skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main takeaways for me were:

- Do not try to practice the whole piece at once. Split it into pieces

- Start by listening to the piece. If possible get multiple performances/recordings (usually easy with YouTube) to get a feel for different interpretations.

- Take the piece and number each measure from 1 to finish. Figure out where the repetitions are, which measures are the easiest, which the hardest (this will differ for left and right hand usually), where key/timing changes happen

- Practice both hands separately, start with a single measure that is one of the hardest (if need be you can split it up even more). Overlap the measures slightly so that you also practice the transitions. Play as slowly as you need to so that you can play expressively from the very beginning (albeit with only one hand). As you learn the measure, increase speed, but only so much that you can still play expressively. Switch hands once your hand gets tired.

- Since one hand (usually the left hand) is often much easier to play in many measures or even entire pieces, it will get much less practice. To offset this, make sure to also practice the hardest measure for each hand first. Sometimes you might even need to practice the left hand from a different piece (if the current piece only has easy stuff), while the right hand is resting.

- Keep practicing all the measures in the piece in this fashion (with one hand) until you can play them expressively even at higher speeds than the piece is usually played at.

- Now is the time to put the hands together. Use the same method of practice as described above (splitting up the piece into overlapping measures, starting with the hardest one), only this time use both hands.

There are other nuggets of wisdom in the book, for example:

- How to properly practice playing chords

- Very fast notes played in succession are really just "imperfectly played chords", where your hand is already in the position of playing the chord, except one or more fingers are slightly lower than the others as your hand goes down. Thinking of it this way, you're not trying to speed up individual notes, but "slow down" a chord.
No tubes used but been watching the CuriousMarc series about Apollo missions recently really cool, particularly the TWT stuff and core memory.
I would love to work with an editor. If any editors are reading this and are interested in a) working with a new client, and b) think they can help me improve, I’d love to hear from you. My website is in my profile.
I need a wankerless environment to feel the satisfaction… otherwise I never do.
So what's the percentage of IP addresses that host more then one domain?

Also, I remember reading something like HTTPS was leaking URLs...
> were not allowed to portray BLM riots as anything but virtuous

Gold star for framing there!

Your tell was referring to all of that as BLM riots vs BLM protests. The protests themselves were by definition virtuous (a first amendment action at its core), whereas the riots were an ugly aftermath of that.

If those riots bother you, are you bothered by the fact that outside agitators might have fanned the flames? Case in point: https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/06/02/whats-up-with-umbre...
That tweet is totally ignoring the fact that one dorm is in Michigan and the other dorm is in California on the beach!
The industry output tables I mentioned do not measure "spending" per se, they measure value-add, that is, spending minus purchases of other sectors, so private sector should be netted out.

Conceptually, say you have a government service -- DMV. You have to pay for the building, you pay salaries, you buy equipment, etc. Now the government doesn't make its own pens or computers and it doesn't have its own electricians to service the DMV, it pays for goods and services from the private sector. So you would want to subtract out what it buys from the private sector, which is exactly what the value-add definition for the government sector does. This is to avoid double counting, since these add up to GDP and you want the sales of the computer maker to not be counted twice when you add up the value add of all indutstries to get GDP. Think of this also as the definition of a VAT - value added tax - it's computed as sales net of purchases. Except for government, it would be the budget net of purchases from the private sector, the residual being inferred as "government production". I am not sure how else to objectively measure government production, seeing as how that includes things like social workers, building inspectors, etc.

Therefore I think the data I cited is consistent with your definition, except that it is goods and services (most of what the government produces is services such as education and police, not goods, like roads).

But if you want to look at fixed assets (e.g. the DMV building itself, or the school building), then there is a different BEA table to look at, namely this one here:

https://www.bea.gov/data/government/fixed-assets#:~:text=Wha....

With fixed assets, you have to decide how to value them -- at current cost, historical cost, or real cost -- discussed here: https://www.bea.gov/system/files/methodologies/Fixed-Assets-.... This boils down to valuing that old computer at the DMV based on what it cost to buy deflated by some percentage based on estimated service life or how much you could sell it for today on the open market.

Check out the asset tables: https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/iTable.cfm?ReqID=10&step=2

Using current cost accounting, in 1980 government fixed assets were 2.4 Trillion in 1980 and 16.1 Trillion in 2021, or a growth rate of 671% (a CAGR of 4.9%).

Whereas looking at private sector fixed assets also at current cost, we see it went from 7.1 Trillion in 1980 to 51.7 Trillion in 2020, or an increase of 728% (CAGR of 5.0%)

So it is true that private sector fixed assets increased 0.1% faster than government sector fixed assets over that 40 year period, but that certainly doesn't seem like evidence of mass privatization. This is true even if some things were privatized. E.g. maybe we started contracting with more private prisons but also added 20 new public universities in that period, so the net "privatization" was small.
Publications and spread. I have a larger following on Medium than I have in dev.to or hashnode. So I post there and usually provide a canonical link to the actual article in a more "decent" location.

