skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fear, that's part of it, and they know how to rattle them by say talking about Social Security payments getting cut. But they also instigate powerless anger, and a good bit of hatred, too. With the anger, it's about framing it as an inescapable injustice, rather than something you could make a dent in by eg going to jury duty, voting every single time (even blank) because it's so easy, even making a financial contribution to a politician you think very highly of (and with the campaigns I contributed to, pocket change basically, but I'm really happy I did, those politicians truly came through for the common good over their whole career since the contribution).

But CNN doesn't want to talk about actions you can take to fix problems they tell you you have, because if you do you will be carrying out actions and doing verbs instead of watching television. It's basically an attention thing, advertising only works if people are paying attention, and different shows get it in different ways.

Comedians get attention by telling jokes.

Action movies get attention by (generalizing) showing a single hero or heroine take down a conspiracy of over 50 people. I'd estimate 90% of action movies involve a struggle against a conspiracy. The exception that proves the rule is No Country for Old Men, because the bad guy was a lone wolf, but I can't think of any others. In fiction it allows for plots where it makes sense for a single star to be in fight scenes against "henchmen", which is of course a conspirator, especially in fights where he's outnumbered. This gives more drama and sense of risk, over and over again. And I sense that people really find the struggle against conspiracies gratifying to watch, there's some really profound identification there.

And news channels get attention by rankling you. And it also involves conspiracies, without actually using that word because it's super taboo. When Biden went into office the news channels had problems coming up with enough "content" because they could no longer put negative coverage, and fake news, and lies, and occasionally some little nuggets of truth too, about Donald Trump around the clock. He was keeping them in business, very good for their bottom line. There's an element of hatred here, too, they absolutely desire that. They want you to refuse to cooperate, and always oppose, the bad guys of the movie that is CNN, which is really the basic biological function of hatred.

The bigger picture is, what is CNN selling? Well, they barely have any formal ads. I believe their ads in Chile are for that Emirates airline, and occasionally they have a "technology" feature which is pitching some electronics. So what are they selling? I think the viewer's votes. They have ways of measuring how many brain stems they have hooked up to their Matrix, they can give credible estimates of how much they can swing an election. Eyeballing it, I'd say CNN can swing a presidential election by .1%, which is a huge amount.
gonna take way too long before we get webmidi2. meanwhile the usual suspects are screaming hell that no it's too risky to do midi, we must protect the user, God forbid the web get good.
To what do you attribute your company's unusual experience?
We need to create a strong, rigid and onerous privacy bureaucracy that allows lawmakers to limit current and future expression against them on the internet, while not creating a strong, rigid and onerous privacy bureaucracy that limits current and future expression on the internet. Blah blah blah Section 230. Blah blah blah Children. Blah blah blah Freedom. Blah blah blah Liberals.
Unlikely. The internet started with cool. It has only become less cool over time as familiarity and it's own evolution made it mundabde.
Have to chime-in here as a piano player since age 7 (so been going for ~28 now), who about 2 years ago got very serious about Jazz.

I have stumbled across this book many times, I have read it. It's the single most controversial book that I've read about piano technique and playing that I've found.

The author, is not even a player himself (!!!). There's a great summary of reviews about the book here (https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=38247.0), if you're starting into piano, stay away, get a decent teacher.
http://web.archive.org/web/20211019081252/http://misc-stuff....

https://archive.md/2sOOm
Many people enjoy reading.

Text is super easy to reuse, manipulate, cut, copy, paste...
Separate the portions of the web into non-profit and for-profit sections. Web 2.0 ruined the internet with the introduction of paywalls and 'premium' content that was never premium in the first place. You're welcome to live in that dystopian hellscape, but I'd frankly prefer the ability to hit a switch and instantly disable all bullshit.
Discussed at the time (of the article, not the old internet);

I Miss the Old Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21402518 - Oct 2019 (306 comments)

Other missings:

I Miss the Old Internet (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27491537 - June 2021 (424 comments)

Tell HN: I miss the old internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17334552 - June 2018 (221 comments)
Looks like they work the same way. The documentation talks about the same concepts: cooperatively-scheduled tasks implemented in the virtual machine with small stacks that support concurrency, don't run code in parallel and may perform I/O asynchronously in parallel given operating system support. Implementation details will vary.
I do not agree. I just think people truly don't know what they have until it's gone. And I also think our minds are good at forgetting the bad parts when we are thinking back.
I have enjoyed learning LaTeX to create my résumé.
What's the best way to get this sort of secure book on linux/bsd?
> Wouldn't this result in exactly the global culture? A compromise by taking the “best” aspects from everyone

Yes-- that's exactly what we've done: mostly selecting for efficiency. And now we're so locked into a local optimum of efficiency, diversity in business culture and mainline economic practices is difficult.

