skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but I'm not advocating ludicrous speeds. I feel like people rarely crash into stationary objects when they're traveling on a highway and are more likely to rear-end someone entering their lane traveling significantly slower than the flow of traffic (or swerve around them and accidentally hit someone else). Increasing the flow rate should in theory also cut down on the amount of traffic on the road at point in time; making crashing into others less likely by default.

Also, crash your car off the road or into walls all you want. Just don't crash into someone else please.
/r/hydrohomies would like to have a word with you..
Or https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight
“GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles.“

So anybody developing any kind of drone and hosting on github is breaking the law?
Supporting Dynamic Type at Airbnb
https://news.ycombinator.com/show is basically for product feedback. "Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."
It's akin to a fidget spinner if you ask me, barely worth 60$ itself.

I've been making music for 20 years and this looks like a glorified (though pretty basic) calculator modified to play notes. Real meaningful music compositions can't be created with it, and I doubt it's going to replace keyboards in studios. Just imagine a studio engineer hooking that tiny POC up to a professional mixing desk for a few bleeps?... :/

If anything is evolving in terms of creating grammy award level music it's probably going to be software on laptops and iPads first.

I'm still waiting for DJ culture to change 8 years after this video was made - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPZaZndMOzw

Not many impressive things have come to the music world since VST (software) synths, beatport, and Serato began to rise (Serato is still terrible BTW), but the music industry needs a lot more innovation injected into it.
Music of Latin America seem pretty broad.
The best thing for China is that this is happening at a time where the US is insistent that the brightest Chinese minds in the US go back to China, and the ones in China, stay there.

It's genius. Genius, I tell ya. But the current administration doesn't care, because the negative impacts will only be felt a decade from now.
I think that Brian did an excellent job as a CEO so far. I don't know him personally, but I think that Coinbase managed to do great things so far - as a company.

IMHO, most critiques could and should be pointed at the crypto sector in general, not specifically to Coinbase.
Where does he live?

Serious question. I'd be interested in whether or not his behavior is a function of living in an area drowning in fresh water sources?

If he does not live in such an area, then I'm really interested in how the municipality is able to keep the price of water that low? That would seem to defy the rule of supply and demand in my mind.
You are talking on the phone. The line goes dead. Were you hung up on or was the call dropped? Either way, you aren't talking to anyone anymore so your messages aren't getting through.
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A lot of concepts that originated in plan 9 have been widely adopted by modern unix-like operating systems, most notably the /proc file system, so in a certain sense I would say that it was a successful project.

Lack of applications, drivers and compelling use cases ultimately caused the project itself to fail. It was also competing against operating systems with huge commercial backing that already had deeply entrenched market share.
Knowledge Sharing and Dev Team Productivity
> I want a way to legally opt out of other such companies collecting and aggregating private data about me.

this is what I want too at the end of the day.
No one liked Excel better than Lotus 1-2-3. They picked Excel because it worked best on Windows because it used private APIs and also because they would be sold together.

My dad had quite a lucrative decade as a consultant moving people from Lotus to Excel, and every time he was hired the people hiring him would complain about how they were being forced to move to "crappy Excel" because of the purchasing department.
Not just the landing page. They cloned everything.
Yeah something like this, though looks like a dead project (no activity in a year)
> FWIW i think desktop peaked around Windows 2000 and on Linux around GNOME 2 and KDE 3.5

IMO the peak of KDE was version 2.2... 3.0 was already a step backwards, although it did become quite good again by the time it reached 3.5. Then with 4.0 everything was reset once more (how many times can you break the ecosystem until application developers and users have had enough of it?)
A little over 10 Earth radii. That is very close for something this size, compared to other near misses trumpeted as “close”.
I'm from North Dakota and the last time I drove through Wyoming, I learned very quickly that those signs are no lie. You, wildlife, and other cars is all you will see and not much of the later. ND felt packed compared to WY.
You aren’t right! Aisler doesn’t donate. The user can choose to donate.

From http://www.kicad-pcb.org/about/kicad/
“That is why AISLER allows its users to easily donate to the KiCad project during the ordering process.”
The single threaded performance of the i3 is about 3% higher than the i9.

Factoring in all the cores tho, the i9 performance is about 3x the i3 - but at about 9x the cost.
ref: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9980XE-vs-Inte...

On balance, the i3 looks like a solid chip if a bit pricey for an i3.
I wonder if there are any NGOs one could reasonably give money for that.

