skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the Guardian. To expect a reasonable thesis is unrealistic. Even a causal study of history would reveal that capitalism has improved the quality of life for more people than any other economic system in history.
Because I've had this conversation in bad faith far too often, I would like for you to paraphrase what you think my argument has been up to this point, so that I may ascertain your ability or willingness to understand it.
Huh. My mattress made me sore until I resumed (after a decade hiatus) lifting weights. I used to use all sorts of weird pillow designs, a special one for my knees, another for my upper arm, etc. Then I just stopped needing that stuff.
Good on them, hope they made some money that way. Although I don't know why would anyone buy anything based on such recommendations.

I don't trust recommendations made by students from leftist unis. Maybe for law books, although I don't buy law books they read.
I read this and my first thought is "oh shit, is Firefox about to stop working?"

some of us like our software to be stable and reliable, and not switch to the newest bullshit just because they can. I'm still bitter about being forced to find a workaround for FF requiring pulseaudio. Am I now gonna need to find a workaround for this? I run FF 94 right now, and will upgrade with trepidation...

(shoutout to https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse. THANKS.)
A few days is exceptional. On average it takes me 3 months to a year to get to a point where I even kinda sorta feel comfortable in a codebase. There have been exceptions, but normally I find they're just written very expediently.
It has already happened multiple times previously in our lifetime:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC403836/
Seems like a rare backpedal by Apple, which I'm happy with. Also happy with them doing more for right-to-repair. It's very unbecoming of a 2T company to punish suppliers for leaking a chip.

Still, seems like the internal Apple culture still has a long way to go on addressing its customer base specifically for Mac - 2021 and I still can't get focus-follows-mouse-without-raise to work on MacOS, even if I'm willing to pay for it. For now, I'm just way more productive (and energy efficient) on KDE.
Glad the article answered the question: Substack happened.
Also not a farmer, but hay has seeds. I think straw is technically any dead plant stems.

You can cover your new grass seed with straw to protect it from birds. If you try that with hay you'll plant hay.
I'm very aware of what Ada is like (I was doing my thesis on compiler design back when it was still mostly a creature of committees) - I was more criticising the article, not the language
> The market is supposed to fix this by adding wage growth and maybe it will.

it will, if the lack of workers in jobs continue. Unless there's some other force at work preventing the market from correcting...
The question remains, what policy was the above commenter refering to if not those that combat redlining?

Fannie/Freddie were captured and should never have bought NINA (no-income-no-asset) loans. If they had died out as a natural result of competition that would have been fine. But they were misled into a disaster. Allowing them to crash in 2008 would have been a bigger disaster. They no longer give out such risky loans. Now the sharks have moved on to other scams.
Rupert Murdoch fires journalists who step out of line within hours. Doesn't take long for the new editorial culture to emerge within businesses he's acquired.
There is nothing wrong with markets. The issue is with an economic model that assumes continued growth of GDP by ignoring all negative externalities.
Does anyone know of if the issues brought up by njs in this thread still apply?
https://trio.discourse.group/t/structured-concurrency-in-rub...
Depends on where you read Apple News. I can only access Apple News via the Widget, they still haven‘t released a proper app here after like half a decade, and the Widget headlines range from sober to yellow press
From the article

>In 2014 the U.S. Geological Survey modeled the likely ash distribution from a Yellowstone super-eruption. They found that the ash radius would reach New York, with as much as 3½ inches of ash falling as far east as Lincoln, Neb. Cropland across the U.S. and Canada would be destroyed, and the release into the atmosphere of sulfate aerosols would create a global “volcanic winter” lasting generations.

>Fortunately, the JPL also points to a potential solution—horizontal drilling for geothermal energy extraction—that would siphon off excess energy, producing enough electricity to power as many as 20 million homes for a few thousand years at only 10 cents a kilowatt-hour. That’s less than Texans paid for electricity in 2019. Considering that the energy in the Yellowstone caldera is carbon-free, you have to wonder why we aren’t already doing it.

So to save the park, the US Government is willing to destroy the entire country/continent.

Clown world.....
The DNS lookup would be encrypted. The IP would of course not be. This means the ISP would be able to see the IP but not domain [1] of your destination.

[1]: See SNI: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/
The Maya script is unique, beautiful and very poetic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgsQndSyfHg
Is there a book where I can read more about this?
any adapter may add latency.
Thanks, hogfeast!

