skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup indeed... The Amiga was the better machine but when a guy would come up with a ST and hook its Roland or Moog synth through the MIDI port, we were in awe! Interestingly enough for the ST had no fan, it's been used for a very long time in some recording studio (where they liked silent recording equipment). To my surprise I saw an ST still in use well into the 2000s.

> But, if you wanted to sample on the Amiga, you actually needed one external piece of hardware: an audio sampling interface, however these were generally very cheap

I don't know if I still have mine. In french we'd call it a "digitaliseur" (literally "digitalizer"). I do know though that I still have something much rarer: a 5"1/4 external Amiga floppy drive (when sailing the high seas, for the price of 30"1/2 floppies it was cheaper to buy a 5"1/4 drive + 30 5"1/4 floppies). We'd then add a switch on the Amiga to be able to boot from the 5"1/4 as if it was a 3"1/2 and no program would know anything about it (it was working perfectly).
So we should turn the Northern California wilderness into a desert as well?

Maybe the people who want to secede have a point after all! That’s pretty monstrous.
Seriously? You're comparing eating a diet that consists of less dairy & meat and throwing less food away as waste, to living in a coffin? This is not productive at all.
You do see a lot of almond tree groves ripped up along the San Joaquin valley. Perhaps some farmers are already finding it too expensive to grow water-thirsty crops.
Since buying my mum an iPhone I haven’t had to help her with it once. It just works.

If you subscribe on an app for a monthly subscription. If you delete the app it asks if you want to keep the subscription or cancel it. Without the apple ecosystem in place this would silently keep charging her monthly.

She can buy stuff without entering cc details or using random payment apps and not get scammed.

Everyone seems to want the sex appeal of apple products but with the freedom of android. Why not just skin android and use an android phone and leave iOS as is.
I think the EU had chip and tap to pay before apple. So the over there Apple looks like it implemented a solution and then blocked competitors from using the platform with already established payment terminals. In the US, the optics are very different because Google, Samsung and others came way after apple took the reigns and drove adoption of tap to pay.
Apple charged by Brussels with abusing its market power in mobile payments
Farmers also grow rice in California, and alfalfa, which are two top water-hungry crops. It's so remarkable to which extent business and profits take precedence over the public good of tens of millions, in the United States.

"We'll deal with it when it's a catastrophe - ka-ching!"
Clojure runs in the CLR too

https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr
Or maybe he just had a random thought that he shared on Twitter, as people are wont to do.
Definitely true in many cases, but with no job experience it _can_ tip the scales. The job that first hired me didn't really scrutinize my projects either (and nobody cares after the first job), but I still think it's the right thing to do.

Going through the entire process of getting a portfolio online is a huge signifier. If you build the site, manage it with git, get it up on GitHub and somehow actually deploy it somewhere, that means you've at least interacted with a lot of the basic tools developers use. It's a thing that you've done, when there may not be many others, and doing it more than once means it's less things we'll have to teach you when onboarding. With a nice classless frontend framework like Sakura, it takes like 30 minutes tops to put together a small HTML page and you can drag-and-drop deploy with Netlify, so honestly the bar is quite low.

But I actually brought up GitHub from the standpoint of: I have no idea what kind of job he's actually trying to get and how his experience might relate to that. All we know is 5 years, can't get hired.
Isn't there a third option that involves building serious infrastructure to pipe water down from the Northwest?

Of course you can't build things in America anymore so that's probably off the table.
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how about adjacent tech roles? Product manager, solution architect, business analyst, etc? are those more willing to hire alternative background candidates?

in the past ive had zero luck even getting interviews for dev jobs so ive thought about getting some AWS/Azure certificates to have some kind of proof I can put on paper and check boxes. otherwise i could grind leetcode but it'll be for nothing if I cant even get called back?
I am running Arch Linux with Kernel 5.17.5-arch1-1. The speakers do work fine on Windows but for some reason I cannot get them both to work in Linux? Whatever settings I do using Arch's wiki, I can get everything working fine with external speakers, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, but just not the right-sided speaker. Not sure if anyone has the same issue.
Unequivocal yes

If Playstation is a cheaper source of compute power than consumer hardware, the customer should be able to turn it into a compute cluster, as many people did (1). That doesn't mean Sony has to provide support or warranty for it, it means they shouldn't raise intentional obstructions in the way

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
Googler, opinions are my own. I work on payments.

