skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course any answer you'll get is by its very nature opinionated. But /mu/ essentials tends to have a pretty good cross-section of the most important and foundational works across a wide variety of genres.

https://4chanmusic.fandom.com/wiki/Essential_Charts
Why is Rust so Popular?
You mean like how politicians have social media interns to manage their Twitter? what benefit would Palmer get from being on reddit in that way?
Oops, I misread.
Would be nice to get a link to "Stacker"

Betterdoc.org website is in German. Hard to find info.
This is eye-opening. I just checked webm on caniuse, and it is fully supported in all major browsers—except Safari.
I only exclusively use old.reddit.com in browser on mobile.
5: / 27:37 What About Money? Bernard Lietaer Interviewed by Lars Schall
Lars Schall meets Bernard Lietaer: In this exclusive video interview, the internationally renowned currency expert Lietaer, who has worked in many different functions in the world of money, advocates an upgrade of our monetary paradigm as a systemic solution to our global financial crisis. The monopoly of a single currency in favor of the banking system must be eradicated. Diversity must substitute monoculture.
Hence a "with decent infrastructure", though I should have narrowed it to "with decent power infra" to be more clear about it.
You're right, I do want a FOSS solution and I'm hesitant to pay for something closed and controlled entirely by the dev.

But I am not opposed at all to pay for apps that include the source (and build instructions). I don't mind if it's licensed accordingly to prevent me redistributing it (which would undermine sales). I frequently buy apps like that.

More times than I can count I have bought an app that was later either abandoned when it stopped making money, or got an unwanted UI overhaul that wrecked it, or removed an obscure feature I depended on, etc. I will happily pay for software, but if it's not software I could potentially maintain myself then the amount of money I'm willing to spend goes way down and I'm a lot more hesitant to make the initial purchase.

It's not about money, it's about freedom.
On Japanese isle, old bonds with America stir questions over race and identity
The parent comment was clearly written by someone with no experience in robotics. In fact, every single problem on this list is "solved" in the sense that there are examples of systems that perform it in some limited context. Generalizing those subsystems to handle the difficult edge cases and integrating those subsystems together is 99% of what makes robotics as a whole difficult, and it would be similarly deceptive to say that AI is "solved" because Microsoft Clippy exists.
Sharon Tate's dad was naval intelligence, Jim Morrison from The Doors' dad as well, plus a ton of other people. Tons of overlaps and interesting things throughout the naval intelligence thing/world. Jim Morrison's dad was involved in the staged Tonkin incident, which led to foots into doors in Vietnam. And there's probably tons more.
There are definitely advantages to having an always-present network and not relying on terrestrial networks operated by third parties. Many big AWS users are companies with extensive sensor networks. Replacing ancient SCADA networks with high bandwidth space networks that connect to your back end inside AWS is a strong value prop.
Those excuses don't really work for me. At some point you can come up with all kinds of justifications, it doesn't change the fact that from a end user's perspective it's crap.

I activated throttling in Firefox, setting it to "Regular 3G". I went to Youtube, selected a random video I had never watched before (so no cache): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mMIOhoUcCM

It loaded for about 10 seconds then started playing at 480p. Quality was fine, it's SD but sharp. Once it started playing it wouldn't buffer anymore: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20200819-153915_youtube.jpg

Then I went on Reddit, same settings, this page: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ib6gmu/i_pretended_t...

Reddit ends up playing in 96p apparently (judging by the file name, DASH_96, altough maybe it's misleading). It looks like this: https://svkt.org/~simias/up/20200819-153748_redditvideo.jpg

Note that in the "optimal" version of the video the text on top is perfectly sharp.

So you can spin that any way you like, doesn't change the fact that Youtube performs vastly better in the same degraded conditions. But maybe the target demographics are people who have a fetish for ultra blurry video?
> The difference would be that they would be chosen from the community by the community, not external to it and chosen by external actors.

