skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But I have good quality wired headphones that I like.

A headphone jack is pennies. I don’t want to buy, possibly charge and generally carry around something else when this is a solved problem that Apple has broken.

I also like being able to charge my device AND listen to it at the same time.
Yes Buzz! Absolutely loved that software. So powerful and esoteric yet fairly easy to use (if you were familiar with trackers at least).

It was a shame there was the whole thing of losing the source code that killed development for years, and that it never made the leap to cross platform, otherwise I’m sure I’d still use it today!

Have you tried Drambo on iOS? I guess in some ways it’s the closest thing I’ve found to Buzz, in that it operates at the same level of “granularity” in terms of the modules, and in that it has sequencing (step based in this case, though piano roll is coming) built in. It’s easily my most used iOS music making app these days, really brilliant bit of software.

MiRack is also really fun, although I find dealing with the myriad UIs for each module a bit challenging sometimes (though it is a fun touch!) - Drambo has a much more standardised layout for each module (like how Buzz was just sliders IIRC).
Covid19 killed 1.89 million people worldwide by Jan 1st 2021, according to Our World in Data. HIV killed the most people per annum in ~2004, at 1.7 million worldwide, ~23 years after the first outbreak (1981).

If we can stop Covid19 with vaccinations, lockdwons, contact tracing, then hopefully it will not reach HIV levels of cumulative historical deaths. But otherwise, it would reach the same death toll as HIV did in 40 years in about 12 years like 2020.

And note, HIV was enough to completely change human sexual interactions maybe forever - at least for ~30 years.
Acquisition valuation can be based on multiple factors, typically the acquiring company would be looking at either:

A) potential value - if the tech is innovative and novel but the company is not necessarily making a lot of profit, they may have a business plan to leverage the tech to generate more profit

B) actual value - the tech and company is mature, profitable and has an actual ROI value that can be calculated based on sales, revenue, margins etc.

They would also include:

C) team value - the company has a strong team and the value of the management and employees is considered

These are areas I would consider in your plan. In terms of what to learn, I would focus more on building a successful product that helps your customers, than focusing on the acquisition exit goal. You will have time to figure out how to get there when you've proven that you have a valuable company.
Go isn’t alone there. Swift arrays also raise fatalError on out-of-bounds access by default, which seems incredible in an otherwise “safe” language. It’s easy to write your own accessor that returns an optional, but why isn’t that the default??
I agree with the points made here but if addiction or useless products is the problem we will have to disallow Netflix to teenagers and gaming as well. It's not clear to me we as a society are capable of doing that. Not only that, probably the whole pop culture and increased individualism is contributing to increased unhappiness. Facebook is just a symptom of a disease in our culture. Dismantling Facebook will do very little to help kids I think.
I actually think the Chinese got it right (banning gaming to teenagers above 3 hours per week or something like that), but we don't operate like that.
Not ignoring, but minimizing the surface, for example:

Should the default "webserver" really be written in c? Or maybe just the one for embedded or high performance?
With so many people around and remote work, they shouldn't be.

Someone will always do the same work at the same quality for less.

And with transparency, employers can look up exactly how much everyone is paying elsewhere. Didn't think it only works one way, did you?

Bar experienced specialists, it's probably the employees who should be worried.
Nigeria Customs to deploy 50 border patrol boats to combat smuggling
> The fact that you think that there is a number like this shows you are using extremely old thinking about how even the CICO model works. There is no way to predict weight/gain loss amount based on calories across individuals.

But that's one of the few numbers you can predict with pretty good accuracy.

Figuring out diet, exercise, and BMR is the hard part. Expecting a pound of fat to go away per 3000 calories is the easy part.
No, when I said "horse dewormer", I meant actual horse dewormer:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/horse-paste-ivermectin-flccc_...

There’s a YouTube video called “Ivermectin Horse Paste” that was published in January of this year and now has nearly 160,000 views. In it, a woman who goes by Self Sufficient Momma demonstrates how to portion out horse paste in order to make it a suitable dose for humans, depending on weight.

The fact that medical grade Ivermectin is prescribed for other ailments doesn't make it any less ludicrous that people are going to the feed store and buying tubes of horse Ivermectin to self-medicate for COVID at home.
> The situation is analogous to making someone wash their hands who has already washed their hands

AKA it's super easy and simplifies things
I've explained this enough, you're obviously arguing in bad faith at this point.
XML is great for its intended purpose - structured text with metadata.

For other purposes like configuration files or rpc, the element/attribute distinction is superfluous and just lead to overly verbose syntax.

Unfortunately the hype cycle is such that when a technology becomes fashionable it becomes used even in contexts where it is not appropriate. This in turn leads to a backlash against the overall technology, not just against inappropriate use of it.
> Why does anyone -- mob or Government -- deserve more than half of what you make?

