skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did it say in the "let's create software" contract that the only acceptable goal was "revolutions or fundamental changes in our relationship to the world" ? As I said in another comment in this thread, I understood the role of computers to be helping humans with tasks they wanted to do by doing things that computers were good at. If that happens to include revolutions or fundamental changes, fine, but it definitely includes a lot of other things too.

You are right that the particular examples of audio software capabilities do not in and of themselves bring anything in particular to music.

But the timestretching stuff has totally changed how huge numbers of people now make music, because they can work with audio that is in the wrong key and/or at the wrong tempo, without really thinking about it.

Do I think that this results in an aesthetic leap forward for music itself? I do not. In fact, probably the opposite in many senses. But that is true of so many human technologies, not just software. Some people would even argue that the advent/invention of well tempered tuning (and the concomittant move away from just intonation) hurt music in the west, and that was just as much the result of "sufficient engineering hours" as anything in the software world.

Also, just to correct you, 20 years ago, I guarantee you that nobody, absolutely nobody, believed that you could ever do polyphonic note editing. When Melodyne first demonstrated it, most people who knew anything about this just had their jaws hit the floor. It was absolutely not an "utterly conceivable consequence", even though in retrospect of course it now all seems quite obvious.
Is the move to Big Sur only worth it if you have an M1 chip?
more than that. They reiterated that they will continue to sell Intel Macs for the next few years. I reckon we'll get another decade at least
> my parents were summarily cowed enough to put me on medication

Sorry to hear that. How did that turn out for you? Any lasting damage?
You and I could conquer Sealand next week if we really wanted to.
Reminder: there is a constant campaign by legacy auto companies and "value" investors that are doing everything they can to get you to part ways with your TSLA shares. Don't fall for it.

If you care deeply about the damage being done with the arctic melting, it is doubly important that the automakers and investment bankers that are trying to pull this off do not succeed.
I see, I guess the article is outdated. I was just going off the 8 states listed there.
The context of this being shared is obvious, but I want to point out that both sides of the American divide right now would likely instinctively identify the other (or their presidential candidate) as the Hitler in this scenario. I say this not to argue that one, or both, or neither, has no reason to make that connection. I say this to illustrate that it's easy to look at superficial signifiers - especially when saturated in fear - and enter the slippery slope of characterization and narrative-building that only deepens said fear, furthering the cycle.

Everyone wants to be able to read the tea-leaves. After World War 2 the world collectively asked itself, "what the hell just happened?" Psychological studies were performed to understand the mechanisms that could lead otherwise-decent people down such a horrifying path. Anecdotes were scrutinized for early warning signs that could have predicted what was to come. And I'm not saying that any of this was a waste.

But the reality is that no two societies, or trajectories, are exactly the same. There never has been and never will be another Hitler aside from Hitler himself. There have been and will be other tyrants, other psychopaths, other societal downfalls, but none of them will be exactly the same as that one was. And we should be very careful about looking at things through that lens, drawing conclusions based on rough impressions. The human mind is very good at squinting until things look right, especially when fear or preconceived notions are involved.

Be aware. Pay attention. There are real dangers to our society right now. But keep your head and don't succumb to blind pattern-matching. Stay focused on our society, and don't lump it in with a perceived archetype.
>Python is more like an overgrown masters level project, not a Nobel prize level by far.

Please find me another "Masters Project" that has 8 Million+ Users and drives the backend for thousands of tech companies worldwide. Good Luck.
This would cover protecting user code from the app code but what can you do to protect code from one user against code from another user? Custom domain for every user?
That's wrong. Frivolous lawsuits made with the intent to overturn a legitimate election result may be legal, but they're incredibly dangerous for the health of our democracy.
Yeah, I could see "ghost kitchens" or "cloud kitchens" like this becoming much more popular in the coming years. For restaurants that primarily focus on their dine-in location, their food often doesn't work very well for delivery, but a restaurant whose sole focus is delivery could ensure the best customer experience.
My most obscure cool one liner...

1. Pointing your webserver to your current directory. Simplifies copying files to your local box.

The simple python 3.x way...

python -m http.server 8001

And the original way I used to do it...

function sfiles() { x=`ipconfig getifaddr en0`;echo $x:8001;ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8001; }

And please use this with *extreme* caution because any files you've got access to on your remote box will have no authentication when they're exposed via HTTP.

