skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did they transfer the recordings from the cylinders to some more modern media? Did they simply play them on one of the original devices and recorded that? Or were the cylinders laser scanned or something? I think the article doesn't say, and I couldn't listen to the podcast yet.
Wow impressive
As far as I know, this was a component that was licensed from a third party. The company sold the editor separately as well IIRC. So, even if there are no legal hurdles to reverse engineering the file format, delving into an undocumented format developed by a different team and no previous information is tough. This means a lot of money and effort for something that comparatively few people really need. I am not surprised that they didn't do that.
I don't think this dichotomy is a thing. But
there are many examples of companies being active in societal issues and doing well. Eg http://www.tradeready.ca/2018/topics/supply-chain-management...
Oh thank you for pointing that out! There is also a lack of indices and exponents, among the most importants (can't remember but letters like i, x or n).
Saying "no" is only possible if you haven't taken significant VC money yet and excercise full control over the company. Otherwise your investors will often force you to say "yes" to aquisition because they want to cash out.

EDIT: I think it is also highly dependent on the market you're trying to enter: if you are creating a new niche for yourself, like Uber did back in the day, then investors might be willing to take you all the way to IPO. If you try to compete with the existing market giants, like Facebook, they will chicken out, and see aquisition as only viable option ("if you can't beat them, join them").
Sidewalk Labs Plans
GraalVM native-image is not a listed option, but I regularly use it to produce binaries that are competitive with (often better than) Go in terms of size and (start time) perf.

A Clojure tool that parses, traverses and processes JSON (caro, see below) worked out to 3.2MB. I'm sure C and Rust can do better, but it's not bad compared to a JVM, and it's an order of magnitude better than the best option in the article. It's also small enough that while comparisons like "that's three floppies!" are interesting historical perspective, you can't reasonably complain about having a 3 MB binary in ~/.local/bin.

Examples:

https://github.com/latacora/wernicke/releases
https://github.com/latacora/recidiffist-cli/releases
https://github.com/latacora/caro/releases

It mostly works out of the box. My biggest frustration is that you can't easily link in dynamic libraries, which makes it a little annoying to do e.g. EC TLS with a single binary. (Go would have a similar problem but sidestepped it by reimplementing most of it natively.) Second biggest frustration: it is not a fast compiler. You're definitely doing development on the JVM (I use Graal as my default JVM now) and a "production build" afterwards with native-image.
Thank you! You saved me a click. Your comment should be at the top of this thread.
I suspect the causal direction is that there was an increase in the outdoor recreation "industry" around that time which, among other things, drove an increase in the "backcountry" term. Making that word an obvious (if not SEO optimized because people weren't thinking in those terms in 1996) choice for a new-fangled e-commerce site thingie catering to that market.
One of the best reads in a long time. Thanks for sharing.
I think this question is best answered by economists, and I'm certainly not one. But blockchain does seem to interfere with some of the best regulatory defenses against economic disasters.
The East Berlin Footballers Who Fled from the Stasi
It also appears he wants to pull out of the Open Skies treaty. That's a treaty from 1992 between, among others, the US, Russia, and the rest of NATO that allows members to conduct unarmed reconnaissance flights on short notice over the others' territories, including over military bases.

When you see a Tupolev TU-204 flying over various highly restricted US sites, you are seeing Russia exercising their Open Sky rights. If you are in Russia and see a Boeing OC-135B cruising around, you are seeing the US using the treaty.

I've not heard any explanation of why Trump would want out of this.
Regulation is not a predicate. It cannot, as a whole, cause anything. The set of types of regulation has nothing in its intersection. Using the word in this way is 80s propaganda.
I'm not sure that is "why we have it". It sure is why the central banks are pumping money into the system (they quite rightly want people and companies to invest), but it's far from clear why we have it a priori.
Many houses located in towns and suburbs across the entire United States have no public transportation. I suppose we should vilify all those who decided to live 20 miles away from a hospital and don't wish to ride a bike that far after giving birth. I won't comment further as I see no point in the discussion.
Right? I love how great of a match Braille is w/ Lego. I can see how as child this would have been quite a rabbit hole for me.
I need advice from React Native Experts or Companies that are using React Native
> I'd just like to add that is easier to compare candidates

But you might just be comparing one's ability to feign smarts versus another's ability to work out a problem from first principles. Comparing apples to oranges might be easy but the results may or may not be that useful.

This remains one of my favorite ancedotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17106291
Same here. Switched to Lyft a year ago and never look back.
You keep picking these companies as examples that haven't made it a part of their model to buy potential competitors, that already made these mistakes and suffered because of it. I don't understand why.

