skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to create EXACTLY this with my latest project (https://www.aspen.cloud) and it is challenging to find the right balance between ease of use and decentralization. The path we're taking is a service that you can pay for and we provide everything you need or you host it yourself. Because sometimes letting experts manage your system is more reliable and you can avoid getting the hug of death like this site!

The idea of owning your personal computer in the cloud with instant, always updating apps completely in your control seems inevitable but making something easy for anyone to use will take time. That's why we're focusing on the developer experience to make it simple and cheap to make apps in this new paradigm while shaping the experience for the end user so it does ultimately feel as simple as using the App Store.
Apple can still implement proprietary technology in an USB-C charging cable that allows their phones to be charged much faster than others, as long as their device can still be charged by a generic cable and vice versa (without the added benefits).
Wait, the US is still on magstripe? Isn't that literally just a bar code? No challenge-response, or encryption? Fraud detection seems like the wrong thing to be focusing on if that's the case...
You can just generalize to anywhere run by humans.
Schoenberg's music is admittedly hard to get into. But it is well worth spending some time with it because there is nothing quite like it.

For a bit of context, Schoenberg's atonal style was the culmination of centuries of development of Western harmony. From the Baroque/Classical era onward, the direction of Western music was towards greater chromaticism extending harmonies further and further away from the simple major and minor chords. Some composers came very close to complete atonality, particularly Scriabin and Stravinsky, but Schoenberg was the first to dive into completely atonal music.

While it may sound like someone randomly plonking on the keyboard, he had to work quite hard to get the atonal sound he wanted since harmonies are so ingrained in the way we hear music (especially for composers!). He developed the "twelve-tone system" in which each note had to be played exactly once in a theme so as to guarantee that no tonality was accidentally introduced by stressing particular notes.

The result is a style that is very cerebral, but enjoyable once you let go of the idea that music should contain traditional harmonies. Personally, I think the music world got a little obsessed about the idea and continued to develop it for maybe four decades longer than it should have. (His twelve tone technique was later extended to "serialism" which generalized the process to rhythms, dynamics, and instruments, and wasn't really abandoned by "serious" composers until maybe the 1980s.)

Incidentally, Schoenberg may have scared himself to death. He was intensely superstitious, particularly of the number 13. When he was 76 he was contacted by an astrologer who told him that this was a dangerous year since the digits of his age added up to 13. Later in the year, on Friday, July 13th, he spent the day extraordinarily anxious and died shortly before midnight.
I dont see that, what product would they advertise?
It didn't "become" that. The internet was hyper-tuned to exact that exact addicting behavior. It was by design optimized for exactly that because that was the way to get the most eye balls on ads, and the most data to scrape and leverage for ads.

This wasn't some passive process. The fact that nobody ever solved micropayments made the internet what it is today. It's really that simple. You can have any system this sized without funding, and people wont pay for subscriptions for text content, so it's either frictionless micropayments or datamining and ads. And we all know how that ended.

I would pay $40 a month for my entire internet to be ad free and non data-mined. Facebook makes what 50c a month of people? Maybe $1?

All this BS we have to deal with for a dollar a month??
Thank you for expanding!
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TS has led me to a desire for more functionally pure typed code. I'm super interested in learning OCaml and ReasonML right now so I would be interested in understanding where you felt ReasonML falls flat vs TS.
oh man, after countless examples of EU regulation gone haywire (cookies, gdpr, vat, link tax, copyright, bananas, diabetics, olive oil refills, epileptic lightbulbs etc etc) one would have thought that the EU bureaucrats would have finally taken a step back and pause a bit.

let's just hope Macron's push for an EU refresh come sooner rather than later. because it's not normal looking more towards the UK removing a bunch of these regulations than looking forward to yet another round of EU bureaucrats messing everything up.
Hopefully he puts some kind of folding quadrotor setup on it so it can fly in and out of places. Imagine something like this on its back - https://www.best-quadcopter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/m...
I don't understand how you can think this is needed in the slightest unless you literally can't make a decision yourself. I'm sorry but you can buy a USB cable or adapter to charge any phone in the world at any gas station, or corner convince store. This just simply isn't a problem, it's not a quality of life issue. It's just not. Buy cables with breakout mini, c, and tbunderbolt for 5$. Solved.

This type of regulation will kill the west. The amount of money and waste it cost to create this regulation will far exceed any value it ever adds in terms of measurable productivity.

Not to mention that innovation is killed with this type of approach... USB standards change for reasons..