The value is the publication such as https://medium.com/javarevisited/ which I usually use or https://medium.com/better-programming which is a bit more painful (for the submitter). But the benefit is that both have orders of magnitude more followers than I do. When an article goes up in a publication I get huge viewer numbers.

Monetization isn't available in my country so I never enabled it as an option. I'm not sure if I would turn it on to begin with as all my new content on medium isn't exclusive to the platform.
That's what wechat is like in China and tech folks hate it.
I think the bigger problem is that the economic incentives are totally out of step with war readiness or even just wise stewardship of taxpayers' money.
Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tackle climate change
I am leaning to play piano on a disguarded Hammond CMS-103. (Someone put this out by the curb with a free sign. It was originaly over 7 grand. Why did I include this. Because I'm shocked at what people toss.)

Anyway, I labeled all the keys on my machine. C-D-G-F-G-A

I memorized C for chopsticks. (C will always be the white key to the left of the two black keys.)

I memorized F for Fork. (F will always be to left of three black keys.)

I then found a song I liked on Google with chords.

I picked a Ronny Millsap song, and played it over, and over again.

Am I any good--hell no, but keeping piano/guitar simple helped me.

Eddie Van Halen saw that his son was having a very hard time learning to play bass guitar. Wolfe told his father their are just too many chords. Eddie gave him some great fatherly advice.

"You don't need to learn all the chords. 11 chords will allow you to play a lot of songs."

A lot of Country, and rock, songs only have a few chords.
> it's stable

In what sense? We are observing massive devaluation, no?
In the context of practising a piece initially much slower than it's intended to be played:

> The probability of playing incorrectly is nearly 100%, because there is almost an infinity of ways to play incorrectly but only one best way.

I'm sure this book has some useful information within, but my 5 minutes spent checking out different parts have so far left a very poor impression. Combined with its verbosity, it's hard to justify giving it serious attention...
"You then come to the conclusion that helping sell more ads isn't how you want to look back on your life ..."

Software has been commoditised. The number of people making a career out of "selling software" continues to decline.

The Fortune 500 uses free software.1 Software quality is not correlated to price.

People work for (computer) "tech" companies and are ostensibly paid to write software, but fewer and fewer are trying to sell it. The companies are only sustained through sales of advertising services. None can survive by selling the work of programmers.

1. Meanwhile, companies increasingly overpay for web hosting and use of third party data centers.
that solves the genetic bottleneck, but how do you solve the cultural bottleneck? you can send tons of media very compactly but that's a shadow of what you get living in another active culture.
Ask HN: The Expected Style for Tech Résumés
The recent Reddit thread posted here about buzzword-filled resumes getting more results got me wondering: What does HN consider a decent résumé when it comes to font choice and graphics?

There are many different styles, and presumably, some are better than others for different career paths. However, I wonder what the technology- and engineering-focused groups think is a "stand-out" résumé.

For example: While at college, we were informed that a resume should be–aside from consistent–bare bones without any unexpected fonts (only Times New Roman or a basic Sans), styles, or coloration. It should be black text on a white background, no pictures, no styling outside of headings, and so forth. On one hand, it wouldn't be distracting, but would it not be wise to stand out in some way than to "blend in," as it were?
Maybe. But it worries me whenever anything moves from an "embedded chip" mindset to a "let's add a touchscreen"[0] mindset. Some mid-level exec is going to look at that cheap but beefy ARM SoC they are using, and get ideas. The companies making digital pianos are not immune to the disease that causes online advertising to show up in refrigerator firmware.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2PMzSo1Bss
Small tangent, but if I type "animus" into Google the first hit is a photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I can't decide if that's a coincidence or not.
The book uses a lot of hyperbolic wording, but the techniques in the book are generally sound. Mental practice in particular is an established pattern for top performers across sportive disciplines.
I agree with this. Scales more or less have an accepted fingering so if you practice these a lot, you'll gain some natural muscle intuition for when you see variations on scales and arpeggios in the wild.

When I took classical piano lessons, each week we'd have a new key assignment and we'd have to practice scales, chords, and arpeggios in that key.

My piano teacher hand crafted a very nice sheet that listed all scale and arpeggio fingering for all keys, but that is buried somewhere in storage. This website [1] seems to have the same info.

[1] https://www.pianoscales.org/major.html
It was fun reading your post but then I realized, what are you arguing against? The OP is just reflecting on fond memories like you are. Not saying anything about modern computers.