> minimizing everyone's unhappiness from that?

While capital markets try to optimize return on investment, and happiness is one component of economic preference that drives ROI... they hardly try and optimize happiness, per se. They are also relatively short-sighted, don't foresee all consequences and externalities, and tend to fall into local rather than global optima.
Big discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947558
I’ve used CloudFormation at a previous employer. I hate, loathe, and despise the thing.

YAML is not a programming language, and any attempt to turn it into a programming language is fraught with pain, woe, and suffering — at least on the part of the poor suckers who are tricked into using it.

Give me a real programming language, with interfaces to the appropriate constructs necessary to do the job, via an SDK. In AWS, that means using CDK, not CloudFormation.

Feel free to argue over whatever aspects of TerraForm that you don’t like, but please, for the love of ${DEITY}, please do not recommend CloudFormation as your suggested alternative.
It’s frustrating how myopic these papers can be. It seems like the goal of the paper is to solely work within the GPT framework to test the theory of verifiers. Why not try verifiers out with other models? Perhaps it’s not a fair comparison but I remember a Kaggle competition [0] from six years ago which involved building models to solve grade school science multiple choice questions. A simple word2vec model already could achieve 50% accuracy. Despite multiple choice being (maybe?) easier than free response, I’m just skeptical that the way to solve these problems is to throw billions of weights at them. It’s also not convincing to me that this new dataset doesn’t suffer from a much smaller template space, in that the models still just memorize templates.

[0]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/the-allen-ai-science-challenge/over...
The parent didn't say anything close to this.

You need to calm down and read what's actually written, otherwise you're going to make liberals look like uneducated, unhinged, lunatics.

I can be critical of CNN without praising Fox News....
the converters are great& easy.

this protest that we must conserve an over 30 year old standard& never ever update it is a breed of conservativism that makes me shudder. basic USB is available on a vast vast range of micros, including a huge range of under $1 ones. if you do want to use old gear, great, the are options.
Desire for friends & family doesn't explain the popularity of twitter, reddit, or youtube.
There's no strong evidence that playing more games makes you improve quicker.

That's pretty interesting. I guess some types of learning can't be rushed by grinding practice.
Someone once pointed out to me that Transformers cartoons are essentially toy commercials. I know this now but my twelve year blissfully did not. So maybe you are just referring to the loss of innocence that comes from biting a fruit from the tree of knowledge, because corporations have always been scamming to separate you from your money.
It makes him a self-serving hypocrite.
So one, admit your facts were wrong, and then you can start to debate intelligently. Secondly, society is inherently unequal. Congress has attempted to redress some of this equality through affirmative action. And third, you're saying the quiet part out loud when you yet again show concern about being a minority-majority. Are you afraid of being treated the same way non-whites have been treated for the last 100 years, or do you think they've been treated just fine?
While exercise is good, it's worth noting that in those lines of work your body wears its out after decades of doing it, and injury rates are fairly high.
http://www.pianopractice.org/ has the third edition from 2016, but this version is based on the second, from 2009. The third edition has many additions.
Yes, but currently they're defaulting to XWayland when running under Wayland.

You can set `MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1` in your environment to launch Firefox under Wayland natively.

You can check what window protocol your Firefox at `about:support` (Window Support).
I just wanted to point out that you are not meant to grab your bags for an emergency exit of a plane.
it's so much more than that https://urbit.org/blog/precepts
Fortune cookies are rarely good advice. Him aligning himself with actual evil diminishes anything he has to say.
It's still out there, now and then ... I ran into this old-timer last week: http://polkas.nl/

Often when Firefox complains about a page with a security problem it can't resolve, I can just switch to http:// and ... yep, it's 'clearnet', problem solved.
I love it. He leaves for one of the most repressive countries in the world, but gets a pass because he's critical of the United States.

This is why nobody takes him or his supporters seriously.
And charging more for it because of all the plastic.

This is basically the same kind of chip that is in electronic greeting cards.

It is a shame, because we live in the age of 3D printers, and making your own tunes is now not that hard for the original music player, but the new player itself is now so limited.
> The alternative to JS is not "no scripting", it's websites that only function with proprietary plugins installed.

Yes and those were websites that for the most part nobody gave a crap about. The important sites weren't willing to dump so many of their viewers. Heck, even post-JS, the web didn't suck so badly until the option of shutting off JS was removed from browser UI's. Before that, enough users shut off JS that sites wanting wide audiences had to be able to function without it.
Yep, IPv4.1 with 128-bit (or whatever size; I'm not sure we really need 64-bits of local address in a subnet, but ok) addresses, none of the things that didn't work well by the mid 90s; no source routing, no router based fragmentation (maybe router based truncation instead, but maybe that's also too much to ask), no checksum or reduce checksum to not include ttl since it changes every hop, no optional fields (protocols can still have options), etc.

