skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome! I figured there was more than one, but I had no idea how many there were, and how closely related the legends.
This seems a bit similar to Melodics[1], except open source and it actually uses the standard notation.

I know how to read music and started taking classical lessons as an adult. Some time last year a friend recommended me to check out Melodics. It has 3 instruments: keys, pads (finger drumming), drums. I've played pads for few mont;hs, that was good, I've felt it improved my timing and rhythm skills quite a bit. Then I switched to keys. I didn't really like that; it felt like I'm mindlessly repeating whatever is on the screen instead of internalising music. OTOH, when playing pads it felt that something stays in my head after playing. So I guess this may be useful to some people.

For me it'd be more interesting to have some sort of memory trainer - I play something on screen few times, then I replay from memory and app shows me a diff maybe? Or when I'm learning a piece, it would give me a challenge "play bars 21-25 both hands" or "play bars 19-23 left hand only".

[1] https://melodics.com/, I'm not affiliated in any way
Funny, these kind of threads sound similarly to how some companies I have worked for sound when talking about working on Saturdays:

Me: Do we have to come to work on Saturdays?

Boss: You dont HAVE to... but you know, people come and do work to go the extra mile.

Me: Ok, but If I don't come, there's no problem right?

Boss: Well, no, there's no problem. But you know, there's lots of work and it is great when people push together.

Me: Ok good, yeah I like my work and I like helping others but, I also appreciate my personal life. So... no problem if I decide not coming on Saturday right?

Boss: MMhhgh yeah, no problem, but you know, we like to think you are COMMITED to our startup mission.

And, then they get angry when I don't go on Saturdays. If you want me to go on Saturdays just put it in the darn contract and tell that as part of the terms when we are negotiating, then I'll walk out and we will all be happy.

Same here, if the developer wanted something to happen, then he should have put it in the license. Otherwise, there's no reason to be whining that something that was NOT expected to happen (as per the license) did not happen.
Love it! You solved one of the things I’ve always had a hunch but never brave enough to prove myself.
I see the article was published in 2014. Does anyone know if much more has come out of this since then?
I bought some lilies for my garden; the packaging forbids end users from "sexually reproducing" them.
An analysis of Scotland’s proposed new hate crime law
What “war in space” probably would look like in the near future
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I mean you've basically described the opening to Upload on Amazon.
Yep, I also remember them saying that if you got sick and started showing symptoms, to stay at home instead of seeking medical care. Now that's considered misinformation though, and YouTube says they'll remove videos recommending you don't get medical care.
IMO COVID changed the appeal of the iPad at home for school, but if you wanted the newest pencil or keyboard combo, then you'd be stuck looking at only the iPad Pro line. The iPad Air changes that.
That’s the easy 90% of the work. The rest is the hard 90%.
There might be some interesting observations in here, but this really feels like a grab-bag of complaints, many tangentially-related at best. The author doesn't really do any work to synthesize them to support his central claim.
Super cool reading your posts :) I grow five vines here in my urban backyard in Minnesota, all UMN varieties. This is their third year in the ground, and the first year I let them put out fruit. It was super fun making jelly with grapes I grew :)

I haven't posted about them this year, but here's where they were last summer (year 2): https://www.smokingonabike.com/2019/06/23/minnesota-home-gar...
The addition of deuterium will open new avenues for reactions by cosmic rays.
This cppunk design aims to provide building blocks for you to build your own solution instead of some ready solution out of fear that they might misdesign something, that's why it's so heavily customizable. So yeah, you're supposed to roll a layer on top of it and build a component with reasonable functionality for this day or for your case.
This is a rare case where the political class actually has a better grasp of the root cause of a social problem, and is further along in solving it, than the people at large.

In the past year, we've seen both sides of the aisle clamoring to repeal CDA 230, while the public is split between either not caring or recoiling in horror at the thought.

I don't believe for a second that the repeal of the CDA is really on the table in Washington. If they wanted to do it, they would have done it. But that would nuke Google, Facebook, and Twitter, all at once. (I personally don't think that would be all that bad for the internet or society in general, but I digress.) But they (meaning the swamp creatures, Trump included) realize now how much power they hold over Big Tech via this law, and how much influence they can exert over the world with this power. And they realize how bad it would be for the US stock market (which all of Washington worships as their god) if the tech giants failed all at once.

