skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel like I'm in the minority of those who love SoundCloud. It's one the very few places for indie music makers and DJs to showcase their work that otherwise may not necessarily be published via the official publishing channels. That includes e.g. long running DJ mixes, not exactly the type of material for the official release bureaucracy and associated costs.

Soundcloud is indeed great for mixes and sets. They have valuable and unique content, yet the product remains very barebones and lackluster. Poor audio quality (still 128 kbps MP3 I think?), no concept of tracklists/timestamps and most importantly your playback position and queue isn't persistent. This is crucial for a medium used to listen to hours long mixes - as a user I expect to be able to pause and pick up my currently playing set later, on any device.

The lack of this feature basically forces me to manage my playback queue in a different tool, like a note taking or todo app. I estimate that I have countless unfinished sets in my history that I simply forget to finish since once you close your browser window/app the content is basically off my radar. Imagine Netflix not saving your viewing progress - it's absurd.

I think Mixcloud is the much better product - it just lacks the vast amount of content (they are gettign there) and numbers of listeners unfortunately. They also have a sound business/pricing model - although that may indeed be a barrier to listener growth.
Elsewhere in this discussion someone said they are finance and operations people.

I think that's moderately useful - doing the work on building financial models or finding operational hacks to solve specific problems can be helpful, and isn't really a thing where it is annoying bringing a person up to speed only for them to leave.
I second this. I was a sysadmin turned devops engineer at a small software company (100/150 employees) for 8 years. Basically the longest employed employee at that point. Knew everything about our systems, infra, software, customers etc. Thought I had a pretty good grasp on what I did.

Got bored after 8 years and now work for a big company as a DBA, and man, I knew so little in hindsight. Having sysadmin knowledge does make working with other teams (like infra) much easier as I feel they respect me more than another colleague but I definitely got put in my place (and love it here!).

Also specializing on databases satisfies me a lot because I feel I'm really grasping the entire tech for real this time and not just the surface.
The D2C Brand Awareness Report
When I need to ensure only one copy to run I never used GUID, I always used some combination of project name + my name + current date + customer name/business. This way is unique and with a personal touch. Also you can make it as long as you want up to MAX_PATH, not the short style that GUID does it.
> I developed them in 3 days, by writing a C program to automatically generate the range of tests.

So they were 10X at that task. Are they like that, consistently, all the time? Maybe next time it's another person's turn to have the insight on how to drastically simplify the task.

This is not "10x people" at all then. This is a "10x day" or a "10x week" in a fairly normal person.
Charachorder looks cool, though very difficult to learn. I wish someone would make a similar device using strain gauge joysticks (AKA Thinkpad TrackPoint) instead of moving physical switches. You could type with nearly zero finger movement.
In addition to this, you might be interested enough to take note of a number of your banks arbitrary password rules, that one could follow to make similarly negative assumptions. ie;
"hey [bank], because my password is limited to 16 characters, does that mean you've got a varchar(16) column somewhere storing plaintext?"
Not having search results / videos from languages you do not know is a valid concern, but some of the comments on that thread are essentially just racist.

I don't understand the complaints about the English accent being bad either, because there isn't an "ideal" English accent. It's just different. They also come off as extremely entitled. Guess what, everyone accustomed to a non-UK/US accent has to get used to them to actually understand pretty much any content on the web.
a couple of additional pictures would be useful. right now I don't haven't got an idea how to hold it.
fun fact, I went to youtube what Logitech G13 is and the first video that has anyone holding it is not even in top results.
Embedded Meets GitOps
Isn't the latter basically just a projection keyboard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard

So, futuristic from the 90s, was available already and flopped (because it is much more uncomfortable than actual keys).
I was going to ask what they were searching for. I've not seen any videos from India (aside from when I actually was looking for them)
> a woman did NOT make a rape allegation against him in Sweden

The article you linked seems to contradict you. It says a woman accused him of surreptitiously removing a condom while having sex, which would count as rape in my jurisdiction.

The article also recounts testimony of him waking up a woman by penetrating her which would also count as rape in my jurisdiction.
Size and Fit Issue: How to Sell Right Fit and Size to Your Customers?
seems to for me
Has "Real Time Background Removal" already implemented?
Just a side note, but please; on-premises, not on-premise.
Search for anything related to computer science, you will get tons of videos and true enough most of them are very bad quality in both content and language.
> there was a sense that extinction could come simply from a single random error

Agreed, I was there and watched the "Duck and Cover" films in school. That only stopped when leaders realized that surviving the initial blast was one thing, and surviving a month later for most urbanites was unlikely.

> So, through things like the Moral Majority and the efforts of Thatcher and Reagan ... happiness and satisfaction comes only through the pursuit of financial success

I don't see a coherent argument here.

