skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When melody was at its apogee, not only did songs have interesting melodies, but they also had a bridge -- a second section melodically different from the first. The best songs had seemed to be the ones with the most distinctive bridges. Somehow, Tin Pan Alley managed to exemplify this artifact from classical music. Sousa's marches, typically in 3 parts in different keys, with one foot in the classical tradition and one in the new world stand as a memorial bridge to melodic non-monotony connecting Brahms to Broadway.
Real Hackers Tell Us Why They Love the Movie 'Hackers'
How about, trusted peripherals should speak DTLS over their USB/Thunderbolt PHY, and the OS should keep a certificate store for recognizing them?

This sounds like something that creates a chicken-and-egg problem of there not already being any such DTLS-speaking USB devices... but how about if vendors just create a little USB dongle that wraps whatever's plugged into it in "authentication" using DTLS? Ship the dongle with the laptop; tell people that if they want to install a new OS, they have to plug a USB keyboard in through the dongle.
Yes, it's an uncommon yeast - not Saccharomyces. And, yes, the product is meant to 'bring forward' the effects from these members of the soil microbiome, from minor players to treatments at higher concentration.

The microbial ecology work comes from Adam's lab at LBNL. His tech (that Boost has licensed) experimentally determines interactions (ie, causative relationships, not correlations).
That is a curious definition of need. Are landlords liable in your world for renting apartments to people who run ponzi schemes?
I hope San Francisco is eventually included in this test! I currently can’t have Dominos delivered to my address which I found quite surprising indeed when I tried to order a pizza.
Yeah, that doesn't look good for Microsoft. I thought they've already learned their lesson, but maybe they need to have a periodic embarrassment for that.
"people who thought Ukraine was located in Latin America or Australia were the most enthusiastic about using military force there"

How does that happen? I can see a shoddily educated person mixing it up with a neighboring country, but to not even realize that it's in Eastern Europe?

I can't remember seeing a poll presented in this format, but it'd be interesting to see results for any political question presented as a graph against a score in a relevant knowledge test.
Ultima retailed for $80 in the 80s. Prices have been fairly flat, ignoring inflation, for decades.
> variations in timbre

Good insight, but these variations are correlated with variations in pitch. It's a single note in the sense that it's always a C; not necessarily always the same octave.

> horns [...] can only play one note

A piece in bugle scale doesn't sound like one note to an average listener, nor does playing such an instrument feel like staying on one note. I'd rather compare this to a didgeridoo than a horn.

But if I concede that we don't need to adhere to lower grade music theory and that the performer will not use advanced techniques that can alter pitch without the use of a slide or valve, what argument could be made to support the "one note" claim?

To clarify what I'm looking for, here's an example of such an argument (but I don't know how much, if at all, it applies to actual fixed-length horn instruments): If the exact frequencies of a note's overtones deviate from a pure harmonic series, one could make a distinction between pitch-shifting a note and varying the timbre. I.e. playing the next note above the instrument's fundamental pitch doesn't multiply the individual frequencies by a constant factor, but repeats the exact frequencies of the fundamental's overtones, thus reordering the frequency ratios between adjacent overtones.
Nicely done. Good to see an engineering blog acknowledging tech debt openly.

I'm with you all the way until the last paragraph which short-changed the conversation a bit. Quoting a few lines to respond below:

>> Build things to be easy to throw away and replace; it’ll make your code more modular.

One valid strategy to manage debt is to declare bankruptcy or amnesty on debt – that is throw away the code (because this code is no longer needed). In domains where this possible, definitely use it. But in most real-world touching software domains this is not likely possible.

>> Good tech debt has clear, well-known limitations. Document these in code comments, READMEs, FAQs, and conversations with the people who’d care.

Doing tech debt accounting in a more formal manner is required to intentionally take debt. In the locking example, it is a design debt (not just a code debt). If the debt isn't document well and then it can become a ticking time bomb to be tripped by a clueless developer later.
sidenote:

one thing I find tricky about cryptocurrencies is that payment processors have snazzy interfaces for accepting crypto, but the similar interfaces don't seem to be available for open-source non-intermediary payment flows.

payment flows seem to be almost non-existent.

Its like "here just accept bitcoin" - when I really want to accept Monero - and there is almost no out of the box solution that rotates addresses for you, gives users a countdown and address solution, listens for transactions of the correct amount to that address to automatically update the payment site etc
Right, what's hard to understand about this. Seems like people are missing the point on purpose.
I live in a dorm room and keep an R610 about three meters from my bed. You can use some magical IPMI commands to disable the internal fan feedback loop and replace it with a custom one (usually the defaults cool the server to around 30C, which is not really necessary). This makes the server more quiet then the small fridge I also have in the room.

The 100W power consumption definitely makes the room warmer. It is approximately like having another person present.
I agree that paywalls seem more common. But the early web had plenty of popups and scummy ads. Popup blockers were added to browsers quite a long time ago.

