skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the teachings also say to take personal experience and science over any book teachings or otherwise from other people, and chanting (if you listen to the video in the article, it's chanting they are talking about, not really music) has been shown in studies to relieve stress and have benefits:
https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhist-researchers-find-that-rel...

Personally, I meditate with Chan Buddhists who aren't nearly as chant crazy as the Pure Land Buddhists, but even they have a chant about the five skandhas before we start quiet meditation.
they aren't fixing it though, just kicking the can down the road. I have two coworkers that have had the replacement to the new model butterfly a few months back. Their keyboards are already failing again.

There is a good reason I stick with my mid-2014 macbook.
>I’ve always wondered, is there a better way to annotate music?

Not really. Western staff notation is heavily optimised for intelligibility by an expert user. It's not very intuitive, it barely works at all for non-western pitch systems, but a trained musician can read, understand and reproduce complex scores in real time. For the primary users of western musical notation, that is an essential, non-negotiable feature that negates every disadvantage.

Western notation leans heavily on both visual pattern recognition and an understanding of music theory. It can be read in chunks, like written natural language. When you're reading this comment, you're not parsing individual letters, you're recognising whole words and phrases. It's the same for music notation - a skilled user sees chords, progressions and scale fragments rather than individual notes. They are parsing the dots and lines as meaningful musical information, not purely abstract pitch and duration data.

It's not a particularly precise or machine-readable system, but it's not supposed to be. Where we need machine-readability, we have MIDI and OSC - they're totally unreadable by humans, but they convey a vastly greater range of data at vastly greater precision than any traditional notation system.

Notation encodes as much detail as is musically relevant and no more. For example, we typically only use eight levels of loudness, from ppp to fff. It's not really useful for the composer or the performer to encode very precise loudness information, because human musicians can't reproduce that level of precision.
Nature has an editorial on the paper that is better and free

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01328-x
I'm not sure I see the problem. At scale, you're logging into an aggregator anyway. If part of your job is log recovery/analysis then you need to get the right tools working (docker works almost everywhere now, so that should solve it). In a small environment, I'm you can find a way to run a VM somewhere temporarily.
If it turns out to be that simple to write a test, it probably didn't happen by accident. Many systems are more difficult to write tests for.

Of course we (and they) should do it anyway, but it does often take an investment in making things testable.
The article is discussing the movie. It refers to Tolkien seeing dragons on the Western Front. When he clarifies the reality of Tolkien’s life he steps aside from the general context of the article to do so. I think you misread.
Any single thing there is not-insignificant demand for will have a market. Think of any possible thing and google “buy [that thing]” and you will find a seller or a story about sellers.

The question is what Amazon will do about it.
Bottom of the Funnel: Closing a Great Candidate Experience
Mostly bioinformatics these days. I’m in academia, and have been virtually all my career, so I can’t really speak to whether a Ph.D. is worth it in industry.
Come on, you knew facebook was evil. Most people know facebook is evil. We choose to ignore it because otherwise we would feel obligated to change. Change would come at the expense of "likes" and other modes of social validation.

People are realizing that social validation is becoming less validated by social media. (Lets remove the likes on IG!!). The people coming around now are sheep looking for the next wave of validation.
If you can get past the smarmy attitude there is a Twitter account called Tesla Charts that does a great chartroll each quarter:

https://twitter.com/TeslaCharts/status/1121167252559151104
Not really, how does the end user know that the credit card number they're entering isn't being stolen by the merchant they're buying from? In theory the merchant should never even get the credit card number if they're integrating with stripe honestly and correctly, but the end user won't know that unless they're inspecting the traffic.
Yeah. The loss of long-term customers over privacy issues, addiction issues, and general creepiness is probably a greater concern to them than a fine.

I quit using Facebook because I realized it's actively unhealthy for me, and I've been "healing" since. They don't want the dribble of middle class tech nerds leaving the platform to become a flood.
Party like it's 1999! Wonder how it works out this time around...
Reminds me of a Charles Mingus anecdote I came across today:

> The reed player Yusef Lateef recalled his own experience learning Mingus music: “On one composition I had a solo and, as opposed to having chord symbols for me to improvise against, he had drawn a picture of a coffin. And that was the substance upon which I was to improvise.”

https://fdleone.com/2016/01/29/charles-mingus-the-jazz-works...
It's almost as if the company reported earnings that beat expectations...
Well, there are different variants of Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is pretty different from, say, Zen.
Heuristic algorithms using hand-crafted features.
I'm not sure either make sense. So much of GUI programming is learning a particular toolkit. Especially in the case of Qt where it's an entire _runtime_--memory management, string types, threading, async/signaling, etc etc. This isn't even mentioning the hoops you have to jump through to compile a Qt program (if you're using C/C++).

