skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it got very basic description in form of instrument index, so program 0 is piano, 4 guitar and so on.
Nazi ideology is not uniquely horrible, as other eliminationist rhetorics have existed and led to genocides of their own. Nor are their actions unique in numerical terms, as other authoritarian regimes have engaged in systematic genocides through famine etc. with similarly large loss of life.

But Nazism is unique in its combination of rhetoric and scale, and also in its instantiation within a highly developed society - politically, intellectually, culturally, and economically. Authoritarian horrors in less developed countries are still horrific, but it's not really surprising that an authoritarian can take over in a country where low standards of education are the norm and/or the mass of the population exists in grinding poverty and/or where long-standing tribal affiliations are suddenly exposed to drastic technological asymmetries.

Germany was a highly developed society at the leading edge of intellectual and industrial development. Numerous peer societies have also engaged in imperialism, and often in utterly reprehensible ways , but none of them industrialized genocide in quite the same manner that the Nazis did.
A guy I know squeezes his homemade mando-bass (still a large instrument) into a Karman Ghia. Only he knows the magic twists and turns to get it in and out.
Economics is not some magical playing field where new players enter and are handed work to be done. It is always about a competition between resources available and labor demanded. The aging Japanese will generate demand for late life care services and that demand will stimulate supply from the youth as it becomes more and more profitable a profession to pursue.

Likewise, as AI R&D becomes more and more valuable (and to whomever it is valuable to) those who would invest in it can grow their offerings until the youth start training to do the R&D.

What this does not mean is that you have an absolute "shortage" of workers. It means you won't be able to get work done as cheaply if you are competing for labor resources, but it seems a bit backwards to have simultaneous discussions about the mass unemployed of America aside a conversation about how Japan has nobody to do in demand jobs.

It is about how the aggregate of society values things. If the people of Japan value AI research, it will be done because the price commanded will be high for it, and will attract talent. I also do not believe for a second that advanced R&D is a discipline that skirts the bottom of labor demand where having a shrinking population might actually cost work being done, the kind of work that is barely break even and is price inelastic to growing wages. From the outset your price is above the wage floor for R&D because you don't want just anyone doing it, you want intelligent people who will already command above minimum wage.

What that kind of pressure does accomplish, in a shrinking population, is more pressure on the youth you have to become educated and professional. I see it as a subconscious manifestation in the work ethic the Japanese have maintained - the US is largely giving up on mass education as an institution because the real demand for professionals in all matter of industries is not great enough to overcome the inertia of youth to have to spend the time and effort to become skilled, and it is made manifest in the student loan bubble - if there were legitimate, unmet demand for some specific profession, even computer science, the prices would keep rising until there was so much demand the opportunity presented to youth would in aggregate not go ignored, and more youth would train into that discipline.

Japan is at risk of running out of the jobs that have marginal to no societal value, that require no training or expertise, and require no effort from youth. Not the ones the nation as a whole will put their money behind in calling valuable.
Free education does not mean that you get paid while studding. You still have to find means to clothe and feed yourself and find a roof above your head during the nights.
As a guy who has used the Samsung Gear VR on many occasions, and also the Google cardboard from the early days, I have always believed VR is for commercial use while AR is what will be used by everybody else. Seating at home and looking around gets tiring pretty quickly, but that wont be the case in a commercial setup. My startup is focusing on this but I want to use several gear VR devices all in sync, which can make it possible, lets say, to showcase a real estate property in a real estate exhibition, or showcase tourism features like the great wilder beast migration (am a Kenyan) to a group of tourists on behalf of a touring firm. That can extend to even shooting weddings in 360 degrees, etc. I also have focus in using 360 degrees pictures and videos that can be somehow interactive (Not planning on starting a war on how 360 isn't VR) Anyway, now I just have to overcome trying to fund it and the depression of not being able to yet.
Perhaps their grass is greener.
So-called rust belt towns like this earned their name back when steel mills first began migrating from Pennsylvania to locations having lower labor costs decades ago.

It was not so much in search of the cheapest labor, rather avoidance of the most expensive labor which was in this part of the US at the time. Almost anywhere else could provide a significant cost advantage in an increasingly competitive market.

OTOH, during the decades when the high wages were prevailing in the area, this was a unique opportunity to build a certain amount of local wealth while it lasted.

It is not from some form of strength that "retail jobs came to predominate", instead retail was all that remained after the actual wealth-creating engine had left the area.

All retail could do was extract the remaing local wealth which had been generated during the times of better-paying employment with actual wealth-generating industries.

Now that this remaining wealth is dwindling too, these jobs are becoming more unnecessary as the long tail of the middle class continues to be absorbed, their resources from above and their numbers from below.

