skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these genre descriptions are _awesome!_ - th9s is from the LiquidFunk subgenre of Drum n Bass:

"Just before the turn of the millenium is when a sufficient number of white people were attending Jungle parties to the point where music writers and magazines stopped calling it Jungle and rebranded it Drum n Bass, although the partykids retained the label "junglists" and they're still called that today (probably because "drumnbassists" isn't as catchy).

Not coincidentally this is also the point where the two-step drum kick takes over everything, ushering in an age of mediocrity for a scene that was once specifically noted for its unique and inventive drum programming. You might as well call this Disco n Bass.

As if things couldn't get any worse for Disco n Bass, the lucrative opportunity of mad festival money in the 2010s compelled it to whore itself into a subgenre depository of shitty pop remixes heretofore known as Dancefloor. If you hear a Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift or even Adele remix with a powerful Pendulum two-step drum kick, it's technically Dancefloor: The end game of pop music trendwhore oblivion.
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personally Juul is the only device that helped me quit smoking tobacco. i've tried other vapes and none compare to how easy it is to use a Juul, and how consistent their hits are. added bonus: i still get my nicotine, but without the rest of the cigarette chemicals (which btw, are radioactive: https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactivity-tobacco).

but this "Juul targeting children" thing is not new. i know they've been the focus of the US gov in the past, and they enacted some changes to their marketing (including removing some flavours and the like).

not sure what sparked this case thou, as in Europe (where i'm located) the whole tobacco industry is tightly regulated. but we can still get our nicotine without the government banning it (see San Francisco), although at a much lower strength (1.8 vs 5.0 in the states). this lower strength also helped.

so I hope due to this case Juul removes all this marketing BS and simply focus on their initial primary goal: making people drop tobacco and cigarettes.
I can remember teaching myself HTML using a WinHelp file I found on a magazine coverdisk.
People in 2060 are going to look back to the 1990s and say "The idea that nobody knew climate change was bad", "Every climate scientist how look at the data could see how bad the warming would be"

There's a complex public discourse, where even relatively small numbers of bad actors can really fuck up the whole situation.
The Brostep entry alone is worth visiting the site to read.
When people question if an account is genuine just because they have pro-China voice, it's just confirming how hypocritical western "freedom of press" is, and pushing us towards more pro-China

Firstly, do you mean "freedom of speech"? Few people here are the press.

Secondly, can you elaborate on this view? I don't doubt that the situation is as you describe, but if true this shows a misunderstanding of the freedom of speech. It's not hypocritical(in general) to criticize speech one doesn't support, or to accuse the speaker of having ulterior motives, while supporting the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech doesn't give anyone the right to speak without being criticized.
yes, it required a big adjustment going to 100% step style all the time. it was a subgenre that took over the whole scene
Made me wonder if there is a way to use them to generate electricity somehow? Could one of these microbes be modified so you could feed it something and it makes electricity ?
It's all fun and games until someone eats something he/she allergic to due to a (featured) mistake.
Didn't Encarta try to close Wikipedia? Or do I remember wrong?
How does making the function static not solve this in C? Then the definition is local to the translation unit and there are no linkage concerns at all.
I've only ever heard arguments for the banning of flavored e-juice in the context of them appealing to children, which is why I mentioned them that way. For me personally, I find both alcohol and tobacco disgusting but I don't see any constitutional basis for government regulation of what informed adults put into their body, so long as it doesn't pose a danger to others.
The fallacy of that argument is that actually not everyone has drunk the react or vue Kool-Aid.

In a few years the React/Vue fad will be gone, while HTML/CSS/VanilaJS will still be around.

We are the ones not wasting time learning fad of the day stacks.
Audible Genius (http://www.audiblegenius.com) -> This is really a good resource. The subscription will be online tomorrow, 14,99$/m. I'm using it for some months now and it's really helpful, it develop your ear enormously. It's from the same guy who created Syntorial (http://www.syntorial.com).

Dance Music Manual (http://www.dancemusicproduction.com) from Rick Snoman, version 4 has been recently released and it's the only book you need (for a time being). I don't own it but Secrets of Dance Music Production looks good too.

Melodics (http://www.melodics.com) is also good for practicing keyboard, if you're interested in learning to play the keyboard.

Music Production is very similar to front-end development, especially Javascript development. Your hardware-software studio is like your bundle system, continuous integration etc. So there are many moving parts to learn and it takes time and many many readings (books, blogs, forums, facebook groups, music store product descriptions etc.). It also takes time to develop your ear and in time you will see that new levels will be opened in your mind, like a game. You will hear more details, you will easily describe the qualities of the sound (is it sine wave or a square, what kind of sonic movements happening, what kind of effects with what kind of settings make that specific sound sound like that)

It's fun, takes time, may take money (if you're interested in hardware studio and premium software plugins). But it's basically so much fun!
Perfect! So we can have the DX of React with no downside for you. Win-win, right?
The main difference is that what Azul built had more limits - once you run your workload well enough, there is little incentive to have more compute power.

