skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Yes, those are already crimes. You were making the claim that hate speech is never illegal. I was clarifying that there are caveats that take what would otherwise be free speech and turn them into actual crimes.

2. You don’t have to accept it prima facie. Go read the forums, they’re still up on Tor. Fair warning, I have, and they’re horrid.

3. Not when the mods and owners of KF are engaging in the very same. I do not know if law enforcement is looking into individual users or KF itself, but that’s not what we’re discussing. We are discussing the rights of a private company to not give a platform to a group of people they believe are committing or engaging in potentially criminal activity. CF doesn’t have to prove it. If CF is wrong, KF is welcome to find support elsewhere. Good luck.
Curious to me why only such a simple representation (polynomial) is used for the approximation. Couldn't you get a much better approximation (⇒ more compressible residual) in about the same amount of storage space + CPU decoding effort, using a formula based on e.g. wavelet LUTs as your primitive (plus maybe a larger block size)?

Are there other, more advanced lossless encodings that do this? And if so, why didn't they catch on compared to FLAC?

For that matter, is there a lossless format that just embeds a regular lossy encoding of the audio as the approximation, and then computes+stores the residual relative to that? (I'm guessing that this wouldn't work well for some reason, but I'm not sure what that reason would be.)

(ETA: the other later lossless audio formats that I'm personally aware of — ALAC, Monkey's Audio, and WavPack — all seem to use linear prediction. Seemingly they were all designed under the presumption of the constraint that the encode step must be able to be done in hardware / with fixed-sized memory buffers; rather than allowing that you can load the whole PCM audio file into memory and do things like FFT to it. Possibly made sense in the late 90s, when a PC's RAM wasn't much larger than five minutes of uncompressed audio. Doesn't really make sense today. Maybe we're due for a new lossless audio encoding?)
In the UK we would also call a public school a private school. Our free schools could be any number of things: a state school (secondary or primary), a college (usually 16-18 but a secondary (11-16) can also be a college), 6th form (16-18 only), grammar school (you have to pass exams to get into), high school (an americanism used in some places in the UK), academy (a secondary school with a different funding model from the government). All very confusing! I think the safest bet is to just call the free schools "secondary school" and the private schools private or public schools.

> I think the solution of having the doctor manage this kind of thing is a lot better than what happens in the US.

I think it is difficult as in the US medical care is mostly privatised.

You cannot sue a doctor in the UK, you would sue the trust (a collection of hospitals in a geographical area). So if a doctor needs to force treatment on a child and the parents refused it would go to a board who would approve or deny it. All children (and adults) will receive treatment for free, so there is also no gotchas about who is going to pay.
I know you’re asking questions rhetorically, but these questions have straightforward answers that contradict your thesis. Read Zoe Quinn sometime.
Keep reading, but here's the crux of the matter:

HN was made to discuss tech topics. KF was made to harass and doxx a specific target.

I'm not here to explicitly define "hate speech", but I think that we can agree that KF has crossed that line into hate speech.

Unless you're cool with encouraging harassment and doxxing, that is.
It makes perfect sense. Don't stuff your face every waking minute and don't eat until discomfort.

Have you ever eaten too much in one sitting?
I also watched the whole LTT screwdriver design video and the only choice I disagreed with was using the shorter bits that meant that there's not much length of the narrower bit part exposed to reach those smaller places before the socket part gets in the way. The MegaPro that it was based on has at least moderate bit length.
>> CO2 doesn't care where it's emitted

Disease rates (e.g. asthma) in the population do though

>> And nowhere near the power needed if everyone switched to EVs

You’re saying that if demand for electricity goes up, it won’t be met? Why?
>People are angry their neighbours don’t properly sort their trash while recycling is a shame. Meanwhile planned obsolescence is prevalent.

Is this seriously an issue compared to trash in general? Sure, people bitch about how it's impossible to repair their iphones or macbooks, but even if you had to replace them every other year, the amount of trash they generate in relation to everything else is absolutely minuscule.

>It’s a conscientious strategy. Making people feel guilty about their very small impact prevent them looking at the real culprits: electricity production

But every kilowatt that you don't consume is a kilowatt that's not being generated by the electric grid. In that sense your actions have a direct impact on greenhouse emissions. Sure, you unplugging your electronics isn't going to single-handedly stop global warming, but that's because no one is single-handedly causing global warming either.

Also, you can literally buy a PV system for your house which would cut your emissions to zero.

>oil companies

see above, also electric cars.

>global manufacturing and shipping and construction

Well the goods you buy has to be manufactured somewhere, so presumably you're against the shipping rather than the manufacturing aspect. However, this source[1] says that shipping is responsible for 2.5% of global emissions, which isn't very significant.

