skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your stance is “some people might think vicious racism is bad but nobody is allowed to criticize it, especially not teachers who work with young children.”

I don't think you read what I said at all. Going through life literally making up quotes for people you want to argue with, and then getting upset about the quote that you made up is pretty lazy. I think there's even a name for doing this. I think it's perfectly reasonable for the publisher to stop printing, or to modify books that have racist imagery. I don't think social media campaigns forcing quick decisions on things is a good way to do it. I misunderstood the details of what is going on with Dr. Seuss books, and you could have just pointed that out without the bluster.

I think Gina should have been fired. I think she should have been fired a year or more ago, whenever they realized she was vocally racist on the set of the show. However, they didn't fire her a year ago, or two years ago, whenever they realized it. They kept employing her all with the knowledge she was a racist. They only revisited that decision when pressure mounted to stop employing her. You might call this a check and balance, and I guess I agree with that. However, do you think, for one second, that the same execs that kept employing someone who was very vocally and indisputably racist when it was convenient for them are capable of making any moral stand on anything? When the cancel brigade comes for the next actor, they will be fired too, and it doesn't matter what the facts of the situation are. This is my point, so try quoting that. EDIT: yes I'm disagreeing with myself here, in GP I said I don't care. I don't care from the standpoint of whether I will watch the show, but I do agree with the point made that other people working on the show shouldn't be subjected to having to work with a bigot

I think it's easy to approve of a process, like social media driven firings, when you agree with the outcome. However, if the process is broken, it's just a matter of time before it has consequences that are broken too. You have illustrated my point about execs having a hard time explaining a nuanced decisions perfectly. Just by discussing this topic and not automatically agreeing with whatever you say, you have accused me of defending racism and attacking free speech.
Oh god, no. Not at all, especially in the US.
I agree that his statement is inflammatory, but we can steel man the statement into something truthful and palatable:

It is far easier to evaluate a security researcher's output than an ethics researcher.

I think many of us are familiar with this concept, as many of us likely preferred math over english in school as we preferred being deterministically evaluated.
stop caring what others may think of you
Life on Earth already survived one transition from an anoxic environment to an oxygen-rich environment, I see no reason to expect that it could not make the transition back to an anoxic environment. Granted it may not look anything like the life we're accustomed to today, but I suspect life will exist on Earth in some way, shape, or form for a long time to come.
There is more to it. Vectors typically don't have multiplication defined. Complex numbers form a field and that is a major extra feature. Multiplication and division I'd defined on them.

If this property is not needed one can make do with 2d vectors instead.

There are 4d and 8d analogues as well. Hamilton started an ambitious program to base mathematics of nature on the basis of the 4d ones -- quarternions
I respect breadth and depth of skills. What I don't respect is tonnes of virtue signalling and politics for the work which is comparatively trivial. And the virtue signalling increases when it's women / PoC in tech. This overly political crowd ends up doing nothing but damaging the reputation of women / PoC in the field.
Does Your C-Suite Have Enough Digital Smarts?
Are you talking about the Chromium-based Edge or the older one?
Part of the issue in these events is that the paper that was written by Google's own ethics researchers simply repeats estimates of AI energy consumption from outside academic papers, instead of examining them. The reality is that Google's ML infrastructure is dramatically more energy efficient than the rest of the industry. A person with access to these facts who chooses to ignore them isn't really doing their best as a researcher, they're just grinding an ax.

There are other examples against the meme of AI using "a lot of electricity", for example a recent paper from Google where they show that a learned computational fluid dynamics technique uses only 2% the energy of standard techniques.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01010.pdf
I think it is complicated.

On the one hand there is the person that may have a lot of casual sex but they are also properly educated about sex, they get tested every couple months, they take precautions, etc. Maybe they are more used to having conversations with potential partners about STD's.

On the flip side you may have the person that rarely has sex, never really has those conversations with their peers or doctor and maybe only gets tested during their yearly physical.

And yes I know I am very strongly generalizing here. I know people in both camps that do the opposite of what I am saying here.

So that is why I say that yes obviously more partners increases your chance of getting an STD, but you also can't just say that because someone does not have a lot of partners that you can't also risk getting something from them.

Edit: By properly educated I meant about sex... not anything else. Making that more clear

Second Edit: Regarding the men who have sex with men blood ban, I think that has been proven many times that there is no evidence for it and is purely from a puritanical stance.
The drafters didn't foresee protected classes (in the legal sense you're using the term, if I understand correctly); in fact, several of those protected classes simply weren't granted the rights granted to white male landowners by the Constitution the drafters framed.

