skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems I perhaps misunderstood you and was dissenting against a strawman! Certainly, your second sentence accurately characterizes my point of view.

I remember that our textbook (Kostka and Payne's Total Harmony) had a lot of examples other than Bach chorales, and if I recall correctly the homework exercises did too. The composition exercise I remembered 20 years later was something vaguely similar to a Bach invention. That said, chorales were used quite heavily -- perhaps because they were the simplest interesting examples that illustrated the theory.

My professor wrote out music at the chalkboard during class; he even had a special chalk holder that held ten pieces of chalk, to produce a grand staff. I suspect that other types of music might be less well suited to chalkboard lectures, but that seems to be a trend in academia anyway. I'm a math professor, and we seem to be among the few holdouts in that regard.

Anyway, thanks for the textbook link, I will have a look!
We are taking it back, bit by bit. This is why I make these comments to make people aware that it is possible and really not that difficult anymore.
I agree with the core idea of this, but have you personally watched 3B1B? It feels to me like a largely isolated case, and I hope “remote learning” does not become the norm, but … it is really amazing.
It is extremely difficult to get a hold of a human being at the IRS who has the power to help you (especially post 2020), if you have a miscommunication or problem. People often accept mistakes and just pay out of fear.
You, like most people, fundamentally misunderstand what teachers do.

You cannot amplify the powers of a single teacher because that's not how CHILDREN function.

The children's need for 1-on-1 human interaction to support their development is the fundamental bottleneck. The reason class sizes matter is because they directly affect the quantity of direct interaction each child receives.
correct can come of pretensions

that’s right is more friendly
Some apps only. Some apps are just useless without access to the server. App for creating diagrams based on the search request, for example - on the server side it will use a huge DB. Any application where “live” data is ultimately important.

This feature has a cost and might limit the functionality - that’s why it should be implemented only when necessary.
I think the primary savings of e-ink pricetags is in labor, not materials. Being able to just send price changes directly to the shelf without having humans go through and change them out is a big deal, so to speak.
I think we read a different article.

How I read it: The author is surprised that when packaging their program for Gentoo; they discovered (while following the licensing guidelines) that there was a dependency in their chain that had no license, which makes the result not open source.

Gentoos packaging guidelines aren't arbitrary when it comes to licensing, they're precisely right that statically linked binaries are licensed with _all_ dependencies, so any distro shipping his program is doing so illegally. Technically.
It is for Orion browser (WebKit based)
Yes, but you are on your own, and future maintainers will also be on their own.
eh, I feel like alcohol bans were fashionable in the past. USSR did it, Finland did it...
Tesla will hike the price of FSD driver assistance software by 25% in September
That part is right! The problem comes at the end of a career when the SSA needs, under the WPA rules, to weigh what the teacher in question is going to be paid by the teacher’s pension (which by design was paid into instead of social security) against what the teacher paid into social security via payroll taxes before or after their career as a teacher, or during summer work during their career as a teacher. The SSA then reduce the social security benefits according to their formula. The reduction can be pretty extreme, all the way towards a person who paid into the social security trust not receiving any benefit from it.

I’m not fully familiar with the stated justification for these laws, or why you’d want to treat a pension as a ”windfall,” (or maybe they’re trying to keep social security benefits from being a “windfall?”) but I guess my main thought on that as a non-teaching, non-union professional is that we are all very lucky these rules were drafted a year or two before 401ks came into wide use, such that we avoided someone in congress getting the bright idea of treating our tax deferred retirement savings as a “windfall” to be factored into the SSA’s payment calculations as well.

I believe the problem of losing a spouse’s survivor’s benefits happens under the GPO rules, and that is similarly unpopular.
Everyone hates the telecom and cable providers. But that hate is wrapped up in complacency because 1) everyone knows they’re oligopolistic dinosaurs with terrible customer service and 2) they are fundamentally unshakable because they are utility companies.

Certainly we should call for them to be broken up too, but we already did it to AT&T once and it got better. And it seems a little old hat compared to the new FAANG big tech giants that have arisen in the current generation.
> I think a lot of problems with child education and just be traced back to economic realities of many parents today.

This is it. Our framework for understanding childhood success is based entirely in “school quality”. If a child enters adulthood with a criminal record, without job skills, or without prospects for higher education, it is always blamed on either the parents or the school system. The only remedies anyone can imagine is throwing money at the school system or setting up charter schools, so when that doesn’t work, you’re left guessing.

But none of this addresses poverty! I am convinced that if children can go to sleep with food in their belly, stable housing, and proper healthcare, they’re much more likely to have good outcomes.
The perspective of this piece is a little suspicious:

-ferrari still maintain that they will never produce electric cars

-the concept of hub motors is a fad that has come and largely gone. Putting the motors inside the wheels leads to reliability concerns

-motors with smaller diameter will need more power for the same performance of a larger diameter motor, and the battery is the heavy part

Normally each of these i'd let slide as journalist ignorance but the combination makes this read like ICE propaganda to me.
> I do. Thats too far the other way!

