skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Content creation is hard and most ppl who try it because they feel like they enjoy it burn out really fast.

Make sure you really like what you are doing. Also it will take time before you make any money from it.
I cannot watch John Oliver’s show on HBO anymore. I understand that it addresses some public policy question worth looking at. But the reality is that rather than thoughtful content, it’s a finely tuned formula intended to produce maximum outrage. It doesn’t even matter what the topic is, the formula remains the same. The viewer gets the high of fake moral superiority while remaining fairly ill-informed. But hey, it’s cool, they’re comedy not a news program.
We aren't incentivized to maintain research prototypes. On the flip side, industry seems to have very little interest in adopting our findings into products.
> Also, it is not clear that having more or fewer miners on the network drives prices

Of course it is. If it costs a miner $10k in electricity, rent etc to mine 1 BTC, they will need to sell at least $10k worth of BTC to cover their cost. If they stop mining, they will have less pressure to sell.

Miners hold over 2mm BTC so hard to see how their actions have no direct impact on price.

My point, is that when electricity costs approach zero, more people will mine which will impact prices.
One thing I read is that the biggest difference between men and women has been found to be interest in things vs interest in people.

If true this could explain the differences in attraction of various fields.
Generally, people can be classified into three groups:
First, those who believe everything they consume;
Second, those who no longer believe anything;
Third, those who critically examine what they consume and form their judgments accordingly.
Numerically, the first group is by far the strongest, being composed of the broad masses of the people. Intellectually, it forms the simplest portion of the nation. It cannot be classified according to occupation but only into grades of intelligence. Under this category come all those who have not been born to think for themselves or who have not learnt to do so and who, partly through incompetence and partly through ignorance, believe everything that is set before them in print. To these we must add that type of lazy individual who, although capable of thinking for himself out of sheer laziness gratefully absorbs everything that others had thought over, modestly believing this to have been thoroughly done. The second group is numerically smaller, being partly composed of those who were formerly in the first group and after a series of bitter disappointments are now prepared to believe nothing of what they see in print. They hate all newspapers. Either they do not read them at all or they become exceptionally annoyed at their contents, which they hold to be nothing but a congeries of lies and misstatements.
The third group is easily the smallest, being composed of real intellectuals whom natural aptitude and education have taught to think for themselves and who in all things try to form their own judgments, while at the same time carefully sifting what they read. They will not read any newspaper without using their own intelligence to collaborate with that of the writer and naturally this does not set writers an easy task. Journalists appreciate this type of reader only with a certain amount of reservation.
Hence the trash that newspapers are capable of serving up is of little danger much less of importance to the members of the third group of readers. In the majority of cases these readers have learnt to regard every journalist as fundamentally a rogue who sometimes speaks the truth. Most unfortunately, the value of these readers lies in their intelligence and not in their numerical strength, an unhappy state of affairs in a period where wisdom counts for nothing and majorities for everything. Nowadays when the voting papers of the masses are the deciding factor; the decision lies in the hands of the numerically strongest group; that is to say the first group, the crowd of simpletons and the credulous.
It is an all-important interest of the State and a national duty to prevent these people from falling into the hands of false, ignorant or even evil-minded teachers. Therefore it is the duty of the State to supervise their education and prevent every form of offence in this respect. Particular attention should be paid to the Press; for its influence on these people is by far the strongest and most penetrating of all; since its effect is not transitory but continual. Its immense significance lies in the uniform and persistent repetition of its teaching.
It's because, ultimately, the post is about nothing more than the author being tired of hearing and seeing other people's outrage. The author notes that the world is improving but treats that as magically disconnected from anyone having problems with the status quo. Everyone is just some rando online with no effect on the world. (Why then try to write an article to change people's minds? is an open question...)

And the great rhetorical weapon of today is framing what you don't like as a pathology of those you disprove of. They aren't doing what you want? They're dysfunctional or sick. They do something you dislike or value something you don't? They're infected or addicted. Etc.
People are surprised hearing that I never had a Twitter account, me being the tech nerd who likes arguing with strangers. First of all the characters length limit is clearly meant to favor witty jabs over well structured arguments. And then there's the fact that the only times I hear about Twitter are when people are getting outraged or their life destroyed. Why would I even be part of that? If I am to be part of a dangerous mob I'd rather go to a mushpit and have fun with me fellow headbangers.

Then there was Reddit. Reddit used to be cool and all about diversity of ideas even with its left wing bias. But they never really appreciated the problem of coordinated account farming and their policy of who gets to be moderator which is by nature wide open to manipulation by giant PR firms and other online mobs. Now it's mostly uninteresting outrage like farming "racist" comments by creeping out old ladies, obvious product placements (I doubt most of Reddit user base became fans of the NBA, F1 and the NHL overnight) and political "blogs" maintained by PACs. Looking at the archived front page over the years I can really see sanity disappear slowly and pure folly take over like this grandparent we used to know who used to be nice when we were young but now shouts when you leave the door opened.

