skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your points, however not having a reasonable level of sight reading inhibits you from learning some of the more dense pieces (e.g. Bach Inventions and Sifonias) in a timely manner.

Developing that skill allows you to get pieces under your hands (and in time packed into your lizard brain), so you can then focus on the musical expression.

You should think of Jacques software as a type of 'touch typing program' for the piano. Instant feedback allows you to build up the 'this means that' in terms of what you see on the sheet music and what your hands are supposed to do.

Learning to sight read, even to a very basic degree, always seems to be a big hit and miss for many of the people I've known over the years learning piano.

For me, being able to expedite the process of developing that skill so I can practice effectively, in order to be able to focus on the actual music is a huge boon! Less time trudging through the snow and more time learning and playing pieces!

When you see a pro performer crank out 2 hours of Chopin from memory, they always had to start with the music. It's a core competency for certain styles, and Jacques software would build that competency quicker due to the hyper short feedback loop (like the red/green/refactor loop).

Yet, there are plenty of real world examples of performers and composers who can't read music, there's nothing wrong with that, it just depends on what you want to do (and I want to play Bach Inventions, again!).

EDIT: I'd just like to add that my previous piano teacher was both very highly skilled in both classical and jazz disciplines, and he was of the strong opinion that it's not an either/or proposition, but commented that to not have experience in both camps hindered ability if you were a typical working musician.
>The majority of these men believe that the fundamental interests of employees and employers are necessarily antagonistic

Taylor's ideas were quite good in the context of labor practices at the time. People were getting paid a buck a day to come work at the factory, and companies employed speed bosses to walk the floor and yell at employees to hurry up. Speed bosses and management got production bonuses, workers got a buck regardless of productivity.

Taylor and Gantt instead had companies give bonuses to both staff and management for extra output, which resulted in higher productivity.

For history buffs here is a picture of an original "Gantt chart" where he is comparing workers folding textiles after putting in the Scientific Management system. More black in the chart is an indication of workers earning the bonus more often.

https://iism.org/material-player/software-management-essenti...
I'm pretty sure you want reasonable meaningful commits. On tiny projects it may not matter, but on larger projects it's definitely a huge benefit, because chances are you'll have to investigate a bug in that code, re-learn why it was done this way, etc. And maybe bisect the git history to find which exact commit caused the issue.

Which is why larger changes are often split into smaller patches that may be applied and tested incrementally. If you just merge the whole pull request as one huge patch / in merge commit, you just lost most of that.
This is a terrible and shallow review, in my opinion. As I understand, GNOME, starting with 3, is very keyboard-driven. I've only mouse-clicked on the Activity at the top left corner no more than a few times after switching to the new design, and only because I was new at the time. After checking out the cheatsheet and playing around with it for a while, the whole workflow becomes way faster than any other Desktop environments I've used (Windows, macOS). The design change makes redundant many features that people are so used to that they are almost taken for granted. However, GNOME 3 and thereafter, proves that things could be done in a simpler and more efficient way. For a few examples, windows key to launch overview and type directly to search for the desired apps to launch; virtual desktop to reduce the need to show desktops/minimiz windows; and there is actually an extension called Extensions to manage all your GNOME extensions, etc. Many complaints the author has against GNOME are simply no issues at all to me and, I believe many experienced GNOME users as well, if he is only open-minded enough to adapt to new changes and habits. It is actually surprising to find someone still raising issues with some of the fundamental design changes so long after GNOME 3. I guess for some, old habits really die hard.
Wells fargo committed fraud in a few different flavors, but was probably never at risk of losing customers' money (unintentionally). Reading between the lines of Beam's long withdrawal times, it sounds like they had fundamental liquidity problems and at risk of insolvency already, and the backing bank would have to cover things (or invoke FDIC insurance? I'm not sure if this situation would apply)

That's just a pragmatic explanation though: I'm not claiming there was any equivalency of fairness between the two. It seems to me that Beam should be dismantled, and also that Wells Fargo should have suffered some equivalent fate. But again, consider the pragmatics involved: Forcing Wells Fargo to be sold off piecemeal would just mean there were even fewer massive banks controlling that market.
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Scientists Built an Artificial Cell That Grows And Divides Like a Natural One
Developing an interactive simulation for space life support systems that has to be both chemically precise and also fun to engage in... Or something along those lines.

Or Boston Dynamics.

Or using AI to generate stories / NPC dialogue for games.
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That sounds more palatable. But usually in the context of issues like the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, lack of corporate accountability is not an easy thing to digest. Especially these days, if corporations are "people having opinions", as in the Citizens United ruling, why not hold corporations accountable to the same degree as people?

