skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started building Handel some weeks ago, as a simple way of writing music with code. While the livecoding movement focuses on providing solutions for performing music live with code, and making changes on the fly -- I focused on simple song writing (one reason why I wouldn't consider Handel an esoteric language).

One notable aspect of Handel is the behavior of its procedures, which are called chunks. Each chunk is conceptually a song track and all run chunks (from procedure calls) play at the same time. A run of a chunk can be customized by passing in arguments (ex. chords to use). The bpm, instrument, and loop amount of a run of a chunk can also be optionally set to further customize that run.

Open to questions and feedback!
How to Improve the Automate Everything Approach
Or the Trojan condom
> Very few jurisdictions where the rule of law and trust in the financial system doesn’t exist. I think there’s benefit in open sourcing the components that drive financial services and infrastructure, but believe it’s disingenuous to conflate that with the need for tokenized finance, distributed ledgers, and similar Rube Goldberg mechanizations.

To compare this to open source, why did we need Linux in 1991? If you wanted Unix with paid support from a company, it was available. If you wanted free Unix, the BSDs were available. If you were worried about the BSD lawsuits, then it'd seem more appropriate to encourage this Torvalds fellow to contribute to GNU Hurd, a right proper operating system in development, instead of embarking on a scrappy one person effort.

If you trust the rule of law and the financial system, then you are free to continue to use it and ignore cryptocurrency in your life. But what's the problem with having an alternative for those that don't share your view and wish to develop a system free from the encumberances of trust in third parties?
What is your standard for "good decisions"? Is your standard maximum profit and growth? In that case, sure. Is your standard general customer and employee satisfaction, along with stability? In that case, no.

I'd say the second criteria is infinitely more useful, and empirically it works. The most stable bank in North America is democratically run by both customers and employees, I'm a very happy customer, and I know of many happy employees.
Do you have the source?
reminds me of sonicpi
You are more likely right than not, and this is coming from someone who has devoted the majority of his professional career to crypto / blockchain and whose license plate is 'BCOINS'. So I have fully drank the kool aid!

However you must admit despite your (justified) cynicism that this is very intriguing technology, and no one expected it to grow as much as it did as quickly as it did, and get official regulatory approval in so many ways. I am very optimistic in its future its potential for brand new businesses and ideas to be created and flourish in ways that no one expected.
Hm, guess the joke’s on me. I was being a little over the top but I was thinking somewhat seriously/curiously about the left agenda. Haha :-)
What has that got to do with disappearing millionaires?

I don’t see China backtracking on capitalism.
It's web primarily, but can be played on Facebook also, but I'll probably drop support for this in time once third-party cookie support is dropped.
It certainly can get into grey areas. None of those grey areas pertain to roles like the US citizen journalist which this article is about.

One helpful analogy is to imagine what would happen if we entirely removed the foreign flavor, since after all we're discussing the attempted killing of a US citizen by the US government. Suppose instead that the US military had strong evidence that entirely domestic groups, unlinked to any global extremist Islamist movements, were doing communications or logistics in support of a planned attack a domestic US military base. Maybe this hypothetical attack is due to dissatisfaction with, or skepticism of the legitimacy of, the government in power.

My guess as to what would happen in that scenario: law enforcement would be directed to arrest the people involved and hold them without bail for criminal trial, and would be authorized to use whatever force is necessary if there is physical resistance, including lethal force if necessary. The goal would just be to arrest, however, with killing simply accepted as a possible accidental result.

Something similar would likely have been appropriate here, albeit with the involvement of the military due to the location outside the US and the high likelihood of violent resistance.
so ah for what it's worth, leak today was that the next chip is a 12 core m2z, offered as soon as March[1]. rumors. but very believable.

current m1 is supposedly 16b transistors at 5nm, a scant 116mm^2. compare to current 7n graphics chips such as an amd 6900 which is 26b transistors & >500mm^2. also notable, the 8 cores on the m1 are only 1/3 of the chip size. it's gpu is bigger. suffice it to say, adding another 50% more cores is not gonna be a problem nor affect yields a lot. if apple wanted to, for whatever reason, dedicate more of that core space to cpu, & chop off that cpu, well, that'd be something.

that said, yeah, a multi-socket m[x] chip might not be in the cards for 2021. or maybe it is. anyhow the rumor mill has been floating the ideas of an "m2x" and "m2z" follow up being launched this year; this is just further "suggestion"/priming that we may see one, or two follow ups.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Next-gen-Macs-set-to-feature-1...
The natural conclusion being that they're sacrificing money for some higher purpose, surely a praiseworthy act.
This is like choosing to deal with cash and then complaining that you can't do a chargeback.