I'd delete Facebook too, but family. At least delete the app from my phone. Good thing they made Messenger its own app. I used to follow various state media of various countries, and then I began mocking the CCP's propaganda, and low and behold it's always on my front page. Seeing it happened in real time is just very creepy, even if I engage in other pages much often.
>If it's not, you will have some rational explanation and should be able to point to your history of not being a sexist asshole.

Ah yes, this always works for calming woke mobs
I doubt these numbers are correct. Catalonia has a population of 7.5 million people and the article claims there are between 50000 and 100000 metal scrappers. That means around 1% (of course, since these are ilegal immigrants, they are not included in the official census, but there are also a lot of ilegal immigrants doing other things besides metal scrapping).

100 people does not generate enough steel scrap to keep a person busy for a long time. And let's not forget that a lot of metal parts are directly disposed by the citizens in the recycling centers ("puntos limpios"). The article did not mention that, giving the impression that the only way to get rid of a microwave, for example, is to leave it on the street hoping one of these scrappers find it.
What you’re describing is much closer to tyranny.
I agree, but I don't think that means you can only ever speak about the gains. Ignoring costs leads down disingenuous roads, and not necessarily the best path to change.

If the resulting cultural is permanently clammier professional relationships between men and women.. I have a hard time believing it's things going right. OTOH, I don't really think there is a permanent "clamming up." Hopefully it passes. It's not like everyone was gender blind in 2015 either.

Regardless of what we think of wider issues, I think Femfo is probably observing something real.
> isappointed. If that happens often enough, the system falls apart since any promises of "career growth if you meet these goals" will no longer be trusted.

Can you share specifics of "boat loads of RSUs" (100-200K/yr 3-yr vesting?) and "above average increase" (5%)? Just want to have a figure I can shoot for.
5 out of the 9 numbers for an American social security number is also derived from location and date of birth.
Maybe somewhat nostalgic, but I remember cycling through many artworks by digitalblasphemy [1] during the early-mid 2000s. Honestly surprised to see there's still new content!

[1] https://digitalblasphemy.com/
Anecdata, but one tall (actually, even one short) at 8am will typically postpone the time I fall asleep by 4 hours and will typically reduce my sleep by an equal amount (i.e., I wake up at the same time despite falling asleep later).

I’ve run some experiments on myself, and this lasts for days at a time with one tall in the morning. If I keep at it for several days, I will crash early one evening, but still only sleep for 4 hours. It’s a nightmare for someone who typically sleeps 8 hours a night — I just feel fog-brained all the time. That said, workouts are super easy.

If I had a tall in the morning and evening on a regular basis, ugh... I can’t even imagine. I did this once for extra energy during a sports tournament (we won), but I basically had to drink myself to sleep each night.

Multiple doctors have told me that caffeine sensitivity varies from person to person, but I am on the unusually sensitive side.
That's a security technique against CSRF / JSON hijacking.
Vaccine Passport/Acknowledgement Proposal
As for 1) yes, I can do that, the reason it is set where it is right now is because very soft keypresses on real pianos with sensorbars installed are typically fingers brushing keys on the way to other keys and these false triggers leave a lot of errors that aren't really errors. I'll make that setting configurable.

2) yes, if you look in the 'midi' directory on the gitlab site ( https://gitlab.com/jmattheij/pianojacq/-/tree/master/midi , but also linked from the application) there are whole bunch of them that all should work well

If you have problematic midi files you can send them to me and I can try to figure out what the problem is and why they will not import the way they should.
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

Friedrich W. Nietzsche
And living in a region where traditionally all hard liquor is from trees, the Mispel one happens to be my unquestioned favorite, after a good meal at the pub. I'd describe the tiny fruit aroma hint that is usual with fruit liquor as a touch of marzipan that works much better than I'd expect upon hearing this description (I'd definitely not be eager to try something advertised as marzipan liquor).

Perhaps it's no coincidence that the article doesn't mention Germany at all, it might ruin the "forgotten" hook. (no you can't walk into a German supermarket and walk out with a bag full of Mispels, it's not that un-forgotten)
Tribalism is the new diversity. Embrace it.
> unless you aren't white or male.

Kind of says something when this is seen as an exceptional case, given that a significant majority of people aren't white men...
I've noticed this too.

It is like suddenly this whole anti-asian hate thing popped out of nowhere. From 0 to it being everywhere; friends re-posting things on insta, etc...

