skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from the opposite direction, I'm quite curious as to where the linear algebra and combinatorics fit in. As a former mathematician (switched to computing after one post-doc) who has been trying to learn about music and to play the piano, I'm trying to make sense of how music and mathematics relate.

There's some stuff with group actions going on - I think you can think of a dihedral group acting on sets of triads or something along those lines and there are some articles out there about that, but I feel like I don't have a good mapping in my head as to the relationship between music and mathematics.
To be honest, if I had as spineless officials as some city governments seem to have, I would also quit my job. It is one thing to take public sentiment seriously, but it can also mean that you tell the public that they are wrong. They can protest that and they can elect someone different. But if you cannot justify the behavior of police, something you are directly responsible for, you have to give up your seat first. I believe that these men now leaving are among the best and principled law enforcement officers.

I am not from the US, so my perspective might be wrong.
The Fourth Amendment exists in US.

Find someone to enforce it.
+1. We froze all hiring during the initial lockdowns, while continuing to advertise our positions. Now we're hiring again but, in aggregate, all of the good engineers who were made redundant have already been hired and those that remain are the bad ones.
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Google Opens Workspace to Everyone
Everything about that story is scandalous. Besides the obvious racial bias against black athletes, there also this:

> More than 2,000 NFL retirees have filed dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received awards, according to the most recent report.

How does this compare with the general population? This seems like a crazy amount of dementia. Add the instances of CTE and it really seems like maybe we should just let football die off.
They have been checking balls as part of their information gathering to see the extend of the problem, but remember there is no one ball. The ball is replaced pretty much any time it does anything other than go directly from the pitchers hand into the catcher’s mitt. Also any time it is fouled off, or hit into play, etc. If you watch an at bat and the ball hits the dirt, you will see the catcher get a new ball from an ump.

So the "sticky stuff", as it is sort of being childishly called throughout the league, is usually on the pitcher somewhere — some like to put it on the brim of their cap, some in the glove, some in their belt, you get the idea. Frankly, they have been very blatant about it all season. After every new ball they “go to their cap” or “go to their glove” to get more grip again. It’s been pretty blatant, actually, pitchers have been really thumbing their nose at the league.

Example: https://twitter.com/jomboymedia/status/1399904704293969921
I was curious what the author was up to now and she is now working for the NYTimes - https://www.nytimes.com/by/caity-weaver - so it would appear that mozzarella stick consumption is more of a career path that I would have thought.
> The hypocrysis of the german government/army of that time, is staggering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_...

All sides started to develop these weapons before the war, and apparently it's the Germans who were capable of deploying these weapons sooner and with greater success.

What you present here nothing less than a one-sided propaganda. It reminds of French villages hundreds of kilometers far from any WWI front line, deep in the rear with memorials dedicated to "Innocent children fallen in the great war" followed by a list of some 10 to 15 male names.

Innocent children, the throat cutter sort, same as those from the other side.
Apple thinks it's a "fundamental human right" (see WWDC). Now we need to get Facebook and Google on board...
In addition to picking a platform, you also essentially need to pick a generation. Vulkan 1.0 for example is missing subgroups and has lots of other limitations. Vulkan 1.2 on a modern GPU with an updated driver is pretty darned powerful, with an explicit memory model, control over subgroup size, a form of pointers, and a range of scalar datatype sizes (f16 is especially useful for machine learning, commonly having 2x the throughput as f32). It is possible to have multiple versions and select at runtime, but it's an additional complexity that needs to be considered, and can constrain your architecture to accommodate the compatibility modes.
Seriously, what's the matter with this guy? I thought he was just really naive but I can't see an explanation for doing something like this that isn't malicious.
I've never felt it, so there's nothing to deal with. (Age 49)
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee...

Lots of HN discussion: https://www.google.com/search?q=freenode+site%3Anews.ycombin...
I agree with the sentiment, but I don't know about "most users". The numbers are already getting pretty close to half of what they were before, so even if they're still big the graph seems to counter any claims they might make about a strong community: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
Search for software and alternatives to named software.

Here's the results of a search for "Trello":

https://alternative-a.com/en/search?q=trello&view=list&sort=...
I'm glad someone else in the comments posted this link: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php which clearly indicates freenode is tanking and libera is matching it but upwards. In a month it'll be overtaken; I think there may be a lot of inertia from people who have a load of irc channels open but don't actively interact with it, as well as old webpages pointing to the freenode servers. But it's a matter of time, nobody will promote freenode anymore, all IRC communities will or have migrated, etc.
capital requires owners - you might say .. the net uses resources constantly, while capital is overflowing.. so a "power" person follows the M$ft path and jumps in with both hands to assign ownership to anything and everything, locals be dammed.. seems almost predictable in a way
SSRI off-label for chronic pain. Many drugs routinely prescribed have or had unknown mechanism of action (prime example Acetaminophen (Tylenol)). Here we have no double blind trials for vaccines, no long term effect studies and every doctor is happy to jab everyone including kids.
> That usage of "lived" is a romanticization. It's the grandparent telling the starry-eyed children about the good old times, glossing over the decades of toil and hardship.

