skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the best way to test if you are doing it right is to compare to an optical blend.

Say you blend red and green, such as by having a red ( rgb(255,0,0) ) div, and putting a div that is green with 50% transparency over it ( rgba(0,255,0,.5) ).

Now, make a checkerboard pattern of red and green divs. Look at it from far away enough that it appears as a solid color. (easier if you make each div occupy one pixel, while trying to avoid any antialiasing) You could also use something like frosted glass to blur it.

Do they appear the same color?

I would not expect it to appear as a bright yellow, but a rather dark yellow. (but not so dark as it appears brown)
Data Security Is a Developer Service Problem
That's precisely the issue TFA is referring to. Tying your mental health to your work. It's unhealthy, and if you're at the point where you're justifying this link, you might seriously be in a co-dependent relationship with your company.

If you have the mental fortitude to know when to step back, then all the power to you, but I find it much too easy to fall into the trap of "working so hard so my mental health doesn't suffer, but my mental health suffers anyway"
Urban spending is disproportionately police. If each area pays their own way, urban areas get basically nothing but a ton of police. Then the cops, who live in the suburbs, take that money (and its potential tax revenue) elsewhere.

You will note that this is already a problem, because we already have a partial pay-your-own-way system.
This is only because the CCP wants full control over these entities and to shut out any Western/Non-CCP approve opinions and messages quickly and permanently.
> While it's almost always I, IV, V, and vi, we have both II or ii, and III or iii, differing on whether the third is major or minor. One way to handle this is just to drop the third from all the chords and play them open

Note that what jefftk calls "open chords" are more commonly called "power chords" (or "indeterminate" or "no3" or "5" chords). This is a distinct concept from the open/"zombie" chords that that youtube video is about. (But if you did use only power chords when covering songs, they would also usually sound quite dull!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_chord

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_chord
I withdraw my position about US government and twitter.

>They don't call it insurrection only because "seditious conspiracy" is the more legally accurate term, and the charge on which convictions have already been obtained.

I think I saw this on twitter. I'm not going to argue over this one. Even the wikipage extensively uses the word insurrection still.

This is a super non-issue. In fact, the differing reactions and hard line take on these contemporary political protests is all that matters.

I could also point out, but it won't help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...

Elon isn't too late. Seemingly he's ahead of me on this one. I didn't realize how bad it is.

I just hope Canada and Mexico stay out of this.
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I commented the other day, but wanted to add I just noticed that an SSD Kit for a 2019 Mac Pro that I ordered and was supposed to be delivered this week was also pushed back to June. It makes me think everything shipping from China was drastically held up with recent Closures / shipping issues.
Voting booth, I believe. That's indeed really a good idea that one can readily implement without a huge cost. Was there any incident that prompted such a voting protocol?
Definitely the design language but doesn't seem to carry over any of the functionality, just seems like a standard mixer.
I tend to agree with you, I guess I’m in the minority. I think a lot more political manipulation happens on Facebook.
"Is it a form of cultural repression? I see how it can be."

Here you go.

"Certainly far worse happens to other cultures around the world and nobody bats an eyelash."

Unfortunately for Ukraine, there are 120 million russians in Russia who do bat an eyelash about this.
There's also a compounding effect. A vow of poverty founder is going to try to get his first ten employees to take a similar vow, just out of principle and (maybe) spite. So the VCs are essentially trying to create a culture of financial stress in hopes that it will motivate.

I've gotten offers from a handful of startups, but turned them all down because they wouldn't meet the salary offers I was getting from other, more stable employers. They said the equity would make up the difference, but I didn't view that as base comp, I viewed it as risk maintenance in case the startup failed.
I'm just happy that there are people who can work for Teenage Engineering building cool things like this. I own a pocket operator and love seeing the bare board and imagining how fun it must have been to build and design it.
Executives probably care about outcomes. Management only (and will only ever) care about output. Outcomes can be blamed on incompetent underlings. But as long as the output is sufficient, management can be seen as doing their jobs. They need those task lists to compile into their reports to show that things are "getting done". And so any push from developers to measure outcome over output is going to be shot down immediately by management.

It's also very telling that this article contains quotes from over a dozen people, and not a single developer. I'm convinced the entire "agile industry" is nothing but theater for management.
Hmm... I haven't seen it. Will check it out!
Most users acquired after 2016 have no knowledge of the Web 1.5-ish Reddit that used to be, especially if they use the official Reddit app and website.

