skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emotionally? Nothing really. It's just someone playing music, which doesn't really do anything for me. I appreciate that the person in the first video is doing some neat things with a guitar though. It looks & sounds neat.
I havd this pet theory that keeping the developers busy will be the downfall of the human race.
what is healthy about sharing your private data with a 3rd party you cannot trust with anything? If anything thats irresponsible.
I think the spark plugs example is an excellent one. People used to require an extensive knowledge of how cars worked in order to have a prayer of using them effectively. Now they don't, because we realized none of that knowledge is necessary if you design the system correctly.

We have enough historical context to realize that things like parsing URLs by eye is unsafe for the general population, and always will be. The solution is to engineer that need out of existence.

You might want to consider that manufacturers have added blind spot detectors to cars as people are bad at changing lanes safely, even with all the training in the world.
I just turned off CSS in Firefox (View menu -> Page Style -> No Style) and the fixed sidebar was no more and the odd scroll bar behavior was gone.
If you're go do it, do it fast and for good:
https://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/mamelukes-are...
>>By 1811 Muhammad Ali was strong enough to deal with the Mamelukes. He organised a grand ceremonial procession in Cairo to which he invited some 500 Mameluke notables. Assembled in the citadel, they were warmly welcomed and treated to coffee, sweetmeats and polite conversation, but when the time came for the procession they had to go down a narrow, winding passageway between high walls in single file. Suddenly the gates at each end were slammed shut and the Wali’s soldiers appeared on top of the walls and opened a murderous fire with muskets. All or possibly all but one of the Mamelukes were killed. More Mamelukes were swiftly hunted down and killed in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt, to a total of perhaps 3,000.
You must not be considering the total return of all your wealth just a limited subset. If you started with 10k and earned 300% (138.6% continuously compounded) then after 5 years you will have over $10mm. Wait another 3.3 years and you're a billionaire...
It looks pretty broken on iPhone X
I dunno, I think soundtracks to movies are one of the only places where I ever get any sort of emotional response from music, and it's always because I associate some sequence of sounds in the piece with something that's happening in the film then. It doesn't feel like appreciating the music so much as just being reminded of the part of the movie that happened around that time. Sort of like an aural mile marker.
I heard Coconut Oil was in secret negotiations to develop Half-Life 3. In all seriousness, everyone's always looking for an easy, digestible answer, whether that be diet, politics, or information. This is why engineers and experts who understand the incredible complexities of an issue tend to make poor salespeople, when you know all the edge cases it can be hard to give a simple answer because most people are inherently good and honest. The best sales and support people tend to be those that can distill complex concepts down to meaningful summaries without losing important information.
there are probably worse ways to gain adoption for your domain name system than to get in the good graces of free software communities...
I think a big difference here is that bucketeers knew they weren't actually buying the securities, and just waging against one another. The scheme in the article is like a combination of a bucket shop and a concealed ponzi scheme
The world's rapidly improving if that's true.
What benefit does Facebook provide that no other service can? When I break down the specific features of the FB platform, I'd be hard pressed to think of a single beneficial thing about FB.
> But I’ll take 40% enforcement over 5% enforcement.

A politically motivated 40% is far worse than a completely open forum.
Ask HN: How is tracking done across devices?
I was watching a movie called Pad Man on Netflix App on my Amazon Stick. The movie was about sanitary napkins. When I opened a webpage (on procrastination which was on the top page of HN yesterday) on my iPhone, I was shown an ad about sanitary napkins.

I don’t think it is a coincidence but I am keen to understand how such user tracking works.
Probably because they don't need to. Their mobile chips are so ludicrously far ahead of everyone else in the world, it seems possible they discovered a crashed UFO and integrated alien technology into their designs.
You use the numbers provided by your broker at the end of the year.
Once you get as big as Google or Apple, you're too big to fail and there is no longer any pressure to make good decisions because there are no actual consequences for making moronic decisions.
[0]: Whole Foods goes by this nickname in California. Because you spend your...

Try their sale items, particularly if you live in an area that already has the Amazon Prime 10% discount on sale items. The sale prices were then usually lower than any other store in the area (SF) where I lived. For people who want specialty items (dietary choices, health conditions, etc.) I haven't really found a better option.
Manager's Path by Camille Fournier is IMO the most practical book on engineering management in recent memory. Managing Humans by Michael Lopp is pretty good too.
There are some R packages that allow for development of e-learning materials, these are Rmarkdown based so similar to knitr rather than sweave, but basically the same idea. The downside is the lack of symbolic support in R. Ximera does look interesting however. A second question I would have is how this would compare with Jupyter interactive notebooks which have LaTeX support and automated grading as well as symbolic algebra capabilities? Nevertheless additional tools are always welcome.
Kind of hard to fully explain. With a debugger, you can typically only analyze variables on the stack. You can, of course, step over lines and such. However, with the live coding languages, you can literally redefine the function that is causing grief. More, you can, on the fly, define a new helper function that it should call to handle the current input causing trouble and redefine the method to call over to that.

