skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t drink much anymore these days but I absolutely noticed this when they bought Goose Island a long time ago. The flavor changed overnight. They can’t just buy everyone to quell indie beer geekdom once and for all but they sure continue to act like corporate bullies all the same.
There's also Cardinal, which is essentially VCV Rack but provides free and open source plugins.

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal
I agree that GPS makes finding where you are easier but it's a fallacy to pretend maps are hard to use. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature should be able to locate themselves on a map. It's only when you become so oblivious to your surroundings because you only know how ot listen to the GPS that this seems difficult...
Only if you're religious about it - something I know many in the HN crowd are!

Jokes aside, this is one of the reasons we plan to add top notch support for both reader mode and clients that browse without JS enabled.
It looks cool. You'll forgive me for not trying every example. However,

1. It doesn't seem to work in Microsoft Edge when the default Enhanced Security is turned on. You might need to ask people to turn that off. I'm not sure about a workaround. It panics with insufficient stack space.

2. How does it pay its own bills? If you get bored with it, what will happen to it? I'm sure Codecademy has a revenue strategy.

Just curious!
The garden burger was fine. The new wave of vegetarian meats was always meant to be a low cost substitute for the real deal, for the growing class of plebs. That’s why they stuck it next to the real meat section.
Yes, I think this is part of it. I’ve certainly forgotten to get the flu vaccine in the past.

Having vaccination programs in workplaces and other places people visit often can probably help with that. Pharmacies have begun to offer flu vaccines in the past 10 years or so, which is great. Making all vaccines free to the recipient would also make the choice simpler.
It’s because they’ve all grown up with great digital cameras that take a good neutral photo. To get any sort of interesting film effects they’ve had to apply filters after the fact. These 2000s point and shoots take photos that look like a “retro” filter but straight out of the camera so it’s somehow more authentic. Also it’s a entire piece of hardware dedicated to this one seemingly simple task, which is endearing. But it’s also digital so it’s familiar. It’s from 20 years ago which means it’s something their parents probably used, so it’s personally relevant nostalgia too.
Having something and failing to act on it is even worse than not having the thing. It means you're paralyzed and calls into question your ability to act on anything at all.
This effect used to be the bane of my ADHD-addled existence until I found these: https://www.myaquanotes.com/. I buy them in 5 packs now.
This is what happens when HN can’t complain about the contrast.
In the US, it almost certainly consensus standards for in cab controls incorporated into building and fire codes by reference because elevators are important in fire fighting operations.
I think parent poster's intent is that you like... do all of that stuff, except then skip HR and the leetcode shuffle.

And then presumably you... I don't know, show up outside of the CTO's house one morning? Or something? Email them directly and hope a spam filter doesn't block you? Hire a skywriter? And ask for a job?

The "you just have to network! don't be a sheeple!" folks are always vague on that part.

I have gotten jobs through networking. Most of them! It happens! It's just sort of unrealistic and glib to assume it always is possible.
The value section is great, code is worthless unless it DOES something.

I especially appreciate the aesthetic section as i constantly struggle to explain that concept to people on a line by line basis
Shit take, a burger is perfectly healthy.
The whole point of bringing up saline solutions was to point out that what you're describing is already illegal even for much less serious offenses. I'm not a lawyer so don't know what all crimes would be involved with injecting drugs into someone against their will but I'm willing to bet money it is breaking several.

As for illegal drug sales persisting despite legalization, how many people are still buying illegal moonshine? It does exist, I've seen it, but it's not nearly the problem it was during prohibition.
You will survive the flu until you don’t. In my early 30’s I got deathly ill from the flu. Not an expression: I was delirious with a 104 fever for 4 days that would not go down even with medication, and probably should have been hospitalized. I’m lucky there was no long term effects.

I always get my flu shot now.
I like how they were too modest to post the developer's comment in the bug:

> "Also, this is a fantastic bug report. I don't know if I've ever seen a bug report this detailed before."

Little things like that restore faith in humanity.
Of all the banal turns of phrase to be offended by...
Where’s the Best Place to Build a Casino in New York City?
Sometimes you just need a burger-like product to take to the company BBQ so that Todd from accounting will shut the fuck up for once about how vegetarian food is all "rabbit food".

Sometimes you want to make one of the many dishes you grew up with, but you want to live consistently with your ethics, so you want a simple replacement.

Sometimes you want something that freezes easily so that when you've had a long and stressful day you have something quick and easy to reach for.

