skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
97 years old and tried in a juvenile court was a plot twist that I wasn't expecting.
You're about a decade older than me so take my comment with that in mind. It may not be useful to you. Your description sounds like someone who has a successful education, a close, loving family, relevant skills. You don't sound like a pity case at all.

IMO, don't give up on getting a wife or gf IF that is what you want.
Personally I find the Ruby easier to read. Just follow the functions left to right, and the method names are more literate (chars() vs split('') for instance). I’m also not sure at first what slicing on an array with a negative start index will do, whereas I’m sure each_cons does just what it purports to do.
People often dismiss pure thought as effort. But when you think about it that is all programming really is. I worked with a person that started his programming career using cards. Even though his current job provided him a nice editor and build system he would write his program and simply execute in his head for the longest time before even attempting to compile it. He would then make a couple of changes and he was done.
Those suggestions were literally unimaginable when MIDI was invented. Samplers barely had enough memory for a single sample, never mind GB of multisamples with countless articulation options. And semantic messaging - for phrases, etc - is a whole other level of complexity which has barely been researched, never mind implemented.

MIDI 1.0's failings are much simpler - limited resolution, limited channels, and limited support for polyphonic expression.

MIDI 2.0 has addressed all of those, but it's a bureaucratic monster of a protocol and I suspect it's not going to be popular.

We could really have done with a MIDI 1.5 which kept the same message types but made them 16-bit instead of 8-bit, and also added some extra poly-start and poly-controller features. That would have been enough to open a whole new world of expression without adding a lot of extra complexity.
Except sometimes an establishment is part of a multinational conglomerate. Eventually some level of due process is going to be needed in certain instances.
"Thank you for your continued loyalty! We will no longer let you into Delta lounges but here's free Wi-Fi!"

(moved on to JetBlue and never looked back)
He tried to get gain some meme cred but lost some actual credibility instead. Ouch.
According to the article, only one of the five people charged was a member of the boogaloo boys, and he was charged for firing a weapon; he wasn't involved in any of the arson charges.

Also note the entire crowd chanting "burn it down".
Yup, basically that idea, but a bit higher spec (Linux-capable CPU instead of a microcontroller, larger and higher-resolution touchscreen). But it's definitely on the right track! Ideally we'd have something in line spec-wise with the Amazon Echo Show 5.
They refused an individual not acting on behalf of their employer though. I'm not sure that notifying their employer is sufficient. If they want to bar an individual acting for themselves, they should have notified the individual.
Public beta coming soon. https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/apple-s...
LinkedIn says this is the case quite openly.
That… scares the crap out of me. How is that even possible, beyond the worst possible infrastructure practices imaginable?

If I knew of another bank in North Carolina with decent coverage I would swap for sure. That said, don’t really use the atm that often so maybe I shouldn’t worry about that.

Only at WF because Chase wasn’t in NC and yes they opened extra accounts for me.
Refreshing to see this point of view. I see therapy being recommended as a full solution on reddit all the time
$30 a day is almost $1000 per month, that's completely unrealistic for 90+% of under 25s, most people don't hit that kind of saving power til they are 30. And I don't see any evidence in your post that previous generations did that? My parents certainly didn't, they started saving at 30 on teacher's salaries and bought a house three years later. That house (in Cambridge, UK) is now worth £800k, I can't afford that, despite earning far more than their salaries at retirement put together.
I think the real lesson, rather than "leave the USA", is "have a close-knit support structure".
> This is all happening because Obama didn't have the balls to just let the shoddy banks crash and burn, and we continued QE for around a decade to alleviate blowback from 2008. This, combined with other factors (a lax policy w.r.t. foreign investments in real estate), will screw us in the long run.

It also happened because most of the FBI agents who worked on white-collar fraud prior to 9/11 were reassigned to counter-terrorism work afterwards, and so the rampant fraudulent appraisals and mortgages prior to the housing crash were never investigated, let alone prosecuted.

Contrast 2008 with the reaction to the S & L debacle.
I agree that is important to both hold the courts accountable for consistent application of the law, as well as work to ensure their is a clear path for providing appropriate relief for defective (unconstitutional) laws.

I just don't see how the California law is a legal victory (clearing up issues of process) or morally (Newsom can harm citizens with unconstitutional laws just as good as Texas).

I will admit I am out of my depth when It comes to the fact for fact comparisons of the rulings and laws, although I have read both judgements. I didn't see any discussion of Young or federal supremacy in the Cali case.