The best argument is that policy like this has nothing to do with what individuals deserve. The idea is that people got rich in part due to all the nice infrastructure we have, and so we could tax some of the income they made off that infrastructure to pay for it all. This includes everything from bridges and buses to food stamps and free clinics - all the things that helped make getting rich possible.

Anyway I'm an anarchist and I would rather have workers in control of the means of production so no individuals get to take all the profits from collective endeavors for themselves, but if we're going to have a state that taxes folks, the argument above is the one I think is best.

Also others mentioned this but hitting the 55% tax rate at $250k means every dollar over $250k is taxed at 55%, but it does not mean that person pays 55% of their income as tax.
This is one reason I stay the hell away from Windows focused software on Linux. There’s a complete impedance mismatch. Also MSFT’s GitHub open source fairy dust project stewardship is a shit show from experience.
17 MB installer...

I've just installed it and wanted to try this Python live-coding but it crashes when loading the example file.

This looks all so promising, it could well be what I've been waiting for for years.
In many places nutritional data is required to be normalized to 100g. In the US it's "per-serving" which is super subjective and makes everything complicated to compare.

I will say though that I prefer the way you normalize fuel consumption, as distance per units of fuel (miles per gallon), compared to our way of fuel volume per 100 distance units (liters per 100km).
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It’s a fact that before Covid we didn’t have a crisis for lack of beds (where I live) and after Covid we do. What hospitals like to do is irrelevant, I’m talking about reality
Is HSBC still the bank favored for CIA etc. spook project accounts?

Last I heard, it was considered "career-limiting" for an FBI agent to initiate any investigation touching on HSBC, because of the risk of bumping into a spook project, or some spook's personal embezzled/extorted slush/retirement fund. (Cf. "The In-Laws", 1979, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin.)

As a result, HSBC became the place to bankroll crooked projects. But that was a long time ago. Maybe someplace else is favored by spooks now?
I used to HATE those password screens. I moved to Starling and never looked back!
Why not both asteroids and the Deccan Traps?

Given it was spewing out massive amount of gases for millions of years prior to the Yucatan impact, I don't see any conflict between the population declines prior and the Yucatan impact finishing it off.
That sucks, but at least it's happening now and not with a disease that's even worse.
looks like unveil() has an rough analog in Linux 5.13: https://landlock.io/, there was even a HN discussion which I missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27215563
The survey uses multiple variables to figure out server side language.
> They justify paying you less for the same work because of your location.

Fine by me. I'm happier in the middle of nowhere, anyway.
It used to. The auto lobby got rid of it. Did it come back at some point?
Except if they just start feeding the cows seaweed, there is no risk to humanity.

Conversely, if everyone went vegetarian, that would pose a severe risk to humanity in the form of well documented negative health effects.
I don't know much about other Musk companies.

But if you claim that SpaceX isn't the leading Space company by a huge margin, or that their execution is somehow behind any other space company, you obviously do not know much at all about SpaceX.
Market and also the structure of corporations which allows a small number of people to collect all the profits generated by the many workers beneath them. We could, for example, alternatively have a free society where most firms are collectively owned and managed by their workers. Then no individual would be likely to earn $100m per year, but in such a firm you could see everyone become a millionaire.
Property itself is a monopoly enforced by government, and many people don't have and can't afford it in urban areas, so it's not clear how much of an impact that might make. Of course, if you're looking to live in a rural area you'll already find a pretty lax permitting process, but there may not be enough commercial activity around to support you. In an urban area things are more inter-dependent, and having a dense area of small homes on small lots, built however the owner feels like it and disconnected from sewage, could be a recipe for disaster.

That said, allowing people to build accessory dwelling units in their yard can be a good way to slowly and evenly density an area (as opposed to plonking down a few bit apartment complexes). Many cities already do this, with some kind of expedited permit process.
macOS software updates: “payload efficiency is extremely poor”
I read them by their LaTeX names, which are "ocross" and "odot". Sometimes I will just read them as "cross" or "dot", or even "add" and "times" when applicable.
Btw since Raspberry Imager version 1.6 there is a hidden advanced options menu. It can be opened with ctrl+shift+x. This GUI allows you to set WiFi and SSH options. So you don't even have to manually create the /ssh and /wpa_supplicant.conf files.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-imager-update-...
Yeah Max’s JS support is pretty weird.

I spent some time figuring out nicer ways to work with it in order to build an Octatrack-style parameter crossfader for M4L, it provides some abstractions and setup to make using Typescript with Max a bit more pleasant. Still plenty of limitations but I was able to get my device working pretty well in the end. Apologies for lack of docs!

https://github.com/tomduncalf/livefader
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/23/the-dangers-of-bu... this is slightly informative unlike OP

it’s section on leverage supports my sense that debt financed buybacks aren’t a massive catastrophe, and are prob ok in terms of collapse. but who knows...
The science is actually far from settled on this. There is no randomized controlled trial of vaccinating the previously infected.

