skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hired a tutor. Even with weekly lessons for 2+ years, it required a lot of sustained effort and dedication. Like most everything in music, it requires a lot of practice and there are no real shortcuts.

Nonetheless, you can definitely teach yourself the basics via books and the websites recommended below. But once you want to go past the basics, you're going to want some kind of expert/teacher/tutor to ask questions of and to review composition exercises, so that you can understand harmony, voice leading, etc.

That being said, if you're a musician, learning music theory is enormously helpful. You understand what you're seeing on the printed page as much more than a series of notes and chords, and your musical intelligence as you listen is greatly increased. Good luck!
Pun unintentionally intended, then :) Thanks for the note.
you must enjoy wasting time and money
They're both meaningful. GCP still exists because they eventually dismissed the idea of shutting it down. But the fact that they discussed the idea means that shutting it down was a real possibility. I think it also means that if GCP's category position weakens out stays the same, they'll consider shutting it down again.
I never understood the "naming things" part to be about temporary variables. IMO it's about exported APIs, global identifiers, and especially about finding resources by some useful name in a distributed system.

In any case, Forth is a language for implementing your own DSLs by defining a whole bunch of "words" that all need to be named. So it's not like you get around the harder part of "naming things".
China-made operating system UOS adds support for a must-use device by banks
You literally cannot know this.

It's pretty easy to construct a scenario where "oh yes he is omniscient and thereby he can easily draw returns from a bustling market" but it's even easier to construct a scenario where fraudulent activity is occurring and those same returns are being derived from expert-level fraudulent activity.

No one is accusing a buy-and-hold investor like WB of committing illicit activities. Seriously, no one. OTOH, I think it is quite reasonable to suspect that the premier quant trader of all time, with those stellar YOY returns is extracting alpha via strategies that are "dumb" and "always work", i.e. his primary edge. These strats probably exist in the grey area of financial structuring and trading activity (if not worse).

Seriously. Just look at the yearly returns time series. (Acquiring the yearly financial statements is left as an exercise to the reader).

I mean yeah I think he's awesome too. But thinking he's some kind of market savant in a post-Madoff world is really quite silly, in my opinion.
More that I remember the companies I dealt with back then, and the products they made which I bought. Many of which would remain static far longer, with readily available spares available in stores, alongside the new sales. There was some decent effort to use common spares across multiple models, often for decades unless something transformative required a major change.

I could compare and contrast in just about every sector I can think of. Sure there were some abuses, notably some of the car makers come to mind. The needs of the customers -- beyond making the initial sale -- were far higher up the priority list than today.
I would suggest that you look at the frequency relationships in logarithmic space. +-2 = one octave, +-3 = C to G, +-5 = C to E.

So if you take any note and then go +0, +3, +5-2 in logarithm, meaning you calculate f, f3, f5/2 then you get a major chord.

Once you're working on the frequency ratios like this, you will be able to spot arrangements that can be mistaken for one chord, even though they actually are the overtones of something else. That's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntonic_comma

The basis of good harmonic development is then to travel around the harmonic space and then to deliberately produce these dual-meaning situations so that you can use them to jump around in the harmonic space.

As an example, consider F-Major, f#-minor, B-major. Implicitly, you are replacing the #f-minor with a g-flat-minor, which is why the jump to B-major then makes harmonic sense.

Or as another example, consider F-Major, f-minor, Db-Major, a#-minor, Gb-Major. Each pair shares 2 notes in the well-tempered tuning, but by following this trail you are completely walking out of the C-Major scale that you started with.
> we need to move to a single payer system

The only reason you say that is that you haven't actually experienced Medicare.

It's much much much worse than what you experienced with your insurance company.

The only type that is even remotely sane is Medicare Advantage which is administered by private insurance companies.

What you have described is a huge problem, I 100% agree, but it will not be solved by single-payer.
Ask HN: How to quit Palo Alto Networks Global Protect?
The Palo Alto Networks Global Protect VPN client doesn't seem to have a "Quit" button or equivalent. Is there a savvy way to force quit, such as by command line?

Here's a simple shell script I wrote that gets in the right ballpark - I'm asking for advice because I hope there's a better way.

https://github.com/SixArm/kill-palo-alto-networks-global-protect
Citation needed. One can accuse anyone of anything without the burden of proof
In spirt agreed, I don't know when `in letter` developing software will catch up with this efficiency. That will need a paradigm shift and looking back 50 years, one would have assumed it the other way round; this opinion is from a novice like me who is only exposed to SW and in a very limited capacity to HW world.
have the mx3, so far all good. but.

