skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another MSX computer from Japan that you could find in a music store? The Roland S samplers from the mid to late 80s to early 90s. The S10, S50, and S330/550 are at their heart MSX standard computers. The basically impossible to find mouse was a standard MSX mouse, and its possible to use a PS2 mouse with an adapter widely available on Ebay. These samplers were 12 bit with a choice of a 15 or 30khz sample rate. Great for digital aliasing noises a'la Sp-1200. They had the additional benefit of a really good digital filter that was available before the Akai S-950. I had and used an S-550 for years, but it really is a pain in the butt to use, even with the mouse or the programmer. Other gear surpassed it in popularity for a pretty good reason, but that sampler was still a pretty amazing piece of gear...
My understanding was that all raw-milk cheese was banned in the US at the time.
I had one, and out of nostalgia I created a virtual disk drive using an arduino (http://codinglab.blogspot.com/2013/01/virtual-msx-disk-drive...) All my friends had disk drives and I was stuck with the frustrating tape, so creating a virtual disk drive kind of made for it. The games though sucked.
Maybe there is a kind of educational system where middle school alg is a good idea. But our system is not that kind of system. If you live/vote in SF please support evidence-based practices and common sense. <3

Indeed, your system is not that kind of system. On the other side of the Pacific, Asian kids are routinely prepared for algebra by 7th grade, and their scores on international math tests in later years lead the world. That's Asian "common sense".

One can't help wondering why it is that their cousins, the Asian kids in the SFUSD, are so poorly prepared for algebra even by the 8th grade. The fact that San Francisco-style "common sense" decides that the solution is to declare that even those who are prepared will no longer be allowed to take algebra until high school says a lot about the fraught relationship between San Francisco and common sense.

Non-SF common sense might conclude instead that the fix should involve making elementary school better rather than making middle school slow down to match the failing elementary schools. Maybe expand your "evidence-based" thinking beyond your own failing districts and look at statistics and practices from the rest of the world. What is it that Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, ML China, Korea, and Japan do with primary-age Asian kids that your SFUSD doesn't do with its Asian kids? Why not start with that?
Here's a more recent example related to printing.

https://bust.com/books/16795-penny-dreadfuls-and-moral-panic...
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> had her pick of several positions due to her portfolio of work

Aside from previous job experience, what sort of things are in a portfolio like this?
It isn't about the content in which someone is recorded. It's about having consent to have someone record you.
of course then you have the ethical implications of chick-fil-a
"You don't have to rebuild your image with Debian patches or anything like that since the kernel is minimal and unique. And exploits have minimal impact in any case."
This isn't correct. If there is a bug in the unikernel library you are building into your unikernel you can still exploit it. Imagine if there is a DHCP parsing error in the networking stack which can lead to Remote Code Execution. Or imagine if there's a deserialization error in a web framework which can lead to remote code execution (RCE). Or In both cases you need to follow the upstream and rebuild the unikernel.

Additionally, I think that unikernels are less secure if anything. If you break into the application you are already in kernel mode and can access any file or privilege resources belonging to the unikernel. Also, there is no hope for defense in depth techniques like sandboxing or resource brokers. With a normal application you would need to do some sort of privilege escalation or sandbox escape after hacking the application.
The Cognac SCM
I'm using a file convention where when I'm creating a new version I rename the old one to <file>.o, then the next time to .vo, .xo, .xxo, and so on. When I have to rename 3 files, it gets too painful so I just delete the .xxxo one, so I don't have too many files around. For files I want to keep I include 's' (special) in the suffix, and when it becomes part of a point release '.vs' and sometimes '.vsop'. What do you think?
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> It serves as an important reminder that amid all the hoopla around trading debuts, small investors wind up taking a lot of the risk.

Speculators take on a lot of the risk, whether they be small or large.
nice! which game did you write? And also why did you refused to port it to the MSX?
The entire concept of grades is what's broken; as well as isolating and refining everything to the point that it looses meaning and ties to anything useful in the real world.