[1] https://www.ukri.org/news/shipping-industry-reduces-carbon-e...
>There would be a benefit to thinking that way. Instead of doing a ridiculous sprint planning, instead just keep pulling from the backlog.

The purpose of sprints is not to divide up the work---this is a common misunderstanding. The purpose of the sprint is to set incremental goals based on incremental learning. So instead of setting a goal to create the complete software system from the beginning, you set a goal that can be accomplished within a fixed timeframe that people can make reasonable estimations in and that will test some of your key assumptions about the software.

Simply throwing everything into a massive backlog and grinding through it indefinitely is a recipe for failure, since there is no opportunity to reflect on the larger picture: the team is too busy focusing on the assembly line and not paying attention to the product. And of course you can still have "priority inversions" in kanban, but unlike the finite sprint, you may go months before you realize what you've done wrong.

As I said, there are appropriate times to do kanban, but the situation you describe is not one of them.
My friend i've been trying to get some archive links or anything that shows any real evidence of swatting from the website, which seemed at the time to be completely open and freely archive-able and yet it's like trying to pull water out of a stone. Furthermore you have articles like the one from the AP[0] straight up saying: "They gang up on victims and pool their personal details such as addresses and phone numbers in a practice called “doxxing,” spreading vile rumors and targeting workplaces, friends, families and homes. Another favorite tactic has been “swatting” — making false emergency calls to provoke an armed police response at a target’s home. " Without any evidence of it anywhere, surely if a public open forum had been so infamous for swatting someone as to be described as "another favorite tactic" there would be a paper trail? And that's pretty much all the articles I've read.

I'm not even being given a chance to use my personal judgement to evaluate the evidence because there doesn't seem to be evidence?

My original post in this thread already addresses the matter regarding it being CloudFlare's judgment in the end.

[0]: https://apnews.com/article/technology-gay-rights-7d64f7b7173...
Tech saviness was the problem. Computers will always tell you that two unequal strings are unequal. If the cop had instead relied on paper proof of insurance, they probably wouldn’t have noticed a single digit VIN typo either.

They would have seen that the make/model/driver matches and checked for valid effective dates.
You don’t even need to go back that far. I have a 1970 ford. The entire vin in 8 or so digits. I had to call my insurance company, the website would accept it.
They mention lithium, but not if it’s lifetime it’s also extended, is it?

If it is, isn’t that a huge deal?
Actually, if Twitter et al. want to provide the tools to block arbitrary content, they can do that just fine - companies can speak with the police and follow their wishes regardless of the first amendment because Twitter's own protected speech allows them to block any content for any reason, whether that be "it violated our content on harassment" or "the police don't like it and we're voluntarily following their wishes".
I think the product manager job and product owner role have replaced BAs. I'm a BA, but I think it's a disappearing role in software.

I think my reading falls into three categories. Product management related authors and topics, (technical) project management, and CS fundamentals & software development (this is by far my weakest area and needs a lot more effort).
Of course not--a harm/benefit analysis can't be done without a substantial window to gather data. Doctors take their best shot and the answers for what works or doesn't are written in the morgue.
https://archive.ph/9pZRT

Again just great journalism from Patrick McGee. Which is extremely rare in the modern era.
Have you actually read about what they where doing in that private - no parents allowed - discord server? I'd love to link you to the actual content, but I can't, because it's private. You will have to read the tweets from the owner describing it in her own words, which is in the link that is the subject of this thread.
Inciting harassment might be someone telling everyone to order pizzas and send them to an address. It wouldn't be posting a picture of someone's house with no context. While that might facilitate harassment, it doesn't actually incite it.
The File Provider API is very limited. In particular, it can't be used to implement file systems where the directory hierarchy is dynamic. It can't materialize directories on `chdir(1)`, for example.

The design was obviously tailored for providers that implement real disk files, like Dropbox and Apple's own iCloud Drive.

Btw, Apple also ships with an undocumented 9P implementation. It seems to be used for mounting the host filesystem in virtualized guests. It is unclear if it can be made to work over a normal (non-PCI) transport like TCP.
Whoosh is cool too: https://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors [pdf]
I do not have very sensitive ears, but maybe an audio enthusiast can explain this to me:

In the 80s and 90s some people were going crazy over HiFi, only the absolute high end products were just good enough. I remmeber seeing stereo systems for 50,000$ and more. CDs were already seen as inferior to records quality-wise, and speakers had to be huge if possible.

Today Wifi speakers are all the rage. The music is downloaded (precompressed) and then sent over Wifi or Bluetooth with (sometimes very) limited bandwidth to a single speaker which has the size of a laptop.

