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What you're talking about (vinifera-vinifera crosses) is not typically called a hybrid but a cross. Though I'm confused because you mention Hibernal, which is an inter-specific hybrid. Except the Germans have done this sneaky trick of calling interspecific hybrids vinifera in certain circumstances to get around their own stupid laws.

Staying high vinifera content is pointless because the vitis vinifera species is the problem. It has basically no resistance to the fungal problems that are out there in the real world, which are mostly introduced from North America.

But regardless, when I start seeing appellation wines with hybrids in them, I'll be flabergasted.

The perception of 'quality' you're speaking of is a subjective/cultural thing.

I grow about an acre of modern hybrids. And I do my own hybrid crosses. So I know quite a bit about this.

(EDITED for clarity on Hibernal and some grammar)
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The last time I tried to set up my YubiKey Nano for SmartCard access the indicator light flashed incessantly. There is no option to turn it off and it is very distracting.

Has anyone else had this experience? Is it possible to turn the flashing off?
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This is why its healthier to always run with the premise that you're leaving at some point and its the employer's responsibility to keep you there and give you interesting and rewarding work.
If you're asking them to promote you then its the wrong way round, they should be asking on you about whether you're staying there. That's how the market is today.
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Pretty sensible self teaching approach. I thought this would be mostly about tools like synthesia, glowing LEDs built into keyboards and Ableton piano rolls.

My sense is that not many people get far with self teaching piano but some are happy to be able to e.g. comp chords out of Oscar Peterson's etudes book slowly or play a few pieces out of those Fabor Adult Piano books, which are pretty good.

I think most people that try to self teach a difficult instrument, trumpet or violin, give up. My sense of difficult is that anything I didn't learn as a kid is more or less difficult (I had 15 years lessons on 3 instruments)
That conversation made me realize that I’m not Google. I provide a service to Google in exchange for money.
True, but conversely, many large companies outside of tech have a very similar disconnect between the reward system and the actual work that benefits the firm. I saw this when I was working at a bank. Even in a profit-transparent business, politics and optics played a larger role than raw performance and team support.
So, in our reference frame, black holes never grow from original collapse and remain in that same state, tiny mass and size, no matter what falls into it. Wait, no. It loses mass through particle emission, which is assumed to actually happen. This puzzle was worth investigating when I learned this topic (not sure I understood all math and concepts correctly though).
As a French person, the American view of "everything else than absolute free speech is not free speech" annoys me. Our view on that subject is different and I don't feel like living in China.
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Sounds like his head is already in the game!
> Because we found no better analogy, we named them "holes" despite the fact that they are basically the opposite: an object with enormous mass.

No, they actually are holes. We don’t need analogies or metaphors to describe black holes. Their mathematical properties are quite complicated to define and we have to reason about what happens around or inside them using figurative thought experiments, but their action does correspond to our intuitive sense of what a hole is.

In particular, a black hole consists of an event horizon, around which various stable and unstable orbits are possible, and within which is a theoretical singularity. The event horizon perfectly corresponds to the mathematical concept of a hole, which is a pure abstraction of our common sense of a hole, not a metaphor. A hole is a lack of points in a dimensional space, which means everything inside the event horizon is as much a hole as a manhole in a street is a hole (information theoretically speaking, the inside of a black hole is nothing). To say a black hole is a hole is not a cognitive metaphor, because space around the event horizon actually does curve down to something that is a physical hole. Instead, here are two examples of cognitive metaphors:

1. A donut is a 3-dimensional space with a topological hole in the middle of it. Suppose I define the mathematical properties of taste and equip it as the only sense you have for investigation. Then the hole of a donut tastes like nothing because it is nothing, in the same sense that we can know nothing about the inside of a black hole because it is nothing.

2. Roll a quarter at an angle down a spherical curvature with a hole in the center. The quarter will gradually descend down the curvature, with each revolution about the center happening faster and faster. Finally, it will simply drop it. This is analogous to deteriorating your orbit around a black hole, until you enter various unstable orbits and finally fall into the event horizon.

