skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems a good place to ask...

How do I get into jazz?

I can listen to it and find it pleasant. But I'm missing something - I'm not spotting the patterns. It all sounds the same and empty.

What is a good route in?

In contrast I get and like any pop/rock, if I dance I like anything ravey.

I'm into the swirling moods of Ludovico Einaudi, and the harsh to accept beautiful patterns of Philip Glass.

I struggle with Classical as much as jazz, but I don't care that I do.

I feel like I need some kind of course - tests what I get, and helps me find the next thing which is more complex (not just a bland repetition of) what I like now, but still on the edge of accessibility to me.
> Fahrenheit is great for measuring weather.
0 is roughly the temperature on the coldest series of days in most of the continental United States and Europe, and 100 is roughly the hottest.

This argument to me makes no sense: most of the human beings don't live either in the continental US or in Europe :)

0 Celsius to everybody means rain would ideally turn into snow, which makes it great for "measuring weather". And it is useful for agriculture too.
Youll get a different result if random number generation is made more expensive, e.g. if you need to use a hardware RNG instead of a PRNG.
> a cooperative game that limits communication (which is essential for any cooperative game, to prevent quarterbacking)

Just no. The very point of cooperative games is learning to work together as a team. If you can't do that, then you lost the game. Ruining the rules so the game can't be lost is counterproductive.
Don't their computers get hot?
> The forest is still composed by trees.

Yes, but most people do not improve their behavior until nature or some culture or some law enforces the change.

The efforts of many are wasted by the ignorance or carelessness or selfishness or insanity or lack of choice of many others.
Ask HN: Do you do damage control for future AI assisted OSINT?
I'm quite sure future AI could read all my HN posts and than know where I work, while for a human this is not possible without a lot of work.

Further I think an AI might be able to correlate further social media accounts; it might be just my writing style giving the final clue.

Do you delete your comment history, keep changing accounts constantly or just plan to own you past once it becomes fully exposed?
Physics and other disciplines were broadly using arxiv before ML did it. When I switched from physics to ML (CS) I was surprised that arxiv isn't used more.
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I’ve yet to find a git setup that is more productive (for me at least) than SublimeGit for Sublime Text. The combination of a text based interface with single character shortcuts, and the quick support for staging individual parts of files, means I’m probably twice as fast as the next best thing. It’s the reason I haven’t moved from Sublime to VS Code.

This looks like it could be close, and I’ll definitely give it a try. If I could decouple myself a bit more from Sublime that would be great. The plugin community just isn’t the same as VS Code.
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Look at the libgen torrents - I'm not sure it's a complete copy, but it's massive.
I'm renting VPS in Netherlands. I'm using VPS mostly to circumvent internet censoring my country does (mostly porn sites, but they occasionally breaking legit sites and what's wrong with porn anyway). There's no legal punishment to circumvent blocks AFAIK, so I feel pretty safe even if someone would find out I'm doing that (it's not like I'm hiding, gigabytes of traffic on standard OpenVPN port, lol). But anyway I'm sure that Netherlands provider won't tell anything to Kazakhstan request even if they would ask something and I don't do anything to warrant Interpol engagement. It's all about attacks you want to mitigate, I think. If you want to break into Pentagon, that won't work, I guess.
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> Every time I hear people saying how much they prefer the git command line is because they never seriously tried to leverage the git features of their IDE.

I think this statement is much more powerful in reverse. People who prefer the git features of their IDE have probably never seriously tried to leverage the features of git...

I prefer the git command line. It supports every single feature of git, and as an interface it’s completely and totally frictionless.

People trying to create tools and UX around git usually do so under the false impression that git is the source of friction, when really they are.

> Also if you ever try to teach someone git, it's not as intuitive as you think [1]. Having a consistent UX can help.

Are there people who need this kind of help learning, but then go on to do well at it?

I’ve found programming in general is extremely binary. Either you’re the kind of person that can grasp it and has the motivation to track down answers yourself and hack away, or you aren’t.

Being able to pick up a new system or technology and understand it very quickly is what it means to be a programmer, even more so than the act of programming itself in my opinion. I think trying to find shortcuts around that to teach people is a bit of a catch-22.
If they could access Gitlab when on Azure, this is a very shitty regression.
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The only way to repair this is to allow competition where the inmates can choose from a list of applications built to whatever security standard.
I've heard a lot that WireGuard is faster than OpenVPN. I must admit that my OpenVPN connection manages few megabits even if my server allows 100 Mb/s and my home connection allows 300 Mb/s. I didn't test WireGuard, it seems too hard to configure yet, but I wonder why is it more performant?
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Just to back this up, 'don't imply that someone didn't read the article' is actually in the HN guidelines.
the other way around

1 inch = 2.54cm
Slightly related: A twitter bot telling the time using photos of Flavor Flav - https://twitter.com/flavorflavtime
> (My color perception is very slightly different in each eye, it's weird.)