It would be better if there were projects that everyone were mentored on. Projects that had sub-assignments related to doctrines of focus and mentors (teachers) ready to help and to upgrade to high levels of detail and quality.

Even more ideally the work would be anything that currently qualifies as a government or civil need (double checking work by full time employees), re-enacting historical work with period engineering constraints (sort of steam-punk-ish) to teach live history, or otherwise maintaining the commons. (Infrastructure projects in software, analysis of actual civil infrastructure, conducting studies and tabulating results; with the interesting ones actually checked in more depth.)
I worked in a place for years where we had access to production databases, to do updates, deletes and so on. We had a certain stylized way of doing things to prevent irreversible errors. If you were going to delete data for instance, you always created a backup table first with 100% of the columns for the rows of interest, then selected from it to verify it looked reasonable, and then deleted using the backup table to correlate rows to the production table using the primary key. And then another analyst reviewed your work (originally two levels of review, later reduced to one). The backup tables and comments in a ticket including a copy of the SQL run were kept indefinitely, so even if the review missed something it generally was correctable.

The DBAs in the company did think SQL should be reviewed in advance, but that's not how our department did it. I think it's arguable that, given that reviewers before or after doing something dangerous may miss things, it's better to establish safe practices and if you do that, then you don't really need a review in advance.
Yes. Canadian here.

The hospitals here mostly use US systems, minus the billing modules of course.
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You really think you can tell who the "outstanding rockstars" of your country are going to be from an 8th-grade Math class? I mean, if we were teaching stuff like "data science" and JavaScript coding in elementary school, you might have a point. But this is elementary math, that everyone should be able to do to a high standard. I really have trouble grokking what your point might be here, other than trying to justify the all-too-common "soft bigotry of low expectations".
Well nothing like shipping code and letting all your users test it! Congrats.
Approval rates have taken a serious hit: https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1112836630589534208
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If this drug has a 98% chance of having no effect, 1% chance of preventing heart disease, and a 1% chance of immediately killing me, it's still in the interests of someone with heart disease to take it.

It's definitely in the interests of humanity as a whole - a few hundred people might be killed in the cavalier hunt for effective drugs, but tens of millions every year will be saved.

Why are so many years of studies/paperwork needed? Why not just produce the drug and let people take it (who know the above risks)? That could happen as soon as this afternoon.

That wouldn't be a proper blinded study, but the results of it would be very strong indications for if the drug should go through the full process to become a standard treatment.
How do you suggest approaching educating yourself, if you innately distrust the best source of knowledge we have in regards to mental illness? If we don't have a handle on mental illness, what education can be gained? How can someone whose not educated in any of them weigh the pros and cons of CBT vs EMDR? And then we have the whole gamut of the absolutely pseudoscientific mental health world, of crystals, and demons, and just needing more vitamin d. I don't believe one approach is not as good as another.
US Congress doesn't represent US citizens. 84% of the time, the congress person that wins in that district raised the most money. Corporations and the wealthy provide that money to get congress people who represent THEM, not US citizens.

US Congress doesn't represent US citizens. So nothing changes if moneyed interests want US citizens to live under surveillance.
This piece argues:

> The fact is that many people simply do not contact Apple when their MacBook keyboards fail. They just live with an S key that stutters or a spacebar that intermittently gives double. Or they just start using an external keyboard. Apple never sees these cases, so it never counts in their statistics.

That probably wouldn't be the case for Apple's own employees.
It can be if you want it to. The problem is that it's a library big enough that you can spend your entire life wandering, and still only see a small part of it.
Yes. The EHR vendors have deeper pockets than the paper chart vendors.

One more organization to sue, and one other entity for everyone else to blame.
Probably a different person FYI. Usernames are different.
Although I'm not a gamer I'm excited that there's something new happening, and I wanted a CUDA card for programming anyways, so I went for the RTX.

