skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last real success was South Korea.

Haha. Nation building involves a boatload of money and the US post war policy was essentially to own the governments of the rebuilt nations. SK, JP are good examples of this and have modeled their development goals to mirror American way of life. From small things like TV shows (to non americans JPN and SK television is as obnoxious as US television with everything being over the top and colourful.) To much broader economic policy.

Be that as it may, the big countries generally dont fight each other because the losses on both sides will be massive but other than the US the other countries generally dont mess with smaller countries unless it has an immediate political outcome eg. Russia and ukraine.

Miltary history can teach all of us a lot but its inportant to take it with a shovel of salt. Victors write the books and rarely do they write about shortcomings. War is a terrible mess and almost entirely dependent on allies.

Lastly I would like to point out our naivete if we think a whole state will stand and wait for a belligerent nation to invade them in their father's ancestral land. The scars of war tend to fester. Should the big countries go to war, the outcome will not be anything like we hope or predict.
This is ridiculous. Why do Americans pay thousands of dollars for a bit fancier version of MOOC? When I studied we had 200 people on a course sitting on lectures, 30 on practical sessions and everyone could have a personal session during the professor’s office hours.

There is some kind of a massive waste of money going on.
Non-paywall: https://archive.is/VAECo
Was this fixed given that the story is from 2018?
The video you linked to is a basically a brawl in the street in the 20th century with non armed combat. Apple to Oranges. I also agree with you about martial arts movie where a single guy takes on 20 people, not very realistic. (however have a look at how a guy can hold off multiple opponents in non armed combat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_zWBQXZj4)

Here we are talking about a fully trained knight in his peak condition with really good armor and sword. The bandits/peasants in the video are not very well protected and don't seem to take advantage of their numbers due to inexperience/fear factor. Also in the video he does fight 3 or 4 people at once and they do try and make him fall to the ground, but again he is trained and knows how to keep his distance and stay upright and he also takes damage.

You could argue that it might be not 100% realistic, but I think it does show the effectiveness of knights. I mean think about it, if a knight could be taken down by a bunch of peasants, why did invest so much time and money on knights and armour.

Here is the video review by Skallagrim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80hOR42szg
New York Pizza in The Netherlands has a great vegan shoarma pizza containing shoarma by De Vegetarische Slager ("The Vegetarian Butcher"?), nowadays an Unilever subsidiary. It contains caramelized onions, vegan cheese, a garlic swirl, and tomato sauce. The shoarma contains the correct spices, and is salty. Crust is crunchy enough. Highly recommended.

There's also research into meat grown from stem cells. Right now it is still too expensive to grow, but I believe that is the way forward.
> From small things like TV shows (to non americans JPN and SK television is as obnoxious as US television with everything being over the top and colourful.)

You take this evidence that japanese and south korean television shows consciously try to imitate the US? Maybe that's just what most people like?
I studied algebra and number theory. Bourbaki was unreadable for me. I would compare it to extremely dessicated, tough jerky made out of the oldest bison ever.
French here : As far as i remember, I've learned set, intersect, include, etc when i was 11-12 years old, in 1985-1986.
Seems to be 6th Grade.
Adding a link to the skallagrim reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80hOR42szg
The tweet doesn't mention the claim of antibody resistance, and the article just says that the evidence for it is yet to be announced. The article says that no single mutation is likely to cause resistance but doesn't explain why there would be only a single mutation.

I am yet to be reassured.
> Your entire comment is essentially "I have no objection to anything you actually said I said but I still want to build a strawman to tear down"

I laid out very specific objections to very specific claims made by you. In particular, I used the knife attack example to demonstrate that - contrary to what you claimed - "innocent until proven guilty" is not an obligation that people must apply to their thoughts and opinions. And I very specifically asked "If you still disagree, please explain how this obligation should work out in the context of the knifeman attack." Based on your tone I get the impression you're still holding on to your extreme belief about "innocent until proven guilty", but you're not willing to reconcile it with this example. Instead, you're trying to weasel out with vague claims about strawmanning. You know, if someone actually was strawmanning, you would be able to point out how the strawman is different from the actual argument presented. In this case you don't even attempt to do that, because there is no strawman, you were very clear that people have an obligation to assume everyone is innocent until proven guilty (in their thoughts and opinions, at all times).

Since you're not willing to address the claim you made in the context of my example which clearly demonstrates that your claim was nonsensical, there's no point in continuing this conversation beyond this.
Yes! When has anyone ever lied, told only half the truth, misrepresented issues, or omitted important facts to push their agenda?

You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
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I am really sorry this is happening to you. The situation is deeply unfair, and it affects the fair and square overwhelmingly.

