skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Are you going to take money from one person against their will?"

The government is already comfortable with doing this, and I am reminded of their authority to do so with every paycheck and sales receipt. However I get what you're saying and I would re-frame it this way, "how will the government collect taxes from someone whose only source of income is the UBI from that government"? Unless the author is likewise proposing the UBI can be bootstrapped and funded in a self-fulfilling manner.
I strongly suspect many if not most Chinese people would choose to see the censored version, especially if the stated reason for the censorship was "we have removed some things which may be insulting to Chinese people".

Most people don't like being censored themselves, but don't confuse that for a moment with believing that most people want everything uncensored. For all public discourse in America constantly talks about free speech absolutism and the horrors of censorship, US TV has "decency" regulations and there's absolutely no mass movement to ensure that TV companies are not penalised for 'wardrobe malfunctions' and expletives are broadcast without bleeps. Why would people from a much more conservative culture where public discourse attaches no value to free speech but stresses paternalism and patriotism instead be so keen on hearing alleged rudeness about their country?
It sounds like you need to start applying for other jobs. If you can, schedule your start date at your new gig a few weeks out so you can have some time off in between.
Syntax is what you deal with every time you read or write in any language. It can't be "the least important". It's probably one of the most important part when you _read_ the code, and reading the code is an important part of programming.

Just take a look at this:

[1, 2; 3, 4]

is the same as:

[(1, 2); (3, 4)]

That's just hard to read. I don't mind `;` being a separator, but tuples without parentheses is just annoying to look at in 9/10 places.
would rather see Amazon or Google first
Almost. I love the bold poetic of how you put it. But let's please
s/fair/equal/.

The vernacular use of fair means something more than "equality".

The idea that life could be equal is patently ridiculous, and
self-evidently undesirable. Equality is the worst hope you can have.

> likely you are so far ahead of fair that fairness can only be a step
back.

That's a bit too pared down for my tastes. It supposes a linear,
monotonic, single dimensional quality of life upon which we all agree.
None exists. The best candidate - per capita GDP - is fatally flawed,
as discussed here in many vibrant exchanges. As if some (disastrous)
communist type reckoning could "reset" the world to parity? No, of
course it never could. For one thing we'd all be in different physical
locations, different ages, mental abilities, and so on, each dimension
having its attendant pros and cons. In such a transformation many
aspects of "Our western life" would actually improve, and not to see
that would be parochial.

I'd say, if you're reading this; you're probably in an position,
intellectually, to appreciate how an imposed "equality" would
radically change your life, and make it worse in many ways but better
in some others. Such a thought ought to shine light on the richness of
life and culture that makes this unfair world such a beautiful place.

What I love about your comment is that compassion is not made a
dependent of any schoolboy ideologies about equality or fairness.

> If you have success, spread some unfairness around. Help others up.
you can't help everyone, so it's not fair, but it's the best you can
do.

Absolutely. Bravo.

> Give someone an unfair leg up, give someone an unfair
opportunity. Pass on some of the unfairness you already have.

I find this "empowering others" an ideal that resonates with me as a
subversive stance against brain-dead systems that hold people back so
that the chosen few might rule. It's spreading "fairness" by spreading
"unfairness". Tactical dissemination of knowledge (fairness
redistribution) is, for me, a core true hacker value. Code is one of
the most extraorinary ways to transfer power. Like blatantly telling
my students how to game and hack the Kobayashi Maru dreamed up by
"well meaning" but ignorant administrators.
Hmmm...not sure if it's grounding related but the biggest relief from my back pain comes when I lie directly on the ground (grass/soil).

Nothing else even comes close.
I think the argument is not that you are not working for money, it's that within the first two weeks that you worked you already payed bills. In a way that means you provided the capital before you did the work. So the money always comes first, which is the basis for his argument. The company then pays you which allows you to keep paying your bills but you cannot pay your bills with future income, hence money always comes first and thus allows you to work in the first place
Really good in large/multi screen set ups. Or dirty screens
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/lasik-eye-surgery-co...

Is I believe the original
I kind of agree with you: when you quit, your employer has to give you your paycheck even though you won't come again..
They wouldn't. If anything, they'd go up since people would have to actually use their brains and set up real targeted marketing (even ads) instead of the current "show 20 ads, rake the CPM cash and hope we get some leads, too, YOLO".

There was a short period where it seemed like it would happen - context aware ads, links and affiliate products, each page was served different ads or none at all, with no privacy stuff it could also be very effetive.

Alas general ads won, and they do make more money for the platforms since they can show the same ads for stuff you have already bought/installed.
Turritopsis dorhnii genome sequenced by researchers from Oviedo University
The genome of Turritopsis dohrnii, a tiny jellyfish has been sequenced by a team directed by Carlos Otin in the Oviedo University (Spain).