I am really interested in economic history, so I was aware of the enclosure period, but don't know much about it -- can you recommend some reading material to this and also the Swing Riots? (I know I can google, but books are better)
> It is possible that we can "naturally" evolve

there is no doubt on that, we're evolving, we're even able to trace some minor genetic evolutions over the 7k last years. but the cultural myth of "natural selection" or "naturally" evolving is in the question : what is "natural" and by extension, what is'nt ? kin evolution or social behaviors always end up as reproduction success, and the failure to do so, "naturally" or "artificially" end up in extinction, that's all. there is nothing specifically "natural" or "artificial" here. when talking about genetics the involved time scales badly fit cultural consideration like thoses. it is not less "natural" to gain reproductive success by genetic intervention than without, unless you are able to explain what is this "nature". or in other words : there is nothing to bypass unless you'r able to say/describe/explain what :)
Yeah, I think that's the big problem with MIDI 2.0: it's complicated, and most manufacturers are probably only going to implement the parts they care about.

MIDI 2.0 has been out for awhile and as far as I know there aren't any mainstream products that use it. (Maybe one or two companies have dipped their toe in the water.) That doesn't bode well for the future of the protocol. Something like the Expressive-e Osmose one would think would be exactly the kind of instrument MIDI-2.0 is for, but nope, it's MPE. If you want an expressive controller, there's the Haken Continuum, the Linnstrument, the Roli Seaboard, the Osmose, etc... and they all work work with MPE.

https://www.expressivee.com/2-osmose

https://expressivee.happyfox.com/kb/article/162-will-osmose-...
Soviets wanted to reanimate Lenin
Seems to me the second-to-last paragraph is asking, why be a shit-flinger against left-biased journalism when there are more difficult substantial reporting that he could do with his talent; flinging shit against those establishments is easy and there are many doing it.
I appreciate this reply. The sentiment you’ve shared is the same that a lot of current/former Facebook employees have privately emailed / called / etc and told me. The interesting thing is, it’s a lot of the seriously talented engineers and designers who care about these things the most, so there is hope for our future in what all of you will do based on these bad experiences.

EntGo seems to be like it would be useful if used in combination with a bunch of other stuff that was built to take advantage of it, but that’s just my quick impression after looking through the docs. If entity modeling is your thing, I would be interested to know what you thought of Ecto in the Phoenix/Elixir ecosystem.
Yeah, I don't remember the DEC format being poor, and some of the differences which did exist really felt like "make sure IEEE-754 is gratuitously incompatible with DEC".

Denormals/gradual underflow support in hardware was one of those, for example. DEC generally trapped on those and let a library handle it. Most of the time, gradual underflow bites people by hiding the precision loss rather than being something useful to exploit for speed.

Hardware support for it meant that people tended to "stash" information in there just like they do for NaN-boxing. AutoCAD, for example, was notorious for having a zillion denormals, none of which had anything to do with calculation.

The number of people who ever benefited from gradual underflow was ridiculously tiny while the number of people who suffered performance loss was huge. This was one of those tradeoffs that wasn't worth it for a very long time--only now that hardware is practically free does it not matter.
hah! that's the problem i'm having <gd&r>
Exactly, I cannot believe the Hacker News crowd are penalising you for correcting OP on not knowing that the walled garden metaphor specifically refers to the App Store, which is not an issue on MacOS.
It's similar but maybe slightly different. At least with bass guitar, the different positions you can play the notes will end up with the notes sounding slightly differently even if it's the same fundamental frequency (particularly open strings sound dramatically different, but even outside of that each string has its own sound). Also there might be a consideration about how the transition between two notes sounds which could be affected by whether the 2nd note is played on the same string or a different string than the first. I expect most (if not all) of these concerns would apply to any stringed instrument where the length of the string changes. It's not something a beginner would need to worry about generally but that might be why such a thing doesn't exist already - the pros all have their own unique methods for determining fingerings.
Copyright is what makes it possible for you to sue someone if they copy your startup's code. Without it you have no other recourse if an employee wants to sell your whole codebase to a competitor, short of catching them in the act, which is not practical compared to enforcing copyright.
Alain Bombard’s Castaway Cuisine
It was a deliberate plan by the intelligence agencies to discredit him ("he's in le russia"). His passport was cancelled specifically when it would leave him stuck in that country.
why's the font so tiny on that site?
Yes, I do. I could move to China any moment I wanted, if I wanted to live in an economy where the people who were previously in power remain in power and get nice things and promise everything works out in your favor.

I plan to live and purchase products for at least half a century more. In that time, it is pretty unlikely that Amazon will continue to be better than competitors, in much the same way that Sears-Roebuck isn't better than competitors today. I would like there to be good competitors, on a level playing field, as fast as possible.

