so may be dated). There is no such thing as at-will employment.

Also, noncompete's are weird. If someone is receiving full pay on gardening leave they can work for someone else. If you instead have them work till end of notice period you can usually pay some % of salary (ie, 50%) to totally block their ability to work for any competitor.

So you can't fire the horrible workers (without insane headaches) and you CAN block good workers from moving too quickly to competitors (ie, take a year or two out of their working life for a price - which is usually tied to cash salary and is low). All to say - not the fluid labor environment that startups would generally be at home in.
You're giving them way too much credit. There's no strategem or design to hurt women's self esteem. They sell what people want to buy.
Great words from an elegant thinker. I hadn't appreciated how much EMAS informed what was being done.
However, the other big product of universities is education (and I think it’s fair to say that most people who would think of attending one see the value in universities through how they can educate, rather than whatever research is going on). And “shipping” good lessons, close connections with students, and great results is rarely recognised, and doesn’t help you get a job in the future. (It might help you look better compared to someone publishing equally as many or impactful papers, but it’s the papers first).

The other thing that this publish-regularly mentality can prevent is very long-term forward-looking projects - for some problems it is not clear what an answer should even look like, let alone how to get there. The closest thing to compare it to might be starting a new company - perhaps it takes 6 to 12 months to work on a product enough to start selling it. This is time that people simply don’t have in some academic fields, where they will be seen as underperforming, so it discourages these long-term projects entirely.
I'm guessing "no problem".
Kubernetes doesn't provide networking. You have to use Cilium or a flat layer 2 or fun BGP tricks to get the packets to go where it wants them to. It doesn't provide storage: you have to run Ceph or Gluster or vanilla NFS and hook it up.
Some unsolicited feedback on your communication style below. Read no further if you're not interested in it.

> One of them explained to me, how the state code was written, so that everyone is breaking some law, at any given time, and a lot of their training involved learning all these little violations, so they could pretty much justify pulling someone over, at any time.

> I suspect these bar owners did something to piss off someone in some authority. It could have been as mild as their main clientele.

In colloquial speech, like that used on this forum, these sentences in combination imply:

* My friends, state policemen, knew how to pull over people at any point

* This was an act that was commonly performed

* My friends also participated

It isn't explicit in the text, but that is the natural inference in colloquial speech.

I only mean this in a descriptive fashion. There are all sorts of reasons you may want to continue communicating the way you do, but it will get you into situations like this where you feel compelled to respond in outrage to someone else who has made that inference. Up to you how you act, but if you weren't already informed, you are now.
> The charity, which focuses on equality for girls, surveyed 14,071 teenagers and young woman aged 15-25

How can you aim for equality, if you don't compare the results to those for men?
Permanent errors are often just that, permanent. Imagine a bit of tape that's fully demagnetized or magnetized, has a hole in it or a bit of the magnetic material simply unglued and came off, etc.

Some errors you can correct probabilistically, like this on■. Others are harder, for instance ■
I really enjoy the Why Zombies Attack paper

https://loe.org/images/content/091023/Zombie%20Publication.p...
Yup, and this problem has continued unabated in all the time since.

I'm a bit more optimistic things can change, though, with things like Rust in Linux, Redox, Fuschia, shifts of various sorts are in the worst, and, more broadly but without hard evidence, I just feel like this sort of opinion has become less niche in recent years.
I believe Europe can create its own SV by following the USA's route: the Europe's equivalent of DoD (which has access to unlimited funds, tens of trillions of euros), needs to come up with a grand multi-decade project and invest into companies that are going to work on related sub-projects. For USA it was the worldwide surveillance system, but for Europe it may be something else, like ITER (but on a bigger scale) or micropayments system (I don't know if it would be big enough). That grand project needs to be useful and reachable, though. One thing I'm certain about is that VC-style micro investments into micro projects with micro objectives will bring only micro results.
I was so glad I had the opportunity to vote for her.
That comment was not inspired by mistrust of the State. (I would trust the average European government far more than I trust my own.) I'm saying that private firms will use this ready-made excuse to intentionally exceed the limits placed by a straightforward reading of GDPR.
This is a misconception--you may sell GPL software directly. I do, and I make a living with it.
Division is expensive and requires out calls in chips without an integrated FPU. Kernels require fast, tractable random numbers early in boot time. The Unix kernel resident rng had a lot of work done on it over the years for a very small fragment of code.