You can't have a consumer economy without an equal or greater amount of surplus wealth in the hands of consumers, even then it is completely unsustainable unless there is an ongoing source of new value being created for consumers in excess of value being permanently consumed by both producers & consumers combined.

If producers are not a bigger part of the equation than consumers, you can not balance the equation.
Ryanair's new web app is actually not that bad compared
to the hostile site they had a few years back

Which is roughly when they refocused on customer-service, when their previous customer-hostile approach generated enough negative publicity to threaten their business model.
Go to jail for running out of battery.
There is no scenario where Crowd Funding backers profit. I don't know why people who Crowd Fund act like they are owed anything.

Funding a business via Crowd Funding is in most scenarios the dumbest economic decision you can make. Comparable to throwing money out the window in terms of ROI.
>your organs are working much harder

That's very misleading logic. You make it out that your organs working much harder is a bad thing in all cases. That's not true.

When you exercise, your organs work much harder. Yet it is much better to exercise and have your organs work harder than to not exercise at all.
> without object oriented row mapping

Korma seems to do exactly that, N+1 lazy loaded queries included. SQLAlchemy, Esqueleto, Slick, Quill, and the like all generate precisely what you tell them to (i.e. queries semantically the same as what you'd write by hand).

This is not to disparage Korma, it looks pretty cool, I'd certainly give it a look if I worked with Clojure.
It's one of many degrees offered but the one you're asking about is the bachelor's degree in web design and development, listed here:

http://www.byui.edu/online/degrees-and-programs

Reviewing the degree requirements and courses, and having studied CS at BYU myself, I'm betting the quality is very high. In fact I wish, as a web developer currently, that I could have taken some of these courses instead of courses like advanced algorithms; though fascinating, I'll bet I would have enjoyed a basic security course or a vector graphics course much more.
The neat thing about world wars is that they involve a huge amount of government-directed spending of taxpayer funds on things that make very little economic sense, but the merely directing that spending does wonders for the economy and the country's prosperity, assuming you win.

Apart from the fact where you're killing people for no reason, it's not very capitalist at all.
Right/wrong and legal/illegal are only related to each other, not identical.

The difference between informed voluntary weird behavior and non-informed compelled behavior is not necessarily obvious. Consider the boot-camp experience of joining the armed forces: is it right? Is it legal? Is it different in kind or degree from a cult indoctrination?
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The general attitude of US border security towards foreigners has put off multiple talented people I know from wanting to live in the US - either they won't move here, or they are looking for an opportunity to leave.

a) How would you improve the attitude of America towards foreigners, in particular foreign entrepreneurs? (though everyone)

b) Assuming a. is not possible, which other place in the world has the best city infrastructure and government - i.e. if you could airlift 1000 people out of Silicon Valley and into the new place, which new place?
Digital Art: Teletextr by Bitshifters Collective (BBC Micro) (Nova 2017)
I used the word "undermine" for a reason. They're not prohibiting wind generation. They're making it more expensive.
Even then a lot of web development is being automated and auto generated
They look inside the US (in theory) to find the enemies inside the US. As for the whole world, they're competition when not enemies. Many allies even use spies to get our IP, outbid us on contracts, and so on. Need a spy agency to deal with that or do similar things. They help us stay on top.
Not for apple fairplay DRM. :/ It's pretty obvious, you'll see how much the binary compresses to when you build on your machine vs what you download from the store and compare the sizes.
I remember the pentium bug in the mid 90s, they actually shipped out replacement processors. Doubt that could be pulled off on laptops. Perhaps a microcode update can work around it.
Manchester isn't that expensive.
To quote the Intel Developer Instructions[1] on the HTT flag:

>A value of 0 for HTT indicates there is only a single logical processor in the package and software should assume only a single APIC ID is reserved. A value of 1 for HTT indicates the value in CPUID.1.EBX[23:16] (the Maximum number of addressable IDs for logical processors in this package) is valid for the package.

UPDATE: It appears these flags refer to each initial APIC ID, so it seems the HTT flag value should be 0 in all cases where the overall processor:thread ratio is 1, suggesting there might either be incorrect information in the CPUID instruction for some Intel CPUs or the kernel is not correctly evaluating CPUID.1.EBX[23:16].

Hopefully, someone more versed in CPUs can correct me here.

[1]https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
West Texas holds a certain primitive charm to me as a native Texan. But if I ever moved back to Texas, I'd want to live near Austin. It's the only part of Texas that has urban amenities, educated people, and relatively tolerable weather.
Most of the world's population isn't posting comments in English on a computer-oriented site.

