skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't necessarily call that a blanket statement, though. I'm sure they don't mean power user functions are easy to learn. I think at that point there's just a general expectation that those who will be power users / need that type of functionality will be more than capable of figuring it out.
Yeah after app thinning was enabled, most apps became much smaller because you weren’t forced to download assets meant for other device sizes. But these days I think most app updates are bigger than previous versions. Would be interested to hear about exceptions to this hypothesis, and reasons why!
If you lie to yourself you'll know you're lying... Also that's a great way to keep yourself in a bad job or relationship when you could leave and get a better one.
At the same time, people comment about 'hidden' features nobody tells them about. I support there is no 'one size fits all' scenario here.
Often summarized as "Science advances one funeral at a time".
My thoughts exactly, I know people have their own tastes and preferences, but I think it's off-putting to newcomers.
What is called financial inclusion in Africa is more like financial extortion
Infrared light (or heat) is only waste in the summer if you live in a very hot region.

Both fluorescent and diode have problems:

1) Fluorescent contain poisonous mercury, one man had to amputate his foot after stepping on a broken bulb.

2) Both emit ultra violet light that is bad for your health.

3) LEDs emit a very narrow frequency which is not something your eyes can work with, this will improve over time by spreading the spectrum which is expensive and never replace incandescent lights in terms of vision comfort.

In Europe the law is still here, so we have to hoard incandescent lights if we wish to keep using them, but photographers still need them so they will be available forever if you know how to hustle.

My trick is to use a 60 watt lamp that I dim down to 40 watts, that way they last longer, basically emulating how they where manufactured before the cartel: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t...

The real problem here is that incandescent light bulbs can be manufactured to last decades, but are made weaker to sell more bulbs. And here now law was made!

The other problem is living in large houses that have many lights and also require more heating and switching lamps on and off all the time (breaking them sooner) when moving around in the house.

The law should be "maximum 20 square meters indoor living space per person". That would make a difference, everything else is just another form of "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."!

The curly haired guy in the clip is one of those guys, inventing themselves a "job". That said the orange guy is not any better, so we're stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Aren't people that are richer, with the exception of those who achieve existential angst through lack of meaning, more optimistic? :P

If you can't get medical care, I imagine you're both more likely to die and pretty pessimistic about the state of the world.

It's easy to be optimistic when you have a feeling of control over your circumstances.
> I guess I should try hotels.com someday as well.

Just so folks are aware, there are essentially only 3 major OTA (online travel agency) brands:

Booking Holdings: Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, Agoda (and also OpenTable)

Expedia Group: Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, VRBO (aka HomeAway), Trivago, Hotwire, Cheap Tickets, Wotif

AirBnB: AirBnB and Hotel Tonight

TripAdvisor is also standalone (they previously spun out of Expedia) but their business, based on recommendations, is a bit different than the others.
Podcast tracking is improving, but not super useful yet in many cases. It works best for advertisers with high LTV products that can be tracked via coupon codes or memorable vanity URLs. A lot of advertisers actually shy away from them because they try to charge high CPMs without great tracking, which is important when their reach is so low comparatively so other statistical methods aren't as useful for measurement.
Yeah the aircraft probably just needs improved CI and a phased migration to rust.
I really wish articles written about studies like this, where all they found was a association between stuff, and not a causal relationship, would explicitly say so. Perhaps through a little box near the end of the article stating, in simple terms, "the authors found that X and Y are associated. This does not necessarily mean that doing X will cause Y"

I know the people who read the actual study in journal, entitled "Optimism is associated with ...", will notice the word "associated" and know what to make of the results. But Im pretty sure a good number of people who read pop-science articles like this dont know that "correlation doesnt imply causation". They will come to the wrong conclusion, and we cant blame them! Ive found this to be true in friends and family.
Well, to be fair, people in Japan mostly remember the tsunami. In the town where I live beach front property is half the price of property on top of the hill these days.

People are also concerned about nuclear reactor safety. I live about 6 km from a nuclear reactor and there are repeated calls to dismantle it. I frequently get visits from PR people from the power company to try to convince me that the nuclear reactor is necessary. It's a short conversation: I'm very much more inclined to welcome the nuclear power plant than more natural gas! However, this particular power plant has been closed down for almost 15 years. Note this is significantly longer than the time period since the Tohoku earthquake. To be frank, the power company was not able to pass safety checks for years prior to the tsunami. Although it has been significantly upgraded, I'm not surprised that people in the area are afraid.