I'm surprised RES, the Reddit API and old.reddit still work, because it allows for easy blocking of ads and 'features' Reddit is pushing, such as RPAN live streaming and what not.
I also thought of this prior post. I believe it is the same scam and written up by someone also claiming to be a security researcher. It seems too on the nose to be a coincidence.
I was arguing that, in Europe, and France specifically, it's a way to see whether or not a potential candidate is "French" enough. It's expounded as a psychological tool (orthographists and graphologists are paid to psychoanalyze you based on written documents that you MUST submit), but in the end, it leads to a gray area of racism and classism.
Checking a hash is safer only if the person who commits the "known good hash" to the package repository actually verifies that goodness. If the programs developer sells out and puts malware into their official binary releases, and the package maintainer doesn't notice this, then checking hashes doesn't protect you from the malicious release.
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Poison pill is a scheme enacted by Twitter, not SEC or any government agency.

It's not law therefore finding creative ways to go around that poison pill would not violate any laws.
Having used a torrent client to download a Linux ISO from Windows, I agree
Is there a way to invite other users to a developer account? Or is it single user?
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But what if the DJ convinces his audience to invest in a much larger and more expensive night club at an extraordinary premium. Then it might make sense to buy the original night club just to protect the DJ’s scheme.

My math is that Musk’s twitter activity very reasonably increased Tesla’s market cap by more than 5% which is what he is offering to pay.
>If he tries to sell 21 billion dollars worth of tesla shares, the share price will collapse.

He can execute an equity stock swap agreement with an investment bank and not unload any shares.
> CMaj7 has C / E / G / B? Who says this isn't Emin6 with the 6th in the bass?

The person who wrote it down as CMaj7 and not Emin6/C says.
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Sorting by ascending date, 12/31/1969 appears to have been an exceedingly dangerous day to be working on literally anything at all.

(/s)
The Senate was broken with the 17th amendment. As described originally, senators were meant to represent their state government and take a longer view than the House. The House was meant to represent the people and their whims.
Didn't know about Anki. Thanks for the info. Will definitely try out!
Facts are not needed, sir. Feelings matter most.

We know that no companies pay tax (ignore the billions paid in tax), and no rich people pay tax (ignore the billions paid in tax), so therefor all taxes must be paid by me personally.

Or so the arguments go.
Yeah, for instance, it's much easier to melodically space out or articulate the notes in a chord on a piano so they don't clunk all together like the strum of a guitar without ever crossing into arpeggio. That can make for beautiful open melodic chord playing when you're jamming out or noodling around without ever breaking the rhythm.
Kubernetes does this with a tool called Prow, but it’s roughly what others have mentioned around merge trains
As corporations are considered people, there is not, in fact, literally zero citizens asking for this. Very rich citizens capable of padding pockets of congresspeople are asking for this. These same very rich citizens would prefer not to address housing.

So yeah, I absolutely understand why congress is tackling this. It's more profitable to do so.
One advantage of Musk's positioning as a "nutcase" is that him selling Tesla stock to buy Twitter doesn't signal "I believe Twitter is a better investment than Tesla" as much as it signals "Musk is doing Musk stuff"
Suppose you took a narcotic whenever you felt pain. Once you have taken the narcotic you would not be aware of the pain. In fact you might naturally go to the narcotic whenever you have pain as a means of avoiding the pain. You may even lose the ability to tell when you are feeling pain or where it's coming from because all you have to do is take the drug.

Meditation means different things to different people.

For many people it is a tool of repression, avoidance, and dissociation.

Now before you tell me that this is not a healthy way to practice I want you to acknowledge that everyone is merely using the terms mindfulness or meditation when they can mean different things, and it's important to remember that we don't automatically have a bias towards the correct understanding of things, and perhaps there's even a bias towards the worse practices of meditation, in a similar way that it's easier to fall down a hill than it is to climb up it. Entropy, as well, tells us that things tend to fall apart if they are not constantly maintaining themselves.

It's easy to dismiss what I say. but that'd be very typical of someone who doesn't want to hear it because they'd like to avoid what's really going on with themselves.
This raises another issue, that is can he even sell that many shares of Tesla and still stay in control?

IIRC he made a comment about how he was "cash poor" a while back and it basically came down to he can't sell more of Tesla/SpaceX without dipping below 51% and loosing control.
"You're denying me entry on the basis of my past behaviour at your establishment? This is censorship!" /s
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/04/20/how-smart-is-the-smart...

> you can let Congress know that you oppose mandatory censorship filters. Fight for the Future is leading a petition opposing the harmful impacts of the legislation that will be delivered to Congress on 25th April, 2022. You can sign the petition at https://nocensorshipfilter.com and make sure Congress knows just how many people are concerned about the impacts this bill will have on free speech.