Content farms were huge before Google started kicking them out in 2011. Have they made a comeback?

Google's latest attempt to keep the crap under control (AMP) is very unpopular on Hacker News, but I guess it shows they are trying to do something?
For anyone keen to see and read more, there is a helpful community and great write ups at https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/
> And fwiw, the literal translation of terra nullius isn't "nobody's land" it's "empty land".

Is it an Italian term or something? In Latin it would be "land of no one". Terra is nominative (alternatively ablative or vocative, but that's unlikely here), nullius is genitive; there's no parsing in which nullius could be in agreement with terra, and even if they were in agreement, nullus doesn't mean "empty" (terra nulla would be more like "no land", definitely not a land that exists but is characterized by emptiness). If it's Italian though I'd have to take your word for it; I don't speak that language.
Completely agree julien kervizic, it does seems like something that any devout hackernews reader could use.
It's called freedom.
SUPPORTS ECC RAM, but does not require it. You can use plain old RAM chips with it.
Google's whole value proposition is sending me to the best place on the web for a given query -- so yes, when they don't do that it's frustrating.

No, I don't blame them for hosting the content themselves for some queries. I never said that.

Just as Amazon holds some responsibility when I purchase a counterfeit item on their platform, it behooves both companies to have higher quality standards -- and both have the market strength to do it.
Let's all imperfectly move toward sustainability
Learning how to grow and preserve your own food, fix your own vehicles and appliances, build things instead of buying cheap Amazon/Chinese shit, raise animals, and maintain a dwelling are drastic changes and don't require government intervention. People did it for most of history so it's not difficult. If you want to survive, realize that consumer urban comfort is a 20th century relic.
Yeah, or get a full-time job that actually satisfies you. Ever since I started working I never created a private project anymore. If I don't like what I do at work, I find a different team or company that does something I want to do.

I could never imagine working on a side project while having a full-time job. That will inevitably mean you are doing neither of these things well.
I don't think they are "ripping off the PIC", I think they are reimplimenting the PIC ISA, just like 8051s are reimplemented all over the place
It wasn't a lot of BIOS tweaking, but yes, some undervolting was required. ;)

I also hdparm'd it such that my spinning disks park pretty aggressively.
Two things that I think are true:

1. Ordinary people reject expertise in ways that are incredibly stupid and harmful
2. Experts have expanded the scope of what they feel entitled to have opinions about well beyond their training and experience

> “Stitch this cut in my leg, but don’t lecture me about my diet.”

> “Help me beat this tax problem, but don’t remind me that I should have a will.”

Whether to change your diet, whether to have a will or not - these are value judgments. They tell me about how I ought to live, that I should prefer one thing over another. Tax attorneys and doctors have no special training in making value judgments. This isn't very different from a financial planner telling you to retire in Arizona because there are a lot of golf courses, and he personally likes to play golf.
Section 230 didn't prevent Google from being fined $500M for publishing ads for Canadian pharmacies selling drugs to US citizens. What kind of illegal activities are you talking about, exactly?
also, "your rate is ready! just enter your email address and we will send it to you!"
Ubisoft loses Rocksmith patent suit
they ran the numbers and said "this is more economical" ?

I've ordered from nearby restaurants that have no brand name recognition but simply because they offered the food I was looking for. When finally being in the part of town where they are located, I see the shop for the first time and realize "wow I would never have stepped foot in there". What calculus is dominos doing to think they need their own service, I wonder - aside from being able to afford it and cut out the middleman.
It doesn't become a leaf automatically. You have to force it to stay a leaf. If you don't find a way to do this, and if things grow on top of it, then you are in trouble. This is hard to do in most architecture patterns.
And yet if you type in a mortgage-related query, the first few entries Google will show you are ads. Not the calculator you're looking for.

Even then, mortgages aren't something Google can realistically calculate because lenders don't structure loans that simply. There is a fixed rate period, and a variable period after that.

First-time searchers may get suckered in by a personal finance site that relies on ads just as Google itself does, but after that, they'll be using the calculators that are on lenders' own sites when it's time to comparison shop.
TBH I've been posting stuff warning about climate change and environmental damage. I think there are corporate propagandists on the site that are down voting this information as a paid propaganda campaign.

He who controls the Spice controls the Universe.
Tech Debt, to me, grows with every line of code you write that didn't replace a line of code. Consider how many projects start with the idea, 'I'll rewrite this and get rid of the tech debt'.

First, If the original code isn't deleted, you've added to the tech debt. Now every new engineer will need to learn two chunks of code, and every existing engineer will need to support both.

Second, unless you've had a major epiphany between the old code and the new code, you're more likely to run into the trap of the first example. Major epiphany's could be, 'wow, we really didn't need all of that extra stuff', or, 'we've duplicated so much code, we should re-organize this all'.

