skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the prospect of not having to author Maoist style diversity statements and other indignities will be quite a draw. Universities have become inhospitable and intolerant places for even politically moderate folks.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/19/mathematician...
"Basking in the insanity" just about sums it up. It's remarkably difficult to craft a good sound with FM synthesis (or phase modulation, for the pedants).

My experience with FM sound design tells me that 2 operators is quite primitive, 3 operators opens up a larger set of non-insane possibilities, and 6 operators (like the DX 7) is, surprisingly, the minimum I would personally want to use for FM synthesis!

So if you are going to go 100% FM, and you're going the eurorack route, I'd personally want nothing short of two ALM011s. You obviously don't need two if you're mixing it with other modules, it's just that if you want to do FM synthesis, four operators is surprisingly limiting.
I keep a glass of water on my desk and keep slowly sipping it, and refill when it runs out. It’s helped me significantly to reduce cravings.
Maybe the examples given were not perfect. But in the first example they were talking about buying cups when they already had enough of them. This wisdom focuses on not buying extra.
The second example was about buying a wallet just because their wallet was a bit warn out. This wisdom focuses on appreciating the beautiful of worn out items. And perhaps that relates more to Kintsugi.
Was the US not better off after WW2?
I'm guessing it would work in WSL.
> The first named members of the UATX founding faculty include philosopher and outspoken feminist Kathleen Stock, who as a professor at the University of Sussex sparked controversy for stating that transgender women are not biologically women and for her support of a ban on transgender women in women’s bathrooms and giving puberty blockers to minor children.

Bigots always can't help but give themselves away.

"Caution about giving medical treatment to children?" Seems reasonable by default.

"Transgender women are not biologically women?" Well people disagree on what the definition of what a biological woman is but I understand what you're trying to say and sure there are of course relevant biological differences. Trans women can get prostate cancer. Some biology is relevant.

"Ban transgender women in women's bathroom?" Errr. You've given yourself away. This makes absolutely no sense. I don't go look at people's genitals when I go to the bathroom. Are you? Are butch lesbians supposed to go to men's bathrooms? We should do away with gender segregated bathrooms entirely and make inclusive privacy-focused spaces where you do your private business behind closed doors and interact at communal sinks and mirrors that do not require gender separation. But including this in your agenda reveals yourself as an illogical bigot, and the motivation for the rest of your arguments becomes invalid.

Deep breath.

Which is exactly the situation with the University of Austin.

"We are committed to these long-held ideals of the pursuit of truth, academic freedom, open inquiry, and spirited debate." That sounds fantastic! I agree with these concepts too! But...the people you now hire are going to speak volumes about what these words ACTUALLY mean to you.

If your pursuit of truth and open inquiry means exploring various justifications for restricting the lives of trans people, exploring only evidence that doubts climate change, and twisting data to try to establish risks of vaccinations, well...
> ideas which were once countercultural and revolutionary have become the mainstream orthodoxy

In the abstract, isn't this a good thing? Like this true of lots of scientific advances. Germ theory or whatever initially being seen as a fringe idea, eventually being adopted as the leading explanation
I'm not playing logic UNO with you. I can live with the fact that some person on the internet thinks I'm wrong.
We remember the sacrifices made by those to ensure our freedom. We don't celebrate the warrior soldier, in so much as we grieve their passing, and sacrifices of all who have lost to ensure this amazing country.
Obvious that Moderna side effects would be more common given the larger dose. It's... obvious.
I use it (and loathe it) at work.

As for open source projects I might rely on, having a slack but no active mailing-list/forum/async-channel is a sure red flag.
I am a restic user. Use it to backup to b2 and Scaleway. It is not without hiccups, but once setup, and as long as I don’t backup anything from those protected Mac folders, it has worked smooth so far.