I have comparatively uninteresting/normal vision (biggest issue shortsightedness) but I have this too. My left eye sees more blue, my right eye more red. Looks like the cone distribution wasn't perfect.

I'm not sure, but I think the sun's rays don't have much of a blue component: my left eye gets fractionally less sore from bright sunlight, so if it's really bright out I'll generally be closing my right eye.
Are you overweight?
Similar problem which ends up not being quite as simple in the general case as you might think: sampling from a unit simplex: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nasmith/papers/smith+tromble.tr04.pdf
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> The only metric measurements in the US are in science.

I think that is what I said when I said all research done in universities, the military, NASA, etc. is done in metric.

The point I was trying to make is that the US is more metric than most people think about and has nothing to do with "conservatives". The parts for my car are in metric, the wine I buy is in 750 ml bottles, medicine I take is in metric, 2 liter bottles of cola, illicit drugs (grams or kilos although I don't take that!), etc.

Yes there are different units for pressure but the one used by the university I work at is metric.
I run my own email server and have my mail address pasted over websites in plain text and whois records. Still I receive very few spam and not using any spam filter.

Here's what I did. Fit for personal use only, not business use.

* Setup DKIM signature and reject all mails that don't have one. Cut down spam 90%.

* Reject mails from .info .us and other country TLDs that you don't deal with. Further cut down spam by 90%.

* When I mark a first mail from a new domain as spam, the server blocks all future mails from it.

That's all. Works for me.
It seems like what the rules actually mean is that you're not allowed to communicate except via the one form of communication that they've designated as "not communication".

The spoiler section also says you're not supposed to just count upward in seconds, which is strange because that's clearly both allowed and optimal. Maybe they mean that that's not the most fun way to play. But why would I want to play a game where fun was inversely correlated with the probability of winning?

I wonder what the optimal strategy is for the version where you're really not allowed to communicate (i.e. if no one plays a card immediately then you've communicated and therefore lost). Presumably you have to calculate based on the number of players and cards remaining how likely it is that you have the lowest card. You could also skip the later rounds by immediately playing a high card, at the cost of one life. I bet with enough practice you could win some games.

EDIT: On second thoughts, you're still communicating when you either play a card or not. So maybe that variant isn't so fun. It basically becomes everyone playing their lowest card as quickly as possible, and hoping that the lowest one lands first.
Japan was never a British colony though.
> They have tachometers ...

Heavy Goods Vehicles are also legally required to be ECU speed limited to 90 kph (56 mph) as well - which is pretty soul-crushing if you ever have to drive one.
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The white paper has detailed section explaining the kernel implementation https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
I think you're missing option 3, which is to avoid drawing a conclusion either way - assume that there's no definite answer, and that the experts' expertise is too narrow to support using their consensus outside small studies on college students buying and selling chocolate bars.

In this case I'm happy to conclude that it's not clear if people do systematically make poor judgements on important issues due to an in-built "loss aversion" heuristic.
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Yes, we do. I assume the cost of changing them all (and the resulting confusion and potential danger) was deemed too high.
Worth noting there was a HN discussion on it from 5 months ago. [0]

I got the impression that ludde (the author of TunSafe) seems to think that people should trust him because he wrote uTorrent and he is, for reasons not specified, opposed to releasing it open source and suggests that the author of wireguard has a "general dislike against non open-source applications."

For what it's worth I really cannot understand the mentality that would lead to you creating a high-quality, benign VPN client that you have no intention to charge for or sell and not wanting eyes (which have certainly been offered) to look over it before users rely on it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515637
Nice report. I'd really like to know how to ensure that people with tickets actually attend.

I think the best way might be to have a small price for early bird, or just overbook.
I have used vim for god knows who long, and I've tried Emacs several times for a few months at a time before giving up. So I do think that for coding VSCode absolutely has 90% of the features that both vim and emacs offer. Note how I said "for coding"? That's not an accidental or trivial part of my comment. For writing and managing code the feature-sets are on par in all three for sure and if you disagree then I am going to suggest to you that you actually give all three a try and focus only on coding and you'll see what I mean.

I should stop using Windows because a single application is difficult to set up? Throw out my entire OS with the plethora of other applications I use because a single application that has had 35 years to get its shit together simply won't work well? That's a reasonable position for sure!

