skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protobuf, thrift, avro, cap'n proto just off the top of my head. There is no shortage of RPC protocols and implementations and none of them have very wide adoption.
A random suggestion to make for nicer, more interesting music: the article takes pitches from a table of equal tempered note frequencies relative to A440:

> For example, here’s a familiar riff “E B D E D B A B”. It uses only 4 notes - D and E from one octave and A + B from the other, lower octave. If we look at the note frequency table, the pitches of those notes in octaves 5 and 4 would be 659.2Hz (E), 587.3Hz (D), 440Hz (A) and 493.8Hz (B).

Instead of equal tempered pitches (which are generated by repeatedly multiplying by the 12th root of 2), use pitches that form whole number ratios with respect to the root of your key.

A decent 12-note chromatic scale would be something like 1:1, 16:15, 9:8, 6:5, 5:4, 4:3, 45:32, 3:2, 8:5, 5:3, 15:8, and 2:1. So, for instance if your root is C=256 hz, you'd have 256 hz for C, (25616)/15 for C#, (2569)/8 for D, and so on. This is a just intonation (JI) scale. An advantage of JI is that the musical intervals blend with each other better, whereas the advantage of equal temperament (ET) is that you can use any note as the root and change keys on the fly without causing problems. If you're doing electronic music, though, there's a lot less reason to stick with ET: you can always just multiply your whole tuning table by a constant if you want to switch key.

JI scales can be made with any ratios: the above maps well to most conventional music, but there's no rule that you have to limit yourself to 12 steps per octave. Using the harmonic series is another option, or adding in ratios that have a 7 in them.
being young, broke, and healthy helped me get my first company going without being distracted by decision fatigue because often times the decision was made for me.

having a handful of mentors who can tell you "you're asking the wrong questions, ask yourself X instead" saved me a lot of time early on.
I've had the opportunity to know Kelsey for a number of years, and we've worked together closely on occasion. He is the genuinely good human the article portrays him as, and unlike some who evangelize - Kelsey understands his technical area (k8s) deeply and is on the CLI daily. Top notch human, and I thought I'd add a POV from a regular HN reader.
This seems like it might introduce a different perverse incentive for people to remain in their homes indefinitely even if they’d prefer to downsize / move. Might further exacerbate supply / demand issues.
Having a good understanding of theoretical CS and its fundamentals makes programming a relatively trivial activity. I don't think a CS degree miseducates you at all, as long as you actually internalize the CS you learn.
Technically yes, but a functioning democracy requires that the election itself be democratic in the first place.

As a simple example, which has happened countless times in dictatorships: if Party X arrests all the candidates from opposition parties, then people who abide by the results of the election and the peaceful transfer of power from one member of Party X to another are in no way supporting a functional democracy. They are doing quite the opposite.

(And yes, as the other reply pointed out, almost all democracies in the world can point to their foundation in bloodshed. At some point you had to transfer power away from the undemocratic regime previously in power, and they usually were not willing to be peaceful about it. Meanwhile, a desire to preserve peace in the face of a growing unsympathetic-to-democracy party who's gaining power for now through democratic means is the backstory of many of the times democracy has been lost.)
Yes! It’s about time we replace Uncle Bob and his whiny antics with someone more worthy of the spotlight and our attention. Kelsey gets my vote here.
Start-up advice in one line: don't quit your day job.

Having a salary gives you the time to find customers, figure out market fit, and lay the foundation for a successful business. More than anything else it allows you to be patient, which is a virtue when starting a new business.
Distributed Systems Learning Notes
I think I've seen that one. I also like this presentation by extempore's author [1]. It is pretty cool in that it shows how to model instruments out of simple waves and "attack, decay, sustain and release" envelope modeling. Pretty quickly he comes up with something that kind of starts sounding like real instruments (squinting a bit... :-).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phYHOUICe7Q
That's such a horrible death. Nature is brutal. One would wish there were a kill switch if you knew you were both in pain and going to die of starvation. Having that might even save some of your species members so that predators can't guess where the rest of the healthy ones are.

It's also strange that social behaviors didn't evolve in more species. They seem to have the brains to migrate thousands of miles and borrow homes, yet they don't have the brains to help members of their species, which would help them proliferate.
You can have tiny roundabouts: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.2437203,-110.9539392,84m/dat...

This one is also a 4-way, haha.
They are also counting incidents where the relative speed was 1mph, or a person walked into the car. Perhaps fatalities per billion miles would be a more comparable number.
Yeah I got hit by a bike because someone wasn’t following the law and now I have a chronic issue
Researchers find direction decided by rate of coin flip in quantum world
There is another site which tells you the tax subsidy based based on redfin estimated prices.