People have come closer than I give credit in Java land doing this. I've never seen anyone else come close, though.

I think most any dynamic language should be able to do this. Most can't, though, due to serious limitations on what can be redefined and what cannot.
The opportunities to make a living in rural areas aren't really there any more. Unless you mean to move to a rural area when you retire.
The Art of Rube Goldberg Opens Oct 12  National Museum American Jewish History
Awesome! This is by the maker of Pixel Dungeon[1], the best rogue-like on Android. Anyone who's played it can testify that (s)he knows all there is to know about procedurally generated maps.

[1] http://pixeldungeon.watabou.ru/
the parent poster means simply betting against their customers. Not explicitly shorting a security without a locate. Just a lingo thing. In any case, this sounds a lotvlike a Contract-for-Difference type of arrangement. The broker functions as the liquidity provider, taking the contra side to all customer bets. Broker collects the bid-ask spread and hopes that it overcomes losses. One big downside is counterparty risk: if the broker goes bankrupt, the winning customers may not get paid!
> "Immigration requirements" : please let us import more labor, but still keep them indentured to us

Not really. A points based system or even something that just means that H-1Bs are instantly given green cards would work for me and I'm not even CEO.

In fact, the current annoyance is this bloody work stoppage going on regarding H-1B premium processing. It's a nightmare.
> If I enjoyed music I might want to start using my time and money for those things.

If you were enjoying it then how would it differ from any of the other variety of things you already enjoy that you spend money on?
Ehhh, I pay pretty close attention to the Bitcoin threads.
Broken on Note 8 as well.
I would love to get rid of www but this going to confuse the heck out of people. We could get rid of www if more DNS providers supported ANAME. And Google Domains does not. How bout start there.
Master/slave doesn't carry baggage because of political activists and race-baiters but because of the US' history of slavery/racism.
Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials
Wont advertisers go where the people are? Can't FB optimize for users to keep users? if they mined zero data and based ads only on the content of the current page, as long as they had the eyeballs why wouldn't advertisers still want to be there?
I literally chuckled when I saw your message because I actually thought about using dom/sub when I saw the '"dominatrix"-"submissive"' message, and there's the bonus of it being more symmetrical and less typing than master/slave.

The deal killers being that it's less readable due to the lack of established usage and that it doesn't define the relationship as clearly as master/slave. It feels like "dominant" might imply that it has authority in most cases, but not every case.
If they hadn’t used third party providers they wouldn’t have been caught. Nonko only got caught due to bad service/infrastructure design. So really the systems in place to defend against this kind of thing aren’t working. Or not working well enough.
This is just an observation. I have no idea if this is the sort of thing which can be detected.
Probably to make her CEO and remove himself from day-to-day operations. He has honestly seemed mentally checked out for a while now.
Not if the exchange has spreads and leverage. Even small spreads can screw your odds completely if you trade at margin, and gamblers bust means if you turn over your money a few times at high leverage you'll probably lose it all.
This Radiolab episode is highly relevant: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil
The A11 chip's CV module is the reason FaceID works as well as it does. And FaceID was their one of their major marketing points of the X and likely the phones being announced this month.
Intel has been doing this for ages. It may even be the primary reason why they came up with Turbo Boost. It's gotten a lot worse these days, as Turbo Boost can add another Ghz on its own to the base clock, which allows Intel to keep base clocks very low, yet still claim its chips are as fast as if they always run at the peak Turbo Boost speed all the time (and that turbo boost running time has been shrinking every new generation, too).
FWIW, OpenSSH already does this and calls it "randomart".
Great job putting all this together! Brings back memories.

Out of curiosity I downloaded a .mid file to compare it with my local timidity install. The quality of the later is way better (I installed it from brew)... It sounds like it either use a better SoundFont or midi effects (like reverb) are not working properly on the site?

Is it just me? Not complaining, just mentioning it.
Which generation are you? I thought it was the nicotine vape jobbies that form the cigarettes of our generation
> Many grocery store chains are unionized and the jobs are still loathed.

Unions aren't about undoing alienation under Capitalism, they're about making Capitalism survivable for laborers.
This reminds me a lot of the work Tarn Adams has done in city generation in Dwarf Fortress [1]. I seem to remember that he generated some similar looking maps as png files in his dev log somewhere, but I can't find them now. Obviously in-game they're all rendered as text.