And while this pre-print [0] establishes that natural immunity is far stronger than vaccine-only immunity, the result is not conclusive for natural immunity + vaccine:

“Individuals who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 seem to gain additional protection from a subsequent single-dose vaccine regimen. Though this finding corresponds to previous reports, we could not demonstrate significance in our cohort.”

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Was alarmed to see an otherwise good article descend into a defense of Agile.

"Agile project-management methodologies didn’t alleviate the need for programmers to strive to be better coders, but they did prevent the developers from having to excessively worry about what they should be coding and whether they had done enough"

I think there are many coders here who would strongly disagree, and maybe even identify Agile as the ultimate manifestation of productivity culture.
Depends on what I want to do with it. For most paintings, I only intend to perceive the aesthetics of color, and then I don't need to read it. When I want to discuss some paintings though, it does help to be able to describe them in words - either for colors or for particular features.

And then, if a painting is actually a 'riddle' that is intended to be taken as a message, then I really do want to decipher it in words. This happens in particular with religious icons (at least in Eastern Orthodoxy).

I feel we'll soon get into a discussion of whether reasoning is necessarily language-based or not, which I don't want to go into. So instead I will ask - how do you discuss that formula with someone else? How do you call that operator, or others like `<=>` when you're verbally discussing the algorithm/code with someone else?
Socialize the dutys, privatize the rights
> We believe Apple had to delay the next generation CPU core due to all the personnel turnover Apple has been experiencing

I believe Apple has delayed new architecture for CPU simply because the actual one is powerful enough and they (correctly) want to take advantage of it in terms of large scale (and due to chip shortage/fabs sufferer).

The new iPhone 13 Pro is very interesting but one thing leave me “meh”: the weight! Again has increased from the already quite heavy 12 Pro:

iPhone 12 Pro: 189 grams / iPhone 13 Pro: 204 grams

Not much but I’m sure we will feel the difference, like from 12 to 12 pro.
That's been the norm for union jobs, government jobs, and military jobs for a century or so in the US. Plus, in the US you have the right to disclose your pay, regardless of whether the employer likes it.
It requires a certain level of self-confidence to publicly ask "why". Many people are afraid of looking stupid and don't ask for clarifications.
While I wasn't going to get it confused with any other Epics, I had no idea what Epik with a K was.
Social media toxic for everyone in that that it is destroying society. Delete it now
Basically if you look at the JEPs related with networking infrastructure from the last set of releases, they have been rebuilding the whole JVM to be Loom-able.

Naturally this will take several releases.
Loving all the 2000s era meme references. What cultured taste.
>Personally Ive been in the industry for roughly 20 years and I’ve yet to meet anyone IRL who has even dabbled in Haskell.

See that's the bubble ;) If you work at a company who makes archival, language-detection and ocr you will see C/C++ Haskell and OCaml..well and perl in no time.

http://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

https://serokell.io/blog/top-software-written-in-haskell
I certainly and sincerely agree with you about demands for budget efficiency and transparency.

> [...] you only need to make like $250k total. It's a good amount, sure, but if you compare cost of living... it's still hard to live on.

This reminds me of the famous "Let them eat cake" [0] by queen Marie-Antoinette.

A statistical point of comparison.

California median gross individual income is under $64k, or $78k [1] household income. "Easy to live on" scales superlinearly from there, so by significantly more than 3.2 or 3.9 times respectively.

Two anecdotal points of comparison.

I enjoy a comfortable life on 1/6 of that threshold amount pre-tax, albeit in a HCOL western European city. My marginal tax rate is... 53.5%, not including real estate ownership tax, and some other minor taxation.

And though it may surprise you, friends of mine living in the very LCOL eastern European countryside live on a 6k€ pretax income. 6k€ a year that is. With a family of four, soon five. They consider their living conditions comfortable and wouldn't want to change them for the world. Do mind this is 40 times less than the "hard to live on".

A recommendation

Please grow your awareness of the material situation of others. Being more anchored in reality will benefit you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSCAA646N
Having the same job title and having the same job performance are two very different things. If one person is grossly outperforming another do you have to write them a new job title to compensate them for it?
The same was said about...

- Thomas Malthus' 1798-1826 warnings about population growth leading to mass poverty and societal collapse...

- Rachel Carson's 1962 warning about a silent spring as a consequence of the use of pesticides (especially DDT) leading to the extinction of wildlife and cancer in humans...

- Paul Ehrlich's 1968 warning about mass starvation, he obviously read Malthus and thought he could do better. He didn't, his report has been widely debunked since the world has shown to be fully capable of producing enough food for the population - the problems lie in corruption and distribution, not production...