Why this is interesting:

Turritopsis dohrnii is a marine Hydrozoan, so it has two phases in its life cycle: a small polyp colony and a solitary jellyfish. Is famous among zoologists because when the jellyfish is about to die can regrow as polyp inside the dying animal without changing its genome (is the same individual) and became young again like a Phoenix. This cycle can happen an unlimited number of times so, in absence of predators or accidents, the animal in theory can live forever. Is the most famous in the very exclusive and very reduced club of immortal animals.

The study of the genes related can help us to understand the longevity of the animals and maybe to improve our own longevity. Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).
Empirically, that side effect is in actuality an engineering constraint.
> HN very much operates as a hive mind

Most of us here agree with you.
> The American way is voluntary self-censorship for commercial purposes.

The US government hasn't been able to resist censorship entirely. Comedians have been arrested for "obscenity". The FCC will happily go after certain violations in TV and radio. The US government has also censored news broadcasts and journalists.

Bush in particular was very aggressive in censoring the news coverage of his war. Most notably, the flag-draped coffins of dead American soldiers were banned from TV news. During the Regan administration the Justice Department also briefly banned the Canadian film "If You Love This Planet" for being "foreign political propaganda".
China has a policy against feminizing men...so it's possible that the government sees the show as being a bad influence. The Chinese government probably also wants Chinese, not western, women to be seen as sexy.
You do realize those are in no way whatsoever related and are due to 2 completely different sets of circumstances?

One is a private company (either first or third-party) offering a censored version of a piece of media and the other is the government redacting things from a document that would normally not be released at all (at this stage) and the redactions were specifically done to prevent witnesses tampering or similar tactics by the accused.

To call those "similar" is just absurd.
Great site/article
When did I say we shouldn't do anything?

You should read Termination Shock. It makes a great case for why doing things is hard, but also worth it. Sometimes it just takes someone with sufficient power and courage to do what's right and accept the hatred and violence that will inevitably come their way for disrupting the establishment order.

But sadly, most modern people are too weak to stick their necks out like this.
That's a fair observation. I'm curious though, do you have any ideas to improve the situation? What would you do if you were responsible for 1.5B people and were facing a situation where the labor force participation drops by half over the next ten years and continues to drop every year since? Will you be able to arrange for the population to be able to be fed, clothed, housed, and given medical care?

It's not possible to "magically" create several hundred million young people, communism or no, to "fix it". So what do you do?
I regularly find websites that don’t work until I disable the Adblock, usually on mobile. This isn’t intentional generally.

How do you deal with that? Are you just not going to buy a plane ticket on the airline’s website just ‘cause?
She's generally very tense in the upper back and neck region as well, so involuntary tension seems indeed likely. Thanks for the link, appreciated.
I don't understand why AI generated images are called as art.

Art is not about form. It's about content. Meaning that can be generated and understand only by humans.
It's an SPA, so it's more like `apt install` than a normal page load. Much of it sits in cache afterwards, and the traffic is reasonable.

What I do dislike about Gmail is its propensity to consume CPU sometimes, but it's not the worst offender.
Artemis 1 timeline: What to expect from NASA's epic moon mission
Hopefully now launching on Sept 2nd.
It's also a popular meta-learning algorithm: ALPaCA: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08912

Well no one cares unless one of the parties has enough money and interest to hire a lawyer.
I'm not sure how much of it is for jokes and how much is serious
I found the repo that powers the article, cool to browse!

https://github.com/the-pudding/censorship
> You may disagree with this idiom, and that's okay, because it's enforced by the compiler. You're welcome.

Brilliant
Is aversion to discussion of sex a part of traditional Chinese culture? Seems odd given I'm not aware of any puritanical religions taking hold there.
Isn't this the bozo that went around claiming he invented mRNA vaccines?
Not if you add a highly conductive strip going from the location of the strap to the top of your head (lightning will take the path of the least resistance by approximation; make sure that the resistance is orders of magnitude lower than the resistance of your body).

Note: it might take away the positive effects of the therapy, as there is now an antenna to ground that takes away the "antenna effect" of the body.
Not Bullshit. If the Government & Corporations care so much about others censoring, they should lead by example. Lectures by hypocrites will otherwise be ignored...even if the censorship that you may like is categorized as being justified by you. If you don't like China's censorship policies, then appeal to China's sensibilities as their censorship is categorized as justified by them. Otherwise, the Chinese government will simply point out that lectures from hypocrites have no bearing.
Thanks, I'll make sure she follows up on that lead. Price is relative to having frequent nights with very poor sleep, so yeah, doesn't take much to be worth it.
maternal instinct is an observable fact in almost all mammalian species.

