skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my response to this is that basic music theory is roughly equivalent with basic acoustics, has more bearing on generalized musical practice than what you are implying, and that even reading sheet music is an abstraction that requires foundations in a musical culture that has a prerequisite of certain assumptions that may not actually hold.

If you listen to CPE Bach knowing that each note can be bent (as on a guitar, because it is a clavichord), then the written music makes more sense because each note can be tuned to be harmonic with the fundamental. The sheet is just a sketch. The presumed required bend in each note totally changes the expectations of the key it is written in.

Or, if you are listening to a gamelan, then the beating of notes becomes an essential rhythm of the instrument, informing the tempo of the ensemble as a whole.

Music theory is a combination of acoustics and music history, but the acoustic part is more fundamental/basic. Like knowing "Clueless" is based on "The Taming of the Shrew" is informative, but the fundamentals of quality movie making or movie consuming do not require you to know anything about Shakespeare.
This also tells us that Tim Berners-Lee was familiar with postscript and its power, but still decided to base the hypertext on a SGML-derived declarative document format without embedded rendering instructions.

TBL knew what he was doing.
I'm still bummed that I missed out on Pebbles, especially as they just got eaten up by bigger fish. Would have been easier to swallow if they would have failed on the market or something, but afaik they were plenty successful by all metrics
...out of "an abundance of caution".

> It is a bit unnerving to know you may or may not have a disease that there is no test for, and symptoms may not appear until decades later.

That's true for many neurodegenerative diseases. If that's unnerving to you, better stay away from WebMD...
IF you find the right advisor, which is a big if. The odds of finding an employer that might put up with this person is higher.
People who are already capital-rich, they can get loans at the drop of a hat. Meanwhile people with low-paying jobs are stuck being priced out of the housing market.
How does this post have hundreds of upvotes and comments when the linked to article has nothing to do with the headline?!! Did no one fucking open it?
I knew FUD was going to show up sooner than latter.
> Most importantly, viruses and bacteria innately "want" to spread. Prions do not have any biological mechanism for their own propagation - they are just an unfortunate mistake of nature. And this seems to be key why there has never been a massive prion outbreak.

I disagree here, and but it's not fatal to your argument. Anything that reliably reproduces "wants" to. Hell, I bet prions can evolve too on large enough time scales (heterogeneous induced refolding), so we can say they are alive. But sometimes the tortoise is too patient and the race ends before the hare tires.
All big corporations hire consultants when they can't hire (freeze or fast enough) but need specialized skills or extra hands.
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I'm not sure honestly. We didn't end up buying it, because so few people use Julia in our org. Too much legacy matlab code and the professors in academia have yet to switch over.
Their GitHub profile has more than 3 projects - you might have only looked at the pinned ones.

But overall, I somewhat agree with Francesco. I used to work at a large corporation where majority of the work was minor config changes and rolling out deployments for handsome pay (somewhat KTLO work). I left because I wasn't growing my career. As companies get bigger the money gets bigger as well but the interesting work gets much smaller. At the end of the day, once you have a solid product in place you need a lot more people to just keep it running vs. work on some very interesting technical work. I think applied research is the best way to go for very interesting technical work but I think the bar is pretty high for that.
Thanks for the summary, that is really interesting.

Also, I don't think the OP is making any claim that the piano keyboard is the result of any kind of natural phenomenon. They're just pointing out that you can create the same piano keyboard that we have using mathematical derivation, which is also interesting.
I believe that was GP's point - 3D printers are cheap and ubiquitous because a patent on them expired in 2009. Before that they were expensive and had little tooling or support: useless outside large corporations, despite all the technology involved existing for years and years. I don't know the patent situation of e-ink but patent law was incredibly counterproductive in the case of 3D printing.
no magic involved ;)
he's not, but I will. our prison system creates repeat offenders, and makes violent offenders out of previous nonviolent offenders. less policing and less prison will absolutely make the US a safer place
Technologies could hold back business travel
What actually causes this though? For example, take something like HIV that takes a long time to show symptoms, but have an airborne version of it. Do the things that make viruses airborne also keep them from having a long gestation period and also highly lethal?
What I remember from middle school biology is that nutrients flow in a cycle. Organic matter in the soil will be composted and consumed by earth worms, funghi and microorganisms.

And to them, prions are just organic matter like any other.
> They argue that's fine though because they'd work for £1/hr, but the real cost of an upfront hire is my time, not money.

Well if it's freelance work there are situations where the upfront time cost is not massive, especially if it's a task with a limited scope. I know this because I hire freelancers.

