skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that you mentioned the Apple Watch because I personally found that the Apple Watch totally changed my relationship with my phone.

I can't say I use the full potential of the watch at all, but for the first time, notifications were what I feel like they should have always been - glanceable. When wearing the Apple Watch, the phone practically never vibrates or makes a sound, unless for an incoming call. I get a haptic "tap" on the wrist if a notification comes through (although I did stop a few apps from being able to send notifications) and it's enough to just look at the watch to bring it up.

If it's interesting, I can tell there and then. I can get my phone out or respond to it.

If it's not interesting, I can literally take no further action and just stop looking at the watch and after a few seconds the notification goes away.

It'll still be on my phone later if/when I want to go back to it, but I find myself looking at my phone a lot less often as a result. I can often go for hours without even taking it out of my pocket now.
I suspect roofs are about 0% of the Earth's surface.
Yeah, somebody had to mention the elephant in the room.

"Show HN Uranus"

My first thought was it's getting like Reddit in here...
Have you considered Nim? You can achieve some really high performance with it[1]. Since you've considered Rust, Go, C and even Pony, Nim should really be on your list.

1 - See httpbeast in the latest round of the Techempower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=...
Notepad++

It is minimal and I think Im not supposed to use it.
That's DMX512.
This is going to be hard to explain without outlining a whole recording setup, but basically, a lot of the time, in a given musician's studio, the program numbers are going to refer to different things depending on how he chose to configure the patches (presets) on his synthesisers. In some cases, patches aren't even used, such as when an old Minimoog is retrofitted with MIDI and the notion of "Flute" or "Piano" becomes meaningless. In other cases, the synthesiser is a sampler and the samples were programmed by the musician at custom program numbers. In the case of software instruments in a DAW, patches are usually chosen by the DAW itself and no program message is sent to the synth, just note on/off, modulation, pitch bend and other controller messages, and if a switch of instruments is needed during a song, you just add a new track for that.

Basically, MIDI began as a protocol used between hardware devices. General MIDI is a product of the ROMpler era, a ROMpler being a sampler that can't be reprogrammed, i.e. what most people know as a "keyboard", and it's far from universal.

Musicians often don't care about standardising. They're hooking up all sorts of wonky instruments to their rig and reconfiguring it for one-off projects. There is often no need to recall specific patches after you've recorded the part you wanted.
> Let china continue to block mostly everything except theirs

But that's not what's happening. China just makes laws that require vendors to comply with censorship. You know, Germany does the same, only on different topics. Google and others have then decided not to do business in China, they weren't blocked.

The trade problem with China isn't about blocking companies, it's about state subsidies that China gives to key industries that are perceived as unfair.
No, smartphones are tools used by companies to extract personal data and/or money from people.
Traditionally, ad click attribution has been
done through the use of cookies and
so-called “tracking pixels.”

No. Clicks are not tracked via cookies but via urls. The search engine in their example would send the user to someshop.com/someproduct?clickid=7e82jv927x748342

They say nothing about how they want to prevent this and other tracking mechanisms. Yet, they propose an overly complex system to send even more data to advertisers.

Also they do not say anything about the ip that their additional ping will send out. I definitely do not want my browser to communicate with an advertiser days later and without my consent.

Also, click tracking is not even a big problem in the first place. Tracking you wherever you go is. Even if you do not click on any ads.
Smartphones are totally toys. I am so efficient on a desktop I can't stand to use them for anything work related. I pretty much use it to glance at emails and take pictures. Oh and don't forget the government mandated backdoors and location tracking a la the 911 laws.
> Untraceable communication has been the norm for all of human history.

Would you say that there are material, qualitative differences in the way electronic communication increases an organizations ability to execute, vs, say, people hiding handwritten notes in their underwear?

> That you insist on reducing me to a caricature in order to demonize me is very childish

What would you say about someone who claims that hiding notes written on parchment is the same thing as widespread, free untraceable electronic communication?
No good person wants criminal police officers to not be held to account but simply passing laws is unlikely to have the desired effect.
Many police departments in the united states are already highly corrupted at the highest levels. Its not as bad as it is in Mexico where the drug lords have actually taken over, but its getting close.
I've found that it is most often the plug on the easily replaceable cord that breaks, which I gather is by design and an improvement over mini-USB, where it was the socket that tended to break.

