skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered moving, even if only temporarily? Based on your comment, I'm assuming you're talking about the U.S. but it's a huge country and there are many beautiful places you could live which also have decent enough internet to allow remote work.
There is no way it's anything as advanced as MP3.

It's probably a simplistic codec that was originally designed for speech and not music, which would explain the crappy audio.

There are a bunch of specialised microcontrollers designed for toys with like a 4bit CPU, a few GPIOs, 64 bytes of ram and a big massive mask ROM (like a few hundred KB) to hold audio data. They are designed for toys were you press a button and the doll speaks a random catchphrase. One of the common chips in the era was the Winbond "PowerSpeech", which used 4-bit ADPCM at 6khz, 8khz, or 12khz

I think Tiger just took one of these MCUs, picked the biggest mask ROM available and put a single 60 second music clip on it.
It's not big jackets. It's the jacket etiquette. You must take the jacket off, otherwise it'll be too warm with all the people crammed in there and you will sweat, essentially making the climate in the car worse & smelly, then going outside where you'll get sick, since you're now wet. I don't get why people choose to suffer.

I will wake up at 5 to avoid that and the masses on public transport if I actually have to go to the office.
Good news, safe array access is coming in TS 4.1

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
I do, using it to type this.

It runs almost everything that I would want to use, the only extra application that I need is a customized version of the Eclipse IDE.
> often mis-accounting for the deprectiation of using their own vehicle.

How is that a government concern? Or, how is that your concern? Drivers know what they’re doing and if they don’t, they’ll be out of business. That’s how markets work. Nobody is forced to ride or drive Uber.
> Taxation is just the price of the basket of services a government offers to its citizens.

No, those are user fees.

> We don't deduct prices of other goods & services (food, clothing, rent, transportation) from our salaries before paying taxes on them, do we?

Yes, we do, with a choice to take a simplified default amount.

But with SALT, I think the better argument is that the absence of the deductions (or limitations on them, which work the same way at some point) causes federal taxation to artificially incentivize low-tax state policy since it can switch policies from net expected positive to net expected negative value before to after consideration of federal taxation, whereas with SALT deeuctibility federal income taxation does not have any effect on the direction, only the magnitude, of expected value of state tax and spending policy.
Fellow Minnesotan here, also dreading the lack of social release valves. I can confirm that there are hiking opportunities in the winter though, and I'm sure the trails of county and state parks will be especially well kept and trafficked this year.

Another hobby I'm looking to pick up to offset the loss of a gym is winter biking. I purchased an electric bike last year and have thoroughly enjoyed riding it long distances in the warmer months on the local trails. I hear that many of the trails are plowed in the winter, so I'm hoping to find safe places to use it that can avoid the ever-present ice.
You'd lose Costco's Kirkland brand, which is one of those rare instances of the store brand often being better than the name-brand.
I've been working on adapting Two Noble Kinsmen for performance, and boy, it's not a good piece. I haven't been counting it in my quest to perform every Shakespeare play, since it's not included in the First Folio. I've been treating it as a Fletcher play with some Shakespeare touching-up.

Not that every word Shakespeare wrote was gold. He wrote some real stinkers, especially when it comes to the comedies, which this one kinda-sorta is. (Spoiler alert: it ends with both a death and a marriage.) It's clunky and confused, and none of the poetry is the least memorable. I do find the very tail end of the jailer's daughter's story very sweetly written, but the rest of her plot is so horrifying that I'm tempted to simply drop it entirely. It has no bearing on the main plot.

Still, it's nifty to know that somebody in Spain wanted this play so early on.
This guide [0] is intended for digitizing books, but it can lead you to some places. If you can get your scans to a PDF (e.g. with a scanner or a smartphone app), you can always try OCRmyPDF [1] to perform the OCR for you.[2] has some tips, but try to look for an older version in Wayback Machine, as I think it has been condenses for the worse.

[0] https://www.natecraun.net/articles/linux-guide-to-book-scann...

[1] https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[2] https://colinpurrington.com/tips/lab-notebooks/
>There a GC'd language with modern features should do best.

There's still a market for more performant and predictable networked services. It's a bit too early for a full-fledged post explaining the feature in detail, but as far as I know Zig is the only language that can do async/await and at the same time ensure that when memory limits are reached, the system still behaves correctly (i.e. you can preallocate upfront the memory you need to instantiate a coroutine and, if that fails, you can gracefully return a 500 http error code).

Serious webdev is out there, and when SREs talk about the importance of predictability and low-variance in metrics, they aren't (just) writing content for marketing purposes.
Having spent time in various winter locations in Canada, I found...

-35c in Iqaluit? Or northern Alberta? Cold, but actually enjoyable. (Admittedly, that changes during extreme winds or blizzard conditions)
-15c in Ontario? Frigid, slushy and nasty.