I believe Techlash will either kill these companies or transform them, and I think that much is inevitable. That is why Zuckerberg straight up asked for regulation. He wants the government to save his company. We will probably see a series of regulations that places these giants under the control of Washington. Maybe it's time to put forward some kind of tech Bill of Rights now to limit what the government can do with our data beyond what's already prohibited in the actual Bill of Rights. Things like "No about queries." "No recording conversations in the home." etc.
HN can be weirdly sensitive to comments about music being hard; fundamentals being mandatory, etc. I bet if we criticized the code on Music News (not a real thing) it'd be the same way.
> There is already so much noise out there anyway

Discourage the production of noise, or don't include it in the user's newsfeed unless he explicitly followed that source? Keep in mind that most "noise" and clickbait is produced because it is itself funded by advertising and "engagement".

Have some rules that ban publicly posting clickbait or any kind of commercial, for-profit content (that will not be an issue for a network that supposedly wants to connect you with your friends), enforce them and watch the problem disappear by itself. Keep in mind that a large chunk of the content being posted on Facebook with total impunity would've quickly earned you a ban on most forums back in the day and this is how those forums kept spam, hate & off-topic content at bay during their existence and nobody made a big deal out of it.

The problem is that obviously Facebook will not do that, not because of any kind of moral/ethical concerns about "free speech" or anything but because clickbait being around keeps the people spending more time on Facebook, generating more revenue for Facebook. The algorithm recognizes that and will keep giving more of such content to the user since it's continuously being rewarded with the resulting engagement.

Forcing Facebook to change its rules by law could work but is impractical, but a better solution would be to change the law so that while the current Facebook rules are legal per-se, the consequences of those (and the content they allow people to post) would hold Facebook liable (any illegal post automatically considers Facebook as an accomplice of the underlying crime, whether it's scams, drug deals/resale of stolen property or hate speech). This would quickly force Facebook to clean up their act and discourage their users from posting such content.
Bragg is a national treasure. In Our Time explores abstruse topics and brings in genuine experts to talk about them. It's not pop science (or history, or philosophy, or art... the range is incredible). It's real academics talking about what matters to them. It's willing to risk being boring in order to be truthful.
Another potentially quite serious problem is up to date information on whether things like bridges are in place - its fairly common for footbridges not to be shown on maps or for bridges on OS maps to have long since been washed away or so dangerous as to be impassable.
We do not think that it will need a neural net in order to be able to do this, but we need to prove that in order to make it stick and we're not quite ready to do that. Keep in mind that this is in every sense of the word a side project, we only work on this when we do not have technical due diligence work for customers and that still continues quite strongly. But on 'off' weeks we work on this and the project progresses quite rapidly when we do.
Which still makes absolutely sense as long as symptoms aren't severe.
> The results, which are yet to be peer-reviewed, suggest that none of these treatments has a substantial effect on mortality or on the length of time spent in hospital, the WHO said on Thursday.

(Emphasis mine)
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You’ve misread my point, and are arguing against something I didn’t say. I never said that people didn’t have social networks at work before, I said that they didn’t depend so heavily upon them.

People used to also have extensive social networks outside of work through various religious and social institutions, most of which have withered in the past 20 years or so. This is a huge part of this “loneliness epidemic” you mention. We should rebuild those so that people alternating their work structure isn’t a debilitating blow to their social network. This is particularly important since people change jobs much more rapidly now, which disrupts any social network based on work.
If your understanding of somebody leads you to obvious absurdity, one possibility is they're being absurd. The other is that you misunderstood them. I think it's worth exploring both paths before posting to suggest somebody's a fool.
Appreciate your input here, and believe me reading your comment spoke to my soul! It's literally my struggle.

"maybe we (I) should just take it slowly, focus on something we enjoy and has (some) meaning."

A hard yes on this! I am going to try to shift my focus into something meaningful, enjoyable and see where that take me.

Good luck with your journey!
in USD too.
The silence of the press on the Julian Assange hearings is a disgrace
For those wondering about the "breathing technique", figure 2 has a link to a movie.
Startup Books Are Useless
Yes, but then you would still lose quite a bit of information. Besides that, musescore is pulling a bait-and-switch on the user generated content that makes gracenote look good.
hi! I want to work for amazon, can you forward my resume to your boss please?
It's really sad because this is the first time I heard about this campaign. Had I known earlier I would have pledged sooner and spread the word around.
I like this idea and it's very nicely presented but I note a lack of diversity in it's data sources:

based on more than 1.4 million Glassdoor reviews

Let's not forget GlassDoor has come under criticism for gaming, including recently highlighted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789865
it is getting harder and harder to convince my higher ups to not switch us on to Microsoft Teams (which they practically consider free vs the thousands we spend monthly just for the dev team).

its one saving grace for us is the amount of legacy comments and history of discussions we have built up over years across conversations that is useful for reference.
Next: on Mars! Imagine sending GPS and cell satellites to Mars orbit before colonizing. Why not? Constant communications between colonists, explorers, instruments. Always know where you are and be able to report that to co-workers or rescuers!

