skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I've been listening to gamelan music for the past couple of hours now, and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. From my limited exposure, I get the impression that the music leans on repetition of sound patterns to give the listener something to hold onto musically, creating more of an atmosphere of sound than a melody you might hum along to. Is that fair to say? Perhaps I just need more exposure before things "click".

I might compare this non-harmonic genre with the artist Sevish, whose work I've enjoyed a great deal. He too tries to step out of the realm of 12-tone equal temperament. Some of his work is quite reminiscent in structure to this gamelan music (e.g. Desert Island Rain). However, he also manages to build melodies and something you could probably call chord progressions (though I wouldn't know), in a new and very foreign musical world (his entire album Harmony Hacker is amazing). Besides the music being amazing, getting used to this new landscape is enjoyable in and of itself.

My point about the drums, though, was more aimed at what scales, chord progressions and melodies might be developed by a species who had as harmonic basis the drum's spectrum of resonant frequencies. We, by comparison, have the integer multiple of some base frequency, the canonical "harmonic sequence", whereas for them it would be quite different:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrations_of_a_circular_membr...
A lot of outlets still do in-house ad sales—especially those that run print and standalone digital issues still.

Unfortunately, while there is still some business there—it's nothing compared to what it used to be. Most companies just go the online ads route now.

I would love to see the kind of push back you mention... but it would be a David v. Goliath task at this stage, except David forgot his sling at home.
"Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy."

Reasoning by analogy sounds dodgy to me.
U.S. Government to Spend over $18B on Cybersecurity
The entire premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome,_or_No_Trespassing is that people who seek power (and hence rise in bureaucracies) take themselves way too seriously. So maybe all a censor had to do was to make sure the jibes were cerebral enough that uncultured people would automatically take the opposite[1] Poe's Law interpretation...

[1] for polyvalence, cue the Stalin/moustache joke

(Based on Boyarskiy's stage personality, I'm guessing the following had some ambiguity:

Пора пора порадуемся на своем веку
Красавице и кубку, счастливому клинку

despite being the theme song for a kid's show. Or am I overinterpreting?)
If you were to test ClamAV on a few thousand malware samples you would probably find that the detection rate would be in the low single digits.

At the same time, ClamAV has a terrifying CVE track record.

There's no upside, and all downside.
Not until iPhone.

I carried an iPaq back in 2003/4. It was awful in many ways, but like living in the future with superpowers. I had Google Maps at any time, etc.

I was between jobs when we got married, and my wife and I went on a two month roadtrip for our honeymoon. It was only possible due the iPaq with the combo of Google Maps + a web browser that could access Priceline.com!

Data speed was never an issue, only signal. The good news is that era was where cities started throwing up free Wifi, so it worked out. I'd say that from a UX experience, being one of the few users in 2004 was a better experience than EDGE connectivity or 3G in some areas on the iPhone after it's release!
Yeah I looked at the map and was dumbfounded. Jacksonville? It's not even half the size of the Atlanta metro area population!
Would you write client-side web apps in Haskell?
Comcast, Mozilla strike privacy deal to encrypt DNS lookups in Firefox
All other major german exchanges are up and running and allow trading of Wirecard stock... you can see the latest realtime trades from Tradegate (Berlin) here https://www.tradegate.de/orderbuch_umsaetze.php?isin=DE00074...
Well... I have to admit that I'm not a CS'ist, and I just assumed that a lot of the progress has come from CS.

But I'm just thinking of something like the transition from BASIC to Pascal (which I experienced in 1983). There were rules of thumb that we learned in BASIC (avoid global variables and GOTO's) that were formalized in Pascal, and Pascal also let you create much more elaborate named structures, and control the scope of names more precisely.

That's just one really simplistic example, but it rather profoundly improved my programming. On the other hand, I can believe that scaling is still a struggle -- there is still a point where we run out of juice, but it's a lot further than you'd get with BASIC, or with Excel-sans-macros.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. You are adding to the discussion with your optinion, and giving reasons for it.