Google does not allow apps within the app store to present their own payment method, except for Spotify which is part of some trial right now.

I could definitely see shady apps within the stores collecting payment info from users that then use those cards as if they were still on. If people get used of apps collecting payment information on all different kinds of UX, they will likely be more willing to type in their information into any app, leading to a higher chance of stolen payment information.
It is kind of striking that in tech I see this from both sides as I know people who are desperate to fill positions and others who are desperate for jobs and somehow they keep sliding by each other.

One thing that stands out is the extreme asymmetry of the situation. Applicants need to have a brief and highly relevant cover letter or equivalent, a resume that emphasizes experiences directly relevant to a particular position, and some portfolio showing off their skills on github or such like. Anything goes wrong or isn't completely right at any stage means no thank you and maybe apply again. On the other hand employers post listings that have long and rambling laundry lists of nice to haves, listings get posted on job search sites and generate only that listing is no longer open responses, automated resume filters take out many applicants, and interviews are intimidating and loaded with questions about unrelated technical details.

Because many programmers have trouble with complex social situations and social problems this can end up being an extremely difficult situation. Alternatives like contracting and launching startups end up being easier and more accessible than actually getting a job even for those who would prefer employment.

Potential improvements may be more on the side of employers than candidates. Options like scanning more resumes personally instead of with machines, retaining contacts who were imperfect fits at one time, being flexible with qualifications, and offering options for evaluation periods or initial contracts might help. Expecting programmers to hone their social skills and appearance to get a job seems honestly unrealistic given the domain.
Fennovoima pulls the plug on Russian-built nuclear plant
This also hints that our food production is more complex than you would first expect, in a true food crunch there are likely many substitute diet options which can be made by processing inedible agriculture products or repurposing fields.
No, it makes sense to me (and I'm by no means a grognard!). As far as I understand it, D&D evolved from earlier board-wargames and it was essentially a sort of free-form wargame with rules for fantasy skirmishes with a theme cribbed off its authors' favourite Sword and Sorcery fiction (which was not, famously, Lord of the Rings, but more Jack Vance's Dying Earth).

If I understand correctly, the original D&D had rules for Combat and then for things that weren't directly Combat, but were still about fighting battles, like attracting or hiring henchmen, building a stronghold, controlling a territory and ultimately fighting battles with large armies.

Importantly, D&D predates Computer RPGs so all this wargmaing had to be managed by hand, and the rules involved a significant amount of crunch- what you call "a lot of tedium".

But then Computer RPGs (CRPGs) started to appear, invariably influenced by D&D, or other CRPGs influenced by D&D. So if you enjoyed crunchy, wargame-y, combat-oriented gaming, and didn't particularly need "narrative", then CRPGs were now your friend, and you didn't need to play D&D for that. For instance, I remember spending weeks and months playing Neverwinter Nights, which was pretty much just 3d ed. D&D with an automated GM.

That's how I understand OP's comment. And I kind of agree.

Interestingly, there seems to be a return to the original D&D mode of play with the "OSR" (Old School R... something) genre, that is discussed everywhere in this thread. Perhaps because OSR's rallying cry is "rulings, not rules" and maybe after a couple of generations of games with detailed mechanics designed to promote "narrative", players who just wanted to play a game without too many restrictions got bored with all the rules and wanted to go back to just telling the DM what they want to do, and then rolling the dice to see what happens. Which is the one thing that CRPGs can still. not. do.

