jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://code.google.com/p/libfooid/

Code looks great, but this library requires some sort of frontend to be functional, not to mention that the code hasn't updated in years (probably not since Gian-Carlo's initial release).

audfprint comes with a functional commandline interface for managing such a database, at least in basic form. While I get that this sort of thing can conveniently be written in Matlab, that choice won't help with adoption of the tool. I hardly know of anyone with a Matlab runtime ready to go for random tools.

So torn between a (possibly outdated) library, and code written for an, let's say unusual, runtime, neither of these two really appeal if I wanted to build a de-duplicating audio library.
I imagine this post took some time to write up, so I want to say thank you for sharing your experience. I don't know much about the banking world so I found your story fascinating.
If I were to peel back the blog post to the relevant point (ie US culture is more risk accepting), I would agree. As someone who just completed 'cultural' training last week, risk profiles for various countries have the USA as very risk tolerant whilst other countries are very risk adverse (some of Europe, India etc). And I think most would agree that risk-acceptance is necessary for innovation/startups.

But wow, the rest of the material wrapped in that blog post ... stereotypes based on a couple of anecdotes, tarring an entire continent as a single monoculture, and inflammatory text such as 'Her cowardly behavior is the eventual result ...' says to me that this post was more about about someone's lack of understanding of culture (and dare I say attempt to appear superior) rather than any 'informative insight'.

Edit: I felt I should explain my objection to this post a bit more. In many cultures (particularly asian ones), communal harmony is valued more than individual success. This can often lead to decision by consensus (an extreme version being the one Rod saw). Is decision by consensus bad for innovation - quite possibly so (I believe it is myself). Is it cowardly? Absolutely not. Did it occur because mistakes were stigmatized? Again no - it's simply that shared decision making is valued for the community harmony. Different cultures, different values.

Edit 2: One of the tools we used on my course was Country Navigator (www.countrynavigator.com). You answer a short quiz which gives you your individual 'cultural' profile and you can then compare how closely you match other country culture profiles. It compares things like risk-taking/avoiding, do you relate as an individual or group etc. It was quite an interesting tool especially comparing how different countries related to me.
Kants imperative was never very useful in the first place - there is nothing wrong with lying to prevent a murder.
Ok, thanks for the input!
Based on that chart, the effective tax rate is not near 42%. It actually appears to be closer to 31-35%, which is almost exactly what the $100k person in NYC would pay.

I think the issue that most non-US citizens fail to realize or comprehend is that most people in America don't pay any tax at all. The labor participation rate is 61.5% and then half of the people that do work still don't pay any effective taxes due to all the credits and deductions. A minority of earners support the entire tax base.

...and then, of course, we frivolously waste the revenue we do generate.
I've been trying out Taiga for the last few weeks and it's beautiful!

I'm not sure why it is such a well kept secret.
Reminds me of anytime there is a infamous mass shooting the conversation turns to mentally ill people and what to do about them.
If only we had been already exposed to the old variants...
I was being heavily sarcastic.

I don't like surveillance capitalism either, but my argument was that this line of reasoning is silly because you can use it to conclude that literally anything is a waste of time or resources.

We shouldn't do surveillance capitalism because it sucks, not because everyone has some vague obligation to work on what you think is most important to society.

We're agreeing with each other, kind of.
Absolutely, shadow-cljs is all you need, it's not coupled to the Clojure ecosystem, it uses NPM. I'm actually working on a project that uses clojurscript on the backend which is just a `:node` build target in Shadow.
> What issues we did find were mistakes in the implementations of low-level and explicitly unsafe multithreading abstractions

(emphasis mine)

The important thing is that the races only happened in unsafe { } blocks. It's well-established that these blocks should basically be treated like C++ in terms of scrutiny, but (I believe) you can still have roughly "absolute confidence" in non-unsafe code.

It's true and interesting that unsafe { } blocks deserve sanitization analysis like C++ code does - and maybe this hasn't been discussed enough - but I don't think it's fair to suggest that the enormous language benefits are outweighed by some false sense of confidence. The proportions in that idea just seem way out of whack.
Gruber lives from the blood of iPhone users
Thanks. I am on the right track then as I have that one and started reading it. Any jquery favorites?
Tax the rat farms!
Thanks. What is your favorite jquery book?
Absolutely, I'll admit that straight away. It's very much a different expectation of how you use it, and I think that's at the core of Gruber's complaint. He is very used to the iPhone paradigm, where you engage with those bite-sized pieces and then you stop and go do something else. His complaint seems to be that Android doesn't really have bite-sized pieces like that which flatly trump their iOS couterparts, but I think it misses the point because Android isn't just an ugly iPhone, it's a completely different approach to mobile computing.

