skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long held the belief that "math does not care about your identity". On the other hand, math can be applied in discriminatory ways and I think we should be careful to recognize that and listen when people assert that math can be / is racist. Perhaps what they really mean is that a particular application or instruction of math is the problem, not the math itself.

I'm never going to agree that the area of a square has an "opinion" about your identity or validates my "whiteness", but I fully recognize that ML/AI results can be poisoned by "problematic" training data and that an elementary school word problem can be confusing or hurtful if tacit dominant culture knowledge is assumed.
"Culturally relevant curricula and
practices designed to increase
access for students of color". Wait what? What is "of color"? Why are there a bunch of photos of sad black kids. This was as dumb as it can get.
Not sure why you'd think I wouldn't be concerned about logging, or waste, or environmentalism in general - especially given what I wrote. I am, for the record.
> By growing inequality and pushing people into poverty

I am sick of hearing about poverty as a growing problem. It simply isn't.

Median income, and the lowest income quintile, have grown steadily. The percent of Americans living in poverty has been declining. Median wealth is still lower than it was before the 2008 crisis, but it was growing strongly before and has grown strongly since the Great Recession.

All trends are upwards. Do not confuse growing inequality with growing poverty. Some are getting richer faster than others, but statistically everyone is getting richer.

Is there a specific metric in mind when you say people are being pushed into poverty? Or is it something you have just heard elsewhere?
OpenMV has an IDE.
SuperAnnotate is an IDE.
it depends on what you need.
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Designing benchmarks and metrics to test for deep understanding is really hard! Even our education system is nowhere close to a good solution. It would probably warrant an entire research field, maybe using NLP systems to evaluate how good benchmarks are at evaluating understanding.
Not in a legal sense... but the apple credit card through a first party apple app only available on an apple phone that apple manages the UI and controls the marketing and perception is pretty close to an apple bank even if some other legal entity has the excel spreadsheet with account balances (...obvi not how that really works)
I want to recommend “his girl Friday” here, as there is some news related manipulation of the public / politics in play, (back in 1940) but really it’s a second or third act to the real star (the “punched up” dialogue).
Dunno about it being the first big taboo word. I find that the C-word [0] inhabits kind of a similar space. The demographics are different, and I suspect that more people overall view the c-word as highly taboo, both because the n-word has been to a larger extent than the other reclaimed within some Black subcultures[1], and because the US has significant populations who use it with the intent of either causing offense to the out-group or for signaling in-group status with their peers.

Meanwhile in England, C is still seen as quite a rude word, but the level of taboo is seemingly lower than in the US. NSFW language exchange discussion: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7059/why-is-cnt-...

I’m not a historian, but I recall reading that a century or more ago, religious blasphemies occupied a similar space. Innocuous-sounding exclamations like “jeez!” and the half-archaic “zounds!” are evolved from the formerly-taboo “Jesus!” and “God’s wounds!” respectively.

Back then, taboo was concerned with offending/demeaning God, and now taboo is concerned with offending/demeaning black people and women. I see this as an improvement, because insulting God is between you and God, while insulting people can cause real harm to them.

[0] https://youtu.be/cR2tp5j5xD0 (Arrested Development clip, I’m still a little surprised they got this past the censors. Mild NSFW?)

[1] I don’t mean to imply that it’s largely accepted, it’s just that in my experience N is more widely-used publicly by some Black subcultures than C is used publicly by women who are in feminist subcultures. It has not been reclaimed to the same extent.
Well, the "Dixie Chicks" have been cancelled again, and now are just "The Chicks".
I don’t doubt that it’s incompetence over nefarious intent, but at the end of the day, it’s fraudulent/scammy/deceptive to say “you can opt out anytime” when that’s clearly not the case. Furthermore if the website didn’t work, but you needed to opt-in sure that’s their loss, but due to the misalignment of interest here, what may be incompetence has dark/nefarious undertones
(Under the original title) I was selfishly hoping this would have links to runnable Amiga demos :)

We've had our Amiga 1000 out of the closet for the last 6 months and after our C compiler disks all mysteriously stopped working at once, we've run out of things to do with it for the moment.
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Yes, I got about 10 paragraphs in before I quit trying to read because it was just a huge rant. I'll read an article if I think it'll pay off, but this one seems to be yet another blatantly ideological argument.
> That's not how the other people there describe it.