Incidentally, one of the earliest RPGs of the 1980's was Call of Cthulhu which was very much designed to be "not about combat", but about experiencing a horror story, in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos universe. There has been a clear split between games that are, on some level "about telling a story", or "about roleplaying" (so "narrative"), and games that are about killing monsters and nicking their stuff (so "Combat"), since the very early days of the hobby.

But, you know there's nothing stopping you from running a narrative-driven game in the D&D world, if that's more your thing (Ron Edward's "System Matters" nonwithstanding). Or, conversely, you can pick up a ruleset designed to "tell a story" and run it like a classic hack-and-slash dungeon crawl. To paraphrase the old joke about Fortran programmers, "The determined Real D&D Player can run a D&D session with any ruleset" [1].

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856747
I live in a wetland and import 60-70% of fruits and vegetables from California. This is not sustainable
Isn't this just a feature of social media? I see these types of responses all day long on Reddit and few people have their gender listed on their profile.

I think people just love being contrarian or insufferable know it all's.

Ohh no is this comment mansplaining?
One time I was at a friend's house with my laptop and lowered the screen light during the night but forgot about it. The very next day, while working, I started to get that "aura" migraine.

In general, when this occurs, I stop doing whatever I'm doing, take a ibuprofen pill and go to bed for 20 minutes. After that, I have a massive headache but no aura.

What was odd is that the very next day, I got the same migraine, again! This rarely occurs to me (two days in row).

It was later that I realized that the screen light was low and that might be an explanation about why I got two migraines in two days.

Hopefully it can help someone else here :)
I agree. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad L13 and I got lucky that there were no major issues running Linux on it. Although, this will be my last Lenovo laptop and also running Linux on a laptop.

I use Linux entirely for programming, and I already do that on VM's, on a server that I have. I basically just need to SSH and start Vim to do whatever I need to.

I have decided to move to using a Macbook Air with OS X. I like iTerm2 more and can just SSH into my Linux VM's. I am waiting to see if the new Air's launched this year will have dual monitor support, otherwise will just get an Intel based Macbook Air from 2019 or 2020.
Setup SCP on your windows box, everything else already "just works".
To give but one example, the EU had a Youtube rival, Dailymotion, which was doing quite fine, until Google bought Youtube and used its immense power to artificially sustain it despite its massive losses. Youtube didn't prevail because of innovation or competitivity, but because of the massive weight thrown around by Google as a conglomerate.

The same thing would happen with Spotify right now, if it's not protected. Amazon, Apple and Google don't need music to make money, they don't need to be competitive in that sector to sustain their music activity, they can just use their quasi-monopoly in other sectors to kill all the other players.
This sounds like you're claiming responsibility for the attack?
> I just respond to recruiters now.

Oh, you'll never get a job that way. Lol. Recruiters on linkedin who shoot out mass DMs are the bottom of the barrel.
Haha thanks for the plug, and I totally agree, although I'm a little bias :p

Let me know if you want to get added @krm01 :)
> Thanks for pointing that out. The Windows 11 dialog does not take any keyboard shortucts. I can't even use Enter or Escape, or switch between the options using arrow keys. This has to be a bug, right. Right?

Lately I've been thinking of finally upgrading Windows 11 since they keep pushing untimely prompts to do so more and more frequently, but reading this makes me glad I've hold off. If they still have major bugs like that, I'll wait another year or two before considering it again.
> have to fiddle aroudn to start payment app

This isn't really a thing with Apple Pay. You double tap the power button as you grab your phone, then Apple Pay is active (pending face id or unlock via watch), it's a very smooth process.