When it comes to ML, the more compute power you throw at it, the better.
Also, check the other work of the author. Amazing visualizations, I can watch those for hours.

Thanks for sharing.
I guess you haven't learned about Linus relation to C++.
Ask HN: How does Telegram make money?
> On an unrelated topic, I wonder how KSP 2 will make multiplayer work with timewarp

This is what I'm wondering too.

I have had a "multiplayer space simulation with time warp" game design brewing in my head for quite some time, but it's a turn based concept. Essentially you submit a turn saying "this is everything I intend to do from today until Mars launch window 2033", and the server consolidates the moves of all players.

Space is a pretty big place, so direct interaction between two players' spacecraft is a relatively rare occasion. In real-life space mission close encounters there is usually only one "active" spacecraft (e.g. Dragon or Soyuz) and the other party is "passive" (like the ISS). Even when both craft are capable of maneuvering (like Apollo Lunar Orbit Rendez-Vous or Gemini/Agena missions), only one of the spacecraft were assigned an active role.

So I have an idea how you could make a pseudo-realtime simulation with a turn-based multiplayer.

This wouldn't allow going on EVA or doing some rendez-vous shenanigans in real time with your friends, though. And that's the kind of thing I imagine appeals to the "kerbal crowd".

> Recently with Bereshit I learned that before (certain?) rockets can fire their main engines they have to fire small ones to provide acceleration in order to move the fuel in the big tank closer to the main engine. It would have been nice if KSP also took that into account.

Afaik there's a mod for this which adds "realistic" rocket ignition, throttling and the need for ullage motors for liquid fuel rockets.

What comes to space colonies and other sci-fi elements, I think they might be a welcome addition to KSP. Now the career mode contains too much grinding for "science points" and when you've advanced far enough down the tech tree, you get to grind for minerals and biomes. The gameplay could certainly use some late-game goals.
Hi, thank you for your feedback. Replied on the Github issues page for the solution.
> Prime is an odd one though since nobody subscribes to Prime Video specifically

Speak for yourself. I live outside the US, and can't get any Amazon Prime or free delivery.

I subscribe to Amazon Prime Video for The Grand Tour and other Amazon exclusive video-content.

Yes, it's a small catalogue, but 4K Prime costs me 1/3 of what 1080p Netflix costs, so I'm OK with that.
Security is like having an insurance. So now is the question: pay for insurance now or pay after crash? Or hope it never happens? Many many people underestimate this need and end up not paying. I can guess from experience with secure Bluetooth headset startup, that the need isn’t there yet. Maybe I’ll try with Bluetooth 5 hoping for more demand in couple years.
Swiss Perl Workshop – Post Event and Future
The AI Wish List – What Tech Bosses Dream Machines Could Do
Scott Manley has a reaction video to the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D353IVwY_1g

He seems to think it holds promise and is looking forward to playing it.
back in the day, from drum and bass/jungle, essentially it consisted of hanging out on dogasonacid.com the grid subforum. not srure about other genres. there are some online courses nowadays
I'd like to see an honest explanation of the kind of bias you're talking about, on the part of Western media. I'm open to its existence, but I also know it's an easy accusation to lob without evidence.
http://oldcomputers.net/grid1101.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass

https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Personal/Grid.ht...

Everywhere says it's electroluminescent. I mentioned "burning out" instead of burning in. I know it's not the most technical term, but I mean LEDs failing in displays. In your speedometer for your car, either the whole display with fail (probably the circuit is broken) or the whole thing works, because it's one EL panel behind a translucent screen.

Also because of the nature of an ELD's components being static, (they radiate when a charge is applied, in a way very different to the phosphors that move around in CRT and plasma screens) I don't think it's possible for them to burn in.
>Large authoritarian regimes like China's simply do not have a track record of lasting long.

Compared to what? There have been millennia old authoritarian regimes. Compared to those, democratic states are a flash in the pan.

Heck, China itself (pre communism) has lasted and prospered for 5-10 times the duration of most modern nation states, while authoritarian.

Not to mention that this "authoritarian" is overblown as it concerns the ordinary billions of citizens. They might persecute religions minorities, but as far as the average Joe and Jane is concerned they never had it better (and they get richer in each generation that their parents, something many places in the west can't say). P

Then they see Trump, Macron, Salvini, and co, and don't really get what the fuss with western democracy is all about...

>Tibet and Taiwan and Hong Kong are just the beginning

The beginning of what? Taiwan is where the non-commies went (and it was a dictatorship of its own, for most of its life, not to mentioned founded by a guy who murdered a million people or so, which while not Mao level, is not shabby a track record). Hong Kong got used to another level of autonomy, especially for elites and businesses (though itself was purchased back in the day by a colonial power that had devastated the main land, yay for democracy). As for Tibet, it's like China's Puerto Rico or Hawaii, only at least they had a slither of a legitimate historical claim to the place.