Easy to say, but we don't actually have any details reported from any first hadn't accounts other than this one...
What if we could reduce the speed of light
The sustained overtones are only half the battle. Getting the attack correct (the sound profile of the first ~10 milliseconds) is really important for differentiating instruments. Plucking a guitar string and hammering a piano string have very different attack characteristics. A flute has a distinctively "breathy" attack.

Many synthesizers use a sampled recording of the actual instrument for the attack, then synthesize the sustained portion of the instrument.
Please give me a combination between Excalidraw and Graphviz, with stylesheets, and layouts generated via a straightforward Python API, immediately displayable in a Jupyter notebook, with a display widget having hooks to move items around, giving auto-updating a Python property dict.
> he has credibility here

I don’t even know how to respond to this appeal to amorphous authority, and to reply to the best possible interpretation of the post, I’ll pass over it.

I’m sure this person is not lying that their account was shut down; I’m asking for an accounting of the Apple policy that supposedly exists. It would certainly be something I would be deeply concerned about.
Yes, to first oder, a trumpet is a long tube with a standing wave, which works conceptually like a string (but with different boundary conditions). It's probably the player's imposed frequency hitting multiples of the lowest resonance frequency that leads to different tones.
Cool visualizations on your site! I like the multiple visualizations thing, plus you link to an academic paper.

I'd just suggest... get a pro to make your logo for ya if possible. And, perhaps also grab a pre-fab template for your site. Just a couple ideas-- totally not necessary, but it would make it a little more "pretty design" oriented
Yup, this is important stuff. In my case, my diet has been steadily improving, on average, throughout my adult life. My wife and I are now doing roughly 20/4 intermittent fasting most days of the week, and that food is quite healthy.
I think your instinct is both correct and missing something. At some level, 'thinking' involves transmitting information about the world. Suppose you had a poor model of a new task - the code used to encode information would necessarily be inefficient, since you don't know the probability distribution of anything related to the task. Once you do the task for a while, you get a better sense of the probability distribution of stimuli, and (in theory at least) could develop a more efficient code. Adaptive Huffman coding does exactly this - builds codes on the fly that gradually get more efficient. It's possible that the brain does something qualitatively similar. If so, it would 'look like' information transmission is happening faster.

From this perspective, 'information transmission rate' could actually be constant during learning, when defined as a reduction in subjective uncertainty over time. But because you start with a poor task model, your initial uncertainty is higher when starting learning, due to unfamiliarity with the task, so to an outside observer it looks like information transmission is slower. As your task model improves, your prior for each message matches the environmental statistics better, and information transmission speeds up -- again, just from the perspective of the observer, as your subjective uncertainty now starts low and just goes lower.
Unfortunately, I can't edit my post any more.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EuodaE6WQAA3tKN?format=jpg

It looks like they just didn't honor replacing the 12v battery under warrenty, which makes this article pretty much a nonstarter.
Omz plugins are the worst thing to happen to zsh, only surpassed by nvm.

Omz has so much compatibility code that you end up with way more than you need and a lot of what it ads can be shimmed to lazy load.

Nvm is just fucking trash. I had to rewrite large parts of it to not be total garbage. It still is. Go look at how it's installed and how it loads itself its fuckin insane.
In Contemplation of the Cryptic Mind: John Dee's Stunning Encryptions (1609)
They're getting voted down because they're making a ridiculous argument.

They're basically saying that GTAV's massive commercial success should grant it immunity to criticism.
"A short and simple guide to John Dee's remarkable encryptions from 'Shakespeares Sonnets' of 1609, with music by Thomas Tallis (1505-85) as performed by the Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips (courtesy if Gimell Records)."
Repeatedly saying things that makes people uncomfortable has consequences. There's liberal and conservative versions of it. Not comprehending the social consequences of your words is a problem. You personally finding one specific individual not problematic is completely irrelevant to understand how he got himself in that situation.
NASA just sent a rover on Mars using software written in C. Meanwhile some Rust fanatics are busy telling everyone how it doesn’t work.
Cancel culture is a direct result of giving everyone on earth a place to complain.
That was entertaining.

I’m not defending the organization of the piece, which I agree is less than optimal, as well as super redundant. But’s it’s also an exaggeration to suggest that he doesn’t tell us what it’s about at the start: it’s about how he got canned because of an article in the Beast.
No reason to delete it! I'm glad you didn't.
Between miserable latency, not-so-great fidelity, and the fecklessness of phone companies in the face of the robocall epidemic, I have come to hate phone calls.

