skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Bourdieu's point is that this ability to rank art within a genre is an attribute of belonging to a cultural group. As such, this cultural knowledge you have will be valued depending on the social importance of that group.

Some groups will speak highly of a genre while other will despise it. Cultural knowledge will be a more useful capital if it is associated with a more prominent group. Within the group, the extent of your knowledge will help you distinguish from others.

The point is that the way this taste (but also the artist's skill) is acquired is highly correlated with social belonging: your appreciation of a specific piece of work is informed by your past experience within your social environment. Even though you may produce an autonomous opinion on a specific piece of art, this opinion is formed using knowledge that is socially acquired.

To expand a bit with examples:

* if the genre you're into pays a lot attention to technical skill, you will probably need, and focus on distinguishing the technicality of the art piece. People unable to tell the difference will be seen as uneducated.

* if it focuses more on the relevance of the art piece in its time context, what others would consider a crude piece will be seen as a clever way to remind the spectator of the zeitgeist and how subtly references are made to other work. People who think too much about the technical details will be seen as unrefined.
What I heard: "I find it useful to distinguish products on a single axis of quality, and therefore to distinguish talent on a single axis of being able to produce it. I can't imagine living without doing this ranking, so that single axis must be an objective truth others should align with."

For what it's worth, I agree with Paul about valuing art that demonstrates a type of technical mastery, and I like ranking things. But having multiple axes of quality, and disagreeing about how to assess and prioritize them, is far more useful: it's what makes a market. Just because your ranking is useful to you doesn't make it an objective truth. On the other hand, the absence of objective "good taste" doesn't make discussions about merit useless.
I love that you can replace "optimization" in your first paragraph with "abstraction" and have the same results. :D

This actually leads me to see the concept of "micro abstractions", and I'm going to see if I see those in hard to deal with programs, now.
They certainly have become commonplace.

In my circle of friends, the general attitude toward them is that those widgets popping up and trying to grab attention (usually with the little red number notification badge) is the most off-putting aspect.
> the most interesting standards available

Genuine question — which standards is it you have in mind?
Promulgators... nice. Saving that in the lexicon for future use.
I landed on a team that does .NET. They're using the latest dotnetcore stuff. I've worked in various frameworks in many different languages and I can say that from my perspective, the Microsoft ecosystem is the most nihilistic, un-fun, fiddly environment I've ever had to use. The guys that always try to sell it to me never seem to have much exposure to anything else.

I can admit that there are different ways of thinking and different styles for different people and teams and that .NET is a valid choice, and lots of decent software is built with it. But I've chosen to stay away.
Haha you're definitely not alone — this happened so much we ended up getting http://meatplane.com. Maybe we'll consider a rebrand in the near future :)
Human beings cannot do anything like this.

The most comparable feat of navigation and stamina that humans can do is sailing around the world alone. Some sailors will sleep for no more than 20 minutes at a time scattered throughout the day.
Irrational NFT exuberance requires new IP law
In the end no one profits from this. Companies profit more from fit employees instead of overstressed ones.
I think this is very wrong, and the foundation of modernism in art and architecture (which is to say, you are wrong in a very unoriginal way!)

The Greeks used all sorts of forced perspective tricks in their architecture. Columns aren't equally spaced and lines aren't straight, but when viewed by a human observer at ground level the buildings built to Greek aesthetic rules appear "nicer" than those built to pure geometric ones.

Similarly, in art, there was a lot of talk about "authenticity" in the early 20th century, where it was believed that the more primitive the artist, the more authentic the art, since the true message of the artist would transmit undistorted by such Western constructs as technique or skill.

Decoration, adornment, and "fakeness" in pursuit of aesthetics has always been with us, and it's really a curiosity of modernity to have done away with it so comprehensively. Looking at the burgeoning architectural revival movements, and the return in popularity of portraiture and classical painting techniques, I think we're nearing the end of an era encapsulated by your comment.
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Will the magic of psychedelics transform psychiatry?
What? This must be satire right? When was it written, around 20-30 years ago?
Thanks. This is critical context for this case for why requesting this level of verification of evidence, which might be considered a stretch in normal circumstances, is much more justifiable in this case.
Taste is only as good as how one can articulate aspects of a certain taste that one appreciates.

If one enjoys something but cannot deconstruct the attributes of one's joy, then it isn't necessarily taste that one has but merely a pleasurable sensory perception.

You can judge whether someone actually has taste if they can describe to you why they appreciate a particular thing. Ask someone who listens to a lot of rap music and they can tell you what they think makes a good rap song. Ask someone who reads poetry and they will tell you how they judge good poetry. Hell, I bet you could ask someone who watches a lot of porn and they'll tell you what they look for in a good porn scene.