However I also acutely feel the lack of a standalone GUI so that I can get rid of the scrips and custom setup or at
least that can be an option. (There’s a commercial third party UI I think which is a subscription)

https://vorta.borgbase.com (a third party qt GUI for borg backup) has been really awesome.

Another tool I’m looking at closely is https://kopia.io. It comes with a UI by default (Electron I guess). Though its UI and logo has quite some work left.
Would be interesting to see ratings of software much like the moody's index for financial products.
> Almost all Western countries have a system of judicial review, so I would personally find the opposite to be odd (why would it make sense to have a constitution at all if it can be effectively ignored by the legislature?)

I get your drift.

It is possible to design a government where a constitution limits a legislature's power without a separate judicial branch. Here are some ways (not mutually exclusive):

1. The legislative branch could have an internal judicial branch

2. The Constitution would guide procedures of the legislature; e.g. different kinds of actions require different thresholds
CodeWars?
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ at least can use PGP public keys. I've used it for a long time and not seen any particular reason to change.
There is cryptopals for crypographic security exploit stuff. It's very good!

https://cryptopals.com/sets/1
What Is Transhumanism?
I guess that for short-length fasting like IF it is more your glykogen reserves than your bodyfat,
You aren’t down to sign another Great Loyalty Oath. You can put your Washington Irving right there.
170g of protein?? Are you also doing a carnivore diet or keto?
I really like that tool. I mentioned it on this post as well
> I see no way an ordinary unvaccinated person can avoid catching covid

Read my post again. I specifically said I'm comparing vaccines, not comparing vaccine to no-vaccine.

Don't try to argue a strawman.

Pfizer prevents enough infections that the risk of a breakthrough case is low. Plus the risk of getting exposed to Covid over any given time period is less than 1, even if it's 1 over a long enough time period. It's also a low enough risk for the age group being discussed that they can take the time to make an informed choice of Pfizer vs. Moderna.
Unlikely as it might be, there are scenarios where the current U.S. legislature could significantly change the Supreme Court and/or disobey it:

(a) refusing to fund or enforce some of the court's decisions (this may require action by the executive branch as well)

(b) changing the court's composition

(c) (potentially*) changing funding of the court (I am not an expert, so I could be wrong, but I would guess that there are mechanisms to do so)
Why not use AWS ses? It's so much cheaper.
ASK HN: Desin patterns that are being used for creating a scalable Front end
I want to understand what are the design patterns in use today specifically while creating front ends, although people shall ask for frameworks, I want to ask no matter what framework but dealing with web, what design patterns do you commonly see.
Project Euler problems for the most part aren't like brainteasers. Sometimes you just do not have the mathematical context to arrive at an optimal solution. Browse Wikipedia a bit or watch some math videos or something when you're stuck, and think about how to exploit the fast nature of computers with what rigorous mathematical understanding of the problem you have.

Also, I once spent over thirty cumulative hours on a single PE problem, and I never solved it, I gave up. Don't feel bad. It doesn't make you a bad programmer, just a bad mathematician. That's probably not that big of a deal!
I'm the GP's setup, it's not readable without the private key.

You could do deduplication on the encrypted blocks I suppose (is that secure?)
Get tested weekly then. They built in a way out. Are you that afraid of needles?
Agreed, I think I'm finally getting what it's for, and the grandparent post and this post made me want to try GraphQL actually!
It's interesting how now that it's explained this way, it's so hard to unsee it, yet it never even got close to clicking before.
> This is one of the many ways endless years of emergency low interest rates are destroying the economy and the livelihood of many people.

Japan has held rates near the zero lower bound since the late 1990s. If rates were the only factor, you'd expect to see the same situation there.
It might not be quite the same as recycling bottles, but I worked for a cut & tempering shop where we would recycle all of our waste glass. We recycled many tons of waste glass and were paid for it.
Of course it's a power grab (albeit not healthy).