Science fiction authors of the future of Mars should keep this in mind.
Some interesting observations and certainly it meshes with my own corporate/public-sector experience in some aspects; but it ends as a list of complaints and an urge to buy a book. As well, some key words such as the repeated "Feeding through" really push it into realm of rants to elicit a predictable response or wink to the knowing/in-crowd, rather than an attempt to start a conversation or offer a solution :-/

I would also argue that in America specifically there ARE numerous counter-examples, and I'd vouch to say that HN is probably a statistically significant outlier of such. A lot of startups we discuss or celebrate (and even lots of startups that we bash;) work on very different principles and incentives than those listed here.
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It must have taken a lot of effort to get IRB approval for a study that tested the immune modulation effects of meditation by intravenously injecting E. coli toxin. At least I hope it did!
Look up dietary fiber. It is, by definition, indigestible carbohydrates.
Well...yes...all those things plus hopefully preventing you from dying. Not sure where your confusion is.
His channel is recruiting tool for talent, not consumer facing PR. As such the content is very well suited.
Unless those treatments also ensure you can't spread the disease while recovering that actually sounds like an absolutely terrible idea to me.
How do you go about decentralizing it? I'm fairly new to the industry and have career aspirations in this direction, so please fix what I'm missing:

1. Build out a good FOSS alternative.

2. Market the snot out of it until the unteched masses use it.

3. ??? open a foundation with that niche's leaders, or something?

4. FOSS is the new normal for that niche.

(edited for line breaks)
Eating more slowly is most beneficial because it makes you feel full before you overeat so much, which has a much larger effect than insulin response.
"VC funding and possibly change the business model"

I was thinking about something like that. But again, realistically speaking, what would be interesting for VCs in such project to even bother about it?
You may be thinking of the quantum "observer effect." But that doesn't say observers don't exist - on the contrary, it assumes the existence of observers. It is about how the act of observing has an effect on the system being observed - e.g. to see, your eye absorbs photons which are transformed during that process.

There's also the somewhat related "measurement problem." This one calls into question what it means to be an observer, so that may be what you're really thinking of.

The measurement problem is about how a quantum system changes from being in a state of superposition with no single defined state, to having a single state. In some quantum interpretations, this is considered to be a consequence of "observation" or "measurement," but that only raises the question of what it means to measure or observe something.

This does not, in and of itself, mean "there is no you." In fact it's the opposite in some interpretations, the existence of observers is assumed. The conclusion that "there is no you" requires imposing an additional philosophical perspective.
I'm an adult beginning to learn piano using Flowkey. It's criticized by the experts but I feel like it does a relatively good job at teaching basic piano finger techniques. I have no wish to become a piano expert anyway, I play music as a hobby.
I think time is the one thing I definitely disregard. Disregard in the sense I move too quickly, its just how my brain operates. Learn, push things out, rinse and repeat. That's typically my approach to things. I am going to try and slow down, let things marinate and see what happens.
Building an async-compatible actor system
While the distinction between these two concepts is purely semantic to tech folks, the choice by this company to exploit that purely semantic difference by tacitly implying a falsehood in marketing to non-tech-tolks is significant.
Folks expecting a simple lifestyle tweak be warned, the original training is by Wim Hof and in addition to the (fairly intense) breathing exercises involves lying in snow for 30min and hiking a snowy mountain, both partially naked.

While participants replaced the cold exposure element with a cold shower after they went home from the training, the techniques still took 2-3 hours per day. Also on the day of the data collection, they performed the techniques right before being exposed to E coli, so they had "advance warning" as it were.

Still very cool to see the immune system changes observed, since that's rare, but definitely requires a commitment to produce it in its current format.
What if the pill only changed people to be more Hetero-nominative?
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Do you also dislike interacting with people, seeing how there's no such thing as an exhaustive list of things to do and not to do?

This is not even an analogy, it's what is being discussed. AWS didn't do anything illegal with regards to their usage of open-source, but we live in a society, and we do have innumerable tacit rules. One of them is that you should give credit to where credit is due.
All those things are correlated with death. So that it does not reduce mortality, is a strong indicator that it won’t help with severity either.
Breathing techniques AND exposure to cold.