On top of that, in my experience, tap to pay (via card or phone) is much quicker to process than swiping or inserting chip.
But when shopping from home the default on a lot of sites is Apple Pay which is ridiculously easy compared to most other options. The comparison to in store shopping isn’t the same (though Apple Pay is still relatively easy where i hold the phone up to the terminal and it works).
While I think there should absolutely be limits of some kind, if the water need in places like California could be spread out over the water table of, say, everything else west of the Mississippi, I imagine it could make a big difference to the water-poor places without running the risk of depleting the water-rich places enough for anyone to even notice.

Of course, that's assuming that such a pipeline network would be practical to build and maintain. Personally, I suspect that local desalination will end up being better for coastal or near-coastal areas like California.
This was me except with Vampire: The Masquerade. I had binders full of characters, all of the clan novels and trilogies, and held a repository of V:tM lore knowledge in my head. Used to doodle shadow tentacles onto little characters I made in notebook margins. I would argue on forums about what clan characters would be that borrowed liberally from the game’s aesthetics and settings (Blade and Underworld being the most egregious)

This was when I was in middle and high school. I’m 34 now and I’ve still not played a single game lol.
eastern seaboard is as well
”Chronic exposure to 2.8 mT EMF throughout embryonic development resulted in significant differences in stage-specific egg volume and resulted in stage I lobster and zoea I crab larvae exhibiting decreased carapace height, total length, and maximum eye diameter.”

2.8mT at 1 meter requires 14,000 amps of current, which is far beyond most under seas cables (except the largest).

So suffice to say any lobsters more than 1-2m away will be just fine.
Make confident hiring decisions with interview rubrics
Lack of dogfooding is part of it, but I have to wonder how many product managers they've brought in to convert their player to a cloud music service?

Changes like requiring you to sync all your devices with Apple Music are part of many changes to try and make the transition. It's a big one because a player is very different from a service (historically something Apple have been bad at), but they've had a lot of time. Apple have been able to get this far because going "all in" is accepted by Apple customers more than those on other platforms.
That link says that the environmental water use happens largely in areas that are not competing with agriculture. E.g. protecting rivers, streams, and wetlands in the redwoods.

The answer to "we're being wasteful with water during a drought" is not "let's irreversibly destroy habitat and threaten species so we can continue to be wasteful."
India, the 2/3 largest producer of wheat/rice has strict controls on exports. Other countries will impose restrictions when they realize their poor will rise up in riots. One theory for arab spring is that it started because of rising food prices.

Food is just not like other commodities. Shortages lead not just to recessions but revolutions. Any Government and society not paying close attention and investing in either ramping up domestic production or stockpiling is going to have a really bad time.
Forget about the 90 days, it doesn’t apply to NL.

https://dutchreview.com/expat/sick-leave-netherlands/

The two years I mentioned are right.
> Lenovo is famous for their TrackPoint (that little red thing on the keyboard), but I am not sure if I’ll take the time to learn using it. Some say it’s far more precise and comfortable as you don’t have to lift your fingers from the keyboard. I might give it a shot sometime.

Why buy a ThinkPad if you don't use its most important selling point?
Agroforestry and Permaculture offer a solution to rising fertilizer/water costs
"New Forest Farm is a planned conversion of a typical row-crops grain farm into a commercial-scale, perennial agricultural ecosystem using oak savanna, successional brushland and eastern woodlands as the ecological models. Trees, shrubs, vines, canes, perennial plants and fungi are planted in association with one another to produce food (for humans and animals), fuel, medicines, and beauty. Hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts and various fruits are the primary woody crops. The farm is entirely solar and wind powered and farm equipment is capable of being powered with locally produced biofuels." - https://www.forestag.com/pages/mark-shepard
It's common among all genders and platforms not just twitter. Disagreement exists
> - Girls obsessed over their physiques. Going skinny to the point it wrecked their hormones.

This is a tale much older than social media or the internet. At this point we have bred for this predisposition. We’ll probably be better of acknowledging that.

Everything else you wrote is not new either.

US divorce rates hit an all time high in 1981 and has basically plateau’d. The divorce rate is skewed higher because of people in their teens and twenties (but still a bad, uninsurable, bet even if it was down to 10% or 5% for some populations). What can you possibly ascribe to social media?

