skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I found everything better

That is because everyone in the US lives above their means. I am astounded at how frivolously my acquaintances live, despite having huge student and car loan payments. Home ownership is also worryingly low among urban youth.

The trend towards buying SUVs is IMO another sign of this. The coupe / hatch is way cheaper, but they must have the SUV despite not needing it as much.

HN is the exception, with a lot more people being fans of a minimalistic and careful approach to spending.
For people not from India like myself, BJP is the Bharatiya Janata Party. I'm far from being a specialist of the political situation in India, but IIRC they're a right-wing nationalist party.
I really enjoyed the 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast too, along with the accompanying book Lost To The West

https://12byzantinerulers.com
Great idea! My wife is a teacher and this was a big question for her.

The difficulty will be getting teachers to do this. Maybe start promoting in one geographic region?
I only have read the abstract so far, but it seems to me to be written pretty objectively. Could you maybe point out some parts that you feel are examples of bias?
I’ve had the opposite experience. Type driven development makes writing code easier, with less errors, and also makes refactoring significantly easier. For those of us where C++ is the optimal choice Rust is a major step forward in terms of better abstraction, safety, and yet maintains the efficiency requirements we need.
The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove
I'd like to know how and why red hair, and British accents became synonymous with villainy
Overall, this was fairly interesting until the end. The author very loosely questions whether the association of classical music to villainy is the real reason behind the lagging attendance of millenials in the symphony scene. The piece cites several anecdotal cases, but I couldn't think of a single one from memory that supports this idea. My first thought was Fantasia, which really doesn't fall into this argument.

I grew up as a music student and loved going to the symphony as a kid, so I'm not necessarily the target audience here. But the one thing I notice when I go these days is that sitting through an entire performance challenges my attention span much, much more than it used to.

It's a common theme I've seen around HN, particularly with reading. The symphony isn't really a visual experience (unless they're showing video, which is becoming more common), and it can be really difficult to sit through sometimes, especially if you don't love the music. There are a couple of symphonies I love to listen to all the way, but most have a few exciting themes with several minutes of "meh" in between them IMO.
Thank you, if it's something you like, you should try a hardware project, for sure :)

And yes I am Portuguese, born and raised and I do know what you mean, there are mistakes that are somewhat common for Portuguese speaking English and I do make an effort not to make the same mistakes. However I know my English is far form perfect and it's always easier when it's in written form.
I think that the fact that I've always spent too much time watching american/british movies and TV shows made me pay more attention to how English should be spoken :).

But anyway, thank you for saying I speak perfect English, it's actually a great compliment. :)
Don't forget that it is a symbiotic environment. Spotify needs to be on the Apple ecosystem as it is massive and Apple needs to have Spotify in its ecosystem because that's what the users want.

As for payments, they all follow the same scheme more or less and redistribute about 70% of the revenue to the rightholders. If the services are priced the same, it's exactly the same for artists.

The big difference is that Spotify has a permanent free tier, which admittedly makes less money short term, but it is driving acquisition of premium users faster than any other methods. The alternative being no revenue, it's just fine.
Apple on the same topic doesn't care about razor thin margins on this product, or even losses. They are a hardware vendor, so as long as they still sell their devices, they will be fine.
I don't know if it counts as classical music, but since seeing the landing scene from First Man I can't get this music out of my head - for me it is now synonymous with general heroic awesomeness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tf8MaKYhfw
It doesn't seem like Apple said that Spotify wouldn't exist. Just that they wouldn't be the business they are today.

Which is absolutely true of Microsoft as well. The sheer productivity boon that Office has added to businesses around the world is unmatched by practically any other piece of software ever written. Most of the businesses would still exist, but they wouldn't be the same business. Excel, Powerpoint, and Word are ridiculously important software.
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The Author and I obviously have different definitions of classical music.

They point out a 'villain' playing Bach. But to me, the whole film score is classical music. Yes the film is about an evil thing but the music conveys other things.

He identifies A clockwork Orange as a turning point . I could point to a host of 70s and 80s film that had classical music scores, Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc, etc.

I'll admit 'pop' music has become more popular in recent films, but classical music is still really good at communicating certain moods, including but not necessarily villainy.
Can confirm, this is how it works in the US too, even with a top-notch provider (Commerce) with comprehensive coverage.
Here's my antidote to the astronomical salaries posted here:

2012-2014: 25k USD graduated, teach English in Japan

2014: 30k Join startup. Fails.

2015-2017: 25k Back to teaching

2018: 40k try my hand at IT again. Fail.

2019: 30k teaching once again.

If you're worried about your 70k tech salary realise things could be a helluvalot worse.
Not necessarily controversial, but articles that see an endless stream of disruptive editing.

