skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is actually smarter or better than anyone at anything. It's a result of biases and privilege. And if all biases were taken into consideration, everyone would (and should) score exactly the same on everything, regardless of age, sex, race, gender, ethnicity, orientation, etc etc.

That's the underlying message about ML initiatives that touch sensitive topics. Yes, we should be very careful not to encode biases into our models, and these biases are definitely real. Absolutely 100%! But what happens if the models still show disparity? Are we prepared for that possibility? Does it mean there are more biases yet to uncover and we must root them out? Or should we hide anything that reveals disparity in the absence of biases? Or are all biases impossible to remove, so they must forever remain the explanation for all disparity? Is disparity a proof of bias? Because if that is true, then the only conclusion is that every person is exactly functionally equal and the only differences are human biases.

I've seen smart tech people unable to say that men are on average taller than women because (I believe) they were afraid to say that some "favorable" outcome (tall) was a result of some component that could be genetic. Their argument was anecdotes of tall women, and saying there is no such thing as an "average" man or "average" woman.
Dumb question: Audacity has a GPL license, so it can be forked or built and distributed by a third party, right?
Website doesn’t offer API. So we must scrape. This is a tool for that paradigm.

Your comment is “scraping is brittle”, which is not helpful. Everyone knows scraping sucks. It’s why these tools are being made to make it less unpleasant.
Oh, yes, please revive the bloody format wars /s
Who cares if they're infringing copyright?

Microsoft bought the place that has a lot of our code and now is going to try and sell us a tool that will regurgitate it back on demand. The entire software industry is already largely based and advanced by the unpaid labor of open-source software project developers, GitHub as a popular open source ally could at least pretend to honor the gentleman's agreement of at least agreeing to respect the open-source origins of a ton of its stack.

If the tool was also open we probably wouldn't have nearly as big a problem, but I guess Microsoft has to recoup the cost of their completely unnecessary purchase.
Brings up nostalgic memories from my previous life building distributed analytics systems.
We had a fully distributed, scalable, real-time OLAP cube 10 years ago on top of HBase and Storm (or any other realtime processing pipeline). It was less than 30 KLOC and could be used as a library as well as fully distributed system.

There are several OSS solutions but I still weep every time I think about the stupid reasons for which we delayed open-sourcing it. It was such a simple and scalable data model including many concepts that were not common at the time.
https://medium.com/hstackdotorg/hbasecon-low-latency-olap-wi...

I still believe there's room for a similar simple approach, likely taking advantage of some of the developments related to Algebird, Calcite, Gandiva, etc.
This is all a psychology game and it works better if you understand their psychology. Banks do not care. They don’t want you to make them care. It is also true that they employ compliance officers whose job is to care and be skittish. So don't say drugs, terrorist financing or poorly understood things like crypto. Make up anything else such as you are filling up a pool to swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck.

For more leniency, use a bank that took a “criminal non prosecution agreement”, like Wells Fargo, where they remember that Compliance Officers are at-will employees too.
I'm okay with reuse and commercialization as long as the licensing terms of my code are adhered to. That means proper attribution, distribution of copyright notice and license, and making modified code available to users. Copilot does none of that.
Pretty laughable they have to post even more walls of text to convince folks that it's okay for an _offline_ application to spy on you. Frankly, this would have probably been tolerated or largely ignored if there wasn't a long history of Audacity not doing this and for the most part working well.

Time to either move to hard fork (if it happens) or find an alternative IMO, they can choose to die on this hill.

We're already tracked by so many apps (and at the OS-level for many) I think a lot of people are pushing back hard (maybe unfairly) because it's something they can control since it's FOSS.

Audacity has been around for over 20 years! It's takes some serious ego to drop in CLAs and telemetry on the community months after acquiring it.
Uniswap from Scratch
"Any philosophy that just asserted that the Universe has meaning was a non-starter, for me. There is nothing that I can see that unambiguously tells me that the Universe ultimately has absolute purpose or meaning. It could, but anyone who tells you they know the fundamental question of why we are here is delusional or a liar."

For Victor Frankl the meaning of life is not an answer you find out in the world but a question the world asks of you, and which you answer in the way you live your life.
Oh come on, you want to talk about cancel culture, lets talk about the Satanic Panic. When I was growing up it was in full effect. I personally was affected by it. How you ask? Let me link you a story I've already posted in the comments before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24159399

My mother was "canceled" and actually had her life ruined because of a false confession, and a deranged group of Christian cultists. But you're upset because someone had their social media account banned because they were being an absolutely awful person. Oh no!