Nah, the grandparent knows exactly well the good old times were the decades of toil and hardship. The kids won't get it if the grandparent tells these core truths anyways, until they live it.
> There was no warning, no consultation and the only shred of reasoning that could be found was in the canned message stating “this channel is in violation of Freenode policy”

Sounds straight out of an authoritarian regime's playbook.
Atlassian just makes terrible software.
It's almost like they thought irc was dying too slowly or something.
Oracle / Java / JDK download is another one. Requiring you to login to download any non-latest version.
People will stay? None of the places I was in on IRC have stayed.

Some other thread is saying that 40% of the userbase had hemoraged already
Events up until May 24th:

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...

After that, at every turn when Andrew Lee has been given the choice between doing the right thing and acting like a comic book villain, he has chosen the latter.

Removed any restraint on staff, tried to bribe FOSSHOST to be the face of his operations, hired known trolls and right-wing extremists as staff.

More materially, he has killed or driven away ##linux, #fsf, #gnu, #archlinux, #gentoo, #fedora, #ubuntu, #wikipedia and OVER 700 MORE PROJECTS:

https://github.com/siraben/freenode-exodus

And he is not done yet. He has announced that soon he will switch the whole network over to a new irc daemon, which he will fail at because he doesn't know how and the people who do won't touch him with a 7-foot pole:

https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/nyp855/new_freenode_ma...
I think the French were first.
That’s an amazing drop in users!

Thanks for that link - I was on Undernet starting in 1995 and even though the charts only went back to 1998 it was interesting to see the popularity of different IRC networks wax and wane over the years.
What Waabi’s launch means for the self-driving car industry
Yes, it has to die. In this universe things can only grow indefinitely by less than an n^3 factor, because that's as fast as the lightcone of any event grows. Exponential growth, no matter how small the factor, will eventually outgrow n^3.

Once we attain the limits of what we can do in 2 dimensions, we aren't that many exponential growth events from what we can achieve in 3. Or once we achieve the limits of silicon technology, we aren't that many exponential growth events from the limits of photonics or quantum or any other possible computing substrate. Unless we somehow unlock the secret of how to use things smaller than atoms to compute, and can keep shrinking those, we're not getting very much farther on a smooth exponential curve.
More stats: https://isfreenodedeadyet.com
My argument if that a mix of human plus self driving cars as yet to be tried at massive scale (eg. 50% self driving / 50% human or whatever that percentage is). With this mixture I don't think we will be able to actually "reduce" accident just because there are less human.

You've to see the distribution of whom create accident, example if 80% is caused by distraction then maybe you could reduce the number of accident by having self driving cars. But most of the current modern cars have many automatic detector that get triggered when a danger is detected.

We can say that these cars are expensive and as such people who buy old cars without this systems are more likely to cause accident.

The same people won't buy self driving cars due to the cost. So I'd argue that maybe we won't see much improvement unless a large percentage of people actually buy self driving cars

The technology is century away for mass distribution, same as cars nowadays are still not available in evey household around the world and there are plenty of countries driving super polluting cars taken from "first world" country
The Future of Mobility-as-a-Service
There have been many stories on HN, but as far as I know the basic story is like this.

Someone bought the freenode domain name

The group of people that ran freenode get in an argument with that person

All of the previous administrators leave to start libera

the new owner of freenode installs his own administrators.

Channels start switching to libera

freenode bans any one discussing libera

freenode seizes channels that are in the process of migrating, because they consider libera competition.
I think it's worse when they flip it around and inappropriately use a noun as a verb: "Let's solution this."
Ask HN: Why are promotion “procedures” uncommon?
Why do so few companies have procedures for leveling up more junior developers? I've noticed that quite often junior devs are very productive, but will operate in a limited scope, without much concern for the big picture, and sometimes struggle to build skills that would allow them to qualify for a more senior role.

When I was a junior dev I found this frustrating because there was an expectation to "act senior" before actually having that authority. Additionally, there was an unspoken expectation that you had to ask for it, which seems to just go against the (inaccurate) belief that so many in this field have that it's a meritocratic.

This seems especially disadvantageous for anyone who feels less comfortable in their role/standing and is less assertive for this or other reasons. I could imagine this is an even bigger problem for people who are different from the current makeup of the team/org, especially for people who are from under-represented groups.