The difference - many northern regions are actually considered desert climate zones due to the low humidity. However - extreme cold can be a bit more dangerous as without that humidity, people may not cover the tips of their nose/ears properly (if a newbie), so - those can get frost-bite more often than in southern regions.
As others said, we’re figuring out pricing during beta but hope to keep it in-line with pricing for Workers KV. And it may be possible for us to get pricing even lower than that.
Can't read it either, but my first guess from the parent comment's quotes was that the story was saying competitors can't:

1. buy ads for amazon product-name keywords to compete with amazon by also selling amazon products.

2. buy ads for amazon product-name keywords to compete with amazon by selling one's own non-amazon products.
That's on corruption, as you said. I doubt we don't have money for at least decent healthcare. I'm not talking Western standards, just:

- clean hospitals

- punctual appointments

- basic services covered
I am skeptical of dismissing the "red pill" entirely. Feynman tested being jerk to get laid and it had worked for him. However he did not continue being jerk because he found it hard to be against his nature or he had moral dilemma about it. I forgot exactly why he stopped using the method
Amazon has 5% of retail.

Walmart is still larger.

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/331054/report...

Geeks have been complaining for decades that companies shouldn’t be able to patent stuff because “it’s on the internet”. Why limit the relevant market to “on the internet”?
Not to mention that modern district heating is super efficient thanks to modern isolation methods on all the pipes & you have a huge flexibility of prpducing the heat - combined gas steam cycle, waste incineration or extra heat from thermal or even nuclear power plants.
The quotes are actually a really useful feature. I generally try to avoid putting spaces in filenames, but it can be unavoidable. It helps when copying and pasting file names to other commands.
Under my proposal, all justified military actions aligned with those in your link would be considered good and necessary, and censored only if necessary for military secrecy or to avoid alarming people. All atrocities committed by those aligned to other sides should be considered acts of terrorism, and of course it should be illegal to cover up evidence of such war crimes. Easy!
This has been my experience as well. Drier Scandinavian winters I experienced (one as low as -25C) felt easier to deal with than the constant damp, grey central Europe winters I live through now.
I was actually talking about the UK (since it's a guardian article). I actually live in Vermont in the US, which is currently much more like northern Norway than England.
"you can expect that costs for storage will be cheaper than existing services like AWS DynamoDB or Google Cloud Firestore"

That's a great lead for pricing.
I highly recommend the Lily58 if you like something approaching a 60% in terms of available keys, but in a small form factor.
Linux++ [Issue 24] with Eric the IT Guy from Red Hat and Sudo Show
I really like the Zig approach of improving the tooling for manual memory management rather than replacing manual memory management.

I think Rust is a great, worthy language, and for a lot of use-cases it makes sense to optimize for trying to just put everything on the stack, but there are a lot of other cases where what you really want to do is own allocation by yourself instead of trusting it to the compiler. I haven't tried Zig, but I really want to see if it can deliver on this.
Someone must be getting all the money that corporations save in the US in contrast to Norway...
I missed your Show HN a few months ago for the Logo Search. That thing is awesome!

Most of the ones I've come across in the past are great for finding logos for companies in the tech-sphere, but fall short outside of that. This one seems to have a whole lot more comprehensive coverage.
this is incredibly cool. your friend should do a Show HN post!
On my end I wish I had the knowledge to make a similar clock but synced to GPS time, allowing to set the timezone and DST using DIP switches on the back.

It could work anywhere a GPS signal can be locked, no need for an Internet connection.
I don't know where the commenter is, but the source article is from the UK, where many commentators are expecting a second lockdown next month.
I'm talking mostly about cost. Technical efficiency is a nice to have but we are not short on square meters generally.

In any case, I've read several articles lately that are talking 10-30% efficiencies through in the context of various research projects. Some of those things indeed sound a bit wild/far out but not implausible. Most of this is early research. But generally what we have in the market today is not even close to being the final answer or even close to the theoretical limit of what is possible of stuff people work on in labs right now. I'd call 1% a distinct lack of imagination or ambition.

Cost is a whole different matter. Economies of scale and new processes & materials can accomplish a lot. E.g. organic molecules printed on any surface even at a reduced efficiency could end up being so dirt cheap to produce and deploy that it still ends up cheaper per kwh.

