skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracker music is one of the great generally unknown "third way" [1] artifacts that arose from the Amiga and the demoscene. There are dozens and dozens of different formats, and even within 4-channel .mod files there are quite a few variants. What they share in common is not only a kind of technological approach to music formats, but an ethos to certain styles and kinds of music that seems to pervade across different generations of technology and artists. As a fully crystalized concept, it's around 35 years old! But it draws heavily on previous work in electronic music going all the way back to avant-garde experiments with reel-to-reel music crafting. As such it exists firmly as part of a grand, but often forgotten, part of electronic music making.

Largely speaking the tools to create the music are the tools used to listen to it and an implicit ethos of "openness" exists. You can literally see the notes being played, listen to the samples one by one, and even edit the song files as you wish. There are fewer better forms of immediate performance from composition, and musical pedagogy, in one compact technological concept.

Because it ties composition and performance into the same conceptual space (what you write is literally what it performed), and trackers are generally loaded with different ways of manipulating the samples and instruments, there can be a rich expressiveness encoded into the music that far outstrips what a composer might encode using a traditional note-and-bar midi composition program. And the "how" the composer encoded that expressiveness, how they used or abused the sample data, how they selected strategies around limitations of the format or software, is all present to see and learn from.

It also ties the specific sounds in with the note data, leaving very little room for interpretation. A tracker file should sound basically the same no matter what it's played on. Tracker modules are generally very small, a megabyte is usually considered large.

There are also some absolutely world class composers and songs in the pantheon -- across a wide variety of musical genres. And nearly all that music was composed and released into the world for free. And because there's never been a real commercial market for the music, the composers were very free to pursue their own musical interests. Genres range from dance music to highly experimental stuff -- sometimes by the same artist!

I think I once tried to get a rough assessment of the number of songs produced in the small community of tracker composers and it was well north of half-a-million songs...a literal life-time of music listening at absolutely no cost.

Here's a quick couple youtube playlists since it looks like HN crashed the archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVWFWvQBnZs&list=UUQ3Y8vCyro...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuprJ3W2ahOXgaIkH_Pf4...

And the famous Nectarine demoscene streaming radio https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/streams/

1 - By third way I mean not really commercial, not open-source, just a sort of unstated public domain.
Model 3 with Enhanced Autopilot: 53k

Model 3 with FSD: 62k

Bolt EUV with Super Cruise: 38k
llvmpipe and swpipe have been improved.
There are different kinds of jamming. It's my understanding that interference jamming is fairly uncommon nowadays. If it's not perfect, it mainly gets you a reduction in SNR and GPS is already way down below the noise floor, so receivers are inherently designed to mitigate the effects even if they aren't explicitly designed for anti-jamming. Even when they work, spectral filters exist. Broadband and spoofing are what Russia typically use. The defenses against those benefit from lots of processing power and large, beamforming arrays.

It's an arms race though.
The main problem that I see with making tracker based music is no samples = no music.
I agree and only wished the federal investigation to be delayed so that we can see just how far he'd have willing to go with that scheme/farce.
HN has changed.
That's not a threat limit, that's HN's software asking you to slow down a bit.
That's OpenBSD -stable, the -current edition, that's it, "rolling" "release", already had it.
China has built a 26 storey building to raise pigs
Apple rumored to be testing macOS for M2 iPad Pro
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. Any given orbital plane is larger than the entire surface of Earth, including the oceans. Combine that with the fact that explosions and collisions introduce randomness to the orbital plane of each piece of debris, and you’ve got a lot of hurdles to overcome in order to get to some short term low earth orbit Kessler.
I’d like to know what levels he was keeping it at.

Some places have too much fluoride. “Too much” harder to calculate because it’s determine by non-tap water exposure. Toothpaste, etc.

There was a scandal in my town when it turned out that we had really high fluoride. Dentists had been warning about it, but nobody wanted to be “the dentist opposed to fluoride.”