How does the audio quality compare? Is it like day and night? Or do the new multi room systems play in the same league as the old system that were used by enthusiasts? I often have the feeling that overall sound quality does not matter anymore as long as the bass is strong enough, but as I said at the beginning, my ears are not very sensitive.
People calling for my people and my nation to be wiped off the map. (And I don't try to get Hacker News blocked by their ISP or cache provider. I understand that an open forum will have speech like this.)
I've often thought there are not really very many Sudoku patterns. You know, if you relabel a finished puzzle it's not really a 'different' solution. Also you can permute sets of 3 rows (or columns) without materially changing the solution or the difficulty in solving it. Also blocks of three rows (or columns) can be permuted, same thing.

I had a fantasy that maybe there's only 1 Sudoku puzzle, and the whole problem is to determine the labelling on the one in front of you!
Near-zero-emission rotary engine could extend life of ICEs
I'll not forget the first time I heard this song [0] by Junior Brown, Joe the Singing Janitor.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMlhIw8E0k

My grandfather was a public school janitor after he moved from the farm to the big city for a better opportunity to feed and raise his kids. There were more than a dozen of them so steady work was important.

He cleaned the school and in the process set his kids up to be responsible adults. My grandmother used her sewing skills to become seamstress for the wealthiest families in the city too. Neither of my grandparents ever got rich in their new work but they did survive and set their kids up for success.

He had a mischievous twinkle in his eye and he loved telling stories. With a steady supply of grandkids from all his children he never lacked for an audience.

Thanks for posting this.
Likely only HN would care about the node number so I don't see a problem.
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. (2016)
You can run a thousand nodes virtually from a single pc
To provide a bit more context, most of SLIME is just Common Lisp code (https://github.com/slime/slime), with a bunch of Emacs Lisp code alongside to support interfacing with Emacs. But you don't need that Emacs Lisp code to take advantage of almost all of the functionality SLIME provides. For instance, if you want to know who-calls a function, there's some command in emacs to do it, but all that command is doing is just a bit of elisp code which sends a message to Swank (a server running inside Common Lisp) and Swank invokes some native CL code to figure that out and return the results, then finally a bit of elisp code presents the results in some way. Vim can do the same thing just fine with vimscript/python (what the Slimv plugin uses) or otherwise, the bulk of the work in figuring out the list of callers of some function is done by the CL code (and CL implementation itself).
Hopefully Streisand effect will be strong and it backfires on Amazon
Theres also the bit where Spotify traffic is zero rated on tmobile.

But net neutrality, blah blah blah.

I strongly lean towards spotify instead of YouTube for music solely because of this.
If they are doing something criminal, let the courts set them out with an established procedure and a a group of informed jurors instead of mob rule.
ID3 is format-agnostic so it shouldn't be no surprise to see it in flac. Even the linked article mentions that flac does recognize and skip ID3 tags.
Title should be "PAM", not "Pam".
They are not supported directly, but you can ue them through the Accelerate framework, which has an optimised BLAS and FFT implementations (amongst many other things).
I don't think typed racket uses turnstile? At least, typed racket is far older than turnstile is.
"attempt to reproduce" then. Because a lot of those studies cannot be reproduced, that's the point.
Good points, and thank you.

How much of VentureStar was part of the StarWars programme to launch space based ICBM busters? It didn’t need to make sense just for the Soviet Union to realise it wasn’t close.

It is tantalising to think that could have been a system, but it does look quite the leap, and yes SpaceX is doing an amazing job.

The Starship launcher looks impossible, much like SpaceX’s other successes.
I suppose my point of view is probably coloured by the fact I’m in a society where we do not have freedom of speech enshrined in law, and once upon a time I worked for a firm with common carrier/Telco protections. If there is an agenda I’m pushing, it is simply that private companies stick to what they are good at (in this case running a DDoS prevention service) and do not engage in removing things they are not legally required to remove. Not all slopes are slippery, but some are.
Not sure if this is mentioned in other comments but in my work it seems relevant to “keep an eye” on velocity but not worship it. Hopefully it stays pretty consistent in general but if there’re are big swings maybe it’s reason to check out other process items.
> What if the freedom of speech you are defending is impeding on the right of others to speak freely?

I'm not sure how speech can impede on the right of others to speak freely. Speech can certainly discourage others from speaking freely, and that's bad for freedom of speech in a broad millian sense[1], but it's too vague to justify shutting down an entire forum because some speech there might discourage others from speaking freely.

[1]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Liberty/Chapter_2
That wouldn't really help. Let me explain in a bit more detail. The results depends on the query matrix, which will be different for each set of queries. We have a query matrix Q that of dimension 10000x128. And we have another vector matrix A that is 1,000,000x128. We preprocess both Q and A so each row has unit norm:

Q[i,:] /= norm(Q[i,:])
A[k,:] /= norm(A[k,:])

So now with that preprocessing the cosine similarity of a given row i of Q and k of A is:

cossim(i,k) = dot(Q[i,:], A[k,:])

If you multiply QxA.T (10,000 x 128)x(128, 1M) you get a result matrix (10,000 x 1M) with all the cosine similarity values for each combination of query and vector.

