skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you need to set intermediate goals. When I started playing the guitar, I asked my teacher „Do you think I‘ll be able to play anything from Muse soon?“ He was like „Uhhm maybe, if you practice super hard? But let’s focus on getting this Smoke on the water to sound absolutely sick!“

For a long time, my only goal was to make the finger exercises sound good. Play them with a metronome and push the number higher and higher. Integrate little licks into the practice routine, keeping pace with the metronome. My guitar teacher was _extremely_ motivated and this was contagious.

Before I knew it, I could easily play most pop songs and many rock songs. I didn’t even notice when I became able to play Muse because my interests had shifted by then. I joined a band and stayed with them for 5 years…

(Addendum)

… until I quit because having two little kids doesn’t mix well with a highly motivated band on the side. I guess I also had kind of a music playing burnout because the band was kinda toxic.

Haven’t touched the guitar for two years now, but I‘ll probably pick it up soon again, and learn new songs. Maybe record a reinterpretation of some electronic music I dig. Or make electronic music with guitar elements, like the late Daft Punk or something.
great domain name!
> Except that Le Monde is not really quality journalism.

Yeah. They are living off their prestigious name, but nowadays I find that a good chunk of their articles are essentially opinion pieces.

On the other hand they now publish some high quality and well researched youtube videos.
Is there a list of prominent English language newspapers from each country?

Like:

UK: Times/Guardian

US: NYT/WP

Australia: The Australian

Singapore: Straits Times

HongKong : SCMP

Pakistan: Dawn

India: Hindu

Nigeria: Guardian Nigeria
The Witness was a truly remarkable game. Highly recommend for anyone who hasn't played it to give it a try.
Absolutely. And dedicated servers at many providers (e.g. Hetzner, OVH) can be provisioned much like vms. So the only real difference is that usually there's a minimum contract of 1 month, but often at a price where it's cheaper than running a VM at a cloud provider for 30% of the time.
Marketing and the Modern Data Stack
Improbable raises US$150m to establish a metaverse network
communism, stalinism, totalitarianism, feudalism and some others. afc depending on where you live (eg USA) people from EU are living in a communist society ;)

Not saying that things can't be improved but most politicians that are railing against liberalism are very much populists
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Could be could not be, hence the hard to measure part.

I've stopped using many tools because they created just too many issues. And in that case you will not write these emails as a customer, you just leave (as long as there are better options).
Try EMPTY.BAT from CMD.COM, or EMPTY.PS1 from PowerShell.

A zero-byte executable doesn’t work on macOS either. This article is about command shell behavior, not UI shell behavior.
Interesting - we moved the other direction (to Linode) from Rackspace because their VM/dedicated pricing was just out of whack. Our new box was nominally the same as the old at half the price, but the "4 CPU" was so much newer that it was nearly 2x.
It might be different if you're a developer in SV, but I'd say for most people, that's not insignificant. That's more expensive than most hobbies, I wouldn't spend £100 on a side project if there's an alternative.
For millions of years hominids lived at the whims of nature which often included starvation. Industrial agriculture has basically put the developed world at near post scarcity for food which in fact seems to cause problems of its own. That said, it's still essentially a human triumph.
Oh wow. Reminds me of Wall Street Journal where you’d have to change your address to somewhere in California to gain the ability to cancel online. Otherwise you have to call, because only California has laws against such behavior.
I don't understand why so many people think that real-world problems and "true learning" or whatever have to be mutually exclusive.

My applied probability and statistics course for engineers was all about manufacturing quality control. We didn't have magic urns with colored balls that no one cared about. But we did pull samples off the line for destructive testing. Imagining myself troubleshooting a manufacturing problem made me more creative, tenacious, and engaged than if it was a sterile math problem with no context.

Point is, you don't necessarily have to lose anything when making a topic more relatable.

University education, in general, suffers from the implicit assumption that everyone should think like a savant. It's even worse when a topic was invented or discovered to solve a real problem, as opposed to base research, and the teaching strips all context and motivation from the presentation.

I see some other comments criticizing classes that teach certain software tools at the expense of concepts. And yeah, that's training, not education.
Huh? The Economist is THE neoliberal globalist journal. What a bizarre characterization.