A lot of these accounts that are getting banned are from Q-Anon. These people are coming up with bullshit lies that affect the lives of other people. But you don't side with the people that are having their lives turned over because of these idiots spreading falsehoods, you're defending the deranged maniacs who were correctly moderated into oblivion. You're response is, oh no some of these deranged maniacs who ruin the lives of people on the internet by indulging in conspiratorial fetish might drink bleach!

I, for one, have no sympathy.
I'd totally get a paid product like Ableton or Pro Tools if they didn't send data about me.
We've banned this account. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27740600.

Harassing any other user like you did in this thread is not acceptable, let alone when someone is expressing suicidal feeling. I don't believe that you intended to harass them, but the way you behaved in this thread was so bad as to be breathtaking. You can't help anyone like this on the internet, and you certainly can't treat other people like this on HN.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that this won't happen again on HN ever.
It's not even that 'scraping sucks', that's just a stigma to the word. The point is that it's not stable and having to have DOM knowledge to select the paths is less inclusive.
Slow down for this. Every word worth savoring. Is, or was, getting at savory.
Unless the telemetry is somehow a form of payment for using the (open source) product, I think your argument falls under:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
Please don’t confuse rationality with rationalism.

Nor we should reduce it to inferential processing of axioms and propositions. I’m surprised your cursory reading of philosophy haven’t encountered for example the Aristotelian golden ratio (root word for reason) and its application in virtue ethics, or the word logos that the entire christian culture was built on, or that should be familiar to anyone that has studied anything -logy.

We all actively participate in rationality with varying degrees of success. And calling out personal attacks made at the expense of actual counter-arguments is rational both in the sense of proportionality, appropriateness and even as a call for virtuousness.
Define intelligence
If you don't care about what the courts say, I am not sure why you are making legal claims here.

When it comes to legal matters, the only thing that matters is the opinion of the court system.
Spending money on illegal things, is illegal. Spending money on dubious things, is not. I'm sure crypto exchanges and the like are illegal in some parts of the world. But it isn't clear to me whether that's the case in the UK.

The argument here, presumably, is that banks shouldn't have a policing function. You can choose to (dis)agree with that, but it's a valid argument.
Create template repositories from just a single JSON file What is Dgen?
Metal tanks. Liquified air is pretty compact. Probably, as the tech matures they will move to burying them, and the heat reservoirs too. For a pilot plant, keeping everything exposed and maintainable is important.

As they get bigger, storing the heat removed in molten salt might prove useful.

The tradeoff of excellent underground insulation vs. accessibility for maintenance is tricky. For the case of molten salt, expectation of corrosion complicates it further.

With any luck, plummeting aerogel insulation cost will make the question moot.
I’m not a big fan of OLAP cubes / data warehouses but it should be noted that these aren’t always just about scale and speed. They also serve to provide a single view of the data when the data is held across multiple databases / systems. You’re orders may be in PostgreSQL, your inventory tracked in MySQL etc. So bringing all that data into a single database for analytics can be valuable.
> Which one was the first spend and which one was the double-spend?

The answer to that question is actually that it doesn't matter.
Seems weird at first but if you think about it, no one who uses the system cares which one is "the first" the only thing people care about is that once one is picked it will not change later on aka finality. And for that a majority must agree on one. Which one again doesn't matter at all.

FBA (Federated Byzantine Agreement) "blockchains" make use of that. Each node signals which Tx it saw first but if no super-majority can be reached it simply switches to the Tx that has more votes. The sole purpose is to agree on one which makes the second Tx unfunded and thus fail.

Bitcoin and bitcoin-like system cant do this. They always have some kind of lottery that decides who writes the Tx. There is no agreement and thus no finality and that's the whole reason why double-spends can happen.
It's more complex than just that. For a while (early to late 2010's), Myanmar was widely seen as being on the path to become a functioning democracy. Engaging such fledgling democracies economically is generally believed to be a good thing.

I know it's easier to just lump everyone into "good" or "evil" categories but it's not that simple.
> The sound quality is surprisingly good. Now I understand why people were complaining when they moved from AMPS to the first generation of GSM — the FM with 12 KHz modulation works actually well.

