skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What they didn’t predict was a culture that glorifies being busy.

I'd argue the culture glorifies being busy in part because the folks benefitting the most from the current arrangement want it to.

And also because of the whole America/Protestant work ethic thing, which isn't all wrong but ...
I'm not completely sure, but it seems like maybe Sciter is able to stay so lightweight because it implements a subset of the HTML/CSS.

If not, though, that would be a pretty big deal.
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Neural density seems to be what matters.
Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) codec in Rust
March < October. I assume we all learned a lot in the couple months.
Neandertal brains were larger than h. sapiens. (https://www.cobbresearchlab.com/issue-2-1/2015/12/24/average...)

Whether this means Neandertal had greater cognitive capacity, or sapiens brain is more efficient, isn't clear to me.
Maybe I'll give it another try. I might have gone too deep into the docs, but Nim seemed to get very complicated with all the {.annotation.} to remember
One might argue that by putting a male and a female dog together, both of them fertile, there is a clear intent for them to (eventually) reproduce. When the puppies are born you can throw your hands up in the air and pretend to be surprised, but I suspect that the judge will know how babies are made, and be very hard to convince that you did not.
That is definitely not MDMA. Max MDMA duration is 8-10 hours and that's on the high side. It does not typically cause paranoia or hallucinations.

Sounds like PCP plus meth, DOB plus meth, or some other nasty combo. Making cheap nasty "disco biscuits" out of meth plus random thing is apparently pretty common. The meth could account for some of the paranoia and strung out feelings.

Gotta love prohibition and how it encourages the production of "bath tub hooch."
> You've probably noticed massive cost overruns in public projects. That $1 billion bridge is now $3 billion--oh, sorry, make that $4 billion. If we ever get it finished, better estimate $5 billion.

This rings home as I was recently talking to someone at an engineering firm that often bids for government contracts. And they were explaining that you build your timeline back from the deadline in the proposal even if you know it isn't feasible. A lot of companies will then bid under-cost and hope that there was a flaw in the design that requires adjustments. Then since they are already on the site with a bunch of workers they will charge extortionary process for the modification to make money on the whole project. So that $10M dollar bid jumps to $15M because they needed to reroute a gas line before starting the building (not a real example, but representative)

Of course a lot of the problem is that the city has strong processes and policies to avoid corruption, however the end result is that it is very difficult to hire the people you know do good work, instead you are stuck with the lowest bidder. Of course there is a process for banning companies however it is long, complicated and very bureaucratic, so even if you could get the ban in place it is easier for any project manager not to bother.

I guess it all comes down to lack of trust, and this is why we can't have nice things.
Wanted to add some more kind words about XState. It's a key component of a project I'm working on now with some pretty atypical requirements relative to most web projects.

It's been a lifesaver in that regard, and I think we would be a bit sunk without it.
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Absolutely true. One of the things I learned decades ago as a solo entrepreneur was to force for as much commonality as possible across everything I was doing.

When you wear many hats you have to mentally task switch between domains and this time can sometimes be measures in weeks (example: you've been doing mechanical design and you now have to switch to FPGA design after months of not touching the codebase).

This is why jumping on the latest and greatest trends isn't always the best idea. Languages, tools, frameworks, new chips, new FPGA or CPU architectures, etc. Things that don't mesh at a certain level impose a cognitive load that can really slow you down.

The simplest example of this I have from years back would be using C and Verilog on embedded systems. While Verilog is not software, it's hardware the "C" feel to the language --as opposed to VHDL-- makes for an much easier transition between hardware and software development, at least for me.
MSFT just pushed a UI update to Outlook on Mac that is actually really nice. I'm hoping that maybe they've finally got their UX together and Teams will improve. Pretty sure my company will be axing Slack in favor of Teams in the next year or two. Maybe by then it will have a reasonably good UX.
Probably, but it's smart to be specific with what you've actually measured/observed. This study is specifically observing babies, and if we want to assert that this is true of all people, we should do experiments that include non-babies.
Time to buy Remdesivir.
Are you gatekeeping music?
Ask HN: Is there a service to sync my personal and work calendars?
I want to create an event on my personal calendar, and have that event sync to my work calendar, but ONLY show the time and a generic title like “appointment”, that way work knows I’m unavailable but they don’t know I’m at a proctologist appointment, or a job interview for a different company, or whatever.

Does this service exist?
Solid point.

This comment really demonstrates why certain kinds of wrong predictions are very valuable.