I don't know how much guidance we can take from the original drafters on the novel problems of the modern era.
Resampling in userspace and then sending it to the kernel is how it already works.. in ALSA. The only real problem with how ALSA does things is that you can't just switch the output (for example sound card to hdmi) for a running stream. PA solves this by basically being a network package router (bus, switch, "sound daemon", however you want to call it). PulseVideo^H PipeWire, from little i cared to look, is basically the same thing.

Another problem with ALSA, as well as PA, is that you can't change the device settings (sampling rate, bitrate, buffer size and shape) without basically restarting all audio. (note: you can't reeealy do it anyway as multiple programs could want different rates, buffers, and such)

In my opinion, the proper way to do audio would be to do it in the kernel and to have one (just one) daemon that controls the state of the system. That would require resampling in the kernel for almost all audio hardware. Resampling is not a problem really. Yes, resampling should be fixed-point, and not just because the kernel doesn't want floating point math in it. Controlling volume is a cheap multiply(or divide), mixing streams is just an addition (bout with saturation, ofc).

Special cases are one program streaming to another (ala JACK), and stuff like bluetooth or audio over the network. Those should be in userspace, for the most part. Oh, and studio hardware, as they often have special hardware switches, DSP-s, or whatever.

Sincerely; I doubt i could do it (and even if i could, nobody would care and the Fedoras would say "no, we are doing what ~we~ want"). So i gave up a long while ago. And i doubt anybody else would fight up that hill to do it properly. Half-assed solutions usually prevail, especially if presented as full-ass (as most don't know better).

PS Video is a series of bitmaps, just as audio is a series of samples. They are already in memory (system or gpu). Treating either of them as a networking problem is the wrong way of thinking, IMO. Only thing that matters is timing.

PPS And transparency. A user should always easily be able to see when a stream is being resampled, where it is going, etc, etc. And should be able to change anything relating to that stream, and to the hardware, in flight via a GUI.
In England eating beef has been a prestige marker for at least several hundred years[1]. A traditional diet of that type will be more than adequately healthy. What’s hard is getting over ancient superstitions about animals being reincarnated people and then rationalizing that it’s actually healthy for an omnivorous species to abandon eating meat.

Or maybe there’s no reason to believe that a diet that’s healthy for Indians is necessarily healthy for Europeans or vice versa.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6043908-beef-and-liberty
Other than PBS/BBC, what other media isn't subsidized by ads?
I believe Mars has the largest percentage by planet of linux machines with working sound.

Is this audio/video bus a result of the space program?
I’m not a historian but aren’t those tightly controlled cultural practices a relatively modern invention? Certainly the ancients were known to have orgies (presumably for fun). People have observed how the 20th century was for many people a return to their “true” nature (eg free love, drugs, rave parties). Maybe it’s just always been true that, when their wealth/resources allow for it, people like to have sex for fun.
If, for a moment, you conceptualize of multiplication on non-negative whole numbers as repeated addition, then this is the algorithm:

procedure product(multiplier, multiplicand)
acc := 0
for i = 1 to multiplier
acc := acc + multiplicand
end
return acc
end

Swapping the arguments is a different computation. But after thinking about it, you realize that you get the same answer all the same. That's the point of

> (2 rows × 3 chairs/row) is not the same as (3 rows × 2 chairs/row), even though both sets contain 6 chairs.

The point with bringing up dimensional analysis is that the above algorithm doesn't work because what does it mean to do `for i = 1 to 3 chairs/row`? You might think of it like

procedure product(multiplier, multiplicand)
acc := "0" # an "absolute" zero that cooperates with any dimension
each single_multiplier in multiplier
acc := acc + (multiplicand * single_multiplier)
end
return acc
end

But then what is `(multiplicand * single_multiplier)` ?
It is also a flat out lie because the "information on every topic, in every language, at the fingertips of billions of people" is not funded by ads, ads fund google, which keeps a 70% cut for themselves. Information is basically impossible to monetize these days unless people charge. Google does not create information, it copies/steals it.

It is difficult to conceive Google without advertising as its economic foudnation.
You think Robinhood did nothing wrong in the eyes of the law? Or that they did not treat their customers (users of the app not the purchasers of their data) poorly? Or that their app did not disable users from trading shares of stocks?

I'd genuinely shocked to see someone say they think Robinhood didnt do anything wrong. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.
Yes - you can block domains at the network-level with a pihole.
Interesting that it is all sold out too...
You just mentioned two of the most powerful and charismatic men in history. Can you elaborate on the comparison?
Hopefully as more space & deep space stuff gets going there will be more demand and the unit cost will go down thanks to economies of scale. Or alternatively ways of computing are tried and found viable (massive shielding, standardized massive redundancy, etc.).
The goggles / video transmitter system has been around for awhile--DJI just hasn't made their own FPV-focused drone with them included yet.