If that is any consolation, keep in mind that both you and they have a long way to go before graduation. Exams at your level are meant to assess whether students are ready for advanced classes. Cheating on them does little more than removing that safeguard, which can very well backfire. You're doing the right thing if you focus on learning the basics.
The problem with stash is that its easy to create a mess.

Yes, it's useful to quickly stash your work, switch to a different branch, do some quick fix, then go back to your original branch.

But in practice, what often happens is that your quick fix takes way longer than expected, and you don't immediately go back to your original branch.

Then you pull in some changes, maybe someone else pushed something to the branch you were working on, and you end up with a bunch of stashes on outdated branches and it's really hard to make sense of it all. Most of my working copies have at least half a dozen old stashes that I don't remember any details about anymore.

One approach to avoid this mess that git stash can lead to is to never use it, and just commit all your work before switching to a different branch. Clean up the current state of the repo, try to document your changes in the commit message, and commit them. Then switch branches.

You can always squash or rewrite the commits later, and it's a lot easier rebasing or merging a few old commits than working with stashes.

If you like stashes, please use them!

But I agree with the author, using them a lot can lead to a mess, and temporary branches are usually a cleaner way of saving your work.
Article is from January 2018.
Simple breathing meditation or mantra meditation would still work. Any form of meditation that isn't too forceful.
> requiring you to specify the URL of the required packages and its hash beforehand.

...a different hash.

You see, I naively think that a checksums should not be overwritten when they doesn't match.
It's not git-flow, as all commits are rebased on top of master to make the history of master linear.

It is one of the more standard workflows, and it's a concise overview of how the maintainer of curl does their job.

For a more complex workflow, I recommend reading the notes from the maintainer of the git project [0].

0: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/MaintNotes
Thank you for your thought-provoking answer!

You're arguing that consciousness is to be understood as a consciousness of the self (and its environment).
That implies that there can be intelligence that is not conscious, right?

About the missing sensation of the field of rocks; How about adding some sensors to the system, so depending on measurements like temperature, one could move a certain designated stone, which could then be taken as input by the rules moving all the other stones.
Would that change alone yield consciousness?
Also, how many different types of such sensations are needed to produce consciousness? Humans sense quite a few different types of such input data, but we can't sense everything there is to be sensed.

In your last two paragraphs, I believe you state that consciousness is just the (mathematical) reflexivity of "thoughts" (i.e. representational processes concerning objects).
That's an interesting thought I've pondered as well, but doesn't that just move the problem to whether machines can produce such thoughts?
Certainly they can produce representations of thoughts, but do they really think them?
That's the key difference between forward engineering and hacking shit together.

There is nothing wrong with prototypes but some people mistake them as production ready items because it looks like a whole load of work has been done.
Firefox is lame in this respect.

I've gone through countless iterations trying to turn stuff off, but it still makes all kinds of requests.

I had to block it with Little Snitch.

On the other hand, plenty of other "privacy focused" companies are worse (apple is horrendous).
SBT is easy to use at the beginning, simply because the build files are 1/10 the length of a Maven XML build description, the console output looks better, the build REPL has lots of commands that make things easier, and the simple projects just work fine.

Once you start to dig deeper, you find out that setting multimodule projects is still easier in SBT. And if you decide to dig deep and really learn the build tool, it doesn't really matter which one you choose. But devs that chose SBT as their Scala build tool will probably keep using it.
You're in luck -- I managed to dig up my WIP notes from a year ago.

https://imgur.com/xLcvLIm

As you can see, the raw phase waveform is very "wavy", as might be expected. It oscillates rapidly, making it hard to see the patterns. But if you go to the tweets I linked above, you'll see the phase is much smoother in those images. How did I do it?

The key is to focus on every other line. Notice that if you simply pay attention to every odd row, it will be smooth.

I think I simply did "row 0, row 2, row 4, ... row n" followed by "row 1, row 3, row 5, ... row n + 1"

As for the fft of the fft trick for phase, I'm rsync'ing all of my old code and demo images to here:

https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/

You may be interested in the png images, in particular the ones with "phase" in the names. You can probably ignore all the code except repl2.py.

Those images were generated via unknown methods -- sadly my repl sessions weren't saved. But, I happened to write down in repl2.py how the tweet images were generated:

cv2.imwrite(os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/mel-phase-spectrogram-phase-fft-abs.png"), np.abs(np.fft.fft2(-1+2*1/255*cv2.imread(os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/mel-phase-spectrogram-phase.png")))))

cv2.imwrite(os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/mel-phase-spectrogram-phase-fft-abs2.png"), -1+2.0*np.abs(np.fft.fft2(-1+2*1/255*cv2.imread(os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/mel-phase-spectrogram-phase.png")))))

So, input: https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/mel-phase-spectro...