But hey I'm glad you can borrow 100% of all of your friends cables to charge your phone rather than 90% today.... ️
Nice to see it implemented in Go instead of C, one more example of systems software.
if you start looking into the CVs of the people that decide these sort of things you will understand why things are the way they are.
Our face mask future: Do they really protect from pollution and infection?
Or if you'd just posted it on Usenet, oh wait
Banning an ip block is always a bonehead move. Its trivial for an attacker to change ips, fix the root problem.
TypeScript’s goal isn’t absolute type safety, the goal is feedback (eg code completion) and earlier detection of many errors.
This is basically what Qubes does. I quite like it, and it is surprisingly useable considering what's involved. Still, stopped using it after a while because running a 'native' OS is just less friction, and I didn't think the additional security was worth it on my dev box. Still planning to setup a general use box with it at some stage.
Do you remember when telephones didn't come with embedded GPS, browser webbugs, G+ NSTIC profiles (https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aa6pmi/a_manhatta..., https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-plus-history-deat...), and OS-level UUIDs?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I agree on the honesty part, but in many cases "because I think it is right" is a valid argument.

It is wrong to pretend to have a logical reasoning behind your gut feeling where there is none, but there is nothing wrong in not wanting to work with a company because they give a 'bad feeling"
This is a neat idea.

Am I right in the inking that even if a big tech company did this it could still be good. Because they are just providing the ‘device’ like Apple do now. I guess they would still have power over what you could / could not install though.
Wow. Non-systems dev here, but that sounds seriously impressive.

Thanks for your work. I know I will benefit from it.
That smaller language is basically the C++ described in the Annotated C++ Reference Manual (a.k.a. Brown Book) by B. Stroustrup and M. Ellis, published in 1990.

I landed into my first C++ job not knowing C++. Friday was my last day on the previous job. I helped myself to a stack of paper and printed out the entire ISO C++ draft standard. I also got that ARM. I read the ARM over the weekend, then went to the new C++ job Monday. I was C++ "answer guy" a month later.

This one: http://www.stroustrup.com/arm.html
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. I really hope you are because there is little to no truth in what you wrote here. Independant states are integral. Pick up any 6th grade textbook on the subject for the awesome "deets".
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Not directly a forum, but...

https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
> Nonprofits in California are allowed to take out loans to acquire capital.

Just as point of clarification, California non-profit corporation law wouldn't apply to Public Interest Registry. It is formed and domiciled in Pennsylvania. That said, Pennsylvania law appears to permit non-profit corporations to take on debt in the same way that any other corporation formed under PA law can do (subject to rules found in the organization's bylaws or formation documents, which I've not read for PIR). Title 15 of Pennsylvania's consolidated statutes, section 5502(6) reads that a non-profit corporation has the authority "[t]o borrow money, issue or incur its obligations and secure any of its obligations by mortgage on or pledge of or security interest in all or any part of its property and assets, wherever situated, franchises or income, or any interest therein."

I can't think of a reason why PIR, with a surplus of annual income, would have any trouble receiving a loan from any number of financial institutions. In fact, the vast majority of credit unions would be tripping over themselves to make such a loan, based on what I've seen of PIR's financials. Taking out a loan against surplus income to make cash-intensive improvements to the non-profit in furtherance of its mission is basically the whole point of running a surplus that isn't distributed back to members.
Just our Cloudflare in front. It’s free.
Everyone should start wearing face mask especially during commute hours if you are taking public transportation like Bart of CalTrain now that the virus has reached the Bay Area. With the peak load of passengers even if one is infected then I could only hope that god bless us all :(
They are listening via mic. Check permissions for your apps and disable mic.
Link to interview where Shulgin was not lucid?
> nobody used them, like deci in si

What makes you believe that nobody uses them? Where I'm from, "decimeter" is in use, for example. Centimeters are way more common, sure - but it does come up when eyeballing distances, or in well-established terms such as "decimeter band".
That sounds like a challenge. Are there any particular pieces you would recommend I don't spend too long on?
Apple could define an USB-D standard tomorrow and use it for their phone charging cables, as longs as they allow other companies to use the same standard.
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Except that post says he doesn't understand it.

He's scoffing at something he doesn't understand. That is 100% ignorance.

This is entirely different from scoffing at something over complicated and that you do understand.
Good for you :)

My hourly rate is €85 currently, which is a lot for the small to medium size businesses I work for. Hiking up that rate would meen I would have to work for larger companies, which I don’t want to.