I'm not especially inclined to link to it because it falsely claims that no other state has non-mark-to-market property taxes, and for residences that is simply untrue.
> But prop 13 goes far beyond that-- applying to all property and with extremely expansive portability-- and as a result creates a massive windfall for existing property owners at the expense of new property owners.

It's even worse than that -- it creates a massive incentive not to sell homes.

People who have owned homes for more than just 10 years would see their property taxes double if they sold their homes today and bought another home for the same price elsewhere in the state. The longer you have owned your home, the worse the tax increase becomes.

It's kind of crazy that the people who bought their homes a long time ago, and therefore have realized the most return on investment, pay the least taxes. Meanwhile, people who bought their homes this year, and have made little to no investment return, pay the most taxes of anyone.
> For me, it was fascinating to see how our interactions changed over the course of the call. Everyone became more expressive in physical space.

I found this to be extremely useful, even when talking to people with normal hearing on a video call. Because the call omits so much context that is obvious when talking in person, it helps to overact emotions, especially if you don't want to take valuable speaking bandwidth. (Or worse, talk over someone, which happens much less elegantly over video call.)

I took to overacting pretty immediately in the beginning of lockdowns, but noticed that I was one of the few doing it. And I am still not sure how to broach that conversation with people. "Hi, I notice that you're acting normally on this video call. It would be best for you to comically overact your emotions so that people can get a read on how you are reacting."

Some examples include nodding - moving almost from chin touching chest to staring at the ceiling, smiling - mouth wide enough to almost hurt, with a bit of space between the top and bottom rows of teeth, thumbs up - holding it right next to my head for 3+ seconds, and reconsidering something - hand over chin, almost covering mouth, with my entire head oriented up and away from the camera.

I've gotten good feedback on it, so I don't think it's just me being weird. But it does sound odd now that I've written the examples out.
Wonder if he's able to code. I have Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (TOS) and work at a FANG. Everyday and every line of code is a challenge. Planning to push through for a few more years before I can find a new career where I don't haave to type as much but I don't know what yet. Really sucks.
My first hacking as it were was loading the Apple ][ game Lemonade and then writing my own programs. Because Lemonade loaded a bit of code that played music and I could figure out how to play notes and durations once the magic code was loaded but not how to do the magic code myself. It took quite a while and a book on 6502 assembly and my high-school's Franklin Apple clones (Franklin had a built in assembler in the ROM) to figure out how to make that speaker beep actually play notes. My first great hack was finally being able to write a program that played music on the other Bell & Howell Black Apple machines. Then I got an Amiga and that musical note playing became trivial. Article seems a bit bogus by not going down to speaker-on/speaker-off and delay loops.
Wow, I can't help you if you still have those questions. I would encourage you to google those exact questions up.

Let me help you with one specific item. Deficits https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...

Just Google stuff up and stop being a willing fool. The GOP and Trump will eat this country and spit it on your children.
The y axis is wrong.
Why Your Business Would Benefit from API Banking
Is this supposed to be ironic? It is, in fact, okay to sell yoga pants and evil to "lose" children in concentration camps.
yeah, I know Kenji - he's a top player and can beat the computer about 50% of the time. Will Anderson, another top player, is doing a 100 game series with Quackle on Twitch and they're roughly even after 20-ish games IIRC. I'm not as good as them but I can still beat it probably 35-40% of the time.
1) The answer to this lies in the question. Agile is a practice and it'll take some to get up to speed. One path I took was taking jobs in tech support, answering phones calls, and finding opportunities to engage with the product teams. You can start by giving feedback on the top issues you're seeing and breaking down ways the product can improve to reduce related support calls. And Boom, you are now apart of the Agile process, providing a feedback loop that helps development teams incrementally improve the product. You also help reduce support cost; don't worry, if you automate yourself out of a job, there will be a better one waiting for you.

That's how you open doors for yourself. Many great Q/A and operations engineers started in tech support where they honed their troubleshooting skills.

2) Yes, I use to get those questions. My answer was, "I'm starting a family, and I'm looking for something a bit more stable, and bigger challenges than the ones I was getting on my own".

It's all about being able to demonstrate your skills. Some times it's whiteboard coding exercises or logging into a live system and "making it work". My IT certifications helped me earlier in my career and now things like GitHub and blog posts are a great way to showcase your skills.

3) Remember, you can always tailor your resume for the job you want. If you want to avoid looking over qualified, then re-frame your experience to align with the job requirements. Instead of "I ran a business doing X,Y,Z", you can re-frame it, "As a _ I did X,Y,Z".

During the interview you can show off your full skill set by giving deep answers demonstrating your understanding of the big picture and how to make a business impact.

