skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this claim really makes sense - if water districts are incentivized by income, and if high users really have such inelastic water consumption, then wouldn't the water district continue to raise the tiered rates at the highest level?

Thus, under these assumptions, the current tiered rates should accurately reflect the marginal price that the wasteful users are willing to pay, and any rise in price would result in a decrease in consumption.
Thank you for that. I rarely use HackerNews and I was just trying to clarify my own position.
> some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system

Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.
UI research is a thing. Aside of that, allowing the user to alter the UI to their tastes might also be a thing. Customising, it used to be called. That way it can be good for both of us - or even the same person who's level of experience and thus their needs, changes over time.
Yes, that's why I described the empirical results as surprising.
> You will adjust without even realizing. […] This probably means

This might be true once in a while on very slow chords or the final resolving chord of a piece, maybe, but this sounds like assumption to me based on it being theoretically possible, and not evidence that it actually happens often. From experience, it sure seems like years upon years of equal tone muscle memory, from having to play with other instruments, is far more likely to dominate finger placement. Not to mention everyone being used to equal tone - having equal tone sensibility as to what sounds right. Sounding right in relation to everyone around you is still valid in 12-TET. Enharmonic micro intonations are almost certainly not happening during fast sequences, and because of that, the argument that it’s subconscious and imperceptible seems implausible - professional musicians absolutely would notice a change in finger placement depending on context, because of key changes, because of abrupt fast-slow resolutions, because of chords and arpeggios and situations where open strings are called for, etc. etc..
seems like a reasonable statement, lol.

big corp isn't going to lose its icann accreditation over an intervention that breaks their policies.
Don’t worry, the Greens will fix it by increasing co2 taxes on firewood.
As an employee of a post-seed, immediately-pre-series-a company, I've wondered if the cap table should always be public. It seems like hiding ownership is potentially highly deceptive, but I'm looking at this from the employee perspective....
So if NewEgg has gone the way of garbage as well, where do people go for trustworthy parts these days? I haven't built my own machine in about a decade, but thinking about building a new one soon...
JFYI, William Saffire on the matter (fumblerules):

If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.

https://dmorgan.web.wesleyan.edu/materials/safire.htm
Show HN: Relaxing scrolling page of ASCII CP437 random in IBM VGA 14x9 font
My point is: Let's not put anyone on a pedestal because of their cerebral skills.

Great athletes, great artists, sure.
Zoom and enchance!
It's fine if you think markets are intended to be hostile to consumers instead of bettering people's lives. I don't think incentivizing deceptive middlemen is really a net benefit to society.
I found Lunar very helpful in a South facing apartment with floor to ceiling windows. Without Lunar I had to spend a minute adjusting each monitor, multiple times a day. It solved a problem I never experienced in a home with normal windows.
Thanks, glad you like the styling ^_^

And yes, it's very likely that most of your problems went away because you're using the Pro Display, as it has a much faster CPU than most monitor controllers on the market.

Apple displays also support a proprietary USB protocol through which they can communicate with the Mac faster than through the DDC protocol which is still based on two-wire slowpoke I²C.

That Apple Native protocol is also supported by Lunar for silky smooth brightness transitions, which is just not possible on DDC, unless the monitor has some kind of built-in fader.
Focusing on doing something is like having a goal, which is known to be good for mental health. It's OK if the goal changes from time to time. There's a really great book about how having a goal helped people survive the concentration camps in WW2, called "Man's search for meaning", highly recommended reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
> The problem is people are lazy

doesn't describe

> they will spend days searching the web, reading through the endless ‘blind leading the blind’ user forums

as for "instead of RTFM" you have to know where and what to read
This is a great and wise reply. I too suffer from what you're describing sometimes and I attribute it partly to these sorts of underlying emotional factors.

The real key for me now is feeling that I am enough just as I am. I still strive in my career and in a few hobbies, that's still important, but I try hard not to identify too much with them. I fail quite often but it's liberating. I try to frame my passions as things with intrinsic rewards and not things that bolster my ego.
So you get your wish, Twitter bans a bunch of tweets.

Your life is still in danger. You haven't changed that situation. You still need to either flee or make plans for your sudden passing.
"Make the whole world use FOSS"

At least they have realistic goals...
There's still single and double deck blackjack too. Treasure Island on the strip has double deck and a lot of casinos on Fremont, with El Cortez being my favorite, has single deck. Both are 3/2.
A Google engineer says AI has become sentient. What does that mean?
Yeast on Artemis 1 may help astronauts survive cosmic radiation in deep space
To me the individual notes sound fine and usually normal-ish (except for the really extended ones), but I have difficulty hearing the overall tune? Or, it sounds like there are parts of a tune with other parts on top which I don’t hear how they fit?

