skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Median salary for cops is $105k[1] in states where the median salary for software engineers is $96k. They can surpass $250k a year with overtime[2].

[1] https://www.nj.com/news/2017/05/how_much_is_the_median_cop_s...

[2] https://www.nj.com/somerset/2019/11/4-cops-in-this-nj-town-e...
Probably helps, but for comparison, here's my dad's handwriting (born in the 1940s): https://i.imgur.com/svu8orT.png
This technique goes back to the early days of computers.
Here's a video of the IBM 1401 punch card computer (1959) at the Computer History Museum playing music on an AM radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI

The same computer could also play music using the line printer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu4SxJqU9I4

I discuss how the line printer music worked here: http://www.righto.com/2019/09/risky-line-printer-music-on-vi...
Because Snowden is a patriot, while Assange is a Russian asset who convinced people to ignore a woman’s story of sexual assault. If pardoned, Snowden would go back to the US and be a productive member of society, while Assange would go back to publishing whatever information his Russian handlers give him.
BTC has 4x when I bought it 3 years ago. That $20k high then, was very temporary. And was driven by speculators in S Korea.
Truly astounding when the rallying cry to "end white supremacy" and "give representation to underprivileged/underrepresented groups" involves light-skinned Anglophone people dictating to darker-skinned Spanish-speaking people how the Spanish language should work, and in a way that betrays total ignorance of actually communicating in Spanish.
> significant portion of programmers are very smart people who work hard at producing good, generalizable, understandable effective code

Yet this is very different from what GP is talking about: knowledge about the research frontier. Which is OK, programmer and researcher are two different jobs, and much like it isn’t expected from the scientist to write good code (or write code at all), the programmer job is not to be knowledgeable about the state of art in PL theory.
Future predictions are rarely correct. You can hardly fault someone for making an incorrect prediction.
> Maybe it does not matter what you achieve, boxes you check, friends or relationships you make along the way. At the end if you are an unhappy person it will not be enough, and if you are naturally content it will all seem ok.

Honestly, COIVD made me confront and explore that very subject incredibly deeply--month's long trains of thought about past experiences--, despite previously being in therapy and generally considering myself quite introspective; it also coincided with learning about how many founders in startups have many commonly found mental health issues (anxiety is almost always there) that lend themselves to enduring startup culture's grind.

That anxiety and restlessness is fuel that gets you to keep pushing to the next milestone when everything else is failing all around and its an incredible source, but the question then becomes: at what cost? For me being unhappy was just the cost of admission to apply my skill set to an immense complex problem; seeing incredibly sad things like currency collapses and Society's wrecked by hyper-inflation fucking sucks but it became my norm, what came after in that journey was an even higher cost altogether.

Failing to address that critical psychological factor is why I think burnout is also so common, you lose sight of the what and why you did something, which often starts as simple as thinking it was simply 'cool and interesting' thing to do with one's limited time and not simply testing how many times can you can endure going beyond your mental and psychological limits before it completely adversely affects your health in a way you that you may never actually recover from.

Which I think is something that is never discussed in founder/startup culture until after someone like Tony Hsieh dies and most just scratch their heads and try to figure out 'why?'

I can't say I'm completely over this either, as I think some ambition still lingers depending on the project ideas, but I've been forced to have to make sure I don't take on 'too much' and solely focus on one path now after being too many burnouts from doing 2-3 at any given time, but also realizing the value of the skill set you've gained as a result of your experiences. And having confidence in that instead of being obsessed with keeping up with every new update and knowing you can bring yourself up to date as needed.

I've also started to take advice from the cautionary tales that I previously ignored or that I simply didn't feel apply to me. Everyone is susceptible to these consequences and the only waste of time is to not at least consider how it could occur to you and try to learn from their mistake(s) to avoid repeating the same.
Icon, in the abstract sense? E.g. "Icon: Any image used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea.", from Understanding Comics.
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It seems possible that in the history of internet forums, some of them might occasionally receive subpoenas because forum members posted something essential to one side's case in some litigation. It also seems possible that some of those forums receiving subpoenas would rather not deal with the burden of responding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_balloon
The business has to pay more to acquire customers, which drives up the cost of goods. Indirectly the consumer pays in mobile bandwidth costs, and publishers are forced to show ever-more ad units, refresh every 30 seconds, paginate articles, or add content recommendations, all because AdTech takes 85% of the ad spend that use to flow more directly between publishers and advertisers. Much of that went to the cost of staffing a sales team, but those folks were doing human review on campaigns, so ad quality was high and fraud was low. With unlimited digital ad variations, ad networks have to police a mountain of potential bad ads, which can be directly malicious to the user.

