skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order to sell on those platforms companies should have to place $5 million in escrow and Amazon promises to test at random a certain percentage of your products and if failed you lose your money. I laughed at a client when he told me he bought a 1TB hard drive off of Wish. I told him well good luck with that hope you didn't just get scammed. Saw him a week later and he told me the drive wouldn't work on his new PS5. I told him I would bet him the cost of the drive it was a fake and probably couldn't hold even half of what it is reporting and told him to use the tools to see it's actual size. He didn't take the bet so I will never be sure but no way in hell I would be a $25 storage from Wish.
Some fairly large works were printed using movable type, famously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujin_Tushu_Jicheng

So I'm not sure the idea that printing never caught on is really correct. You'd need to do an exhaustive survey of every written work ever produced to check.

Also, the Gutenberg bible https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gutenberg_bible_Old_... seems to have had about 60×40 characters, amounting to thousands of individual dies to print a page. (And IIRC Gutenberg used a trick where he had multiple versions of the same character in different widths to create perfectly justified lines without any gaps.) The amount of metal dies required doesn't seem to be hugely different.

Also also, the Manchu ruling class had their own alphabetic script, as did various other ethnic minorities.
Do send out the study. The fact that you're talking about stimulus checks means either you or them are talking about the US, which couldn't be farther in how it handled the pandemic from the EU, which is the topic of the discussion. There are no checks here, we aren't stuck in the past. And all was handled at another layer by preventing layoffs by covering payroll and other expenses for companies instead of allowing layoffs and then sending checks through the mail like it's the 1950s.

And yes, the delayed spending and the some extra money will result in inflation, of course. But the impact from the prices of all sorts of crucial raw materials is probably much higher.
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It is really interesting why he is in prison. Basically for attending a tech conference in North Korea. Frankly, this reminds me of the Soviet times.
Rents are inflating almost as fast.
Drats, not the Norse deity. In case you're also disappointed, I recommend Votan by John James

https://books.google.com/books/about/Votan.html?id=y-OlAwAAQ...

"""

In the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is travelling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs amongst his belongings certain items that lead the people he encounters to think him a Norse God, a fortuitous point of view which he does little to dispel. Forced to keep up the pretence of being a god while staying one step ahead of his lover's jealous husband, Photinus must juggle the severity of his situation with the enjoyment of being a God.

"""
B&H are great. I've had good luck with them. My main supplier these days is Best Buy. No 3rd party sellers. Never heard of any scam or inauthentic products from them. They ship from the local store or warehouse so I get things faster than Prime. And maybe they treat their workers better than Amazon? I guess that's a low bar to clear but I haven't heard any complaints.

It's a little funny to me because as recently as the early 2010s, Best Buy felt like a joke. I don't know that they've changed much from then to now, but Amazon and Newegg are shadows of what they used to be. Best Buy seems like a paragon of reliability in comparison.
I've thought about this a fair bit and despite my initial conclusions I am no longer certain that the two alphabet styles are similar. It seems to me that ideagraphic systems have a tendency to evolve in a highly stratified society where it is useful to have knowledge of the symbols serve as ingroup signalling.
Good article with some great references.
> is it some kind of a tease

(I am the author). It's definitely not a tease. The license will change within a week (max 2). This is my first open source project. The purpose is to validate the approach.

This has been a private project for a very long time. It can be argued that I should have figured out the license but the delay from my side reached a tipping point. I just thought "make it public, figure the rest later".
I don't disagree, but Amazon and other sites are operating the same model. Walmart and Amazon provide similar prominence about whether a product is being sold by them or by a third party. I agree that eBay doesn't cause that confusion because they were never a first party seller.

I think the issue is that we'd need a regulation and one that clearly stipulates what the situation is. For example, one could propose that when a retailer that sells goods as a first party also provides a marketplace for third party goods, 10% of the page's size above the fold must be the third party's branding and that branding must be larger than the branding of the retailer. That would make it very obvious.

One of the issues that we're facing is that our regulations often don't specify enough of how something must be implemented. For example, sites must label their ads. Google used to make the ads have a different color background that made it easy to visually filter ads from organic results. Now they just write "Ad" in light grey (#aaadb2) against a gray background (#202124) with much less prominence and contrast than the title of the link. Twitter puts "Promoted" below the tweet rather than at the top of the tweet so that when you're scrolling you'll read the tweet before seeing that it's an ad (and it's rgb(113, 118, 123) (light gray) on black while the regular text is rgb(231, 233, 234) (nearly white) on black). The FTC does require that ads and sponsored content be clearly labeled, but doesn't really specify or enforce standards. I think if I labeled something as "Ad" as #aaadb2 on a #aaadb1 background, that clearly wouldn't pass muster. There'd be almost zero contrast. How much contrast is needed? How prominent should we require messages that clarify important things like this?