The whole point of a democracy is that you can vote out the majority ruling party. Once they start banning minority oppositions from voting at all, it's dead, it's over. The voters who selected those MPs are disenfranchised, it's not a democracy anymore. Very simple.
At last, after a word search of that web page and of the HN comments revealed no glossary-like description of "small overlap" collision, I thank you for your description of it.
It's fairly far down the article but it would seem as if the need for a passport given that, according to the article, most people in the EU don't have passports would be a pretty big stumbling block.

I also imagine that the more border crossing is involved (and, yes, travel between EU countries is "crossing borders" but in a sense less so than traveling to non-EU countries), the more hesitant people are likely to be all other things being equal. I probably still wouldn't travel from the US to Europe at the moment.
I followed that site since its inception. It wasn't perfect but jesus don't beat a man to death in his death. What are you even trying to accomplish? The guy built one of the most influential sites ever, and he died in a horrible way, why make this worse. You are a fucking monster

Btw what really bothers me? Wtf do you know? You pose the question to me but Im guessing you never met him. So im the weirdo for grieving the death of a man that brought a lot of joy into my life and youre like "let me shit on his legacy". So again fuck off.

And by the way Im NEVER going to celebrate the suicide of a person. Because I have fucking empathy. Do you?
> Individual job postings at “regular” mid-tier universities attract hundreds of applicants, many of whom are extremely qualified.

But if this is an order of magnitude more job inquiries than average, might that not reflect something different about the model? Maybe something as banal as "it attracted a lot of attention", but surely a 5x or 10x difference is indicative of something.
Ya, it seems way too political from the onset, I suspect it'll grow into more of a partisan train wreck then something truly about the objective truth. But hey, I hope not, and awesome if it can be a really objective place, but it definitely is not starting as one from what this article mentions.
My approach has always been to read about relevant mathematical concepts but avoid looking at specific algorithms or code. I figure I'm not going to reinvent some concept from abstract algebra or rediscover some formula named after Euler, but I still want to have some challenge of figuring things out beyond just writing the code.
What I know: clearance is compartmentalized. The NSA's mandate is both to break foreign crypto, and protect sensitive communication. That includes, possibly, the means to break domestic communication about, well, anything, including nukes. The laws and policies regarding this are, themselves, secret. There's even a secret court. The existence of these secret courts and secret laws has recently been affirmed as legitimate by the supreme court.

So, no shit you're speculating, and I very well may have been lied to by the person attempting to recruit me to the NSA. I didn't want to live in secrecy; soon thereafter, Thomas Drake's reports confirmed my suspicion that the NSA wasn't as white-hat as I'd been told.
Great speech. There does seem to be an optimistic assumption here that more participation in media is always better. But from a 2021 viewpoint I would now add the discovery (through mass experiment) that there are some forms of participative media that are just as empty of value as, and far more toxic to society than, just letting people watch TV. So, as they say, “it’s complicated”.
Democrats want to give a tax cut to the top%, 6x bigger than any other bracket
>relativity, nuclear physics

Are those just there because of calculus? that's doubly unfair if so. Unfair beacuse there is a huge amount of work that went into those besides simply calculus, and unfair for all those who contributed to calculus before him.

Frankly, I wouldn't even attribute CS to him, he did have a mechanistic view of logic, but that alone doesn't strike me as revolutionary, it was the age of mechanical machines after all, somebody was bound to apply the idea to symbolic manipualation. CS's father on the engineering side is Babbage, it's father on the mathematics side is Russel or Turing.
This is basically the original logic behind patents. You trade making your invention public for legal protection of your exclusive right to that invention for some number of years.

It's too bad it doesn't work anymore (or maybe it never worked?). Stuff like this doesn't make it into useful patent documentation, while patents are issued for vague and overly broad "inventions" like "storing numbers in a computer".
So you enter your username and password every time you git pull/push?
I doubt math professors who write textbooks that are not meant for the mass public (i.e. not part of a state mandated curriculum) follow the field of didactics.