I remember this. When digital voice became commonplace a frequent complaint was how people sounded like they were underwater from the compression. I don’t think it was until VoLTE became a thing that I can recall a really big increase in voice quality since the move to digital voice.
Ronaldo, the soccer/football player
If you have a less brittle alternative that allows me to get the latest real estate listings in my area in my feed reader before it hits the aggregator sites, I'm all ears!
I’m not surprised to see that this movement was censored by the authorities in China while it was still small. It seems like the kind of approach that would broadly make sense for overworked Chinese laborers but would severely undermine the CCP’s aggressive ambitions. I hope these young people find a way to communicate and spread their perspectives outside of social media, but the reality is that communication offline will be drowned out by counter communication online. It’s why deplatforming and censorship are so scary regardless of whether it’s a private American company that does it or a state government like the CCP. Ultimately these young people will need to silently take on positions of power within the party to change the party.
I would tend to flip the value of reflective novices and prescriptive masters. Or rather, I’m often successful with advice from reflective people who have minimal mastery. Like, I’ll take reflective advice from an entrepreneur who has only ever sold one company over prescriptive advice from a banker who has sold dozens. In particular, the prescriptive advisor often not only makes flawed assumptions about your situation, but also about your goals. Someone who is good at reflective advice can be good at it even in unfamiliar situations.

I try to be a reflective advisor, and it’s interesting how often people coming to me for advice want prescriptive and push in that direction. In fact this article just made me realize i mad that mistake just last week, giving prescriptive advice without really understanding the situation, because they leaned on areas where I identify as having deep expertise.
When UK banks let people hand their life savings to fraudsters without a quibble they get made to compensate those people. We can't have it both ways.
My goals are the same. Get buff. Get good at the drums. Start a business. Grow a proper beard. Just that since having kids there’s not much time to work on them. Obviously I don’t regret any of it.
Network with people anywhere you go through live chats and meetups
Always wanted to know more about reverse vesting?
I know absolutely nothing about IP and even less about compression but aren’t compression algorithms usually run on copyright protected material with the consent of the rights holder or authorized licensee?
I'm not aware of anybody proposing that bitcoin would be a democratic protocol.

Bitcoin is intended to not have trusted parties. If the mining is done by relatively few parties they become trusted parties. This would not have been an issue if the mining power had remained more evenly spread across all users but it got concentrated in the hands of relatively few.

[...] but this was explicitly rejected for bitcoin.

How was this explicitly rejected? I think the original paper does not really address this but I always assumed that the original intention was to have a large fraction of Bitcoin users also be miners and the concentration that happened was an unforseen development. But maybe that is just my personal interpretation but I maintain that this is at least to some extend in conflict with Bitcoin wanting to be trustless.

Not really. It's on the basis of cost.

No, the miners already have all the hashing power. I have to trust them to include my transactions in blocks and not ignore them, I have to trust them not to undo transactions. If the Bitcoin mining power was more evenly spread among Bitcoin users this would be less of an issue than in the current situation where all the mining power is concentrated in about ten mining pools. Sure, pools are not miners but if the reported numbers are correct than there were at least in the past mining farms owning several percent of the mining power.
Worked at a place that put diversity first. Hiring straight white males was only done with extreme reluctance.

The work itself was afterthought to everything else.

Product was badly built but enforced fairness abounded at every step of the process.

Major problem they faced was the pool of qualified experienced candidates who had a real passion for tech while meeting the diversity checklist was very small.

Raising daughters I’ve been trying hard to get them some competence in tech. They like it, mostly enjoy that I spend time with them.

But horses and makeup is 90% of what they talk about.
Actually do what the electors want instead of leaving us to do it our way while they do the fame and glory bit.

Reforming the Civil Service would remove his life-support system.

It would kick away the ladder that's put him where he is.

While he's still standing on it.

The only way to reform the Civil Service system is to reform the political system.

No government's going to reform the system that put it into power.

- Sir Arnold Robinson
The only way this could work would be to force people to register their wallet address using some kind of government ID to prove that they are unique. But at that point you’re back to having created a completely centralised system.
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I think that everything Christian or from Peterson get downvoted in this left leaning place, they are seen as backward or even evil.

Theses stories made me realize that we are part of millennia of human understanding evolution.
To me there is sometime a deeper meaning at a second level but I have to get past a first reaction of disdain that i got from all things Christian. We are more open to other culture religions as we don’t know their flaws as well.

Jung is still opaque to me.
Just wanted to propose this approach. But I wouldn't call it cheat detection. It's more of "make sure my opponent is not better than X". It could even be integrated into the game by showing the players "forbidden" moves, which are too good for the current game-level and are therefore not allowed to be played.
Steiner's Porism and Inversions
Someone was telling me the other day that censoring communication in Germany is just fine.

Hopefully he's right.
Such a weird argument: "Copyleft people should not argue for better copyright". What does that even mean?
That thread is certainly not a good example of communication, but I cannot find any place where a representative from the Muse group says that they own the copyright to all sheet music on their site. They say (and that's to the best of my knowledge mostly correct at least here in Germany) that the arrangement for music is legally protected and even if someone else typed down the sheet, the rights to this sheet are still protected. And they point to the music industry enforcing restrictions (having worked with the music industry, I find that one entirely credible)
Building new housing requires low skilled labor.
Current solution [1] seems to involve backing up your iPhone locally, removing the offending SSID from a plist (com.apple.wifi.plist?), and restoring your iPhone from that backup.

