skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi - I’m a largely self-taught musician/music teacher/producer of 15 years+ experience …played in loads of bands in many different styles and am a huge fan of the Beatles... Both you and the article are misguided in your assumptions about music theory IMHO.
Whether they consciously know/admit it or not, every decent musician benefits from and needs to know about some sort of ‘music theory’ at every level of playing.
I guarantee you that Paul McCartney and the Beatles knew/know rather more about music than you allow (or possibly than they recognise/would like to admit...). Granted, they could not perhaps sight-read musical notation and so on or arrange an orchestral score (though if you look into P.M./other Beatles’s background/family you’ll see that it was indeed very musical and he has done some pretty spectacular stuff with the hel of others…), but even if you want to play rock-n-roll covers in different keys you kind of need some understanding of eg. how a basic twelve bar blues format works, V-I change, some idea about scales/arpeggios/which notes ‘go together well’ etc. You don’t need to know the proper terminology for it or be able to do a full formal/Riemannian analysis or something, but you are using and systematising a kind of music theory directly, even if just on your own idiosyncratic terms... Theory and an ability to work out/make up /remember/categorise song’s etc. by ear or otherwise is more linked than you might superficially think I would suggest.
Music theory across different cultures is not a science (as I presume computer science is?), but is based on kind of formalised aspects of that culture’s understanding of ‘common practise’. On a fundamental level you could look at it as being informed by how human beings perceive sound/frequencies/mathematical/aesthetic ‘rules’, but a large part is also based on conventions …so, even in the process of learning new songs/repertoire and seeing commonalities between them/remembering them, you are learning a type of music theory you could argue… Anyhow, I get where you’re coming from and there are some similarities, but sometimes I can’t help feeling people do tend to talk an awful lot of bunk/received nonsense about music and music theory… (the idea of ‘natural talent’ - although no doubt people have very different mental furniture/natural aptitude’s - is one of those things that can be very damaging to people progressing/learning about stuff I have found…)
But ABQ still wins if you drop the "major" qualification.

Sigh. NM, c'mon, we can do better. Can't we?
> Is the forgoing the excluded middle really gaining you the guarantee of computability?

It doesn't follow; that uncomputable things cannot be expressed in a constructive system doesn't mean that everything that is computable in principle is also computable, or even definable, in that system (unless by "guaranteeing computability" you meant something else).
I ran into this issue when setting up UI previews for a GitHub OAuth app.

My solution is to have a single callback server that looks in the OAuth state to determine where to redirect. This isn't secure, so when building the UI, I sign the UI's preview URL with a secret and send that in the OAuth state. The callback server checks the signature and redirects that way.

It's hacky and I wouldn't trust it for a production app, but for a test environment it seems okay.
The members of this board and the people who run YC don’t have much in common in terms of priories.
Will internet explorer mode in Edge have the same support as ie11 running compatibility view or just base ie11?
How is this more hacky than X-Forwarded-For + X-Forwarded-Host + X-Forwarded-Proto?
> poor investors can put their money into options and blow up in a day, but can't put it into private equity

Cost of diligence. One can theoretically fully diligence an option and its underlying stock’s issuer with public information. One cannot do that in private investments. Private investing requires expensive legal work; it also requires the ability to enforce one’s rights in court. Investing $10 or 20k pretty much guarantees one isn’t doing the former and can’t do the latter; that’s a recipe for disaster.

As a former options market maker who is now in private equity, I (a) agree that options should be more roped off from retail investors and (b) minimally dabble in private equity and don’t touch options in my PA.

The only responsible buyers of options buy them expecting to lose money. They’re the lossy leg of the trade, the insurance. When hedge funds want to go long or short they use cash positions or leveraged swaps. Not options.
Flushing browsing data regularly should, except of course if you have to login to youtube.
Some good practices, reminds of Effective Java.