If you ever want to discus this stuff further, shoot me a DM on Twitter, I've been where you are, and I know what's possible.
additionally if you go to Elixir, they've implemented async/await on top of the not-really-"actors" of the erlang VM in its standard library, and it's super easy to use and understand. Arguably easier than async/yield/await like exists in most languages that use async as a coroutine serialization primitive.
The problem is the largest CO2 polluting country is unwilling to join any such agreements. This is true now and it was true 30 years ago.
Funny, I started with iOS development in 2008. I haven't done much recently, but laying things out with UIKit always felt pretty sensible to me. CSS, not so much. CSS was always the "WTF" of development. Maybe it's better now with Flexbox.
> When I'm done yelling, I'm trying to sit quietly and meditate about this pain. What is it trying to tell me? Can I mentally follow the nerve from the location (referred pain or otherwise) to my brain and determine what the body wants me to know? Am I being told there's danger?

For many chronic pain conditions this is a vital step, and that acceptance can be a huge boost, allowing you to get through a day.

Unfortunately for many of us... It isn't. I'm in pain now, chronic and debilitating, but there's no known cause. There's no message my body is trying to send other than the equivalent of every light on the dashboard turning on. Something is malfunctioning, so the body is misbehaving, and I'm in agony.

Every moment, of every day, for the last fifteen years, the pain is there are increasing. As you learn to tolerate the pain, the body learns to increase the signal because it thinks there's something that needs to be addressed... But there's not.

Sometimes... There's simply no escape. And learning to live with that is a harder truth.
> If this was a meritocracy, you would expect a proportionate number of every ethnicity and religion represented in the workforce of large corporations.

By this logic we should expect the NBA, NFL, NHL etc. to look like a random sample of the US population. If the source subpopulations differ by even small amounts on mean or variance those on the extreme tails of distributions will look very different from the general population. So the ranks of men who have ever run 100m in under ten seconds are basically all black and elite marathon runners are about half Kalenjin, an ethnic group of fewer than ten million.
Someone I know is dealing with sciatica now and it's not going well, do you have any insights on what helped you?
When I first learned Python (2.5, so old!), pygame was my introduction to programming GUIs, sounds, and games. I learned a lot about Python using pygame. I am surprised to see it's still going fairly strong!
You should checkout dolthub.com. It's versioned DB tool that allows for diffs and merges.
My employer had me go through training that had this video as part of the curriculum. Though I already understood the ideas, the video was still useful for me. It's less than 3 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

In short, sometimes people need connection to others; problem-solving mode isn't always the most useful path.
Technically that game was Win 3.1, not DOS (although Win 3.1 ran on top of DOS, so...). Still a very fun game and my first exposure to RPGs.
Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’
On October 30th, 2020 Transfer.sh (site/service) closed by Storj Labs... a second time, exactly in 1 year and 11 months since it was 'near' closed by original founder.

On November 30th, 2018 Transfer.sh closing was announced by its founder[0,1], but later site transferred to Storj Labs with promise to support project in the future.[2,3]

FTR, On my request[4] to "turn on" uploading artifacts from GitHub to Transfer.sh again in May 31th, 2020 (this spring Storj Labs disabled[5] uploading new files without announcing), Storj Labs replied & enabled it again on June 4th, 2020.[6]

Now, I'm not sure how to react on this HN news, as its broke all my Travis CI autobuilds (used by my projects on GitHub via `.travis.yml`) :/

P.S. On October 20th, 2020 Storj Labs claimed that they “does not control the domain of transfer.sh” so they “cannot make any decisions related to any proposed domain take over.”.[7]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18331139

[1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1057015323944251394

[2] https://twitter.com/remco_verhoef/status/1060585184905650177

[3] https://twitter.com/super3/status/1060592647822282757

[4] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1267064772371120131

[5] https://twitter.com/storjproject/status/1267582453356453888

[6] https://twitter.com/storjproject/status/1268663869469274113

[7] https://twitter.com/storjproject/status/1318698341643952128
While we're getting things off chests. I have a condition that's barely a condition; it causes minor, barely pain but it's always there. The problem for me is I am also pre-disposed to catastrophizing and that makes everything worse. My problem is as much (if not more) mental as it is physical. I've received help on both ends (for physical and mental health) but eight months of living with this discomfort and I can't help but think that it's forever, will never go away and in fact will get worse. I fear that the physical activities I love will disappear from life and that I won't be able to play with my kids.

Perhaps it's nothing more than future snakeoil but claims that humans will be able to CRISPR pain signals away in the not too distant future gives me hope. Opiates scare the living sh*t out of me.

I love Scott, I've followed and read him for a long time. From his involvement in the diabetes community and his glucose tracking projects, to advocating for .NET and MS, and just opening doors for others, it's clear he's a wonderful person.