You can ignore Thatcher, since she was the head of a bankrupted, hapless country (Britain had food rationing for 9 years after WW2.)

Reagan was one of the most powerful leaders in world history. He wanted a strong America, both domestically and overseas. Can't really argue with that. We don't like people who utter words like "Evil Empire" [see Prof. Victor Davis Hanson], but somebody has to say it. Just be glad Reagan was on our side.
Microservices Authorization Simplified: Open Policy Agent
Jeff Bezos announced a $10B fund to fight climate change
Which I suppose is an argument that pulling in eleventy thousand oneliners from npm is better than copying oneliners using the editor: At least you can run a batch upgrade without spending real brain cycles.

I'm sure someone has written a thingy to upgrade npm dependencies, rerun tests, and bisect to tell you about the breaking upgrade if anything reaks.

Left-pad, come back, all is forgiven.
>there are no longer any well-defined tasks that a human can outperform a computer in.

If by "well-defined" you mean "complete information", then yes. If by well-defined you mean... well-defined, then no. Humans are better at a lot of things still, including video games for example. OpenAI has been working for years on a DotA AI, and while very technologically interesting, it still can only play (well) with and against a fraction of heroes and mechanics, and even within those limitations humans have quickly been able to find weaknesses and outmaneuver it.

AI really hasn't over the last 5 years (and probably won't during the next 5) changed the world that much. There are some problem domains that saw big interesting leaps (mainly image recognition, image reconstruction and game AI), but that's about it.

Self-driving cars, if they ever come to market properly, will be the biggest change. And that's certainly a big change, but it's not really the "software industry revolutionizing" change that some people seem to expect.
Yes I don't care how they do it as long as they can protect my money.

Likewise, they may use top of the line, super secure lock but if they can't protect my money, I wouldn't use them.
Is this not a setting you can put off? I would say it is a reasonable function if it can be toggled on/off (I would prefer default off, YMMV).
Sounds like a natural primary key.
> It’s common to come across words from many languages, including English, interspersed in conversations.

A bit more than common! If you watch Indian (or at least Hindi) TV, you'll understand about every third word. When I was there a lot of youth would either never use, or even not know what common words were in their native language, say words like problem or college.

That does not mean that they have a good grasp of English though. Vocabulary and sentence structure are different beasts entirely, and had I not known the native language, I would have had much more difficulty understanding English/Hinglish - lots of direct translations just didn't work in English. This is common for pretty much anyone that learns a language, though.
According to my friends in that business, this is already happening. Companies have bought into expensive garbage solutions under the name AI (my pet peeve is chatbots; so many companies got rich on that hype) for millions of $ and are getting slightly allergic to the AI thing.
Ah yes, Magit is still on my list of Emacs things to learn :).
The poster did not say what exactly is his problem with indian videos. Because he did not say if the videos he encounters are not in English.
Curse of the Archived Repository
This also avoids replay attacks. Unless you use a word in which case it can be deduced.
I decided to test this empirically by selecting a computer science topic at random*

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bkz+reduction

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Trwclh_Z4

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EapIVDlhvQU

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cicTG3zeVQ

---- The scrollbar of my browser cuts here ----

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i9BCsHxofE

...

* random may or may not have been influenced by Dual EC
Or it's projecting a strength to entice a Chinese reaction. If the US knows 100% for a fact after burning through a ton of cash our flying technology has reach global maximum. The best strategy would be to act as if you actually have something and let your adversaries burn even more resources trying to achieve the impossible.
Sorry, but you come out terrible "naive".

> On what basis are you claiming that that most teams at FB are optimising the product for well being as opposed to ‘engagement’ (addiction)? Do you have first hand knowledge? Do you know the people involved? Do you have citations?

OP answers this in his first paragraph.

> bla bla I left facebook bla bla

You are arguing that "the algorithm" didn't read your mind and figured out you are actually "mad" at your friend, not simply interacting.

ps: sentiment out of bodies of text is not a terrible old thing, is fairly new.
> Cloud Run that can run a container on-demand for every request

People will bounce back. It will take far too long to load. The point of a static site on a CDN is speed. If your goal is to get outside visitors, then you definitely do not want to do this.

I can understand Cloud Run for demoing small apps though.
Chromium bug potentially overwrites files without warning
> I could easily emulate that by just side-by-siding windows in KDE.

I'm now on i3 (actually Sway), but when I was still using KDE Plasma, I extensively used the "quick tile" global shortcuts for KWin. They're not all bound by default, but you can set them up in System Settings (Global Shortcuts > KWin). I had it set up so that Win+S maximizes the current window (which by itself is quirky), and then every key around S is for a quick tile. For example, Win+Q moves the current window to the upper left quadrant. Win+D has the window occupy the right half of the screen, and so forth.