No new/subsummed functionality. Stick with ARP and DHCP, etc.

A better / more actionable upgrade path and plan to get things working so most devices could go v4.1 only quicker, etc.
I didn't read their reply as merely responding to parent comment about being more fond of the 10k rpm drive than their first SSD, saying that they personally appreciated their first silent computer.

Like you said:

> The OP is just reflecting on fond memories like you are.

In fact, if you read it again, you'll see they are acknowledging the appeal and fondness for computer noises of old...
There is a difference between a 75 year old terminal cancer patient dying one month earlier from covid, and a 20 year old soldier dying. If you are just counting "lives lost" and view these as the same, then you are not really engaging in an honest damage assessment. You have to first decide and what percent of the death is attributable to covid and what is attributable to the lung cancer, etc. and then you multiply that by the life years lost.

That will give you an estimate of the life-years the disease has cost us. Then you divide that by the total life years available to understand the expected toll to each person.

I am not going to say, "the toll is X" -- in the future we will understand the toll of covid.

We will also understand the toll of the reaction to covid -- the consequences of people not being able to go the gym, of cancelling doctors appointments and deferring cancer screening, of despair from job loss, destroyed careers, lost schooling, seniors dying in nursing homes unable to see their family members, and shortages.

At the end of the day, when all these tallies are counted, a lot of people screaming about civil war style death counts are going to be deeply shamed for their foolishness.
"unrelated issue"? How could it possibly be unrelated?
I disagree deeply. If you have no buffers that means you can change what you produce without waste. JIT allows you to produce a customized car as it comes of the production line. it can adapt much more quickly then any system with a lot of stock.

The problem is not "the system reacts to quickly to our controls". It's "humanity when faced with uncertainty about the pandemic choose to optimize the controls over a to short time frame leading to regret". Economic ideologies also have impact on the choice of the time frame. Blaming that the system reacts to well to our controlls just because it reacting sluggisher might have had a trajectory under the same controls that would have caused less regret this time is my opinion very mistaken.
Thanks to the platforms solving for that side of things, the niches happen within the larger platforms now, like “health insta,” “cryptotwitter,” “yogatok.”

I really do miss the obscure forums of the early 2000s though. The more intimate connections with an anon don’t happen as often (anecdotally, for me) in these subgroups of the big networks.
New Orleans Man to Get His Life Savings Back, a Year After DEA Civil Forfeiture
Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter
Thanks for the insights.

For casual adult playing though, I'd never reach" high level" playing. All I want is to play easy songs I like (I'm sure there are plenty of people like me), for which I think an automatic algorithm is pretty likely to work.
Is there any difference between Amazon, Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Staples, Best Buy, Costco, etc?

Amazon is better for small electronics and other knick knacks, and has an aliexpress with 2 day shipping bolted on, but I do not understand the fear of Amazon retail.

All the other stores have better pricing, product curation, and local availability. They all ship to you in the same time Amazon does.

If anything, having Amazon retail as a competitor to these other retail stores gives customers one more option.
The "old internet" was before commercialization so you're supporting the argument it was better before.

It was good because it didn't boil down to a few utility sites. Everything was creative, not corporate.
I'm saying that Meyer's Briggs is BS and the Big 5 model isn't.

One is feel good fantasy and the other is hard reality.

Investing time, money, and/or attention in a model with no basis in reality, in one that has no predictive or explanatory power is a bad idea.
The point is that even working at the pinnacle of American education, a black man, no matter how many degrees, how many letters, how much money in the bank, is treated the same as a black janitor. Assumed guilty by the police, treated like dirt.
This is the kind of content I come to Hacker News for.
Change your name to Facebook.
Probably from the canonical site, http://www.pianopractice.org/, where a more up to date edition is available for free. The second edition (that the submission link is based on) does contain that sentence, so it is from the original author. The third edition does not.
TLS 1.3 is kind of complex, but with less optional stuff is not too bad. X.509 is a nightmare of complexity, but at the same time is inflexible in useful ways. Certificate validation when not every node has the same list of CAs and some CAs are expiring is pretty hard to bulletproof.
Great analysis! I wonder whether you can also incorporate puzzle usage in this.

"But while I have the data here, let's take a moment to answer the question everyone's asking: does playing more games make you a better chess player?

Intuitively, the answer seems like it should be yes. Seems like experience should be a huge factor in someone's chess strength. It also seems like the go-to answer many of the top players recommend for improving at chess."

That's actually not what I've seen top trainers recommend, at least for improvement at classical time controls. They recommend playing something like one or two games a day but carefully analyzing each game afterwards.
>> Uber is dead here.