As you note, you're going to Walmart.com and giving your information to Walmart on a page where Walmart's logo and branding is basically all that you see - except for a tiny "Sold by XYZ" note. I don't know what the solution is entirely, but it's going to take regulatory action if we want to deal with this. If Amazon is doing it, Walmart will do it. If Google is limiting the contrast on how it marks ads, Twitter will also limit the contrast.
I second B&H. Adorama[0] is a nice counterpart as well.

[0] https://www.adorama.com/
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Basically, do the best work you can at whatever it is you need to do. In the end none of it matters.
Then you go into selling. Superior product knowledge, personal usage provides additional context to buyer. Understanding common language terms, history and they provide an authentic point of view.

The distribution side is easier under legalization but experience provides additional benefits. The storage, handling and processing are separate skills that take awhile to learn.

Growing avocados is very different compared to growing tomatoes and it is different than growing grapes for ice wine. Can someone who grows tomatoes become a great wine maker? They can and have a better chance compared to the average person but those skills don't translate one to one. I would prefer to hire someone who made wine before over tomato grower because there is a learning curve.
Hello, I am the creator of the Odin programming language, and main architect of the codebase too. Being full of commits labelled "Fix <thing>" is absolutely fine and absolutely clear with all of the context of how the codebase operates.

Many of the things are "Fix #NNN` which means fixing a specific GitHub issue which usually has more information to it or has comments in the code, etc. There are many "Fix typo(s)" commits because I (and others) make a lot of typos; these are usually trivial/single-line fixes. Then it comes to the rest of "Fix ..." commits which are pretty much 1-2 line fixes of minor bugs; with large bugs having multi-line commit messages and many with huge comments within the code to explain everything.

Your metric of the quality of commit messages is not a bad one depending on the codebase, but it cannot be used blindly without knowing how that codebase operates. Especially comparing a mostly centralized codebases (like Odin) to very GNU-style decentralized codebases (all of the examples you gave).
I am the author. Mojo is both an extension and a VFS implementation.

> AFAIK only one VFS can be active at a time.

You can specify VFS as a part of connect URI.
oh you know perfectly well what i meant.
Having briefly learned a few wind instruments (flute and horn primarily) I'm aware pitch adjustment is possible but the keys/valves are designed around equal temperament - for anything other than slower sustained passages (or potentially repeated notes) constantly trying to approximate just intervals doesn't seem sustainable. And again, absolutely not what I would want or except to hear as a composer.
Try a commodity like wheat or lumber instead. Those who produce it more cheaply make more money. That’s how markets work.
Sure.

The prior implementations of the hate machines didn't benefit from recommenders and individual behaviour profiling.

As silly (quaint) as the efforts now seem, FCC licensees had to serve the public interest, popular culture had ratings, we had the Fairness Doctrine, the medias weren't yet dominated by monoplies, yadda, yadda. Now, there are no checks, no counter balances.

All I'm saying is that Zuck, Dorsey, Page & Brin, and so many others, are moral cripples, oblivious to the harm they've enabled. They're not even malicious, like Murdock or Sinclair, which somehow makes it more sad.
On top of this, being physically in prison isn't some sort of show stopper. The owner should be able to execute a limited power of attorney that gives someone (likely, their attorney) the power to stand in for them and renew the domain name. If Godaddy still wants to reject the POA, then they can find another registrar that will respect it and transfer the domain name out.
I liked that Overworld theme a lot, reminded me of the Nexomon Evolution theme
> But as a composer I most certainly wouldn't want string players choosing their temperament based on whether there happened to be other instruments in the ensemble capable of the same.

This is a weird way of looking at it. String players aren't sitting there consciously thinking of their tuning as they play - they're doing it by ear in real-time. The tuning they use will be the one that best harmonizes with the other notes being played at that moment.

> And it sounds off for music that doesn't largely sit in a single key signature anyway,

That's actually where the ability to adapt tuning dynamically is the most powerful - it allows you to be in tune relative to other pitches being played in that moment, not just in tune relative to some absolute benchmark that nobody is going to be able to hear anyway (because almost nobody has perfect absolute pitch).
Which law is Walmart or Amazon breaking here?
Here's mine from 2013:

https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=49599

I was 13 years old and the comment was very evil, though you can probably see that didn't really affect me :)
Prime have been moving towards pay-extra for new releases (for example, top gun 2) and added subscription channels.

Not sure why Netflix didn't go down this route since it seems to be a no-brainer?
Powerctl: A small case study in Hare for systems programming
Extremely sad to hear. I don't think Twitter can be used to promote change. Or get your voice to the masses. They only care about propagating their own propaganda.

