skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I switched to vMix as my primary video mixing software and won't look back until OBS has significantly better audio management. vMix literally got $700 out of me because it integrated a good, ASIO-capable mixer into it.

Fair enough but audio is a completely different animal that can be tamed in a number of ways:

1. You can buy a hardware USB audio interface + mixer for ~$200-400ish total which can do compression, basic EQs, noise gate, has multiple inputs, etc. and now that becomes your final source of audio so you don't need to process it with software. It's just a mic from your computer's point of view.

2. OBS has VST plugin support, so you can directly use hundreds of free VSTs to do various effects in real time without needing to mess around with audio redirection. No hardware needed except for your mic.

3. You can use REAPER (free but you should register it, sort of like Sublime Text) which is a DAW. From here you can use various VSTs and then use Jack (or comparable software) to redirect REAPER's output as input to another app (such as OBS). This takes a bit of initial set up but technically would work with any app, not just OBS and this is what I used to do before going with #1 because I didn't want to run all of these apps every time I wanted to start recording.

In the end, you can get fantastic sounding audio with any of the above approaches and with #1 and #3 you can do it with any application where as with #2 you're limited to OBS only (which isn't a bad thing if you spend your time streaming and primarily recording with it anyways).
> Is this one of those things that has mostly disturbing illegal content, drugs, and fringe political stuff on it?

The audience for early tech, mostly captured in a sentence. Don't forget the military though. :-)
> The place with the biggest pool of programmers and pms and designers?

Why do we have regular discussions on how hard hiring in SV is, then?
Open Distro for Elasticsearch (By AWS)
As mentioned down in this thread, the key-val would be bytes-bytes or string-bytes. While this is more expensive in terms of CPU, it has the advantage that the size of elements in the cache are carefully understood and do not need the cost of GC sweeps.

When de-serialized, in-memory structs take up more memory on heap and it gets hard to compute that -- we've tried that in vain in the past.

Having said that, there's still a general need to store pointers as values and that's something we'll look at once this byte-based implementation is ready.
I bet I watched the same documentary, and I was overjoyed when China banned imports. The US and most western countries have spent a ton of money upgrading garbage dumps to have moisture barriers, large fences, and other containment features, and the plastic is much safer there than in the oceans.
I'm also looking for sources... and finding none that justify harassing journalists like this.

I had this vague recollection of "learn to code" being spouted by different publications. But the more I look into it, the more I think we're just mis-remembering news stories from the time.

All I'm finding are articles about Rusty Justice. That's not a journalist telling miners to code. At least not directly. Maybe that's the implicit message. But I think that's reading into it too much. It's a human interest story, not a prescription.

I think a lot of people are angry at the media, and looking for anything to validate that anger. There's no shortage of media scandals you could point to. But in this specific case, I'm not seeing evidence. Maybe journalists deserve more credit.
I feel a lot like the author. Computers used to hold promises. But both because understanding of society complexity and aging I have a lot less value in them.

At first I thought, maybe I just need to make people use of computers happier, but the average person doesn't care, they mostly fear computers and don't want to learn but mostly have a vaguely workable tool to fill taxes or get mail. While I'm at it, take a step back and see how much negativity is around computers... privacy, encryption, it's insane.

Nowadays I'm much more interested in setting repair fablabs and planting trees to make both landscape and people happier in simpler ways.

My interests in computing have shifted a bit, I mostly care about very broad abstractions (say graph orderings and commutations or partial evaluation).
... you just need heroku.

I remember chatting with someone intimately familiar with k8s and docker. We were talking about an app I was working on which deployed to heroku. He asked how many dynos and I told him (it was under 10) and he said: "yup, you'll not need k8s".

10 dynos and a big database can serve an awful lot of users.
"You are a product of your environment" --Clement Stone

https://news.osu.edu/intrinsic-motivation-doesnt-exist-resea...

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_corte...
Gallery of Processor Cache Effects (2010)
You can remount the root filesystem elsewhere, but not unmount it while it is still the rootfs. Your suggestion would work but it involves restarting nearly everything and having another partition with enough space to copy everything into. It can be done but is pretty hard in general, so gparted just doesn't support it. If you really want/need to do it, you can do so. Otherwise just use a livecd and make your life easier :)
No plans to cut off from the internet? This was in the news a few days ago:

"Russia plans to test a kill switch that disconnects the country from the internet"
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/russia-internet-turn-off-d...
Slight digression: how many thinks that there's also a strong "burnout" trend across the whole job surface ? health, teachers, programmers ..
China doesn't value the average person's life. But as you can see in the Huawei case, they seem to value some lives very highly. I suspect that the people flying are multiple times more valued by the Chinese government than normal citizens.
Like most Medium articles it consists of about 90% general ranting and unsubstantiated opinion, and this one is particularly tedious.
Sunscreen turns UV light into heat topically, before it enters your cells.