You didn't learn your lesson. The lesson wasn't that Telegram should require a government ID (then nobody would use it much less the scammer who scammed you). The lesson was that you need to consider the impact of being scammed when you're open to using a channel with no recourse.
I agree wholeheartedly that Ethereum is novel, but it’s still looking for a fit for its capabilities. I’m pragmatic, but not entirely without wonder and curiosity.

Words and thoughts are my own in the entire thread.
A graph of US money supply since 1975
> installed via presumably verified initial media

This is not a universally correct assumption.

How does this chain of trust bootstrap for a first time (or stand alone) user who downloads Ubuntu from a non-Ubuntu system? If I've got MITM, I can change both the ISO (with the totally-not-verified public key) as well as the gpg sig to match using a private key I know (and gave you the public key to).
My guess is, after about 20 successes in a row you start to have competent people that want to risk it and go to Mars. Being first at that carries huge prestige.
Emacs commit: Don't mention non-GNU package archives
Qubes might be a better choice than Ubuntu, for additional compartmentalisation.
Subsistence agriculturalists make up 25% of the world's population and many of them (probably all) require more than 500 ft^2.
Looks like the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy links from the front page 404
trivia: Sleeping in work is supposedly viewed positively in Japan.
GitHub's IDE selection dialog makes me sad
> Our legacy promotional business, Freebies (freebies.com, free.ca), publishes notices of free samples

A vast amount of free samples are actually review scams. You buy the thing from Amazon, they refund you so you appear as a verified purchase and then you write a 'honest' review. I regularly report these when I see them, I presume others too, if they got involved in this sort of thing, then a ban is right.
You might want to change the title to something not as clickbaity and misleading.
> Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination.

Either you mean that "everyone discriminates illegally", in which case I'm glad we've never worked together, or you're equating "differentiating people at all" with discriminating against $PROTECTED_GROUP ", in which case, no.

> Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed.

...yes? How are you getting enough applicants to waste any?
I don't know. They never gave me any training, never told me what the product was or who they were selling it to. It might not seem possible to not know the industry, but I responded to a job ad, so all I knew was the address and the name of the company. I posted a longer version on my website: https://lancebachmeier.com/trivia/bad-job.html
Must resist urge to comment on HN at $ZZZ-o-clock in the morning... pedantic clarification, nowadays X uses MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE authentication generally, but can be configured to do others (I think it can use Kerberos?). I don't think the protocol is encrypted in any circumstances though.
Yeah, it seems pretty explicit that you're making your location public when you press this button. I'd say the 'bug' is in people not realising that pushing their location to a 'show users near me' function inherently reveals their location to some degree of accuracy.
In my experience, it's shockingly difficult to stop consuming caffeine.

N of 1: I had a similar experience to the author. I was fine for a few weeks, slowly weening down my caffeine intake (I did get to zero eventually w/o headaches).

But I never felt quite "right." I always felt a little slow/sluggish, and I missed the routine. Perhaps work just isn't as interesting without caffeine?

Anyway, I'm back on it now, but I limit myself to one cup per day (and perhaps a second 1-2 days a week).
My mailserver can’t point to gmail unless I get gmail premium I chose instead to run my own mailserver (it’s a pain, but it’s very scaleable and I use a catch all often). Gmail have created an anticompetative situation where I can chose to pay them money, or have problems communicating with their customers.
> If you trust the rule of law and the financial system, then you are free to continue to use it and ignore cryptocurrency in your life. But what's the problem with having an alternative for those that don't share your view and wish to develop a system free from the encumberances of trust in third parties?

Nothing, as long as you adhere to financial regulations and related laws where the systems and its users operate. Novel technologies don’t absolve you of adhering to the law.

If that means unnecessary abstractions and overhead, or a handicapping of capabilities, then them the breaks of selecting a technology not fit for purpose. Consider regulations and laws as requirements when building systems that store or transmit value.
I wrote that program in the hope that it would better illustrate why some of the benchmarks on the site aren't very good since for some benchmarks the program performance is highly dependent on the libraries being used and not the programming language implementation itself. I know at least one person opened an issue regarding this on the site issue tracker at https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/... and I also believe I recall one of the Rust regex crate developers mentioning this too.

I know that using PCRE2 in a Python program isn't typical but the Benchmarks Game does allow using other libraries and many of the previously submitted programs have been doing this for a long time already. The pidigits benchmark is the other benchmark that is heavily dependent on the libraries being used as is illustrated by their being a nearly ten way tie for second place by a bunch of programs that all use GMP.
It does, but you can keep trying until you get an accurate location. In the simplest version you can just watch the distance and play warmer/colder until you physically track them down.
Gosh I was so happy when they invented zero.
As a similar "addict" who quit caffeine almost cold-turkey last year, I have to say, the withdrawl symptoms are very real. But they also fade as days pass.

