skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what I think is a really strong counterpoint to your argument is the simple fact that watching movies in a language is generally considered a great way to learn said language. That's passive learning in a similar manner to what you would get out of reading in a video game.

It fails to train you in actually synthesizing speech though. So you need a structured approach as well, similar to what you describe, to fill out the many other facets of learning.

But it's still insanely valuable to do so.

reading things likely makes you better at reading things
> but it was not an excellent way to judge the quality or trustworthiness of that paper.

How is this a problem? You knew where the paper was originally published, right?
But bromine, iodine, chlorine, and silver could not fix an even greater failing of early photographs, their impermanence

Good pun.
I wish the article provided links or references for each major philosophy. I've avoided diving down this rabbit hole for a while because I'm already afraid I'm slipping at its edge. But it'd be nice to read books or essays explaining the positions.
This library looks really fun!

Thanks for sharing the link.
I feel pretty sure that if the rest of the world collapses, New Zealand will send their army and appropriate whatever resources these chuckleheads have hoarded. Anyways if the rest of the world goes sideways what value do stocks and bonds and American dollars have? The value of those kind of contractually enforced intangibles is socially constructed and would be the first thing to go. Land would be the thing with the most value, and again if New Zealanders are starving the government will probably just take the land by eminent domain in order to plant crops. The power of money only matters to the extent that the state backs it up.
I agree that this can be a problem. I disagree that it would be a problem of any significance.
1/6 of my friends (we all own 286, 386 and play computer games) got into programming and became a software engineer. The policy is against online games. I am actually looking to setup a computer without internet for my 8 year old. I want him to learn about computers, but internet is definitely not something I want him to explore now.
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This is often the case. Another factor is that in many of the areas with a persistent shortage of talent is that it would require 18-24 months of training to really become productive. That's a big investment and people tend to have short tenures at companies these days.
This was a great article and makes me want to dig in to some of my own ancient software.

Could these tools and techniques be used on older PowerPC Mac executables? I have some old software that was protected by ADB dongles. I own the software, and even have the dongles, but I don't have any PowerPC ADB-equipped machines.
Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14
Presto is fabulous, CDs, SACDs, mp3s; 30s samples for most of the stock, if you order the CD you get immediate access to the mp3 ...

Not affiliated with them at all, but they were a lifesaver during the lockdown (without Schoenberg to get drunk to, who knows how I would have made it through)
<sigh> Not very well researched. Besides the fact that there wasn't an acknowledgement for earlier joysticks originally, it got that wrong as well:

"Update August 30th, 12:30pm: Added mention of the Atari 2600 as predating the Nintendo 64 for console joysticks."

From Wikipedia:
Ralph H. Baer, inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey console, released in 1972, created the first video game joysticks in 1967. They were able to control the horizontal and vertical position of a spot displayed on a screen.[8]

(Magnavox definitely had joysticks on their controllers early on)
It is somewhat vacuous but not for that reason.
For remote start, my 2018 Civic shut off after ~10 minutes. According to the sibling comment, their 2021 was similar. Did you have an aftermarket remote start, or was it started using the actual ignition switch in the car in your case?
So far I've always used Evolution and I like it pretty much. It even connects to my team's O365 stuff.
Are migrants still traveling from France to the UK by stowing away on commercial trucks? (And to be clear I'm not trying to make a political point about migration, just curious about the current state of border security.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35807136
The link you are sharing explicitly mentions you need xochitl running with the LD_PRELOAD hack, which is what becomes "the framebuffer server". In fact,

> To do their job, both the client and the server need to know the address at which a number of functions reside in the Xochitl binary. These addresses change from one release to the next.

This is absurdly fragile. In fact, it's even worse than I was guessing :/.
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I’ll admit it does help that it never really caught me by surprise. I would hear about Bitcoin every now and then in the years between my early experiments while at university doing silly things with a stack of OpenMosix enabled Linux live CDs like scripting up a master disk on a CDRW (to modify the script each week) to auto generate a wallet spawn as many processes as there were OpenMosix nodes in the cluster and the spend the weekend wandering around from lab to lab rebooting any spare desktop into another in-memory OpenMosix node, and have the master print a summary of the mined coins to a printer Monday morning then delete everything by rebooting back into the normal operating system early Monday morning before students got in for classes.

