skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great song picks. Absolutely agree. Hell, the article even largely omits the massive influence of house on techno in general, as most of these narratives seem to do.

As a result, many people seem to think techno preceded house. But taking the view that Juan Atkins' early 80s work was basically electro and not yet really "techno", it's pretty clear that house was already quite prevalent prior to techno becoming a distinct genre.

And even then, early 80s italo-disco was leagues ahead of house in terms of production quality... a few of my personal favorites:

Charlie - "Spacer Woman" (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZDPCjEoIMI

Klapto - "Mister Game" (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQUVg-HCjEE

Mr Flagio - "Take a Chance" (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDV_dBYp4h0

Fun Fun - "Happy Station" (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb5B1C5PFVo

Meanwhile on the house side we have debatable-first-house-record Jesse Saunders "On and On" (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUeMFG4wjJw. Although my personal favorite under-appreciated proto-house pick would actually be from nyc, Boyd Jarvis "The Music Got Me" (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYfG8tcEl3E.

These articles always mention "Shari Vari" since it's so early (1981) and influential (and still good!) but I always find it odd that they omit so many great tracks from the next few years.
This is really cool. There are definitely problems with security when it comes to package managers, but I think it has become apparent that having a dedicated package manager for your language is almost as important as the language features your language offers.

As a side note. I've never used Fortran, but I see it around from time to time (R & Python packages that have fortran dependencies). Is Fortran seeing a bit of a resurgence? Is there any reason to use Fortran over say C, C++, Rust, or some other language? Or is it simply down to Fortran's maturity providing robust libraries in certain areas that other languages haven't?
Isnt that true during many major world events that are bad? I cant remember the study but I recall reading that during WW1 and WW2 suicides declined greatly even though it was a terrible time for many.
> All those C programmers hating on python are probably just bitter they had to waste all that time learning pointers.
>Seems like there is a real opportunity to increase EV adoption through some level of government subsidy.

If all of the claimed benefits of EVs are real (better for the environment, simpler and cheaper to maintain), why should we subsidize them at all? Perhaps we tax ICE vehicles based on emissions, but spending tax money to encourage people to buy more vehicles seems like an odd policy. EVs are cleaner, but they aren't clean, and cars in general have externalities.
> As soon as I find out someone holds opposing views on a topic I feel strongly about, I can’t help but dread my interactions with them.

I'm of the opinion that all views that my colleagues have that are not related to the work at hand does not/should not affect how we work together at all.

I've been hearing my colleagues personal political opinion, the spectrum goes to both ends. I personally don't mind at all, I'm more sensitive to code quality and bugs.
I'm so glad that Nano and Pico exist.

These are the only terminal editors I really understand.
Seriously impressed by your responsiveness here.
That's fair.

I'm willing to bet that this video does more financial harm to them than anything else, especially at just 26k views - but your argument is fair.
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You mock, but in world war II America did not build its Navy, Air Force or Army until AFTER Pear Harbor was attacked. Then we built weapons that were customized to defeat the enemies we had.
You may be right; I've been out of that loop for a rather long time now.
I had a Tesla Model S for about a year. Had several 6-8 hour trips which would require one or two charges and quite often day trips which required one stop. It helps to find charging stops with a Starbucks or something close by. Then you can just get a bite to eat and it's done when you get back.

The charging stops more like a regular gas station I'd just walk slower and make sure to use the bathroom and browse every isle.

It adds about triple the time for a stop. Not sure about non supercharger capable EVs. With a Tesla it's pretty close to same experience.
> There is no city in the US today where you could build something as tall as the Empire State Building as of right

I'm not sure what you mean by that. 6 buildings taller than the ESB have been completed in NYC since 2014, mostly residential towers of the sort described in the OP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_N...
> Where do we go next ?

Neural nets are all you need[*].

[*] if what you need is non-robust black boxes
For many progressives, workplaces are inherently political by their very structure and processes. In this perspective, to ask a progressive to "not bring politics to work" is telling them that the established political norms shall be victorious (without debate). It's not like conservatives don't do virtue signaling: there are catch phrases like "respect for capital" and "work hard" that are just as prevalent in the workplace, it's just that those phrases may not be seen as being political.

In my opinion, there is room for many political perspectives in the workplace, moreover, they can all be correct at the same time. In particular, once people stop talking in abstract generalities, but in concrete actions regarding concrete challenges, many of these perceived differences melt away to reveal far more consensus than political posturing might indicate.

In my experience, the best way to handle political speech in the workplace is to ask the speaker to contextualize their perspective into a concrete action that they'd like to be taken, taking into account all of the moving parts and stakeholders. At this point, the ones who have a serious point to make have an opportunity to present a process improvement, or be educated about considerations they are not thinking about.
Daft Punk is the biggest electronic group in recent memory and wouldn't exist without Kraftwerk (and italo-disco).

