skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been looking at the possibility of using high speed cameras and image processing. I suspect this is a hackable problem using just open source libraries, off the shelf camera modules and cheap single board computers.
Some are delighted by fads like minimalism. You should keep those people as far from design as possible.

Others prefer better looks over function. See above.
The "stuff" people would supply you with would be a dictatorship.
We kinda did keep going, except we put the grooves onto foil as little dots, and read them with a laser. Also, the whole thing is encased in polycarbonate.
honorable mention: Guidooo!
Well, our cow blanket might prove useful if the sun goes to sleep and the earth is destined for another ice age.
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Aha! Have to check it out then.
Technically we aren't discussing the regex itself here but the syntax for defining a regex.

You could use a different syntax for defining the same regex, and that syntax could have different properties. For instance you could use parantheses like racket where "(...)" and "[...]" have the same meaning, but "(...]" is not well formed syntax (if I remember my racket correctly). Using such a syntax to define regex a counter would no longer suffice to decide if a string is a regex.
Ok, sounds good and I belive you - it is nice hearing from the team directly involved in this project.
I agree that this is ideal. But it is hard to push through in today's environment where long-term quality aspects are so often set aside.
In theory, economics and ecology are the same science. The fact that that's hard to see for a lot of people is the deeper ecological disaster of which the visible problems are symptoms. If we can "deprogram" our society from ignoring basic problems (like pouring pollution into the air and water) the same drive and resourcefulness that brought us our modern prosperity will then adapt to do so without poisoning ourselves, eh?

Internalize the externalities and our system becomes sane.
Have you not used it enough to get the "your computer is performing automated queries" audio block? Because it can be a common problem after using Buster for long enough https://github.com/dessant/buster/issues/56#issuecomment-481....
Physically experiencing? You mean the act of placing a record on the player, or something else?

So only the person who touches the album gets the full experience?
It was only made free to play after the blog post. Before that it was a $10 game: https://steamdb.info/app/237870/
It will be hard not to fly over people, doing that...

I don't think all helipads have so much restrictions around them. We are a few blocks away from one, and we fly drones all the time. Legally. It must be a matter of how the specific piece of airspace got regulated, who did it, etc. I also see plenty of FAA maps that were drawn very thoughtful and detailed, versus others where there's just a big circle around an object.
‘Dynamic entropy’ - you mean ‘noise’, right?
It is, but discussion was about replacing notepad, not some IDE.
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Personally, I think this is a strength of StackOverflow. I think most people read through all of the answers, and this particular one keeps people who know nothing about regex from trying to evaluate regex with regex.

And for those with a deeper understanding, they have an answer that provides the intellectual stimulation they are looking for.
I'm aware of Archiveteam, and worked with them on the G+ archive project.

They've been sensitive to exclusion requests, and serve principally to move data to IA, where, again, removal requests are easy and recognised.

IA have generally the same policy as AT on robots.txt, for entirely justifiable reasons.

In the grand scheme of things, open, public, accessible archives >>> closed, private, nonaccessible (or accessible-only-for-a-(price|class) archives. Adding the capacity to denote specific exclusions assists further in this.
The alternative is Britain and France asking for American help in Libya because they can’t actually even do the things they want to do. Regardless of the utility or desirability of action in Libya.
You don't think all of those differences can be simulated digitally? I would be curious if people can't be fooled in a double blind test.
> I'm pretty sure the questioner wasn't asking "how do I validate a regular expression" because he would have asked that.

In my experience, people sometimes ask for how to solve the more immediate detail they’re working on rather than the broader problem.
I've had good results using https://sdk.apify.com/, it's Node.js and puppeteer based, very easy to pick up for any js developer.
A simple solution to a complex problem is what I strive for every day as an electrical power engineer. It makes it easier for my co-workers, customers, and anyone responsible for keeping the power on in the next 50 years to understand how something works and be able to fix it if it breaks or build off of it if more capacity is required or it can be reused on a different project.

I am sad that top tier software engineering environments have lost sight of the value of simplicity. Perhaps it is doomed to become the dismal engineering, like economics is the dismal science, that never quite seems to have the answers for economics, or never supplies software that is finished and bug free for software engineering.
Or alternatively, they buy a competitor to sink it before they become too powerful or falls in the hands of another larger competitor.
I agree to you mostly, but I do have some vinyls if my favorite all time albums. Maybe 50 or so. However the analog priests are wrong about superiority of vinyl both technically and philosophically. However, I do love me some 70s and 80s punk music on vinyl which makes it even a little bit dirtier and less refined
We don't. I have no idea how that came up there.
Not just applicable to social networks either. Search results can and do swing things too:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-internet-flips-elections-and-...
I remember reading an article about somebody 3D-printing vinyls a couple of years ago. It sort-of worked but it wasn't quite there yet. Still, 3D printing technologies improves very fast nowadays so maybe in the not-so-far future it'll make more sense to just print a new vinyl from the master the current one is too badly damaged rather than spend money on a super expensive turntable?