I think a clearer demonstration might be to have a side by side comparison of a fairly simple tune in 12TET vs in this dynamical tuning.
Well, how do you expect them to fund scale-free costs? I pay $60 water service charge and another $40 wastewater service charge, every other month.
I don't think so. I think it's just the way Rob et al. used the term from their previous experience.

It's not meant to mean operating systems language, nor embedded systems language.

Rather for writing parts of a systems, such as servers. I would say that the definition is not that far away for Java or C#, but the expectation is simply that it would be "lower level" components of a system, including unix like utilities.
Well, the web3 part is in jail so I'm not really sure that's accurate.
Avoiding being noticed is key to sustainability. Less break-ins, less dogwalkers noticing you. Incognito brings some freedoms.
That's very insightful.

"Keep the curiosity alive. Its a powerful, motivating force. Just don't get too anxious."

You're so right about that. I just realized I had much more zest for life when I was more curious. I should try to cultivate more curiosity.
What the parent post seems to be saying is that it's quite plausible that localised moderation might follow the 'new regime' and instead of the current ignorance, they would strongly side against the OP - there's no reason to presume that 'some basic regional knowledge' would lead moderators to support the OPs political position instead of the position according to which he should be silenced and arrested - it might swing the one way, it might swing the other.
I prefer `^` for pointers because it's pointy, and having it after the value because it's less ambiguous when combined with subscripts and field accesses.
One thing that people who interact with treasury should really understand is the reason your investors have invested in you.

In this case, the backers wanted you to build a metaverse RPG. If they had wanted to invest in ETH, they would’ve done so themselves. So your job isn’t to make stupid bets on investments way outside your company’s lane, it’s to build the product you sold and fundraised on.

I’ve seen the same thing at nonprofits I’ve worked with. Their management teams start making riskier and riskier investments because it’s seen as “free” money in a sense because it’s all happening internal to the org and they don’t need outside fundraising. So you’ll have an org focused on public health or whatnot investing their cash reserves in foreign commercial credit.. then when that shit goes south and they need to mark their reserves down by hundreds of thousands of dollars, every other stakeholder is impacted.
The app contacts Github's CDN every 45 seconds. Is there a particular reason / need for this behavior?

Tested on macOS with the following command:

sudo tcpdump -k -i en0 | grep Upscayl
As someone that has burned out spectacularly, if you can still carry on to get a bigger paycheck at the end, sorry to say, it's not burnout. You're just fed up.

Signed: someone that said no to a big paycheck because I was so mentally dead it would have cost my physical health. I'm still recovering a year later.
You mean the C abstract machine?
A sax is really easy to control (or lose control) of the pitch. And in fact, many saxophonists will just shift various ranges around sharp or flat to suit their style (cough Phil Woods cough).

So basically, a woodwind like a sax will tune a few notes with a piano or whatever, but it's really up to the player to keep playing in tune. I would not even bother trying to autotune or use post-processing; it'll just sound weird.

This is also how you can get a room full of student musicians "tuned" but it still sounds like a disaster.
His domain name has 'nude' in it.
> Subsidizing products with your attention span is not a natural thing in a capitalist system

You're looking at the wrong thing as capital and the wrong thing as the service.

The service is customer sourcing and the capital is literally capital.

It is a very natural capitalist creation, self-evidently so.
Yeah, and it's not enough to do e.g.

d = random_block()
for block in capacity:
block.write(d)
if block.read() != d:
fail("fake disk")

Since that would be fooled by a device mapping all reported blocks to the same actual storage. I guess you basically have to write unique data to all reported blocks first, then read them all back to verify.

Since storage devices are often bigger than RAM, the data is probably best to generate procedurally (but deterministically) from the block number.

That sounds like fun!
>here ere just too many unknows to be able to deliver good code on a set time schedule.

So let's not try? No estimates at all then? I'm not sure how you how can include the role of project manager in the same post when saying estimates don't work at all. By definition one of a PM's core duties is to estimate the time, cost, quality of a project.

The main role of agile is not to deliver super accurate estimates anyways, but to make everyone involved in the project aware of what work needs to be done and then make sensible decisions around this. Seen this way, I think it works well. There are ways to know how much can be done in a sprint.
the progression you are referring to is I-IV-bIII-bVI, where are all these chords are “power chords” i.e. dyads comprised of a root and fifth.

it is an awesome progression but violates absolutely nothing in music theory.

we can find examples of similar progressions across jazz and classical music, most of which was composed by folks who have mastered western tonal harmony.
That's also how Lunar started actually :)

I got my first Mac + monitor setup in an apartment with the desk on a closed balcony. It was driving me crazy to press the fiddly LG joystick to get to the brightness menu all day long, so I can follow the ever changing ambient brightness.

