skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's more interesting to me than HEP is how HEP became such a big deal. I asked on HN before why people find HEP interesting and the responses were enlightening to me as someone who finds HEP boring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322857

Personally, I find turbulence much more interesting. The fact that it's orders of magnitude more important than HEP and also very intellectually challenging should give pause to those who have dedicated their lives to HEP. But my impression is that cultural forces have unfortunately convinced many of our best and brightest to go into HEP or other similarly impractical areas of physics. I guess that's better than working for Facebook to make people click on ads, but that's setting the bar low. If you're interested in physics, you can make a much better choice than HEP. (If you're open to areas outside of physics you may be able to make an even better choice.)

I can see why someone might view the "building blocks" of the universe as fundamental or how there are interesting philosophical questions that HEP can address. But turbulence is fairly ubiquitous; certainly that makes it "fundamental" in some sense. And there are philosophical implications of chaos and statistical mechanics; turbulence is part of both.
Can you open a pull request at https://github.com/captnfab/Piano Booster someone has given the project new life in the past year (it was dead for about 5)
This appears to be his latest statement in that forum on that post.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QePFiEKZ4R2KnxMkW/posts-i-re...
Just wait until you see your countries military budget!
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-agains...
Why not both? It’s not unreasonable that some of the technologies (incl. data analysis) could be shared.
Did they really spent $25,488 and consider it as a "small fee" to be the first in box office?!

According to the TV news this morning, yes, they did buy all of the tickets themselves.

Which kinda makes the "$0 Budget" headline a little iffy. $0 to make the film. But $26k to achieve their goal.
That should not be too hard, the thing to look for would be an Arduino based MIDI project that you could adapt for your purposes.
Incredibly addictive!
Yes, but the ones who get rich from PE funds are the PE fund managers. Investors not so much: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623820
The _practice_ does not bother me at all. I'm a big fan of abstracts, executive summaries, top highlights and posting TL;DRs of your own work. I do it all the time for my own writing and think it's just good practice.

What bothers me is when person A posts a link and person B comments with nothing but a summary.
Sure, and if someone makes a radio that fulfills all of these functions, then they can sell it.
There is also an argument here against multi-factor authentication. If compromised first the second channel makes the system more vulnerable.
I'll second that. In my anecdotal and limited experience, the outliers in successful entrepreneurship are the ones that project vulnerability/self-doubt, while the outliers in successful research are the ones that project a lack of self-doubt and create reality distortion fields around their work. The best of both seem to have self-confidence in their ability to succeed, and successful researchers seem confident that problems can be solved, and that they can solve them, but that seems to come with an embrace of uncertainty and an allowance for self doubt.
Some more info here:

https://silq.ethz.ch/
Startup investing is a subset of private equity investing.

Pe includes many illiquid subcategories including real estate, LBOs, startup investing, even niche stuff like infrastructure investing
Why do you suggest that? Not including Pinterest in your search is not good enough? Also DuckDuckGo exists...
I think it was a rhetorical question directed at me. I got a chuckle out of it, it made me go 'hum...', and brightened my day about one micromort's worth.
The quote is from an essay by an Alaskan Park Ranger not a "member of the public".

When people get into trouble, there is usually a something that could been done either in preparation or by exercising better judgement. McCandless didn't just miss a couple of esoteric preparation steps, he failed to take extremely basic precautions like bringing a map or sanity checking your plans with someone who has experience in the area.

As explained in the essay that quote is from, Alaskans get frustrated by the glorification of McCandless because he didn't show basic respect for the wilderness he claimed to love.

> The dynamics of this subject on HN in particular are really sort of obvious, given that McCandless has come up at least half-a-dozen times on HN over the years, a site not known for its enthusiasm for the outdoors. The treatment here is often about as embarrassing as someone might imagine the topic of machine learning to be on a forum for mushroom pickers.

Give the comments in this thread a read rather than projecting your own misconceptions and you will find there are a number of people with personal experience with wilderness and the Alaskan wilderness is specific.
Often, I'm checking the comments first to see whether reading the whole thing might be worth my time.
If we were to do a New Deal-type shift away from the military industrial complex, could the National Guard be pointed at cleaning up "litter" like this? Corps of Engineer-type work being pointed at infrastructure cleanup, which includes cultivating and caring for natural resources, seems like a fantastic use of tax dollars.
I had to make the decision whether to start companies or pursue a career in research, and chose the former. I think I would've been happy with either. The thing I enjoy about both is that there are rarely closed-form solutions, as the problems are mostly open-ended in nature. This in turn has the potential to grant you absolute freedom to pursue what best matches your interests and values, even as they evolve. You just have to be okay with risk and uncertainty in the pursuit of what is interesting.
Who is this "we" that you speak of? What institution anywhere in the US treats people of certain skin colors worse than others? I know of many (including those referenced in the linked article), but yet all of them discriminate against whites and asians, not blacks and hispanics.