I can spin up 1000 banners and text ads, but only spend a dollar. See the problem? They all still need review. Instead, GOOG relies upon AI and user reports, which they promptly ignore. Meanwhile, they serve up so many mobile redirects that publishers have to pay yet another vendor for protection against the crap Google doesn't vet. As a publisher I'm not really interested in showing my audience ads that automatically redirect them away from my content and to a scam $500 Walmart Gift Card landing page. Yet, if I want to have access to Google demand, I have to take the bad with the good. What choice is there? Exist and use Google, or pass on 60-90% of revenue while competing for the same audience?

As an advertiser I have to count on Google's reporting to tell me if I'm making positive ROI and they are constantly finding new ways to convince me that they made the sale. They bill for ads that were never seen and clicks that went to nowhere. Occasionally you'll see a discount on your bill for "Invalid Clicks" but you'll never see anything auditable about it. If I don't police my site list, I might end up funding websites run by terrorists and/or money launderers. Honestly how many US citizens who are shopping for cars do so on .ru domains? If you're not vigilant, that will be 20%+ of your ad spend. Yet, if not Google or Facebook, where can I reach a relevant, large audience with a small and variable ad spend? Not with DSPs, not with agencies, not with direct ad buys.
I agree a compatibility layer for the rendering model could be useful but that is a separate and optional thing that someone has to write, probably someone with more of an active financial interest in old GTK versions than the GTK4 developers have. Their priority with the old versions is mostly to keep them working as-is, specifically to reduce the chance that things will break in subtle ways and then will need to be fixed later, because those issues can be hard to track down and can really harm backwards compatibility. If such a compatibility layer existed, it would not be something that needs to be part of GTK4 or hold up a GTK4 release in order for GTK2/3 applications to make use of it. It would really not have been possible to even make this kind of compatibility layer before GTK4 was stabilized.

The GTK developers are just ordinary people like you or I who volunteered to work on it, if you want to change this situation then you or someone else can step up and become a GTK developer and work on this. Then you can say they care about it :) I think it is incorrect to say they don't care about backwards compatibility anyway, you seem to agree that they would meet that minimum required to claim backwards compatibility.
Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against Covid-19
Again: a finding of fact of the trial is that Ulbricht ordered a murder for hire. The defense had the opportunity to refute that, and didn't.
I agree. This should be the main url.

I find it ironic that a hand written talk (by Dijkstra no less!) begins:

> The second part of this talk pursues some of the scientific and educational consequences of the assumption that computers represent a radical novelty.

Even doubly so, that the OP pdf was clearly transcribed and then converted to a pdf, when the original is so very much clearer to read.
Yeah but her own team will probably be the most likely to advocate for her.

Go to any university in the US right after a prof is denied tenure. His students will inevitably protest this decision the loudest.

Also, what were they supposed to do after she sent an email to a huge listserv at the company telling all her subordinates that they should not participate in the company's D&I initiatives and should essentially quit working there? You can't pay people to tell your own employees to stop working for you...
For the heavy lifting of the actual linear algebra computations, these tensor computation libraries typically use some variant of BLAS or eigen.
you’re being manipulated

That’s true of all culture. To a great extent the suspension of disbelief requires your effort, not theirs. It can be hard for analytical people to fully engage with something as flimsy as fiction: the more sophisticated you get in your reasoning and perception, the harder it can be to really go with the flow, especially in media that is squarely aimed at teenagers. Ultimately though, no cultural artefact–fiction or non-fiction–can hold against criticism; there’s no cultural edifice that can be built without tool marks. But I still believe that you can enjoy a magic trick and know how it was done.

I’m not one to engage in Internet diagnosis, but Anhedonia is also a symptom of various illnesses including major depressive disorder. I’m not saying that’s you, but it’s all too easy to attribute things to the passage of time when there’s something else going on. Of course, you may just be bored of television – a not unreasonable stance!

Edited to add: would something like Jaws or The Third Man have the same emotional resonance without their iconic scores? Perhaps not, but the addition of music remains an emotional hack all the same.
Things don't become true based merely on the number of lawsuits filed. If there were some further substance in the public domain (eg. emails, whistleblower, technical analysis, etc.) then adding "allegedly" might be more of a technicality.