What is your procedure for this as a manager or employee? Is there something I'm missing?
Doesn't university student already imply financial security? I don't know how socialist education is in the UK nowadays. I know in the Netherlands it used to be that your education is effectively paid for (either free / you get a scholarship like I did, or a very attractive loan scheme). But they changed the system so it's a loan for everyone now, which will put a damper on how many people go to college / university AND everybody that graduates will be in debt, which works against them if they're looking for a house in an already overheated market.
We are not talking about eliminating politicians. You said the direct democracy is worse than some other, perhaps representative. I asked why and you keep repeating because it is bad. Sorry I just stop here.
You can use a tool called a collimator to boresight a rifle in the field, but it's only so effective. And back then they didn't have technology like floating barrels.
Restricting access to information because you feel that its potential audience is too ignorant seems a little counter-productive to me :/. Wouldn't the idea be to provide them with more information?
Responding to valid concerns with sarcasm does not build trust.
Note, you have to be quite careful with typeid - you can end up with types not matching because you have two different versions of a crate.

Normally this would be a compile time error, but using typeid can turn this into a runtime error.

https://docs.rs/assert-type-eq/0.1.0/assert_type_eq/ allows you to assert that two types are the same, forcing a compile time error for this scenario.
This is an important perspective that I haven’t seen many people explore. Sure, work-from-home is going to be great for some people (and HN is probably the single best enclave of that demographic), but there are also many who will be victims of this “revolution.” Business leaders, and even peers who just care about their co-workers, can help make sure these collateral issues aren’t forgotten.
There are Amazon Go stores in Chicago. I wonder how this could affect them? Is a 3D point cloud of your body considered to be part of your biometrics? Is accepting the TOS written consent as defined by the law mentioned in the article?
The US's healthcare system is a crime against humanity. A nation's population is it's greatest asset, and to manage healthcare as it is handled in the 'States is a recipe for 360 degree stagnation, cronyism, and the destruction any reason for the non-wealthy to live there at all, unless trapped.
"at least scrape friendly"

Decidedly not. If you disable javascript for a search, you get a mostly empty page back.

The results themselves do come from an api at benchmarker.fr, but it wants a bearer token.
Think of systems thinking as an alternative to the analytic approach (break the problem apart and solve the pieces) for scenarios where that doesn't work - DM's book is meant to teach the basics of that approach. It's not designed to give you all the tools needed to solve these problems - for that, you'll need to pick up a couple of books on nonlinear dynamics if you're wanting formal modelling, or just wade in and try to think in systems terms if you're working in a more intuitive environment.
That is what we all hope, whenever we buy any kind of food, regardless if it is fish or algae.

But of course it is good to also verify whatever you can, because food standards may be too lax or not enforced well enough.

So I agree with the other poster that mentioned the risk of mercury content for fish products, which however exists for all marine products, including algae products, even if it is lower than for small fish and even lower than for large fish.

Nevertheless, I hope that any fish product or algae product that is sold would be sampled and analyzed from time to time to verify that it does not contain harmful substances.
FAANGs take some of the employees at second tier companies and the vacancies trickle down and now I'm getting opportunities for remote work from the companies at major cities nearby (that previously were on-prem only) instead of just what is available in Wichita. And with coworkers quitting as well it gives me more leverage for a counter offer.
He didn't say it was a permission issue, he said someone was to lazy to handle the use-case for users which are not logged in.
AI system learned to understand videos by watching YouTube
I've been using CLIs for many years and I'd still rather use a (well-designed) GUI most of the time.
MacBook 16“ 2019 VRM Mod – Life Changing
All you are doing there is broadening the content definition to encompass more players.

The fact that YouTube is a many billion dollar business, and has no DIRECT competition should make it a target for anti-trust action.
In Cricket umpires inspect the balls quite often though, they would never permit a sticky substance on a cricket ball.

You're allowed to scuff up one side and polish the other.
I expect that trench warfare is a natural side effect of enclosure trench systems used when taking a fortress. Obviously field fortifications are older than that, but I mean the variety that implies firearms and artillery.
I think a lot of people are just biding their time, if they have job security now then why take the risk? It's a global pandemic, it's possible it'll turn around again (example: despite a national vaccination rate of nearly 50%, the number of 'rona cases is on the rise there because of the even more infectious Delta variant).
> Presumably the office romances/drinking sessions are gone

That’s a huge win and those aren’t the only detriments eliminated when you don’t force grown adults into a high school like environment.
What I don't understand is why they double down on this destructive behaviour. It's a really excellent way to piss off those that hadn't left yet (and as such must have been leaning towards their side!), nothing else.