Why do you believe that racism is so widespread? If there is evidence of widespread racism among people and institutions, please share (the only evidence I've seen is some name-on-resume-callback studies that appear more to do with class than with race).

I'm guessing you believe that there is widespread racism because of disparate outcomes. But disparate outcomes between groups doesn't mean discrimination.

For example, Iraqi-Americans avg income $32k, Iranian $78k income. How many Americans even know the difference between those two peoples even if they wanted to discriminate?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...
Try going to oculus home, recenter, going back to game (no need to close the game). I use this when I have the issue on BeatSaber.
>If someone had $100,000/month rent then by your logic, they'd be just fine if they only had $2,000/month left over. That's very little buffer.

If you scale things up to that extent, then $2K becomes small compared to the possible variance in income or rent. But it's also small compared to the credit you'd have access to.

Without visiting I can't tell for sure, but I can compare apartments to what I'm used to by amenities, square footage, and such. If I had an offer and needed to move there, I'd judge the neighborhood by the housing, not vice versa.
I support super-colliders for the same reason I support space research. If we aren't on earth to discover something greater than ourselves, what purpose do we have?

I could see the creation of a utopia or an equitable state as another purpose. I suppose some people don't support super-colliders because they want money to go to this goal instead.
Sorry, I don't understand what "Bellevue" is. A city somewhere in the US? An area of Paris?
Anecdata, but I've put in a high end oven, dishwasher, new shower head, bike rack and more ceiling lights in our rental. The appliances we're cheap as they were second hand, and our deposit is also 1/2 of our monthly rent, so I plan on leaving it all there and I don't really care if we lose the deposit. But it was well worth it for the comfort of the place (I cook a lot). And it's a better place for whoever's next. The landlord hasn't upped the rent in 3 years, so I think we've both got a good deal out of it.
Even if you leave Apple ecosystem, you are still subject to it. Consumers don't like paying different prices based on the platform they are using.

Manufacturers sell things at different prices all of the time. Spotify even sold subscriptions at different prices when they did allow in app subscriptions.

On a side note, I am so surprised that so many people see this as a fight between Apple and developers. They view the Apple tax as something developers pay and thus is developers' problem, not theirs. Like any tax, ultimately, we the consumers end up paying it

Yes consumers pay retailers mark up and not wholesale. News at 11
John Maeda Goes Meta on Design (2007)
What gear is ideal for a great sounding podcast?
I agree with all of that
> participants need to be competent at writing and reading prose (it’s harder than it sounds)

In my experience, around 1/3rd of developers are not good typists. Writing code isn't really about typing, so it's OK, but when participating in an active conversation in a chat room with multiple people, not being able to type well hurts.
If you are referring to kids, and NOT yourself (as an adult), then the context of your comment makes more sense.
Or acquiring a company that has little debt and then piling debt on it to pay your acquisition costs back to the point where it goes bankrupt.
It's been over a decade since I read the book and saw the film, so what I am about to say may be a product of my imperfect memory rather than the reality of the book and movie, but here goes anyway:

I see how you got the impression that McCandless was trapped in his own risk-addicted thinking from the movie, but I think that impression is editorializing on the part of the filmmakers.

I'm a rock climber and it's my experience that the risk taking in rock climbing isn't a death wish. On the contrary, it's a life-wish, a desire to experience life to its fullest even if that means risking your life. You will die--risking death is not a risk. The greatest risk you take is dying without achieving your deepest desires and dreams.

This is a pretty common view in the rock climbing community, and I think that Jon Krakauer, a mountaineer the author of the In To the Wild book, probably held a view of risk similar to my own, which is why the book presents a much more sympathetic view of McCandless' risk-taking.
This seems good as long as the industry is being supplanted domestically with renewable alternatives at the same rate it's falling.
It's common, but the problems at Wirecard have been public for a long time and will be even more well known in the industry so you would imagine that due diligence would have questioned the potential value of his collateral against such a loan.
How, exactly, are the ads supposed to be targeted if data isn't being sold? How is Fiat supposed to learn that you are interested in buying a car, if there's no tracking and sale of your browsing history?
Not saying that being tracked is good. Just that saying "I'm ok with targeted ads, but not ok with tracking" doesn't make a lot of sense.
Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88
Not just iffy :)
I've called coworkers literally just to rant to someone before. Sometimes, you need to complain, but having a record of that is not helpful in any way.
Ah cool. I tried to reach the original author but he did not respond. Thank you for the pointer.