From his posts, he's got an amazing family and I wish him and them all the best.
Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021
I have several discs in my lower back that are impinging on my spine. They are bulging out.
Even after downgrading to their free 3 applets in the hopes that they'd leave me alone, they were aggressively advertising through push notifications and emails. Just now as I tried to delete my account, I got two separate prompts to upgrade my account.
maybe I'm being insensitive, but it sounds like a problem I would absolutely love to have.
That’s a scam like most of the other propositions. Most of this year’s propositions are poison laced candy. They offer you one thing and take away something far more valuable.

Go read the whole proposition. They supposedly let you do it 3 times. That is the candy. Too bad many counties already let you do it once. So you haven’t gained much if anything. The poison is transfer to children resets the property tax for anything over a million. Now read each proposition and find the candy and then find the poison.
The property interest in one's channel is not actually an entitlement to be on another's server, anymore than a property interest in one's car is a right to put it in a certain parking garage. The property interest kicks in when the car is parked in a garage and then damaged, lost, sold, &c.
Private company mostly owned by the French Government.

https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/inves...
"True in practice" is the real truth!
Ah, i had forgotten about the being deployed bit. Being on taltz does mean having to take a tuberculosis test every 6 months, so I imagine that would be rough.

One suggestion is to not be pressured into a biologic before you do some research on incidence rates of side effects. Newer ones seem to be WAY safer than even those that came out a few years ago, but the insurance companies don't seem to care.

In fact, it isn't covered at all for me, but the manufacturers have a card you sign up for that lets you get it for $25 (or reduces your copay to $5 if you have a deductible).

I'm not sure what access to this stuff is like overseas or through VA, so I am curious and hope it pans out well!
What an amazing "fill-in-the-gaps" comment!

I wonder, what was it like being the people who helped YouTube before they were a Google company? Did you ever interact with them on a day-to-day basis?

And with your payments stuff - how did those changes help the business you worked for? Faster batch reconciliation / processing or something else?
Thing is any local media wont display it "in your face" like an America show would do it, it is just part of the environment. Paraphrasing Borges, "How do you identify an actual desert people literary work? it's the one which does not mention camels"

This reminds me one thing I find irritating about SF in general and SF movies in particular. They hardly portrait technology use in an organic way. Do you want to see a great SF movie? Watch a current normal movie with 1990s eyes. People will text, call her friends, use Uber, buy on Amazon but nothing self conscious " See? See how cool is what I am doing!?"
One of the best books I have ever read. It taught me what it meant to be a product manager and how to be a professional at the workplace no matter what. I now refer to it almost every day while running my own start up which is three months old.
The terms we of bank accounts are not merely the generous offerings of the banks, but the result of a long process of interplay between consumers, banks, and regulators. The ToS we have for online service providers doesn't recognize enough of the users' interests to counterbalance the power and interests of the major platforms.
Yes, thank you, definitely correct. So it's more like 4 accident/million miles from this dataset, although another poster made a good case that Waymo's data includes minor accidents that aren't in the data I looked at, which would make 12 accidents/million miles a better benchmark.
Is Twitter Going Full Resistance? Here’s the Woman Driving the Change
Because it shows all those teenagers who are working at McDonalds in high school who feel hopeless that they can go so much further.

What's wrong with a bit of inspiration / hope?

I'm (possibly wrongly) assuming you've never had to work through that shit.
Although it's not really passive I started a YouTube channel [1] where I give some feedback to people who are starting their businesses online.
Whether it's an e-commerce, SaaS or even if you are a live-streamer there are things that might not be obvious to YOU about why people don't converted. I created a bunch of checklists and I give those out for free. I also am working on an e-book that has a framework that you can follow to achieve the same outcome as one of my analysis.

[1] https://youtube.com/c/landingfeedback
> Sadly it's because a lot of us have lost faith in people in general over the past 5/6 years.

This seems to be the goal of any divide-and-conquer strategy.
An average increase is supported by data, food production issues is really not.
I wonder how many people wrote in Kanye West.
My wife and I did. Anyone else in the HN community do so?
Pain sucks. End of story.
Permanent Head Damage is what my advisor would tell me ;)
If anyone is curious, it might be this talk.

Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google. It is on Etsy Eng channel
Youtube url with the relevant time frame https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=532
A Day in the Life of a Content Analytics Engineer
Proctoring Software Exists for Valid Reasons  - students cheat on the regular
I'm in a fair bit of constant pain from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and what's helped me is finding support groups of the "life hacks" variety.

Everyone in the group has EDS or is a caretaker, so they "get" it. It's consent-oriented because people won't give you advice unless you post asking for it. It doesn't turn into a pity party because the forum is about asking questions and getting answers. The post history has everything from wheelchair tips to relocating joints. Direct medical advice is banned, only suggestions of what to ask doctors are allowed. It's nice.

Sometimes I really want somewhere I can scream into the void about my pain and degeneration though. I'm not sure of a psychologically-healthy way to scratch that itch.