I use linux... yes it works as a standard 5 mouse buttons, but there is no software for gestures or thumb scroll. Windows has those. Linux will probably never have anything like that

(thumb gesture-button seems to trigger KeyPress Meta+TAB, binding it seems not-so-easy)
Why does India have to do anything at all? There are other countries ready to help people of all religions, Christian, Hindu, Muslim alike.
> We live for <60 years

What country are you from?
Your comment really resonates with me. I worked at google for many years and I eventually got tired of exactly that. Inside the company we complained about all the problems they still have, canceling projects, no way to talk to a human not even paid support to talk about your whatever being turned off. It was really irritating.
Guess it’s a good time for a holiday
> I "need" "assault rifles" (which they're not) because I shoot them in competitive events and for fun and training. They're not a particularly good choice for suicide; they're not really that useful in crime scenarios; they are good at marksmanship and plinking. They're functionally identical to other semi-automatic rifles.

This is great because the self-defence argument isn't applicable at all for these guns, then. Hooray!

> It's a bit dubious that internet-rando-from-outside-the-US

This seems a little emotional. You're an "internet-rando" too.

> First, Ludwig and Cook performed a time-series analysis of the Brady law and found a statistically significant reduction in gun suicide rates after the law's passage, but a non-statistically significant change in suicide rates. So that right there is enough to question the efficacy of what you suggest (gun control as a mechanism to prevent suicide).

Is this the same Ludwig and Cook that found in 2004 that handgun owners accounted for a much higher rate of suicides than long rifles? That's one of the reasons I suggest owning a 22 bolt action.

I'm curious about what mechanism you think explains the result that owning a gun increases the non-gun suicide rate. Many meta-analyses across studies such as Santaella-Tenorio's in 2016 which stretches across 10 countries and 130 studies, suggest a strong link between better gun control and less gun violence and suicide.

> But anyways-- time for me to move on. We're down in the weeds and won't be read by others; the stuff you assert seems to vary between uninformed and dubious; and neither of us is gonna convince the other.

I'm really interested in how people form beliefs about their safety in the world, and this has been informative. Thanks!
I don't really think so - I think it's more about asserting that the name ordering does hold meaningful and legitimate significance for people who are native Japanese.

For comparison, consider the loan word in English, "Sushi". No one in English would consider calling it by the name "Raw Fish and Rice" because the term "Sushi" implies a specific cultural context and carries the connection to Japan, Japanese culture and history etc. Trying to take the word "Sushi" away from the concept of "Sushi" would be almost rude, as it is de-valuing the social context that it is connected with.

By comparison, at the moment, East Asian people typically re-order their names to fit Western norms in Western contexts, which by the the opposite token implies that the name ordering isn't that important, and doesn't carry any significance to the person who wears the name. Deciding to use the traditional ordering isn't about telling other languages how they're supposed to work, it's about asking other people to acknowledge your cultural context as legitimate and equal to their own.

The decision to do this now may well, in this case, be steeped in nationalist sentiment as the article implies.
The ticket you linked to said the feature is “planned”, so I’m not sure what you mean when you say you’d welcome help. Are you working on this internally (and as such this is essentially a “we’re looking for mobile engineers”) or are you soliciting contributions from the open source community to work on this?
Tesla considers cutting price of China-made Model 3 by 20% next year
Ask HN: What is stopping people from unionizing in Tech Big 5?
First, I would like to start with saying that I don't heva a horse in this race : I live in EU country and I am quite intrigued in the latests news coming from Google related to union busting and latest from Kathryn Spiers. I am not looking for arguments about why she deserves or not to be fired.

So my question is why don't her and other people in Google who want to form a union(as it's their right if they want) just start one? Allegedly by media, at least 5 people were fired for that in the last month. What's stopping those 5 people to have formed an union before they were fired? You start with 5 and get in as many willing people and voala. Isn't that how it works?

Is there any requirement in US about percentage of workforce that has to be in a union? Can you just start something with like 50-100 people(I'd assume that there is at least that many that would be willing to join if someone starts one) and then grow it slowly, using legal ways and start building channels with management.

P.S I'll try to state that I am not looking for pro or anti union oppinions. Forming an union is their right, and they seem to be wanting it, so my question is just why wouldn't they just start one using legal ways and means.
> We live for <60 years

That's false. And please hold on with "your own theories". We have too much "fun" with antivaxers already.
I just find it bizarre that it's people's doorbells that somehow seems to have been the triggering point, and not the billion or so closed-circuit surveillance cameras already deployed. Of all the cameras to complain about, seeing who is at your front door is, IMO, the least possibly offensive.
trees are not really a good way to capture carbon
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Discussed in:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224211
Can you disable the cloud features on that now? I stopped using it when they forced that on everyone. I had even paid for it previously.
Aren't most films subsidized in some ways, even the huge successful ones? Lots of communities bend over backwards to get them to come and film. Tax breaks, cheap studio rent or whatever. New york gave out $621M a year in tax breaks, that's as much as $31 dollar per person living there, according to wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_production_incentives_in...
If a Muslim wishes to reject the teachings of Islam and live a life free of Islam, how would India help them? Ex-Muslims are murdered all the time in Islamic countries. The persecution is religious and the person is of a Muslim origin. Go on.
Why he doesn't want prefect?
Forbrydelsen. In Danish, the indefinite article (en, et) can be suffixed to nouns to make them definite.