He's effectively asking "Why isn't the Nexus One a better iPhone than my iPhone?" which...just completely misses the point. The iPhone does the iPhone experience extremely well, and I don't think you'll find many people who will seriously argue that the iPhone UX isn't amazingly polished, but the assumption that it's the only way to use a mobile phone is naturally going to lead you into some completely wrong conclusions. If your whole world is the iPhone, the concept of Android intents and what they mean for how you use your phone is going to be completely lost on you.

I think that "beautiful" apps start with the platform. Most people would agree that OS X has better aesthetic sense than Windows, and most would agree that iOS has better aesthetic sense than Android. Each platform establishes a baseline for what apps should look like, and apps tend to conform to that baseline for the sake of uniformity. On Windows, the worst-looking apps are the ones that diverge from the OS baseline (I'm looking at you, iTunes and anything that uses GTK+). Android's baseline is pretty low - it's highly utilitarian and very typical of Google, which is famous for doing all of its UI design based on how things test out, and while there are some apps that diverge and look good (Twitter, Tweetdeck), there are others that are just terribly bad (Fring, for example).

My hope is that Gingerbread raises that baseline, and sets a new visual target for developers to hit with their apps. We'll see.
Virtue ethics and consequentialism form a one-dimensional spectrum; all ethical beliefs exist at some point along it (not to imply that ethical beliefs don't have other dimensions—just that this is one of them.)

Pure virtue ethics mean, basically, "I am doing things for reasons." Even if the the reasons don't help you to get what you want, they're still your beliefs. Pure consequentialist ethics is the classic "the ends justify the means"; that it is the results that are important, and any reason you believe is simply a proxy that increases your likelihood of obtaining the result.

Whether a system of ethics is deontologically derived is orthogonal to this: you can take your beliefs from God as an a-priori fact about yourself (like in Descartes' argument for the existence of God), and therefore have them be virtue-based; or you can act so that god will reward you, or won't punish you, or so that your peer-group of religious people will identify with you, etc.

Morality, in the classic definition, refers to an objectively-true ethics—e.g., one where people who don't believe those ethics are wrong for doing so. As far as I am aware, there is no modern religion that actually still supports moral, rather than ethical reasoning, at least when it comes to prescribing the actions of others, rather than our own internal deisions. This is what "tolerance" truly means: the sacrifice of a belief in the existence of objective morality for the consequence of cultural co-operation and empathy.

Of course, there is another, more modern definition of morality, which people think of as "personal morality"—the way you believe the world should be, whether or not anyone else believes it. Rather than overloading the word like that, it's easier to just use a piece of economics jargon to refer to this: this is your utility function (a combination of what could be called "conscience" and what could also be called "desire"—it is simply the part of your mind that tells you whether or not a given thing is "good", for any definition of the term.)

One of the most useful things to come into a discussion with is a set of clearly-defined terms; they're like sharp chisels for chipping off useless argument and getting to the point where you can say something that's provably true. :)
The real question I have is "What thing do you want to do on your phone that Android can't?"

Anything involving low latency audio.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434
Because they're probably losing money on the hardware.
I think the the Command-T plugin for vim is one of the most helpful things when switching from TextMate: https://wincent.com/products/command-t
You make a great point. If morality is a high-level behavior, which is seems to be, then it should be fairly easy to disrupt. Just monkey with any of the several moving parts that combine to create the emergent property of 'morality', and the emergence shouldn't happen, at least not in the same way.

It's not astonishing, it's to be expected.
Their solution stops the reloads for each browser and has the benefit of alerting the user that something's wrong, without hammering "somewhere".
Sometimes it's just easier to search for things in Gmail. But since it is just a mailing list, it's pretty easy to label it and kill it en masse if you need to. At least, that's what I do.
The good news is that having this article written about them in Techcrunch would probably be to their advantage. They do have several things going for them - investment from Dixon and Conway, for instance.

I'm fairly confident that they'll bounce back.
Another positive aspect of sentence passwords is that they are more likely to survive a keylogger attack.
I tried both for the first time last week.

Unity is not bad by any stretch, but it feels unfinished to me when I use it. I kept hitting the wrong thing and breaking the flow of whatever task I was doing. I'm sure with some more experience with it I'll quit doing that, but it kept violating my expectations and stealing my attention from more important things.

Gnome 3 was a big change, but felt much tighter and polished. I didn't seem to have to think too much about how to do stuff.

Based on that experience, I think I'd like to use Gnome 3 on Ubuntu long-term.
Google cannot buy the entire music industry because the music industry is more than the so called major labels. That said, Google or even Apple\Microsoft could buy the all the major labels from their respective owners, if they wanted too. Especially EMI and WMG

Please read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/business/media/11warner.ht...

