skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a really good critique. I would not have thought to read this article as critically as you did, and likely would have accepted it at face value. But now that you mention it, there's more issues I see:

"This is the highest mass resignation the U.S. has seen since 2019, pre-pandemic, and the numbers are still rising. In June, 3.9 million quit. In July, it was another 3.9 million. In August, 4.3 million."

The [3.9M, 3.9M, 4.3M] sequence seems cherry picked. It could just be normal noise for all we know. To me this kind of argument could be easily summarized with simple data visualization, i.e. a line graph with more datapoints (expand 3 month range to a full year, stack more years for context). A histogram of monthly resignations to attach a %-ile to it would also be great, but may not be as intuitive and there's a lot of complexity involved in trying to understand significance.

The author follows the monthly resignation numbers with:
"The numbers are even more notable for young workers: in September, nearly a quarter of workers ages 20 to 34 were not considered part of the U.S. workforce—some 14 million Americans, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who were neither working nor looking for work."

You interpret this as them saying 14M is a big number, but I think based on the preceding sentence, it's actually trying to say 14M is "more notable" than the ~3.9M in the preceding argument. I kind of think this is the case, as its a really common data mistake I see in articles: mixing up units. In this case of course, out-of-labor/month cannot be compared to cumulative out-of-labor-young/month.

That being said, I disagree with you on your attribution of this to activist journalism. And for context, I'll just say that unlike the vast majority of HN, I actually have a lot of respect for most modern journalism, and think most people complaining about journalism aren't comparing state of affairs in countries like China/Russia/Sri-Lanka without press freedom.

My more generous interpretation is that another underlying cause for these kinds of mistakes is simply a lack of familiarity with math, and especially statistics. A journalist with good intentions can still make these kinds of errors if they aren't familiar with good practise in statistics.

Finally, I just wanted to say, there are quite a few journalists that are pretty good at data-based journalism. I think Kevin Drum[1] is a particularly good example, since he'll often refute other articles by digging up more data and illustrating how marginal some percieved effect is in context.

1. https://jabberwocking.com/

ETA: Fixed unit confusion critique mistake, it's not resignation but out-of-labor.
I don't think that follows. You're tacitly assuming that the demographics of the military will reflect the demographics of the society as a whole, whereas I think its more reasonable to assume that the demographics of the military will reflect the demographics of the poor for whom it represents a viable alternative.
Except they aren't really, the main widget in all of those is already an OpenGL accelerated canvas... If your application is primarily a form or a dialog then yeah, but everything else that has images or video or custom drawing is going to want hardware acceleration. Maybe you spend a lot of time filling out forms or in text editors or writing emails? But I think even those text-based apps will want to be hardware accelerated eventually too, just look at the number of GPU rendered terminal emulators that are popping up.
Indeed, even if it seems that life doesn't actually 100% need to.

Not so much finding a way as more not waiting around.
Midi can plug-and-play so easily because there is no handshaking. Every midi capable device has already agreed upon the 31,250 serial baudrate and 8-bit data + 1 stopbit format and the commands.

The only occasional problem I'll experience with midi is if I unplug before sending a note-off for a note, then that note might forever be stuck on.
In the fine article, in Casey Handmer's plan, Starship is landed to the surface and returns directly to LEO or even to Earth surface.

So yes the heat shield goes all the way down to the lunar surface and back.

https://caseyhandmer.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/artemisspac...
You weren't talking about legal workers, you were specifically talking about, this is an exact quote, "illegals working below minimum wage". That's what I was responding to. If you also have issues with people "from some shithole country" employed, working, and paid fully in accordance with your own country's laws and regulations, that's a different discussion, in that case the employers and employees are all doing what's expected and encouraged by your country; this is your country giving them and you a signal that your own expectations are unrealistic.
Ask HN: DuckDuckGo or StartPage or other? Which one do you use and why?
I recently switched from DDG to StartPage and am seeing better search results imo but I have only been using it for couple days. I am curious what everyone else uses and how they find it?
I got stuck on the 6 million dollar action figure part and ignored all the rest afterwards. What's the story?
5% of Windows PCs.

FTFY.
That's true from a point in time perspective. However, higher principal cost and lower interest means there's inherently more downside risk to purchasing a home.

We're already at 0% fed funds rate. I don't think the financial system can continue to function beyond slightly negative rates, which limits how much further they can go from here, but we'll have to see.

Intuitively, why would somebody make a loan where they have to pay the other person? It only really works if you assume rates will go even more negative, thus increasing the value of the debt in relative terms. Or if lenders can still net a positive return via fees etc.

But I need to study how it's working in some European countries. Doesn't seem logical or sustainable on the face of it.

Also, keep in mind, rates were around 2% in the 1940s. The long term trend in the past few decades has been down, but the trend was up for a few decades before that.