Couple nuggets as well:

* just `raise` implies re-raising the current exception
* `raise MyException() from ex` continues the stack trace
* `logger.info(..., exec_info=True)` can add a stack trace to non-error level logs
Reading the comments here it’s pretty clear I’m not far off the Mark.
Rocking 463 releases so far. On the long term, we are all dead.
They said "easy to describe" ie easy to go from understanding to description, not "easy to understand" ie easy to go in the opposite direction from description to understanding.
FastNeRF: High-Fidelity Neural Rendering at 200FPS
I'm in same boat. One problem - SF folks are RICH (relatively). It's nuts what tech pays, what stock options have done for folks if they are 10-12 years in at facebook / google etc. Ugh.
But you’re comparing a city of 800k to a city of 10M.
Well that's just an awful pretentious revisionist bit of rose colored navel gazing.

Now granted, I have only been online in various forms since 1992 (first on BBSs, then on the Internet occasionally in 1994, and then pretty much continuously since 1996), but I can tell you with a "vaguely feminine" name (Yvan, which is a French name, and any native speaker will tell you it's a male name) and almost 30 years of online activity under my real name, I can tell you that Internet has been a shitty place pretty much since the nerd realized he could stalk a classmate through the university mail system, and probably even before then.
The web version shows Mitch, but the app shows a blank white (which is at the center of the image, meaning it didn’t try to crop to one of the faces). I’m on iOS.
Normal 3D perspective has a vanishing point, objects appear farther and farther in the Z axis. Distance is directly related to time in our heads. Isometric perspective eliminates that notion, objects at the back are the same size (and as “reachable”) as the ones in front.
Three Big Lies
> This approach seems to be unsupervised, I don't see the problem.

Someone wrote and tested this algorithm, and either:

a) didn't test it on pictures of women, or,

b) didn't notice that it cropped breasts rather than faces, or,

c) didn't think that was a problem.

If they had noticed and cared, this wouldn't be the approach in use.
The big 5 traits are merely correlations that appear in personality survey questionnaires.
"What's awful is asking rents have barely budged. Peaked at around $85/sf, now around $75/sf. The landlords can afford to just sit on inventory."

This is because their loan-to-value ratio is based on their square foot rental rates. If the unit sits empty they, of course, lose money ... but if they rent it at market price they could lose the property entirely with a (for lack of a better term) margin call.

If the value of the building ratchets down and blows up their loan covenants, it is better to have it sit empty and lose money slowly ...
no, not really. If I could I would be the first to thrown it in a deep hole in the ground and seal with concrete to make sure it never rises again.
Why in the world is this comment being downvotes? There is nothing in this comment that I see is incorrect, and if you’re going to vigorously down vote because “I don’t like things that make me feel bad!” you at least ought to comment as to what could be wrong here.
That's not quite true. The dimension of the ambient space is constrained to be exactly 10 (in strings, 11 in M-theory) by consistency considerations.

The important question is what is the geometry of the extra dimensions, if they exist. You need a large amount of energy to probe the extra dimensions, so it would appear just like some extra particles in the theory to a low energy observer. (Of course, the observer has to have enough energy to find even those particles).

The standard model also has seemingly arbitrary particle content and interactions without much to constrain it. A majority of the particle content was put in the theory by hand after seeing a failure of the theory. In strings, this choice has been moved from the theory to the initial data (choice of geometry of the extra dimensions).
Google pays new grads like 180 and they’re pretty much the top of the industry in terms of pay scale. Throwing hyperbole in just undercuts the point they were trying to make.
I don't confuse email with gmail, thank you very much. I gave gmail as an example specifically because a) that's what I used, and b) gmail like all other big providers is anal about accepting email and quick on the trigger-finger about marking it as spam even when it does.
This has some great ideas. I particularly like the "we want this" reverse Kickstarter and separating back and front ends on desktop. On the second one, it would be great if there was a standard for richer interface interaction where you basically had a full rpc interface for the backend, and the frontend used that interface to do things like create a command line interface, or create a gui, or various other more specific different interfaces. The trick is: how do you incentivize programmers to design this way more up front?

