skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Korg Volcas. Arturia also has some fairly affordable analog synths like the Microbrute. It doesn't have any presets, so you have to figure out how to create sounds on your own and the manual that comes with it is great in explaining oscillators, filters, etc.
If that’s the case, why couldn’t Lotus compete with Microsoft on Macs - even though they tried? Excel was a better product.

Just like people love to wear rose colored glasses and pretend that the only reason that Netscape lost was because MS was unfairly competing, forgetting that NS was so crashed prone that it was a point of nerd pride on Usenet how well an operating system could handle a Netscape crash.
The population is not stabilizing. The growth rate is stabilizing. We're still adding almost 100m new humans to the roster every year. We're going to hit 8 billion in 3 years (ahead of predictions made 20 years ago), and then 9 billion 12 years after that. People love to talk about the birth rate is falling in developed countries and how we're going to have a population peak here Real Soon Now. But I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the world human population in 2100 is greater than the population in 2090 (a horrific mass killer like the Bubonic Plague or nuclear war notwithstanding).
Can you discern the quality of two different drugs based on their respective ads? I certainly can't, if you have a way, I'd be interested to hear it.
I know this very well. The US was late in a sense to the European theater, but the most substantial contribution of the US was lend-lease in any case. It's of course inaccurate to say that the US was the primary contributor to the European Theatre (that was probably the USSR), but the American contribution shouldn't be understated, either.

Japan was absolutely not going to surrender following the atomic bombs, unless you consider a conditional surrender in which they would keep all their colonial assets something even close to tolerable. The idea that the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was at all a threat to the Japanese is laughable; the Kwantung Army was a hollow shell with most of it moved back to the home isles, which was why the USSR had such an easy time there, and the Soviets had essentially no capability to accomplish an amphibious invasion.

It's true that Japan had already been 'defeated', but the dysfunction of its military and government meant that the sensible option was impossible to accomplish because those who tried would immediately be susceptible to coups from ultra-nationalist factions. Which in fact nearly happened even after the bombs were dropped and the surrender decision was made.

>...Japan would never have surrendered so quickly without use of the atomic bomb...

This is absolutely true, and the statement made by the Emperor directly refers to the bombs. The only alternative story is the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, but not only was that not a plausible threat to the home isles, but during Prime Minister's meeting with the Emperor in which the PM recommended unconditional surrender, he mentioned the bombs and (I don't think, IIRC) the Soviet invasion.

>...victory would have required a bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland, costing hundreds of thousands of lives.

I don't know of anyone who disputes that Operation Downfall would have been a bloody affair that would have killed this amount, if not more.

Edit: I just realized that somebody else already posted a bunch of what I wrote.
People always have incentives to commit crimes. That's why police and prosecutors have to make good on threats to ensure their "best interests" line up with everyone else.
And you type this on a computer shipped from China.
Valonia ventricosa bubbles are relatively small, around 4cm. Smaller than many chicken eggs. Largest viable single cell organism is still the ostrich in its egg phase.

Unicellular organisms have zero or one nucleus. If they have two or more nucleus is multicellular
The title is pretty misleading. Yes, it's technically correct, but it implies they found something else that might question it.
Can you do a reverse tunnel? Connect through RDP, run a script that SSHes out to one of your own servers and exposes another port that you can then SSH in on.
IMO changing the URL to point to something completely different is bad because it makes the discussion confusing.

Example: the recent discussion of a very long Cocoa identifier for a Chinese kinship term (I don’t remember the exact one) was changed to a slightly different one that was two characters longer. Making a bunch of the existing discussion confusing was not worth the value of changing the URL, in that case.
> There are a lot more limitations and checks on what the US can do.

These limitations and checks are written into laws. These laws can be easily ignored. Remind me as to how many of the 11 soldiers actively torturing people in Abu Gharib and Bagram were actually tried for their crimes?

Also, Bush doesn't seem to be in jail.
I don't understand it this way. Facebook is the platform and it can organise Libra in a way that it doesn't actually operate or maintain the cryptocurrency itself.

I'm assuming that implementing a wallet is not part of operating the currency.
I've also had benefits through something like "mybenefitsportal.com" or something (made up, I forget the real URL).

I don't understand why companies do this. I completely understand that my health insurance is through "Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield" or whatever. So I expect to go to your corporate website and click "log in". If you think your website is so bad that it will damage your corporate brand... well maybe you should work on that.

If it's an SEO thing, that's also shady. If Bank A has "myonlinebillpay.com" and Bank B has "easyonlinebillpay.com"... how am I going to end up at the right one?