It was originally implemented to limit disruption on articles related to the Isreal/Palestine conflict.
https://mixmag.net/read/new-data-reveals-which-streaming-pla...
Apple popularized me not spending hours of time troubleshooting and restarting and letting me do what I want to do.
Because it's not a purely digital product, RTFA.
I love these posts of new retro consoles. I would love to see one that maintains the audio-visual aesthetics i.e. FM chip tunes, sprite-based 2D graphics yet otherwise pushes the hardware to the absolute max of what is possible today. I think the zenith of 2D gaming was consoles like Neo-Geo and Sega Saturn (and possibly a 2D arcade board whose name escapes me?) and I'm thinking of something along those lines. Does such a thing exist?
The problem is that if they had invested so much effort in training crews for the differences in the Max, it would be an admission that the Max and NG aren't so similar after all.
Making it look like a quick and easy switch is only making the problem more serious.

This is why corporations cannot police themselves and it's where the FAA dropped the ball.
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It's a great book and it was really eye opening. I think it was relevant when it was written and it is just as relevant today.

I think in the past some of the news outlets sort of pretended to be unbiased. They could fool more people into believing that. Sure Fox News was mostly a one-party outlet, but others kept their bias behind the curtain. Since about 5-7 years ago, they stopped pretending as much.

At the same time, I think there is a perception that traditional media companies have failed to manufacture consent properly. There was this void created in that space and tech companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and others rushed in to fill that void. Their message is "come to us, we'll manufacture consent better than these old crusty companies". Then you can see some of the traditional media hitting back at Facebook and others. And there is this sort of a battle between them as to who is a better player at manufacturing and controlling "truth".
CUV is crossover utility vehicle.
I wish the cops had showed more interest in recovering the cell phone that was snatched from my wife recently. I wish they show more interest in the rise of snatching jewellery in than arresting kids for their questionable choice in games.

Its common practice among Indian cops to refuse to register such crimes. But when it comes to pandering to politically blessed agendas, many fall over themselves to please.

I dont think I had much choice in the matter when I had to sign up to pay for their salaries to do the job of parenting.
Is not the tires 100%. The asphalt or the road composition and degradation plays a role.

We have a small highway section which was newly done (somewhere in Germany). They seemd to use a different composition and construction method, man, this road is soo silent, even at >200km/h.
Never saw this, thanks for the link. I found http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-... to be written extremely well.
Sounds interesting. Is your bot available for others to use (source or orherwise)?
It’s their platform and they can do whatever they want.
They invested, they built it, they rule it.
Whiny generation and their stupid EU laws...
A key problem with Boeing is its complacency when things go wrong. I personally remember the Lauda Air crash. Boeing's response to it was unsatisfactory at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004#Niki_Laud...
Yes the journey was very important, absolutely.

Also I had set myself a specific set of goals that obviously are not going to make sense to most people and I understand that.

It could seem like a daunting task at first, but breaking it into milestones actually makes it easier and makes the journey a lot better.
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India has 3 psychiatrists per million and 1 psychologist per 2 million people.

On the other hand they have 150 policemen per hundred thousand citizens so what else is going to happen?

Meanwhile the Tech companies and Telcos and Media(social/news/games/porn) are mindlessly falling over themselves to hook as big a chunk of the masses as possible with their dark patterns. The parents of most kids with a phone in India, barely know how to read and write, leave alone understand/supervise what the kid is doing on the phone.

The size and scope of the mental health disaster unfolding boggles the mind.
South Florida (Fort Lauderdale)

2013 - $45k - test engineer

2014 - $50k - raise

2014 - $82k - new company, switched to software engineering

2015 - $89k - raise + adjustment for finishing masters degree

2016 - $94k - raise + promotion

2017 - $98k - raise

2018 - $105k + $15k RSU - raise + company wide adjustment, also first time given RSU bonus

I'm fairly happy with my progression, plan to stay at the current company for the forseeable future.
I never said they should. I actually don't believe there should be goverment owned roads or utilities (or subsidized utilities in general).

Nobody actually cares about the rural poor. No transportation options, limited services in general. It's just laughable how people consider themselves so giving, unless those people live outside the city, then screw those people.
> It was not always this way. Once, classical music was the backbone of American popular entertainment. Enrico Caruso’s rendition of the aria “Vesti la giubba” from the opera Pagliacci was the first record to sell a million copies. Looney Tunes lampooned The Barber of Seville’s “Largo al factotum,"...

This is changing the goalposts. The article talks about "serious" classical music associated with evil characters... then uses two light-hearted comic operas as a counterpoint? Sure, technically both classical, but as far away from each other as you could get.