Most countries just don't have a rainforest although it's in interest of most to maintain the existing ones.
I was wondering this as well, but the link came from the FTC's site: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...
Tulsi Gabbard Sues Google for Suspending Ad Account
Did the Democrats bring this up in their primary? Why is everyone talking about nuclear war again?
"We are all the way on the right"

As someone who is not right, I couldn't disagree more. No major right legislation has been passed and the right hasn't had the same majority power that Obama had since Obama. I think what's currently going on is the left politicians started going way left and people pulled back support. If anything the pendulum is currently swinging towards the right.
My mortgage company uses similar URLs that I always associate with scams. It's something like PayMyMortgage.com or something along those lines.
Am I weird for immediately jumping to conclusion that the first thing this will be used for is generating tons of rather low-quality content for "SEO" purposes?
"To be made whole" means to fix a wrong doing, or restore something to the way it should be. They're saying they thought they were making it up to the employees when a customer didn't leave a tip. Which is just them trying to save face.
I love this idea. I've noticed that as corps get larger and operate more and more brands under fewer umbrellas boycotts are becoming a lot less effective. Most efforts probably don't even land on the radar, let alone have a noticeable impact on the bottom line. Finding ways to deliver more consumer feedback up the chain that aren't mediated by the company's own processes seems essential going forward.
Strange that there is no link to the three studies the article reports on. Here is the editorial that links to them:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0428-1
I'm wondering this as well, I think this is a case of Hanlon's razor, and I hope that in the name of perceived fairness the workers don't end up getting screwed.
Water usage combined with weather information likely gives competitive advantage is futures markets.
The local food places are probably better, but one small problem on a big trip can be caused by food that doesn't react will with you. Whatever their faults, most franchises are at least that consistent.
but this is stupid. Individuals keeping an eye on their credit history and every change should be counted as credit monitoring.
ProgCop, open source application firewall for Windows
It's true for unorganized labor. Organizing has been a powerful tool for people who are "unspecialized" (i.e. easily replaced). If the workers agree to support each other, they have the power to stop work. But it only works if they all agree to it. That's where the organization comes in.

It helps when government regulations exist to reduce employers' ability to find replacements. That's the fundamental conflict that employers can exploit: when they can appeal to each individual to work at cost to the advancement of the entire set of workers, the organization fails. Employers can then reduce pay and worsen working conditions to the poverty level.

A variety of things have reduced the effectiveness of labor organizers over the past few decades, but they were responsible for things like the 5-day, 40-hour workweek and safety regulations. The ability of the Internet to reach out to an even wider set of unskilled workers makes the job nearly impossible.
Killing their murderers won't bring those children back. It won't protect anyone either, the death penalty doesn't deter people any more than life sentences do. Nor is someone locked up for life more able to commit crimes than someone dead. Unless of course they do get released because they were wrongfully convicted. Saving money could be a reason for the death penalty but it actually doesn't do that and killing someone because it's cheap is a monstrous idea anyway.

The only reason for the death penalty is to satisfy peoples' primitive bloodlust. Likely by murdering mentally ill people. Sane people rarely murder others or, for that matter, cheer those who do.
That was only actually for the final project. If it makes any difference, I studied with the Open University (remotely).
>But a provided credit card number not existing is not success, it is unambiguously a failure.

But the failure is ambiguous. If I get a 404 back I can't rely on that to mean the credit card doesn't exist. It could mean that I have the wrong URL or that the service application screwed up their routing code.
The most sleep-deprived cities in America
i know, it's what i use daily :)
i'm fairly confident they have no builds that are "blobless" though - part of the build process is to extract proprietary code blobs from manufacturer images which are not open source, see [0]

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/proprietary_blobs.html
You wouldn’t have much choice for most of the route unless you decided to detour onto I15, adding an extra hour to the trip with worse scenery.
You can donate to charities that directly purchase rainforest. Rainforesttrust.org is one. They can purchase an acre of land for around 10 dollars.

Right now the main issue is that last year they only received 15 million in donations. Not nearly enough to stop the problem.
Thank the Lord it's just a matter of buying air conditioners.

I'm sure next year we'll read the same news: "people are boiling!". Okay, why didn't you buy an air conditioner last year, eh?
You would need to drink a massive amount for it to be lethal.

Instead what you see are obese individuals because drinking soda has the net effect of making you more thirsty, causing people to drink more soda. Which is exactly what the soda makers want you to do, and will fund studies to make you believe otherwise.
Gmail is the #1 culprit for completely locking some of my lesser systems (i5-7200U). I also have the fun thing sometimes where opening a large PDF or Google Doc can take an unreasonable amount of resources from the rest of the system for processing. I had Facebook do it constantly for a period where I made the bad decision to use it for a while. I find a good bit of information from benchmarks for non-desktop processors/whole system configurations, especially when a new feature set/generation swings the difference between an i3 and an i5 for instance.