My most frequently used one liner...

2. Regex searching files in directories.

grep -inR <keyword> *

The Silver Searcher, aka ag, is better but not natively installed so...
API design is stuck in the past
Currently, It's terribly a mixed bag of broken platform communities and somewhat feel like java era again where huge ads money drives technology and tools. Same vibe of cults, force people to learn inferior framework and re-invent things that do not solve problems. Specially the web industry looks so bad right now. Google and Facebook seem to join force on _that_ javascript framework right now is .. ugghhh I should stop it here.
Android is a Linux distribution and MacOS is a FreeBSD distribution.

There is nothing ironic about that. Users don’t know and don’t care.

Are you equating the presence of the Linux kernel with some notion of software freedom or independence from corporate control?

If all people want to use is a browser, Linux is irrelevant.
I think it's important to draw a distinction between mediawiki, the software, and all of its associated (GPL, BSD, apache) licensed ancillary software, and the administration and content side of wikipedia.

mediawiki is used by a lot of organizations for internal wiki stuff.
Google Maps is so much better and so much more impressive and so much more useful than Ardour that it's not even funny!

Thanks for the plug, even if it feels a bit out of place here (and most of our supporters only pay $1/month, which is fine too).
Just wait until you can only run signed binaries.

As developers and engineers, we ought to be jumping off this platform like a sinking ship. It's clear that they want to lock it down like the iPhone. Why else would they be measuring which apps are in use if they didn't want to control it?

If your argument is "compatibility research", you're missing the other warning signs.
The decision to not use Lidar will really bite them back.

Lidar has gone a lot cheaper than it used to, and Tesla charges $10,000 to activate FSD, they should be able to afford to put some Lidar sensors.
It should be noted that you should contact them about their mistake in the most private way possible, then escalating slowly as the need arises. This follows the "praise in public, punish in private" maxim.
You might be right. There has been laws passed that make it clear use of the word "I'm sorry" does not convey guilt. [0]

[0.] https://www.scmedicalmalpractice.com/blog/2015/08/does-sayin...
Your comment was a very interesting read up until that last paragraph. Seems a bit harsh despite your many valid* points.

Edit: Made typo on mobile.
So that seems like more of an analytics system to me than a protection system, if it can be circumvented so easily.
Yeah there's no better time to go public than now for doordash. The pandemic has boosted their revenue and I suspect it will never reach these all time highs (which is still not enough for them to make profit). So go public and let retail investors hold the bag.
She and her husband have 5 computer repair shops (according to her bio here), so either all of them are doing bad or this is just a small fraction of their income. This is an extremely outlier that you should count for little or nothing in the definition of a policy.
This attitude strikes me as harmful.

1. Why exercise if you never plan on engaging in vigorous hobbies or professions?

2. Why seek physio therapy for a stiff joint if you spend your days on the couch or in a chair?

3. Why see a dentist if you only receive calories from drinking soylent?

4. Why bathe if you never leave your house?

There's some philosophy of morals argument to be made here similar to the concept of whether it is good or bad to eat arsenic.
There was also plenty of "helpful" advice making the rounds that more or less amounted to permanently blocking Apple's OCSP server.

It's a real shame that it's usually not the same people suggesting/applying these "pro hacks" to other people's computers that will end up spending hours on the phone with less tech savvy friends and family members trying to get their things back into a secure (or just working) state.
If everyone actually wore a mask during all those things and kept distance then more drastic measures such as total shutdowns wouldn’t be necessary as the virus would not be spreading so fast. But people can’t be bothered to even wear a mask (some are proud of their mask avoidance) so here we are.
> What am I supposed to think about the intent of the other side when they're trying to get a legitimate election result overturned to support their preferred presidential candidate?

You should think the same way about this as you do about the "russia hacked the election" cries about how the 2016 election was illegitimate.
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I'm not sure apologizing publicly has made anything better for any individual, especially in the current moral panic climate. Mobs don't accept apologies.

Public apologies stamp official guilt on the individual and therefore serve as a license for the mob to further punish them because now they have admitted their fault and therefore are 'officially' guilty of the crime. Public apologies, therefore, are the metaphorical equivalent of blood in the water for attracting sharks.