Even with this, I can tell you that the land literally next door to the power plant is significantly higher priced than the land next to one of the nicest stretches of white sand beach in this part of Japan. People here have a pretty good handle on what's more dangerous.
Then again, even if we had sound statistics backing our policy, the facts would be dismissed in favor of the ideology backing the social policy.
No offense to this group, I'm sure they have the best intentions, but how many people would want to eat fruit from a street tree in a major city? For that matter, how much of that fruit will actually survive to the point where it is fully ripe and not be eaten first by rats and squirrels? My experience from downtown San Jose is that with the exception of citrus, very little.
There's one key difference in modern, big company software, vs. the software of yesteryear, in my opinion - 20 years ago, most software was written by people who would use the software. Today, software is written and designed by people completely disconnected from the user, or, in the case of things like apple, people whose status as a designer matters more (legitimately) than what they design.
I have no idea what will be proven nor when. (My uneducated guess is not any time soon.)

But I hope it isn't "here's a proof that P!=NP". That'd be just too boring... Much cooler possibilities would be "here's a non-constructive proof that P=NP" or "here's a proof that P=NP is independent of ZFC".
Yep, this is why so many cars come with a backup set of pedals in case the first set is disabled in a prank. Great to have multiple ways of doing the things that need to be done.
> If you lie to yourself you'll know you're lying.

You either haven't done it enough or are doing it too much
I mean you went from never having owned (and presumably used) an iOS device to figuring out the task in 10 minutes. Seems pretty good to me.
Yeah, I really appreciate that he has the courage to say things that need to be said, even though he knows it's currently unpopular. The adult in the room.

Which indicates he's genuinely interested in solving problems. Politics and focus groups be damned. As such it seems likely he'd update his priors via field experts.
maybe... but the video of him speaking [0] (at the 12:00 minute mark) is unambiguous with his words -- "less than an hour" was his actual quote, and there is no mention about any specific plane or technology.

[0] https://youtu.be/KsPLmb6gAdw
How I saw it explained is that LSD shuts down a system in the brain.

Once it's off, it can't be any more off, so nothing special happens with an overdose.
Maybe. Just plain politics is more likely. Decommissioning projects like this very likely touches upon various politicians' pork projects who don't want those to go away. The military brass tried to stop the production of the M1A1 once because they had better tanks, and wanted to buy those instead, but Congress didn't because too many of their districts relied on its production.
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> are you going to build enough homes so everybody who wants to live in the Bay Area can? Obviously not, so there will still be homelessness. “Just build more houses!” Not being an actual answer is the point

This is a strawman argument. There will always be homelessness because there will always be people that prefer to be homeless. Building more homes will reduce a significant amount of homelessness that exists due to structural reasons.
for me the most exciting would be "here's a constructive proof that P=NP. It uses polynomials of degree one million".
Star Trek scene about a robot who cannot handle the Liar's Paradox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCiw0wD44U

Humans are gifted, sophisticated liars. Don't think you can lie to yourself? I BELIEVE IN YOU! You can do it!
It might be a good thing to define what you think Software Engineering means. The comments section shows that there is little agreement between HN readers. Software Engineering, particularly for large and complex systems, seems to focus on human management and interaction issues almost entirely. The technology of programmed systems plays a minor how those systems get put together. Mel Conway got it right: systems (recursively) mimic the organization that built them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Conway
If it’s a PR issue, then wouldn’t a re-branding (I.e. “thorium isn’t the uranium nuclear you know and fear”) be an appropriate solution? At least, assuming thorium isn’t so much worse than current reactor designs?
But then, developing an OS in Windows is akin to racing a Ford on a formula one track. Just why bother? Why not use an OS that doesn't need a whole weeks worth of reboots and regedits to set up the Dev environment correctly?
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You can use sagemaker to perform ml model deployment.
https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

Sagemaker takes care of infrastructure for you. It has also been integrated with various orchestrations like k8s, airflow etc.

https://sagemaker.readthedocs.io/en/stable/amazon_sagemaker_...
https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-...

it went interestingly last time! (C-f for "You don't have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight. " )
Probably depends on the type of Ruby developer. As a Rails guy Elixir seems more useful for my day-to-day but Crystal is indeed compelling.
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Yes, but that's just about being tracked by the WiFi AP itself. But as I understand it, being tracked by apps on your device doesn't depend on the AP having monitor mode capability. APs get geolocated primarily by GPS-capable smartphones. And then devices get geolocated based on proximity to such APs. Basically, through latency-based triangulation.
Fair..