Extremely relevant as we move into our second attempt at making WFH work.
Interesting track, there are a number of pianists (very good ones) that went that route. Keith Jarrett for instance, and Friedrich Gulda.
Regarding 2: I would love to see some of the community aspects of christianity/religion brought back in a secular form. It seems like believing in God isn't really the key part. It's interacting with your neighbours, which seems to be something really missing from a lot of the western world over the last few decades.
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"Sweet corn is digested, otherwise there would be little point in eating it. The inside of each kernel is almost pure starch and is digested very readily."
source:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/why-is-sweet-corn-not-d...
This actually hints at a trap. There's something akin to the Dunning-Kruger effect in programming, because code is in a Turing-complete language. You can't necessarily understand it, but you might believe you understand it. Some weird side-effect gets eliminated or introduced and then your system starts failing.
It's great to see someone from that very niche community has become so popular today. That's a very entertaining military history lesson and Steve was always the funniest (in a very dry way).
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The thing is, their threaded interface kinda sucked, so they built another one ('chat') and tried to push the idea that 'Teams' (threaded) is for 'permanent' info, and 'Chat' is for the ethereal one. Except nobody really bothers with switching back and forth, most teams just choose one or the other and do everything in there. Bit of a mess.

I cannot fault them on the meeting functionality and sharepoint integrations though, they are excellent.
Software Heritage is also helpful here, and Guix is integrating with it - see e.g. https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/connecting-reproducible-deplo...
> Exactly. If the law is not changed, any challenge would hinge on the court defining their curation process as an act of production.

Any challenge to what? I don’t understand what you’re proposing here. Even if Section 230 were repealed, Twitter would be perfectly free to e.g. censor all conservative content. The issue is that by doing so, they might be liable for unrelated content they allow that ends up being defamatory.

> Twitter is categorically different from a small/personal website. You could argue that it is a natural monopoly.

This would be a hard argument to make. There are hundreds of competing social networking communities, some of which are even bigger!
Two Essays on Recursive Sacrifice
What about soluble fiber?
> I don't know why we don't switch to Teams.

If you'd used Teams, you'd know why. It is hilariously bad, gratuitously slow, ludicrously weird. I have periodically had to use Microsoft's team chat tools over the years, dating back to Yammer or perhaps even further, and for whatever reason it seems they just do not get chat.

Better question: why not just switch to Mattermost?
The non-tech-oriented folks in my life who have become frustrated with newsfeed-style social media have mostly diminished their use by reverting to techified variants of classic comms: Chat (SMS with GIFs), zoom calls, (pre-covid) involving themselves socially with the world around them. I get the sense that overall they're spending less time staring at the internet.

I think the key insight that many people have reached after ~20 years of social media use is that, while there's a dopamine-feel of communicating and socializing, you're actually just consuming entertainment, so why not split the issues and make both your entertainment consumption and your socializing more direct and intentional.

I suspect that pattern is also part of why the social media systems that are successful in the modern era are those that deemphasize content in favor of social interaction (whatsapp, discord) or deemphasize social interaction in favor of content consumption (instagram, tiktok)
It probably needs updating, think this is a UK vs US English thing
I have often wondered: if Brexit and the 2016 presidential election had gone differently, would we still have this panic surrounding social media?

To me, a lot of it feels like people can't believe that a thinking human would ever vote for "the bad guys", so they go searching for some other explanation. It must have been some sort of brainwashing, that's the only reason someone would ever fall for their obvious lies!

Curiously, I very rarely hear people who complain about social media admit to it influencing their own political decisions, it's always their opponents who are being led astray.
Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?
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This matches my anecdotal experience. I was extremely reserved and had a high amount of social anxiety. It hindered my ability to do common day tasks. Even ordering fast food caused a bit of anxiety as I would have to interact with the cashier.

A single MDMA experience broke me out of my shell. It's hard to describe how profoundly it changed my life.
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I think that’s overly dismissive as many people do work like this.

It’s up to the individual if doing animation work in 6 month bursts for individual movies is enough or if they want near full time employment. 6 month rotations are common in many tiny industries like super yacht crews. Major industries like education, farming, construction, and tourism are quite seasonal and it’s up to individuals if they take that time off or work an off season job.
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Are those sources target independent or specific for each new build of the package? That is, is there a new source code package on hydra when one of the dependencies changes? Or does it only change if the package itself changes?

Also, they are only available when hydra builds the package anyways, right? So if some package is not built by hydra (like how it used to be for the texlive packages), it'll still download the sources from the various places they are hosted.