The only thing that I do miss from KDE times is the full KDE Connect integration. I have kdeconnectd running through some clever trickery, and the sshfs and MPRIS integrations work fine, but e.g. clipboard sharing doesn't work with Sway yet.
Cuttlefish eat less for lunch when they know there’ll be shrimp for dinner
Midori Next Browser
On the other hand LR compilers are fast. That is why golang uses an LR parser.
You can personalize the recommendations by clicking on the 3-dot menu and selecting "Not interested" and/or "Don't recommend channel". It even asks "Tell us why". I'm Indian and I hardly see any Indian videos. Here are my recommendations right now:

https://imgur.com/a/KlSamZA

(Basically Anjunadeep, Patrice O' Neal, and Batman :-) ).

I believe their recommendation ML is top-notch and they keep improving it. For example, it seems to have finally learned that I absolutely effing hate "reaction" videos (it used to struggle with that ~ 1 year ago).
I question the same!
> homework assignment for all programmers reading this thread: Think about how you'd find this bug in your own programs. You copy/paste the code, it seems to work, and you don't realize it's broken because you don't run either of these programs which made the same mistake.

Wait... WHAT??

Who the hell copy pastes code into their program without first examining and understanding what each step is actually doing, how and why the pieces fit together as they do, and how it works as a whole to solve the problem?
> your eyes can only focus on one monitor at the same time anyway

True, but peripheral vision is a thing. I have Slack and stuff on a separate monitor, so I can see from the corner of my eye if there are any unreads.
Asynchronous Easy Pipeline in Android
https://pragprog.com/magazines/2012-03/the-nor-machine
Docker for Windows won't run if the Razer Synapse management tool is running
One of the premises of this thread was him writing the game in x86 assembly.
The author was also a minor player in new journalism circles. He wrote "boys on the bus", an account of working with Hunter S Thompson to cover the 1972 presidential campaign.
I am Indian myself and so many times I have wanted a way to filter out Hindi videos in youtube because a) that's not what I was looking for b) they aren't always that great.

Neither Hindi nor English are my mother tongue. Between the two I am more comfortable in English although I speak a lot of Hindi at home. Some may argue that Hindi is the national language of India. It certainly is a national language. It also happens to be a regional language of some parts of North and central India that by happenstance got branded as a national one.
Yup their recommendation is very good now.
Maybe it's a good thing that common people will finally learn to distrust the kind of propaganda that governments and corporations have been able to sneak into unsuspecting populations since the emergence of mass media.
Not really. A new system means it is not in production yet, so if something goes wrong there is little impact. Breaking the working system doing maintenance can cause lots of problems, so it is seniors who are tasked with changing it.
"I'm beginning to think there are no best practices, only best excuses."

I read it like that at first. Think about it, it's also very true.
I don't know if there is truly such a thing as a 10x programmer, but I have no doubt that 0.1x programmers exist in hordes. Even people who at small scale seem competent can often end up making a complicated mess when dealing with bigger projects.
personally I would rather use something like veracrypt for this (or maybe crypotmator if I needed to access the backup from my phone).

you could even just use the same master password for the veracrypt vault if you didn't want to have to remember another master password.

but anyway, the idea of using two online password managers at the same time seems like it would increase the risk of getting hacked at some point? at least with veracrypt you could keep it offline
Some people on the website are complaining that people are putting their video titles in English but the content is in some other language. This is not a lame attempt to get more clicks, but driven by the fact that: (i) Hindi typing works only somewhat well on mobile phones and does not work at all on most desktops/laptops in India, and (ii) search in languages like Hindi sucks even more. Given that most tech savvy Indians are bilingual anyway, it just makes sense to have titles in English so that people can search for them conveniently.

You'll see this is something even Hindi newspapers do. I pulled these two articles from the front pages of the Dainik Jagran and Dainik Bhaskar, two of the bigger Hindi newspapers: [1] and [2]. Very little of the content, except for the title is in Hindi. This is so that people can search for content using English searches.

[1] https://www.bhaskar.com/bihar/patna/news/prashant-kishor-pol...
[2] https://www.jagran.com/politics/state-up-budget-2020-yogi-ad...
Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud System
Bot Framework SDK for Go – Announced
Batteries with 20% more watt hours for the weight than the rest of the market are certainly not a commodity.
If I were you, I'd build this:

- An interface where people select a subset of artists they like.
- Build a model on the fly with art just from those artists
- Get HQ high res downloads of generated art

Freemium model, with 1 HQ download free and the then $1 per download.
> I feel that the real problem is understanding the Indian accent.

Well there's many more than one. "The Indian accent" is really only a trope on American TV shows.