In either case I feel like it's somewhat missing the point of vinyls in this day and age, people like vinyls because they're simple and low-tech like audio tapes, VHS and Polaroids. If you really care about audio quality and preservation you'll be much better off building a good capture setup and digitize your vinyl. It's easier to protect and backup digital audio samples than a fragile physical object.
> Objectively inferior capability to reproduce sounds.

Maybe when it comes to something like music, that's not the most important thing. In fact, most music listeners would say it's not really important at all.

Vinyls have great UX. The LP format encourages you to listen to an uninterrupted, un-shuffled 23 or 46 minutes of music. Album artwork and lyrics are presented at a scale where it doesn't hurt the eyes to look at them.

Your statement reminds me of whiskey drinkers who only drink out of one type of glass which is olfactorily optimal. It totally misses the fact that our senses are so easily tricked into enjoying things more if we enjoy the hints that surround the experience. Music is better on vinyl because you spent that much longer picking out the record and placing the needle. Whiskey is better in rocks glasses because it looks cinematic. It has next to nothing to do with being "objectively inferior" or superior.
My very limited understanding after talking to someone who was interested in this stuff, is that people are concerned with quantizing of the signal, which will happen with that laser solution. I’ve heard this is why audiophiles also use magnetic tape. To be clear I heard this second hand and am not directly familiar.
No, so that Europeans don't pay extra taxes for duplicate stuff. It's not like France will invade Spain anytime soon. There is no point of both having armies.
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When Jack White (of the White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and more) opened Third Man Pressing in 2017, he had the first vinyl pressing machines built in over 35 years. The machines were build by NEWBILT in Germany [1].

Third Man Pressing's about page also has a great video about the process: https://thirdmanpressing.com/about

[1] https://newbilt-machinery.com
Not quite so literally, but yes. Placing the record on the player, admiring/flipping through the album art, passing it around amongst friends, actually caring/worrying about the state of the record player, all sorts of things.

Why the mocking tone?
Yeah but it's got a bit better over the past decade as more people realized why that certain something was missing
Part of the downvotes might be related to the fact that there's been a lot of skepticism/cynicism/backlash around Valve's allegedly flat management structure. Multiple ex-employees have said that while there are no formal "boss" roles, the company has evolved a de facto manager class with whom one must ingratiate themselves to even have a semblance of job security, let alone materially affect the direction of the company.

https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...

https://www.wired.com/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ellsworth/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20099167
The biggest relevation for me about vinyl was when I realized that it's CAV (constant angular velocity) and not CLV (constant linear velocity). It means that audio quality gets progressively worse as you move from outer tracks to inner tracks!
People buying vinyl are looking for a collectable. There is something to be said for the physical experience of physical media.
At a minimum they're different experiences.

Sitting down and listening to an album is different to playing your mp3 collection on random. You're listening to a collection of songs, as intended. You're listening to songs that perhaps aren't your first choice and in other circumstances would just skip over, but those songs often turn out to be the 'best' songs. I think there's also something to be said for having the physical disc. It just makes it more deliberate.

I don't think it's a limitation of streaming technology. If anything it's a limitation of physical media. Infinite, zero friction choice doesn't necessarily make us happier though.
graph of "Historical Cost of Computer Memory and Storage", https://jcmit.net/mem2015.htm . Memory data at https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm .

1994 prices are US$30.0/MB or $8K for 256MB of PC-grade memory. Looks like the DEC machine used 200-pin SIMMs, says https://www.memoryx.com/ms15da.html (listing 64MB for $200). Don't know how that compares.

BTW, $400 for a DEC Alpha 3000/500 at https://www.ebay.com/itm/DEC-DIGITAL-ALPHA-SERVER-3000-500-P... .
How long until future "hipsters" start seeing CDs as nostalgic? Although I kind of doubt we'll see a CD revival in 2035 or 2040.
I left the page after about a minute of waiting on my phone. Making my users wait isn't a realistic solution, and bots have _far_ more CPU horsepower at their disposal than most smartphones, especially if they're operating from a botnet as many tend to do. Even if this did stop bots, it's also going to piss off real users, which is exactly what it appears to be designed to prevent.
Perhaps something like "([^"]*)" could skip what is inside the string literal. Unless there is "<input" in the string literal, then where you start parsing becomes very important.
Plenty of steaming services will play entire albums in track order.
For you maybe. It gets pretentious and condescending because obviously it's an important and strong sensation for him, maybe not as important to others. Diminishing someone else's experience of music as being less whole than your own is nonsense.

