skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a devil's advocate--while there is definitely associations classical music with wealth, classical music for evil I don't entirely see. Classical music is a very deep trove of, mostly, royalty free music. Hannibal Lecter listening to the aria from the Goldberg Variations is probably less about signaling his sophistication, and more about the fact that it is a profoundly calm, even serene, piece of music playing during a scene of horrific violence. It mirrors the scene earlier where the said something like "his pulse never got above 80, even when he ate her tongue." It shows the calmness in Lecter despite the violence--this is not a crime of passion or hate.

Another small reference that I think is misused--he mentions Fritz Lang's M, and the "Hall of the Mountain King" melody that the killer whistles. First the film was made around 1931. Classical music would not have that sort of reference to the audience at that time. In my opinion M was the first movie to really understand sound film. The whistling tunes was a way to use sound to evoke presence without the character on screen. We could see a child playing, and hear the whistle in the background, and know that this child was being targeted without having to cut away. We get this kind of film information all the time in movies, but this is the first film that used the technique, and it had nothing to do with classical music. (Lang also invented some other sound dependent techniques in this film.)

This is not to say that some of the other examples are not instance of signaling "bad person" sing classical music, but I don't think its evil. I think the association of classical music with wealth/elitism is well established in modern films, so its presence for a wealthy/elite killer is expected, without taking that to also denoting evil.
Yes, a lot of movies or video games block busters, no matter how pretty they are, are closer to a rollercoaster than to a van gogh painting.

Indeed, you may have a lot of fun in the rollercoaster, and it may be aesthetically pleasing, but it's not made with an artistic intent as much as a desire to make the audience feel good and spend money.

You can call anything "art", so it's not like we can state precisely what fall out of the category. Plus I think the intent make things clearer: do you create music for the music, or do you reuse a well known working formula hopping to sell a lot of air time ?

You can mix both, of course. But when ROI is measure by those producing the thing, it's more a product than a piece of art.
Good news, electric scooters are a thing, and they're very quiet.
How does the International Space Station regulate its temperature?
>Why take it that "classical music is not fun", and not the inverse, but equal reading "the modern music consuming public is crude".

Like it or not, society sees classical music as up-tight.

"Leading scientist ejected by audience after 'trying to crowd surf' at classical music concert" [0]

>Before the performance, Mr Morris invited the audience to bring their drinks into the standing area in front of the stage and instructed them: "Clap or whoop when you like, and no shushing other people."

When I think of fun shows I've been to, I don't exactly remember any with audience reminders that showing enjoyment was permitted.

[0] https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/leading-scienti...
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Optical scan machines solve that issue quite nicely and more robustly, especially when a ballot needs to be spoiled due to error (it can be physically destoryed before tally instead of needing to support deletion or modification of records in the voting machine).
When a National Voter ID is required all the big blue states will flip back to red.
Now The Intercept is for hosting Greenwald's petty feud with MSNBC talking heads.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/08/msnbc-does-not-merely-pe...

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/03/msnbc-yet-again-broadcas...

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/07/nbc-and-msnbc-blamed-rus...

Etc., etc., etc.
I've seen EV charging stations at offices and supermarkets in some pretty "old" places. I could imagine seeing them in more places where you park for a while.
Kinda?

A different version of this argument looks like: "I'm not worried about surveillance because I never do anything wrong." but that's a philosophical argument.

Just from a straight "annoying" / pragmatic perspective I can think of the following issues:

Marijuana is legal in a lot of states including DC but not if you hold a clearance, if you're into that kind of thing.

Anything international makes for a paperwork drill, not to mention possible approvals required.

Any normal domestic interaction with the law (law suits, getting pulled over, arrested and not charged, etc) all become a potential job-destroyer.

Not to mention you're reporting all of this stuff to the government 100% of the time.

It may not be a hassle if you live a pretty conventional lifestyle, don't travel much, etc, but it definitely adds a layer of annoyance at a minimum.
Expectations are vastly different for a business-focused hosting platform with SLAs than a social network.
This.

I've since learnt "recycling" meant more on the line of "collect+transport+sort+ship it out of sight". It was a business like any other, when it was profitable everything chugged along just fine.. as soon as money stopped flowing things gets ugly.

I wonder if there's any opportunity in this. or is it basically wait for some other country to pick up the demand.
This is almost getting as silly as music genres.
I guess the point is you might already own a PC, and you could use that for developing Android apps, for example. But if you also want to use Xcode and develop iOS apps as well then you have to buy a Mac.
Tell HN: Lana Del Rey makes my coding skills much better
I dunno about the US but everyone I known in Europe that lives in a city or close to a highway is looking forward to the electric future. This has become a recurring topic in dinner conversations as more and more people have first hand experience with electric vehicles now.

