skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I completely agree with the sentiment, I still wonder what's the difference to graphics. Is drawing easier, for lack of a better word, than gfx-programming? I would argue this comparison is apt and yours falls flat. B flat.

For starters, you could have a skeleton of a script with accessible parameters, given knobs. That would look like a DAW, except for text instead of pseudo design with screws and LCDs that mimic real objects (skeumorphic). Yes, you want buttons, visual programming still sucks. Demo coders like Farbrausch program their own demo tools, eg. Werkkzeug 3, for exactly that reason, isn't it? Considering gfx programming as the comparison, of course textures, models and so on are modeled in an analogue fashion. Nobody programs a human.md3 to evolve from an embryo for fun, but in principle, somewhen it could be done. Music is a lot like vector graphic art, you can do a whole lot with simple shapes and gradients. And you can program complicated sound effects perhaps easier than as a 5 second loop rendered to wav and pitched by the DAW, if you know what I mean.

Note composition as you remark is especially besides the point. The drone noise perspective might be an extremely misleading example, but music programming should be able to paint outside the classical frame. It should allow to define sweet points of resonance, instead of chasing harmony by ear. This does require deep understanding, so instead I'm happy with finger painting ... because it's so close to the metal, err, paper.

It's very sad because I have no idea of the potential. Composition to me is choosing an instrument and arbitrating simple known melodies to complexer ones until it sounds harmonious thanks to obeying the circle of fifths, but that's mostly it and mostly rather superficial, which doesn't matter as long as the instruments sounds niceand if it doesn't I'll split the melody by octaves e.g. and choose two different instruments, alter the octaves to get a high contrast (shout out to my man). Because of the loop nature of pattern based composition, I am mostly not interested in arrangement. This again compares to shader programming. And even big studios basically just stitch together single scenes. ... yadda yadda yadda.

You might also compare the violin to the voice. Far more people can or think they could sing. Making the violin sing is just much more complicated, but not exactly boring.
> He doesn't want a democratic entity in his businesses.

A union is “democratic?” You haven’t spent much time around unions then. Unions are essentially a conspiracy to create labor monopolies and they deny individuals the ability to negotiate their own wages and benefits based on their perception of their own value. I don’t want to make the same wage as everyone else with the same years of experience because my skills might be better or worse than the guy with the same job title and same seniority yet somehow unions consider everyone equal in terms of value? Not every is equal. A teacher with ten years experience isn’t inherently more valuable than a teacher with two years experience. Yet if unions call the shots, the ten year teacher gets paid more just in the basis of that seniority — regardless of actual performance. I am perfectly capable of negotiating my own salary, I don’t need some collective to do it for me.

Unions benefit he mediocre and harm the high performers. There is nothing democratic about forcing me to accept a contract I had no say in negotiating or being forced to join a union (or pay for it) as a condition of employment. I should have the right to not have to contribute to, or join a union. Unions are bastions of cronyism. Try to get a job as an electrician in Chicago without being in the union.. it won’t happen — I wouldn’t have the freedom to work unless I join a union. There is nothing democratic about that.
> What did we replace it with? No framework whatsoever

They bragged, about the single worst web UI I have to use on a daily basis. Github.com combines the worst elements of static and dynamic web-pages:

- If something gets updated on the backend, it will update on the frontend

- Except all the times it doesn't

- If you change something on the frontend, it will update on the page

- Unless you interact with the page in any way after that, like changing tabs???

What you end up with is a frontend that uses a lot of AJAX, but still requires constant hard refreshes to see accurate information. It's an absolute disaster.
On a $50,000 salary, I'm keeping $36,000 post tax. But, at least in my personal situation/industry, we face seasonal and unpredictable layoffs.

So the annual rate of $50,000 is inaccurate (Americans always boast about their annual pretax salary). I face usually 3 months of unemployment every year, so 9 x $3,000 post tax per month = $27,000 a year

Sorry if that wasn't clear. I would really prefer to have guaranteed but lower income.
I'm working on a self modifying simulation experiment written in Go.
I don't consider ifdefs harmful.

But if you do, you must surely consider logic in Makefiles equally harmful.
Your boss may not be technical but did you try to get your teammate to explain step by step how did he thought while making the library?
David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment
If you spring for the full Max4Live Ableton package, you can automate quite a lot via the maxmsp JavaScript object, which gives you scripting access to the Live environment vis the LiveAPI object. It’s kind of an awkward API to use but still much nicer than using the traditional graphical max objects.

https://docs.cycling74.com/max5/vignettes/js/jsliveapi.html
My News Testimony About the Governments Intrusions into My Computers
Men (and women) who participate in abuse should be stripped of rank and flogged...
OP was the one trying to convice everyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15156363
I'm working on making Flutter apps run on macOS: https://feather-apps.com
That's a real easy claim to make and a real hard claim to prove.