It could very well be that remote work leads to higher inflation by unleashing all the coastal high earners on lower cost of living areas, creating secular price increases across the country. But need to analyze the effects more.
>>research shows that white police officers aren’t more likely to shoot a black suspect than police officers from another race. [1] But that’s not what the media tells us.

I've never heard anything about this. The point isn't the color of the person holding the gun, and its weird that you think it is.
How Not to Switch to Linux with Your Hosts Linus and Luke
The iPhone is a personal device but it's not a computer. It merely has a computer inside it. What sets it apart from a real computer is the fact it only does what manufacturer designed it to do. They're the ones programming the computer, not the users. So the iPhone is just a device that does cool things. Like one of those nice electronic watches with a ton of cool functions but you get to download new features from Apple's store.
The summers in Juneau are super comfortable.

In the area I set up my tent, I found many tents from previous campers-- transient laborers and fishermen I imagine.

Meals: Had fridge space at company's lunch room. I'd arrive early and have breakfast there, and lunch as well. For dinner, a Trangia camping stove and simple meals (canned soup; mixed vegetable & sausage soup; instant noodles, etc.)... or sometimes splurge and buy decent fresh, ready-to-eat food at a grocery store (such as a chicken/vegetable meal).

Showers: the local indoor public pool's locker room

Bathroom: At work. Train yourself to systematically drop #2 in the morning like clockwork, and everything else is a breeze. Disposable wet-wipes to reduce the need to shower.

Dating: I actually met a rock climbing/wilderness medicine instructor lady at a bar who was interested in checking out my tent and she even spent the night. Whereas, a different women, when she heard I was temporarily staying in a tent, lost all interest in me (I don't blame her-- totally normal).

All in all, I suffered some depression, social isolation, and general lifestyle inconvenience. But looking back, it sure helped me get through my graduate statistics course! "If I can live in that tent in Juneau on the mountainside, I can get through this stats course"
Don't forget Shattrath. The OG portal-hub town, though the run from Inn to Portal room was pretty bad until you could fly.
The answer to this also depends a lot on the ambient outdoors temperature. Horses can stay warm through the winter outside in almost any weather (down to single digits F easily). But in order to do so, they use their GI system like a furnace. So they basically are CONSTANTLY eating and pooping. So the colder it gets the more they eat.
Spot on. I don’t get how anyone who saw future dystopian sci fi in the 80s doesn’t understand that it’s all the result of increased privatisation.

I would also hazard a guess that the future of screens is not more immersive screens but fewer screens at all. Voice control is a more important innovation than VR goggles.
"it's not the internet's fault that people choose the same 5 websites to visit every day"

A person visiting the same five websites every day is not itself a problem. Each person could choose a different set of five websites.

However when so many people choose the same five websites every day, for whatever reason, then what we have seen is that those five websites begin to actively manipulate traffic, through whatever means necessary (including acquisition of other websites) to maintain their "popularity". Generally, the only way they can make money is advertising since they offer nothing of value.
They are merely intermediaries with the intent to serve ads. "Portals" with heavy surveillance and data collection.

Amazon, after it has killing anyone's dreams of an internet with competitive e-commerce, has transitioned to web hosting. More manipualtion of traffic and data collection. Advertising is next, no doubt.
No. This toy "gives the impression that it's an actual functioning record player", even though it isn't. The old one was an actual functioning record player. Or at least a cross between a record player and a music box. But the point is: the old one was actually playing music off the disks, the new one only pretends to do it.
I'm in your camp on this one. The new features are neat, but MIDI 1.0 being stupid-simple is its killer feature to me. Plus everything from the last 30yrs supporting it is a big plus. I love that I can take my 1980s SuperJX and fit it right into my setup with brand new stuff, and a brand new DAW, and everything just works.
have you tried using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_beat_clock
Problem is your entire argument is based on assumptions with absolutely no scientific base. Why do you assume there is an economic problem in producing content? Why does it need solving? I call bullshit, there is no inherent trade off to balance. My theory is that we could remove all intellectual property laws and once the dust settles only objectively good things would come out of it.

It’s not a bit more scientific than your argument. I do believe it’s true. But that is precisely my point. Whatever theory underlies IP and it’s benefit to society is entirely based in speculation.
> subsidizing mortgage interest for homebuyers (mortgage interest deduction) at the expense of all other taxpayers (e.g., renters)

If the mortgage interest deduction disappeared tomorrow, the landlord's cost to own that house would go up, and every penny of that increase would have to be passed on to the renter.