I don't happen to agree. But I won't down vote for that.

I think the meme "all apple first gen products are bad" is old and tired. I was a reasonable mantra back in the mid-naughties, but these days it's not.

It's true that second gen products are usually improved. But there are not always second gen products.

Airpods were greate first gen. Second gen is a higher product tier.

Touch ID was good in first gen. First apple A-series processor was good, first T2-Mac was good. First Face-id was good.

So I would say no point in waiting for something you need now, but not because of 'first-gen' issues.
A reading of the actual facts seems to be in conflict with "The trump administration did not break the law" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump

There's very little argument about whether trump broke the law (he did) - it was just a matter of whether his corrupt party would vote for impeachment (they didn't.)
It is interesting at least, main concern for me is running software that doesn't have an ARM compiled version.
1. Why is your account just 2 weeks old?
2. Apparently the testimony is based on the story told by who are trying hard to get their sentences reduced.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/25/assa-j25.html
Genuine question here from someone who is the "virtually nobody" that you describe in terms of being a complete free speech absolutist and seeing attempts to shut that down as perhaps the worst thing happening in the world today pretty much guaranteed to end in complete disaster, and simultaneously not seeing what the issue is in terms of "while you're at work" limits on sensitive discussions.

It's one thing to tell the employee what they can say on the job to their colleagues or customers when they're not hired to talk to colleagues and customers about sensitive topics (this doesn't even need to be an explicit prohibition, it can take the form of "that's not what you're being paid to do, and while you're doing it you're not doing what you are being paid to do, so please shut up and do your job"), and an entirely different thing to tell them what they can't say period in any context at any time on penalty of being fired for wrongthink, which frankly is just a modern take on the time honoured and previously much bloodier purge process updated for modern non-violent sensibilities, which still taken to its logical conclusion has the exact same results.

Mark my words; this batshit insanity has ended badly already and it will continue to escalate into a continuous spire of catastrophic idiotic badness as long as it is tolerated.
> As long as they are printing true facts, they can only be doing good

This is obviously not true. Releasing a fact has a tangible effect on the world, usually a slight change of opinion in the minds of those who learn the fact. Sometimes the effect is more dramatic, for example a government changing policy or someone being killed.

It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this could go very wrong very quickly, which is why the entire journalistic profession, counted among whom are many moral and intelligent individuals, decided not to simply release facts as they received them.

I happen to believe Assange affected the world negatively by releasing the facts he did. I’m not asking you to agree with me, but to suggest that he not only did not but could not is perfectly ridiculous.
I'm well aware of how much harder it is in this space haha, I've spent the past couple years building a company in this space and have run into to all the roadblocks. The advantage of the environment now is that large numbers of people can spend years hacking away at some bio experiment or problem they're interested in for an amount of money that's not out of reach for the upper middle class. There's already the equivalent of a flood of 3d printer companies - so many people working on DIY thermocyclers/gelboxes etc, there's a running joke that a lot if people spend more time making tools than using them to actually do biology, but with time you might see people using those tools to build interesting things. It's not as easy as doing electronics in your garage in the 1970s, but the inflation adjusted price point is probably equivalent (for the equiptment that is - the house the garage is attached to probably costs quite a bit more...)
> If only iptables would allow to filter by the executable path and other process parameters - that would be just so awesome.

You can do that sort of thing with eBPF these days, either at the network level or via process tracing. It's non-trivial still, though. Lots of the various firwewall automation tools have features like this too. It's definitely a solved problem, but not one with a really clean obvious solution yet.
Right. Havana is more populous than Miami because it includes 15 municipalities, covering 728 km2. Miami is just Miami proper, which is 145 km2. But the Miami urban area is 2900 km2, and has 5.5M people which would be larger than Havana (2.1M people).

Miami is much denser than Havana (4,299.7/km2 vs 2,892.0/km2).

