skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. The author won the Pulitzer for this story

2. After winning the Pulitzer, a librarian sent the author a page from a 1930 newspaper that featured a similar prank in Chicago

3. The violinist from that story-- Jacques Gordon-- performed the prank using the same Stradivarius violin that Joshua Bell used from 1991 to 2001. (Unfortunately, Bell's prank happened in 2007-- if it had been six years earlier we would have had both pranks on the same violin!)

4. Author wrote another story about 1-3:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/0...

**

It's obvious what needs to happen next:

5. Find out who owns that Strad now, run the same prank with the same story, write a follow up about discovering Bell and Gordon's pranks, and finally, write a follow-up to the follow-up about discovering Weingarten's follow-up.
Maybe. I’d say this:

If you think one guy is an asshole, he’s probably an asshole. If you think everyone is an asshole… It’s time to do some hard introspection.
The solution to that problem is rolling it into even more debt. Zoom out to a multi-decade timeline, and that's pretty much what we have done in the real estate markets. Bigger mortgages and longer-termed mortgages have lead to an incredible expansion in the amount of money in circulation.

Yes, at some point, this reaches a steady state (which it probably has, I don't expect mortgage terms to keep growing), but that expansion of the money supply will absolutely manifest itself as inflation.

Which it did, in the asset markets. The only novel development last year is that it has finally trickled down to commodities.
With no option to input a pin when FaceID fails, only the full password.
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so lets look at this closely:

Banks - banks make more money when rates are higher, as they can get a bigger spread between what they offer savers and borrows. CBA, Australia's largest bank has a net interest margin of 2.1%. This means that the difference between the cost of interest paid to savers, and that borrows pay is 2.1%. This 2.1% covers all of the expenses and profit the bank makes. Banks make obscene amounts of money due to the volume and value of the loans. Amazingly, banks want to maintain their NIM, to ensure they can fund all of the compliance costs, risk management, and technology costs. If you looked at the Investor Presentation you would have seen that in the last quarter the NIM for CBA dropped which is why the share has been sold off. Due to strong competition in the banking sector

Qantas announced record profit because demand for flights is really, really high, but flight volumes have not returned to pre-covid levels. This is why flights are still very expensive. Again, inflation is on the demand side, to counter the increase in demand, Qantas has raised prices to ensure the flight demand meets what it can supply. You will note, Qantas is also actively trying to build out more flight capacity to cater to the excess demand.

Supermarkets, I already spoke to, down thread. This is a reversion driven by reduced costs from COVID. 'Mr Kierath said it was important to note the companies' profits fell in the last six months of 2021, so these results were rebounding off an unusually low base.'

Ergo, they look good because they were depressed in the prior reporting season. Ergo, it's just corporations bashing, because people are mad inflation is going up.

If you look at Woolworth's profits over time, it would look to be going back to normal levels[1] after a dip due to COVID.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116200/australia-net-pr...
>Literally none of this matters to users except to the extent that it affects performance.

Yeah, just render my browser's back button dysfunctional, fam. Doesn't matter to me at all. Take all my control away and lock me into your walled garden of totally custom, approved-only interactions.
I’ve read at these doses it lasts < 4 hrs but I don’t know the mechanism. It is usually taken at night an hour before going to bed and the post inhibition reaction can be felt the same night during sleep so it must be a matter of hours.
And that’s why you get a NCCT first!
Epic Sax Guy is amazing, he just pours electricity in your veins. Chaconne is an old music of the highest quality but hard to grasp for untrained ear. A decade ago I listened and re-listened to it for dozens of times until I "got it". Why did composer Johannes Brahms say:

> The Chaconne is one of the most wonderful, incomprehensible pieces of music. On a single staff, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings. If I were to imagine how I might have made, conceived the piece, I know for certain that the overwhelming excitement and awe would have driven me mad.

That's some challenge right there. "Getting" this piece is worth the effort. But I don't blame people passing by just ignoring it if they heard 10 seconds in passing.

13 years ago the Joshua Bell experiment was repeated in Romania by a local virtuoso using a Strad as well. He got more attention than Joshua. Funny thing, they interviewed people and one said - "I didn't recognise him but I knew something shady was going on". People knew great violin even if they couldn't explain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLCTvA4kq5s

Another funny story, I once saw the same violinist (Alexandru Tomescu) in concert and my f&$^ng phone rang at the last seconds. And I had it closed, but it was a helpful phone and woke up. Then had the guts to go for an autograph after the concert.