But yea, I don't have a bag of small-scope, interesting and meaningful tasks lying around...
not OP, but at that point I imagine the equation changes: stability becomes less important when you aren't the sole provider for a pile of people, and/or once cost-of-living goes down (e.g., paid off mortgage).
I can only find news articles about this, not a release from IIGCC itself, but financial risk is clearly at least part of their rationale:

> Bruce Duguid, head of stewardship at Federated Hermes’ EOS division, said there was a need for “dramatic shifts” in bank financing in order to meet the Paris goals and “avoid the looming systemic risk of a ‘carbon crunch’ hitting their balance sheets”.

It seems pretty straightforward that investing in something that violates a global UN agreement is not a financially sound decision.
Why not just working on some open source projects? If you do some interesting helpful work, some people might even sponsor you.
Zoom launches $100M Zoom Apps investment fund
`&` will "move" something to the heap if it isn't already on the heap.

The simpler way to think about it is that in Golang everything is on the heap. However the optimizer will move things to the stack if they don't have their address taken. I think the point about explicitness is that if you don't use `&` then it will be able to be put on the stack. So `&` doesn't cause a heap allocation but lack of `&` (or new()) confirms that there isn't one. (I don't actually know if that is true but I can't think of any counterexamples)
Automatically Manage Your AWS Account via AWS Lambda via AWS Chalice via AWS CDK
Sounds like the epiphany of a hypoglycemic teenager. I'm far too old for that particular brand of foolishness.
> The problem with this is that nobody will change the defaults, so that approach is utterly useless if you want actionable information.

This is not just about defaults. When sharing from the Wikipedia Android app, I cannot use the settings to disable this tracking tag from being appended. I have to delete it by hand every time.
What state do more NFL Quarterbacks come from?
Doesn’t work on Safari iOS if you’re behind a pihole/ad blocker.
Why are they looking up User Agent from a third party?

Seems odd. Probably analytics or something.
“attempting to explain to the public what they are doing”

The idea that you can explain FLoC, third party cookies or any other digital advertising technology to the public is crazy talk.

Ad tech is extremely complex and constantly evolving - “the public” includes children, the intellectually disabled, the mentally ill, the elderly and the illiterate.

No amount of documentation is going to help these people reach a point where they could actually be considered as giving “informed consent” to their “use” of an ad-tech stack that often involves dozens of different legal entities and software components.

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“why it is not a threat to privacy”

The entire purpose of FLoC is to maximise profit for Google by minimising my privacy.
I have so many BS helpers in my project to do this

util.StrPtr("hello")
util.BoolPtr(false)
util.Int64Ptr(7)
// etc

This is just a gap in Go's design, so I'm glad this proposal exists :)
I can confirm that. And I feel it everyday.
> Would it be possible to change the Go compiler such that 3 has a type? (I'm guessing no, at least not easily, otherwise he'd be suggesting it, but I'm curious about the reason)

Why not? In fact it already kind-of does: Go has "default types" for most untyped constants. When you write

i := 3

absent an explicit type, Go will fall back to "int".
This isn't correct. You can work as a researcher without a degree, certainly in the UK. A general example would be an associate professor at a business school with extensive career experience who might contribute to some papers. An anecdotal example is myself; I don't have a bachelors degree but during my masters degree I had some summer research work. I ended up not finishing the masters degree but did chat about the possibility of going back to do a part-time PhD.
>What makes you think these are "early stages"? AFAIK many telcos already use Huawei 4G equipment, though I can't find actual numbers for that. I'd say Huawei/China is already well positioned to abuse any backdoor access they have. The move to 5G could only expand this.

We're at the peak of a massive international debate regarding the role of Huawei in Western communications networks. This is a debate that has already led to bans and restrictions on the deployment of Huawei equipment in 5G networks [0-3]. 5G buildouts are happening right now, and hence the political purchasing decisions (with a multi-decade impact) are happening now. I suspect that's why we're seeing things like TFA.

It seems to me that this would be the worst possible time for Huawei to get caught doing something unambiguously malicious. Right now Western networks could remove Huawei if they wanted to, or if politicians ban it. Ten years from now -- assuming Huawei "wins" in most Western nations -- it will be vastly more difficult to replace that equipment. If we imagine a 2035 where Huawei has dominated the US/European 5G market, I suspect that their European competitors will also be much weaker (or will have abandoned the field entirely), meaning that there really isn't much of an alternative.

So TL;DR I can't say that there is a good time to get caught spying, but there definitely is a bad time: and it's right now.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-47041341
[1] https://www.telecompaper.com/news/dutch-mps-call-for-more-cl...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-huawei-5g-security...
[3-N] Just search on "<European country> 5g Huawei debate"
Thanks. I do not have any intention to do web scraping. Let's reduce the scope of my request: I want to do two things - 1) Get the schedules of the upcoming (future) matches in most of the popular sports across globe - football, soccer, cricket, tennis etc. How does ESPN or other sources get this? Do they get this information 3 months/6 months in advance from all these sports organizations? Or do they simply have people to enter this data manually in their own system? 2) I want to keep history of who won/lost the particular match and any other interesting tidbits about the match that already took place. So I am not planning on doing any web scraping and neither I plan to offer any live feed API or data. So my question is - how do I accomplish my above stated 2 goals efficiently without doing web scraping? Thanks.
It seems surprising to assert that Nvidia would slash R&D after the acquisition, considering Nvidia’s demonstrated willingness to spend enormous amounts of money on R&D, even for speculative and risky products. For example, they funded the Project Denver/Carmel team for almost a decade, even though the resulting microarchitectures didn’t seem to have gained significant commercial traction.

