skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also just get a recording from someone who went out to a beautiful-sounding place and recorded several hours, these have existed since before digital sampling techniques, much less machine learning. Looping short samples is pretty much the worst way possible to generate a soundscape.
New companies and technologies will be invented to solve this problem. Every problem has a solution. You are falling into the same trap that has caught humans since the dawn of man. The printing press, the car, the internet, and now “deep fakes” will cause hand wringing but will not destroy us. Just give it time.
> x == 0 (or even like x <= 0) is a strong code smell.

Careful: 0.0f is defined by the standard to be 0x0. So such comparisons can be quite reasonable.

However trying for 0 as the result of a computation, as is used in this example is indeed problematic.

But there is plenty of reasonable code that initializes a float or double variable to 0.0 and can expect to be able to inspect it and find its bit pattern to be 0x0 before that variable is manipulated. After that, all bets are off.
The transition is happening, but we’re nowhere near on pace for negative carbon by 2050. Here in the US, most of our emissions reduction has been switching from coal to gas, while energy consumption continues to rise and politicians block offshore wind farms for aesthetic reasons (e.g. Cape wind in MA).

Once the coal->gas transition completes, the easy gains on emissions reduction are gone - now it’s cheap, already built gas plants with cheap fracked gas that need to be out competed by renewables + as yet to be invented cost-effective storage technologies.

GND policies don’t add up as far as I can tell, in fact they are probably counter productive since they promise voters that they can have carbon friendly policies and everything else they want too.

I’d be happy to see a tax on carbon and more subsidies for green cars and so on (right now, a gas car is still a better deal despite the tax subsidy on electric, especially with our low US gas prices). But I’m skeptical that we’re anywhere near on track to convincing voters to get behind it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2019/11/10/the-surp...
My then girlfriend had a Sunbird. She was a very nervous driver. I thought it was part of some other psychological issues she had. Then I had to drive her Sunbird somewhere. Terrifying! Somehow in a noisy gutless cramped smallish car GM had managed to reproduce the floaty uncontrolled body motions and vague imprecise steering of the full size cars of a decade earlier.
Did I miss something? Why would anyone open and load a 100G file all at once on a 16G machine? Why is there such a file in the first place?
Looks cool. I'll have to go check it out.

Reminds me of the sets from "The Fabulous World Of Jules Verne"

https://youtu.be/MSl2FekEuaE

go to 01:07:12

And of course more recently Sin City
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>This. Technical writing is a different species entirely. You know beforehand all of the pieces, or at least reason about them.

The advice to "don't edit while you write" usually comes after the advice to "make an outline" before you write. You are supposed to figure out how the pieces fit. Then quickly write it all out. Then edit edit edit.

The general idea is that is easier to edit afterwards than to edit on the fly. Its true for me.
Very interesting talk, thank you!
For someone who doesn't want to buy American made cars, you sure speak fondly of some of them. Tundra and Sequoia have only ever been made in the us, matrix was once upon a time made in the nummi factory that is now Tesla's, and have been made in North America since, crv have also mostly been made in the us, otherwise North American production, same with all newer fits. The only car you mentioned made outside of North America would be the first generation fit, made in Japan.

I had a friend's dad who was one of the few people I talked to who, as a Japanese brand enthusiast, went out of his way to find a Chevy/Geo prizm - same mechanical bits as a Corolla, built in the same factory, but way cheaper because of all the people who reflexively avoided American brands.
Would love to see a cryptocurrency that is fully auditable by everyone... That is, when did a cryptocoin come into circulation, who got it first, why did they get it, who did they send it to next, what was traded for it, etc., etc, down the line...

And finally, if/when the cryptocoin is ever decirculated, and/or held for too long a time period in a single individual or entity's account...

The IRS would love such a system, but also every Professor of Economics (and government financial policy makers) would, too...

Such a system would exist as the nexus between cryptocurrency, hard identity, transactional tracking, big databases, regulation, macroeconomics, and monetary/fiscal policy.

If a rule was made in the system to automatically take 1% out of the accounts of the account holders that earned/owned the most, and equally distribute it (every year) to the accounts of the 1% of account holders that earned or owned the least, then basic income could also be created by the system...
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Why / Intent is the biggest overlooked aspect of computer science / computer engineering imo.

I just wish more technical documentation had a human element of “what we intended” to it.
Life imitating art...

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If you knew the trouble I had getting an AI to read and duplicate facial expressions. You know how I cracked it?

I don't know how you did any of this.

Every cell phone, just about, has a microphone, camera and a means to transmit data. So I turned on every microphone and camera across the entire fucking planet and I redirected the data through Blue Book. Boom! Limitless resource of vocal and facial interaction.