I would love to read a side by side comparison that lays out the differences.
As far as I can tell, The SCOTUS was 8-1 with sending SB8 back down to the 5th circuit for decision on constitutionality with fewer defendants. Here with Cali SB 1327, The 9th circuit is making the decision on constitutionality.
This library is called bstrings, but Microsoft has BSTR/BStrings. Those are ucs-2/utf-16, zero terminated, with a length prefix.

In Windows 8, someone at Microsoft decided they had too many string types, so they introduced another one (HSTRING).
That’s pretty amusing. Reminds me conferences where I’ve just walked passed security. Sometimes, I pretended to be doing something. Other times, not.
I don't think this was the case as I wasn't a Buzz user. And yes, it wasn't _really_ a social platform, but you could share items from your own feed to other mutuals and converse under the thread that you (or they) shared. A couple other readers like Inoreader and TheOldReader later implemented stuff like this, but without the large user base that Gmail had it was pointless.

Its limitations were part of what made it thrive.
Of course, anyone can complain and provide feedback all they want. But given the US's utterly broken political system, I wouldn't expect much to come of it, and I should think this is obvious to anyone who's paying attention to the world around them.

As far as I can tell, the current situation is not a surprise: someone immigrating from India today should know the situation, and know that there's probably not a good likelihood of it being fixed anytime soon. Given that, why bother going to the US? As I said, there's other countries that are much more welcoming. It seems to me the only reason to go to the US is $$$. Tech workers are overpaid there relative to other countries, so this is attractive to people who want to take advantage of this.

Basically, I see this like going to a casino and then complaining about the odds being stacked against you there. America is a very high-risk place: sure, you can make a lot of money there, if you're skilled and lucky, but all it takes is one big medical problem and you're bankrupt.
A lot of depressing comments in that thread. I feel better about not having wasted my time on dating apps. I wonder if the comments about apps being doomed due to user gender ratio have weight.
I really don’t get Obsidian and why HN seems so obsessed with it. Can anyone please enlighten me? Why do they call these notes “a second brain”? How is this “a new way of thinking”? What are you people even writing that requires this? It just seems silly, honestly. What am I missing?
First, that's then not a platform, and second, this doesn't seem to have happened with the known examples like usenet, e-mail, IRC..?
I believe that Dijkstra is too often remembered chiefly for his dismissive, not to say snarky aphorisms. This gives a very different picture of him.
This is how I am using it too. It completely blows away the procrastination aspect of starting a task. I just start chatting about it and get the ball rolling.
Try living outside the US for a couple of years and see what happens to your permanent residency.

And how exactly do you get into the US when you return, without a visa? They won't let you in with a foreign passport unless you have a visa. No country will, unless you have visa-free travel because your country's passport is granted that.
The concept "death of the creator" is non-trivial in cases where the original work is the product of division of labor.
I'm a web dev that tried to find a job in browser game dev. Until I realised that there aren't many positions to go around. Only making slot games for online gambling companies really. The rest of the opportunities were not in browser land, but Unity or Unreal Engine. And good luck getting past the millions of techbros who want these positions.
KYC is indeed burdensome.

But laws on money laundering being what they are, you can't claim ignorance. There's a minimum standard to be met when handling money in aggregate. If you don't know your customer, how do you know you aren't part of the problem?

Criminal organizations are great at hiding finances by exploiting loopholes at scale, and unregulated crypto is one hell of a loophole. The laws are setup to get everyone up and down the criminal chain-of-command, guilt by association. It's a good thing that criminals have a hard time finding financial institutions that will take their ill-gotten gains.

Unfortunately there is no semi-safe DMZ between highly-regulated and unregulated finance. It's pretty much binary. Regulated finance continues to grow until it touches everything legit, everything else gravitates to shadow overseas/back-alley finance.
The current administration at Stanford seems fairly diverse but over-represented by Jewish people[1]. I am not disagreeing that people in other global communities might not care about these issues. Some people abroad are surprisingly attuned to US political wokeness though.

I imagine if you are white you might compensate for that by being more woke to protect your career. This is, after all, still a majority white country in spite of the admissions policies of elite universities and the racial makeup of tv commercials and the immigration policies. So that may reflect on staff hired decades ago. Although I believe elite universities will begin to change the racial makeup of their staff and students more aggressively since the status quo is indefensible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stanford_University_pe...
Life expectancy is 2.5X what it was when these laws were first conceived and the majority of creative people have a relatively short peak creative period where most of their valuable output comes - eg. Typical recording artists last no more than 10 years & to be able to achieve their peak, they have to often give up on things that promise stable careers for people (advanced college degrees, internships and starter roles in the 20s) not in the creative industry. So why not let them enjoy the benefits of their creativity through royalty in their old age if someone streams their song decades later? There are a lot of senior artists who would be facing very significant hardship if not for their royalties. You can see this much more often in athletes who don't have a royalty stream.
They've announced stock buybacks which are practically the same thing: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/amazon-announces-20-for-1-st...
For me, it's: s/fall back to Google/fall back to StartPage