The biggest issue I've had with micro-USB is that pocket crud and lint tends to gather in the socket, but it's very easy to pick out with one of those slim plastic toothpicks or a similar tool. Every device I've had where the USB socket became wonky, a bit of cleaning cleared it right up.
There are a couple of these kinds of devices you might not have tuned into yet, namely:

Axoloti:

http://www.axoloti.com/

(There are great cases/knobs/button boxes for this, for example check this thread out for the mad directions things can take: https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158092)

Organelle:

https://www.critterandguitari.com/organelle

Another very cute, very programmable portable digital synth ..

And then there are things like this, which I had the pleasure of playing recently at superbooth:

Sonicware ELZ1:

https://www.sonicware.jp/elz-1-1

So, yeah .. lots of little portable, digital and analog synths in the OP-1/-Z style format.
Rethinking Wealth, from Birthright Capital to Big Spender Taxes
Okay, then I encourage everyone to flag every single paywall article posted. They are off-topic, because you cannot read them. The FAQ rule is ridiculous.
I've used Flashnote for many years, Windows-only but super-lightweight notepad-tree thing.

http://softvoile.com/flashnote/

Now somewhat deprecated in my workflow for Colornotes and Trello, but still used regularly.
> If you have 0.5s gap between audio and video, you hardly notice.

If your video comes later than audio and depicts human mouth talking you would notice it ever for 1 frame (0.02s for 50 frames/s) delay; but it's true that if audio is delayed relative to video, then 0.5s is hardly noticeable.
Interesting to hear from the pre-Tex world. I'd like to see some examples of expert use of tbl and eqn; outside of manpages the roff ecosystem seems to have vanished.
Allegations not proven yet. Watch out for your media and information sources
Even blackholes lose their mass through radiation. Nothing can maintain a high pressure indefinitely.
FrameMaker, OxygenXML, RoboHelp, XMetaL, XMLmind, Arbortext.
Ok, thanks - I wouldn't have thought 100ms variation would be that noticeable.
For static site generators:

https://github.com/pinceladasdaweb/Static-Site-Generators

https://staticsitegenerators.net/

I keep all my resources for working with GitHub Pages, here:

https://infominer.id/web-work/github-pages-starter-pack/

and am most familiar with GitHub facilitated Jekyll:

https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll

MkDocs makes really nice pages that don't require fussing around with frontmatter, with auto generated navigation based on directory structure.

It also opens your publishing toolkit to python's universe of markdown related extensions, which you may already be familiar with.

https://www.mkdocs.org/
I'm of the opposite side of the fence - I get lured in by TE's design ethos, but find myself immediately un-inspired by the results. I've had two OP-1's, and an opportunity to play with their new modular synth, and .. it looks great. But it just sounds meh.

That said, I have refined my personal tastes for synth aesthetics over decades of investment. I just can't find the OP-1 worth the money, nor even effort to play - when there are so many other great devices out there for less hype.

Believe me, I try to love the OP-1 and OP-Z when I've had it in my hands. But I'd seriously just rather have a proper synth. The OP-1 feels like a piss-take.
This was a public company (or some sort of weird in between, in this case). This matches my experience with my local public companies - contrary to private corporate environment which is definitely not good, but much preferable.
AMD at Computex 2019
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995) [pdf]
I'm definitely joking, but

$ node

> 1.0/0.0

Infinity

> 0.0/0.0

NaN
Wow. This took so long to happen that I assumed it had already happened, a decade ago. Early RFCs went out while I was in college.
I broke multiple joysticks on Wing Commander this way.
> "and has been caught spying for them" (GP) //

Hmm, recently on BBC a representative for UK's GCHQ said there was no evidence of that.

>"The report comes a day after U.S. President Donald Trump banned Huawei from buying vital U.S. technology without special approval and effectively barring its equipment from U.S. telecoms networks on national security grounds." (from article GP linked) //

There you have it, I think: Netherlands bought some deal from USA and supported their Huawei story with a "key finding" the following day. Smacks of propaganda.

>"The Volkskrant story did not contain any details" (GP's article, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-huawei-tech-i..., again) //

Ha, ha. No shit they didn't provide details that could be used to show it was entirely made up.
Someone needs to make pants with faraday cage pockets. Protection from radiation and notifications at the same time.
"The suicides are the most spectacular side-effect of this harassement policy"

The burden of proof required here is extreme.
I don't think North Korea is the best example. I can't think of a country less dedicated to the free flow of information.
Intel’s Silicon Photonics Work Could Supercharge AI Neural Networks
Alloy is an open source language and analyzer for software modeling
Get them to kick the 'watch my weed plants grow' streams out of the science category while you're at it.
I for one am through escalating stuff in a hierarchical organization. Too much politics.

