skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDM artists work within the limitations that their tools provide. There's a reason that you hear synthesised/sampled pianos all the time in electronic music, but rarely synthesided/sampled guitars: midi sucks at expressing guitars.

There are some really great guitar sample packs out there, I particularly love the Impact Soundworks Shreddage series, but just look at how much they had to mangle MIDI to make it feasible, with NINE (9) sections of the keyboard dedicated to mode switches, and chopping up the velocity space into five different articulation modes, and they still can't model unison bends which are a staple of classic rock guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2h9AmL2BhI

edit: actually after double-checking, they do support unison bends, but it's a special CC parameter that you have to turn up to do the technique and then turn back down when you don't want it anymore, pretty hacky. The point is, you can't use MIDI to actually play these instruments like real guitars live, even though these sample packs can produce realistic guitar sounds, you need to do butt-tons of midi programming in ways that MIDI wasn't intended to be used in order to make it sound mostly right to the point where it's probably easier to just learn to play the instrument than put in the extreme effort of meticulously programming all this faff.
99% sure the reason is push notifications.

Putting on my PM hat, I bet:

- On web, the biggest top of funnel entrypoint for Reddit is Google search

- On mobile, it’s push notifications

The latter is probably the single biggest retention lever Reddit has. The former is an acquisition lever, but probably doesn’t do much for retention.
This misses the point. This question was about whether the Parody exception is valid in this case.

Was the dog toy a joke? Making a joke out of something popular is an allowed exception to trademark.

The ruling seems to say that it wasn't a joke and therefore not covered under the exception.

I get both sides of the argument. A physical product you're selling that has a clear non-parody purpose should have a higher bar to be regarded as parody.

A more difficult example might be a t-shirt with a Google logo on it that has something "funny" about Google written below.
DJB just released today https://lib.mceliece.org/ a good enough implementation, which should become the gold standard.

For others and applications see https://github.com/jonaschn/awesome-he
Oh dear, green wash and downvote, what a time we live in.
that was my sus. thanks for confirming
No, and even the first few comments make it clear Antarctica did not gain ice.

A subarea of Antarctica, where they expected ice to decrease, gained ice. Antarctica as a whole lost ice.

One reason could be that this subarea is an area where ice is lost from, but also an area where ice from Antarctica moves to. So as ice in general melts, some of it also gets relocated to this area.
Definitely not a new firm: http://www.fsf.org/news/a-second-fsf-certified-device-from-t..., https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpenguin.
Chris Lattner replied to a similar question about Mojo as a general purpose language here:

> Mojo is a general purpose language and can be used to replace C use cases like Rust does etc, but that isn't where we're focusing initial development. That doesn't mean we're excluding it, just that the libraries etc aren't the focus for us to build. We hope the community will be interested in filling that in and building out the use cases in time though.

https://github.com/modularml/mojo/discussions/302#discussion...
You're not wrong: reddit probably needs to raise their income, which means monetising their users more.

The biggest issue most vocal users (including many mods and developers of third party apps like Apollo) have, is that the prices are much higher then the expections reddit set beforehand and that everything was only communicated 30 days in advance.

If reddit wanted to keep third party apps, but have them pay for the users use of reddit, they could have implemented a transition plan. Or make it work another way. Or charge a realistic amount (you yourself state reddit's users are low value, but reddits is asking for $20 million per year in missed monetisation just for Apollo's users, which is very high value).

Instead, reddit seems to approach this aggressively, signalling through their actions that they intend to kill off all third party apps. That's what the the subs going dark are protesting against. Especially since reddit's own site and app are of significant lower quality.
Older programmers like you are not old enough. (-:

ASCII had variable numbers of bytes per glyph back in the 1960s, and the Teletype Model 37 semantics of combining-backspace and combining-underscore still exist in modern operating systems, like the various BSDs and Linux-based ones, to this day. It's a combining-characters multibyte encoding understood by programs from less(1) through ul(1) to nroff(1).

ASCII had multiple transfer encodings, from 8N1 to 7E2, many of which were neither 7-bit nor 8-bit; and 1 byte of RAM was not 1 ASCII character. 1 byte of RAM not being 1 ASCII character is, after all, what brought about "extended ASCII".

Along with that came ECMA-35, with its GR and GL, and code pages. All of those broke theretofore held truths such as that one could just strip the parity bit, actually introduced the false idea (that many people had to keep correcting) that ASCII was 8-bit, and required a full-blown state machine for parsing ECMA-35 escape sequences.

Then there are the tales that old programmers can tell about how they couldn't actually deal in English because ASCII didn't have a pound symbol, and what was "English" was actually American (which was, after all, the "A" in "ASCII").