It seems the states desired level are pretty low, but it’s frustrating we are not told what he lowered it to.
OpenBSD it's ISC licensed and is not Linux.
>He's been selling vaporware for close to a decade

Interesting, my Tesla feels pretty real.
>Until you say a reasonable number of particles that make up the measuring apparatus where we should see _something_ weird starting to happen theoretically you're not even wrong.
SCuBA M365 Security Baseline Assessment Tool (CISA)
The draft documents are at https://www.cisa.gov/scuba. They also include Azure AD and M365 Defender
Insane considering current prices. Which is really to say that current prices are insane. They won't stay that way if interest rates don't go down again soon.
Experimental on Safari, so it's unusable of you have a real world project.
https://socketfox.dev/ doesn't resolve for me :/
See also, Scott Johnson. He files bogus shakedown suits over wheelchair accessibility throughout the state.

Happily, the first hit is this article:

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/attorney-scott-johns...

It's nice to see karma at work.
Prior to the pandemic I had the privilege, due to my wife's position, of attending five or so IEEE conferences per year in the subject of microelectronics and got to see a lot the small enhancements. 15 years ago MEMS and SOI was all the rage, and it moved at glacial pace, and "nothing was coming of it." Now you cannot pick up a modern smartphone without having most of those small developments packed inside it. It's frustrating in one way, seeing the cute piglet of a fringe idea entering the pipe, and wondering if it will come to aught, and astounding to finally put the metaphorical sausage of productization in your mouth many years later thinking to yourself "Oh, I had forgotten all about that..." I use the food metaphor because my wife used to work in market research (prior to her career in running 30,000+ attendee conventions and highly technical microelectronics conferences for the IEEE) and those tasty MSG-laden noodles we all devoured on a student's grocery budget took years of refinement through market testing before they became a real product available universally everywhere.

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We just need to forget all the country leaders and experts telling us it did stop transmission.
Yeah, other than Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Flink, Hadoop, Elasticsearch what has Java ever done for us!
But for 10 years in downtown Portland, OR, I have lived in rural towns my entire forty-five years. I have also travelled extensively through rural PNW towns with my schooling and work. This does not at all match my experience.
Thunderbolt drivers are still WIP for Asahi so I’d assume eGPU support is still in the future.
lot of opinions here - counter to that, we're paying less for renting the same location we moved into three years ago. Covid, WFH and location value... lots can happen to change prices.
I couldn't agree more. HyperCard changed the world, and it's a tragedy that it was abandoned.

The idea that QuickTime¹ would be the runtime for HyperCard 3² — or from a different perspective, that HyperCard stacks would be just another media type — was extremely clever. We'd³ previously experimented with specific interactive functionality, but QTi generalized interactive media capabilities in a technically-interesting way that would greatly amplify both what HyperCard and what QuickTime were capable of.

The 1996 WWDC session Hypercard 3.0: The Phoenix Rises was electric. Here's a report from that session, complete with a response from the awesome Kevin Calhoun. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html

> It would be great to know and see what it was going to be all about!

From an authoring POV, it was "just" HyperCard with super-powers. But from a distribution POV, the magic was that stacks would work anywhere that Movies worked — web pages, email, documents, applications (imagine GUIs composed of "micro-stack" controls), etc.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_interactiv...
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard#HyperCard_3.0
³ Royal "we", my specific role was evangelism
Product managers and scrum masters are a hindrance. Yet another attempt at converting software development into manufacturing. Notice apple wasn't following an “agile” methodology. Nor was microsoft or google. Yet they dramatically disrupted their respective domains. Now that they do, they either stagnate or rinse and repeat whatever they built back when they did actual software engineering or build annoying features or tools aimed at managers not engineers.
FWIW, that particular problem isn't likely going to be an issue for Starlink. Starlink satellites orbit at 550km vs. 20000km for GPS. The transmission is much (much) closer to a straight line approximation and ionosphere refraction is negligible.

