skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair, but even these aren't really substantive either.

> That's right: if I'm inactive for just one short little month, someone else can just go ahead and release software under my name, my name as a person, with no process in place for me to reclaim it later

Later they link an Ethics Guidelines document which indicates that stealing names won't go unpunished, not sure why the author doesn't think that'd extend to the collection of modules they made.

> public challenges to moderator decisions may result in a ban/suspension

That's pretty common on forums. I think it's still fair to critique, but like the first point it's based in a lack of faith in the maintainer which can't really be addressed by anybody.

> ...Any mention of it within the VCV community is immediately deleted, and its author is banned

What conclusion am I supposed to draw from this fact outside of the fact that some weird disagreement happened at some point between two people? Am I supposed to conclude the maintainer is the bad guy here?

No smoking gun, no clear victims, no crime in my eyes.
Looking for more accurate truth than the reductive “everything is explained by white supremacy” is different than being a racist.

And either way, I believe that kind of conversation doesn’t belong in public channels at work. They make project management software. The company doesn’t need to be political activists. That’s my
belief and I am entitled to it.

It’s also ok to disagree with that. If social activism is important to you, you can find ways to align that with your career. Good on you for doing that, and good luck.

However, saying that all companies, as well as all of their members have to align with your view of the world is crazy talk. I expect more companies to do this, and you can choose to not work there.
People are by and large not going to refuse. They say they are going to refuse, but when push comes to shove and their cushy FAANG job says “return to office or you are fired” they are not going to call the bluff. It’s easy to talk but not easy when you are faced with being handed your hat.
So you say because they have cancer they do not care about anything else? No loved ones?
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Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. Widely known as the Agas map, from a spurious attribution to surveyor Ralph Agas (c.1540-1621), the map offers a richly detailed view both of the buildings and streets of the city and of its environment. No copies survive from 1561, but a modified version was printed in 1633.
And? Does that matter if we have better capacity/congestion planning because all the cars are self driving. There's so much wasted time in traffic and excess congestion because humans are at the wheel creating chaotic traffic fluctuations by their driving.
I think this is where smart cars should be aiming. Stopping a car launching into the drug store when an elderly person stomps on the gas pedal instead of the brake.

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".
High volume and high gain are two different things, often found working together.

Under extreme conditions the little steel adjusting springs are free to rattle at all frequencies and resonate at some. They are so close to the permanent magnets of these high-impedance pickups that you can really hear it sometimes.

Once you know your desired pickup heights, some players have these springs replaced with precision-matched lengths of flexible plastic tubing instead. Gives a much more limited range of height adjustment though.

Somewhat like the whammy-bar springs in a Stratocaster, if you really crank it with their cover off you can hear it if you "strum" the springs. They can also be dampened.

Bad news is that the most important connections to be well-soldered are in the guitar where everything should be solid as can be, with all dissimilar metals encased by the molten lead alloy.

Changing pickups and changing speakers will still have the biggest effect compared to the slight nuances.
I would prefer a split honestly. I would be in about half-time if I could. Sometimes it's nice to work from home, but I miss my colleagues and the office environment.
Look at what this cop had to deal with in LA
It seems like there is going to be a big generational divide where the older execs want everyone to come to come back, but the younger employees feel they were more productive and want to stay remote.
“Software is eating the world”: means *glitches are eating the world
And thank you for that. That will surely drive down supply of engineers and inflate salaries - a great outcome for those of us willing to to into an office.
I just came to say I'm really enjoying this trip down memory road. Please keep the great stories coming!
The limitations of Markov chains are obvious within hours of starting to use them. GPT-3, less-so.
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Why would there have to be equal numbers of orders on both sides? If there are more buy orders than sell orders, that doesn't pose an issue for selling at the, --

oh, because weighting the price between the lowest open sell order and the highest open buy order based on how many there are of each? If the range between them is small enough, I think the effect of this can be neglected.
What could go wrong?
Actually what went wrong in 2020 already:

<<They found that some of the genes from the genetically modified mosquitoes had transferred to the native population. In other words, some of the offspring had survived and were strong enough to reproduce. This new population is a hybrid of Brazilian mosquitoes and the genetically modified mosquitoes that were created from strains in Cuba and Mexico, according to the study, which was published Sept. 10 in the journal Scientific Reports.

