skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there's nothing stopping you from having both!

Actually it seems the entire music industry including the distributors don't want sales - they seem to prefer streaming.

I remember when apple music came out and I couldn't listen to my music anymore
There is more to the article than the headline.
Why did you stop showing up?
That's not a blanket statement that can be made, as the data is still coming in.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/12/fda-anal....

> He said the findings reflect an impact on blocking transmission and are very encouraging, hinting at mucosal immunity. "The data aren't conclusive but support this key benefit," he said.

Of course, if in the end vaccines don't prevent transmission, then they don't prevent transmission. But we don't know that they don't do that.
Make sure to also check out the disc-binding system - see e.g.:

http://reviews.shopwritersbloc.com/tag/disc-bound

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc-binding

I'm a huge fan: invented in the first half of 20th century, the system basically blends the benefits of a ring binder (easy adding and removing of pages) and spiral binder (notebook can be opened flat, and you can write on both sides of page easily). Also, it's IMO just kinda crazy and counterintuitive how paper has enough strength to be able to stay bound hinged on unclosed holes... (!)
There is a lot of real evidence that masks do work

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
All of this CCP poison inside Zoom must be a huge gift to Microsoft Teams.

Teams has its own bizarre self-inflicted limitations. For example a limit of only 9 people on screen at once whose positions constantly and randomly change. Having used all of them if you have decent sized screens e.g. 28" or better and are presenting to a group or 20-30 people and want to be able to gauge feedback from faces as you would do in a real meeting or classroom, Zoom just offers a much, much better experience for the presenter, who is probably also the meeting organiser. And it's not just aesthetic, if you are on all day Zoom is actually much less fatiguing than Teams.

Where Teams wins is if you are using it for corporate chat anyway (because you have O365 anyway) and just want to make the occasional 1:1 call.
Yeah, I laughed out loud when characters in Netflix "Witcher" series travelled around with no things whatsoever. When Geralt needed to go to some place, he just hopped on a horse in a shirt, and just left.

In GoT they cared a great deal more about such stuff. Travelling characters looked like they actually travelled.
that might be true. urine leads to ammonia and ammonia + bleach leads to chlorine.

other smells

- I remember reading the cut grass smell is a "trauma signal" from the grass

- the smell of rain.

- why do babies smell good? (and bad?) I've always wondered about that. You know how hearing is acutely tuned for the sound of a baby crying? I think that our brain has been wired up to neutral sounds and smells, but rewired specifically to like babies not reject them, watch out for babies when they cry... and know when to change their diapers.
Look at the graph in figure 2 - the massive overlap in the interquartlie ranges suggests that any differene in the median values can be attributed to random variation within the samples, rather than a true difference in the populations.

Also its better to quote an absolute rather than relative reduction, so the difference is really 3.6%
It fucking sucks that dang allows perpetually dishonest assholes like you in here, just because he and Paul love your far right agenda.
> This really can't be emphasized enough. The younger generation has no concept of listening to a song you "don't like" 50 times, simply because you listened to the album you purchased 100 times.

Not necessarily true. When Spotify reaches the end of one of my playlists, it automatically starts playing a radio of "recommended songs" based on the playlist. However, these recommended songs are usually the same, with only minor changes over time.

As a consequence, I can think of several songs that I don't like that I have listened to more than 50 times, simply because they tend to be the among the first recommended songs to play when I've finished one of my regular playlists.
I have absolutely no idea why someone would connect the upper bits of the CPU address bus to the lower bits of the memory, if this is what the GP refers to. Their naming scheme seems irrelevant.

Almost all modern memory is built in a large matrix where the upper bits select the row into a buffer and the lower bits control a multiplexer that selects a slice of that row. Scanning incrementally through the memory will hit the fast multiplexer path and result in much faster access.

Propagating into the whole matrix at each increment is not only a power draw but a massive slowdown.
No joke, when I first signed up early August it was literal Trump propaganda on every video. I had to train their algo to tell it that I wasn't interested in pro-trump videos - 5 days later they disappeared. This is a complete anecdote but, yes, it is plausible that some promoted videos have an agenda.
You are right of course. I was speaking of the average developer only there.

Regular users should be well served with many of the results of that labour though. And even if it's https://www.youdontneedwp.com/ ;)

For just starting a blog a wordpress.com instance is also pretty great. And there are still great blogs at blogger, https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ for example.
Not quite as whack as the rash of headlines a while back referring to FRB as 'mysterious radio signals' from 'deep space'.
We just need a performant alternative.

I pay for Zoom and if anyone can point me to a native app alternative that actually works reasonably well (Teams does not) I will happily switch.

