skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
didn't he actually build a utopian community called Paradise?
Thank you for this! I appreciate it.

Update it to: "Spreadsheet view. See how your data looks as you process it". Went for this suggestion to keep everything to 2 lines.
Amateur early-intermediate level pianist here.

In the first place, I strongly endorse everything tjr said.

Secondly, depending on what exactly you're trying to do, I would guess that you can afford to get it wrong occasionally. After all, it is "the same note" ("enharmonic" really, but on many instruments you would play it exactly the same). You're losing a bit of interpretation, but with anything autogenerated from a MIDI file I wouldn't necessarily expect otherwise.

I've used such a software tool before -- I downloaded a bunch of MIDI files for Nintendo games I used to play, converted them to sheet music, looked at the sheet music, and tried a couple out on the piano.

Something else I might pay attention to is rhythm -- there are lots of "correct" ways to spell out any given rhythm, using a combination of notes, ties, dots, rests, and so on. But typically some of them are harder to read than others. This is something my software package did an iffy job on, which left room for improvement.

Sounds like a cool program!
I am not a lawyer so I cannot say for sure what constitutes PII and what breaches GDPR. I am using the same techniques as Fathom Analytics, Plausible.io and other products. Everything is hashed into a unique session id and none of the actual data like user agent or IP address is actually stored. It is the same data that is found in server log files. In the strictest interpretation of GDPR, I don't think any analytics product can exist.

As for the localStorage, it's just for performance so I don't have to recompute the session hash. The product will work the same without it. But seeing as it is a cause contention I am probably going to remove it.
Billionaires don't hold cash, they hold assets. Property, shares, anything that throws off revenue or grows in value.
It is quite common here to shot deer to keep it under control and it gets sold to local butchers.

At least in germany.

My father is also a hunter.

Its looks like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jaeger+deutschland&tbm=isch&...
Realistically, people who have to take them regularly can also learn to do “better” at them, as you can with any “test.”
Linux graphics is mostly driven by volunteer work. There is ongoing work to try and get color management done properly (though color management is an extraordinary difficult topic and you could make the argument no display system gets it correct)

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2019-No...
Contradiction by game https://github.com/nanochess/fbird. Take that 90s textbook.
Yep I write books too. I've only published one short one since leaving academia a year ago — in part because right now I'm hustling hard on the business model and infrastructure — but I expect that within a few years I'll be doing research for about 75% of my time, as "top of funnel" work that brings people into the courses and the rest. This is a well known business model, the only thing I'm doing that's new is making the "top of funnel" content legit disinterested research at a professional level (instead of an instrumental value proposition, e.g. take my course to earn X more dollars).
The polygraph was largely invented by William Moulton Marston, the same guy who invented Wonder Woman. It was clearly a farce when he was selling this idea 100 years ago, and it's amazing that it's considered anything short of snake oil today.

There's a great book on the inventor called the Secret History of Wonder Woman: https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Wonder-Woman/dp/080417...
The percent of totally self-made rich seems to be around 56%, and partially self-made is at around 30%. Note also that the proportion of self-made rich people is actually growing, even as the amount of wealth the rich has has decreased a bit[1] (methodology of the quoted study[2]). Also take a look at this intergenerational income mobility chart in figure 3 of a Pew study[3]; it says that people are
"likely" to stay poor, but that's actually less than half, so I would say it's more like "unlikely."

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/wealthx-billionaire-census-m...
[2]: https://www.wealthx.com/approach/methodology/
[3]: https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_a...
Why do people keep coming to this couple's home looking for lost phones? (2016)
Off-topic with respect to Kotlin but relevant to the Java platform:

From your perspective, what are Clojure's prospects for contemporary and future alignment with the JVM?

After all, Rich Hickey built the core in 2006-07. Looking at his graph[0] of code introduction and retention in his HOPL-IV paper[1] might imply that either he's that good at the core abstractions or possibly the language could suffer a similar set of limitations as commented about Kotlin above.

[0] https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pd... p26

[1] https://clojure.org/about/history
Are there any viable solutions to the problems with off-shore farming? Last time I checked the ecosystem around you typical Scandinavian salmon farm in the ocean was devestated.

We take extreme care not to flush our own sewers into the sea, yet happily permit salmon farms with the equivalent fertilizing effect of a town of 25000 having all their toilets flush everything out on the shore.
It doesn't matter if he was the son of Warren Buffet. He flipping made Microsoft let him keep his billions he earned them. I guarantee, if 99% of the population were born under the same circumstances, they could not produce a Microsoft.
or Celebration, rather
> otherwise they wouldn't be doing it

This feels like a fallacy
The biggest question I have is whether or not this new foundation will be a 501(c)(3) charity (or European analogue), versus a 501(c)(6) "business league".