"The claim was that genes from the release strain would not get into the general population because offspring would die," senior author Jeffrey Powell, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, said in a statement. "That obviously was not what happened." >>

Source: https://www.livescience.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-...

So we are not really sure that this company knows what they are doing.

See also : https://twitter.com/vtchakarova/status/1297275503267713028?s...
The key problem at least for me, is living in the bay area. So that wouldn’t work. I’d be totally into “WFH for four weeks and fly back to the office for one week” though. That would be very nice!
There's a wet one between the temples, but it's tricky to link it to Facebook without the owner's permission.
An organization is not only top down, enough people having the same opinion confers a great amount of power over the direction of the organization as a whole.
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There's actually an interesting point hidden in here, which is that in some areas the electricity billing is priced progressively.

Your first X units are cheap, the next Y units are pricier, and anything after that are expensive. This is what we have with PG&E. It means that families like mine, where my wife and I work from home (including before the pandemic) pay a higher bill because we're treated as if we are consuming irresponsibly.

But we don't actually use that much energy considering the fact that we are home all day long. Energy companies will hopefully adjust their tiers or find some other way to treat people who WFH equitably, not punitively. My understanding is that PG&E has done this to some extent already, but I don't know what they plan to do after near-global WFH ends.
They probably couldn’t get an .edu domain.
I lived two hours each way from work. Lived in a van mid week way before it was a popular thing. Used to joke that I was just waiting for the next pandemic then I'd have it made. Not so sure about that now, sometimes I miss the van.
Please stop submitting this trash on here dude. Reported.
It might not be "fair", but I believe in most cases, if one person chooses to be physically absent they will gradually be marginalized by the team. It's just human nature that you will care more about and think more about people you physically see and spend time with.
And in fact many of those disastrous attempts to modify the ecosystem have also been aimed at killing mosquitos, notably the draining of swamps in Northern Israel. Having more precise mechanisms will not only allow the same interventions to happen with less collateral damage, but will also let us get much more experience on the specific attempts of adding and removing species.
That's, like, your opinion, man.

I am more interested and likely to reccomend basecamp than ever.

And would like to see this list of funny names.
I own a .app domain and in naming a folder on my Mac that I lost the ability to open the folder in Finder. Cracked me up and outside of the terminal I could find no solution.
> The people who smashed sparrows believed it was correct just as surely as we believe anything today.

So were the people who thought the earth was flat.
I wonder if there's a correlation between those who are most anti-office, and people who have barely any actual work to do.
KKK: Murdered hundreds of people.
BLM: "Please stop killing black people"

Yup, totally the same. You're insane. Get off 4chan, champ.
Oh good heavens, my friend.

My boss and coworker just spent the weekend on seven million files on my script.

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 (cygwin) sed 's/\ff//'

They think me a genius. This is nothing.
So he was fired for not believing in white supremacy? Crazy times we live in
Most news articles don’t seem to be even proofread anymore! At least AI spells perfectly. It will at least likely soon replace the uncreative who/what/where/when news writing.
> This method has successfully reduced native mosquito populations in Brazil by up to 85%, the researchers wrote.

What’s the issue?
>>As long as land is bought and sold, it isn't hard to assess.

If I sell my land to someone for a dollar, does that mean the land is worth a dollar? Or is a county assessor pulling a magic number out of his hat that I would have to fight in court? I would say that so long as there isn't a dollar figure attached to the very atoms or molecules that make up the ground beneath one's feet, assessment will always be a blackbox.

>>In the maximal form of LVT there is 0 value of owning land, the LVT becomes in effect rent to the state (which can be redistributed in a dividend to the people), and rather than assess at all land can be simply rented at at auction.

In essence, this is Communism.
That seems so economical and honestly if you can pull that off with a FAANG salary, you are so set. Sometimes I wish I could do that. If you work at Google, the van would pretty much be for sleeping. Only thing I would worry about is a late night break in.
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I don’t feel bad for the person who chooses to work 3 hours away from where they live.

Maybe move closer?
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I'm familiar. Sounds like lots of folks are (as in the thread), but still have friction being able to leverage it.