For instance, your username seems Indian/Bengali (sorry if you're not, just making a point) and I'm Indian/Punjabi and I bet we sound really different. Bengalis stress the first syllable in a word, Punjabis the second; Bengalis stretch the -ee- sound a bit, Punjabis truncate it especially when trailing. These are stereotypes, but they work well enough to place another Indian's state of origin instantly if you just hear their voice on the phone.
Cattle Management Software
you forgot to add /sarcasm
This whole 10x programmers debate is tiring. Why do we even argue over such a dumb thing? OF COURSE THEY EXIST. That is not even debatable. It's a fact of life that there are people who can achieve more than others. It is the case in sports, in politics, in school, and not surprisingly also in tech.

You have football players who play their entire life and they don't progress beyond a hobby team and then you've got the likes of Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

The question is does it give a 10x dev a justification to behave like a dig? No, it doesn't. You still have to be a good team player, just like in a football team a 10x player won't perform well if he/she is pissing off the rest of the team.

So can we stop debabting about facts of life and just get on with it?
Don't let “Magic Enhancer for YouTube” slurp up your browsing history
I would honestly be happy if there was a way to filter out content from Indian users on sites like Quora. And I say this as an Indian.
Apparently Google Translate hasn't had the epiphany that you did yet. What does it mean? :)
How to write a great technical blog post
This version is more complete and contains more technical details on our decision: https://simplelogin.io/blog/we-left-aws/
Sure, you just need to hack into the camera hardware system and inject a browser-specific machine learning library. Easy-peasy
Wasn't it general awareness of the dangers, that did not existed before?

And when it started to rise generations were already addicted and simply a new generation needed to rise and slowly overcome it.

So rather .. a mix of it all? Because even though tobacco is expensive today, that doesn't stop the smokers from smoking. And people have lots of other expensive habits, so money is only a small part of it I believe.
Name one thing that a) we're sure exists, and b) it's so extraordinary that it "can't be explained with a textbook".

The entire progress of humanity came through converting "magic" to "mundane". It's usually called "gaining understanding".
TB3 can embed displayport, even 1.4 with latest versions (allowing for 8k video, though if I remember correctly, it was 60Hz using only one of the "fake" techniques like compression or interlacing, not sure exactly which). The hard bit is finding which chipset a particular device uses and if it will do 8k (more recent ones) or not.

If 8k is supported, so is 5k, which is kinda getting mainstream.
You might want to improve the designs to lengthen the shelf-life, to enable the use of smaller amounts of nuclear and conventional explosives, to increase efficiency and reduce the fallout created and so on. There are many more attributes to nuclear weapons than just how big of a bang they make.
Static sites are faster, more secure and cheaper to host than Wordpress. Comes at the expense of user friendlyness.
> it's only like 10 extra seconds, except those 10 seconds times 20 times a day times a year and now that cost is out of control

10 x 20 x 5 x 47 (or however many weeks you work a year) divided by 3600 is about two days of work, or three minutes per day. Hardly an out-of-control cost. Now how many minutes do you spend on HN or other websites that have nothing to do with work?

The (potentially) bigger cost, but harder to quantify, is the effect of those distracting moments on your working memory, flow, and ability to focus on the task at hand. I, for one, would like to make code appear and things come to view on the screen at speed of thought. I think that just would make it easier to focus on the thing you're actually trying to solve, as opposed to the mechanical work of making the parts of the solution materialize in code.
It's actually impacted your eye fatigue? That's interesting.
> but it is orders of magnitude harder than software development, mainly because of much longer learning feed-back

The order of magnitude point is just wrong. You might argue that it's harder because it's essentially software development and a lot of applied math. But that certainly doesn't account for orders of magnitude difference.
What does the password give access to? Full online banking (e.g. being able to do transactions?). Does login not require any further authentication beyond the password?

If the authentication still requires using some kind of good 2FA then it's less serious to have the password in plaintext. Still bad of course.

If this is for some other service that doesn't let you do any transactions then it's not as serious either (still bad and embarrassing, but not that serious)

Even with properly hashed passwords etc I'd be worried if my bank allowed login with only a username/password and no further security. I didn't think even that was a thing in 2020.
It’s eight cameras, you can’t stream a million cars times 8 cameras at full resolution times 24 hours a day, back to the mothership over 4G. It’d be way too expensive.

You need to do your learning on the car and stream back the error component to the mothership.
>> You could just watch French TV [...]

> It’s still much tougher to come by that one might think.

You could try Arte: https://www.arte.tv/

It's a joint French-German project based on public TV programming from both countries, approximately half of the content is in French.
https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewr... suggests to build a new product without throwing away the legacy one.
- read a number of answers, comments included. Just because an answer is accepted doesn’t mean it’s the best one

Agreed. I find that the "accepted" answer usually gets refined/improved/made more generic after acceptance.

This usually means that the "best" solution over all similar problems is usually further down the list of answers.