I’ve been out of that game for a few years and have no ambitions make a career for myself at such a place.

In a very big, top down org. ponder the following:

Granting, in a specific scenario, that I’m right — this “whatever” is a disaster waiting to happen or possibly an already flaming disaster, heads have to roll.

Someone always have to take the blame, as this most likely will affect someones budget or set goals.

It might have profound effects on the current “1.” or “.One” consolidation & synergetic tech project that management is giving misdirected focus at the moment.

The “1Whatever” projects usually have bizarre amounts of $$$ attached, and end up holy.

Have you worked big enough companies you know about the “whateverOne” projects I’m referring to!
The point of 'fun money' is that it isn't money that goes into savings. There's money allocated into savings before any 'fun money' allocations. Anything you have in your 'fun money' account isn't part of your savings, and can (and should) be spent guilt free.

This works as an individual as well, and is the mechanism I used to get myself out of debt. The vast majority of my remaining income after essentials went into paying down debt, or into my savings account. A small amount went into a discretionary spending ('fun money') account. Anything I didn't spend that month simply rolled over to the next month. It never went into my savings, and eventually got spent (usually after several months of 'saving' in the 'fun money' account, in order to buy a new phone / other gadget)
The name is a reference to ancient classics [1]. I've also seen some excited posts (e.g. [2]) mentioning that Huawei also trademarked a bunch of mythological beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas [3].

Based on the reactions I've seen, that was a good move to capture patriotic sentiments. On the other hand, I'm not sure how many patriotic Chinese were buying foreign phones, so they may end up only gaining market share from other Chinese competitors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Meng

[2] https://m.sohu.com/a/316263123_526461/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas
For me, the 1010Music Blackbox is a drum-machine/sequencing/sampling workstation to watch out for when it starts shipping, hopefully soon:

https://1010music.com/product/blackbox

Review here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcADNN9_Sok
I won't agreed with this a few months ago, but more and more Chinese companies is receiving this kind of treatment. The reason maybe not the same, but the results are, Hikvision is a clear example, even DJI got their name mentioned (I mean, DJI, a toy maker, really?).

So yeah, I guess everything is eventually boil down to that.
The O is clear. What’s the KR for you? (Driving a KPI from one number of another)
Oh, lots of stuff to look up. Thank you!
" defending and justifying an indefensible or immoral case, or spreading rumors and damaging others' reputation." I actually doubt this, maybe there was something missed in the communication?

Also the 'aristocracy' is definitely gone. Entrance to the 'Grande Ecoles' is competitive, not based on nobility.

But yes, once you're in, you're 'set' and they do protect each other, it's similar to Oxbridge and Ivy League to some degree.
Designer Releases 3D-Printed Stamp to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill
Pirate bay is blocked in the Netherlands, but just Google "pirate proxy" to see about two dozen sites that give you access to the pirate bay. These sites make money from inserting ads into the page while you view the pirate bay through their proxy, but you can access it just fine. (Some of them do insert a ridiculous number of ads, mostly for adult content)
Never shut down your computer and pay electricity bills. Don't reboot too often. And hope your provider will never have outages.

I know, some people have always-on computers, some people have low prices for electricity, some don't care about downtimes. But it all looks so fragile, too many "if".

If only there would be some layer to cover main instance outages...
To what degree are advertisers aware that the profiles which see their ads may not be genuine users?

I suspect they either don't know, or have no alternatives.
OKRs are so dumb
Take it up with dang and sctb ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, the question was never about smart things ;)
Does advertising do anything - if it doesn't why do companies spend so much money on it?

This is basically a type of pro health advertising. We have anti smoking advertising which has shown to be effective (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-19/australias-plain-pack...).

I think with a good advertisement strategy it can be very effective.
You have to decide on your priorities. Accepting a certain amount of “waste” in exchange for happy spouses is a worthwhile trade for many couples, including my wife and me.
Well if you're going to lawyer it, it's worth noting that it doesn't say what you claimed, it says "don't complain about paywalls". The parent didn't complain about paywalls, he complained about us posting articles that are hidden behind paywalls when the information is, presumably, available from open sources.

That rule also mentions that it's fine to post them as long as there is a workaround and intimates strongly that the workaround should be provided.