These toolkits are inevitably on their way out. The future is the browser stack, loathe though I am to accept it.

As a tangent, it wouldn't be horrible if something like a browser was used as a window manager and UI runtime a la ChromeOS except with apps running in containers (and no bastardized Linux kernel and the restrictions that come with). This would have lots of benefits--the whole frontend benefits from all of the investment going into the web (including wasm) and the whole backend benefits from the investment in containers. Notably, packaging / dependency management, process management, log management, etc would all be much simpler/easier.
That doesn't matter, restricting information that employees can access is Security 101. I can't view restricted company information that I don't need for my job, likewise people transcribing Alexa voice commands don't need the home address of the voices they are transcribing. Just because you give Amazon your address for shipping and billing information doesn't mean you want to give John and Jane on the Alexa QA team your home address.
In 2019, Is YC Worth It?
The history of China's rise as a technologically enabled state is in direct contradiction to the premise of the accusation.

The West invented technologically enabled surveillance. The Stasi in Germany - for example - developed a records and accounting system and would use home telephony equipment to spy on dissidents. As of the 70s and 80s the United States NSA has backdoored much of the modern global communications systems - and has build these systems to scale intelligence into actionable intelligence for partner enforcement organizations (CIA/FBI/etc). At a municipal scale, the United States is networked with threat scoring systems, camera networks with facial recognition, ISMI interceptors (with continuous passive collections events over all major cities), data fusion centers between policing and data networks, requirements to data holding companies to compel data access, and much more - these systems were build several decades ago but are constantly being updated.

China was struggling through these decades to reestablish itself, and has only recently copied modern Western systems of surveillance.

I don't really have teeth in that game though. I realize this is a political topic ("blame"). The fact that the West employs a sophisticated and pervasive surveillance state should not restrict us from criticizing Eastern implementations of the same gross mal-application of technology. And the fact is that who "invented" it is a bit of a non-starter, as state surveillance existed thousands of years ago in rudimentary forms that have evolved independently between states - and the application of modern technology is just one aspect of historical picture.

Of course the surveillance situation in the United States goes much further, with state intelligence agencies actively "engaged" with the public so that public perception can be shaped. The NSA calls this combination of surveillance and engagement "active listening". I don't know whether China has learned from this yet (such topics are hard to research) but it wouldn't surprise me.
I saw an interesting example of cheating during one of Amazon's sales. Someone had posted an "updated" version of a board game that wasn't updated, it was just a different language version. It was hard to tell if the release date was updated but everything on the page pointed it to being the same product. However it was prices higher of course.
There is Klavarskribo [1], more or less the keyboard-equivalent of Tabulature for stringed instruments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klavarskribo
Until someone turned on logging of the full request body on the load balancer/proxy or otherwise unknown-to-you middlebox that was the TLS termination point in production that you did not know about
San Francisco's War Between the Rich and Homeless Is at “Boiling Point”
Former neuroscientist working on similar stuff here.

While the flashy part is the “speech synthesis”, the science breakthrough is actually better frames as an machine learning problem.

Imagine you record someone moving their hand across a canvas. The hand movement becomes the input, the drawing the output. The ML problem they solved is to reconstruct the output (or at least something that resembles it) from the input. In the study’s case, that’s efferent motor signals.

There is a long history of mapping these kind of signals in the sensorimotor homunculus to the respective muscles they control downstream (and some really cool stuff like prosthetic limbs can already be controlled with it), but speaking is a notoriously hard motor task and requires a lot of muscles to work in unison in very precise ways. When you implant these multi-electrode arrays, you get a few hundred more or less random single neurons, astrocytes, and local field potentials from the nether in between. Nonsense, noisy data. Being able to map this back to the result they produce in the body is technically as complex as astonishing!
Any two circular orbits of equal radius are either identical (potentially excluding direction) or intersects at two points.

which two points is irrelevant to the chance of collision.
> I would publish the destination address with a message saying what had happened

Bitcoin does not support embedding messages in addresses (and embedding messages in transactions is controversial as it will be stored in blockchain forever, so many block explorers do not render such messages to discourage it).
We don't have a public design document. This presentation contains some details about the internal architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5eiNBUf4Q
> in logs.