And it course package based programming is a must, just like modular programming.
I'm pretty happy for anyone to hammer on this fact over and over again...

> Between 2010 and 2018, San Francisco produced only one new unit of housing for every 8.5 new jobs.

ps -- "securing [sic] political favors for the tech industry"... that's loaded language to refer to industry lobbying.

And sf has received an enormous amount of money for the tech industry; I think it will have a really rough time if / as the industry starts locating elsewhere.
Some terminals can issue a reset from "the outside", e.g., iTerm2 has this under ⌘K. (In fact, `reset` inside iTerm2 fails to completely reset the terminal…)

Every now and they I'll want to do ^K in Vim and inadvertently hit ⌘K instead, which is fun. (`:redraw!` sorts things back out. Though weirdly it occurs to me that now that the terminal seems to somehow remain in alternate mode…)
Well, that depends. Is that software breaking local law? Then creating it is obviously immoral. Is that software breaking foreign law? That depends on whether your government currently sees that foreign country as an ally, or an enemy. If its an ally, it's obviously immoral. If it's an enemy, it's obviously moral.

This morality will, of course, flip along with the geopolitical situation.

... Unless, of course, your ethics are utilitarian in nature - in which case, you will need to do a full accounting of all plausibly foreseeable consequences of creating this software - the same kind of accounting that was done by people who were philosophically motivated to leak nuclear secrets to the USSR.
One more bitcoin obituary for the collection.

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
YT Premium also includes YT music, and the creators you want to support get extra from Google when Premium users subscribe. For me, it’s worth the price and has almost entirely replaced TV for me (still need my F1 races...)
Adguard requires an electron app(wut?) to run in the background to provide much of its functionality, is Wipr like this too?
>If they can predict X% inflation, they can price that into the initial fixed rate

Yes, hypothetically, but they aren't, yet.
I never got the feeling that IE was a good browser. It came by default with windows and that made it specially popular, but never good. Alternatives always looked like a better option.
Contemporary type theories have little issue with adding the law of excluded middle as an axiom, though for some intensional type theories it will end up being the only axiom that doesn’t reduce (i.e. have a computational rule associated during simplification) in a useful way. Programming language type systems rarely form consistent logics so there introducing it has no real effect either way.
Used graphics card were/are a big market (even though new cards depeciate massively when used).
Usually crypto cards still last a decent amount of time (and might even have been thrashed while water cooled to keep them healthy). The price of them make up for the fact they have been ran constantly.
And the price makes up for the fact of being outdated in-terms of performance. They are great for budget PC's. Many people still buy GTX 970's etc.
Tooling for the Quantitative Researcher
You have never switched channels during a commercial break?
Chip Crisis in ‘Danger Zone’ as Wait Times Reach New Record
https://archive.ph/HcuhN
I honestly think non-competes are overstated. I've worked in MA most of my life, once signed one, and it was very specific. I now work for a company that even lets me contribute to competing open source projects. Do all non-CA companies let you do that? I'm aware of one or two consulting firms that have very draconian non-compete clauses but not sure it's very common and MA, specifically, defanged them a while ago.

Personally, I think it was more of a conservative East Coast mentality vs. an anything is possible West Coast Mentality.

Stephen Levy's Hackers is probably a good start (but skip the Stallman The Last Hacker part).
It also doesn't seem to be the case that christine.website strips their content from the feed.

https://christine.website/blog.rss
> Not a single house even had electricity. They wouldn't have been able to charge a mobile phone even if they had them.