So, it seems when posting a paywalled article the poster should comment the workaround to stay within the spirit of the rules.
Is funny to see this because I've developed sentiment systems that would parse in (somewhat) real-time and get handed over to govt and big business paying for lucrative contracts. You'd be surprised how obscure a forum we'd be mining and selling off.

Some people seem to get that it's happening, but I think very few know the extent.
MIDI actually allowed game designers to decouple samples from the events that triggered them.
Oh I have that covered in code, but on the command line, if you have to escape spaces it is a loss of productivity and it creates room for error.
Please don't confuse "x265" and "H.265 / HEVC"
Berkeley loves its sanctuary label, but a housing crisis is testing its values
From memory, this is how Gina Rhineheart's (Australia's mining magnate) father discovered the location for the Pilbara (the world's largest iron deposit) -- by flying overhead and noticing how red the soil was[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Hancock
MIDI is like HTTP, while GM is like, maybe, the named CSS colors.

edit: TCP -> HTTP.
Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft
Not the GP but in my relationship if both of us are doing a thing and it isn’t already a gift of some sort it’s going through the joint accounts, not the fun money accounts.
I notice if the soundtrack on a video is consistently off by 100ms, can believe a musician would notice occasional 100ms variation in a beat.
What is the mechanism by which a plasmasheath blocks radiowaves, and why would x-rays be an exception?
I just realized that ARM has stopped working with HiSilicon (Huawei subsidiary). HiSilicon used mainly ARM ISA and ARM's microarchitectures. ARM (Softbank subsidiary) loses big customer.

What wil Huawei/HiSilicon do next? Jump head first to RISC-V or adopt MIPS variant. Who will they by to get there faster?
It'd reduce energy consumption for air conditioning. Also, while rooftops are a small part of the global Earth surface (75% of it is not really a good place to put roofs on), the figure is much higher in cities and urban areas where, and it's not a coincidence, we spend a lot of energy keeping things cool.

Let's not forget cellulose is mostly made of CO2 removed from the atmosphere, which also helps a bit.

The only way it'd be better is if it were also a good material to build PV panels with.
It is actually extremely difficult to resign when you are haressed even when you know you are being harassed. It hit your sense of worth really hard. Feeling worthless prevents you for properly assessing what you could do on the job market. It also doesn't stop at work and generally strongly impacts your personal life for the same reason.
Exactly why I like to keep a notebook in my right back pocket and a pen in my shirt pocket.
When Will Emergency Alerts Finally Come to Netflix?
You've got to think about more than just whether you're beating the S&P500 ETF at any given time. The point of the S&P 500 is that when a recession comes you're protected. The point is that the S&P500 is a diverse portfolio of companies so that whilst it will be affected by a recession you aren't going to be over-exposed to the companies that are hit the worst. I suspect it's quite difficult for you to reproduce that kind of diversity in your portfolio manually. It's also very difficult for you to put a value on that risk - you've outperformed by a couple percentage points. But you're probably overexposed to some extent, those two things have value - but there's a reason why hedge funds spend millions of quants and still lose out to the market in the long run.
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> 16bit note velocity

For electronic drums I would of much prefered at least 24bit. Volume is by far and away a drum's most expressive dimension, so it will be limited by a 16bit velocity range. Adding velocity curves just masks the problem

Though of course 16bit is orders of magintude better than the current 8bit range
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Not sure what you're saying - do you think public companies aren't corporations?
Not going to answer for Google, but my company, which I assume has a philosophy pretty similar to Google, will typically not fire developers for buggy releases, but not for the crappy reasons mentioned in the OP.

The general idea is that:

- everybody writes buggy code, once in a while – living under the pressure of being fired for an error that anybody could have made is not conductive to innovation and experiments;

- if you have released a piece of software with a bug, you're now expected to fix it or help fix it and make sure that it never happens again to you or anyone else – not run away and update your resume;

- both learning about the bug and fixing it are learning experiences – at this stage, the company has already (involuntarily) paid for you to get this experience, so fire the person who is now the most knowledgeable about a problem?
This pricing is market-based though; if the market won't support it, the price won't exist. The parent's complaint is strange in that light: it's someone lamenting the loss of apparently vastly under-priced software, but framing it as unjust.
First time I see this, thanks!

Unnecessary if you ask me... It's more like jewellery rather than a cable :-)

Zinc / aluminium is probably a better combination for USB, as it's more durable.