BTW, I don't think Friedman was arguing that corporations should engage in criminal negligence - just that they should not be working explicitly for the good of the society. What was paramount was shareholder value. Probably it is understood that maximizing shareholder value is to be done within legal limits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Assembly is a reasonable attempt... or at least it was when people could actually meet in places.
RNA uses uracil/uridine rather than thymine, but uridine is actually quite immunogenic. That's what has prevented people from using mRNA as a therapy until recently, when the founders of BioNTech figured out that they could use pseudouridine (abbreviated as Ψ) instead. See [1] for more information.

[1]https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfi...
Really? And all this time, I was hoping that it wouldn't end up being a tarpit.
I was going to say you can't get very far without a protein vehicle, but then I remembered that's quite incorrect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrotransposon

The injection is important, however, as it gets the genetic material past a whole lot of nucleases that cover your epithelia.
It literally does not matter. As long as you're consistent with whatever methodology you choose, it'll work as a forecasting tool.

Fibonacci because humans find log scales more intuitive.

Estimating anything but the simplest tasks by time is a fool's errand. Too many unknowns.
I learned about the bank effect from this article

https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d...
Corporations lost the benefit of the doubt concerning this topic a long, long time ago. Deservedly so.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say a statement you disagree with is "illogical."

Why shouldn't businesses be able to freely & voluntarily enter into any contract they want to? If the contract with the union stipulates that they will only hire union workers, workers are free to voluntarily pick a different job where the employer has freely not entered into such a contract. No captive markets here, unless an employer has a captive labor market over its employees.
> Shouldn't everyone be able to respond to 'attacks' on them on Twitter regardless who the attacker is?

That's called the first amendment.
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I've looked a little bit, and I'm not going to defend my assertion very hard, because I don't truly believe it or it's implications very much; it's an interesting question to me.

Anyway here are some references:

https://fortune.com/2015/12/10/elizabeth-holmes-sexism-thera...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elizab...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahart/2019/03/31/womens-his... (mainly a summary with links to other articles)
That's really great, congrats! I'm sure that a web/javascript version of that would be popular.

Let me know if you'd like to do a quick collaboration!
Compared to the seemingly arbitrarily split js files filled with jQuery at other large projects I've worked on, I'd take a declaratively described component per-file React app any day.

I remember trying to find the class for the element I'm manipulating imperatively in jQuery in an equally arbitrary CSS file only to realize almost none of those attributes are applied cause some other more specific selector in another file took precedence. That's obviously due to poor organization, but at least React is readable with HTML, JS, and CSS all right next to each other with very clear intent due to the declarative style.
I bet it did (as any change to production); whether that had to involve "executives" that's another story.
Google still has a soul!
I know someone on Medicare that has a 1 pill a day prescription with a sticker price that multiplies out to $45,000 a year. I don't know if that is what ends up getting paid though, and I guess it's still not going to burn through millions.
Obsidian[0] is moving fast and doing a lot of things right. Very exciting to watch it evolve. Something about this powerful wrapper around plaintext notes is really exciting.

[0] https://obsidian.md/
> Of these, the web browser scripting language (JavaScript) is the fastest, most popular, and the only one with an industrial standardization process

Haha, this made me laugh hard, stopped reading
Its not just 2.4 that usb3 kills. I've had it jam gps from a couple feet away and thats down at 1.3. Did some emi tests, it was really broadband interference. I really have no idea how these chipsets got approved.
Next.js 10.1
I don't understand why people use D3 over something sane and simple like Pixi
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback!

We're also trying to find the "hook" that would make such a site more useful to newsletter readers.

For individual articles, do you find sites like Hacker News or Reddit good for that purpose? I think there are certain authors whose writing is consistently good, and those are the ones we're trying to identify -- curious what you think.
I don’t know, maybe study both religions and try participating in some way, and see if either resonates with you in some profound way?
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Με στόχο να διατηρήσει την ορμή της από τη νίκη της επί της Δημοκρατίας της Ιρλανδίας, το Λουξεμβούργο προετοιμάζεται για την μάχη εναντίον της Πορτογαλίας στον αγώνα προκριματικών του Παγκοσμίου Κυπέλλου της Τρίτης στον πρώτο όμιλο. Ενώ οι φιλοξενούμενοι ξεκίνησαν με τέλειο τρόπο για το Κατάρ την τελευταία φορά, η Πορτογαλία έχασε δύο πόντους σε μια πολύ αμφιλεγόμενη ισοπαλία 2-2 με τη Σερβία το Σάββατο το βράδυ. Μην αργούμε άλλο με τα Λουξεμβουργο – Πορτογαλια προγνωστικα στοιχημα.
It has been this way for decades already, ref. Diana.
That's the way to do it. Carefully dissect the ambiguous signals potential employers emit throughout their process, and form an impression around the time of an offer so you know if you'd keep negotiating.