Enjoy the pleasure's you've found in life, but recognize they're not universal. I would also argue that the experience described has to do in part with nostalgia, since my young nephews feel very passionately about music and have never owned a physical album and I wouldn't dare tell them that an album they've loved or experienced and been moved by was some inferior experience because they listened while staring at their ceilings in their beds rather than looking at a gatefold.
At Google there’s an IC ladder from level 3 (new grads) to 11 (Jeff and Sanjay). Basically it’s a pay scale. Half of engineers are below 5, and 90% are below 6.

Edit: pretty sure I was off by one originally. But you get the idea: it’s a triangular organization with a lot of people at the base.
Primarily, make sure you live at elevation (i.e. > 20 feet). Also helps if you've got temperate or cool local weather, so it doesn't get unpleasant decades from now.
I wonder if these geese might use some breathing technique similar to what high altitude fighter pilots use above 40 000ft where even 100% oxygen is not enough partial oxygen pressure. Inhaling, then exhaling with resistance. Having experienced overflying migrating geese every year it certainly sounds like they restrict their exhaling with loud guttural sounds.
We are reaching a point where digital delivery is objectively the best way to consume music. It maximizes each of quality, price, convenience and availability. No physical media, including CDs, can compare.

There is only one thing digital delivery can't do: satisfy the collector's itch. There's no rarity or difficulty. You can't keep it on a shelf and take pride in your collection. You can't trade or barter. You can't get it signed by the band or buy it at a show. You can't browse it in a shop. You can't pass it on to your children. There's no romanticism about it, and it doesn't engage any other senses.

It turns out however, that vinyl is great at all those things. It seems evident that its resurgence is because everyone who wants to collect music is consolidating on vinyl as a format, while those who just want to listen to music stick with streaming services. It's highlighting the fact that music consumption is actually highly bimodal, and delivering a product optimized for each modality.
Did he sign a non-compete?

Rebuild something new/better.
Working that out in a practical way is not simple, though. There's the rub.
You need a computer of some sort to decode that, whereas vinyl _is_ engraved vibrations.
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I don’t know why this should be controversial. Plenty of good products fail and shoddy ones succeed. It’s clear engineering merit is not the primary factor in success.
I've noticed this as well in the redwoods in northern California. Some groves are completely silent. I'm not sure why that is. These are natural forests, so I'm puzzled as to why there aren't many birds.
Compare: Android application development or iPhone app development
Somebody posted an excerpt from an article, saying it was "damning". It describes of a scene where Epstein visited Media Lab, accompanied by two young women. The context that he was already a known sex offender at that point was not given.

Why do you get so worked up? I asked a question about the paragraph. The answer "it was already known that he was a sex offender" is sufficient to answer my question. Why don't you just answer it and move on with your life? It's not my fault that the question blew up.

I am not asking to be spoonfed. The answer "it was already known he was a sex offender" is sufficient to answer my question. That several other discussions sprang from it is another matter.

I really don't know what your problem is, or your concern? If it doesn't interest you, move on to the next topic on HN? There are hundreds every day. What issue do you have, exactly?
Because everything I'm in favor of is backed by the best current scientific understanding as I understand it, and everything I'm against is opposed to that understanding as I understand it.

AGW is real. Clean coal is a contradiction in terms. GMOs are largely a good thing. "Organic" food (that is, food labeled "Organic") is no better than the alternatives, and potentially worse in some ways. Nuclear power is potentially a very good thing, but there are so many possible reactor designs and waste strategies it's impossible to make a blanket statement. Homeopathy and chiropractic and alternative medicine are all outright shit, and Reiki is such shit it doesn't deserve to be taken seriously enough to be debunked.

If you can't distinguish me from the "Global warming? AL GORE! HAW HAW HAW!" crowd now, you really need to do some re-calibration.
> but there are smart people working hard to try to prevent deaths by cars*.

No. There really isn't. The solution is simple and every racer knows what it is: teach skid control and proper use of the brakes. That's half the equation right there; the other half is eye technique which would be more difficult to become proficient in But for God's sakes At Least stop telling people to "watch where you going"--which is certain "death" when the car starts to slide, and instead start telling them to "look where they want the car to go".
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he didn't ask for advice on getting a promotion.
Yes, including one’s own employer. Anything for the external validation. (GPA or bonus)
Right. I think those people are only asking that their voice be heard before the elected city council members pass motions to accept grant money with strings.

Fremont has to dip into its general and emergency funds and use city owned land to build these HNCs. That’s the commons.

The city council held public meetings but about location. They had already voted to accept grant money. Further, there are many shelters and homes in the city. The grant money doesn’t need to go to HNCs. Providing more services through the existing 6-7 locations and providing mobile services like health checks, laundry/showers/food while transitioning them to permanent housing are other options, but they are not being explored.