(-:

What I mean is: StartPage.com is Google results with better filters and without the "bubble" that Google likes to put you in. Although…

I did have to reluctantly block StartPages ads on some puters,though, after they resorted to "make the topmost ads appear right where the topmost results I was alread reading and/or about to click already were". I'd have blocked only the topmost ads, but I timed-out while trying to conjure a better CSS selector. I was mildly annoyed with their "ads look almost the same as results" in recent years, but this latest move may eventually convince me to block StartPage's ads everywhere.
I wish. Which platforms is Richard Spencer currently not welcome on?
What's "UE"? I've never even heard of that. The article is about Japan, not some other obscure country. Public transit in Japan is excellent.
Wow I didn’t know I could love obsidian more. I’ve been using kinopio.club for this and obsidian for notes. Being able to plot stuff visually really helps me plan long term (especially helpful for my ADHD)

Excited to see it is JSON too! Cannot wait to try :)
How is ordering Grubhub a drain on productivity?? Most tech companies don't have free food (e.g. Apple), so I doubt that's an important aspect here.
> I, for one, think it's most likely that we are the only spacefaring civilization in the Milky Way, at least within our light cone (which means much the same thing).

I suggest you take the time to better understand what a light cone is. Your light cone is much, much larger than the milky way, indescribably larger, and it is a 4 dimensional space.
Day–night cloud asymmetry prevents early oceans on Venus but not on Earth
"Unrelated to their dispute" is a fuzzy category. How would the venue actually know that she's unrelated to the dispute? They're not going to have access to the internal management chart of the law firm in order to be able to precisely delineate in every case exactly who gets admitted and who doesn't. And it's unreasonable to force them to create some sort of bouncer appeals board to let people present evidence to show that their position at the law firm is unrelated to the dispute.

Remember everyone arguing that Twitter pre-Musk is a private company, so they could ban anyone they wanted? This is the same thing, only in a physical location.
> ...an inability to communicate future information if known to the MIDI producer...

The video notes that MIDI just wasn't designed for this purpose. It was designed as a standard messaging protocol facilitating communication between the different RTOS's used in synthesisers. The fact that it became a standard format for digital musical notation was probably just an afterthought, albeit a pretty good one. I couldn't watch the whole video, however there are always MIDI control codes which can be used for the kind of meta-information they're talking about, like specifying Staccato, or Tremolo.
The strings in clavichords vibrate from the bridge to the tangent (the metal hammer that strikes the string), the remaining distance to the tuning peg is covered in damping felt and so does not contribute to the sound. On a "fretted" clavichord, several notes strike the same course (of two strings) at different positions. Only one note can play at a time on each course, so some combinations of notes aren't possible. Unfretted clavichords have a course for each note, but weren't at all common in J.S. Bach's time.
Stars move relative to each other. You won't need much higher speeds than what we can already achieve, as long as you're willing to wait for another star to move nearby.
I'd modify that to "f/4 and be there".

Sure, because my micro 4/3 sensor has a crop factor of 2:1, so when I set to f4, I'm effectively getting a 35mm f8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
oort cloud is just a stand-in for generating enough parallax in the signal from sun. further out you go better it would be. in fact it just occurred to me that you could just launch an emitter perpendicular to galactic plane with enough velocity that it bobbles up and down say 3x over what a normal star would and it would serve as a galactic lighthouse for intelligent civilization.
Any language feature can be misused. But without it things that are easy and useful become hard.
How does it take 2 minutes? I typed "dragon" and it was scheduled to take 12k seconds, or 3.3 hours. Is that normal?
I saw this being explained by the Caves of Qud developer recently and it was quite impressive, as someone who has been working on procedural generation the way it can be used to generate believable dungeons and maps is very neat.
Can't you easily convert point clouds to polygons? If you know the sampling frequency, it's trivial to identify holes/edges/faces and just convert it to a rough polygonal model. Then you can run edge collapses with a desired error to make it smoother.
Is It True “W” Can Be Used as a Vowel?
They would have "agreed" to it in the fine print of a 20 page ToS that they didn't have the time or legal skills to read. Then crony capitalist corruption makes it so that lawmakers don't outlaw it.
The idea of eventually creating a virtual simulation of the human brain, or even human body, modeling environmental variables and all, totally fascinates me. Are there any sources you’d recommend for someone looking to learn more about this?
I'll admit, most of my linux admin experience predates systemd.
Are you asking me personally? Or to respond with a general
philosophical principle?

In either case no.

On the first count, no, because I don't believe in
"non-transferable" tickets for arts and entertainments. The holder
has every right to give or sell their purchased property to family or
friends and "non-transferable" instruments violate that first-sale
right.

On the second point, no, because the singular specific "okay" case
(even the tear-jerking one that saves poor fluffy dying from kitten
cancer) has no bearing on the profound but nebulous harms inflicted on
society by an essentially rotten technology (on a purely Utilitarian
principle)
I don't know what point you are trying to make by simply posting links. Whatever it is, these links don't support your argument - that we can be certain of.
I think you meant 'brute force' but 'brewed' also works for me.
I thought I understood what inalienable meant, but wow was I was off-base. It's been too long since I've studied the ol' Declaration. I'm happy I learned something new, and I'll happily concede my opiates example! Death is indeed an inalienable right, though the manner might not be.

You bring up excellent points regarding my absurd example, but I'm actually not sure I agree there exists a pain severe enough to require the release of death. My example was meant to highlight that such threshold is quite arbitrary. Should we be allowed to kill ourselves over a shattered bone? A breakup? A hangover? A bad test score? Most people survive their encounters even with the gympie-gympie tree. Now, my opinion changes completely if the condition is terminal, but for temporary pain I'm uncertain there's an obvious answer. We haven't even considered that there may be alternatives also able to reduce suffering like painkillers (or, in the context of this thread, mental health treatment).

Another terrible example (can there be any other type on this topic?) is car crash victims. I vividly remember drivers ed, and I expect EMTs are occasionally met with pleas for death while brutally triaging their patient. I also expect a good number go on to have partial or even full recoveries and lead happy productive lives. Should EMTs abide by this wish in that moment? Should the patients prognosis influence this decision? These questions are hard for me even ignoring the affect on others. Should it affect anything if the patient has kids or is pregnant?
Presumably because it's high density and thus higher destructiveness vs detectability?

Although I guess they could also just paint their weapon black.

A different matter how they hide the engine's infrared signature. Perhaps by just not running it when approaching, except for the final course corrections.
"Let all the people who don’t desire greatness leave." - George Hotz Nov 16th 2022
Not really, no. Marketshare is currently split roughly 3% Firefox, 18.7% Safari, 78.3% Chromium variants (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc). If Firefox disappeared almost nothing would change, which is not good. Ideally Firefox's share should at least equal Safari's so developers can't ignore it with impunity, and in a perfect world it'd be split evenly three ways so Google can't steamroll through when Mozilla and Apple disagree with them.
Yeah that was my recollection. I thought putting a company behind it might have changed that but apparently not.
I was going to chime in to parent mentioning a similar feeling when I was on an antidepressant. Life felt deadened and hollow, I couldn't really experience much of anything, I was doing things and having absolutely no emotional response to them whatsoever. The first time I cried, which happened extremely easily, while coming off of them I felt joy for the ability to feel something again, even if it was clearly an overreaction. 'Delicious' is the word I used to describe it.
>Your totally ignore the key element here: a new technology is allowing denying entry at a whole new scale.

What's your opinion about Facebook or Twitter blocking people? I'm pretty sure they block people using computer technologies, and that these technologies let them do it at scale.
This is a beautifully written article. Excellent job!

I have seen some of Inigo Quilez tutorials on this subject [1] but I feel like this is a much better introduction for those of us without too much interest in learning GLSL :-). On the other hand, Quilez's tutorials are amazing and show what can be accomplished with this technique!

1: https://iquilezles.org/live/
Elon Musk states he will resign as CEO
> The CFPB is so good. It's one of a small number of federal agencies that actually has teeth.

Naturally, the GOP has been trying to gut it for years.
It should be life of author or 40 years, whichever comes later.

Corporations and the like get 40 years.
I hear you, I just mean I wouldn’t call that a corpse. It’s clearly providing utility. Similar to OSS over two decades making $0 ARR. I imagine it must’ve been hard to monetize given alternatives.
Fair enough. In js slicing with a negative index would grab from the end of the array, but if the end index is positive it'll return an empty string so it's safe in this case

I think the tradeoff is how much of the API you need to memorize. In JS if you know .filter, .map, and .reduce you're good for 95% of use-cases (technically .reduce can be used to implement every other method, but it can get messy). I also work with Ruby at my job and I constantly find myself wondering if this is the best tool for the situation

This was my first job using Ruby so it's definitely become less of a problem over time and I think if it's your MAIN language then having a fat API like that is fine. But I do think there's a trade-off and it can introduce more spaces for bad practices