skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't honestly think they are worried about elections. They have them firmly in control. Case in point, this group from MIT recorded a zoom analysis yesterday showing algorithmic tendencies of the vote counts. Why are vote totals stored as decimal? They dig into this and analyze four counties in Michigan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztu5Y5obWPk&feature=emb_logo
"Liberals and Never Trump Conservatives must learn Donald Trump was a warning from the Working-Class."

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Ah, here in lies the problem... "Liberals" and "Never Trump Conservatives" are divided out as different as "Working-Class".

If you sell your labor, you are working class. Until there can be more solidarity there, I see the division of America only worsening.
I'm not attempting to argue against the merit of hydrogen as a feature of the energy infrastructure....But, the only reason hydrogen is taking off, in a political sense, is because it's a transport mechanism. "Green" people like it because it can support renewable sources although it works just as well for fossil fuels.

The potential of nuclear is locked between two well funded lobbies. Nuclear is extremely viable and I'm consistently disappointed with people's inability to recognize and invest in the necessary research for cleaner and safer plants. Or, those who succumb to an illusion that fusion will be ready and commercialized in the near future.
There's always R Cloud, accessible from a browser.
helped or hindered, does that mean there was basically a window of opportunity and life made it?
> Big question remains why boomers are so prone to divorce, considering that they lived in the easiest economic times.

Theory:

Couples who do not go through hardship together (whether economic or otherwise) do not bond as closely as those who have, and therefore are more prone to divorce.

I have no evidence to support this...
Or the other way around: those getting married have actually thought it through, rather than feeling peer or family pressure? Who knows.
I think the ideal system would be HN-style with ML informed analysis and user weighting.

E.g. if someone versed in cryptography upvotes or downvotes a cryptography story/comment, that counts for more than someone random

And I only care because the expertise gap is really the only flaw in HN/Reddit style ranking. In all other ways, it seems superior.
I don’t think that follows. It seems conceivable that advertising can both help, but does so much less than the quality of the product , but nonetheless can occasionally push things over the edge from “goes out of business” to “doesn’t”.
While I laud the idea of having tests that reach 100% coverage (only half being snarky here), I feel that this is a bad habit to get into, just mindlessly changing things and assuming your tools will catch it.
How much of this 8GB of basic configuration will be available for user's processes? Kernel+GPU will take quite a bit.
Maybe because they lived in easy economic times? When you're not worried about surviving on your own, you can afford to be "terminally irritated" by your partner's defects.
think of it like shell scripting for statistics, although not nearly as limited as bash is compared to other programming languages.

it works best if it's used semi-interactively, as a glue language between statistical packages which may be written in other languages. or to write simple "batch" scripts that basically just run a bunch of procedures in a row.

RStudio makes the whole experience much nicer in terms of plotting, and RMarkdown is great for preparing documents.

of course like shell scripting you can write fairly complicated programs in it, and sometimes people do, but due to backwards compatibility and weird design choices meant to make interactive use easier, programming "in the large" can get weird.

the analogy works for Python too -- it is definitely reasonable to use Python for shell scripting, but using Python interactively to pipe things from one program to another is slightly more frustrating than doing it in the shell, although might be preferred due to its other advantages.
Why do oxygen atoms pair up? For many, there's considerably more stability in the situation for a lot of reasons. Obviously not always, but even if 'someone doesn't have children' - we're still mostly designed to behave in a social context where there are children. So a 'childless' marriage is one-step removed from the classical state, it's still pretty close.
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Dating experience corresponds to less stable marriage: https://img.ifunny.co/images/0b11659d375d3cc296d5683e8e54e28...
It was actualy that women will tolerate too much and allow everything.
Fun fact, I ran into the esampling problem myself back in April when I posted https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/30, V2 of the spec will allow this natively, but it also not seemingly making any headway towards initial release so who knows when it'll land...

What you can do though is look at the first few bytes of an .mp3 file (since it's a file drop/file load) to just directly read the sample rate from the MP3 block header[1], where you directly check the value encoded by [data[19], data[20]]: if it's [0,0] that means it's 44100, [0,1] means it's 48000, [1,0] means it's 32000 and that's it. There are no other sample rates allowed for MP3.

[1] http://mpgedit.org/mpgedit/mpeg_format/MP3Format.html for the full block format)
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I agree with the comments here talking about the highly opinionated nature here

Yes, Trump was a bit of a trainwreck, or at least how I see it from Canada

But, echoing the comments of David Brooks, I believe the Republican party may be in one of the best positions ever to center their core values and policy about protecting the working class

With the GOP still having a stronghold in uneducated people, this election it has had gains in other minorities (male and female latinos, male african americans)

Hopefully they can realize that they have this opportunity before next election cycle. Elect candidates that can resonate with the working class. If they could have an impressive platform for them, I'm sure they could engender more support within that base, let alone make major gains with women
One of the fun things about linear algebra is that you’re working with lots of simple equations all at once. It’s like moving from single variable calculus to multi-variable calculus. You realize that the additional complexity was there all the time, and you were just studying a special, restricted case before.
I thought he just got offended by dancing teens making fun of him lol
Millions of poor immigrants would beg to differ
>Younger generations are getting married later because they weren't given the stability that Boomers had

And their situation isn't crap enough to put up with less than ideal marriages for the financial security as was the case for the generations prior to the boomers.
Sure, but this has almost no impact on my daily use. If I really need to run something heavy locally, I just turn it back on.
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> lecturers had to ask Dexter to take down notes a term at a time to ensure students weren't skipping lectures

This is just... Stupid. Instead of admitting what a poor job you're doing, you're trying to suppress a student, unpaid student, that did a better job than you. (the you is of course the lecturer)

Anecdote: I was a professor of Computer Science from 2004 to 2006, for two years. I was teaching Compilers. I was 25 years old when I started, and Compilers was the worst possible course to teach. I was paid the miserable sum of 1,600 eur per year, which is why the usual "university mafia" wasn't interested in putting someone else in that position (it happened at the end of my second year anyway, when the course was assigned to a full-time professor).

I didn't want my students to pay $150 for the book, as this was Italy in early 2000s and students didn't have a lot of money (probably true today), so I created a big handout book that they could download and print, free of charge, and released it with a Creative Commons license. Or you could order the printed version on Lulu (although, for some reason, this one had to have an "all rights reserved") [0].

Anyway, at some point a professor in the Math department threatened me because students were using my handout to study regular expressions, and it was (in his mind) hurting the sales of the book they were using for his course; that book was of course authored by the professor, and he was making some money from it. How shameful.

Oh, yes: of course I ignored the threats.

[0]: https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/simone-brunozzi/dispense-lab...
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This is not new. In fact, it was assumed in the construction of the U.S. constitution.
> Vitamin D levels can be raised with very basic steps like getting some sun and enough sleep. No pills are needed.

Ability to absorb D trough skin decreases when people get older. Older people don't get enough D trough their skin.
> (namely, working with nontabular data, external APIs, deep learning, and productionization).

I agree with all of that except for productionisation. I would have agreed before dealing with issues around getting consistent versions of python + libraries to run.

The issues I see with Python are as follows:

- pip doesn't actually check to make sure your dependencies are compatible, which causes real problems with numpy et al

- conda isn't available by default, and running it on remote boxes is non-trivial (I spent a whole week figuring out how to get it running in a remote non-login shell).

- This makes it really, really difficult to actually get a standard set of libraries to depend upon, which is really important for production.

R, on the other hand, actually resolves dependencies in its package manager, and the R CMD BUILD for packages, while super annoying helps you produce (more) portable code (did you know that conda doesn't provide cross-platform yml files unless invoked specifically?).

In terms of handing it over to engineering/non data science people though, Python is much much much better.

tl;dr Python's an ace language with a terrible production story.
I saw your comment before reading the article, and I was skeptical. After reading, I think you've captured this perfectly.

I'm not a marketer and I don't typically take an interest in this subject, but the blog post breaks down the problem in a way engineers can appreciate.

They describe how they characterized their unique market, the funnel to attract new buyers for their cell installations, and how Gruber's audience fits the necessary parameters. There's a lot more, and I'm not doing it justice, but it was a fantastic read.
> causes are globalization and automation; and both of those look like utter inevitabilities at this point

The gains from these trends are accruing to the educated and the urban. That’s a big part of the problem.
Society needs children to survive. Even if you don't care about the propagation of the species, you will need younger people to run things when you are in your old age (if you want to be comfortable). So in that way we all have an incentive for children to exist (even if you don't want or have any yourself).

As a more concrete example, in the US we need a working population to support the Social Security of the retired population.

When these rules were being created, people assumed that children are better off in home with two married parents and that people are more likely to have children if they are married. So it made sense for the government to encourage marriage with the incentives you mentioned.