Warner music group is currently for sale and EMI is available if the right offer comes along.
The Cuckoo's Egg was the first real computer book I read. I went home and tried Unix commands on my DOS 6.21 286.

I read it years later - this time understanding what was going a wee bit better. Still a good book.

It was and is a great book.

The presentation linked is also pretty interesting. To me it has a ring of Psychology of Programming, wherein the same issues are found endemic to the situation for decades and decades.
PBR is on the todo list.
https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/179
I would like to address some of the hyperbole in this comment.

The US has a majority of publicly-funded primary schools (K-12)—- 16,800 districts by a recent count —- that are primarily funded by local property taxes and run by local school boards. Only 9% of schools are private, and only 7% of public schools are charter schools (semi-private).

National funding for primary education in the US is relatively small (roughly 8%) and is mostly tied to special services. The US Dept. of Education is toothless: it is primarily focused on setting policies and administering Title 9.

If Sweden has a problem with profiteering in national primary education funding, it is difficult to draw an analogy to US schools just based on the facts stated above.

It is true that some US school districts suffer from funding shortfalls due to low local tax base, and the need to show passing grades does drive some schools to “cheat” in order to receive state and federal subsidies, but this is not a universal country-wide problem.

The magic solution to educating low-income, socially disadvantaged children who live in very difficult living situations with no assistance from parents has yet to be devised. Or has it? Check out what these folks are doing in Baltimore: https://www.thread.org/
I've heard this adage several times and it doesn't match my experience.

I've been trying grasping some physics recently and I had do it from scratch, I didn't even know basic facts.

I was pleased to see I still remember trigonometry though, and I perfectly know why: instead of studying back in school I spent time making 2d games and I often needed trigonometry.

The way we do education in school is broken. If not for everyone, at least for my brain.
Another question, how racket compares to clojure for production developmen?
I tried it from the Github releases page. It has definitely been updated a lot from the Play Store version.
They learn to interact with other kids at school. But as adults people need to interact with adults. Nothing one learns at school has any relevance for that
General population (GP), i.e., public teachers and pupils in aggregate, are
roughly one-sigma lower in IQ relative to HN readers. So yes, school is too
slow for us. While the internet can ably replace the lecture component, you
still need someone smart enough to assign and grade problem sets and essays.
And there's the social conditioning aspect of contending and fitting in with
the GP.

So like Churchill's assessment of democracy, public school remains the worst
form of education except for all the others.
Absolutely: I was only commenting on a blind 'just rewrite it' as that will always be the first reaction of tech people and quite often it is simply not feasible. But agreed, by design it can work.
Making my point. The gravest estimates come from the nuclear powers themselves
> The other purpose of our founding documents is to act as a cultural North Star when we are adrift in the dead of night.

Erm, no?

Laws, while deriving from (the general idea of) culture, are not bound to it (or vice versa). Ideally, it would be detached.

So, no, I'm exercizing my right to free speech by saying the author is full of it.
Yeah that’s a great read, super interesting detail. You wonder what would have happened if Apple didn’t up the limit.

This post is next level though, deeep optimization. All of it is just increasing the ceiling though, there is some limit on number of features Uber can offer in one app.. and eventually that limit will be reached, doesn’t sound like they are willing to accept being over the limit either. Wonder what space saving techniques are left in the box?
No good CLI hex editors exist.

HIEW has my preferred hex editor for over two decades.

I would not use a hex editor with no search function, yet "decimal offsets/size" is one of the last things I care about if I'm using a hex editor.
I'd believe it. I had a similar bug in a minimax AI I made to play Hive. I had messed up the game-end valuation in such a way that the AI basically valued winning less than anything but outright losing. It would play a perfectly normal and competent game right up until the end, at which point it would try its hardest to draw out the game indefinitely, usually by forcing me into terrible positions that nonetheless didn't particularly benefit it at all.

(Like blahedo points out, this is possible because, unlike say basic MCTS, minimax uses a heuristic to judge board positions prior to game end, so it is possible for the two metrics to be out-of-sync.)
It's funny how nuclear power station meltdowns come to mind before hospitals and building heating.

Anyway nuclear plants undergo quite a bit of study and protection against these kinds of events (solar or military/terrorist EMP) and are expected to just shut down safely.

[1] https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/07/05/update-keepin...

[2] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/epri-threat-of-emp-attacks-...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/01/03/can-nucle...
Fantastic. There is no excuse for using Chrome nowadays.
That link to `hacks.mozilla.org` is 404ing for me, and even the link after a quick web search was 404ing. Is there something wrong on Mozilla's end?
> That’s the stupidest theory I’ve heard this week. This is a forum hosted by a startup accelator where programmers and founders (as well as other professionals) gather. It’s not exactly a hippie resort.

True, though I suspect that happened after they left high school.

