skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the rebrand was outsourced (like most rebrands) the "why" is absolutely not so designers can justify their salaries.

Design as a department is very often under resourced and I'd take a strong wager that the designers who actually work for Tropicana were dreading all the unnecessary work this rebrand was surely going to generate for them.
As someone with multiple mental health diagnoses, I wonder if this is why I get so sleepy when depressed. I just want to sleep all day. Is this my body maybe unconsciously knowing it's time to process some emotions?
The jack works fine.

The shitty mux connected to the jack on the other end is the problem there.
The "why" was pretty clearly explained in TFA:

> One of the main reasons for rebranding/redesigning is for brands to reconnect with existing consumers and reach out to new ones.

The notable point here IMO is not "why did they do it?" but "how/why did it fail so badly?"
For PHP - https://phptherightway.com

Like JS, PHP has alot of old, outdated practices which aren't considered best practice anymore. Lots of this type of code will show up in search results in google when you search for solutions to common problems.
One reason is that many people use that as a baseline for how they I'd multi-tenacy. It could be they just proxy resources from their customer down to the infrastructure.
I do meditation and it has many advertised benefits, but most of the benefits end up just being the normal growth of perspective and equanimity that aging and experience gives one. Tho I was told by my father that one may have twenty years of experience of one year of experience twenty times, so maybe meditation (and good sleep, which for me has most of the same benefits as meditation, perhaps because it enables me to sleep when I am tired) just tilts it towards the former.
This is Proof of Stake.
The Web3 Decentralization Debate Is Focused on the Wrong Question
For me and my generation we've found that Be Real feels much more personal and, as the name suggests, real. A lot of people liken it more to a finsta in the sense that you will put anything up there and not worry about it. Its a freeing feeling for us considering we all worry about what we post and who will see it all the time.
Luckily for us the Go core maintainers do not capitulate easily to the complaints from the vocal minority.
Out of sheer cussedness I just took a look (45 mins before start of total eclipse). The earth's shadow is quite apparent at this point but the sky behind it is already quite pale. So I great that once the "bite" is complete the contrast to a normal full moon will be obscured.
As you say with DSLR, there is still a high end market but much much smaller than what mid-range audio used to be. I don't have any equipment myself now, but was considering buying one.

In that market, the big japanese brands (Onkyo, Marantz, Denon...) seem to have lost their way with mediocre products. Smaller British brands like Cambridge Audio or Rega may take their place (in a tiny market):

https://ware2go.co/how-cambridge-audio-leveraged-amazon-prim....
Some of the recent ThinkPads have soldered RAM.
The whole comment is me presenting my case for why these brands should just die instead of having their logo pasted on chinese crap to deceive consumers
I think he's expressing support for the artist and the wildlife causes, not for NFT per se. But presumably at some point he'll be more explicit what the purchase "says" if anything.
None, ever. I can’t recall anyone paying attention to my personal projects in a hiring situation. And when hiring people I pay almost no attention to personal projects unless I’m hiring a green junior.

Companies hire people who can add business value and work as a team member and part of the larger organization. Personal projects don’t communicate that.
And maybe they are smarter than humans - they are playing the long game. They know they will still be here after humans wipe themselves out
Well sure, but after many billions of years of the protection working and with no known reason to suspect that that's changed, it's not something I'm actively worried about.
Before the internet: 1. Think or learn of something interesting; 2. Find time to travel to library; 3. Survey likely locations for source; 4. Either-- Find promising source & page through it, copier, drive home; OR-- call NYPL OR-- nothing.

After the internet: 1. Type in decent search terms; 2. Firehose. Details: Articles, commentaries, books on other continents, maps, sat pictures... OR-- nothing. Time savings: 90%, OR-- end up with 10x as much, 50%.

Not to even mention endless insights into various people's stories and POVs.
Spencer – Speech Based Recommender System
Theres a whole burgeoning trend of chinese manufacturers buying the licensing rights to defunct brands and putting the eerily branded goods up on amazon.
https://archive.ph/QbEHW
As I indicated in my comment there, I think Benn got this one severely wrong:

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I'm not convinced that the visual/time part of this is correct. If we follow the analogy with sonic fusion frequency ... there's a point at which a repeating sound will change from being a rythmic experience and instead becomes a pitch. So, if you are in an acoustic environment that is generally filled with pitch information, and you could somehow shift your sonic fusion frequency ... if you moved it down, even some of the non-pitch sounds will become pitches; if you move it up, some of the pitches (the lower ones) will now be perceived as rhythmns instead. But ... and this is the important part ... the actual frequencies of the sounds will not change at all. So there's a fixed physical phenomenon (acoustic pressure waves at various frequencies) which does not change, but the sonic fusion frequency determines what kind of experience we have when we encounter that phenomenon. Notice though, that it's a more or less binary switch: either we perceive N Hz as a pitch or as a rythmn, and varying the fusion frequency doesn't alter that. Nor does it various the actual physical frequencies of the sounds - they continue to be whatever they were.

I suspect this is likely true for visual fusion frequencies too.

Moreover, the comparison with video and/or film is misleading. In those cases, the actual phenomena are a discrete series of images that because of CFFF end up being perceived (or not) as continuous motion. But when looking at the actual world, to within the limits of our senses, ALL phenomena are continuous. If an insect flies across your field of vision, there are no distinct series of images that your brain does (or does not) fuse into continuous motion. There is only a continuous motion, which you may or may not notice (the whole thing may happen too fast for you to even register the entire pass.

CFFF, if I understand correctly, is measuring how fast you need to present discrete visual information for the brain to "fuse" it into continuous information (such as motion, or a persistently "on" LED light. But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with how we and other animals perceive reality, because reality is not a series of discrete images. I don't believe that CFFF has much to do with our ability to perceive time, or even with limit questions such as "how long must something be in our visual field in order to notice that it was there".

Could be that I'm missing something huge here, in which case I hope that Benn or someone else will correct me.
Fun fact: staying up for 24h+ causes a relief of symptoms in >50% of depressed individuals. However, almost all relapse the moment they sleep again (even if it's a 'micro-sleep').

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_therapy#Response_rate_to_...
> The damn "designers" are so infatuated with their "principles" of design and aesthetics

I agree with your main point, but I have a small objection to this phrase. I don't think principles of design tells you to not care about usability/function. In fact, a good design is aesthetics AND function, as argued in "The Design of Everyday Things"[1].

So in this case, the designers are simply not doing their job. They've been infatuated with their principles of aesthetics, that they didn't follow the actual principles of design. Which happens when designers blindly copy the latest trend.

The reason I'm bringing this up is that one might interpret the phrase to mean that design is not about function, which isn't fair to many great designers out there.

[1]: https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Don-Norman/dp/0465050654
There's a lot here I think doesnt have much merit i fact, is bias & predisposition, a false belief that only simpler/dumber/less is permissable. I disagree & see no basis in fact, no evidence for any of these claims to importance & difference, but I also think nearly no one can claim authority, has any real idea. I dont believe this expansive platform is to the detriment, but Im also capable of allowing for differing views, wrong though I think they be. Neither side has much to say for itself. The first claim being that inline rendering capabilities are actively harmful, that the web's capability is a point for the opposing side starts me off with extreme doubt, but in spite of my extreme doubt it's in an unresolved state. We need more & wider possobilities to assess; I dont see that recognition that we need to know more to decide in the web-detractors allowed-fors.

Where I really want to pull the emergency break & call for reassesment is when I hear promotion of turning usercs experineces into mere pixel pushing videos. I still cant begin to express enough what a colossal & masive civilizational downgrade it would be to reduce the web to moving pcitures, animated pixels, which again seems like ongoing chorus of this post. Layout can preserve textual information, but the idea that we just need to let devs paint whatever and fuck hypermedia, fuck structured information, fuck text: it's ballistic out of this world demonic. Truly fallen a proposition. There's so many people eho recognize for example Flutter & it's infernal CanvasKit as the enemy, as a thing no one else can read or understand but which the app can unmediatedly foist upon us. Instead of a shared medium where both sides have respect & powers, there's this ongoing deeply authoriarian undercurrent ehich has infected the world, thay says only the app's concermd matter. That hypermediums are irrelevant- 0% of importance is information & shared mediums, 100% of importance is the top down imposed experience. Users get no say, browsers get no say. To me, to many, this is as dark & bleak & sad a world as could be imagined, forsaking every gain & advance at interconnecting the world for a ludicrously totalitarian view of what software is for.
When you're a smart public figure you can no longer have shower-thoughts.
It seems every few months we find something new that increases lifespan in mice 10-20% (17-20% in this study). They appear to be different chemicals or treatments. So I have two big questions here.

1) Obviously aging is a multifaceted problem, are there metastudies studying the interactions? This clearly needs to be done as people are assuming increased longevity in mice equates to increased longevity in humans are are self administering these treatments prior to human trials.

