skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
stevia, monkfruit etc are not "artificial", are just different -ose sources. Sugar is C₆H₁₂O₆ the rest are just "impurity", there is no difference between sugar from sugar beet, sugar cane, fructose, ... they are the same C₆H₁₂O₆ + extras.

Artificial sweeteners are byproduct of petroleum refining, witch means they do not contain C₆H₁₂O₆ + something but completely different molecules that happen to taste like it for us.
There was a very rare side effect in the Astra Zeneca vaccine that was discovered quite quickly. Not in the original trials as they are simply not powerful enough to detect side effects that rare, but in later observations. We also pretty quickly figured out that the risk is age-related, and many regulating authorities reacted based on that and adjusted the recommendations.

To me this is pretty good evidence that the existing mechanisms for detecting rare side effects work in general. One can argue about the details in this case on how exactly the authorities responded, and I think also reasonably disagree on how to weigh the risk/benefit in this particular case for specific age groups. But those are much more difficult questions based on inherently fuzzy data due to the low frequency of this serious side effect. But the detection itself worked well, and also produced very quick reactions.
Github is free for teams, $48 is the team plan, but you can use the free plan with an organisation of any number of users
I seem to remember HN discussions on stock trading platforms where you can make portfolios that mirror the holdings of key US lawmakers.

Is that a thing?

Really I’m asking what’s the easiest way to tag along and use this info in a self adjusting portfolio?
Would be great if they had an enterprise level so i could get my work to buy this for us
For a darker room it's actually perfect. For a bright room it does get...a bit annoying. However honestly it's still really good.

If you're looking for specifics, I recommend: https://www.rtings.com/

The one really nice thing about this monitor is the built in KVM switch. That's so bloody useful I ignored a lot of other things.
Evidence-based medicine does incorporate prior evidence for causal evaluation. Check out the "Bradford criteria". They're the basis of causal evaluation in epidemiology.
Ah right, that sucks
There was swing before that as well!
If you are just using the .git hosting part, it would be really easy to setup an open-ssh server yourself... Could you explain why you are not hosting your own ssh server already ?
That's not the problem. The problem here is that Fuji appears to be claiming that any use of the SDK voids the warranty entirely, regardless of the defect. t would be like if you swapped out your car's engine with a more powerful one, and then, from a completely unrelated fault, its navigation system stops working.

In the US, my understanding is that this is explicitly not legal, per the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act. FujiFilm can choose not to offer a warranty at all, but if they offer one, then it must cover defects on modified devices unless they can show that the modification caused or contributed to the defect.

In the EU, it is my understanding that it is legal to have a guarantee with terms like these. However, regardless of any guarantee the manufacturer may offer, there is a statutory guarantee in the EU for most products, which completely ignores the terms that the manufacturer might prefer. This usually ends up being weaker than Magnuson–Moss in terms of duration and modifications. But it usually means that for six months, the seller must prove that the fault with the product was caused by the consumer, and for two years, if you can show that the problem is from a defect with the device originally and not from you, then you can still get repairs, replacement, or a refund.
Here's a list of Nestle products, scroll for a minute or two and you might recognize a few items and can just stop buying them forever (they're all garbage products):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands
you cant swap doubles like that though... b/c if any of them is a NaN or an infinity, it breaks down.

It works for integers (and pointers)
Nothing is amiss. Paying competitive salary is necessary condition not sufficient one. Just like paying IT staff competitive salary is basic requirement but that does not guarantee projects' success at all.
Qt has provided us with a solid multi-platform solution. If you want power and control, you always have to pay in complexity and learning curve.
The short answer is: The warranty must cover damage not caused by your modification.

There are no countries i'm aware of that require you warranty damage caused by user modification.
Lots of countries require that you do not void the entire warranty, or refuse service, of any damage not caused by the modification, and generally the manufacturer has to show the damage was caused by the modification if they want to refuse service.

In this case, Fuji is trying to void the entire warranty. That is not legal in a lot of countries.
(unrelated to the main topic)

> The other day I wanted to learn Svelte...

Any highlight(s) regarding positive/negative experiences that you had with Svelte so far?

Asking because it's on my to-do list for my future frontend (bought 2 books about it, but pending to be read as I'm currently first trying to assimilate "Rust" to program the backends) and I ended up selecting Svelte as potential best candidate after having read the docs & having played with its tutorials => I therefore got a general "positive initial feeling" about it.