> Libertarians are also the most ideologically pro-capitalist people that one is likely to meet.

A study shows a quarter of libertarians don't know what libertarianism is heh. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_S...
Are you sure about that? Summary Edition Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2020, by Dimson, Marsh, and Staunton have (page 23) world mean real returns from 1900 to 2019 for equities at either 5.2% or 6.6%, depending on whether you look geometric or arithmetic mean.

I could see 300bps real for a mix of equities and bonds, but equities alone appear to be much higher.
Best logo. wow
Don't ask me to "estimate" things. Don't ask me to "spike things". Either something needs to be done for the business to be successful, or it doesn't. If it does, we'll just spend the time, and we won't "spike it" we'll just do it. We may iterate on it, we can design it, think about it, but fuck spikes and estimates. Just spend the time to actually do it.
The most expensive part of a warhead by far is the fissile material. I imagine the Russians show the US inspectors their stockpiles of fissile material that would need to be melted, cast, then machined before it could be incorporated into a functional warhead.

There were over a dozen inspections last year IIRC.

Nothing known to science produces gamma rays at the rate per unit of mass that fissile material does, so that is how the US would detect sham fissile material. In fact I suspect that the inspectors measure the entire gamma-ray spectrum and would be able to distinguish Russian fissile material from, e.g., Chinese or French fissile material using that spectrum. I imagine so because after a nuclear explosion there is a US agency that can determine from which country's stockpile the bomb's fissile material came from (by measuring isotope ratios in the fallout).

My guess is that the inspection regime is not airtight but if the Russians are cheating then it has cost them 10s of billions of dollars (to produce new fissile material).
A friend of mine works with a person who seems to honestly believe Birds Aren't Real (at least in part). I made a joke about this when we were fighting bird monsters in a video game and he groaned and told me the story.
fULL BRAIN DUMP, DISREgard any formatting or anything ; this is a thought stream ;

So I have just come upon an epiphany and a revelation to the product we have just built.

This product is both an (data) weapon for and a cure from (to ailing technologies) ;

---

The thing is, that to get here took DECADES of trying, iteration, design, mtgs, discussions, rejections, hurts (other YCs going with aspects of what we achieved, but profiting off it years after we applied)... etc...

--

KEEP GOING.

I have LITERALLY just this HOUR realized how our prduct is going to either:

1. Disrupt

2. Piss off

3. Profit

4. Get assassinated for.

--

KEEP PUSHING

It takes more than timing... timing is LAST.

You need all the supportive network in hand FIRST

(So youre telling me timing is first?)

No, but yes.

Timing is a few thing.

First you need to recognize the problem, devise a soolution...

THEN

You need to DETERMINE the best TIME for launch... (and that weighs in all the other bullshit)

(When to seek patents, funding, VC, Viral Interest, Traction etc...

All of these factors matter --- but Never stop striving to deliver.
At the same time, it might sort of work, just that since they a bit randomly discard a fraction of the job applicants, the company will end up paying more, for those it hires (supply and demand). But maybe the company doesn't notice (and in the end what does it matter anyway)
Of course, but be careful not to make the mistake of assuming that members in those communities are homogeneous. There's certainly no shortage of woo-woo style thinking, but there are also enthusiasts who think about it very seriously and analytically. These same people will also tell you that anything they say should be taken with a grain of salt. These are the people who should be mainly listened to.

Regardless, I fail to see any evidence that supports the assertion that you also need therapy, that you cannot benefit substantially without it. Those who have literally no first hand experience with psychedelics are not exactly objective either, but it sure doesn't stop them from confidently passing out advice.
4OD, channel 4's on demand service in the UK, now detects if you're running adblock and prevents you from playing the video unless you disable it.

This will soon be common to all as based services.
I can't access the article. Google translate or links posted by other users don't work. HN please stop supporting paywall sites.
Explain what you do. Tell them it's a one-off. A lot of small manufacturing businesses would be happy to do a one time bulk order but don't want to (or can't) scale their business to a size that lets them do large orders regularly. You'll still get a lot of people saying no because some people see bulk orders as compromising quality, but you'll get some successes too.
Related: I worked as a geologist in the area and our helicopter ran out of fuel while doing some recon far from civilisation. Imagine our surprise when we spotted a 4x4 with a fuel tank below us, out in the middle of nowhere (more or less). We landed on the dirt road next to the truck, fuelled up enough to get back to the base and had a good laugh + beer to end the day.
Thank you, I have bookmarked this for when I don't have a PDF reader installed. Also, we currently render PDF's as images for clients to view (in their browser), this works well on a desktop but not on mobile. I am wondering if the solution may be to display a text version to mobile devices!
I am so mirroring a copy of this page in case they send a takedown demand to the Internet Archive.