- The Club of Rome (Meadows, Meadows & Randers) followed Malthus and Ehrlich in 1972 with a twist, ecological instability would lead to an uncontrollable decline in population and industrial capacity...

- Norman Myers' 1979 prediction about mass extinction...

- Jimmy Carter's (et al) 1977-1981 predictions of oil running out...

- Al Gore's 2007 'hockeystick' Nobel Prize with the associated prediction of an ice-free North Pole by 2014...

- Greenpeace's 2008 prediction of the oceans being picked clean, GMO foods causing a wave of new food allergies...

- The WWF 2012 report predicting the need for at least another planet based on subjective assumptions and unsubstantiated data...

Keep in mind that what I'm referring to here is only a small part of the doomsday predictions, there are far more on just about any subject - from climate catastrophe (from ice age to heat death) through nuclear winter past tectonic instability via death by UV due to a lack of ozone to... etcetera. Also keep in mind that it is the doomsday aspect of these predictions which is the problem, not the research (if any) itself. Research is fine, go ahead and publish it, if there are warning signs of some impending catastrophe make sure to verify your model and data by sharing it with the world for verification. What should not be done is the scientific equivalent of tabloid publishing by embellishing the conclusions to attract eyeballs - like the former publications did. Nearly all mentioned doomsday predictions contain a core of truth somewhere but that truth is hidden in the noise when compared to the exaggerated conclusions. When those conclusions turn out to be overblown the core truth also ends up losing credibility. Malthus, Ehrlich, Meadows, Randers et al were not totally wrong in warning about unbridled population growth, Carson was not lying when warning about the dangers of pesticides, Carter et al were right when they pointed out that oil is a finite resource, Greenpeace is not totally off-base in warning about the problems related to overfishing, etc. The problem lies in the exaggerated doomsday predictions they use to attract attention since these (fortunately) never come to fruition. There is a reason tabloids are seen as less trustworthy than traditional broadsheet newspapers - 'EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT, MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS AT DAWN SPOTTED, ALIEN INVASION NIGH?' is the tabloid equivalent of this type of prediction.
Implementing security guidelines is not as easy as paying a security expert. You then have to follow their advice, which means security practice for all employees. It can be costly and cumbersome.

Of course, it would have reduced damaged, such as pointing out that unhashed or unsalted MD5 passwords in a database is... what we've stopped doing 20 years ago for good reasons? :)

But well, if you're a big hosting provider tailoring to white supremacist content, you usually don't need so much security, since apart from anonymous-adjacent antifascists pretty much everyone is licking your boots, including law enforcement. The biggest neonazi forums have been around for decades, and their biggest proponents are well hidden behind the walls of our police stations, banks and parliaments.

Love the reference to Woody Guthrie, too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_machine_kills_fascists
Or convert it to whatever unit is under lbs to make it even more impressive. ("oz"?)
Yep, a renowned Python footgun. Although Lambda container reuse adds a modern twist to it.

Can I ask what editor you were using? Because decent ones should have warned you about mutable default args.
xD I love the PS down there in the bottom.
Putting politics aside (I know, it's difficult), I can't help but wonder why is it that even with companies like these, marketing comes first?

Looking at Gab, Parler and now Epik, it confuses my you'd paint a giant target on your back before making sure that everything's as secure as can be.

Parler was basically a Wordpress instance hacked through one of the plugins they ran. (And since it was a WP instance the also had the whole thing scraped because of the sequential nature of the IDs Wordpress uses.)

Gab rolled their own SQL injection mitigation and failed at it, published the source code themselves since they moved to the Mastodon network and then tried to cover up the whole thing --- and got hacked again because they never reset the user tokens.

And now this with Epik.

I understand the need to attract a clientele and free speech in itself can be attractive because there's so many issues stemming from automated content removal that people often have issues with the current providers but it simply makes no sense to set yourself up for a politically motivated hack and do nothing to prevent it... it's pretty crazy.
transmission seems fine
Today on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28532531

Microsoft bundling a super-insecure root daemon in all their Linux VMs. They developed it, published it on Github, embedded it everywhere, but when it turned out to be a security nightmare blamed "open source supply chain".
> and there are some wavelengths that simply can't be observed from the earth because of atmospheric interference.

Of particular relevance is the frequency associated with the transition from opaque plasma to neutral matter, which made interstellar space transparent. This coincides with the first stars, and is as close to the Big Bang as we can observe. Cosmologists are very interested in generating a detailed cosmic map at these frequencies, but they are unfortunately blocked by (1) the ionosphere of the Earth's atmosphere, and (2) subject to tons of radio interference. It's like right smack in the middle of the most commonly used frequency bands. Lunar far-side observatories are pretty much the best path towards making these measurements.