Did you mean ZeroHedge or something?
The Economist is pretty decent altogether.
The free license has been severely curtailed. There are many organisations with >=200 employees which might have <=5 developers. In addition, while the client remains open source, the repository (which is almost as important for a package manager) is where the payments are enforced, and also unlike most code repositories, prohibits mirroring[1]

https://www.anaconda.com/terms-of-service
I welcome the addition of different stories, but considering Le Monde already tries to copy the New York Times in style and content, I'm not sure of the value proposition or the real addition of diverse stories. A French take translated into English from the original but with some inevitable delay and potential diminished nuance? Or just more clickbait titles with lists and explainers. Hmm...

The NyT already has direct lines to a virtually unlimited number of French thinkers and experts from the leading universities, so for anyone who can't read French, you can find solid coverage due to the American obsession with whatever happens in France.
Would you mind sharing what size instance types you were on at OVH and are on now at AWS.

I ask because I've found that even radically larger sized OVH hardware is still way less expensive than AWS.
you could call that a conclusion, but it's not really like a conclusion in the traditional sense.

The game doesn't really require a conclusion tbh.
Genuine question: how do you find these goals in the first place?

Do you just randomly put them out there and work for it so you can tick that checkbox?

Take for example starting a company. I had that goal before and today I know that'd take an enormous amount of effort and would take me away from my family and the few hobbies I have. All that doesn't guarantee I can make it, since the majority of companies fail and luck plays a huge factor there.

I could set that as a goal, but is it worth it?

Most people I talk to when we dive into why they set a particular goal for themselves, it comes down to a childhood dream or something set by society. That's why I don't see the point.
Yeah, I'm thinking of some colleagues that can't remember any syntax that do 20 commits on the same line of code and don't clean it up.
Rachel doesn’t. This was posted by ‘picture.
With the advent of streaming music as popular as it is (and surely Apple had to see that becoming the trend), this seems largely like a non-issue from a storage perspective. In fact, it's really only costing Apple more money in bandwidth because they still have to transmit that data - though I'd bet it compresses extremely well.
The Chinese Room Thinks
The reality is we still don't know why Japan had a relatively low death rate. The factors you mentioned aren't sufficient to account for the difference relative to similar countries. Lower obesity was surely a factor but there's something else going on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/japan-covid-...
In the article he describes how the 500kb was originally used for album art but when Apple started storing that separately they didn't remove the space for it in the music files
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Remember to factor in a stint of isolation if you were in any form of lockdown

Don’t forget to give your social batteries a jump start if needed before evaluating long term goals. It’s hard to care when you’ve not had your quota of social interaction filled in a while. Caring about stuff is a positive side effect of ego, and ego needs social interaction for fuel (I might be talking nonsense here biologically, pinch of salt)

Whether this is relevant or not I wish you the best in finding the thing that clicks
I've not read the resource either, but it sounds like (from only reading your and GP comment) Anaconda moved something from free-as-in-freedom to free-as-in-beer-as-long-as-non-commercial.

Which is reasonable enough to me.
https://xyan.pro

I tried to make it as light as possible while still looking fancy!
It has a worldview, and is fairly open about it. Most everyone reading it is aware of that worldview, and seek it out either because it matches their own or because it counterbalances their own. Within its worldview, the articles are generally well-researched and well-written and increase the knowledge of readers.

Everything has a bias. Period. It's not a matter of things being "respectable" for confirming your own bias, it's a matter of not lazily labeling as "propaganda" things that don't.
Expanding Play’s Target Level API Requirements to Strengthen User Security
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https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/cross-border-electrici...

You import more than you export. Which is expected when half of your reactors are offline.
US is probably (I am pretty sure it holds the top spot, but haven’t checked so, “probably”) the most diverse country in the world with people of all kinds of backgrounds, languages, nationalities, and races all living alongside each other. So I am not sure how might one in good faith imagine that they are unused to people speaking multiple languages.
For the Arab world: Al Jazeera.

For Canada: CBC/Radio-Canada (the french speaking side)

Although more news oriented, my favorite sources for quality information in the US are the associated press (AP News) and Reuters.
> So, cancel anytime by conveniently printing out and filling in a form then sending it by snail mail to their customer service dept. I think I'll pass. Too bad.

you are not missing anything, LeMonde is one of the worst papers ever out there.
I had a slightly heated discussion with a family member recently over gooseberries and oh boy she didn't take it very well when I mentioned that these fruits are related to tomatoes more than the other fancy berries you're accustomed to see in an upscale supermarket fresh produce aisle.
Given both the demand and AMD/TSMC’s apparently higher than expected yield. You don’t really want to cut down working dies, so if their yield is high then there’s less silicon to turn into those cut down cheaper models
In regards to Bayes Theorem in the XKCD comic being used in the 'real world'...