If this was a sale to a PE firm I think your predictions would be more likely, but Nvidia seems really unlikely to be a “slash costs and sell it for parts” type of buyer.
Tech companies want workers, but it’s getting tougher to find them
Be careful. I got brain picked after a via HN startup interview and job offer that turned out to be fake.
Well the sender, receiver and the amounts are all hidden, so yes.

I should still note that it isn't a magic bullet, and that things you do in connection to the monero blockchain can obviously still give the authorities an idea of what you are doing.
Conversely, we don't owe anyone labor for uninteresting work.

I suppose that's the beauty of having the freedom of choice.
And this gets to what I'm saying in the top post. I get what you are saying with the consent argument. You are playing a word game via a redefinition of consent where even though they signed a piece of paper agreeing to do the thing while not under acute duress it wasn't "really consent" because the life is unfair and the system forced their hand.

And what I'm saying is, not only do I not accept the validity of that word game, but that a VAST majority of society does not accept that word game. Under your definition of consent almost nobody ever has consent for anything. This is not how people generally use the word consent.
Apple Approves Parler to Return to App Store
If you can acquire BTC anonymously, then you can acquire prepaid virtual credit cards anonymously. Most localbitcoins exchangers will happily do bank transfers for you without asking any questions either.

There's not many kinds of payments which aren't fairly easy to do anonymously.
Have you listened to any of their podcasts in the last 6 months? Their main ad is always some propaganda piece from Facebook
Thanks for the information -- this was one of the concerns I expressed in a previous comment. It's going to be very difficult to evaluate this product via video. The videos/animations look so good that I had a hard time believing that the display performs that well in-person[0].

I can understand how this might really look a bit better, now, with the clarity on the left/right vs up/down depth (I recall reading something about depth perception that makes this less important, but I don't recall where/when), so it's sounding promising.

[0] I'm not saying it doesn't -- this is just based simply on the fact that I have yet to see one that does (and, in fact, if this isn't the technology I think it is, I haven't seen one at all).
just get me a tree and some rope
In the black or in the red for financials
https://app.wire.com/auth/?hl=en#register

It's a bit hard to find, looks like they've given up trying to compete for non-business users, but the client has a registration form open to everyone.

I think they'll keep supporting this because inviting those 'guest' accounts into rooms of business users is a big feature. We regularly collaborate with people via Wire (customers or freelancers, who can just use their personal Wire accounts) because it's the easiest way to collaborate without forfeiting encryption or features.
Cracking Enigma in 2021 – Computerphile
Another great example of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. If the headline is a question, the answer is no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Best part of this proposal from Go's co-creator:

> Would you consider yourself a novice, intermediate, or experienced Go programmer?

I have some experience.
Yep. Autonomy, purpose, and challenge are what people want to stay engaged and keep morale up.
For people who are intensely worried about prions, it seems that eating less meat will decrease their chance of exposure.
I asked an AI for video ideas for other YouTubers. It went badly
- Define 'structural racism' and why it forces blacks to be far more criminal and violent than the rest of the population.

- Can poverty explain, for example, why blacks in Wisconsin commit 2/3 of all violent crime while they are only 7% of the state's population? There are wholly White and Native American cities in Wisconsin that are dirt poor - the poorest - and yet they are not committing insanely high levels of crime.
Partial Migration to Webflow
CWD hasn't jumped to humans ever, correct?
Also sarcasm
In addition to the points other people made, proteins are really a whole different thing from viruses in terms of numbers. You make so many proteins every moment, at this point every possible screwup has been cooked up somewhere.
So a few things here.

1. ML at Facebook and Baidu pay well so you could use that money to fund more effective things.

2. By working in these roles you have the ability to change how things are done. Certainly more than you usually could from the outside.

3. There's a big push in the effective altruism group on safe AI/ML. I disagree with this but that's a factor in their weightings.
I mean, there are a lot of reasons to not to. And I say that as a meat eater.
You've labeled this an "activist policy", but it seems to me that label actually means "a policy I personally disagree with."

If banks decided to invest in carbon producing companies, is that an activist policy? What about if they invest in US companies? Or invest in developing countries?

