skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The keepin-up-with-the-jones’ aspect of LinkedIn only feeds those admiring big tech. I’ve been in startups for five years but recently posted about accepting an offer at popular company and it got picked up by LinkedIn’s algo and promoted to thousands of people (based on # of views).

Strangely, after posting it, other companies like Google reached out AFTER I accepted the offer, as if LinkedIn bumped me up on some social rating system.
> Ground invasion vs. atomic bombings is a false dichotomy.

I think you are right for a reason other than the one you are giving here. At the time, there were considerable and growing doubts that invasion was at all feasible at any cost.

The bombing survey was only, and could only have been, conducted after the surrender and during the subsequent occupation. The information available at the time, such as the all-out defense of Okinawa and Japan's preparations for doing the same throughout the main islands, was making invasion untenable. Earlier assumptions about the ability of the allies to bring to bear superior force no longer seemed realistic. [1]

What about a negotiations? Japan was showing no interest in negotiations, and intercepted diplomatic communications confirmed this. Equally importantly, the allies were opposed to anything less than unconditional surrender because the armistice of 1918 had set the stage for WWII. In addition, there were considerable and realistic doubts that the Japanese military, still occupying a wide swath of Asia, would accept the outcome of such negotiations.

There was a fourth option - a naval blockade, promoted by Admiral King - and that was apparently expected to kill far more Japanese than either an invasion (insofar as it was feasible at all) or a nuclear attack with the two bombs then available.

As for a demonstration of nuclear weapons: with only two available, if their use failed to bring about a surrender, it would be back to square one for several months. It was not beyond every ethical principle to think that, if these bombs were used, it should be done in a way that maximized their likelihood of ending the war. As it happens, even the bombing of Hiroshima did not seem to bring about meaningful change in the Japanese leadership's position.

As we are discussing the ethics of the decision, we should put aside ex post facto judgement such as that from the bombing survey, but also ask whether the cost in Japanese lives was given much consideration in Washington. I have not seen anything definitive either way, and I am sure Japanese lives did not count as equal to allied ones, but it seems clear that, out of what seemed to be the feasible alternatives available, the use of nuclear bombs did not stand out in terms of civilian casualties and human suffering.

[1] Richard B. Frank, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire.
> As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.

Most bomb raids during WWII did absolutely nothing. Only very rarely a bomb strikes a target and does any damage.

Here you have an average of over 300 kills per aircraft and 60 per bomb. Absolutely mind blowing.
Same. I skip breakfast and eat only between noon and 6pm. Best decision ever, never hungry, never tired. I do have coffee every morning (black).
"A modern blueprint 1800sqft house, yeah, for sure."

This seems to mostly be a difference in preference. The house is 1.5 baths and not large ones. Some layout parts are less efficient, like a master bedroom bigger than it has to be (so opposite of the numerous small rooms issue you brought up). But overall there is plenty of room, even a room dedicated as a play room. But overall this is a great example of shifting preferences over time since an average size house was 1970 was about 200 sqft less that this, and I grew up in an 1100sqft house.

Prices vary by location. You can have a 4 bed house build for a quarter of that in many areas of the country.
Exactly. Too many people confuse "no cash bail" with "no pre-trial jail at all". I'm guessing there is some political messaging involved, sponsored by the bail industry.
Would this approach also work for Tar archives? Transparent support for sub-files from a .tar would be badass.
There are a few links which seem to describe what its all about.

https://developer.android.com/design-for-safety/ads/sdk-runt...

https://developer.android.com/design-for-safety/ads/topics

https://developer.android.com/design-for-safety/ads/fledge

https://developer.android.com/design-for-safety/ads/attribut...

The SDK Runtime sounds like a major step in the right direction (separating advertising SDKs into its own process with distinct permissions, separate from a hosting app and with no app-to-app communication).

Also the ability to custom audiences from apps (in the fledge article) and control topics both sound good.

These things dont appear to have any current plans to be required, but in the future I hope they do.
> what do you think the police are for?

General beatdowns. Detectives are what you're thinking of. Most people want detectives, few people want harassment and fines (or death) over nothing more than some cop's power trip or petty things (like jay walking when it blocks no traffic and is completely safe).

Granted, this perspective is colored by American policing. I know some other countries have it better.
Same, I get a request from the authenticator app, login in via facetime and click a dialog that asks me to authorize (yes/no). I don't love it, but it's pretty simple.
The “breakthrough” here is in measurement of time dilation.