Sounds to me like there are still are gaps that new services could fill to make it easier to use.
Remember the C-Series plane?

Trudeau did absolutely nothing for the industry and immediately bowed down to Trump after he slapped tariffs later judged to be illegal. Well, not exactly, there was whining and a vague threat to switch an order of fighter jets from Boeing to Lockheed. Couldn't inject a little bit of capital at the right time. Airbus swooped in and bought the whole thing at a heavy discount.

Engineering shipped to France and manufacturing to Alabama.

And now Canadians expects a big investment in semi-conductor for highly experimental fabs?
Reminder that there are many forms of remote and in-office work (not just 2, 4, and 6):

1. work only possible in-office. (e.g. retail, hyper-secure jobs)
2. in-office 5 days a week (e.g. pre-pandemic office jobs)
3. in a remote office some weeks a year. (e.g. traveling consultants)
4. remote 1-4 days a week, in-office 1-4 days. (e.g. Google's hybrid pilot)
5. remote except for some weeks a year. (e.g. team visits or retreats)
6. WFH, shared work hours (e.g. working from the Americas)
7. remote async/time-zone independent (e.g. global digital nomad)

(Please add any categories I missed.)
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This is true for books and other sources too. I remember reading that really popular sleep book, then going and looking at the papers it cited and seeing the first one I read showed the 7 hour bucket had lower all-cause mortality than the 8 hour bucket. I also remember an article posted on HN at the start of the pandemic that claimed masks were ineffective, but as proof cited a study that showed the best mask fabric blocked 99% of aerosoles and the worst blocked 20%.
If you think about something like cardiovascular disease or diabetes, it seems incredibly obvious that having a continuous stream of data with blood glucose, pulse, oxygen etc. would be extremely valuable.

So I feel like your doctors maybe don't understand or appreciate technology.
> The idea that any powerful government agency can even be non-political is very naive.

The US military appears to be quite non-political actually. And quite well functioning too.
This type of Sterile Male method for mosquito contol has been quite extensively studied. I think there is much literature/experimental results in this approach from the past 50 years.
Human track record for understanding complex systems is poor, let alone tampering with them. That is the likely culrpit for the knee-jerk here.
> It wasn't clear why Yahoo couldn't close on the #1 spot. It had the clear #1 search engine spot in Japan already.

Yahoo is still huge in Japan. According to the statistics I found, Google is #1 with 75% market share and Yahoo is #2 with 19%, but everybody I know around me uses Yahoo.
Yea, I could definitely see that becoming a new requirement. Wondering how you would go about trying to tease out how well someone works remotely versus in the office...

Really early in my career, I recall being incredibly unmotivated after an acquisition by a private equity company and the subsequent cost cutting. Going to the office was just some check box that I needed to cross off in order to get a pay check. When I did work remotely, I found myself somehow being even less motivated and doing less work. If I had to identify key traits to figure out whether or not someone could work well remotely, I would probably try to understand their motivation level and their desire to grow, learn, and execute. But I guess that wouldn't be too far off from what I look for now when I interview.
I do admire it, for it's grieovus errors.

It does not understand "nameref" amongst other flaws.
Extremely interesting and very clear writing. Excellent blog post. Thank you.
DDT is not known to have reproductive effects or cause cancer in humans. Please do your research and be careful about sources because there is a LOT of misinformation out there.
How exactly does the RFID road inform the car where the potholes are? More likely the dust moves and the car thinks the road isn't where it should be.

Sounds like there are so many ways this could be abused/vandalized/not work.
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I’d argue that ideology is what fills in the voids that education hasn’t already reached. It’s like some kind of spray-foam that takes up whatever space that hasn’t yet been filled with educated thought.
Haven't touched Linux either since I tried FreeBSD many years ago. The whole BSD family is pure Zen in comparison.
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You're right that if you capture 100% of land rent, the price of land effectively drops to zero. At that point you'd need some other way to estimate the land rent.
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Obvious in hindsight?

Myself, if I'd been asked to guess the distribution of death penalties an hour ago before I'd read this article, would have cited all kinds of things as plausible factors and gone in completely the wrong direction.

We're a bunch of programmers, we like to talk here about our biased mental models of things. Give us data, let us fine tune our models and make them more realistic for those future discussions.