I'm rooting for something to replace phone communications. Any chance that Matrix can do better on any of those fronts? Especially on fidelity and latency since they're germane to the high-level subject of this discussion.
You absolutely can, and the government has, banned exclusive deals and associations before. The government would require that any interactions given between two products Google presently offers as something competitors can replace either side of, with no special advantage permitted to be offered to the formerly Google products, for example.

So, for example, Google could be forbidden from requiring Google product apps are preloaded on Android phones. They could be required to give alternate web browsers and account systems equal visibility in new Chrome installs, for free. Google could face penalties for injecting Google Meet links into Zoom emails received by Gmail users.

The ways the government could prevent Google's self-preferencing is a very large matrix.

Apple has some similar examples, though less. I think Epic v. Apple will accomplish some big things there, particularly around the App Store.
hi! this sounds interesting but all the engineering jobs on your website mention San Francisco or Remote (US). I am based in UK, can I apply?
Exactly, fantastic breakdown. Whenever I see people clutching their pearls about not being able to say certain things anymore, I have to question which specific things they feel unable to say. I find that the answer is very often not something they'd get sympathy for if they were up-front about it.

Worried about the thought police? Maybe you're just a jerk and people don't want to hear your crappy opinions.
I think it's bit of a shame that the time dependence is left as a footnote. ADSR envelope and other expressive dynamics have also huge influence on the perceived sound of different instruments (for at least me..). This has been then explored by electronic musicians by mixing and matching the dynamics and overtone patterns to create all sorts of interesting novel sounds.
I see a lot of people defending all of this by saying "how is being more inclusive a bad thing". I can't speak for everyone but I don't think this is what people take issue with. It's the unsupported premises which are given as fact that frame all of these efforts. For instance, from the very first page in the Gates document listed in the comments:

> White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions.

This is a very loaded intro which makes it impossible to disagree with anything that follows. It may be true, I don't know...because there was zero supporting info. All we are told is that white supremacy is everywhere and unless you abide by the author's instructions, you're a racist.

It's not a great starting point to create allies.
I'm not sure it's the manager's responsibility to compartmentalize and then assign/distribute work to each employee. Aren't people happier and more productive when they're in charge of their own destiny?

I view the manager's role as one that clearly defines and communicates business imperatives and facilitates communication about how to get there. If you're telling people exactly what to do, how does that enable them to do great work? Aren't they just doing what the manager tells them to?
Great video. In case it's not obvious, the different notes are purely a function of pick/thumb placement. The guitarist is not changing frets, but he seems unable to resist throwing in some vibrato :)
Thank you for taking your time to write that up. To illustrate my point a little more:

Suppose a customer has several resources, and each resource has several metrics. From my understanding, Materialized could be used to have an aggregated view of metrics per customer.

The problem is that resources can also be migrated between customers. When a resource migrates between customers, the whole history of the customer changes. This could cause huge updates depended on how many resources are moved, or how many metrics per resource are being collected.

I have a conundrum between doing the "customer-resource join" late, and causing huge CPU cost when running queries. Or making aggregates early, and then having huge Disk cost when migrating resources. At the moment, we just have daily jobs that aggregates the TBs of customer data daily, because there is no way to do the joins in real-time.

Is Materialize designed to be able to handle something like this?
This is Bari Weiss' entire playbook: construct a strawman, and yell furiously that the strawman is trying to cancel you.
It covers it, but it's not exactly brilliant. 200ms is the point at which conversation breaks down. If half that budget has gone on the codec, not much has to happen on the wire for it to be noticeable.
I read somewhere about people doing this with samples of thunder, to recreate the shape of the lightning bolt. So cool!
I think my posting history would show that I’m far from a company shill. It would be cool to respond to the best interpretation of my post, instead of the worst, maybe.

Either way, I’m sure this person had their account frozen; I’m merely wondering how this person knows that there is policy at Apple to intentionally do such things.
A cell phone tbh, is about the same latency as a landline in most end to end call circumstances. Latency only really is noticeable when better than 600ms. (And only a real problem over 1000)
Better question is, why are those devices allowed to be sold in EU/US/...
His role there was as a teacher. The fact that he does not have pedagogical training is likely a reason why he failed in this role, and a reason why we shouldn't judge his failure harshly. It is not a reason why he shouldn't apologize.

I'm a programmer. If I offer to fix my friend's sink but end up spilling a lot of water, my friend shouldn't judge me too incapable, but they can still expect an apology for the inundation I caused.

