skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said your example digital camera was 20 years old ("640x480 prototype camera from 2001"), not the CD format. I used primitive digital cameras in the mid 1990s and CDs in the 1980s so I remember the chronology here.

You still haven't told me why CD is a "shitty" format. The audio quality is essentially perfect for human ears listening to recorded music. With a good DAC you're able to reproduce the source with accuracy well beyond the limits of human hearing. This is an incredible feat for the early 1980s, and I think it's still incredible today! The CD is pretty much the pinnacle of home audio reproduction! You'll want higher sample rates and bit depth for mixing and mastering, but that's for the recording studio.

If you think the compact disc audio standard is deficient in some technical way, back it up with some facts or measurements, not just your feelings about "acoustic odor." It's true that not all CDs are mixed or mastered well, but that's also true for vinyl records. What, specifically is so bad about the CD?
Basically IntelliJ and its variations. That's it, that's the list.

And they've only got one kitchen sink, not the triple commercial sink of features VS lugs along.
Well this is the typical French reaction to a slightly hot day. For sure.
Beside email and calendar, I use the filesystem extensively and I create "project folders" for everything from software(git) to personal things like (2020-02-08_DaughterRoomBlinds) for the "project" of changing blinds in my daughter's room. Except git repo I sync everything using syncthing on my android and laptop. I also have a set of scripts to generate nice PDF using pandoc (for regular mail letters).
I’ve never found that number substantiated anywhere.

But we agree that the Church is tight with its money. I just argue that’s a good thing...
> As far as I can tell Brex literally just “lends” money to people that already have money. It hasn’t been clear to me that they’re even involved in any kind of actual issuance of debt in a meaningful sense at all.

It's exactly the same as Chase lending an individual Google engineer $5k for free for the month on his Visa card despite the engineer having $50k in his savings account already.

They make money on the interchange.
Do you know what separates greats from regular folks?
I'm sure wordpad and paint will come back when they find a way to cram IAPs into them. On that note...no...no I doubt candy crush will be going anywhere.
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Yes. I recently took a couple of days to get it working.

It is brain numbing. I feel like I am writing code that has been written a million times.
I wrote for them too. My book was published last May.

I made a similar workflow to you. I wrote using vim and markdown, then used pandoc to convert to HTML. I then wrote some scripts to mangle the HTML to something more compatible with Packt's system (adds some class names and the like).

Regarding sales, they send me royalty statements for each quarter about 3 months after the quarter's end. For example, my book was released in May. I didn't get my first statement until the end of September. My last statement is dated Dec 31st, and it covers July-September 2019.

You can also setup an Amazon author account and get Amazon sales numbers much more quickly. Just go to https://authorcentral.amazon.com/ and create an account. You'll then have to verify that you're the author of your book, but it's pretty straight forward.
Atomic clock timing services that existed before GPS didn't use leap seconds either. GPS time is related to TAI time, which is based on absolute elapsed time so it slowly drifts away from UTC when leap seconds get added. IIRC, GPS time is just TAI/TT time with a different epoch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Gate

> The "Eye of the Needle" has been claimed to be a gate in Jerusalem, which opened after the main gate was closed at night. A camel could only pass through this smaller gate if it was stooped and had its baggage removed. This story has been put forth since at least the 15th century, and possibly as far back as the 9th century. However, there is no widely accepted evidence for the existence of such a gate.[7][8]
I'm extremely skeptical of the study you linked about magnetic alignment and sleep latency.

Just looking at table 6 (the only table related to the only association stated significant), the stats for South-North sleepers look noticeably better than the stats for North-South sleepers. I'm no statistician, but just look at it. The South-North sleepers sample, versus the North-South (supposedly best) sleepers, has proportionately three times more people experiencing zero days weekly of difficulty getting to sleep, two-thirds as many people having even one day of difficulty, two-thirds as many people having two days of difficulty... and 50% more people having three days of difficulty, but even then, we're talking only four people each among a group of 47 vs a group of 35. Again, I'm no statistician, but does that last and smallest column overshadow the three much bigger columns with the opposite trend, to the point of being a 1 in 1000 result assuming the null hypothesis?

Furthermore, the sleep measures were self-reported, through the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory (PSQI), which I quote:

>In Iran, Tehran psychiatry institute assessed the validity and reliability of the Farsi version
of this questionnaire with 89.6% for sensitivity and 86.5% for specificity.

Did the math behind this eye-catching <0.001 p-value take into account that the questionnaire used was measured to have a 10.4% false negative rate and a 13.5% false positive rate? I find it hard to believe. But I'd love to see a statistician who actually knows how to interpret these numbers tell me that I'm wrong.
If only Paint 3D wasn't a buggy convoluted mess.