Similarly, Underworld of "Born Slippy NUXX" fame in the '90s, are indebted to Kraftwerk (and Brian Eno) as well.
That seems somewhat overly general and pessimistic. Some of us develop strong support relationships with our colleagues on our teams, which results in conversations and activities that happen well outside of work hours or premises, and lasting friendships that remain strong even years after they've parted ways with the company that brought us together.
Is there an official name for this sort of effect? I've been looking for something to call this. For example, we've had this effect at work when trying to organize social outings; people say they're interested in some activity X (e.g. hiking, board games, etc.), but then the day of that event comes and nobody shows up. The bar is very low to say you're interested in something, but doing actually takes effort.
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It really depends on the car.

If you're in a Tesla, check out the map: https://www.tesla.com/supercharger

So it's not perfect. The only time I've run into trouble was in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We had to go charge at a slow rate in Marquette, Michigan (one of my favorite towns now) because there were no Super Chargers or overnight chargers available where we stayed "someone might trip over the cord".

So if you get, say, a Tesla Model Y you're looking at probably around 300 miles of range in the summer time (less in winter or cold conditions). So you just need to be able to charge somewhere. It takes more planning for now.

If you're with another car, I think it's not quite as good. Typically people will find a destination charger (i.e. stay at a hotel with an outlet to charge at).

So you're likely to be in the smaller minority where they don't quite yet fit all of your use cases. Often times I tell people to plan for most of your use cases most of the time. For example, we are in our house or around town 95% of our lives. So I'm not going to stress out or over-optimize for that 5% when an electric car might be inconvenient. That's us though. It's an individual decision. It's nice that we can charge our standard range Model 3 fully (220 miles~ of charge) for $2.65 total. Much, much cheaper than gas. On the other hand we spent 8 lovely hours in Marquette charging our car. YMMV

Charging times vary. We recently did about a 5 hour trip from Columbus to Michigan with a Tesla and spent 40 minutes charging (each way, a little more on the way up and less on the way back) - a couple of stops. One at a Meijer where we went in, walked around, got some snacks and used the restroom. Another at hotel lot where we just stood and stretched for a bit. That's with Tesla SuperCharging network though. We also were at a house and had a 110 outlet so just plugged in and when we went home we were at 97% so didn't have to charge as much on the way back home. Personally wouldn't do a long road trip with any other EV.

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It'll be gradual then sudden, but a lot of those convenient gas stations will be going away too as we shift toward electric vehicles. It won't be long before gas itself becomes inconvenient compared to electric as far as availability is concerned. For example, national parks can install electric chargers. They can't put in a gas station.

As someone else mentioned, you probably are saving more time overall with an EV since if you charge at home you don't ever need to go to the gas station. I have to imagine that more than makes up for the time you spend stopping and charging on road trips. Would be interesting to see studies on this.
One of the questions raised at the end of the article:

"Do we ever benefit from explicitly putting Fourier layers into our models?"

Has a simple, partial answer here:

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.l...

"...multiplying a vector by the matrix returned by dft is mathematically equivalent to (but much less efficient than) the calculation performed by scipy.fft.fft."

fft-as-a-matrix-multiply is much slower to compute than a standard fft, especially on large input.
Cheers, thanks.

I completely forgot about LiceCap! Notable option of a very good provenance. Still a bit too much UI for my taste :)
What kind of copyright work? I have heard from friends in Germany that ISPs sniffing all transport so if you download movie with torrent they will send you exact titles, and ask you to pay 1000-2000 eur or they will take you to court where you will pay 1000 per each movie downloaded ... And I have friends that actually paid fine.
If you're looking for a doomsday scenario, what's happening in India right now is probably the worst we've seen since the pandemic started. Essentially every hospital in every major city is full and there are patients dying outside.
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> like editing a ini file and adding a line or a word,

That's precisely the use case that has made me remove nano from every machine I administer since the 90s.

Unless you're really careful to always start nano as "nano -w", its hard word wrapping will introduce line breaks where many configuration file formats (including ini files) don't expect, and it will do so in lines other than the one you're modifying. It's less risky to simply set another editor as the default. (But if you're careful to always use "nano -w", it's a perfectly fine editor.)
Sounds a bit like the legend of King Skjöldr, who was a Danish King who came to the shore as a small child in a boat with no other on it on a shild (hence the name.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skj%C3%B6ldr
It seems to vary also a lot by region. Take for instance this local news article from yesterday about excess death in some east German states: https://www.dnn.de/Region/Mitteldeutschland/Uebersterblichke...