Leave Twitter. Try one of the mastodon instances, instead. Be anonymous.
Realistically a lot of people who you'd otherwise learn from will avoid discussing things with you because of this behavior. Meanwhile those willing to listen and who aren't as concerned with winning arguments will learn much more than you.

EDIT: to expand on this, the smartest person I ever knew (the late Justin Corwin. Maybe someone here also knew him) would sit quietly during arguments until someone asked his opinion. Even if you got something wrong he wouldn't correct you unless he knew it would help you. He didn't lord shallow facts over people like many others do and his knowledge went deeper than you could explore with mere discussion. After knowing someone like this It has forever changed how I evaluate people's intelligence. Some intelligent people are not at all concerned about winning arguments and it's extremely refreshing.
+1 to this comment.

Before I founded my company, I worked for another startup that wasn’t very transparent. It was not a healthy/empowering environment.

Now, when dealing with things like partnerships, customers, and finance (runway, burn, revenue, fundraising, etc) I ask myself “what type of company would I want to work at?” and I always lean towards transparency.

Having said that, this needs to be done carefully. Instead of pumping everyone up about a potential partnership that could fall flat, you should try to be realistic and objective about it. “I’m really excited about a potential partnership with X. Even though this partnership will require we invest some resources doing Y, I see the possible benefits to the company as Z. From my perspective, this is a good opportunity for us. This isn’t finalized so I’ll keep you up to date on our progress. Let me know if you have any concerns or questions about this.”
Read carefully; it does not report how much rainfall was recorded; it simply talks around the subject. Not much to report here. The web search 'cloud seeding in china 2022' is rife with headlines about how China "plans" to do seeding, but there are zero hits on recorded rainfall due to seeding. Click bait.
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I have always struggled to finish projects, I start out super productive and creative then fissile out when it comes to completing the work.
Re #2: If you're in the US, Ameridroid ships from California at reasonable prices.
You should work on life extension. If you succeed, you'll have more time to work on other things.
You do something and see whether it sticks. If it does, you continue; if it doesn't you switch. Then later on you might come back to the previous thing.
Blues guitar is kind of the odd one out in terms of the field of music, its one of the few styles where you can get by quite well without note reading or theory. Everything changes if you have a horn section in your blues band though. Music notation exists to facilitate people with different instruments playing together.

As someone who learned the same way you did, on tab and modern pentatonic blues riffs and improv, but over time learned (still learning) more theory and reading music, I’d recommend learning more reading & theory because it really seriously expands on what you can do with blues guitar. A lot of early blues and pretty much all jazz don’t stay in the pentatonic scale rut, they move around and mix other scales. It’s really helpful to know which diatonic scales you can seamlessly blend with pentatonic, and the reverse: when you can blend pentatonic into a modal song structure, just for two simple examples.

BTW 1/4 tone bends are definitely in the traditional system, they are common even, and in fact are quite directly related to what this article is talking about. The “blue note” in blues is a well known microtone example, but microtonal music in general has theory and notation hundreds of years old, there’s a lot of stuff taking these ideas to new levels. Wikipedia’s article is just the tip of the iceberg, microtonal music history is bigger and broader than this suggests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonal_music
Yes, exactly. A note is rarely found by itself, and looking at the context surrounding the note usually clears up the function of a note pretty quickly. Now that I think about it, the notation actually reduces ambiguity in this case since it specifies the function of notes which have the same sound.
What kind(s) of expertise do you want to realize? You could pursue expertise in a trade, starting as an apprentice then working your way with experience into master status (software, plumbing, electrical, etc). The advanced degrees are relative, but costly, shortcuts to specific domains of expertise (MBA, PhD, MD, etc). Then there’s expertise that can be pursued as hobbies - gardening, woodworking, cooking, sewing, etc.

Have you made a list of how you’d like to spend your time each week? Over years and decades, the time devoted to learning adds up!
So, I just randomly made up some 2LDs, and asked whois about them. Sure enough none of them exist.

fakecheese.info
fastdoris.net
old-banjo.org
spacefare.rs

These weren't the results of me trying dozens of things, just writing whatever came into my head and none of them exist. Your definition of "any good domain" just means "Names which are obviously valuable" and then you're surprised that, duh, those names are obviously valuable so a speculator owns them.
Marketing and public relations. Raise as much money for anti-aging research as possible.
The only time I shop in a physical Walmart store is when I need something I can't wait for, on which case I check In-Store on the website first and it is indeed clunky.
of course, I just thought that once dried there would not be much left compared to the one from herbivores. Seems I'm wrong tho :)
The Fall of ‘Nature’
There's and old book "On the shortness of life" that you might want to read as part of your journey.

