skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opening a plain jane checking account won't impact your credit report. Neither will the vast majority of accounts with electric or other utility companies.

If a fraudster does something in your name, you can get things corrected. I agree that this can be more work than it should be, and would support regulations to make dealing with this easier.
I have a 1.5L Naglene bottle at my desk, and a water cooler 10 feet away in front of the server-room doors.

So cold water is always close.

I also drink when I'm at home.
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You’ve gotten some pretty solid advice already, and echoing other comments it’s not a dumb question at all.

From a software perspective I’d also recommend Ableton, it strikes a fantastic balance between providing an intuitive workspace and letting the user shape the environment to their preferences.

That said if you want to make music, software/hardware is the smallest part of the process.

For a beginner I’d recommend learning the basics of music theory and synthesis, and then spending a lot of time starting and finishing tracks in a limited environment.

If you enjoy your iPad, I really recommend Auxy. The app gives you just enough freedom to explore your ideas, while being streamlined enough that you won’t waste hours twiddling knobs on effects chains. Plus it can export to Ableton if you want to flesh out your tracks at a later date.

Ableton actually has a great resource for beginners[1], as well as a good resource for the basics of synthesis[2]. If you find you enjoy learning about synths then I’d also recommend the Syntorial iPad app. It’s an exhaustively comprehensive, interactive course on subtractive synthesis. It’s worth it for the ear training alone, imo.

Most importantly, start making bad music. I believe we all have a certain number of bad beats/tracks in us, and the best way to learn is to get them out. You’ll improve way more from churning through your first hundred songs than from setting up the perfect DAW.

Happy noodling.

1.https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
2.https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
Morality is not objective, determining it is not an evidentiary process.
The claimed threat vector is loss of anonyminity. There is no anonyminity designed into AirDrop, and nowhere in Apple's documentation do I see the claim for it.

You iCloud account is your identity. When you choose to share things directly from your phone, you are choosing to share that identity. How else can another iPhone verify you?

There is no information leak. This is a clickbait title combined with a 'Well, duh' moment.
> This may come as a shock to you, but marketing pharmaceuticals is really no different than marketing other products. It really comes down to educating consumers about your product.

That's how it is, in practice.

But some of us take that Hippocratic Oath thing seriously.
> do modern compilers actually still pay attention to the "register" keyword?

You know, I'm honestly not sure. If nothing else, it sends a signal to human readers of the code.

> if I'm not mistaken you limit the number of parameters to 8, yet the number of arguments passed to 255.

You are not mistaken. I changed the limit, but missed that part. Filed an issue to fix this:

https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters/issues/46...

Thank you!
For what it's worth I have an OP-1, bought it 1-2 years ago when it was £800 - and I thought it was expensive then!

Anyway, my opinion will not be useful comparatively, since it's my first and only piece of electronic music hardware, only other stuff I have is guitars, amps etc. I can tell you it's been very fun, very reliable (only once I froze it when using a combination of a lot of effects at once with settings I imagine probably took up too much memory), battery lasts for ever (due to CPU type etc), it has a lot of depth, I still haven't figured out how to use absolutely everything, features are very discoverable and learning curve is pretty linear. Some of it is "programmy" as you describe for the POs, but it's also plenty intuitive and direct with the built in keyboard, which I appreciate because my musical background is mostly instrumental.

The main reason I got it is for the very thing that makes it unique, it's tiny, all in one, it's got almost everything you need and is fun - I know it's not the best value for money or the best audio or best effects etc etc, but I don't want to make music on my computer, and I don't want to start out with loads of independent devices to manage and wire together... I appreciated the idea of something I could grab and play with to encourage me to play with electronic music more, and it total achieves that.

The only thing I feel like I miss sometimes (and this is considering I have never owned any other electronic music hardware), is more keys, for the form factor I can't argue, but I think the next thing I would buy is a midi keyboard, I've tried programming longer pieces but it never fits in the sequencer.

[edit]

My single gripe in out of all the design/quality is key debouncing (it doesn't have velocity keys), which doesn't seem to catch enough... sometimes I can exploit it to effect, but most of the time I don't want it - it's occasional, like maybe 1/50 if i'm not being very careful and just hammering rather than pressing. I should probably try updating the software though as this may have been improved. I doens't bother me massively though, like I said it's the only thing.
Alright, makes some sense and explains why they are doubling down on this "header only" thing.
I just spent 3 weeks in the US Midwest. There is plenty of land to use, thousands of square miles of empty rolling grassy plains. (Ex.: South Dakota averages 11 people per square mile.) Apply a little modern technology (solar/wind, water storage/purification, insulation, Starlink satellite internet) and nobody need complain of population density. There's a startup waiting to happen: self-sufficient high-tech prefab homes plus easy land purchase, organized for instant technocommunities; there are many of us "work from anywhere" types who would jump at the chance made easy.
I'm fine with paying for TV that I actually want to watch, but I refuse to pay for anything that contains ads, nor will I usually even consider watching anything with ads even if it's free.