From the article:

ii) During the training, subjects voluntarily exposed themselves to cold in several ways: standing in the snow barefoot for up to 30 min and lying bare chested in the snow for 20 min; daily dipping/swimming in ice-cold water (0–1 °C) for up to several minutes (including complete submersions); and hiking up a snowy mountain (elevation: 1,590 m) bare chested, wearing nothing but shorts and shoes at temperatures ranging from −5 to −12 °C (wind chill: −12 to −27 °C).
Can you literally crack a carb into a sugar? I don't think so. Your pepsin can chemically separate it though.
It was PS3
There’s a huge difference between a few times a year and once every 1-2 weeks, both on the company and the employee. At once a quarter we can just rent a coworking space and fly in, but at once a week everyone needs to live within ~90min of the office and the company needs to maintain some level of excess office capacity in order to seat these workers 1x a week.

To my eye remote 4x a week forfeits most of the benefits of full remote purely for the sake of a vestigial habit. It seems superior to me that either the team either goes full remote, or reverts to a “remote work when errands require it” arrangement.
Because firewalls are such a panacea for security?
Every time a new post appears on his blog, I drop whatever I am doing and read it. The style is so delightful and the quality is outstanding.
Yes. Or at least put them in the appendix.
While that's true, we don't want people out and about while virulent, reducing severity and recovering faster doesn't sound like a terrible idea to me at all.
Search piano on iOS! It's depressing.
Was Harvey Weinstein charismatic, or just a successful movie maker?
Thank you for posting this!

This physician summarized studies[0] that showed that blended food spiked insulation vs. the same food that was chewed. His information seemed solid, so this title was surprising to see.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMO-5mq3crU&t=16s
Except a materialist would simply say that those people lack the social capital because they lack the material capital. Lack of Social Capital stopped them getting the access to the food, but those people without social capital seemingly always just _happen_ to be poor, almost as if social capital is simply a path _to_ material capital that you need to cash out into capital to actually have any power.
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they are like every body uses opensource we too used ........
In a somewhat similar scenario, we had some discussions about what "Friday midnight" means. So just to be super clear, we finally put "Thursday, 11pm".
Hunter gatherer societies are theorized to have spent the majority of their time not working, which is partly why were evolved such a complex social dynamic. Hunters would patrol their territory and hunt, with mixed results on the hunting, and gatherers would spend a few hours gathering food. It didn't take much work to sustain their tribes.
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Unfortunately, the whole polio eradication thing is less of an clear-cut success story than the headlines made it seem - they only eradicated wild-type polio, there are still major outbreaks in Africa of vaccine-derived polioviruses that have lost the mutations which made them safe and started spreading in the community and paralyzing people, those have only been getting more widespread last I heard and there doesn't seem to be any clear route to a solution. Can't imagine that Covid has helped much with that either, given the disruption to vaccination programs worldwide - vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks thrive wherever vaccination is disrupted or incomplete, or there's a border between vaccinated and non-vaccinated regions.

The original plan that the WHO and the rest of the global health community came up to deal with this also seems like total magical thinking to me - basically, everywhere would drop the type 2 poliovirus component (which corresponded to a virus whose wild type had been eliminated) from their live vaccines at once, which would leave none to turn into vaccine-derived poliovirus and type 2 woud just go away. It didn't work that way. I can't fathom why it even should. Nonetheless, there were lots of fancy documents and presentations from the WHO and other such organisations explaining this strategy very hopefully. The current ones don't have the same level of hope.
Incorporates many of Nassim Talebs ideas! Great article! :)
Great article.

He sings the praises of Linux memory management and virtual memory, which are unavailable on a microcontroller. Would be interested in comments on the downsides of swapping in a system with a small amount of onboard Flash that may wear out.
I too have been put off by Gitlabs endless handbook.

It seems like every interaction has a script or a page to follow. Why even be a human at that point?
But I’m only implementing my machine in one language, why would this be useful? When do I need the same machine in multiple environments? Or are you referring to things like tooling for visualization etc?
This is an absurdly impressive writeup, and it's great that it shows that there are SIP's out there for such low pricing (sub $5 for a ic whuch includes a decent few MB of dram is great, albeit single core).

Many years back, I also did a writeup (much less intense) that goes more so into what it took for me to get Linux running on an IMX6 based Soc on the software end, including how I found a bug in the USB clock tree in the kernel for the IMX6, how I debugged it, and how I mainlined it (my first and only kernel commit to mainline).
https://brainyv2.hak8or.com/

Such projects are increadibly satisfying to work on, it makes you feel much more competent when working with embedded systems. There is much less "black magic" going on.
> Could I achieve the same results with one of the three methods for example?

I don't see why the researchers would lump all three treatments together into the intervention group.

There is this, seems to suggest cold exposure: https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.14814/phy2...
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