I will be in Vienna soon and I guess I can't wait to get swilded by a taxi driver. At least with Uber you know how much you are going to pay and that the price is fair/market price which is not always the case with taxi drivers.
Not to mention I had some really bad experiences with the taxi drivers(in Spain) trying to switch the banknotes given...you can't really appreciate Uber enough until you find the "right" taxi deriver(s)
Yes, that exists in subreddits and Facebook and other site groups. The problem is that those mediums suck, can be hard to find, want to remain exclusive and in many cases the content is walled. Subreddits are generally the most open, but there is so much content in Facebook groups but with terribly low accessibility
I personally think this is bad advice. I've experienced this kind of method through a friend of mine; it was always more frustrating than it was worth. I knew he has good intentions, but the truth is, different people learn differently*. When I ask questions, its often to try to build context or a mental map before I tackle a problem. I think that, while being cryptic and only answering questions with more questions can help nudge certain students in the right direction, it will just frustrate and confuse others. My guess is that for every student you've found this method successful with, there were 3 students who just gave up on asking you for advice because they'd just assume you'd elude them again -- and these are invisible failures.

Personally, I stopped asking that certain friend for advice after one too many frustrating sessions.
Just for the note, in JS these two:

async function foo() {...}
function* bar() {...} // a.k.a. generator

are fibers. These are execution contexts that JS VM can be switched into. The first one (asynchronous function) uses kind-of preemptive multitasking (implicit context switch) and generators are closer to canonical fibers - cooperative multitasking with explicit yield of VM to other fibers.
> YAML is not a programming language

To bw fair, while CF can be written in YAML for less visual noise, its fundamentally JSON.

Also, its not a programming language, its a target-state description language.

> Give me a real programming language, with interfaces to the appropriate constructs necessary to do the job, via an SDK. In AWS, that means using CDK, not CloudFormation.

Technically,“CloudFormation via CDK”. You can't do “CDK, not CloudFormation” because CDK is just a tool for generating CloudFormation.
why are there so many cutters and ballers here.

i never met you guys anywhere on the internet before
Oral traditions, including fables and mythology, along with their mnemonic structures of repetition, reference, allusion, rhyme, meter, character, plot, etc., were early stores of knowledge and wisdom. Education for youth, knowledge of when to plant, how to spin, what natural resources (plants, animals, trees, minerals) were valued, skills in hunting, sailing, fishing, and war.

These were finally recorded in written form around the 6th century or so in much of Europe and Asia. Subsequent scholars (Idries Shaw who's 1970's World Tales is a collection of such stories being an exemplar) has found that the same stories occur again and again across cultures.

The etymologies of Zeus and Jupiter (*dyeu-peter- "Zeus Pater", literally Sky Father) are from Sanskrit, and similar / related names are shared and found across Eurasia.

https://idriesshahfoundation.org/books/world-tales/

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Jupiter
I miss the old internet too but I can’t connect to your blog so I understand why we lost it.
After reading ~50 pages into the USN's own 400+ page Command Investigation report (dated 12 Jul 2020 and 20 Oct 2021, link further down)...the sailor and officer that you mention were no more than a couple little sesame seeds on the top bun of a triple-decker shit-show burger, with ALL the trimmings.

(Based on a quick search of that report for "DCA"...let me politely suggest that you do NOT read the report. Ever.)
I just miss organization. Everything feels like a mess now. Content is either in an endless scroll or it's only accessible through a search box and you have absolutely no idea whether the site doesn't have the content you wanted or if you just failed to use the correct terms. Increased reliance on CDNs and cross-site content has simultaneously made web pages expire faster than ever and made them harder to archive.

Multimedia is also a shadow of what it once was. Twenty years ago it was common for material to be presented in a way that integrated text, sound, pictures, and video together in an easily navigable way. A page on, say, Lewis and Clark would offer you an audio introduction, an interactive map that brought up text journal entries for clickable points of interest, and relevant pictures. Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry, or a video that may or may not offer you any useful way to navigate it aside from jumping around at random and most certainly doesn't give you rich annotations throughout.
Text heavy usually means content heavy.

A disturbing amount of the web is "How To Make A Made for Adsense Clickbait Page In 2021" containing lots and lots of pictures to pad out the ads and amazon referral links, but very little prose.
I'd be OK with it losing share to others. Currently the situation sucks: you have very few alternatives when shopping online. That is not a normal situation in any kind of a "competitive" economy. I'd go further, and break up Amazon's retail into two companies as well. 2 Amazons, 2 AWS-es, fighting each other to the death would be the ideal outcome.
I just read his post on NPR [0] and as a frequent listener of NPR, I am surprised to admit that I don’t entirely disagree.
Taking a critical stance against established media outlets that one was previously closely aligned with, that seems difficult and substantial to me.

[0] https://taibbi.substack.com/p/nprs-brilliant-self-own