skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Talent is one component that gives you an advantage, but it is no guarantee for success.

Take this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PyYcnXQZJY

And tell me if up front you'd have recognized his talent and given him the opportunity that you felt he deserved.

In your world perseverance and grit count for nothing, in the real world a bit of talent and a ton of perseverance will outweigh any amount of talent if it isn't coupled with a substantial amount of grit and perseverance as well.

As nice as those theories are the entrance examinations and the judges are swayed easily by things other than talent which we can not measure objectively anyway.

Fortunately instruments are affordable (for some value of affordable) and if you can spare the time then practice is the differentiator. I've seen talented musicians fail due to a lack of discipline and I've seen moderately talented people succeed through endless hard work and everything in between. Of course the talented individual with discipline will always be at an advantage. But fortunately the world is large enough that more people than that handful will get a chance and some of those will succeed way beyond our expectations.

And all that besides the fact that talent as such isn't a static thing either.
You're assuming normal operations. You have to take normal and emergency operations into account.

A drone near a helipad is an undeclared obstacle, and permitting any drone near a helipad increases the probability of a conflict.
It is common for AT&T
My experience was that while you might get to talk to your manager before accepting, you don't get to interview with the team you will be working on.

That hugely slants the purpose of the interview toward Google, as the candidate really has no idea who they will be working with, or how they think. The interview should go both ways and provide information to both sides on if it's a good fit, but at Google, they go only one way.

This might be a small point for most, but for minority candidates, knowing who you will be working with and having confidence they won't actively cause you grief is a big sticking point. At least it was for me (I turned them down).
'Anti-Theft' paintwork...
>I haven't heard analysed enough classical music, not do I have the ability to, to determine if there is any value in complex music other than coincidental. If you are a musician I'd appreciate your view.

I'm a musician (though not professional), but isn't the question moot?

There already exist thousands of exquisite complex music pieces, from classical, to jazz, to rock, latin, etc -- pieces so powerful they can bring people to tears.

We we saytThat they're not needed because they're complex? That they're not really good because they're complex? Or that their complex/difficult to play nature, as emerged from the composers, is "coincidental" (and they should/could e.g. have made them be much slower, have simple chords, and simpler melodies)?

>If you'd like to nominate some complex (in your view) music you like I'd be very interested indeed.

This is a very beautiful piece (picked a random video of it) and not simple play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6cbCWzHXkg

or this:

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

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMM3jIkDGk

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KaYzgofHjc

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXAhNul1z0I

Heck, this is quite complex from a totally different genre, it takes tons of practice and years to master the flow and speed required:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA
I wanted to make fun of this but it's really good look at the constricting forces of conformity in our lives that we all just pretty much follow unawares.
The article is quite clear. The author is saying that the Media Lab has been corrupted by taking money, and this is an instance of the larger problem of MIT being similarly corrupted.
In principle you can model the interaction between the electrons and the particles in the barrier and the whole system evolves according to Schroedinger’s equation and will be described by a wavefunction. This wavefunction may be a superposition of states where the electron goes through the slits and states where it doesn’t. Until there is a “measurement” - a “detection” which is “amplified” - you cannot say what has happened to the electron: every outcome remains possible and the system remains described by a wavefunction. If the detection happens first at the screen there will be a probability of finding the electron at each position and a probability of not finding it at all.

Note that the detection on the screen is done using a scintillator/photomultiplier or something like that to amplifify the detection of a single electron into a measurable electric signal.
Alternative America – U.S. history without slavery?
Speaks in part to how much vendor lock in there is with cloud providers that this has been such an involved migration.
More interesting, in more general contexts multiplication is not commutative.

For example, if we apply the same pair of 3-dimensional rotations in opposite orders, we generally get different results.

Scaling and planar rotation (in combination, a.k.a. “complex numbers”) are conveniently among the types of commutative multiplication.

> multiplication is really just addition

This is a misleading summary. That multiplication of integers per se can be re-expressed as addition (or if you like, as counting) depends on the basic parts involved being very simple and uniform. The basic multiplication table for integers is just

× | -1 0 1
–––––––––––––
-1 | 1 0 -1
0 | 0 0 0
1 | -1 0 1

Since every other integer is just some sum of these basic parts, and multiplication distributes over addition, that covers it. To multiply two integers, first break each one down into some sum of a collection of –1, 0, and 1, then look up each partial product in the basic multiplication table above, and finally sum up all of the results. This process boils down to counting. Since the basic integer multiplication table is commutative, so is integer multiplication in general.