"Primarily because any modern OS will throttle crazy runaway threads to ensure UI responsiveness" seems like you have a particular OS in mind, and I would be interested in hearing more. I do not observe that behaviour on Debian 9 (and other Linux distros), Mac OS X, and Windows 7/8. I regularly bring any of those to UI stuttering/freeze from various workloads. Webapps only really breaks the lesser ones singlehandedly though (most of my other systems are 4+ core with 32GB+ RAM).
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>Get a Volca DX-7 clone for $150

If you want a DX-style synth, I'd highly recommend getting Yamaha Reface DX for about $250 on Reverb.

It's the most underrated synth of all time. The controls on it make FM synthesis fun, and you can change the sound in real time. It's compact, I've brought it with me anywhere from airplanes to deserts. The built-in speakers are good enough to jam with anyone, anywhere. Everyone who's touched it loved it. It's worth its money for the e-piano patch alone. And on-board effects take it to the next level (tell me of another synth at that price point which allows you to chain two Delay FX!).

FM synthesis can be done purely digitally, and Dexed VST will do a good job replicating DX-7. Reface DX offers a compelling reason to buy a hardware FM synth: it's an instrument that in the long-term will help you transition into live performance, and in the short term will incentivize you to play with it, and learn FM.

Oh, and it's a great 3-octave mini-keys MIDI controller too.
Policy lets you sanction individual regions of a country by saying the port of entry or destination port is subject to sanctions.

So you can take a ship with X to Russia proper, but not to Crimea. Or you can work with a Russian bank, but not a Russian bank based in Crimea.

It's like how Hong Kong is considered a separate territory, despite being a part of China.
>With the Monotrons, Korg made a risky reputational bet on the idea that Pick-and-place assembly technology and tiny modern components could deliver the low costs and satisfying sound that synth nerds expected

>Several years on, Even Roland is making analog again and there is an absolute renaissance in terms of both classic synth clones and wild new innovations.

So much of the contemporary synth market can be traced directly back to that gamble by Korg - the Volcas obviously, the Arturia Brute series, Yamaha's Reface series, Roland and Behringer's desktop modules, the IK Uno, most of Modal's products, perhaps even the modular renaissance.

Korg proved to everyone else that the market was crying out for instruments that harked back to the heritage of classic synths but at an affordable price and in a portable package. They reinvented the hardware synth for the VST generation - customers who didn't want a full-size keyboard and a tour-worthy chassis but did want a tactile experience and authentic sounds, customers who were used to buying instruments in affordable bite-size chunks. The Monotron doesn't look like much, but it started a revolution in the synth business.
Latin also contains ambiguities, at various levels (lexical, syntactic, &c.), just like any other natural language.

Lisp is, however, rather similar to Montague Grammar-style analyses of natural language, assuming a modern Chomskian binary-branching tree structure.
Did you report me to Goolag too?
Intelligent people left HN long time ago. I didn't even bother to create the throwaway from incognito to not taint the IP bc my "main" account is zero value: I quit HN half a year ago. For two reasons: the crowd became too stupid and for your political bias.

And my last bit of help to HN (although you don't need help with your billions, but I ran a bootstrapped company with 30+ million users): I not only quit posting but actually started shitposting because I was a productive community member, but my interactions with dang, heavy handed moderation of long time members actually angered me. I have the direct email of Daniel that Sam Altman gave me at some point, but I would rather respond here.
Apple Card Onboarding Text Revealed
Agreed. What else would you use 400 for? I don't see how sending back 400 is going to hurt.

The payoff of using 400 is you can watch your 400 rates with almost no effort (HTTP is well established and there's many many tools out there.) If you somehow start accidentally munging the card number sometimes or if your card processor starts doing wacky stuff you'll see a spike in 400 rates.

If it was really that troubling that declined cards are expected, I would personally at least want to see 200 come from the internal API and 400 go out to the client.

And if your "intermediate devices" start doing goofy stuff to 400's then you've got bigger problems... 4xx's shouldn't be taking nodes out of prod. That's wack.
> the egg cells of women are produced before birth

just fyi this is actually an active research topic, c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oogonial_stem_cells#Research
I fairly regularly drive through Europe from the UK to Italy, and (along with Switzerland) Italy has the best roadside food I've ever seen in the world. Even the crappiest looking gas station has healthy and tasty food!
It depends how you define validate. If the HTTP headers are malformed, sure. If a JSON or XML API receives malformed JSON or XML, sure. But if it's "register this account" and the username already exists, or "pay with this credit card" but it's not a valid credit card number, or "process this invoice" but the total is missing, then I think it should be a 200 status with an error message. It's validating the request was received and loaded by the application vs. validating the business logic requirements for the request's data payload.