2) How can independent treatments through independent mechanisms cause such similar (and quite large) increases in lifespans? Is mice biology just far simpler? Am I misunderstanding the independence? Is this low sampling causing biases or some other statistical phenomena? Is there bad faith and people reporting the research (or the researchers themselves) overstating the value of these treatments? Are these treatments just making mice live closer to their natural lifespans but just being better able to adapt to an environment not optimized for their biology? (I know not all labs use warm and mice optimized environments, though my understanding is most do)

As a minor question, we see these studies a lot in mice. Are they being followed up in other animals and humans? We never hear about followups on HN and so that makes me pretty skeptical. Mice aren't humans. There's a lot of people interested in longevity research. I know there's a lot of money being put into it. How do we distinguish hype from reality?
Multi-region, not just multi-AZ[1].

1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...
Why is it more work to operate two small TLDs than one large one? If the total number of domains is the same?
I love be a cyberdeck, but the idea that we'd all be running derivatives of '70s game firmware after 50 years of putative progress kind of puts lie to Gibson's futurism, which required a certain panache and optimism to technology that has clearly not come to pass.
Fargate is really nice too—it takes the benefits of ECS even further to the point that the underlying EC2 instances are abstracted away almost completely.

Fargate with auto-scaling plus Aurora for the DB is pretty great in terms of a nearly zero-maintenance setup that can handle just about any type of service up to massive scale.

Unfortunately getting all the networking and IAM stuff right is still pretty thorny if you want to do things the correct way and not just run it all in public subnets. And the baseline costs are significantly higher than a paas.
Now I'm imagining future archaeologists trying to figure out how modern Turkish relates to the other languages with a Latin script.
By "fat" I assume that you mean "people with jobs that pay enough to let them buy things like expensive chocolates ?"
I don't think your original comment was curious but had a snarky tone and demonstrated a lack of knowledge about the history of Bitcoin and what has been tried. As GP pointed out, it's not as simple as miners choosing to follow a different consensus algorithm or block size because you also need to convince the rest of the network (or 51% of it at least) to follow these new rules. Immense amount of effort is put into Bitcoin improvement proposals to make changes to the network while keeping the protocol compatible with older versions of it.
EWG doesn't test anything, they merely analyze the list of stated ingredients.
Is Java unfashionable yet, I wonder.
Someone created a web-based taskwarrior proof of concept that used VIM keybindings and it was absolutely the most perfect implementation I've ever touched, and then it disappeared before I could pull it down. Does anyone know anything about this?
I guess that explains how they get around the spoliation. Thanks for the explanation.
Great question. I want to know the answer to it.

I apologize for being skeptical but the wording in the contract seems to be extremely handwavy and they don't give me any confidence that if my bill goes from $4 to $200 that month because I made it to the front page of reddit, my bandwidth will magically be waived.

Right now, I feel 100% sure that my credit card would get charged.
> In the game of survival, an insect’s reaction time easily beats my attempts to swat it. I may think of myself as the smartest creature in the room, but a fly can make me look foolish.

This just seems completely wrong. The wrongness comes from conflating completely orthogonal concepts: speed of detection, speed of response and "smartness". The fly is very fast at detecting and responding to motion in its vicinity, but that property does not make the author look foolish, just slow.

It seems like a strange mistake to make, given the article's musings on different time scales of thought in e.g. plants. If the author applied the same analysis as they do in the quote above, then obviously us humans make the trees look foolish because we can detect and react to things so quickly. I don't think they believe that about a human/tree comparison, so I have no idea why they would close an article with the same comparison and conclusion between a human and a fly.
H1bs are a lottery. There's no attempt to filter by quality, except that someone must want to employ/sponsor the candidate.

The US does give ability based visas such as O1 but it's pretty difficult to prove/judge ability. (My wife just went through this process.) One decent indicator of ability is getting into and graduating from a top school. But even if a few less talented people slip through, is that really such a big deal? It's still a higher hurdle than "be born here", and besides, we get plenty of illegal/unqualified immigrants from the South who don't seem to be ruining the country.

To me, it seems like a no-brainer to say:
• come pay a US institution a ton of money
• if you manage to pass their standards, we'll let you stay and contribute your high powered brain/education to our GDP
European Health Union: A European Health Data Space for People and Science
Pre-pandemic, I picked up a fanless NUC style computer for ~$200. Takes a SSD and runs under 15 watts. I do not know if that pricing is still attainable today, but is my recommendation for someone looking for a tiny home server.
It doesn't just have to be the eye movements. They'll also use little tappers or paddles that sit in your hand and vibrate alternately. They also have ones with sound that do something similar. For me, the vibrating paddles plus the sound works best, but they all work.