Of course, you may want to argue those assumptions now. But that is beyond the scope of my comment.
I wonder if its due to the fact that dating apps are a prevalent way for couples to meet. Alot of these apps do a good job of matching personality traits/interests/beliefs so people get along more. This vs. the old ways where most people either met their future spouse in school/college or at a bar and alot of people married young which led to rocky issues down the road.
The only problem is people who think monogamy is universally bad. These people invariably demonize jealousy which is a normal, natural emotional reaction. If you want to demonize innate human desires and behaviors then you’re no better than the Catholic Church.
Overall better outcomes for children in two-parent households, directly reduces the number of young-ish listless males (large numbers tend to destabilize societies), and makes it extremely clear who is the "next in line", so to speak, for a myriad of societal interactions in which a person becomes somehow incapacitated and needs individual assistance.

In the case of two earners, it also significantly reduces risk in a world where most people are paid a single salary or wage rather than having many customers.
There is nothing stopping two people from being married and polyamorous.
I don't agree with everything in the article, but I do believe that the non-urban folks are feeling ignored. I think the results of the election highlight this very well. In the critical "mail-in" states, the difference in the Presidential election was made by the large urban populations. In the House and Senate, local preferences were more strongly favored.

In the aftermath of the elections, all of the "land doesn't vote" posts serve to amplify the feeling of abandonment and disdain felt by the non-urban populations.
It is only a problem if you think the common people with their common problems should be represented first and foremost including stable folks.

Also, there is a moral argument about equality and diversity. If you interpret democracy as in rule-by-the-people it is only fair that everyone has a chance to represent.
Fair enough. That's a nice thought - two people with unstable income and a modest support network joining together for love, and making it last. Thanks for that, ssully!
Yeah but the IBM clones were only produced after painstaking reverse engineering of the BIOS. So basically nouveau, which already exists, but with much more work put in due to there being a greater upside. Though I think this analogy is a bit strained, for the most part the drivers aren't running on the device you're buying, hence the Linux driver being an issue at all.
In line with the data we have for divorces, we see dramatically increased rate of out of wedlock childbearing over the same time periods being discussed:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_16.pdf

This suggests to me that couples are still coupling, just not inviting Uncle Sam to the party. Given that other users have shown a wealth divide for marriage, it would seem that poor couples are opting out of marriage in order to obtain/keep local/state/federal resources, e.g. SNAP, Medicaid, etc, which almost always have income caps for eligibility.
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Yes, this will impact Numpy/Scipy as much as R, as they depend on many of the same linear algebra libraries.

Edit: actually, looks like I'm wrong emghost appears to know more about this than me.
Yeah, getting married at 16-20 was pretty much the norm before. Women expecting to have careers instead of their parents just trying to get them married off. Just a whole mind-shift from 50 years ago.
More like "With this new chip programmers can waste twice as many CPU cycles, making everything twice as slow if you don't upgrade".
But, as the article points out, the size of the oceans may actually work against that by diluting the possibility of getting the correct concentration of ingredients.
MPE stands for MIDI Polyphonic Expression and describes a standard for encoding multi-dimensional values into a MIDI note/event. Typically with a normal MIDI controller, you have values like key, volume etc on an event level, and then channel wide values like pitch bend.

With MPE, you can think of it as each note having its own channel, with added dimensions like pitch bend, vibrato, timbre and more all encoded into a note.

This allows you to interface with new kinds of controllers like the Roli Seaboard for example, which are much more expressive than your standard midi keyboard.

In terms of Live, MPE wasn't supported until now and connecting an MPE controller to the DAW was a massive headache and super hacky.
Having "works for a living" in common means a lot less than your entire worldview, what you think the purpose of life and existence is, and what the properly ordered priorities of the State are.

And all of those are drifting faster and further apart.
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Looks like I need to compile R and my libraries with AVX2 support.

# list available instructions

$ gcc -march=native -dM -E - < /dev/null | egrep "SSE|AVX" | sort

This post has some info, but no benchmarks.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37213060/does-r-leverage...
Except a lot of regular pages are just pages and so it is trivial to read them at 20kb size because you obviously run your browser with extensions that block the loading of the vast majority of resources on the page until you whitelist them. A 4mb PDF is a single 4mb file. A 4mb webpage is more like 100 separate files, most of which can be entirely forbidden from loading at all, and many of which can be set to load only once tapped on (like images).
Could it be that the social norm changing and divorces usually being a pretty one sided thing when it comes to financial loss, that marriage has become less attractive to those who are supposed to provide the main income and also pay after the divorce?
I suppose 40 years ago, the typical male didn't think much about the possible consequences of getting married. These days, that has changed. Getting married can cost you a lot of money if you happen to choose the wrong spouse.
> Apple sees App Store apps, and web apps as having different advantages, and it is in their interest to have the best platform for both. It’s not just me saying this, they keep saying it too, and proving it by investing in making web apps run better.