So law enforcement chosen by the community is not law enforcement?
Measuring retention is going to be mainly useful for logged-in accounts. And that is is something that could be trivially measured and compared between platforms.

My guess based on experience in this area in other companies is that app users will report a better experience, stay much longer, and return more often.
This is how some hardware is already certified for use in safety critical systems. ISO 26262 calls it 'proven in use'.
Well, if the ones who sell email addresses to spammers filter out the `+`, there’s a larger chance they can continue to do so without getting caught or exposed?
Which part of the bay? We lived in Los Altos for 6 years and when we first arrived old-timers said the heat was unusual. Every summer after had crazy heatwaves. A couple were so bad I was concerned about my infant, in our old house with no central air and terrible insulation.
I believe a workable solution for this would involve:

1. Pharmas separate drug R&D from manufacturing and sales.

2. R&D companies submit proposals to the FDA for new drugs they want to develop. The FDA can also send out RFPs for drugs they'd like to prioritize.

3. The FDA chooses drugs based on likely public benefit, rather than the profitability-driven selection we have today.

4. The FDA _funds the R&D_ for the drugs it chooses. This allows the R&D company to operate with positive cash flow, separately from the eventual (possible) future income from manufacturing and sales. This is also the incentive for developing drugs that aren't patentable, or which will be required only in small quantities.

5. When a drug is approved for release, the FDA will license one or more manufacturers to produce it, based on their quality, cost, and scale. This is why the Pharmas break into separate companies. Some may focus only on R&D, some may focus only on manufacturing. Some manufacturers can focus on large-scale high volume production, while others can focus on small-scale production. This prevents the excuse for charging huge prices for rarely-needed drugs "because the equipment needed would otherwise be producing much higher volume drugs at lower cost".

This arm of the FDA would be funded partly by the public, and partly by licensing fees. The math for insurance costs and premiums would change because retails prices for most drugs would drop. That would make insurance cheaper, and some of those savings would probably need to go towards a tax for the FDA's R&D funding. But longer term, the licensing fees might be adequate on their own since the FDA would operate as a non-profit.
“Download the app” is still visible on Chrome.

Nagging will always be good business, no matter what platform or what shape or form.
I don't know if I am a music buff -- what are the qualifications? I have a few thousand CDs, some of them fairly rare, and I am the person my friends turn to when they need to track down a song or rare release. By those standards ...

1) Find your passion. I generally despise this as advise for careers and the like but when it comes to matters of personal preference, de gustibus non est disputandum. What do you like?

2) Hit Discogs for your bands. Don't just look at main albums, look at appearances and rarities, songs covered by the band, appearances on soundtracks (which can often be one-offs) and the like. For certain bands, I literally own everything they performed in because I like all of it. This is depth. After that, follow each member of a band to hear if they did anything before or after you enjoy. Even try session musicians. You may find a talented collaborator that way, too. This is breadth.

3) Find a radio program adjacent to your tastes and examine the weekly playlist. What did you like? Here you are riding in the slipstream of a great big truck, as the DJ is doing a lot of the work for you.

4) Ignore most recommendation algorithms but Pandora, which are based on what other people play rather than what is actually related.

5) Don't be afraid to reach out. I have written musicians letters (snail mail, self-addressed stamped envelope enclosed) and said, "I really like X, Y, and Z" or "Your performance on this track moved me" then asked what inspired them, influenced them, or if they have influenced others. I usually hear back.

6) Attend concerts and listen to the opening acts, buy their (typically cheap) CDs. The openers appreciate it and you can find some great somewhat related music that way.

7) Back in the days when record stores existed, I would hit the "M" section or whatever letter, any band that didn't have a tab of their own, and just flip through it, looking for anything to catch my eye, then listen that way. Many duds, but some real wins.

8) Now that you have a sense of what you enjoy, you probably have some names associated with them, various microgenres. List 'em. For example, "grave wave."

9) Look up those microgenres on Bandcamp and the like, listen through that way.