But that's besides the point I guess. Every map maker makes arbitrary choices. And it made me curious why some cities and not others.
Similar in character, but it's probably a factor of 10 worse with Flatpak. With your examples on iOS, the bloat is stuff that's common to the google apps but not part of the platform. With flatpak, it includes stuff that is part of the platform but can't be relied on to be the right version.

It would be nice if Apple would let packages signed by the same key share versioned libraries between them, but I suspect relatively few developers would be able to take advantage of that. Maybe only google and microsoft, to a rough order of approximation.
You mean non-uninstallable?
Manhunt for border’s Most Wanted expands after successful launch
What the Chips for America Act Means for the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
I cited the founder referring to herself as a “trained Marxist” and discussing how Marxism was the ideological underpinning of BLM. (Watch the video.)

BLM staged riots nation wide two weeks ago.

Nationwide, chapters of the John Brown Gun Club have been seen at or involved with the BLM riots.

What of that do you not find factual?
Yeah, but this is to some extent just an interesting side-note. At least I know several people who are liberals but don't agree with lacking "political correctness" being sufficient cause for "canceling."
This and Stalker, I think are one of the best Soviet sci-fi movies. But unlike Stalker, Kin-Dza-Dza is very difficult to understand for foreigners (based on watching it with different people over the years). Only someone who lived through transition from Communism to Capitalism will relate to the protagonist.
"Julian Assange Founder"? Headline needs a fix.
Though, it may be speaking to that cog association that people have formed: 'Assange=wikileaks'....
HIV wasn't around in the 1970s (in Western countries at least) and also Jobs wasn't in the more at-risk demographics for the disease.
Would this have any ramifications on something like the Tor project?
Backed by much of the media, and many spineless corps.

It was a convenient mistruth (for corps not wanting to threaten their bottom line with unwinnable controversy) that Damore is just a rabble-rouser;

You shouldn't pay too much attention to him, or read his actual memo, (or supporting links for context) - but if you are interested, we vox-plain the important stuff for you right here!..
Yes, I'm surprised there is no "right to privacy" spelled out in clear terms. Sounds like that would be a wonderful thing to add directly to the Constitution.
There is also the extra development fees and/or needing a mac if you want to do any testing.

Most engines (Gamemaker/Unity/and epic soon) will port to iOS/Mac so it isn't a huge 'step'.
> In public discussions there has to be some baseline ability by the reader to accept that they can be offended while the value of what was said to the rest of the audience may outweigh their own feelings. The implicit rules of what is acceptable to talk about, especially online, have been getting stricter to the point of being ridiculous in my experience.

Quite agree. Thus my proposal to create smaller, more controlled discussion groups. The larger the group, the more difficult it is to build a code of conduct that will satisfy all participants.
After OTF takeover, USAGM CEO faces pressure from lawmakers and courts
Thousands of Misplaced Emails Took over This Engineer's Inbox
I'm using what is probably the simplest static site generator: cat.

for f in texts/*.html; do
cat preamble.html "$f" postamble.html > out/$(basename "$f")
done

The front-page is written manually.
All depends on your disk tolerance. Several have mentioned first gen with signifigant new tech can be brittle.

I bought a new 16" MBP in January; it's FAST, does a much better job with heat dissipation than the previous version, and finally has a decent keyboard again.
(googler, opinion my own)

Just go give 2 ways of doing money storage in ints from Google's APIs...

For Google's Standard Payments APIs, we use micros: https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/v1/fops/bank...

> To represent a monetary value in micros, multiply the standard currency value by 1,000,000.

> USD$1.23 = 1230000 micro USD

Sadly, its different than other parts of Google with money/amount based APIs. GCP uses units + nanos: https://cloud.google.com/billing/v1/how-tos/catalog-api

> [UNITS] is the whole units of the amount. For example if currencyCode is "USD", then 1 unit is one US dollar.