Notes for email / groupware was a common implementation, and it was more capable than alternatives like Exchange, Novell Groupware, because of the application building abilities of Notes.
It is absolutely outrageous that you are accusing the authors of this work of dishonesty because of limitations they explicitly called out in their introductory post as well as the paper.
Looking forward to finally getting 15W 8-core laptops. Hopefully we'll see them in an ultralight form factor.
Im sure you know this but in Windows 10 if you hold down Alt after hitting Tab the first time it’ll display which windows you already have open, and hitting just Tab again will cycle though them. You can even hold down Shift as well to cycle through the list of icons but in reverse.
> nobody that knows better is buying this spec hardware.

He literally showed you that some companies do buy that spec.
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Hi HN!

I have made a web app that creates original drum beats using Artificial Intelligence

I trained a GAN on 2,000 drum MIDI samples; I used a low learning rate and trained for approx 2 months continuously on a spare PC

What do you think? How can I improve the app?

Link: https://beatz.ai

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements :)

Thanks

Cheers
Pete
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Thank you very much for the big compliment! I feel very happy to hear it.

A lot of people in this thread talked about proxies, as in "why did you not implement a proxy" or "I implemented this but as a proxy"

The main advantage I see of this approach over a proxy is: simplicity.

The core of this is approximately 10 lines of code. The reason is it can hook into the commands and events of the browser's built in Network module.

I think there's no need to build a proxy, if you can already program the browser's in built Fetch module.

I think proxies have issues such as distribution (how do you distribute your proxy? As a cumbersome download that requires set up? As a hosted service that you have to maintain and cost?), and security (how do you handle TLS?), and complexity (I built this in a couple of hours over 2 days, one of the "obligatory bump" projects added to this thread is a proxy and has thousands of commits).

The biggest problem I see is the complexity. I feel a proxy would create a tonne of edge cases that have to be handled.

I did not mind sacrificing the benefits of a proxy (it can work on all browsers, and on any device), because I did not want to run my own server for this, but rather, crucially (I feel) give people back the power and control over their own archive. Even more importantly for me is I want to just make this the easiest way to archive for a particular set of users (say, Chrome users on Desktop), really get that right and then if that works, move to other circles later (such as mobile users, or other browsers).

Anyway, thanks for your kind comment, it really encourages me to share more about this.

I read some of your comment history but I can't get a lock on who you are, but you seem pretty interesting. Do you mind sharing a GitHub or something? If not, but you'd like to continue chatting, email me cris@dosycorp.com

Thank you!
There is no going to the link
The link takes me back to this story
> But false negatives are also very bad

Are they? Isn't our entire justice system premised on the idea that false negatives are far more acceptable than false positives? There's a problem when your false negatives are systematically racially biased, but beyond that, false negatives seem like what you'd expect and desire from such a system.
Everything that has correct and up-to-date documentation is easily discovered. There’s no need at all for notifications or pop ups. Just create end user documentation.
I switched to Android after 5 years of iOS. Here are the reasons:
1. The price, no explanation needed.
2. Short of functionalities, such as split screen and Miracast.
3. Browser, android Firefox can install adblocker.
Nuclear accidents have unique and sometimes unpredictable environment impact, like Fukushima continuing to pollute the ocean with radioactive material to this day.

Not saying that's a good reason to swear ourselves off nuclear, but it's more complicated than low carbon emissions.
BetterTouchTools for window management and Alfred for feature discovery is indispensable to my MacOS use. I couldn't imagine using MacOS without them.
> This post sorely lacks evidence for its big first claim

Agreed.

I think the premise is true, but PG has given no actual insight.

NGO's are a good anti-example. In developing countries we know of working solutions but fashionable rules. I like computers so I'll give them to the poor.

Elon is a good working example, rather than looking at existing tech in space craft he looked at how to make them cheaper using steel and methane.

There's a Just So Story about rapid prototyping that I think fits how to break the mold. I can't remember which competition, but the winner won by working out how to cheaply rapidly prototype working models rather than tackling the problem head on.

So they didn't so much not be fashionable but created a system that allowed for non fashionable ideas.
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@humansofflat oops wrong site
sorry for the lack of clarity; "orphans" here was our way of referring to employees who had moved across the country and had neither family [sometimes not in the US at all] nor social networks due to having moved cross-country to join us.
What exactly is Warp 9.9? Is there some meaningful reason why that corresponds to 2000x the speed of light?
I'd love to use cash. Only downsides are lack of change, it's always an issue, and it adds to the wallet thickness.

For me credit card works just fine. Somehow credit card has never felt to me like a credit instrument. For me it's always been offers, deals (when I have to buy something), free lounge/spa access, and free points. I have also set 3 limit alerts on my main credit card which does my ~90% of expenses usually and last alert means no more use unless something really urgent comes up.