The "SMART Copyright Act" would:

- Create universal automated censorship chokepoints across the internet by requiring expensive content filters that we already know don’t work and regularly silence lawful speech

- Encourage surveillance backdoors in everything from Canva to Google Drive to internet service provider traffic, since it is written to apply at all layers of the internet

- Mandate filtering of all content online at all levels, from Big Tech platforms like Twitch and Instagram to ISPs like Verizon and Comcast—and for any other platform that lets people speak or share online

- Force these companies to compromise the safety and security of the internet with mandated use of software even if it has massive flaws, or risk being sued

https://onezero.medium.com/nonstandard-measures-cf47c67e8f05

> the labels, publishers and other rightsholder groups backing “stay down” filters will all tell you that Content ID routinely allows infringing materials through. That’s because it is such a blunt instrument: The matching heuristics it uses are easy to study and evade…if you are an actual pirate.
So pirates study the system, figure out how to evade it, and post with impunity. By definition, then, filters only catch the people who don’t think they’re doing something infringing — while deliberate infringers slip through.
That looks like it was made by Braun. Gorgeous but very pricey.
They made it less than a month. I'm sure that netflix's bad day had something to do with this. I've been saying for a while that the balkanization of content and it's distribution will not ultimately lead to any innovation in the space. Also, most consumers have a finite and relatively low tolerance for "one more service". That means the value prop for a subscription news service isn't great to begin with, just ask newspapers.
If you watch about 20 seconds of the linked video, it shows the system as a screenshot and in practice for a few seconds. [0]

I would postulate that the loop starts by selecting the yellow block and waiting for him to select or reject it. If he selects it, he is able to cycle through the letters from left to right, ending at the symbol all the way to the right on every layer to exit that block. Then it keeps cycling down until he selects a new colored block. You can see this in practice if you rewatch the bit where he asks his son if he wants to watch a movie with him.

The article also notes that the man gave feedback to improve the system, so I would guess that it's a mix between a limitation of the way this system is set up, how fast the system can accurately distinguish a yes from a no, and how fast he is able to keep up, and for how long.

It would be interesting to see this system be implemented in a better way, I'm sure you could speed this up by dynamically changing the letter layout or even suggesting words on the fly, in the same way spelling suggestions work on other devices.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et22mZ_Ovo0&t=199s
Perhaps this is a good time to ask: I'd like to use UEFI for my qemu+libvirt virtual machines, but I need snapshot support. Since QEMU doesn't support pflash internal snapshots <https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/9e2465834f4bff40...> and libvirt can't revert or delete external snapshots <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519002>, I don't see a way to achieve this. The issue was discussed on virt-tools in 2017 <https://listman.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2017-Sep...> and the situation appears to be unchanged. Do others have a workable solution?
Corporations want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web and have purchased Senators who are willing to shill for them.
A note is something that gives the impression of being a single pitch (frequency). For example, what you get when you play a single key on the piano, or pluck a string on a stringed instrument. Many instruments can only play one note at a time: trumpet, flute, saxophone.

The standard notes used in Western music and discussed in this piece differ in pitch by a factor of the 12th root of 2 (~1.06x). This means that if you go up twelve notes (which we call "half steps", confusingly) your pitch doubles. Two notes that differ by a factor of two are said to be an "octave" apart, and sound almost like the same note.

A scale is a series of notes, and a "major scale" is a specific series where you go up by two notes, two notes, one note, two notes, two notes, two notes, and then one note. This gives you seven different notes in your octave. We can call these notes the "first", "second", etc notes of the major scale. We typically don't talk about "65th" notes because they would be way too high.

A chord is multiple notes played at the same time. The chords I am talking about this post are "triads", which means they are three simultaneous notes

A major chord is notes one, three, and five of a major scale. A minor chord is the same, but the middle chord (three) is moved down one note ("flat" or "minor").
> None of this is new and has been known for millennia.

This is a lie. It has not been taught for centuries to quiet or attempt to repress your thoughts. What a terrible thing to propagate. There are different kinds of meditation. The problem is, you already know exactly what you're doing with the style you're practicing. Talk to a good therapist instead and they'll tell you to sit with your feelings, not attempt to quiet them. For a very important reason.
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Wow. Before, I was selling plasma to afford cigarettes while serving in AmeriCorps. Maybe now I'll sell plasma to detox instead.
It was definitely his false and misleading statements that were the problem.
Yeah, I understand your concern here. Unfortunately this isn't possible currently since we're still making the headset =]

We're targeting (stripped down) review units to be available in May-June time frame.[1] While this won't allow you to personally test a Simula One, it'll allow you to see it more tangibly tested by bloggers/YouTubers who can report their experience online.

Also, if there's some particular aspect of the headset you're curious/have concern about, LMK and I'll see if I can provide more detail in an update or over DM.