Too often, the interviewers are just trying to emulate seeming smart out of some ego thing, haven't been trained how to interview and just emulate what they think they're supposed to do, or are too lazy to ask real-world questions.

IIRC from CS, every recursion problem can be turned into an iterative one. Even many production compilers contain handmade parsers are recursive primarily for maintainability, not for technical reasons. There are plenty of ways to make bottom-up parsers (LALR parser generators) that don't use recursion but they aren't as useful at generating diagnostics, especially explaining parse error reasons in human-readible language.

Also: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-getting-too-old-for-this-s...
This will suffer from TCP-over-TCP performance issues. Projects like sshuttle, mentioned above, get around this.
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In modern no-religion societies, where is the pull for good old family values?

Hopefully we figure out how to build more stable unions by rebuilding a supportive framework (which church used to help with). Rather than forbidding divorce- provide tools, education, safety nets, etc, that parents may be more successful nurturing their relationship with each other. I have come to believe community is really valuable for the health of families, despite the nuclear ideal.
The FBI doesn't prosecute, they just investigate. You mean the DoJ Criminal Division.
Perhaps the Chromium / V8 monoculture is reinforced by mini-fied code?
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> but testing the thing for safety and efficacy took months

What kind of tweaks were made from "the version they threw together in a weekend" to "the version that is in production now"? What's a typical "mRNA" feedback iteration loop like?
Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole
If they didn't use lipofectamine, what did they most likely use?
> The FCC's job is not to get every last penny for every last Hz, it's to be a good steward of the commons.

That’s the spin.

Yes, the FCC is the steward. But it’s also a bureaucratic, underfunded, somewhat backwards agency.

SIGINT is pretty cool, and FCC has some cool things and people that interact with them, I’m sure. But the outward face of FCC and how they appear to operate seems to have hardly changed in past years. I respect that typically, but it’s like an old bowling alley kind of respect; it’s fun, but it’s old and dirty, and the nachos aren’t bad but they aren’t good. The Lysol sprayed in those shoes is for psychological comfort. You don’t need to know the real reason.
Well thanks, I appreciate it.

I definitely agree with the non-verbal communication bit. It took me a while to understand that, but now that I do, it makes things much easier.
People also downvote what they find stupid, boss. I made in a bottle in a car before; I wouldn’t do it again for $4 or whatever. Guess I don’t have what it takes to do contract work.
I came here to mention the same thing. Great book. Highly recommended. It talks about this same phenomenon too.
> Ah, you're probably interpreting that as believers walking in fear all day

No, I was referring to the fact that religious people basically have a slave-like mentality [1][2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPD1YGghtDk

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eefS0gayKFc
Even science is pretty hard to justify with formal logic.

There's a pretty big gap between inductive reasoning (statistics) and deductive reasoning (formal logic), called the problem of induction. No logician or philosopher has come up with a widely accepted way to solve it in the roughly 200 years since David Hume started writing on the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
I got to tour Blackmore a couple years ago and their tech was so cool. Loved getting to see it and happy they are continuing their work.
I think the issue is that when you try to make reusable charts, you end up doing this stuff anyway. You aren't replacing logic but you are coding around d3's logic.

I 100% agree though, it is very janky. The issues aren't limited to the points you mention: state everywhere, errors getting swallowed, problems when you update (for example, the Axis component has a useMemo that renders once on load and doesn't change...this isn't a good idea because, presumably, you have to re-render on every update), on and on. The issue isn't d3 but making components reusable within React.

d3's dispatch model fits well with React. But the data flow/dependencies just don't work with React at all (i.e. having to declare operations in a certain order). I am not 100% sure that the component library approach works. I get the idea but you need to actually tackle the problem of state and updating, which means working with the imperative model (i.e. not declaring your chart elements in React but using d3's imperative code, and hooking that into React's update cycle...for example, how would you use d3-brush with declarative code? Maybe I am missing something but it doesn't seem possible). I have no idea whether it is possible to integrate these two approaches fully...probably is but I surely don't know how (my approach so far is largely imperative, relies heavily on dispatching events, and splits state between data/chart constants/individual charts...I think it is possible to go further with hooks but I haven't had time to explore this fully...the declarative approach of actually writing svg elements and g elements seems too brittle).
You can't claw down leaders without tearing down the foundations. The mob is just ignorant how things really work.
Isn't it right there in the name? a - theism?
I don’t think generic education / knowledge completely fixes it. Without level-headed critical thinking of all knowledge and teachings, there will always be “sacred” ideas that are culturally off-limits of criticism.

