skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IC2 is not populated but the pinout looks like an I2C EEPROM, so it could be used for storing settings. The pinout of the main IC doesn't match a PCM2902E, and in any case that doesn't have an EEPROM function.

The ratio between the motor and turntable is likely 34:1, as that gives some reasonable speeds...

1130 / 34 = 33.24
1520 / 34 = 44.71
2360 / 34 = 69.41

...except for the last one which is presumably for 78 but quite a bit below.
This seems curious. Methanol is toxic bit it's not novichok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity

"Methanol has a high toxicity in humans. As little as 10 mL of pure methanol when drunk is metabolized into formic acid, which can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve. 15 mL is potentially fatal,[1] although the median lethal dose is typically 100 mL (3.4 fl oz) (i.e. 1–2 mL/kg body weight of pure methanol[8]). Reference dose for methanol is 0.5 mg/kg/day.[9]"

I've been using methylated spirits (~10% methanol IIRC, rest ethanol) as a hand sanitiser (on my hands, not as a flipping mouthwash) for months with no problems and I'm going to dig around and check its skin permeability tomorrow, but I wonder if the FDA is doing a bit of major just-in-case butt-covering here.

Edit: some links

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/24036/methanol...

Quite long.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00378331

"Methanol absorption rate through the human skin has been examined by the use of a modified direct method, and a value of 0.192 mg/cm2/min was determined."
I must be Abby-Normal because I still work in an office. Somebody in $Company has to. Otherwise why even have an office.
Expected since the uptick in ad money came from all the smid companies going full e-commerce as well as new categories such as masks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200802212446/https://www.bloom...
> saying something so hateful

Your interpretation of my joke is so extreme that I don't know quite what to say about it.

> just because they happen to have rolled the dice and landed on Florida.

This is weirdly condescending towards Floridians in a way my absurd joke was not. Of course I do not believe drug consuming cannibals are representative of Florida. I also don't believe living there is the result of a bad roll of the dice.
Devil's advocating: I did exactly this several times in my sailing career. Military vessels are regulated by the same international laws and rules as all other sea navigation subjects.

Fellow sailor crossed the course of Turkish submarine while under sail (meaning he had a right of passage). It was in Turkey's waters (!) about 10 years ago. Instead of changing course they made an emergency dive exercise.
> some of them are crazy. I received death threats for removing a small feature

Wow, literally crazy

About how many customers did you have, when those things happened? If I may ask.

I wonder how large a group of people tends to be, when such crazies start appearing

(I wonder how those things made you feel and think)
The 400 ms threshold cited for the Doherty threshold is from a 1982 research paper. I imagine that in 1982, 400 ms response times felt pretty darn good.

Also, the nature of the tasks that users performed in 1982 may have meant that there was no benefit to <400ms response times. (If it takes twenty seconds to read and understand the output, and another ten to key in your next command, then a 400 ms delay is not a meaningful productivity drag.)

Today, I would guess that the threshold is closer to 50 ms.

(Also, "time spent by the computer waiting for the user" makes sense in the context of a 1982 research paper. That has changed in the last 28 years, to say the least.)

All of this is a long way off saying that if you are making UX decisions based on 28 year old research, you are on shaky ground!
“Learn to code” is harassment on twitter
Two thoughts:

One, I remember a study back when cigarette companies were told they couldn't advertise on television that all major tobacco brands loved this because it meant they didn't have to spend any money on these types of ads. I'm sure there are versions of this all over the place in most marketing strategies.

Two, pardon my cynicism, but I'm sure companies model these things out and take action based on those models. No CEO is just like "yes, let's support a social cause." Randomly picking on a brand, but I'm sure Starbucks started flying a Pride Flag because it made sense to do so for the business.
John Carmack receives the BAFTA Fellowship (2016) [video]
A right. Another Fascism play.

Agree that is unfortunately significant
There's also some "dark patterns" like in the info section, if you click the twitter link, it trys to make you tweet the link to the webpage.
Aren't Facebook ads essentially a perfect market (in the economic sense) if done properly? Even if someone drops out, there would be someone with a slightly lower bid just behind them.
Yeah, you can emulate laziness at the library level with iterators, coroutines and whatnot, but it always comes with a certain API friction (some readers might be familiar with the “colored functions” analogy [1]) compared to Haskell’s approach that takes laziness to the extreme.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
AIUI, your understanding is true, but that's not the narrative the overwhelming majority of people I've encountered in real life were following, before or after.