Among other things it says the excess death in last December among members of a large health insurer (AOK) rose to 250% of the previous year in various heavy hit regions like Zwickau, Görlitz and Sächsische Schweiz ("So stieg die Übersterblichkeit im vergangenen Dezember unter den sächsischen AOK-Mitgliedern in den Landkreisen Zwickau, Görlitz und Sächsische Schweiz auf 250 Prozent des Vorjahresniveau.").
So? There is no guarantee of anything, for anyone. But in terms of risk management, you can take some extremely simple steps to reduce the risk to approximately zero. Here's "the talk" that all parents can have with their kids:

1) Do your best to avoid breaking the law or associating with people that do.
2) If you have a police encounter, cooperate.

Does that /guarantee/ anything? Of course not. But follow those two simple rules and the odds of getting killed by police are /effectively/ zero. Yes, there's still a chance, but there's always a chance (for everyone, of all colors). But follow those two simple rules and you'll probably win the lottery or get hit by lightning first.
I can't speak for Google, but I'm working on something similar as a personal project and here is my architecture;

Each service has its own store of objects. Each store also has a directory of Metadata describing the objects contained in each service.

When you send an Auth request to a service; the service you are sending the request to looks up which service is the authority for the given object and then routes the request to that service for auth.

You can do away with the Metadata store if you offload responsibility for remembering which store to use to the user. You provide them with a cookie that tells any of your Auth servers which store contains this users data.
> don't include it in the model

They tried that, but they failed because they didn't know that it's possible to downcast from an interface.

It's really hard to have that kind of problem in a dumb REST API. `return {"name": record.name}` does what it says with hardly any magic. But if I write `return record` there's a whole extra layer that grabs information out of record, and I have to trust that it only grabs the information I want it to grab.

This is not to say that dumb REST APIs are definitely better. Having to do things manually also introduces risks.
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I’m on financial side - the market is good for sales force admins and devs - partly because you can add a fair Bit of business process type items into the package. The codes a bit ugly but results seem to make clients happy and the finance people are willing to write the reasonable bucks
ReleaseHub (YC W20) nabs $2.7M for on-demand environments
> So, it would have killed 2-3x more people, max.

You are very cavalier with somewhere around 1.1-1.6 million extra deaths, to date. That's your GOOD number?

If that's your anti-intervention argument, I'm unconvinced. Saving a million lives is worth a lot to me.
>Nano does many things quicker and easier than vi. For example, search & replace.

There may be instances where Nano does something quicker but search and replace would seem to be a perfect example of the opposite where Nano has taken a quick one line thing in vi and turned it into a multistep process for simplicity.
"tweet reposted by Aidy Bryant of Bernie Sanders’ calling billionaires “a moral obscenity.”

the best argument against this I've heard is think about Amazon in 2001 and Jeff being told, ok, you're done now. You have net worth of $999,999,999.00 USD we are going to force you to stop being Amazon CEO because 1 more dollar and that would be obscene.

We would never have amazon of 2021. Jeff did more good for the world from 2002-present and his actions are anything but obscene.
Yes. There's good money in it, the certifications keep the quality good and are reasonably doable. You can transition out once you get some experience with major clients; I did Siebel for years and whilst many of my colleagues jumped to Salesforce I transitioned into the heady but well paid world of enterprise architecture.
I have found that any deep specialization that is too detached from foundational programming or systems tends to be a non-transferrable skill. Salesforce sounds kinda like that.

Can you make solid money doing it? Well sure. That's not really the question, from what I read of your question. The question is if I spend n years doing this, when n is greater than 10 will I have learned anything that lets me step into the next thing.
I'm really interested in training NNs in the frequency domain:

- a ton of data (JPEGs, MPEGs, MFCCs) exists in the compressed form of FFT-ed features

- FFTs are hardware encoded/decoded & optimised

- FFTs are great at separating signal from noise, leading to a huge reduction in input features (eg JPEG encoded) as compared to raw pixel values

- convolutions in the time domain are just multiplications in the frequency domain

- converting to log polar coordinates turns them into additions

- distance between two log polar coordinates could be the loss function

However, I've not had much luck getting a frequency domain network like this to converge. Anyone tried something similar with success?
I've never seen anyone in real live interpret a statement in the most offensive way imaginable and not accept correction nor explanation.

I have. I can't share details, but the event forever damaged the whole group's trust in one another because one person decided to interpret something in the most offensive way possible, and lashed out viciously at anyone who disagreed, or even agreed but not as strongly as they wanted.
yeah, the key word is: community. When that's great, naturally one wants it.
>In the US, 33-50% of the population apparently had antibodies pre-vaccination

Where did that number come from?