The big distinction between the two of them is that donations to a 501(c)(3) charity are tax deductible and therefore may not be used to unduly advantage any commercial entity, while donations to a 501(c)(6) are not tax deductible and thus are unrestricted.

If it's a 501(c)(6), then the foundation will serve its biggest donors first and foremost. In theory, it may also serve the public good — but only to the extent that it is in the interest of those donors.
I don't get the people who jump straight to dystopian goo foods. There's no shortage of culinary traditions that relied on less meat and are actually food. Have they never seen a black bean taco?
When does this actually matter though? Isn't growth (or shrinkage) what you'd normally really care about (e.g. this month we had 10% more DAUs than last month)? I suppose if you changed something to attract tons of new users who disproportionately use AdBlock (for example) this becomes an issue as it wouldn't show up in your metrics, but is that sort of thing common?

I suppose if nothing else it's good to know so you can immediately beef up your numbers +20% in your slide deck for VCs.
In a bit skeptical of the 50% number mentioned. I think the newspaper article might be misquoting the source. I know people who have failed lifestyle polygraphs and weren't banned for life, they just had to try again
Oh, I forgot to mention one other weird thing: this isn't just liberals. There is a frightening large contingency of white supremacists who are into this, and a few showed up at Portland farmers market until they were outed. Regardless of how you feel about having racist nationalists selling next to hippies, self-sufficiency is quite a thing up here.
I agree with you but it’s not just about voting. It’s about activism and putting pressure on the government too.
Sorry if my point was unclear. I'm arguing that not only does the stock market allow companies to grow too large (stifling innovation and competition), but also allowing large ownership to become too wealthy at the expense of society in general.

If a company goes public I think there should be some consequences to that since it allows for this insane growth. Such as a more even diversification of ownership among the general public (aka investors on the public stock market). This spreads the wealth so to speak in a much more straightforward fashion than taxing the rich which leads to all the money flowing into the government.
This would definitely be really interesting if it had the ability to create analytics in response to UI interactions. There are a lot of SPAs out there that use analytics for feature tracking, and the self-hosted aspect would fit well with those users.
Yeah, that's definitely true. The DEA should've picked up on that faster.

I didn't make it clear enough, but I was also trying to get at the idea that even the guidelines might be corrupt. So maybe the issue isn't even in the hands of the doctors in the first place.

I know a doctor here in Europe and he's pretty vocal about his disdain for those guidelines in his particular field (oncology). He mentions things like new and expensive medication with unclear side effects being recommended over cheap, old tried-and-tested stuff, clearly with the motivation of making more profit. And by not following the guidelines you take a huge personal risk.
No, the federal government does not have that power; Art. I, Sec. 2, Cl. 3: “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers”. A wealth tax (or other real or personal property tax) is a direct taxes not apportioned as Constitutionally required.

State governments may or may not have that power, according to their own Constitutions (most, I would imagine, do.)
Portugal did not legalize the sale, possession, and use of drugs. For those already addicted, they changed possession from a criminal to an administrative offense. So it’s decriminalized in one aspect, but far from legal. Producing and selling drugs is still illegal and still targeted.

Their system sounds a damn sight more beneficial to society than ours, but it’s still a far cry from the “all drugs are legal” experiment being proposed here.

My instinct says that “legalize and regulate” works better for the vast majority of drugs, and “decriminalize possession but not sale or manufacture” for the rest. There wouldn’t be much call for meth if MDMA or coca products were cheap and legal. Opiates wouldn’t be spiked with fentanyl if they were regulated. This is just my guess, and I wish I had data to point to. Maybe something can be extrapolated from Portugal’s outcomes, but the situation is not the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
I currently use the self-hosted version on Heroku and impressed with its functionality. It's quite similar to Heap Analytics. My favorite feature is auto-tracking. That said, there are some scaling limitations currently if you have a high traffic site. We have a couple hundred thousand users monthly so we are likely on the larger side of PostHog deployments. The team is cranking out features and improvements incredibly fast and I'd expect these to be resolved soon. Feel free to DM - happy to answer any more questions.
Yeah but borrowed money needs to be eventually paid back, so you're (at best) just deferring the problem.

Even if a wealthy founder took out a collateralized loan, in order to pay back the loan, they have to realize some gain somewhere (which is already taxed). That money isn't free. Even to simply pay back the interest, they would have to liquidate some of their stock (which is already taxed). Eventually when the principal needs to be paid back, the only way to do it is to liquidate (and divest) the equivalent value in their company (which is already taxed).
I use an app for HN, and it doesn't show me points. I've never cared enough to check and see if I can make it do so. Similarly, I've never bothered to check and see if I have the capability to downvote, which it also isn't showing me, because it's rare enough that I want to do so that I just don't bother.
> Main reason: it's more fun.

