skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charts are great for asking questions, lousy for answering them.

> That is the type of effects that has a Cohen’s d of around 2: Tautologies.

I thought the counterargument to this finding was that judges are reasonably good at predicting which cases are going to be slamdunks versus which are going to drag on. What I don't recall is if the judge is involved in sorting the cases for the day, or just in looking at the next case and saying, "You know what, this is probably going to drag on for two hours at the end of which I'm going to say "guilty" or "denied" so I should just call lunch now.

Which would make the case immediately before lunch a simple yes/no, and the one after a complex 'hell no' a statistically significant percent of the time. Tautology. Or maybe judges don't like giving bad news on an empty stomach.

You are entitled to due process even if no bookie would take odds on the outcome of that process. At the end you're going to jail unless your lawyer really surprises me, but you'll have had your day in court and hopefully that will help you appreciate just how badly you done fucked up. But you are not entitled to plead your case while I'm hungry and need to use the bathroom. Court adjourned until 1 pm.
The British PIAT from WW2 kind of fits that description. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIAT
Regardless, the widespread handing out of AK-47s seems to indicate that the Russians are going to be in for at least an Iraq if not an Afghanistan. Not hard to imagine a slow motion killing field in these cities.
> Well thanks Twitter for trying to ignore the problem, now we end up with legislation like this proposal which will be a fuck-ton more hassle

And give Twitter valuable real world identities for their users. Forced on them by the government.
Here's what happens: everyone who gets out of jail instantly forgets about everyone in jail. I'm exaggerating for effect, but it's mostly true. My brain has done some sort of self-preservation thing and I've only been out for 6 months and I can't remember most of what happened over the 8 years I did inside.

I sued while I was in there for dozens of things connected to solitary confinement. For instance, for detainees in county jails it has been ruled to be illegal to punish them before their in-jail trial for the infraction. I lost the court case, then I lost it again in the appeals court. They ruled the opposite - they said that detainees can be punished for any reason, any time, without trial. Remember - detainees have never been convicted of a crime. I've never been convicted of one myself, except a traffic ticket about 20 years ago.
You may be interested in stuff like this:

https://nsynthsuper.withgoogle.com/
This is typical in reddit, never liked it, but it's not something they invented.
I wanted to reply here to support what you wrote above, but my way of articulating it would be:

"just because it's cool and can be done, doesn't mean that it needs to be done".

Especially when it comes to things built+used for children's imaginative play. It reminds me of the classic LEGO ad:

https://imgur.com/gallery/xwAsW56
Having been subjected to a thrashing early on by a really good editor, they will stress that their isn’t always to correct and re-write your work - they’re often there to mark areas that need clarity or don’t fit the norms of editorial standards.

If they just fixed everything for you, you wouldn’t improve at all.

This experience made me much more careful about the way I write, and who I write for.
Spreading unwarranted panic is dangerous misinformation. One should be combatted the other encouraged.
I think I am saying the same thing, except my feeling is that you sadly have to retard the timing to get by on less-than-100 octane gasoline ;)
I can still appreciate it no matter how bad the code quality is, because it works amazingly well and I don't have to maintain it myself.

If it works for the devs, then it's fine. Chess engines have a fairly low attack surface, all you have is moving pieces. Security is probably fine. Performance and strength are clearly fine.
Russia is a lot more than its military dictators, it is the Russian people you are talking about harming.

Should cancer patients in Oklahoma not be permitted to buy chemotherapy medications because Bush invaded Iraq?

We banned collective punishment in the Geneva Convention because it is insane and unjust.

I have persian friends with family in Iran who can testify firsthand to how damaging sanctions are to people who have no ability whatsoever to remedy the problems that caused the sanctions to be put in place. Personifying countries is an error.
I sometimes see this with C++ compiler errors. People don't even try to understand them. They just change some random things and copy/paste some snippets from Stack Overflow, and finally request help instead of just investing a few minutes to actually understand what the compiler has problems with. Yes, g++ compiler errors are heard to read, but often the needed information is right there.
That's true but those still need to be hand-designed. The point of the ML-based approaches is to make it easier for users to explore the space of sounds, rather than setting up a pre-defined API (knobs, switches, etc.) for modifying the sounds manually.
> Russians came from Belarus and with their tanks disrupt the radioactive soil and create dust

Dust from soil doesn't explain why the readings from sensors around the reactors themselves has been sharply increasing over the last couple of days:

- https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/149701116634159...

- https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps
Its two non NATO members. Europe would not do for them what does not do for Ukraine.
That’s suspect. The site says that’s the average salary reported, implying many make less.