In other words - the choice is between short-term inefficiencies and long-term inefficiencies. It seems fairly clear that it's better to have short-term inefficiencies.
A 50x CD drive actually reaches 10,000RPM, and that's with a cheap and wide piece of plastic. So I really doubt holding together is the limiting factor for these drives.
Availability is a Real Issue, tho. 16-week leadtime on that URL.
Starting a book by singing one's praise is already dubious. Then you come across this

>(...) Mental Play (...) It is almost unbelievable that such an essential skill has been mostly neglected by piano teachers.

which is a top "crank red flag".
I don't see chicken on the menu, but it does offer things you could consider an actual meal, and definitely better than just acai berries.
They recently started shooting the prequel... in my home town! I hope it's good, but in any case my friends and I will watch it for the lulz.
I'm not sure I follow what you mean by auditing. Do you mean tracking whether employees fall for fake phishing attacks organized by the training companies? Everywhere I've worked that runs these campaigns, they do track whether people "Fall" for them, but the fake phishing attacks are easy to spot a mile away because they were poorly done, and there's no reason to believe that real phishing attacks look anything like them. (They also measure the wrong thing, such as whether people click on the link - which is totally fine, the whole point of a web browser is to click links - and not whether they give up credentials or install software.)

If someone is auditing whether employees are falling for real phishing attacks, that's interesting and I'd be curious to know more about that product.
The surveillance is additive (unless you use). Since DNS traffic is not encrypted, the ISP still sees everything even if you switch it, and now so does Google.

The practical benefit is that some ISPs run bad DNS servers that e.g. automatically redirect nxdomains to their spam pages. If you use Google or Cloudflare you can bypass this particular anti-feature.
Here are over 16k repositories. They're certainly not all by 15 people.

https://github.com/search?q=language%3A%22Common+Lisp%22&typ...
Taibbi and Weiss, in particular, are interesting (along with Greenwald) because they are giving voice to the concerns of smaller journalists who can't muster a living on Substack. I don't think they are bemoaning their own status so much as pointing out the new yellow journalism of a post-Trump corporate news world. Non-celebrity journalists were not allowed to portray BLM riots as anything but virtuous. Again, hard to prove because of endless counterpoints on all things, but to consume CNN in every waiting room, lobby, etc. in 2020 was to know these protests as "fiery, but mostly peaceful".
The number one change I'd make is not to trust users to behave.
Windows Updating While Gaming
Assume you apply for college at an Ivy League. Or a SWE job. Or a faculty position. Or for SMB grants. At some point you'll meet the hiring manager / committee face2face. The animus against your skin color will kick in regardless of the box you filled on the application.
They did. He is 46 president now.
Woodworking. That's the dream.
> how to figure out finger numbering for sheet music that doesn't have finger numbering

It is one reason why instrumentalists spend so much time practicing things like scales and arpeggios. Because in practice 90% of music is made of these or small variations on them, so once these are "muscle memory" you truly don't think about fingerings any more.
Hunter-gatherers actually worked even less: about 1 1/2 to 3 hours a day

As discussed in Stone Age Economics by Sahlins:

https://archive.org/details/StoneAgeEconomics_201611

https://bigthink.com/big-think-books/vicki-robin-joe-domingu...

The biblical expulsion from the Eden of gathering fruit to the toil of agriculture also makes that point.
To be fair, the computer in a USB MIDI setup where it's just connecting a physical controller to a physical synth is basically just forwarding MIDI messages verbatim from one port to another. You can buy MIDI host devices that really don't do anything at all except allow you to connect two USB devices and have MIDI work. (They tend to be expensive, and they're kind of annoying to have to deal with.)

This isn't a proprietary lock-in thing, it's just an unfortunate limitation of USB. Though I suppose a hardware manufacturer could release a product that only works with some special app if they wanted to go that route. (Some devices have settings that can only be accessed via a computer app.)
In his own words “I feel pretty strongly that the only thing that’s changed is that the New York media world once agreed with the things I was saying, and now they don’t.” That’s really what has happened. I have been reading his work for a long time, and for me he always comes across as a honest and principled journalist. I may not agree with everything he says but that doesn’t mean he has changed!
In their ultimatum they say they can't refuse to let them use the software, although they would prefer Truth Social didn't use it.

If that is true, they would be happy to decline such an offer and force Truth Social to either publish their mods or stop using the software.

Or they can do as you say and start supporting Truth Social...
This was a great read, but even more interesting was all the work on the author’s GitHub:

https://github.com/digital-fabric

Sharon is essentially developing a whole new stack of Ruby core libraries updated to feel more 2021 web than 2006 web (but in a good way). There’s a lot of neat stuff here to explore.
Excellent points.

I made it a point that "if it is on an assessment, then they will have seen it in class"

No tricks, no novel algorithms. Just show me that you learned the things that I tried to teach you.

If a lab asks you to write a for loop that prints all the strings in an array, then I've taught the syntax for strings, printing,accessing elements from arrays, getting the length of an array, writing a for loop, etc... There have been hands on activities and/or funsheets for each of those ideas that include fill-in the blank questions where they get the framework of for loops with arrays.

And they get handouts with the syntax / code structures / algorithms.

And they get those worksheets/handouts/etc to reference while working on the lab.