Obviously these cognitive metaphors, while instructive, are imperfect. For instance, we can see a quarter drop into the hole, but we’d never actually see a shuttle fall into the event horizon. On the other hand, the event horizon is a hole in the same sense that a manhole is a hole. Comparing it to a manhole is another cognitive metaphor; calling it a hole isn’t, because it is one.
Even for creating music, there must be easier ways to automatically write the partition of what you're playing ?

I never had a digital keyboard, so I never looked into capture methods.

I have used MuseScore, which has gotten much better.
This library is great, it's the basis of a mapping app (think D&D) some friends and I kickstarted[0] a while back.

I also posted some optimizations techniques[1] for this library to Stack Overflow.

[0] http://coneofnegativeenergy.com/hexkit/

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42729872/optimizing-konv...
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I recognized your username from all your work in the Sia community. Thanks for helping to make it better.

While reading your article, I got the distinct impression that Google set up the system that way so they didn't have to give promotions. They get so many applications from the best software engineers in the world that they don't really have to work to retain people, and if they need a manager, there are plenty of those applying, too. I would suspect that in order to be promoted, you truly have to be exceptional and almost worthy of knighthood. The fact that your manager, who has intimate knowledge of your abilities, has no input into your advancement, and the fact that the metrics they look at are naturally difficult to achieve due to project churn makes it appear that they really don't want to promote anyone unless they have a very good reason.
"Four years' worth of GSUs oughta be enough for anybody."

No. Not even close. There's a reason it's called golden handcuffs. It all depends on where you are in life. If you have a mortgage, it won't be enough depending on the house you have. If you don't have a house, you will have a lot of FOMO. Big time.

It's all about pscyhology - you need exactly 0$ if you are dedicated and don't have dependencies. Ok, let's say just couple thousand for a room and food.
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Etsy's biggest threat seems to be themselves really (which pushes people to things like Shopify).

Also not surprised that Amazon hasn't made much of a dent for them: Amazon site isn't all that good for actual browsing and tries to diminish seller identity.
> The monopoly on Taxi medallion issuance is held by the state. And it's a proof that centralized economy planning doesn't work.

I (heartily) agree with the first statement, but the second seems too sweeping. We can easily find industries where free market capitalism "doesn't work" and plenty of portions of an economy that seem to function well under centralized planning. Governments fall prey to corruption, but companies are notoriously short sighted and eagerly exploit the commons, and both embrace hubris.
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Hope you guys like it, feedback much appreciated (there's still a lot to improve). For those that may ask, Android version is on it's way.
Because it's an interesting anomaly, considering the apparent corruption.

Why is everyone so quick to offense when someone mentions the CIA outside of tech?
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I was way off.

Thanks a lot for the clarification!
I understand that, is the same reason why my version is still at the planning stage
Where is the metric for being a team player? Patrick Lenceoni's book, 'The Ideal Team Player' defines the 3 main traits of a team player: Humble, Hungry, and People-Smart.
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But with the (official) dictatorship in China, is this concentration camps reincarnated? Nazi reincarnated? Xitler is a real thing?
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Isn't chasing down obscure sources what researchers do? Out of print books can often be found in libraries. College libraries also often have subscriptions allowing paywalls to be bypassed.

It's unlikely most people would do these things just for fun, but allowing citations that can be verified using ordinary research methods seems pretty reasonable.
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I've smoked pretty much daily since I was 23 - started a business, grew it to a £3M+ turnover over a decade, sold out 18 months ago.

Correlate all you like, but if it's causative, then I need to disappear in a puff of logic.
The idea would be something along the lines of everyone gets a set of assist points they must distribute to people who help them the most.

There is a really great idea in there somewhere - create incentives for helping others - but I'm struggling to come up with a good way to implement it that doesn't just water everything down.

The closest I can think of is how repo commits can be counted/graphed per user. Works easily for code jockeying, but less so for softer talents like pair programming.
I'm also a Googler. Upon joining I was also given the keys to an ancient data pipeline, due a redesign for at least five years at that time. The person handing me the keys left almost immediately. My task was also keeping the thing adrift and nursing it back to health, whatever it takes. I did get promoted for that. The metric I used was pretty much the amount of developer time that went into supporting it that was saved by my damn ugly hacks. It was collected by asking nicely for the affected folk to confirm their lives got better.

I can't say why it worked only for one of us.
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When I first loaded the article all of the images were black, and I thought it was just a joke. Then after about 30 seconds they started filling in with actual pictures...
That's what's dysfunctional about a lot of companies/our society. You persuade others to do/[help with] your work you are showing leadership and get promoted.

Sorry, you got duped into having sympathy and showing teamwork.

The better you are at convincing others we're a team and hard work is it's own reward when it's really just dog eat dog the higher up the food chain you go.
Can you support that with any kind of concrete data? The article may rely on a small sample, but at least it does have evidence to support its claim.
They all use it. My son has been able to mostly-sorta-kinda work the wireless keyboard since he was two and my wife has no issues using her laptop or our theater PC which remains hooked up to the TV.

Visiting parents? Sure, I have to remind my Mom how to use it every time. That happens once a year, not a real concern given the thousands of dollars I have saved. Also, you may find that you watch less TV with a setup like this assuming your someone who typically has it on in the background nearly all of the time.
I've never tried it, but I suspect you'll run into the same issue that sports does, where "assists" don't accurately reflect the people who are making things happen on the court.

We miss the perimeter shooter who positions themselves just so to pull two defenders out of position, but give credit to the point guard who makes the now-easy pass for the "assist". It's entirely possible for the person most responsible for a play succeeding to never touch the ball. You really want something like value-above-replacement, but that's pretty hard to measure without a clear definition of what "success" is and reams of data.
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Are you implying that LinkedIn isn't creepy?
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Yup. (I'm a biomedical researcher, so .. very similar observations.)
As "people" is quite a bar and one I don't think is relevant.

I think they do require agency/respect/laws fitting of a properly conscious being though. Often people put humans on a pedestal, but in reality, we aren't special in regards to morality.
There's some who argue that having all of your life in one place, recorded, won't be a problem because society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people. The alternative outcome is that this forces a hard crystallization around various very specific cultures, where for every community there's a list of "weird stuff that everyone does," and "stuff that gets you ostracized." So for example going to furry conventions might end up assigned to Googlers, and going to church assigned to machinists. That seems a lot more likely, given human nature.
By that definition I can't really think of many truly decentralized protocols. At some point you have to find an entry point into the "mesh", it's a chicken-and-egg problem. I believe that bitcoin seeds nodes IPs using the DNS system for instance (IIRC it used IRC before that), bittorrent uses torrent websites to share torrents/magnet links etc...

Once you've managed to connect to a node you can usually explore the topology of the network and find other peers so you only need the centralized resource temporarily to bootstrap new nodes. I'm not too familiar with IPFS but I imagine it works in a similar way.
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“We conclude that illusory pattern perception is a central cognitive mechanism accounting for conspiracy theories and supernatural beliefs.”
>> Most people have all the lights, washing machines, etc that they need.

If you think that you need to visit an American suburb two weeks before Christmas.
Oof, imagine browsing through prospective plumbers' Facebook profiles... Just adds a whole layer... of... weirdness.
Could this be used for image/video compression? Sounds like a greyscale image + colorization metadata (the "marks" in the article) should take less space than a 3-channel image, no matter how you compress a colour channels. I'd guess the compressor and the decompressor may be slower (because of the need to find a set of colorization marks that reproduce the original image under whatever threshold is required) but achieve higher compression rates?

Of course lossy compression uses other tricks like using different color representations (YUV, YCbCr) where the techniques described in this article may not work, and downsampling, but at least it could be an improvement over lossless image compression?
Do you have any citation for this? It sounds, well, made up.
Also as mentioned The Knights of Malta haven't had anything to do with the island for over 200 years.
>I've never tried a VPN, but it wouldn't make the bits travel any faster.

No, definitely not; its purpose is only to hide your true IP. Fair enough, if I had other things running in EC2 I'd probably consider this as well.
It's not creepy, it's pushy.
> If a company starts collecting IP addresses for DDoS protection purposes, and then figures out that the data could also be used for marketing ...

Charitably, I think your sentence is just unclear. It seems much more reasonable that someone just thinking or realizing "that the data could also be used for marketing" isn't legally prohibited. Right?

Someone would actually need to use the data, in some concrete specific way, for something illegal to have taken place.