There is a whole generation of older programmers who laugh hollowly at the idea of "the simplicity of ASCII"; when the amount of time that they spent fiddling with serial protocol settings, transcoding between code pages, handling language variant characters in Teletext, wondering why an 8-bit-clean transport protocol such as TCP didn't mean that SMTP could be 8-bit clean, and doing other such stuff, probably came to years in total spent on all of this "simplicity".
> Well, we've got a model with physical buttons now alongside multi-touch support so you can get the best of both worlds. At least in terms of functionality and usability.

A third mouse button like we had back in the late 1980s would be a nice improvement over a simple two-button design.
Well if you don't fix the problem of "it's too dystopian to even think about having children", sure
To continue this line of thinking: for documents to be useful in helping a customer solve a problem the documents must answer the question 'why would I want to do X.'

A complete reference of how to do A, ..., X, Y, and Z but lacking conceptual context could actually be detrimental to a customer's productivity and the ultimate success of your product.

Providing accessible conceptual guidance can be very challenging depending on the domain.
> vast majority

> Of those who are active, most just comment

You don't need the 'vast majority' or 'most'. You just need a few.

> It's a vanishingly small group who actually want to moderate

Not really, more people thank you seem to think are desperate for any sort of internet power.
Perhaps there won't be a consensus.

The internet may be ubiquitous now, but its mainstream adoption is barely 2 decades old. Countries are slow to adapt.

I think it will be natural that eventually they will try to wrest control, at least within their own jurisdictions.

Maybe the age of a more open and global internet will end, and balkanization is inevitable.
> In general [..]

...but apparently not always. Not something I'd want to bet my business or reputation on.

"AUSTRIA’s Federal Administrative Court [..] declared a framework contract from Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) to Stadler for the delivery of up to 186 double-deck trains to be null and void due to an alleged formal error in the qualified electronic signature of the offer."
(September 2021)

https://www.railjournal.com/news/austrian-court-annuls-stadl...
> which means that you are drawing on your own experience and the experience of the people immediately around you...

This would also explain why there seems to be so many more personal essays or first-person reactions [0] to news these days. I don't think it's necessarily the style that _readers_ prefer, but instead the style that writers feel most comfortable with. Not to say there's not a place for this kind of writing, but it seems to have been increasingly prevalent within the past decade.

Interestingly, similar to the answer above, this doesn't seem to be the case for local news. I'll often check in on my hometown's newspaper to see what's going on, or "travel" through local small town news in other locales, and the writing is very much your classical Five W's type of reporting. (Other than the occasional "Andy Rooney"-type corner, but not within the news itself.)

[0] Including in the NYT (personal essays), but also very prevalent in tech news, like The Verge.
If it's "faster than C" you know the author never saw anything but JavaScript and maybe Python.
I think the main point the parent comment is making is that, today and historically, the great majority of contract disputes today don't involve disputing (analog or digital) signatures. People usually dispute about all the other terms rather that about the act of having signed it. [Even though analog signatures aren't particularly secure either]

However, if Microsoft signatures have now became more forgeable at scale, perhaps we could see some rash of fake contract fraud in the future where disputing fact of signature becomes more common.
In the Authenticode spec, there is an unauthenticatedAttrbutes structure, the contents of which does not affect the resulting signature.

Dropbox’s installer used it a while ago (maybe still, haven’t checked): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8204454
Bit more than two dozen I'd say.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/10/1158344050/florida-far-right-...

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2022/01/31/nazi-protest...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/01/ron-desantis...

https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/florida-neo-nazi-who-became-mu...

https://hyperallergic.com/785647/alt-right-protesters-brandi...

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2023/04/25/antisemit...
> Isn't it all XML based?

That doesn't help much when the XML format consists of elements like "footnoteLayoutLikeWW8" which "specifies that applications shall emulate the behavior of a previously existing word processing application (Microsoft Word 6.x/95/97)" [1]. I think this kind of thing is what the parent comment was referring to.

[1] https://www.consortiuminfo.org/opendocument-and-ooxml/the-co...
MOVEit hack: Ofcom data downloaded in cyber-attack (UK)
Let's agree on 'fossil fuel problem' and shake on it.
I do not have this impression. As for managing lifetimes in modern C++ I've already stated elsewhere that from my personal experience this problem practically does not not exist for application level programming. People writing OS level code will of course disagree but luckily I am not in that domain. I do write code for low power microcontrollers but I use plain C and do not have any real problems as there are no allocations / freeing. Just be careful with interrupts when handling shared data.
Completely agree, yet I'm hopeful the death of reddit might spawn better less controllable alternatives.
Cities: Skylines II [video]
Do a masters in the US
Sure a lot of stuff is high status crap (like the LV weekender bag that was torn apart here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EktumN7N5l8).

But your comparisons don't factor in total cost of ownership and usage, and in fact many quality brands you do pay up for quality and better cost of ownership.

I can wear crocs at home. I would look disrespectful wearing them to a funeral. I can wear Alden anywhere though I might be overdressed for many occassions.