So while it's true a renter doesn't have that tax deduction, eliminating it isn't going to lower any rents, only raise them.
I don't see why someone couldn't make an adapter from 1 -> 2. I think the other way around would be lossy and not desirable.
It didn't actually have bad performance. I never had performance problems on YouTube, and I even made my own apps with Polymer / Web Components v0 (before v1 became a thing) purely in Firefox (never even tested in Chromium), it all worked pretty well.
Different names for the author on the two posts. Same person, or plagiarist?
I'm part of that group (I ever regretted breaking my beloved mitsu diamondtron[0]) but still the mainstream is massively about digital purity, beyond biological retina sampling and displaying .. in that era good luck talking about the "value" of imperfect media, it's like fighting a tsunami to me.

[0] to cope, I scavenged a few portable TVs from the 90s to toy with the small tubes.
I've tried to adhere to the same principles when building pianojacq.com, even so the linecount is huge for such a limited amount of functionality.
Hmm, would the stored job data still include the AWS credentials? That is, if I change the artifact S3 credentials and I run "nomad job plan" it will show the diff of the AWS keys. That means somewhere in the nomad raft logs the keys are exposed.
I can totally relate, I could also tell the link speed by the noises.
It's still possible for EGL to not be enabled on Wayland for various reasons.
probably not. it's hard to consume lots of stuff en masse by most of the population. in the developed world, we've already largely moved to service economies and have less than replacement population growth, and so in that sense we've "maxed out" on consuming stuff. that's not to say that we're doing a great job at being efficient and frugal in what we consume, but that running out of resources isn't that big of a problem (for the foreseeable future).
Does your Robux argument extend to e.g. digital movie rentals? App purchases?

All software and media purchases can boil reductively down to "paying money to see a screen light up in a certain way".
Later in the article the name is explained in that TAO is used as short for "The associations and objects" and while it's clever and I'm not really offended it really should be TAAO.

Regardless, I'm surprised not to see anything about caching objects as application state using[1] or similar.

[1]https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.apcu.php
They probably don't even look at the host header. You can set any host header and it works.
Midi 1.0: 127 steps

Midi 2.0: 4,294,967,296 steps

https://www.midi.org/midi-articles/details-about-midi-2-0-mi...
> I don’t get how anyone who saw future dystopian sci fi in the 80s doesn’t understand that it’s all the result of increased privatisation.

In what sense has there been increased privatization since the 1980s? Note that I'm not contradicting you, I'm just asking how you are measuring this.

Note that Government spending has gone up. Since the 1980s, we've massively subsidized and increased regulation over healthcare (ACA, medicare expansion), housing (Federal Agencies have come to dominate lending market), education (massive infusions of loan guarantees and aids, micro-management of universities with Title 9), and employment (significant increase in licensing requirements as well as employment regulation).
Good detective work.

I always use print(), which has its own issues.
Yes, exactly. Definitely not ideal, but potentially a workaround depending on the security requirements.
Black cabs roar back into favour as app firms put up their prices
Harvard segregates the audience for a theatrical performance
plug in a keyboard with an END key, oh ... like this one

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK2C3LL/A/magic-keyboard-...

and then tell me again that apple cars about the user or that HN wishes it was like MacOS :p
Aside from increased resolution, one of the biggest improvements is MPE. It allows controlling parameters on a per-note basis. A side effect of this is making microtonal music significantly easier to express, since you no longer need multiple channels to do per-note pitch-bending. MPE support is already probably more robust than MTS (MIDI Tuning Standard,) although I could be wrong on that.

Essentially: for traditional western music, it seems to just offer better flexibility and precision, but it will make a huge difference for microtonal music. Honestly, being able to adjust parameters per-note simply makes sense.

(I am not a musician, just a programmer who has dabbled in a small amount of music software and protocols.)
I think it's a reference to this blog post https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
Context: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
Heroin is highly addictive and has a high risk of overdose. There are alternatives to SSRIs, such as SNRIs and tricyclics.
I see. When I read your statement, I interpreted it as statement about a majority of devs in such communities.

I actually came into the haskell community expecting MORE of such behavior, becuase I think common wisdom is that Haskell is full of gatekeeprs. I've been quite surprised by how little of it there actually are.

I'm not sure I totally grok your point re: golang. Just go read Rob pike's statement. That doesn't mean much about golang per se; he may have been attempting to make something suitable primarily for beginners, and hit upon some kind of impossibly powerful design (i'm thinking like scheme or something). But I hear about how bad golang code has to be, and well it makes me very sad.

Of course, golang does solve actual very real problems, and failing to acknowledge this is holding back the industry 100%. It also meets people where they are, not where the language author is, which is of course something we really need to come to terms with as a group of people who want to push the industry forward.
Yes, they do. All dualists have open themselves up to questions like this, though I suspect few have thought too hard about it. How many people believe in a soul that exists beyond the corporal body? Billions, probably.

When asked, why is it when specific parts of the physical brain are damaged, specific (and often predictable) types of deficits occur, the answer given is something like this: if you damage a radio receiver, it is normal that it can't receive certain signals.