>Come to think of it, the PRC is right around the same age the USSR was when it collapsed...

If wishes were horses...
https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9i9ovv/i_am_felipe_ha...
I may be wrong, but I think that at least the vast majority current widely depoyed systems don't use beamforming, it seems more of a "here's a tech demo that we're going to roll out soon with 5G" thing.

However, it's a bit the opposite way around - it's not that they can use beamforming to get direction, but it's that they need to know the location before they can use beamforming - so the protocol (5g?) needs to require the device to know or obtain its location, and send it to the cell tower so that it can apply beamforming; similar to how in 3g the protocol includes measurements and adjustments of the timing advance so that the distance can be used when actually transmitting data. So it would be essentially like "the phone can't turn off GPS or transmitting it to everyone, because it needs it for the radio to work".
Those required advances would have materialized -much- sooner if windpower had been taken seriously and some (let's say) 500Kw mills had appeared on the market. I recall Reagan having Carter's White-House-rooftop solar removed. Anything green was mocked as a 'utopian dream' or whatever, and the established industry spent -a lot- of money keeping it that way.

These days, when the alumni mag from my school arrives, I have to ruefully smile about all of the 'green language' in it, now that it's trendy. What a damn shame.
Well, the existence of an extracellular enzyme that can oxidize iron is pretty cool. I'm sure we could come up with neat uses for that.

One reason we are looking into these "extremophiles", as they're termed, is because electron flow at a molecular level is pretty important when it comes to renewable energy. Things like solar panels and batteries are still environmentally damaging. The DoD and DoE are both very interested in experimenting with methanogens, cyanobacteria, etc, to figure out ways to harness and manipulate electrons from the environment.

The chemical mechanisms these cells employ are typically higher-order and not super useful. The more low level the interaction (e.g. the NiFe hydrogenase referenced in the article), the more potentially useful to us. There may not be one particular plug-and-play use case like there is for say, a PETase, but we currently don't entirely understand how electrons move around in an ordered way, and so elucidating that mechanism is a high priority. At this point we have it narrowed down to Fe-S clusters in enzymes, and some particular organic intermediates.

As with any process of discovery, the lower-level the organism we can investigate, the hopefully clearer picture we can generate.
If only we had thousands of bodies donated to educational institutions for decades with the capability to reproduce these works in better fidelity with modern technology. Oh well, I guess we will just rely on this Nazi book instead.
Is there any information about the accuracy of Beidu compared to Galileo?
> As for Haskell, I like the language, but it's super fragmented, everyone has its own Prelude and favorite language extensions, extensions that are sometimes in conflict with other extensions and the tooling is a mess. Also laziness is cool, but performance gets hard to predict. We have the same problem in Scala when we are using lazy abstractions actually, the difference being that Scala is opt-in instead of opt-out.

Not an expert in Haskell, nor Scala - only dabbling. However, the above could be repeated verbatim after replacing Haskell with Scala, couldn't it? You can write Java++, Haskell-- or any combination in between. Use one of the several FP stacks or build tools.

I think both Scala, Haskell and C++ can compete for the name of the most complicated, fragmented and diverse language and ecosystem in existence.
Hi, super glad to hear that you like it. Awesome dashboard comes with extensive documentation where you can automagically change any styles with sass. We use the same source as our premium products.
Here's an explanation of those needs:

Gtk to Qt - a strange journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGZyVSOnqm0

"Presenter(s): Dirk Hohndel"
Always been curious -- why is this allowed by the Chinese government? If people feel comfortable using such a VPN, they must have some reasonable belief that the Chinese government doesn't care that much about it, right?
Thank you for your kind feedback. I am super glad that you like it!
Have a look are Wt (https://webtoolkit.eu) and Kore (https://kore.io)
> As privacy-conscious consumers speak up against the proliferation of facial recognition tech (...) Traces is building computer vision tracking tech that relies on cues other than facial structure

It seems that Traces has slightly misunderstood the concerns of privacy-conscious consumers, so I would like to publicly make the following clarifications:

1. If your technology can track me as effectively as face recognition does, then it is not in any way "less invasive". You are still invading my privacy.

2. STOP. FUCKING. TRACKING. ME!
"EB-5 program basically enabled Chinese investors to get their green cards through a $500,000 investment in a regional center project, or a $ 1 million direct investment in their own company."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2018/06/22/the-l-...
While not a ban, alco-pop taxes are indeed a thing.