You hacked the world's cell phones?

Yeah. And all the manufacturers knew I was doing it, too. But they couldn't accuse me without admitting they were doing it themselves.

- Ex Machina (2014)
I was born in 1989 and even post-USSR we had lots of books in English and Malayalam translated from Russian. From Raduga publishers, I had an illustrated astronomy book narrated as a grandfather making his kids observe the night sky; a book about a Moscow kid going to the countryside where his father was stationed; a book about a girl who kept on her not-remote farm a tall deer, two wolves (one had offspring that was star of a military parade), a tiger (who died of a heart attack at a zoo) and a boring horse.
I’ve been manually deploying my projects for years.

Can anyone comment on the Docker learning & troubleshooting story for python?
'Deep fakes' are right up there with 'AI is going to turn against us', or 'software engineers are going to be replaced by AI' on my bs list.

The real problem we face with elections is much less exciting to talk about. It's a few people going around making reasonable and factually correct comments, and manipulating upvote/downvote counts with bots to drive-home the belief that one view is popular, and another is extremely unpopular.
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Smoking indoors doesn’t seem like the marker of a humble person to me at all. It seems inconsiderate and arrogant
It’s almost like software that gets more complex over time is slower on older devices...
All time when i use Facebook i think that someone follow me by web camera. My opinion is that we allow too much that our confidential infos are public by allow all this privacy terms.
Or sell by telling how to sell ... Not bad
Anyway it was consuming too much of battery (phone's as well as mine). So I switched to FF browser on iOS. Then after some months I stopped going to FB.

Now I have lots of productive hours.
Those people suck, frankly. I own very expensive lenses, and equipment.

I speak from experience. I was a professional photographer many years ago, though it's only a hobby these days.

I filmed the crescendo of the 2017 solar eclipse and took photos throughout with a stack of IR/UV/ND filters: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CV9Ju3TkMtJKNL566

I had to remove most of the ND filters during totality because it was simply blocking too much light, so much so that clouds and stars are visible in some photos. I had >99% IR/UV cut and over 26 stops of wide-band light reduction in front of my lens. My equipment is fine, I assure you.

Due diligence isn't hard; I looked up the spec sheets for every filter I purchased, and did the actual math, so much so that I had to remove a filter or two during totality to get the exposure that I wanted, because I was overly conservative to protect my equipment.

But... yeah... though there were many people who destroyed equipment during the 2017 eclipse, that doesn't mean it can't be done safely and properly.
I often wonder if Ranker, Thrillist, Collider, Vulture are all AI based. The seem to show up in every search
Most of the time it's not that data scientists think engineering is "unnecessary," it's that they're expected to deliver analyses and models without the help of engineers, because the engineers are on another team, behind a massive backlog. So they make do with the tools they have.
Let me try that and see how it goes. Let me go and install it.
Force them to use old-school floppy disks to store and transmit records (you know, for backwards compatibility). That should be a good incentive to minimize data hoarding.
/s
I love hacker news but this is one trigger topic where the community goes a little crazy.

Your comment is entirely rational and yet it’s been downvoted to the bottom. Privacy is an extremely important issue, but it’s 100% clear in this case that Facebook is not doing anything nefarious here.

I’ve got a buddy in growth marketing who tells me any headline inciting privacy hysteria is a super easy way to game the front page here.
I'm a Java developer and I make fun of Maven and Gradle as much as anyone, but overall it seems like I am better off than I would be in the Python ecosystem for dependency management as well as managing the version of the language I compile and run with.
This should be put to rest already. Too much time was wasted on bikeshedding this in the past, to the point that it became so complex that was even made into Ace Attorney cases for easier digestion:

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> There are no “quick fixes” here. But on the other hand, it seems that things are kind of in a stalemate, where everyone accepts that the status quo sucks but no one dares to take the (drastic) action that’s needed.

> And the drastic actions that do get taken are meaningless and insignificant

It makes me think of the bike-shedding mental model, also called Parkinson's Law of triviality: People are reluctant to deeply discuss complicated matters.

Isn't Hackernews' code of conduct a successful example of a community relying on civility?
Maybe Stack Overflow could launch a civility campaign and update its reputation system to punish trolls.
Is there basis for thinking that the relative demand of fast-code programmers will increase vs code-fast programmers?

There doesn't seem to be anything in the horizon that would make performance a more pressing concern in the work of the 99% of developers who do make business software and consumer web/mobile apps. They just sometimes call into libraries that have had performance work put into them and get by with rudimentary understanding of what seems to cause slowdowns.

In the other dimension, there does seem to be a continued focus and resulting improvements in velocity.