This sort of 'blank slatism' separates homo sapiens from the natural world in the same way that religions attempt to do, making a special case for humanity as we were actually God's gift, rather than just another species on the branch of the tree of life. It's bunkum
Another strange dream-like Chinese bookstore
Sure, but that's not the narrative of this research result. The narrative is that people who look similar have similar DNA- by some metric, a person clusters more closely to people who are visually similar. But, it's really hard to tease out how much of that is population structure (for example, siblings resemble each other and their parents to a high degree, and people from populations that were isolated for long periods resemble each other), and what/how much in facial structure is caused by specific genes. And what the differences are between people, genetically.

Complex phenotypes like face shapes aren't trivially determined by a single gene . Instead, the face is formed through the interactions by many gene products, and the differences in genotypes between individuals contribute in highly non-linear ways. For many years people tried to apply fairly simple reasoning (first just mendelian, then later SNPs, then copy number, then SNVs) on small numbers of genes but you can't explain all the hereditable genotype/phenotype variation without the whole genome (and possibly the epigenome).

For faces they generally noticed a bunch of changes in a subset of genes that are involved with embryonic and later development. And specific patterns of changes across multiple genes.

It's generally believed now that we could sequence millions of people and take normalized photos of their faces (see eigenfaces), sampling roughly from global population clusters in a balanced way, and build a joint genotype/phenotype embedding that would allow us to probe those complex, multivariate, non-linear rules. You would be able to do prediction and generation (given this genotype, show the most probable phenotype/face, or given this face, give a plausible genotype). Unfortunately this would be a highly politicized process makign it challenging to complete.
How is macros or metaprogramming or anything that fills a similar role?
You know it only applies to federally held student loans, right? https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/
Thanks, your not a dick at all with your comment. But of course I want to differentiate a bit. I have written about my two examples because there are only the two. I am not complaining about attention due to quality, bit attention of existence. And I am talking explicit about specialised projects with a core audience. To stay with your OS example: you're developing MacOS and everyone is only taking about Windows and Linux. But I still think this is not a good metaphor. And how do you outsource research? It's only possible because others did.

In case of my Gloomhaven app, I only really complain about my posts on Reddit don't be as visible as from the ONE other app.

In case of my hardware token: there didn't exists any kind of this, at least as cheap OSS project (it run on a 10€ M5Stack, currently only with battery pack for longer time but anyway). And the attention I wanted was, that some people see the potential and bring it to a real product. It was and is my first real C hardware project and as hobbyist, I just wanted someone with expertise in that métier grab my project and optimize it. I knew that my code was not good, because I have no expertise. But I also knew nothing like this existed and I thought it would be very useful.

My other projects? I don't care, I make all for fun, I have personal benefits of it, so I don't care. I also don't care about the named one in that direction. I am proud of myself and my GH app still get more appreciation than expected ever, so at all I am happy with all. Just a bit jealous yesterday and wrote about it. Never thought about getting so much resonance to it. And as already mentioned, I know I can change something to do more marketing, but a big thing missing: I don't sell a product here. And not complaining about getting famous around 8 billion people.
No, 4ths and 5ths are resonant. They sound better to a lot of people. They are completely distinguishable from arbitrary intervals right near there.

Most of the notes on the Western scale fall into this orientation, i.e. there is reasoning for it. It's not just arbitrary.
Expressing complex ideas in concise manner, as simply as possible.

A bit ironic in this context
You are years behind if you think you're training a model worth anything on consumer grade GPUs. Table stakes these days is 8x A100 pods, and lots of them. Luckily you can just get DGX pods so you don't have to build racks but for many orgs just renting the pods is much cheaper.
I don’t see what’s wrong about it. They are probably on some blocklist of low value reply guys.
That was my first thought as well. Those skips would drive me crazy and would send me searching for the "raw" episodes. Wanting to know what was said would only be a part of the issue, the other would be how jarring it is and how you never know if it was a censored clip or if the media "skipped".
Intelligent search of prompts for Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALLE 2
Phraser searches through a database of the images generated before and posted online.

This smart search is also integrated into the prompt editor, so you can quickly iterate and search for your ideal image.

Demo: https://youtu.be/AMLfTpnVsiQ
Microservices vs monoliths with nothing in between is a false dichotomy itself of course. There's been SOA and n-layer applications for decades now. Not every service is a microservice and not everything bigger than a microservice is written as one big application.

From the discourse on forums these days, someone fresh to the field might think there's no such thing as an internal API or an ongoing ETL layer without breaking each feature down to its own container and throwing the whole thing on Kubernetes. All those systems that are two to four layers and decomposed into half a dozen or so parts at the outer interface still exist in the world, even if they're not on track to be one container per feature.
Some comments on tones. Pythagorean tuning is based on repeated ³⁄₂ increases in frequency with occasional halving to stay in the octave, so we have, e.g.,

A = 1

E = 3/2

B = 9/8 (here we halved to get back into our 1–2 range)

F# = 27/16

C# = 81/64 (another halving)

etc.