Example: en dreng = a boy, whereas drengen = the boy.

“Son” is not extremely common, even in patronyms. Usually the “son of” suffix in Denmark would be “sen” as well (Frederiksen, Carlsen, Poulsen).
There are endless resources, but the most important thing is to pursue the playful goal-free explorative learning part of it first. Just discover relationships between pitches and sounds yourself. (It’s not the same, as pitch is a perceived quality.)
Also worth to study Debussy scores and check harmonic constructs note-by-note, later.
It's neither of those two.

The actual problem is the huge number of people employed by the industry.

The US government is incapable of fixing anything because it would require firing huge numbers of people.

That's obviously a non-starter for any politician.

This situation can only be fixed by giving power to an entity that doesn't care about firing people, that only cares about the bottom line.

And by the time people realize what's happening it'll be too late to change it.

Basically private insurance companies that are not monopolies. There was a plan I remember from years ago about allowing people to buy health insurance from any state.

In my opinion that's the best option. It would also be necessary to get rid of employer based insurance because employees don't get to pick.

I have zero expectation of this ever happening.
Slack doesn’t actually do Markdown; it’s just a little bit ahead of what Hacker News offers. And diffing PDFs and Word Documents is possible, but annoying: you need a custom diff tool for it that you integrate with Git.
And tomorrow it’s forecasted to be 42°C in my inner Sydney coastal suburb. This is insane.
The lecture hall at my university is featured in that show, the institute of computer science took over institute of anatomy so we have tiles in our lecture hall so it could be washed.
Reading the official news release [1], the cynic in me thinks the wording of just "password" indicates that these were plain text passwords. From my experience, when the passwords are hashed/salted, the companies make it a point to include that.

[1] https://www.lifelabs.com/lifelabs-releases-open-letter-to-cu...
I thought I understood recursion
Expect that to be broken again within about 3-4 days.
Show HN: Is it conchable? Taking turns using a conch
A business like Google Cloud would not be wound down, it would be sold. MS and Amazon woulc not be allowed to buy it for antitrust issues, so potential buyers might include Rackspace and Apple, among others.
Here in NL our laws are also not supreme of the rulers. Frustrating but true and as much as I would like to believe that in a court of law our king would be held to the same standard as I would be I'm just about 100% sure that that would not be the case.

Worse still, there is this file called 'crimes committed by the royal family' that is classified until 100 years after their death.

This is why to this day we don't know the exact details of Bernhard van Oranje's many escapades and crimes, some of which were quite significant and yet ended up covered up.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_van_Lippe-Biesterfeld...

The combination of politicians and structural lying is unfortunately not limited to China either.
https://learningmusic.ableton.com
> Jesus almighty that is a lot of licenses. No wonder MIT has just become the unquestioned default.

This is a specific thing per ecosystem/community. Some use a lot of MIT, some Apache, some BSD, some LGPL, some Boost and so on.

I suspect a lot of this is due to the viral nature of licenses. What license is compatible with MIT? MIT obviously, so let's just choose that :)
The more important thing is what we consent to, during regular maintenance. Can they just suck up all the data and sell it to the highest bidder, or to law enforcement? I sign a multi page agreement every visit, and have never read it's fine print
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Will easily be broken in a couple days. Some places forecast for 46C by the end of the week.
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Kenwood and Dualit kitchen equipment and Linn hi-fi. Still support products they made in the sixties and seventies, and have provided upgrade routes and repairs for later improvements. In each case those flagship products still exist, are still being made, perhaps with vastly better materials and technology almost incomparable with the original, and spare and repairs are still readily available.

Not too different with Hoover vacuums in the era of the Hoover Senior and Junior -- they stuck around, being repaired and reconditioned easily for decades. Had Hoover or Dyson not gone with cheap throwaway plastic for everything when cyclones meant capability improved in post 1980/1990 models we might have those lasting 30+ years easily too. As is they self destruct in a decade or less as more and more bits break. The (cheap plastic) spares that are available are priced such that you're heavily incentivised to replace. One or two commercial brands still make products that might last a while...

Most of the current kitchen appliance brands are mainly now just worthless logos, usually owned en masse in a larger group, probably after a leveraged hostile buyout. Now made in the same single factory and generate churn with new models every year - for the sake of difference not because there is any improvement, just deliberately changed from the previous. Spare parts might be just filter, lamp or element, often deliberately unique to model, and will be available at vastly inflated price for limited time only.