Maybe some occasional youtube here and there, but certainly nothing like the the typical 20 minutes of ads in every hour of programming commonly found on broadcast TV and most cable channels.
Not to mention, outright bribery.
https://youtu.be/TigV80hwebg
The alternative is Intel dissolving their R&D completely since they couldn't see how the division could ever be profitable. At least with Apple acquiring them there's still some competition left in the field.
> maybe involving terraforming other planets

This is like peak San Francisco housing conversation right here.

Have you guys considering the radical idea of building a couple fucking apartment buildings instead?

I mean, seriously.
Absolutely, and, living in the US, I can tell you a lot of mineral water bottles are packaged in metric units (1 or 1.5L bottles).
It's an interesting business. I've known some management consultants who were serious pros and it's a seriously impressive skill. I've also seen the army of kids who descend on an office and produce nonsense reports to provide the execs with CYA for whatever predetermined decision.
If the police tow it, I'm sure the owner of the car would have to pay the fees. If the property owner tows it, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't (although it may vary by state). At least in Toronto, you are allowed to tow a car from your property, but not charge the owner for the tow [1].

[1] https://www.toronto.ca/311/knowledgebase/kb/docs/articles/mu...
I read here on HN about someone who had a SD card show old data. He reinstalled the OS only to reboot into his old OS. Same thing happened to me the next week with a camera, the SD card showed old pictures from before a reformat. Using these things now is super scary. I wondered why some cameras had dual sd slots, now I know why.
It was 2015 when I first encountered this while working with Andrew and James. I couldn't find any online info on the origin, and the few Firebasers I asked couldn't tell me. I feel like I have closure now that it really wasn't a thing. Or, I guess it was and it really is now.

It's funny how little things can snowball.
It's quite sane if you bought property in the 60s-90s and are riding property appreciation to fortune.
It is going to be absolutely amazing if Apple manages to turn around what has essentially been a failing business for the last 10 years.
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It is ridiculous that header-only is considered an advantage. The state of C++ build tools is very poor, and it is harming the language as a whole.
Is this the question? Could rainforests produce enough "economic value" to justify their existence?
The Wikipedia page on that was deleted due to a lack of reliable sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...). There still seem to be no reliable sources. (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C6&q=%22a...)

I'll admit I don't see the point of many of the other cognitive biases, but at least they were coined or studied in some peer-reviewed papers.
The title is a lie.

Checking the status of your phone or collecting your phone number is much different of collecting information for “what happens on your iPhone”. I am downvoting this.
I have respect for Librem and their mission.

But, I think it is important to examine the other side of the story: They might not be as private, or responsible, as they make out.

Weigh both sides before putting all your eggs in Librem's basket.

https://forum.privacytools.io/t/yale-privacy-lab-cant-recomm...
There’s (much) more to the cellular modem market than Intel and Qualcomm.
MAybe the IT community should be telling people the truth: smartphones are terminals to the worldwide network of hackers. There should be no expectation of real privacy. Encryption can temporarily obscure data, until it becomes obsolete.
I count at least 6 credit monitors I have active: mint, credit karma, credit union, citi, chase, wf.

Significant other has mint, credit karma, different credit union, boa, cap one.
How do you find Deluge? Thinking about buying it as a maxi-version of Circuit when I make more space in my studio (Octatrack, Maschine & Circuit as groove boxes/sequencers/samplers already there).
How is that interesting? Seems considerate to the reader.
I wish they would just get rid of tipping all together. Nobody likes tipping. Pay a reasonable wage and ditch the whole system.
This is a always a fun thought experiment.

For those who administer qmail, postfix, etc. (e.g., I run qmail at home), consider the example of an email alias for the administrator, where the primary address is chosen by the administrator, and the alias functions as a key/id.

If the application interface shows the primary email address, then does the primary email address qualify as a petname.

For those who use the links browser, place the following entry in /etc/hosts

93.184.216.34 edgecastcdn.net test123

"edgecastcdn.net" is the key/id. "test123" is an alias.

Then

links http://test123/index.html

Then press the equal sign ("=") key to display "document info", i.e., the links equivalent of the "address bar".

The application displays the name "http://test123/index.html"

Does "test123" qualify as a petname?
Sea water is very salty, and will box your kidneys in. It's not the same at all.
That's only in two countries in the world (NZ and USA).
The same people built Plan 9 and learned from their experience building Unix to make an operating system that was like Unix, only more so.

But Unix was originally built under the Bell System monopoly and they were restricted from selling it, and it wasn't developed as an actual product anyway (Ken was basically disobeying his manager in developing it) so they gave it away free, with source code, to whoever requested it (mostly universities. Early distributions on magtape reportedly included the note "Love, from Ken.")