Obviously if you send a TAIL method request, you should get a 405, and if you send Accept: eggs/*, you should get a 406. If a route doesn't exist, you should get a 404. If you fail HTTP basic auth, you should get a 403 (but why are you using HTTP basic auth?). If you want certain paths to never be accessed for some reason, you should return a 401.
Yes! Any solution that screws over the bottom strata of society is no solution at all. We need their cooperation, and they won't be willing to help if we're shitting on them.
Does Wikipedia have enough administrators?
I think a lot of it has to do with tribal politics from a the outset of the project that were never reconciled. The goal of the project was ambitious and inspiring, but such project requires contribution from everyone in the neuro community. Sadly it has not delivered usable output as a project. It has not produced landmark datasets and i have not found any important software to use from it. I still believe the vision is valid but it needs an Apollo-level focus in execution
Svalbard has zero VAT and expenditure taxes, natural cooling and very few trading sanctions.
ITAR has been in place for decades...
Those are the firmware pieces running on the cores that aren't even running Android as their OS for the most part, so it's not really applicable to the root discussion.
It's a no-brainer that customers have all the power.

If there are no customers there is no business. It doesn't matter how many 'angel investors' you have in a business or other nonsense like that. If producers try to jack up prices and nobody feels like paying them then it's the producers that go bankrupt, not the customers. Similarly if producers piss of their customers so they leave then it's the producers that lose jobs, not the customers.

This is the democratizing effect of capitalism. Everybody works for a living and everybody is somebody's customer. In a total capitalist society you must serve to be able to eat and when you eat must be served.

Of course the world is not a perfect place and there are a multitude of ways that this power dynamic gets turned on it's head.

One of the ways is people being convinced that they are passive "consumers" who believe they are helpless to 'capitalists' and apathetically volunteer themselves to be victims... Like people who go out and put 600 dollars on their credit cards on a new smart phone only to complain and moan on that smart phone on how they are being spied on and so on and so forth... while all the while paying interest to the bank for joy of financing their own privacy violation.
They do have a YouTube kids app. It's not great & needs heavy supervision.

You have the option to limit videos to only ones you approve but this really prevents finding new videos unless you do a bunch of work. There are some really good videos we've found while letting our kids explore. Most are British.

If you choose to let them search "kid friendly" videos you have the option to block videos but it doesn't alter their algorithm any it seems. For example, some of the most annoying videos are ones where a child & parent are opening & playing with some toy. The video is really just a terrible ad for a product & it seems YouTube is filled with these. I'm curious if the child/parent actors are writing these toys off as business expenses or getting them at discounts for trying to sell them to kids on YouTube.
Yeah the Doordash CEO should be in prison for wage theft. He ripped his employees (yes employees) off for what appears to be millions of dollars.

Meanwhile a guy who stole 23 cellphones in an armed robbery was sentenced to 17 years is prison the other day: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/7/23/20707907/aries-...

Now armed robbery is bad, no doubt. If I had heard of this fellow getting 17 months in prison for it I probably wouldn't have thought twice. But 17 years is ridiculous, even if he will be out in 8 with good behavior. Meanwhile examples like Doordash show it's basically legal to steal from poor people, and Bernie Madoff, who stole $20 billion dollars is petitioning for clemency because he's old and what the hell, it was just money.
> This reads like a promo piece for Teenage Engineering.

Yeah. As an electronic music hobbiest, this has a really odd feel to it. TE's stuff is really not all that innovative and while it has its niche isn't really blowing the doors off of anything. I've never personally liked their stuff - it seems so rigid and lifeless.

The Monotron + Monodelay were, admittedly, toys, but still very fun to play with and definitely ushered in a modern age of small, cheap fun synths.
This device doesn't have to do it all right?, it does actually give inspiration to people to create different sounds to complement a larger setup, or not, I have seen people make great meaningful music with no expensive equipment at all.
Also, very important, making electronic music does not imply it's part of a DJ Culture. It can be, but not necessarily.
>>> Suppose Iceland were to win the World Cup. Would people be saying that Iceland had spent a bunch of effort training players, or would they be saying that it's natural for different teams to win, and that it had to happen eventually?

People would be saying both and they would all be right. It takes both luck and training to win.
you're actually certifying that you will have credit monitoring for the next 6 months. i.e. you can sign up immediately before filling out the form and keep it for 6 months after.
I've tried... also that is still out of my price range. But maybe one day!
Move to Europe and then send them a GDPR request?
Potential controversial opinion but what could really be wrong with: “When you’re hungry eat, when you’re thirsty, drink”.

Sorry but they just seem like such automatic functions I don’t see how it needs to be complicated any further.
I agree it's cowardly moral decadence.
The credit information and the score given to an individual is completely different from what is given to an Equifax customer.