If you make a pass across each column with a priority queue, you can find the top-n cosine similarity values in time O(1,000,000xn).

Now you could store the resulting matrix, but Q is going to change for each call, and we really only care about the top-n values for each query, so storing it wouldn't really accomplish anything.

Edited: fixed lots of typos
Do you have any write ups about what those reviews are like? Sounds quite a bit more interesting than the usual agile stuff.
An update to the Atkinson Hyperlegible font
I'm quite sure obesity gives a helping hand as well.
OTOH the interfaces are standard. Using Accelerate instead of the standard BLAS is just a compiler switch.
I got all the same shit basically. Barred from all establishments except grocery shops, barred from taking exams & visiting my university campus, excluded from my cousins wedding, couldn’t board a plane… I just never gave in because I knew it wasn’t the right thing for me. I’m 25 now and never got the shot. My wife had it, and when we both got the virus she was sicker than me for a longer time.
What are witness logs?
Look at the docs for the radio on the plane and then acquire a remote control that is compatible with that radio. Or, if you don't even have a radio, buy a remote control and radio, read the manuals, install the radio (and battery), connect the servos, check that it works.
At a minimum I would group PoW and PoS coins separately, as the incentives for each category are quite different. This site acknowledges that in a way with separate lists at the top for "nodes" and "validators", but underneath they still have the main list sorted by max(apples, oranges)
> has been borrowed and misused in software management.

as a software engineer, I really apprecaite this.

> about accelerometers and how the ill effects of vibration have been mitigated

I really hope I can mitigate vibrations of mood, esp the procrastinatory kinds. But then I don't want to over-"engineer" my behaviours or it would start to become existential. Like sometimes I don't even know what is meaningful anymore (despite working on my dream job), or if I can truly humanly love myself. Being human is tough.
Another Silicon Valley scam.
Agreed. And? KF actively encouraged and supported the former.
Sadly, teaspoons to tablespoons has a jump of 3x, but other than that it's mostly binary with a few skips (e.g. there's not a real half gallon unit AFAIK, it's just "a half gallon", same for 2 fl oz). For some reason a barrel is 31.5 gallons instead of 32, with a hogshead being twice that at 63, but those are pretty rarely used.
Why would you get anemia by following that advice?
This is not an example of premature optimization. It is an example of guessing at the problem and missing the mark.

It is best explained by Donald Knuth himself. The full quote is:

> "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail.".

Source: Structured Programming with go to Statements by Donald E. Knuth. http://web.archive.org/web/20130731202547/http://pplab.snu.a...
I very much doubt you'll find any piece of medical literature supporting the idea that it is better for a child to self-medicate on complex drugs like HRT then it is to wait until they are legally able to ignore their idiotic parents and move out to a state that actually cares about their well-being and happiness. Not to mention, HRT is not at all recommended for children, puberty blockers are.

I fully support the right of children to receive puberty blockers to help them achieve a smooth transition when they are old enough to fully understand the consequences. I bemoan states and parents that seek to harm trans children by refusing them access to this type of treatment, and others. But slef-medicating as a child is in absolutely no way an acceptable replacement. Being a non-passing trans adult, as bad as it is, is likely to be much much better than the harms you expose yourself to by accidentally overdosing on hormones as a child.
Well, oil is cheaper than electricity now*.

*) Depending on time and location of course, but it's the case surprisingly often.

As a Swede, the more I learn about about how central Europe has been heating their homes the more disgusted I become. Like, the way e.g. Germany seems to think of burning gas as "clean". I mean, maybe compared to coal, but... you shut down nuclear plants with a plan to replace with (Russian) gas? You do understand burning this causes CO2 emissions, right?

That was the many-billion-Euro German green energy revolution your environmentalists wouldn't stop talking about a decade ago?

And now our electricity in southern Sweden (which is what we generally use to heat our houses, in contrast to most of Europe, since it used to be very cheap and clean here, just a year ago. Most use an air-to-air/water heat pump or three) is insane costly, because of a combination of idiotic leftist politicans/voters also shutting down nuclear plants while at the same time building export power connections to Europe.

It's like everyone is doing the opposite of what's sane. /rant over
Highlights:

• Compared to traditional activities, programming did not benefit mathematics learning.

• A negative though small effect of programming on mathematics learning was found.

• High-road transfer from programming to mathematics is not self-evident.

• Visual programming languages might distract students from mathematics activities.