skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, the takeaways for me are:

- Teachers can not give you motivation but they can sure kill it.

- An app that keeps people motivated is better than nothing at all.

- Horses for courses (not everybody is the same, and equally affluent, what works for you may not work for someone else) and if people are on a budget and they find a way that can make them enjoy what they are doing without breaking the bank on teachers and piano tuners then that's a benefit.

- With what is available online + a $400 digital piano you can get surprisingly far if you are self motivated, and occasionally spending an hour or two with a teacher (or simply a better pianist) will stretch your abilities further.

- if you feel that you are not comfortable or maybe even are injuring yourself then stop whatever you are doing and ask an expert.

- If you have a goal and/or want to be able to perform and value your time over your cash then a good teacher is the way to go but beware, not all teachers are good.

- if you can afford it, want it and you can find a good teacher definitely go for that.

- An acoustic piano is not a 'must' to be able to learn and practice, in fact, a digital has some advantages (the ability to practice with headphones). Silent pianos exist but are usually quite pricey.

Finally, I'd like to plug http://forum.pianoworld.com/ which is an excellent resource for people interested in playing and teaching piano.
Infamous.
I think the exclusive thing about the Model 3 is the $40k price tag? Sometimes people let little comments like yours slip on this website and I realize how different of a world some people live in
The reMarkable 2 tablet! As long as you don't expect it to do more than what it's designed for, I've been loving using it and it's helped me enjoy writing a lot more.
> Licence plates are public and they are allowed to scan one with a camera,

CCTV cameras that record public areas need to be registered with ICO.
> that's obviously a different order of action with explicit criterion than whether or not this deserves third-party investigation which may lead to legal action.

To my saying "plausible doesn't mean actionable," you jumped to the following conclusion:

> So no racism claims are valid without either AV recording or, in all statistical likelihood, a non-Black person vouching for her?

I thought it was necessary to find some foundation on which we both agreed before addressing your conclusion. If we didn't at least agree that the concrete example wasn't legally actionable, then our viewpoints would be too disconnected to make the effort worth it.

How about this: if there is a "he said she said" situation where the accuser believes the accused did something racially motivated, and neither the accused nor the accuser have any evidence other than their word, should the accused face a real consequence?
Do you honestly believe that if the population was rising due to birth rates, that there'd be whinging about the economic impacts?
> In general, the quality of 1932-1942 american cinema (and, to a lesser degree, 1945-1950) far exceeded my expectations.

Survivorship bias? I'm sure there was as much schlock produced back then as there is now, it's just we elevated the best and have forgotten the rest.

Revisiting the bad stuff is the entire premise of MST3K:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000
How does it know that any given decryption is valid? A heuristic like "this is mostly ASCII"?
Anticipatory Procastrination [pdf]
See if anyone was truly concerned they could have put a coalition together and made their own offer for FitBit.

FitBit is an incredible company that deserves the Nobel prize for Medicine because they began what will eventually turn into a doctor on everyone's wrist.

But doing that is incredibly hard. they had to invent all kinds of hardware, software, data processing pipelines, models, et cetera.

And then Apple came in and cleaned their clock. they adapted and somehow pulled off the Versa 2, which was a huge breakthrough, but it was totally David vs. Goliath.

If you hate Google, fine, go after Google (here's a hint: abolish #ImaginaryPropertyLaws, the unjust set of laws from which Google derives all its unfair monopoly advantages), but don't sit back and watch while FitBit gets pummeled by monopolists and shorters and then when they reach out for help you attack the one company that came in to save them.
There was a science fiction short story where a group of scientists was invited by military personnel to watch a short secret footage of someone flying a jetpack. The scientists were told that the inventor only had one prototype and he crashed it killing himself and destroying the unique device. Next several months the scientists spent brainstorming and trying to figure out how he did it.

Spoiler!