6 mile range test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X8ExuJWt6E
You don't understand, Bernie is the one saying health care is socialism. Obviously medicare for all isn't socialism, but Bernie is selling it as socialism and now the youths want actual socialism because they think Socialism is just free healthcare

See how that makes the word "socialist" which should cause a liberal to recoil similarly to "Nazi" sound safer? And don't forget Bernie supported Chavez, so it's not like he doesn't know what he's doing.

He's intentionally revitalizing the brand of socialism with stuff like healthcare (as many communist revolutionaries like Castro have done historically, they always promise free healthcare) to pave the way for the Chavez style Socialism he has always expressed admiration for
No, it's confusing, because the sentence (which isn't actually in the passive voice) is word-by-word identical to another sentence, but with with a totally different meaning. So that many people will parse it as the other sentence.

(The German sentence doesn't have that ambiguity)
Snakeskin inspires new, friction-reducing material
Whats odd about the recipe story is my folks have accumulated quite a collection of cookbooks over the years, yet for mysterious reasons both prefer to endlessly scroll through the ad infested nightmare on every cooking site recommended by the Google app. Some of these sites have an Ad after every sentence.
You seem to be criticizing the page's breadth, not its depth.
You first define multiplication of natural numbers to be repeated addition, then define multiplication of rationals in terms of multiplication and addition of naturals, then define multiplication of reals in terms of multiplication of Cauchy sequences of rationals ;)
The unfortunate reality of sexual freedom is that most men would never be freely chosen for casual sex. The only reason they historically got laid was because of social and economic pressure against women. I don’t think it’s possible to have both gender equality and large scale monogamy.
Makes me wonder about all the other things that don’t materially exist yet are nonetheless true and not arbitrary and would be discovered even if humans did not exist.
Why Startups Like Tesla, Peloton, and Recess Are Doing Supreme-Style Merch Drops
I thought we already knew this. Euler's Identity is used in electrical engineering.
Against diversity hiring of sociology idiots.
The SVGs used to generate the icon fonts are Apache 2.0 licensed: https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/tree/master/....
The wealth distribution of bitcoin is even worse than the wealth distribution of society as a whole. Further, I suspect that this would be the typical state for any finite/limited asset. IMO, things like bitcoin (and gold) as a primary wealth store are how you create stratified societies with entrenched elites and banking orgs with more money/power than nation states. Not that bitcoin could ever happen dominate, but it's certainly not egalitarian in any sense.
> it degrades very gracefully

Pretty convincing comparison by Joshua Bardwell:

Shark Byte:
https://youtu.be/9iKc2v05blw?t=926

vs DJI:
https://youtu.be/9iKc2v05blw?t=1046

vs analog:
https://youtu.be/9iKc2v05blw?t=1227
All correct but you forgot a few details from that list

A lot of interior space reduction for a given vehicle volume comes from the space required for a passenger cabin to have an aerodynamic shape.

More "wasted" space leaves more room for crumple zones, airbags, speakers, computer modules, HVAC stuff, alternative drive-trains and all sorts of features throughout the car.

Basically every engineering group in an OEM has their job made easier by making the car bigger. Making the new generation 1" bigger than the last generation is an easy way for management to please basically all the stakeholders.

Vehicles at the compact end of the spectrum are moving toward the design characteristics of 1950s heavy equipment where the operator sits where he fits and that's it.
This made me laugh as a potential Rick & Morty episode
How do dmix and pulseaudio do IPC?
Thanks for the synopsis. There definitely seems to new wave of automation tools coming out these days.
Imaginary numbers are also continuous, are they not?
Yes, there's no need to invoke any category theory concepts here. Everything is happening in the category of sets.
JavaScript: What I Didn’t Understand
> 50% of men that have lived ever reproduced.

I found something similar:

https://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-any....
I just think of them as different axes on a 2D Cartesian plane. That’s basically how they work.

EDIT: similarly, quaternions as a number in 4D, with that extra dimension being handy for avoiding the instability problems when you get near “gimbal lock” in 3D rotations.
So it seems the stereotype of gamers and people that dislikes parties seems to be true. Nothing new.

The men having to coreside with their parents seems to be an economic problem of our time though.

Time to expand the 40 billion love hotel market to the US?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel
Yes. Children are literally little humans. They have enormous brainpower, they just lack the experience they need to use it properly.
It's probably more than that. You don't have to be some 6ft tall hunk to land a woman. It definitely helps but it isn't required.

What is required is that you try and don't get discouraged. It's a lot easier to stay home, play video games, and watch porn than it is to date. Plus, successful dating reduces time for video games.
If you follow the construction of numbers, integers are defined as how many elements are in a set. So integers kind of exist: if you have an empty bag, and add an apple, 1 is the cardinality of that bag. If you add another apple, then the cardinality is 2.