The companies I've named have already demonstrated their penchant for buying potential competitors. They don't even have to be particularly successful companies - it's enough for a company to have a niche where they're beloved or interesting to people and they'll be gobbled up. It doesn't even matter if the company gets a bit bigger, because Big Tech can just throw even more money at it. That's the problem - they're buying up anything that even remotely looks interesting, subsuming the tech or the engineers, sunsetting the original projects and moving on to the next startup to buy.
Check out Andreas Antonopoulos

https://aantonop.com/books/
Because when you start learning, you learn what is popular - in my case that was OOP principles in python and javascript. Only later on I learned about functional programming through Clojure. It's really hard to do that mental shift, and it takes time. A lot of people don't want to invest into learning a different paradigm
Does Udacity even have free courses anymore? When looking at the website, I see only nano degrees for which one has to pay. If they still offer the free courses, they've buried them quite effectively under all their non-free stuff.

(Also, I thought the quality of the Udacity courses was mixed - there was one on robotics that had quite nice content, but horrible Python implementations one had to work with.)
The league is - the teams are not.
Apple alone sells more devices running macOS variants than all Windows PC makers combined.

Where did you find those numbers?

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/10/apple-mac-sales-drop-q4...

In Q4 of 2018, Apple sold 4.9 million Macs. Lenovo alone sold 16.6 million PC's. All brands except apple sold 63.7 million.
The article shows the use of a symbol which is visually similar to a tricolon.

The text says "We find four characters [in Unicode] that look like this: ... “Tricolon” appears in 19th century sources as a name for one type of verse structure found in the bible, so that isn't so helpful. ... So really Unicode was no help to me."

This suggests that the use of "tricolon" in Unicode is not the same as on the keyboard.

The word "tricolon" is otherwise not mentioned, and I don't know what comments you refer to.
Running a low power computer with pfSense/OPNSense. Easier to configure than Ubiquiti products, too.
> how many GB are we talking to be able to cover normal daily speech

The models of Mozilla's DeepSpeech STT engine take 1.8 GB in compressed form: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/tag/v0.5.1

The main cause for the large size is the language model. They tried using different (smaller) language models, but they weren't as good.
"Well looking at where the Microsoft ecosystem is now and where the Apple ecosystem is, I think Apple made the right choice. Apple alone sells more devices running macOS variants than all Windows PC makers combined."

This is a fancy way of saying that Apple sells more watches and phones than Microsoft does computers, which is a whole lot less impressive than the disinformation version you wrote above.

When I look at the microsoft ecosystem: something like 90% of all computers, nearly every corporation and business in the world, etc, I don't see anything to be ashamed of.
It's today's propaganda too.
I've personally collected thousands of multitracks, stems and remix kits.

Sources are e.g. multitracks that someone leaked (like original unmixed Madonna sessions), constructed MOGG files from various Rock Band games, stems prepared for remixers etc.
>In 2006, ski touring was called 'randonee' as often as it was called 'backcountry' (even moreso in prior years). Similarly, off-trail/rugged hiking was in the wilderness, not the backcountry, prior to the mid/late 2000s.

do you have sources for any of that, or are you just making it up?
It is! And things like M-Pesa show it it can be done effectively and in short order when designed right. Which is part of why I find Bitcoin hype frustrating; it has clearly been way less effective.
Yawn. 75GB only?

Commercially available since about 2010 with 100GB

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-XL#BDXL
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-98912-M-Disc-100GB-Surface/d...
Excellent point -

Low inflation is a good thing - it is a sign of a properly functioning economy. A dollar today should be worth more than a dollar tomorrow.

Too much inflation is not a good thing is usually sign of systemic failures of trust in a system.

The two stages are usually conflated in many discussions.
Yes. Best quality of life choice I ever made. I was in my mid-forties, too. My experience has been overwhelmingly positive.
I have mixed feelings about this.

I commented on the previous post that broke this story, pointing out just how many youth fund raising activities had been doing exactly this for ever. And I really admired the guy and his repeated efforts to make some money for school. This is the classical lemonade stand incarnate. He warmed my heart; big business KK pissed me off.

Day two rolls around. Things are proceeding. An agreement has been struck, and he's soliciting the equivalent of seed money to meet the new anticipated demand. Whereas yesterday I could have seen some additional students using their small cars to also deliver donuts if a) they're willing to put in the effort and b) there's enough demand, today that seems less likely. The sophomore across campus now has to compete against the capital gifted to this guy as well as his "special arrangement" with KK. So, some form of "big business" wins again.
Of course not man, from my experience the rank and file at BC are fantastic people. They of course have nothing to do with this. But when I and others tell our gearheads "the faucet is getting turned off" it will (hopefully) develop momentum internally against what's happening.