Agreed, although things can get much less fun once you end up burned out.

I think this Tweet does a decent job at describing the tradeoffs/challenges:

> Typical designer mid-career crisis.
>
> * You want to stay hands on
> * You want a relaxed, low stress environment doing “meaningful work”
> * You want to maximise your earning potential
>
> The majority of roles you see force you to pick just two.

Source: https://twitter.com/andybudd/status/1204458288118714370

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Minor digression: now, not all startups are completely hectic, option-fueled sweatshops. I'm talking about the default picture that comes to my mind when I hear this word. The most successful small startups I know are quite the opposite in fact. Well, I guess having an actual market, solving a real problem is important.
(OK, "scale-ups" are the f*cking worst still as you end up with chaos and inability to get work done).
You're right that this could in theory reduce R. The trouble is, it only has that effect for as long as you regularly continue to test everyone, and only within the area where you're carrying this out. The moment you stop it returns to normal. China did this once in Wuhan and once in Beijing, covering roughly one percent of the country's total population each time. That shouldn't do very much at all.

(Also, pooled testing has fairly narrow usefulness. It only really works if the actual positive rate is very low and testing is constrained solely by the ability to process swabs, not by the supply of swabs themselves, the availability of staff and testing locations, or the other processes around testing. This is not generally the case in Western countries.)
> [Citation needed]

pvaldes, 2020

Some facts are so well stablished in human knowledge that there is not need to cite it. For example: "Some crops are more productive than other. Point".

We, humans know it since 10.000 years ago. Anybody can see it with their eyes. Not need to repeat what Aristotle would say about it.

Primary and secondary production, is a big fat chapter in any Ecology handbook. Any Plant physiology handbook will explain the differences between CAM and C4 plants

If nobody is trying to produce a natural sized cow sculpture made of vanille beans, there must be a reason.
I think this is a cynical attitude. Until 1990, the majority of people driving cars did not wear a seatbelt.

An even better analogy is tobacco use. In the 1950s and 1960s America, you'd hear the same kind of things about cigarettes as you do these days about meat-eating: it's red-blooded, it's manly, it's good for you! Meanwhile the incredibly high impact to health of people and populations was becoming more clear all the time, just like the consumption on meat.

Attitudes, beliefs, and stupid behaviors can and do change over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_use_rates_in_the_Uni...
The firing for for simply helping a friend seems shocking.

I did, however, once know a fellow that did tech support for an ISP, that used his work calls to source his freelance onsite tech support business. Once the main company found out they let him go.

Omitted from the article is whether the OP charged for his time. But I can't help but think that either Apple is ridiculous, or we're not hearing the whole story.
Thanks. That's a useful project! And yes, we aim to make data processing easy (through UI, low code) and easy to reuse/export (by converting UI steps 1:1 to code)
I never saw that idiom in any ml classes.. I'm honestly surprised
I think everyone has to have their own routine on this. Luckily for me, I have always been strict when it comes to schedules. For me, I just established what my WFH schedule is. When the end of the day comes, I turn off my laptop, put it away, and don't take it back out until the next day (or for a very rare emergency). After my computer is away, I usually go straight into a "normal day" task like walking the dogs, or preparing to cook dinner.
Well, of course my take on this is that having the provisioning of capital in private, unaccountable hands is absurd, you wouldn’t have the army be unaccountable to the people, why the stewardship of capital? Capital ought to be under worker control and management via democratic means.

Local capital should be under local control; also some capital should be under the control of nationwide democratic structures. That capital would have to be removed from the capitalist aristocracy that currently holds it- so what I’m saying is, forget 1%, let’s start talking about 100%.
> The amazing thing is that, at least as of 10 years ago, my projects for that class STILL compiled on 32-bit FreeBSD and Linux.

i686 binaries from the 90s compiled for then-Linux and linked against then-xlib still run on AMD64 Linux hosts (provided you have the necessary multilib libraries around).
I would invite you to watch Orphan Black and try to figure out which characters are supposed to be clones or not.

The one that really gets me is when they use photographs in film/tv, a character looks at a photo and you know the rest of the audience knows who it is supposed to be, but I have no freakin idea.
I know this does not mean companies will stop USING these old systems but...

Thank god, finally!