The footage turned out to be fabricated by military. The scientists still built a prototype of the jetpack. Not so fast, light and agile but they made something that was previously considered impossible.
All comments here saying they prefer the App Store as users are being downvoted.

Probably by user-hostile developers who want to give the impression that people don't want the App Store, likely because Apple's policies prevent them from preying upon users.

(One of the top comments here is by a dev acting surprised they can't snoop on users who buy their products)
World of Warcraft. I grew up with WC1 and 2 being just childhood defining games. WoW let me explore endless hours of childhood imagination of what the world was like. And it was everything I hoped it could be. Exploring was amazing.

The gameplay was okay.
Wait, what promises did he deliver on that were his headliners? I am legitimately curious.

Wall? Nope, been assigned far less money, very ineffective.
Jobs? The trend that started with Obama worsened and got obliterated by the pandemic.

Global respect? Nope.
Do you feel there is no value in converting this project into a high quality documentation API and letting the creative minds that consume it do the UI?
Can you elaborate on your guess? Why would the "upper owner class" benefit more from BREXIT?
Not saying you are wrong. I just want to understand your thought process.
Bloomberg Completes Acquisition of Second Measure
Ui and names look so similar to sharedrop
Google makes money selling pharma ads. A lot of money. This can help them make more.
Does he not show up on radar?
How does it compare to Satisfactory and Shapez.io (which is sold as a minimalistic factorio). I bought shapezio on steam some time and realized just yesterday i already collected 60h playtime on it... Now I'm thinking about digging sonewhere deeper.
I love when folks combine technologies in a new domain and get neat results. This is a great little demo and probably a cool way to force yourself to learn the related technologies.

My first thought was that this could be pretty easily commercialized, which meant someone has probably already done it:

https://www.twinkly.com/

Here's the setup, actually seems like a pretty nice UX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJ3bLBtGaQ

Edit: They sell them at BestBuy, brb lol
Which books are you referring to? I don't feel like it draws particularly from the EU, though also no big contradictions like episodes 7-9.
This matter is well known and relevant to all in the US but only marginally relevant to technology matters. Discussion of the squabble and the pork as a whole is likely to bring contention and strife, not productive discourse.

I respectfully ask for you to flag this important story as ill-suited for discussion on our site.
Nick Wright has counter-argument to this:

* https://twitter.com/getnickwright/status/1316013808469463041
I use a Vivoactive 3, and the battery definitely doesn't last days if I actually use it to track a specific exercise. I'm quite unimpressed with the battery life, but the watch is fairly feature-rich, otherwise.

If I just wear it without running anything, then yes, it can last days. But if all I want is to track heart rate, sleep, and such, I can get that with a much cheaper watch.
Sounds a lot similar to the Boeing FAA self certification thingy.
I'm just a little skeptical about how much value there is in this medical data given all the frameworks there already are in place to limit its use (HIPPA and similar). Theoretically, what specific not already illegal thing could google do with this health data that would be harmful to consumers? Ought we just make those things illegal?

From all the evidence I think it's most likely that Google wants fitbit to compete with apple watches and other wearables. To me, it seems like consumers would on net benefit more from deep-pocketed competition with apple in the wearables market.
The second sighting is suspect:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790406
Maybe a jet pack with a large fuel tank in the shape of a human would be able to pull it off.
What other security oriented apps have their own encryption scheme, independent of device system security?
Season 4 is arguably the best bit of television drama, ever - it’s a masterpiece.
Uber makes money on rides in nature markets, it’s losses are from investing in new markets and businesses.
I’m curious if any future antitrust settlements will require API interoperability. That’s the Apple Watch main advantage, deeper hooks into the ecosystem.
You should check out FastAPI. I’ve been a Django dev for years but now that all projects have pretty much moved to client side js + drf backend anyway I’ve been using FastAPI for new projects. The way it takes advantage of Python typing is a thing of beauty!
Somehow, it feels better if it's screwed up because I screwed it up rather than paying someone else to screw it up.
Horse: He made a joke.