Ultimately, finding one's focus is the hardest and most rewarding part of life.
I think the motivation of early employees can be quite different from what you propose. I can speak to my own motivation:

Knowing what partners are in the pipe lets me contribute to landing the customer in the first place. I can work with exec to team on how we can improve the product to appeal to the customer. I can provide costing estimates to see if the customer is worth acquiring.

A big part of startup compensation is tied up in equity. If there is no insight in to the business health, I am not able to accurately value my employment.

One of the opportunities in a startup is in learning how you might eventually run your own business. Learning about customer acquisition, about corporate structure and strategy, and about fundraising are all things I expect to be exposed to in exchange for much lower compensation.
If subject A's and subject B's synthesis created a new thing C,
wouldn't he then be considered an expert in C, solely because there's no-one else doing what he's doing? In this way you could be an expert in many things you yourself pioneered... Or you could just create a new game and be expert at that.
How much of your frustration in life is because other people’s spouses convinced them to take the money?

That kind of sacrifice is a negative sum game: when we all do it, we’re all worse off.
But this is limited as well, max 6 months and only 1 timer per x If I recall correctly, I just ripped my bought books and canceled
The article measures the quality of papers produced by a country by the percentage of the world's top 1% cited papers they produced. This seems like it could be gamed.
This type of devices are supposed to be sold in cash to tourists, not online where victims could issue chargebacks.

But I suppose the sellers has their scheme to avoid repayment anyway so it works anyway. It’s also a calculated and managed risk, so the marketplace don’t care anyway, either. It’s a cash wheelbarrow of moral.
I agree with all of that. How theoretical are the optimization gains from the extra constraints guaranteed by Rust's borrow checker?
These days I use K3S on bare metal and cloud providers that do not offer managed kubernetes, and the managed kubernetes if available. I’m not really a fan of kubernetes but it won the battle of container orchestrators and the open source community provides many great tools.

I still have an old cluster on docker swarm and also Rancher 1! But that’s going to the recycling centre soon.
Visit amazon in your usual browser, then visit it in a different one with a private window (no cookies). They give different messages.
I see a lot of answers that revolve around the question of "how to make the most effective use of the limited time I have". A very rationalistic point of view (no surprise since it's HN).

I'll give a different perspective: trust your gut feelings! In Emotional Intelligence, the author Daniel Goleman[1] writes

> [Some of life's big decisions] cannot be made well through sheer rationality; they require gut feeling, and the emotional wisdom garnered through past experiences. Formal logic alone can never work as the basis for deciding whom to marry or trust or even what job to take; these are realms where reason without feeling is blind.

It seems like you are already aware that you don't have enough time to learn everything, there's just too much options to choose from! Perhaps a better approach is to rely on your experience, trust that you will make a good enough decision, and learn how to be comfortable with making choices that are not necessarily optimal, but close. There's a reason for the saying: perfect is the enemy of good!

[1] https://www.danielgoleman.info/
There were plenty of policies against inflation that focus only on the people's perceptions in History. Those are an easy and cheap thing to try, so governments do try. When that's the only focus, those policies seem to fail every time.

On the other hand, policies that focus on real aspects have a non-zero rate of success. A balanced budget by itself has a higher rate of success than any policy that doesn't include a balanced budget.

Brazil was in an exceptional situation in 1994, where any policy based only on real aspects would be expected to fail. But don't think this is a general case.
I was interested if there were any details or guidance on the implementation. From what I can gather from the memo: they are leaving it up to federal scientific orgs and researchers to come up with a publishing solution (both for data and research paper content), but are asking for some metadata requirements that include persistent unique IDs (for integrity purposes) and are encouraging orgs to coordinate on solutions to reduce duplication of effort.
"I know that I know nothing" - Socrates

“The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.” ― Lao Tzu

This is not to say "give up". But it is saying that you need to "give up" the idea and you will find peace.
> You want (b) because small-integer ratios are pleasant sounding -- partly culturally-acquired taste, partly because physics gives musical instruments acoustic spectra in integral multiples of a fundamental frequency

I'd say it's more likely because intermodulation distortion between frequencies with low-complexity fractions tends to be low-frequency.
Thanks! I will give it a try.
I don’t know if there is some precedent in the Mughal tradition or whatever, but maybe it’s British. It has a very “dispensing the King’s Justice” feel to it. But that’s always kind of been the equity side of the courts. The common law courts were famous for rigid decision making. And I’d argue that it’s even more important in a pluralistic society like America where we don’t have a State Church or monarchy to serve as an agreed upon count of wisdom and justice.
"decentralized web3 nonsense crumbles the second there is some issue on the centralized web2 architecture its built on behind the scenes", more news at 11.