I've been at plenty of companies where you have to understand that the Perl code is really old and these components use that, the Mason rewrite was 80% done and is over there, the Next Gen code was in Ruby these components do that. But now, we're embarking on a new Node/React project to replace all of it, finally going to get rid of the tech debt! (Said with no sarcasm)
Might it be a particularly bonkers toolchain for an obscure piece of critical hardware which needs containerising so whatever nightmare of an install process only needs to be done once?
Can I ask what is your browser and its version?
I don't see the relationship either way between payment and accuracy.

Paying people is no guarantee of accuracy in either direction. Heck paying people for it encourages putting any ole bullshit there to farm it.
If you buy Supermicro motherboards, which come in regular form factors too, like for example X9SCM-F [0], or X11SSL-F [1], they come with IPMI (which is what the -F designates), which is exactly what iLO, DRAC, etc., is and in a normal form factor. You don't have to buy fancy jet-engine "server" boxes when you can get the same stuff in a mATX form factor. No license needed.

I have been using the X9SCM-F for the last 9 years, and enjoy being able to modify the BIOS remotely, boot remote ISO images, or troubleshoot any boot problems without physical presence.

[0] https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C2...

[1] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X11SSL-F
Agree, Kat, the interface reminds me a bit of slack and having it as a desktop app makes it quite easy to browse when you have a couple of minutes of free time.
It's supposed to provide ideas to check yourself by reading the papers, googling for more and mindfully trying yourself (considering counterindications also listed) to find out if it works for you (get your own empirical evidence). This is valuable for specific kind of pracrically-scientifically-minded people. Those who prefer a ready solution meant to be fool-proof (although it rarely is) and off-load research, experimentation and responsibility to someone else should really stick with a doctor. Googling medical advices and expecting them to be correct (for you in particular) by default is a nonsensical approach, sadly many people seem practicing it.
You get 5 decimal places if you divide by 1000...
Domino’s has proven to be surprisingly innovative. As far as I know other pizza chains just....operate.
> The SEC filed charges against Reginald “Reggie” Middleton, a self-described “financial guru,”

WOAH they went after Reggie Middleton!

Yeah that should be in the title.

From "TheBlockCrypto.com"

> What appears to have precipitated this filing, in part, is that after the SEC told Defendants’ lawyers that they were likely to recommend filing of enforcement action, Defendants “moved more than $2 million in remaining offering proceeds from a blockchain address they controlled into other addresses, and used a portion of those funds to purchase more precious metals.” When asked by staff to not spend any more of the SEC funds, Defendants refused.

> https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/08/13/sec-files-emergenc...

So this is interesting in that there was active discussion between the SEC and Reggie's lawyers.

This is different than most of these press releases.
I couldn't agree more. While it's enticing to show your creativity in something like scrolling, it almost always negatively impacts the site...as it definitely has here.
Perfect world:

User: Hey Gateway, what's the monthly payment on a 20-year mortgage with 3.9 APR?

Gateway: Here's your calculator, already prefilled with the data taken from your query.

Done.

The problem with all these little sites is, besides bloat, that the "Oh, neat, they can hook me up with lenders. Let me take a look." ends up with user getting malware and/or scammed. The problem with Google is that they can hardly be trusted at this point to do things like this in the interest of users. They want to be the frontend through which you access the Internet.

I used the word "Gateway" in my example as a placeholder; my imaginary perfect world recognizes that things like "currency conversion", "song lyrics" or "mortgage calculator" are data[0], which should be separate from the frontend used to access it. I dream of the Internet where things like these are API-driven and do not involve loading anything other than what's requested - neither ads, nor "value-adds", and definitely not all the rest of the webpage surrounding a mortgage calculator, which is bloat obstructing requested functionality.

--

[0] - yes, even mortgage calculator; it's a mathematical model, an algorithm, and code is data.
If you have enough consolidated land, rezoned, you can build a community with commercial, retail, and residential integrated.

I'm imagining enough that squatted buildings are on opposite sides of the street from the new development and/or there can be a buffer.
Why does it look so much like Slack? :D
Indeed they are, but I refer to the legions of no-name products that make up much of the consumer industry. Smart lightbulbs, power outlets, rain meters, etc. The original headline was much less specific before it was edited.
We've had 20 years of "Please report any unattended luggage", "If you see something, say something", "Watch out for suspicious people", bankers blowing up the economy and getting bailed out for it, non-stop wars, governments spying on their own people, companies selling our personal data, identity theft, unfunded pensions, democratizing technologies that came to naught, social movements that came to naught, and fake news. What the hell did they expect was gonna happen?
This is the reason I browser /r/homelab on reddit. It doesn't make any sense to me, but is somehow cool anyway
Yeah, tell me about government killings in Spain, please
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666060
They've been doing that here in the middle of The Netherlands for a few years now. We don't really eat pizza but it's nice to see them not using those horrible scooters.
Devil's advocate: maybe they have the same conservationist attitude you do, but they've seen how bureaucracies operated by non-locals and legislated by corrupt politicians don't result in better conservation? People in cities can look at legislation that seems to make sense to them, and feel like they're protecting the earth. But people in nature see the actual consequences.