Most meat-eaters don't make hamburgers a "major part of their diet" -- and most vegetarians/vegans don't make veggie burgers a "major part" of theirs either. But as an occasional thing, it's very useful to have these meat substitutes, for a variety of reasons. You don't have to eat them for every meal in order to find them useful.
That’s what I thought too, until a friend sent me the paper “Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination” published a few weeks ago:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

From what I can understand, it seems mRNA vaccines can cause a non-inflammatory response to actual infection that prolongs the disease. I’m supportive of vaccination, but that doesn’t mean side effects can’t happen especially with new technology.
Here's the synthesizer:

https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2016/03/02/the-lawrence-p...
JS-free archive link:

https://archive.today/3NW7q
When I saw the title I thought at first it was about police and legal work in Canada or Alaska. It’s actually about warming and the spread of disease in the Arctic, and I thought it was fascinating. Here are a few excerpts in case anybody is on the fence about reading it:

When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska-be it a sea otter, polar bear, or humpback whale-veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call. Her necropsies reveal cause of death and causes for concern as climate change frees up new pathogens and other dangers in a vast, thawing north.

Burek often spends her days cutting up the wildest, largest, smallest, most charismatic, and most ferocious creatures in Alaska, looking for what killed them. She’s been on the job for more than 20 years, self-employed and working with just about every organization that oversees wildlife in Alaska. Until recently, she was the only board-certified anatomic pathologist in a state that’s more than twice the size of Texas. (There’s now one other, at the University of Alaska.) She’s still the only one who regularly heads into the field with her flensing knives and vials, harvesting samples that she’ll later squint at under a microscope.

A lot of research worldwide has focused on how climate change will increase disease transmission in tropical and even temperate climates, as with dengue fever in the American South. Far less attention has been paid to what will happen-indeed, is already happening-in the world’s highest latitudes, and to the people who live there. Put another way: The north isn’t just warming. It has a fever.

This matters to you and me even if we live thousands of miles away, because what happens in the north won’t stay there. Birds migrate. Disease spreads. The changes in Alaska are harbingers for what humans and animals may see elsewhere. It’s the front line in climate change’s transformation of the planet.

Addressing a visitor to a necropsy who found the experience challenging: “The only shame is if you pass out where we can’t find you.”
What is objective in this case? The CDC records the statistics for adverse affects, vaccine effectiveness, etc., but they also have a financial and political incentive for these stats to look good. If you use their numbers for objectivity, it's already inherently subjective based on the way they record metrics, and the metrics they focused on. I saw this very plainly with Covid case metrics.
RC505 is definitely the gold standard for standalone desktop looping (5 tracks) that are suitable for hand operation. The 202 is just a less expensive 2 track.

There are other hardware options, like Aeros loop studio or even things like Akai MPC One, for example, but these get more complex than just a simple looper.

There are basic looper pedals but I suspect most people want something like an RC202 or RC505 for basic but multitrack simple live looping.
Regarding the left becoming “less liberal”, I think it really became “more international.”

The left realized that most liberal democracies have laws against hate speech, technocratic power centers, extensive regulation, etc.

If Germany can outlaw hate speech, fringe political movements, and private ownership of firearms, why can’t we?

Notice how the Democrats focus on healthcare, even when it hurts them (they were killed at the polls over Obamacare in 2010). If every other country has state guaranteed affordable healthcare, why can’t we?
You touch on one of the key problems here. "Not showing the current UI". Allowing cars to follow the same ui refresh cycle as cell phones undermines the predictability of operating the vehicle.

There has to be a balance between the "always new" and "never updated" approaches here.
Wow. Thanks :)
Nothing like a purely anecdotal argument involving people all genetically related!

I’m aggregate, vegetarians are more likely to be iron deficient: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367879/#abstra...
Disclaimer: I work at AWS in ProServe all opinions are my own.

What I wouldn’t do if starting my own business unless I already knew AWS is use AWS or any other cloud provider except for using a simple VPS solution like Linode or AWS LightSail (a fixed cost VM).

I know the ins an outs of AWS well. But if I were doing a side project that wasn’t completely serverless - Lambda + DynamoDB + API Gateway[1], I would use Lightsail or another simple VPS solution and create a simple monolithic app using a framework I knew well.

[1] let me emphasize again that I’m not suggesting serverless unless you know it and I’m definitely not suggesting DDB unless you both know it’s limitations and have very well defined query patterns.
> If you want to stand out in your career - take this to heart. Code is not the goal. Money is the goal, code is a tool to get the money. You work in a capitalistic business, whether you like it or not.

On the flipside, you can be like me and be "meh" about business value (or at least, not a maximalist about it) and treat code as the point and fun/art/etc (easy to do with an FP language, for example). You'll still deliver value and even squeak in some fancy code that isn't the best business value.