To demonstrate the opposite case, ask a person who casually binge watches everything on Netflix and ask them why they enjoy a particular show. They might stare at you blankly for a second and only respond with nonspecific reasons such as "it's really scary" or "because it's funny" and little beyond that. This isn't taste, because their experience is hardly different from a tickle. A person can have taste for comedy, but just because comedians and tickles both result in laughter doesn't mean it takes the same level of thought to appreciate the two. (though I suppose it's possible for one to be a good tickler, so my analogy falls apart in that sense)

In fewer words, my point is that taste is a thing, but it has no objective qualifier other than that it is merely the differentiation between thought applied to sensory input as opposed to thoughtlessly responding to input.

One's tastes can be entirely inverted from the norm, but we can't qualify those tastes because that would require uncommon knowledge and experience. On the other hand, the presence of some kind of taste can at least be partially measured. It's the goodness and badness of taste that is purely relative absent any shared mechanics involved.
Thank you, while I can't recommend original philosophical sources, I can say I like Matthew B. Craford's "Shopclass as Soulcraft," was the best recent version of these ideas I've read, and it is a much more in-depth treatise than one would typically expect from a popular book. Only tangentially related by motorcycles is zen and the art..., which was also about these kinds of qualities.

The other influences might be Aristotle's nichomachean ethics and the Stoics, but I'm having trouble sourcing my own ideas directly from those much better ones other than to say they were influential.

From a po-mo side, Venturi's "ducks and decorated sheds," essay was influential, as his bit was about buildings that are symbols vs. buildings with symbols. I don't imagine reading Simulacra and Simulation again, and I don't know if it would stand the test of time, but that decoupling of symbols from artifacts and the represented from the real is a theme in 20th century critical theory.

There's some romantic thinking in there as well, and I can't quite source why I believe it, but there is a kind of catholic, hellenism to taking the idea of our perception of beauty and symmetry as a form of truth (as distinct from mere power deciding truth by fiat, or of it being ineffable), and then iterating on that idea into a logic around it. I don't know whose idea that was, but the limits of it became obvious when I learned about things like polyrhythms and self similarity, where the symmetry is more dynamic and implied, whereas even music demonstrates how our minds impose symmetry and favour the things the mind can impose its sense of symmetry and beauty on. That would probably align with pop "cognitive biases" lists and thinking fast and slow.

The effect vs. affect part has been a personal theme for a decade or so, so I can't source that elsewhere.
Another good article about the same topic: “The Code That Controls Your Money” by Clive Thompson

https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/cobol-controls-y...
The machine knows better than drunk-you, sure. The concern is when the machine doesn't let sober-you drive because it incorrectly thinks you're drunk.
The great thing about us is that we are predictably irrational.

Our quirk or pattern is that we use shortcuts (biases, heuristics, habits) most of the time, not because we are stupid, lazy or insane, but because they work or used to work most of the time, especially in familiar situations. Shortcuts are used to economize on our time, attention and energy, and they are vital when there is too much information, not enough meaning, when we need to act fast or decide what to remember.

Another of our quirk is that we constantly try to hide from and fix reality. Reality is beyond our control, it is complex, random and unfair. It isn't designed to maximize our potential or make us happy, therefore we treat it as if being broken.

We always try to fit everything into a coherent pattern. If the information spoils the pattern, we reject it. Having less information can make it even easier to fit everything. We want to be dogmatic and find that one right answer and settle on it. If something is easy it feels true, it feels valid. The problem is that as our access to data as evolved, our brains haven't.

We are generally blind to all of this, and we generally struggle to turn our intentions into actions. We are limited, we're of two minds (reactive and deliberative thinking), we use shortcuts, we're deeply affected by context, but what do you expect from a jelly-like three-pound mass of tissue. It also got less efficient as it evolved, as we started to become a civilization. You don't need a big brain if you can use everyone else's.
I personally like the grittier chocolates, but that might be uncommon.
It's just a very low quality blog. The kind of low quality content you'd expect to find on Medium but it's not on Medium.

Burn it.

Find something worthwhile to say. If you're having to make a self-deprecating title (e.g. "Occasionally valuable") because you're not proud of what you do you are just going to push people away.
PCX was RLE. I remember playing with PCX files in C++ back in the day.
From the article:
> We demonstrate that it is possible to trigger Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite deployed mitigations on commodity off-the-shelf systems with little effort.

The fact that user space code can cause bit flips in your RAM is a hardware bug. I'd love to see this code in memory testers like memtest86 so I could send the RAM back if it ever caught a problem like this.