If somebody produces something half as efficient but 20 times as cheap, we'd still get 10x more energy for my money. You get cost improvements in all parts of the production process, installation, and operation. IMHO the combination of new solar cell types, ways to produce them, and ways to do that with cheaper materials can over time certainly get us to an order of magnitude cost improvement; if not far more.
I think it’s more individualistic. I switched to ortho (Kinesis Advantage), and it only took a couple days to get back to my prior typing speed.
Thanks for that! He lived long enough to see Windows 95 and the early internet - wonder what he made of all of that.
They're cheaper because they're not "brand name". That doesn't mean the not brand name option needs to be owned by the retail store.
List of Reduplicated Place Names
It does sound logical but as someone living in Denmark I can attest that it would have to be pretty far north. Winter in Denmark is almost always grey and rainy and little snow.
Yeah, it's dark when you go to the office and it's dark when you leave for the day. Luckily I have a couple of colleagues that enjoy a brisk lunch walk, which at least gives some exposure to the sun during the day.

In Sweden, a winter a couple of years ago, I had just dropped off my son at pre-school. I was waiting on an outdoor subway station platform at 8 AM, listening to "Towards the Sun" from the movie Home. When she sings "Turn your face towards the sun" I looked up into the pitch black sky with tiny snowflakes that fell down stretching into infinity. The contrast was so complete that I'll never forget it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdO9cc7WOyE
Totally. But as a Canadian living in the northern most major city in North America fall is a mourning period and a mental preparation for the long trudge.
I definitely don't think "western" was the right term for it.
How does that have anything to do with my point that if the Democrats and Republicans agree on something unconstitutional it will happen anyways?

Both that can be true and it can also be true that the Chinese government is worse to their own citizens.
I think your point was fair and your approach is just as well. The reality is that we don't have a gigantic amount of resources right now. We don't have Google or Mozzilla backing the project, so most information out there is contributed by community members on their free time.

Take a look at other content by Andrew (https://andrewkelley.me) or from Zig SHOWTIME if you want to lazily evaluate Zig :)
Some of us grew up in a mild socialist/communist regime, in where leaders thought they can more wisely spend the fruit of your labour than yourself. So we emigrated to a country that supposed to be free.

In the UK, a middle class earner already pays 40% income tax + 20% VAT + 13.8% NI, that's a neat 73.8% to the community already (not to mention the extra taxes, like the Council Tax or extra duties when you pour a gin). The labour wanted to increase this by 5-25 percentage point. What is communism, if not the political ruling that strips the common people to build up wealth?
I've been using split keyboard my entire career. Started to get pain in my hands during my internships so I bought an MS Ergo keyboard and never looked back.

Used the sculpt for a while which I adore but I had to go back to MS's wired keyboard because the dang thing just doesn't want to stay connected to my Mac.
Apple never banned “Amazon Prime”. Apple wanted Amazon Prime from day one. Why wouldn’t Apple want Amazon Prime on Apple TV’s when it already existed on iOS devices ?
Eh, a few buttons had slightly lower accuracy than on a staggered, when I first started, but it was pretty easy.

I was at full typing speed within a few days. Main problem was getting used to the custom locations of modifiers (e.g. thumb clusters).
Their algorithm is their speech.

If users had to address their videos to each other and they were delivered FIFO without priority, I would agree that they would be neutral.

But TikTok (and all social networks) are using algorithms to promote some content and demote others. This algorithm is an extremely powerful voice.

In 2016-2018, everyone was concerned about foreign countries influencing the election by running bots/ads on Facebook. Following the election, there were many policies put into place to try to prevent this bad behavior [1]. Fast forward to 2020 and there is documented proof of a foreign country controlling a social media algorithm and we aren't concerned?

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2018/12/inside-feed-coordinated-in...
I know the feeling. A nice fire comes pretty close though. Just don't forget your vitamin D supplements :)
So then yes, it would be easier
"If you think Darwin’s preeminence will save him from the mob, look at the scientists and philosophers who have already been canceled for holding the views of their own age rather than ours: Sir Francis Galton, Sir Ronald Fisher, H. C. Yarrow, and Carl Linnaeus. Voltaire is condemned because he saw Africans as "children," Immanuel Kant because he ranked the races of the world, with whites at the top and indigenous Americans at the bottom."

I've been doing the Census in the evening for a little extra cash, driving around rural Ohio my observations have been that people in the US are not a rational bunch. What I am seeing is a backlash against recent liberal advances. I'm feeling it myself. The other day I was describing a book to my girlfriend and used the word "female" for the female character. She told me, and I QUOTE, "You need to stop using the word female, its derogatory, especially when a male uses it." I think this quote perfectly sums up the end of reason in the US.
It’d be nice if they restricted sponsored ads from all the fraudulent third-party sellers.
My company is pretty small, and actually they were happy. Sorry to hear that didn't work out for you.
“West” is a vague notion that is neither coherent nor consistent. It’s particularly annoying because it’s named after a geographic concept, even though the selection criteria (as much as it exists) is socio-political.