I work from my own office, and get to spend loads of time with my family; if I’d start to work for bigger companies, I’d have to work on-site and loose a lot of time in transit and make it a lot more difficult to dictate the working hours on a day to day basis.
Its pretty clear thats not what he means at all. He means manipulated by having unneeded highlu addictive drugs pushed on people who don't need them, many times destroyinh their lives in the process. That manipulation. Why are you being purposefully dense?
Except what you said is not true at all.

Whats going on here is you're scoffing at something you don't understand. Before you scoff, understand it. Then scoff. Until then you're just as good as the ignorant people who ridiculed the theory of a heliocentric solar system.
The people defending these types of actions here make me sick. What the hell.
Money isn't even the worst of it at this level. It's about networking, and what you can ask for. A top politician doesn't need to be bribed when they understand perfectly well that if they happen to need a little pocket money, they can just come and hold a speech for six figures. If the money will be there when you need it, there's only risk in letting it lie in your bank account.

Likewise, blackmail. People imagine envelopes with incriminating pictures. But that kind of blackmail rarely gets used, because once you've given in to it, then what? The blackmail will still hang over your head. You'll serve the blackmailer for life. At that point the victim may think they have little to lose. (Relevant regarding Donald Trump. He has far too much ego to serve someone else for life, even if there was some "Moscow tape").

Instead, the blackmail that's powerful is the one that the victim knows will cost the blackmailer a lot to use. The understanding that if I go down, you all go down with me, is a lot more useful to make us come to an agreement. That's probably how Epstein got away with things for so long.
Around 10 customers. I have recently gotten a liability because a client demanded it, didn’t have any before.
Yes, that is in fact my argument, what is your counter?

Regulations are centered around equality of outcome not equality of opportunity. People are not the same. Regions are not the same. They have localized, nuanced for better or worse problems and solutions. It's crazy to have completely separate input factors and expect the same outcome..
Yup. Rather than bringing 100,000 devs from one typed language to another, Typescript brings 1,000,000 devs from untyped to typed.
Is there? What is it, exactly? Could you show us? All I see is an Etonian, a work-stealer and plagiarist, a slapper of his own name onto things built by groups of people. His lone interesting contribution, the idea of cellular automata for quantum theories, failed Bell's requirements and had to be rescued by others.
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In a tactical environment the problem with clustering is that modern weapons will quickly take out everybody. There needs to be some space between people, maybe a couple meters.

The problem with a lack of initiative is that it undermines security. If you don’t know what you should be doing then at least you can secure part of the group’s perimeter by seeking cover and looking outward until told otherwise.
I get wanting to be serverless, but hosting the static parts using S3 and doing clever database things using Lambda and DynamoDB also achieves that goal, while surviving the hug of death.
I'd argue they did not exactly fail as much as ClouFlare(?) decided not to develop it further.

They did acquire it, so it probably was a good exit for the original devs.

And to become ready for public consumption some investment in UX was clearly needed, including a better store and some basic apps.
Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique.

Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why.

Regardless, a bloody good read.
Id posit that there is no uptick but that our human nature always think things are getting worse. I think pinker did a book about it.
I always feel ambiguously about this kind of arguments. I agree that there is a lack of rational discussion, but on the other hand if someone really cares about Y then they will be quite protective of perceived attacks on X, a tangentially related topic.

Ideas and subcultures are in a constant fight for mindshares, I disagree with how pervasive and hypocrite this battle is, but it is not like there is no reason for it.
The law doesn't define the protocol. Apple could introduce USB-D as superior standard provided it is not proprietary. If this is a superior standard, other companies will adapt it too, becoming the new standard charger.
Who knows who comes round every month for protection money. Hopefully it's just the beat cop.
I have the dongle that came with my phone, and I ordered a second of the same kind from the website. No issues with either of them. I've personally never broken a charging cable of any sort, except for micro USB where the little prongs stop latching properly. I may just be unusually careful with mine.
Why would that have to be the case? Also, wouldn't performance and thermals go together? You won't get good performance if you're constantly overheating.
I’m more familiar with German companies doing it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Greek_bribery_scandal

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/LIVE-the-israeli-submari...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41109132

And a longer list mixed with money laundering https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/25_corruption_scan...
Those are dark patterns on the part of the webmasters of those sites though.

They want to make it as hard for you to protect your privacy as possible. It’s the same reason they bug you install an app instead of using the web. In an app you have even less control.

Notice the number of sites that have an enable all but no disable all button?

Thing is if they’re using dark patterns at this stage how can you trust the content of the page you’re trying to view?
This is patently untrue. A lobbyist is just anybody who meets with an elected official on behalf of a group. There are perfectly legitimate lobbyists, and many depending on the group they may even be volunteers.