[1] http://bay12games.com/dwarves/
One significant difference compared to the U.S. jackpots - you need to pay taxes, unlike in Canada.
Computers are magic to the majority.

I bring up in a previous reply that mirrors, and now lights, pedals, and other controls, that these are directly user-facing and must be interacted with in order to get anything done. Even knowing there is an engine that might need engine-y things like water and oil.

But where is the requirement a user knows about URLS in order to use the web?

Way back when we had AOL keywords. Now we have Google and apps and other tools that make URLS unnecessary.

My grandmother that I I mentioned before. She browses solely through bookmarks and via Google results. That a URL exists is not only an implementation detail but completely unneeded and unused in her case.

Then something like an SSL cert? Where it will work just fine without? I don't even want to imagine trying to explain that to my grandmother before sending her off to her decades old AOL mail inbox.

Only recently with Chrome displaying "Not Secure" have I even noticed any concern or interest amongst non-technical friends and aquaintances.
Lawyers were clearly involved in that press release.
>For example, the fastest distance between two points is not a straight line, it's the cycloid, specifically the Brachistochrone curve [2]. This is the path light follows.

You may be conflating [Bernoulli's solution to the Brachistochrone curve](http://www.math.rug.nl/~broer/pdf/ws-ijbc.pdf) with the optimal path for light. [Fermat's Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_principle) states that, when traveling between two points, light will always take the path that minimizes the time taken from the first point to the last. In a medium of constant refractive index (which includes free space), this results in a line.

>So if you're looking for ways to distribute partitions or encode invariants in your models, data or otherwise, the geometrical aspects of elliptical and cycloidal curves are a good place to explore.

How do you mean? What sort of data can be encoded this way and how?

> NB: Consider this, two seperate impulses of light beginning at different distances away from the observer, both impulses of light traveling along the optimal path at the optimal speed, and both arriving at the observer simultaneously, without bending time. And as shown above, on a cycloidal curve, this phenomenon is not unique to light.

Two separate impulses of light beginning at different distances away from a stationary observer will necessarily arrive at different times, otherwise you violate the basis of special relativity: the speed of light is constant and invariant of reference frame.
How long have you been doing this?

Sounds like you are eyes wide open anyway.
> Whenever aphantasia (absence of visual mental imagery) or musical anhedonia (http://www.pnas.org/content/113/46/E7337) come up on HN, I can count on someone to be surprised to discover that that's what they are and that when other people talked about "seeing things in their mind's eye" or being emotionally moved by a song it wasn't just another idiom or metaphor but quite literal. :)

That's exactly what's happening to me right now! I always just kind of assumed people were just using overly flowery speech to describe music! I remember one time in high school a kid who was way into music got really mad at me when I said I didn't really like music much. He said that I didn't seem much more than a sack of meat if I couldn't enjoy music.

> it takes some people a surprisingly long time to realize that they can't smell things the way everyone else can ('anosmia'), or that they don't see the same colors.

I've known I had a color vision deficiency since I was really young, but it isn't very strong so I don't run into trouble much. I only really got a strong example (outside of a purpose-built color vision test type thing) recently while playing Dwarf Fortress. Dwarf Fortress has a world map which represents volcanos as little red "^" marks. I was generating worlds repeatedly looking for a volcano near some grasslands. I was getting frustrated because I'd look at a map and wouldn't see anything. But after staring at the grassy areas for a while, I'd slowly start to see them. There were usually quite a few volcanos actually, it just was hard for me to find them. I was kind of confused as to why I wasn't seeing them easily before it hit me that the grassland is shown as green characters.

I tried showing a map to my sibling and my partner, both of whom have normal color vision. They both found all the volcanos immediately with no issues. It was wild!

Fortunately, Dwarf Fortress lets you customize all the colors used by the game. I should be able to make a higher contrast color palette for myself in the future.
> I'm noticing despite the invocation of vague concepts of progress and usability... you haven't articulated any particular case for how this represents either.

I literally began my comment by citing this:

‘As an ISP, we often have to go to great lengths to teach users that "www.domain.com" and "domain.com" are two different domains...’

It takes only a very small amount of thought and empathy with the average user to understand how the extraneous www prefix can be confusing. It can lead to failures like thinking you have to use it with every website. It enables fraud by making “wwwexample.com” look more normal. Etc.