In fact, the line of sight transmission to and from a Starlink satellite is likely to be significantly better than that between an airliner and its local WAAS station, which is confounded by ground reflections. (Edit for clarity: WAAS is just digital data, this isn't an actual error in the signal. The point is more "you have to spend more engineering effort on the transmission environment of the correction signal for GPS than you do on the actual signal for Starlink")
Netlify CMS is nice in that it has a hosted WYSISYG editor for Markdown files. It's nice in that it fulfills your requirement of not using HTML and CSS every time, but since it is using Git and Markdown, it is still portable. [1]

They are provide nice templates to get started. [2]

[1] https://www.netlifycms.org/
[2] https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/start-with-a-template/
eGPU-s work on Linux.

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-12-05-nixos-egpu.html
> The point is you don't build a system that assumes DNS is trustworthy, because it isn't.

But the current CA PKI system already assumes DNS is trustworthy, even much more than if you were using DNSSEC-protected DNS PKI system, since it is not only vulnerable to almost all the same attackers/attacks, but it is also vulnerable to many more attackers (since any CA can also do an attack at any time, regardless of any possible future consequences it may experience or not).
The article re the George W Bush era:

> To doubt the wisdom of the war in Afghanistan, the passage of the Patriot Act, or the invasion of Iraq was to find oneself in a lonely place.

Is this what they call "gaslighting"? It was all the rage to criticize those things. No doubt they had support, but there was plenty of mainstream criticism, for example every southpark episode. It doesn't really build credibility by basically staring the article with a lie
> Generally, that's the role of a legislature.

Not only would this be an insane job for the legislature, they aren't equipped to handle the volume.
Great answers in this thread. I opt for distrobox [1] over toolbox.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
$30k a year is a notable amount of money, sure.

But in terms of paying for non-english subtitling? A single hour of video could eat 1-2% of that!

I can easily see a situation where it's an enormous and disproportionate burden. Imagine a twitch streamer that does 20 hours a week and makes $4000 a month. If they had to pay $5 a minute for a subtitling service, which is lower than what I'm seeing for many languages, they'd go bankrupt within the first week.
I wasn't assuming that you'd be mining the gypsum and milling the screws. The materials cost of houses isn't the justification for the lion's share of the price.
Didn’t the Cat use Forth?
My favourite mod is called Napalm Noise by Triton
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
Stack Exchange maybe?
I know that, at least for .ch and .li, there was the plan that registrars have to pay extra for all domains that don’t have DNSSEC enabled starting some time next year. Some registrars just set up DNSSEC not because they believe it has value, but because they would have to explain a price increase to the customer.
Absolutely yes.

I suspect a poll would be overwhelming.
> Regular GPS precision due to ionosphere changes is too low.

... for single-frequency receivers. Military receivers have been dual-frequency for a long time. GPS L2C's rollout is pretty slow (and L5 is even farther behind), but Galileo and BeiDou are both fully operational with dual-frequency civil signals right now. All dual-frequency receivers can naturally cancel out the effect of the ionosphere. That's part of why some smartphone baseband chips are coming out with L5 capability: GPS L5, Galileo E5A, and BeiDou B2A all operate in the same spectrum.
In most cases, businesses are given a grace period to address the complaint before civil liability creeps in. As I understand it, that is not the case in California or New York.

So, you can either hire a full time ADA attorney to continuously audit literally 100% of the public facing surface of your business, or pay random extortionists every time you (alegedly) violate an obscure ADA standard in some minor way.
You have many people trying to explain it to you, figure it out or don't, not my concern.
Ask HN: Frustrated and stressed: Maang remote work and new team advice
Hey. This is a throwaway for the obvious.

I'm on a team where I have 15 years of experience in the language that's used for most of the work whereas everyone else is 1-3.