Real data, even when it confirms something 'obvious', is still good, right?
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This is correct, though I still believe most people understand the meaning that it's a website if I prepend the "www".

On the other hand, I guess most people probably aren't typing the url out anyway but googling it instead.
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No US state even came close to “locking down.” You had these ineffective stay-at-home orders, ignored mask mandates, unenforced travel restrictions, and unevenly enforced business closures. It was almost entirely voluntary, and therefore widely ignored.

Throughout the entire year, if I wanted to, I could easily drive out of my county, sit down at an indoor restaurant, and party indoors without a mask, and there would be absolutely zero police action to stop me. What kind of lockdown is that?
I bet Google collected a ton of really interesting data and made their decision based off of that. Would be interesting to know whether they had enough metrics to show that definitively as well as just how much less productive employees were when remote (am assuming they were less productive, I don't see how they could push everyone back to the office if the productivity numbers were better).
Or put more simply: land ownership is a form of consumption. Stock ownership is not.
That only works if you're logged into Hacker News.
Hard to work out on the commute unless it's by bike of course. All the extra free time makes it much easier to stick to the workout plan.
That, and in a typical virtualhost based http/https setup now, it's standard DNS configuration to point the A record for the 'root' of the domain (domainname.com) to the same IP address as the www.domainname.com DNS record.
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"The number of death sentences in a given county in a given year is better predicted by that county’s previous experience in imposing death than by the number of homicides."

That's not exactly a surprising result. A lot of people (probably including me) just won't use the death penalty unless there's a serial killer who videotaped his crimes and swore to break out of jail. The ones who will use the death penalty in more cases are not uniformly distributed.
This seems a little word-salad-y ?

MP3s are stored in bitstrings. It doesn't matter what the medium these bitstrings are stored in.

The question being asked is a question about information, not about physics. So, your response is inapplicable.
> Making this collection as it stands today, and its accompanying documentation, took me at the very least 400 hours.

> I know that number sounds higher than you’d expect, since I only made 22 modules. Maybe some of you might think “I could do that in 30% of that time”.

Even having already learned real-time and audio programming from prior experience, I don't think I'd be able to put out 22 modules in 133 hours, or even 400 hours, let alone with appealing theming.

Maybe I overthink everything, finding flaws in my own code, others' code, trying to build optimal designs, and every piece of conflicting information, every new idea, tears down ideas I've had, implemented, and had thought were good.

EDIT: Finished reading, things i agree, things i don't agree, most of it is interesting... Some takeaways and my thoughts:

- learning that free software clones of Mutable Instruments hardware exist

- my perfectionism vs. the author's "just get it out"

- "Inclusion of women" (probably controversial)

- software licensing, community management (deflemask and snes tracker also screwed up their licensing/community, leading to Discord servers discussing and telling each other how the program authors are doing bad things)

- wonder what the author would think of the Rust Audio community (and it's a community, not a company, and it seems quite approachable from what I've seen in it, lots of ideas, though half-finished UI/code frameworks)

- synthesizers with timing vs. standalone sequencers

- c++ vs. jit/gc/interpreted languages
Good point, since it says "to work". But I can't imagine anyone could live in SF and drive three hours one way. I would assume it's round-trip, and that it's to the South Bay. Netflix is in Los Gatos, for example. (But then anyone who's had NFLX options for more than a couple years can probably afford to have two houses in the Bay Area....)
Chrome's process isolation meant that one terrible website would not crash or lag the whole browser, as was the case with Firefox.
Another question is : How do make money? Your business model is not very clear either.
Well if the ethical position is that manipulations based on science are "unnatural" and therefore objectionable, then it is pretty directly anti-science.
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Isn't South America already losing biodiversity at a rapid pace? Seems like it could be difficult to separate the effects of an experiment like this from the steady background of biodiversity loss already present across the continent.

It seems unlikely to me that any creature could have existed in an ecosystem for tens of millions of years without evolving into some sort of important niche. Obviously I could be wrong here, but the claim that we can just eliminate them with zero repercussions strikes me as a bit of scientific arrogance. Nature is a complex dynamic system, how could we possibly know what unexpected side-effects might occur when we tamper with it?
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