The method to pin a webapp to the home screen is substantially worse than it used to be.

There was a period where javascript running in Safari ran significantly faster than javascript running in a webapp opened from the home screen, or in any other app opening a web view. Is that still the case, or did they decide to share that function?
No they don't. Researchers propose they (the carmakers) do.

I can't even imagine the maintenance or repair considerations of a pack that's embedded inside of the frame or a monocoque chassis.

Lastly this isn't even an Ars article, it's from Wired. It really is a terrible click-bait headline. The article, imho isn't much better.
No links as I'm not here to sell but I do seven figure revenues in the newsletter space from sponsorships by such companies looking to extend their audience (and most of them return so it must work most of the time!)

More broadly, I've seen a lot of people have good experiences with email newsletter advertising/sponsorship generally if they use the right publications and audiences (for instance I saw https://twitter.com/DenehyXXL/status/1326172165616570368 earlier today).

Podcast advertising is worth looking at too, but it mostly succeeds in a somewhat different way (podcasts seem to work better as a branding and door opening play than for trackable conversions despite what coupon codes imply). Reddit may also be worth investigating but you really need to play it right there, it's not a hugely forgiving place for sponsored items.
You also need to do exercises.

Schaum's Outline Series is good for that.
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Thanks!
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The only reason I had some vague idea that it was something Italian is that I believe they mention a Doge in Assassin's Creed 2, if I'm remembering right.
The causality is reversed, but not in the way you are inciting. Regardless of background, married men tend to make more more and act more responsibly:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/04...
I mean the odds of the result of a federal election changing due to my vote are approximately zero.
Who I really feel for in this case are all the hotel operators in Thailand who are perfectly reasonable people but now have been painted with headlines like the tmz one: “American Could be Jailed
FOR BAD REVIEWS OF THAI RESORT!!!”
That just hurt the industry as a whole. If the other hotels were smart they would come out against this specific one and in support of civil reforms as a way to assure guests that they won’t do the same thing.

I also really want to commend TripAdvisor for sticking up to their corporate ideals and policies. They got their user out safely, and decided to avoid this issue in future by labeling the hotel as a possible threat. I think the hotel got exactly what they deserve in this case. If you want to risk your good name by jailing someone for bad review you kinda deserve to be run out of the hospitality business, and TripAdvisor should rightfully help people avoid your hotel.
Do you have any evidence that this is a driving factor for significant numbers of voters?
I’m seeing a pattern in the lack of detail ;)
> How working class voters end up aligning themselves with a party that is less likely to care about them, while cutting taxes for earners well above the working class income bracket.

That's words vs. actions. His words were that he was going to take care of them, and his voters believed him. The fact that he didn't do it is just like any politician lying. They might not even have believed him either, but at least his voters felt like he listened to their pains.
My comment was about the NYT, not Tucker Carlson. The point is that even in the recent past, the paper had credibility even among people like Tucker Carlson.
Keep in mind that, while the current phone system is very much electronic, the phone system historically predates electronics. It is electric, but not inherently electronic.
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With respect to point 1, the entirety of the leadership of the Democratic party acted in concert to prevent Bernie Sanders from being the nominee. The overwhelming majority of the party is ideologically opposed to the kind of large-scale social programs he advocates. With respect to point 2, working class voters, who still tend to vote Democrat, although less so than before, are reacting to the failure of the Democratic party to offer them any substantial improvement in their material conditions for the past 40 years. 2016 afforded them a chance to vote for someone who was at least promising positive change (as spurious as it was), and in addition to that, was free of the kind of sneering technocratic contempt that Democrats so often direct at the working class.
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Poor immigrants generally work the shitty jobs I'm referencing and try to make sure their kids are on the professional ladder before finishing high school.

There's still no ladder for them, personally.
Never heard that one before. Perfect :)
Note that this article is mostly based on data through 2019 and it's a little too early in the "new normal" to say whether the low rates of divorce will continue. I'm hopeful though!
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A big issue with this would be safety. You don’t want your car to explode if someone runs opens their door into the side of your car. Also, repair costs would be crazy. You probably could not bang out dents, but would have to replace the entire (very expensive) structural battery quarter panel.
Where I live we have Civil Union. I feel like it's the best of both worlds.