But other kinds of numbers have richer structure based on a richer multiplication table of basic elements.
youre right, I didnt look closely at the buttons, I just assumed bits based on the all caps used all over the interface.
MIT Media Lab project to revolutionise agriculture mostly smoke and mirrors
Trova prezzi auto e confronta le offerte in Bitcoin
I used Todoist for years, upon discovering it and following its development on your blog almost a decade ago. Sadly I ditched it a few years back upon discovering the power of start dates, I'd jump back in a heartbeat if you ever added them.
You're going to be polite about it but hell, let's violate the guidelines here. Everything this person has posted on HN about this is disgusting.
Calculated.
I think it's very likely that life has originated on Earth many times. If it happened once, so early in the age of Earth - it should happen more than once.

But the developed descendants of the first life outcompeted the later ones immediately so we only ever discover life that is related to us.

But if we search where life related to us couldn't go - maybe we'll find completely independent trees of life?
There's certainly big differences in command line apps and terminals though. Features like tab completion with inline docstrings, fish-style autocomplete, history with search-as-you-type, infinite scrollback, semantic colors, consistent interfaces, good help pages, dry-running and more all help to increase ease of use, discoverability and quicken the learning curve.
> You made this point on a previous thread, at length, in repeated back-and-forth with other commenters. I also doubt the escorts were "trafficked" in the lurid sense we generally mean by the word, or that they needed or would have been receptive to a rescue. That is not at all the point I'm making, and you know that.

You were absolutely making that point. You literally said:

> Ronan Farrow has Joi Ito inviting Epstein to the Media Lab, in person, and Epstein arriving with two escorts in tow so young that Lab staff had to debate among themselves whether to interview to rescue them from Epstein.

I don't know how much more clear your intent could be.
Paying employees more is not profit-centric... I'm not sure about your argument here ..

University athletics is certainly a profit center, but research and general operations is devoid of cash, even at R1 institutions. I struggle to find money for salary and most private industries will offer 20% more for any employee I hire
> The GP is correct and not just being pedantic.

>> Any battery can last one million miles if it's just sitting on a seat in a vehicle.

Snark or pedantry? I say both.
That's really a shame. I sunk about a hundred hours into that game when it was new. The building mechanics in it were so robust it effectively contained SketchUp right in the game for building weapons, devices, vehicles, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/VqFuxWw.jpg
The article is about working. Very few musicians can call their own shots in terms of what repertoire to play, and work enough to support themselves. They have to play whatever gets thrown at them.

I have some experience with this as a part time jazz bassist. When I get a call, the organizer often doesn't even know how hard the bass part is, or exactly what material they are planning on programming for the gig. There is no coding interview. I have a few seconds to say yes or no. Saying no too many times wipes me off the map, and I get to start building my reputation again from scratch. Saying I don't like a particular kind of material because it's too complex, or whatever, puts me on the "hard to work with" list.
Piano keys for just the keys under two hands, or like a full keyboard with 88 keys?
Unless you value independence over reliability, the bottleneck currently is batteries and not solar panels.
It shocked me when Republicans wanted to tax grad students... Seriously, 18-25k take home pay is poverty level
0. If the FBI/Mossad/etc. want my passwords, they can threaten to cut my toes off one by one and I'll just give them the passwords. So they're outside of my threat model.

1. All my important stuff has two-factor auth, so a malicious password manager company couldn't get in anyway.

2. If you're using one of the major vendors with a reputation and a paid service, that produces a fairly strong incentive for them to not be intentionally malicious - if they were caught distributing an update that made it possible for the companies to see your passwords, nobody would ever use them.

(All the major password managers do client-side encryption; they don't store plaintext passwords themselves. They do distribute the client that lets you decrypt passwords, but that's it.)

So that leaves accidental risk (bad crypto, hijacked update chain, client-side vulnerabilities). Out of the options, I'm comfortable with the track record of 1Password in particular.

I'm very interested in open-source options, but the major ones are all proprietary and the open-source ones are all volunteer-driven and I think the risk tradeoff is wrong. It's not a decision I feel 100% comfortable about but between the options of proprietary-but-professionally-maintained and open-source-but-hobbyist-maintained the former seems vaguely preferable for security-sensitive software, especially given that one of my requirements is I want to use a password manager extension.

Shameless plug, I have a personal digital security podcast and we took a look at various password managers and their security track records recently: https://looseleafsecurity.com/episodes/password-manager-secu...
I would like to understand what multiplication is in your (and i guess advanced mathematics)
In 2012 I learned about Bitcoin and I was denied a MtGox account in 2013, I wanted to buy a few thousand BTC. I don't feel bad about his anymore.
I could not buy Bitcoin for a long time out of spite. Saw it coming by, every time it was worth more and more.

Finally in August 2017 I finally jumped in and made well over 500k Euro in profit, but I kept it too long so I lost 75% of that, I am really glad I took my initial investment out, even though it would have been worth more today.