Some Amish communities allow electricity but not in the house. For example, they may accept electric milking equipment for cows, and have electricity to power that, but the electricity connection is only to the milking shed not to the residence. Or, they may own a business, and connect their business premises to electricity, but not the house.
There are lots of stories I've heard of pet birds calling the dog using human voice for fun.
You're assuming fiat onramps are part of the process and dont realise that in the future fiat doesn't exist. How could it?
Yes. The only yardstick to use. In 50 years the routine theft of billions may not even merit media attention.
Then you weren't around in the IE5-6 era. It was definitely a better browser. But then they decided IE6 could never be improved and sat on it for years.
What time will the event take place?
They recently enabled route validation. It's possible your provider doesn't have signed ROAs:

https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/rpki-ro...
Why Ethereum Will Win Store of Value
Is there energy regulations on new bank branches that open?
I was really surprised that someone would comment like this during open litigation - refreshing I guess.
Unfortunately lobste.rs is invite-only which is suck because I don't know anyone around me that's use lobste.rs. Oh well.
True. I just assumed people (or most likely companies) who are doing these types of things generally will be buying the latest GPU new as they have more money to spend (and want to get a good life out of the card).
Frontier also serves a bunch of reasonably large cities (for example territory they purchased from AT&T later in life). Where I live, I can get Frontier's "up to 24Mbit/s" service (probably closer to 10 if I'm lucky) or the competitor (cable company) which offers both traditional cable AND a new FiOS service with speeds up to 1 Gigabit. I haven't upgraded yet, and am still on 200 down/35 up but pay a fraction of what Frontier would charge (and I usually get closer to 215 down and 36 up). It's no wonder Frontier declared bankruptcy.
> To put it coarsely, outside ZigZag there are three different kinds of structures in computers today: linear lists (and grids i.e.~lists of lists), hierarchical trees and messes. That is really messes, not meshes. By a mess, I mean any complicated data structure, usually with one-directional links to make things even more unmanageable.

That's not a mess, that's a graph.
In other words, gold is a more proven/resilient ponzi scheme
3D Printed Homes. Freedom of Design and Affordability
Thanks for this. I didn't notice myself falling into this wider pattern of behaviour. Kind of uplifting!
Finally, 3D home printing technology is mature enough to bring advanced and precise design, extremely more affordable costs while saving incredible time and labor costs.
> There's still zero reason to write new code in C.

How about "I like it"? (I used to program in C++ 20 years ago..but not in many years. I just prefer C.)
It was harder than I expected to find the changelog so I’ll leave the link

https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob...
Lies of P Is a (Checks Notes) Pinocchio Souls-Like
IE was positively fantastic at the time. So much more stable, light-weight, and sane than Netscape Navigator.
Compared to what? I think it won over its direct competitors of Salt / Puppet / Chef, though there's more than that now. It's not ubiquitous, but it's pretty common, and useful, even if the syntax is truly inscrutable.

I feel like it's pretty well used for persistent installations that just need regular config updates, and we have better tools for VMs that get spun up independently for every reconfiguration.
It sounds like it was blasted out in an afternoon.

Maybe they weren't thinking about boobies a whole lot, tried like 5 random test images and shipped it?

Presumably there are a ton of failure modes for that algorithm, why get so moralistic and high-horse about just one?
Exactly. Ethereum users and miners legitimized the patched chain and that's what continued forward.

A hacker minted free Bitcoin in 2010 and the chain forked to remove that transaction. But nobody's talking about that being a scam. How is the Dao hack any different?
I spent a year using telepresence a few times a week. It was genuinely amazing. Lifesize people 1200 miles away with audio so crisp that one of the guys was idly rubbing the edge of some papers with his thumb and I could hear it.
What kind of car clock isn't easily adjustable?
Many people also find the hedonistic, materialist, and vapid culture of SF repulsive. I can understand why many people would want to be arms length to it, using it for the occasional good restaurant or art exhibit and then heading home to a place more fulfilling and community oriented. To not be immersed in it and all of its adjacent dysfunction.