I don't consider "We have had both ongoing hostilities and peace talks with both Eurasia and Eastasia for the entire time Oceania has existed.", even if true, to be a refutation of the claim that the narrative switched to "we've always been at war with Eastasia".
My understanding is that 'western values' is also a dogwhistle for a particular sort of nationalist authoritarianism that does not represent, for instance, the Allies in WWII.

Rather the other side of that conflict, really. This complicates things. I have to ask, especially seeing the 'cancel culture' and the suggestion that things have been getting worse for years, which definition of 'western values' you mean.

From where I'm standing, there's never been as much ability to advocate for your POV, including from groups that have historically been brutally oppressed. It's messy, but that's democracy for you. I think it's an instructive contrast with what's going on in China.

Western values can be a big pain in the butt, and yet I wouldn't have it any other way. We're living through a spectacular vindication of exactly Western values, compared to some other ideologies/ethos that have gained traction in the past.
Amazing. Thanks for helping me find it again.

I'm pretty sure only Gnome users bash Gnome because non-Gnome users just don't care. I've been on Gnome since 2003.
We should know because Android is much more open and they would have the opportunity to create their dream app. Where are the great porn apps for Android?
I think we fundamentally disagree here then. :)

I'm very happy in my locked platform, I'm happy that my family are on a locked platform.

If they (or I) want to be on a more open platform then that exists, just not for apple devcies; but for now I trust random developers less than I trust Apple.

If it becomes normalised to bypass the app store, then it's going to be very difficult to control the quality of software generally; and on a macro-scale will entice even large developers (like banks) to go the 'alternative app store' route, which will force everyone to be using applications which are not vetted in a reasonable way.
HT share most execution units in the core. If your workload stalls a lot due to branch misprediction or memory access (low IPC) these units can be shared effectively. The Linux perf tool can be used to check IPC.
We're all on video with all our meetings. I shave about once every three weeks. Most are wearing t shirts all the time and nobody cares about attire.
They have a monopoly on iOS app stores. This is a different market than Android app stores because the set of customers is completely different.

It's like having a monopoly in California. "Just sell in New York instead" doesn't work, because you already sell in New York and not selling in California doesn't get the California customers to the New York store.

Compare this to stores that actually have competition, e.g. three grocers on the same street corner. If you don't want to sell to one of them, the customers who want your product just go across the street and buy it there. If you sell to all of them they each represent a third of your sales. If you don't want to sell to one of them, you don't actually lose all of those sales because the same customers can still buy your product from the other stores.

If you don't sell to Apple, none of those app sales go to Android because people don't replace their $1000 phone to buy a $1 app. That's what makes it a different market, which is what makes it a monopoly.
Oh fuck off.

(Are you going to take offense at that?)
Postel's Law ("Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send") is a bad idea. You should be conservative in both, which will result in broken software, but broken software gets fixed. Postel's Law adds avoidable complexity, and complexity is a major source of security vulnerabilities. Unlike broken software, insecure software often stays insecure until it's being actively exploited.
So long as an employer has approved you to go remote from an office, the cost of you coming into an office now and then is on them. And, frankly, if you just move without telling them, you're potentially committing tax fraud. Of course, it's possible to reach informal agreements--let me go remote and I'll pay for coming in now and then. Though, personally, I'd hesitate to do so because that agreement might not last beyond getting a new manager.
It seems to me SpaceX's secret sauce is continuous iteration on vehicles that actually fly. It's hard to see how Boeing or Blue Origin can develop expertise with any confidence their designs will work, except, apparently, by going very slowly. Of course, Boeing has somewhat of a track record, but Blue Origin was founded before SpaceX and still hasn't achieved orbit.
Yeah, pretty sure I will. I've cultivated enough mass to probably need one to start :)
> I hope those stupid compa ies would never come back to FB with their spending. Lack of blue chips on FB allowed SMBs to get cheaper ads on FB and their overall spending is bigger than blue chips so at the end FB benefited from this action. So those stupid companies are pu usher as their SMB competitors increases their market share!

Overall spending is bigger than blue chips? I feel like that's a citation needed. I've worked for companies spending 1 million+ on twitter advertising channel alone, so I'm curious how SMBs could get anywhere near close that level of spend in one channel per month forget about across multiple.
Here's a link to that part of the stream if anyone's interested. https://youtu.be/H-l6f4wcv2I?t=27524

It is _extremely_ aggravating.
The tone of this article is incredibly obnoxious. This would be slightly (but only slightly) easier to swallow if I wasn't nursing doubts throughout about the author's knowledgeability. For example:

> Early Beatles music was specifically mastered to sound good on crackly AM radios and craptacular Dansette record players.