Or not. There are lots of other players in this space.
Stop hiring SJWs. Entirely possible.
Can you please consider improving the notes function of your product? I really want to have better fastmail integration in my life and not having to rely on a third party app for something as simple as notes would help a lot.
> sick of the politics

That's a political stance. Anyone who says that is saying "the current state of things is okay and not worth mentioning".
I'm was not thinking of a yelp type of website where people can post whatever they want. I was thinking that all of the links would go to articles written by reputable journalists and newspapers.
WCAG 1.0: Make it perceivable
Dragon legal’s primary advantage is that it handles citation formatting. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a legal term it didn’t know (maybe dépeçage).
> ...which is a emotionally manipulative argument, actually. You still can, and should pay attention to issues one step away from you.

The OP literally called protesting one thing silly and the other thing protest worthy, so it sounds like your beef is with them.
The answer is simple - trivial even.

As I mentioned before a dollar today should be worth more than a dollar next year since, if you are smart, you can make that dollar work for you for a whole year.

Hence the inflation.
Handling cash isn't necessarily cheap either.
What's the profit potential for Facebook here, especially above using an existing cryptocurrency for payments on their platforms?

Having low friction payments on Facebook makes sense, it build value into the platform and Facebook can capture some of that. But can't they do that with an existing cryptocurrency?

It doesn't seem like Facebook will maintain full control of the currency due to the consensus algorithm. There is power and control if Facebook continues to control the fork of the code base that everyone uses, but presumably nodes could choose to switch away from Facebook's fork. So I'm not seeing "control a currency" as a long term benefit.

It makes sense that anyone running a Libra node would make money, but anyone else running a node would make similar profit.

The article mentions that a long term goal could be "act as a data broker and mediate consumers access to credit", although again, doesn't the decentralized nature permit any node from taking those steps? That doesn't seem to uniquely advantage Facebook.

As others mention, once a cryptocurrency is "too big to fail", regulators are locked out. Is Libra really an easier approach to getting a cryptocurrency to that point, versus adopting and accelerating the growth of an existing coin (like Bitcoin)?

Does Facebook just think they can build a better cryptocurrency? I don't doubt that they can hire good engineers, but with all the politics and marketing focus on the code now, development is probably getting stressful and chaotic.
Do you have a link to patio11's original comment? Can't find it.
That's not at all what I am saying.
What I am saying is that if you are surprised by the fact they are protesting against ICE/Big Oil and not way more trivial (in the grand scheme of things) and tech-centered things, then you are living in a bubble.

I am not saying it would be wrong that they protest AMP and not ICE, just that you can't be surprised it doesn't happen.
Okay, now you're focusing on one part of my argument that isn't airtight. But missing the forest for the trees. They don't have to buy all or every single company in order to have anti-competitive effects on the market, which we see today.
There's no problem here at all. Financial transactions are already providing "rent" to the established players.

In particular, you should consider the ludicrous fees that the unbanked are paying for basic services.

More competition is only going to drive that rent down further towards marginal cost.
I never had any enthusiasm for sport, though and felt trying hard to win at a sport is stupid. Always tried to sit everything out. On the other hand, I also felt trying hard to achieve good results in other subjects isn't worth the effort, since the material was mostly useless with the exception of math. But there I never had to try hard, though, I probably would have, if it was more challenging and also interesting.
I haven't given this topic a lot of thought, but at first glance it sounds like one of the very hardest problems imaginable to solve? It's hardwired deep into human psychology, and you have limited ways of affecting - or even communicating with - school-aged kids.
Did she/he answer? If yes, what was it?
That they use it inconsistently ATM:

few results lower, the green "URL":

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Y_Combinator
Currently part of a Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/linux-bsd-bookshelf-2019-...
That's the lazy old "and yet you participate in society," non-argument. Try harder. We can't get to "better" if we don't try.
This is simply not accurate.

I build financial market infrastructure and in the last twelve months I've seen companies in my industry presenting at AWS and Splunk conferences, and a Cassandra meetup.

There are lots of great technologists in the space that are just like the rest of us and love sharing ideas. There are definitely NDAs in place, but "financial infrastructure" generally refers to processing systems, not trading systems. The former is increasingly utilized, while the latter generates alpha (i.e. where you actually make money).

People like sharing ideas about processing infrastructure because everyone benefits when the rest of the market gets better at it also. Your efficiency is only as good as your counterparties' efficiency. If their system breaks, you still have a broken trade that costs you operational time and money no matter how good your infrastructure is.

