skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In a poll by an Atlanta radio station, 76 percent of listeners who participated responded they would return their Dixie Chicks CDs if they could.[15] Protesters in Bossier City, Louisiana, used a tractor to destroy Dixie Chicks CDs and other items.[13] The Kansas City station WDAF-AM placed trashcans outside its office for listeners to dispose of their CDs, and displayed hundreds of emails from listeners supporting the boycott.[13]

The drinks manufacturer Lipton canceled its promotional contract with the Dixie Chicks.[4] Maguire's tour bus driver resigned in protest of their remarks.[11] Maines said: "It seems unfathomable that someone would not want to drive us because of our political views. But we're learning more and more that it's not that unfathomable to a large percentage of the population."[11]”
The vaccine is the safer controlled introduction to it in comparison to getting a full covid exposure. In a full covid case w/o being vaccinated would introduce more spike protein as well as a exposure to the sequences of the rest of the virus which could cause all sorts of other issues.
Oh sure, I don't support that. I would love to see people reward quality information instead of sentational infotainment with their "clicks" but alas that's not the world we're living in. -- What to do?
I have had a lot of fun and success with Keyboard Maestro for Mac and Shortcuts for iOS. For my work, I try to automate Terminal commands. I also dabbled a little with bash scripts. I love that Shortcuts lets me think programatically and flex those muscles for fun tasks.

Here's some stuff I have set up:

Mac:

- I use several displays, and don't usually use the built-in monitor. I have an automation that dims it until it turns off.

- I have recurring KM script that deletes Yarn and NPM caches. They get huuuuge.

- I have a bash script that shows me the temperature of my Mac. I might be able to add an alert if the temp goes above x.

iOS:

- I hooked up my Pavlok shock bracelet to Reminders. I get a percentage chance of getting shocked every 15mins if tasks aren't done. The more tasks done, the less likely it is.

- Shortcut to pull up Youtube videos for PiP without a Youtube Premium account. You can find that online. Game changer.

- Sci-Hub and Meta.org search shortcuts made available in the share menu. You can get my Sci-Hub shortcut here (a good starting point for other search shortcuts): https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub-mirrors

- To help me debug shortcuts, I created a logger that writes to Data Jar or to a Note. Helps soo much. I haven't released it but you can get my Twitter at the link above if you're interested.

Node dev:

- Semantic commit template accessible through Dash's text-expander

- Next.js sucks but I made some scripts to automate that work. I had to use a Chrome-watcher that let's me refresh specific tabs from the command line.

There's many more. I wanted to share mine to maybe give you an idea of what tools to check out and what to automate to approximate your robotic luxury communist future.
Ask who their client is. If they bait and switch you, that information gives you the freedom to contact the client and complain.
I could just as easily turn your argument into 'anything that draws public ire should be removed', which would be just as ridiculous on its face.

I'm not saying Spotify should do anything. I'm saying it has other ways to 'do something' about these kinds of things.
oh dear just got it.
We're simply standing on the shoulders of giants for this one. Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson, winners of the 2020 Prize in Economic Sciences, are responsible for the underlying theory and commercialization in other industries. My advisor, Preston McAfee, introduced me to the concept (Milgrom's book was the auction theory text) and was largely responsible for bringing mechanism design to ad markets. Lots of folks are applying machine learning to accelerating discrete optimization problems, and an advisor of ours, Kevin Leyton-Brown [2], pioneered applying it to combinatorial auctions for wireless spectrum repacking.

Our value add is mainly a team that understands these fields and the extreme nuance of capital markets. That's allowed us to generate novel IP and a purpose-built solution.

[1] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2020/sum...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03304
That title has too many negatives
> For example, why did AirBnB win?

Because they were and continue to be completely willing to ignore any and all local laws until someone actually shows up and bashes them for it.

If it weren't for Covid shutting everything down and putting housing back into the local rental market, I suspect AirBnB was headed for some very large lawsuits. We'll see if that continues once things pick up again.
Really glad to see organizations "with a platform" use their platform to say "not my problem."

I can respect the attempt that people have made to force compliance where the law does not help, all of those current attempts can be co-opted easily. I just watched people say it was inclusive to remove someone from a position for a view expressed outside of work beforehand that has never impacted their work, when the opposite could equally be argued under the exact same idea. You can basically morph any social justice idea from Twitter Spaces and Instagram stories to serve your idea and I'm not sure people realize that yet, or if they are intentionally doing it themselves.

For the record, I would also like to see a world where hatred was not incited. People uncomfortable with an organization still have the choice of disassociating from the organization, no matter how much energy they put into enrollment or money they put into an investment there. Thats what freedom of speech and association means even in the philosophical private sector fan-rendition of the first amendment.
"The vast majority of fines are against European companies"

? The vast majority the fines are to American companies. Literally on top of the list Google, Amazon, FB etc. make up 80% of the fines.