I really wish silent mode means silent like a brick mode, not just filtering some noises.
There are so many possible bad outcomes that can result from these options. Not a good idea at all imho.
It would filter down the leads to a much smaller number of much greater quality (as people showed an interest in their specific product and access to their info is more exclusive) The budget would stay the same as would the number of customers. I think they should welcome the money saved on competitive harassment. You kinda had to do it because everyone else was doing it.
> single origin beans for black coffee have lost most of their top notes 2-3 weeks after roasting

nah. Sey coffee, one of the top roasters in the country (who also buys very high quality green coffee to roast), puts on the package "best after 2 weeks"

and it's relative, top grade coffee after it gets "old" (for whatever value of old) is still better than lesser quality that never tasted that good in the first place. I'm talking about aromatics, tea like fruit notes, etc.
From other thread: [the tested drug] taurocholic acid is hepatotoxic

You: TUDCA and UDCA are not only liver-safe, they're first-resort drugs for resolving drug-induced liver damage

Me: I think I have a stupid idea
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370w panel for $266 (there's lots of good deals out there if you shop around).

If you want to save more money and buy by the pallet (22 panels), they're around $182 each for 330w: https://sunelec.com/shop/solar-panels/suniva-330w-solar-pane...
I've been trying to get bundling working with bun without success using `bun bun`. It just crashes or hangs. Is there an way to get bun to work like `esbuild --bundle` ?
My first dose of dextro made me feel a sense of elation I hadn't felt since before I was a teen. It was nice in a way, but incredibly eerie too.

My brain immediately worked far better than usual as well, but I couldn't direct it. I could socialize more easily, go about tasks more easily, but I was dramatically less cognizant of what I was doing and why. That part was even worse.

I can't imagine taking a proper dose of something like meth and feeling like that * 1000. I guess it might be nice in the strange way that things like meth are "nice", but... It's literally insanity.

The worst part of ADHD meds is the part where I do things without needing to think about it. I can go on autopilot and just get stuff done... But I actually don't have a good grasp on the what and why part. My brain is just like "alright, do do do!". Externally it probably looks pretty unremarkable. Internally it's quite unsettling, though useful at times.
There are some things that are perfectly legal for me to Google search, that I don’t want my ISP or Google to know about. So Tor works well for that. Tor would also be useful if governments were to crack down on free speech.

You can apply basically the same argument to money. If I have $20m in Bitcoin I don’t want my name to be tied to my wallet address (because a KYC exchange saw where the money went to) because it makes me a target, for example. And in the case of censorship or something I want to be able to do with the money what I please.

Privacy is a fundamental human right, in my opinion. We have to use cumbersome technology to get any modicum of true digital privacy. Just because people use it for illegal things doesn’t mean that the desire for privacy or the technology itself is bad. One day things we find morally just may be illegal too
> As a manager, I actually find people doing "big picture" thinking quite annoying to deal with

That's a bold statement. You've made your job easier, at the cost of creating a culture of "not my job". You assume you can handle all the big picture yourself. That way lies micromanagement.

Maybe your team requires that right now. Only you know. But you should also ask yourself why you sound like your team is annoying you. In the quote above, in "to hear them tell it", "some people just can't handle it".
Even Google can't solve all the downsides of things being in the cloud.
No. The "problem" is that people pay a massive premium to see him perform on stage, thinking they're enjoying art, even though his performance isn't significantly different from any of a hundred less famous violinists. Those premiums were them being duped by marketing, not their refined appreciation of art.

Of course they're not supposed to recognize him! They're supposed to recognize the much-higher-quality of his musical performance, even in a subway station, since a supposed master of the art is playing this time rather than mere buskers! That's what the naive, mainstream view would hold.

But -- oops -- in a surprise to absolutely no one who's heard of The Emperor's New Clothes, and to everyone who completely missed the point of that fable... they didn't, except a few who were working off other cues.

Imagine your comment in another context: "the problem is that most people don't have experience in evaluating fashions in clothing, and they wouldn't recognize when their emperor is wearing unusually good raiments". Uh, no. There's a simpler explanation. You just need to give up a cherished worldview to see it.

Yes, humans get duped by social proof. It's just not usually this obvious.
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I started using Emacspeak in the late 1990's, and probably peaked ~2003-2006.

I have associates with visual impairments ranging from nothing (i.e.,completely gone (i.e. "blind")) to severe mis-alignment of vertical focus, ...and the standard of colour-blindness. I try to help them to the best of my abilities.

My own acuity (currently) allows the use of monospace typefaces/fonts and grey-scales. There are times when my vision cuts out pretty bad. I assume it will get worse and sometime in the future I think I will rely on Emacspeak. Also, pointer/mouse use is almost a complete wash for me.

Hence the "plan B" You mentioned.

Edit: I do not want to lose access to computers (screw networked ones (love those)), I really love (almost) any programming environment
> Price controls. This tends to have a lot of harmful side effects, such as the necessity of rationing and discentivizing the production of whatever you're price controlling. You only really do this for a few goods, so this doesn't help overall inflation much, if at all.