Making out with random people for fun and/or attention is not new. This is the most peculiar post.

Social media is reflecting and perpetuating existing culture at best, if thats what you can come up with.

We have enough other reasons to vilify social media than ascribing ongoing and preexisting realities (that even happened actually more frequently beforehand!) to it
Yeah, your numbers are not different, just framed differently.
If you scroll down, you'll see the "More than nine million acres of farmland in California are irrigated, representing roughly 80% of all water used for businesses and homes." number i cited.

Not sure you can necessarily do a lot about the 50%, but maybe worth trying - my (ignorant) understanding is that a lot of it is in areas where it would not help.

You can also see that urban water use has fallen like a rock already..
In the past 2 decades, per-capita use went from 230 gallons per day to 146 gallons per day - people have already cut their water use by 30%.
Here's a novel idea: Don't live in the desert. Don't grow baby spinach in the desert. Let water prices rise to the extremes they need to discourage people from doing stupid stuff with essentially free water.
yes, I think dating used to be easier.
Yes but corn is one of the worse sources for alcohol production
As the other commenters pointed out, this is established legal principle in USA.

The police will even gleefully crush with a bulldozer such property:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/73262865294963916...
Perhaps, but they’re basically regulated like a utility at this point. Interchange fees are tightly capped, and about 10d lower than the US and many other parts of the world.

There’s no real opportunity for either MasterCard or Visa to rent seek in an effective manner. Compared to the US where interchange is sky high, despite slightly greater competition, the EU has a pretty good deal. Also regs like PSD2 further push/incentivise payment networks and banks to reduce fraud losses further, and thus reduce the costs that are ultimately borne by consumers and merchants.
Is this a joke comment? Or is this really what the average American thinks?
The cool part is paying w/ your watch, and you don't really need to start any app - it's NFC anyways. Yet, I don't have the payments with phone/watch enabled.
Convenience, plain and simple. I've never once been concerned about battery life on my phone. It's VERY rare for me to ever be below 50% at any point in the day, even on a long day where I've been mostly on cellular. But the iPhone now has a feature that even if your battery is "dead", some cards will still be available for use (it's a very specific feature/setting).

Same applies with my watch, which has the same cards available. It's nice if I run to a convenience mart after a run, where I often don't carry my phone or wallet. Just tap my watch at the terminal, and off I go!

I carry -- and regularly use -- around 5-6 cards that all have specific uses. Having a digital wallet to manage these is awesome. My physical wallet, I carry only three cards: my ID, debit card and my health insurance card.
Yep. You can look at this from an economics standpoint as well.

We have run out of FREE water.

If all water use in CA cost anywhere close to residential water rates ($8 / 100 cubic feet) there would be no shortage.

Even a small tax of $0.01 per gallon would be a start in this space.

We have exploded population and if you look at water projects (that actually deal with supply) have not done the same over 50 years or whatever. Think grey water use and recycle / desal / dams etc etc.

It's the perfect trifecta+.

Ridiculous water use (afalfa for china) in a desert, free water (water "rights"), limited projects to increase supply for enviro and other reasons (inability of govt to do things).
Most records have "reconstructed solutions", where people recreate the solution from start to end. You could get the number of moves that way, though I couldn't find a dataset of them.

> Are the world records getting faster due to quicker execution of same number of moves, or using fewer moves thanks to better algorithms?

My novice understanding is that it's the former. The algorithms haven't changed very much in the past 20 years or so, maybe a few variations that are more ergonomic. After learning all the algs, it's a matter of improving look-ahead (making sure you know what alg to perform next while your current is wrapping up) and otherwise increasing your turns per second (TPS).

The records dropped quite drastically a few years back, which is likely coming from advancements in cubing hardware. Adding magnets to prevent overshoot while turning helped people speed up quite a bit.