I did not know anything about trading or reading charts when I started, it would have made a huge difference for me.
Since the beginning of 2018 I have invested most of my free time into understanding trading / markets and programming indicators and market analysis tools. I feel much more confident in trading now and for me it is a good way to make more money.

I like the proverb 'Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.'
True in that there are less die-hard CD fans compared to vinyl, which is always on a perpetual resurgence in some field or another, be that DJ's, wannabe DJ's, hipsters thru to audiophiles. It's always has a strong and following.
CD's, not so, as digital, switch to other digital mediums just removed the negative part and that was having to take it out of it's caddy and placing into a player.....An experience less exciting than vinyl on many levels we could all probably agree upon.

So I'd say that this was inevitable and not a swing or sign of things in any way. Though perhaps how some formats, whilst simple, still excell. Which with analogue and digital in many area's, still seeing divides for quantifiable reasons. Photography would be another area in which has its own bastions of the film format camera's.

But vinyl has managed to carry on and not on the back of core users, it's had wave after wave and removing any single group, be them hipsters who move onto something else, won't suddenly kill off vinyl as many fashion born resurgences do.
> This is the way of arts under capitalism, in a culture where the abandonment of government funding results in a void filled only by wealthy donors and bloodsucking companies.

So if your dream job isn't worth people voluntarily paying for, then you're entitled to having the government extract the money from them on your behalf?

I don't think so.

Would you like being taxed to pay professional football players who aren't in the NFL?
The military is trying to mold you the same to make you replaceable and obeisant. Doctors don't need to be all the same.
I'm a bit skeptical about this article. If you graph estimated species extinctions during the past 200 years instead of the estimated numbers of species for the past millions of years, then the current species extinction event does look troubling.

So it depends a bit on the perspective and what numbers you choose. Of course, nature is robust. However, as we know from dead lakes, ecosystems have a tipping point. I would be especially worried about the oceans, because they seem to play an important role in earth's ecosystem as a whole.

The connection to climate change in the article also seems a bit sensationalist. I always thought that the current species extinction has been caused by industrialization in general, not by global warming in particular, which is just one of many effects of world-wide industrialization.
Can somebody please explain the advantages of a todo app, like Todoist, over say a calendar app like Google Calendar? Everyone seems to love them, but cannot give me a good reason _why_, other than "I use it to jot down little tasks which I don't think a Calendar app is suitable for." I'm a current subscriber to Todoist, but just don't see why I should pay when Google Calendar seems to do everything I need (and more)? As an ADHD sufferer, the reminder system in most todo apps only remind you once about 30 minutes prior to the task due and that's it, instead of being able to delay a reminder and remind me again 5 minutes before a task is due, 1 minute, or even 5 minutes after a task is due.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Any plans for extending the document?
"Plundering" and "poaching" are inherently wrongheaded notions of gross entitlement from employers expecting unilateral loyalty.

The problem should be approached as "how can we attract and retain the best" not thinking of them as property and their competitors as thieves.
This sounds like a perfect case for a UserJS
Ask HN: Why is Netflix oblivious to films broken by lack of forced subtitles?
I'll be honest, I'm a paying customer hoping someone here works at Netflix and thinks this is as ridiculous as I do. I've previously tried and failed with the old Twitter-rant technique.

Many Netflix films that are predominantly English have sections of some foreign language that would be a 'forced subtitle' (a feature intended exactly for this, when you're watching with lang X audio and no subtitles, but part of the dialogue is in lang Y due to content of the film) on a DVD release, but aren't on Netflix.

I'm watching 'Norman' at the moment, and I just sat through several minutes of Hebrew (while watching in English). 'English [CC]' subtitles have no affect, but if my French weren't so appalling I could have turned those on and followed along.

I've seen it so many times now, I just don't understand how this has not only been overlooked, but also isn't a widely complained about issue.
Thank you for consistently and tirelessly following through on these guidelines throughout.

It is hard work and we (well, many of us) appreciate it.
The World War II Diet That Saved Britain
Essentially since the JPMS prohibits two modules from defining the same package (aka package splitting), you can't avoid any kind of package-related hell. So if a project depends on the Google Cloud SDK it can NOT have its own version of Netty due to the package splitting restriction.
Ah - usually when I see things referred to as a loophole it means "legal as a result of a flaw" unless it is spelled out as a good thing.
Linux floppy-disk edition for installing from a $300 thunderbolt3 3.5" or 5 1/4" floppy disk drive.
How to Search with Database System Tables
What was this "very exclusive service" that Epstein was providing to people like Bill Gates?
I don't understand your scenario. The minimal amount of effort includes a benchmark, so it wouldn't be enabled if it hurt performance.
Cantor's Diagonalization
> Lenovo even markets it as a visible (and annoying) power management feature.