Everything that runs in the browser is pretty awful.
Related link I wish I’d seen before starting in academia - What you need to know before considering a PhD [https://www.fast.ai/2018/08/27/grad-school/]

I especially like the point made about toxic grad schools being worse than other toxic jobs. Post docs are slightly better that way, with shorter time commitments but I suppose it adds to career uncertainty.
The way I see it mainly for these reasons:

- You get one unified simple framework which replaces or incorporates vector, matrix, complex, quaternion, tensor and spin algebra (all of which would otherwise need their own incompatible notations). [1]
- Objects and transformations of objects can be expressed by the same multivectors. In the computer graphics of today you would have let's say: Vectors for points and translations, quaternions for interpolatable rotations, matrices for chaining up transformations and you would have separate objects for rays, planes, etc. But in geometric algebra all of that can be expressed by one class: The multivector. [2] [3]
- It generalizes the same way in all dimensions (which is not true for e.g. vector algebra and the cross product).
- One can easily derive geometric calculus from geometric algebra, thus have derivatives and integrals (which is a lot harder to do when you have 6 different frameworks and notation systems)
- Bonus: Because it is unified, it has less edge cases and you need less workarounds, possibly making it also more stable / robust.

It would be interesting if anyone could contribute if there are serious downsides except for not being widely used (mostly for historic reasons I guess).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_calculus#/media/File...
[2]: http://projectivegeometricalgebra.org/projgeomalg.pdf
[3]: https://bivector.net/3DPGA.pdf
A Story of Inappropriate Technology
(Not necessarily in order of importance)

1. Direct voluntary payments by their audience (one-off/recurring).

2. Live shows.

3. Payment by various entities to sing something.

4. Organizations (the state, corporations, philanthropic bodies) which sponsor artists to work on their art without having to also do the work of financing themselves.

Still, it's quite possible that would fund less than are funded today. To that I would say:

1. It would still be a reasonable trade-off.

2. It would level the playing field somewhat between today's popular performers/artists and the vast majority of their peers whom, today, aren't funded.

3. Communities should motivate themselves, and organize themselves, to support local artists on the individual level, and to provide facilities such as music rooms, instruments, recording studios, professional training/lessons - for free or a symbolic fee, to local music artists (and ditto for other kinds of art) - so that at least people don't have to pay to engage in their art.
> I hear what you’re saying, but Spotify solves a problem I never managed to solve with CDs: it solves discovery.

For years before Spotify went mainstream – going all the way back to the early millennium! – discovery was already provided by services like Last.fm where you could see what your friends and neighbors were listening to, and filesharing communities where you could then freely download the music.
It can be a very nice personal gift as well.
Microsoft Research has a great stable of researchers -- could you imagine just casually having Leslie Lamport being an email away while working on some distributed systems problem/design? Or being able to pull on

This might be one of the only benefits to monopolistic presences -- the amount of great minds in the same place, set free to mingle and create can produce amazing results when a benevolent sponsor exists and it's tunnel-visioned on profit.

I'm quite cynical towards Microsoft but I am very grateful that they publish at least some of their papers/insights and their links (to existing papers) generally don't die.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/
The original post talked about this causing a lack of discovery for the new music. If the streamer doesn't pay and just uses non-copyrighted music no harm done to the streamer. It's still great fun. But the users don't get exposed to potentially interesting music content.

Why should the streamer pay for the privilege of being basically an advertisement platform for a commercial product? And they don't, and thus there is less discovery. Hence what is meant by the music industry shooting itself in the foot.

I personally listen mostly to music I listened as a teenager and early 20's. Sometimes I learn of something new and nice from my friends, but otherwise I find discovering new music quite hard.

A new game comes out: Tons of reviews and letsplays and whatnot. Looks interesting, I'll buy. New music comes out: Its advertised maybe in Spotify but that's it. Making a review or analysis is not possible (without paying extra), so I can't encounter it. And thus I won't listen it.
My suggestion - never do a job just because it might lead you a better place. It probably won't.

Fair enough - a lot of the time people have to take bad jobs. If you can't move due to family, if the economy is bad or if you have no leads for some reason you have to take what you can get.

But if you can pick, pick something you actually want to do, if that leads to great things - wonderful. If it doesn't three years of your life isn't up the chute.

These may be the last three years of your life. Remember that.
You need to manually install a new root certificate on your OS (or I guess a malware / virus could install it as well).
I'm not American so I could be way off on this, but I can't help but wonder if the politicization might've actually helped in this case? My big assumption is that Trump supporters would normally be more skeptical of vaccines. If non-supporters would trust the vaccine regardless, then perhaps politicizing it just means that more Trump supporters would also take it?
For Amazon EBS you have some kind of IOPS slider. This is possible even on normal EBS (gp3) volumes, not just on those special high performance EBS volumes (io2).