Melanin, the body’s main pigment, turns UV light into heat inside the cells, but outside the nucleus. (The melanin is gathered into a shield-like collection of “melanosomes” which is “above” the nucleus relative to the outside of the body—like this: https://skincancer909.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/4K-sunh...) This has the same effect: the UV light never hits the DNA, and so never causes DNA damage.

Melatonin is known to recruit, or cause the production of, melanin within melanosomes. I’m not sure if this is the dynamic being discussed by the paper, though, or whether melatonin is more directly able to act in a similar capacity to melatonin exogenously. If it can, then the same explanation applies. (Does anyone know if pure melatonin powder looks black under a UV filter? That’d suggest it could act directly like melanin, despite its dissimilar chemical structure.)
“Okay so this is incredible. https://colourise.sg/”
I think the better question is, assuming you need to fly somewhere, given the choice between a 737-MAX 8 and another plane, how much more money would you pay to ride on the other plane?
>As for IT being understaffed, I do think this problem could be improved if companies invested more in their employees (e.g. training). And maybe took more chances on peoples capability, instead of requiring 2-3 years of experience on a range of skills prior to hiring them.

I disagree. There are people who graduate with a 3 year degree and they know absolutely nothing. I've interviewed 7 CCNAs with 3 year degrees in a row who didn't know the command 'sh run'. I gave them # cli access and asked them to tell me about what the hardware is and does. They didn't know 'sh run'. They ask for a tip or something and I'd say 'show running-configuration' and they'd type out 'show running configuration'

Sending them for 2-3 days of training isn't going to increase their skills to any legitimate degree when 3 years hasnt done anything.

As for what do I think is the fix? Lawyers have the same problem; bottom heavy. Their fix? The way lawfirms work is that those senior staff are treated better and compensated very well. That's where IT needs to go.
>nicotine actually is quite healthy

Though there are far worse compounds in tobacco, nicotine is hardly 'healthy' - it entails a number of undesirable side effects. Long term use induces negative cardiovascular conditions (with rather noticeable acute effects on heart rate, blood pressure, blood lipid profile, and blood circulation in the extremities), directly contributing to atherosclerosis and dramatically increasing the risk of heart attack, strokes, and blood clots. It negatively impacts adolescent brain development, and contributes to a variety of harmful neonatal and womens' reproductive issues.

That isn't to say that it doesn't have value as a nootropic - I'm an occasional user exactly for that purpose. But spreading the false notion that nicotine is somehow a 'healthy' substance is at odds with medical science.
There's ~16 million BTC in circulation. If you had 3 million you'd be trying to sell ~20% of the total supply. Whereas Gaddafi allegedly had $200 billion in assets, which against the approximate world wealth of $300 trillion is around 0.05%.
Yeah the submitter didn't link to wyhash, they linked to their own project...without the title there'd be no context here. SMHasher is well known (at least the original Google project is, maybe not this fork), but why not just submit wyhash directly? There's no explanation of how wyhash works here, and I can't find a paper.
TFA makes a more-or-less valid point, albeit one that's been made quite a few times before. My problem with this is that the headline elides a lot of the nuance involved in these discussions. For example, once you read TFA, you realize that the author is talking specifically about very early stage projects, where traffic and expectations are minimal. In that case, yes, it's probably correct that you don't need a lot of complex infrastructure.

But as even the author allows, at some point you do need this stuff. The real truth is closer to "You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting infrastructure... until you do."

The other thing I might posit, although I haven't sat down and worked out a complete argument for, is that sometimes even in a very early stage a bit of more complex infrastructure (automation in particular) can be very helpful... specifically when it serves to allow you to run more experiments per unit of time / effort.
Uh, this is unrealistic. I came out of prison with programming knowledge and not a single company would consider me because of my record. Its why I have a shed manufacturing business now.
>So this meme didn't come from nowhere. Blue collar professions have been given this 'helpful advice' by journalists quite a bit over the years. It was tone deaf then, and still so now. I admit I don't yet see why it's verboten/'toxic' to parrot this same tone deaf advice to journalists now?