You can't legitimately prove you have a completely internal personality separate and distinct from your own.

The difference between the non-existent and untestable is surprisingly nil.

You have your best defense in that you claim that no one can even challenge your claim unless they meditate and probably meditate correctly. If they don't find their own tulpa, then obviously they just need to meditate more. Or be more clear. Or something else.

Here's the other thing, we can investigate the question without meditation. Our ability to see what the brain is doing is apparently more sophisticated than you give it credit for. We are able to manipulate what people feel and even think with clever neurological tricks.

It very well could be that your tulpa is just an imaginary friend you create and project certain things onto. You ascribe it this independent personality to absolve you of thoughts you don't want to have or thoughts you want reinforced. Your tulpa gives you "hard truths" when you think you're doing something not too great but are rationalizing it. Your tulpa gives you encouragement when you think you're falling behind and need a pick me up from an "independent" source.

And you honestly can't prove me wrong. But I also can't prove me right.
Whale-dolphin hybrid discovery confirmed by genetic testing
Software is eating the world. You can simulate almost all the instruments with software, create patterns easily with basic programming skills and create the music that you want in a cheaper and cleaner way compared to the traditional methods. Since this is not a commercial project, there might not be a well-defined target audience but I guess it works both ways. It can attract the software developers to learn some basic music theory and also attract the musicians to learn some programming so that they don't need to do it manually using DAW software.
I understand your ideological stance, I really do

But read his reply again: >"Sure, everyone thinks you're a tech company or a search company or whatever - but Google is an advertising company, and thats it. All the other stuff distracts from the fact that youre just the most profitable ad company."

"an advertising company, _and thats it_" (emphasis mine)
"your _just_ the most profitable ad company" (emphasis mine)

Really? It's that far in 1 direction

If you really think that, fine it's your opinion and you are entitled to that, but I encourage you to seek multiple perspectives in the future.

I've already conceded that google is an ad company from a rev perspective since it's 87% ads. But you can't concede to me (the interviewer) that maybe there's something else going on and your legit view of the other people at the company is that they are just "distractions"?

Like seriously, you don't have to put up these tough walls. I'm just an internet stranger. Just be real for a moment. Is that what you really think? It's the last time I'll ask.
Cool thanks for the data point. I'm still mildly shocked to re-discover about the shovelling, this was certainly not allowed... jokers would ask how you were then supposed to eat peas on the convex side of the fork, but clearly any cook worth their salt would have thought ahead & avoided this. (But the soup, and bread, rules sound similar.)

It would indeed be interesting to know if there used to be regional variants in the UK. Actually, do you have a feeling for whether this has strong regional ties in the US, e.g. to Virginia vs Boston?

Obligatory book plug:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed (as long as you have a decent tolerance academic writing) and http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations.html (some overlap, much less formal).
While not a source for OP's claim, there's evidence[0] that YT's algorithms incentivise viewers towards ever more extreme content. [ß]

The logic is simple: the more reactions a piece of content generates, the more it will be recommended. "Fake news", at least in the form of incendiary propaganda, is designed to invoke strong emotions. In the case of YouTube (probably applies to FB too), the compound effect is pure amplification.

In a way one could say that YouTube and propaganda thrive from a perverse symbiotic relationship.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/02/how-youtu...

ß: You can easily find other news items on the same topic, but they tend to have either have a paywall or GDPR modal.
If it wants to. But I presume it already has done all that and there's no real reason for it to anymore.

Have you ever watched the show "The Black Mirror?" There's a famous episode in which one person's consciousness gets planted into another person's mind. The plot focused on the fact that one person had all the agency and control, and the other person didn't, and at first you think that it's hell, no way could that ever work.

But at the end of the show, it gives you an example of where it would work really really well, a parent living on in the mind of their child. Parents already give up a ton of agency to their kids, so this was a really beautiful resolution. Where it gets ugly is where one person starts to want control rather than to just enjoy the ride.

The other personality in my brain is a little like that. Something that doesn't mind having no agency and just watching what I do and interacting with me when I want it to.