SF is a whore you visit here and there but not often and certainly not one you make a meaningful part of your life - so-to-speak. Get the money and get out when you grow up some and want to take life more seriously than 40 year-olds hopelessly clinging to youth on the muni kickball field.
Plus millions of dollars worth of ETH
NSFW... if anyone was in doubt
If the task is just "keep this working", I could see plenty of people being alright with not making major changes to a codebase. It pays the bills, and that's all a good number of people care about.
The term "Roman" in "Roman Catholic" is ambiguous. Some people read it as meaning "in communion with the Bishop of Rome", other people read it as meaning "Latin Church" ("Latin Rite", "Roman Rite", etc). The Eastern Catholic Churches are Roman in the first sense but not the second.

In my experience, some Eastern Catholics reject the term "Roman Catholic" as a descriptor for themselves because they associate the phrase with the second definition not the first. Given that, I'm not inclined to agree with you that the "Roman Catholic=Latin Catholic" usage is wrong, it's just different.
You have a substantive point and this is an interesting comment but please don't toss in flamebait like "concentration camps" - it will just create a flamewar and with Godwin-colored flames at that. Thoughtful critique is fine of course.
This exodus is universally seen as a bad thing. For many stakeholders, it certainly is - restaurants, landlords, employers who need cheap labor, etc. For renters, it's a wonderful thing. For people commuting to SF on a daily basis, it's the best thing ever (either because they can move closer to work, or not commute at all and work from home, or simply deal with less traffic). I doubt that many people will disagree with these arguments.

Here's the contrarian part: I think that early-stage startups might benefit as well. After the dot com boom, the only people applying to startups were the die-hards. To some extent, you also noticed a better signal to noise ratio right after the housing crisis. I have no doubt that fewer startups will be started now in SF, and that fewer local people will apply for jobs. But it was never about the quantity and instead always about finding the needle in the haystack. I think there's a chance that the size of the haystack will shrink much more quickly than the number of needles.
We have a critical 3rd party business app that absolutely requires IE11 (actually it requires IE11 to be in compatibility mode for IE5 or something). We currently use Internet Explorer only for this app and I think we will welcome the change to IE11 mode in Edge.

Luckily it only to last another year or so before we replace this product. Some people don't understand the cost and effort required to replace some of these older but hugely important legacy products.
What do you think makes Chrome's sandbox "far superior" on Linux? AFAIK they're very similar.
I remember EFnet and Undernet.

IRC will live on.
I think poker or another form of gambling is a good analogy. In my opinion, the article tries to construct a pretty strained analogy by listing all the myriad ways Bitcoin isn't like a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme - which is what makes it so ingenious as a Ponzi-pyramid-scheme!, apparently.

It clearly does share aspects of Ponzis and pyramids, but, unfortunately, so do plenty of other things, like many companies' stocks. That doesn't necessarily make those companies fraud-schemers, though. That's just what speculation is. You can try to frame all speculation as a pyramid scheme, but I think it's a stretch. I personally dislike gambling and speculation (and finance in general), but there's still a distinction between speculation and scamming.

That said, of course in addition to this, lots of other cryptocurrencies/tokens are full-on fraud schemes. If you count all tokens (which anyone can make and sell in like an hour - many are being created daily), then > 99% of it probably is. In my opinion, all these scam tokens are very similar to malware. (And often are also literal malware, because many scam tokens are implemented as malicious/backdoored smart contracts.)

There are absurd amounts of malware variants created daily. It's easy for a single person to create dozens of malware variants or dozens of scam tokens in a day. If you're going by number of distinct software hashes, it could very well be that > 99% of all software is malware.

I certainly get why people are a tiny bit wary of an ecosystem that's > 99% fraudulent in terms of percentage of distinct assets. > 99% of activity on Tor is also likely illegal or malicious in some way. (There are some studies indicating this.) That doesn't mean I want a government to ban cryptocurrencies or ban Tor, and have police "raid Bitcoin meetups", as this author suggests in the article. Tor, Bitcoin, and especially some other cryptocurrencies have interesting technology to offer. I'd rather there be an attempt to address the externalities in a less crude way than just a blanket ban that makes the technology illegal.