I guess it shows just how close to the edge of not working our modern computing environment is.
That's a very pro-taste take on taste. I guess I should balance it out by saying that taste can also be knowing which overt signs of wealth are used by successful pharma salesmen, and which are used by successful drug dealers. ;)
While this absolutely rings true today this is slowly becoming a non-issue as seeverless platforms migrate from FaaS to “run a container in a provider managed cluster.”

Also, you don’t have to “go all in on cloud” even with serverless if you care about portability. Bite the performance bullet, attach elastic IPs to your Lambda’s, expose them to your VPC and manage your own logs, metrics, auth, and networking. Trivial migration to EC2 if they ever stop serving you. And use service gateway for your managed services for another easy migration path if you ever want to switch to self-managed.

Half this article is absolutely right about the crazy amount of provider specific crap is in every cloud but the other half is presenting the normal operational burden of connecting disparate systems as something that is the unique fault of the cloud.
They forgot the absolute champion of them all - Nancy Pelosi. There is actually a Twitter account @NancyTracker that shows how her husband has been pulling over 1000+% gains for a number of years. Absolutely stunning.
Why salt was so important throughout history (2018)
I felt like the real point of Nathaniel's dithering article was pointed out early:

> reducing file sizes in a stylized way.

I don't think we ever stop and actually consider what creative avenues are open to us in that regard.

It's sort of like how there are technically better methods of printing than risograph, but sometimes that's what you really want and it's still fun to mess with.
Nice work! Love the support for merging profiles together and also profiling unstructured data. I could’ve used this all of the time back in research days, instead of having to do the profiling by hand and from scratch every time.

We definitely want to explore suggesting data tests based on profiling. Don’t be surprised if you see a fork!
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Baird Hall from Wavve made an interesting point that chatbots are a blessing for founders because every question/conversation is an insight into what users are thinking and how they view the product.

As a consumer, I hate them. There is something very off putting about seeing a notification when you visit a landing page.
My manta is almost the opposite. Every morning I write and and say to myself, "Love others. Be kind. Imagine people complexly."

My default is to assume everyone else is a dumbass with bad intentions. The vast vast majority of the time they are not. They either live a life that led them to believe some ideas contrary to my own and/or are trying to get some goal of their own finished and I am just a background character in their story.

I don't know if I would say most people are good people but most people are not actively trying to be bad people.
In the US, it works a little differently. The rural poor do their best to vote for easing the lives of large landowners and millionaires.
Well which one do you tend to reach for then? Purely out of curiosity.
honestly, its just our fears stopping us. As a programmer you earn enough in 1-5 years to live like a god in parts of the world. To be happy one can also start farming and have a small garden somewhere on this planet, live a decent life and be happy. Its pure fear stopping us.
New York became a hub for commerce and culture because it was a very successful port city. With the completion of the Erie canal, it connected the American heartland to the Atlantic Ocean. This naturally led to it being the main port for immigration as large numbers of people came to the US in search of economic opportunity. Decades of sitting at the center of the northeast corridor, the richest metropolitan area in human history, has made it a solid contender for the financial capital of the world. You can't simply build more New Yorks, the geography and history that produced it are unique.

Of course not everyone wants to live in New York, indeed there are many cities that each have their own unique circumstances drawing vast numbers of people, and all of them experience great demand. But there's a reason you can't just through up a bunch of skyscrapers in South Dakota and get everyone to move there.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17640343
I don't disagree with what you are saying but you are saying it to the wrong person.

I am acutely aware how fleeting time is, believe me. It's just that most of my life I've been way too stressed to do anything about that. It's a death spiral.

If you came to me 5 years ago and told me "just relax, man, take your time" you'd likely receive a fist to the face and I'd yell at you: "THAT'S NOT AT ALL HELPFUL RIGHT NOW, SHUT UP!".

You likely live in an environment where realizing the things you mention is 99% of the battle so your advice is optimized towards that. You have to understand however that in most of the world the 99% of the battle is not being smart of understanding these things; most people around me are well-aware of them by the time they hit 23 at the most. Our 99% of the battle is allocating the time and energy to live in the present and just manage to have any leisure at all.

For many us just stopping to smell the flowers is physically impossible because we'd lose valuable capital (in one form or another) if we do it even for 30 minutes. Yep, I am not exaggerating, my life has been hell in the past.

So don't get me wrong as well -- your perspective is valuable. Just not to me and to many others who found that out ages ago and are now extremely saddened because they can't employ this wisdom yet.