Your comment is a textbook example of “the principle of it all” argumentation. You cite no concrete examples of problems caused by hiding www from the UI. Not that we should expect none, but the right conversation to have is whether the usability benefits outweigh them. Not technical pedantry or “vague and imprecise” warnings about what may come if we let this pass.
I don’t know anything about AD, so this might be a stupid question: can you not just run a web server on the same host as the AD server or port forward all HTTP traffic to a different server?
Dependencies are also a liability. There's no free lunch.
The Possibilities of Web MIDI with TypeScript
More to the point, you can never get out of the debt you incur, no matter what you do for the rest of your life. It's not just about the debt one incurs, it's about the one providing the debt and what they expect, lifelong admiration, respect, and deference. I've had insane requests and expectations demanded by family members for really small "gifts" before. Because of that I'd say that the social interest costs are too high for many Americans to be able to accept anything.
No Cruise Automation?
Test save you time (maybe) in the long run. But in the search for product market fit, you may conceptualize, design, build, release and then scrap a feature within the course of a month. That's not a long enough lifespan for the tests ROI (better code, fewer bugs, better architecture) to be positive.
Corporations are a bunch of people (investors) coming together to promote their mutual self-interest in profit.

There are tons of special laws for businesses. Laws regarding businesses and employers affect everyone, whether they want them to or not.

It's a distinction I don't see.
Depending on what you buy, Whole Foods is sometimes cheaper than the “regular” grocery stores. Between sales and the Amazon card we have, it’s kinda silly for us to shop elsewhere.
This isn't quite an accurate description either.

Publishers can already prevent search engines from posting snippets of their websites; they can block search engines with robots.txt.

This is an attempt to "have your cake and eat it too" by forcing search engines to display content in a specific format that publishers prefer. Right now Google can say "if you want to be listed, you must allow us to show a snippet"; this law tries to change that. It's dumb.
Burt Reynolds has died
"Less common" isn't "doesn't exist".
Well, I was just being pedantic, I suppose.

But it's arguably not such a great example, because details of engine design are generally trivial for drivers. Maybe a better example is the low oil pressure indicator. Maybe most people don't know what that actually means, but not having one can lead to severe engine damage. Years ago, I had a car with an oil radiator, and the oil line failed. So I knew to stop immediately.
> The US's bridges get a c+ according to the American Society Of Civil Engineers.

Which bridges, in which states, are we talking about here? I feel that these ratings are tossed around a lot, but there are a lot of bridges which are fallow/virtually unused in the U.S. by the nature of its evolution. It is conceivable that the average bridge is worse than the average overall risk from bridges (i.e. rating multiplied by proportion of miles/minutes on each bridge).
Music is a form of communication. What I experience in certain pieces of music is a connection with a particular set or category of feelings that verbal language is simply unable to describe with an equivalent clarity and it's a sort of empathy shared with the composer.

edit: Can you guess what people might feel from this piece? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWKq_kg2Ws
It's correct though.

90% of code is just reinventing the wheel, over and over again. And not just specialised modules like payments. Its insane that even small companies have "data experts", "UI/UX designers". Best practice is actually quite narrow and less important than we think, better to have 30 great designers working on the best way to allow users to interact with devices than 30.000 wasting time. Likewise, its better to have a bunch of smart people working on abstracting away data storage then everyone digging through AWS docs.

The truth is, WE have not been able to agree on standards of software development that would see the complexity abstracted so we can write applications faster. And because of this, cloud platforms and SAAS providers are filling the gap and increasing in power.

Every time I watch the mother of all demos [1] I feel depressed. Its as if builders were given the power to create new construction materials from scratch, for free. And then spent the next 50 years arguing over whose material is better than actually building cool stuff.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
What evidence is there that it’s a Russian psyop?

Also, who are the “unwitting agents”?

And why did this comment receive a downvote? Just asking for clarification.
It's not a "small fraction". You're probably confused with Susan Komen. Red Cross has it's faults, but if they can serve more victims by hiring more effective people with 6 figure salaries, aren't they doing more good?

By analogy, the main rocket on the space shuttle has two stages of fuel pumps...powered by rocket fuel. So you could say that's inefficient, why not run fuel straight from the tanks into the rocket. But it can't pump enough in to get enough thrust unless it uses some of its fuel so that it could burn even more fuel.

My personal charity gripe is the blood bank. They make it out like you're a hero, meanwhile they bill the patient thousands of dollars. They hide behind "but people with disease might donate if we paid them", well they pay people for plasma. And they have to test for HIV anyway (not only that, HIV isn't even a death sentence anymore). If they want my blood they can donate it to the patient or give me 50% of what they bill.
I honestly felt this way about the full screen windows start menu. The old one kept me in context. I feel the same way about Gnome Shell doing it too though I think the fact that it blurs the background instead of disappearing it helps.