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/review-units-timeline/
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This is a small thing, but I love that it uses Heapsort as its fallback. Heapsort is such a pretty algorithm and I always like seeing it used in the wild.
That second part is huge and people don't account for it correctly. It really hasn't mattered much in the era of super-low loan rates, but the amount that your mortgage is deductible is only the difference between the standard deduction and the itemized deduction.

My mortgage interest became "worthless" for that when the standard deduction was raised. I'm still better off than before, but that particular part of the benefit is gone.
By asking the board to remove it. If faced with a serious tender offer backed by financing and accepted by a majority of shareholders, the board would find it difficult not to allow it to go ahead (by removing the poison pill).

That doesn't mean they couldn't refuse to remove it, but since they should act in the interests of the shareholders, they would need a good explanation (e.g. another better offer, or a plausible plan for extracting more value from Twitter than they currently do).
If you wanted to go with that design then surely down for on would make more sense, right? Odd choice.
I think the difference here is how it functions in the music. Does the chord function as a CMaj7 in relation to the rest of the song, or does it function as an Emin6?
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Nope. Everything is loading at it's full resolution on my 4k TV connected M1 Mac Mini in Edge with gigabit download and YT Premium.
I do know the basics of chord construction but it's still way easier to think through it on a piano because keys are all linear whereas with guitar strings you have to translate across strings with varying relationships. Not saying it's impossible it just takes more work to internalize that on guitar than piano. And I'm not there on guitar.
"all due respect" in this case being none.
> The first 20 engineers will be solving some really important technical problems. And they'll need high speed & high quality, since what they do will probably directly manifest in the ole bank account.

I don’t know, many startups are solving business problems, tech is sometimes just fancy versions of CRUD apps.
Didn't know about this company and glad to learn about them! I was actually looking for something exactly like their PO16 recently and had some PCBs and panels fabbed to make my own (17 pots for the build I found on lines).
If controlling twitter means literally controlling society, then I hope he crashes and burns that whole affair. That much power should never be concentrated into a single corporation.
One question and one comment.

Question: You list Uber (my employer) as a user in your homepage, but searching internally, the only search result for mergify is a mergify.yml in some random debian module for lua, so it doesn't seem like we actually use it for anything (and we built an in-house solution for the repos w/ serious commit traffic). I'm curious how you determine who your corporate users are?

Comment: we ended up building a merge queue in house because frankly build/test pipelines can look very different,(e.g. at one point we had jenkins pipelines and buildkite pipelines, some using bazel, some not, talking to phabricator instead of github, etc). At the end of day plugging in a merge queue technology requires a bunch of work integrating with a myriad of things anyways. Since the engineering effort is relatively high regardless, doing it in house lets us experiment with more aggressive optimization heuristics than just waiting on a 3rd party.
By persuading the board, either directly or by turning shareholder opinion strongly enough, for them to put it to a shareholder vote.
> A CAS worth its name ought to be able to represent structures like transcendental number fields, rings of holomorphic functions, differential fields, transseries, and so on.

Doing this in a principled way requires implementing constructive analysis, which is not easy. Even something as simple as equality of real numbers is not constructively defined, one has to work with constructive apartness relations instead.
> I am a graphics engineer, I've had a lot of colleagues learn the aphorism "don't do math in linear" once they get first burned.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I work with game engines and everything is calculated with linear color. Not only anything else would be completely physically inaccurate, it would be unfeasible for modern HDR rendering which supports extreme dynamic ranges with physical units (ie 100000 lux sun).

Maybe you work with mobile devices, where they still haven't fully moved to HDR?
I don't believe Musk's free speech claims for a second, he has a long history of regailing the public with grandiose claims and then failing to deliver. I'd bet 100 to 1 that twitter will continue to ban accounts for legal posts.
Even billionaires don't just borrow $21 billion.
To the extent the DIY "community" has the level of talent that it takes to do a 3/4 HP variable frequency drive, which you'd need for the better washers out there even before you got to cycle management, it's doing things like model airplane autopilots and automobile ECUs, which are a lot more fun.
The malware especially.
I just took it to mean it's sketchy downloading and running a binary from a forum where you don't speak the language. You have no idea if the vibe on the forum is friendly or hostile, if the first response to the post you're downloading from is someone saying "Hey, thanks for the great work as always!" - or someone coordinating an identity theft scam - or both!

I think because of the abundance of expertise in low-level machine language there, many cracked deDRM'd binaries or patched executables for abandonware games come out of Eastern Europe, hence the association.
You don't know that those are the largest loans he was able to get. They might just be the largest loans he wanted to get.
Right, but the method of averting the poison pill described above would likely violate securities laws around coordinated behavior between market participants.