In case it wasn't clear, that was 2/3 in jest, though he is often entertaining and informative there as I'm sure you've noticed :)

> More than a simple scribe can read quickly.

Yeah, I've just come to terms with the fact that a meaningful (though not overwhelming) portion of my weekend will be spent reading whatever the pedant published that Friday. I wouldn't ask for less of it!
Parent comment instantly reminded me of Paul Graham's essay "How to disagree" [1]. Parent comment seems to get up to DH2 but not much further.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Pellet fuel.
Haha, this is why I am using Unlicense license for almost everything. Licenses create unnecessary fuzz. As a technician I have no interest in them
Revision: thanks for the feedback, I'm going to bed. Goodnight HN friends!
The reality is most people could not afford online services. This is anecdotal, but most local BBS users I knew did not use CompuServe, Prodigy, or any of the others. The hourly fees were expensive.

This is all ancient history, but most articles I look at showed CompuServe around 500K by 1990: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/tracks-the-number-of-hou...
You can do a singly linked list just fine.

But with a doubly linked list, who owns the memory to each node?

In reality, you can do a doubly linked list with something like `RefCell`.

See the famous blog post on linked lists in rust here: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/fourth-buil...
> The key is that I would be living a life of complete and total leisure. Wake up whenever I want. Sleep whenever I want. Eat whenever I want. And each day, each moment, I would do whatever in particular I happened to feel like doing.

I ended up in essentially this state for several years. It was about as blissful as you would imagine. The problem is, what got me in to that state was an intense drive (among other things) that becomes increasingly hard to sate without a meaningful purpose.

So I've voluntarily made my way back into "capitalist systems" and have to consciously remind myself that it is optional and a choice I've made. It's hard to find lasting contentment.
Don't try to control the outcome. Be open to a range of outcomes and look for something that surprises you.

When someone is unwilling to be surprised by the outcome (e.g. religion), there's no more curiosity.
Yeah I just saw this tidbyt display on the verge and was looking for a way to make something similar with eink. (https://tidbyt.com/).
Why did you read it as inflammatory?

I read it more of a "oh shit, I just discovered this issue in code I was packaging; maybe you, reader, have the same issue in your code!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19800220

is it a 7 series or some Japanese SUV?

Also, if you're as experienced as you claim; You'd probably BMW does not make any transmissions. They've forever outsourced that to ZF or Getrag.
I'd think that the "thank you" gives finality that both parties agree it's closed.
Any company’s “proclaimed fealty” is just marketing copy!
well i tried. i wish you the best of luck in your continued ignorance.
Indeed they are not a lawyer. A lawyer would know that this is not illegal. It violates the rights of the copyright holder, but that’s not a crime.
Maybe teachers in the minority gender experience less positive interactions with certain colleagues than teachers in the majority gender?
I was only able to get it to work if I made a public calendar on the iPhone. Great.
Ah yes the tax avoiders dream: a permanent and public record of all your financial dealings, protected only by your own opsec.
The future of apps is in the web.

Keep your fancy Cocoa, WPF, GTK, the world keeps turning.
I’m guessing USB-A port
Applying a rule from Pixar with a camera from 1961
Indie developer Rob Hale has died, posthumously making their games free to enjoy
To add, as the article says, the GH issue[0] was posted on Dec 18, 2020 by Norwin @noerw who is a member of the Gitea GitHub organization[1], so Gitea is definitely well-intentioned on clarifying the license of code it uses.

0: https://github.com/seletskiy/godiff/issues/4

1: https://github.com/orgs/go-gitea/people?query=noerw
It's a mix of both, but the "hobbyist" portion is a quite bit larger. From what we gathered from our data and speaking to some customers directly, we have the belief that their profit margins are thin enough to the point where they will either pay nothing or nearly nothing in taxes anyway... but the idea of simply being on record is terrifying to them.

Both groups generally have issues with taxes, they usually take payments using Venmo, Paypal Friends and Family, or even direct bank transfer just to get around the reporting. They pretty much use and abuse any form of electronic payment that they can get away with without presenting themselves as a business.

As for monetization, we keep track of the "non-monetized" transactions and it's in the low 7 figures. It's not a crazy amount of money, but it's nothing to sneeze at either.
By your logic, your “best ever thinker” did not do any science, ever, period - because he was a theoretical physicist.

> “I do not know what scientific process means”.

Maybe that’s the problem right there.
They have the same literal meaning, but "correct" is generally a pretty hard assertion of, well, correctness - If you say something, and someone else says "correct" in response, it can come across as demeaning, as if they are passing judgement on what you've said and found it sufficient (as elaborated on in the grandparent - the feeling is "what right do you have to decide the correctness of my comment?"). What if they were wrong, would you have said "incorrect"?