I haven't ever really learned about the theorem except in passing through some articles and a brief mention in highschool once.

Even so, I still ended up basically using Bayes Theorem to successfully do something IRL. What was it?

Hunting ghosts in a game called phasmophobia. Some friends and myself were playing it on discord and were having a hard time figuring out which ghost it was we were supposed to be hunting. That is, until I started trying to figure out the negatives before figuring out the positives. The others were curious as to what I was doing, as it seemed to be working finally, and so I told them; "I'm fairly certain this game is using a rudimentary form of Bayes theorem, which is how we are finally getting these correct."

And correct we were, time and time again; despite never having gotten all the respective 'positive' clues.

So, in regards to the comic...

I understood it well enough?
> One complaint I’ve heard from a few players boils down to the game being very stingy with any kind of tangible rewards

In particular many people seem to hate that The Challenge doesn't reward the player (much) for finishing it. Jon definitely has things to say about completionism[0][1], and if I recall correctly, Jon once responded to that specific complaint with something along the lines of "expecting a reward just because you did a difficult thing is kind of childish", which is something that resonated with me. No one made me do the optional challenge, I did it because I wanted the satisfaction of having done it[2]. One wonders what it does to a society to instill in people the idea that they should be rewarded for doing difficult things that are necessary, ethical, or just, the way games often do, and by implication that the lack of reward is sufficient to justify the alternative.

[0] In both Braid and The Witness Jon has made the player do something ridiculous, time consuming, and tedious in order to technically 100% the game. In both games there are tasks that require the player to wait for literal hours to, essentially, check off a box.

[1] Interestingly, Jon has stated something to the effect that he knowingly puts 'unfun' puzzles in his games because they are necessary for a complete exploration of the concept space exposed by the mechanics.

[2] I also loved Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, so make of that what you will.
Not sure what’s “allowed” but for me the once a year thing is more about fitting around other treatments, surgeries, etc.
>You'll never see a French Quebec broadcaster spin up an anglophone version..

The dynamics here in Quebec are obviously much different. France is a francophone country, while Quebec is a francophone province within a largely anglophone country.

The state media here has long had bilingual offerings. That aside, the French media here in Quebec doesn't really make money. They are kept afloat by government subsidies (this is true of a lot of the English media as well - most get handouts). So spinning off some sort of English version, for multiple reasons, is a non-starter. Besides, if you're an anglophone in places like Montreal or Gatineau, you've got English media anyway.
I found this inspiring (biblical lecture from a scientific perspective)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w
In 2022, we shouldn't be reserving any area of a file as 'spare space' like this.

On the very rare occasion you adjust the artists name in a music file, the user expects the whole file will be rewritten. So just rewrite the whole file.

Whats next? Photoshop only writing out a quarter of an image when I edit my ex out of a nice photo? MS Word only touching a few bytes of a 100 page document when I make a heading bold?
> Nice example, but quis is cognate with who.

This is not an easy claim to make; at the level where they coincide, it's hard to distinguish the words. In the same sense that quis and who are identical with each other, who and what are also identical with each other.

Compare wiktionary's entries on the etymology of who and what:

> [who: ] From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hwā [], from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷis.

> [what: ] From Middle English what, from Old English hwæt (“what”), from Proto-Germanic *hwat (“what”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷód (“what”), neuter form of *kʷós (“who”)

Wiktionary does elaborate, on the page for kʷís, that Indo-European proper had two unrelated stems *kʷi- [giving us interrogative pronouns] and *kʷo- [giving us relative pronouns], but that these tended to be combined in later languages. If you want to distinguish them, you can say that quis is not cognate with what. But you couldn't then go on to say that it is cognate with who; both who and what would be cognate with quod.
which is the mouth of the French government. You'd probably want to pass on that if you want any objective news.
No, unless the implementation is completely braindead.