And the line at which unconscious processes become conscious is fuzzy and not at all distinct. Another thing that becomes utterly clear when you meditate.
I'm not sure why you're so critical of what I posted. It's not meant to be thought-terminating or useless. I think it's important to recognize the system is not oriented to dry, fact-dense information. TV doesn't generate research papers or doctoral theses. It requires entertained viewers; it's only as "news" as it is because that's what the demographic wants, but no more.
I really can't wait until we're finally old enough that we don't need these asinine "how to understand millenials" style articles and reports.
Educated guess: because you have zero experience developing an application or utility program in a language in the Lisp family. Because then if you still harbored a caricature, it would probably be more sophisticated.
Google is kind of showing signs of becoming more like AltaVista towards the end of its life. It's not quite as bad yet, but I feel increasingly frustrated when I'm searching for things, and that wasn't the case 5-7 years ago. You often have to scroll past junk to find the good stuff. I do think they're resting on their laurels somewhat.
The thing to recognize is that they are not using the same truth-finding-function that you are. That may in fact mean that you can't meaningfully compare truths. You are being empirical; they are either relying on "it makes sense" (rationalism, probably) or they are relying on their trust in the person making the statement. I'm not sure what the solution to this problem is, but it's probably not empirical evidence, since that isn't what they consider to be valid. Mostly I think the solution is to teach children science and history, and that if they get to be adults without having those frameworks of understanding, there's no real hope of acquiring them. I'd like to believe that's just cynicism though.
At that point just base-64 for your IEEE floats....
Because anywhere where you need that speed you can better handle it without using strings...
Why is management/capital strangling employees into substistence better than unions strangling capital?

Wages have stagnated for many years, especially in non-union industries
Politicians who would actually do anything to help young working class people seem rare, and lose in primaries.
Unions aren't fringe.The US populace is more fringe right-wing relative to Europe.
How science and myth collide in water
Linking Toxoplasma gondii infection and entrepreneurship behaviours
This doesn't have to be a argument with a resolution. It can be an ongoing mystery. I'm happy with that. It's the materialist that needs absolution. I asked all these questions myself, and while the tulpa does seem somewhat 'flat', it also can be really, really deep. The tulpa used to teach me things. Make me aware of things I wasn't aware of before. It seems way way more aware of things than I am.
Earlier this week, in Sweden:

”a […] forest fire is located in an old firing range littered with unexploded military ordnance, making it hazardous even if fire crews could reach the area.“

So, they

”launched a flight of Gripen fighter bombers loaded with GBU-49 laser guided bombs. The Gripens dropped one bomb at an altitude of 9,800 feet. The bomb exploded on target, extinguishing flames up to 100 yards from the impact point”

(https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22550688.... Video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f18EZZA3SQ)
Err, you can use the Arduino ecosystem with gnu make.... look for it, there is documentation, which does have ease of use to wish for and requires installation that drives me towards believing in chroot.
> The only reason we know the DNC did is because of the e-mail leaks, we certainly don't know that the RNC didn't.

This is prototypical of politics in America, and it's mind boggling: "the current president said he'd do something and then didn't do it!" Said by every D and R about every R and D. I wish we could examine systemicly, instead of along party lines.
Young people might vote more if voter suppression efforts softened up so non-retirees had time to vote.
Because someday I (being extremely smart and awesome person who's way better than the average worker) will be that rich capitalist standing on the backs of the workers.

So I need to protect them now, obviously. Plus I can negotiate better by myself against a faceless company worth dozens of billions. Like I said, I'm very special.
Because it’s just that, a caricature. Having spent enough time using sexps (primarily in Clojure) I’ve found that with a decent editor it is about identation and line breaks, which is generally true of most languages.
Isn't the idea behind containers that they only persist for a few days in any case, before being rebuilt?
1. The economy is at 4% employment, it has never been more competitive to hire and retain someone. If these contractors are really very unhappy (versus sometimes mildly put-out or slightly disgruntled as the case seems), they can nearly instantly leave.

2. H1B Visas are falling, this makes it even more competitive for Google to retain talent. Citizen talent can immediately leave whenever they want if they don’t like the benefits, Pay, treatment they are receiving versus indentured foreign talent.

3. Why would the contract labor force ever expect to receive the same information clearances and treatment as full time employees? Did they read the contracts they signed and make rational decisions about what to say yes to?

4. I am deeply suspicious of anyone who claims to speak for a group of victims. In this case, the “victims” are generally in the upper 1% of humanity. College educated tech workers working for Google in the United States (did I mention we are at full employment and they can leave instantly?).

These people aren’t victims, they are the champions of the entire world. They are the winners of the game of life, they don’t really need more effort put into making them slightly more happy.

Why not focus our helpful energy on...oh, I Don’t know, the armies of people living like animals, defecating in the street and wandering downtown San Francisco naked with severe mental wellness issues?
In my uni, the test suite was public; you were supposed to run it and talk to the TA about the tests you can't pass before the deadline. If you didn't do that, and just submitted broken code, then you'd fail the test. Seems fair to me.
I’d like to see some data about the measurable effects of this melanopic light. The measurements provided in this article all sound plausible, but they wouldn’t be as scary as they sound if, hypothetically, it turns out that a 20% increase in melanopic light in this range has little or no measurable effect on sleep. It could be that going from zero melanopic light to that of an older iPhone has a large effect, but that a further 20% increase has little or none. I’d really need to see some data.
It’s currently in beta and although that’s no excuse for the lack of warnings I just wanted to get a beta out as I started v1 almost a year ago.
Also, you'd be surprised how heavy software can get without outgrowing single-unit LTO, as long as you don't try to pull in all of Qt/GTK or similar bloat in.