Then, using the code above, the result: https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/mel-phase-spectro...

I've verified that it still works. I think you can wget those images and copy-paste that code into a python repl.

So the only remaining question is, how was mel-phase-spectrogram-phase.png generated? Unfortunately that seems to be lost with the sands of time. But, as a hint, I think it was simply a matter of turning the phase component into x,y using atan2, then turning it into blue and red.

Also, completely unrelated, but I once made a super high resolution mel spectrogram that looked way cool and I can't resist showing it off: https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/ultra-mel.png

I did all this when making 'Dr Kleiner sings "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General"' around a year ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koU3L7WBz_s&ab_channel=Shawn...

Kinda funny that all of this visualization work was just to make memes, but the quest to meme turns out to be surprisingly motivating.

https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/demo_output_101.w...

https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/demo_output_75.wa...

Anyway, I think there's a lot left to discover in terms of audio visualization! I would definitely encourage you to play around with the phase component. The results can be pretty striking, as you can see from the "Result" image above (https://battle.shawwn.com/sdb/voicecloning/mel-phase-spectro...).

Sorry for the scattered explanation -- it's 4am here, but I wanted to give you some kind of writeup, even if it's rather disjointed. If you have more questions, be sure to ask! I can give better details tomorrow.
Why Are You Jealous?
What is a JAMstack?
Can anyone explain me the basic things about JAMstack?
^ This. For my Mechanical Engineering undergraduate courses, almost all of the formulas (models, actually) could be re-derived from linear approximations on infinitesimal elements. Memorize and internalize how the model is derived, practice re-deriving the model, and you can re-derive the formula during the exam, and do a bit of hand-wavy intuitive double-check of your answers. If you've only memorized the formula, you're going to have a very tough time coming up with an estimate against which to check your formula's answer.

On a side note, I really wish we had more emphasis on the conditions under which the linear approximations broke down. I remember sitting at the front of the MIT 2.002 class, and there was a demonstration of metal fatigue using a hydraulic press at the back of the classroom. Professor Sanjay Sarma stepped up to the front row in order to better see the demonstration at the back, and so I asked him about my intuitions about which way the model diverged from reality under vibration frequencies high enough that the quasistatic assumptions built into the model broke down. He looked to both sides of us and told the students on either side of me not to listen because they might get confused, and then we had a little discussion about conditions beyond which the model applied and which way the model's error went under those conditions. It was simultaneously one of the best and most disappointing moments in my education. It was an exciting discussion, but I was sad that the world beyond the linear approximations was considered to be likely too deep a rabbit hole for most of the class. Sanjay (as he preferred to be addressed) was an excellent educator, and I'm sure his judgement was based on past experience... each semester has a given complexity budget, and the field of Mechanical Engineering is so broad (statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, mechanisms, control theory/sensors/OpAmps, manufacturing techniques, design for mass manufacturing, numerical process control, destructive/non-destructive testing, etc., etc.) that undergraduates need to spread a limited complexity budget across so many subjects that they can each only be covered relatively shallowly.
Valve is doing god’s work when it comes to Linux gaming. I have played over 40 hours of GTA V without many troubles. The game looks great and performs great. So glad I could get rid of my windows install.
The criteria is 'app for buying music', I don't know how ripping CDs is that.
I don't think it's necessarily technology that created this culture (although, it helps!). After Vietnam, the US just didn't do "War" in a classical sense, with only a few and short-lived exceptions.

Our all volunteer force does war, but it's now known as "targeted killing," "combat advisory," and other buzzwords. This is because if we want to actually do war, we have to ask Congress, the American public, etc, and actually face down the moral questions inherent to that process. The last few times we actually had to do that it was plainly disastrous.

As you say, this method of doing video game wars has a way of making smaller, more automated "enforcement actions" a more or less permanent state of affairs. I believe the start of this was Vietnam. As a result, strange things happen. I remember the public's reaction to ISIS -- it was pretty much complete bewilderment. "Why the hell do these guys hate us so much?"
Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation
Pfizer Vaccine’s Funding Came from Berlin, Not Washington
The API for this should come up in next few months. Besides cookies/storage/other state mediums can be compartmentalized even now atleast theoretically with an extension.

The colored tab border isn't possible yet in chromium, and there's hope that the API will come up for this.
no, i happily read books, and watch movies etc. and like i said i really do appreciate the artistry behind pico-8, and the community, and i will happily consume it as passive entertainment in the form of blog posts and articles and a book should there ever be one. i'm just not excited about it as a personal creative outlet, which does not mean i'm not happy that other people are.
> The solution is to make a terrible investment say buying land from Bob for 10 million only to sell it to Sally for 5 million.