Zebra: He's a sexist pig who can't fathom the idea of a technical woman working on something with her technical husband.
We are not talking about your lifestyle. We are discussing effect of urban sprawl on the population and on the world. I was just so surprised that somebody on this forum could be able to miss the point so entirely, and be so ready to fight for whats clearly an indefensible position.

Walking
More driving means your natural walking related to commute and errands goes to 0. There is a reason american states have a huge obesity problem compared to lots of european countries.

Cars
Are you seriously comparing the carbon footprints of a personal car compared to the metro?

More driving means more green house gases. This is not about what vehicle you use, it's about the fact that urban sprawl requires a vehicle for even the most basic errands. This is unsustainable.

Not to mention do realize people can live in cities where they walk to work, walk to the grocery store, walk to gym, and walk to a restaurant?
Watch the movie "Startup.com", exactly the same problem.

https://youtu.be/ibuiUXOTE4M

Those guys really think they can get away with everything, but you really need to be prepared for sociopaths.
Haven't tried Telegram but Signal does that too (Linux desktop / Android app here)
My apologies. Congratulations on being a successful extrovert engineer.

I am also a unicorn - but a different kind. I used to always have to defend being a statical outlier so I know where you are coming from.
I'm still on the fence. I could use a new laptop but everything I've looked at doesn't live up to what I would hope for in terms of battery life and specs.

The M1 seems to fit the bill. But I'm hesitant to buy into something that I can't run linux on.
I’ve gone back and forth about the iPad, but now that I’m in a non-technical field, it’s on the tipping point of being my daily driver. When I’m with clients and can hold it in my hand to share info it feels like I’m living in the future.
Yes, the entire site is very well done and I appreciate the design very much. Great job!
I’m curious what your take is on the JAMStack+lambdas style of app development.

I am working on a new web app. Initially, Elixir/Phoenix was looking like an excellent option, but then I looked at hosting and decided it would be easier to use something like the Serverless framework for AWS deployment which JAMstack+lambdas seems to match better — no need to manage VMs and networking infrastructure, mostly.
That's what termcap/terminfo is for.

It's not just a matter of backwards compatibility, but also forwards. Right now the common term type is xterm (or variants thereof like xterm-256color). 20 years ago it was vt100. Will it still be xterm in 10 years from now? Considering Xorg itself is claimed obsolete by its own maintainer makes me wonder if it will be.

Good thing we already have a mechanism to support smooth alternatives for terminal types.
This seems like the form of aggressive linguistic policing that the modern American so-called left engages in constantly.

It strikes me as a wanton desire to get offended as a pretext to deliver a lecture about cultural sensitivity, thereby elevating the lecturer and diminishing the person receiving the lecture. It is immensely tedious and almost everybody is sick of it.

The person you are responding to obviously did not speak with any ill intent. He or she would probably have been more amenable to your viewpoint if you hadn't assumed malice and gone on the attack.

First you accuse him of racism then say something derogatory about white people. Do you not see the contradiction, or are you one of those who subscribe to the ideological position that anti-white racism is impossible by definition?

And if you suggested to the average Spanish person that they are not "white" they'd laugh at you.
I don't remember the ipod being successful until the second generation, with the ipod mini. So i would say you need to get something out that you can improve upon quickly, and make it the thing it needs to be.
Very few people can afford to blow $500 on something they don't know if they'll commit on or not.

Get secondhand for $100-150.
Why must you live in the United States? Are you not free to leave at any time to a place more in line with your preferences?

Even within the United States, are you unable to find an urban geography to your liking, say in Manhattan or San Francisco?