The last time I wrote a web-UI was many years ago with PHP & Codeigniter & some hand-written Javascript (from my POV that was alright, lightweight/simple/flexible/low-effort and performance was ok, I would/could do that again but maybe Svelte might be better for what I'd like to do now), so I'm not really up-to-date in this area - Svelte just sounds lightweight & flexible enough for me... . Cheers :)
Keep this in mind: For every headline like this about economic numbers from 2021, remember that the apparent "gain" is over the artificially suppressed baseline of 2020.
> Do folks who ask this question scrutinize every purchase or business they make to this degree?

Yes. When you are paying for something, you should have an idea of where that money is actually going. That is why it comes up here. There isn't anything exceptional about this case with Mozilla.
Required to buy, the seller is at higher risk and wants to be anonymous and does not need to provide an address to fulfill orders... same goes for the host of the hidden service
> Desktop apps do have to adhere to the same system security permission that the browser provides.

A desktop app on an average users PC has access to most files on disk, including sensitive data. While a browser has that too, apps running inside a browsers sandbox do not.
> Gotta hedge your bets, you never know what is going to happen.

This logic could be applied to anything.

> Also, BTC has been used without a bank since inception – not sure what you mean by "practical".

Acquiring bitcoin without a bank is not practical, without a bank you essentially have to orchestrate an in-person meetup to exchange cash for cryptocurrency, and this raises many safety concerns besides being a very inconvenient burden. You also need a bank to turn BTC into spendable money, same problem applies.
so, I'm a maker, and there's some things that aren't worth making yourself, but if you integrate them, you're still a maker. x-ray tubes are an example (in my case, microcontrollers, stepper motors, and microscope objectives).

(I have actually built a crookes tube, for fun, but it wasn't particularly reliable or safe)
Yah, or just store both the forward and backwards links in a single variable by xoring the forward and backward links together and storing it. Then the list traversal direction is picked by selecting either the head or tail and starting the operation. Halves the cost of a doubly linked list, while allowing the same function to be used for forward and backwards traversal.
Looking for pointers on a music industry question.

For an up and coming musician (e.g. Billie Eilish in December 2015, after it was clear she had potential and after she had signed with an A&R in January 2016, but well before she signed with Interscope Records in August 2016),

What is the primary motivation to sign to a record label?

Assuming they have a solid understanding of the financial and copyright aspects of the transaction (which I'm sure Eilish had through her brother/producer, who had worked in the industry for years), what are the primary factors that influence the decision?

The ones that occur to me are marketing/PR/general exposure, access to artistic collaborators (visual, musical, etc.), and in the case of "advances" on future albums, an insurance/put option against the unpredictability of their future career.

But I have never worked in the industry, so I'm seeking wisdom from the HN crowd!
From a quick look at the FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE Release Notes ( https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/ ) and the a.out-related commits that it links to, I'd say that FreeBSD is close to having a.out fully walked to the door. (They suggest installing a ~2-decade-old version of FreeBSD if you still need to work with a.out...)
I am far more than happy to pay artists who create the music that I love to continue to create that music.

No one demands a purity of purpose from software developers.
Touch is wildly different as an interaction paradigm compared to mouse + keyboard. So that's the reason for the mobile app.

You'll make your life much more difficult doing an Android app in a language that's not Java or Kotlin, or doing an iOS app in a language that's not Swift or Objective-C, so that's why most apps which are the same between Android and iOS are mainly web views.
Can chord progressions be copyrighted?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/what-the-law-says-about-...

> Copyrighted elements of a musical composition can include melody, chord progression, rhythm, and lyrics — anything that reflects a "minimal spark" of creativity and originality.

https://ask.audio/articles/5-common-beliefs-about-song-copyr...

> Song Titles and Chord Progressions are not copyright protected

> This is true.

[snip]

> Ditto for chord progressions. There must be hundreds of songs that were hits in the ’50s and early ’60s that followed the familiar “ice cream changes” progression of I-vi-IV-V7. Thin “In The Still Of The Night” (another song that shares its title with others), “Donna”, “Silhouettes”, “This Boy” just for starters. Also the chords from the “Pachelbel Canon in D” have been used numerous times. Think “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.”

Does lack of enforcement make something legal?

https://moviecultists.com/can-chord-progressions-be-copyrigh...

> "If a single chord progression were elaborate enough and unconventional enough, it could be protected."