Another data point… if you can find a $15/hr full time job (minimum wage in many US markets now), that’s ~30K per year.
This man speaks the truth and obviously has a lot of experience with the system. It is hard. Hard, hard, hard. You have to sue yourself, without counsel, unless you are rich. Almost no lawyers will take these cases up on contingency (what you see on TV where the lawyer puts up all the costs with the hopes of making his money back from the settlement) as they are mostly losing cases. The courts HATE prisoner rights cases and will find against you using any method possible.
At least in currencies it is very common to use space as a thousands separator.
Unfortunately, I haven't come across much.

However, a good option, which is similar in principle, is Lingq (https://www.lingq.com/en/). The designer of it has recently become interested in comprehensible input and I've noticed he's adding more and more similar concepts into the app. He also knows 20+ languages, and much of the app was designed based on the approaches he's applied over the years.

Anyway, the app has stories written and spoken in Dutch (as well as other languages), and you can stop and click individual words if you're not able to figure out their meaning.

Also, a YouTube series that I find useful for Spanish (EasySpanish) has recently added a Dutch channel: https://youtube.com/c/EasyDutch.

Lastly, a free chrome extension that I find quite useful for all languages is Language Reactor, which adds easy playback handling and quick translations when needed. It works for YouTube and Netflix: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-reactor/h...

I wish there were more options for Dutch, but once you pick up on the comprehensible input methodology, you'll see how you can adapt apps like Lingq and Language Reactor into a similar method.
incredible!!!
What about 500 rpgs
That's what ancient coinage is defined as, so I don't see how this is a useful framing.

Shell money predates coinage and works a lot more like fiat money.
Sure, trust is a shortcut we use to not do hard work, and free our time to do more useful things that constantly check on each other. That's fine.

But it is critically important that we can periodically check in and verify that our trust is still well placed, and not have systems that can allow someone to massively profit from violating people's trust.

The stronger those foundations and verifications of trust are, the better off we all are as a society.
Sounds as likely to deter as much as cigarette packages with "Causes cancer, birth defects, etc" warnings. Majority of consumers just don't care about the package, and just care about what's in the packaging.
Short answer is yes! Previous work has shown that we can obtain very good results from controlling DDSP models from midi input. The solutions I am familiar with employ a two stage approach where the first stage takes midi and turns it into control signals (pitch & loudness contours etc..) and the second stage turns the controls signals into audio (like the particular model I discuss in the blog post)[1][2][3]. I actually think that the first stage could also benefit from the transfer learning techniques we discuss in the blogpost.

In terms of actually releasing a MIDI playable VST plugin I believe that Magenta have something like it in the works[4]. I hope that it will come with some ability for users to quickly create their own instruments, presumably using a transfer learning technique similar to the one we have presented.

Real-time rendering poses multiple challenges. For one, some instrument sounds occur before a note properly onsets (for example the sound of the fingers pressing the keys of a saxophone occurs before the first note of the piece). Secondly, the research models are quite heavy and considerably more compute intensive than a standard VST instrument which poses a problem if you want to use it inside a DAW. I think this latter problem can be solved with some clever engineering and the general trend of hardware being more and more accommodating to machine learning applications.

[1] https://erl-j.github.io/controlsynthesis/#/ (Our previous work)
[2] https://rodrigo-castellon.github.io/midi2params/ (Focuses on realtime rendering)
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09312 (Magenta's recent paper on the subject)
Honestly, that's a thing. The Go "readability" process at Google involved static analysis commenting on your code, and you got "readability" (the ability to approve other people's PRs) when it didn't have anything to say for several changes (among other more human criteria). You couldn't run this linter yourself before it was auto-run, so it did act as a check against making the same mistake over and over again on your own. (I think I figured out how to run it, though.)

This sounds like it's a bad story, but I thought it was a decent system. (I was a readability reviewer for Python, and I wish I was as consistent as the bot.)
And this kind of assumption is part of why it took so long for the speed of light to be established!
The Feds do not allow rape any longer. Once you reach your designated facility you are fairly safe from flat out rape. Pressures and coercion exist but just flat out rape as far as I saw was very rare. PREA is taken very seriously.
This simply isn’t the case.

I heard prominent counter opinions over invading Iraq & WMD's in the lead up in 2003. An NPR interview with a retired Marine general at the time sticks out in my mind, and was very influential in my skepticism of the invasion. NPR is, in part, publicly funded by the US government. I don't think that any media funded by Russia is voicing similar skepticism over the Ukraine invasion.

Also don't ignore the matter of degrees. I'm not saying that media isn't influenced, that Western leaders don't attempt their own manipulation. I'm saying that Western media is at least a little (often a lot) more open than Russian media with respect to POV's that disagree with the "state".

By saying "this simply isn't the case" you are casting it as a black & white issue, when in reality it's all shades of gray. And if accurate information is the lighter side, then Western media is shifted towards lighter shades of gray than Russia.
I wonder how the total mass of discarded furniture compares to discarded chopsticks, especially in the age of IKEA.