It's also why Lunar v1.0 only had sunrise/sunset based automatic brightness, not even hotkeys for adjusting the brightness manually.
An anekdot doesn't have to be political. Actually, most of the time it isn't.
AWS is their biggest profit center, so it makes sense.
“How” involves IVF leading to triplets and twins. One child born through surrogacy. Presumably two or three conceived the usual way. You can look it up online if you’re not sure how someone has ten children. I have three, my mom had seven. It’s not rocket science.

His kids are spread out over almost 20 years, he’s not raising ten young children all at once.

I don’t know how much time Musk spends with his children. I’m not a Musk fan as you can see by my comment history. But I think commenting on his children and commitment to them crosses a line. Clearly he can support his children and he seems to like kids. The mothers seem to have conceived or undergone IVF willingly.

What’s your point in asking this question?
Another happy user of PipeWire+Helvum here. Finally, a proper "Virtual Audio Cable" for Linux!
According to several sources, both scientific and esoteric, intuition (AKA gut feeling) is just underrealized experience. E.g. for intuition to work one have to get a lot experience. Which, in turn, requires time.
My phone has effectively already been stolen, because it runs software that has been developed to work against my interests. None of the data on it would I miss losing, because it's not an authoritative copy. None of the data on it would I be upset about someone else having, because the advanced persistent threat of the surveillance industrial complex already has it. Sensitive information would have never been on my phone in the first place.
"This confusion applies to all of the black keys"

Music theory must be racist!!!

/sarc
On the Expressivity of Markov Reward
Some sports skills, like driving a golf ball or serving in tennis, require relaxation. You hit the ball much harder if you are relaxed than if you try to "muscle it". In tennis, at least, the principle really applies to the whole game. As my coach said, "you won't play well if you're thinking about winning."

It reminds me of the Taoist poem by Chuang Tzu that Thomas Merton translated as "The Need to Win":

If an archer is shooting for nothing

He has all his skill.

If he shoots for a brass buckle

He is already nervous.

If he shoots for a prize of gold

He goes blind

Or sees two targets—

He is out of his mind!

His skill has not changed But the prize

divides him. He cares.

He thinks more of winning

Than of shooting—

And the need to win

Drains him of power.

[EDIT: Trying to figure out how to get single-spaced line breaks here. Not much poetry on HN, I guess. :-)]
I've been making a point to order electronics from Best Buy whenever possible. I can trust that Beat Buy doesn't have third party sellers, at least for now.
Oh... I honestly believe we could if it was a coherent effort of all people and countries but the way it is now? No, not at all.
The future is what we've built upon in the past. Domain names are not going to change in any significant way because the DNS system won the test of time.

there's a concept I like to bring up here, the Lindy Effect, that shows that DNS because of its longevity will likely be around for decades or centuries to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
> More people buy 30TB fake disks than 0.5TB real ones.

I wasn't suggesting "sell a 0.5TB device honestly as a 0.5TB device", I was suggesting "sell a 0.5TB device claiming it is a 30TB device".

> You also automatically filter out the people that’d be smart enough to notice something was off.

You won't find a single "smart" person in the world that will buy a "30TB" disk for $30. So the smart people have already been filtered out in any case.
No human would use allcaps italics like that.
It's not necessarily about anything shady though, it can just as easily be legitimate differences of opinion, too many cooks in the kitchen, bikeshedding, or landgrab concerns.
Thanks for the clarification. It’s still sounding ugly, like if someone decided that the kingdom of mugroomz would include multiple mushrooms, but I guess it’s too late to complain
If you're like me you probably spent hours as a kid watching scrolling random text on an x86 PC that you coded up. This was before the Matrix, so when you saw that rain in the Matrix, you were like, "OH MY GOD how'd they get my idea? Have they been watching me", in full-Neo style.

I finally found the right font to rediscover and replay this experience from my youth, on the web, and share it with you all.

I made a write up about my journey here: https://github.com/crisdosyago/random

And a special inside track I'll give you all the Easter Eggs:

swipe up/down - pause flow

swipe opposite on pause - unpause

click - toggle pause

spacebar - toggle pause

+ : increase speed

- : decrease speed

-------

I don't know about you but I really love watching this kind of text, get all soft focus, peripheral vision about it, it's just really relaxing. It's true random, too, none of that Math.random stuff, it uses crypto.getRandomValues.

Hope you can enjoy! :) ;p xx ;p
This is a good explanation. Thank you.
Zuck will show up after two years on WWE to tell us he feels bad about it. Now get back to work you dumbfucks.
This should be the product for me, someone who used to be super into PC and console gaming but is losing interest over time so the portability is appealing. However, it’s a tough sell for me without Nintendo games. A lot of the value I get out of my Switch is Mario Kart at family gatherings.
I had that issue. I ordered something from Walmart (a vacuum cleaner) and it arrived in a new box from amazon. I called their customer service and the claimed they never shipped anything from amazon. I guess that was a lie.
You can tell they are different because of the way they are
I'm also moving towards software that is less dependent on hardware especially because of the headaches that Lunar brought me over the years.