I had my fun and learned some cool stuff. It’s been the anchor I hold whenever I notice the price of Bitcoin and do the trivial multiplication between the current cost of Bitcoin and what I remember roughly mining all those years ago. But like I said, regular exposure to the ideal does help. It’s much easier to come to terms with “loosing”/not acquiring a thousand dollars or ten thousand or a hundred thousand before it turns into millions of dollars than it is to come to terms with suddenly discovering that something you discarded and never thought about is worth a hundred million.
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I don't know if I agree with that. The recording can make the difference between a transcendent piece and dogshit. For example if Beethoven's Fifth is played too fast, especially if there's not enough of a pause between the first two phrases... it just ruins the whole thing.
Additionally the "cards" holding text sometimes ended up being too small to actually display all their text - causing sudden truncation and unreadable sentences.

I really dislike that everyone needs to avoid just having a string of paragraphs.

Lastly, the UX decisions made text unselectable for copying - and has prevented the author from actually injecting footer references for survey data and the like. It's a UI that makes the author fight against it to actually convey information.
When I mean contract, here in Netherlands it refers to the offer. It is not a hourly contract position. It is position with all the benefits.
Whoa nuts. I was a beta tester for Primephonic streaming v1 back in 2017. For context, Primephonic was a spin out from the classical music label Pentatone. Primephonic initially focused on hq downloads (circa 2015), cataloguing and recommendations before moving into streaming and launching apps ~2018.
@danielvf thanks for your comment – much appreciated!
They also need to have narrower lanes.
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Precisely. But the statement, "the government has no business making parenting decisions" needs no qualification. It is an axiomatic statement, and it should not be a controversial statement.

Like you say, what is considered a parenting decision? Reasonable people can have a discussion about this.

But I'm shocked how many people seem to think A) the government actually should make parenting decisions, and B) that things like banning child abuse is an example of the government making a parenting decision.

Neither of these things are reasonable, and so the discussion about what qualifies as a parenting decision will also be unreasonable.
You can <ctrl-f> and search for "Overview and Concepts".

I'm not aware of a summarized 2 pager as a standalone html page.
My city in the bay area has been switching to more bike friendly roads. Mainly narrowing down the car lanes (or removing one lane) to expand the bike lanes. Also intersections are narrowed down to make them pedestrian friendly. In some areas the bike lanes have physical separation. But they just started this conversion and its a work in progress. But to be honest, I don't see a lot of bikers in our area using it and people complain but the work goes on.

https://www.fremont.gov/3274/Walnut-Ave-Bikeway-Improvements
The value in "complex" carbs over "simple" is the fibre and micronutrients that comes along for the ride. They're mostly still present in the treated oat milk (a lot of the insoluble fibre will be discarded, but the soluble fibre responsible for the beneficial health claims of oats is kept).

Starch vs. the maltose that the treatment produces shouldn't make a material difference in most peoples diets. It's all glucose in the end. (Maltose by itself has a higher glycemic index, but with the fat, fibre and protein it won't matter.)
Really kind of funny/interesting how the US Federal Gov/US private sector are exactly swapped. The federal civil service (the military/intel agencies are a different story) has a very strong union and gov workers are very well known for doing exactly what is required, but nothing more ("good enough for government work"). Meanwhile, wage theft in the private sector is rampant.
You don’t consider an age minimum of 18 to purchase alcohol an age limit?

The link they posted even has a pretty picture within of the areas without age limits. They’re all mostly in Africa, Vietnam has a shout at stable and successful though.
Works great on a Mac, which have horizontally-scrolling trackpads or mice.

But obviously they did this as a fun layout for a card game!
The State should recognize that the responsibility begins with the Parents. If the State wants to promote a level of guidance that aligns with some common sense, then provide information/advice/recommendations to Parents on how to manage their children's growth. Mandates are a draconian move when you've lost control.
Not sure if naïveté or innocence, but I think you are overestimating the GPL efforts by a lot.

RMS may not be a fool but he is still American (and not a lawyer). I don't think he was focused in solving licensing/copyright issues in the rest of the world in the early 90s - and even late efforts for GPLv3 didn't change it that much.
The real problem is that the while the same code might look obvious to John Carmack, it might not look obvious to $outsourced_bodyshop_ressource_0443434.

Then you start coding for the lowest common denominator.
I have noticed the same problems with the ingredients.

Some time ago I have bought samples of 6 or 7 brands of various kinds of vegetable milks and I have tested the results of making vanilla cream and cocoa cream when the cow milk is substituted with cashew milk, almond milk, coconut milk, soy milk and so on.

The creams with vegetable milk were acceptable, but I also did not like the list of ingredients found in all brands, without exception.

There is no doubt that instead of buying commercial vegetable milk it is far more healthy to just buy almonds, cashew nuts etc. and make milk yourself using just water, whenever you need it.

The problem is that you need to have a suitable blender and much more importantly you have to spend extra time with this activity instead of just buying the milk.

It is likely that the commercial vegetable milk needs stabilizers and emulsifiers to have a reasonable shelf life.