Right. This short, low-effort article doesn't seem to be aware of the context of the meme, and how it's just spitting back the very meme that journalists were promoting. Of course if you're not aware of that context, or didn't take the effort to research it, then the meme will seem more trollish and less poetic than it is.
Happiness for me is found in moments of joy and laughter. None of which in my life I've ever experienced without people to share them with. I've certainly never found that inside my own head.
difficult to believe the article isn't satire
ggplot2's ultra terse, beautiful charts really beat out the competition. I do wish the api's were _less compact_ and more naturally explorable right out of the ide. R as a whole suffers these traits imho. I hope ggplot is ported to the RoW, ideally a typed language or runtime
People who lack great ideas fail to do anything at all. What they don't understand is that ideas come from doing things.
No, Russians do love their country very much. Just their government doesn't love them back.
'dabbrev-expand works in the context of the files that are open in all of the buffers in the buffer list too
Lofoten is unique. The rise of social media, the non-stop posts of its picturesque landscape sells it to the masses. The infrastructure is better, it's bigger and there are a lot of inhabitants, hotels and whatnot. Solund is tiny compared to the Lofoten region.
it really can. as a contract sys admin, the amount of money i am paid when they could have just used heroku is obscene. it's funny how badly folks can even muck that up though, and then they feel they need me. ::shrugss: what am i going to do, give the money back? LOL. But yeah, heroku.
The $200 billion gaddafi wealth was part of the psy-op to take down gaddafi a few years ago. I remember seeing it all over social media and the news before gaddafi was taken out.

Interestingly enough, guess who else has $200 billion?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/20...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/31/financier-bill-browder-says-...

I'm sure they did a study to determine what wealth value was believable and anger inducing? Was $100 billion too low for people to care and $300 billion too high for anyone to take seriously? It'll be interesting to find ou thow they settled on $200 billion.

If I was maduro, I'd look for places to hide if the psy-ops start to mention his $200 billion or starts to focus on his wealth.
Amusingly, I had exactly the opposite experience on Windows - OpenShot crashed constantly, and Kdenlive was completely solid. I wonder whether we had different system setups, or were just using different builds?
Activists ponder how to spoil Trump's July 4 bash as nude forebears did to Nixon
Actually these people redefined sexism and racism as "doesn't count when applied to the sex/race I dislike". I wish I was joking but this is the state of the art in academia.
You'd never use a pie chart? What if it's just more visually pleasing to the rest of your page design and you only want to convey roughly how say 3 data values compare in size?
In the UK we pay the costs too (although the loan system is more like an extra tax).

I think the UK is actually more expensive than the USA in many cases as almost every uni is 9k GBP per year here vs. the USA where you have cheaper public colleges and community colleges etc.
Well we might be jumping to conclusions here a quote on the issue from pilots forum:
"Runaway stabilizer procedures in the 737 have remained pretty much unchanged since its first flight. The same can be said for pretty much any Boeing airliner.
1 - Turn off the autopilot to see if it's causing the problem.
2 - Oppose the trim manually with the yoke. If that stops it, you're done.
3 - If that doesn't work, then you turn off the stab trim cutout switches.

If MCAS is getting some kind of erroneous AOA signal and inputting an unwanted nose down pitch, guess what? Those procedures will stop it. If pilots at airline X get to step 2 and think they're good and MCAS starts another input after it's initial 10 second trim, then they go to step 3.

If you want to speculate about something, why not start with what position investigators in both of these crashes are going to find the stab cutout switches. If they're not "off", why? MCAS or poor procedures?
"
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/2779459-post40.html
"I didn't need it so you don't either. Look at how easy it is to claim everyone else is over complicating things because I didn't have a need for it!"

Is essentially the TL;DR of that article. Being dismissive while not really substantially expounding on the faults of other processes is just bland contrarianism. Bald assertions need only be met with bald assertions.

Allow me to write a retort:

You do need all of that infrastructure and you should spend even more time making sure your pipelines are a well oiled machine to reduce deployment fears and establish confidence in your infrastructure. Make it nice to use. That new tool that came out? It was written for a reason, and is probably tackling a problem you weren't even aware you'd be facing. So stick it in and call it a day with the knowledge that you've avoided spending time on a problem someone else has already solved.

Your turn, cynical blog person.
We could write and talk in a way which is 100% factually correct and unbiased. But then it would take ages to say anything and nobody would bother reading it.

| is disturbing in its human-centricity

I can't help but notice that you're writing in english. A language known for being not only human-centric but also western-centric.

At the end of the day information theory always takes over. Commonly used ideas will be represented by short sequences.

They could have said, "There were a lot of alligators (apparently these were crocodiles?) present. These creatures have teeth and aquatic adaptations which make them efficient at inflicting damage or even death to animals that otherwise do not frequent the water. Damage and death do not promote evolutionary fitness for any given individual. Therefore, the individuals present were not comfortable with the presence of these creatures. Please see appendix A, B, and C for additional details."