Right?
I haven't really looked at Pyramid in years (I do mostly Django). Why does it need `-e .`? In the projects I've worked on, that would be a really weird thing to do.

`-e` in a requirements.txt is always a bit of a hack. If you really have to do it, it's highly recommended to pin it to a particular sha1 or tag. But I guess my bias is from spending a lot of time and effort trying to get python projects to be as close as possible to reproducible.
I'm extra paranoid and a likely outlier, but I'm already regretting what little displeasure I show towards the CCP on the Internet.

I think what increases my worry is how, in other leading countries, at least 30-50% of the population is wary/skeptical of the government at any time. With China – my impression may be tinged by the activities of the 50 cent army – most citizens seem to accept the party says, with particular distaste for people who dare protest. It's hard to say for certain: China doesn't really participate on the English-speaking Web.
>As a business person, you're going to have to sell yourself/your services to other people. Perhaps that's not too different from pitching yourself to an "anonymous promotions committee"?

That's fair.

I've wondered about that myself. Will I just end up resenting "the customer" the same way I resented "the committee?"

My hope is no because I feel like with a customer, I can learn more from failures. If I launch a product and it doesn't sell, I can try a totally new product or adjust it somehow and see how that affects things. I can talk to customers and get their feedback. With the promo committee it felt very opaque and my opportunities for feedback were so rare. Plus I felt like if I got better, I'm just getting better at working the perf system which is probably only useful within Google or other Google-like companies. If I get better at selling to customers, that should be useful in a much broader way.

>Interesting and insightful read. Thanks for sharing, and good luck with your future endeavours!

Thanks for reading!
I mean, the real answer is "black holes are very complicated" and a full explanation is out of scope for a HN comment. Hawking radiation requires a lot of background knowledge to understand (and I have to admit I still don't fully understand it). The pop-sci explanation of particle/anti-particle pairs appearing on either side of the event horizon is incorrect.
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What most companies do is give bullshit senior level promotions that way they can get 5 good years out of someone before they get the same realization it took him to get to in 2 years.
I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressured in an abstract sense to be on Facebook, it would lose all utility for me.
In one of my previous teams, we did away with individual metrics because they "punished" team players. If an engineer spent most of a week helping another with their issue, it made them look bad in whatever tracker we used by almost every metric. I prefered sticking to trying to optimize whole team velocity and using 1 on 1s and peer reviews to track individual performance where it was needed (eg: compensation review and promotions).

It's still not perfect: people could be spending them helping someone from another team and that would go under the radar (except the peer reviews), but it still worked a lot better.
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>society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people

Really? This hasn't been my experience at all. FB can be just as toxic as e.g. a youtube comment section, and what I see more often than not is people self selecting based on who agrees with them nearly 100% of the time.
Whenever anybody pays you good salary or even adds stock shares to it, doesn't mean they can wipe their feet on your personal attitude or consider your job efforts as garbage.

If author wanted to express this opinion I completely agree.
It's absolutely possible to learn some math without understanding it beyond a symbol-manipulation level. But if you have a strong enough intuition, you will be able to translate it into math. So yes, understanding does precede mathmatical formalization.
They already have done so for some of it! https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-www/pull/853
You're forgetting that you could also track secondhand assist as well.

I can't speak for programming but in soccer this is well-known. It's just very hard to Value just like an employer would in terms of having that person on board for morale. Fortunately the better people get it and understand that that person should be value even if they weren't directly involved in making the change but they were definitely a part of it.

This is what plagues me with most corporate companies in the United States. It should be about teamwork not about what this person did or I did, rather what the team did.

Sure you can value people individually, but teams trump individuals all day long in the long run.
50k a month isn't f-you money? What???? What in the world is wrong with this place? My wife and I are combined pulling 10k a month. I can only imagine that I would need to come up with creative ways to actually burn through the other 40k.
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This is what +/- and its variants are for. Especially useful for sports like hockey where scoring is rare. Of course, in a work environment this is even harder to try and measure, if for no other reason than that people are almost never 'off the court' and if they are there are many confounding factors.
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Ops point seems to be exactly that that is the most likely outcome rather than the nicer sounding alternative.
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