Most gamers were complaining that it doesn't do 60 FPS, but I couldn't care less about FPS. I want something beautiful.
I don't know if it was the intent by comparing "pro-plague" to anti-vaxxers, but please don't analogize anti-vaxxers with people's choice on mental health treatment. That's how we stigmatize mental health issues...
Present legislation for public surveillance accountability (or vote for people who will) like Seattle did https://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/privacy/surveillanc...
That's a straw man.

This is clearly not about recording audio of vehicle traffic, but about recording conversations between the same citizens they're visually monitoring.

Plus, they were very quick to pull the trigger and install these without asking. Clearly asking people who would do such a thing to "exercise self control" in regard to enabling yet another degree of surveillance seems like an exercise in futility.
The vast majority of the shares owned by the major investors aren't sold on the day of the IPO.
> Journalists are not paid enough to buy disposable iPhones frequently.

If I were Apple, I'd give journalists all the "disposable" iPhones they need to swap them frequently for free.

My only condition would be to periodically inspect them for hacking activity, or have them specially instrumented to detect it. It would be a good way to ferret out state-actor zero days (or increase the security of the platform by making state-actors horde exploits even more jealously).
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After working at a startup for a few years (that failed) I have been trying to find the right fit in this market, but sadly have not been able to find the right team/energy/culture fit. Lacking that I believe that WFH would be the next best thing.

I am comfortable from most OSs - my home office currently sports a Dell running Windows 10, a 2012 MacBook Pro, and a homebrew Linux box running Kubuntu 18.04.
I'm not sure that's true. From my perspective, it seems like the golden age of creation may have been a few years ago - peaking around, say, the 2009-early10's-ish region. When stuff like Flash was big, but the Internet was still pretty experimental and not quite as cordoned off into walled gardens and laser-guided algorithmic ad-friendly-filtered channels, and the really big-budget content creators and networks hadn't quite rolled in yet. You had tons of people making absolute crap, but it was inventive crap, and some of it wasn't crap at all.

When was the last time you saw anything as weird, experimental, and creative as, say, Homestuck? (Which was a huge multimedia webcomic...thing combining art, music, Flash animations, small interactive games, and a deeply ridiculous story centered around time travel and the meaning of online friendships.)

Or something like Homestar Runner?

What's the best webcomic you've found that was started in the past 5 years? The best new blog?

YouTube's been getting increasingly dry and filtered as ad scare after ad scare forces people to tone down their content - even things like science channels have been getting hit for seeming too dangerous. The move off of forums and blogs to content platforms means that the kinds of expression that are even possible is increasingly restricted. Across the whole web, the rise of higher-budget and more-professional stuff has been discouraging and driving out weird amateur crap from getting started in the first place - meaning that it never develops into higher-quality stuff that would bring those novel ideas to a shine.

It's easier than ever to find polished content, but the diversity of that content is usually less, and still shrinking.
yeah that money goes way further than in SF. WTF?
out of curiosity how high / low relatively are the aussie wages compared to us ones ?
Early Lyft investors have a 180 day lockup period - same as employees.
I definitely understand where you're coming from. Surely there are a lot of people that this stuff actually helps really well. In the past I did have serious issues, but I was able to bring myself out of it over time, by myself. And now, I have nurtured a far more stable and enduring mindset. :)

EDIT: By far the biggest part in me getting better was moving on to a different way of life. Basically, changing the set and setting. Which I think is underrated by the professionals described in this article, hence the problem:

Treating the symptoms, not their source.
I hope my local bookstores stick around long enough so that I can show my two year old son what the big deal about book stores is all about.
If you are exposing an API that is going to "double your revenue" as the article says, why wouldn't you use something like the AWS API Gateway [0] or Google Cloud Endpoints [1]? What were they doing here, running a paid service through an nginx reverse proxy?