Or they could just say "infested".
Seconding the recommendation. One of the most impactful books you can read for yourself. It's such a short and easy read, too (few hours; you can finish it within a day even if you're slow).
This was also implicit in the way Twitter dealt with it. Tweeting "Learn to Code" was fine, tweeting it at a journalist would get you banned.
Somehow I was reading about this the other day and what I didn't realize at the time is that Robert Tappan Morris is one of YC's co-founders :-)
Can't. I heard that when I was a conscientous objector at the university hospital in Trondheim, Norway. One of the physicians there told me that they'd done statistics on all patients. Norway has a single-payer system, so that would really be all patients. But it's a while ago and I can't find email addresses for anyone whose name I still remember, so I can't.
Didn't the article say they were running postal services? I assumed that funds the boats, and the passenger transfer is a bonus?
> punish

The whole point is that it wasn't a punishment when some journalists did it, but it's a punishement when some journalists hear it. So, they are full of crap.
To the people who have experience with it, can it be used for solid modelling ? Since it supports export to popular format, it would be nice to use it for solid modelling also.
Interesting. Seems a lot like https://libfive.com/studio/, which lets you implement the shapes in Guile Scheme.
I see. Then I guess there's a different model that can more accurately represent the idea of giving certain well-written/actively-maintained/popular packages a special platform than others to make it more enticing for wider community to adopt those.

The underlying issue is that building a production ready library doesn't just happen -- it needs one or few initial authors and (along with a large group of users) a group of dedicated power users who can then continue to maintain the library and optimize it for their usage, in turn developing it enough to be considered production ready.
This is 2ch, not 2chan, which is a different board.
camtasia is not free software nor open source. so its hard to compare the two, though input from someone actively using it is always better than the comments of people judging screenshots. so thanks for that :)
With a degree in Optical Communications, are you trying to go into Optical Engineering or pursue further education in academia? How is the salary for the engineer compared to software?
Essentially it's true, the market values each companies stream of future earnings out to infinity, discounted back for time to present day value.

The market just has a big dissonance in how it estimates and discounts those future earnings. Amazon is seen as a future huge profit maker, while Apple is viewed as perpetually at risk of a large scale decline in it's recent profitability.
>Perhaps there really is a severe workplace burnout problem in IT, but perhaps that's not the problem. There're ton of companies with burnout problems and worse turnover rates than IT.

This is true. IT is the second worst industry. Healthcare is worse.

The way Law has dealt with this. The top performers are made partner and are driving Ferraris and the bullshit work is dealt with by the juniors.

>I personally believe that the issue we are seeing today is that most people don't know how to manager stress, emotion & energy. Most people are leading a very reactive life and constantly been pulled and pushed in all directions by "life"

I'm certain there's truth to this.

>Stress happens when there's a large gulf between what you expect and reality. Most folks in IT are getting paid so well that they can bridge this gap better than most folks. All one has to do is freaking chillax. F material things, don't compare yourself or compete with others, learn to make do with what you have. Last but not least, do your very best at work, but detach your emotion from the outcome.

Certainly a factor, but when you're burnt out. You lose emotion. That's actually a telltale of burnout late stages, you lose all emotion.
Wyndham Worldwide Acquires La Quinta Hotels for $1.9B
Because I ensure my property is taken care of so rodents don't take over my property, so bugs and ticks don't make it dangerous for my kid to go out and play, so the elements don't erode away the drive-way, sidewalks, and foundation of my home.

I think anyone making the comment you're making has had very limited exposure to suburban or even rural life.

Your 2 cents is applicable for people living in apartments, or urban centers where at most you're getting a 3x3ft patch of land you call a yard.

I chose to live where I live so my kid could have somewhere to play outside that didn't require a bus pass or a car trip. Where my dog can run free on my property. Where I can grow a garden on my own.

Unfortunately, I'm surrounded by trees and I upkeep my property not just FOR ME and all my "selfish" reasons but also so my leaves don't blow over into my neighbor's yard and undo all the work they did to get their leaves up.

I don't think it's all that absurd that humans wish to control the environment around their homes. Either for practical or aesthetic reasons.

I get minimizing environmental impact. I spent 16 back breaking hours plugging zoysia grass in my yard so i wouldn't need weed killers and such down the line (it grows so thick, it chokes out weeds).

I use an electric mower b/c they've gotten good enough to rival most gas mowers. I had to buy an extra 2 batteries to get through my yard, but it works.

But I have a herniated disc and a currently undiagnosed GI problem - I have a child to take care of. I work full time.

If a little noise from a leaf blower from 9am until 4-5pm, with some breaks, is just too much for some people b/c I'd rather get my leaves up in half to a whole day as opposed to 2-3 days with a rake, then they go sit and spin.

At least I take care of my property, unlike a bunch of lazy, do-nothing trash that can't bother
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Doing a review of the current research isn't valuable for the reasons I outlined: overall research is immutare so an overall review isn't going to be that insightful right now.

Here's an example of a gaping gap in research on e-cigs: "To our knowledge, there are no relevant study in humans on carcinogenic effects from pure nicotine including products, such as NRT and e-cigarettes." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/

It's really hard to summarize a body of research if there's barely any research been done in an area.