The recent ML popularity is all about leveraging packaged optimized code (Tensorflow etc) with vast majority of programmers freed from the engine level details and detailed understanding of GPU perf work or parallel/distributed programming.
When I started using Linux, in college, the advantages were that Ubuntu, and others, were super light-weight and a great way to give life to old hardware. Also, if you were interested in programming, it was a pretty good way to discover how things work.

Benefit one was destroyed by Gnome3 (and, for a while, Unity) being the default in the beginner's distros. Benefit two was destroyed by SystemD wrapping its tentacles around more and more things, and making a modern distro an obtuse, ugly system to learn from, or to work with.

Is there any persuasive reason for a college student today to try desktop Linux? Is there a good pitch anymore?
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Abandon all claims, compensate those already affected, and force the CEO to tender his resignation.
Anecdotal, but I've never seen democracy work out well for architecture level decision making.

If there's someone with a proven track record of making sound decisions at the required level, often the team benefits from just following their lead.

Obviously, this can't be another case of the 4x engineer making everyone else 0.4x engineers. Fairly situational indeed.
Who else here dislikes Systemd? I do. There is so much hidden magic in terms of configuration that when things go wrong, they really go wrong. One of the things that burnt me initially was that journalctl logs are not persistent. They disappear on restart. It needs to be configured for persistent storage.
""We have already voted with apt: less than 1% of new installs use sysvinit""

The Debian developers voted by setting the apt default.

So no.
I've noticed that a lot of paid dev tools are just priced too high or that I run the risk of blowing my budget depending on scale. I wish more paid dev tools were aware that I don't actually know my usage up-front, and that I'm scared of potentially ending up with a ridiculous bill if I overlook something.

I totally get that it's on me, but things [like this](https://hackernoon.com/how-we-spent-30k-usd-in-firebase-in-l...) happen, and I'm way more apprehensive of services that make that a possibility. E.g. I'd love to use Auth0 for everything, but the risk of spending way too much on something I can roll myself is always on my mind.
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Is tracking disabled when you pay money to eliminate ads?
I love the idea behind this.

It only disappears when I'm done writing the para, i.e. when I move to next para. Which renders the feature obsolete when I'm writing big paras.

Could this be done to letters, after x secs they disappear.
Maybe I'm just bitter because of Parrot. I so wanted to use it for my language.
> In short: merging elogind appears to be complex enough that it would be hard to justify in the absence of a strong commitment to the support of non-systemd init systems.

I think that outlines the problem well, systemd might be a good init system but it's not just an init system and it's an all or nothing thing. There is no meritocracy of components which has always been a strength of linux.
A windows version of that is a Razer Blade 15.
I am bewildered that Storage=Persistent is not the default.
In TLS 1.3 you can only do this by proxying all connections. Whereupon all these hypothetical non-compliant QUIC streams are yours and nobody on the rest of the Internet cares.

This is a significant (and for the "IT security" industry expensive) change compared to previous versions but it was done with this in mind. The methods often employed to avoid doing proxying don't actually deliver security though they did ossify the protocol but they are cheaper. Too bad.

Let's take my compression example again. Your "firewall" won't tell you it understands compressed certs since it has no idea what they are, and it won't request them from the server, no ossification. New features don't work for you inside your "firewall" making the Internet worse for you, but for everybody else improvements continue.

The same for the spin bit. Corp A enforces a completely broken spin bit for "security", it suffers mysterious and hard to diagnose network faults but the rest of the Internet isn't affected and life continues as normal.
Is there anyone using Apple Model to learn AI other than Apple?
Or we all use nvidia?
Show me an alternative to systemd that matches its functionality and consistency.

The whole point is that systemd replaces a large number of solutions to various system components and there’s alot to be said for pulling all that together into a consistent solution.

The competition to systemd can’t match its power, but there are good solutions for more limited scope situations like embedded.

Systemd is incredibly powerful and is very much a welcome part of software that I build. My system architectures depend heavily on systemd.

knowing what systemd is capable of is really required knowledge for software developers because it can both save you massive time and also enable the creation of systems that otherwise would have required you to write more code.
I'd rather there was a single way to do something useful in Raku than multiple ways to do something completely useless.
This seems to imply that the only advantage of Linux was its low system requirements, and I don't think it was ever true that that was the only advantage.
But the battery would be much heavier than a fuel tank. You can't have an electric engine without a battery, so...
Gnome 3 is great. Also, there is no platform that beats Unix for programming. Absolutely none.
If you're going to be using pyenv + poetry you should be aware of #571 that causes issues with activating the virtualenv

https://github.com/sdispater/poetry/issues/571

the OP himself has a fix for this in his own dotfiles repo:

https://github.com/jacobian/dotfiles/commit/e7889c5954daacfe...
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That's true. However, it does seem like the foundation for their mentoring-related experience is Uber:

I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before.