Imagine how quiet a city like Paris, Rome or Berlin could be if all vehicles were electric?

I can't wait for this future to arrive and the fact that I will enjoy it a decade earlier -- at least -- I'll owe to Musk/Tesla. More power to them.
Practically speaking, they were mostly an apple only liability. Go to any podium with an apple laptop made before retina when they finally caught up with the worldand stuck an HDMI port in the macbook pro, and you will find the DVI/VGA/HDMI cable that everyone uses, and no way to plug in your macbook if you forgot your 3" dongle. During presentations in undergrad, everyone with a macbook had to email themselves or use a flash drive to bum someone's better endowed laptop to hook up to the projector, because no one ever accounted that they would need a $30 dongle to use the video out on their $1500 laptop. IT started buying these miniDVI or whatever dongles for the podiums, but they wouldn't stay put for very long in the lecture halls.
Couldn't agree more. It's Apple's world, if you are asked to play in a certain way - play it. Build your own ecosystem if you are not happy there. It's like everything in life, if you are not happy with something you have to find a way to make the change, don't Q_Q
And this makes sense. They are counting the value paid per 1000 plays. If most of users in spotify are free, the average will be lower. Also, spotify has more plays than apple, so the final value paid might be higher.
Rust's usability is advancing, but I'll note that so are C++'s memory safety facilities. Arguably, modern C++ programming is becoming intrinsically more safe than more traditional coding styles (though arguably the use of string_views and spans outside of function parameters is a step backwards), but progress is also being made on the lifetime profile checker (C++'s borrow checker analogue), and there are libraries[1] that allow you avoid potentially unsafe C++ elements, to the degree that (memory and data race) safety is a priority.

At present, C++ is significantly lacking in safety enforcement tooling and "community enthusiasm" for memory safety compared to Rust. But to me, it is not obvious that that will be the case indefinitely. It's even plausible that Rust and C++ will sufficiently converge in flexibility and safety that at some point automated translation between the two languages will be a thing.

At the moment, I think the main relevant difference in fundamental (as opposed to not-yet-available tooling or whatever) capability between the two languages is Rust's lack of support for move constructors/destructors. I think it prevents the safe, efficient, unintrusive, robust implementation of a small but significant set of algorithms / data structures.

But I guess my point is that I think that C++, and its existing codebases, are not necessarily condemned indefinitely to be memory unsafe in the way they have been historically. And that could be a factor that contributes to the justification of deciding to continue to use C++ in some cases.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
Indians already ruined Quora. Not HN now, please. Go cry elsewhere.
Why would you need to build underwater fiber????????? I don't understand.
But the government doesn't own the lines, so unless they feel like nationalizing the utilities that's the only thing they can do. And I'm sure the lobbyists are making sure that doesn't happen too...

It's a dirty racket for passing a lot of money between few hands.
Facilitating crime is generally illegal as well as performing it. That's where you get things like (for example) conspiracy and aiding and abetting charges.
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If you added up all the contributions different sectors claim to be making to the economy you would probably end up with a GDP that’s 50 times as much as it really is.
Meta, but I wanted to say congrats on your throwaway name. Nicely chosen.
> You'll notice the top rated comment, & majority of comments, agrees with their decision to switch to C++. Yet we'll persist that Rust is an elitist community.

Having read those comments, many of them can be best characterized as politely dismissive, e.g. from the top rated comment "If the author is more comfortable writing this code in C++ it makes sense to use it, but I feel like there is a long way to go to make this code "safe" regardless of language. " , elsewhere "I get that this project probably values developer efficiency over safety or correctness, and probably makes sense in this use case.", etc. Still smells kind of elitist to me.
Do they get 30% for every part you put on it they don't make?
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> paying such a high fee to Apple, which Apple Music itself doesn’t have to pay, might force Spotify to take it out of the artists’ end to stay afloat.

bunnycom's reply to you is flagged dead, but there's an important rebuke to that claim: Spotify doesn't use iAP for subscriptions any more, and Apple gets no money off of Spotify today except for pre-existing subscriptions from before Spotify disabled iAP: https://support.spotify.com/us/account_payment_help/subscrip...

So I think it's a bit specious to say Spotify has to squeeze artists more to pay Apple's fees, when they're not even paying those fees any more.

And I'd venture to say the iAP process really does help growth of apps like Spotify: it lets you use a single credit card you have linked to your iTunes account for all in-app purchases with just TouchID/FaceID, and is a much lower-friction way of paying money to an app than filling in your credit card information into every app, having to change them all when your card expires, etc. I wouldn't say it's worth a 30% (or even 15%) cut, but it's not worthless.
Does this have a real chance of passing through ?
No. This is preposterous. I ended up on gamergate's hate list and they dumped so much filth into my reddit inbox I deleted my account and never looked back. And I'm a total nobody.