As for the hash, it's good that the source code is hashed, but my main concern was that it was downloading from external sources in the first place. This is bad for privacy, as those hosts know I'm downloading from them, as well as for reliability, because the hosts might not have as good uptime as a debian package mirror.
Like Grandma always said..
FWIW, I think it's a super interesting hypothesis, but it just doesn't have the same level of data to back it as the accepted language families do.
I don't agree with most of these.
As an older British person, I say try going back to 1970's Britain and see if you think things worked better then. They didn't. There is an awful lot that could be improved for sure, but overall things are going pretty well in my opinion.
Thanks. That seemed to contradict my reading, but then when I clicked into the BioCentury article he referenced, I saw this:

> By Selina Koch, Executive Editor | Feb 27, 2020 | 7:56 PM EST
> Editor's note: Updated on Mar 17, 2020 at 9:30 PM EDT

March 17th again. I'd love to know what edit was made at 9:30 PM on the same day the HCQ announcement came out. The Wayback Machine didn't find anything.
Yes, material is our big next challenge, we really need to work on that. But I'm so happy that we got the software written as fast as we did, obviously it is built on a lot of hard work by others (Tone.js, VexFlow, Jquery, to name a few) but it was still quite a bit of work to get to this stage. The browser is a pretty hostile environment to write real time applications in.

Note that you can make any piece playable with just the one hand and you can reduce the complexity of the chords to just about your level and then slowly increase it from there. That's the quickest way to get really nice result and to have fun doing it.
Tiny bit of feedback from first 10 seconds looking at this, hope it helps:

1. Text on "START NOW FOR FREE" CTA isn't fitting in its container

2. I'd remove the "Q. " bit of the FAQ headers

3. Would also remove the "Screenshots" header

4. Log in button disappears on narrow viewport
Individual adult humans are terrible at producing randomness. Why would babies be any different?
I don't think we can without US government action. The FTC could require phone companies to match caller ID to the actual calling number. I'm sure there are a few technical problems with this, but really, the problem is one of the US government not responding to a problem for so long, that telephone calls are becoming passe, just like email has, and for the same reason.
Ah, yes, he is acknowledged in a text file that almost no one will read.

Obviously there is no legal requirement, but would it be that hard for Amazon to include a "forked from..." or "built off of...", etc. to the announcement and product pages, if it really is heavily based off of another work?
I'd focus on improving performance. The web version is so unusably slow that I don't know how Slack is still taken seriously as a company

How is a multi-billion dollar company incapable of implementing a web chat in a competent way?
Debian's archive reaches back 15 years now: https://snapshot.debian.org/

It also contains source code.
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This is a cultural problem as much as an economic imperative. Apple and Google both run app stores with distribution rules, but Apple will bend over backwards to try and get you in compliance with their rules, while Google will just delete your Gmail. I've also heard far fewer reports of Apple iCloud accounts getting summarily deleted compared to Google or Facebook.
Slightly off topic, are fines even the right approach to get better behavior? What incentive structure does they encourage?

I fear it encourages you to hide or down play an incident, if possible, when issues do happen. Instead you’d rather want to encourage transparency and some way to prove you’re following good practices and have a good track record. Maybe some incentives like car insurance companies claim to follow: better driving record, reduced insurance costs. (Not that I think car insurance is a successful/good example.)

Failure cases (like data breaches and ransomware attacks) are certainly easier to measure though, so maybe this is the best we can hope for...
> Religion is the 'foundational philosophy concerning nature of who we are' that transcends most other subjects - i.e. it's metaphysics at it's core.

Not at all. Religion is simply a set of practices and beliefs.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion

I'm sure some practitioners have developed a philosophical understanding of it just as you can do with anything in life.

> You're conflating 'people who say they are hardcore believers in XYZ' with necessarily 'very religious' people.

It's the other way around. 'Very religious' people are 'hardcore believers'.

I suspect the root of blind belief is the same in both cases though. Most likely biological in nature.

In case it's not clear, I'm not saying religion is inherently bad, and I don't think religious people are completely irrational. What I'm saying is that religious belief is indeed irrational and fanaticism is bad (religious or not).
the business/administration concept of culture has nothing to do with doing good things to the world directly. it's all about productivity and bottom line. I can remember quite clearly my teacher in uni saying: "So do you think companies go for diversity because it's 'the right thing to do'? Hell no!, they do it because it's proven to increase productivity".
In situations where there is low offer of particular skills in the job market compared to the demand, "culture" will serve as a means of propaganda/enticing for future candidates and also for retaining current employees and not losing them to competitors.
That toy enjoys social proof, which is a fundamental concept for understanding human behavior.
"Never ascribe to malice" itself is specifically Hanlon's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
How is Hunter Biden not the victim of this crime? Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen.