At the moment, I have no idea whether Facebook & Google did this or not. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. No judges have ruled on it yet. No evidence has been presented. Even the details of what exactly they are being accused of are vague. It's purely an allegation at this point.
I'd argue the show has worked their way out of this trope in the recent 5 seasons or so. Ned Flanders in recent episodes has figuratively grown a backbone: he stands up to Homer, he remarries a woman with a colored past, etc. His character has certainly evolved (possibly with awareness from the writers of this specific trope).
I agree they went too far with Kevin. But at the same time, they hadn't gone far enough in season 1. He's just too boring and uninteresting at the very start, in my opinion. They needed to find a nice middle ground.
I don’t know enough about the law in the USA to give an answer to your first point (whether the attempted murder allegations should factor into sentencing).

However, to your second point: no, 7 years is not enough for attempted murder. Failing to commit a crime (because your hitmen were actually the police) is as morally reprehensible as succeeding. You performed the actions, formed intent, it’s just the victim got lucky. Your sentence shouldn’t be reduced because of their luck.
This one wasn't that cheap tbh. Without the legos and with all the bad sensors I got, it cost around 130ish.

I was surprised at how difficult Google Home integration it was yes.

I see what you're saying. I honestly used Spring Boot just cause I'm really comfortable with it and can get something going quickly. It later on worked well for the Google Home stuff since they have examples and docs in Java/Kotlin. It also doesn't look like they have Python support.
For those not familiar with the visual effects platform:

https://vfxplatform.com/
We're still not sure how liability plays out in the courts in terms of going out into the community while potentially infected. From a legal standpoint, it's probably better to just not know, than to know and be on the hook for something.

Again, that's from a personal, legal liability standpoint. Not at all from a public health standpoint or a moral/ethical standpoint.
I'll bite.

You are more protected with 2 masks. However, your not unprotected with only 1 mask. Therefore, having a valve mask wouldn't protect others from you, but you would still be protected from others. Now if both don't wear mask, we have an issue.
I think this might be one of those cases where improving the ergonomics of it greatly affects this sort of thing.
I use magit[1] on emacs and I can pull up logs with 1-2 actions, and when used with a split-pane setup, navigating the logs on one pane (with keyboard-based navigation) instantly displays the commit (message and diffs) on the other pane.
So I browse logs on an almost daily basis---not just of my colleagues' commits when I'm trying to familiarize myself with what's moved in the meantime, but also my own commits.

[1] https://magit.vc/
Maybe it's just because I've been dealing with them on a daily basis for decades, but when I hear "bug" I don't infer any different connotation than "defect". They both sound like an error in a program created by the human(s) who made that program.

Also, I don't understand the reasoning for why we shouldn't anthropomorphize programs. I read the digression about two and a half times, but I can't connect the chessboard/domino tiling problem to a reason we shouldn't consider software's behavior.
Could you get another bank/quant job?
> Black woman in a field that's largely White and male.

so irritating that it has to be twisted into being about racism. is it really? wouldn't we know that more explicitly? besides what if she identifies as a White man? has anyone asked?
The wealth of knowledge is unreal, however, I feel it's unorganized. For example, I wish I could see the most noteworthy examples of a trope, but often times you basically get a list of "In season 2, episode 6 of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang uses the phrase "dang" which is a euphemism"
Pedantically, you are incorrect. The alleged one of these instances an was admitted of "of his efforts to protect Silk Road and his interests therein.".

It was not a charge and no one was required to believe an ounce of it to convict him. It literally wasn't charged, nor was he convicted of it.

If he was charged it would have been possible for the jury to find him innocent of it, but that was literally impossible here. It was something the trial literally could not have falsified because it was no something it gave a verdict to. All that would be been possible is that the jury could have found him innocent of the broader conspiracy to distribute narcotics-- a charge that was supported by many different pieces of evidence.

Consider the jury instructions: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.422823... (sadly this is a readline and not the final version but I don't see the final version).

> In order to aid or abet another to commit a crime, it is
necessary that the Government prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly and intentionally associated himself in some way with the crime, and that he knowingly and intentionally sought, by some act, to help make the crime succeed.

To further emphasize this, the appellate court wrote (emphasis mine):

> Here, the six drug-related deaths (and more importantly, Ulbricht's attempted murders for hire) were uncharged facts

But I do also agree with you on the rest:

I am of the opinion that almost the entire investigation was tainted, unfortunately-- because the corrupt officers had administrative access to the systems and tampered with the evidence. And not only did this potentially spoil almost all of their material evidence, but the defence was prejudicially denied knowledge of this spoliation.