Google is paying $100M and Voda is paying $5M and you're saying they are targeted equally ...
You know how every six months someone posts an impassioned screed about how programming needs to be visual? And then the collective community has to explain how this isn't a new idea, it's been used to do a couple of things, and shows no signs of moving out of that niche because as soon as you actually put the elbow grease in to try to make a general-purpose "visual language" a whole lot of details the beautiful model in your head didn't have to worry about stick their ugly faces right in and destroy the entire thing?

The belief that all of math can be reduced to cellular automata is a very similar belief, with I suspect very similar sources of appeal. There's these really beautiful pictures that cellular automata make, and they neatly explain how a couple of sea shells look, can produce some interesting patterns both visually and mathematically, and have an interesting handful of proofs like the Turing Completeness of some rules.

However, when you try to get them to do anything useful, it all just comes apart. Cellular automata are in general just too chaotic to be harnessed, and by the time you tame their chaoticness you've probably just badly reinvented something that already exists (e.g., yes, great, you embedded a Turing Machine in your cellular automata, but we already have Turing Machines that are way better).

I read a decent chunk of the book. It had pretty pictures and interesting ideas. But given its claims, I also read it with an engineering eye. From an engineering point of view, the book verges on vacuous. I like pure math for its own sake, so had it merely claimed to be an interesting dive into the pure math world of cellular automata I would hold nothing against it. But as a revolution it has been sorely lacking in much of anything, even by math standards, to say nothing of engineering standards. Given that it is now 20 years old, claims of how important it is going to be in the future also ring quite hollow.

But the dream never dies because my gosh are those pictures pretty. Surely the fact that the pictures are Beautiful means they must also be True?

Maybe in Philosophy it does, maybe it doesn't. But it certainly doesn't in Engineering.
https://lethain.com/ - not strictly programming, but more of tech career and management-related.
I bought one lottery ticket. Then I went back and bought two more, now I have 3-times the chance to win $100 million!
> This can actually go far worse - after the Trump subreddits got taken down they moved to another domain which is a clone of Reddit...

Is that really a failure? I imagine that cuts out a whole bunch of people who like the convenience of Reddit, or would only have found the subreddit from the front page. And it probably fractures communities, since more than one Reddit clone gets put up to replace a banned subreddit.

> All the time we discuss this we aren’t addressing truly horrific issues

Not everyone needs to be focusing on the most important issues.
On Fedora at least yes, they try to default on Wayland for everything by default now
For anyone who's not watched the Louis Rossman rant (2014) on how Lenovo screwed the pooch on Thinkapds, do.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=doEZMNXz1JY

Caution: harsh language and harder truths. All completely justified.

I'd love to know how this was received at Lenovo, because this should be part of every new hire's onboarding.
The fact that this was even being considered shows how pitifully little anyone learned from the Equifax breach.
yeah my bad. Not fully up to date with all the newer python 3 tricks. That walrus operator is a trap though imo.
They discontinued offering the free version to new customers in 2012. I would expect they had already done the analysis on the marketing value and found it negligible.
Oh that's neat, I had almost exactly that startup idea years ago, but it never got any further than describing it to some friends over a beer. Looks like you created something pretty cool!
They're working on usernames, but what's the privacy concern around using your phone number? Is it to be pseudononymous?

My use case for Signal is friends and family, and it was easy to get everyone onboard because we all have each other's phone numbers already and didn't need to build a new list of contacts. It's a drop-in Android-compatible replacement for iMessage.
Having seen the cartoons I don't think they're anything that a college student doesn't seen 10 times a week on the shows they're watching, I doubt anyone was seriously traumatized by them.

Well, one thing you failed to mention that the CCP has done that the posters do highlight is the genocide being perpetrated on the Uyghur people which seems quite rational for people across the world to be outraged by and want to put pressure on the government to end such practices. Indeed China hasn't launched any kinetic wars, how about trade wars (e.g. WTO ruling against China RE Rare Earths which was used to badger the Japanese over a border dispute), how about intense economic pressure like what is happening with Lithuania right now, how about rampant forced technology transfer across the world.

Let's try to have an evenhanded debate here in good faith. I'm happy to admit there are many things I think America has done and is doing wrong, no country is perfect, but it doesn't serve your cause to pretend that certain events have never happened or to gaslight people.
This is an exciting project, congratulations. I'm looking forward to the docs on embedded usage, and also which languages are supported and how to configure them. For now there seems to be quite a few unikraft/app* repos with such examples.
If just asking questions can damage your position, why does the motivation of the person who asks those questions even matter? So what if he's a concern troll? That doesn't make the problems that these questions highlight any less valid.
"In Scotland, there is at least one sheep, at least one side of which appears to be black from here some of the time."