The biggest chunk would go to paying BACS, a non profit that would be managing the HNCs. The people also don’t want it near schools and residential homes.

I feel it’s all valid concerns. I wouldn’t doubt the cynicism and distrust expressed by the local citizenry when elected officials hurriedly pass measures without local input. When the commons are impacted, everyone gets to voice their concerns.
Whataboutism is rarely if ever a valid response.
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Please make this a reality.

To-Do is a joke compared to Wunderlist. It suffers from the same fate as all MS-built iOS apps: random logouts. I can't convince anyone to use MS apps because the first time they get logged out after an update they just stop using the app.
Which sucks. Having a technical ladder is important to retain talent and ensure that you maximize the skills your talent pool has.

Pure engineering skills (even the thought leadership aspect of it) doesn't directly translate in management skills and often people get "rewarded" by promoting them to a position where they can no longer use the very skills they have been promoted for.

Related concept / good read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
God, I wish Skype would buy their app back.
Avoid procreating. Put your money into prepping instead of your 401k. Make a plan to kill yourself when it all becomes too much to bear. Enjoy the time you have.
Ah, okay. Pay scale, got it. Yea we have similar. Just no actual titles.
Nothing is stopping anyone from listening to whole albums with streaming. I do. It's cultural, not media carrier dependent.
You want to copy more one byte at a time (unrolling by 4, 8 or more; and for memset, multiplying the stored value by 0x01010101...). In recent processors rep movsb and rep stosb do all that in microcode, and are also able to copy or fill the destination one cache line at a time.
You don't understand it then especially with modern 24 bit and up sampling available in flacs and other standards. clipping is almost always going to be worse than dynamic compression except under the worst edge case conditions in 16 bit and above (standard CD limit)
I find that I crave that sound. It's subtle changes, often the mastering is a little different, but most of it is just how the vinyl is flawed. Each play is special, like you hear it that time that way, never again.
I know forest fires are essential to California forests. Redwoods, for example, have seeds that wait to be burned before they will sprout. The large redwoods are big enough to survive most fires.

However, the issue has been that we suppress forest fires for years, leading to a buildup of fuel, leading to fires that are so big that they destroy the trees that normally survive them.

California has changed the way it deals with forest fires to try to prevent this... they don't try to stop ALL fires now.
I get this at my work. We get constant lectures about stress, sleep, healthy eating and such. Every one feels like the bosses trying to tell us how to spend our weekends. The last slide always has a series of references that we are expected to read on our own time.

My favorite is the lecture about sleep dept, about how two good nights sleep can reverse several days of sleep deprivation. Great. Work me 18-hours a day all week and leave it up to me to resolve it on the weekend. How convenient for the employer.
Not a googler, but at my company this has not been the case. We use several programming languages and some of the people driven choices (rather than technical necessities) have lead to all the languages being twisted into an odd hybrid of the dependency management style of each other. Things are very complicated to manage and some teams are trying to leave their current and best known language for a language with internal champions/leaders that are louder, more opinionated, and better positioned politically. A lot of this is due to a lack of wide familiarity with intermediate git skills and a fear of learning the tool. So many of our solutions to this problem are to automate things under the rug, which is why every language ends up being handled generically using medium grade internal tooling instead of best of class industry standard tooling. Most of these issues can be boiled down to an avoidance of pain rather than a championing of the best technical choice.

Ultimately no decrease in dependencies have been made. Projects are barely bundled together any more than before. The only thing that’s made that possible has been Docker and Docker Compose, and our monorepo strategy makes it more difficult to build images due to its size and our topical file systen layout making it almost impossible to check out only the parts of the repo you need.

The monorepo itself may be a good idea but it’s no silver bullet. I’d say it’s one of the worst choices we’ve made due to the cultural impact it’s had. In our case I think we’d be better off with small monolithic repos due to a lack of proper training around how to manage either many small repos or a large monorepo.
The one absolutely, infuriating thing about jobs that will cause me to throw keyboards through windows:

A 'requirement' or a 'minimum' must be exactly that.

If they are negotiable, they aren't a requirement or minimum.

GET THIS RIGHT, GODDAMNIT. THOSE WORDS HAVE DEFINITIONS FOR A REASON.

If you can't come up with any, then chances are they aren't actually required! And if you don't actually have any, you don't have to write those words in the job description! Fucking easy, right?

This helps everyone. I don't waste time applying for jobs where I don't meet the requirements, and you don't waste time rejecting me for the same reason.

The fact that this isn't followed is why we have dumb job-seeker rules like "just apply even if you don't meet those requirements". It's throwing common sense out along with the keyboards. And yes, fuck recruiting companies that tell you to do this, too.
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