skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, most of the music I heard when I was travelling in South America wasn't American music. Same thing with South East Asia.

Look at the Billboard (or equivalent) charts for Germany, France, Argentina, or any other non-Anglo country; maybe 10% of the entries are English language or from American artists.
Seconded. I've recreated a corporate CI with it and had a great time. To have a single compile target is a blessing.

Also: the only software I know of written in Mercury.
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So you are eating processed food if you peel a carrot and then eat it? Fascinating
Chewing is a process that totally destroys the physical structure of the food, and exposes it to oxidation.

Chewing is not what anybody ever means when they talk about processed food.
FWIW, I still appreciate hearing from other armchair experts. Even their limited knowledge is better than my zero knowledge.

I just imagine that every poster could be anyone between a 16-year-old script kiddie or the CTO of a multinational. Or, you know, both.
Is it "hijack account into becoming a spambot" or "hijack the account of politicians in the hope of finding blackmail & classified documents"?
Just as a hypothetical thought experiment, suppose the entire description of our universe laws of physics and initial conditions can be described with a bits string of size X. Add a few more bits to describe a specific location and time, and a few more bits to decode whatever it is that humans wrote at some time.

Then everything humanity will ever reach or know has Kolmogorov complexity no larger than this X. My intuition is that if you take X to be too small, the general "nothing's special about the universe and it's all extremely typical" argument and you must surely reach a contradiction. Surely not everything is so incredibly compressible, is it?

Physicists keep crying about fine tuning and what not, but honestly, I would be even more surprised if the initial conditions and the laws of physics were extremely small. Because we already know the laws of physics are relatively simple, I would put my bets on the initial conditions having most of the entropy.
It’s a sly way to add emotional effect by enforcing the possibility that they’ll pose a risk to animals in the area.

With news being predominantly digital no one is worried about how much space a headline takes, HTML metadata can even present an alternative headline for social media, no worries about space on the printed page or ink. So pack on the emotionally charged, pressure cooked rhetoric.
And all the concertina, melodeon, and harmonica players of the worlds couldn't be happier.

I feel personally attacked whenever I want to learn a song, and it has a key change in the middle of it.
I know the site is partly in jest, but I cross-checked against my local bareroot orchard that sells ~75 varieties of Apples and this site had only about 5% of them. I would say it's missing quite a few of the best apples.
TikTok is the short form of YouTube.

Twitter is the short form of blogs.

They're only 'social networks' in the sense that you can follow people. But not really your social circle, more like your circle of interests.

Facebook is where the family and friends hang out.
Again, this is a meaningless definition, and not at all what the vast majority of people mean when they say processed.

They may not agree on their definition of processed in this context, but it sure isn't this definition.

By this definition chewed food is processed because it exposes the carrot to digestion (which itself would be processing).
Reminds me of this breakdown of "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRxTW8GxT8

That song makes everything else look like amateur hour. Somehow it hit #4 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1983.

I think I'll stick to bluegrass. In G.
Google’s Privacy Sandbox is coming to Android
Google's MAID will be phased out. Here's what you need to know.
Good point you raise. Without broaching speculative argument as to the general state of Mr Musk’s consciousness-stream:

Giant, bloated organizations (and projects, and other things) can often be helped by reduced-size, highly-directed streams of consciousness suddenly making unilateral changes to them.

One way to term it— and there are many— is crisis restructuring. Whether Twitter was actually in crisis, and whether the unilateral stream of consciousness doing the restructuring is ”divinely inspired,” remains to be seen.

Certainly paid enough for the privilege
Do you typically have opposing teams in a stadium in EU/UK?

Always. For most teams and countries basically all your away games are less than an 8 hour drive/train ride away (and in many cases less than 2-3 hours) so many people make the trip. You also always have the hardcore fans that will rent a bus or two and drive it literally across Europe to see their team play.
And it is largely wrong, in my estimation.
> Key is described as choosing a certain set of notes from all the available ones.

Not exactly, take for example the Cmaj scale. You can write different melodies that "gravitate" around one of the 7 notes and that effect makes up for a particular mode of the scale of C.
Even if the notes are exactly the same you can easily hear the different flavor of each mode.

The easiest way to hear the modes is to play continuously the Cmaj scale against a C drone (a long note), but each time starting from a different grade of the scale of Cmaj. Same notes, different feelings. It's unclear to me (and I think controversial even among musicians) if you should use the mode name as a qualifier for the key and usually people just say that a song is in the key of $note, but you can definitely hear the difference. In particular, it is (was?) common to modulate to the relative minor/major key to highlight a section of a song (e.g.: key changes from Cmaj to Amin, same notes).

> Is there any popular music that belongs to multiple keys because they only use the notes that are shared between them?