They apply to flavoured alcoholic beverages which usually appeal more to young people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcopop
(Not OP) TransferWise tends to have a pretty good rate (usually sub 1%), though you would have to transfer a considerable amount of money in one go to get it down to 0.5%.
Love to know the thought processes of the folk who downvoted this undeniably factual observation. As Wikipedia points out "In another New Statesman article published the following year he (Mason) described himself as an "actual Marxist".
Presumably they believe the problem is things that are addictive rather than things that are drugs.
Don't think this was posted yet, they doubled down on this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/VirginMediaIE/status/116344119354...
> Doing mathematics doesn't really depend on foundational logic in the same way that, e.g., a web app depends on transistor physics.

Web apps don't depend on transistor physics at all, though. An important consequence of Turing universality is that computer science is not a subfield of electrical engineering.

Also, mathematics underwent very dramatic transformations during the late 1800s and early 1900s alongside the early development of formal logic and set theory. To say that logicians were merely "formalizing the intuitions behind the math that people were already doing" strikes me as misguided at best. The mathematics that rose to prominence in that era was very different from what preceded it, often controversially so.
Ahahaha brilliant sarcastic post
Yes. His point wasn't that religion is bad.

His point was that the kind of revolutionary mania emerging in Russia was bad, and a kind of atheist substitute of religion (which, in its fervor and conviction lacks its controls and subtlety).
Probably the synonyms in definition 3 here, like splendid, marvelous, wonderful, awesome? https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaur...
Did they promise you'd have a static IP? 99% or more of the internet for free is behind CGN or home NAT and has little or no persisting address binding for incoming, hence ddns services. Did google distinguish as saying in the 'forever free' bucket they'd do that?

being "on" the net is not the same as being "always reachable at a stable IP endpoint"
Smithsonian Mag's Cool Finds
I think that part of the idea of adding more speed and data to solve the AI problem started with Norvig's presentations on how more data resolved the search problem better than using more clever algorithms.

People are using the 'more data' approach because it makes a (minor) dent at the problem. It's the only tool they have right now.

It is my opinion that it is not enough to make us smarter in understanding the quantum leap necessary.
3 years in R&D sounds very normal for hardware projects. That scares me a lot to start something really complicated alone. I persuaded myself, that it’s just hobby and crawling slowly forwards.

3 years for software is enough to 3 times succeed of fail.
Indeed it does break the pure promise. But it's only for debugging builds.
Group of top CEOs says maximizing profits no longer can be primary goal
Relevant, add Indonesia and China.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/08/01/indonesia-seeks-to...

Despicable industry across the board.
Plenty of reasons. To begin with, seeing how biased the Western media are when they report anything related to China is both appalling and disappointing. The impression of what average American has about Chinese government, Chinese people and their relation is light years away from reality.

Moreover, people immigrating to US from China tends to be more pro-democracy than average Chinese, but we got disillusioned after seeing how things worked out in American politics.

The life here is quite unsatisfactory for lots of Chinese, as there are many aspects of China making it a better place to live in compared to US. Can't speak for other people but frankly if I could have got a job with similar pay and similar workload in China, I wouldn't even hesitate for a second that I'd move back.
Doubtful. Small scale in a lab? Maybe. There's a reason they had to go a mile underground to collect a sample. Normal atmospheric conditions are likely toxic to the organism.

What we're actually after with this kind of thing is enzyme mechanisms. Enzymes are doing chemistry we've never done in labs before. Maybe we can replicate that chemistry on an industrial scale to solve some problems. Particularly the Fe-S clusters are of real interest, as they're responsible for moving individual (or sometimes pairs) of electrons around.
Yes, finally! Ishkur's original guide and Listology's Darktremor's top 400 trance list and Dazzamack's top 1000 EDM lists are what really got me into electronic music!

I'm kinda bummed out right now that listology.com doesn't exist anymore :(

EDIT:
For anyone interested, at the time, I downloaded both Darktremor's and Dazzamack's lists. You can find them here:

https://gist.github.com/dukeofharen/48450ec07254f82c7a9b5d77...

https://gist.github.com/dukeofharen/fff467f6fc7574864358f997...

I've downloaded a few other lists from Listology as well (progressive trance, classic trance, best albums etc.). If anyone is interested, I could add these to Github Gist as well.
Linus made 38 commits over the last year and is on 7th place on count of commits over that period:

https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/graphs/cont...
That is actually a good example of deceptive marketing. It happens that you want to see this doctor, so you don't notice th problem: you now have an association in your mind between the reputation of the doctor you know and respect and the hospital itself. You have no idea if other doctors for other specialties are comparable in skill. You have no idea if the hospital charges exaggerated prices, how their services are in general etc - the commercial is simply meant to appeal to your positive emotions about this particular doctor. And they didn't even have to lie about anything to obtain the effect.
Considering monochrome wasn't really a limitation at the time, it makes quite a bit of sense as a display. It was certainly thinner than any CRT and so much lighter. I don't recall using one myself, how was the refresh rate on them if you do remember?