I lived in the Sierra Nevadas where we have to do absurd things like destroy unauthorized dams that have existed for 150 years[1]. We have to adhere to solar installation regulations, despite getting hundreds of inches of snow that require 400# per square foot of roof strength tolerance, and are covered by snow six months out of the year. We have to live in constant fear of a massive forest fire blowing through our community thanks to our government's approach to fire containment.

I admit that Big Oil has seized on this skepticism to push their own environmentally harmful agenda, but not wanting the government to sink its tentacles into rural life is more than just the hypocrisy that you are implying countryfolk have. There are real consequences to past legistaltion they are reacting to.

[1] https://mynevadacounty.com/2444/Lake-Van-Norden-Spillway
around 5 metres to 10 metres per second (11 mph to 22 mph)
Do female->male USB-USB power-only passthrough adapters exist? If I could buy a few from a trusted source like directly from the Apple store, I could use it to firewall my cables (never thought I'd have to do that).

As an added bonus, my iphone wouldn't automatically crank up itunes on my mac every single friggin time I plug it into the dock.
Not only are the sources of WolframAlpha curated, they even go the extra step to make sure it's correct. From their FAQ:

"How is Wolfram|Alpha's data checked?

We use a portfolio of automated and manual methods, including statistics, visualization, source cross-checking and expert review. With trillions of pieces of data, it's inevitable that there are still errors out there.

[...]

How is real-time data curated?

Wolfram|Alpha effectively checks real-time data (such as weather, earthquakes, market prices, etc.) against built-in criteria and models. If an unexpected deviation is found, Wolfram|Alpha will normally indicate it, for example by showing lines as dashed."

https://www.wolframalpha.com/faqs/#data-in-wolfram-alpha
Still just absolutely crazy. How does this not cause a huge housing bubble?
I guess Fox doesn't want to annoy its favourite audience member.
Jordan Promises – Async/Await vs. .then – JavaScript Web Scraping Guy
Presumably, you are expecting a similar response when the UK breaks the GFA treaty with Ireland? Bombs, sanctions, yes?
I think they generally pay for it. It came up with song lyrics a couple of weeks ago, where Genius accused Google of scraping lyrics from Genius, but as it turns out Google payed a third party vendor LyricFind for them, and LyricFind pays the copyright holder, so if anything it seems Genius was more in the wrong...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18684211/google-song-lyri...
I think it makes sense for restaurants to continue building out first-party lower-cost options and continue to be listed on the middlemen services purely for that new customer discovery.

My local pizza shop just handed me a card with their own site (and app) for ordering delivery and pickup with fewer fees and lower costs than [your-favorite-vc-funded-third-party-food-delivery-service] after I used one of those services to pick up a pizza because it was severely discounted there.

I pretty much have received the same quality of service and high fees from all of these competitors and personally have no loyalty to any one of them. It's all about the cost. If your product is cheaper with one over the other, I'll just use that.

On the bike aspect, it wasn't uncommon to see bike deliveries for Favor in Austin and Caviar in Boston.
Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II: A Highly Impractical Guide
If tech debt is inevitable, what’s the solution? Good internal documentation and rewrites every few years?
>idles under 15W

Damn...meanwhile my fairly modern Asus laptop idles at 27W.

(Probably the GPU...think I forced it to dedicated only)
TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world's combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years.
I don't know about other Canadian cities, but in Vancouver, there are both Telus and Shaw hotspots randomly strewn throughout the city. The Telus ones exist in public/government buildings as a co-sponsorship with the municipal government; the Shaw ones exist at the numerous charging stations for bike-share bikes, as a different co-sponsorship. Admittedly, you aren't really likely to run into either if you're not downtown.

Then there's the Shaw hotspots which they expose on a dedicated side-channel of the routers of people who pay for their business Internet plans, which allow arbitrary other Shaw customers with authenticated MAC addresses to connect to them. Those are all over the place, and it'd be pretty easy to steal a list of a few hundred registered MACs and rely on that network to connect.
That’s what I said. What’s your point?
Paradigm Shifts – Ray Dalio
A product I was working on had different variants based on what parts are populated. There were config resistors to help route the signals based on what was populated. I replaced that all with a simple software lookup table in firmware to reroute the signals correctly. Furthermore I figured out how to auto-detect the dozens of supported configurations on first bootup. The PCBs were very small so I made the board designers job a lot easier due to eliminated resistors. The factory folks were thrilled that they didn't have to manage the jumpers.