Paint, to me, is like Notepad. A very low level tool to accomplish basic image manipulation, like Notepad is a low level tool to accomplish basic text manipulation.

I never see either tool going away. I have better tools installed (e.g. Paint.Net) but still go to Paint for basic image manipulation/cropping, because it is fast/simple.
CoreOS and Kube are not mutually exclusive. The first k8s cluster I ever ran was on CoreOS.
Not parent poster, but I use zsh-histdb [0] to keep my history in an SQLite database.

There is also Historian [1] for bash, and a bunch of other suggestions in the discussion thread on it on HN [2]

[0]: https://github.com/larkery/zsh-histdb

[1]: https://undertitled.com/2017/04/12/historian-because-please-...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14103688
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> Lots of debt, all given to tech startups, which will almost all go bust with the first recession. Let's see, what does that remind me of?

So will all of the equity. I'm against debt in general as a means of funding and financing because it dissasociates the interest of the debtor with the creditor. But having debt as an option functions as a great competitor to equity based funding, which means that it gives founders more leverage to get better deals in either system.

Note that people out there are parking money in negative interest rate bonds today: wouldn't that money be better served in low yield-AAA debt on tech companies that have the business model to back it?
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Voice Tech Inc
Type: Corporation for Profit
Entity #: 1551867
Partner: MICHAEL D. GOLLER
Partner: STUART E. GOLLER
Agent: MICHAEL D. GOLLER, 2204 BLUEGRASS LANE, CINCINNATI OH 45237
Filed: 06/21/2005

Who are the Goller's? https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-e...

Jewish deli owner family. Now making a living as trolls.

Here's a photo of them: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-e...

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/s-e-goller
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Aren't SAFEs effectively debt?
I only have three applications permanently pinned to my Taskbar and one of them is Notepad. I use it almost thoughtlessly as a scratchpad, clipboard cleaner, note taker.
I believe slips this knot by making any uploader responsible for securing rights from every person in any picture they upload, no?
I believe the "associative array" terminology came from Perl. Though Perl's associative arrays don't have any guaranteed order. And Perl also has normal arrays.
That is not known to have a solution.

It's a human coordination and cooperation problem on a global scale.
"...visiting an address given to them by the church"

If that person is really an "ex-member" (meaning they had their name removed from the church's records), then this simply could not have happened, at least not in the name of the church. I've seen firsthand what happens to a congregation's records when someone removes their name (no surprise - their name, address, etc are removed from the list, and there's no conspiracy of tracking people behind their backs as you seem to imply).

That said, it's certainly possible that someone was operating on old data or otherwise mistaken (maybe the person visiting just asked another neighbor about the person who lived there, not knowing the history, but trying to be friendly?), but I can assure you that the church would not give someone a name and address of an ex-member who's had their name removed from the records.

ADDED: To respond to a couple of replies here: I suspect the church's central records (in SLC) may retain some data about ex-members (I have no firsthand experience there one way or another) - at least where permissible by local privacy laws, but I've dealt with records at the congregation level for years (which is what missionaries or other members would use to contact someone), and I can definitively say that ex-members' info is removed from those records (not just marked as "inactive" or otherwise). Does that mean you will never be contacted by a member of the church again in your life? Absolutely not (for reasons explained above that have nothing to do with the church's records). You will have the same chance of being contacted by a well-meaning member or missionary as anyone else in your vicinity (which is more than many people realize).
The problem is access/exit points to the surface.

Graded ramps are high capacity but take up a lot of space since the grade can't be all that steep.

Elevators don't take up a lot of space but are really slow, and have worse reliability issues due to the moving parts.

How many spots on the surface exist that you could just take a chunk out of for either? Most land in existing cities is already being used for buildings or roads or sidewalks.
The true comparison is

def parent_function():
def output_function_b(x, y):
return (x + 23) * y

return lambda x,y: (x + 23) * y, output_function_b
>This is like saying "we dont need regulations in meat packing, every individual can become educated in butchery cleanliness and track the supply chains for the products they buy and everything will be better!"

People say this kind of thing all the time, even on HN. It's a libertarian saw that the FDA is unneccesary and obstructionist. Personally I think it's deranged, but apparently it's an ideological battle that's still being fought.
Glowforge seems like the opposite extreme from "open source", though; even an iPhone or an XBox works when the internet goes down.
I read somewhere that IMAP was a concern, but I see that almost everything is encrypted (Apple has description keys) in transit and on their servers. Some data is also end to end encrypted so Apple can not decrypt it (like passwords, health data, etc.).

I don’t remember everything at least being encrypted in transit and on their servers, perhaps that is relatively new?