Developing on Windows works absolutely fine, and if you wan't to talk about prisons and what "Microsoft lets me have" how about we talk about the WSL? They have no reason to include it in Windows but they do. A whole bunch of Linux software became available over night in a native Windows environment because of something Microsoft did. The ones who are digging their heels in at this point are all the *nix developers who refuse to support Windows as a first-class platform, so talk about being in a prison! Your software only works well on a subset of all operating systems.
He clearly states who likely pays for spreading this FUD…
Formatting note:

It will look a bit messier for the

things*involving*asterisks

to be on their own line (indented two spaces), but that way Arc won't chew them. I'm mentioning this because I can't determine the original text myself.
Mostly because it uses a kernel module instead of a pure user-space daemon using `tun` drivers.
You know what would make me faster at git?

"git undo" : undo the last git command line, whatever it did. Especially if you don't understand what it did or it overwrote local files.
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Joy has come up a few times. A powerful language built on a few clever principles is alluring, but I found it impossible to read, sadly (but I feel somewhat similar about Forth).
I wonder if directed energy I.e. microwaves could work?
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That's a good example, but there's many factors at play here. For instance:

- Loss aversion

- Trust (i.e. the manager believes in you): When we hear the word "bonus" we often think "that's something that happens 10% of the days". However, when the manager is giving you the money at the beginning of the day they're saying "I think you can do this today. I might as well give it you already." The manager very clearly shows that they believe in you, and they probably know what they're doing.

- The prize is visible: We know from many examples that humans become more motivated when they can physically see their prize. One part of this trick is that you have the note in your pocket. Maybe you even take it out a few times during the day.

There's a few ways to test what factor is most important. For instance, you would expect the trust-factor to fade over time because you'll realize that the manager gives you the note regardless of their faith/belief in that you can make it (there's nothing special about "this day" or "this employee"). You could also replace the $100 note with a more neutral coupon that says "$100 bonus". This makes the prize less visible, but we should still value it as $100. Or maybe there's a checkbox on a sheet inside the office which says "Tick off if bonus not reached". If the effect goes away, then the visibility-factor is stronger than the loss-aversion-factor.

This is my main beef with the pop culture around "loss aversion" (and other psychological terms): There's so many interesting things to discuss around it, but we so badly want to combine everything into one simple buzz word.
Fahrenheit and Celsius have a thing where one degree in Celsius equals about two degrees in Fahrenheit. I think your car computer prefers Fahrenheit and misrepresents the exact values.
Wait. Were you able to get everything back, say from a backup?

And do you know why Thunderbird decided to do that?
Mostly spamassasin, more or less out of the box. Also postscreen (only the pregreet test) [1] to keep out the dumbest kind of spambots. Works really great and not worse than my gmail account. I don't agree that gmail is damn good at spam filtering, it's quite average.

[1] http://www.postfix.org/POSTSCREEN_README.html
I run my own VPN server with a hosts file on it that blocks ads and tracking domains. I then use it for my mobile phone as an ad blocker.

I'd wager that quite a few people would like to pay for a managed VPN service that did the same thing.... however, as once in a while you need to disable your adblocker on some websites, so once in a while you might need to circumvent the blocking on the VPN. I wonder how that might be done.
Sorry, that really was only an example. I also didn’t say, or mean to imply, full-screen only. Every os should also let you line up windows top-to-bottom out of the box. Etc. Macos' approach of allowing one very specific combination of window arrangement, then trying to make a feature of it by calling it 'fullscreen' or 'side-by-side' (or whatever they call it) just doesn’t really cut it.
I rather use a DNS cloud that promises to wipe logs every 24 hours than a DNS server of an ISP who is guaranteed to spy on me.
I remember my grandfather complaining about mm, but he then went on to tell me a story about how he was surveying a medieval building with his assistant with an old tape measure and they were getting all sorts of awkward dimensions, when the assistant noticed that the dimensions on the other side of the tape were all nice round numbers... in cubits![0] His point was that there would have been a time when all the builders were complaining about stupid feet and inches and how fiddly they were and what's wrong with cubits.

[0] I'm struggling to remember what they were I thought I remembered cubits but I'm not sure why you would find those on a tape in the 1940's. Anyway, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I think the whole point of Thaler’s assertion is that loss aversion is a type 1 bias, so will be demonstrated despite whatever people say when using their type 2 reasoning.
> Kill off the entire species, probably not. Kill off a good percentage of us, most likely if nothing is done.

What do you base that assertion on? It sounds chicken-littlish to me.
Actually the cost should be zero.

The prison has an internet connection anyway, one would just need a router with VPN support (to separate traffic) and 10 locked down wired terminals.