The scientists aren’t “warping” anything.
>>and Japan's actions in China arguably were as well.

Arguably? not sure there is anything 'arguably' about Japan's intentions and actions in China.
To me, phone os is an easy way to get to apps, switch between apps, and handle notifications. It appears to be something else for you. What is an ideal phone for you, and how would Linux help achieve that experience?
You mean am I morally obligated to take my kids from their school and friends, as well as all the relationships I've made with the community, so that someone else can have an easier commute? nope.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I have been thinking about what it would take to hypothetically limit the ability for people to buy multiple properties within some geographical boundary, or even put some pressure on low density owners in that geographical boundary while the cost of housing/vacancy rates are within some extremely scarce range. It's a naive thought atm, but I would be curious if everyone basically had only one slot for residential ownership in the metro area of the city, how much could regional demand actually push prices?

For example, is it even remotely reasonable as a society to allow extremely wealthy people to own two or more condos in Toronto, when the minimum cost to get any condo is 3/4 of a million and salaries not remotely keeping pace? Is it unreasonable to settle on a definition of excess being that of the multiple residential property owner? Likewise for consideration towards residential property development companies. Maybe it's possible to own a lot of land specifically designated for development, but not for just holding more than one or a few properties.
>you might be the same person you might not want those accounts to be mixed,

Yeah, but my work account is tied to my work email and my personal account is tied to my personal email. Not sure why anyone would want their personal account tied to their work email and vice versa.
Genuinely curious what you do when you have to navigate a long document or page that doesn't have a clickable table of contents. If you're at the top and you need to get somewhere close to the bottom, do you just sit there and flick the scroll wheel for 5 minutes?
Okay, so what is the moral culpability of the reporter here when they fail to mention that this flu is currently only lethal to birds?!

I got to the 4th paragraph before I read a sentence that mentioned that fact (obliquely even!): "They said it is Kentucky's first outbreak of the highly lethal bird flu, which killed more than 50 million U.S. chickens and turkeys in 2015."

I mean geez, we're in a global pandemic, I think it's probably worth mentioning that this isn't "lethal" to humans as of yet... I expect more from Reuters, I'm surprised by this level of omission.
There's a bit of jumping around here, because I'm responding to people who are telling me that mathematical models for music shouldn't be taught at all and that we shouldn't use the word "rule" in music theory.

I think that's a separate conversation from whether this article specifically should be the entire basis for someone learning how to compose music. I agree that I would not point someone at this article and say, "this will be enough to get you on the road to learning how to compose music", I would want something more involved by someone who has more experience.

But that's different from saying it's wrong for the author to talk about sound frequencies.

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To your point in specific, I don't see where the author ever claims that this is an alternate pedagogical route to learning music, the author actively discourages people who already know music from reading the post. The post explains a few basic concepts like what a scale is -- and fairly accurately (or at least about as accurate as most of the other explanations that you'll find online). It openly works through the stuff that the author understands, and openly admits what the author doesn't understand, while sympathizing with the target reader that it's hard to pick up a new subject when it sounds like everyone else is speaking a different language from you.

So basically, it is every single technical blog post written on any subject by anyone who is openly learning about a thing online, and that is something that should be encouraged, not derided.

I also still kind of disagree with people who are saying that this is just trivia or too basic to even talk about, commenters are still underestimating how little normal people know about music.

If people come out of this article understanding stuff like:

- There are 12 "steps" in an octave

- An octave is doubling the frequency of a pitch

- Written down on a staff, we compress those 12 "steps" into roughly 7 spaces.

- A scale is 7 different notes.

- Because of weird ratio stuff and social consensus about which "steps" in an octave are most commonly used, some parts of the scale move 2 "steps" and some move 1

- Transposition exists as a concept, you can play the same song starting at different pitches

- Notes like B# and C can overlap, except some really professional players might treat them differently because it turns out the math we use for different pitches doesn't completely work out correctly in all scenarios.

That's all stuff that people who are unfamiliar with music don't know. Okay, the author doesn't really understand what's going on with minor keys, but this isn't a textbook, and there is value even in something as simple as "an octave is doubling the frequency of a pitch."

