skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the Youtubers who don't earn much, I completely sympathize. For those who do earn a lot... I don't really sympathize too much. A quote in the article says "I had more money than I could spend -- and I was super depressed. I had to quit everything and take a break for two years.". GOOD - they hit burnout and did what was needed -- take a break. It was only that they had "more money than I could spend" that they could afford to take a break. I don't sympathize with the ones who can afford to take time off and don't; I do sympathize with the majority who don't earn enough to take a break or slow down.
I was wondering the same, maybe there are some NYT publicists spamming new articles? I've seen a lot of WSJ as well tho.

Tangentially, if you want to see how several media outlets deal with a single piece of news i suggest https://spidr.today (not affiliated, just a satisfied user)

If you ignore the comment box it's pretty cozy and useful.
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This is standard practice in Australia and has been for many decades. I came across this practice in the late 80's and early 90's and it became even more common and egregious as time went on. At the time, the company I was working for decided to update the employment contracts of all of its employees and we were all supposed to sign these new contracts having these "ownership" clauses in them. I know I didn't and there were many of my collegues didn't as well, but every new employee didn't have a choice. When I hit the 00's and went contracting, I was able to change my basic contract to avoid this on occasions. On others I was not able to get the appropriate changes made. As a contractor though, the "ownership" clause were less demanding. But still, I basically had to stop work on all my side projects (all of them, even outside of the software field) during each employment contract.

These days I can do what I like and don't have to worry about any company interfering. This is a consequence of no longer being employed in any such field.
This link should resist time rot: https://www.google.com/search?q=top+rpa+vendors
This is so shoddily written:

> At a portfolio meeting in October, Housenbold defended his performance by arguing he’d been trying to back female CEOs. Then he seemed to blame the #MeToo movement for limiting his ability to maneuver, bewildering at least one attendee.

What? This gives absolutely no specifics, no quotes, even softens the shit sandwich the author is attempting to feed us by saying "seemed to." And it's supposed to matter because it "bewildered" one unnamed attendee. God almighty I need to stop reading shit like this.
If I lend my friend $10 every day for lunch and he pays me back the next day and this happens 5 days in a row in what context would it make sense to say I have lent him $50 dollars? The linked discussion about cumulative liquidity seems completely full of FUD and designed to obfuscate rather than illuminate its readers. Less of this and more links to Matt Levine please.
We don't even know how many Ahmadis are even coming to India, but we do know there are millions of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and other minorities.

Moreover, Hindu girls are being abducted and being force converted and married away. I have not seen any similar news related to Ahmadis.

So, this law is about helping those who need to be helped en masse, Ahmadi cases can be dealt with on a case by case basis under existing laws.
Unions are the reason that teachers have retirement funds in the first place. That doesn't excuse them from the ridiculously high fees, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Having seen the employment agreements for both, I can confidently say that Google's clause is the same as Microsoft's. Microsoft may be less strict about enforcing it, but the language was the same.
Mark Levine's book is a great resource and the way he presents much of the theory behind jazz improvisation and actually ties it to practice is very useful.

Regarding ear training - I think it's worth mentioning that learning to identify intervals in isolation won't have major returns on investment unless you're main goal is to transcribe by ear 20th century music that is divorced from "common practice" harmonic approaches.

Instead, I'd recommend taking an approach of build up aural comprehension of harmonic idioms from whatever style of music you're interested in learning about - so for classical music, recognizing the difference between tonic and dominant and when we've moved from one to the other is more valuable (and easier) than knowing whether the soprano voice in an chord moved a third or a second.
To all appearances, this looked like an actual kidnapping. For myself, I'm happy to receive an amber alert on my phone even if it sometimes ends up being a false alarm. About your point of "productivity", I can't really say, but I'm skeptical that it's worth measuring such a tiny disruption to a day even if it affects millions of people.

It's more annoying to me when they issue Amber Alerts for fairly low risk non-custodial parental abduction cases. I could easily see that making the whole system less effective if they deploy it for such cases.
You can't move your bitcoins if your electricity is off or if a totalitarian system physically has you and your possessions.

You can only vote with your feet so many times, and if the choice is always to flee instead of demanding accountable government, eventually there will be no place to go. By providing a workaround for government non-accountability, Bitcoin encourages people to avoid the issue instead of engaging with it.
UK to create regulator to police big tech companies
Moving the production to a different country would be a solution, since the Netherlands is currently producing way more nitrogen per area of land than other European countries.

Moreover, our nature areas are generally smaller and closer to agriculture. Therefore, nitrogen output has (had) a lot more impact on nature here than in other countries.