Edit after your own edit: I completely agree. While I don't think he was right not to apologize, I absolutely agree that it is not normal and good that this escalated into him being fired/pressured into quitting. It seems that there was a good deal of internal politics that was involved in the way this escalated (of the personal grudge and/or inconvenient employee kind). We should also remember that we only have one side of the account of what happened at the NYT, what his exact reactions were, how much of what we are discussing here may have been discussed with there as well (and rejected) etc. Still, none of this is painting a nice picture.
No they absolutely do not need to get a service, you cannot degrade a service but you can very much make it dependent on consent, heck you don’t even need consent it just prevents you from having to do an LIA you can simply inform the user of what is going on and allow them the option not to use the service.

I too thought GDPR is much stricter but in reality it’s not. Both the ICO and several continental DPAs including the German one allow for binary choice.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. The perpetuation/escalation actually does more harm than the original post, which is why the site guidelines ask you not specifically not to do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For me "looks" sounds fine but the word before, "Man", sounds like "Lan". So to me the opus sample sounds more understandable. Even though the "quality" of Lyra is better, that shouldn't be the score to optimize for, but fidelity of the compression. It's not helpful if the compression algorithm generates a beautiful flower from a flower image but it's a red flower instead of a blue one like the original. Gives me Xerox vibes...
It looks like an Erlang-inspired Actor system, but I've never had any experience with this type of programming model, so I don't know what its benefits are.

It'd be nice to have a few code snippets geared at newbies in the README as well as a pointer to blog posts explaining why actor-based systems are great.

I want to investigate this, but I don't have the time to research any of this right now, and none of that information is right in front of me.
The “mid-range phones” has me suspicious, I wish they defined that better. And 90ms is much higher than what Opus is supposed to achieve
Yep, it's a Motte & Bailey. The specifics seem pretty uncontroversial and frankly a bit trite. Those are the motte. The framing is something else, though. It's so chock full of wokescold dog-whistles that I thank my lucky stars I'm not a teacher, let alone a white teacher. Yikes.

It almost feels targeted: occupy the mathematicians' time with the modest specifics to divert their attention away from the, err, praxis in the framing.
Sectoral Bargaining: Principles for Reform
Apple doesn’t lend any money, is not owed any money, and takes no part in the financing aspect.

If anything, Goldman Sachs is the one that continues to be a bank, and Apple is providing the technical front end for it. It’s the opposite of vertical integration. A tech company is doing the tech part, a finance company is doing the finance part.
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Because we have people pretending it's new so they can drum up outrage and gain power. Because we have people playing the victim after being fired for being intolerable to work with.

Most importantly, we have politicians adopting authoritarian attitudes as a reaction to it. Private companies have a right to "cancel" whomever they want, whether that takes the form of banning someone from a website or of canceling a contract. Yet certain politicians want to interfere in private websites or publishers by limiting their ability to exercise editorial control.

I don't know the situation across the pond. I'm writing from an American perspective, where the term "cancel culture" has been entirely co-opted by cynical politicians.
I personally wouldn't say "difficult to comprehend". I would say that the Lyra audio is "cleaner" but that the artifacts that there are, are louder and more annoying in Lyra. There's a very bad ringing effect and some flutter. If you personally find these artifacts distracting or confusing, I could very easily see the Lyra examples being harder to understand.

I'm almost certain that Lyra has increased the volume on the first sample too. It's quite audible, although I haven't confirmed this with Audacity.

Through good quality headphones, I actually find the Lyra artifacts rather piercing and think I'd pretty quickly get fatigued through having it in my ears over a long conversation. Maybe they would handle this better with a bit of a lowpass filter added.
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I could imagine a situation like the one you describe, but I don't see any of that in the presented stories about this situation.

From what I read, the student(s) brought up a subject (eg appropriation) and he explained why he thought their view was overly simplistic and absolute.
Cool, thanks! I missed that before. It makes a project idea I had way more realistic for me to implement.
> the voices of a small number of relatively anonymous people

Has someone been cancelled as a purely grassroots effort before? It seems like the seeds of a cancelling may begin this way, but quasi-journalists, pundits and other online personalities are the engine that does the crucial amplification to reach broader public discourse.

I think their is an interesting sort of 'laundering' of attribution where social media power brokers can point to the seeds and say "Look at this grassroots movement that is changing the way society views X", and then the issue is broadcast to a much wider audience. However, that small grassroots movement may not have been seriously affected X except for the effects of the power brokers' pointing fingers.

It seems like these social media power brokers may not even intend to have this effect in some cases, but they are a crucial step in the cancelling lifecycle.