It's fascinating.
Probiotics at this point are mostly snake oil AFAICT. We just don't have the tech or knowledge to properly culture most relevant microbiota, and pills aren't a very effective way to supply them. "Prebiotics" AKA forming good eating habits looks to be far more effective for gut health, but it doesn't offer the opportunity to sell yeast pills for $/mg.
I'm already using HDMI for 7.1 uncompressed PCM. I need to configure my receiver as an extra display just so an audio signal can piggyback off it. Thus, my desire for a simple USB connection.

I'm pretty sure my motherboard has SPDIF optical out, but SPDIF would be a downgrade since it only supports compressed 7.1 or uncompressed stereo.
Can they not adopt?
That environment variable just was there for software to read and auto-config your card. If the jumpers were default it wasn't needed.

Most programs I remember just used it as a hint. There would usually be menu settings that were the definitive source.
Have you looked at render? Been using it for my hobby sites and am very happy with it.
Have you considered letting the user upload their own song?

I’m working on a WebMIDI based wait-for-input piano/keyboard app, like Flowkey, but bring your own music with MusicXML files.

Works amazingly well, using OpenSheetMusicDisplay lib for parsing MusicXML, rendering it to SVG (OSMD uses VexFlow under the covers) & using OSMD to map the music data into my own data model (I track everything I need for timing and visual x,y coordinates inside the SVG).

From there it’s pretty simple, just refactoring my hacky PoC I’ve been using for myself for the last year into something solid based on React + XState.

Anyways, OSMD would let you import arbitrary music as input to this, opening up the possibility of learning specific pieces
The generation before yours is lacking neither intellect nor creativity. We had Calculus in school and the *real* LSD back then.

It's also worth noting that the desired feature set of a spreadsheet is rather universal. Like a paint program, or a music player. Spreadsheets go thousands of years back in human history, and are very well understood as a means and notation for expressing data and expressing calculations over collections. It's not at all a mystery what features will do well in a spreadsheet program.

I've never worked on a spreadsheet program from that side but I have to imagine that the operational abstract of the team centering around how to educate users about how to use the various features they painstakingly develop. It's well known that spreadsheets are difficult to program, because users will inevitable collect larger and larger amounts of data in them, and it needs to do large amounts of calculations very quickly. So right off the bat you already know that a ton of man-hours are sunk into each feature overall, but then you need to really nail down a rock-solid visual grammar and teach the user some sort of intuition for finding these functions as quickly and consistently as possible, lest they get frustrated and leave.

Anyhow. I always find it laughably rude, yet predictable, reading these sorts of comments. As if anybody born before 1980 could have possibly understood the deep enigma of other human beings using computers.

Source: I'm in my 50s.
Iconography.

I honestly don't care to read the packaging every time I shop. Once I find something I like, I buy the "same" damn one at a glance.
>It's like takeout and boxed wine, wearing a T-shirt; versus dressing up a bit, making a nice meal, and opening a bottle from a winery you visited. The former is ovjectively good and convenient, and all of the latter ceremony is a hassle that provides little benefit (you probably can't tell the boxed wine apart in a blind test).

>But... aren't we happier with the latter experience?

No?
It's the same hypnotherapy thing using a swinging watch... with rebranding for credibility.
Longevity pathways are fairly conserved throughout animal kingdom. Genes that cause worms to live really long also seem to be involved in longevity in mammals. Many triggers in your metabolism can all funnel down to the same signaling pathways (in this case likely mToR) and hence you see so many stimuli possibilities.
I know of two modern attempts to recreate the Space Cadet keyboard.

https://keymacs.com/

https://kono.store/products/input-club-symbolic-keyboard
This might seem like a weird suggestion, but you could probably use WebAssembly.
The spec is incredibly simple and portable. It'd allow you to use V8, cranelift, wasmer, wasm-micro-runtime and a whole host of other JITs/runtimes.
Yeah the problem is simply loyal customers not being able to find the product. Supermarket shopping is a continuous game of Where's Wally, especially if you shop in a different one to your regular. Don't make that game harder.
People are always worried about Google or FB doing something nefarious, but in all honesty it's going to be your local dentist or something that leaks all your private info and gets your identity stolen and life ruined.