No end of other examples from hand tools, garage equipment, and home goods through to the most complex products.
The book "Music Theory for Computer Musicians" has helped me a lot. It is quite easy to find as a PDF file online.
Your statement goes completely against Indian election results.

Re-electing somebody with such a huge majority clearly states, people of India are happy with present government.

Don't put up your propaganda as voice Indians.

Being an Indian, I'm very happy with BJP, and I'm not Hindu.
Normally these +40c days have happened a fair bit later in the summer. To experience 43c on the road in Melbourne today so early feels ominous for what's to come.

This is not doing any good for the fire situation either.

I'm amazed by the fact that we're still allowing new coal projects to go up.
I use Edlys Music Theory for Practical People with my students.

Don't discount the ability to fast-track your progress with a good teacher, too.
Definitely just spent more than an hour running through his videos. Thanks.

I've been avoiding China for a visit, but now I need to check it out after watching those.
And maybe they won’t kill it, but I ve had a number of times platform changes killed features I used. Thing is, with a company I pay for I can vote with my wallet. With Google it’s just sending a message and hoping it doesn’t end up in nullspace somewhere.

Google is just too big as a company, and if they replaced every human in it with drones no one would know the difference. There is no human face or point of contact or any accountability and it’s becoming a problem.
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Yes - that's an increasingly important one. Add cryptography too.
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Ticket is unscheduled, work is open source, if you're interested in contributing please comment on the ticket and the team can discuss: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-11067

On hiring, yes, we're hiring too, that's perhaps the most committed route to take: https://mattermost.com/careers/
The 'small fry stuff' runs in the 100's of projects and that adds up, and not all of them are really small fry either.
it is probably possible to collect that on police cars but I suspect police has access to it, so not very useful
I don't know about other places, but Netflix is pretty good at bumping your pay rapidly. A friend of mine that was working in education went to Netflix. He started at around 180k and hit 350k by a year then over 500k just another year later. After a total of only about 5 years he's making close to 1mil.
Not at the VP but at the C level you can get a feel by reading SEC proxies. Amounts, composition and sometimes methodology/justification are included.
Australia is a big place. 40-42C is not uncommon for a summer heatwave day in one city, but as an average across the whole continent it's unusual.

FWIW It hit 39.7 here in Melbourne: http://www.baywx.com.au/melbtemp2.html
Half the continent on fire and record temperatures. I wonder how many people already died from this. Are there any numbers available? It must be really hard to breathe, especially for elderly people.
So use an internet condom.
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> vi in Unix highlights the amount of time you spend watching the screen as you cursor around with hjkl

vi is four decades old. It's not the pinnacle of keyboard-driven interface design, vast improvements have been made since then.

For example, I use vim-sneak, which lets you jump to anywhere on your screen in 3 keystrokes flat 99% of the time (and the 1% of the time where you miss, well, 99% of those times, just one more keystroke is all it takes to get to the right spot): https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

I also use relative line numbers, so I can select or delete most blocks of text in 3 or 4 keystrokes, for example d4j deletes the current line and the next 4 lines (5 lines total), or d23k deletes the current line and the previous 23 lines (24 lines total): https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-number/

Obviously number of keystrokes isn't the only factor that determines operation speed. This is actually exemplified by my second example, commands like "d23k" actually work out-of-the-box even in original vi, the problem is that counting 23 lines by eye is way slower than selecting 24 lines with a mouse by eye, which is solved by relative line numbers.
And in Nordic countries I’ve honestly heard people say that the fact that it’s pretty cold right now is evidence against global warming. That whole ”global” part really trips people up.

Does anyone know how to explain this nice and clear to people who aren’t that well versed in variances and means? I really struggle.
Same as US then. Every time you travel to the US - boom all 10 fingers scanned.

It's nothing the Chinese are exceptional at.
If only there was some kind of service where everyone routed each others traffic like a VPN with multiple hops by wrapping every message in layers of encryption like on onion.
The Mattermost source code is AGPL. Fork away!
Insider trading easily lends itself to automation depending on the level of conspiratorial thinking you're willing to accept.

Consider the stakes - you have a multibillion dollar sub-portfolio (Medallion has current AUM of $118B according to some random site called InsiderMonkey, idk whether its legit or not). In 2016, the AUM was reported at $76B. His returns literally don't make any sense. You can't be right all the time. Anyways, so literally you wanna use a small fraction of that to fund the construction of a small discreet, strategic team that acquires information to gain edge in public markets. Simons has background in signals intelligence, and despite his later work, wouldn't it be an extremely obvious avenue to just forcibly acquire knowledge that is non-public and then place trades accordingly?

Simplest explanation is its definitely illegal. Every couple years, you hire some algebraic geometry PhD and boom, you chalk up all your returns to magic math. Doesn't make any sense.