How many possible chord progressions are there?
If you think woah that is one huge crow, than it’s probably a raven I find the easiest tell. Also the sound is a bit off and on the higher end I believe. And also their beak is more curved but that’s often hard to spot and not too reliable
Web Inspector on Safari showing failure: "Worker load was blocked by Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy"
You can't be logged out of both. If you sign into one you are signed into both.
My kitchen microwave kills any 2.4ghz wifi within 30 feet.
Been using JuMP as a central part of a big project at work for the past 18 months and it's been great. Very intuitive to use, and lots of helpful responses on GitHub or discourse wherever there's been questions about the best way to do something. Congratulations on the latest milestone!
I think it's similar to short term reward vs delayed gratification (see the marshmallow experiment[0]). By refusing to admit you've ever made mistakes, you can protect your ego in the short term. However, you're also alienating people and preventing learning from taking place. That has a long-term cost in terms of missed or lost opportunities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
Oh man. Navidrome looks awesome. Never thought about doing that. Will start buying from bandcamp tomorrow. Thank you tons for the suggestion.
Yes, I have tons of evidence for this, and for why all of your claims have no foundation. Allow me to provide one example of the hundreds that I personally know of or worked with (which is a tiny fraction of the numbers finding success independently).

In late 2020, a band called Sub-Radio had a couple thousand followers on each social media platform and around ~15k monthly listeners on Spotify, and this was after many years of working extremely hard and even touring the US. Among many things, my primary advice to them was to start live streaming, particularly on Reddit. By the time 2021 arrived, they had more than tripled their social media presence and doubled their listener count. The continued to stream on Reddit throughout the year before recently switching to TikTok, and in the process garnered over 1 million new followers, 150k monthly listeners, sold out an entire US tour and their music is being licensed left and right.

That's just one example of countless many, and it's the way the entire industry is moving. If you're not on board with that, then you're behind the times, because you don't need a million dollar music video budget to become famous and you never did. Financial support has always been a very well-understood con by the record labels, as it allows them to assume ownership over music rights under the guise of "necessary promotional activities."
I wonder how many of these X market grew by X% last year will take account of inflation? My hunch is not many, because it sounds better without it, and these numbers need to sounds good.

But looking at year to year dollar growth at 8-10% inflation is not accurate. This headline is probably only an 8-10% grow rate in real terms.
In the US, car manufacturers are required to honor the warranty for the rest of the car after you swap the engine unless they can prove your engine swap caused the failure they don't want to repair. They will probably have little difficulty proving that for a scenario like a more powerful engine breaking a transmission. They'd have a much harder time claiming it caused the heated seats to stop working.

This SDK seems to be for PC-based remote control apps, not camera firmware. A well-designed camera firmware would not accept remote control commands that exceed the hardware's safety limits.
Are you serious? What company or organization works like this? With goal posts like this, you've got the perfect excuse to never donate any money to them.

How do you give an organization money, and ensure that that specific dollar doesn't go to the execs? Any money that goes to the org, pays for those execs one way or another. You can't just ask the Firefox team to pretend they don't exist.
Nick Walton on AI Dungeon and the Future of AI in Games
I believe the rationale here is, sure, you need to trust that the vendor isn't giving you malware, but for most software makers that have existed for longer than a few months, you have a reasonable track record to grant that level of trust. On the other hand, trusting that your data won't be exfiltrated somehow is much harder because of how widespread the practice is. But at least desktop software can, in principle, run without network access. A web app cannot.

Beyond that, you can also, in principle, run a desktop app in a sandbox and/or audit it in some way to observe its behavior and assure yourself it isn't malicious, and only then use it on a sensitive host. A web app, in contrast, can't even be guaranteed to serve you the same version of itself from one second to the next, let alone guarantee that any change made to it between requests wasn't malicious. The sandboxing done by the browser is the only protection you have (short of only ever visiting the web at all from a sandboxed host).

Then get into applications like basic photo processing and document editing. Sure, it can be done server-side via the web, but the only way for that to be possible is for you to upload all of your photos across the network to the server, along with all the threat models that entails. If the software is running on your host, your data can stay on your host. I'm assuming here that pure Javascript is still not really used for compute-intensive applications and things like doc-to-pdf conversion and photo smoothing accomplished via web apps mostly still relies on server-side processing.
Engineering should not have access to real user data or PII in the first place, generally. US or EU.
This. It might suck financially but perfect is the enemy of possible.
A multivariate Gaussian, for example.
If we're arguing semantics there probably isn't much point in continuing. You can certainly tell that story, but I'm not sure a person's wake is the place to do it...if for no better reason than out of kindness for the grieving. There's plenty of time for history to develop a nuanced opinion.
This is true and the system is incredibly wasteful and dumb, but to be clear those uninsured people would immediately negotiate it down to about $250 by calling and saying "wtf am I supposed to do with this bill".
I've often mused that in like 100 years we'll (...hopefully...) have an entire lexicon of mnemonics and conveyances to express what's going on in the mind. It's currently like we're 12 month olds bashing blocks together and learning our first words.