It would be practically impossible in the 1940s to have faked the photographs but it's not difficult at all to misrepresent what they are photographs of, the circumstances in which they were taken, and how they came to be available.

Facts are true, and we should rightly ridicule people who insist otherwise, but the interpretation of those facts is subtle and subject to much mischief.

Most of the WW2 photographs I've spent time looking at were subject to an altogether more scientific consideration of this problem. They're aerial reconnaissance photos, so, hopefully they're pictures of something the enemy doesn't want you to know about, captured at great risk by expert pilots in unarmed aeroplanes (a camera plus film goes where the guns would otherwise fit in the plane). But in this case the answer to the question "What is actually captured in this photograph?" is known only to the enemy who've no intention of telling you, so you have to guess and you'd better guess right.

For example, suppose you've never seen a modern rocket. You've seen the powder-filled devices of course - still popular today as fireworks and sometimes for simple amateur rocketry (for beginners or children) but never a liquid fuelled rocket. Now, somebody shows you a photo with scale of a prototype German V-2 rocket and they propose this is a rocket, one of Hitler's vengeance weapons, with a range of perhaps 200 miles. It'd be so fast you can't hope to intercept or avoid it, once launched it is unstoppable. We must do everything possible to destroy them first, right? But on the other hand, whoever heard of a rocket with such ludicrous range - maybe it's a hoax, intended to do nothing more than divert Allied bombing away from valuable fuel and real military targets...
I built and run a Minecraft server hosting service for parents to enable young kids to play online safely and with less hassle (https://minecraft-playdates.com). Been slowly growing it while adding features, and it's bringing in about $150/mo now. Potential for much more if I were focused on it.
I think this is a good move. The compensation structure of Amazon (max $160k, rest is RSUs) made sense when the company delivered stock value growth each year. It felt startup-esque. The issue is that the stock performance has been unimpressive for several years now, which means that a lot of higher-ups and older employees were seeing their compensation become significantly below market-rate and would, as one expect, leave.

To give people here an idea, my RSUs lost ~4% in value since I've been at Amazon (more than a year). This is perfectly fine if there's an expectation that the RSUs are a "bonus", it's not fine if you need it to go up 10-15% for your TC to match Microsoft.
Apple can't even display the speed you are going.

Google Maps can display the speed, and the speed limit.

I won't install Google Maps, but it annoys me every single time.
> They can't lend money without deposits. The deposits are the money they lend.

I am fairly certain this isn't true, at least not in the US/UK.
Do you have data on that, or are you just asserting that your personal experience is more universal than their personal experience?

I don't think they're totally off-base: I haven't used my phone contact list for personal contacts for most of the last decade. It's just a collection of work contacts that I don't trust enough to add anywhere I actually talk to people.
Purdue Research Foundation sues Google over alleged patent infringement
Peter Thiel to step down from Meta’s board
As a manager you're not above everyone else
If you look at Theranos, the major funding sources were not traditional vcs.

Total investment: $724m, approx. Waltons: $150m, Rupert Murdoch: $121m, Cox family: $100m, DeVos family: $100m, Carlos Slim: $30m, etc. I count at least $559m from non-vc sources [1].

And then you have hedge funds like Partner Fund Management: $96m. Whether you consider them a traditional vc or not, per their lawsuit, Theranos faked blood test results. I guess you can blame them, but I'm not sure how much duedil is going to catch wholesale fraud.

MedVenture, a vc, did due diligence and didn't invest. GV turned them down.

VCs certainly didn't make Walgreens not do duedil before partnering with Theranos. etc.

I don't think Theranos is proof that vcs are, as a class, incompetent and just want a story.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-cost-business-and-gove...
At some point I gave up trying to organize my Gmail when I realized that 99% of my use of it is just opening it to get a sign-in code or check on a package or whatever. I send an email to an actual human with it maybe once a year. I don't check it unless I'm expecting something because there's almost zero chance something I care about will show up there when I'm not expecting it.

My personal email is almost entirely read-only, and nearly all its utility is letting computers, not people, send me messages that I'm expecting.
> Wouldn't it be more effective to be vocal to our politicians to say we don't want to start some catastrophic war there

I don't have the impression that any politician (in the west) wants to do that.
Traders Are Buying Their Own NFTs to Drive Up Prices: Report
So we might be racist for calling out genocide and ethnic cleansing?
Again more evidence against your own point.

That's anti-trust regulation and the majority of the fines clearly going to foreign companies.

I don't have the data, but I'll bet $1000 that the majority of US anti-trust fines are nor targeted towards foreign companies, rather domestic.

Europe imposes regulatory sanctions it seems for GDPR and anti-trust that disproportionately target foreign companies that seems clear.
Very cool market. This feels a lot like multi-leg option execution.