In comparison, saying something like "right", "yes", are acknowledgements that don't carry the same weight when it comes to judging the actual content of what someone has said.

Writing it out makes it sound like a strange response, but these things aren't always sensible. I would suspect it has roots in the typical contexts where you'll see "correct" being used - eg. tests and the like, where someone with authority (eg teacher/professor) is typically deciding on whether you're correct, as opposed to say, work, where generally these will be conversations between equals.
Nonprofit Websites Are Full of Trackers. That Should Change
edit: I stand corrected
Not much you can do. I killed my micro business because compliance costs weren’t worth it. Imo 1099s actually make it easier though. Before I would have to make my own and hope it matched and that’s actually a bigger headache.
I don't have a "climate pledge", nor do I need to move to a smaller or less powerful car or demand that anybody else change their lifestyle.

What I will do is keep an eye on what the ultra-rich "experts" who seem to be most concerned about climate change do. When they give up their mansions and yachts and islands and private jets, eat bugs and teleconference to Bilderberg, that's when I might reconsider my lifestyle. Until then the signal from those experts is crystal clear: climate change is a non-issue. And I wouldn't want to risk being an expert-denier.
I never run into websites that don't work properly in Firefox that isn't a consequence of one of my addons. Do you encounter them commonly?
We work 4 days a week (4x7.5) and we have a very strict “policy” that no one works on a Monday. The same way that no one works on a Saturday or a Sunday. It’s easy to see when people work outside of work, and we don’t celebrate it, we try and find out why it happened and to change process to better protect time off. Generally employees working “overtime” is not a failure of them, it’s a failure of process (estimation, workload, support, roadmap etc)

“Most folk work a 2-3 day week” - while this maybe true, don’t let it discount a bonafide 4 day work week. On the extra day off I’m presumed uncontactable and not at my desk. There’s a big difference between that and being at work but not really working.
Stick the 'any gross payments over $600' bit somewhere in your terms of service, operate as normal until people hit that threshold, stop disbursing money to them once they've hit that threshold and require them to provide the tax id.

That's going to be what everyone does.
This perspective looks at programming like factory work: output == hours worked * some factor.

But in reality, most employers in tech that have allowed some or all employees to reduce their hours have found no productivity loss, or in some cases productivity gains. That's why often employers are OK with leaving the salary the same when moving to 4-day weeks.
Automatic pricing updates on shelving displays have been around for awhile, eink versions have gotten more popular because they use so much less power. That combined with low power bluetooth has made it even easier to roll them out.
Stop squeezing families economically into poverty traps for corporate benefit.

Squeezed families can't raise mentally healthy kids.
+1 for ThinLinc. Also, it's free for personal use.
The two comment threads are the same discussion so I'm merging my responses.

> I bet you can't find a study demonstrating natural selection in the split-leaf philodendron, either, but that isn't a good reason to go around saying "some questions remain unanswered"

It absolutely is! The criterion for whether a question has been answered is whether that question has actually been asked, studied, and answered. In cases where there is no specific evidence, you attempt to make assumptions that extend existing evidence into spaces that it does not explicitly cover. But these aren't answers; they are educated guesses. Some guesses are better than others, and really the fundemental act of science is feeling out these hypotheses and deciding which ones are sturdy and which are shaky.

So for example consider the claim 'PTFE doesn't affect human health when ingested, because there is strong evidence that is safe in implants and is chemically inert in acids.' This claim relies on two assumptions in the absence of quality direct supporting evidence: (1) Safety in one biological context directly transfers to other biological contexts and (2) Chemically inert compounds cannot affect human health. There is mounting evidence against ~both~ of these assumptions, and so claims based on them should be treated with caution, and probably as warranting further study. This is no witch-hunt, this is simply using critical thinking and available evidence to gauge the validity of assumptions, and updating the validity of claims based on changes in the validity of underlying assumptions. This process ~is~ the scientific method.

> Nanometer-sized pores matter enormously, (...) but not in ways that make other forms of amorphous silica more toxic than silica gel.

Try replacing your morning cheerios with silica gel and let me know the results. The pores in silica gel are specifically interesting because they allow silica to readily form hydrates. The human body has a lot of water in it. There are absolutely health effects that depend on the physical shape of silica in addition to its chemistry compared to say, consuming an equal mass of fully dense quartz particles.

You'd probably have to eat a lot of silica gel to really feel the effects, but there are other more accessible and serious health concerns that are driven by nanometer or smaller physical effects. The reaction between diet coke and mentos is primarily physical, driven by nanometer-scale surface roughness on the candy. Proteins sometimes fold in abnormal shapes, and in the right circumstances, the presence of a chemically identical but differently-shaped protein can induce other proteins to change shape as well, leading to prion diseases such as Mad Cow and CJD, both of which can be acquired via ingestion of the trigger protein shapes.