BLM also seems to have disappeared suddenly (Now I can support asian developers instead of black developers on the apple store!!!). Guess the propaganda machine got a new narrative to push.

Am I crazy or just being gaslit super hard?
You assume a mob is rational and therefore will not attack someone if that person is in the right. A mob can not and will never be rational by construction.
Is Crypto going to make per-article online content take off?
No, this is not a thing.
Congress and tech CEOs are dancing together. Congress agrees not to make any actionable accusations, and tech CEOs agree to make a concerned face and promise to do better if given the legal tools.
Not sure there is a safe distance above an erupting volcano...

I'm sure you can use a better camera, but I think in 2021, you definitely use unmanned drones.
> To read a moderately complex piece at the speed at which it is played while playing is tougher than most other skills that I've acquired

Playing moderately complex pieces will be tough, no matter the method. Also, you're using the score to learn it, in most cases by the time you're able to play it at the correct speed you don't need to read every note, you use the score as a cue and guide. And some pieces fit with different methods, for example I find it more difficult to play pop songs by sheet music than by ear (or ear + chord notation for the harmony). On the other hand I recall Satie pieces, they're pretty easy to read but I'd really struggle a lot if I wanted to play them by ear.

> If it weren't hard then it probably wouldn't be the major reason lots of people give up music

Is it though? I'd say that the major reason lots of people give up music is because it's harder than they think, and because there usually is a disconnect between what the student expects and what the teacher wants or teaches.

> once you've mastered it completely it might feel easy

This also applies to your point. I think people would get frustrated with their professor if their way of teaching pieces was just playing it and saying "now play it" without telling them what the notes are. Playing by ear is not easy, and it's really tough for people that haven't developed a musical ear and don't know any musical theory yet. At least when reading there's a set of instructions that you can follow and advance on that.
> her advice to her mentee was "Think about what a white man would do" and everyone applaud such an insightful advice.

> Why not just say what you mean without the racial stereotypes?

Nothing is going to win cheap applause at a diversity panel than saying "white man bad".
Complaining about the quality of mainstream media while quoting project vertias as your source shows your bias in the extreme - they are not someone you'd present as a trusted source, and in fact present extreme versions of the biases you are purporting others hold.
My favorites are Matter and Surface Detail, in that order. Surface Detail is probably an easier starting point, but any of the non-canonical reading order suggestions will have you confused for a while, due to the simplified descriptions of various concepts. It is about simulated worlds, in-silico sentient minds and military conflict over vehement ethics disagreements.

I started with Look to Windward myself, and would probably have started with another if choosing again.
> Not sure 100% adherence to an individual's particular political positions is the way to measure the worth and value of an organization.

No one is asking the EFF to agree with everything RMS says. However it's quite ironical that the EFF deviated from its stated goal of protecting free speech [1] on the Internet and joined the lynch mob trying to cancel RMS. This does cast the EFF in a negative light since now there's speech that the EFF likes and speech they don't. As long as there's such a dichotomy, it's hard to take an organization claiming to defend free speech seriously.

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/free-speech
I just stick to local news outlet now of the localities that matter the most to me. They really are the last bastion of real journalism.
I have one here if you want to mess around with it you are welcome to come visit (Netherlands, hope you are close).

It is interesting, for want of a better word, it's like Dvorak to Qwerty only much worse.
https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...
even closer.
OP here, I don't know anyone in the CDC/HHS/vaccine distribution arena, but if anyone knows someone who knows someone and thinks this could be useful please pass it along
I know them as muşmula. I didn't know that they were forgotten. I'm sad that they are not being sold in cities.
If you can get hold of the .appx file from another source, you may be able to install it via powershell.
The article is a bit sensationalist and free of substance. The asteroid is interesting though. NASA finds it so interesting in fact that they will have a space probe visit it in 2026 (it will launch next year and take 4 years to go there) [1]

What's the realistic potential profit from this asteroid in terms of space mining? Obviously not trillions. Anything you mine there you need to bring back, and the delta-v from the asteroid belt to low earth orbit is about 5 km/s. From the rocket equation it follows that you need about 2 tons of propellant for each ton of cargo. But unfortunately, you'll need to bring that fuel with you from the Earth. You end up with many, many tons of propellant for each ton of cargo. So anything that has a price less than about 10 times the cost of the propellant has no chance of ever being profitable, so iron and nickel are out.

Gold is not though. Or platinum, or other precious metals.

All in all, the wikipedia page on potential space mining projects lists the estimated profit from this asteroid at $1.78 BN. [2]

[1] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/as...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining#Potential_targ...
Yes, every evolutionary psychologist talks about it. And you can see it in the outcomes - one of them being men commit most violent crime (>80%) and usually on one another.
This isn’t a thing.