The algorithms come from mathematicians. Maybe, they're doing it for innate satisfaction of things done in the integer number field?
You think evil requires intention? I have no idea what "model" you might be talking about.

On HN we are often downvoted for cautioning against unwarranted assumption. Meanwhile elaborate theories that just happen to affirm how great life is for everyone we care about in this best of all possible worlds are quite popular. In 2020. Good grief.

The fact that no politicians campaign in a way that would appeal to most citizens is no surprise. Our congress passed the trillion-dollar covid bailouts (that contained nothing to help normal citizens get health care) nearly unanimously.
> Lemire uses variable names such as “s”, “t”, “l” which seemingly don’t correspond to much. In such a short piece of code, this actually isn’t too big an offense. I kept these terms in my own implementation, because I want to be consistent with the paper
And then there’s deep neural networks..,
Now all that's left to do is democratize that and you have a perfect world, no? That is to say increase the pool of such jobs from 10,000 to 10,000,000
Differential equations are “trivial” to simulate until they aren’t. Some differential equations feature conserved quantities or invariants that will blow up over long times if you don’t build their conservation into the numerical solver. Some equations can’t be solved with variable time step without careful consideration. Some problems are so huge you can’t solve them without taking some kind of approximation. For instance you might need to find the low dimensional sub space to project onto, and then write the equations of motion for the sub space. You might be solving a finite element problem and need to find the right way to discretize. For electromagnetism this requires writing your elements to be irrotational for the E field.

Furthermore, a lot can be gleaned from understanding the _structure_ of a differential equation. Writing the equation for the RG flow of a field theory and then understanding the fixed points of the flow is crucial. A numerical solution to the RG flow isn’t really that useful.

Basically, once you’ve simulated it—-assuming you’ve done it right—-what actually have you gained? Often less than you want, and generally less insight than you could have gained had you really analyzed it.

What I’m saying is that “trivial to simulate” is only sometimes true. Ansys’s business exists because solving Maxwell’s equations are not “trivial,” and they’re linear!!
Totally agreed with you Re: teaching. I think universities are systematically not valuing teaching enough in my opinion. That said, at my university (UCLA), if you are a great teacher, teaching large, popular and impactful classes; you will get recognized and promoted for it. But when people bring up the publish or perish trope, it's not about spending time building better classes and teaching material.

In terms of 6-12 months, if you don't have that much time, it's likely your past bets haven't paid off and people aren't that willing to give you more resources. I definitely had lots of projects that still haven't paid off 7 years into them; but I get to keep playing on them because some of my other bets have. That's the way it works, but I don't think that is that bad. There are many professors with terrible ideas that they think are great and are indignant that no one will support them unconditionally.
> Even the crippled Ferrari engine was beating one of the Honda teams.

The current points order is:

- Verstappen (Red Bull Honda)

- Albon (Red Bull Honda)

- Leclerc (Ferrari)

- Gasly (Alpha Tauri Honda)

- Vettel (Ferrari)

- Kvyat (Alpha Tauri Honda)

- Raikonnen (Alfa Romeo Ferrari)

- Giovianazzi (Alfa Romeo Ferrari)

- Magnussen (Haas Ferrari)

- Grosjean (Haas Ferrari)

I think any claim that Honda is worse than Ferrari will need more evidence.
That shouldn't come up much for middle school kids, presumably.
Stacking Cheap Peltier Modules – Lower than -40°C (video) [2017]
Very nice question.
Perhaps this could hint towards primordial life structure to be from outside our planet?
Kind of tangential, but why is there a concurring opinion here? It seems like it doesn't argue things particularly differently from the majority opinion, and it reaches all the same conclusions for (as far as I can tell) all the same reasons.