I've read math textbooks from the 60s onwards. I do not see a trend vs time.
> In the abstract, isn't this a good thing? Like this true of lots of scientific advances. Germ theory or whatever initially being seen as a fringe idea, eventually being adopted as the leading explanation

This is a cultural revolution, not a scientific one. Scientific ideas replacing proven-false ones is a good thing. Cultural crusades, especially those spread through intimidation and bullying, have next to nothing in common with that though.
University generally has some land they built on, granted by the State (UCB, UW, UMass, VT) or some rich guy (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc)
I think there is a slight mistake in the article:

> So how can a reference in a child assume the same lifetime? It can't.

Well actually, it can, because the owned Struct itself (Node) can outlive any borrow. You won't be able to mutate the parent though, as you can't mutate any value that has an active immutable borrow. That's the problem: you can't add the child node as adding it would mutate the parent and the there's an active immutable borrow (in the child node).

This reddit comment[0] has one possible solution[1] to this problem: not saving all of those parent references in the node itself, only adding when you're retrieving it. It also seems a lot better since there's less data in-tree to change if the structure itself changes.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qstlto/rust_data_stru...
[1] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
I mean...what mood is red light for? When you want to feel like a reptile basking in a terrarium?

I’m on team having many light fixtures with dimmable warm light LED bulbs—adjust the mood via intensity and number of fixtures turned on (so to speak).
Has this actually happened?

My experience has been that if you walk around a campus, you can find people studying all sorts of ideas. Some of that might even involve intellectual exercises where one tries to make a strong case for a “revolutionary” idea.

However, at their core, universities are fundamentally conservative big businesses: they want more money and less controversy. There aren’t any actual Marxists in the Dean’s Office.
In Firefox I only hear a single sine wave of varying amplitude/frequency, not a modulated one.
Which is why I said "some". I know it's not the same set of problems for all of us ;)
I always thought there should be more terabit attacks with the level of home connections nowadays
>most people in the EU don't have passports

Really? This is kind of surprizing. Even with Schengen, you'd want to have a passport when traveling within the EU.
Oh for sure. An additional advantage of the modular approach is: if you don’t like the raw FM tone, you can try running it through an MS-20 filter, or a Moog filter, or a wavefolder, or a ring modulator, or…

One of my favorite custom SuperCollider synths that I wrote was a simple 2-op phase modulation generator run through a wavefolder and filter. I probably could have arrived at a similar sound with more operators, but it wouldn’t have felt as intuitive to write!

Edit: these darn mobile keyboards
“I was thinking about the most offensive job offer I have ever received
Could you elaborate on the timeline and circumstances of getting Covid twice and getting fully vaccinated? Time line, which vaccines, how did Covid happen?

Don’t think I’m questioning it, I’m just surprised so I want to hear more because I thought even getting Covid twice was fairly rare, after all isn’t that a widely held conception by survivors who don’t want vaccinated.
This problem has already been "solved". In drug companies, making new a drug is extremely expensive, but once you have the formula, it is (usually) very cheap to produce. So the government gives the maker of a new drug a patent for some number of years. Enough to milk the formula for cash, while still forcing innovation once it expires and rest of the companies start making it. These patents also prevent derivative works.

The problem with intellectual property (I might be mixing copyright and intellectual property here, if I am, my apologies) is that by preventing derivative works while also having a near infinite lifespan, it absolutely crushes any kind of creative innovation. IMO the lifespan of intellectual property should be 40-50 years, reduced when going to market, similar to how drug patents work. This lets smaller creators who don't have the vast war chests of literal drug companies to make a good living off of it, while still allowing for innovation for the next (or next next) generation.

The REAL problem is that Disney and such have been lobbying for extending copyright and IP protections. I think we're up to nearly 100 years now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
They endured it.

People didn't have personal computers or cell phones a century ago. What happened? Did businesses go extinct?