The necessity of rationing assumes that demand is outstripping supply. That's not the case when corporations are price gouging. Egg farms are not selling more eggs than ever before, nor would they if prices were exactly what they were before COVID.

Furthermore the harmful side effects of price controls are often exaggerated. Again, egg farmers are not going to suddenly just kill all of their chickens and switch to building datacenters because we only implemented price controls on necessities like food. Nixon's price controls went fine, as but one example.

Finally, your solution of raising rates does not decrease the need for basic staples like food, so it's not a solution at all. Who cares if inflation for Tesla's or SUVs are at 8% or higher, that's a rich person problem. What matters is the inflation for necessary goods and services, like food and shelter, and your suggested "solution" doesn't really solve anything. All it does is maybe put people who need the money out of work.
There's a quip in academia that machine learning is really just statistics, but without any assumptions checking.
My client bought in the marketing slides of an Indian company that there was response within x hours of raising an incident, not actually solving but response.
It's basically a "hi, we started the triage see you", in another one, DocuSign to not name, with the premium support, we are basically redirected to their help page even after 2 or 3 exchanges for clarification.
Support is just awful everywhere. Hell, our management is asking the same with our L1-L2 ones for internal customer.
Failing in predictable ways is always a problem. Even if it's a novel way of failing. Those boxes are there as last resort, not as an engineering strategy.
>You can’t compare spot rates like that to a sustained income.

Fair enough. Although my comment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I was legitimately shocked at that rate. Personally, I view a week to be an extremely short-duration contract. A "spot rate" is presumably much shorter still (there's very little information for the term in the context of software development).

I suppose the curiosity I have is: what's the rate falloff typically like?

For example, an individual is able to earn a $3,000/hr spot rate.

What's their rate likely to be for a week? A month?

>A huge part of high-end consulting is doing administrative, marketing, and sales work that’s unpaid.

May I ask why it's unpaid and not covered by the contract?
> 3. Publish 1-10% of the data

What?
A lot of this also comes down to your familiarity with the instrument and the genre. I know guitars and drums. I can tell if someone playing a guitar is merely good or world class.

However, my exposure to classical music is so little that I have no way of telling if someone is just good or truly spectacular.

Reckon the same applies to the average person - most have very little exposure to classical music and can’t tell how good a violinist really is.

Would be interesting to see this experiment repeated with a more popular instrument and genre - say, an electric guitar and rock.
Thanks to anonymous internet heroes for proving my point.
> I disagree with this. It's clearly personal preference.

you are correct that you might like the taste of dark roasted coffee as a personal preference, but that's not a "quality" quality, it's a taste preference. But you can make that strong dark coffee out of virtually any beans, just roast them to near death, it doesn't matter what you start with. Like chocolatey notes? you're in luck! that's called Brazilian coffee, and it's really really cheap to buy the beans.

You may not like more lightly roasted tea-like coffee flavors, but they have more distinct differences, fruit notes, etc, that you would easily be able to taste and differentiate between, even if it's not your preference.

being a barrista gives you a leg up on knowing about the coffee you tried regularly, but not on the coffee you haven't, and it takes a substantial amount of time to develop a palate, as with wine tasting.
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Same here, except all metal French press instead of aero.

I started noticing differences in beans when hand grinding. Some are tough, and feel like trying to grind rocks. Some churn like butter. I'm not smart enough to know why, but that led to me buying the 'butter' varieties.

Best I've found yet is Red Bird coffee. Easy to grind and tastes awesome. Hardest to grind was Happy Mug, closely followed by SW. Guatemalan is our favorite, so same country of origin for all 3. (All 3 taste great, only referring to ease of grind).
I can't speak to painkillers but this makes no sense at all for ADHD patients and is literally just an artificial barrier -- not because it's impossible to see a doctor in person but because finding someone local qualified to formally diagnose ADHD is a huge pain.

My therapist was like, "you obviously have ADHD but I can't diagnose you, you should talk to your primary." My primary was like, "you obviously have ADHD but I can't prescribe anything -- not because I'm not allowed but because I need to cover my ass. You need to see a psychologist or psychiatrist and get a letter. Then I can manage your medication." You know how many psychologists in my area do evaluations like this -- none.
I think this is a reversal of emotional blunting. I consider becoming overly emotional a good indication that LDN will really help and heightened emotional sensitivity will wear off as the brain adjusts. Stiff like crying over spilt milk. Certainly people should be warned that they could be in for a bit of an emotional roller coaster.
It’s the average personality of the internet as revealed by text continuation statistics, and tuned by human-guided gan. Nothing more.
Would any hypothetical advancement cause you to rethink your position?
Totalitarian country with beautiful parks.
Roasting level, the lighter the roast, the harder.
Cool website! One minor nit: coffee shop is misspelled on the website. It instead says "coffe shop"
> there is no upside in you reporting the leak

There is - not letting it be - raising awareness and contributing to prevention of a normalization of such things. If everyone would hold "let sleeping dogs lie"/"not my circus, not my monkeys" attitude it would gradually become a norm and this benefits no one (but possibly bad actors).

