skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Come across" is very sloppy reading and thinking. Read here again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time:

Smart has nothing to do with it. Instead, to know how to hold a violin, just look at some good pictures. They worked for me. Then Galamian's book helped some more. Don't have to be very smart to look at some pictures. All the old 33 RPM record stores had lots of record jackets with great pictures.

One extra point: Really SHOULD be able to hold the violin in its correct position using just the chin and left shoulder without either hand. So, this way the left hand is free to make music instead of holding the violin. Frequently at concerts can see the performer, say, between pieces, holding their violin without their hands.

One more point: The left thumb should be relaxed and slightly, naturally, comfortably curved and NOT stressfully bent backwards. Again, yet again, once again, over again, one more time, we HOLD the violin with our chin and left shoulder and NOT with our left hand. The left hand is relaxed and making music, NOT stressfully holding the violing. For GREAT details, just look at the video clips of Fischer and Hahn.

These are all standard, common, first day violin lessons and can nearly all be seen easily in long readily available pictures with more from good books, e.g., Galamian.

Every beginning violin student has to struggle for a while learning how to hold the instrument. So, the task is well understood. The solution? Easy, just look at some readily available pictures as I illustrated with several examples from old record jackets.

For the audience here, if anyone wants to start violin or has a child that does, then a good way to learn how to hold the instrument is just to look at some pictures, including the ones I gave here. And now, much better still, look at the two videos I gave, Fischer and Hahn. Any good violinist can confirm that those two are doing JUST FINE.

So what I'm saying here, just dirt simple, look at some pictures, could have helped the author of the OP and anyone starting violin now.

Don't look at some good pictures of good violinists, e.g., Heifetz, and maybe have the pains and horrible problems in the OP. Look at the pictures and avoid all that. Simple.

And somehow you object to my little contribution here?????? Bizarre.
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I think the idea is to only let people use preprogrammed messages (this also helps with the language barrier). So only inane, pleasant sentiments like "Go for it!" "My fault." "Wow!" "Oops." "Whew!" "What a save!" No one would manage to be passive-aggressive using a system like this. No, sir or madam. It would be impossible.
> Personally, I'd love it if undergrads learned a sense of professional ethics and objective understanding of current industry before they applied for internships

Even with an understanding of ethics, undergrads, new grads, professionals and startup founders _usually_ pick the "unethical" option.

- Facebook knows this (in 2019) and thus offers more money to offset it. Several of my grad school friends from MIT/Stanford/Berkeley chose to work at Facebook because "they gave $300K-$400K total yearly compensation."

- US-based start-ups routinely sell products, give up equity control, or sell directly to the Chinese government or investors. Many times precluding them from selling to US customers/government. My startup recently closed a $20M computer vision deal with a Chinese customer related to person re-identification. Unethical? Probably to someone, yes.

The reason for all of this? Because "everyone has a price." If you believe your ethics can't be compromised, well then you haven't been offered enough money.
Thank you. I want to add an aside here: I have chronically abused the rules of this site in the past. I was ignorant as to the mission of Hacker News and how it can help me! I realized that my ideas are worth having a slow, measured conversation punctuated by facts and understanding of other views just as well as my own. I was falling into a trap of politicizing truth and losing my way in the process.

I’m thankful dang gave me the opportunity to change.
Thanks, I did not know snus was used in those bags. I always thought it was akin to what I know as "pruimtabak" [1]. I've since learned (via Wikipedia) that there is original snus or "lössnus" and "Portionssnus" with "White portion" being a variant. It makes a lot of sense now.

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruimtabak
Unless things have changed, Thomas Jefferson lets in people in other counties as well (ie fairfax county).
Is this appropriate behavior for managers? It seems not to me, but my experience is limited. It seems to me that "convincing someone to change" is inappropriate in just about, if not every, context and that being a manager doesn't make it more appropriate, it just makes the appropriate feedback (negative response, criticism) impossible.