Can I have fond memories while also appreciate modern hardware? Or they're just mutually exclusive?
I have often wished there were something equivalent for nano. (Of course you can just save to another file and sudo mv it into place.)

In the spirit of this trick, you could set the SPELL environment variable to a script that does

#!/bin/sh
read -p "Path: " FILENAME
cat "$1" | sudo tee "$FILENAME"

and then invoke it with ^T. (Bonus points: Extract the destination filename automatically from `ps -p $PPID -o command=` (somewhat portable) or /proc (Linux).)
Lets not forget about V.42bis 4:1 best case compression ratio. V.92 upgraded to 6:1 V.44, but nobody used those anymore.
There are a lot of motivations to advance. Why do we research cancer cures? We use profit motives to encourage the formation of specific organizations but the reason we really care about curing cancer is that we lose loved ones that mean the world to us.

Similarly, the developers of Blender are able to get paid for their work, but it seems that they choose this particular task because it interests them. If they had all of their material needs met, they might take a break and work fewer hours but I’d bet they might still work on blender for fun.

That’s what I’m trying to do. I’m just obsessed with designing new robots because it’s fun. In the last three months I’ve created a four axis robot arm from scratch (each gearbox is custom designed and integrated with the 3D printed frame)[1]. Nobody is paying me. The only reason I do paid work is that I need money for survival. But I would still be working on robots if all my material needs were met by machines. And I’d also teach classes on how they work and how to design them, and I’d be in the shop making new designs because that’s already what I spend all my time on.

And we can automate food production! See my profile for the open source farming robot I am designing. And the robot arm I am working on as a personal project is something I hope I can use in a free food production system. You can make a super healthy vegetable and lentil curry for $2 per dish in raw cost. The machine that makes it can be the size of a van and it doesn’t need human workers. If a community owned such a machine they could all eat a really healthy diet for a few dollars a day.

[1] https://twitter.com/tlalexander/status/1453238105230675976?s...
> I’ve never once had a bad interview or work experience with a U of Waterloo graduate

Well, one of the things they are doing is requiring a 95%+ average from HS graduates (we don't generally do SATs up here), along with scores in competitions like Descartes (for math) that UW runs for HS students. They can take the cream of the cream of the crop.

Also a seasoned and fantastically well-regarded co-op program for most disciplines (all engineering programs are co-op).

There is a lot more (and probably much that has changed since I graduated 35 years ago), but there must be a reason that Microsoft hires -- or did hire -- more grads from UW than from any other university.
I'm surprised to see "frustration" and "rage" did not make the cut.
Nitpick: it's TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.
If I was a dog who was given a treat by my owner every time I alerted correctly, but never received a treat any other time, then you better believe I'll be alerting every time.
Take no notice of the people who complain.

Why do they need to read you? Unless it’s a close friend, family or relationship in which case they need to understand how you communicate.

I had a manager who said I need to get better at presenting etc. and for the first time I though meh… whatever. I’ll only do that once I find intrinsic motivation I won’t do that because it’s expected for a job (I’m not in sales and I rarely present other than internal demos)
If you’re ever in the market to sell that thing, it sounds like my kids could use the mechanical version…
If you're aware of this behavior, could you just paste them to a text file after writing them instead of hitting submit? That way everyone else doesn't have to read, determine you were not attempting to contribute to the conversation, and downvote. I do this with a lot of angry/trolling tweets I write but don't post.
This book has a lot of useful techniques regarding piano practice, but it's light on details about technique itself, such as finger positioning or how to engage which muscles. Does anyone have good resources towards this end?
It's supposed to be centralized, no nothing like crypto-assets. More like tighter FED/government control of the "new dollar".
Yes it says so on startpage.com:

> Startpage delivers Google search results via our proprietary personal data protection technology.
Probably your personalization. I see no such image on a fresh incognito session.
Appropriately enough!
I liked this article as a collection of tips for effective writing, but did not find much about the topic of motivation within it. The author appears to be internally driven to write from the outset, and the advice given assumes that you also have the volition to write yourself and want to improve.

Is lack of interest a solvable problem? This is a question I continually revisit. In one of the comment threads for the last "how to write" article that was submitted recently, there was an opinion that it is not. There is nothing you can do to motivate someone who is fundamentally a non-writer to be a writer. The interest will never be there, no matter what the person chooses to say or think on the contrary.

Does the concept of interest have some kind of divide between "mental" (the subjects your brain is capable of focusing on at a biological level) and "volitional" (the things you say you want to focus on)? Certain mental conditions include symptoms like "specific interests" as diagnostic criteria, which makes me believe that biology plays a part in motivation in addition to routine.