What makes this (avoiding investments in polluting firms) activist investing while the opposite isn't in your view. Seems hypocritical.
I don't see how news is sustainable at current employment levels. Most papers cover the same stories from their own angle, but we don't need 1,000 duplicated takes.

Social media bubbles headlines and links up from a potluck of sources, so there's no central paper to subscribe to and support. The end result is ad blocking everything, ignoring paywalls, and subscribing or paying no one.

If I went to a paper's website instead of social media (HN, some curated reddits), I'd be inclined to subscribe, but none of them have great audience participation and discussion.

If there was a Spotify for news journals, I'd be happy to subscribe, but that doesn't solve the issue of clickbait garbage winning over real journalism and soaking up all the money. Nor does it supply enough revenue to feed all the journalists.

The solution, sadly, seems to be mass culling and centralization. The world is connected and nobody needs local newspapers anymore.

Edit: not sure why I'm at -3 for making an observation. I'm not defending Facebook. The news industry doesn't appear to be sustainable in the modern age.
This isn't even true.

No matter what syntax you write inside a function, the Go compiler always has the final say on what is stack allocated and what is heap allocated. Taking the address of foo will not cause foo to be heap allocated unless Go is unable to prove that the pointer will live for less time than the current stack frame. Look up "escape analysis".

Basically the only way to guarantee that something will always be heap allocated is to assign it to a global variable. Even returning a pointer to that object from the current function is not a strong guarantee, since the compiler could inline this function into the caller and determine that everything can live happily inside the newly inlined stack frame without heap allocation.
Apple's official graphics API is Metal. There is plenty of documentation for that. Apple considers Metal a commercial advantage over OpenGL / Vulkan. That is; they want developers to develop against Metal.
For some corporations, yes, that is what they are supposed to do. However I make a distinction when it comes to the size of the company and the type of service they provide. There are some businesses and industries that I believe need to act like impartial utilities. Banking is one such sector.
Uninformed outsider coming in with questions:

1) Isn't this just based on "naive" implementations? Surely there are optimizations to not have to render all 45 view planes at all times similar to how 3d rendering doesn't render scenes that are not visible until the character moves to change perspective?

2) The difficulty with layout and design doesn't seem that different from any 3d or game design challenges to make sure the person can't see the wizardry behind the curtain. Is it?

I guess what i'm thinking is if you take an Introduction to Computer Graphics course, you can learn all the math, all the concepts, and all the abstract ideas about building 3D worlds. Then you try to implement them and you immediately realize that none of the ideas are performant enough to actually put into practice in a video game without MAJOR optimizations that on the surface seem 1/ Hacky, 2/ Extraordinarily difficult. We've been doing a range of them for 30 years. But some are only TODAY entering the mainstream despite being the simplest possible concept to explain to a student (ray tracing).

Is it not the same situation with these kinds of displays (and other VR/AR)? We're in the super early stages and we need the John Carmack equivalents to identify all the super insanely clever optimizations to squeeze something practical out of them?
Read the website of the author of that garbage paper and decide for yourself whether you feel like it’s a good decision to broadcast it to a wider audience:

vaccines.net

> We are concerned that the current outbreak of COVID-19 is actually a bioweapon attack and may be linked to the US anthrax attack of 2001, which originated from the US army base Fort Detrick.

> The former FBI agent in charge of the US anthrax attack investigation, Richard Lambert, alleged that his superiors acted to inhibit his investigation and prematurely closed the case after it was determined the anthrax used for the attack came from Fort Detrick. This revelation (see this link) as well as Dr. Classen's first hand experience working 3 years at Dr. Tony Fauci's NIAID leads him to be more than concerned that there is a contingent in the US government that is not acting in the public interest regarding bioweapons. Classen notes NIAID received substantial funds for bioweapons research after the domestic anthrax attack . He considers this quite alarming given activities he observed at NIAID and the relationship he observed between people at NIAID and the nearby Fort Detrick.
I think they mean the manufacturing supply chain, which supply AMD, Nvidia, and even Intel.

e.g. TSMC <- ASML, and the raw materials providers
In a post-scarcity world that is how work should be. People should for pleasure, comfort or luxury, not for survival or dignity.
I think there's better arguments than a risk of prion disease for cutting beef (or meat in general) from your diet - not sure if your comment is meant as a joke that I'm not catching, so I'll hold out on going into details unless you're interested :-)
Or you know, all those African people in Kenya? Africans refer to themselves as Africans, not as Black.
If join were a method on lists then you wouldn't be able to use it with other iterables. Putting it on str is more useful, if more confusing.

Maybe it would be better as a standalone function. But then you'd either have to import it or it would pollute the global namespace.

Other OOP models offer different solutions.
Thanks. I just created a nice storage box for my Wii, got everything organized and put it on the bottom of a large pile of things to sell.

This sounds way too interesting, so I'll be doing some digging, apparently. Any idea if this would work effectively on a large projector screen?