However, exercising caution never hurts, so it shouldn't be a bad idea to reach out anonymously and explicitly state that you have nothing to do with the issue at hand and merely an observer who had noticed its existence. Doing so through a trusted third party who are experienced (many names in comments already) with handling such situations is probably the best approach.
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Thanks, that actually explains why the easier grinding ones look a bit darker and 'oilier', I guess. They are supposedly all medium roasts...I guess that definition varies slightly.
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Ahhh, gotcha!

So if I'm understanding correctly, you'd be fine with DDG's update if it was just the icon being added to the field (making an assumption here that the icon is how you activate the feature like a password manager), but by adding the ad/onboarding/whatever popup they went too far.

That's a fair criticism! At first, I was taking your stance as it was a terrible wrong that they added another privacy feature in general.
None of my and my family's android phones have had that issue since switching from "dumb" phone to android, regardless of brands (nexus, htc, sony, pixel, panasonic, LG, samsung, oppo...)
Comment moderation is a perfect application for AI.
> Sure, it's nice to naively import your dependencies from some random URL like it's 2005, but there is a good reason why the JS ecosystem at large has moved away from that.

That's not what you do with Deno in practice, though. Typically, you'll import modules from a trusted registry like deno.land/x/ or esm.sh. The nice way about how Deno handles modules is it becomes dead simple to host a private registry. Also, if anything, JS has moved toward this because this is how ES modules work in the browser (which Deno tries to emulate).

> Deno seems like a nice "fun" runtime for throwaway weekend projects, but most of the things that make it "fun" come from ignoring complexity that will fall on your feet once you try to do anything more sophisticated.

I don't buy this on account of several folks are already using Deno in production, and from my own experience, Deno Deploy was insanely easy to become productive with. Can you be more specific on how Deno ignores complexity? On the topic of package.json, I feel most of its utility can be replaced by import maps and deno.json.
Because companies are profit making entities? They are going to do what they need to, to make a profit. Which is why when inputs rise, they typically pass those costs on to consumers. You will note that Dominos share price fell by ~30% because they noted that demand had been down as they tried to pass on the increased cost of inputs.

If you are an investor, you will want a return on your capital. Would you invest in a business, where the return is lower than what you can get in a bond? If your profits fall too far, unless you can convince investors that its temporary, they are likely to withdraw their funds, and then your business will end.

Prices are also less sticky than wages which means they rise and fall in response to supply and demand, whereas wages are more sticky.
If you want to dig into the details, The Trial by Publisher's Lunch has the (edited) trial transcripts.

https://shop.publishersmarketplace.com/

I was surprised by how readable it is, but I guess I shouldn't be. The judge, of course, is not a publishing expert. So much of what you have in this case is witnesses explaining, more or less from first principles, what the publishing business is and how it works. Except the witnesses are CEOs of the Big Five publishers, and similar level people. And (except in a few cases) I was surprised to find the testimony is refreshingly direct, for an industry that is often mired in ambiguity.
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I won't speak to Australia, but Rep. Porter did a decent job of that here:

https://youtu.be/udITRL9-t08
You make some good points. But it still seems to me that, if you used the best available sandboxed VMs for each platform (Windows Sandbox for Windows; FireJail for Linux; VirtualBox with no folder permissions for OSX-- I don't know if these are the best or even good, those were the ones I found from a bit a searching), that you could install and run these packages in an automated way (especially with some GPT3-type help to figure out how to explore and call the important functions) and look for the telltale signs in the network and file access behavior that they are malicious. Even if we grant that this is a long-tailed "cat and mouse" game, then so what? We won't get 100% security, especially against super sophisticated threat actors, but if you could catch 98% or whatever of the typical clumsy supply chain attacks, or super egregious stuff like that NPM package that deleted your whole disk if you were Russian, that would be an incredibly vast improvement over the current state of affairs. Why isn't that worth doing? Why isn't Google or Microsoft at least trying this?
Do you care about your back button because it's an architectural principle of the web, or because it provides a useful function? Go back and read my comment carefully and you'll probably realize you're arguing against a strawman.
If it were me I'd honestly do nothing. History has shown it's equally likely to be a lose-lose scenario. Let it remain as-is.

If it's related to protecting children or a vulnerable group, maybe report it. Otherwise, whatever.

Either way, don't do it in a way that they know it was you who found it.
Hario filters are pretty thin because they’re designed to sit in the cone. The cone is shaped to allow water to flow around the filter (bypass). To say this is equivalent to a sieve is a little reductive.