... for seven years.
Words like malice and evil require intent. If we don't want the conversation to be about intent, we should use words like amoral. Facebook isn't actively trying to harm their customers, they simply don't care about them. That is amoral not evil.
Haptic feedback to find the 'keycaps' is fine and all, but if you've ever tried to type like a human on an ipad for more than a few minutes you discovery that having a thing under your finger that has some elasticity to it is SUPER IMPORTANT.
Suppose you train an AI to predict how good people are at weight lifting, trained from a bunch of seemingly unrelated data (maybe you want to hire bouncers or construction workers). You will find that the model predicts better performance for males. You notice this, identify that men are more likely to go to the gym than wimen, and modify your data to compensate for this. But when you rerun the model men still show better results. You find some other biases in your data. You find societal biases, like role models for girls not being physically strong. You even take some women and show that with training they outperform average men.

You can modify reality, but our understanding of biology - especially hormones - clearly tells us that the AI was right: men are generally better than women at weight lifting.

I'm not saying that every issue is like that, but it would be foolish to ignore that sometimes reality is biased, sometimes in obvious ways and sometimes more subtly.
> “My papers were rejected,” he recalls; “my grants turned down.”

Why scientific "consensus" is not scientific.
Transparent mice and human organs created by scientists
Indeed. Inverse square law would make that a) low-altitude event, or b) high-power beam.
I guess I don’t agree.

I’d be willing to bet that simpler is generally easier to understand than complex. Maybe some exceptions exist, but I’d suspect they’d be outliers.
This article is useless - there are no numbers, no proof, that college is affordable. Just the author trying to rationalize her decade old decision of not going to Columbia. (She rattles on about how hard she worked, implying if kids just worked harder they'd have success)

As of 2015 you earn 50% more with a college degree than without. That means a college degree easily pays for itself.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/01/12/pay-gap-betw...
Isn't the stdlib problem made less of a problem by the easy FFI to C? (it wasn't easy last time I tried btw)
The fine should be high enough to nullify any profit they made from their malfeasance, plus some amount as punitive damages to discourage the behavior in the future.
I wish people would speak about this problem more. I can’t tell you how many times I need reiterate certain things with our DevOps team to get the proper permissions because I can’t seem to get it right the first time.
The passwords in plaintext wasn't a breach or a leak. If you punish Facebook for it, they would be less inclined to share such information in the future.
You do need them if you want to use recent hardware, or get decent performance, or have working power management. From casual user's perspective, if this kind of stuff is not working properly, it's not really "set up".
Someone mentioned all the cash from customer deposits. Does Tesla still have a large backlog of undelivered Model 3s?

There’s a lot of schadenfreude on Twitter but the stock price has barely budged in after hours trading.
Sometimes I feel like all I do is plug Nix.

But NixOS has a neat feature where any (?) NixOS configuration can trivially instead be built as a "vm", which will assemble an initrd for the described system along with a script which will run a tailored qemu invocation to launch the system, leaving a qcow2 file of any changes you make to the filesystem in your cwd. Makes the whole thing extremely usable, and is done in a very extensible way.
I think most people are dark people in a way. There are people like you and I who recognize ourselves as such, others who try to hide it, and others who are still oblivious until they experience it first-hand. Each group prefers their own type, but I do think everyone trends towards darkness eventually. It's just a truth of the reality we inhabit - some of us experiece the harshness early on, others later on through pain or death of a loved one. But it does bring us all weirdly closer when we do.
PAN-PAN (urgency) is more common in other countries. In the US, pilots typically "declare an emergency" which can be anything from a engine caution message, to a critical emergency, which would justify a MAYDAY call. Sometimes, pilots will upgrade a PAN-PAN to a MAYDAY if their situation gets worse.

One reason for US pilots to only declare an emergency, and not "urgency" is when a pilot requests priority, FAA procedures sometime require Air Traffic Controllers to treat a priority or urgency as an emergency, even if the pilot does not expressly declare the emergency.

Almost all airliners require 2 pilots. Unless they have a relief Captain, or fully qualified jumpseat pilot, they have to declare PAN-PAN (urgency) or emergency, when flown by a single rated pilot. The chief flight attendant (pursor) may assist in the cockpit, and frequently does sit in the cockpit seat, when either pilot uses the bathroom.
> Facebook isn't actively trying to harm their customers, they simply don't care about them. That is amoral not evil.

Don't bend yourself out of shape. Actively, happily ignoring the evil you have caused and continue to cause is evil.
I think you misread the parent: "The so-called dark ages are not much worse than other periods of human history when there is were no large government institutions." It's not a comparison to the Roman Empire.
There should be a version of this for hacker news comments and tech blog posts. Every time I see the phrase 'that said' or 'that being said' I involuntarily cringe.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
I think you misunderstand. GP's idea was not to submit their own DNA under someone else's name, but rather to submit someone else's DNA under their own name (as a decoy).
I'm like 99% sure this has always been the "ideal" business model. Only take a chance if you can afford it. Something, something cost-benefit analysis.