The claim that nanometer-sized structural changes in a compound can have no effect on human health when ingested is demonstrably false. Obviously, this calls directly into question the dependent claim that chemically inert compounds can have no possible impact on human health when ingested.
You seem to be forgetting who writes the regulations that regulate this stuff.

Less cynically:

I think signal is likely a superior choice from a privacy and usability perspective.

However, I imagine the hospital probably wants the chat logs to be an immutable part of my medical record. That's probably helpful in the case of bogus malpractice suits, for example.

In fairness, state-of-the-art practices store all this data in an enterprise storage array at the hospital (with a remote backup in a colo or something), not on hardware owned by Big Corp.
At least it's just unlicensed, not something worse like AGPL /s

Yes, it's a joke and it's funny when several companies, including Google [1] are very scared of that license.

[1] https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
I sometimes wonder if I would make a good teacher. Teaching others is something I enjoy, I've worked with kids a few different times in my life and it seemed positive for everyone, and a college professor I admired said multiple times that I would make a good teacher.

I have several teachers in my family, and while they feel fulfilled teaching children (and I envy that fulfillment) , the pay is disrespectful. Furthermore, the administration above them seems like a special kind of hell that could only be spawned by public-private partnerships that neoliberalism loves. The past few years have been particularly rough, as bizarre alt-right politics from parents has to be constantly addressed (ranging anger about masks to anger about CRT to anger). Mix in the lingering anxiety of school shootings (and the its constant reminder by the presence of SROs, aka cops), and it really seems miserable.

I think teaching is one of the most important vocations in constructing and maintaining a healthy and vibrant society. But the invisible hand of the market has determined that I will make more money and have less stress by answering customer support emails. Seems whack
I would invest in more rockoon research. More of an elegant way to sidestep the thick atmosphere we're straddled with rather than brute force it with cannons and such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockoon
Tesla is increasing the price of its Full Self-Driving software to $15,000
Thank you for providing this text.

I don't know why HN even permits the linking of pdf's if they can be a vector for arbitrary execution and privilege escalation.
> And so on

I would really like V2H or V2G but no sign of it from Tesla so far.
I’m very surprised that the rbtree needs to be unsafe at all.

It feels like a very early attempt. Skip the parent pointers and use Option rather than raw null pointers. Should get rid of the unsafe.
I believe most carpenters in the UK would still say '2 by 4' and '2 by 1'. Odd, as those values are pretty much meaningless, as they refer to the original size of the timber before it was planed down. In this sense, those dimensions have now become terms.
Albert Einstein produced a new theory, not new evidence. I maintain that language continues to mean something.
It sounds like he only applied and went through the interview process for jobs that already passed his “high moral standard”
Right.

And PoW, more GPUs is a quality bound to physical mechanics. In order to build more GPUs, you need more fabs capable of doing so. You need a more educated populace capable of building and improving GPUs. You also need better energy generation to not destroy the planet and provide energy for an increasingly more energy hungry society. This leads to improvements via physical conditions of survival, resulting in better macrosocial outcomes.

PoS says “you have money so you make money for no reason and you get resource allocation privileges absent binding to physical properties”. In other words, one receives all benefit without any effort. Yet effort is implicit. Which means it become abstracted and convoluted, allowing one to offset effort to no-stakers.

In other words, decision making rights lacking any consequence. Also known as a caste system. Also freezing the castes making advancement highly improbable, and deeply / forever embedding dynasty algorithmically.

There then exists no forces within the body of the mechanism to improve compute capacity nor energy gen efficiency. This, taken to the limit, is a highly undesirable outcome for advancement to the next stage of existence. In fact, it sets us back by a potentially significant margin.

The result is nothing short of digital aristocracy.

Sure, in the short term it will be a secure global compute that can operate more “efficiently” for some time. But look around you. Look at what happens when you let people make decisions without earning it / understanding the full impact of their decisions.
Why is this better than existing solutions? The feature list on the site is not convincing. (“View previous versions of your code with ease”… that is table stakes for version control, not a differentiator.)

Most version control systems are both free and, frankly, not that hard to use. This would need some pretty killer features to be compelling.
I don't know why anyone would pay 1/10th the price. Tesla has never converted any software feature from beta to non-beta.
I'm fine with small wins, especially if they reduce the burden on emergency services.
While I certainly hate the "what's up" question, questions post kids with friends are related to their kids, jobs, relationship issues and pop culture video games questions.

Honestly, I've had a hard time turning these into interesting discussions. It amounts to, "no time to really reflect. Here are my mundane joys and traumas. Okay, back to the pressing issues at hand..."