But you're right. Blue Leaks, if they share hacked personal data on Twitter, should absolutely be banned under the same policy.
same. The scary stuff that used to happen all the time. We tend to forget. It's so much better now.
For sure, and I think that's a widespread political problem too. I wonder if online hostility and polarization would be reduced if people simply had calm in-person discussions with each other once a week. Social media is optimized for outrage and offensiveness.
I would take that phrase to mean "has not yet been explained by science".

As for this article, I am not really sure how this applies at all. Seems decently explained by "spores got in before sealing".
> Hyperventilation followed by breath holding is what free divers do

Just a quick note that it is not common to hyperventilate when free diving since it is extremely dangerous.

Hyperventilating makes it difficult to feel the amount of CO2 (and consequently oxygen) remaining in your body and easily leads to black-outs.
That's putting it mildly, but I'm slowly getting more grip on it, fortunately a lot of people far smarter than me have spent a lot of time on this problem and bit by bit I'm implementing their thoughts into software.
Rolling your own license isn't trivial. You could end up with something that nobody wants to touch because the legal implications are unclear, or something that's unenforceable, or both.

Somewhat relevant: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#wtfpl-no...
Remdesivir interferes with the virus's ability to make copies of itself. If a patient is already in the hospital, their viral load is insanely high. Remdesivir may slow down the growth rate but for a lot of patients it's already just too late, the virus's effects on the body have already taken too much of a toll.
> Obviously, just from Java occupying the top 2 or 3 spots for popularity over the last 15 years -- Java's approach must be doing something right.

I'm not sure if this argument holds. Java's high memory usage is frequently cited as a downside of Java. GUI applications written in Java have a reputation of being memory-hungry, and I know plenty of people struggling with memory usage of server application (e.g. ElasticSearch). You will also find C/C++ on the same popularity lists…

That said, I do agree that a tracing GC is a better solution (for most programs) than reference counting these days. The improvements in the pause times by the Java GCs are really impressive, and the throughput is great. One example would be ESBuild: The author created a prototype in both Rust and Go, and found that the Go version was faster allegedly because Rust ended up spending a lot of time deallocating [source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336284].
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The formatting is besides the point.
Wouldn't a licence like Qt do that, price for static linking.

As an open-source developer where I am not thinking to earn a single penny from apps I build why would I support the Kickstarter campaign and as a Company who want to make big why I would I support the campaign to open source it where I could just buy the source code if I want to and get an edge over others.
Thanks, yours is very nice too :)

For what it's worth, the auto-correlation route is simpler and more reliable. FFT alone is not enough, because the spectrum tends to be rather ambiguous. There's still a pattern to it for every note played, so it should be possible to deduce a note with a neural net. But I just didn't have time for that, maybe later.

PS. Give my thingy a try if you have a moment. I'm curious if it actually works with any pianos other than mine.
I think we need to distinguish between public and private institutions here. Government was always incompetent, wasteful average at best. Cost overruns have always been a fixture of the government machine.
> The First Amendment protects every private enterprise's ability to set and enforce rules for acceptable content on their services.

Doesn't this claim imply that the speech on twitter is in fact twitters speech? And that therefore forcing them to allow specific speech allows to forced speech? But in that case, shouldn't they be held liable?

Does this also apply to ISPs?

> Laroia argued that Pai is being hypocritical given his opposition to regulation for telecom providers.

Aren't people who favor regulation for telecom providers but not platforms also hypocritical then?
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Would like to echo this feedback. To US residents the name strongly implies real estate.
Since you guys are us incorporated and hq-Ed, how were you able to get the legal permits sorted out? Iirc, India has very strict foreign ownership controls on ISPs and telcos.

Also in one of the comments you briefly mentioned that you can help democratize/prevent censorship? But aren’t you guys by law supposed to block certain websites? And wouldn’t your foreign ownership be under scrutiny if some incident were to happen?
I assume he sees "virtual memory", and jumps to thinking "swap". Which is rather common, but arguably a mistake.

Virtual memory is what allows for copy on write pages when forking. It is the preferred basis for implementing memory mapped files. It allows for sharing a single copy of shared library in ram, without causing everything to break if one program decides it wants to patch "its" copy of the library in memory.

Yeah sure it allows for paging out anonymous memory too, but that is hardly its sole function.
Not sure about that.

This display seems like only a single person can view it (properly) at a time, whereas the Looking Glass one seems like multiple people can view the same display simultaneously.
Don't get me wrong, I perfectly know what you mean, and on a certain level I perfectly agree... but where do you draw the line? What about THEIR opinions about YOUR opinions? Do you see what I mean? I think the only reasonable place where to draw the line is the public incitement of violence over other people. If someone thinks that blacks/woman are less worthy, I'd rather try to engage them in discourse or, last resort, ignore them. But censor them is a double edged sword.