I have read more like 8% (https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)32009-2/full...)

So - 2 to 3x... Nope. 8 - 10x.

What I want to know is why you have constructed this belief and want to propagate it when it is refuted by a google search in 10 seconds flat?
You weren't kidding, 13% of their staff (30 people) and also literally at the end of April.[1]

Guess that makes the corporate double-speak in this video even more damning.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21230290/patreon-laid-off...
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Where are we on charging-from-underneath-the-car? I live in a city center, where I can't hook up to my own charging unit, curbside units are scarce and a pain in the ass having to plug in your car every time anyway (my neighbour's charging cable is always across the sidewalk, an accident waiting to happen, especially if more people would start doing this)

The obvious (to me) future is small-ish in-ground base stations in the center of all parking spots, with 'prongs' that come out and automatically plug into a car parked on top of it, presumably with some sort of communication between car and charging plate, and some way to 'guide' the prongs so that you don't have to park exactly in the right spot. There are technical challenges wrt reliability etc, but I wouldn't think those to be unsurmountable. Still I haven't heard of any advances in this field in years. Is that still happening or is manually plugging in the way of the future?
"...(now well over 200 years old)"

Duh, how did miss that glaring typo? Of course that should read 2000 years. While I'm at it, the best figure we have for the Republic is ≈375 BC which makes it ≈2396 years old.
The author of Papers Please also made The Return of the Obra Dinn.

It's another game about bureaucracy. This time you play as an insurance investigator.
How is the article a smear piece? It doesn't talk about anything but the sudden increase in demand for flights out of the country and the big jump in prices.

Your defensiveness is very odd.
Off topic, but really excited to intern with you this summer :)
I'm planning on my next car being electric. Just waiting for my current car to die. Wonder how many others are in a similar situation.
If you're not billing your transit time you're making a mistake. I've heard of people double billing plane or train transit: one customer put you on the train, and the other customer pays for the work you do on the train.
Indeed. I would advise the same for people who consider buying a truck on the premise that every once in a while it would be handy to have for hauling something.
Great comment! Super informative and something I had not properly thought about. But you're totally right, curvature of the spokes is based only on the fact it's rolling past the camera, and two wheels rolling at different speeds will result in the same spoke pattern.
Check out basscss.com. First off, you don't want any framework that uses JS like Bootstrap because if you're using vue or react that really screws things up. Basscss I feel hits the sweet spot that lets you easily develop the look and feel you want vs a canned one.
I think it's was a conceptual comment
Yeah, how could you hate on anyone who uses the standard text editor?[0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
JavaScript has most developers but Rust is the fastest growing
I swear if I here the word "the right fit"/"culture fit"/any use of "fit" again in SWE labor relations discussions
Geologist found the oldest water on earth
Its more like using the right tool for what you actually want to do.

0. Use cat and output to a file to really quickly make a new file from your clipboard or from the web

1. Nano is great for editing config / text files quickly and the learning curve is really low due to a more modern design.

2. vim can be reliably found everywhere on nearly any unix machine but the learning curve is much higher initial learning curve vim has more customization than vi and has basically replaced vi on modern installations of unix

3. emacs has out of the box has a learning curve less than vi but can't be found everywhere and you probably have to install it but it also has a large amount of extendability. the initial learning curve is a bit low but then it gets higher and higher. It also has multiple versions and a GUI and a package manager.
There’s lots of transferable skills from crystal reports to other reporting platforms.

It takes the professional to do that skills mapping.

Reporting systems are reporting systems for the most part. In the case of Crystal Reports, it was acquired by SAP and still pretty heavily in use in businesses.
Because we've now become accustomed to Facebook/Google/Twitter doing the bidding of the political establishment.
Immediately did a Ctrl-F to see if Ishkur's guide had been mentioned on this thread and was not disappointed. As sassy as it is, the deep relational depth and exhaustive Ishkur put into making sense of the whole history of electronic music (and really the /whole/ history -- right back to its origins in musique concrete) made a really big impression on me as a teenager. It's probably a large part of what made me get a double major in music in college.
Another vote for that documentary, it's absolutely a joy. Not streaming for free anywhere, but worth the cost: http://www.waxtraxfilms.com/
*anything continuous
I'm not sure if it can be a long-term career.

But if you are sick of doing web dev because of "not doing anything interesting/fun" I would say there's a great chance you'll be sick really quick - most of the SaaS platform's developer experience are just horrifying.
You absolutely can. You can write as much fiction as you want about whatever as long as you present it as such. You specifically cannot make statements presented as truth that you know to be false with the intent of causing harm to that person. It may seem pedantic but the difference is vital.
One of the project authors (Lea Kissner) relates the story to the naming of the project here:

https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576