If I found myself in this situation with a manager, I would ignore them to the degree possible and failing that, avoid them entirely, whatever that meant. Outside of a managerial context, I would just say something rude.
My goal was 1000 wpm/75% but today I smashed that
Specifically, the most charitable Minsky interpretation which we're being persuaded to take here seems to go something like:

* in 2002, Minsky asks Epstein to host an AI conference for him on his island

* while there, is apparently angry to discover that Epstein is prostituting girls

* later in the 2000s, presumably discovers that Epstein has now been convicted of prostituting girls

* in 2011, Minsky asks Epstein to host an AI conference for him on his island, again

...
I dunno. Lessig's description of the case seems overly generous to Joi. For starters, he claims Joi's private defense to him was that he'd heavily researched Epstein's behavior and made a personal call that he was reformed and should be given a second chance. That might be a decent defense if Joi had actually made it publically, but its basically the opposite of what Joi said in his attempt at an apology, where he basically claimed to be in the dark regarding Epstein's behavior.

Secondly, he makes it sound like Joi wanted to keep Epstein's contributions secret to keep Epstein from getting any benefit from them. But almost all the reporting on the issue make it pretty clear that Epstein used the donations, and his relationship with Joi, to publically associate himself with the lab, visit the researchers there, present himself to Gates and others as an unofficial go-between, etc. The relationship went far beyond Epstein cutting a check and no one knowing about it.

Thirdly, Lessig's defense is largely based on the claim that Farrow's reporting is factually incorrect, and that MIT told him to take the $, and thus Joi was making a moral compromise in service of his employer. We'll have to wait and see if he or Farrow is correct here, but Farrow's article was obviously drawing on internal MIT docs, so I'd be pretty surprised if that was the case.

Finally, Lessig skips over the fact that Joi took on the order of a million dollars from Epstein for his personal projects. This makes the claim that Joi was just doing what MIT told him to do pretty weak. It also bypasses what I thought was the most damning implication of the Farrow article, which was that Epstein basically bribed Joi to help him get around MIT's prohibition on taking his money.
This is why anyone trading digital assets should use a tax tracker to understand the implications of each trade before they make it. I've spent some time building software for exactly this (https://cryptotax.tools).
Indeed. we wouldn't need safety margins without errors.
How is this a nightmare scenario? Why is teaching being profit oriented a bad thing?

There is no necessary loss of academic freedom. Paying a competitive salary doesn't make research commercial -- the university is trying to retain researchers not turn a profit on the research.
> if we strongly push for using them

What do you mean by that?
I was one of those people. But sadly I only invested a few dollars. Sold it when it hit $800.
> in fact, it's one of the biggest open questions: where did epstein get his money from?

"The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out." -- Honore de Balzac (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/09/fortune-crime/)
I can appreciate that millions are alive thanks to Fritz Haber's work on chemical fertiliser and still think that it would have been for the best if someone had shot him in the head shortly after completing it. And then again to make sure.

edit to add the obligatory reference - 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' - https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
The frequency-dependent amplification performed by RIAA eq is in fact a simple analog computer!
I stumbled across him mentioning arrow functions comming to PHP.

Looks like this is the syntax:

fn($x) => $x * 3

Strange that they went with fn() and not with the simpler approach established in Javascript:

$x => $x * 3

Here is a link to see an arrow function in action:

https://3v4l.org/JpFJl
Love the stuff and also lack of exit strategy. If a owner and ceo truly belived in her/his company they would never sell it. It's like a child.
Bitcoin is over $10k last I checked. Unless you only bought it the short time Bitcoin peaked at $20k you probably haven't lost that much, unless you sold already.