Maybe it's better to just ignore and maintain innocence because then at least there is some gray area? I don't know.
Yes, I agree, but that's the reason why people are recommending to not tip in-app.
They still made choices to get in close contact with people who did go to the party, without having vetted them sufficiently. I'm not saying it's easy to avoid such choices, but even things like going out to buy food - how many layers of mask are you wearing? What hours do you go shopping? How many months of food do you have stored at your home (inb4 "survivalists are just paranoid")?
This is disingenuous. If she had "no desire to be a provocateur", she would have given the book a different, non-transphobic title.
Considering Reddit and 4Chan are things, Wikipedia is far from being the most toxic .

Maybe the most elitist
It's true that the popular vote should decide the presidency but unfortunately it doesn't in the US. It's a bad sign that we keep electing presidents who didn't win a majority of the popular vote. Nonetheless, we have to follow the rules and processes in the Constitution until we get the opportunity to change them.
Jeffrey Toobin: "I was fired today by @NewYorker after 27 years as a Staff Writer. I will always love the magazine, will miss my colleagues, and will look forward to reading their work,"
For those interested, there's a Wikipedia namespace article on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight
For comparison, here is Google's transparency report: https://transparencyreport.google.com/?hl=en

Comparing US results it seems like Apple has served ~4x fewer requests vs. Google (10197 for Apple and 38042 for Google) in a six month period.
It's a System76 laptop that comes with PopOS preinstalled.
> Perhaps this has to do with lawsuits.

This happens even in work environments where it's unlikely your coworkers will sue you. I feel like perhaps it's more about competitiveness - I've seen plenty of times people raised in US use any kind of admission of mistake as a bludgeon to get advantage, get more political capital or belittle someone elses project. I guess it's considered to be a good thing to grasp any advantage over others?
Huh. I've had the opposite experience of this author. In my 10 years are a software developer we've made amazing strides towards making sense out of the software itself and the data flowing through my systems.

Honestly I feel like we'll have a decent base to our craft in another decade or two.

The biggest problem I do see in software is that people with no software design experience often drive the most important software design decisions. Primarily companies marketing departments driving their development.

It's not necessarily wrong for those types of roles to drive product design but the people in those roles need to learn a lot more about what makes a good product.
Some of the low population states have had certain facilities allocated specifically because the facilities would be high priority target for ICBMs, thus making them "nuclear bomb sponges".
The onus is on those making the initial claim that they have properly accounted for error and that their interpretation of the evidence is the most reasonable. Questioning if a potential error has been accounted for or if another interpretation has been considered is important.
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Yeah, the numbers are not terrible given other companies in a similar vein. However, as you say, we're in circumstances where a lot of people want prepared food but don't want to go out and pick it up. Or, at least, can mentally justify spending money they wouldn't normally spend given the current circumstances.
If your problem is packet loss due to BER and retransmissions a big MTU is hugely counterproductive. You flip one bit on a 32kb frame and you've gotta resend the whole damn thing, and if you're doing TCP over TCP that retransmission might happen a dozen times or more due to the way the timers interact.

If you absolutely must do TCP over TCP the only sensible thing to do is have the outer tunnel terminate and buffer the stream internally. This is fairly memory intensive so routers won't do it, but applications can get away with it.
When 13.3 is greater than 14
That is, if you define "good" from collectivistic point of view...
You're once again framing a nuanced phenomenon in terms of a simplistic oppressor/oppressed narrative. The fluidity of labor does not imply the commodification of labor. It implies a wider market for it, which has benefits like increasing the liquidity accessible to those with labor to sell. This marketization of labor was partially responsible for wages increasing over 20 fold, in inflation adjusted terms, since 1820.

Increasing the market for a product/service provides greater than zero sum gains for society. For instance, creating a global market for fine art doesn't make fine art less valuable. It leads to more capital being deployed to the art market, because more people are able to acquire art that they personally appreciate.

Romantacizing the pre-market past, and taking for granted the accumulated gains brought about by non centrally planned, private-sector driven processes, is a mistake.

>>In any case, I wasn't attempting to present a complete analysis of the societal effects of the automobile.