How do you think market makers are going to react to this? It makes sense for them to provide a bid/ask on individual series, but how do you see them providing liquidity for these more complex orders?
Aside from the study being interesting topic, I love the inclusion of Fig 1 the cohort construction diagram. I wish more papers would include that as a standard item.
"What is insane about it?"

I took a civics test for Norway. I had a 6 week civics class, and they try to give the class and the test in a language you know. Mine was in English, as was my test (I'll have to take it in Norwegian before citizenship, as they changed the rules).

Most things on the test were very practical things indeed. No need to, for example, memorize every political party that is on the national ballot, for example, and only a question or two (tops) that wanted a historical date at all. The vast majority asked things about the health care system, schooling system, and basic useful things like that. The class added more detail, but they tested basics. The test is electronic, taken at a school so it is secure (no bags/phones at your computer, for example). I could get on a government website and take a practice test, too.

I'm American. The american test is more concerned with you learning the propaganda of the country and memorizing dates than it with making sure you can navigate different systems in society. "Topics about government and history", they say. The actual website states, "Although USCIS is aware that there may be additional correct answers to the civics questions, applicants are encouraged to respond to the questions using the answers provided below." [1] They aren't testing how well you can navigate the system or things you'll need to, say, drive: Hence, insane.

Though admittedly, it is shorter than I expected: They only ask 20 out of 128 questions (mine was 30ish) - and you only have to get 12 right. Unfortunately, it is also oral, so (for me) it would be much more stressful, especially considering the brutish formality that a lot of American institutions have.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship-resource-center/the-2020-v....
part of the bummer of the pandemic is building up a great home theater and not being able to have friends over to enjoy it.
The Unnerving Rise of Video Games That Spy on You
What We Lose When Work Gets Too Casual
Yes I've had some real issues with my dock (autocorrect there was not good). It's an AMD machine (so no thunderbolt), but had some real issues with an external monitor. Ethernet flaky at times and asymmetric connection speeds. I have no desire to trouble shoot it - it kinda works enough for me, but the older docks seemed far more reliable.
> their endless pursuit for revenue has pushed sales and marketing people to the front of the line and product people operate in their shadows

It may surprise you to learn that for a very long time, Apple’s de facto head of product (aside from Steve, obviously) was Phil Schiller. The “marketing people” have always been near the top of the food chain.
I haven't historically— multiple rounds of old flip phones and early Android devices with zero migration story made me wary of overly investing in anything on-device.

However, the current wave of phone-number-tied messengers (WhatsApp, Signal) have definitely pushed me in that direction.
Lockdown made my work out more: Since I have no commute time anymore, I took up regular running (3x a week). Very significant increase in fitness.
Lots of details are glossed over in this article. My main questions:

- What does this mean for stock grants? Are they being adjusted up? down? not changing?

- What levels will expect to see this salary bump? Is everyone currently sitting at 160k getting a bump to 350k?
TBH probably better if their lies are getting unbelievable. Makes it easier to separate the wheat from the chaff!
Not all streaming services are as anti-artist as Spotify. I’ve been using Tidal for a few years now, and while it doesn’t have all the integrations Spotify has, I’ll never switch back. It’s obvious from the app that they care about the artists… From the royalties, to the credits feature, to their master quality recordings, Tidal lifts the artists to the top. In Tidal, you can look up who was the sound engineer for your favorite track and see what else they engineered, which is awesome for discovering new music.
Sorry, I think you missed my point. My point is that our economy is currently structured with so many jobs paying too little, having no benefits, no pto/healthcare, that "people should just get a better job" argument doesn't hold water numerically. I think the solution to that is to ease the wealth gap.

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3142144 Hz

4 times the DAC frequency.

Or, actually, 49096 * 16 * 4

http://yates.ca/dx7/Schematics%20&%20PCBs/DX7%20Schematic%20...

Top right of the diagram.
Reference paper[1].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3447786.3456248
Hacks for Engineering Estimates
Maybe look for opportunities to innovate in the crypto space?

Scam as a Service: Get your prepackaged ERC token with a flashy name, extra buzzwordy white paper and pre-negotiated rates with influencers!

Rugpull as a Service: Already have buy-in from <strike>rubes</strike> investors? Choose from popular off the shelf PR scapegoat packages such as rogue employee, misconfigured smart contract or malicious hackers.
Switched to Deezer years ago, not quite perfect but a much better experience in my opinion, I suggest you give it a chance.
A rare Microsoft MACH-20 286 accelerator| Adrian's Digital Basement – YouTube
Adrian's Digital Basement ][

"Welcome to SMMC 0020! In today's episode, I take a look at interesting assortment of cards including two which are super fascinating. One is the HP 82321C Basic Language Processor Card and the other the Microsoft MACH-20 Accelerator card. "
Eh for those liquidating them, most are turning most into equity in other companies/funds - ie a number in the same sort of DB table, albeit with a different ticker attached.