I wish macOS/Windows allowed this natively. I'm travelling this week with my Macbook, but it's been docked for the past couple months at 100% charge. Would be better for the battery if I could keep it at 60% charge until I plan on travelling.
I don't disagree, but saying that Ethiopia has ever been a democracy is pretty charitable. The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, which is about as democratic as you'd expect with a name like that, has been in power ever since the admittedly worse Marxist Derg was kicked out in 1987.
No, for all the major / well-respected password managers (and probably for all the minor ones too), all the crypto is done client-side.

1Password, for instance, has a pretty good security doc about it: https://1password.com/files/1Password%20for%20Teams%20White%...
If I remember correctly, in my school multiplication was explained in terms of rectangles made of unit squares. Commutativity was literally visible to the naked eye then.
World’s biggest single weather changing project
This is my favorite math proof. I'd love to hear yours!
Fighting API Ambiguity
So if RH is proven, what actually changes? As far as I know, there are tons of theorems that already presuppose RH to be true There wouldn't suddenly be an insight into how to find larger primes, for example.
Ask HN: On-call coverage on tiny teams?
My company has two developers with a third joining later this month. We have a reliable niche market, a product that customers enjoy, and are moderately profitable. 2-3 developers is about right for our product development and bug-fixing workload.

But on-call duty is a source of stress and frustration for us. We run a DevOps shop: our infrastructure is all automated and requires almost no manual maintenance, there is no separate operations team, and developers are primary on-call responders. Until developer #3 is up to speed, the other dev and I are each on call 50% of the time, and realistically, even the person who isn't officially on call sort of needs to be available most of the time in case the primary is on the subway, etc., when something happens. Our actual rate of on-call incidents is low (1-2 per month on average) but our customers expect quick action when something breaks. It's frustrating to not be able to leave our laptops behind after business hours.

Ideally we'd have another couple people on the team to help spread the on-call load, but we don't have enough day-to-day work to keep 4-5 developers busy, or enough day-to-day operational work to keep even a single Ops person busy. Whoever is on call needs to be sufficiently familiar with our system to diagnose and fix problems; if we hire someone who acks the PagerDuty alerts but ends up escalating everything to the dev team, we won't have solved anything.

What approaches should we be considering?
Curry-Howard isomorphism.

Proving that a sentences are “well-formed” is the same as implementing an algorithm which takes a string and returns a Boolean.

You can call this function “is_well_formed?”

I await your proof in the regular language you have specified above.
What do you mean `"chance" to work`? If the CPU claims to support an instruction, it's perfectly fine to treat it as supporting the instruction.
I've been using it since it came out ages ago :)
If Epstein had limited himself to taking advantage of young girls who had reached the age of consent, so that his relationships were not breaking any laws, would you no longer have a problem with Epstein?

Whether or not what someone does breaks the law often his almost nothing to do with the morality of that action or whether or not that action causes harm.

That section of the article was more about the taint upon money donated from various types of donors than about the donors themselves. The distinction it is drawing is between people who do bad things but do not derive their money from those bad things (such as Epstein) and people that do bad things and those bad things is the source of the money they are donating (Koch). It's not saying that donors of the former type are necessarily less immoral or evil than donors of the latter type--just that taking their money is not benefiting directly from their immorality or evil.
It's Lonely at the Top, Mostly Because You're a Drunk: The Biopics of 1957
> But it's not about just the audio. It's the tactile, visual, and cultural experience around the audio. Just like food isn't just about the flavor.

I see what you're saying, but I don't buy it. Nobody has a record player just laying around unless you're 'into' vinyl. It's like saying it's more fun to watch videos on VHS because the tapes look cooler. It's just nonsense.
Airmap app has been mentioned here and I use it for every flight. For my area, Sydney, it covers many local regulations as well as the usual air restricted areas such as airports. It also let's you submit flight plans which before available to authorities.

It would be great if the no fly zones could be uploaded to the drone itself so it would simply refuse to take off in those areas for instance.
I'm using EnPass https://www.enpass.io/
They claim to use "open source and peer reviewed cryptography libraries"and that "all your data is with you only and nothing is stored on our servers". They sync data among devices using Dropbox or iCloud.

I trust them.
From the article:

At Carnegie Mellon, 17 professors, all of them tenured, have moved into industry

Not sure about other universities, but it doesn’t sound like tenure made much difference at CMU.
One thing a calendar app wouldn't handle as well is tasks that don't have due dates, per se.
If you have a service you haven’t built in 5 years, then I’d say you have a lot more important problems than server backups.