It's the altcoins that continue to get crushed right now against bitcoin. Many are still hitting all time lows against bitcoin as bitcoin's dominance has increased (officially) to 70% of the total crypto marketcap but probably higher in reality.
Matthew D. Green actually managed to pre-debunk / refute Lessig's grossly flawed and immoral argument:

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/11707895922635161...
Or we could cut out a few University Vice Provosts of Telling Professors to be Game-Changers who make $400k/year.
Third of foreign investment is multinationals dodging tax
I checked what the other guy said and its true.

Braves fingerprint is more unique than Chromes. There are plenty of.vectors you can deduce from someone is using Brave (even without useragent) and those vectors more often than not easily uniquely identify someone.
So he fit right in with the Media Lab?
Slug throwing is pretty basic stuff. Doesn't take very long to learn that.
This was exactly my point, thanks for elaborating.
With CD being in decline, and vinyl on the rise, it's natural for vinyl to overcome CDs.

But I'd say it's mostly because CDs have all but disappeared from mass sales channels. E.g. this chart says a lot: https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/
this is a straw man, no better than the argument that the NCAA and other sports organizations use to excuse paying so-called "amateur players" absolutely nothing, for, and I quote, "considerably higher stress, harder work conditions, and less job security until they [go pro]". parent never argued that professors need to be paid as much as private, merely that the salaries need to be comparable rather than several times lower.
>While not as bad, ML/NLP/CV/AI grad school is still pretty bad.

Uhhhhh what? I'm in grad school right now. I feel... a lot better-off than any medical student or resident I've ever met, or even than my wife, who's a high-school science teacher (God help her!).
I remember a lot of people saying "Now I don't need to learn Scala" after Java 8 came out.

Java 8 took a lot of the wind out of Scala's sails not by being better, but by showing enough improvement that the benefits of learning Scala looked less attractive than before.
Do you know there's an expect clone for Python?
Really interesting talk and for the first time ever, I gotta say I really loved the youtube comments. On the first page (at least) there isn't a single negative comment.

I have the a lot of respect for Rasmus and I love the PHP community as it was my first language. I love how PHP and the community around is so practical.

And I still think PHP is the easiest language to deploy of all the languages I have tried.
I use "inurl:ycombinator", saves even more time when typing manually.
I predict this would lead to “road trolling” which would probably end up causing more road rage. A better solution, without giving up privacy, might be a social system of flagging people for unsafe driving, aggressive driving, etc. Set the threshold really high. You don’t want to take action against the old lady who inconvenienced everyone by breaking down in a turn lane one day, you want the ones who day after day get flagged. I imagine everyone would drive a lot nicer if there were consequences to aggressive driving. Just like everyone wants to play nice suddenly when the cops are around. Boldest speed demon in the world suddenly finds he can drive 55 after all.
The novelty factor is a definitely a thing with vinyl. I'm nearly 40 and my first music (Disney etc.) was on record but we quickly moved on to tape and then CD. A lot of people not much younger than me will never have seen a record growing up.
Not aware of the whole story here, but he keeps repeating “Ex Google Tech Lead”, “Ex Facebook Tech Lead”... this is braggable?
> Two other important inventions from America that also created momentum for our system was the steam engine in 1825 and the platform scale in 1830, but I won't go further into those

Please do, I’d love to learn more about the American invention of the steam engine in 1825.
If you remove corporate and private money from universities, you don't automatically receive more funding from government. A publication like Slate might like and lobby for this to be, but that's not reality. What you get is less students and professors, less research, less innovation, less progress, and less commercialization of new technologies that benefit us all. I'm sure Mr. Peters means well when he advocates for his conception of moral and academic purity, but he's implicitly advocating for gutting a part of our world-class research universities, which is unnecessarily destructive and not a trade we should be willing to make.
> i stopped reading when he classifies epstein as a "type 3" person. i think it's quite bold, especially without any evidence whatsoever, to claim that epstein's money came from non-criminal activities. and this is coming from a "top" law expert. epstein's previously upcoming trial would have sorted through some of this, but it isn't clear at all that his money wasn't funded directly by his own criminal activities or indirectly by others' criminal activities. in fact, it's one of the biggest open questions: where did epstein get his money from?