I have news for you: vast swathes of popular music are specifically mastered to sound good on low end equipment. That's as true today as it was in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and noughties.

As an example, Michael Jackson's Thriller, along with plenty of other albums in the late 70s and 80s, was mastered using Auratone 5C Super Sound Cubes. These sound absolutely awful, but they give you useful information about what your mix is going to sound like on low-end equipment. A modern equivalent would be something like the Avantone MixCube, which I highly rate even though it also sounds horrendous.

If your music only sounds good on audiophile level equipment, that's obviously fine, but you have to be realistic about how that's going to limit your potential market.

Similarly, the digs at vintage turntables also smack of ignorance. Again, most "hi-fi" equipment throughout the decades has sat at the low end of the quality spectrum because that's where the biggest market is. Most people are perfectly happy with sound systems that have passable playback quality, which is absolutely fine. However, certainly since the late 1960s, it's been possible to buy higher end equipment if you crave better sound quality.

And, on that note, as others have done I would also highly recommend picking up used hi-fi equipment rather than new. There are some real bargains to be had and it's relatively straightforward to build a great sounding system without breaking the bank. It's also quite fun and rewarding.

(Finally, on sound quality, whilst CD is objectively better than vinyl, and has for example significantly higher dynamic range, it is quite possible for a vinyl recording to sound better than a CD. An example of where this might be the case is for albums that were remastered for CD during the loudness war era, which can introduce serious clipping issues[0] and significantly reduce the dynamic range of the CD master relative to the vinyl original. In this kind of situation - and, of course, it does depend on having at least half decent gear - it's entirely possible for the vinyl version to sound better than the CD remaster, even though CD as a format is capable of noticeably higher quality and greater dynamic range than vinyl.)

[0] This often results in harsh sounding recordings that are quite tiring to listen to, particularly at higher volumes. If you have the option of patching a graphic equalizer into your signal path you can use it to somewhat take the edge off recordings like this, although it's obviously not ideal. I generally prefer listening with EQ bypassed but sometimes I find I have to use it. You can also use EQ to compensate for a less than ideal listening environment.
I don't know of any but I also wouldn't be surprised if there were. The NBA and American movie production companies already censor in the US as concession to access the Chinese markets. Not arguing this is a good thing mind you, just that it may not be unprecedented.
I think I'm #1, definitely not #2 or #4 and with honesty a little bit of #3, if only because it's a necessary but not sufficient part of #1.

I've taken the summer off work rather than continue WFH because I just don't see myself or others being very effective and it destroyed my motivation and love for what we were doing. I manage 2 teams of 10 developers and truly believe they do better work when given time to work colocated. Funny enough my best was (and is) the only true 100% remote worker. He's strong technically & domain and I see how much extra effort he puts in to make remote work; I don't believe everyone else has the foundation or work ethic to do the same.

If we don't go back to a majority of colocated working I'll probably find another job or do something independent. If I'm going to work from home I might as well do it my way...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24031945
I've noticed that these differing approaches lead to argument order being flipped sometimes.

https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5/Module%20(chicken%20string)#s...

Because Chicken's `string-split` expects its delimiter to be optional, it wants a string first.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-1.2.4.0/docs/Data-T...

While Haskell's emphasis on composition means it's more logical for the constant parameter—the delimiter—to be provided first.

It's not a great example, but the first one I can think of. The difference is starker when the Lisp command has many more parameters than the Haskell one, with some of them being optional. When trying to write cute point-free code in Scheme, I found myself using `flip` too much for it to be fruitful.
Listened to it - got it, thanks; yeah, that makes sense. The Dragon crew displays won't be running something called Safari.

I get to eat crow now. :)

Still: I'm kinda skeptical of the use of chromium + javascript for anything life-critical.
Yeah, I need to just give it a try I think. Problem is, I drive in this city (or did), and with the crap I see people do behind the wheel I wonder how cyclists survive.

What app do you generally use for directions that might tell you about elevation?
For those that didn't know, Haskell does of course have list comprehensions:

[x| x <- foo, not (elem x y)]

Here's an example finding consonants:

[c| x <- ['a'..'z'], not (elem x) $ "aeiou"]
Plaintext:

LAWS OF UX

01. Aesthetic Usability Effect: Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.

02. Doherty Threshold: Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

03. Fitts’s Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

04. Hick’s Law: The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices.

05. Jakob’s Law: Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

06. Law of Common Region: Elements tend to be perceived into groups if they are sharing an area with a clearly defined boundary.

07. Law of Prägnanz: People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form possible, because it is the interpretation that requires the least cognitive effort of us.