I wonder why they don’t go all the way and have every5ing encrypted end to end.
It's great, I tried replacing it a few times with apps but it just did not feel right, sometimes pen and paper is just faster
Viruses might as well be alien nanobots created to spread and "engineer" life around the universe.
There was a very good blog post about this by Silvia Botros, though she uses "principal engineer" as the label:
https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-e...
It definitely gets fuzzy. While the CPU family is the same, the overall system architecture is very different. For starters, the PS4 "south bridge" is almost an embedded system in its own right. It's also debatable to what extent shader translation overlaps with "emulation", because there are several different vendor/stack-specific notions of IRs and "precompiled" shaders that don't necessarily map well to the ISA vs. implementation distinctions that exist on CPUs.
Licensing and processing are entirely orthogonal rights. The former does not grant the latter under the GDPR framework.
I don't care about analyzing the data afterwards. When I open the notebook and see that I've only had one glass of water, it motivates me to drink another, until I get around 8 in one day.

I've read https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-ana..., have used Seinfeld calendar apps, and bought productivity tools... all with no luck.

I have an addictive personality so I could easily sit in front of the computer and write code for days on end and not take care of myself. This little physical book and pen is the only thing that's brought me back to reality and kept me on track!
16 million members claimed, closer to 20%-30% attend, maybe 20% of that figure pay substantial amounts (excluding children, impoverished, most families are single-income homes due to Mormon doctrine, etc.)
Your bank's bill pay involves someone sending a physical check?

In Canada, we have "bill pay" for utility, property tax, credit card, etc. but all that happens is your bank transfers money to the biller's account. The biller pays a bit for this service but evidently much less than the cost of handling physical checks as I've never seen a surcharge for it. Even the small town of 3,000 I live in is set up to receive property tax and water payments through this system.
They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.
Is this an issue of RedHat just buying and killing a competitor?
My process has been pick up the handle, hit the grade button, attempt to start pumping since the pay at the pump machines started to roll out a couple decades ago.

This used to work for probably better than half of them due to the fact that they had pay after pumping policies for the cash customers. Hardly ever works anymore, but I keep doing it and sometimes am surprised, while on a road-trip out in the country, when it works. OTOH, I also tend to stop at old crotchety gas stations on principal and have been known to make a U turn if a station has pumps that look like they are older than a couple decades. A few years ago, I stopped at one where there was a $3 taped over one of the digits. I asked the owner about it, apparently his pumps could only charge .01-$1.50 (or some range like that) so every-time gas prices went over or under some threshold he had to physically flip some mechanical gear in the pump and get the state to come back out and recertify the pump. This of course apparently cost more than the poor guy was making in gas, so he was saying that likely the next time it happened he would simply shutdown.
In my Emacs setup org-mode has at least two reproducible bugs(that I know of) and one feature that's obviously implemented in a more complicated way than necessary.

That said it is a fantastic package with some great ideas.
No, I didn’t misunderstand anything. The “real experts” are saying that the denominator (number of infected) is likely much higher than official numbers. But they are not saying that the numerator (deaths) is accurately represented by official figures. Deaths are easy to count if you only count deaths of confirmed infected people. There’s plenty of evidence that people are dying outside of the medical system, and that China is not accurately reporting all deaths from within the medical system as being caused by the virus.

In short, we have no idea, and it’s very dishonest to claim that either number is remotely reliable at this point.
CSS bloat belongs somewhere on the list. Thankfully, actual, pragmatic and standards-based solutions (proper design systems, treatment of layout as a first-class concern, and component-scoped CSS-in-JS) are finally emerging.
Microsoft is confused.
Yeah like 90% of the live Linux distros would be much smaller if they cut GIMP and LibreOffice
Is there some way of simulating expression-based "let" in Python? Without that lambdas are very weak.
What makes software hard is the messiness of the human real world: time zones, keyboard layouts, languages, Unicode, GDPR, SOX compliance, etc, etc.
I don’t necessarily agree.

Look at n2n or userbase, they’re open source and can be self hosted.

Other nocode tools can follow suit, and can be federated.

I agree with the other comment that this can have the same effect as the one Excel had during the past decades (there are companies running completely on Excel).

At the moment though, the tools feel too limited.
But Glowforge doesn't give you an open source laser cutter; rather the opposite extreme — their product is nonfunctional without its constant surveillance-capitalism umbilical back to the mothership. This is like suggesting buying a motorcycle to someone who's looking for a bulldozer.
That banking wet dream used to be subject of this article, Switzerland! As long as you had enough money.
Maybe I don't want an electron based text editor gobbling up hundreds of megabytes of ram when a native one using a few megabytes works just fine?
I use Evernote just like a folder with sub-folders and files in those sub-folders. For instance, I have my main folder, a folder to keep things of my workplace, a folder for generic notes, a folder for personal things, a folder for my monthly-semester-anual planning, etc., etc.