Aldens can be resoled and repaired and can last decades, the cost-per-wear can be very low. And many models of Aldens can be sold for a pretty penny (as an example these https://www.ebay.com/itm/394665864763 still go for nearly $300 even after years of wear). So if you bought Aldens new for $500 and wore for a decade and sold for $300 your cost per wear would be lower than that of the crocs. You would also be doing better for the environment by reusing the clothing and requiring less total material for your feet over a lifetime.

This also applies to a very few select watchmakers (and in fact increase in value). A Rolex or Patek Philippe has essentially beat inflation and would be considered a smart investment that made you money even while you wear it. A G-Shock would not offer similar returns.

Actually a lot of quality clothing can be like this. I thrifted a Tom Ford shirt for $40, wore it for a decade to weddings and funerals, and then sold it for $150. Certain makers are heavily discounted on second hand but retain their value. Borrelli shirts are some of the best on the planet. Would I pay retail? No. But you can buy them, wear them, and sell them second hand and pay virtually 0 to wear them over time.

Furniture is one where I've yet to find cheaper furniture paying off. A lot of particleboard furniture is awful. And it's all over Wayfair. The stuff I've had passed down or that I've bought that's lasted decades are all from North Carolina furniture makers. Not all of that stuff is expensive or high status but it is well made.

Expensive things are not always bad. Oftentimes the price is not justified. But it's not exclusive.
> You can explain one of the many reasons why gain of function research is necessary: anticipating next year’s version of the flu, designing drugs and vaccines such that resistance mutations reduce evolutionary fitness.

None of these require gain of function research.

> You can explain some of the safeguards in place: BSL 3/4 facilities, regulatory / institutional oversight, security services, etc.

All of these have a long history of failures [1,2]. And those are just the acknowledged, some have actually been covered up [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

[2] https://www.amazon.ca/Pandoras-Gamble-Leaks-Pandemics-World/...

[3] https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2023-04-25/d...
You can with paid Colab. You just can't on the free tier.
Airbnb: “Permission to Build”
> For major militaries, there's no point in using them, which is why the "big" military powers have all signed up to the anti-chemical weapons and anti-biological weapons treaties

If chemical and biological weapons aren't useful, why does one need a treaty to ban them? Makes one wonder? Is there are treaty to ban feathers as weapons? The fact that there is an anti-biological weapons treaty is proof enough that countries are working on biological weapons, just like the anti-nuclear weapons treaty is proof that countries are working on nukes.

The ability to think is a far greater tool than reading silly blogs. Take it from someone who has read too many silly blogs and watch too many silly youtube videos.

Also, pretty much every treaty ( international and intranational ) has been broken. Some even say treaties are meant or created to be broken.
The climate change is not equally distributed. Antractica is getting colder. However, the earth, on average, is getting hotter. This means that places that are getting hotter, are getting hotter more than the average. (since some places are not changing or getting colder).
Ask HN: What personal knowledge base do you use?
I'm looking for a (ideally Foss and self hostable) personal knowledge base. Ideally to both gather my own thoughts, but also to archive articles, websites etc.

Any recommendations?
Radio NZ initiates audit after publishing articles with pro-Russian narratives
How is a dog toy a parody of Jack Daniels? What is the content of the speech/commentary?

If you look at the actual toy, it's just an exact replica of a Jack Daniels bottle with a few words changed. It doesn't make fun of Jack Daniels or drinking culture or anything at all.
EIDAS isn't worth the paper (pun intended) it is written on, if insecure "click a link in an email"-signature schemes such as https://help.eversign.com/hc/en-us/articles/6664408666013-Is... can claim compliance...
Oppositions to lockdowns were never about whether they would reduce deaths or not in the short term. Anyone with a brain could understand that if people weren't in a position to breath on each other, the virus wouldnt spread as quickly.

Oppositions to lockdowns were always about tradeoffs and whether they were worth it. Its just such a boring critique.

My main question still remains, what would your plan have been if we still didnt have a vaccine? From my perspective lockdown supporters got completely bailed out by one of the greatest medical/scientific achievements in human history (developing and deploying an extremely effective vaccine within 1 year).

The only thing lockdowns do is push cases into the future.
They kinda do, because in a global market there tends to be a single global market leader. There aren't a hundred different per-country Spotify (a Swedish company!) clones, for example.
You’re on target.

sama on this:

“want to be stressed, watch some GPUs melt, and have a fun time? good at doing impossible things?

send evidence of exceptional ability to chatgpt-eng@openai.com” [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1630724485828714497?lang=en
Calculus rules everything around me
They actually changed it now.... but some time ago I wanted to have the approximate numeric value of the frequency of green light (unusual metric, I admit, nm => Hz). Googles suggestion told me it would be 55 - 1014Hz. The quick answer sourced some document but couldn't correctly parse the notation. The answer was 5.5 * 10^14 Hz...