Pianobooster has an interesting internal architecture, it works completely in 'streaming' fashion which makes it quite hard to operate on the input files, you can't really look ahead because the whole file is never entirely in memory. It took me a while to get my head wrapped around that, it is so completely different from how I would have approached that particular problem. I can see some advantages to this way of doing things. Another interesting point is that it has a lot of the business logic in two places, one where it deals with the audio part of things and one where it deals with the visual part. These then sync up again at the currently playing note(s).

Anyway, regardless, it is an awesome project and I'm super happy to see that someone has taken up the mantle.
The proposal is described here:

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/111
What is the goal? Will any of these make colours easier to use or understand?
Is it possible that veblenian means in the context of a veblen good?
Totally agreed. Alone in the Wilderness is such an inspiration to me.
Recently, I was so frustrated with some folks poor reading comprehension that I was thinking about an imaginary communication system that would allow for decision making where there were some rules:

- No responding from mobile devices. The poor response rate is just too high.

- The reader is quizzed on the the contents of the communication before they can respond (randomly generated quizzes might be amusing).

- The reader has to retype the original communication themselves before they can respond....

- Timeout value, if no responses that pass the above tests in a given time frame, whomever asked gets to complete the task with no input and nobody can change the outcome for ... a week or so and everyone has to live with it.

- Anyone who wants to change it after the timeout value better explain why they didn't ask before hand... no idea how this would work, yeah we're getting into the weeds here.

Of course, these are all unworkable in a modern business environment but man ... I can dream that some folks would who make demands or provide input at least put a minimum amount of effort into things before they throw their given wrench into the works.
>In almost every case, there's something that someone could point to that the victim did wrong

In fact, with many accidents, it's often a matter of compounding mistakes. (The victim didn't have a lot of experience, went out in worsening weather, lost the trail, and didn't have the gear to survive overnight.)

On the other hand, it's easy to identify "mistakes" in retrospect. Someone got caught in an avalanche so they "clearly" shouldn't have been somewhere that they could get caught in an avalanche--even if the danger was just moderate and the danger in that particular area is often moderate.

Which also speaks to your statistics comment of course. There are various levels of danger to many activities and you can reasonably reduce your chances of something going wrong but not eliminate them.

And, also of course, many people who don't participate in many of those activities see them as unreasonably dangerous. And, depending upon their political views, may think rescuing mountain climbers or even winter hikers as a waste of societal resources.
I get that. But for a lot of those problems, the only person who can solve them is the person themselves. Addiction being the prime example; the only person who can stop you being addicted to something is you. Other people can help, sure, but at the end of the day it's your willingness to change that counts.
Yep all the author needs to do is download a few hundred MIDI files, play them, and record the piano -- it would be an interesting dataset to play with.

Most of even the top of the line digital pianos seem to get the resonances and cross-talk between the strings wrong in my opinion, and I think a neural net should possibly be able to learn the internal physics of the piano from enough samples.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23567153

> In the US, renewables are expected to see fifty times as much net capacity added in the next three years as nuclear and fossil fuels combined.

> This particular item was widely commented on in the media, as SDC releases often are. But the issue everyone covered was the fact that renewables accounted for 100% of installations in April [1]. It seems nearly nobody noticed the paragraph above.

> I was stunned by the idea that renewables would outpace fossil fuels plus nuclear by a factor of 50 over the next three years. In fact, I double-checked the data at FERC. It is true, as you can see for yourself in the Energy Infrastructure Update for April 2020 [2].

> Another thing, however, is that the news from the real world suggests that coal, in particular, is declining faster than FERC, or anyone else, could have expected. Every week, I seem to see two or three announcements of coal-burning power plants being closed ahead of schedule. These are retirements that FERC has not yet taken into account.
Newsboat (a currently maintained fork of Newsbeuter).
It's a wonderful easy to use commandline RSS reader.

https://newsboat.org
So your response is "But what if the genociders are right?", but unironically.
How does Apple “control” the market? Is Apple forcing users to pay an average of three times more for an iPhone than an Android device? Is it Apple’s fault that Android manufactures+Google can’t come up with a device that people are willing to pay more for?
The race is on to grow crops in the sea and feed millions of people
I don't know how to phrase this without sounding like a somewhat pedantic asshole, but I cannot understand this reasoning. Are we really saying there is less variability in people's spoken communication abilities than written? This concept is baffling to me. Who in the world talks better than they write?

