skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listening and trying to understand a lot of folk music I found out that it is not only language barrier, but a lot of music is unwritten and undocumented.

So I started working on a site to try and provide visual documentation for such music and cultural practices (currently heavily inclined towards Nepal).

Site at http://www.viewpedia.org
Sounds like a serious enough problem for you and others to justify a twelve-step program approach. The way you describe it, it is as powerful an addiction as alcohol. It also sounds like your addiction could end up living your life for you.

Social media, as in Instagram, Facebook and Twitter has played almost no role in my life. Only read tweets when they are linked from other sources and present relevant content...a mini-blog post...or at the very earliest stages of major time-driven localized events, and then just to get better fact-based government links.

When I saw that the only people I knew who were into social media had addictive personalities, I passed it by. When I saw how psychologically manipulative social media had become, I went back to where it was, and posted a big sign “DANGER” and ran away.
Definetly not on the right side of the history. With all the social changes and uprises we see one would expect you to do better.
> For someone who does not care much about constructibility, it is better not having to do anything differently depending on whether or not something is constructive.

Well, there are many possible constructive 'versions' of any non-constructive statement, so 'not having to do anything or be reminde[d] of questions of constructivity', strictly speaking, leads to just sticking to the non-constructive version by default. Since it's easy, even in constructive logic, to derive the non-constructive 'version' of some statement from a constructive one, this transformation (properly understood) is as good as automatic.
They are counted in U-4 and other measures.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Nope. No struggle at all.

But I also think people that do struggle to let go of social media most likely have underlining psych issues that should be worked out with a professional or counselor of some sort.

I mean that in a sincere way and not to just be an ass. There's a reason why you (or anyone) can't let go and whatever that reason is, it's unhealthy.

I honestly can't say social has had any meaningfully important role in my life that wouldn't have been possible without it.
These statistics are hard to calculate. Defining “actively searching for work” is one way. You have to draw a line in the sand somewhere. For example, say I’m the primary breadwinner and my wife works part time at a restaurant and cares for our daughter in the remaining time. Work goes slow and she gets laid off. She could actively try to find another job but decides to spend full time with our daughter instead. I don’t know that she’s “hopeless” but rather made a different choice. Certainly there are hopeless people. It’s hard to find a perfect measure.
The BLS should be using U-6, but I don't an administration would do that because it will make things look worse.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
One file that mixes all current JavaScript proposals
This discussion thread was a good read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964
The people advocating this have figured out how to place smaller keyboards in standard pianos so there's no loss of sound. (However, due to the increased angle of the keys to the levers that play the strings, some of the mechanism needs additional reinforcement to prevent breakage.)
This isn't about the middle class and there really is no legitimate basis for comparison when it comes to being in poverty.

Those kings lacked modern luxuries, to be sure. They even lacked most modern comforts. Those kings of the past did not have to worry about being homeless and were unlikely to worry about putting food on the table. When it comes to the essentials, their needs were met and (for the most part) they did not have to concern themselves with losing it due to their economic position. While they may be concerned with losing those essentials due to the politics of the era, that is something entirely different.

Edit: for clarity.
Microsoft Surface Go is almost flawless in terms of Linux support, only the webcamera doesn't work. The rest is fine out of the box, with a stock kernel.

It's more of a PC, but that's an advantage I think.
Will there also be a reference for comparison in there ?
Firefox showing sponsored links in the URL bar
People don't have access to food? Sounds like that would be a self correcting problem if remotely true.

The problem with asking the government to fix this in some way is that you'll most likely ensure the absolute floor of the pricing with be set higher.

It's all those beautiful first world regulations we set out subsiding the price paid that ensure pricing is high, not capitalism. I'm not saying remove them but if we can not recognise the the true source of the problems it's hard to improve it meaningfully.
> I can imagine that there are players who are OK with that collateral damage. In the end it will end up exactly like when the cloud providers disabled TLS domain fronting.

The problem with domain fronting was that it could be blocked by blocking the chosen "front" domain, which bad actors were often willing to do. In this new era of eSNI, they'd have to block all of CloudFlare, which would be a lot harder sell even for an entity like China.

> It won't. The big DoH providers will have nice behavioral data, on computer level, i.e. NAT is no longer a problem, they can distinguish separate device due to TLS session.

> Privacy-wise, it is net negative. Few big companies will be getting data they didn't have until now.

I trust CloudFlare more than my ISP with my privacy, and if you don't, then you can pick another DoH server that you do trust.

> It has problems with DNS zones that only some resolvers can resolve, and/or are under ACLs so only local clients can resolve them. Your local network knows about them, the global ones don't.

Firefox will fall back to the local resolver for domains that fail to resolve with DoH.