Currently in my life I am fighting tooth and nail to be able to start living my life under the principles you mention. It's the hardest thing I ever did but IMO it's worth fighting that battle.
If this works like a regular worker, the first request can then cache the response for subsequent users. Might be helpful for read-often, write-rarely use cases where the first user (per expiry period) acts as a sacrificial lamb to speed up subsequent requests for following users. Regardless of whether the Worker hits the 10 DB queries itself or goes through a database-adjacent HTTP proxy first, subsequent requests don't have to hit either one, but can get served directly from the Cloudflare edges using a cached response.

You can get similar caching by making a bunch of distributed read-only database shards and/or caching your HTTP proxy output, but in this case Cloudflare manages all that for you. You do have to set up a tunnel and apparently some sort of daemon, though, so I guess you're just running Cloudflare's proxy to their edge.

It's not as clean as an edge-native key-value store (like their Durable Objects or Workers KV), but if your existing code requires a relational DB at scale, this might be one way to tackle it rather than dealing with DB sharding and clustering yourself -- which can get real ugly, real fast.
This was my observation. 50 lines of Go translate to 500 lines of .NET. All based on assumptions of what proper OOP and SOLID should be, things that I neither need nor care about when 50 lines of simple code could get me there.
You can't add the noise after quantization, it needs to be done at the same time as quantization, because otherwise you are losing the information needed to intelligently feather the edges.

Think of it this way. You start out with a series of numbers between 0 and 100. Your job is to represent this series as best as possible within a range of just 0 to 10. Without dither, you would just round each original number to its closest multiple of 10; all your 31's become 3 and all your 34's become 3. With dither, nearly all of your 31's become 3 and many of your 34's become 3 but nearly half of them become 4.

Without dither: 31, 31, 34, 34 becomes 3 3 3 3.

With dither: 31, 31, 34, 34 might become 3 3 3 4 on a typical run.

You absolutely cannot calculate 3 3 3 4 based on 3 3 3 3. You need the original full set of information in order to calculate 3 3 3 4.

Now add on the fact that it's not just random noise that makes this work. Neighboring pixels influence whether to round up or round down. You want that influence to come from original high-depth data, not already-rounded data.
https://archive.md/cPf8K
> Peer to Peer data transfer via computing devices is something I wish was be more mainstream. It's not, because the commercial cloud storage mafia has invested heavily in telling people that your data has to traverse their toll roads first.

Been in software half my life never heard anyone saying anything like this. It's most of the time easier and more efficient to use cloud storage than to spin up and bootstrap a p2p system. Also, thanks to encryption I don't really care if data hits the cloud.
Also The Guardian:

Immigrants needed to save west from crisis - Italy pays the price for a declining population, as the UN warns that worse is to come for developed world - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/22/population.mic...

UK needs more immigrants to 'avoid Brexit catastrophe' - Ageing population, labour shortages and low productivity mean UK needs net inward migration of 200,000 a year, says thinktank - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/19/uk-needs-mor...

I imagine most people in the West would find sacrificing parenthood pointless. They have had sub-replacement fertility for about 50 years, yet their population somehow keeps growing. How can you then ask them to reduce their population even faster, and expect to be taken seriously?
Except as soon as one does any serious project, those minimal APIs will need to be controllers, unless one loves lambda spaghetti.

And since they now optimize VS templates for hello world, that code needs to be manually written.
I think that either your account has been shadowbanned or your domain might have been blacklisted. That's usually happening if people post their own content exclusively. This is happening automatically and the reason for that might be this rule:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: since your comments show up fine, I think it is the domain that got blacklisted.
First, I want to make it clear that if you have a programming style that works for you, please don't take this as an attack against it. Keep using what works.

If you find yourself commonly having to cast to/from Object in Java, that is almost certainly something of your own doing.
We plan to get the M1 GPU supported. ... I don't think we're going to hit a public alpha in the next ~4 months.
Everything about this comment is too good! I'd never heard either song before, but I'd definitely argue Dan is at least half robot. I think one would have to be to keep a cool head while doing such a (mostly, 'cept for all the' thanks dang!'posts- also written by AI, I'm sure) thankless job.

This is how our robot overlords begin the takeover- hiding in plain sight, pretending to be one of us, while secretly gaining more and more power over us.

Do they pay him with silicon upgrades? Does he dream of electric sheep?

Are we the electric sheep?

'They Live' was a warning...when we put on the google glasses will we see their real metal skin?
>when it does there will be more unrest because of how much influence the states have over social media and news

This sounds vaguely similar to a point Jim Rogers was making (on the Wealthion interview) recently - that back in 1930's people more or less accepted the screwed up and unfair system and marched onward. But people today (for better or worse) expect more fairness and will be angrier and react worse.