It makes me mad.
Super agree with the no vacation == unlimited vacation.
Some of Facebook's primary competitors are traditional news media outlets. Chris Hughes still owns Facebook stock (I think). If Hughes can take down a newspaper, that's one less competitor for Facebook, and his stock goes up.

http://whoownsfacebook.com/#Hughes
>The marketing of medicine in inherently unethical because it seeks to override doctors and consumers information-based evaluations, and instead make a choice based on emotional propaganda.

This is far to simplistic. It's fairly common for doctors to be unaware or poorly informed on new or uncommon treatments. They have a finite amount of time and brainpower and are not all knowing.
They'd divest the resources into Apple Apps Co., which would then be a Apple preferred partner on the app store.
In my last company it was indeed parallel.
A Team Leader couldn't fire a Tech Leader (or have access to meetings that Tech Leaders didn't). They would work in pairs as leaders of a "Tribe". The company shared the average earnings per position, so we could see that the Tech Leaders used to earn more than Team Leaders too.
This isn't sanctioning the govt. This is sanctioning people.

The govt has billions of resources to bypass this.
"every model is wrong, some are useful", models of whole brain exist and reproduce aspects of experimental data.

My day job is building and evaluating such models; we have one on seizure propagation that is entering clinical trial.
He left in 2007 ... the company has changed a lot since then.
> it is impossible to have no bugs.

I agree with that. But once you know about a specific big, there is always a solution.
"Amazon.com Inc.'s record quarterly profit streak has ended, as the online retailer faced higher shipping costs, slowing growth from its cloud-computing business and a steeper loss in its overseas retail business.

The company’s second-quarter profit rose 3.6% from a year ago to $2.63 billion after more than doubling last quarter. It missed analysts’ consensus estimate. Amazon had posted its best-ever profit the previous four quarters."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-streak-of-record-profit...
That may turn out to be so in the long term, but it doesn't align with the current ethos of "It's always day one" at Amazon.
Users usually post workarounds in the thread. There's one elsewhere in this thread.
If there is any devil that doesn't need your help, it's the pharma industry.

It's important to realize that to a first approximation, advertising prescription drugs is pure waste. The main case is pharma companies battling for fixed market share. That is, there are N people who have the problem, and companies X, Y, and Z are spending money trying to maximize their share of the market. The ad spend changes which pharma company does the best, but that money comes from the sick people, who would be better off without it.

The other case for advertising is demand generation, and for drugs I think it's mostly waste as well. I definitely know a couple people who are not sick enough to really need drugs (or perhaps not sick at all), but advertising-induced hypochondria means they badger their doctor until they get a prescription. That's an expensive boondoggle.

I'm sure there are some people who hear an ad and realize they have an actual problem. But if that's a significant issue, I'd rather we just paid for public service announcements for disease awareness, rather than hoping the very profitable drugs are the same ones people have the biggest medical need for.

And theory aside, advertising prescription drugs to the public was illegal for decades and we still did fine on the medical innovation front.
Good point, thank for the input. I found some other discussion on RDP and SSH security here:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1545145

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/133342/how-secu...

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ssh-vs-vpn-vs-vnc-vs-so...
At first I thought the solution is that it needs to be a step down: becoming a manager entails taking a cut in pay, a lower nominal role, an increased vulnerability if the team needs to be cut. Make people pay a cost in order to switch to this role.

But a large part of me tells me this would just make things worse. The only people who would opt to transfer to the manager track would be those who are really career politicians, who can take credit for every success but blame every failure convincingly on someone else. Ideally with management thinking all the time that this guy is a loyal contributor and not a politician. This is what seems to happen in practice.

So what can you do? Hire only people who are strong engineers and who don't have any ambitions to management? Hire excellent engineers and mediocre management? This last seems to be the approach of many tech companies. Frustrating though it is for the engineers, this explains one reason companies may go for this approach.
You haven’t heard of caviar? (-:
So should Apple not be allowed to sell Apple products in Apple stores because it also sells third party products? Should the console makers not be allowed to produce and sell their own games in their own stores? Should Amazon not be allowed to both produce their own content and sell third party videos?
Perhaps pedantic. But the comment I was replying to specifically framed WW2 as "a war with the US" and I've had foreign friends, such as in Canada, who have commented on America's tendency to talk like we singlehandedly won that war.
Upvoting this. Being a well-paid individual contributor who can work a ~40 hour week is amazing. I was a manager in another industry before I learned to code and I'm grateful I don't have to do it anymore. Having to put under-performers on a plan, being on the hook for work not done during a staffing shortage, trying to keep people happy when there aren't any raises or promotions to offer... if some other engineer wants to take that stuff on and get paid more for it, more power to them!
Take a look at most companies, and compare the quantities of director/VP equivalent engineers to the number of engineering directors and VPs. In my experience, there are many many more of the latter, if only because orgs want to build out the org chart and so there's a natural place and need for those roles, and because there are basically default title bumps that come with the increased responsibility.
> Some of what they believe is, in my view, not fact based.