Or if you're Russian, a condo in Trump Tower, NY...
What is unintuitive, is the concept of modes. One, because it is a unique concept and Two because many people who accidentally end up in vim have no use for it.

Once you grasp this concept, exiting vim is one of the most intuitive actions:

* [ESC] <- This is the "modal" part, the hard part, what you probably call unintuitive.
* : <- The other part of "modal", difference between commands and navigation. Also a unique concept, that is not hard to grasp, but probably hard to know that one has to grasp it at all.
* quit, exit, close
* Some error may show up, telling you what to do instead, E.g.
* :quit!

That is all: `[esc]:quit` a series of keystrokes that make little sense when you are not familiar with some basic concepts of vim. But entirely guessable, without reading a single line of help, if you do grasp the very basic concepts.
The longbow armies of Wales and England were made up of yeomen, who were certainly well into the upper end of medieval society. There certainly weren't very many of them. There were only 5000-6000 at the Battle of Agincourt, and the loss of ~2500 of them 14 years later at the Battle of Patay crippled the ability of the English to field a substantial longbow army through to the end of the Hundred Years War.
Homemade Q-Switch for Solid State Lasers
I don't doubt your experiences, but organic farmers markets are not really comparable to the original discussion of "tomatoes sold in [UK] supermarkets".
That depends entirely on what new towers are deployed with. If they keep trickling out LTE, then you can ignore 5G just fine. But if they leapfrog LTE and new deployments devote most of the frequencies to 5G, then you're probably going to want a 5G radio to have fewer gaps in coverage.
Oh it is, a warhorse is very expensive. But they were still expected to take multiple warhorses into a battle in case one of them got killed. And fighting your way back is easier said than done.

The most common reason for loosing a warhorse is probably not that it was killed. It was that it was wounded by archers. In that case you can ride back, swap horses and join the cavalry again. And tend to the wounded horse after the battle.
And here is a video of the making of the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIBRr31DIU
Perhaps more of a pyramidic victory in this case, no?
Damn that's pretty cool. Can't wait to use it. Interesting to see how "saves back to source" works because I've found that other tools have pretty bad support for this.
> I'm a reenactor

Oh please do tell us more. How and where do you do the re-enactments? I'd love to visit (once the pandemic is over)
Thanks for your input. This is the reason I love HN ;)
How many hours are you fasting? Whole day twice a week?
I'm I've had a couple relatively cheap Canon's in the last 10 years hooked up tp my ac at home, and I've found them generally reliable
Although I haven't used them - there are several other firefox forks like waterfox or the tor browser that support privacy/anonymity

waterfox claims:

* Telemetry is removed

* Data collection is removed

tor goes much further
Google seems to be setting new benchmarks every now and then.
> No interviewer has demonstrated anything but perfunctory interest in my open source work, popular or not.

In he past when I did candidate screening I used floss work extensively to evaluate a candidate. To me, personal projects are an excellent way to assess skillsets at multiple levels.

Perhaps you've been interviewed by people who place a greater focus on soft skills, or HR headhunters who can only read CVs?
Remote Work FAQ and Best Practices
> Now people know the reviews are fake

I am not 100% sure about this, I wish it were so. Maybe it's just that we get this feeling because of the people we usually talk to, the people in our close circle of connections who are likely to be like us in terms of this kind of rasoning/thinking. I think most people may not be aware of it.

> They had little short-term interest in doing so

I just want to add a possible scenario here and I would like to hear opinions about it:

As we all know, people really tend to buy products with 4.5+ stars and we think twice if the product has 3 or even 4 stars. On the other hand, let's suppose that since everyone is selling on Amazon now, worse products are likely to be put on sale, so the average scores start to decrease.

Having said the above, if I, as a user, periodically look for products on Amazon, I will probably start seeing/finding bad products, so it may be that in a long period of time, I will start looking for alternatives other than Amazon and may attribute the image of "not high quality products" to Amazon as an e-commerce.

[Edit]: So if my two previous scenarios are correct, if you follow the money, they actually have some long-term interest in allowing some fake(good) reviews and eliminating some real bad ones. In the end, most people will not be aware of these fake reviews and the quality of the products will be perceived as higher, resulting in more sales and in a better reputation of Amazon products, thus avoiding the scenario discussed in the second answer.
Probably out of scope due to time constrains, but having students explain solutions and code should give a glimpse about how well they understood the principle. So if you have some time to kill...
It is well known that France never had impactful scientists...
TMO was down 8% yesterday, the perspective of less testing seems to more than offset the positive impact of the news.
I don't think the claim that Firefox sends telemetry even after disabling it in the preferences has ever been true. It will still contact Mozilla servers for other reasons, like retrieving lists of malicious add-ons or checking for updates, but it won't send telemetry.