He addresses the questions around this directly...

> It may be that we’ll discover that Epstein got rich by blackmailing people whom he had encouraged or enabled to commit abuse. I doubt it, but it’s possible.

> also, his type 1 examples are laughable. tom hanks makes movies. taylor swift makes music, and vindictive music at that. what is it about those professions that is "doing good"? they aren't about doing bad, but they're just jobs.

They're not doing a whole lot of good, they're just not doing anything particularly bad. He's not holding them up as examples of perfect people, just examples of people with no toxic publicly known behaviors that an institution like MIT might want to avoid.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807236
We Might Be Reaching 'Peak Indifference' on Climate Change
As far as I can see, it uses the same image, painting it different colors. I think it would be cooler to mix various images but with the scaling. There are plenty of ‘mosaic’ tools like that, however they mostly use images of the same size, essentially as uniform pixels.
As it happens, I own several freshly printed cassette tapes from the last year or two.
I don't think this happens at Google anymore. I knew what team I was joining, and spoke with the manager, before signing my offer. I've been asked to do phone calls/lunches with prospective new hires to sell them on our team. Everyone who started on the team after me told me they spoke with multiple teams before signing on.
Yep. I once bought a VPN service for half a bitcoin.

Briefly considered generating more but didn't bother.

ooops.
What are your reasons for believing that the real ratio (bitcoin:total crypto) is higher than the official or "nominal" ratio?
What is GAFA?
being a software engineer when i see all those "motivate engineering teams" i somehow feel like a cattle seeing a shepherd's herding manual
Why is using a laser not real analog audio?
Actually US tried to cut India off many times. It actually supported Pakistan during 1972 war. After India tested second nuclear bomb, US tried to pressurize India by way of restricting many technology transfer but India actually came out stronger. It developed most of those technologies on its own. US even denied the service of GPS system following which India developed its own solution. Unlike China (and Japan in the past), India's economy doesn't depend much on US.
Is your respect for people correlated with how much you agree with them? If so, are you able to have deep respect for people you disagree with? What if you're wrong?
I don't get how people can use the bookmarks reliably, ever since I tried it long ago it has been plagued with issues, many still unresolved..

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/search?q=bookmark+syn...
Not really. Understanding comes in degrees, and most things that the average person doesn't truly understand (the market, index ETFs, your startup equity agreement) give better ROI than those you do.
Bold negotiation tactic. I'm a fan. I've often found myself at Best Buy explaining that I'd gladly buy a new computer if they can ship all of the hardware components to me for free and I'll assemble them myself.

That way, Best Buy doesn't make any money and I spend hours of my day (which, by the way, I bill my employer hundreds of dollars per hour for during the work week) assembling something that I'll have to do all the maintenance and upkeep for myself! Everybody wins!
To do what though?
Because the arrow already exists in PHP and is used for key => value mapping in arrays and foreach statements.
> those that made a huge profit on one coin, then traded that directly for another coin that then lost everything.

It sounds like the article is mostly about those people: if you crunch the number the examples they give of people who are now wreaked purchased bitcoin at ~$3000. It's currently trading at over $10000.

(I suppose technically they could have just been day trading bitcoin, but given the price history it would have been somewhat difficult to lose money starting from a $3k price just by trading BTC/USD without additional leverage, except via taxes)
It gets press but only so many ways to report the same story for years on end.
This is great! Does it have an option to not overlap?
> 3. obviously necessary

No. In my hometown the park where people have been safely flying model airplanes decades before the drone craze is 2.5 miles from the town's airport. 5 miles is incredibly restrictive and not justifiable.
But see, he knows Joi. And naturally, nobody he knows would be the type of person to do something as terrible as enable a notorious abuser of children for profit!