08. Law of Proximity: Objects that are near, or proximate to each other, tend to be grouped together.

09. Law of Similarity: The human eye tends to perceive similar elements in a design as a complete picture, shape, or group, even if those elements are separated.

10. Law of Uniform Connectedness: Elements that are visually connected are perceived as more related than elements with no connection.

11. Miller’s Law: The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

12. Occam’s Razor: Among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

13. Pareto Principle: The Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

14. Parkinson’s Law: Any task will inflate until all of the available time is spent.

15. Peak-End Rule: People judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak and at its end, rather than the total sum or average of every moment of the experience.

16. Postel’s Law: Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

17. Serial Position Effect: Users have a propensity to best remember the first and last items in a series.

18. Tesler’s Law: Tesler's Law, also known as The Law of Conservation of Complexity, states that for any system there is a certain amount of complexity which cannot be reduced.

19. Von Restorff Effect: The Von Restorff effect, also known as The Isolation Effect, predicts that when multiple similar objects are present, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.

20. Zeigarnik Effect: People remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
I think there are some pipe-like operators in the popular Lens library (and presumably others as well). However, writing Haskell, you quickly get used to everything being backwards.
“People who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it”

― Bernard Shaw
It probably depends on the industry and market. For cigarettes, they weren’t trying to make people aware of cigarettes, because everyone already knows what they are. The companies were simply fighting for market share, and were at a point where they had to advertise just to keep their market share.

It was a prisoners dilemma, where the whole industry could be more profitable by cutting advertising, but there was always an incentive to ‘defect’ and advertise your product.

The government banning the ads solved this problem for them.
Can anyone backup the downvotes?

Comment is opposite of parent which is also downvoted, so which is it?
Can you stop with the 1984 eurasia stuff.

So plainly put, what is "narrative the overwhelming majority of people [you've] encountered"? And what's it got to do with masks that may slow covid?
Good catch. I can verify this is also the behaviour on Linux.
"Defined benefit" should be replaced with either "100% guaranteed returns" or "tax backed" in order to raise the red flags it should.
Existing customers were grandfathered
> There is nothing in the law that allows this

There is, though. They will forward the case to the general prosecutor's office, as the law dictates.

> and the constitution plainly prohibits it.

It really doesn't. In fact it mentions explicitly that the Supreme Court in Brazil must oversee the early investigations (before handing them over to the general prosecutor, although that part is not explicit).

I'm not really in favor of it, but this is the reality of the system in place.
I've only ever seen one unintrusive animation in UI, which was the window minimization animation of the Metacity window manager. It minimized the window immediately, but then followed up with an animated outline showing where the window had gone. It was thin enough that you could easily ignore it, but still provided all the benefit that designers claim from their slow and disruptive animations.
100% of lemonade sold on my front lawn is sold through my lemonade stand. Is that a monopoly too? Of course not, because it's not representative of the overall market and the alternative choices the consumer has.

> It' doesn't matter than they're only ~11% marketshare of smartphones sold.

It very much does, because it means the consumer can choose to buy an alternative smartphone that is better suited to them.

Moreover, for the purposes of antitrust action, both the US and Europe have thresholds for the consideration of monopoly power that are well above 11%:

US: Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area. [1]

Europe: The Commission considers that low market shares are generally a good proxy for the absence of substantial market power. The Commission's experience suggests that dominance is not likely if the undertaking's market share is below 40 % in the relevant market. [2]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Let's try a thought experiment. Suppose that human intelligence and consciousness are not ends unto themselves: I think therefore I am is false. Suppose that human intelligence is secondary to the will to power, to life, which is merely a chemical that repeats or does not: I am that I am, just an infinite paperclip factory. Suppose what is meant by consciousness and feeling is merely a death/not-death projection machine that attempts to conjure scenarios of fear and joy, dreams and nightmares, through the dimension of time, via memory stored in gray matter. Now this human AI creates a tool which can read the nuances of the human AI and bend them to its will.

What occurs after?
also it's much harder to read the internet, check your phone or leave your desk during a call when you have video on. People did all of these back during the in-person days, but it took more effort or less caring. Now it seems S.O.P.
The big problem with this is that you expect the computer to respond to your clicks naturally and instantly and instead you are put on hold while an animation plays. It may not break the latency rule strictly, but theoretically feels like it should be added on there because it has the same effect for users who don't care about animations (aka most users).
I hate when I have to do flip. Dislike reading it even more. I don't know what the solution is, other than using points..
Insurance also covers your car being stolen, vandalized, and other things unrelated to being in an accident.