> [NANOS] is the number of nano (10^-9) units of the amount. The value must be between -999,999,999 and +999,999,999 inclusive. If units is positive, nanos must be positive or zero. If units is zero, nanos can be positive, zero, or negative. If units is negative, nanos must be negative or zero. For example $-1.75 is represented as units=-1 and nanos=-750,000,000.
Another thing that Symbian did really really well was networking.

You could choose per app which connection they should be using, or even a group with order of preference. So you could get your work apps to only work over WiFi, some apps always go over VPN, some always use 4G even if WiFi was active. It was brilliant because all these connections could be active at the same time.

Apple and Google are only just catching up to this now with tricks like Per-App VPN but it still doesn't offer the same level of flexibility.
Seems very solid to me.
It can put books in perspective. Many books literally only have one chapter worth reading, many authors don’t have great pacing or have many chapters or blocks of pages that are not good.

If you grab a few books and go through the table of contents, and flip around or drop a book for a bit for another book, you’ll get a good sense of if the book you’re trying to consume is even good.

Basically destroys the notion of ‘curling up with a book’ and takes them off a pedestal.
Is this "Black Market" in line with what people are talking about when saying offended? And I assure you, the slave trade will continue or discontinue with or without your efforts.
What would be awesome is if you can take a grid like this and then drag it to create an offset and change in subtle ways what cities appear in the boxes.

This could be the beginning of something like a gerrymandering tool.
While I don't know anyone who goes off the rails on someone who about terms like "black market," I do think there are academics studying terms like these [0] and how they effect culture and society as a whole. I also think they would communicate in such a way as to say "Hey it's not cool to use that word because it promotes institutional racism, can we use another term instead?"

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/

>This commentary addresses the widespread use of racist language in discussions concerning predatory publishing. Examples include terminology such as blacklists, whitelists, and black sheep. The use of such terms does not merely reflect a racist culture, but also serves to legitimize and perpetuate it.
> To have a tolerant and open society you need to be intolerant to those who are intolerant

Do you have any proof of that? From what I can see, the US has been, for the past 200 years, the most tolerant to intolerance, and also (one of) the most tolerant. Weimar Republic (pre-Nazi Germany), had prohibitions on anti-Semitism, yet it didn't help. I'm sure there are also counterexamples, but regardless your claim doesn't exactly follow.
And geothermal.
Media Landscapes: USA
On the desktop, if you start talking while muted , it will show a pop up that "you are muted". They probably have the same feature in ios
I use Clojurescript professionally and it has the best state management story with re-frame over JS and any transpile-to-js language. It's so lovely.
Would admitting that the country of Russia exists be a goalpost move from "the whole Russia thing was a scam"?

The idea that if Russia had an opinion about a US election and utilized its diplomatic powers to encourage its preferred outcome, all of the endless conspiracies about Russian meddling have been verified - it's not good.

It's not as bad as the thing where if a Russian national ever spoke to anyone, "Russia" was involved.
It depends on the purpose of the group. There are lots of 18+ groups that discourage politics, and lots more where no profanity is expected. As long as there are other different groups where those are allowed, everything is OK.
A total of around $2B has simply "disappeared" -- as in, no one yet has been able to figure out what happened to it.

I keep imagining a Monty Python-esque skit:

"Was it stolen? We don't know."

"Was it spent? We don't know."

"Was it lent? We don't know."

"Was it transferred? We don't know."

"Was it burned? We don't know."

Coincidentally, or maybe not, the company's last fictitious balance sheet, which was published in November of last year, right before the scandal was revealed, reports approximately $2B in long-term debt.[a]

So, as much as Wirecard was in the business of processing financial transactions ($124B last year!), it was also secretly performing a magic act of borrowing money and making it disappear into thin air. In a way, it's been an "impressive" performance.

On a more serious note, I hope Wirecard's failure is not seen in hindsight as a "Creditanstalt moment."[b]

--

[a] https://ir.wirecard.com/download/companies/wirecard/Presenta...