It's very common in jazz, a classic example: Giant steps by Coltrane. The song continuously modulates in major thirds and loops around three keys.

> Or, is there anything that doesn't belong to any key because it uses more notes than are allowed by any key?

Look up "serialism" and "atonal music".
It's a strange idea to ask people to work 60-80 hours a week, as such people will be less productive than two people working 40.
It's also a warning against those proselytizing solutions.
Can you share some concrete examples where you think "kernel C" is really unlike normal C? Sure, there will be couple of additional things the programmer needs to be aware of (e.g. special care needed when inside interrupt handlers and when holding spinlocks) but overall it doesn't visually look that different.
I wouldn’t invest in a network where I can be booted for the bad behavior of somebody I’ve never met.
Lots of things can be bad at the same time. What NSA and GCHQ do is worth discussing, for sure. But it has nothing to do with this.
> if anything happened to my trusty server, all my files would potentially be gone

This is what a good backup solution is for.

While Hetzner's product and other hosted NextCloud instances come with some protection baked in I would still strongly suggest an off-service backup rather than keeping all your eggs in one basket.

(I'm assuming here that NextCloud is being used as the primary storage, rather than a backup location for other storage, if everything else is elsewhere already then the need for an extra full backup solution is reduced)
Why are we farming mink? Could we just stop with abusing animals merely for minuscule amounts of pleasure we get from using their products over alternatives?
I don't disagree that it is possible in theory, but are there any substantial examples of initiatives genuinely spawned at the general public level changing policy of the FBI? This would be required to upgrade the binary (True/False) proposition from a belief to a fact...but then only as a binary (the FBI could still be 99% beyond the will of the people).
I would bet $1 that 99% of memory leaks are from legacy C, or C++ where the code monkey forgot to use memory safe features.
I appreciated this piece but didn't fully understand what solution is being advocated.

Is the proposal to have non-federated/compatible social networks, but then have clients that capable of posting to/reading from each? The client would be some form of Twitter/Insta/Tiktok aggregator?
With what money? VC money? Which VC? What would the business model be exactly?

Ad money is drying up as companies are slashing online ad budgets. Now I'm sure eventually if Twitter goes down, traditional media will settle on a specific app to promote heavily, but this time, it will be on their terms.
I don't think this is particularly true, a lot of pop music is very hard to pin to a single key if you analyze it strictly through the lens of western art music theory. You end up having to say weird stuff like "well the song is in one key but the chorus is in another, but with the third borrowed from the first key, but that note is left out of the final chorus..." when "it just has two roots" is a complete explanation.

It's not even "modern," people still sit around arguing about which key certain beatles songs are in, when again "more than one" is a more useful explanation.

And I mean I know you know this but for other readers: music theory isn't like a math formula where song goes in, answers come out. It's a practical framework and a vocabulary for communicating about music, and evaluation of a successful analysis has to be based on the usefulness of the evaluation. There can be multiple "correct" analyses of the same piece of music, with different usefulness to different people at different times.

Pop music has influences from outside the mainstream european music traditions, and so certain assumptions that almost always make sense within those traditions (eg songs have a key, with a tonic) will lead you to goofy places sometimes.
I'd take that bet. I'd bet you that backing by full-blooded, real bowed strings, with plummy vibrato and all, will come back in style at some point in the next thirty years.
He was not charged with murder because the attempt was intercepted by the police and did not occur.

The messages he wrote soliciting the contract murder were submitted as evidence as facts in the case against him and weighed heavily in his sentencing.

I don't understand why people want this guy free besides early-crypto-nostalgia.
Why do we have mink farms at all? Can we just ban mink farming?
If you replace all social welfare programs, you get around $3T/year, or $500/month for everyone (universal). That $500 now needs to cover all medical expenses, housing, and food for the subset of people who used to exclusively receive those benefits. That includes completely eliminating social security, which currently averages $2.5K/month.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of people receiving income (the universal part), would have a portion of their income previously provided by wages replaced with money that used to be used for social services for those that either needed them (based on the current definition of need) or had “paid in” with the expectation of income at old age. Who is benefiting from this?
They absolutely had to know that they were breaking US copyright law. And you don't mess the bottom lines of US-based companies, or Uncle Sam is coming for you.

As a poor kid who put themselves through college, I definitely sympathize with, and understand that, the price of text books and academic work is insane. I may or may not have even used the website or its analogues once or twice.

But at the end of the day, they had to know what they were doing. If you're doing ransomware/carding/etc. you don't target Russia or its friends. And if you're trying to get around copyright law, you don't operate within reach of the US government. These are things that anyone who has been around security for even a couple of months understands.

Do I think people should be grabbed from foreign countries over copyright? No. But if you're operating in that world, it's colossally stupid to not take OpSec seriously.
I'll be more direct.