They should diversify into turning used furniture into chopsticks.
Don't forget about "is-thirteen" and its inverse lol

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-thirteen
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-not-thirteen
> My superficial understanding is that Germany divested on Nuclear and other tech and focused on Solar + Wind + Natural Gas. They’re now over -relying on Russian gas to cover energy needs.

And if that's the case, they might have capacity they can bring back online:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/correction-ge...

> January 3, 2022, 8:18 AM

> BERLIN -- Germany on Friday shut down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country draws the final curtain on its decades-long use of atomic power.

That's only two months ago. Hopefully the plants are simply shut down and they haven't started dismantling them.
When I worked in enterprise we didn't release software until we ensured quality.

The dev was responsible to test their software before they push their commit - QA's job was not to find bugs from lazy developers.

Our time estimations for tickets included additional time for writing tests.

All PR had to be reviewed for bugs, security, performance etc.. the author ws responsible for getting someone to review it if they wanted it released.

The dev was required to communicate to with QA and explain if any other systems or functionalities were be affected by a change.

Everything was be tested on staging before going to prod - absolutely everything with no exceptions.

Regression tests were never skipped.

If something couldn't be tested then we had to logically deduce why it could not cause an error.

After a release we ran smoke tests and would immediately roll back if any issues.
I've tried most of the things in your list. By and large they don't really help with concentration. The most effective thing I've found is 20mg of Adderall. Not thrilled about that, but it is what it is.
Copy pasting my a reply to a similar question

Short answer is yes! Previous work has shown that we can obtain very good results from controlling DDSP models from midi input. The solutions I am familiar with employ a two stage approach where the first stage takes midi and turns it into control signals (pitch & loudness contours etc..) and the second stage turns the controls signals into audio (like the particular model I discuss in the blog post)[1][2][3]. I actually think that the first stage could also benefit from the transfer learning techniques we discuss in the blogpost.
In terms of actually releasing a MIDI playable VST plugin I believe that Magenta have something like it in the works[4]. I hope that it will come with some ability for users to quickly create their own instruments, presumably using a transfer learning technique similar to the one we have presented.

Real-time rendering poses multiple challenges. For one, some instrument sounds occur before a note properly onsets (for example the sound of the fingers pressing the keys of a saxophone occurs before the first note of the piece). Secondly, the research models are quite heavy and considerably more compute intensive than a standard VST instrument which poses a problem if you want to use it inside a DAW. I think this latter problem can be solved with some clever engineering and the general trend of hardware being more and more accommodating to machine learning applications.

[1] https://erl-j.github.io/controlsynthesis/#/ (Our previous work) [2] https://rodrigo-castellon.github.io/midi2params/ (Focuses on realtime rendering) [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09312 (Magenta's recent paper on the subject)
"but, but leetcode cramming didn't prepare me for this!" /s
What does it mean to win a war? Russia can conquer a Ukrainian army but people simply won't accept a Russian government that easily. A genocide-like repressions, similar to golodamor, will be required.

It can be averted or the world can simply sit and watch it unfold.
No, we must up vote this. A formating test is the most HN post one can make.
I'm eagerly awaiting the first round of widespread reviews. I love to play turn-based strategy games (Civ, XCOM), and I worry they'll feel cramped on such a small screen.
proves once again to me the tarsnap people a class act!
Just joined a Flow Working workshop by Dr. Antoine Larchez and had some interesting results. As a lifelong (functional) procrastinator with diagnosed ADHD, I brought down 2.5h of effortless (once started) work on paper, some of the best in a couple of months if not years.

I have yet to see whether the methods are scaleable and replicable for me, but a lot of the content resonated with me, especially the insight that concentration to flow states is a skill that can be learned and brought down from 20 minutes to just one with training.

It was an interesting mix of fundamentals from Cal Newport (Deep Work), plus mind emptying exercises, concentration meditation, exercise breaks and group work sessions.

I'll probably dig more into it.
Formatting help can be found here [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Looking for something external, trick, app or whatever, and generally relying on science for concentration is conceptually the wrong approach.
L-theanine (present in green tea) shows interesting results in alpha wave brain activity: https://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/17%20Suppl%201/167.pd...

I think there was a post on hn about l-theanine before.
jack off. after that I'm good at writing code. you can as well use empirical method to proof if this technique works.
Wait... completed in one day? So an ~8 hour task? That's way too much of an ask for an interview, in my opinion.
Methamphetamines.
> What I object to is the commodification of attention,

What exactly would you regulate or "crack down" on?

People are free to choose what websites they visit. This idea that evil social media companies have used technology to force people to view content they don't want to see has gotten out of hand.