> General Purpose SSD (gp3) - IOPS 3,000 IOPS free and $0.006/provisioned IOPS-month over 3,000

> General Purpose SSD (gp3) - Throughput 125 MB/s free and $0.0476/provisioned MB/s-month over 125

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/
Wha' ?? You mean no infinite growth ? Shocking ! ;-)
Remember all that promise of neurohacking in the near future that people like Ray Kurzweil liked to write about? One wonders if once techniques to boost the human brain’s bandwidth arise, they will be used in large part to allow people to consume multiple content streams at once. Imagine the boost it would give to a person’s erudition to be able to watch a classic film, read a classic novel, and listen to a classic recording all at the same time.
The problem with that anecdote is that its all with the benefit of hindsight. Certainly, in this instance, non-operative management was appropriate. But the more important question is what on average happens to the entire 'population' of people presenting with Hadfield's symptoms and signs if they're managed operatively and non-operatively.

If we imagine a disease where non-operative management leads to a 50% mortality rate within a year. If we take 100 people with this disease and manage them non-operatively, at the end of a year we'll have 50 people saying how pleased they are to have avoided surgery and complaining about the aggressiveness of surgeons, and we'll have 50 dead people.

That's why the diagnosis and management of disease must be informed by high quality clinical studies, rather than anecdotes.
er.

so how much for 1u chassis, 512gb ram, 2 x 1tb nvme, 4 x 10gbe nic, dual psu?
what can i run on this? proxmox? kubernetes?

or 4u chassis, 128gb ram, 2 x 128gb nvme, 4 x 10gbe nic, 100 x 16tb sata ?
what can i run on this? centos? Ubuntu? zfs? gluster?
Control flow in APLs is mostly imperative, and with explicit code, /i.e./ code that mentions variables, you're effectively writing procedural code. I'd say that APLs are harder to get started with, but easier to use right. With things such as Numpy, you need to know lots of things about the API that might change without warning. With APL, you learn the primitives and you're off to the races. The downside is that less popularity means far fewer library efforts.
How and Why to Keep a “Commonplace Book” (2014)
I and my team made this: https://onlinemathtools.com/l-system-generator. You can enter the axiom and the rewrite rules and get a visualization of the grammar. Also, in the examples section, we added 9 most popular fractals.
Repairability isn’t a significant metric because beyond battery replacement, which is very reasonably for iPhones since Apple halved their battery replacement prices a few years ago, very few phones are ever repaired.

“..researchers found that brand, an intangible property, is more important than repairability or memory size in extending the life of a product.”[0]

The article found that Apple phones last on average a year longer than Samsung’s.

[0]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181016142434.h...

Another estimate puts Apple device lifespans at 4 years 3 months.[1]

[1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-ipad-mac-heres-how-long...

The average for all smartphones is estimated as from 2 to 3 years, but bear in mind that includes many Apple devices, so non Apple devices must average the low end of that.[2]

[2]https://www.coolblue.nl/en/advice/lifespan-smartphone.html

The fact is repairability simply isn’t a significant factor in environmental impact overall. I do completely accept that wanting it as an individual right is entirely reasonable. There are plenty of solid arguments in favour of repairability, but environmentalism isn’t one of them. If you care about the environment more than right to repair, Apple devices win by a very large margin.
Wonder how it beat Google hangout/meet - That can be run all browsers without any install with one click also.
What do you mean by “paid blender alternative”? How does spending less money on it increase my AWS bill?
What a blast from the past. I loved creating apps with TV and TP. Well done, not just nostalgia either!
Requiring companies to be listed in the US to follow US accounting is hardly "china bashing" even if both parties agree that the Chinese government is net-bad
That's not true. The government must prove, by a prepondernace of the evidence, that the property is linked to crime.
After a Swarm of Bugs, Microsoft and Sony Offer Refunds on 'Cyberpunk 2077'
That's a great point. And we maybe should grant that if they really do not notice that swapping, that it is an argument for less ram working better than one would usually expect for their usage.

And right, it's professional usage where that would fall short, I doubt that it would help as much when the image file I open fills the ram completely or when parts of the IDE are swapped away.
Same here, also SEE. Upon renewal of the lease, I noticed they put in the contract a clause that says you are not allowed to leave negative reviews online (I guess a lot of people left negative reviews due to poor service). How can that even be legal to put something like that in the contract?
Many producer consumer systems really; roads-traffic, predator-prey. It a very common emergent behavior.
Is it "recruiting"? If so it starts at higher education, "good" students can apply for party membership, which is a prerequisite for lush and comfy gov jobs.

And any org that employs 3+ party members shall set up a party chamber, host party sessions and even appoint a sectary.

This executive very likely is a party member, but that doesn't necessarily make this act party related, more and more Chinese have come to defend the 1989 event(if they know it ofc), as China is now on a peak, what the party did back then is gaining legitimacy and praises.