That is why I asked about what smallmouth's model was for situations like this: if the physical mind is damaged, does the non-physical mind remain intact but simply gets frustrated that the physical mind isn't carrying out its wishes?

I've also heard this kind of talk from some in the psychedelic community. They've had experiences that feel so real yet are incoherent with their understanding of the apparent "real world." Rather than concluding that these small molecules have simply interfered with our brain's ability to model reality and their drug-induced experience was an illusion, they instead think their mind lives in a larger reality and communicates with their earth-bound physical brain, and that a lot gets lost in the translation.
GNAT GPL removes the runtime exception, so if you build something with it linked to its standard library, it's also supposed to be open sourced. This means you can't (in a legal/technical sense, not a true prohibitive sense) make closed source software with it. FSF GNAT doesn't remove that exception, so it can be used in releasing closed source software.

That's the encumbrance that GNAT GPL imposes and FSF GNAT does not.
FWIW I went looking on archive.org and found "ERIC ED378962: Developing CD-ROMs: Pitfalls and Detours on the Road to the Digital Village." which had a very brief mention of High Sierra:

https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED378962/page/n13/mode/2up?...

There are also a number of High Sierra format CDROMs on the archive.
Igor Kirillov Has Died
Author here. What are you executing? It works fine on AMD Ryzen for me. That error message doesn't appear in the blinkenlights.com binary. It also doesn't perform that CPUID check. The only place I can find that error message online is for a fizzbuzz codegolf. Perhaps you're confusing sectorlisp with a another project? Also, Blinkenlights should work fine in the Windows 10 Command Prompt. So WSL isn't required but it does run on that too. https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/spooky.png
I don't know if I would call MIDI 1.0 simple in practice. It has a lot of really confusing idiosyncrasies, it's definitely got that feel of being a simple base that was organically developed and had tons of things piled into it over the years. The packet structure in MIDI 2.0 is a lot more... consistent, I guess is what you could say? I don't think you even need a state machine to implement it beyond the initial handshake.
I have been running Debian on all of my laptop computers since 1999, just copying the whole file system to new hardware when upgrading. I only re-installed it once when switching from 32 to 64 bit.
The Starship actually being built by SpaceX under the HLS contract for NASA has no heat shield or atmospheric engines. It is meant to be expendable, or for reuse only in space without servicing.
Yeah, https://[2001:4860:4860:00::000:0.0.136.136]/ is probably the weirdest format that still parses.
> But suppose there is a theory (or related family of theories) which one finds too complicated to understand, but which the community around it(/around them) uses to make accurate predictions.

Whether there is a community is neither here nor there. What matters is the predictions. Quantum theory is incomprehensible, but makes super-precise predictions, that have been tested and confirmed. These three theories aren't like that, are they?
This 100x. I am just getting into all of this hardware and it's so frustrating to need a computer in the mix just to get two pieces of otherwise wonderful single-purpose hardware to speak to each other.
MIDI 2.0 is transport agnostic so it doesn't necessarily require USB, however USB is going to be the best solution for connecting many MIDI devices for awhile.

The big underlying change is that MIDI 2 is duplex, which allows for device discovery, property exchange, and profile configuration. What that buys you is an arbitrary protocol for exchanging information about what things are connected to each other on the same network of devices. It should allow for a lot of cool features, like supplanting Mackie Control and Eucon with an open (or at least trivially open) protocol. One thing I think we'll see with these is more support for microtonal or arbitrary pitch systems that MIDI currently can't realize.

Jitter compensation is built into the protocol too so it should resolve some of the timing issues with USB.

Having read through the spec and written the data structures out for it already I'm not sold that it's overly complex. The additional annoyance is that it mandates JSON parsing but that isn't a tall order these days.
Okay, which one of you is squatting on heyexchange.com?
Even worse is being 1 year into the gig and still having no idea...
I wouldn’t hold your breath on MIDI 2 guitar controllers being better than MIDI 1. The fundamental problem is pitch resolution and that isn’t really addressed by having a better protocol for representing pitch and intonation.
That is such an amazing idea. Wish I had kids so I could learn with them!
https://radimentary.wordpress.com/about/

Same person; the link is to https://www.lesswrong.com/users/alkjash.
Ok, it's comparable to CD Projekt deciding that because DRM is bad, they're going to crack a bunch of games and host them on GoG.
> Among those willing to fake their minority status, 48 percent of white male applicants lied about their race, while 16 percent of white female applicants did so.

I suppose male students are likely to have lower grades. From what I can tell, the more egregious cheaters are usually a bit marginal, or right at the top and want to get an edge to do even better, as the big incentives are either to not lose, or to win - people in the middle have a lot less of an incentive.
Its the circumstances that drives someone to NEED to do these things, THAT is what is bad