The result? Over the years, your employer(s) effectively subsidize your code-for-fun's-sake using the money they make from business value others focus so much on :)
We have such interrogations for our data strategy, at work. Can you drop me a message for further discussion? (@Datao on Twitter, or datao@datao.net)
The point is that the consumers who are purchasing vegetarian meats are probably either:

1. Already vegetarian and the vegetarian meat isn't replacing foods with those nutrients because the rest of their diet already covers it

2. Omnivores looking to remove some meat from their diets, who are still getting iron and zinc from the meat that they do consume

For a variety of reasons, essentially nobody is finding themselves subsisting on a diet where vegetarian meats replace their only (or primary) sources of iron and zinc.
Something I don’t understand:

Patagonia's stated mission is to save the earth and microplastics entering the oceans is a major environmental concern. However, it is also true that many of Patagonia's clothes are made from synthetic materials such as plastic. The use of synthetic materials in clothing (and each washing) greatly contribute to the problem of microplastics in the oceans.

I’m I missing something? Is the above wrong? Or is Patagonia lying about their mission driven approach?
The discord thread linked has that and a ton of other things tried as well such as fractional scaling on gpus, disabling game features, sdl1.2compat which is newer sdl backported etc.
I use both pretty much interchangeably every single day since my Mac mini is my TV computer and I use that for pretty much everything and my Windows computer is my main desktop.

What parts of the Mac OS operating system do you take advantage of? Are you all in on using all the workspaces or whatever they're called and the fancy app switching?

I would really just suggest going head on into just using Windows 11 or whatever version of Windows that you have to use for work and learning to become adaptable because while you can customize things and add programs to make things more mac like you are just going further away from the norm and the default way of using the operating system and the further you go away from that the less you are actually adapting to the operating system and the more you are actually making it harder for yourself in the long term if you have to use a standardized workstation.
Sounds like a problem with your phone’s GPS system not updating quickly enough.

Alternately, if this is a very urban area with lots of skyscrapers GPS may wander significantly as the signals bounce around the buildings.
I remember having to support IE versions 6-11 with a couple of sites I worked on and wondering why Microsoft wouldn't just port the technically superior Tasman engine used for IE for Mac to Windows… it was so much better than Trident at handling CSS and could do things that Trident couldn't until a decade later like properly render transparent PNGs without hacks.

And yeah, Safari has posed far less of an issue for me than IE did.
https://archive.ph/BnNtB
How would the judge’s order update the website?
2.5X per unit weight… so the get the amount of iron in a 1/4 cheeseburger you’d need to eat 0.5-1 pounds of spinach. Possible, but hard.
Hot take, no explanations:

- Planets are sentient

- Alien Robots outlive Aliens

- Photon life makes more sense

- Carbon based life is fragile
Lol, very scientific source there. Some guy claims he got sick in the nineties, as reported by a source already slanted against meat consumption.
I thought the article was written in a very humble manner. The lessons shared were honest and heartfelt.

I spent my life in corporate. Lesson 6 (Planning is often the highest leverage work) touched something inside me. In a large corp, I have complained how slow we move, how things are planned to a ridiculous level, how there are people whose job it is to just to this function (or something related like strategy). It is interesting to see a start-up that follows the hacker ethos, but then gets in trouble due to lack of such functions.
There is also an iOS app called Loopy HD which is pretty simple and cheap, if you have the Apple audio input adapter cable.
I wrote a few CGI applications for Schotton’s MacHTTP and the WebStar server on MacOS 7. Back before the days of OpenTransport!

Yes, I’m old.
Most vegetarians (as in, more do than don't) have some kind of meaningful nutritional deficiency.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367879/
From to 2 to 17 by the looks of things. And it's a separate nasal spray vaccine.
In my case, I had actual flue exactly once in my life. It was super unpleasant, but no big deal and ended in exactly one week.

I got flu shot three times and got sick with (not flu ordinary sickness) right after three times and it took two weeks to feel good after. I guess the issue is that I am rarely entirely healthy during cold season and flu shot pushes me over the line. Not really work it.

I would take it if I had reason to - like a relative with super weak immune system or had to go to hospital whatever. But other then that, it is not worth it.
I still have a bunch of homebrew cybiko games on a drive somewhere. I was in 7th grade when I got a cybiko and it blew my mind. Make your own games, wireless instant messaging, wireless internet. Is there any modern equivalent?
looks cool

tried the code playground, but seems there is no intellisense?

i think that would be very useful to learning
If an idea has a "license", then it is not free. It is not libre. #LicensesAreForLosers

Being for licenses, no matter how permissive, is being in support of the idea of Intellectual Slavery. Public domain or it's not 100% free.

Hopefully in the future we'll pass a Constitutional Amendment, and end Intellectual Slavery as we did its superset
https://breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendment.h...
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The weird thing to me about this canary document and others like it is that they cover all warrants, not just NSLs.

Warrant canaries were a reaction to the NSL process, which is invariably (and, I guess, permanently?) gagged, and was seen as exceptional and in some sense extra-judicial. It would be newsworthy for a service to be NSL'd, and further evidence of dragnet surveillance programs sweeping up Americans.