I won't be surprised if he had done this out of his own volition, and probably most of the people in his position would have done the same.

The HK protests were overwhelmingly disapproved and regared as "abject-lowlife riots", in some way, it reflects the public sentiment toward that 1989 event.
If one were to down again, it would immediately be assumed FAA is to blame for not catching yet another issue so them reapproving is putting their reputation on the line.

Also boeing is on thin ice. They would not weather another incident like this.

So in this case, I think it does mean extreme safety.
You are assuming that no copyright content is not interesting. That's often the case, but this is a chance for artists who don't subscribe to the exploitative model offered by most labels. People discover new music just fine, only that it doesn't come from greedy labels.
Ah, I missed that, thank you. I'm still not convinced it would make so much of difference, but it's definitely more likely. Any good examples out there of sites which optimized for speed and achieved similar results?
What those two companies have in common is that they have made remakes or remasterings of their old titles. They may be worried that lowering the price may effect the perceived value of those releases. A Demon Souls remake being sold at full price might seem shockingly expensive if the origional was selling for $5.
Why segmentation in marketing isn’t always the answer
Awesome. Loved Turbo Pascal back in the day.

A port happened before didn't it? I remember setedit and rhide about twenty years ago. At that time I was desperate for a CUA editor under Linux. So, I stripped down setedit and made my own simple editor in the tradition of dos edit and nano. That worked for a number of years but the tvision? lib was removed from Debian and I couldn't build the editor any longer.

Couple of years later I found the ne editor and that was decent, and two or so years ago found micro, which is better than I could do myself. But these others are all missing that special something, the final polish of having a complete widget set like turbo vision.

Looks like this port got a lot farther on Unicode, awesome! However, 16 colors? Don't think I can handle that any longer, just too spoiled. And C++, am too lazy, haha. Unlikely anyone is using DOS any longer, maybe freedos but still. Also, windows console is in maintenance only these days. Everyone is moving to Windows terminal and for good reason. Focus on win console instead of full ansi support may be suboptimal, not sure yet.

All in all my dream would be to perhaps port Qt to a TUI or make a wxTerminal so we could write apps in Python as well. Without funding though will probably never happen.
> I enjoy most on vinyl for higher fidelity active listening

Vinyl is not “higher fidelity” than what you pay for on Spotify, at least not in the audio quality sense.
Is there life in the universe? Almost certainly.

Is there intelligent, technological life in our galaxy? Maybe.

Have we been visited by aliens? Inconceivable.
This will be overcome. It was about trusting the scientists instead of the White House. I'm fine with it now. But didn't they pressure that CDC director to approve it that day or get fired? They were probably going to approve already. But what if they weren't far enough along and some of this nonsense would've played out like that? It'd have been very harmful for the trust in the vaccine.
1. How is that different from begging?
One underestimated part of the gig economy is that eventually everyone will be a business, and eventually they will be on the clock all the time. I guess that will be the end of music.

Do Uber drivers have to pay a license to have the radio on in the car?
I hope you'll forgive me ranting, but it's almost exactly a year ago since I left academia (was a postdoc), and I'm feeling very down about it and need to let out some thoughts.

First the positives: academia has some amazing qualities. If you "make it" (or, alternatively, until you "fail" and drop out) you'll spend most of your time working on problems that you are truly passionate about. The kind of problems that you can't stop grinding over in the back of your head anyway. You get peace and quiet and a paycheck to sit and work on those all day. To me, doing this for life is an absolute dream!! Maybe a student two help you out. And then you get to travel the world and speak to other people who are equally passionate about this or similar problems.

Yes there's teaching too. But unless you hate that, it's not a big downside. I for one enjoyed it. I've heard horror stories of the american teaching burden though, so maybe it's different if there's too much of it. And yes there's grant application pressure. Maybe I speak from too European a perspective, but I absolutely loved almost every week (every day would be an overstatement) of my 4 years as a postdoc. Every day I miss it.

But the instability was killing me. I had the kindest most wonderful boss who shielded me from most of it, and in the end gave me 4 years of peace and quiet, and would have helped me go anywhere next. But I couldn't take the repeated uprooting. I wasn't good enough for a permanent position yet, or rather - not good enough for one in a place I could possibly imagine living - and forced uprootings crush my mental state.

So I gave up.

I don't wanna sound bitter. Hats off to those who make it. Truly! But the system has become so selective for a few "types" that I worry about its health:

- Incredibly bright people. This is obviously good.

- Incredibly hard working people. This is good, to a point. Not if the norm becomes giving up your life.

- People who'll accept any terms. Not good, this is a slow march towards serfdom.

- People who are fine with complete instability. I think academia is missing out on a lot by selecting for these.

Rant over :-(