Another approach is to use harmonic overtones. When a string (or a column of air) vibrates, it vibrates not just at its fundamental, but in a series of integer divisions of the string.¹

Fundamental: A

Octave (½): A' (up an octave)

Twelfth (⅓): E (up a fifth from the octave)

Double Octave (¼): A''

⅕: C#²

⅙: E

⅟₇: G (but a bit flat from most tunings).

We invert wavelength to get frequencies and halve to get into the 1–2 range and our E matches up at 3/2 and C# comes out as 5/4 which is pretty close to the 81/64 of Pythagorean

I would also note that 24-tone music does occur with some moderate frequency in avant-garde music where half-flats and half-sharps have their own notation, although these notes are not easily accessible from many standard instruments, but the sound of a quarter-tone difference in pitch is definitely distinct. Many non-Western musics apply various micro-tonalities, such as Indonesian scales which are closest to a subset of a 9-tone equal temperament.

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1. In some cases, e.g., overtones of a cylindrical pipe vs conical pipe, or open at both ends vs open at one end, you won’t get all of these tones, so a flute, which is cylindrical and open at both ends can hit the fundamental and the octave, while a clarinet, which is cylindrical but closed at one ends hits the fundamental and then the third partial (the twelfth) but not the octave.

2. The place where you hear notes produced to these pitches most commonly is in bugle calls: Taps, for example, would be ⅓ ⅓ ¼, ⅓ ¼ ⅕, etc.
> I was somewhere around thinking that we hadn't yet established why 4th and 5th intervals were particularly special

Other responses to the GP have explained that. The article itself also mentions the reason (small integer ratios).
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What would be the equivalent of getting to third base in Cricket?
Actually, The Buddha we all know about (Siddharta Gotama, affectionately called Sakyamuni, as he belonged to the Sakyan clan) is indeed the Buddha of our current world system, but there were Buddhas before him and there will be Buddhas after him -- they will just belong to different world systems. The next Buddha is referred to as Metteyya (Maitreya for the Mahayana folks).

An enlightened person is called an Arahat (Arahant). They are not Buddhas. The Buddha is one person in one world-system who rediscovers the Dhamma (Dharma) after it has been lost. Often a Buddha goes on to teach that Dhamma, but there are certain Buddhas who arise who never teach. These are called Paccekka Buddhas.
FWIW, nasal potential difference (NPD) is an existing medical test:

https://cysticfibrosisnewstoday.com/cystic-fibrosis-diagnosi....
I don't think so. I think it's in tons of ways except those that would really call into question the whole thing. Which is to say -- I think that to the extent that "the Military" controls its image, it's smart enough to include just enough problematic stuff.

So the ones that seem "anti-Military" are really "anti-traitors-in-the-Military," and/or the healthy kind of self-criticism.
Somewhere there is a perfect universe where 12 fifths form an octave.
I wonder if developers who do this simply don't want to publicly identify and take responsibility for bugs that they introduced earlier. It's easier to just say "bug fixes" then it is to say something like "I overlooked several surprisingly common edge cases in the parser module and have updated it to correctly handle several character sequences that were causing exceptions to be thrown." With automatic updates and vague update notes, anyone who did not directly experience the bug never has to know it existed in the first place and the developer never has to admit it existed in the first place.
There's also the oK language, an APL family member implemented in JavaScript:

https://aplwiki.com/wiki/OK
6 year old thinkpads aren’t any good anymore? I really like that the parts are widely available enough and cheap (or were) that you can do repairs yourself. I guess there are people doing more mission critical things around here. I’ve been really impressed by frameworks offering and their insistence to stay true to their word about repairability and upgradability
Some of the friction in developing web apps is more a feature than a bug. That is, if you design a bunch of REST calls you are thinking out about how the front end and back end interact and might get reasonable performance.

If you built out a completely general protocol you might not find performance and reliability were acceptable.

As for auth I remember reading

https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/

and looking at Yahoo and deciding that "user management" was a pivotal function for web site so I developed a rather sophisticated user management framework in 2001 and found that people were indifferent to it. There was a lot of interest in languages like ColdFusion and PHP, and even in "lots of random junk w/ an emphasis on junk" systems like PHPNuke, but I felt remarkably alone when it came to "use a world-class user management system to stick together world-class applications to make a portal".

I didn't really see "user management" become a category of software that people would reuse (as opposed to write something half-baked in a hurry) until 2013 or so when it got fashionable to log in with Google, Facebook, etc.

But really you should be looking at "low code" tools because, if the idea is realized properly, it's exactly what you want in terms of automatically generating a lot of the tedious stuff.
soo... there are about 70k homeless people in L.A. right now. How do you suggest we airlift them to Tennessee?