You're probably in a much better spot, SaaS is still the best way to make money as a developer, if you don't have to provide too much support.
Ask HN: How Is Plaid Legal?
Hi HN,

While in the process of creating my own service, I've been doing a bit of research into the legality of web scraping. All the court cases I've seen around it seem to imply that it's a violation of the CFAA to scrape data that is behind authentication.

However, Plaid seems to be doing just fine in this regard, as none of this banking data is publicly accessible. Sure, users are only accessing data that they would otherwise have access to, and Plaid is only facilitating this data transmission through scraping, however I am unable to find anything in the court cases that makes such a distinction.

I guess what I'm asking is "is it legal for a service to scrape data behind an authentication wall if the user has granted permission for that service to access said data", and if it is illegal, "how is Plaid operating within the confines of the law?"

Obviously I'm not asking anyone to leave real legal advice, I'm only asking for people's personal interpretations or theories.
The International Human Rights Foundation (IHRF) seems to be an NGO based in New York, perhaps with offices in India as well, but they don't seem to be an organ of the Indian government. The author of this article quotes a tweet trying discredit the IHRF by claiming they are "registered in India" (might be true, but so what?)
You're my new favorite person.
Opening on iOS I see an "Incompatible Device" notice on the page. Does the demo only work on desktop?
A hint on which kind of device is considered compatible would've been nice. I didn't expect this to be desktop-only.
What happens when you've been falsely accused? What happens when the person before you's 2/10 dirty is the person after you's 8/10 dirty? There's also a privacy problem with there being a poop log attached to our IDs.
At Stream with our team of 140 I like to share runway, burn, cash balance, revenue, burn multiple and CAC payback.

Historically Stream has grown rapidly and the equity grants have been very significant compared to the base salaries. (who knows what the future brings, but hopefully that trend continues).

So a significant part of our team's compensation is equity, I think it's only fair to be transparent about those topics. Also important to share the last round valuation and the revenue, since many startups that raised at too high prices are currently deeply underwater on their employee's equity.

We do lunch and learns on equity, evaluating startups etc. That is important since most people don't have prior experience with evaluating startups.

A friend of mine didn't exercise his stock options when he was early stage at a company that had an exit above 1B. I think that shows how hard it is to evaluate how startups are doing. But sharing the data is a good starting point.
I sometimes intentionally do that here as the IKEA online store has very high shipping costs (They probably want people to come to the store and pick up a bunch of other things on the way). There's sellers that sell IKEA things on Amazon with a markup but it's still cheaper than IKEA's shipping. I'm assuming it's just people buying a cart full of the same product and re-selling it on Amazon.
You do realize the Korean War never officially ended (de jure), right?
The audio fingerprinting is used by services like shazam to identify music, not a per user re-encode of every single song in order to find out leaks.

The watermarked music files I have come across only go as far as identifying the distribution service, not an individual.

From what I remember the metadata of account information is added as an editable extended tags. I actually don't know if audiobooks are even tagged by account in audible's case, it's true for iTunes.

Children will have access to free audio books in the US as long as libraries are around. I can get digital audiobooks for free from my library.

Libby/Overdrive and Hoopla are great, especially for children's audiobooks.

I don't know if your argument against using dedrm tools even makes sense. The point is that you shouldn't share your decrypted audiobooks. It shouldn't matter what happens to your friend's computer. More importantly, an audiobook isn't important enough to steal, that a giant leap.

Dedrming an audiobook is the only way I know to make sure that one day audible won't wake up and say, no we don't want you listening to that book anymore and just take it off their platform after I have paid for it. That's not a theoretical, that's already happened to some with certain kindle books.
Why One Neuroscientist Started Blasting His Core (2016)
> In 8-9 years I expect it will be just rubbish.

Sounds about right.

> If I compute how it's produced, how much energy, pollution, it need to exists brand new in my home, and how so far we can't recycle...

Recycling is possible — even the absolute dumbest way I can imagine, which is grind the battery into dust and put that dust into the process used to separate rocks into their constituent elements, is still better than mining the actual rocks you'd otherwise get them from.

Recycling facilities better than that necessarily only scale to whatever battery quantity existed x years ago.

But also, the pollution mostly comes from energy, so making the grid greener makes the batteries greener which makes the grid greener etc.

However, you're missing one of the cheapest storage systems: hydrogen. The round-trip efficiency isn't great, but given how cheap PV is, this isn't bad enough to be a problem.
You probably need to investigate further. It's unclear why disabling IPv6 would have any effect on an IPv4-only website.