The harassment from the core GG folks was systematic and severe. In several cases it escalated to physical stalking of women where the police became involved.

And should we be surprised? This whole thing got started when one angry ex boyfriend wrote a rant and got the whole 4chan gaming world to start harassing and demonizing his ex.

But sure, go ahead and keep claiming "it's about ethics in gaming journalism" and that there's no harassment, just people being too sensitive or faking it.

Utterly. Preposterous.
Tangentially related here, but I think it's another interesting dichotomy of children across cultures (and how parents deal with them).

I can't remember where from, but I heard a fascinating take on how countries in Europe, with predatory animals and other dangers outside the village, would cultivate myths of things like werewolves, vampires, and other beasts that would kill/maul/bite you. This prevented children from wandering too far.

Meanwhile, in Japan (where there's very few predators to be afraid of), the myths are much more wholesome [1]. There's spirits that wash beans, lick oil, follow you around, and so forth, but few/no myths of the dangerous creatures you'd find documented in Europe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_fr...
> 1. individual cars are a dumb way to "fix" the environment, they're hyper resource intensive and have so many problems

This may have been a poor way to say it, but it is the truth.

We will not buy or consume our way out of climate change or negative externalities that affect the environment.

> 2. the good way is to build mass transit and radically change society, which is a political issue. tesla comes in a long tradition of sucking public funding into a private entity which cuts across that

Again, a poor choice of words for an otherwise good point: if we want to see a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, we need to move away from the idea of ubiquitous transportation via personal vehicles.
Not created by NSA from what I read. A US Gov't agency, yes, but not that one.
The basic times tables are a big sticking point in secondary mathematics. Because polynomial work depends heavily on factorization, students who cannot readily see that 56 = 7 * 8, and then apply their elementary operations skills to say 7 * 8 = (27) (8/2) = (47) (8/4) will struggle more than those that can.

You can develop skills to compensate (e.g., starting with small primes and working up instead) but it's still an extra step in the process.

This does not necessarily affect a student's overall understanding of polynomial functions, but can hang over their head in the actual work with them.
Well, A. Not exactly because there's no restrictions on when you can color nodes black, and B. Graph coloring in general is NP-complete while this problem has an O(n) solution.
Artists amount to 1.8% of the American workforce

https://www.princeton.edu/culturalpolicy/quickfacts/artists/...

Farmers, 0.05%

http://infomory.com/numbers/number-of-farmers-in-us/

Not surprising that art is a bigger industry? Unsurprising, with ~40X the number of people involved, arts produced 4X the revenue.
I'm not challenging the existence of the cars, I'm asking if the global car market reflects the US market as in the citation. I'm especially interested if it applies in China.
I believe it's Yet to be rolled out.
From https://mashable.com/article/google-ar-maps/
> WSJ claims the feature will roll out "soon" to a few Local Guides, but it will only become widely available when Google is "satisfied that it's ready," which will probably take a while. In the meantime, Maps users will have to make do with the traditional map view.
> That makes a lot of sense, but shouldn't simulators be updated/upgraded for significantly different models?

According to Boeing, the FAA, the EASA, and various other regulators around the world, the 737 MAX is not significantly different to earlier 737s.
Sort and stack is pretty good. When done at poll sites, it's fairly manageable (many hands make light work).

In the USA, federal, state, and local contests are all on the same ballot. Where I live, general election ballots have 30+ items.

For manual counting to be feasible, we'd have to split into separate ballots.

Of all the people I've spoken with over the years, there's been no objections to this. But it is a big change and there's been no advocacy.
Socialism.

Before it was national-socialism, now it's international-socialism (EU).

Unlike the earlier episode, this approach actually works for most of the continental EU. They don't mind it as long as Germany's government allows them to spend more than they earn.

What's interesting is that many North Americans haven't learned a thing from the misery socialism wrought upon Europe both before and now, and increasingly identify with AOC, Bernie and similar characters
It amazes me that so many people do this stuff and think so little about the consequences.