Look, this isn't mysterious. Rich people are associated with evil in films, and their stereotypical "too-good" pursuits -- mansions, opera halls, tuxedos, and yes, classical music.

> Maybe millennials are repelled by classical music not for coherent reasons but by a vague sense of mistrust, nourished for decades by movies and media.

This is ridiculous for a million reasons. It's simple, and I say this as someone who has studied classical music for many years (including conducting): classical music isn't that much fun, compared to so many other options today. The kind of people who like classical music are the kind of people who enjoy watching documentaries or reading Shakespeare. It's high-effort, high-reward for a particular kind of person.
I don't think you can say the NEA is responsible for anywhere near the 763 billion... In the article it even states that the government spends:

>The government (federal, state, and local) also provided a major $101.5 billion boost to the sector, mainly in visual and performing arts education funding, according to the data.

The NEA is a rounding error in government arts spending.
I was thinking the same, but didn't work it in to my reply.

Also why Romans have British accents?!?
Cool site
Totally agree. Another example, that damned Bugs Bunny and his brethren with their malicious activities! I've never been able to enjoy The Barber of Seville since :-[
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Reminds me of a story of a budget airliner cutting costs by buying used parts and patching them up. Now nobody had actually tried to do something so nuts/genius before so there weren't any clear cut regulations. Eventually there was an accident and the FAA started to put screws under the microscope and interrogate maintenance crew.

Thankfully the aviation industry nowadays out of self interest cares about safety.
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Then why would you make such a statement?
Now you are just making things up. Citations are really necessary when you start claiming things are catching fire on a weekly basis.
You’re thinking of the Dock Connector, which was last used on the iPhone 4s back in 2011.
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They can block access to anyone they want.

However, if they say "press here to forego your privacy or we'll block you", then that's not a freely given consent to forego your privacy, and in this case this "consent" doesn't count as consent. In this case they're not allowed to track people who "consented" because they didn't really consent (both in moral and in legal sense). Consent "counts" only if it's freely given, if people really want you to do that thing; in EU privacy rights are not something that can be sold or bartered away.

It's somewhat comparable to consent to sex - let's imagine that in a place where you can freely fire workers at will, you say "consent to have sex with me, or I'll fire you". You technically can fire them, but that "consent" isn't really consent, and even if they "agree", that's still nonconsensual. Privacy (in EU) is pretty much the same.
Russia sank billions of dollars into Venezuelan quicksand
There's no innuendo in my comment and the use of the term "running dog" is all yours, not mine.

America's influence over Germany is public and not covert. I could say exactly the same about Japan, for example.
> In my “real world” we normally don’t care about things like big-O complexity. We worry about doing dumb things and not taking more time than we have available.

Big-O is just a formal word for how much time you’re going to take, a way to figure out if you’re likely to take more time than available. So, it sounds like you do care about it, you’re just saying it doesn’t matter if you’re formal about it?

If your team’s n^2 worst case really is in the noise, then you’re absolutely right, the senior is prematurely optimizing.

But without more context, I have to assume there could be reasons your senior “nerd” might be right. Is there a noticeable difference to the user in run time with the largest n you can possibly have? Is the other team you’re delivering to going to call your n^2 routine from one of their own, one that has it’s own O(n) or O(n^2) outer loop?

I’d say big-O notation isn’t difficult, doesn’t take long to learn, doesn’t require school, and knowledge of it doesn’t make someone a wizard. It’s easy. It’s a low enough bar, that I do expect everyone on my team to feel comfortable looking at a function with loops and being able to tell whether something is O(n^2) or O(n^3).

The difficult cases are determining complexity of an architecture full of lots of interconnecting O(1..n) functions, when the complexity isn’t all in one place. I watch unnecessary O(n^3) algorithms get made even on teams of people who all know big-O.
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This. I believe the value proposition of Rust is that it decreases the cost of developing high quality software, much as the value proposition of PHP is that it decreases the cost of medium-quality software. It is not a magic bullet, but requires a nontrivial learning curve. If the goal is safe, performant code, then I think there's a good argument it's worth it. If that's not the goal, then other languages might be better choices.
Historically the console manufacturers sold their consoles at a loss and only made profit on games sales. This might have influenced our perspective on the sales model.
I think there is a difference in the approaches, given that the Chi-squared test statistic for the two-sample version is ~1.52, while for your one-sample version it is ~1.81. If group size doesn't matter and if you're justified in adding up successes as you have, I'd expect the test statistics to be nearly the same.

Edit: I'd expect them to be nearly the same since the Chi-squared distributions would be parameterized similarly, so if we have similar results, we should see similar test statistics. Maybe my reasoning here is incorrect though!
Thank you so much :)

I'm actually a bit overwhelmed with all the comments and I'm trying to answer at least a few of them.