UBI well done would be essentially just transfer and removal/reduction of means testing and lowering effective marginal tax rates for low income people. It would replace many social security benefits at the lower end and it would be taxed away from the higher end.

In Finland we have had UBI proposals that are completely budget neutral.

ps. Increasing money supply (monetary policy) is different subject from fiscal policy (government spending and tax policies). You can increase government spending without increasing money supply.
I found it to be a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. At the time I learned it, I didn't really understand why relational theory was important. I trusted that it was, I just didn't really grok all of it. But later I found it of immense practical help when writing, and especially debugging, sql queries.

Perhaps the ideal order to learn in would be practical, theoretical, practical (applied theoretical), though that's just a gut feeling.
The t440p is a tank and with a 4core i7 still a capable machine and one of the only mobile machines that you can properly tripple boot with Linux, Mac OS, Windows each on a physical HDD. (1x m2 and 2x sata ssds). You can get one for 120 bucks and update nearly everything (don't get the one with Nvidia graphics), spare parts are cheap and plenty. I run a 2560x1440 IPS panel, 16GB RAM, i7 4710mq, 3 disks and a t480 touchpad (needs a slight mod). The only downsides are the missing usb-c and form factor if you are used to ultrabooks.
I am curious which topics are

> "too French"

for translation into the English language edition.
It looks beautiful, but the gameplay is very repetitive. It's basically an exploration of what one can do with one particular puzzle class and taking it to the extreme.

I can appreciate it as an unique game design, but IMO it doesn't make for an interesting gameplay.
Should have used some pliers...
Consolidated all of my small cloud VMs from DigitalOcean, GCP, and AWS into a single dedicated server on Hetzner. It costs way less and I don't have to pay for egress anymore.
Thanks! This is the feed: https://tacosteemers.com/feeds/all.rss.xml
Maybe I should also add it on the home page.
Just subscribe with a card from Privacy.com, and cancel the card when you want to cancel the subscription.
That's something I find so fascinating. The "cloud" will almost always be more expensive and "not worth it" if you are only using the IaaS services. I mean, look at the numbers, everyone sees that.

Cloud only ever is worth it when one uses the higher-tier services, like AWS Lambda and the likes.
Even running Kubernetes in the cloud is only semi worth it, because it's not high enough in the stack and still touches too many low-level IaaS services.

Of course, higher tier means more vendor lock-in and more knowledge required and all that. But if you are not willing to pay that price, then OVH, Hetzner and the likes will have better offerings for you.
This idea never sat right with me. Only one of Einsteins paper's went through the now standard practice, and he was upset that it did.

Peer review is useful, but let's not pretend it's the only way forward for a theory of everything. It's a very, very modern practice. We did a lot of great physics before it existed.

Nearly everything wolfram does is available to anyone who is interested (including code!).
Don't waste your French reading stuff like that. Not only are they passable journalists, their prose isn't even nice to read.
Come Passover, all Coke in the stores is cane sugar (so I'm told). I don't drink much Coke, and if you put two glasses in front of me, I'm pretty confident that I could tell you whether they're the same sweetener or different. I'll notice the switch at the beginning and end of Passover. Since I'm not Jewish, and since Passover moves around, I'll claim this is close enough to a blind test.

For my money the elusive perfect Coke comes from a soda fountain that's adjusted just so. Couldn't tell you what's different, but some just nail the perfect carbonation level and syrup ratio. When I find one, I usually have three or four in rapturous joy, because it'll be months before I find one again.
Here's a good article that explains it in detail:

https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/int006.html

Here's page about "OFFICE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES, PRIVACY AND TRANSPARENCY - WHO WE ARE"
https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-
are/organizations/clpt/clpt-who-we-are

It's so big part of it has the job of keeping the rest of the organization in check.
Apple Music stores music locally. On my 512GB iPhone it’s the number one consumer of space
Although "PC" is hard to localize to a single announcement. Yes, the IBM PC is a convenient hook. But, presumably, something like the IBM PC would have happened even absent IBM skunkworks in Boca given what was already on the market.

I suppose you could say the same thing about the iPhone but it did clearly move things off in a different direction relative to predecessors.
Picture of a well-preserved dino drumstick can be found here:

https://www.wionews.com/world/archaeologists-find-perfectly-...
Do you have more substance to your argument than an ad hominem? This is trite.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888887