I wouldn't mind hearing what some of those things are.
Would a “technology” answer be to make telepresence technology better and invest in higher bandwidth infrastructure?

If we could have high resolution video, audio and even VR for business, would people be required to be colocated as often?

That way people could live wherever they want.
An average selling price doesn't speak to whether they ship a huge number of high end phones, just that if they do, they ship far more low end phones.
HugeDomains gets reverse domain name hijacking win against Virgin Enterprises
I have tinkered with Plan 9 on several occasions. I keep coming back to it because I appreciate its technical and architectural elegance. It is somewhat like yet another example of the VHS vs Betamax situation.

Some things that stop me from using it more widely are:

The GUI: I just can't relate to the aesthetics nor the heavy dependence on the mouse. Granted that I have used it from the shell, but then I also miss out on some niceties and conveniences.

The security mechanism: I understand the intent of the security mechanisms, but have have difficulty in understanding it sufficiently to configure a cluster of Plan 9 systems using some old HP ePCs.

Device drivers: This is a common problem with most non-mainstream OSes. There are too many incompatible devices out there and thus device drivers are either written for some limited common denominator, e.g. VGA and its variants, or simply for what the developers had on hand. We only need to look at the Linux kernel to see that a substantial part of its development is devoted to supporting the widest variety of devices.

I think that the Plan 9 experiment could be re-positioned as an IoT OS. That is an area that I am very interested in.

BTW: check out Russ Cox's implementation of Plan 9 using the vx32 sandboxing on Linux and OS X (https://swtch.com/9vx).
Ah yes, as a longtime Wells Fargo customer, I am aware how great financial institutions are with their customers.
> That is, if someone who is not you uses your information to get a credit card, then the bank loses their money for not following due diligence.

That's pretty much how credit card issuing goes, but the risk is not in someone stealing from a bank under your name, but rather your file now looking so bad that you can't legitimately get credit if you want it. I think what we want here is "the bank has to pay you money if they reject your credit card application / home loan because someone else hacked Equifax."

I doubt that will ever happen.
Growing 20% at Amazon's size is why the stock is worth so much. Almost all companies have slowed down long before this point. Amazon is still growing like a late stage startup. It's really a remarkable feat.
Korg gadget on the switch is a lot nicer to use in my opinion. Such a cool music toy.
Like a mouthful of saltwater in a sour envelope packed with razor blade-like microcrystals of silica and calcium carbonate.

Probably edible in a strict sense (if growing in clean waters), as Codium and other similar algae are, but the experience wouldn't be pleasant.
Publish and subscribe method ez for small scale devices
Cosmic rays do reach earth, and they can cause bit flips in memory. Generally any damage to human cells is repaired by cell reproduction. Cosmic rays are primarily protons so they get generally channeled by the magnetic field to one of the poles, and the air provides some shielding as well, but even with all of that you can build a cosmic ray detector[1] and get the occasional ping.

Generally it isn't something to worry about. Should we have a star nearby go super nova on us, or if a gamma ray burst occurred nearby (from a black hole eating a big chunk of matter for example) it would be more problematic.

[1] Cosmic rays are distinguished from "regular" solar flux by the energy of their particles (not all of them have higher energy, but the ones that do are much more likely to be of cosmic rather than solar origin). A simple cosmic ray detector can be constructed by shielding a cloud chamber such that shielding blocks any events below your desired cut off level. Detection events are then most likely cosmic rays.
If you read the article, this audit and redtructing of the project has and is occurring.
This is a bad take. Save your snark for somewhere else.

I didn’t say it was the wrong choice or even a bad choice, just that I was surprised. Ruby and jquery are certainly modern technologies.

My surprise was more a factor that maybe I had too high of an impression of LS (and I’m still a fan!). The blogs/tweets I’ve seen from afar made it seem more like a rigorous “be a working software engineer” curriculum. If their candidates are ONLY suited for a node/react stack that seems like a pretty dangerous/inflexible hire. TBF this was for folks who haven’t graduated yet, so maybe they go wider on their final few months. As a person who hires engineers, I don’t want someone who only knows one stack. I want smart people who can solve problems in any stack that gets thrown at them (even if they’re junior and I need to hold their hands a bit).
I bet the compile times would improve if it wasn't header only.
BitTorrent founder says Justin Sun is skipping out on paying for acquisition
A closer to correct tile would be "US proposes barring tech companies from offering currencies"
So by disallowing Walmart - that caters to a lower income demographic - from operating financial services, how is that going to help the same underserved population that the banks don’t want to cater to?
In your post you initialize your weights a certain way but you said there are better ways. Do you have any resources for better ways?
Sounds just as convoluted as the Ukrainian crisis 6 years ago (and counting?)
Someone else also suggested this - I need to look into it more.
I heard that you have to load all your synths on with a computer and can't built them on the device itself like you can on the op-1
Show HN: Nimp – Node based image manipulator in the browser. Open source
Marines Arrested for Smuggling Drugs and People Across the Border
If Facebook was turned off tomorrow, they'd be at the steps of the Supreme Court faster than you can say "due process." The FTC could barely enforce baseline info security reqs without the Third Circuit knocking that agency on its backside. With a pro-business SCOTUS and the type of leverage this company has on every Senate and House race in America, I really don't think you're using the word "power" the same way I was if you believe the government has enough to make this happen.
(At first I thought you were asking about MQTT-over-websockets, but you're actually asking about MQTT vs websockets.)