I'm weirded out by how upset HN is being about an amateur blog post with reasonably correct information by someone who is actively trying to teach themselves how to write music. This is exactly the content that we should want people to write about online, and it's written in exactly the style that we regularly encourage bloggers to write in when they're exploring new concepts/domains.
On the mice I've used recently, the scroll wheel itself was clickable as a middle button. Is that not sufficient for your purposes?
>Washington D.C., December 12, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017...
Warbl – a MIDI wind controller that can play bagpipes
Yep, the vast majority of trucks I see in my city are spotless and probably only used for commuting. It's far less environmentally and financially costly to drive around town with a car, but for whatever reason a lot people think that commuting in a truck is cooler so that's what they burn their money on. Some absurd percent of 4x4 vehicles, like 90%, have never been driven off road.

Conversely, there's a lot of overlap between environmentalists and people who like to go outside and get off the beaten path. Driving in remote areas a lot pretty much necessitates having a truck. I've never heard any animosity from environmentalists towards truck owners who actually use their truck for truck things.
Yeh that worked out really well for the last two platforms who tried it…

Microsoft produced apps that no one used because they were horrible on all devices. Apple conceded defeat and we have different interfaces on each device class.
Isn't this what loans are for?
Refusing to move out of the intersection, for weeks, probably is arrestable. They'll find something to charge you with. Refusal to disperse, if nothing else.
brilliant. now someone do this for Bitcoin/Ethereum address private keys

(asking for a friend. cough)
Because if you have touchscreens you can use two-finger gestures, and if you're on a mouse you'll have no issue targeting a thin widget. It makes a lot of sense from that POV.
Smoothie with the following:

- half cup of thin rolled oatmeal (instant kind, it blends more easily)
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup frozen chopped spinach
- 1 banana
- 1 scoop chocolate protein powder.

I generally wake up, put my kettle on for coffee, brush my teeth, then make a single cup of pour over coffee and then an hour or two later I get my smoothie when I get hungry around 12-1.
(credit for raising awareness of this goes to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30364520)
The funny thing is on Windows once you set up your Yubikey in Windows Hello it doesn't even matter. You are still forced to use the PIN and at that point why bother with the key.

I'd much rather skip the pin and just use Yubikey lol.
> benefits to not antagonising the population of the conquered kingdoms

A problem sidestepped across anqituity, including in India, by killing and/or enslaving the conquered population.
To be honest, I wrote code that blew up after the time server updated the time from the network, a few seconds after booting.
Considering that the Japanese where ready for full scale war against a US invasion, even using old people and children against the invaders...

I can't alse even imagine the scale of bloodshed that an amphibian landing in the style of Normandy would cost in dead soldiers for a territory the size of japan.

It was also a great bluff for the Americans, because after they used where able to produce 4 bombs. They tested on in the desert, droped 2 in japan they got only one left after that they where saving to clean the beaches for a possible invasion.
You might like the Logitech Anywhere MX. 5 real buttons and a scroll wheel that toggles between clicky and smooth. Only downside is that it's not bluetooth, it needs a tiny USB dongle.
French hackers you say?
As long as we have fiat, bitcoin WILL always increase in value. Because bitcoin supply is capped and fiat will continue to lose buying power year after year. At this stage, there is no incentive to hold fiat and huge incentive to hold as much bitcoin as possible.

If bitcoin replaces fiat, bitcoin becomes the main representation of value. It no longer goes up against a trading pair of fiat. I speculate that its buying power would stabilize and become fairly static.
Yeah, I was also wondering about performance when I read this. The Analytical Engine wouldn't have been fast to begin with and using a narrower datapath would have made it even slower. AFAIK if you measure the time-space complexity of emulating wide operations in software it's a loss.

8-bit PCs were derided as toys in the 1970s and with the benefit of hindsight people now scoff at that idea, but PCs really were much slower, less capable, and harder to program than minicomputers.
They did not scale down desktop apps. They created completely incompatible mobile OSes.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
> it's much more common for newer homes to have more bathrooms than older builds of similar size which obviously erodes living space.

Newer homes also seem to be kitchen heavy, and have larger closets (and also bedrooms), all of which reduces shared (and, but for the bedroom part, total) living space with the same square footage.
It would -- but it's set so thin by default that I have trouble targeting it with my mouse!
I wonder if it's a feeling like this:

You feel like 1 - 5 are very familiar to you. You've known those numbers the most out of all of them. So you'd rather pick 5-10 which seem more spontaneous and mysterious. Your balance mechanism kicks in and you want to choose something that is in the middle. You choose seven because 7.5 is the actual middle and hey, there's a 7 in that number so let's do that.
Sethares showed shocking ignorance towards the history of the actual usage of dissonance and consonance by practicing musicians and theorists in the history of Western music. The most obvious being that the category of dissonance and consonance has shifted over time. The most famous example being the perfect 4th, which has a simple ratio of 4:3 and should be a consonance but was treated as a dissonance against the bass for most of music history in the west (even though Sethares' graph categorise it clearly as a consonance, contrary to common practice). At around around the same time, the thirds and sixths began to be considered as consonances either, whereas previously they were regarded as dissonant and were used sparingly (composers generally avoided thirds in the final chord until around the end of the 15th century).