Personally, I'm glad my wife and I were in the generation before this became a thing.
Is this specific to Tor, or would it also affect CDN's? I am not a fan of commercial CDN's (for my own hobby sites) so I set up haproxy+strongswan VPN nodes in various VPS sites around the world, that cache and relay traffic to/from a few nodes in another VPS. For all intents and purposes, my websites are actually hidden, despite having public IP addresses and names. I've had front-end caching nodes in Germany before.
Amazing how the world keeps going even when you're not paying attention huh?
I will admit I have a burner gmail for account signups with like 18k unread messages, but I've resigned that email to the advertising spam dogs a decade ago.
As someone who works with modern industrial robots, like you'd find in a car factory, the sensors they're using for the arm positioning are unbelievably precise. I can have the robot stopped, with the brakes on, and push on the end of the arm with my fingers and see the joints registering the deviation (and not by 1 or 2 counts, but many more), while I don't perceive any significant movement of the robot.
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I am unfamiliar with this project, is it pronounced "Spark Liar" or "Sparkly R" or "Spar Clear" something else?
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"Why not build a validation machine that voters can feed manually-completed optical scan ballots into, before they go to the tabulator?"

That's precisely how poll-based opscans work.

Central count (for postal ballots processing) is necessarily different, because that sanity check cannot be done, so voter intent must be adjudicated when ballots (or individual votes) are unreadable. It's a sausage factory.
I agree! I was just watching one of his videos the other day on creating a brand new 8-bit computer and I think he would be super interested in your work.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww
Odd, I always thought the opposite. Classical music is beloved by pretty much anyone, regardless of income. Going to a concert performance, maybe, skews richer, but just maybe. But I haven't met a single person who does not enjoy the tunes from the Magic Flute or doesn't bob along to the Blue Danube.
Pure anecdote, but maths seems to me to be in a class of its own when it comes to people feeling incapable of solving problems. People may not know much of a foreign language, and they may not enjoy speaking it, but they will rarely look at a sentence in another language and think "Nope, can't work out what that means" when in fact they can.

I noticed a particularly odd example of it with my mother, who "hates maths" but has worked with finances all her life. If you ask her what 10% of 200,000 is, she'll say she doesn't know. If you ask her what sort of return she'd expect on a $200k investment she'll say, no shit, "you'd want 10% per year, so... $20,000.".

It's not that she's incapable of doing it. Her mind just shuts down when faced with the question.
It often amazes me how little Snowden changed. I mean, surveillance and targeted misinformation campaigns is worse than our worst dystopian fiction ever imagined, but no one really cares.

It’s getting worse too with more and more anti-encryption laws and centralisation.

That being said, since the Snowden information isn’t changing the world, then I can’t really fault anyone for not wanting to pay for hosting it.
What do you need to 'set manually' ? You check 'automatically manage signing' and select your team from the list (if you're in multiple teams) and it should Just Work™.
Don't forget the diesel soot. Leave your window open for the day and come back to suit covering everything.
That's not art?

The whole point of art is to make someone feel something. And a big part of getting people to feel is playing on familiarity - for example, how much rock music can be traced directly or indirectly to Chuck Berry? Almost every guitarist has been affected by him. We all mine Chuck Berry riffs, and thus the audience can latch on to our original music and have a spark of recognition.

Product "or" art? It's not either/or.
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Some quick math: last I heard, Lyft was doing 1M rides a day. That's 1M transactions per day, or "only" 11 transactions per second. Of course there's lot more (assuming 10x) supporting transactions to enable one ride - search, matching, status updates. Let's say that adds another 100 transactions per second. Rounding up to 150/sec. What am I missing?

In terms of data usage and storage, matching is by geography, meaning their data is easy to shard.

So, how's this $8M per month?

edit: fixed a typo
At least in the US it’s acceptable to say “ I am bad at math” or “I am bad at languages” so a lot of people don’t even try or really believe that these things are insurmountably difficult. I have never heard anybody say publicly “reading this too hard for me”.
Are they in college? You need it for college, your school email is the only official way for academic communication. Professors aren't going to contact you seriously on any other platform beyond office hours, because they literally aren't allowed.
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Way more impressive than various fantasy consoles that typically involve a lua programming environment and an artificially limited screen. Here the limitations actually stem from the hardware being used. This is something that only huge companies could attempt to design not that long ago.

I once made a virtual machine for a console designed from scratch as "fantasy hardware", with its own architecture, assembly language, CPU, and so on. I'd like to be able to bring it to life some day as you have.
I agree with your point, but don't underestimate the power of public opinion, or the public wallet. I tend to think Apple is shitty in this instance, and I advocate all people use hardware-neutral services when possible. I stand with Spotify - that is, until they do something wildly anti-consumer or break their app.
Nevertheless Germany is in CFBLNet, NATO, the 14 and in the Berne club...
Is there a raw archive available?
I think you missed the point. It is saying that when we build AI systems put our understanding of a problem space into the system, we inhibit the development of a system that can create its own understanding of the problem space. He gives three very good examples of that. He also explains why people are tempted to do that: it's satisfying and initially improves the results.
Since when is $48k considered a "low" new car price? That's a lot of money for a car. Only a small fraction of the population is willing to spend that much.