10) Hit "Every Noise at Once" and surf your microgenre that way, too. Bop around between band and microgenre names.

11) Iterate.
> If RDP worked like X, I'd love to setup a beefy windows server in my basement and play games on it via RDP from my PCs around the house. If anyone has tips on that, would love to read them. (Requirements: single server, three simultaneous users, single GPU ideal, but flexible; want to play Civ V etc with the family. Cost (including licensing) needs to be comparable with three low tier desktops (i3-8300 ))

Steam's in-home streaming is close to what you want. However, I don't think it supports multiple simultaneous users. Perhaps there is a way to hack that to work somehow, assuming you had three Steam accounts with a copy of the game each.
They're trying to retcon something that sounds ever-so-slightly reasonable into a slimy business decision.
yeah, give it to oracle, the king of making great ui /s
This thread reminds me of my experience with the "Call Brian" error code on the 1028 radon monitor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11397251
Lupine: Linux in Unikernel Clothes
Using Discord to Drop (& Erect) Communication Barriers When WFH
“They own all these things the other guys don’t,” says Manchester. “In a lot of ways, Amazon has a grander vision. They’re not trying to be a telco.”

Damn SpaceX and their mediocre ambitions like colonising Mars (◔_◔)
The saddest part of all this is that the California DMV is making only $50m/yr — that’s literally about $1/yr for each Californian, a little more if you only count driving-age residents, and probably less if you count cars, not people — at what cost?

Stalkers, murders, debt collectors, etc., lives made easier / possible?

A sad state of affairs.
I heard Oracle is deep into really shitty kinds of user tracking/spying.

So I think they hope to get two things out of it:

- Good PR with the next generation (they lost most/all? good PR with my generation as far as I can tell).

- A lot of data about young users.
I’d assume they’d appeal the FCC and get an extension to their license
As a conversion optimization question, I suspect Reddit would get better conversion on their "do you want the mobile app" banner if they only showed it randomly about 10-15% of the time. By showing it every time, they cause viewers to remember their "why would I want that - I don't" decision from the previous time they saw the question. Reducing the frequency would likely result in more people considering the question as a fresh new question independent of the previous viewing when presented with it the second time, increasing the odds they go with the install (by definition these are people who didn't install the first time, so their remembered decision is by definition no, so encouraging them to consider the question again as a fresh question can only improve the conversion effectiveness of the prompt over their remembered decision).
Exactly this. The ban itself was fine. But to force sale of assets to a US company (which reduces bidding prices significantly) is just corrupt thuggish politics. At this point, a third country should be wary of doing any business in the US.
> like this https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs

OMG that is beautiful
>I am saying that it lessens your ability to grow your wealth at an exponential rate. It mitigates the miracle of compounding growth.

It doesn't mitigate the miracle of compounding growth any more than a capital gains tax. A capital gains tax of 50% combined with inflation would completely mitigate the compounding growth of any many investments.

For some easy numbers: take an interest bearing account that pays 10% interest. A 1% wealth tax and an 11% capital gains tax are functionally equivalent.

And Elizabeth Warren's wealth taxes don't even kick in until $50 million. So the vast majority of people should prefer that to increasing the capital gains tax or setting to income tax rates.

>Think about if you create a startup and you have to sell shares to pay your wealth tax. What if Larry Page did that in 2001. He wouldn't be out the $100 of the stock price in 2001. Today he is out thousands of dollars of what it would have been if it could have grown.

That's just an absurd way to frame things. My grandparents paid $500 in income tax 70 years ago. If they had been able to invest that they would have thousands.

If he sold shares, someone else would own them, so someone else would have those thousands of dollars, it's not like the value would just disappear into the ether.
I'm not so sure of this. First of all, remote learning takes just as many teachers as in-person learning unless the education plan is just "watch Khan academy and check in with us in a year." In fact under the hybrid models being proposed in areas like NYC it will take more teachers as the teacher doing in-class learning cannot simultaneously handle remote instruction. There are some decent ed-tech products out there but they can't put education on autopilot.