Plan 9 was post-monopoly, so it was a "PRODUCT" and marketed with various licensing restrictions and you had to pay for it (with maybe a by-seat pricing? Can't remember.) And by then it was competing with all kinds of OFFICIAL Unix variants with real support offered, plus MS-DOS and the first Windows, and also Apple was in the mix.

People didn't get the point of an operating system that made good use of a network that most people didn't use at that time. And compute servers? What is that all about? It just didn't resonate with anybody at the time, although it provided all the abstractions we tend to care about more now.
Not to mention that much of the 1st world prohibits drug advertising. The US is somewhat of an odd case in this regard.

I often ask foreign expats in America about the strangest aspect of American culture in their opinion. Believe it or not, pharmaceutical advertising is one of the most common answers I get.
My list seems pretty descriptive of projects I'm aware of. The housing and conditions seem alright. Problem is people don't maintain what they have.

Now, people who are farthest from my description in our country are those who live out in the countryside away from modern luxuries. When I lived in Texas I saw a number of these little houses that seemed to barely hang together out in the middle of nowhere. But, they all seemed to at least have power, water and transportation, which is more than I had growing up in an undeveloped country.
For starters, generally the view is that free will either exists or doesn't exist with free will being the concept that we have some control over our actions.

Compare this to God, where you have plenty of religions, many with their own distinction God, some with many, some with concepts that may or may not quite count as God. Even with just Christianity, you have God, but then you have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit which makes up God. With some belief systems you have spirits which are kinda like a god but kinda not and with other systems you have demigods which are part human.

So with free will, you options are:

Option | Free Will
1 | N
2 | Y

With gods, you options are

Option | God | Trinity | Allah | Shiva | Zeus | Thor | ...
1 | N | N | N | N...
2 | Y | N | N | N...
3 | N | Y | N | N...
...

And that isn't even counting the difference within a given religion. It is like comparing the cardinality of boolean options with the cardinality of the reals.
Canada (and the Boreal in particular)is absolutely huge. I'm not convinced that much of this land is any more economically viable than the copious amounts of "undeveloped" wilderness to the south.

Plus, climate change is also about variability. Much of this land could see wild extremes of weather, sounds risky for agriculture.
Thanks to trump's tax cut.
> It really comes down to educating consumers about your product.

A lot of marketing does not seem very educational and more manipulative.
> It really comes down to educating consumers about your product.

Most advertising is more about triggering emotions and using other cognitive dark patterns than educating anyone.
> I've built a "whole piracy stack on my NAS" - Sonarr, Radarr, Deluge, NZBGet, Plex, Pushbullet, with paid services for omgwtfnzbs, usenet and oznzb (I bought plex lifetime) - oh and a homerun-HD plugged into a new aerial I just had fitted to my house (pirates don't seem to care about my local UK TV).

99.999% of the people would rather just overpay for cable than deal with that, so it's a far cry from a killer.
I'm more curious why the "European Commission" is even giving extremely ambitious (aka extremely risky) research projects $1 billion dollars. That seems like a lot of money for any single project.

> In 2013, the European Commission awarded his initiative—the Human Brain Project (HBP)—a staggering 1 billion euro grant (worth about $1.42 billion at the time).
What if you have a dozen people show up every morning and leave their pickup anywhere leave anywhere car rentals in your driveway?
Couldn't the scooter companies negotiate with businesses and get permission? Maybe pay businesses to install docking stations. The scooters get advertising when people see the station. The restaurant or hotel gets advertisment on the scooter app as a designated docking station. And the business can tow unwelcome scooters not in the dock. Just like they are allowed to tow cars.

Seems like the scooter startups think they're special and permits and regulations don't apply to them.
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This approach has a two fold problem. One, what if you are say Canadian or European, does this mean that America now gets to decide what your kids do and don't watch? Secondly, this type of action can lead to retaliation and segmentation of the internet into regional entities where you have an American internet, a Russian Internet, a European Internet etc. We have been trying very hard (not fully succufully, see China) to avoid this.
Amazon’s run of record earnings comes to an end, and the stock is falling
pineapples are pretty ecologically destructive, workers are treated horribly, mondo pesticides, etc. it's an unfortunate thing to celebrate without raising awareness of this side of the story.

https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/exploring-green/the-sour-sid...
> simple

Hm, you spell 'logical' in a weird way :-)
Why is that interesting? Corp tax rates are flat, not progressive and there was a significant change last year.
This is a ridiculous representation of Protestant Work Ethic.
The key is to 'sell' or 'gift' the property rights to the resources that were previously part of the commons (and to a party that can economically protect their new asset).

I'm hoping one day something like that will happen with fisheries, e.g. someone will own fisheries or maybe even schools of fish. Anything less seems doomed to tragedy.