What I do that really has been working very well for me is maintaining a list of things to do for the next weeks (usually for the next 2/3 months). I have a list with items for my work, and generic life items.

For instance, my work list has something like:

Week 10/Feb
- SO: Prepare exam (print)
- SO: Hold project discussions (Thursday, 10h)
- CD: Prepare next semester (generic overview)

Week 17/Feb
- ...

My personal list has things such as:

Week 10/Feb
- SIM: do accounting
- Ophthalmology (17h30)
- ...

Every week I grab the information from those weekly lists and add to my TODO file. My TODO file is where I split the weekly items through the days:

Monday
- SO: Prepare exam (print)
- SIM: do accounting

Tuesday
- ....

My TODO file comes from a template with recurrent items already set in their respective days, so I never miss recurrent things..

All in all, my system is like a calendar and todo list in the same place. I don't like to use two or three apps to do my planning.

Eventually I would like to get rid of Evernote mainly because I have to delete older items to keep my scroll to a minimum (and so, I lose all information about my previous weeks and todo lists)..
Turns out that this is true, but you need four COMPLEX numbers. Not that that would have been something that von Neumann would have scoffed at. Source: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep...
A fascinating episode about plants and sound: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/smart...
Well a fresh Windows install actually contains far less apps or useful software compared to a typical Linux distribution install. The bloat is almost certainly because of OEM rubbish.
Take the people (and LAWYERs) out of the equation and software becomes much simpler.
Ask HN: Embedded software engineering jobs in Utah
I'm thinking of relocating to Utah (Salt Lake City most likely) and was wondering what the job market looks like up there.
Checking the usual suspects (Glassdoor etc) there do seem to be a fair number of openings. I'd like to get some insight or recommendations from people on the ground if possible. Even a good recruiter referral (someone who has good contacts in the embedded market space) would be welcome.
> Matthew 19:24, direct 'quote' from Jesus: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Seems pretty clear.

Organizations aren't people. Organizations don't enter the kingdom of God; people do. Wealth sitting around and growing in organizational coffers doesn't belong to any one person.

Jesus praised the widow for paying a 100% tithe into organizational coffers.
They do the same before lying down. It's never been understood exactly why that is.
so someone that spent 12 years writing brilliant APIs and implementations, advanced the state of their field and their company's business, but they are fairly mediocre at being team players (not going to name names and get into flamewars but I can certainly come up with a half dozen famous names off the top of my head), they're ...junior engineers?
I know "no recognizable genes" is in the title, but it's misleading. They're recognizable as genes, but never seen before:

> When the team sequenced its genome, none of its genes matched any scientists had come across before, the group reports on the bioRxiv preprint server.
Yeah, BTC limited the block size, so transaction cost went through the roof. Thankfully there are many alternatives. BCH is great.
Sequoia Expands Seed Investing Team as Rivals Loom
Salesforce got it partially right. To be somewhat cynical, the trick is to enable no-code, but (a) make it just borderline user-hostile enough that you foster an entire marketplace of no-code consultancies to no-code for companies too busy and frustrated to no-code themselves, and (b) ensure everything is extensible with actual code. They got (a) balanced perfectly, but (b) is somewhat lacking, and it didn't have to be. Someone who builds the no-code-but-you-can-drop-to-code consulting network will be the next Salesforce + Oracle combined, and will empower a lot of people around the world.
And then we had to wait 10 minutes for a program to load over cassette tape with a significant failure rate.
There’s a reasonable conversation to be had about when to spend and when to save. I don’t pretend to have all the answers there.

But as someone on the inside, I’ll say this: local congregations have very strict budgets allotted to them, but the welfare component of the budget is essentially unlimited. Local leaders are encouraged (and it is part of their mandate) to “seek out the poor”. Most individual welfare happens at the local level, and local leaders are not expected to limit their assistance to the money the local unit pulls in. This is a simplification of the process, but welfare assistance is one of the few places where local leaders are not given explicit caps.

For a very centralized organization they give a lot of leeway to local leaders to let assess local needs.
Blockchain scaling is still a very active area of research, and anyone (like GP) telling you there's a battle-tested solution available today to replace Visa is lying to you.

On the precise issue of transaction cost predictability, I think most solutions would revolve around creating a market for the ability to execute future transactions. There's a hackish project on Ethereum doing just that: https://gastoken.io/
Something like a hospital opening, and suddenly having a pile of patients to test, should result in a small spike in that graph. A quarantine being enacted in a city should cause a change in angle of the curve.
Yeah,those machines were expensive at the time...