The entire digital empire that we enjoy today is built on people's wants. Some things are wanted so badly, that we are willing to get our hands dirty and actually create new things. It's not hard to imagine that people can want things badly enough to try out those new things.
I have same reaction to payment plans. I fully understand the business goal of recurring revenue, but several times in last few months I’ve opted for workarounds/alternates rather than paying a subscription for a product where I would have just paid a flat fee if available.
Red light is for sleeping for me.
Considering only the money aspect it can be worthwhile.

The problem that I have seen with people trying to take advantage of lower taxes for expats is that you can't easily find jobs that pay well. So even with lower taxes your net salary is not as high if are coming from an northern European coutry or US.
With a GUI. I think it could also be less error prone if the user interface guides through the configuration.
What would that "profile" show though, apart from your username? Email can be hidden, as well as contribution dates/volume to private repos.
Its not a for-profit business, its a donation driven — funded by a 501c3 and seeking its own 501c3 status — entity leveraging political tribal identity to target small donors and with large donors motivated by its political propaganda aims.

The main risk it faces is that entities with similar propaganda mission and appealing to similar tribal identity are already thick on the ground, but that hasn't seemed to be a major problem for new entities in the space recently, so I wouldn't bet against them succeeding to the extent of creating an durable operation, even if its never anything credible as a university.
I like your blog a lot, thanks for existing.
Yes, if you use the dense version of it (DenseSlotMap). It requires an additional indirection per lookup, but makes up for the fact that it’s much cache friendlier. From looking at a simple benchmark (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/gfo1uw/benchmarking_s...) it seems that insertion/deletion gets a hit but accesses are faster (although YMMV on real world use cases)
I feel that the main problem in AI or any other specialized discipline right now is that tutorials often lack the context for building up layers of understanding from a high school education.

The article talks about what a tensor is, but not the rules that make it a tensor. This video series might be a helpful bridge from the data structure to the math:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQeXi4E7gA
> There aren’t any actual Marxists in the Dean’s Office.

Certainly not in the Bursar's Office!
How do anti bot measures lead to the decline?
It depends on what you value. If you value energy efficiency, Bitcoin is extremely wasteful for sure.

However if you value freedom/decentralization, it isn't. (I know about the debatable parts of decentralization and Bitcoin but you probably got the main idea)
You are exposed to millions of antigens daily, and almost none are FDA approved. This isn’t at all like a new chemical entity, it is a short-lived antigen that trains your immune system, then goes away. This isn’t 1960, it’s 2021. It’s safe, certainly safer than COVID, and necessary to protect you, your family, your neighbors, and our society. Also, it doesn’t affect fertility.
"gram of protein per pound of bodyweight" is a fairly standard macro ratio in the fitness community.

170g of protein is only 680 cals, so plenty of room left over for carbs and fat.
> quizzes in Google Forms.

Idiocracy is here.

This is only acceptable is the purpose is to provide practice questions that do not count for credit. Just like it is a good idea to provide answers to practice questions at the end of the book (sometimes printed upside down).

Of course, to be useful as a learning tool, the answers to such practice question must include an explanation of why, say, (c) is a better answer than (a), (b), and (d).

So, set up practice questions in Google forms, put actual answers/explanations on a web page for students to learn.

You can still do exams in Google forms ... Just don't leave the grading to Google forms. Instead, grade asynchronously.

Again, that would be actual work, so, no leave everything to Google, and accuse students of cheating and take away `view-source`. Right. That's what things have come to.
While this is cool, you can also just do `some_enum.sum` (also works with string concacts)

One thing that is cool about the .to_proc shorthand though is, for example, you have a method

def square_it(x);
x * 2;
end;

people tend to write an enumeration that uses it like

items.map {|i| square_it i }

but you can actually write it like this

items.map(&method(:square_it))

So not only can you write shorthands to methods on the object itself, you can write shorthands to other methods and "automagically" pass the item as its argument. Nifty stuff.
Yes, especially in men