I'd expect most people commenting on games could at least name some of the major 90s studios. Origin was kind of a big deal.
What toxins?
I live in Dallas Texas and buy renewable (wind or solar) electricity from the grid. It cost only marginally more
Please expound, I feel like I understand some of the risks but am curious to hear your objections. I personally would prefer bootstrapping but I think there are times when a market is growing quickly and you don't want to be left on the sidelines.
It would also be pretty difficult to use solar in Murmansk, Russia, for about a quarter of the year (it's within the arctic circle, so the sun is below the horizon for most (or all near the solstice) of the day during the winter.

And it can actually be less efficient if there's too much sun, solar panel efficiency decreases with temperature. Solar thermal also depends on temperature differential, so if the environment around the plant is too hot the efficiency drops.
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America is already engaged in a "cold" civil war between the cities and the rural communities.

The cultural and economic future of the nation is being legislated by the current victor. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
FfFTP – FTP file manager built on Electron and Node
I can't find the study right now, but from what I understand it is only really beneficial to animals the size of a mice, as soon as you move to bigger animals the effect is sharply reduced, and experiments with monkeys (or was it even primates? I don't remember) didn't find any real life prolonging effect. So you might be subjecting yourself to not enjoying food for no real benefit after all.
Exploring the potential of human echolocation
It's probably not so simplistic one way or the other. However, some organs do function as filters, so overloading them would be detrimental.
Some of our best science fiction come from Mormon or Mormon-raised authors (e.g. Dan Simmons).
Ask HN: Sr Software Management Positions Perks?
Hi everyone,

I have been offered fairly senior positions with a couple of Fortune 100 companies. I have a non-traditional background and would appreciate insights from folks who have been there and done that.

I would appreciate your insights to help with negotiations.

What are usual perks for Director/Sr Director/VP of software engineering/ops positions?

Guaranteed contract? Severance? Premium benefits? Bonus target (offered is 30%)? Anything else that should be considered part of standard package?

Thank-you all!
It's pretty scary how the article goes from killing Nazis is fantastic, to anybody at my right is a Nazi and it's morally ok to punch them.

>Too often, when we engage in arguments with extremists who talk of racial purity, we falter to explain our side. Instead, we punch them and tell them “because.”

>Nationalism leads to war

So if you see somebody waving a flag, you punch them?

I don't like the "punch them" rhetoric. It's not compatible with free speech. It's way better to combat "racial purity" ideologies (or any other speech) with more speech, with reason and truth than with violence. The second option makes you look like the Gestapo or the NKVD
Ask HN: Private stock holders vote members on/off the board?
Is there ever a case where private stock holders (for a Delaware C Corp) vote members on/off a board?
I think it's the sort of activity that matters. Low impact exercise wears on your joints/etc less than higher intensity stuff (think swimming or walking compared to running).
This is a pretty glib comment that I think can be made by someone only if they have forgotten the horrors of war.
I'm assuming this is a joke since there aren't separate power lines for renewable energy. :-)
The way to step back into it is to ignore the library froth, pick something that looks understandable from the principles you already know, and build something useful.

Many people spend X hours a day obsessing about whether css-turd-polish.io is better than Sassy.js v4. If you spend those hours working on something productive, you're automatically ahead.

The framework churn is increasingly a perpetual motion machine for conference talks. Don't go to conferences and you won't feel like you're missing anything.
I believe this is not to do with ecommerce, it is simply the loss of manufacturing and what happens over time.

First they came for the farmers. Once over half the workforce, now 1.4% and dropping. Then they came for the miners, now 0.6%. Then they came for the factory workers, once 40% of the workforce, now 8.1%. Now retail, still at 10.2% and dropping. Coming up next, transportation and warehousing.[1] What's growing? Health care and social assistance, for an aging population.

This is killing small-town America, because many small towns now have no function. They were once support for surrounding farms, or had some manufacturing, but that's gone.

In the early days of the Internet, it was thought that location wouldn't matter for many jobs. Early ads for Google Fiber made such claims. With enough bandwidth, your town could prosper again. It hasn't worked out that way. If everything you do goes in and out over a wire, automation of most of your job is probably not far off.

Nobody seems to have a way out of this. Education doesn't help that much; about half of new college graduates take jobs which don't require a college education.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm
I often go to alternate airports. For me, that's Brussels Zaventem as well as Eindhoven. To both, it's about an hour and a half train ride: quiet, smooth, free Wifi. Versus maybe a 30 minute train ride from my apartment to the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam.

The price difference for my extra hour on a train is about $120-$150. I'd say earning $150 an hour for sitting in a quiet smooth train with free Wifi is almost certainly worth it, unless you're the kind of person who hates trains.
I've found views, parameterized-views/table-valued-functions can be a nice compromise to keeping the SQL relatively simple and thus ORM friendly without sacrificing performance.
I wrote in the very first sentence that the point is not to change minds, which you inexplicably ignored.