Ordinary search warrants and disclosure demands occur, presumably, all the time; they're issued by courts in individual felony cases, such as for drug conspiracies, child pornography, and white collar criminal conspiracies. Serious crime happens all the time; it's not really all that newsworthy for a warrant to issue in, like, an insider trading case.

So, what does it tell us if this particular canary document was taken down? Perhaps the DOJ is working with the intelligence community to dragnet the service, or establish a durable norm of being able to transactionally extract records that will amount to the same thing as a dragnet. Or, maybe, just some random state court judge in Oklahoma decided it was likely that somebody's meth distribution business kept records in that service. One of those is interesting, the other not.

Why not just have more than one canary if you're going to do it this way?

It's been this way for a long time, and I'm just now having this thought, so it's equally likely that my take here is just faulty; if so, let me know.
Land value tax fixes this.
> trying to do anything live with a DAW is next to impossible due to latency issues.

It takes a little effort (and sometimes money), but you can definitely get latency low enough to be able to use the DAW live. Consider that almost every electronic artist playing music on stage today is using Ableton Live.

The basic components are:

1. Make sure your OS's drivers aren't introducing too much latency. I hear horror stories about the default audio drivers on Windows but as a Mac user I've never had to worry about this.

2. Make the buffer size small in your DAW. DAWs process audio a block of samples at a time because it's much kinder to the CPU's cache and gives you better overall throughput. But chunking obviously adds latency because you don't hear a single sample from the buffer until the entire buffer is done. Controlling the buffer size lets you make the latency/performance trade-off wherever you want.

At a 48k sample rate, each sample is ~0.02 milliseconds long. So a buffer size of 1,024 adds 21ms of latency, which is low enough for doing things like tweaking effects and arranging live, but high enough that you will definitely notice it if you're playing individual notes on an instrument. Dropping the buffer size down to 128 gets you down to ~2.6ms of latency, which is essentially unnoticeable.

3. Make sure your audio interface doesn't introduce too much latency. You can find sites that measure this precisely. My experience on my Mac is that even my cheap Focusrite audio interface is low enough to work fine. If you really get into this, you can spend extra money and get interfaces with lower latency.
Apple TV tactile remote that ships with it, vs the simulated one you can use on an iPhone.

One requires no looking, one totally requires it.

I hope for tactile screens in the future, something I tried designing into a hardware prototype over 10 years ago for an Android phablet prototype to be used in scenarios to enable not looking at the touchscreen. I’m honestly still amazed tactile affordances in some way haven’t made it to the mass market yet.
Seconded, good advice although, some may prefer to go to at least an RC202 to have two tracks. But simplest is one track, RC1 for sure.
It really seems like machine learning is moving us into Nutri-matic territory. Avoid: big tech drink machine.
I would say because Tesla is doing something similar to this (well, not the ditching, but the bad part that comes before the eventual ditching) and basically what the study found:

Navy ditches touchscreens for knobs and dials after fatal crash

https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/11/navy-ditches-touchscreens-...
`ce` if you have fugitive
And maybe bans on doing other work outside of work hours?

If all three of those get axed there should be a noticeable improvement in overall productivity.
My argument was that in absolute terms, the 1% already pays ~100x more than the median tax payer, which seems pretty close to stating that the median tax payer reaps the benefits of modern civilization essentially for free.

Regarding inequality, this can't be the metric for taxation policy. Would you rather the 1% pay all taxes but inequality be 100x worse ? Are you optimizing for a better standard of living for the median, or for imposing the psychotherapeutic sentiment of "if I can't make that much money, nobody should" ?

Capitalism has been around for a long time. The argument of "whatever they’re paying, it’s not enough [..]" has already been played out. In the 70s UK, investment income was taxed at a rate of 98% (after an inflation-adjusted income of 221k). It didn't work.

Thatcher had famously summarized the inequality argument here: [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/pdR7WW3XR9c
A diesel locomotive has my ideal user interface[1].
(a) For non critical operations, it has smart displays similar to an airplane cockpits. Physical function keys perform different things depending on the screen the smart display is presenting.
(b) For critical operations, physical switches and levers are clearly labelled to show what they do,.

I would say the best UI is one where you can talk someone through an emergency over the phone. e.g., "Mayday. Help. The locomotive engineer just passed out and I don't know how to stop this thing." "Are you sitting on the right seat? The operator's seat? Look to your left, you will see two blue levers marked throttle and dynamic braking etc."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ0yIZgQeE&list=LL&index=14... (skip to the 20 minute mark)
I understand your point, but that’s not a specific ritual.

Sacramental wine is created for a specific ritual, houses of warship are made for many rituals but it’s easy to pick one of them as an example. But you can’t point to a specific example here because that’s not what it was built for.

To be clear people have weddings for example at all kinds of interesting buildings, but only some of them where built for that reason. This might seem trivial but it is a meaningful distinction otherwise essentially anything interesting becomes a ritual object.