Second, even if you had the technology to automate remote learning during the crisis, are you going to fire all your teachers only to rehire them in Spring/Summer? No I don't have a crystal ball on the future but I'd be surprised if by Spring we didn't have some form of viable if not 100% effective vaccine. We won't be locked inside forever.
thanks! I was to lazy to look up the FCC app to know for sure, so I hedged :)
Corporate policy evolution through time: 1. given x unit of time passing, the core information that caused the assumption is forgotten or transmuted into something else. 2. given the same x unit of time passing, the context has also shifted but no tools were stated or developed to rethink the assumption.

Corporate knowledge management requires effort to be done well.
> Easy Congress put on bandannas and robbed the tax payers of about $18,000 each.

I think you're under the mistaken impression that the debt incurred by the aid packages will somehow get repaid.
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> they have a very bad record when it comes to acquisitions.

They bought and killed ATG, which is a net win in my book.
Yes. I hope they acquire TikTok.
In this particular case I wasn't, for once, arguing against nuclear weapons but rather that spending comparable amounts on antibiotics might actually bring benefits.
With the caveat that I learned this material the old-fashioned way and probably can't adequately put myself in the shoes of a new learner, this feels overly pessimistic. A few general points come to mind:

(1) The human mind is pretty good at visual pattern recognition. For the same reason that people advocate for a big status monitor that every developer can see for your live service (since you can quickly spot anomalies your monitoring might miss) and for the same reason visualizing a data set is one of the first things you ought to do on your way to understanding it, creating a diagrammatic representation of linear algebra seems helpful for immediately getting a sense of where something feels "off" or for quickly grasping the intuition of a problem.

(2) The right notation (pictures in this case -- not that the idea I'm about to highlight couldn't be presented textually) can help highlight the portions of a problem that matter. Thinking about matrices as boxes of elements that you can individually manipulate is IMO actively harmful to understanding them and puts you in a situation where you miss the forest for the trees.

(2a) The matrix wiring diagram presented here naturally extends to higher order tensors, and for the life of me I can't find the source right now, but it was precisely that representation that made tensors click for me and gave me a foothold into other material about them.

(3) I think the current consensus is that multiple representations of a problem (via some mechanism -- call it "magic") are actively beneficial for learning a topic. From that point of view alone a diagrammatic representation doesn't seem especially bad.
Nice. I used to use that for all php requests to my websites (like you, I do not have php installed on my servers). Now I just use the nginx 444, which immediately drops the connection.

I wonder if it actually saves much time. Probably not.
https://www.treblezine.com/top-100-best-cover-songs/
I second The Rest Is Noise recommendation. I really enjoyed it. Make sure to check out the companion website, which has tons of samples of the music he discusses.
>Yes it is. If you just got a one time payment compounding interest would not have exponential growth.

Obviously. There is an implied only in that sentence. It clearly doesn't make sense without it.
>Steve Keen outlines our best hope, a modern debt jubilee, here:

>http://www.profstevekeen.com/modern-debt-jubilee/

This doesn't really make sense. If you force me to pay down debt and I want cash then I'm just going to take out more debt.

Low interest rates or high debt aren't really the fundamental problem. The problem is a concentration of cash/wealth. Adam Neumann is a billionaire because he convinced some morons in Japan to give his company 10s of billions of Saudi money. But an average Joe would be laughed out of a bank if they asked for 10s of thousands to start a business.

If we are worried about a deflationary spiral the solution is simple. Give everyone money.
This is very rarely the case outside the US.
I can’t believe I’ve never thought of that... wow, what a ‘blast’!