The big giveaway here is that we now consider the great Greek writers as part of the “Western Canon”, while the Greeks and the Romans of the time considered the Greeks to be eastern. Oh and the byzantines are considered mostly considered to be Greek speaking easterners, even though they considered themselves to be Romans and the name “Byzantine Empire” was created long after it fell.

It’s a very confusing thing.
Why the fuck does this become a dick measuring contest? What do you personally gain from being comparatively exploited in the US? Why do you fall for that propaganda when income disparity is only getting worse in the US?
Google News app offers multiple perspectives around news events under a button. Fox, WSJ, CNN and Bloomberg coverage on the last Trump rally.
This is helpful, thanks for sharing. Hope you’re enjoying the new role.
I would not be surprised if some countries started blocking all the known DoH resolvers as well.
Do you expect data transfer (bandwidth) to still be free?
Machine-learning nanosats to inform global trade
> it's important to let the programmer be precise about whether they want locking (or not) or buffering (or not)

Or whether the function accepts naked types as parameters or error unions!

The debug namespace is indeed the right place for a wholly generic print. The first day I took Zig out for a spin, std.debug.warn briefly confused me by eating errors and printing their name instead of (as I expected for a short minute) giving a runtime error.

This is a good design decision for the debug namespace, but you don't want a regular call to print() to take an unwrapped error without complaint!
Notability is pretty good. It's not too fancy, but it's very fast and Ginger Labs has continually added new features.
All tires are fine to lower the pressure on, to a point where the sidewalls don't yet start bending and twisting.

Factory (= cheap) highway tires have weak sidewalls, so if you drop PSI too low they'll tear the sidewall pretty easily, or slip off the wheel. Off-road tires have stronger sidewalls.

Many American car owners have never even put on a spare tire. Telling that crowd to start lowering their tire pressure is a recipe for damaged tires.
Good for you, but that really doesn't add much to the discussion...

Norway has > 800x the oil reserves per capita of France and has not gone through what you could call a political crisis over the past few years regarding aligning the spending level of its welfare state with the economic and budgetary realities, with years of protests and riots, some of which are still ongoing. In the face of this it's quite a bold move for France to go from zero to 28 days for the sake of benefiting gender norms and family relationships in the long-term.

Norway, a rich country of just 5 million people, cannot be used as a comparison without noting all some of the budgetary context. Not just in this discussion, but more broadly on HN. If you're talking about something relatively budget-neutral like say 'same-sex marriage should be able to adopt children, just look at XYZ (e.g. Norway), it works just fine', that's alright. But if you're saying or implying something which has a lot of costs involved like 'fathers should get at least 4.5 months of paid parental leave as a rule, not an exception, just look at Norway' then you can't just leave out cost from the discussion, it makes no sense.

Obviously all of us would prefer long-term paid parental leave, arguing it's nice to have adds nothing to the discussion because there is already universal agreement. Arguing it's worth having, is an entirely different and much more meaningful discussion, but it cannot be be had without weighing the pros against the cons, the biggest one is cost.

And I say this coming from the Netherlands, an also quite rich country that I'd love to see as a model for many other countries. But such discussions should include budgetary context, among others.
I don't think we can call it "automatic handling", you just play by the borrow checker's rules. Automatic are the garbage collectors but not Rust's model.

Anyway, you can verify the critical part of your C/Ada program by using:
Why3 http://why3.lri.fr/
Frama-C http://frama-c.com/ (which is also extensible)
SPARK https://www.adacore.com/about-spark

One company that I've worked for used generators, they were specifying the model with a DSL and they generated the code based on that. Can't give more information about that but there are others doing the same (SpaceX and NASA). Rust is very good for people that don't have the resources and money to throw at or are working in an industry where they don't need a certification, for example I have friends at Amazon in Romania that build Firecracker, a virtual machine that is supposed to improve the safety story on AWS Lambda.

And as an answer for your second question, at what cost? Also we don't know if Rust gets the scaling right. The compiler is already slow for the size of projects we already have.
Even for the most safety-critical software Zig might be easier to get it done. Or maybe not -- nobody knows. As someone who once worked on safety-critical software, the system could kill people if a computation took too long or gave a wrong answer exactly as much as due to undefined behaviour. Is it better to eliminate undefined behaviour at the cost of making other kinds of testing more difficult? Hard to say.

Rust's approach is based on one guess re correctness, Zig's on another. My personal guess is that Zig's approach is ultimately more effective at reaching correctness, but I could be wrong. There's no way to know which is better by thinking about it -- correctness is just too complex a subject.
They still source their products from the same manufacturers as the brand products. It is just the label or the fragrance that is slightly different. In Amazon’s case it sources it’s copied product from different manufacturers. So once you get a successful product you cloned by a powerful Amazon. And Amazon can always do it cheaper than you.