[b] The failure of Creditanstalt, an Austrian bank, in 1931, marks the beginning of the Great Depression in Europe: https://www.bis.org/publ/work333.pdf
> The senators call on Pack to maintain OTF’s technical advisory board and its support for open-source security audits. In particular, the letter calls out OTF’s requirement that supported projects open-source their code, a requirement that many were hoping to sidestep to direct money to the Ultrasurf project.

> “We are concerned by statements from OTF’s former CEO that USAGM is now seeking to steer its funds to programs that do not meet this necessary qualifications.”
I cautiously applaud Google's reparation payments (that's how I'm reading these initiatives), but I'm very wary of the fact that Google is calling this next stage a licensing.

They didn't really go into details. Are we going to see "Google Licensed" news agencies now? That does not sit well with me.
Thoughts on Parler app?
thoughts on parler app?
Yeah it was a bitch to develop for... I tried it for a bit but then they started including J2ME and I switched to that. It wasn't as good as native but it worked. And was one hell of a lot easier to develop in.
My point is that Tibet deserved to develop its own system of government not effectively be colonized by China.
Obviously the UK has a modern democratic system of government that developed through stages of feudalism and monarchy.
I didn't say GWASes were useless, just that it's absurd to consider them to be a 'revolution'. The actual revolution would be second- and third-generation sequencing which enabled GWASes and a bunch of much more useful things. GWAS is, in effect, just a bunch of correlations. It's just the very starting point to an actual scientific analysis, because 'you have to start somewhere'. If you don't go beyond and investigate, you're not doing science. Everyone in the genomics community agrees to this, and literally every paper that investigates the causes of genetic diseases goes in the introduction like 'GWASes sure look nice but we still have no idea how things work with them so in this paper I present a method to do...' I notice you failed to address many of the spurious correlations drawn by the GWAS bot or the A. thaliana vs. GDP prediction. That it doesn't raise any red flag to you doesn't speak well as to your ability to approach the field of genomics.

>You're also wrong that the only thing of value is inferring "how genes work"

Yes it is, that's literally what genetics is about. Otherwise you're back to making a bunch of correlations. If you want a deep understanding of disease, design effective drugs, or even do proper gene editing, you have to understand what genes do. It seems ridiculous to have to say it.

>By the way, what does '15% heritability' refer to?

It is what we in the less-rationalist circles refer to as a 'joke'.
Trump May Attempt to Force Long-Time H-1B Visa Holders Out of U.S.
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Gamification helps. Unfollow as you scroll through the feed for a different sort of dopamine hit ;)
Employee Sends Own Job to China
Anyone have an alternative link? My company relies on Cisco's reputation system[0] to decide if a domain should be blocked. Oddly, thinkingagriculture.io is "untrusted | poor".

[0] https://talosintelligence.com/reputation_center/lookup?searc...
Types of Cluster Analysis
A Twitter thread [1] from Matthew Green in this bill. Essentially he says that this bill is a dead on arrival bill which is designed to make EARN IT look like a fair compromise.

And we better not fall for it

[1] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/12759760840231198...
Looking good. Google cache shows that it was open source. Are you going to make it open source again?

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M108sV...
Because the words "Black Market" literally mean and describe the place which the GP was talking about every where in the world. This is not only an American or English thing, many of other languages use the same expression (black + market) to mean the same thing.
What can we do about this? if it is not this one there will be another one after it. I feel like the longer we wait the more likely this will get passed.
The amount of economy of scale in agriculture is disconcerting to me. Surely finely-tuned, monoculture mega-farms in rigid supply chains have disadvantages?

I was hoping with improving technology, the minimum viable size of a farm can be brought down to something more culturally sensible. Even if existing technology in agriculture is as good as the author claims, access remains an issue.

Perhaps the real innovation we need right now is to make technology more affordable.