More information can be found in this news article (Dutch): https://nos.nl/artikel/2307260-kan-de-ruime-duitse-stikstofn...
I was under the impression that there basically were no fees for for Fidelity and the other big brokerages:

https://www.fidelity.com/why-fidelity/pricing-fees

I do see that Fidelity charges $48 per year per account to employers that want to use an HSA though:

https://www.fidelity.com/bin-public/060_www_fidelity_com/doc...

I guess they might have different fees for consumer accounts vs employers, but I have a hard time imagining that they would be more expensive than any other option, given that their whole business seems to be driven by the desire to gain as many AUM as possible by lowering expenses.
Agreed. I'm pretty sick of the anti-JS kneejerk rhetoric that happens here.

It adds zero value to any discussion. It's nothing more than a desperate attempt to gain some internet points.

It's a popular language and it has flaws, but that doesn't automatically make it worthy of the amount of hate it receives here. This type of discussion has more in common with /r/iamverysmart than it does with valuable discourse that HN used to be known for.
- PBS Passport : $5/month

- PBS Kids* : $4.99/month

- PBS Masterpiece* : $5.99/month

- PBS Living* : $2.99/month

$19/month for all of these, is still better than $50 for Youtube TV, if all you care about is PBS programming.

* Requires Amazon Prime
Yeah, this is pretty much my understanding from reading reddit threads and tutorials for running custom firmware. Even if you disable whatever 'cloud' option your hardware ships with and run off, say, an SD card, your data is still being dumped somewhere in China if you allow your device to talk outside of you LAN.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when there are no real viable options for consumers if you care about security.
> pointlessness

or perhaps that the work itself is the reward
Same, moved to Windscribe but was torn between them and Mulvad. PIA lost me and they won't bring me back short of a full refund of my existing sub with them and with Windscribe.

But I'd just take the money and move on anyway.
Unions Have Lost Most of Their Power, and Labor is at the Complete Mercy of Capital. Slander like this is partly to blame.
Firefox will eventually die in 5 to 10 years if the marketshare trend continue.
Firefox for Android already has a negligible number of users and as a consequence webmasters stopped to worry about making their mobile websites compatible with the limitations of Firefox.
Learn how the black keys map to sharp and flat notes, then learn the cycle of fifths. (There are also some "tricks" you can use to understand how sharp and flat key signatures relate to their keys: in a "sharp" key signature, the last sharp sign matches the leading tone for the corresponding major key (e.g. G major only has F# as a key signature sign); in a "flat" key signature the last flat sign matches the fourth, and the next to last matches the actual key. F major has a single flat sign at Bb; Bb major has two, at Bb and Eb.) Once you have internalized how all of these relate, it really becomes trivial.
Some people call them "dark kitchens" or "ghost kitchens" instead.

It's what Travis Kalanick is up to these days, incidentally. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has supposedly put 400MM into his new company at a 5B valuation.
Sunni-Shia is a sectarian, within Islam, conflict. No Shia teenaged girls are abducted and converted to Sunni.

But that is happening to Hindu, Sikh and other minorities.

The situation is different. Hindu & Sikh have just one home country, Shia have other Shia majority countries.
All monetary value is entirely socially constructed, very similar to religion. And as with religion it naturally feeds on evangilizing and convincing others to join. The more adherents you have the more powerful your network / adoption gets. It's a natural consequence that any adopter of a given monetary asset will try and convince others to join. That's how you have gold bugs, real estate bugs, art bugs, fiat bugs and yes ... now crypto bugs. Don't hate the player...
so you were involved with twitter from day 1. what happened to odeo then. I remember reading a story about early employees being bought out and later regretting it when the company became worth billions.
> Oh, please. It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with, even "on their own time".

Not in my big tech company. You have to disclose any side work you do only if it is similar to the work you do. Not if it is similar to anything the company does. And they're not overly broad (so my doing SW doesn't mean I have to report all SW side work).

As someone else said, let's not normalize this crap.
Before I knew very much music theory, I tried building a music generator. I learned TONS of music theory along the way, and the generator project sort of served as a testing ground for new concepts that I've learned, as well as a driving force that compelled me to learn about new aspects of theory in order to make improvements to the generator.

This is definitely not the most efficient way to learn music theory, but for me it always helps to have a project running alongside whatever I'm studying in order to immediately reap the benefits of new knowledge.
Don't condescend to me. The only bargaining power is the ability to switch jobs easily -- something unions specifically fight against.
> Yes, that is how being insane feels like.

Unfortunately it's also what it feels like to be sane in the presence of a cult, so you'll need something else to distinguish the two.