[Aside, I want to thank you for your replies, it's been years since I looked at any of this. Your responses made mine more accurate in context.]
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cheap at home tests and limitless N95. there would be zero spread at retail stores.
And "Medicare for all" is a serious proposal?
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The entire Trump-Russia investigation was a political hit job and corruption of the highest order from our intelligence agencies. John Brennan knew this was hatched for and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC and his note to Obama on this said as much:

"According to the declassified notes, Brennan and the U.S. intelligence community knew months prior to the 2016 election that the collusion smear was the result of a campaign operation hatched by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“We’re getting additional insight into Russian activites from [REDACTED],” Brennan’s handwritten notes state. “Cite alleged approval by Hillary Clinton–on 26 July–of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to villify [sic] Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services.”"

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/06/breaking-dni-declassifi...

So our intelligence community had exculpatory evidence exonerating Trump and continued to peddle it anyways and used it to justify a three year sham of an investigation, intimidating and entrapping people for making false statements along the way.

It was all made up based on the completely discredited Steele Dossier.
Anyway, here are my thoughts.

1) This is simply a low pass filter. It essentially computes the average values (plus a multiplicative constant). So this value would be high for audio signal segments with lots of bass.

2) This is incorrect. The value in 1) is the amplitude of low frequency signals. Increasing the amplitude of this would probably result in emphasizing the bass.

3) Smaller rectangular functions are low pass filters with different cutoffs, so effect would be similar as 1).

My guess is that the audio will end up having its bass region boosted, depending on the size of the rectangular windowing functions.
On Windows that solution is COM, which many consider dead, while it actually won the .NET vs COM wars during Longhorn, and was eventually improved with .NET type system (WinRT).

So while .NET type type doesn't cover all of C++, it does cover enough not to have clunky C interfaces, and nowadays many Windows APIs only have such COM/UWP interfaces as public API.

Microsoft is in the process of adding Rust to their COM/WinRT infrastructure.

One of the beauties of COM is that it is interface based component model, so it goes quite well with languages that have interfaces/traits as feature.
Sam and Max hit the code.
My plan is to beat the game by not playing.
And this includes scientific papers published by US government scientists -- journals can't call copyright on those and so they are open access even if the journal isn't. Unfortunately this only works if all the authors are government. If it is a collaboration between government scientists and those in a university or company, this loophole doesn't hold.
Nice. I've already tried blob Megalovania :) .

Incidentally, does FF have the "pretty print source file" function somewhere that chrome does? The App.js in this site is minified, making it difficult to set breakpoints.
His "mystery boxes" shtick has gotten so old. It sort of made things interesting in Lost, but it seems like he keeps doing it, over and over again, in each of his films.
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I wonder if of accepting a pardon is admitting enough guilt to get someone disbarred.
I think one point that was missed in the previous comments thread for this link is how Quora is an even more bizarre alternate universe, because there is no shortage of Quora answers that are faux-Medium inspirational wisdom porn in the same way many LinkedIn posts are. Quora has a lot of nonsensical garbage content these days, but aping LinkedIn is a distinct style.
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His trade was another pretty obvious inside trade (timed the announcement of their successful trials with the scheduled sale)
Speak for yourself! After past generations have screwed over the world, my kids are going to have to be the ones to fix it.
Totally agreeing on the reordeing windows topic. Usually I keep my windows fulls screen and only have two windows side by side when copying stuff.

In addition to that I have a semi transparent terminal and emacs in a floating window that I can move to the scratchpad with a global hotkey. This is much alike the visor console in Quake. Terminal has tmux. Very handy for a quick ping or htop without messing up the main window layout.

i3 config snippet for reference:

# Visor terminal
exec "st -c visor"
bindsym $mod+a [class="visor"] scratchpad show
for_window [class="visor"] move scratchpad;
for_window [class="visor"] scratchpad show;
for_window [class="visor"] floating enable;
for_window [class="visor"] resize set width 100 ppt;
for_window [class="visor"] sticky enable
for_window [class="visor"] move position center;
for_window [class="visor"] scratchpad show;

# Visor style emacs window toggled by Meta+ "less than key"
exec emacs -name emacs-server
bindsym $mod+less [instance="emacs-server"] scratchpad show
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] move scratchpad
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] floating enable
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] move position 450px 0px
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] sticky enable
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] scratchpad show
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] resize set 950 1055
for_window [instance="emacs-server"] scratchpad show