1. They don't ask for my advice.

2. I don't have much to work on. I'm supposed to "find" projects and room for improvement but I don't have any way to gather input or ask what the pain points are. I shouldn't bother working on things unless they're going to move the needle otherwise there's no credit toward performance.

3. They barely communicate with me.

4. They talk over me in meetings.

5. They don't ask for my input.

6. They don't give me feedback.

7. They don't ask me for feedback.

8. They skip 1:1 meetings.

9. They don't answer my questions.

10. They treat me like a non person.

11. They treat me like a secretary in the larger company meetings.

12. I keep asking myself: "Why am I here? What's the point?"

There's a hiring freeze and my manager's manager said "it will all be better once you meet the team in person."

a. What would you do specifically? If you want to know more to give a better answer, please ask.

b. Should I just work on my own things, up my skills, learn the environment, and prepare to change teams?

c. What's the point of going to work if you're bored and have nothing meaningful to do?
Interesting.

Musically, we Europeans preferred speed-up Trance music at high BPM.

Americans already live as in a hurry, so they prefer slower tunes such as Drum&Bass.
What's up with Airbnb cleaning fees?
This is my favourite response.

As a manager, I actually really like working with devs that just put their heads down and churn through tickets. My focus is trying to implement the business strategy and having developers that allow us to execute by building what is needed is excellent.

Developers (and I include myself in this bucket as I am 1000% guilty of it) are very easily distracted by The New Shiny, and sometimes it's irresistible to dive off into rabbit holes under the guise of 'learning new things'. Too many times I've ended up with massively over-engineered solutions that use experimental stuff that adds business and/or operational risk.

I know how soul-destroying it is to simply sit there pulling ticket after ticket though so I carve off time explicitly for self-directed learning & [what I hope are] fun little skunkworks projects. My goal is to try to find a balance between executing business strategy and continual improvement and development (heh) of my team.

But your solution sounds awesome. I would love my team to get more involved in open source projects & might suggest this as something to do as part of their usual workload. I wish I'd spent more time doing this when I was more actively programming myself.
As always, AI performs poorly in the real world until they don't.
This is an ok summary:
"High-trust societies display a high degree of mutual trust not imposed by outside "contractual, legal or hierarchical regulation", but instead are based upon "prior moral consensus". Much writing on the subject refers to Francis Fukuyama's 1995 book, Trust: Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity, in which he describes "the ability of various peoples to organize effectively for commercial purposes without relying on blood ties or government intervention".

A useful test imo is: would you feel comfortable leaving your expensive Macbook, unattended in public, confident nothing would happen to it?

In Tokyo? Sure. Chicago, Detroit, NYC... Maybe not.

People doing "the right thing" on their own, when nobody is watching.

The big American cities used to be more like Tokyo in that regard. Now, you get stolen from and everyone agrees you were stupid and its wholly your fault.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_soc...
A bit disapointing. It's mostly about parsing, not usage.

Half of the post is about handling UTF-8, which AFAIK both LuaTeX and XeTeX (you really shoulduse either) do natively.
... which only works for browsers. What about all the other uses of certificates?

TLS itself is used for securing almost every network communication that goes over the Internet nowadays, including SMTP (and even DNS with DNS-over-TLS or DoH, ironically).

So how does Mozilla notice that a CA misissued a certificate for my SMTP server or my upstream DNS server? (Answer: it doesn't).
Disclosing allergens is a different thing though: that's akin to "disclosing" that the restaurant isn't wheelchair accessible.

Should all restaurants also be required to serve food for whatever combination of allergies one might have?

My mother has several food allergies, there are restaurants where she can't eat any meal. Would you welcome a law mandating each and every restaurant to start serving meals she can eat?
I'm bored of this debate that happens every time one of these charlatans releases a paper that grabs a bunch of headlines and is disproven two days later (as already has happened with the original in this thread).

But "This happening" needs to be defined for Bayes to be of any use. State clearly what you think happened and it can be judged, because as has been proven over and over again, the virus is of natural origin. So the proximity to a lab studying Coronaviruses isn't nearly as interesting given China's history with these viruses.