Now it seems it get you some more correct answers, which are also presented in a different format. But I would guess that similar AI generated answers will be subject to similar mistakes and it gets worse if you deviate from English terms too.
Yes. HTML is not great and when you have to fuck with CSS to it becomes distracting. Just put the effort once into making template I want then just write markdown.
> I do believe that there are many people who would like to learn how to use a firearms [...] and get military skills in courses that span over multiple weekends.

The people that this makes me think of the most are also the ones that I least want to be given military training.
"read scripts before you run them" is a good bit of advice. Some little things can help you protect your GUI apps if you're extra paranoid (eg. Wayland is more secure, Flatpak offers additional sandboxing with bubblewrap) but not everything is necessary.

If you use a mainstream distro like Fedora or Ubuntu, its default configuration should be safe enough to use like Windows. Just remember that there isn't really any antivirus or Microsoft Defender to save you if you really mess up. I do offline backups of important work on all my devices, for this reason partially.
There never was an equilibrium.
First it asks for cookies, then it throws up a paywall.
Well, there were two points about that on this case. The first was that JD hired an expert to do a blind study on whether there would be potential confusion (and that's what you have to show, potential not necessarily actual) and found that, despite what one might think, it showed there could indeed be confusion.

But also, even if you were able to show the expert's study design was badly done and/or biased, there is another prong to trademark and that is dilution. When the brand is as famous as JD, they can argue that another company copying them is causing harm to their brand's reputation. Considering this dog toy product compared JD to dog shit, the court ruled that there definitely was dilution.

The last part is if the parody is directly related to the commercial aspect of the product. The defendant in this case admittedly used the parody brand as a trademark for themselves, and so the courts found it was indeed directly related to the business aspect.
You are correct; however, in the case of some of the biggest apps (Reddit's official app among them), they use the old WKWebView specifically for the ability to inject code. The more user-centric third-party apps that Twitter/Reddit have targeted lately used SFSafariViewController.
This is a weird topic to me, because I'm unsure if I live in a different bubble, or we're all just kind of playing the euphemism game (with a bit of self censorship on top) or what. Because what happened is hardly ambiguous. One thing, more than any, that the Twitter files provided evidence of was various governmental organizations, and individuals, pressuring at least one large tech company to censor for often arbitrary, and sometimes overtly fake, reasons. I think the chances of that behavior being limited to Twitter, or even tech companies in general, are zero.

The tech companies are obviously, at the minimum, complicit. Because "pressure" is just that - pressure. When the 'Russian trolls' narrative was being built up in Congress, Twitter knew it was entirely fabricated, and even referred to the requests as coming from "Congressional Trolls", and then they gave those said trolls nearly everything they wanted, and remained absolutely silent about what was happening. That strongly reflects upon the character, or lack thereof, of former Twitter leadership - but the source is the government.

The large scale centralization of speech has created an angle shoot of the 1st amendment. Pressure a handful of companies into censoring whatever you want censored and you likely achieve even more than a law would have, since you end up censoring it on a far larger scale than just domestically. Expecting politicians of a country to actually care about the intent of the constitution of that country is clearly no longer a reasonable expectation to have.
Some kind of political statement against the EU and UK? WTF indeed.
To me “boycott breaker” is a much more self-important framing than this deserves. It’s framing it with picket line crossers or scabs. Happy to boycott, protest, and use my resources for things that are acutely important to humanity: human rights issues, unionization and pay issues, environmental issues, among others — and I have done so, including physically standing in solidarity. Third-party API access to a private company doesn’t merit a blip on the radar in my opinion.

However while I’m not happy about the access being shut down, nor am I happy that Apollo dev took his ball and went home, I am fully supportive in spirit of the unintended consequences. Notably: lots more diversity on the front page (meaning less reporting dreck from the same oversized subreddits over and over), and maybe even a clamp down on the self-perceived sway of mods, a position that tends to attract the worst, most power-hungry people, and their “moderating” of literally hundreds of subreddits simultaneously.

My guess is that, as I’ve previously posted, this will go something like the last boycott of the chat feature. Main subreddits will shutter, new subreddits with similar names will pop up to fill the void with identical content. In any case, Reddit is under the VC gun at this point and I doubt they have a choice here, in my experience with large VC-backed companies.
I guess the cost of cutting them off cold turkey would be the backlash from the community.
There is a strong contradiction between those sentences, because feelings aren't useful or useless. They just are. You are calling them useless, but that doesn't make them useless.

You can say that feelings are useless in reaching a specific goal, but that is not what you initially said.
Ha, significantly more complex than I realised. Thanks for the collection of links, very interesting reading.
I have to apologize here. Not sure what was with my brain at the moment but I've misunderstood your entire original reply.
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