Attempt quitting when you can afford to not be at 100% for a few days at a time.

Cut it out cold turkey. No waning off. Nothing. Just no more caffeine.

Day 1 goes alright. Day 2 is a little worse. You'll wish you were dead on day 3-5. But day 6 feels better. Day 7 even better. And slowly, by day 30, you're off.

This worked for me. YMMV. and I believe it's because I consumed zero cups of coffee in this entire time.

Source: ~1 year caffeine free.
Interesting perspective. My primary mailserver is AWS lightsail, my test mailserver is DigitalOcean. Both have a process to request a ‘good’ IP address. The latter works with ipv6, despite being (in my opinion) a lower credibility service.
For those who think these concerns are fringe, see also this piece from the Washington Post Editorial Board a couple days ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/we-c...
The Dominion company (behind the voting machine software in the US) used Solarwinds. It was plastered on many of their websites.

It was removed the day this hack went public.

I don't believe in coincidences.
This is an article that really rewards repeat reads. Although the later iterations are made in somewhat in jest, being able to understand more and more iterations of the factorial implementation sheds a lot of insight into CS concepts.

Of course by the time you start hitting the CPS iteration you probably shouldn't ever directly write that code in production.
Lookshury.
More systems need to truncate location data. It is relatively "easy" to solve this particular issue by just not returning highly specific data. Instead of saying "896m", return "<1km" or "1km-3km" etc. Can you still abuse the data to some extent? Yes in theory, but it's significantly harder and takes a lot more work to get anything reasonable.

You can also truncate the data you have on users. 2 digits of Decimal_degrees precision is +/- 1KM. If you're doing an Uber-like service, knowing where a user is down to a few feet makes a different (which side of the street). But if you're just concerned with "Hey people nearby you are using this app too" (which is all too common).. Do you really need to know/save/keep where a user is beyond 1 sq km? No, you don't.

Yes, Apple has a coarse data that does something like this, but take it that one step farther. Don't need the info? Don't collect it (your app doesn't need to send it) and don't store it.
The barrier to entry to those markets rises proportionally with saturation. By definition, it is completely impossible for everyone to become an entrepreneur, even in fields such as SaaS - as soon as it can be expected that competition will require you to scale to a level where you need one subordinate person to work for you.

Also, barrier to entry is a term that is also an artefact of the 19th century. Should we drop it? Of course not, it's useful. So is the distinction between owner and worker.

Empirically, for all this task about barriers to entry falling and everyone becoming an entrepreneur, the average size of a company has stayed about the same. Market and social forces are so that we will likely never have a society where everyone can be an entrepreneur. The reasons for this are complicated and go beyond "means of production", but it turns out those were also figured out somewhere in the 19th century, like many useful things.
> Sounds like the cart before the horse. Tell me I'm signing up for something that I have no idea how it will turn out, and then present me with a take it or leave it contract months later. And I'm stuck.

That's not a reasonable position, since you're basically asking for someone to predict the future for you (accurately, I hope). Not knowing "how it will turn out" is life, for instance have you ever hired someone new with the knowledge of how they'll perform over the next few years? The answer is no, because it's impossible.

You never know what a contract will be before you negotiate it, and you can always quit and work someplace else if you don't like it. Which is exactly what you probably have now, except your employer writes your contract unilaterally without your input or that of anyone like you.
>It hardly demonstrates that he was murdered

"Epstein didn't kill himself" is about Epstein still being alive.

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2019/08/epstein-foster-the-pe...
I quit about 5 years ago. It took a couple of months to get 'clean'.

I sleep much better and can now wake up without an alarm. I also have lots of energy the entire day.
You are 100% right that the regulators have (and will continue) to come down hard on entities that violate these laws.

But crime is endemic, even in the developed world, and has been long before crypto existed. On the internet itself, TOR allows all manner of illegal IP packets to be transferred, but we have not banned the internet itself.

I know this is a tired argument that is oft repeated, but this is because it's true! We can't ban cryptocurrency simply because it can be used for crime. Society accepts that technology can be used for good or evil.
It's especially handy for debugging IoT and hardware issues.
Dude, just embrace a fine cup of joe.
why drink 5 cups / day ? what's wrong with one ?
I quit caffeine 6 or 7 years ago and it's easily one of the best quality of life† decisions I've made. For dependent users --- which I think is most users? --- a big part of the "benefit" of caffeine is just the cessation of withdrawal symptoms. It also has a relatively long blood half life and messes with your sleep.

For me, 95% of the trick was just finding a good decaf. You can drink lots of decaf (it's got ~5% of the caffeine of a normal cup) as a taper.