If you make yourself vegetable milk and consume it immediately, there is no need for those.
I don't know, maybe if the product is subpar to begin with additional "reminders" help? If I buy something and I like it, or especially really like it, I usually tell everyone I know who I think might like it or benefit from it as well - for free. And if I like it I usually don't have to be reminded of it. It's already in the "good stuff" section of my brain. I've already been sold. I really don't see ads as helpful for things you've already been sold on and use. At that point, at least for me and I assume the poster you're responding to, the opposite effect starts happening and it taints the product negatively, even if you like it.
Which one? "Partial Deniers" I guess? I think that's the overwhelming majority of people, those that recognize that emerging problems exist but do not predict they will cause a global collapse of society. Although it's often difficult to judge, exactly, since collapse evangelists tend to be rather evasive and ambiguous about what exactly will trigger the collapse.
I don't really have a good suggestion. I wish I did. I kind of believe in the "democracy is the worst form of government except all of the others" statement because it appears to be so. You can probably make better democracies though but they require education and participation. Education you can do at scale, but participation is hard to achieve amongst heterogeneous populations, especially when they're large.

IMO that's why we're seeing problems with the U.S. that simply will never resolve. The long-term future is balkanization in some fashion. Either outright via secession or implied via arbitrary restrictions that make certain places undesirable to go to. Contrast that with a country like Iceland where the population is more homogenous and the democracy seems to work better.

And it's not a race thing so much as a belief/culture thing. Just in case someone mistakenly believe that was what I was implying, it's not.

But I do think it's hard to reconcile saying that you fundamentally mistrust people but then you still want to give them power to make rules for you. The safer bet would be to have less or no government in that scenario unless you trust that you can create a process that really weeds out those who are not trustworthy. It's hard to do that too. Even people who are highly credible (scientists, doctors, etc.) often aren't people you would want making rules for you because they're not philosophers...
If you hire a junior at $X/year, and two years later, the "junior" jumps ship because the two years experience qualifies them for $X * 1.5/year, then the problem isn't disloyalty on the part of the junior, it's with the company that hasn't kept up their salary.

Junior salaries are low because they're a huge gamble. If after two years you know they're a decent engineer that has learned a lot, then you need to pay them like it.

It's something I see a lot of. Your "junior" that has been there for 2 years should be getting the salary you'd be paying a new hire that has 2 years experience. If they've been there for 3 years, and you've only been giving them 3-7% raises every year, you deserve to lose that engineer for someone that will pay them 50+% more.
You are so painfully correct. I wish I knew Primephonic existed because I would have subscribed!

If Apple does this well it could be enough to get me to switch from Spotify to Apple Music. I am not optimistic though.
Agreed. I am not claiming that I am on the right path. I just put so much information and hid who I am. so I feel if mentioned more, I'll be recognized and don't want that to happen. That's it, there's no other reason that prevents me from mentioning more.
I've been advocating for voice-only calls for remote teams for years. Most people think I'm nuts. Cameras are only there to try and emulate an office environment. But the effect they have on employee flexibility and meeting style is profound.

Once you turn the camera on you need to dress as if you're in the office, even though you're at home. You need to design your camera background to look professional i.e. emulate the office, even though it's your home. Your partner, kids or guests don't get to walk through the room anymore without creating anxiety in you - even thought it's your home.

Voice only? It's a different world. You can dress the way you'd dress at home. You can have family and friends walking by without an issue. You don't have to turn your home into some kind of stage that pretends to be an office.

But voice has even greater benefits: It's lower bandwidth so you can travel more freely. You can use push to talk to mask background noise when you're on a group call. Voice also has a leveling effect among colleagues so it stops being about who is the best looking, has the nicest haircut, or the fanciest suit. It's about a purely intellectual connection with your colleagues. In that sense, voice only is a leveler and an enabler. It breaks down barriers.

At Defiant (our 38 person cybersecurity company) we've been doing voice only since we started hiring. I designed our collaboration this way because I was a fone phreak in the early 1990s (hanging out on #phreak on effnet) and I collaborated with my best friends voice only and via text on IRC, in some cases for years. So I knew going into building a software company that I could make voice-only collaboration work along with text. We started hiring and going voice only in 2015, when even the idea of remote was absurd to many companies.

Now, in 2021, we have the Fortune 5000 stumbling into remote work and doing their damndest to emulate the office environment. And the camera is a core part of that attempt to emulate. Not only does it have strong negatives, like the fatigue the study mentions, but it also doesn't take advantage of the benefits of voice-only and having a truly intellectual, relaxed, and collaborative environment between remote colleagues.