Note that government management of a previously 'commons' resource is, in theory, the same basic arrangement. In practice tho, the very different incentives shaping government organizations doesn't seem to as reliably protect resources as for private entities.

('Markets fail'. Governments fail too. What's the expected difference in the rate of failure of the two?)
It ought to be government-funded.

What the current system gives us isn't "R&D and innovation". It's mostly ~equivalents of top-selling products. Plus new stuff that's actually less effective than old products that went generic so long ago that there's ~no promotion.
> In-kind political favors by companies is expressly illegal under FEC regulations.

Yes, but monopoly status is irrelevant to that. It's as illegal from a non-monopoly as a monopoly and an act which legally isn't an in-kind contribution by a non-monopoly isn't transformed into one when done by a monopoly.

And policies which are not targeted for or against a particular candidate that happen to affect a candidate differently are not, even presumptively, in-kind contributions under the law—there is no “disparate impact” rule for political content as there is for, e.g., racial discrimination in employment.
bring up the topic of free speech and every socialist falls to their knees in order to pray to corporations.
I don’t know about the German insurance, but for example the Swiss insurance makes a specific exception: in case there is no adequate treatment or expertise available within Swiss borders, the insurance must cover a foreign treatment.
But Airdrop for contacts only is basically broken-especially for sharing between your own devices that are supposed to be on the same apple id-so you need to set it to ‘everyone’ for it to work all the time
Read it carefully, from a weaselly lawyer point of view.

"will enable". Yes, it enabled them to lower prices. It didn't say they would lower prices. So not really a lie.

But the point is well taken - that judge could have seen past that and asked for an literal promise with actual billion dollar teeth in it if they failed to deliver.
Cool, just donated some benjamins - https://imgur.com/a/ZOuZMXA
Anecdotally my kids would rather watch YouTube, although I've since blocked it in my house for a variety of reasons, they seem to like the shorter video format. And they LOVE watching people play video games which I just want to shake my cane at.
Ah I thought you meant without using unsafe yourself.

The goal of unsafe is to reduce the attack surface where you need to check your code more thoroughly. So by encapsulating this in a library function that's well tested you don't need to create such a section yourself. But if you do need unsafe it's not wrong, and if only a small part of your code needs unsafe then it's much easier to verify that your code is doing what it should.
Cool! Did you have fun and learn a lot? Nice, thanks for sharing.
The version bundled with Windows has always had a first click check to avoid mines, but a lot of clones don't. I remember back in my AOL days in the 1990s it was very much a sign of a bad clone and an immediate uninstall, though I don't recall why I went through so many clones at the time. (I think I was looking for more challenge having got tired of even "Expert Mode"? I was a strange kid.) (The best clones not only did a first click was safe build out, but also a solvability check that the first click opened enough hints that every puzzle was theoretically solvable on given hints alone.)

The version included in Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 prior to Minesweeper being bundled with Windows might not have had that check, my memory is fuzzy on that. I'd be surprised how many people remember it from the Entertainment packs before Windows 3.1.

The clone that I recall most Mac users had in 90s, such as was on school computers at the time, definitely did not have a first click fix up.
> I get an email regularly telling me my score changed. I have to go log in and find out I went up 2 points because of an algorithm change

In the Canadian version of Equifax you can set how much of a score change send an email.
Actually, big pharma does both. Marketing to doctors is sometimes even more sinister, because of (often implied) incentives for pushing more of a medication on the physician's patients.

Some resources:

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180514132441.h...

[2] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-shee...

Plus, this classic Scrubs clip describing a particularly chauvinistic (but truth-in-television) take on the practice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMXa0U4WZyU
Not all marketing is "educating consumers about your product". Some of it is manufacturing a desire for your product.

Look at car ads. Do they say "The new 2019 models are available"? A few do. Do they say "This car gets better gas mileage" or "This car is safer"? A few do. Most say "If you drive this car, you'll get the hot girl". That's not "educating consumers". That's trying to make consumers want your product on the basis of something completely unrelated to your product.

And yes, I fear that marketing pharmaceuticals may in fact not be different from marketing any other product.
Bernie Sanders had pretty massive grassroots and online support far before the mainstream media seemed to even notice he existed. To me, fingers on scales seems like just the way it's done nowadays.
USB live "cd" that installs itself to M.2 ?
If carbon was priced to reflect its negative externalities the Amazon [Rain Forest] wouldn’t have to generate money because clearing it for agriculture would be prohibitively expensive.
Marketing comes down to educating consumers about your product? Have you ever seen marketing? Any education that occurs is either accidental or legally mandated.

I do agree with you that pharmaceutical marketing isn’t fundamentally different from marketing other products. Although my conclusion from that is not that pharmaceutical marketing is therefore good.
Complexity of the code base. The computation of hashes client side requires quite a bit of custom code. Sending a plain text password is build into the browser.