(I don't see those as a bad choice, but they are too heavywight for this style of LTO to work well.)
Reading through this just underscores how ridiculous it is that UTC itself has leap seconds. The mapping between the clock and our labeling of the clock varies so often, who cares about whether the underlying clock matches the Sun to the nearest second at a physical location that few of us will ever visit?
This Company Wants to Send You to the Stratosphere in a Balloon
I don't see how a near nomination being held back by the party machine undermines the point.

Trump is an interesting case , but not an inspiring one for the Democratic process.
That's why few people are using things like parinfer. This demo might look cool to non-lisp programmers, but in lisp-land, everyone is using semantic editing (in Emacs or otherwise), and not line-based editing.
You were arguing that there is a large cost to consumers, and no possible way to pay for the requirements without consumer impact.

Now you're explaining a way for the merger to free up huge amounts of money.

If they free up lots of money by merging, they could use some of it to fund expansion without impacting customers.

The government can't force them to use profits and expenses to cancel each other out, but it's not exactly an esoteric behavior. Especially when the same contract is responsible for both. The idea of it happening is definitely not "nonsense".
Unfortunate. After basic arithmetic symbols, sigma is arguably the next most important thing. Along with integral/partial differential, let's say.
I can see where you are coming from. Ironically I have been working as a group health broker for 6 months now and I can tell you that at least from my inside view, this industry is incredibly, incredibly broken. The incentive structure is perverse.

There is no reason why losing your job should mean the choice between paying $800 a month for Cobra or going uninsured. Medicaid fills this problem ($30 in NY state for those who make I believe below $19,000 a year), but many doctors do not accept it.

So I think it's time to either force doctors to work for less or to force the rich to pay for Medicare for all. Because right now prices are inflated and only the rich/employed can afford relatively accetable care.

And no, even I don't have coverage in this job! XD
When you devalue the issues that people actually living in third word countries face, you can make your own privilege sound a bit less like one.
Sure I can, because x has to be bigger than all the coefficients, eliminating both options. In fact you can't use x=1 unless your polynomial is exactly 0.

(For those wondering what happened, it's really easy to mis-read the conditions - lots of people do.)
>If there were significant fatal accidents before 1999 - especially if the fault lay with the vehicles' design, they would have dug them up. So it's safe to assume there were none.

That's not even remotely safe to assume. You can't seriously think the LA times has the manpower to comb through 70 years of non-digitized records and local newspaper stories for 1 article.

Since they included traffic incidents after 1999, and you think they went through 70 years of data. Why no traffic incidents before 1999? The simplest explanation is that they only included what they could find using digital records that were easy to access.

> looks like you missed some decimal points.

I looked it over and the data is just wrong. It was based on self reported data, and it looks like people just over report the amount of time they spend in cars.

Since there is no way to accurately calculate person hours for cars. I'll just refer you back to the estimation based on operating hours.

Or you can compare it to the person hour safety data for passenger boats in the UK. Either way based on my estimations, DUKWs are likely statistically much more dangerous.

But who cares. I'm just some guy on the interne with very limited access to the relevant data. You don't need to take my word for it.

The NTSB found that the boats were unsafe. Their recommendation to New York and Wisconsin was that they require DUKWs to be modified or cease operations. Their recommendation was that unmodified DUKWs are too dangerous to continue carrying passengers.

>Your explodo example is not really reasonable.

So you agree that safety flaws that magnify human error can make a vehicle unsafe? Because it seemed like you were arguing the opposite for the last several posts.

>And they've also been in operation for millions of hours. There's way more than enough of a sample for lots of things to have gone wrong. Yet of all the incidents that have happened in these millions of hours, and the likely 40,000,000+ people that have used these vehicles, we only had 2 severe accidents - both caused by extreme human incompetence. So you're left with two choices, neither of which I expect you'd really like:

This entire paragraph is an appeal to emotion. You've disguised it by throwing in some very dubious numbers that you have no way of verifying. Your argument essentially boils down to: We've had lots of people ride our boats and only a couple really bad accidents--that means they're safe.

The rational way to judge their safety is to compare the fatality rate to other vehicles, and in the absence of the ability to accurately do this, defer to a trusted expert. But you just want to focus on what feels right to you.

The NTSB thinks that they are dangerous, back of the envelope math shows they are probably more dangerous than other vehicles. Just admit that your gut reaction was wrong in this one case.