I believe MQTT implementations tend to be smaller, which is why it's popular for IoT devices. Both HTTP and WebSockets are much more diverse specs, so a generally available implementation might have a lot of features the device never uses but still occupy disk and memory (multiple kinds of headers and their semantics, data encodings, etc).
I'd think that towing anything in violent weather would be dangerous. If self propelled rather than towed your idea becomes a merchant submarine. That would have to greatly complicate things and be slower and/or use much more fuel.
I worked as a dev manager at a large org and definitely didn't have firing powers. It involved a process with HR, and following a pretty riggid pip-ing process, paperwork, etc, so that there's accountability at all levels.

I'd be curious the size and type of company the OP is talking about where managers get that much power?
> there's the brute-force approach of simply embedding textual macro definitions. That might be good enough for most use cases in practice

I very much want this for usage from Rust, so that doesn't suffice.

> It might be possible to do something similar for BTF. As output format, either add a new 'constant integer' node

That sounds promising to me, for the common case.

> Edit: Forgot to mention – functional macros would be nice too, but of course they're much harder to translate. And heck, what about inline functions? Convert them to BPF?

In an ideal world, 1) emit a symbol for them so they can be used from any language, albeit not "inline", and 2) compile them to bytecode that LTO can incorporate and optimize, for languages using the same linker.

Neither of those would work for macros designed for especially unusual usages that can't possibly work as functions. (The two most common cases I can think of: macros that accept names and use them as lvalues, and macros that emit partial syntax such as paired macros emitting unmatched braces.) But honestly, flagging those and handling all the common cases via BTF information would still be a huge improvement.

Perhaps we should continue this on an IRLO thread?
> It was one of the first high profile campaigns to do so.

This isn't true. He might have claimed it I suppose, but that's not true.

To the extent they did anything unique on social media, it was in using their own social media network, MyBO (which was originally developed by Blue State Digital in partnership with the DNC, but the Obama campaign had their own version that Chris also played a role in tweaking for the campaign).
All this tells us is that Stackshare isn't good at detecting usage of either platform.
I think there’s a lot of people making a lot of money pretending it’s 1955. That’s my theory.

B2B advertising and directed, targeted campaigns probably have good results. The spam shit I’m talking about? The crap you see on YouTube especially? I doubt it.
Are you sure you understand land value taxes?

If land is taxed based on value, many homeowners would be forced to sell or replace their houses with apartment blocks that can earn enough revenue to pay the land value taxes.
My primary concern is that those small form factor storage media might not be so reliable for backup. I'd be okay with mSATA , SATA or NVMe form factor from a reputable manufacturer. I always use something one generation behind or been out for atleast an year. Let others test the new NAND and firmware.
This reads like a dismissal, yet refutes none of my observations.
Decoupling between publishers and subscribers is the biggest one. Being able to store messages while consumer is down. Last will messages are very convenient. Ability to authorize on topic level.

All of that is very useful in my use case (networking and IoT equipment in the middle of nowhere in rough conditions that can go down a fair amount).
Keep up.
Aisler is also one of very few (only one?) shops that accepts librecad files.
With friends/family, informal roommate arrangement, or renting substandard housing from slumlords. Either that or they have a cosigner.
I think the key figures are that the average worker today does 300hrs more a year than medieval peasants, but peasants had months of down time. Apparently, they worked longer days, but less of them.

I feel that most of the jobs around are mostly bullshit. I'd think many people could work half the hours for double the pay and productivity in many places would not diminish much. I envy the Jetsons; while I don't expect to get away with George's two hours a week, I would think 4 half days a week would be totally in order (or similar).
This would never work where I stay, because of mosquitoes. You do not open your windows unless you have nets, and of recent the air blown are also hot, and so air-conditioning is the only saving grace you have provided there is stable power supply except you are ready to utilize generators which contributes to making the whole climate situation unbearable.
See also plan red: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
1. Solid product idea
2. Business strategy
3. Founder's skillset

Thanks. I'll refer back to this as the development progresses.