I have no discipline of, like, any sort whatsoever, and I don't even remember what quitting was like. I'm sure it's very difficult for lots of people, but just to chime in for the idea that it might not, for you, be nearly as bad as it is for some other people, and if you're interesting in ceasing caffeine, you should just give it a shot.

† Not health! My alcohol and nicotine affinities will attest to how little health has to do with any of this! I literally just mean life is more pleasant without the caffeine.
Even if those are the correct numbers to compare (which the other reply to you is questioning), the US number is 45% higher than Norway's which is still quite significant. Using the 36% rate from the other reply to you, the US rate is instead 80% higher than Norway's.
I will give you this same response with pretty much everything from now on and I'm also going to use these same rules if I ever get Jury duty.
Your location will be shared on the map if you make yourself visible. Otherwise, you're safe. Disable location sharing for the whole app.
Similar experience. Went cold turkey once and had quite strong headaches for 2-3 days. No trouble for the remainder of the fortnight. But I only stopped because of vacation and the resort only had terrible coffee. (Headaches were marginally preferable.)

That said, my consumption levels have been sane for a few years now. I understand the negatives of over consumption but I don't fully understand the case for elimination?
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You would not have to quarantine millions if governments had acted decisively like Taiwan. I think Taiwan shows the endgame, how to eradicate. For an idea in how to deal with mass community spread, listen to Michael Mina.
> Steal their good stuff and leave their dark patterns behind.

Their dark patterns make them money. That said, at this point, a LinkedIn competitor would look nothing like it...
Can't vote on your fate otherwise. It's worth paying the dues :)

Also, in Canada you are forced to pay union dues even if you choose not to join the Union, at least partially.
What's a good equivalent for fan control that is universal, lightweight and open? Do people use https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases ?
Good news for GoodRx.
I was similarly addicted and quit for similar reasons. https://www.weancaffeine.com worked really well for me - I bought 3 packs and was off caffeine in a few weeks. I was slightly slower those weeks but it wasn't so painful.
I’ve managed a few times, and gotten over the hump too, but the problem is I’ll “just have one” a few months later and it feels amazing and now I drink coffee again
People returning to work and downloading a huge backlog of messages from the past two weeks.
Let me describe my experience as a person who gets addicted easily.
Caffeine had many detrimental effects in my body, especially with sleep. I also had extreme physical anxiety after consuming coffee. I used to have 1-2 cups a day for around 5-6 years.

Quitting for me was very simple. I just quit cold turkey one day and dealt with some head aches and flu like symptoms (not too bad) for around 3-4 days. I was totally fine after a week and I can not write enough about the advantages of quitting caffeine.

Porn addiction on the other hand is something I think I will never get over.
Good luck convincing many people in the US of the same. I'm certainly not convinced. As you point out, Singapore has already abused the system. If some abuse is technically possible, it's probably already happening.

But there's a lot of room outside of "do nothing" and "omnipresent perfect surveillance" to do good things with civic technology, including non-pandemic stuff. Why aren't all public records online and searchable through a single engine? Or all forms editable and submittable? Or budgets and financial reports navigable or comparable? I'd love to be able to know how some random municipality is going to gouge me before I move there.

There's loads of room for good solutions for these and tons of other pain points. But as far as I can tell, American government is scared of letting go so the private sector can develop these things. And it's not imaginative or technically competent enough to want or develop this kind of stuff on its own. Or maybe it's not organized or unified enough?
If they don't want to fix this issue (maybe they find it's advantageous to let benign users find each other precisely), some kind of warning when you opt-in like "Warning: By enabling this setting, anyone around the world may be able to determine your location, such as your home address, even if they live in a different region or country." would be nice.

Not sure of the best way to word it, but making it clear that someone in a different continent may be able to see your location and address would at least make the full implications clear. Most users probably assume the risk is limited to people in their city (or a smaller area within it) seeing their location, and also may not necessarily be thinking about the address disclosure (even if that's arguably already obvious to some).
Nah, that's a pass for me! Life's too short to not have one vice. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't drink soda - but I do enjoy my 4 cups of coffee a day. I drink it black, zero sugar or milk/cream.

If you're drinking so much that you get migraines, you should cut down. I don't get that though, ever.
What about public parks? You can always sit in the grass (not in winter however).
My main problem with it they seem to assume that you have an email client on the device you want to access the site. I don't have mail account setup on my iPad so I need to mess around with AirDrop or iCloud to share the code.
True, but that didn’t make them any less dead. Some estimates put casualties from Mongol invasions as as high as 60 million people. They certainly did kill millions, not just the elites.
> Cut it out cold turkey

Each time I successfully quit (eg: got over the withdrawal symptoms) it was by switching to decaf + caffeine pills and then slowly over a week or so cutting out the caffeine pills. Cold Turkey sounds unnecessarily dramatic.