In a classroom environment, it's important to teach and build the foundation to solve problems. But then it's important to make the student do the work to build the connections so they actually learn something. Even if the something they learn is where they can look to find the answer to a question like "does an array start at 0 or 1?"
New Google Features (1998)
List of 466 Cybersecurity Companies that are hiring
I created this list of Cyber companies that are hiring - thought it might be useful for anyone working in this industry and seeking employment!
Facebook's Meta mission was laid out in a 2018 paper on The Metaverse
You're not going to die or feel any ill effects from a brief exposure to the phthalates and dioxins released by vinyl, but those phthalates and dioxins both hit the liver very hard while dioxins are carcinogens even in trace amounts. It would be wise to avoid even brief contact:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6373551/
> What Happened to Matt Taibbi?

He's fine
This is an issue I've had with NodeJS recently.

1. Check for existence of row by a key in a Postgres table
2. If not present, create one

You can have a race condition to 2. You could do the insertion itself as the check to avoid this issue. But regardless this is a race condition that you need to think about in async environments.
Yeah, it doesn't seem super healthy, but seems genuinely really tasty.

If I was on holidays in the US, I don't think I'd be looking for healthier options as much as I'd want BBQ sauce, ribs and burgers.
This is considerate in some ways. Some publishers, at least in tech, have long been selling content as one purchase that provides DRM free ePub, PDF and mobi. But they don’t include audiobooks within this scope, which this model includes.

I saw that content is uniformly priced at $15. That $15 may be quite reasonable (or even cheap) compared to how some other books are priced, but it’s not cheap in many parts of the world. For books that could have a wide range of audience, regional pricing would be good to have to broaden the reach.
In our postmodern world, identity categories are fluid social constructs. Therefore it is impossible to lie about identity markers on a job application. At least in theory. Please adjust your language accordingly.
I would like to see the best book ever written on how to practice at the guitar. Any suggestions?
> Wish some HN coder genius would write a program that given sheet music as input, outputs the top 1-3 recommended fingerings for that music with explanations for which rules were applied.

You must first access the corpus of data on fingerings. AFAICT that is an oral history passed among piano teachers.

Even then, you must account for how different fingering approaches quantize to various tempo changes. E.g., there's a tempo beyond which I can start throwing my thumb (well, my arm) past my pinky in the development section of the last movement of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata. Below that tempo the fingering is basically nonsense.

You could probably put together some basic set of rules for recommended amateur fingerings. Even there, I think the quantization to tempo is sufficiently complicated that you'd risk creating something like an ML algo that merely improves at persuasively rationalizing arbitrary fingerings.

Edit: I just looked back at the passage and it's actually throwing my index finger past my ring finger. Funny enough, I tried the same passage throwing my thumb past my pinky-- it works fairly well at a fast enough tempo and is awkward and error prone if played too slowly. In either case, the same logic applies.
The situation? This is a disease with a mortality rate less than an order of magnitude greater than the flu.

If I told you a few years ago that we would be shutting down the economy, forcing people to wear masks and submit to biometric tracking and surveillance, all to (ineffectively) combat a disease that isn't even much worse than the flu, you would have rightly scoffed at me. The liberties that have been taken from us are not even remotely proportional to the danger of the "situation"
I like how they gave a red carpet treatment, 60 minutes show, media interviews and congressional hearing to the Facebook "whistleblower" who sounded more like a plant advocating for more censorship. Or the "anonymous whistleblower" from couple years ago. I also like how the same politicians always cry about "threat to press freedom" based on mean comments or tweets.

But real whistleblowers like Snowden, Assange, Daniel Hale all get treated like dog crap and thrown in prison. Even the marine who spoke out about the Afghanistan debacle got prison. It's all such a facade.

Assange even contacted the state department warning them that an ex employee who was angry was going to release the files without redacting names and the state department ignored that warning. This phone call was released last year but didn't get reported by the corporate media. Now the politicians are claiming Assange somehow risked US personal lives...
Meanwhile the fly by wire key keys which are prone to wear out and need an expensive service call (not included in price) introduce a random jitter in timing in the standard edition. Attempts to correct this jitter by either performing surgery on your own device or correcting same in software are a violation punishable by jail time specified in DMCA v2.

Attempting to even do the repair yourself will be a violation of the terms and conditions of your subscription and void your ability for you or anyone else to register and ergo use your Piano. If you know or suspect someone of violating these terms please turn them in for a free $100 gift card good for a fine assortment of musical instruments.

If we suspect you have violated these terms you have agreed to give us an opportunity to inspect and if needed disable your equipment. For an additional $200 we will haul off your now useless instrument.
Also, huge cost to your body. Every relative I know who is was the trades, now has issues all the time directly attributable to their work. Their body has aged x2 compared to mine.
Given that Europe is technically an Asian peninsula, they are not even wrong.
Practical and visual exercices to learn web dev basics
Touchegg – Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer