skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, I bought a Casio "Arranger Workstation" (CTK6250) a couple of years ago, and while a) It is more expensive in absolute terms at $200-$300 new, and b) It has its own level of cheesiness; nonetheless the functionality and value for money is absolutely astounding. For a kid starting to learn about music today, it's an all-in one that can last a tremendously long time - built-in decent speakers, battery or mains, more than good-enough sounds and a large variety, plus a sequencer, arranger, and while you have to menu-dive, you can in fact modify its sounds to a fair extent. The arranger part in particular can really motivate a new learner to explore and play and fool around :)

It in fact makes it tricky to upgrade - "next level" from Roland or Korg is probably $1000, $1500 or more.

I've since, erm, geeked out about synths and acquired a pointlessly-expensive selection to tinker with - but the Casio is now firmly in the family room for my 2 year old and myself to play. I don't see selling or giving it away anytime soon... it's the Honda CBR125 of electronic keyboards, the little engine that could and is just sheer exhilarating fun of its own :)
OP will have to speak for themselves, but the policy looks like boilerplate I've had to include for 3rd party crash reporting services.

So if the stack trace for a null pointer somehow vaguely includes some kind of PII as a side effect of reporting the crash, the privacy policy needs to cover their behind.
sparse-checkout only reduces the number of files copied from the local repo to the working directory. It doesn't affect the amount downloaded data. For that you need shallow and partial clones (shallow clones give you a subset of history, partial clones give you a subset of the files within that history). Partial clones especially are a relatively new and not heavily used git feature.
They claim to get their data from OpenVAERS[1]. Is that a suspicious site (legit question)? Is SWPRS' findings accurate?

[1] https://www.openvaers.com

> edit: anti face masks lol case closed on this one

Well, their conclusion starts with "Face masks in the general population might be effective [...]", and they provide official sources for their claims, but I have not checked that out.

First one is: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article, which says: "In this review, we did not find evidence to support a protective effect of personal protective measures or environmental measures in reducing influenza transmission.". Personal protective measures here refer to face masks, for one.

In any case, this is besides the point, let us go back to OpenVAERS.
His twitter thread seems well considered and reflective.
Then the experts are wrong? And experts have a habit of fixing that and then saying the more right thing.

Just because an expert was wrong once doesn't mean it's suddenly impossible to differentiate between experts and misinformation.
This guy wants to pretend globalization and monopolistic private ownership of networks is part of a futuristic society instead of just a naked power grab where production moves to the lowest paid location globally and the superrich use monopolist and cartel tactics to create huge spy networks to guard their hoard.
The problem is that the alternatives are much, much worse.

There's nothing about the git/mercurial object models that makes them intrinsically inefficient with monorepos.

What's inefficient is materializing the object database (when cloning) and the working copy (when checking out), when you're only going to need tiny portions of them.

Subversion doesn't have the first problem (but comes with extremely slow history operations), but sparse checkouts don't really solve the second because you have to statically know what to filter.

A better direction is instead to virtualize the filesystem, so you get the semantics of a real monorepo with git/mercurial, and you fetch only what's actually needed without any change to your tooling (it just needs to interact with the filesystem). It's also very easy to transparently implement caching and prefetching this way.

This is the approach that Facebook and Microsoft took, and I believe Google too.
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I think this is still true for the users of the drugs.

Things like free and anonymous drug testing mean you can actually know what you are taking and that it's safe. There is also quite decent drug education; people generally know to stay away from heroin, meth and other highly addictive substances. If you do get addicted there is decent addiction treatment (afaik covered by health insurance).

The problem is that the production and selling is pretty much fully illegal creating this massive illegal market causing all sorts of problems. The drug usage is less of a problem than the crime caused by the illegality of drugs.

I don't think stricter laws would solve anything as people will take drugs anyway, it will only drive the prices up, basically funding crime. I think legalization is the way to go. If you look at countries like Portugal and the US legalization/decriminalization is a viable option.

The Netherlands might still be a good example: on how lax policies increase safety for users and at the same time how too strict policies create tons of problems and crime.
Umm that would be 6 months ago.
It's hard to know what the Web, social media, and tech generally might look like if the spyvertising money-spigot gets shut off. Paid and fully-free-and-open alternatives to spying-paid "free" services & content are nearly impossible in the former case, and discouraging to participate or work on in the latter, in the current environment. There may be other models, too, that are in some sense better or preferable, or at least acceptable or sufficient, but currently not viable.
Still not sure why that didn't become predominant. Dynamic content based ads seemed to be the new fad in late 00's, then it kinda disappeared, with user tracking becoming the norm.
Yes, I'd say that agrees with the definition of involuntary. Do what we say, or give up everything you have and leave.
This is a good thing, IMO.

This is the drug that failed to show efficacy in trials but was approved anyway for reasons that no one can explain. There are investigations into how and why it was allowed to be approved.

It costs $56,000 per year and they can’t show that it has positive benefits, but the studies show it has significant side effects in some users.

It doesn’t make sense for insurance companies or the general public to shoulder the cost of $56,000 per year per potentially millions of patients to take a drug that can’t be proven to have any positive effect.

If someone has the means to afford this on their own and is willing to self-experiment them they can try, but they need to do it at their own cost.
Assertiveness fundamentally is just clarity of thought. Everybody has experienced that at one point or another.

Given enough experience or training, you can fake it.

But nothing beats the real thing. Achieve clarity of thought in whatever you do, and assertiveness and other positive traits will follow.

Practicing assertiveness without achieving clarity of thought is just disaster delayed slightly thanks to technique.
I had an apartment in Sydney for awhile and got to experience PAL for the first time. I remember it looking really nice but it had this kind of uncomfortable strobing effect.
That just makes your device the spy. Sure, it's an increase in the amount of privacy, but it's not actual privacy.
I don't think it takes "0" more knowledge. Maybe 2-5% more knowledge? (In some made-up subjective scale).
If you buy a feather and a wing you know they'll work together (I haven't looked up every feather-wing combination, but the only exception I've seen is large OLEDs which technically work with low-powered feathers, but not very well - and they spell this out clearly in the product description). Not necessarily the case for a random MCU and breakout board, and figuring out needs at least a little bit of knowledge.
Same for connecting the boards. There's pretty much one way to connect a feather and a wing so you don't have to think about 5V/3V, SPI pins, RX/TX, etc. Or weird small connectors. Again, not super hard to figure out with arbitrary breakouts, but requires more than 0 knowledge.
I might be reading this wrong, but it seems like this creates a second place where a project would need to express dependencies between modules.

You would need to do it for JOSH and whatever your build tool is. You'd probably need some additional git commit hooks to ensure your build tool of choice config is in sync with josh.
I'll take the bait.

You go check the statistics so you don't accuse me of cherry picking or anything:

Go right ahead and look at all scientific studies you can find. See if men and women score exactly the same or if there are sometimes huge differences.
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Hopefully purely ad supported services cease to exist.

I never understood why these companies don't offer paid options with no ads or tracking, at least in adddition to the ad supported "free" version.
Which is exactly why "but mah data" is less about privacy in an enterprise world, and more about standardization and portability. Owning your data in the enterprise context means being able to ship it around it a reusable way, and not some proprietary Microsoft blob that will never work anywhere else, or having it scattered across a million APIs with a million different schemas with zero tools to grab it all at once.

The risk is less Microsoft ever reading your data and more never being able to divorce them at a later date. Entrenchment.

Those are problems that exist similarly whether youre in the cloud, or something on prem that you bought, built or customized.

Conversely, for anyco without good hygiene, standardized process, discipline, and respect for keeping things tidy, out of the box cloud process can be a godsend. It's not just minimization of risk, but built in architecture and integration and flow, which in and of itself can be more important than product features.
It isn't quite clear to me. What agenda and who does it benefit? Where's the connection to the New York Times itself?
Tracking is necessary for the advertising economy to control bad behavior on the part of publishers and advertisers, not just to serve targeted ads.

No matter what there would be discrepancies in the numbers (publisher says it sent 75 clicks, advertiser says it got 70) and that breeds mistrust. Participants have a reason to lie. Having multiple third party watch the whole thing helps them trust each other.
Microsoft has pretty well documented cases where they do go to court to prevent data from being shared with governments. Of course, they are not always successful, but they do give a good try.
We should have learned by now don't NY Times articles about the City.
When you say failure what exactly you mean
1) Did not scale
2) Performance issues
3) Ran over budget
4) Ran over time
5) Lots of bugs
6) Feature creep

In your message you said unsolved usability issues. Typically usability issues should be solvable. My advice is accept the failure, learn from your mistakes for the next project. These things happen. Just move on.

Also 4 months is too short of a time to declare it as a failure. You can always pivot to make it successful
Mark my words: as soon as the world starts to turn their back on advertisement, there will be several micropayement unicorns flourishing in the next 6 months.

20+ paid subscriptions make no sense, but checking a box with your ISP to get a 2 USD monthly credit to use on the articles you click on, could work.
Anecdotally, I've had a few Bay Area friends say that their management is itching to fill seats once again.

Management really loves to see their chattel in their pens. ;)
> So does everyone else

Unless you are over 60, I doubt you feel time running out acutely enough to let that feeling guide your daily actions. If you are younger and those feelings do guide you, congratulations, you are doing it right.

> but instead use in-group memes

in-group memes are useless to anyone not in the group, but they are useful to signify that one is in the group. I'm don't believe The Office characters rise to the level of being generally useful for communication. It's like "Friends" which I know is popular and been in the news recently. If you said "Oh she is so blah-blah (Friends character name)" I wouldn't have a clue.
At another point the author mentioned that the iOS new version uptake is currently 75% so maybe 100% of people who have seen the prompt hit no… (obviously the numbers are not exactly representing that)
Electron is a runtime environment that evolved out of a browser, not a browser. This app doesn't have any browser functionality I can see, like open arbitrary websites, but it does have its own system menus, icon, it's directly executable by the OS. By that logic no software written in an interpreted language can never be cross-platform, you'll always need a runtime environment.
Can someone help me understand if users saying they do not want to be tracked affects CPMs on Facebook? We've seen a large increase in CPMs and I'm wondering if the two are related. Thanks.
That’s a deep question, I’ll try to answer later when I have time to do it justice. On the off chance I don’t, the book “Debt: The First 5000 Years” is pretty close to my view of it.

Also, if you want a less “economics” view of it, I’d recommend “Scale” by Geoffrey West
The're a large customer, but probably not the largest. SpaceX has a lot of commercial customers, including a fully private manned spaceflight (Inspiration4) later this year.

When it comes to Starship, it seems like one of the main applications will be to launch hundreds of Starlink satellites at once. I don't believe that there is a noticable amount of NASA funding in Starlink - it's possible they might be using it for some reason, but it'd be as a customer.
It was replaced with AlmostTwiceTheSameColour.
Don't get me wrong, you're absolutely right about the tribalism that affects all sides in this situation we're in.
Oxford defines virtue as "behavior showing high moral standards." I think assertiveness only conditionally falls into this category.

First, as noted above, assertion to one can be aggression to another, thus questionable high moral standards. However, if both parties agree it's not aggressive, then is it indeed morally good to be assertive? To me, morally good is a higher bar than simply being non-aggressive.

I think if virtue is defined on moral grounds, assertiveness is not consistently enough placed into that category.
This AI-based technology is the result of a public research project that began in 2020.

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That was never my experience with Subversion, but YMMV.
Monorepo is an alternative to having binary dependencies with a registry scheme such as npm or maven (at the organization level). It's essentially only workable with tooling support none of us has (unless you work for Google or one of the few other shops that have said in-house tooling). It isn't a workable approach using stock git or github (but that won't stop people trying nor claiming to the contrary).
I gave a quick try and just from the first look this looks amazing. It's precisely what I'm missing in my spreadsheets for my personal finance: probabilistic planning. I'd consider paying the premium tier but I miss a few things:

- Support for tax brackets in other countries (maybe let users introduce them manually)

- Support for "disasters" in the probabilistic case. I'd be interested in knowing how robust is my strategy to being fired, or having a reduced salary. For example, letting me input a "probability of losing employment" per year and possible ranges for time being unemployed would be interesting.

- Also, support for variable-rate mortgages would be interesting. Here in Spain there are quite a lot of offers on mortgages at X% + euribor, and it'd be interesting to put together the behaviour of the mortgage index and the investments. Related with the previous points, simulation of economic crisis could be interesting: investments go down, increased probability of losing my job, increased mortgage payments maybe... Do I survive those crisis? What's my margin?

All in all, pretty interesting, congratulations on the job.
Yes, if Facebook goes away due to lack of ads and no paid subscribers it means it simply was not worth paying for in enough people's minds.

Imagine that your entire business is only appealing to people if it is free.

I mean a lot of crappy 70's sitcoms would not exist if people had to buy tickets to watch. Honestly, I would not mind that world. :-)
They want people who do side projects, but stop them when you work for the firm.
If you think government subsidies spacex, you should see military contractors.
> And how prevalent is the practice of ISPs injecting packets into non-HTTPS traffic?

Is there anything preventing page alteration on unencrypted connections? There's certainly an incentive to do so.
Honest question: why would any new tech entrepreneur want to move to SF?

The prices suck, and if you need to improve your network you can meet the vast majority of tech people online (IRC, Discord, email, online conferences).

Weather?
When you say “graduate position” do you mean a position meant for a college graduate, or a position in a Masters or PhD program at a university?
Yes, but photo-voltaic also implies energy conversion for power operations, like to run appliances. This is energy conversion for detection, like a sensor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27843938
They would be broadly similar to the liberal democracy solution, with perhaps the implementation of cooperative ownership of production so that the owners, being ordinary people, are vulnerable to climate change. But certainly some kind of legislative solution would be needed, though the government structure would be different.
Extracting enough fine grain parallelism is hard. Manually creating it is tedious and difficult. Memory is slow. Latency hiding is hard. Ahead-of-time speculation is hard. Runtime speculation is hard. Good luck.
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Gliders don't launch by winch. They are towed up to launch height by powered planes.

Also, gliders are not really able to handle emergencies that well since they are unpowered -- if there's a need to divert or something, they're completely at the mercy of their own gravitational energy. Gliders are usually very safe to fly in because they're very light and maneuverable, and crash-landings are usually OK. That safety net completely evaporates with thousands of pounds of human cargo.
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>It utterly fails to answer why anyone not at the top of the power curve would want society to be structured this way - most of the described "Social Contract" seems to imply precarity, [...] and living at the edge of financial disaster for most.

How much of this is due to wealth distribution and how much of this is due to human nature? eg, 60% of Millennials Earning over $100k Live Paycheck to Paycheck (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581105)
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Extremely based and succinct rundown of why crypto is trash and should be avoided at all costs. Yes, the original vision was noble and worthwhile, but like nearly every nice theoretical idea, it was co-opted into the capitalist ecosystem to be just another vassal of greed and corruption, with some throwback wild west vibes.
It meant not having network trust when Google/BeyondCorp made the concept popular, seems fine?
How rude - especially since you don't understand the article you just quoted.

Of course consumption falls if I give something up. That's not Supply.

Your original statement was "buying less meat reduces supply", while the quote you just gave as evidence talked about "consumption", which is the demand side of the equation (technically "quantity demanded", but I'm simplifying).

If you don't like my knowledge, maybe this will help [0]. Please don't tell me I'm "just claiming things based on theory I remember" - or anyone else on HN - it's rude.

[0] - https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...
Sure, most leaders are bad leaders. They're assertive enough to get promoted but too stupid/ignorant/mean/lazy to actually lead well.

Good leaders, by definition, are the kind of people that will elevate the voices of the non-assertive-but-right people.
Well, ackshually...

Cable systems in the USA took advantage of more frequencies than were available over terrestrial television to get more channels. This is because the cable signal was still RF, but not subject to radio interference in any significant way because it came through a cable. The upshot of this was that unless your TV was "cable-ready", i.e., capable of tuning the additional frequencies, in order to use even analog cable you needed a set-top box. It took a few years for cable-ready TVs to hit the US market -- but by the 90s they were ubiquitous.
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What a remarkable arrangement a hand crank (or, more robustly, a pair of squeeze bulbs that you could compress in alternating fashion to work around any failure in the whole battery->electronics->motor->pump chain) would be: Reacting oxygen with stored chemical energy in muscles, to move air in some tubes, to push oxygenated blood to those muscles.

Though if it can be charged by AC, you'd better believe I'd keep around a Lipo battery pack and DC-AC inverter, and would be stocking up on deep-cycle batteries, diesel, and a generator or two!
I've always liked holiday-weather.com. They don't just give you weather stats, but an overview of the place in different seasons, suggestions for hotels, restaurants, local sights, etc. All in a very lightweight design with no annoying ads. It's quite a lovely website.

Example: https://www.holiday-weather.com/auckland/averages/november/
This is impressive and fun! I can tell a ton of work went into this.
Facebook is probably clever enough to have optimized the layout and button placement of their initial alert to generate maximum mis-clicks on the “Allow app to track” button
This has been possible before. Google was built around content based advertising. Also, maybe click-through rates are not that important? Maybe exposure is a more decisive metric? As a side-effect, we may reduce social bubble effects and maybe even return to a shared reality? (Many of the unwanted effects of the Web are really due to targeted advertising and its consequences.)
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Coding is my artistic hobby. :)
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Here's one in front of you, but personally I and most people with a similar ideology think that crypto is worse than tradfi in principle and not any better in implementation.

You can definitely find some folks into crypto that identify as libertarian socialists or left anarchists, but I think they're a minority.
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