> It has problems with split-horizon names. So now, instead of getting internal IP for a service, you will be getting external one, so your traffic will go to router and back.

With managed clients, you'd push out configuration to exempt the internal names from DoH. And what's the use case for split-horizon DNS with unmanaged clients? I've never seen that.

> It has privacy implications that you didn't even began to think about.

Like what?
How widely does this exist in other instruments? It seems problematic to me to learn on one size and then have to upsize as you get older. The analogy of the running shoes is interesting, but what if people learned to shoot hoops on various basketball-rim heights? Isn't that going to be counterproductive in the long run? Also, I'm sure the people behind this initiative have thought of this, but doing this on a piano -- which is massive and expensive -- is a much different challenge than doing it on a violin or a guitar.

As a snarky aside, it's always funny when a site calling for more accessibility and custom control over the interface hijacks my scrolling.
Why do you think not every is able to be a KE worker?

Do you mean in the immediate present, or are you saying that even in a scenario of reimagined social organization there would still be people unable to do this type of work?

The former I understand and agree with, the latter I would strongly disagree with. IMHO every human being is a blank slate of infinite potential at birth, at the circumstances they are born into in combination with the time of their arrival are the two most determining factors. Ungers argument is to radically redirect ourselves in order to make the second option possible.
Having a separate app for these insecure devices would be an improvement.
I thought using "guys" in a conversation about the use of the word "guys" would be obvious enough to register as tongue-in-cheek. But y'all went and proved me wrong!
This is not appropriate material for HN.
Very common for violin.
The documentation:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sponsor-privacy

The setting for about:config is

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites
I find the most compelling argument for smaller keyboards to be the gender disparity in high level piano competitions: http://smallpianokeyboards.org/competition-results/.

The short version: more women play the piano at the collegiate level and beyond than men, but they are woefully underrepresented among the winners of international piano competitions. Why? Because their hands are too small to play demanding repertoire – certain pieces are literally "out of reach" due to the large chords involved. For violin competitions, where reach is a less significant factor, there is no such gender discrepancy.

For the long version, please read the link.
Why do you need a receipt? Seems like Apple would have all of that information..
Common for violins used by children, yes, but basically not at all common for violins in professional adult use.
Or they might be downvoted because “kings hundreds of years ago” is an irrelevant comparison when talking about the lives of people today.

This isn’t a dinner party conversation of whether I’d rather be a feudal lord in 1270 Britain or an American living paycheck to paycheck in 2020.

Or they might be downvoted because this community skews towards makers, and “it’s better than it was so why talk about how to fix its problems?” is the antithesis of building, creating, making. It is the antithesis of the very real work of progress.
I would say tracking conversions is the most important part. There’s always a lot of attention on targeting because it’s user-facing, creepy, and strikes a nerve with the HN crowd. But anyone that has spent five minutes working with their marketing people or implementing adTech would know the true story.

“Are these ads effective? Should we spend more money on them?” Without conversion data the answer is one big shrug emoji.

I don’t believe most companies in the tech industry care about tracking/fingerprinting users for the sake of collecting & reselling their data. First hand experience, I’m just not ever seeing that. They just want to know if their ads are working or not.
Try using the Facebook ads and Google Adwords interface for more than one week. Those are the worst interface I've ever seen. Slow and disfunctional, every click you get a spinner, I'm surprised it went to production, using that for more than a week is torture.

As if the spinners were not bad enough, now western web design created the animated grayed out text, which I particularly find an aberration.

Youtube interface is another example. You click on the "videos" tab and you get infinite scrolling without pagination. Killing pagination is a huge usability issue. Comments section with the "Load more" approach, another annoying feature, just load me all the comments in one go please.
And it's more nefarious than simply a matter of misrepresenting statistics. For instance, I was denied even the minimum Pandemic Unemployment Assistance because I have been unemployed since before the pandemic began.
My first experience with 'analytics' was awstats. I felt like I discovered god mode!

Always wanted to experiment with the empty_gif[2] module from nginx, and process the logs offline. A quick search shows a bunch of guides offering exactly that.

1. https://www.awstats.org/
2. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_empty_gif_module.htm...
I really don't believe people think that way, unfortunately. Many people see this as the "natural order of things". The idea that a significant percentage of the population should be in debt, jobless or lacking healthcare coverage has been normalized and institutionalized in the US.

Anyone who wants to change this will be fighting an uphill battle against cultural norms, vested business interests and ideological positions.
Homework Is Bad, Research Confirms
This example is a specific benefit, but not one that Amazon has provided.

It's a benefit that online shopping has provided, which Amazon has monopolized, partly via suppressing competition and exploiting labour (which society has to pay for in other ways).
Retirement Notice
Consistency in how statistics are measured is important. You can rag on the methods but without consistency it’d be meaningless.