Then you define all the operations between integers as operations of cardinality between set. I really enjoyed that semester when I was getting my degree on Maths, by the way, although I use the knowledge I got there as a curiosity at parties, because it didn't prove useful (not that it is bad).
Sounds like you’re on the right track. I personally think codeless tools like these are all about confidence-building. I’m just technical enough to know what Puppeteer is and know how long it would take me to learn it. If I see that I can learn your tool right on your site/play around with it without having to sign up, my conviction goes way up.
If you are short a company then you benefit from harming it. In the example you provide, the short seller could benefit by exacerbating covid, by sabotaging the response. I'm not saying I'm definitely against all forms of shorting because of this, but that is one drawback at the least.
What if pair bonding is part of the formative process?
A decade ago, OKCupid used to be half-way decent application . You actually heard about people meeting/getting married on there. Now that all the big dating applications are owned by the same company, and they all copy Tinder, it's practically worthless.
OTOH, O’Neill cylinders are an alternative instead of planets, while the bad previous experiences with eugenics (and the tendency people have towards appeal-to-nature fallacy) may make people actively reject GM humans.
Nonsense. Just use a [[1 0] [0 -1]] matrix and it's kin and do away with "essential" imaginary numbers.
+1 for Logseq. Data lives locally (either Markdown or Org-mode), it's open source and moving very fast
It's the CED all over again. Some automakers will not survive the transition to electric vehicles. Toyota may be one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
Yes, nothing more frustrating than quickly looking up a recipe detail whilst in the middle of cooking it and having to scroll deep, deeep, deeeeep down the useless SEO text only to scroll past that one tiny detail. My wife and I are creating our own cooking book as a PWA. Only bullet points, no fluff. Short: useful.
Could you expand on your concerns? How should we go about addressing them?
*rectangles (hopefully)
>* We do not have a trade school system in the US...

That may be a regional/state thing, then. My high school was adjacent to the vocational school for the region, where high school kids on a trade track would learn trades like carpentry, plumbing, electrical, culinary, etc.

> the idea that "everyone can be X if they just try hard enough
Agree on this as well, and the goal shouldn't be that everyone gets X on the state math test, it should be that every kid has the opportunity to achieve their maximum potential. That's really what it should be, but as you note, nowhere is setup for that and people abhor things that can't be directly measured.
Glad to see more interest in privacy focused search, but why not just not contribute to something like duckduckgo that's already doing good work in that space?
Only if society takes it upon itself(upon undateable men really) to rear all offspring
Eh, because of quantisation you could argue only integers exist ;)
No, and that means this is the best time to get this done. The least amount of people will be affected.

The interest rate will go back up at some point and we would have a fairer house market without this tax deduction. It's basically a tax break for people with enough resources to buy their house. And it drives up the housing prices making it harder for first-time buyers.
>Mining difficulty does not push the price up, it's the other way round.

Mining difficulty has little effect on the price. Halvings which the poster was talking about, however, also does not push the price up but rather reduces the rate of inflation.
Unpopular opinion - we should stop pretending that reading few tutorials and competing coding bootcamp, or taking few CS classes makes you an engineer.

It can make you a developer, aka code monkey, but proper engineering requires more comprehensive training, that focuses a lot not only on basic coding skills, but teaches you about design, managing lifetime of products, security/safety/ethical considerations, etc.

A lot of people who call themselves engineers in IT fields are much closer to code monkeys than engineers.
By that argument no animal, dolphin, porpoise, dog, gorilla, elephant can be as intelligent as a 2.5 year old baby because none of them have evolved a tongue and vocal apparatus capable of making the correct sounds.
This is so sad. I had no idea.
Yeah that's right.

I am somewhat torn on where to stand on this. On one hand I do see why we would want regulation against insider trading & pump and dumps, on the other hand I worry that regulation isn't preventing either, and society quickly would become inoculated if we legalized it.

When I read Robin Hanson's paper on insider trading and prediction markets, I became much more uncertain about whether we should regulate this area than I used to be.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228340813_Insider_T...
CPU-X: alternative to CPU-Z
Perhaps, you would appreciate a similar question. Why does the buck stop at complex numbers, and we don't need quaternions or some other "weirder" field to describe reality?

The answer will have to grapple with both the philosophy of physics and the properties of these various fields.
I had a sound card that would not work with OSS in 2002ish, so I guess define "default choice." Even though it was technically disabled by default, I had to enable it to get sound working.
Was going to comment this. Complex numbers are a natural consequence of the basic math axioms and the fact that they are two dimensional (and not 3,4,etc.) is not arbitrary.
I hope it will be able to find relevant results like google did last decade.
Why do people keep going back to junk food as good outcomes don't materialize?

Humans are not rational.
I'd love to be able to filter out, for instance, pinterest.

I'd actually pay nominal amounts of money for a search service that had my interests in mind; as opposed to advertisers and thought police.