Also, in my experience, written comms is immensely more accessible and accommodating to diverse teams with people who may have variable levels of expertise with English.
That answer probably lies more so with the tracker's software and approved clients than this project's implementation.
By "invest like those in the class above you do" do you mean "manage the funds and siphon off a guaranteed percentage of the funds managed per year regardless of absolute or relative performance"?
Google reader -> Digg reader -> Inoreader free version.
BBC and NYT news feeds, Business Insider and Hacker News for biz and tech respectively.
I too have waved my hand in the smoke from a snuffed candle, and sure it's fun for a while but pretty soon it just becomes a big mundane mush and I go out to look at the stars instead.
> Violet occupies the highest frequency of the visible light spectrum with a whopping frequency of 668-789THz6. With such a tremendous frequency, you would expect violet to be everywhere - but in reality, it's not found in the natural world with great prevalence. Lavender, eggplant, grape flavoured NerdsTM, and amethysts are among the few naturally occuring violet things.

This is a parody, isn't it? Because "frequency of a wave" has nothing to do with how common it is in nature. It's about how often a wave would switch between high and low, if you measured its amplitude at a fixed point.

Also, grape flavoured NERDS don't occur in nature.
It seems more like $0 to make the movie and $26k for distribution. Do traditional movies count distribution costs in their budgets? Hollywood accounting is weird....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Maybe it’s not the “traditional understanding” that’s the problem. Maybe it’s HN users understanding that’s flawed.
She resigned and then, rather than allow her to leave on her own terms in two weeks, USAGM fired her that evening.
I've been seeing a lot of that lately on Twitter: accounts post inspirational quotes/images about being an entrepreneur and 'transparency' about how much money they've made. Always followed by a link to their Gumroad: "Pay me to tell you how to take advantage of people like you, who just paid me."
They are rare, friend. Most people havent grown up enough to be able to work on important problems, though they can be trained. Could you handle it, if you saw your best friend get struck by an explosive harpoon, fall into the ocean, drowning and bleeding to death in front of your very eyes? What about a mile long stretch of highway, almost a thousand charred bodies, dead or screaming in the middle of the night? How about watching an elderly woman waste away into nothing as her "caretakers" starve her to death? Can you really trust yourself to watch over millions of dollars for decades without stealing a little off the top? Are you ready for the feelings of loneliness and isolation that can occur when youre the only person who's willing or able to do the work?

I mean, youre always welcome to give it a shot if you think youre so good. I can guarantee though that the results will surprise you. Most people cant even handle raising a child, the most important work there is.
I'm not convinced. Those “facts” the article speaks about seem to me a matter of highly idiosyncratic belief. Or it's actually satire and I don't get it.
Author here... Unfortunately there is a pretty busy road passing my house which would preclude miking the piano and getting meaningful results. Also: that's a lot of combinations! But you are right, going this route should in theory give you a way to generate audio that comes much closer to the real interaction between the strings and the soundboard than the mixer step at the end of your typical digital piano. They all sound way too clean.
That’s a prudential argument against twitter fact checking, but it’s not a legal argument.
Not really, they aren't documented as belonging to NDK stable APIs.

Google doesn't give any guarantees that they work across devices or version upgrades.
What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Hack Proof and Waterproof!

https://www.arcanus55.com/?trusted55=A55PV2
are you suggesting scrapping all laws? How do you enforce laws without police?
Mutable "torrents" with fuse access exists, it's called hyperdrive (https://github.com/hypercore-protocol/hyperdrive). See the daemon in particular (https://github.com/hypercore-protocol/hyperdrive-daemon)
YouTube is facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of children
You are correct about battery usage. The analysis they published[1] mentions this (in the 2nd paragraph of the introduction) :

"One difficulty of using Bluetooth in phones is that the operating system does not allow apps running in the background to use the Bluetooth advertising system. Hence, to do so,either the app must stay in the foreground, which drains the battery a lot, or the operating system must be changed. Apple and Google allied to provide a standard Bluetooth API which would not drain the battery. Hence, automated contact tracing apps must either be complian twith this API or make the user upset about heavy battery usage."

Singapore's TraceTogether app doesn't use GAEN api and does have this issue [2].

France's StopCovid app uses a different protocol called ROBERT[3], and they asked Apple to allow their app to run in the background[4]. So they also have battery issues.

[1]: https://lasec.epfl.ch/people/vaudenay/swisscovid-ana.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TraceTogether#Description

[3]: https://github.com/ROBERT-proximity-tracing/documents

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_Notification#Non-adop...
Show HN: Average support response times for 60+ bitcoin exchanges
A natural wonder of the T. Rex was how it conserved energy
This is just internet forum backseat driving. I'm sure the average hard-boiled HNer could've outlasted him with their innate wilderness intuitions -- probably have even watched a few survival videos on Youtube --, but Chris' story is also about a guy who wanted to march away from the trappings of society. I wouldn't be surprised if he died at day 113 even if he was 2x or 4x as prepared. He would have just went deeper quicker.

But pearl clutching about the risks someone else decided to take is incredibly petty. And odds are, as a fellow HN jockey who posts every day like myself, you aren't taking nearly enough.