[1]: https://twitter.com/vm_call/status/1411753482437148683
The OpenCompute "Delta Lake" machine mentioned in the article occupies only one third of 1RU and peaks at 400W. You will certainly be power/cooling limited, rather than volume limited, with that kind of density.
Mathematics can describe concepts abstractly, like a type checker checking a program, even if we can't decide whether the program halts or not

In that sense, we might be able to use mathematics to describe systems that are beyond the reality of the universe

For 'us' to be meaningful to 'them', hopefully we can conclude that in some sense, 'they' are meaningful to 'us', tho agreed, as you said, it is no given

I like the aleph sequence, because it shows that allowing paradoxes and impossibilities doesn't mean all bets are off -- that the universe can make perfect sense, even containing paradoxes that are beyond our conception
> but the problem of evil always seems like the weakest argument in its defense.

I can't understand why anyone would see religion or philosophy that says that some poor child deserved bone cancer because of karma or some balance of good and evil in the world as anything but despicable and disgusting. What is gained from any of them, what value do they bring?
In the 1970s Brian Eno invented Ambient Music. He wrote: "Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular, it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."
Yep. In particular, any version of audacity from a Linux distro's package manager is likely already built with telemetry off.
One past thread:

The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22189178 - Jan 2020 (53 comments)
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neal stephenson is no slouch, a lot of cryptonomicon is non-fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Safeguarding_of_sources
It doesn't and won't. Automation is useful in certain areas but impossible in many. There is a reason why Tesla factories still have manual steps in assembling a car - it can't be automated away with reasonable costs.

Look at Switzerland (it is not UBI, but they have some of the highest labor costs): https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Zurich . A meal at an inexpensive restaurant which relies on low skilled labor (not just cooks and waiters, but the entire food supply chain) costs $27 USD. I am all for improving labor conditions though.
> Going as far as to state that they will "cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content."

Wow, that's low. It's one thing to send dumb threats, it's another to threaten someone with involvement of a government that frequently disappears people. This is how you turn your products into the PR equivalent of radioactive waste.
The GP is correct. It is a logical fallacy that by definition is an appeal to authority, and this is the logical discussion.
Depend on? Heavens no.

Dual socket has numerous advantages in density and rack space. The fact that performance is better is pretty much icing on the cake.

It's easier to manage 500 dual socket servers than 1000 single socket servers. Less equipment, higher utilization of parts, etc. Etc.

To suggest dual socket NUMA is going away is... just very unlikely to me. I don't see what the benefits would be at all. Not just performance, but also routine maintenance issues (power, Ethernet, local storage, etc etc)
(2011)

This is the thing from then right?

has this been updated from the multiple times it's been posted the last 2-6 months?
Yes, it’s a common “argumentation“ strategy on Twitter. “Do you know that someone was once born with a horse’s head? Clearly the concept of ‘human’ does not exist!”
Audacity is over as soon as a fork gets some momentum.
I’ve been running home theater in stereo for years and the solution I’ve found is a combination of phantom center channel level control, and adjusting the compression settings to reduce dynamics.

What works for me is a passive hardware mixer in front of my 2 channel power amp.

I take the line level center (mono) and main (L/R) pre-out signals from my hdmi receiver, and mix them on the passive mixer.

This gives full control over the center level mix without actually having a center speaker (I have just a pair of stereo speakers)

I also set dynamics to minimum to keep dialog and special fx at roughly the same volume level (instead of constantly riding the volume control during action scenes)

Took some time to tune it, but I’m really happy with the setup now!
Don't these gravitational wave detectors usually come in pairs?
This looks great, but does it survive solely on donations? For me that's the one important piece of info missing from the page.
Fair enough - I am unfamiliar with refrigeration at scale. As long as none of the HFC, PFCs, HFE, CFC etc compounds are used seems like a low risk.
Speaking of the war: the Afghan conflict cost somewhere in the region of $1tn.

Counterfactual, but I wonder how much that money would do for fighting climate change.
"We assume, by looking at the universe, that it (the thing) will yield to us purpose or reason for being. We can't get that information about the universe from the universe."

Unless you can ask the universe about the universe, which some people think they can.

Even if they're right, though, I'd argue that you could never know if you got the truth from the universe, if it was lying, or if you were just deluded.

People can find meanings in all sorts of things and in all sorts of ways. Doesn't mean they're right.