Upon further analysis, you might actually find that the street and transportation network design in any given area is largely optimal given the relative costs of time, land, labor, transportation and energy. That doesn't mean it's enjoyable to be stuck in traffic - that sucks, and there are alternatives (like living in Manhattan), you just need to pay for them - they're not absent due to widespread ignorance.
Oh man, I gifted the CDs this Christmas. I listened to the entire album dozens of times before watching it... It still blows my mind
>FWD has no meaningful benefit other than cost

... and lower weight, and no tunnel, and more boot space. If anything, it's RWD which struggles to maintain its significance and show its benefits outside of sports. Modern platforms can make the front wheels turn and spin at the same time without much fuss, with driving characteristics determined by other factors.
I evaluated most low level level key value store engines from a latency and performance point of view. Both RocksDB and LevelDB are very good engineering choices! Thus the technical foundation for Tendis seems rock solid. Great work from Tencent!
Hackers threaten to leak plastic surgery pictures
BuildZoom (better way to build custom homes) is hiring a Business Ops Lead
We're still one of the highest. We dont need to be #1 per capita to prove we're not "anti immigrant."
Strangely enough, I also thought this might be something Elon is responsible for.
SpaceX, Tesla.
That wouldn't quite work the way you think it would...

The CAA record is useful only at the time a certificate is issued (signed) by a CA.

A client has no way to know what the CAA record was at the time the certificate was issued -- a browser cannot ("at acceptance-time") use the current value of the CAA record to determine whether a certificate was properly issued or not.
Restrictions on the free movement of people may be our biggest barrier to economic growth worldwide.
How to Trace Linux System Calls in Production with Minimal Impact on Performance
Rust! The theme is similar to C++ but the script is a lot tighter and you really care about the types. Only on season two though.
I'd say a big thing is how old you are when reading HP. I loved all the books and loved the ending. Over time I started reading Asimov and Vinge and became repulsed by the quality of the whole HP story. One lucky boy doing dumb things and getting away with it, all happening in a world where magic is done in the worst balance between mystic and explained. If I recall correctly, they tried to make the most sense of the Snape's magic spells. Compare the nonsense to the way a young man of 16 years imagined magic in Eragon where I really liked how he tried to keep as much consistency with energy cost and implications. Harry Potter really is just mostly for kids
OR6A2

https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id...
Icons are rarely rendered at their intended size; there's a good chance that your browser doesn't render favicons at exactly 16px/32px, and a slim minority of Android phones have homescreen icons that are exactly 192px/500px.

This is why it's important to design icons that look good when passed through a variety of downscaling algorithms, and to test with other browsers/devices to make sure the icon comes out right.

Clients that download multiple icons can re-use cached icons with the same URL, which is why I re-used the 192px icon as the apple-touch-icon and re-used the mask-icon as the webmanifest's monochrome icon. Of course, I tested it to make sure it looked good when downscaled.

The master icon (svg): https://seirdy.one/favicon.svg

I made this icon specifically to have a tiny footprint (176 byte 32px favicon, 785 byte 192px icon) and to look good at just about any resolution when downscaled from the original, even on an e-ink display. I admit that my approach is a bit extreme, but most sites would benefit from something similar.
Maybe don't get too attached. Google is making a valiant effort to kill it.
How about some AI/ML, so lights go on if you make a gesture, or if a person walks past the tree.
Holy Moly! I'm getting this for Christmas
uzumaki naruto had fantastic ending.
This article was particularly bad. It treated ongoing foreign aid payments as somehow new and introduced in this bill. It's an omnibus bill because we need to pass something to keep gov programs going until we can do it all again in a few months.
A similar project was done here by someone who used an ESP32-CAM module to detect the location of each pixel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueim2Ko8VWo&list=PL5vDt5AALl...
> so they might not like

No shit. I said, 'most people are not so bad at figuring this out'.

You're conflating an approach to niche skill development with jerks who don't know how to behave in public. They're not the same thing, and again, most normal people seem more than capable of figuring this out.
This will teach you to play keyboard but not piano. There is ALOT more to piano than pressing keys at the right time. It's as nuanced an instrument as the violin, but you don't know that unless you've studied professionally or played on a good instrument
> Rust

Man, so many features and the syntax is so heavily annotated and the subjective feeling that everything you interact with is some vaguely defined overcomplicated computer science concept ("what you get back from this function is not a vector but an immutable future-closure-trait-promise-with-sprinkles, you must be familiar with those already").