The majority of what you term as “hopeless” is seniors that are let go and eventually decide to retire rather than entering the work force at wages less than they earned previously. It’s not a bunch of disillusioned 20 somethings giving up on life.
This seems to be very good evidence that mask mandates work. And not just masks, which for some reason people still dispute, but also for mandating mask usage when necessary.

I have seen some argue that mandating doesn't work or even makes things worse, but this data seems to indicate otherwise.
>You know what else will lead to unrest? Unmitigated climate change.

Yeah in 10-50 years. Not now. People that aren't part of the intelligentsia don't see it a threat yet.
I have an ipad2. Jailbroken with the ability for game emulation and multiwindow and mouse/keyboard support well before those were all allowed by apple. Clearly the hardware was always capable of lots.
The community of HN seems to disagree.
Not OP, but I have worked in e-commerce / web services and currently work in safety critical software.

This article does not address safety critical software engineering since some of the points would not work in safety critical software:

"QA Gates Make Quality Worse" - In safety critical software development it would be crazy to negligent to not have QA gates. For example, if the safety critical software is running a critical aircraft control system would you feel comfortable getting on the airplane if there were no QA gates?

"Things Will Always Break" - When things break in safety critical software, it is Boeing 737 Max-bad or worse. People die. Things catch fire and explode. You can not just "roll back" to the previous version of the software and restart the server because often the damage is already done and there is nothing left to restart.
Bigger keyboards for the challenge.
What Delaware license plates tell us about social status signalling
Half off-topic but I find NordVPN's marketing extremely distasteful and in the same vein as snake oil (same as many VPN providers).

This video[1] that describes some of the issues with VPN marketing in general is so widespread that it has created old-school SEO sites[2] to game it where they hide the actual search term with white font on white background.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

2: https://www.theprolist.org/tom-scott-vpn/
But then you have the other thing. An SSD can be installed in nearly any PC made in the last fifteen years. How do you upgrade the storage in an iPad? Or the memory for that matter?
Iirc knoppix preceded slax by a couple of years.2005 or so.
Even if it does, the amount of money allocated from the general fund toward transportation maintenance is surely lower than it would be if those fuel taxes were not there.

Unless an earmark pays 100% of the costs of something, the earmark is totally an illusion. Even if it does pay 100% of the costs, it is often mostly an illusion.

In practice, most earmarks fall into the former category, and thus are entirely about manipulating the public. Not that I'm necessarily objecting to manipulating the public.

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worked example:

If fuel taxes bring in $100, which is spent on road maintenance, and then topped up by $40 of money from general revenue, that implies that the government thinks that $140 is the point at which marginal benefit drops below marginal cost. In other words, if there was no fuel tax, they'd probably still try to spend $140, or thereabouts. The earmark is entirely illusory.

If fuel taxes bring in $100, which is spent on road maintenance, and is not topped up, then that implies that the government thinks that the point at which marginal benefit drops below marginal cost is some number below $100. If there was no fuel tax, their spending on road maintenance would go down. Go down to what? Let us suppose that it would go down to $60. Then the fuel tax earmark is 40% reality, 60% illusion.
Doesn't matter. They have access to unprecedented levels of free pornography so they're too pacified to be a threat to the ruling class.
Yeah think about it all the time. The realistic options are even more unappealing so I’m stuck here for now.
How can any MOND theory be taken seriously after the bullet cluster? Isn't the bullet cluster evidence basically, uh bulletproof, against simply modifying the equation for the force of gravity?

Is there any MOND response to the bullet cluster that accounts for the observation?
I think his most approachable book is his newest "The Knowledge Economy". I highly recommend it to anyone interested in a macro perspective of our economic transition as it stands now and where it can go.

If you prefer more academic texts my favorite work of his is "The Religion of the Future" and I also enjoyed "The Singular Universe & the Reality of Time" that he co-wrote with the physicist Lee Smolin. His earlier works are good but less digestible and can be picked up from his lectures.

About 4 years I founded a 501c3 non-profit that built a free election campaign platform for local candidates - the idea was to solve the problem of $20k campaigns for town council. Our beta went well, citizens loved it - but it was a bad product market fit. I have a rudimentary technical knowledge but if anyone is interested the git is here: https://github.com/OurSociety/OurSociety---Free-Local-Campai...

During that time my wife introduce my to him haphazardly and he just sucked me in. I started by listening to his lectures and have since "taken" all of his courses at least twice.
While their is much reasonable debate about what "true" poverty level rates are, this study uses a threshold of $20k/year for a worker. That's significantly higher than the federal rate set by the Census bureau at $14k/year for a single worker with no other household members. A 2 earner household each pulling in $18k a year, or $36k a year, in the cheaper parts of the US is not an easy life, but its also difficult to call it a poverty. That's why many government studies of this type will use household income and size, rather than an arbitrary cut off.