Within the framework of thus-established understanding, I'd wager this might classify as ADD. It's a form of attention deficit: the process of collecting, prioritizing and storing stimulus isn't working properly, despite generally laser-focused intentions otherwise.

While carrying some heavy-ish bags a short distance from A to B after a long day, I observed that the muscles in my forearms abruptly started to loosen/weaken over the course of a couple seconds and that progressively greater effort was needed in that moment to strain to keep my hands closed over the bag handles. (I quickly put the bags down realizing my muscles were going "429 too many requests" (lol) and that pushing things would probably be Bad™.) I generally compare AD(H)D and my focus issues to the same sort of model; my intention is pretty much "I am <here> and I want to be <there>", but in practice I feel like my willpower to carry that sort of intention out is sitting atop a box on an oil slick on a non-level surface, such that whenever I need to mentally self-check where I'm up to with whatever I realize my frame of reference has gone and moved *again* and I have to recalibrate where <here> is so I can start over. The disorientation can be tiring.

That's the best specific description of how I experience ADHD myself (it mostly affects finding the same task interesting for long periods of time) - but I think I can kind of see some related sentiment in how you describe your memory issues, particularly the disconnect between what you describe as "active" memory and... whatever the other thing is that you're supposed to have but is replaced with empty space (I'm missing it too, and have a great time forgetting ideas and connections between things - usually the "!!!" dynamic of how A relates to B... aaand it's gone).

The note-taking issues are curious. I also have a problem writing things down, which currently surfaces as a glitch wherein anything that goes onto paper that isn't a finished, done, thing... is basically worthless. Like, once something goes onto paper or a screen, it's *done*, no further editing or review to happen. (Somehow, mercifully, programming is an exception (!).) This basically negates list-writing. I wonder if this is because something's hitting a cognitive-dissonance trigger: perhaps some part of the brain is underdeveloped or otherwise not providing the "full-resolution" signal that it's supposed to send elsewhere, but still hitting certain notes that cue the destination to go "this is good data"... I mean for myself I just feel like the data I'm getting from my own writing is just... plain old unsettling, like a kid wrote it and I'm expected to take it seriously, or something.

I've actually had this for years.
After reading this article I find only one problem with it, and that is the title.

The problem the authors have so perfectly characterized has nothing to do with the emphasis on evidence that medicine requires, but on the distortion imposed on the system by large pharmaceutical companies.

The reality of the obstacles standing in the way of rigorous testing for drug or therapy effectiveness does not make evidence-based medicine an illusion.

In fact, the authors actually make a strong argument in favor of evidence-based medicine, by stating the need to acknowledge these biases. And that the reason for all these biases is greed.
> Chance encounters rely on luck, with online you get filters and algorithms to pair you with similar people.

Agreed, but this change in topology isn't obviously beneficial or desirable. Superficial interest based similarities are not necessarily a good predictor of meaningfulness, and likely a negative predictor for understanding and acceptance of people who are different from us.
This seems like a problem associated with how money is apportioned out by the streaming services. As I understand it, they basically throw all the user money into a big pot, and throw all the streams into a big pot, and then apportion it out that way.

However, the problem with that is, if I don't listen to Taylor Swift at all, why is a portion of my subscription fee going to her? If, say, $10 per month of the money I give to Spotify goes to artists, it should just go to who I listen to. If I listen exclusively to Obscure Band X, then all of my money should go to them. If half my streams are Taylor Swift and half OBX, then they should both get $5.
Loudoun was super wealthy before the data centers started springing up. It was where old VA money had their horse farms and wineries. What changed was a huge influx of very well paid tech and natsec jobs after 9/11. And as you say, data centers breed data centers. But they do not require a lot of people. A few dozen people for thousands of servers. KC is not mopping up the 5000 employees from, say, the former Sprint's headquarters with one or two data centers.
> Which, although might end up being quite a non trivial amount, i

Right. Engineers usually underestimate how much this really is. Often by an order of magnitude or two.

I'm pretty confident their margins aren't fat enough they'd be happy considering eating 1-2% (i.e. your numbers) on something that might help a fraction of install base. Hell they may already not be making next to nothing on these bodies.

So it would be a real project, and it would cost them enough that (using your rough numbers) they'd need to sell probably a few thousand support contracts a year to justify doing it properly (supporting multiple cameras, customer support, testing etc.). So I imagine if they have looked at it, they've balanced that against the "brand building" as you put it, and aren't sure it's a net win.

The prosumer space is funny for stuff like this, as people are often quite capable but not really willing to pay enough to justify the cost of real support. Some companies solve this by throwing something unsupported/unofficial over the wall, others (or their lawyers) decide the whole thing isn't worth the hassle.