The majority decided that paying higher taxes is worth the benefits.
some cancers can be triggered by infectious pathogens though (HPV, some leukemias / lymphomas)
>And so, the researchers came up with the burden of proof risk function, a novel statistical method to quantitatively “evaluate and summarize evidence of risk across different risk-outcome pairs.”

My stats knowledge is admittedly shallow, but this seemed a bit out of place to me. Is it common to develop novel statistical vehicles for meta-studies like this? My expectation would be that this is a kind of investigation we've been doing for a while, so new models aren't really needed.
> Look for Scala dev jobs, they are only needed in Sunnyvale.

[citation needed]

In my experience Scala devs are in extremely high demand as it's a language of choice for a lot of high-performance server-side software like data pipelines and also for the kinds of large enterprises that previously primarily used Java.
Japan was super expensive 30 years ago when I lived there and had the perspective of a broke student. But the prices in yen haven't changed in those 30 years, and prices in dollars have gone down slightly. Don't you wish you could pay 90's prices today? You can, just go to Japan!
The last-chorus step up in key has been called the "Truck Driver's Gear Shift" and widely mocked as a cheap way to add energy to a song that is flagging, reaching its end, and needs to go out with a bang. Musicians started attempting to end their music on its own terms rather than resort to a gimmick in response.
In my direct experience, having a few thousand followers can be plenty to get impersonated even though that doesn't in general pass Twitter notability filters--even when that impersonation had already happened (and the impersonator banned). So it was not a very good system. In fact, I have trouble coming up with good reasons--outside of cost--why someone shouldn't be able to get verified if they want/feel the need to be.
To me, the key problem with Java’s error handling is that there’s no special consideration given to functional interfaces like Callable/Runnable/etc — so you effectively cannot throw a checked exception from within a lexical closure passed to a Stream.map, ExecutorService.submit, etc: trying to do so gets you a compile error.

This was worked around in the design of CompleteableFutures, where the closure must cyclically capture its own future in order to be able to call .completeExceptionally on it; but that requires that every use of functional code essentially subvert Java by having a try-catch at the root of the closure’s AST that turns propagating exceptions, into, essentially, results, via a side-channel; and then the caller of CompleteableFuture.get gets the side-channel exception value thrown back at them and propagating again. Honestly a mess—and people think Golang’s little “if err != nil” checks are bad!

(What should actually be happening is “exception generic auto-deduction”: anything that accepts Callable or other functional interfaces should actually accept a (currently-impossible) type “Callable throws <T>…”; and then the list of checked error types of the instantiated object should be deduced from what the called code actually does—as Java perfectly-well knows how to do, in order to assert compiler errors about checked exceptions in the first place. This would also require you to be able to define methods that “pass along” checked exceptions without knowing what they are, though — and without just declaring you throw Throwable and thus discarding the exception typing of the callee — in order for the framework code that takes these Callables to be valid.)
Julian Assange not only was denied a checkmark, Twitter refused to remove the account impersonating him.

The moment Assange lost access to his Twitter account though, and his friends (who had access to it, for just such an event) wanted to use it to call attention to his plight and campaign for its release, it was quickly suspended on the excuse that it wasn't him personally.
So that's why there's a black bar, phew. glad it's not a bug on my browser.
Especially when you consider that he only needs like .01% of his net worth to still be disgustingly rich and never have to work again.
He already said it's not a money making venture.
From the first paragraph:

> red meat consumption is linked to colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, and ischemic heart disease

I'm only a little deceptive here, because the study only found "weak" evidence of the above, so they did find some evidence.

So the study produced some evidence that aligns with previous research and somehow this "slams" previous research?
Its cultural and Trump epitomized the worst of American sorry not sorry. That is why Twitter mob justice plays a role in accountability and creating hyped outrage.
I grew up playing APBA with my friends and tried to write some automation tools in BASIC on my TRS-80 in Jr. High. A few years ago I wrote a simple Node app to scrape Baseball Reference data and create plausible, reverse engineered Strat-O-Matic cards as PDFs. Sometimes I feel like I enjoy just playing with baseball stats more than actually simulating a baseball game.
The Map of the Universe – interactive map to explore the cosmos
I've found out the hard way that boxing/unboxing of PDF primitives to Python is _really_ expensive, so that my workflow has been counter-intuitively quite a lot slower than with PyPDF2.
Go is absurd. It's opinionated in all the wrong ways.

> Functions that return something are given noun-like names.

> // Good:
> func (c Config) JobName(key string) (value string, ok bool)

> A corollary of this is that function and method names should avoid the prefix Get.