But really what they're doing is the opposite of responsible and fair management. I don't want a network to be run like this.
This is great. I'm a big fan of how powerful web applications are getting.

Speaking of powerful web apps, I wonder if we'll see support for registering web apps as commands that can be run in a terminal.
From the pictures, it looks like it has plastic guide wheels but if it were conductive to short out the two rails, it would activate the signals and any trains will be stopped before they reach you.
It covers the basics, and very little beyond that.
What Google’s AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence
For those who don’t know, Sky News Australia is a Murdoch outlet.
This is sometimes known as Nominative Determinism[0], or an "aptonym".

It's probably some combination of a) people getting small advantages in their careers by having memorable names and b) the weird poetic sense of humour common among deities.

[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f6627
It's not just the price either. LTO has backwards compatibility for the previous two generations only. There's a risk data stored on LTO cartridges will not be readable by future tape drives.
Interesting list of winners and losers here:

Winners: High-income workers at highly profitable companies; Work introverts and people who enjoy (or are good at) using online communication tools; Suburban-town-center developers; the how-to-WFH economy

Losers: Entry-level workers in less established positions; Downtown landlords and businesses; Political comity

The "Political comity" was especially interesting to me.
It's not the case that more CO2 automatically means more plants. Plant growth has lots of components: water, light, nitrogen, etc. Adding more gas to a car's gas tank doesn't make it go faster, unless it's empty. Adding CO2 to the atmosphere doesn't make plants grow faster if that's not the limiting factor.

Instead, adding CO2 can cause it to metabolize differently. It will put growth into different components. In this case, it's a toxin that causes a lot of problems. That's news because people are going to have to deal with additional toxicity from this plant.

So this is novel information that people will need to respond to. That's not really conveyed by the journal article's title, "Recent CO2 levels promote increased production of the toxin parthenin in an invasive Parthenium hysterophorus biotype."

If that reads as feeding conspiracy theorists... honestly, what doesn't feed conspiracy theorists? In the lack of information they're free to simply make stuff up, or repeat things that have been debunked many times. There's just not a lot you can do about it, so I don't think it's worth taking them into account one way or the other.
There is a clear blurring of gov't / Google.
Carmack's law?
I think there's significant variance, but I don't think this is necessarily the norm. Everyone must memorize some basic tables as well as standard algorithms, but I wouldn't say it ever struck me as a problem.

The only exception to this for me was pre-calc, in which they taught us trigonometry rules without explaining it's basic relationships to the unit circle. Our calculus teacher was dumbfounded the next year when we had no intuitive understanding for these things. It took an hour to correct. No big loss. Shrug.
The article was pretty bad, in my opinion, in that it sensationalized something that at least IMO is pretty pedestrian. The only interesting bit is the relative rarity of the disease.
Not all jobs are equal in term of necessity. Food, shelter, electricity, water, you don't need a lot of people to work those jobs.

Punishing unproductive people and encourage them to work in fast food or other wage-slaving do not make sense.

The main argument is UBI.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee...

Abbreviated: A LLC has enough papers to prove that they own Freenode, and they have more money than the Freenode past volunteers to spend in court fighting over this. Hence the Freenode volunteers decided to abandon Freenode.

Lesson: Even though you are a fully volunteer organization, always maintain an explicit paper trail that holds in court who owns and what, or someone will at some point simply come up with some documentation to their advantage and claim what you've built as their own.
I'd be real interested in seeing the city by city breakdown and the per capita crime rate and per capita department headcount.

My gut feeling tells me that over the last year policing changed a hell of a lot more in bigger and richer cities with larger departments that could justify the cost of doing a lot of proactive policing than it did in smaller or poorer cities that only really had the headcount to respond to whatever gets called in. The former group is being told "don't harass that drug dealer unless he's causing problems, we don't wanna risk having a Floyd on our hands" whereas the latter group is still going wherever dispatch sends them and maybe they're getting a little extra lecture on not resorting to violence but on the day to day it doesn't really change the nature of their jobs.
Wow, it runs even better on that lamp than it did when I installed it on my iPod! (using Linux)
> Well-educated older speakers hear younger people pronounce the T in often and they disapprove.

If you are going to teach the hoi polloi to write, and make an issue over spelling, this sort of thing seems predictable, though two centuries seems a long time for it to become noticable.
I think it's called a "train"? :P
I don't know him or his other theories. ...but we should focus the conversation on his assertions HERE TODAY.

...not attack him based on some past efforts.
Only 75... It's amazing how commonplace computers are now, only a lifetime later. In 75 years they went from invented to taken for granted.
Why do fibonacci numbers appear in patterns of growth in nature? [pdf]
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