Charging per email is complete bollocks.
Have you considered switching your desk with someone who likes it colder? I, for one, would jump at the opportunity. Maybe some of your co-workers would too..
So you assume I’m overweight because I can’t stand the same temperatures you can? I’m not even going to answer that. Go f yourself.
Great! And you can already choose to do so. But it seems pretty likely that Firefox will be making that decision on behalf of all its users (except those with the wherewithal to know how to opt out), without effectively communicating the risks of that decision to them (based upon their communication about this feature so far).
I think that is an underappreciated point. What makes a lot of open source software productive only exists in proprietary code, infrastructure and knowledge guarded as a competitive advantage at large companies. I have never really understood why companies like that gets so much open source credit while someone independently trying to make a living shipping a proprietary product for an open source system, making that system more attractive, gets a lot of hate.
I use tig as well but I am currently experimenting with FZF and some gitconfig aliases.
All Vietnam war deserters were given a conditional amnesty by Gerald Ford shortly after he pardoned Nixon in 1974, and all deserters were ultimately pardoned by the Carter administration in 1977 so that they could return home.
depends how random works, techinically it may never exit the loop. Rejection algos could be quite dangerous under specific conditions. I would agree with the grandparent - it's a weak article.
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Maybe try pinging AWS's VP, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffbarr (email in bio link).

My guess is that you might be the only person/company who has this specific setup, so there's either no ticket, or it has a priority of -99999.

Still probably worth headscratching about internally...

(If emailing works out, I'd be very interested to know!)
There are many public DNS providers those promise to not logs DNS queries. I don't know precisely but if Mozilla forces user to use Cloudflare DNS is the deal breaker.
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We use imperial for long distances, but SI for short ones. We use imperial for human weights, but SI for food and drink weights (excluding the pint!). Height is in imperial as well, mostly. Temperature is in SI.

It's all quite confusing when you explain it, but pretty natural when you live there
> And your ISP knows where you connect to anyways. So the data or information generated by their DNS server provides no additional information to them.

This is not correct. Your ISP only knows what IP you are connecting to and that is not enough in general. E.g. Cloudflare.
What about if you have private DNS servers that has sites that cloudflare does not have? For example internal intranets etc?

So mozilla will not work at all in that case?
Wait, Google Photos doesn't allow backup?

I had no idea. Nice.
I suppose a small upside to this is it will prompt some people to look into how trustworthy their ISP's DNS is.
Doubt it.
False dichotomy. I.E. those are not the only 2 options.
You could store your git refs in another git repo and take a snapshot of those after each command that changes things.
I separate all of my trash and recycle everything I’m able to. Food waste is composted. I haven’t used plastic bags in years and I’ve been asking for no straws since before it came into the news now. I don’t own a car. I ride my bike everywhere I’m able to and otherwise I take public transit. I’m a vegetarian for environmental reasons. I don’t own a clothes dryer because the sun works just as well.

As I said I think it’s wasteful especially cause I can’t seal my windows. But if you read my post then you’d see that my limit of caring stops when I’m sweating in my bed at 11pm at night because it’s still 30+ despite me being on the ground floor.
I am soon to venture in to SAAS business. Should I be interested in kubernetes ? Is old way of doing things still relevant?
> The only wireless security I put any real trust in is WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x certificate-based authentication specifically.

802.1x with a certificate for Radius server (TTLS mode, which simply layers the plaintext password via TLS) and plain passwords for users is also good enough.
As a man in a country where constant censoring is performed by the government this movement at least make it harder for the gov censor/monitor people.
In Switzerland it's hit and miss. New buildings usually have good air conditioning, but anything a bit older doesn't. And there are a lot of older buildings in Switzerland. It's a country that has 4 very pronounced seasons, so if there's a heatwave (like right now), it usually means hot offices... the productivity impact is quite significant.
I think as far as browsers are concerned, there are no private DNS names anymore for a good while already - either everyone on the internet knows your DNS or it doesn't exist.

See the similar problem with TLS certificates...

(edit) Ok, that was indeed put more dramatically than necessary. My point is that private DNS names seem to be heavily discouraged by browsers default configurations.

You can change both the DNS resolver as well as install custom CAs - however, this has to be done again for each client. If you want to have your sites visited by clients that you don't administrate, you're out of luck.

(warning - rant follows) The direction browser vendors would like the ecosystem to move also seems quite clear to me - there is a strong push to get everyone on HTTPS, at the same time CAs are themselves increasingly regulated by browser vendors and cannot hand out certificates for IPs and private DNS names anymore. Now the next step seems to be DNS. If that is not a platformisation of the web, I don't know what is.
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This is certainly more cautious, but it's not clear that this is any more realistic than Waymo's plan which involves limiting vehicles to a predefine area, mapping in great detail, etc.