There's nothing inherently "good" or "bad" about dissonances and consonances, the Western ear has been trained to recognise instability in dissonances and stability in consonances, hence the ancient prohibition of dissonances in the final chord of the piece (a rule that has since been discarded). The trajectory of classical music in the 20th century shows that people can indeed get used to music which do not take that as granted. In fact, the almost unspeakable secret about dissonances is that they sound as good, even better than consonances. How else can the suspension play such an important part in western music up until then?

Sethares is of course free to define consonance and dissonance in his idiosyncratic way unconnected to common usage, but of course his definition and discoveries would then be of no use to those who use the ordinary definition.
There is not a list (though right now it is zero, unfortunately); Dremio has been doing some work around this (and contributed the spec and implementation) though I can't speak for their plans.

Just a minor distinction - Flight is lower-level and might be used to build a wire protocol for a database, but a "database supporting Flight" still requires something like Flight SQL to specify how the database expects to serve requests over Flight.
How do you implement B) without causing a disproportionately negative impact on existing homeowners?

For example, would you just tax "new" purchases more heavily? Or scale it into existing homes? Give caveats for fixed-income (elderly and disabled)?

Politically, this seems like a tough road, even if it's the best choice. You have to essentially convince people to vote against their own economic self-interest. I think current tax policy around homes is curious because it's one of the few areas that there is a rather clear consensus around economists that it's bad policy that incentivizes the wrong actions, yet we can't seem to change them.
I have a pinephone.

KDE demos well, but it feels like bug whack-a-mole with each pmOS upgrade. The native browser seems to be missing kwallet integration, and Firefox alternates between working and not; in particular the on screen keyboard hardly ever works with it.

sxmo actually works as advertised, but it's not exactly a mainstream UX. I couldn't figure out how to get it to sleep automatically, so the first time you forget to sleep it your battery dies.
I think there's a privacy focused firefox browser on the play store which is good for that.

Maybe its possible to also create a service which resets your advertising ID daily or something?
> Absolutely no strategic value

Was there industry in or near the town that supported the German war effort? Were there German military units stationed in or near the town? I'm not saying it's right but the term "strategic value" had a very different definition in WWII. Any and all war effort or suspected war effort had "strategic value".

> And don't forget that allied troops in Europe were rebelling (even turning their arms against their officers) at the prospect of being shipped to the pacific theatre.

I've never heard of this- was this really a widespread occurrence?
That's what XFCE is. (And MATE of course!) Now that they uniformly use Gtk3+, they could even try to achieve better touch readiness than even Gnome itself!
It's not a cryptographic break.

It's simply a regular password cracking algorithm, but with instead of knowing the full hash, you only know a partial hash.

It should be viable, even without rainbow tables. That's why plain, unsalted sha256 is very unsafe for password storage.
Would you describe more details about your work in graphics? What are the skills would you think that are important
Neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki were civilian targets. Hiroshima was the headquarters for the Japanese 2nd Army, which defended half of Japan and Nagasaki was the production center for 90% of the Japanese fleet. Both were critical military targets.
How long does it take to catch coronavirus depending on the type of mask?
Hindu kings did plenty of plundering too. Hindu exceptionalism is a worn out right wing trope which runs counter to the historical events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_invasions_of_Bengal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Surat
It’s not forked from Gnome but KDE tends to stay out of your way pretty easily and supports just as much as Gnome (with some Wayland caveats) if not more. In fact KDE community is very responsive and if you participate you will likely experience and benefit from the momentum they have.
Unity uses some kind of ECS, see other discussion.

And there is a bit of a difference between game, and game engine. Unity is really for creating games itself, where most part is not engine work. Like most developers, we like to do engine work though, not graphics.

If you want some fun, find a lower-level engine which just implements some parts (e.g. while Phaser.js is a big game engine, still need to do a lot of coding by hand). Alternatively, use weird things. ASCII, HTML Checkboxes, voxel graphics, svg, in rust...