It just so happens that the lobbyists that get the most attention are those that represent the most powerful groups. But equating it with bribery is completely misleading.
The odds are fairly slim. Wuhan is a large Chinese city that has a greater population than most countries.

There is going to be an (X) in Wuhan for any value of (X) anyone cares to name. The fog of uncertainty is still thick; nobody has much of an idea what is going on. Anyone claiming that they have a theory on where the virus came from is fantasising. The knee-jerk people probably don't want them drowning out a weak signal with useless noise.
> I see the PCC model work for applications where neither the consumer and the business want to store sensitive data because the security overhead is too high.

I agree. I think apps that have both a basic and premium version can really thrive on a platform like this where useful apps are not competing with VC-fueled or ad-driven apps and the utility to the user is very clear. Data mining has really gotten out of hand and caused the value-add to the user to become extremely distorted. User attention has been the only metric that free apps are fighting for which is a zero-sum game and not good for anyone.

I'm most excited by the idea of applications being able to be more closely connected and even create new types of apps that just layer on top or extend existing app data.
In the simple case, if it could be Dog|Cat and you cast as Dog but you get a Cat, and TS could have told you about the error if it hadn't been forced to treat it as Dog. This can be fixed by having your types be derived by runtime validation.
TypeScript does not offer perfect typing, but on the other hand, your example is wild in such a way, that I don't think I would ever encounter it with a professional team of developers.

I.e. it would be quickly caught in a review, and the offending developer would have to bring cake the next day.

Yes, TypeScript is not perfect, but we take what we can get
Then it still will be standard and OP will be able to share the charger with their partner.

But there is no way Lightning could be a standard because only Apple is using it.
That is interesting, because there are plenty of logical proofs of the opposite.

There are, also, plenty logical proofs of how Schiff conducted a biased investigation.

It is easy to prove any point by selecting your evidences.
> This is extremely misleading. Sure, the velocity input into your synth is going to be at 7-bit resolution, but at soon as the synth has it, it can play anything it wants at whatever volume it wants to based on how you have configured it. There's nothing about the external 7-bit implementation that is really limiting the dynamics of the synth itself.

I don't agree.
Musical sounds are evolving, so one should not be seeing a note as "keeping a value zero-order sampled for a period" -- consider tremolo, sliding, etc.

When it's one more dimension to consider than just a point, the limitation of 7bit is shown.
Consider a lowpass filter commonly found on a synth. Play a note, and turn the knob all the way down.
On an analog device the transition will be smooth and you'll hear the filter gradually "closing down".
If the knob is mapped to 0-127, you can easily hear the steps (sounds like discrete i----a----o----u----n----).

Sure there are non-standard 14bit encodings (NRPN), but that's manufacturer-specific, and doesn't communicate.

The article is right that MIDI 2.0 will make it feel a lot more "analog".
Why do you think WhatsApp doesn't need section 230 immunity? Do you think it can survive while being held liable for every bit of content shared on it?
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Structural typing and actual first class union types in typescript are better than basically all the ML-based languages.

Dumb example: imagine you had

Animal = Dog | Cat

Person = Plumber | Driver

If you want a list of “stuff” in your system , in typescript you just say you have Person | Animal.

In ML languages you would need to introduce an Either type so you’re working with Either Person Animal.

So now in your code you’ll need to introduce a bunch of Lefts and Rights. And if you end up needing to compose you’re introducing even another layer of Lefts and Rights. And you don’t get much of any or the inference capabilities of TS to just do this for you.

ML languages don’t have first class unions, they have ADTs, which introduce difficulties and lead to classic type safety weirdness like “why can’t I write a function that only accepts one ADT variant??”

Typescript resolves a lot of these, do you end up with a much better local maximum for typechecking IMO.

Typescripts type unsoundness means you unfortunately can’t really implement return type polymorphism though...
Positively surprised by such an early language supporting multiple platforms already, having a clear Getting Started guide and FAQ, language spec and examples. Even aware about the Visual Studio Command Prompt in Windows despite supporting *nix — what is this!
Well, not really fine. You should trust me in this, because our Android xmpp app is closing on 2 million installations on Google Play. There are a lot of problems maintaining a persistent connection, and Google makes it harder with each new version of Android. And if we go for push notifications, without persistent connection, the problems are the same as with iOS.

To counter this and make XMPP work well on mobile and in browsers, we had to develop our own server and a bunch of new protocol extensions.