> // Bad:
> func (c Config) GetJobName(key string) (value string, ok bool)

That's dumb. I'd like a function to be GetJobName to indicate that it doesn't mutate anything. Maybe CreateJobName to indicate mutation. Just JobName is useless.

The other day, I spent a whole day trying to figure out the "idiomatic" way to return a an object not found case from my db. Do you return a nil pointer (don't, passing pointers leads to bugs), or an empty struct (then how do you reliably "test" its emptiness?) or an error? And of course, there's no real hierarchy of errors, no built-in extensible handling of errors that is semantic and makes sense, so every project just goes and reinvents their wheel.
If x is powerful because they’re smart and work hard, I can become powerful because I’m smart and work hard. If x is powerful because they were born rich and got lucky, I… don’t have much control over whether I become powerful.
How about block .edu access to China in exchange for GFW?
I’m old enough to remember when it was free to purchase at the box office
I do wish that rust had stayed a simpler language, but I do think it started about as simple as you could while having a borrow checker. The fact that c2rust transpilers (for unsafe rust) popped up so soon after its release years ago, is good evidence that at least a subset of rust is only slightly syntactically different to c. Even if you only had to add lifetime notations to c, the amount of code that would have to be rewritten is vast. And a lot of the extra stiff in rust is to lower the performance cost of safety. Like avoiding runtime bounds checking or unnecessary copies while keeping the benefits. Tl;dr I don't think c with a borrow checker and bounds checking is what we want performance wise. I think that is pretty much carbon.

If you want robust and well known, pick ada/spark. That language and it's culture is all about security and has been for decades. It also doesn't have quite the performance of c and rust.

And about the sharp knife... I have worked embedded c++ for decades now, some safety critical where we inspected the assembly generated and verified 100% code and branch coverage, on the assembly. I have made one memory safety error that escaped test in those years. That has been found yet...

I'm not in the kernel culture so I don't know. But it doesn't seem like it values things like static analysis, unit test coverage, san builds etc. It seems from the outside they are simply relying on their knife skills instead of measuring the quality of their work. Microsoft and Google both say over 70% of their exploits have come from memory safety errors. So it isnt M-1 + x. It is M0.3 + X. And rust isn't super new, so we have some ideas about X from early production use in firefox and dropbox. And we have an idea about how many knife users never cut themselves given even just the recent history like beacown.

It is time to start the incremental change.
it's hard NOT to think what a horrible species we are, running killing floors
ground mystery meat full of preservatives, coloring, soy protein to mask its own low protein content, and plenty of other shit. fast food slop for bipedal cattle
As a current user of Dropbox, Google Drive & OneDrive I can definitely say that Dropbox beats the other two (and probably any other similar service) in both network transfers (up/down) and indexing time (especially if you consider LAN sync too for when mirroring data between devices). The level of file/folder movement you can do in Dropbox while it's sync'ing data is unparalleled. If you try doing the same e.g. with Google Drive, you will either end up with duplicate files or even lose data overall.

But we all know that this probably comes at a potential cost, e.g. privacy related concerns (anyone remember the controversial Dropbox board appointment of C. Rice back in the day?), services getting hacked etc.

So knowing the above and knowing that with Nextcloud, Owncloud, Syncthing etc. you fully control your cloud backup, any (perhaps) lower performance takes a step back for sure. But then again, if you're hosting on a server that's geographically close to you & on a solid datacenter with great peering (e.g. Hetzner, Scaleway/Online.net or OVH for Europeans), performance can be on par or perhaps even better compared to "established" backup cloud services.
I don't think we need a strict definition. If people really got the message "processed food is bad" and made reasonable choices from that information and their intuition (or a google image search) they would stop eating the worst things, which would help a lot.
What 'has' been proven then? No comments or docs? Long variable and method names?

I just had a semi-interview the other day, and was talking with someone about the docs and testing stuff I've done in the past. One of the biggest 'lessons' I picked up, after having adopted doc/testing as "part of the process" was... test/doc hygiene. It wasn't always that stuff was 'out of date', but even just realizing that "hey, we don't use XYZ anymore - let's remove it and the tests", or "let's spend some time revisiting the docs and tests and cull or consolidate stuff now that we know about the problem". Test optimization, or doc optimization, perhaps. It was always something I had to fight for time for, or... 'sneak' it in to commits. Someone reviewing would inevitably question a PR with "why are you changing all this unrelated stuff - the ticket says FOO, not FOO and BAR and BAZ".

Getting 'permission' to keep tests and docs current/relevant was, itself, somewhat of a challenge. It was exacerbated by people who themselves weren't writing tests or code, meaning more 'drift' was introduced between existing code/tests and reality. But blocking someone's PR because it had no tests or docs was "being negative", but blocking my PR because I included 'unnecessary doc changes' was somehow valid.
"The dose makes the poison."