Ideas such as those have made me question many other things. Assuming that lack of motivation is not solvable, is it justifiable to have interest in nothing (productive/creative/cultural) in particular, yet still be dissatisfied with the ways you spend your time?

There is some kind of cognitive dissonance that arises when I think that "writing would be nice," when attempting to write is an activity that I lose interest in within days of actively returning to it, but the original thought of "writing would be nice" never goes away.
This may be a dumb question, but why does that matter? At this point, he’s a famous political refugee; it’s not like he’d be flying commercial. If both Russia and Ecuador wanted to send him to the latter, why should they care that his US passport was revoked?
>even if we started the work now and fixed it, you won’t see it for a year

So, fix it. Let it be fixed, and then no longer an issue. But because it won't be deployed until a year out, it's not going to be fixed. That's just dumb.
Did you read your 2nd link? All of the typically bad sides in the second grouping are related to poor hygiene and needle sharing. The first grouping is more benign than most antidepressant sides.
> Using the coast of Peru as a case study, the team calculate that depositing 50,000 tonnes of tephra – a bulk carrier vessel’s worth – offshore could sequester 2750 tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Current global CO2 output is 51 gigatons. Their solution is not viable. It won't even put a dent in the current output. [1]

1: https://mobile.twitter.com/BillGates/status/1453367874848837...
> that's exactly what I said 40-plus years ago when I got out.

I saw many of the same problems when I was in the Navy 30-ish years ago. But some seem to have gotten worse; from the report to Congress that was linked to upthread, what jumped out at me was the increasing micromanagement from flag officers and the lack of teaching basic ship handling and warfighting skills.
Who cares? Pre-industrial life was brutal. You can experience it today by moving to an isolated pre-industrial village in places like the Amazon or the jungles of Myanmar.
UFOs: When Science Fiction Meets Spirituality: Harvbishop.com
I cannot recommend strongly enough using Million Short to search the web for these kinds of websites. It's a search engine that allows you to filter out commercial results and also filter out the top one million biggest websites.

https://millionshort.com/
Most things compiled from source default to /usr/local , so they may interfere but not break package manager installed packages. It is also possible to use --prefix while configuring, so I can install it without using sudo , but I have to change some environment vars to use it.

I still haven't tried it, but my next step will be to try homebrew.
As far as I know there were lights but they were very limited. So you could do some things but it wasn't like today when work almost doesn't get interrupted at all when it's dark. At least that's what my grandmother told me. During her youth she lived on a farm without electric power and oil lamps were also too expensive to be used much. You also had to be very careful not to burn down your house.
The dog revival is real. It is possible to revive something that has been dead for 10 minutes under those conditions. Not particularly mind blowing today but probably was back then.

The dog head might be real, but the way the head moves kinda makes me feel like it isn’t. The body might have just been hidden away from view and the dog paralyzed or restrained somehow.
You do realize that not all blockchain, such as those business blockchains used for supply chain provenance, is crypto, NFTs, etc.?
The plexiglass barrier problem – Macleans.ca
Yep, fully agree. "researched, documented, and analyzed properly" is a very particular method of doing things, and much of the music pedagogy is pretty much "it worked for me and I'm good (or it worked for them and they're good), so it will work for you too". Which is true sometimes and very much not true other times. It's often a very conservative field (not in the political way, but in the sense of resisting change/doing it the traditional way), so if someone comes in and actually studies things with a more scientific sort of approach, there's no guarantee it will be accepted or catch on.

At least in the family of brass instruments, I am fairly confident that they're largely still living in the dark ages and often don't understand fundamentally how the instrument is even played, at least from a scientific/physical perspective, so good luck if you end up with a teacher/professor who expects you to play one way when in reality you'd probably be much better off playing another way. This happened to me early on and I eventually learned that there has in fact been some pretty good research and documentation into brass technique but it's pretty niche and lots of music professors pretty much entirely disregard it because of the above point about it being a very conservative field. Donald Reinhardt is kind of the one who kicked off a lot of that movement but there's a number of people who have been carrying on that work.

If a similar thing has been happening in the piano field I wouldn't be at all surprised (although I do think that the brass field is particularly ripe for things to go rotten in this way just because the brass embouchure is particularly complicated and also hard to observe).
Cool tidbit from the post:

> For reference, the most improved player is (as of oct 2021) an 11 year old world chess champion from the Ukraine. His rate of improvement averaged out to 33 points per month over a period of 6 years.
Uh.... drilling horizontally into the caldera isn't going to set off an eruption. Doing that is actually beyond human technology.
Are you taking into account that the person you are responding to has built a comment which is a mirror reflection of swayvil's comment. Do you have the same suspicions about that comment as well as this one?