This is the deep rot at the heart of the American elite system: once you're in the club, it's effectively impossible for anything you do to get you kicked out of it. You become anointed as the Right Sort of Person, and everybody accepts that when the Right Sort of Person does something terrible, it's not because they're actually not the Right Sort of Person. It's just an oversight, an oopsie, an opportunity for Learning and Growth. You're operating among friends, and standards among friends are more forgiving than they are among the public at large.

(Even worse, not only are you anointed as the Right Sort of Person, but your children automatically are as well. And they have even less justification for being treated that way than you did.)

Which is why a lot of people are misunderstanding the root problem in the Epstein case. It's not that Epstein corrupted everything and everyone he touched, it's that an Epstein could only exist in an environment where everything was corrupt already. Epstein was the symptom, not the disease.
A conviction years before on exactly the relevant charges certainly should have cast suspicion on him showing up with young girls in tow, especially when they would be arguably unnecessary in that meeting context.
It seems like it. I published a library two years ago that doesn’t do the memoization, but provides a clean API (in my biased opinion) to state DAG evolution: https://github.com/notduncansmith/factfold
As a storage format sure. Streaming at 192kbps or 320 if you really care, is more than adequate for the listening habits and ear health of most people.
Show HN: A hierarchical Markdown notetaking tool with mouse/tablet drawing
Server clinic: Put virtual filesystems to work
It's not even radical. I mean, it's been originally penned as a modest proposal ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Backend web services. Scala has top notch tools to model domain objects, handle a high volume of incoming requests, process transactions (including async ones). tl;dr: like the JVM and dislike root causing NPEs? Scala might be for you.
Intelligence, wealthy, and righteousness: pick 2. Any counter example?
> Please add your documentation examples to your testing pipeline (or write tests clearly enough that they can be good examples, and just use those).

This seems like a pretty good practice to me. Are there any good testing libraries for keeping your documentation examples tested and up to date?
A lot of crypto investors will say the same thing. I'm referencing the dominance on CoinMarketCap's website but in reality there's a lot of dead projects with basically no liquidity. CMC doesn't do anything special to filter those projects from the denominator, but if you identified those projects and removed them BTC would probably be at 75-80% or higher.
Phosphate fertiliser 'crisis' threatens world food supply
Six things you probably didn't know about Ayn Rand
If we want to, we can automate this. https://www.fastcompany.com/40450262/these-tree-planting-dro... talks about a company (https://www.biocarbonengineering.com/) that uses drones to map out a planting area and then precision plant 100,000 treelings in a day.
I ran the production build of https://github.com/reasonml-community/reason-react-example/t... and ran the JS bundle through gzip -9 to get the 56KB number.
clear cookies whenever you see the paywall. works for most news websites in my experience
Against innovation: Compromised institutional agency and acts of custodianship
Because a $50 steak or $15 cheeseburger appeals to customers.
It’s also worth noting that navigating the mall parking lot is very slow for buses, and increased travel time on bus routes

1. Increases opex significantly, up to the point where you may need an additional bus and driver to provide the same frequency

2. Is bad for anyone making a trip passing through the mall
Considering the Kochs a level below Epstein is pretty disgusting. I don't think anyone in the Koch family or Koch industries has ever been accused of breaking any criminal laws - although their factories regularly break civil laws. This so called lawyer is intentionally blurring that line. This is definitely a new low for Lessig. We should expect more from influential lawyers.
They make it very non-obvious, but you can buy a standalone license for 1p v7 after downloading here: https://1password.com/downloads/
"Fairly compact" as in precission that we can achieve, instead of perfect precission and mathematical consequence of quickly spreading over entire universe.

I think it never makes much sense to talk about a particle. In the wave particle duality, the particle part doesn't have many arguments for it. You can understand and calculate everything using waves. Just not macroscopic kind of waves but waves that have few peculiar qualities that macroscopic waves don't have.

Any way... Thank you for indulging my ramblings about the things I barely grasp. :-)