This is long but in my opinion, worth reading regarding the Bayesian probabilities that actually matter here: https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/natures-neglected-g...
These days, they do. Batteries and solar panels cost less then running a cable.
SpaceX for one. When solar storms occur they have to release newly launched satellites at a higher altitude to avoid being slowed down by a puffed up atmosphere. Just recently they lost a few starlink sats to this effect.
I agree with "people worked on the software, we should pay them for that". :-) But I don't think "time" is the best way to think about it. It's still a question of how much you value the product. If you buy a music album, it's irrelevant how long the recording of the album actually took. What matters is if the songs are good.

IMO the problem with "subscriptions" is obvious: in most cases, the term is merely a euphemism for "rental". There are some developers who allow you to buy a perpetual license with a certain time limit on software updates, but that seems to be a minority of the subscription model. Whereas the majority of subscription software simply stops working as soon as you stop paying. That's rental.

Rental is almost always a bad deal for consumers, except in the short term. If you go on a 2 week vacation, you obviously want to rent a car in the new city, not buy a new car and try to sell it 2 weeks later. But leasing a car indefinitely is typically a worse deal financially than buying a car.

Consumers want to own the products they buy, but increasingly, software developers want to prevent consumers from owning any software, forcing them to rent indefinitely. That's why consumers are upset, with good reason. It's a loss of control.

A big part of this is the App Store, which caused a race to the bottom and is hostile to upfront paid software in a number of ways.
Apple’s Industrial Design Chief Hankey to Leave Three Years After Ive
I'm not sure there is anything in this comment that is true.
US Weighs Security Reviews for Elon Musk Deals, Including Twitter
> Do you just click different blending modes until it sort of looks right?

Yes, guilty as charged when I work with Blender's mix color shader node...
That could be part of the problem (older stack). Do you have any example projects/portfolio with newer tech?
Who knew? Run the google query 'close up photo of ant face' (evidently quite popular) and chose Images, you'll see that not all ants look like that.
> I doubt anybody thinks "it’s no big deal". But in this game of high-stakes nuclear poker, if you communicate your fears and self-imposed limits to your enemy - you increase the chance he'll use them against you.

Like General Milley secretly telling the Chinese government that Trump wouldn't be able to use nukes against them? He hasn't been tried for treason, so some people clearly don't think it's that important.
Yup. Prices will lag rates, and the market is already seeing significant softening
This rings true for me. The value of HN early in my career was exposing me to a firehose of industry content while I tried to figure out my place.

As I get further into my career, the signal to noise ratio is shifting quite a bit. I’ve seen many iterations of what’s being posted already, most of the comments aren’t novel, etc.

At this point HN is a habit. And a hard one to break.
> Why does the iPad Pro make your life better than doing the same thing on a MacBook/notebook/Desktop?

IME in comes down to two questions most of the time:

- do you live alone ? (including pets like cats or ferrets)

- do you like sitting at desks/tables outside of work ?

If you answered no to both, a laptop is viable, but an iPad will make your life much much easier. Scrolling with the trackpad while your cat comes to sit on the keyboard is not great. Having a laptop open while you lay down next to a toddler is a death wish for the laptop.

Even sitting next to someone in a sofa: the iPad is a mostly rounded, pretty rugged and overall smallish device, a macbook is bigger in volume as it’s unfolded, more angular and way more fragile. Also you can pass the device around, it’s great when making plans.

Then using an iPad in weird positions is fine, a laptop not so much.
that's the top 1% of people ordered by how much tax they pay, not the top 1% most wealthy. We tend to tax earnings rather than wealth and thus the super wealthy get by with minimal taxation. This should be fixed imo.

Also if you try to dodge US taxes by renouncing your citizenship you owe a large one time payment so it doesn't work so well. So an exodus of super wealthy individuals seems unlikely.