Cancel culture and woke culture is though and it’s embraced wholeheartedly by the radical left.

Even left leaning Europe thinks it was too extreme that Twitter cancelled Donnie
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewar hell. It's against the site guidelines because we're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please note these guidelines also:

"Don't be snarky."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
I've been enjoying the Bing wallpaper app. Every day, it's something new that arrives! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/bing-wallpaper
>Now life is very hard for them.

Not them, but people physically similar to them. An important distinction. The people you're actually describing are generally retired or dead.
What is described in the article isn't sexism - it's fear. Fear of being labeled as a sexist.
> Do you honestly believe this?

There's nothing I honestly believe in more.

#ImaginaryPropertyLaws are a *total* sham. The dramatic
expansions [0] in 1976 and 1998 have proven it beyond a
reasonable doubt with nothing to show for it except
massively increasing inequality [a].

The news? Hasn't improved at all, arguably gotten worse.
Pick up a NYTimes from 1871 and compare it to one from
today [1]. Today's have color photos, other than that, worse
compared to 150 years ago.

Scientific papers? Terrible. Look at the reproducibility
crisis. Now Elsevier and Wiley and American Chemical Society
are suing India to prevent poor kids from accessing SciHub.
[2]

Medicine? Watson, Crick and Franklin did their
famous work in 1953. The healthspan in the USA is
*decreasing* [3]. That opioid crisis? Ultimately
attributable to USPTO [4]. War on cancer? Started in 1970
and we've gotten our *ass kicked* [5]. The only positive developments have been the massive grunt work public domain research projects funded by US and global taxpayers.

Space travel and electric cars? Completely fcking plateaud
until Elon Musk came out and said fck patents and kicked
everyone's ass [6].

How about computing? Absolutely dominated by TCP/IP, the
web, Linux, Git; all public domain or libre software.

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

[a] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dgJmaIkwy4Xb9CACHYp_J4j18TI=...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/York-Times-Complete-Front-Pages/dp/07...

[2] https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-libgen-face-isp-blocking-in...

[3] https://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.HALEXv

[4] https://longbets.org/855/

[5] https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/overview/history/national-c...

[6] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/06182930052/elon-...
You're a very lucky man that the bulk of your stress is caused by social media.
The two protestors that died on the day were reported as the two deaths. And the outlet who reported about the officer death posted a retraction about the police officer being killed by the fire extinguisher.

It's a straight up lie to say that only Breitbart was the only website that reported it.

A mistake was made, it was corrected afterwards.

But people that want to downplay Jan6 have jumped on it and use it as "evidence" of lies.
bad research on my part, i think i found result from american university first. here it is saying 8% woman: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/stor...

but point is same: if we are creating quota for female to imigrate that has unfair penalisation on men. we are ought to have admit almost any person who is desiring for to be here and working.
I accept that gender could be a factor as well, but gender is not something that a comment on HN can change (or should for that matter). Your gender will not (probably) change and we can't really change the culture quickly either.

My point is that if you have low income, it would be better to focus on improving skills you are offering rather than try to solve "women are paid less" problem. For example, just presenting yourself as a website builder sounds more profitable than someone who edits resumes.

By the way is HN rank really that useful? For example I never knew there is a HN leader board or how to access it.

Thank you for the explanation, I wish you all the best.
Do you realize that the first boss actually sounds way better then the second one? The first boss in your example is safer to deal with, cause if you overstep you have chance to learn. And he is still not doormat.

The second boss is someone who is to be avoided and also someone who will create shitty culture.

I expect the ideal boss to react to the situation, shut the thing down. I don't expect him to fire everyone involved.
Warp drives do not violate the speed of causality; they change the geometry of causality.
This had nothing to do with Google ads, it was AI ethics team stuff.

Google did not stop a researcher who issued an ultimatum ..

And also fired one who forwarded company and employee confidential information to another company.

The prof was absolutely ok before that
The point of this article is to, instead of feeling and spreading outrage for the shitty things you cannot change, go work to change and enjoy the things you can.
I'm afraid to sign that, my boss (=the company) signed the petition against him.
Which book or writing of C.S. Lewis is this from?

(Amazing quote by the way! Thank you for sharing.)
Not everyone has the tools or ability, but public "outrage" or signaling somehow to some one that does like politicians does make change. Like this article reffered to women's rights not being worth his time? You should be empathetic to a marganilzed group, but really what can an individual do besides signal to politicians that this needs to change
The easiest way is just using OCR which for example the Google Translate app lets you do. After that you can search by drawing it or search by the radicals that you recognize in it.