[0] - https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/

[1] - https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/
It just sounds like complete rationalization. That is not how humans work nor how companies work. That is not how interest in things work especially not in work or position.

Yes, it is test of whether you know that social thing. So, if the company is treating it as the test of that, then it is fine. Instead, the parent was almost offended over that "No interest at all, just looking to check another box on his list of credentials. At least fake it!".

> Are they excited about their product? Are they exaggerating? Are they bored when answering? Do they know the basic information on their own web site?

Christ, you are talking with hiring manager at that point. I would not mind him not knowing company web site. Most employees don't actually go there all that often. That person might not even work on that product. Unless we are talking about very small company, people do their small parts of the larger whole.

You are hiring tech person and while cooperation, ability to express oneself clearly and without pointless insults, ability to listen and such are important, ability to guess excitement from someone they don't know much less so. It is not sales position.
Light-field displays may become a thing in a not-so-distant future.

https://www.roadtovr.com/creal3d-light-field-display-ar-vr-c...
Your logic doesn't leave room for the possibility that there is a correlation between electability and ability to raise funds. I.e. the candidate most likely to win raises more funds and not vice versa.
Similar experience: I wanted to like it, but found that, at best, it tasted like meat I wouldn't eat again.

Nevertheless, for the sake of the environment and industrially farmed animals, it's good to see meat substitutes progressing into the mainstream.
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Jussie Smollett would be an excellent spokesman for this issue. A cautionary tale about Government overreach.
Link to the music in question (Skrillex - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw

You know, for science.
I had a lot of hope for crdt as a more general technique for client server communication, but it seems that usage of crdt for anything other that collaborative documents is pretty rare
> in a few years it's going to replace the great majority of rasterization use-cases altogether

There's no ground to be (so) sure of that.

Given the current high cost, and more or less subtle effect, the prediction is uncertain, although very desirable.

If in "the future" there will be a way to make RT cheap, definitely, it will be the way (I'd be very happy of that). If not, it will be another option, as it doesn't make sense to shove everybody's throat a feature that sucks 30/50% of the framerate.

Additionally, as of now, we're talking about typically 30/50% of performance loss just for a single RT effect - eg. Metro Exodus uses it only for Global illumination, while Battlefield uses it only for reflections. What's going to be the performance hit for games using multiple RT effects?
This a promising field but the article doesn't mention (at least that I could find) the challenges in implementing CRDT techniques for data structures that humans tend to use such as documents diagrams and spreadsheets, while maintaining acceptable size and performance.
I don't think I would. I can coordinate moving two fingers (shift and the character) easier than I can control the force that I hit a key with... at least I think I can. Some of that may be training, though.

I also suspect that the keyboard layout is more standardized between keyboards than the force threshold would be.

(And, it occurs to me that we're essentially chording with the shift key.)
> Lyft’s stock market debut has set up its founders, employees, early backers and even those who scored shares in the initial public offering Thursday night for quite a windfall.

... not really? Most of those folks are locked out for several more months and can't sell -- at which point the stock may suffer increased selling pressure, much like Snap. These folks are no more successful now than they were a week ago.

Also the IPO price was $72 -- and Lyft is selling at $69 right now, so, no, the institutions that bought the IPO are not having a windfall at present. (But now I see this article was published Friday, before today's continued decline, so I see why this made it past the fact checkers.)

I found this simple graphic a great distillation of why Lyft and Uber may be considered overvalued:

https://i.imgur.com/z1aCZaX.png
you are right and I'm not sure why you are being downvoted.

Most of the 72$ shares sold pre-IPO to retail investors were dumped on IPO day to make a quick profit.
The individual investors and employees that are still in LockOut are now holding the falling knife
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Super simple solution is to dial in a remote human operator whenever something 'odd' happens.

'Odd' events like that are probably only 5 seconds out of every hour of driving, so in aggregate one operator could handle 720 cars. At that point, the operator is far cheaper than further work on the AI.