A good method is to measure by which one makes you better off. And since tracking is used for price discrimination and other methods of extracting wealth from you, and screen time is associated with increased anger and depression...
Unlikely, the Fed is fairly independent from the rest of the government and holds reserves or other assets as needed.
I’ve noticed cliqz.com is on tracker block lists.
Bitcoin cash is no more if a scam than “Bitcoin”. All crypto coins are scams. Or at least a transactional layer for higher level scams (which often have scams piled on top of those scams”)

One delightful thing about cryptocurrency is everybody thinks their coin is the good one and all the others are “shitcoins”. With slightly more introspection, they might realize that their chosen coin is just as scammy as the rest.
> India on the other hand, chose to be secular.

Was there a plebiscite at that time regarding if India should be Hindu or secular? If not how can we say that India chose to be secular.
Regarding support for .NET whatever AWS does microsoft will always be way ahead of them. Microsoft is not elastic.co.

Can you give one concrete example of where MS has a feature for .Net that AWS doesn’t have?

The only one that I can think of is that their lambda equivalent works with .Net Framework.

Amazon doesn’t care about EKS, it’s just a check box option to say they have it. Elastic Container Service is far more integrated with AWS.

Have you actually used AWS? Care to enumerate how it’s “inferior”?
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Why do software developers accept this? It's the only profession i've heard of things like this happening. I've never had an employer even think that anything I make or do in my own time is their business, even when i've used materials or equipment from work. The idea that an employer has any rights to anything I do they aren't paying me for is mind boggling.
What we mean by DNS security is that when you visit your bank's website, you know it's actually your bank. We're less concerned about concealing DNS queries from routers and more concerned about preventing them from forging responses. Eavesdropping won't empty your bank account. Spoofing can, and encryption doesn't matter if the remote endpoint isn't authentic.

Right now you need to ping Google's servers each time you visit a website to ask if it's safe. We love Google but they're a private company that can do anything they want. If you feel comfortable with them being the source of truth for names on the Internet, then the problem is solved.

Most of us would prefer it be controlled by ICANN which is a non-profit, not controlled by any one government, that lets anyone from around the world who cares enough participate show up and take part in Internet governance. Controlling names was the purpose they were founded to serve. I say let them.
The original arguments for BTC are long abandoned. Store of value, cheap transactions, etc. Once those were proven to be invalid, they couldn't talk out of both sides of their mouth anymore.

But it seems like the primary use cases are speculation, criminal and terrorist funding schemes, tax evasion, and money laundering.
> Google's policy was, "because someone somewhere in our company is working on something similar, we own it." I think that's also an unethical overreach. If I'm hired to work on A, I don't think I should need to care that someone else at the company is working on B. My conflicts of interest and related software should be determined based on the parts of the software I'm involved in.

That's nice that you don't think there's a conflict of interest, but that doesn't mean you are correct or that it's an unethical overreach. Especially given their policy, it's pretty clear there is a conflict of interest between Google and this persons software, ignoring that and looking entirely from the employee perspective is just silly.
What’s Inside the Google Coral Edge TPU? Speed Test and Teardown
Any good tips on how to go about that? Is there an effective Google incantation to search for where it could be in a specific brand/make/model of car?
I'm a foreigner so maybe someone can answer me; is this money earmarked? Will it be traced? Are the books open and available to everyone?

In short; can we see exactly what this money is used for?

Otherwise it's just a big robbery.
Actual currency - crypto-"currency" which misappropriate the term - doesn't increase in value transferring wealth to the earlier adopters, that's why currencies don't mimic Ponzi-Pyramid schemes. Currency is tied to tangibles of a nation and the intangibles of trusting that society is stable, meaning the value of the currency will be relatively stable.
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It's Debian-based. https://www.uniontech.com/desktop-operating-system

They're probably hoping that open-source software won't be affected by sanctions as much. They're probably right.
>[...] while saying that throughput below a 144p YouTube video is too much data [...]

That's a gross simplification of the issue. The problem with large block sizes isn't with bandwidth, it's with the storage requirements of running a full node, and the time it takes to bring up a full new node.
A seller gains bargaining power by increasing the number of buyers, and/or decreasing the number of sellers. Therefore, there is an increase in bargaining power by unionizing, since it reduces the number of sellers.
Nice effort but I don't like it.

You could replace everything here with Django. There's nothing in here that supports migrations, deployment etc (Django can).

I've used React and Webpack and loath it, it's extremely opinionated, saturated with pure JS developers, has an enormous learning curve and load of gotchas.

Django also has API support and a wealth of add-ons for services like federated auth, ElasticSearch bindings, bindings for S3, Redis, discovery, Cassandra, NoSql, etc etc.

The architecture here is also really unscalable. There's nothing in here that can be horizontally scaled, and Jinja or Django + bootstrap is 10x faster for prototyping before you hire a dedicated dev to maintain a React nightmare.