If I need to buy something it goes to my "Buy" list on my todo app and depending upon the urgency either right then or during a sale I just check that "Buy" list and buy all or some of it. I don't buy anything else on impulse except books which are not very often and are not expansive at all. Food/eating out is the only thing I have budgeted. This has worked fine so far. Touch wood!
> Fluorescent contain poisonous mercury, one man had to amputate his foot after stepping on a broken bulb.

This is a hugely overblown concern. The mercury content of a compact fluorescent is on the order of 4 - 5 mg, not all of which will even be vaporized if a bulb is broken.

> Both emit ultra violet light that is bad for your health.

No, they do not. Most of the UV from a compact fluorescent is filtered out by the glass; the UV emissions that remain are minimal. LED lighting does not emit UV at all -- UV requires a higher bandgap than visible light, so emitting UV is more difficult than visible light.

> LEDs emit a very narrow frequency which is not something your eyes can work with

This was true of some early LED light bulbs, but has been largely solved.
I dunno, you're right this has been going on a long time, but I feel like the creation of a new branch means operations will intensify and get more "creative" over time.
And in this case, you could easily imagine the arrow of causation pointing in the other way. If you have the good fortune of being generally healthy, and make enough income to have access to good healthcare, it's likely that you will live to 85. But these same factors also make you a likely optimist.
Not in the slightest. WSL is capable for most things.

Wine in 2001 was not usable
I really dispute the idea that it's "inevitable", it's just that we live in an era where the standing army and intensifying competition between nations is the way things work. It really is not something that is ordained by god. Look at the Atlantic Charter and other similar documents that could have set the world on a different path if they had been taken seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter
thx! here are a few more https://turtle.community/topic/design
And there we added another expense to the list of here-money-goes-out-every-month :)
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pg's real prank was getting you to believe that he's not nickb.
Wow, this jogged a very long dormant memory of a record I used to have when I was a kid: "The Boy Who Would Not Go To School" (available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBjv0CLtd7g).

Which is apparently kind of a (vinyl) audiobook adaptation of the 1935 classic children's book "Robert Francis Weatherbee".
It's awesome that you have found community through your religion, but you (and everybody else reading this comment who doesn't already know) should be aware that the Mormon religion was founded as a cult of personality by the con-man Joseph Smith. I am not saying this to pass judgement on you or any practitioners, but anybody interested in conversion should be aware of what they are getting into. Ample resources exist to support this claim, due to Joseph Smith living only a couple hundred years ago and leaving many contemporary sources outside the church who reported on his early life and motivations in the foundational years of the church.
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If you're a kid and do the cost/benefit analysis, going to school looks like a dumb decision and a huge opportunity cost for time that could otherwise be used for things with known reward (playing). Bullying, exams, homework, sleep disruption, etc is all cost.

What does the student believe they get they out of it? The pathway from school to job is nebulous to young kids who don't yet need money to live. As kids get older and gain knowledge but not respect or autonomy, the school to job pathway looks more and more arbitrary and unnecessary (the common question of "But when am I actually going to use this?" I remember hearing often in school).

Maybe there's the benefit of finding friends, but now they have the internet from a young age, and I think the social justification has evaporated. Why bother forming friend circles with people you must talk to, when you can find friend circles from a larger pool with people you want to talk to?

For many (most?) kids, it doesn't seem like they, individually, have a reason to go to school. Instead, their parents have a reason and the kids' only reason is to not anger their parents.
Huh? Isn't that just clever accounting? 2% is still twice as much as 1%. If a black person and a white person each travel the same number of times, the black can still expect twice as many additional checks as the white, the same as before the improvement.
> The LGBTQ community originated the concept of "Chosen Family", people you willfully make a connection with as deep as blood family ties.

I thought that started with the mafia..
The current versions of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 having obvious and frequently encountered rendering bugs in safari. If they let this out to users your expectation that they’ll allow the user experience to interfere with their awesomeness is surely going to be unfulfilled.

Not to mention those stupid flashlight and camera buttons on the iPhone lock screen whose only explanation is some manager somewhere wanted to make their mark.
Perhaps in that spirit this will interest you:

http://www.ramatirtha.org/vol1/inspiration.htm
I know a lot of optimists who aren't realistic. But they're happy and tend to be successful.

It's a principle among the Hasidim, too. The followers of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov believe that we should feel commanded to be happy at all times:

https://breslov.org/1366/
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Totally justified remark. I was frustrated after trying it. I'll reinstall after the password fix. Thanks for keeping me honest :)
And so this thread has highlighted the issue nicely
I'll not too advanced in reversing, but how was gdb not able to find the entry point? Is finding the entry point that difficult?