I've never worked at Uber and I don't know many people who have. So most of my knowledge of how Uber operates and of the culture they espouse comes from places like HN. Overwhelmingly the press' depiction of Uber's culture is extremely negative. Mentoring is one of those potentially formative experiences in a person's career. Presumably the "Uber way" of mentoring forms a large part of the author's experience and approach to mentoring. It was an interesting divergence from what I would have expected. It's a good data-point on the other side of all the negative we hear related to Uber.
I’m also a fan of serialization that allows for streaming and in-memory access without fully deserializing. The project I’m working on uses CBOR and it’s been working really well. Not using the streaming, but being able to quickly access without transforming the data has been huge.
I never got the "good for programmers to learn on" argument. If anything Windows has better IDE support and is easier to install things on for a beginner. Not so bad on Linux with VS Code these days at least.
> weigh less than the water they displace...

Well, they weigh exactly the same as the water they displace. :)

But I know what you mean. I think the cause is that we intuitively underestimate the weight of water. Probably because we normally deal with it in small amounts only. But water is pretty heavy.
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Updates should not degrade the usability of a device. If a device is too slow to run new features then they should be disabled by default. Apple has an obvious incentive to make people disatisfied with their older devices and want to buy the new one so it is fast again.
> We had to update change /etc/systems/journald.conf with Storage=Auto to make it persistent.

RTFM

Storage=
Controls where to store journal data. One of "volatile", "persistent", "auto" and "none". If
"volatile", journal log data will be stored only in memory, i.e. below the /run/log/journal
hierarchy (which is created if needed). If "persistent", data will be stored preferably on disk,
i.e. below the /var/log/journal hierarchy (which is created if needed), with a fallback to
/run/log/journal (which is created if needed), during early boot and if the disk is not writable.
"auto" is similar to "persistent" but the directory /var/log/journal is not created if needed, so
that its existence controls where log data goes. "none" turns off all storage, all log data
received will be dropped. Forwarding to other targets, such as the console, the kernel log buffer,
or a syslog socket will still work however. Defaults to "auto".

> Defaults to "auto".

You just need to have /var/log/journal. This is your distribution/installer failing you, don't blame systemd.
If you want lighter weight Ubuntu GUI, check out Xubuntu or Lubuntu (or just select Xfce or LXDE as your desktop at install time).

There is e.g. Elementary OS (also an Ubuntu derivative) with another lightweight GUI.

I personally run Void Linux (which lives happily without both systemd and sysvinit) with Xfce.
npm is equivalent to combining pip and virtualenv into a single tool. This gives better ergonomics when switching between projects since you never have to "activate" your environment, it's always activated when standing in the project directory.
aggregates online food orders from across several disparate Online Ordering

Rentseeking two layers deep.
Looks more like cel shading with outlines rather than 2d (though both terms are used interchangeably for anime and cartoons).
I did, until I discovered that doing it is less efficient overall.

When writing my first draft, I often have very little idea how the whole thing is going to turn out. I simply don't have the big picture yet. If I spend time honing my sentences then, most of the editing time is wasted because I'd later rewrite them anyways.
I still rue the day I uninstalled that game.
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Debian 9 and CentOS 7 both fail in this regard.
Is systemd designed in a modular way that makes it easy to use systemd as the init system without importing the kitchen sink?
Having said all that I’m not convinced about dbus but hey what software gets everything right?
I have a Google-issued corporate workstation with 64 GB of RAM and 12 cores. Gmail is really really slow. Like so slow that I if I have to refresh it I'll go get coffee. But I'm on Firefox, and so "I Am Not The User" and all that.
Rarely nowadays, does the jaw drop!
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I hate to be in your predicament. Software dev mixed with workplace politics is such a mess. Coupled with non-technical upper management that can be easily manipulated. I don't think the cure is simple and difficult, there probably isn't a silver bullet.
Yep. There are some clunky escape hatches (you can use simple SQL in QUERY() or script in JS etc) in Google Sheets at least. But you should use or migrate to something else if you know you're going to need them.
We don't know for sure that humans on our own planet are unique in having the qualities you described. Many animal species show advanced social structures and intelligence.

We are resourceful, that's for sure.
"Apostrophes" being a French TV show. A-post-troff.
(2014)

Original submit from 2015, 330+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9019192
This seems to be a typical case of Ubuntu brain damage. I don't think I've seen this behavior in other distributions (CentOS, Debian, Fedora, even Arch).

>On Ubuntu 16.04, /var/log/journal does not exist by default. Create it to keep and query events from previous boots.