Modules are not a feature of this app, they're a feature of the Python language. Putting that in the README is misleading IMO.
RAPID Decision-Making: What it is, why we like it, how to get the most out of it
A programming language for the ancient Chinese
If anyone knows of texts or presentations of similar wisdom value, please send them my way!
This is the point I think the tweeter and a lot of commenters on here miss.

In the EU all those laws are part of the statutory employment law /eu directives and not in an individuals contract - so employees don't ever know about that unless they know about employment law.
Many companies monitor room usage via smart BMS/BAS. Usually they stop at the bathroom door. I have to wonder if they will breach that modicum and ID people entering and exiting to time them and not just for occupancy metrics.
That's a marketing statement - doesn't mean currency is a religious structure.
Evacuation...or build more homes on stilts. When does Florida become America's Venice?
I think the upvoting has to do with this series of posts on the domain. If it was uninteresting content the posts would not be upvoted in the way they are.

It's not unusual for a company blog to have a different name. A simple example is Signal v. Noise [1] which is the Basecamp folks. I would not want to seem them penalized for doing what others have done for a long time which has been seen as fine.

Knowing who Cliqz is a bit about being an insider for certain technology circles. Many people do not know and many people do not care. Some folks having issues with the company should not stop interesting content from being upvoted. Some members here have issues with Google, Microsoft, and other companies. That never stops their content from being listed.

I am not a Cliqz user. I am curious of the motivations of people who use Chrome (put out by an advertising company) while having issues with Cliqz (being put out by a media company).

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/
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My hot take: HN is probably one of the worst places to ask for advice on music theory, because it has a fairly high concentration of people who reject traditional music theory and want to come up with their own system. In general, these people haven’t gotten very far in making up their own system, so their advice is pretty worthless! My other hot take is that the existing system of musical notation and terminology that we have is actually pretty good, and it’s hard to figure out ways to improve it.

Music theory is a pretty broad subject and there are a ton of pathways through music theory that take you to different parts of it. I would start by trying to figure out a “map” of the different parts you are interested in.

Almost any course will start with major/minor diatonic scales, then intervals, and then chords. If you combine notes with rhythm, you get a melody. If you combine chords together, you get harmony. Figuring out how harmony works usually starts with “functional harmony” which is where you learn about tonic/dominant/subdominant chords and cadences. The main gotcha here is that there are a couple competing systems for writing names of chords, and you should at least be aware of them so you’re not surprised by a “V6 chord” because that name means two different things depending on which system you use.

This gives you a pretty good foundation for understanding music or writing your own. It’s also not too hard to get this far on your own. Music will still seem mysterious and weird, but that’s normal.

From there you can go in a bunch of directions—there’s atonal music, jazz, traditional counterpoint, nonfunctional harmony, modes, alternative scales, alternative tunings, etc.

I recommend the book The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis. Personally, I would go through the first chapters until it introduces strict counterpoint, and then consider the rest of the book as a “menu” that you can read in any order (kind of). For the second edition, that means doing chapters 1-8, and then you can feel free to skip around chapters 9+. Don’t just follow the book with pencil and paper, actually play the exercises on a real instrument and train your ear (and get an ear training app, if you think it will help).

Finally, I recommend buying a stack of staff paper from the local stationary store. It shouldn’t be hard to find. Alternatively, you can use a computer program to write music, but the choices are a bit intimidating. I’m using Dorico these days but it’s $100. Don’t rely on tabs if you want to improve theory. Tabs are cheat sheets for performance, they make theory and analysis harder.
People really have the knives out for Google at the moment (see also the firing of people, monopoly allegations, the fake news "controversy"). They're not perfect. But is there any major corporation that DOESN'T claim ip over employee projects during their employment? Side or otherwise.
Many people believe abortion is murder. That doesn’t make it so.
I think normalizing on big-endian name order might be a good thing. The "BE in native language, LE sometimes in Western languages[0]" convention can lead to confusion. Some web sites, such as PayPal, choose BE or LE depending on the country of origin of the request; a Japanese name in a PayPal ledger can appear in kanji but in little-endian order if you're viewing it from the USA, making it look weird. Also, the "endianness" of a full name is hard to tell sometimes in English because journalism, anime dubs, etc. tend to use BE while casual conversation tends to use LE. So sometimes I'm like "uhhh, which is the family name and which is the given name?"

I doubt this figured much into Abe's reasoning. It's Abe. Wouldn't be surprised if he started wearing a topknot into the Diet.

[0] Some Western languages also have big-endian name order. Hungarian, for instance; Paul Erdős is really Erdős Pál.
Thanks a lot for pointing to these lectures !
Sometimes even freely available quality material doesn't serve its intended purpose due to lack of awareness among those who want/need it