There was a stink about a car manufacturer and seat belts (I think) a few years back. They decided the cost of a few settlements for dead people was less than the cost of fixing the problem.

This is now, has been, and (unless we eat the rich) always will be the way it is.
Sorry, coinage isn't an area of expertise for me. I'd just be googling for any info.
In other words, market rewards Facebook for being fined only $5 billion by increasing their market cap $20 billion. Unreal.
> Similar punishment for similar transgressions is how the law is supposed to work.

Facebook and Equifax did not commit similar transgressions, and to say to is misleading.
> Clearly a design decision by someone that doesn't use their pickup bed for picking things up.

Seems like a reasonable engineering trade-off for an EV to me; unless you can figure out an equally aerodynamic solution with the spare under the frame. You want to maximize range all the time (by reducing drag), but you only rarely need to access the spare.

If you badly need access to spare all the time and you're willing to sacrifice range 24/7 for it, I'm sure there will be after-market solutions, similar to bike-racks.
>"This may be a particular peeve of mine and no one else’s, but I note it, because it’s my book: Name-dropping, for no better reason than to show off, under-appreciated novels, obscure foreign films, or cherished indie bands by having one’s characters irrelevantly reading or watching or listening to them is massively sore-thumbish. A novel is not a blog post about Your Favorite Things.[5] If you must do this sort of thing—and, seriously, must you?—contextualize heavily."

Laughs in Ready Player One: https://i.imgur.com/oJXgNRQ.jpg
They've literally selected for a userbase of people who dislike advertising enough to go out of their way to find and use a largely unknown browser.

I doubt that the people who downloaded it to avoid advertising will sign up for this without paying them a lot.
Yes there are, but as an aside, Zen chants Sanskrit too. It's a common practice.
I've seen plenty of interview questions that do boil down to "implement this algorithm" or "implement this data structure". There are similar examples in comments on this very discussion.
commissions are commissions
OpenBSD ports are always very up to date. In snapshots, packages are frequently updated before most Linux distributions, including Arch.
I think that 'fluff' is actually interesting content to the bulk of people landing on that page. I know folks who read recipes for fun, I expect they genuinely enjoy reading the color commentary just like I might enjoy reading some 'extraneous' content in a movie/album review
Just destroy the company. Reduce it to nothing but smoldering rubble.

Take everything Facebook is, and burn it until it's unrecognizable. Flush the wreckage down the toilet.

Take all the data centers. All the bare metal. All the semiconductors, printed circuit board, cooling fans, wiring and fiber optics, toss it into the slag lagoon of some disused strip mine.

Take all the former employees and assign them to boondoggle re-education camps that they cannot leave until they acknowledge that the entire upper eschelon of the company was a zoo of useless quacks.

Zuckerberg himself should land in the cell previously reserved for Bradley/Chelsea Manning. His crimes are fundamentally equivalent, if you want to split hairs. The two only differ in scale and audience. Mutually exclusive counterparts of each other if you stop to think about it for a moment.

And then? What comes next?

I'm not sure. This is whole thing is a bad hangover we need to sleep off. What were things like before this nightmare. We need to gain some distance to acquire the proper context, and find our bearings before charting another course.

I remember what things were like before. What they were supposed to become, before this horrendously rude interruption.

But then millions of people dumped their lives out in the open, and it got used against us, and look where we are now.

Clearly, discretion is the better part of valor.
There's no "just" to any aspect of this topic. I think what you are talking about is what is sometimes called "classification parity", and there are problems with it, and with everything else we've come up with to combat bias.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00023
Extremely non-deterrent.
I am shamelessly promoting it, because we have no bandwith to make it to the extension, and for the past almost three years we've been promised by several people/organizations to create an extension or even to incorporate it into "next" version of Postgres (and I am not pointing fingers :)). Still hoping somebody will be willing to work with us to make it happen. First time I talked about it with Bruce exactly 3 years ago, he told me there should be a proven need. So... we have a business case :). but still ...
That's how you handle children, though. No one is going to ignore wrongdoings in hopes the perp will continue to play nicely.
Yeah, I've been very impressed with .NET Core's efforts in performance lately. Span<T>, the stack allocation support, and greater "semi-managed" heap memory support, are a major performance breakthrough taken together. It gives the garbage-collected "safe" C# code most of the performance characteristics of pointer-heavy "unsafe" code.

It's maybe still too early to make predictions of long-term impact, but it really does seem like it puts C# into a good position to take on even more "performance critical" work day-to-day, possibly keeping C# competitive with (and even mentionable in the same sentence as) languages such as Rust and Go. (Especially when combined with AOT/.NET Native compilation.)

It is definitely something I'm keeping an eye on.