There is a lot more wrong with what this author wrote, but in the interest of time I'll keep my answer to the question asked.
Sorry HN-user from developing world (Bangladesh).

All AMP pages are about 10 % size of standard pages - at least for the newspapers and blogs. Until you tell all your webdevs/managers to remove all tracking+loading 25 scripts from universe...

Please keep AMP.

From Guardian, BBC to Washpost or our national dailies - it is horribly slow. Our dailies also show
'notifications' even on desktop!
Mind-blowing! How to get something that is already cool and make it even more educational and inclusive, keeping it also backwards compatible. That's LEGO :)
"Researchers in Japan and at the University of Michigan said Monday that they had found a way to take over Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri devices from hundreds of feet away by shining laser pointers, and even flashlights, at the devices’ microphones."
Anil Dash on the Facebook Brand Update
This is the real answer. There is a huge difference between base line knowledge of ds/algos and what is being expected of candidates (especially juniors!).

It's more about the company/interviewer ego than actually hiring someone who can provide value.
> They're literally paying for new competitors to spring up!

They're paying for competitors to spring up and then disappear, which does nobody but the investors (and maybe the founders) any good whatsoever.

Alternative idea: let them buy, but levy a 100% tax on the acquisition amount. The proceeds can fund development of truly open alternatives, or be paid to the users as recompense for their privacy loss, or perhaps just used to make regular people's lives better. That would discourage anti-competitive acquisitions, and even if they do occur at least somebody besides rentiers would get something out of it.
Yes, but we're not comparing cash, we're comparing one digital solution to another digital solution. Libra does have the potential to further reduce fees.

Also, in order to use EC, you need a bank account, so it doesn't help the unbanked, which do exist even in Europe.
What are you talking about? Even in my very conservative neck of the woods, I see people changing their buying patterns. Being "green" is now desirable, unlike 15 or so years ago. Honestly, I think a few things could nudge people in the right direction, such as:

- decreasing size of trash and recycling cans
- small tax on single use goods, like grocery bags and packing materials
- end or at least reduce subsidies for food, oil, etc
- charge vehicle registration based on milage/year and vehicle type
- create a pollution tax and return it as a dividend

We can try to force people to do the right thing, but I'm of the opinion that people are really good at avoiding rules, so increasing costs may be more impactful. That's a large part of my many of my neighbors are becoming more green:

- LEDs are cheaper than incandescents or florescents over time
- electric cars are more convenient (no gas station visits) and getting to be price competitive with gas cars
- reusable shopping bags are becoming more and more common

People want to be green and will often choose the "better" option, provided it's reasonably close in price. Thus increasing the cost of bad options should increase competition and innovation for good options.
* arm instances for Lambda workloads. Do you know if you can choose your architecture when deploying a function? I'd be curious to see the performance of node on x86 vs aarch64
When laborers make it hard for companies to make a profit by doing evil with the products of their labor, which is the goal of acts like this, it will make it hard to make a profit without political (ie ethical) mindfulness.
Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool
There's no such thing as "stealth" really, but they can optimize blade shape for noise reduction and put mufflers on engines. Those measures reduce aircraft performance (no free lunch in aviation).
> Per capita is a red herring, what matters is the total emissions under the control of any one government

By that argument, if China and India were each to split up into several much smaller countries, with every person in each of those countries still emitting as much as they do now, or even increasing greatly their emissions--they would be doing great as far as climate change goes, because each of those small countries would only be responsible for a small amount of the total?

The atmosphere does not care about national boundaries, which is why per capita is the correct way to access a countries emissions compared to other countries.
>Capitalism is a prerequisite for lobbying. Regulations are not.

I strongly disagree, or am missing your point.

Is not the purpose of lobbying to get favorable treatment from those in power? What does capitalism have to do with it? Or do you mean specifically registered corporate lobbyists in Washington DC?

The U.S. government sits on top of one third of the world's GDP, the largest military by far, dominating all corners of the globe, etc. Of course this attracts every type of corrupting influence possible. hardly nobody bothers lobbying the Somali government, right?

I wonder how do you protect the system from so many selfish interests...
I agree, but most people have a limited amount of energy they are willing to expend on political causes. It takes time & effort to rally people around a common cause - hopefully these issues will have their day, but absent organizing machinery you can really only get people to care about big-ticket items rather than slowly creeping ones.
Are there no ethical way to make a profit?
I guess that explains why Win10 runs like a dog on my partner's computer which, whilst not brilliantly-specced, isn't absolutely awful either, but is disc-based.