Just wanted to say that, even without knowing you, I think you could absolutely be a tinkerer or creator, just choose something you would like to build, start small and go from there. :)
Karoq is 5 seats I think, Kodiaq is the 7-seater.
>Saying that the Byzantine Empire is just the Roman Empire masks the fact that it really is a Ship of Theseus situation

Not at all, it is simply an objectively correct statement. What we call the "Byzantine Empire" is the eastern portion of the Roman Empire that persisted after Rome and the Western portion fell. This isn't a matter of opinion. It was a continuous political entity.

The Chinese example is not comparable and, as you note, simply dishonest. While you could try to argue about cultural continuity, politically China experienced a series of polities rising, collapsing, and being conquered by foreign invaders.

>Western historiography does emphasize the discontinuity rather than the continuity, and it is wrong, but so is emphasizing the continuity and ignoring the discontinuity.

There is no discontinuity. Changes in language, culture, etc. don't change the fact that it was the continuing portion of the Roman Empire. If the United States exists in 500 years, whatever its makeup or territory, it will still be the United States if the political entity did not end.
Link doesn't work, it is for translating korean to german
Live stream of Christchurch attack runs on social media and news sites
A very good book length treatment of this can be found in Peter Schweizer's Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343/

And it just so happens that his latest book covers the family angle: Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062569368/

Big companies don't have any choice if they want to stay in existence without shakedowns that might end up crushing them. Microsoft's biggest crime in the 1990s as Washington viewed it? Not spending enough money there.
Man, the subject matter here is literally human nature (why certain things "work" for movie audiences). It's a well-established fact that "low" culture (Hollywood) is just as susceptible to analysis as high culture. By attempting to shoot down both this article and Hollywood at the same time you are really pushing the limit.
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It’s boring to read HN wildly speculate on the crash and trash Boeing as if they know what went wrong. Historically speaking, early speculation has nearly always been notoriously bad at predicting what went wrong in a given crash scenario. Despite this happening twice it is still a sixth sigma event, there is no reason to think the exact same set of circumstances occurred twice, especially after pilots were well aware of the MCAS system post Lion-air. I’m sure Boeing deserves a large part of the blame in the end, but I’m also sure that unanticipated pilot error is at the nexus of both events. You can’t anticipate every pilot failure mode, and since this wasn’t lost at sea we have the luxury of waiting for the final report. For all we know it wasn’t a design defect, but an improperly maintained sensor, or pilots who failed to look at the logbook. I see people already talking about how “capitalism has failed” and “lets imprison Boeing execs” which sounds more like Chinese astroturfing than good-faith posting. It could even turn out the two events were independent, a statistical analysis across all jets probably shows the likelihood of two planes of the same type crashing within 6 months of each other is more likely than our intuition suggests, because the Pareto distribution applies to every plane type in the entire world.
"AES-CBC (regardless of key size) + HMAC-SHA2 (Encrypt then MAC)"

CBC is not an option that you should be considering in 2019.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/padding-oracles-and-the-decline-...
The same reasoning does indeed apply to Garmin watches, smart fridges and car dashboards since people are only going to wear one watch and own one fridge and one car.

I don't see the downside of requiring everyone in your examples that already allows third party apps to do so for free (other than passing through payment processing fees) and without delay and censorship: the costs are minor or insignificant and can be included in the purchase price of the device.

The advantage is that it leads to a fair playing field for app makers, lower prices for consumers (since the money that goes to the platform maker is all visible upfront in the device price and thus easier to compete on) and doesn't stifle niches that the platform owner doesn't like for whatever reason.
I think that the KnowYourMeme article [0] is the closest thing to "favorable to gamergate + moderately unbiased" I've read. And while I do think it leaves out some of the horrible behavior on GG's side, at least it doesn't try to paint the media as being composed entirely of angels.

0: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate
You're assuming those checks are a real bottleneck for compile times. Rust only does borrow checking at the function level, so it's easy to parallelize and not all that slow. Most of the compile time is spent on code gen, if I recall correctly.
The only thing anyone is talking about is the price of app distribution. That price includes obeying the terms of Apple’s distribution channel.

> “Spotify already has their own distribution channel (sign up on their website)”

Yes, and if they don’t like the prices for oveying the rules of Apple’s distribution channel, they are free to remove the app from Apple’s app store, and notify customers that they cannot use the service on iOS devices.
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I'm in Michigan, interested to know what you are speaking of?
I think 16 people being arrested for playing a banned video game is real news that deserves to be widely published.

Your friends' fake Facebook contest is not quite comparable.