> the deployment of sophisticated algorithms

Again, what exactly would you regulate away? Ban websites from showing related content? Ban Facebook from showing you things your friends are interested in? Ban Netflix from showing you shows you may like based on your previous viewings?

Would you ban Hacker News' algorithm that determines which posts are shown on the front page? Just force everything to be un-algorithmic and chronologically ordered like the new page and hope for the best?
If you need a desal plant, probably not a lot of water laying around to dilute your brine stream
I am only 2 mins into the first video but I am hyped - thanks for posting this!
The button became capacitive in the iPhone 7. I know because I had both the 6 and 7 and you can feel the difference. So 6 years not 8.
That's a dumb take.

Money is whatever thing human society decides to collectively value in order to more easily trade goods and services across time and space.

Money has been and continues to be many things, from government decreed currencies, to gold and silver, to cigarettes in prisons, to sacks of salt paid to Roman soldiers (etymology of 'salary'), to the colloquial "I owe you one".

Money is just debt and favors and can take an infinite number of forms depending on the environment and needs of the people using it to more efficiently collaborate.
This is not really the case though. Humans in the past, even hunter-foragers (so therefore humans for most of human history) typically had an abundance of food and didn't have to work hard for it. We just destroyed all the food-rich ecosystems that used to sustain us before agriculture became widespread.
I worry that handing out arms to civilians means Russia is going to have excuses for any civilian casualties from now on. Sprinkle an ak47 on the body take a picture and call it justified.
To me at least, mark, details/summary and description lists are not obscure!

While I don't code in HTML directly, I write the mark-up in Org mode that exports to those.

- My recent blog post where I used mark few times (I have set the mark highlight to be brownish to match my site theme) and also the description lists: https://scripter.co/hugo-modules-getting-started/

- In some other posts, I use details/summary to collapse large code blocks.
>Yes you are.

No. I'm not.

Yes, my original reply pointed out that your comment was an example of Russian propaganda that appears on HN.

But, as often happens on HN, the thread took a turn when someone replied to me.

So, despite your protests, I'm sure I know who and what I'm talking about.

And, I'm not talking about you.
Here's the earliest copy (2021) of the "About" page from the source domain available on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210126124230/https://techpolic...

The copyright notice on the page dates back a little further, to 2020.
What 15 year old phone could your wife possibly still be using? Is it her main phone? I can’t even imagine rocking. 10 year old phone like the iPhone 5
CSIS: What’s Next for the China-Russia Relationship?
I always found it sickly charming that they call that method of hacking "rubber-hose cryptanalysis"
> You want NATO (mostly US jets) shooting down Russian planes over Ukraine? Why not just come out and say you want WW3?

Are you so sure it would escalate like that, or is it a bluff?

And if it's a bluff, should Putin be able to bluff his tanks all the way to Berlin?
You do linguistics? Right to jail. Mathematics? Believe it or not, jail.
ARJ command line was largely inherited from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format)

(the same was true for RAR)
Q. where is the last version 2.7 PyPi archived?
Based on consistently feeling as you describe in your opening sentence for over two decades in many different life stages and concept, let me suggest a reframe:

The good news is that "sometimes it's effortless". Consider yourself blessed. For a lot of people that is never true and though they may even achieve some professional success by grinding, it will be joyless and likely not lead to real career satisfaction.

Now in terms of optimizing your coding output, don't focus on minmaxing this as if you were an assembly-line manager trying to squeeze out your next ounce of performance. Instead recognize that coding is a creative craft that depends hugely on your state of mind. Focus on finding ways to recognize and harness the energy overall, but recognize you can't force it. This comes in two parts:

First, if you are procrastinating diagnose that by practicing self-awareness at all levels. For me it can range from something as simple as eating the wrong lunch all the way up to existential crisis about how I'm living my life, and everything in between. This is obviously non-trivial, but it can be hugely important. A lot of folks mention exercise here—and I agree—but I would broaden it to include ones overall physical and mental health. By addressing those things holistically one establishes the conditions to allow inspiration to strike.

Once that is established then you need to recognize and harness the energy when it comes to you. It might be on a schedule, it might not. You might have an understanding boss who gives you carte blanche to organize your own deliverable schedule, or you might need to some stakeholder jiujitsu (up to and including finding a new job) in order to carve out space to make your process work for whoever is putting money in your pocket. The point though, is not to adopt some external productivity narrative (I was brought up with the puritan work ethic) but to instead recognize and optimize for the tao of your own abilities.
Chile is far more distant from USA than Romania is from Russia, however Allende was thrown and killed by the CIA...
It's true that effect sizes are very context dependent. Heck, you see it in technology as well. Sometimes, it's worth paying someone to spend a week to optimize an instruction or two out of code. Othertimes, the idea that you would spend even an extra 30 seconds looking for that optimization is heresy.
Democracy in Danger: The Russian Threat to Ukraine