Not a critcism towards the language, I'm sure that it would make much more sense if I put in the time to study it systematically, but the beginner learning experience hasn't been great. It doesn't seem like a language that you can just dip your toes in, you need to go deep to see the benefits.
Half-Life 2

I preordered it in 2003, before the big hack/leak caused Valve to delay release into 2004. Because of the success of the original and the long wait, combined with Valve being almost complete silence during development, there was a huge buildup of hype leading up to the release.

Totally worth it.
no audience is going to fall for that...
Xml in what sense? Mathml?
Same, but a couple of years ago to pass time after a pretty harsh dirt bike accident. My adult gamer daughter thought it was hilarious when I'd get excited about milestones like pulling the master sword.
Aleph 0: excellent pure math
All of this stuff will end up in the garbage, once the novelty wears off. But hey, 'tis the season for conspicuous consumption and waste!
Without a transponder, it likely won't show up on the civilian radar.
I would respectfully disagree. I think highlighting another instance of how convoluted and dysfunctional a lot of American legislation has become is quite revevant to technology particularly as large tech firms have come under increasing scrutiny for potential monopolistic behaviour. This is the government that could play a large role in shaping how technology and the internet evolve.

I definitely agree that issues like this can quite easily lead to rabble rousing but I definitely think it can be relevant.
Great link. Solidly refutes a common misconception by teaching a subtle but crucial nuance.
From an investment standpoint it can make sense to convert a slow but reliable income stream into a big chunk of cash that you can invest in riskier assets with higher returns.
> How is a domain imaginary property?

You are right about this one, the ".org" registry is orthogonal to IP laws and in fact, there's nothing wrong with having centralized registries (which trademarks sort of are) as long as anyone can start one, which anyone can here. I would say the only connection to this specific issue is that I believe we've stagnated in protocols the past 30 years since the Web and EFF both came out due to copyright laws. We're stuck in a more centralized place, and less decentralized where we could move to if information could move freely.

Internet censorship is handsdown completely dominated by having copyright laws. If you abolish copyright laws, you'd open the flood gates of peer 2 peer information sharing. those p2p connections would grow very, very strong (what fires together wires together), and it would become near impossible for centralized censorship orgs to work.

Very fair points! Hope that clarifies my stance a bit. People say "the world is not black and white." I say "no, it's black and black^2". Abolishing #ImaginaryProperty in my mind is black^2, the current status quo is far inferior from every angle (except for people whose most important metric is to be in the .1%).
Jesus Christ YouTube has a lot of ads now. I had to watch 2 before I started and then there were 3 more adbreaks. In a 20 minute video! I may as well go watch TV

Also - cool project
For a good chunk of history, wasn't the bible about the only book you could buy in Europe?

Separating the social structures around the bible from the book and trying to talk about it as if it is a product following the same rules as Tom Clancy's next novel is gross and laughable.
I still use serial terminals too, also a VT520. The 520 is a bit more modern than the others, it allows PC keyboards (PS/2) and higher speeds. The vt220 would already choke on faster streams than 19200 IIRC. It also has more spacious modes than 80x24.

I don't use it for everything but one of the nice things is that it is easy to concentrate on something. No chance of procrastinating by opening facebook :)

And as a debugging / recovery tool it's sometimes handy, when the whole GUI side is crashed I can still kill some processes. Sometimes I can't switch to a text CLI console even.

And the retro feel simply appeals to me. I know it's not for everyone.

I've actually been thinking of making something like a modern terminal. Like a Raspberry pi with an SSH client in baremetal so it boots really quickly, with easily switchable font sizes etc. But it's too much work I don't think I'll get around to it. Maybe I'll skip the baremetal part and just go for fbterm on a really cut-down Linux distro, that might work.