Also, “wokespeak” (to the extent that it is a new thing) seems remarkably similar to older concepts of tribe signaling and religions (where members use common terminology and symbols to define in-groups and to declare out groups heretics).

I’m happy that the big legacy religions are losing mindshare, but pretending like pure abstract intelligent discussion is a direct replacement confuses why people return to church, temple, etc. Humans seem to crave tradition of conventions, emotional connection with their community, and a reason to bind together for assistance. I haven’t heard a proposal which replaces the church community without reproducing the worst aspects of legacy religions.
I don't know. But I do know that the Bible says that mixing the fabric of your clothing is a sin, so it's clearly pick-and-choose.
> Mortal/grave sins must be confessed per catholic doctrine

Can you truly perform confession for a sin that you are unrepentant about? Like if someone is continuously having gay sex with no regrets or desire to change can they really "confess" about that? Don't you need to at least "admit" that you have sinned in order to confess?

I agree with you that a couple of instances of gay sex doesn't send a person to hell, but a lifestyle where you accept gay sex as a fundamental part of yourself that you don't even try to change does send you hell if I understand the doctrine correctly.
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> To me the Culture novels always seemed precisely the projection of a certain kind of old 19th-century Socialist (or Anarchist) utopia into the far future: no capitalism, no corporations, no state, no money, no exploitation of labor, the utter elimination of poverty, people free to pursue their dreams amidst boundless abundance.

This post-scarcity Utopian vision works equally well for most varieties of libertarian, socialist and capitalist alike. The Culture respects individuals' personal freedom and right to own property if they so choose, which is all a right-libertarian requires. Corporations and money are just tools which capitalism offers to deal with scarcity, not ends in themselves—a post-scarcity capitalistic society wouldn't need them.

> But I suppose it might be a surprise to some folks whose only idea of socialism is an evil caricature of the big bad state taking their private wealth and telling them what to do.

In a society that actually has to deal with scarcity, unlike The Culture, that's pretty much what socialism amounts to in practice. Libertarian socialism is not a stable arrangement in the face of scarcity; it always ends up sacrificing either the libertarianism or the socialism (or both). However, I will freely admit that libertarian socialism can work if you can first eliminate scarcity. (To be fair, almost anything can work if you first eliminate scarcity.)
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Big tech swing that didn’t connect?

Has the makings of an internal power struggle where the people who actually hold things together we’re not on board and bailed.
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I don't have stats for just this vaccine. I think it's fine to look at the vaccines as a group - you can't choose which one you want to get anyway.

I'm trying to make a point that covid is orders of magnitude more dangerous than any of the vaccines by any reasonable analysis and at any age group. If you believe otherwise, I dare you to make your case with numbers.

I see so many people who are afraid to get vaccinated (not saying that's you), but I see precious few who can do math.
I mean, comparing someone’s sexuality to thievery is almost exactly the point.

As you point out, we are intolerant of theivery as a society; treating homosexuals analogous to how we treat thieves is probably intolerant.
It’s all these modern smokers with their low-tar cigarettes.

Tar is tar. Let it be.

tar -czvf if you’re gzzy.

tar+gzip beats zip for most uses. I don’t know about whether 7z beats tar+gz, but I don’t think 7z is as ubiquitous, though that may not be true now.
> This is AGPL/GPL unless you pay $200/month per developer seat" is a common licensing scheme for frameworks, people aren't scared by it

Really ? I can think of QT - but that's such a huge body of work with some very specific use cases in which it doesn't really have competition (aside from DOM based shell for UI maybe, but that has it's own problems and is often a hassle to get working).

In this case Node is established, Deno is going to have an up hill battle to gain that mindshare on equal footing, adding a licensing restriction would probably kill it off the ground.
I sometimes wonder how these decisions get made within companies. I mean you are network hw vendor, how do you get convinced to embed adware/spyware into your products without compromising on trust? I'd fire all concerned if I were on the board and understood what the brand meant.
The best! It actually helped me take a more moderate view on the HN crowd. I'll admit I used to put people's opinions here on a pedestal.