So many companies have old school software that still runs in legacy modes that this will probably exist until 2040, but thankfully the commonly held web standards can progress without ever getting a customer complaint that some date picker doesn’t work in IE...
can't reply to the sibling but they are not voting "they don't care", they just plain don't care. If you do care but can't pick among the bad choices, you go through the actions and spoil your ballot or where applicable write in your choice. This is a lot of work for nothing beyond showing you care.
Here's Why I Migrated From Chrome to The Brave Browser
> 1. There's a very specific reason for that: the computer revolution and the monopolies created by it.

This is called recency bias. "This time is different." as opposed to all the other times they said "This time is different."
>If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

If the coverup was effective why wouldn’t they? We know the Chinese government is extremely good at propagandizing their own citizens.
I have prosopagnosia, and movies are often a problem. I recall an Agatha Christie film where the opening was set at a big dinner party. All the men were wearing dinner jackets, and we were shown lots of plot-critical conversations about expected legacies and old feuds. I gave up at that point: there was no chance of me having any clue about the plot.
Eh, I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, but have you talked to some of the voters? Last pre-covid party I was to I had a conversation with a global warming "skeptic". In an attempt to understand better, I listened more than I talked and it is .. illuminating, scary, annoying and a whole lot of other emotions that are difficult to put into words here.

Point is, voting relies heavily on educated populace. I am not certain we have it now. Maybe we need to reconsider kings ( today's billionaires ) and hope they are not into torture..
If you're using a SPA you need to build that instrumentation in to match the native behaviour, along with robust error handling using something like https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/ so you can tell when your code is broken client-side where you would otherwise not have visibility.

This is much less likely to be blocked if you self-host it — breaking requests to your server will break the app, whereas blocking common cross-site tracking services is popular because there are few drawbacks for the user.
A number like that in a vacuum is absolutely meaningless. The death rate in 2020 vs. historical averages is much lower in the US compared to the UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, etc., but if you believe the media uncritically you'd think that America is a hellhole with people dying on the streets from Covid-19, when in fact that's just not the case. Our response was better than Europe's. We wear masks at a higher rate than other countries.

https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/17/upshot/corona...
Same. Two computers, two chairs, two separate spaces.

As soon as I sit down in a chair, that persona takes over.
If it taxes the income of normal people at a higher rate than they deserve, why do you think it would refrain from taxing the wealth of normal people higher than they deserve?
It's open source software: there's nothing to prevent the CCP from simply re-branding it as Mao++ and preventing people in China from ever knowing that it was called Notepad++ in the first place... I'm curious why they didn't just do that.
Billionaire will not save anyone they are too busy enriching themselves.
We use J in all ML and data handling functions, everything except UI and viz.

We primarily focus on algorithms that require rapid sequential iteration rather than parallelism. However: 1) we run an enhanced version of J that is implicitly parallel on CPUs, and
2) it is possible to call GPUs (both CUDA and openCL) through J (e.g. j-fire). We do not call GPUs or other accelerators currently, though we may do so in the future.

Our goal with Monument is to create an Excel-like substitute for ML / AI. In comparing across languages, we selected J as "the right level of abstraction" for ML / AI because we wanted to write fast-running code, quickly.

J runs on virtually all CPUs and OSs, and it is highly tuned for minimized cache misses and mis-predicted branches. It is well-documented, well-supported, and the community is highly supportive.

Like Python, J makes it possible to run highly-optimized code without a great deal of boilerplate in an interactive development environment. Unlike Python, J is composed of reusable functions that readily express math. Our dev productivity is extremely high, and often we're able to engage with mathematicians who have little or no programming background.

Our team comprises polyglot programmers, and I strongly avoid "the language wars," but overall we have found J to be well-suited to our needs.
With all the wealth tax conversations, I feel like the most obvious solution is to just raise the capital gains rates, or ideally, just tax all capital gains as income, which is already progressively taxed.

What am I missing? Is it just that it's politically impossible?
George Carlin is a comedian. He’s telling a joke.
> it highlights a very basic problem with taxing an asset again and again, especially on unrealized gains.

Why is it so hard to understand the concept of a floor? If we only tax wealth above $10m or $100m, it will literally never result in "all of your wealth" disappearing.

> We gladly support this idea, because it affects "the billionaires" but not when it comes to everyone else and for good reason.

> Ironically this is one of the main contributor to sky high real estate prices and housing crisis

Right. We support it, but we don't do anything about it, even though it causes one of the most obvious policy problems in the state.

> if we do, most people would lose all their wealth in a matter of couple of years.

Like literally every other state? I'm sorry, no. This comment is internally logically inconsistent, ignores obvious examples to the contrary, and asserts itself as its own proof.
Kotlin is available in the free community edition of IntelliJ and in Android Studio