I assume that my non-lawyer eyes are missing something, so I'm curious what it is.
I don't know, that's why I asked since the original commenter seems to know, but his original comment doesn't really answer it as it basically says "they used to deny clearances to secretly gay people, and today they grant them to openly gay people".
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Plenty of algorithms require a lot of background knowledge to understand. Should we ban crypto algorithms because they require hundreds of lines of comments explaining elliptic curves? Of course not, we just assume people can read the papers.
It's public space. Permission is not needed.
Ah yes, you'd presumably disable any existing caching plugin and solely rely on CF.
This is why I love the Airport Express. It plays audio over Airplay, synchronizes multiple streams, and oh by the way, you get a wifi repeater out of the deal. All you need is dumb, simple speakers to connect. Works with all the major streaming services as long as you have an Apple device. For better or worse, this is not a problem for me.
This exact problem happened in Montréal with the Champlain bridge, cheaply built in the 60s. A new bridge had to be built at the same place (inaugurated last year) and connected to existing infrastructure.
Not spontaneous, but if I'm in a meeting with someone I've never met before I'll schedule a 1:1 just to say hi. It's worked well in expanding my network despite working remotely.

This strategy doesn't work for a lot of people because I think most people think of it as awkward when if you word it friendly enough people understand this would be more normal in the office.
"Not sure if there are other factors that make centralized waste treatment systems preferable over individual septic systems"

Capacity is the main thing I can think of. If you get dense enough (e.g. 8-story apartment blocks) you'd need a pretty big septic field right next to the housing. Now that's land you can't use for housing or offices. At some point it's more cost-effective to whisk that waste away to some low-value land to do the processing.

I don't know at what level of density that's true, though. It could be pretty high.
If you are willing to suffer a slight statistical bias, you can generate a floating-point values in [0,1) and multiply the result by the size of the interval.

It is not suggested to use an rng with a known statistical bias, when a random number is required.
Tie it to a stick, like those gas station bathroom keys
F1 isn't what it used to be last century. Races were nail biting epic contests, cars visibly improved every season, drivers were international celebrities dicing with real life ending risk, and passionate fans filled the stadiums. Modern races are just a procession of the same few people each weekend in global rich social events.
The classic example of this is the 580/880 intersection replacement in Oakland/Alameda. It's a crucial intersection for the East Bay so when a tank truck caused a fire that collapsed it, the tender issued provided a massive bonus for each day ahead of projected schedule you achieved.

The winner completed it far faster than similar projects, and under projected budget, taking it all in from the bonus. Every day he was slow, he lost money. So the incentives were great, and the winning contractor did a great job. So we have the construction technology and we have the policy technology.

But similar projects frequently take forever. Why is that? We know how to make them fast, cheap, and good, clearly. We know how to set up the incentives on a per-task basis so we will do that as well. So I suspect it is because they actually aren't crucial. So you sell the buyer (the populace) on the price tag based on the supposed importance, but you actually do the work on the real importance. The gap between the two allows for profit for politically connected contractors like Tutor Perini and also for make-work for powerful groups like construction unions. What we don't know is how to set up the incentives such that good per-task incentives will be put in place.

In fact, I'd say that the true importance of any slow project is likely very low. In California, the following projects should not have started:

* CA HSR

* SF Central Line

During their lifetimes they will not yield positive economic utility.
Using 'autistic' like that is both name-calling and a personal attack.
JavaScript figured it out: always compile as low as you possibly can and expose more modern modules if needed
>That requires (1) the failure to be visible and self-evidently the result of political processes and decisions (2) people to act on (1) and actually vote (3) alternate candidates that have a genuinely different plan.

>It's not that easy to ensure that all 3 happen.

That raises a couple of questions:

1. Why aren't problems visible?

Is it a failure of local government to disclose how they're spending your money? If so, why do you and your neighbors allow that? It is your money and your town after all. Especially since, even in a medium-sized city, a few hundred people who care about their quality of life can completely upend politics as usual.

2. Why don't people "act on [lack of transparency] and actually vote"?

Again, this seems rather odd to me. I can certainly understand (although I don't agree) that folks may think that Federal, and even some state elections don't give them any say. But local elections are a very different story.

3. Is it really true (as you seem to contend) Is it your contention that overwhelming majorities of people everywhere just don't care about the places they live, or for what purposes their tax dollars are used?
Can the bias not be transformed out?

Naively, I'd assume that if you give me a biased RNG with a known distribution, I'd think I could just unroll the distribution back to something uniform.

This needn't even involve division per se. A simple lookup table should suffice.
And Indycar is also going the hybrid route in 2023.
I think any algorithm (even the usual one with division) would take hundreds of lines of comments if written in this style. There are thirty lines just to explain -x % x. Myself, I'd rather see

uint64_t t = -s % s; // = (2^64 - s) % s = 2^64 % s