Wouldn’t it cause the core to collapse inwards though, as it would basically provide a “safety valve”-type release (though I presume if you were to place it on the edge of the fusing core, it would basically replace a patch of pre-existing surface area at the expense of convection and radiation pressure above taking a nose-dive).
Jigsaw Puzzle 19
Some of our university computer labs in the mid-90s were set up this way: a room full of X Terminals that you could use to connect to the big Alpha machines in the datacenter, or the Sun machines if you needed the software that ran on them, etc. When Linux with X came around, it was awesome to be able to dial into the modem bank and get connected to these machines from home.
Tip: You can turn that off!

Hamburger menu > settings > ask to open app
And those are the minority of shows. So in reality i'm paying a lot of money for things that are commercial quality and not educational and don't use.

That's as about as selfish of not wanting to pay for a gym membership i don't use.
Yup, many companies I've worked for see push notifications as the raison d'être for apps.
Nerves Project drives most of it I think
This is so much better than the old docs. I'm super bullish on workers as a next-gen computing platform.
The only reason HN isn't incentivized to make money directly is that its owned by a company that makes money on it indirectly.
"Power, Process, and Automated Decision-Making" by Ari Ezra Waldman is a good discussion on how biases manifest in algorithmic decision-making. I agree that an algorithm would be agnostic to the data, but that biases inherent in the data would be cemented, not overcome, by agnostic algorithms.
there you go: https://github.com/Fuco1/clippy.el
One of my first programming projects in college was implementing a reasonably simple A/B tree solver for Mancala, and then parallelizing it to search with multiple threads. Fond memories!
Stacker is not released to the public, yet. Good to see that there is interest :) -- we will post more info shortly.

The web page is in german because we are serving german-speaking countries.
Sure great, you've described a tiny percent of the US taxes.

There are some assumptions built it to this - that if the US government didn't do it, it wouldn't get done.

But some areas:

1. Extremely high housing costs due to zoning restrictions and government subsidized mortgages.
2. Extremely high medical costs due to regulation and central planning
3. Extremely high educational costs due to subsidized student loans.
4. Over 1 million people in jail
5. Involved in military actions and destabilizing actions around the world.
6. The war on drugs

But even with that, based on the things above - is there any point at which taxes are too high? Why not make them 100% and then the government can provide food, shelter, and spending money?
Everything about you is public, whether you like it or not. Until legal rights to own your own data exist it will be freely bought and sold to the highest/lowest bidder. It isn't how things should be, but it is how they are for now.
Please don't suggest them more ideas to make this even more annoying than it currently is :) (and yes, I would consider reducing the frequency of displaying it as an increase in annoyance, for exactly the reasons in the parent comment)
A VPN wouldn't be necessary. Most of USG's totalitarian restrictions have been developed around commercial activity. Individuals are free to run whatever software we'd like, and talk with whatever servers we'd like. The user-facing choke point is Apple/Google control over software distribution.
> It's certainly slow.

Slow compared to what? Compared to SpaceX they're slow, but compared to everybody else?

NASA/Boeing's SLS program started in 2005 as Constellation. It's still over a year away from it's first test launch and several years away from fully operational status.

China's Long March 5 started in 2007 and it can be argued that it wasn't fully operational until this year.

ULA's Vulcan, started in 2014 is at least a year out. And it reuses the same Centaur upper stage as Atlas.
He uses the dated phrase "master-slave" in his post. He should change it to "leader-follower" /s.

But quite honestly, I think that "leader-follower", politics aside, is plainly a better term to describe these kinds of configurations.
Good news is that projectors are still dumb. Just input selector and picture settings.
Earlier related articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075576

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21631074
I even went on a twitter rant, didn't help. I left Reddit.
I'm not making excuses - I am not a fan of reddit and I hate their godawful business practices :)

They have two completely different use cases - reddit is garbage that you infinite scroll through on a mobile phone, YouTube is content you watch. YouTube also generally has higher/better uploaded source videos, while reddit is a mess of reuploaded deep fried memes.

The use case for this, scrolling and keeping attention and continually pushing new content in, loading for 10 seconds is a death knell and entirely unacceptable.