I'm don't really know what to make of this number. I know what they are trying to express, but it doesn't seem well done.
One in eight nursing home residents in Massachusetts has so far died of COVID-19.

Let’s be careful with flippant remarks about people dying when the measures we _have_ put in place have still left us with hundreds of thousands of people dead.

There are reasonable debates about how we handle the response to a pandemic in America. Let’s stick to those.
Incentivising some behaviour is basically always unpopular with the group currently doing the opposite behaviour.
Visual debugging tools (something bigger/better than Redux devtools)
What visual debugger tools exist the let you interact with the trace after the program has executed?

For example, I'm thinking of a directed graph which depicts the functions and processes which led to a variable's value.

Essentially it would snapshot every single state of a program and allow you to easily interact with it.
Couldn't one just record a video of themselves voting to prove who they voted for?
Qt Embbedded is a full featured GUI framework and you don't need it. You can just use QtWayland for free and run any GUI apps that targets Wayland (GTK, Qt...).

One of the most used is probably Tizen, an embedded OS by Samsung for smartwatches (they don't use Google WatchOS) and TVs.
I've often wondered why there are so few server-side log parsing libraries (for the likes of Nginx and Apache). Putting that 1x1 pixel image on your front end and serving it from a host that only collects and aggregates anonymous logs about pageviews of each URL would be the best simple analytics most Web site owners would need. Basically the Netlify analytics without the $9 /month/site price tag.

(Yes, it would obviously need a bit more than just a log parser but that would be the easy part, IMO. Separate the backend from the front and let JS folks write their own UI for This Weeks New JS Framework. Maybe you could even use PiratePx as the frontend.)
As ozgune just said: yes, that's right. The 9X is a comparison of how Postgres stored procedures in Citus 9.4 perform vs. in Citus 8.3 (as measured by the HammerDB benchmark, shown in Figure 5.)

When I read this post, I find the HammerDB TPROC-C benchmark results in Figure 1 to be super interesting, too. When you compare Citus 9.4 performance with distributed tables and distributed functions vs. Citus 9.4 with regular Postgres tables and regular Postgres functions (on a single node) -- then the multiplier is an even more impressive ~19X. :)
Eight Early Encyclopedia Projects and the Mechanisms of Collective Action (2013) [pdf]
It doesn't tend to exist with most other instruments, for the simple reason that instruments need to be a particular size for pitch/acoustical reasons, finger holes for wind instruments need to be in specific places, etc. But it's certainly more possible with a keyboard instrument. For instance, organ and harpsichord keyboards are routinely smaller than the modern piano keyboard.
Through that website I found the iSH app and it’s amazing. It’s an Alpine Linux shell in an x86 emulator and it’s on the App Store.

I just installed gcc, Java, and Python on my iPad Pro. I can also install Ruby, PHP, etc. I can do most of my work now from my iPad without using Remote Desktop. Game changer. This app should be included on iPad Pro by default.
They do? Who are these people?
One interesting thing to consider is that the US isn’t actually the center of the world, so generalizing it’s reaction to the rest of the world makes no sense.

Looking at the world instead, COVID has killed just over a million people so far, and Spanish Flu is esimated to have killed anywhere between 17 and 100 million people, at a time when the world population was much less and travel was much harder. So yes, orders of magnitude.
I don't care? Of all the evils in the world, I just don't think advertising warrants much concern.

I am tempted to use Firefox more to avoid browser monoculture. But Chrome pretty much just works.
Well, a poor American is not better off than, say, a middle class Ghanaian. Along pretty much every meaningful metric of human development, access to health care, access to good foods, access to education, the Ghanaian is probably better off. At the same time though, there are nations like Nicaragua, Mali and Cameroon. A poor American is absolutely better off than a middle class Cameroonian, or a middle class person from Mali.

So you're right that the old mantra about a poor American being in the top 10% of the world is no longer true. Having made that concession, we should also recognize that the poor in the US are still much better off than the poor in a lot of other countries. That group of countries has just been shrinking over the past 30 years.

Our main societal concern should be, "How do we reverse that trend?" Because more and more of the middle class are joining the ranks of the poor, and though it's only my opinion, I don't think that will end well for us.
Treat this article with the same skepticism you would as if the article said "Covid-19 lower in counties without mask mandates." This is true according to the data, by the way.

That being said, wear masks. Be upset with major world health organizations for not recommending mask usage earlier than they did. Treat anything anyone says about Covid, including this very post, with caution and skepticism. There's always an agenda and there's always bias.
Norway (partial lockdown, schools still mostly open) compared to Sweden (little lockdown and talks of herd immunity): https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1327230581143465984

Note that Norway has seen less economic damage than Sweden.