We use Teamspeak for our big team calls with PTT enabled which is a game changer for noisy environments. And we use mostly slack calls for one on one or small groups.
Appreciate the detail here. Given your relevant experience sounds like something that the devs need to address.
> which have horizontally-scrolling trackpads or mice.

Same category as tablets and smartphones my friend.

How about the billions of other internet users who have a keyboard and mouse ? At least make it keyboard tap or mouse-click friendly !
For sure. The solution has downsides but it does largely solve the problem. It isn't strictly better than go, but it is an important difference.

Mostly off-topic but FWIW "mutable reference into an array" is typically very easy in Rust you just accept a &mut [T]. This also nicely enforces that you don't try to append because that would be wrong 99% of the time.
Seek out any Bach played by Glenn Gould. The incredible thing here is that Bach left sheet music but sheet music of the age did not include time, so the music has to be interpreted. The "Goldberg Variations" are this interpretation by Glenn Gould (a pianist).

I'd throw in Beethoven's 3rd and 5th Symphonies.

I'd also throw in something like Verdi's Rigoletto and Rossini's Barber of Seville.

In my past I owned a record label which specialised in pop, rock and folk music. I had to learn classical like I had to learn jazz. But the thing that made this easier for me was the realisation that there is far far more rock / pop than there is classical or jazz. It can be intimidating but you only need an entry point to get you started. Whatever that is will be personal to you, but the best advice anyone can give is to just listen.
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Ask HN: NDA's for Biotech Startup Decks?
Asking for a close friend who is research faculty at a medical institution:

He's acquired a license to use a drug for novel applications, and works with a research lab that has shown some promising results on a few diseases (i.e. cancer)

He's raising funds to run through clinical trials, but is somewhat in stealth mode.

I know for general tech VC (software), investors rarely if ever NDA's to see Seed/Series A decks.

How about for biotech/pharma?
My questions about Próspera, answered
The last time I travelled back to the US it was sufficient to show a PDF of a rapid antigen test from 3 days ago on my smartphone. Those are trivial to fake, there's no security on the files at all. (I don't encourage anyone to do that.)
A good policy is a good policy, a bad policy is a bad policy, how hard to think this way. People are not talking about great firewall. So next time when people talking about election in US, I should say "killing Iraqis is perfectly fine as well"?
This is similar to how cards are arranged in front of you in spades, and most card games. I think you can understand the artistic choice, from there.
Buying is completely different from playing.
This is not the case. In the US the Copyright Act supersedes all other common law and State statutes, this is written into the Act itself. See: Title 17 USC Section 301(a). It is not possible to sue for breach of contract in relation to a copyright claim.
For Apple Music there is https://concertino.app/.
This is because not all videogames are equal and, of course, not all people are equal.

Even among online games, there's a huge variety of experiences available.

I'm not against regulation, just not overbroad.
CIFS may be old, slow and insecure.

But as the only SMB version that supports the "Unix Extensions" in practice, it is the only version I found which actually works between a Linux client and Samba serving a unix filesystem that is shared with other things, keeping the basic unix file attributes (symlinks, rwx permissions, etc) intact.

I tried SMB 2 and SMB 3, and many combinations of options on the client side and in Samba. Surely something would yield adequate if not perfect unix file attributes. But no combination worked adequately. Only CIFS.

In theory, SMB 3.1.1 has unix extensions that are supported by the Linux client module. In practice, I found this didn't work. Perhaps it will work one day.

Which is why I have a CIFS mount on my laptop at the moment. It's used every day for work, and I don't know what else I could use to get the same functionality.

You may be thinking, "this is what NFS is for". Alas it's not flexible enough. Samba is being used for its id remapping capabilities (and to a lesser extent to constrain permissions), which are sorely lacking in NFS if you don't have NFSv4, which the file server does not support. (Even if it did it would be difficult to set up adequately.) Ironically, Samba is re-exporting an NFS mount in this case, with Samba configured to provide the id-mapping and permissions-constraining that NFS won't do, and CIFS has to be used to maintain the unix file attributes.
Key problem is software engineers are generally bad at hiring. Hiring is a skillset of it's own. For example, you are technical writer for writing user facing docs, similarly I think it is specialized job where you use cognitive abilities to make a judgement, use psychology to see how the person will be in various situation.
Yeah infant mortality, press freedom, corruption index, childhood educational rankings? There are a TON of things I'd put over GDP.
> Contract work (without benefits) is not an option for a large number of developers.

Probably should be...? You're typically getting paid more because of "no benefits". (I HATE the word 'benefits', FWIW).

Buy your own health insurance - it's more accessible in the US via ACA. Yeah, you might miss out on some 401k matching. Save it yourself?