The point is to motivate people to fight against Nazism. The game is not about gunning down waves of random in an enjoyable spree of virtual destruction, but about gunning down Nazis qua proponents of genocide.
This is a very serious issue & the ACLU should be fighting this and preventing it from happening. Instead they are offering suggestions on a better way for the government to police what you read.
We (US/America) are living in a police state. Our federal government is working beyond the established limits of our Constitution. None of our elected officials care. It's time for a change. Peaceful, but a change nonetheless. America needs help.
No it is not. As a consumer in Dallas we get to choose which power company we want to buy from. Basically, we have to buy our share of electricity that is used from the grid.
>almost all signal...

this the silliest misinterpretation of Fourier analysis I've ever seen and I'm not going to try refute it except to say that with the clarity you're implying Fourier decomposition applies only to periodic signals (ie saying that a signal that has a continuous time FT "has most of its information expressed as a sine wave would be an egregious exaggeration so you must talking about series expansion and that only applies to periodic signals [and I'm at a loss for how to interpret info about chiropractors as periodic]).
Then I suppose you have your answer.
That's going to be mess when LLVM proper catches up to those version numbers...
The thing about the "guitar hero" phenomenon of the 1980's. Let me relay a perspective from someone who plays guitar and who was there:

It was a phenomenon fueled purely by MTV and the record companies. And, nothing is different from today in the following regard: all the heroes were current musicians. The teens I was surrounded with were largely ignorant of even the immediately previous generation of rock and roll.

Rock listening teenagers in the 80's weren't listening to Clapton. Most wouldn't have known who the heck is Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple or what have you; that had been a hundred years ago (i.e. some ten).

Most of the guitar heroes were only some 5 to 15 years older than the teenaged worshippers. They constantly changed. One year you'd go to music stores, and every kid walking in there would pick up a guitar and be doing some Van Halen thing. A few years later, every kid wanted to be Slash from Guns and Roses. Later still, Metallica made a bit of a comeback and you'd hear nothing but Enter Sandman covers.

Another thing to know is that there was a lot of criticism of the whole phenomenon while it was happening, even from the musicians themselves.

The following is an absolute must read to anyone interested in this topic. A 1987 Guitar Player magazine interview with Frank Zappa, titled "The 80's Guitar Clone".

http://www.afka.net/Articles/1987-01_Guitar_Player.htm

I remember this well, because I read it in print when it came out and it made an impression. I respected Zappa. I was one of the fairly rare teens of the generation who actually knew who Zappa is. My dad got me into Zappa. Because of Zappa, I knew who Stevie Vai was before he was a houshold name among guitar players.

Quotes:

Well, the one thing that seems to be more prevalent today is imitation. I think that the amount of copycat players in the marketplace today is significantly higher than it's ever been before. You see very few truly original guitarists and a whole bunch of people who wish they were Eddie Van Halen.

Q: [In the same way that Olympic records are always being broken, guitar playing seems to be getting faster and faster.]

Not only is it getting faster, but the solos themselves are becoming gymnastic routines – basically 8- and maybe 16-bar gymnastic routines that are stuck in the middle of songs about fairly common topics. The whole concept of extended improvisations that are compositions in progress is something that is pretty much gone from the pop music scene. That's one of the major losses for the '80s, I think. That's what I was addressing in the old article, talking about the process by which the kid sitting at home listens to a tape, and although he couldn't read it off the piece of paper, learns it by rote like a parrot, and winds up playing faster and faster and faster. I think that's really what's taking place.
Are you sure you understood the spirit in which that comment was made?
At any rate, I think my point is a response to your question about "interacting with universities" (you didn't ask me, but my point is that doing exactly that won't exactly convince one the claim the other poster made is entirely wrong).

But that's just my point with the scare quotes. How does a single person go about gaining experience with the thousands of individuals that comprise a given university?

And then there's ~10 million undergraduate students in the USA. Extrapolating from a few thousand people that choose to speak loudly isn't going to paint a meaningful picture of their views.
I actually sometimes just copy the text from medium into a text editor so I can continue doing this. I'm addicted to highlighting.
Absolutely, yes.

Although gaining muscle is much healthier than gaining adipose tissue, the implication of the article (and an abundance of empirical evidence) is that eating itself is a stressful process. Eating is the vector through which you expose yourself to oxidative stresses and pathogens. Eating less but still meeting your caloric needs would mean minimizing exposure to these risk factors.
Not alone. When I read text on my PC I tend to select text with my mouse a lot. This drive mu nuts when i select something then click accidentally on share button.
It will be solved. With blood.
The vessel will spin around the occupant. The glass of water test is equivalent to the case where the vessel contains air, and the answer is the vessel still spins around the occupant for a while, until the fluid transmits the motion to the occupant.
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