You were definitely implying that the overall impact was negative, and that's what I was responding to.
Greater Glider on Wikipedia [1] which links to the Nature paper Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans, P. minor, and P. armillatus [2]:

> The greater glider is the common name for three species of large gliding marsupials found in Australia. Until 2020 they were considered to be one species, Petauroides volans. In 2020 morphological and genetic differences, obtained using diversity arrays technology, showed there were three species subsumed under this one name. The two new species were named Petauroides armillatus and Petauroides minor. [2]

Marsupial diversity in Australia is amazing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_glider

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76364-z
Linux doesn't force you to sign your binaries or lock you out of devices you own.
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It's funny to see this just now. I've started contributing quite a bit to Wikidata as part of some work that uses it as a data source, and it's really the first time in more than a decade that I work in an environment where my work gets public scrutiny.

Shame is a really strong emotion for me, and I feel terrible when anyone spots a mistake. At one point, I left the site and didn't return for three days because I saw there was a notification for me. Which turned out to be positive feedback.

I feel far worse about my own mistakes than about those of others.

What I don't get is people doubling down on obvious mistakes. Show some contrition and your standing will net benefit from you screwing something up. Trust me on this: I'm German and we have made that principle semi-official government philosophy. Whenever I see, say, Turkish nationalists deny the Armenian genocide, or Polish wikipedia deleting articles about local anti-semitic incidents, I wonder if they seriously believe their actions won't make them look both guilty and somewhat stupid.

Oh, while we're at it: Only by participating have I learnt what a vast enterprise the whole of Wikimedia actually is, and how almost all of it is open to the public. It's the only non-profit organisation at FAANG-scale (except Amazon I guess), and you might want to check out, for example, what Graphana looks like at scale: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000605/datacenter-global-...
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Knowing what I know about Japan, I expect both cases and deaths to be underreported.

Other factors I can think of is that the Japanese are particularly obedient. Tell them to wear a mask and they wear a mask, they don't organize protests instead. They also take hygiene seriously in their day to day life.

Another thing is that despite the population density, the Japanese naturally keep their distances. Not much handshakes, hugging, and touching each other unless it can't be helped.

As for a "different virus", it is very unlikely, but a different population, that's possible. As I understand it, the Japanese population is relatively homogeneous, and they may have a genetic advantage.
The problem with synthetic bio is that it's going to be pretty hard to drag synbio people away from boston, and I don't think the NIH is leaving bethesda any time soon.

I guess my comment is pretty scattered rereading it now - I guess that's because as you mentioned we don't know what exactly was being proposed - synthetic bio is wide enough it could refer to a million different wildly divergent things.
> To me, the bigger impact is things like GitHub Actions and your CI/CD pipeline.

Sure, and these are definitely important – but your project isn't directly threatened if they are pulled out from under you. You'll just be operating with degraded CI quality for a while.
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Thanks for clarifying that. It makes sense. I figured that it was rarely the driver’s fault.
I'm not sure if you meant to write this sarcastically, but it kind-of sounds like you're comparing COVID with third-world countries full of Ebola and tribal killings? You do realize you're the comparison is a bit ridiculous?

Ultimately, it's a question of value. How much do you value not getting an illness with 99.9% survival rate, vs. living your life. And then imposing your own value system onto others (or not).
The placebo effect doesn't only apply to medical ailments.

Also, sticking it to overbearing Apple is fun – until it bricks your computing device or makes it vulnerable to all kinds of malware and you end on the receiving end of a ransomware or other extortion attack.
"Which the vast bulk of people don't use either."

Who the hell said they did?
These are long-standing and economically viable businesses - that was my only point.
Probably taken from: https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-internals.html#:~:text=The%20vi....

Tl;dr It's a representation of the Document Object Model in JavaScript/application land. Changes are made to it before updating the actual DOM, because real updates will cause reflows, repaints and other expensive operations that can slow down the page.

No idea what that has to do with anything else GP said though.
Correct, but a lot of people are either not good individuals, or improperly see it as a sign of weakness.
>if the company can pay $15, they should pay $15

This doesn't hold unless you think profits should be driven to zero. Any profit would mean an additional wage being withheld. I may not understand the dynamic here, but my understanding is that tip laws ensure that if the employee comes in under $15, the company makes up the difference.

I've alluded to it a few times, but I think we disagree in that tipping is a quasi-voluntary tax. A tax is a fee paid to subsidize a service. That tax, in this case, subsidizes fare charges by reducing overhead labor costs. If you want to not tip, you should pay a higher fare because otherwise those who do tip are subsidizing your ride. I don't think it's unethical just because it's called a "tip" unless you assume people don't understand how the tipping system works. If your claim is it allows a corporation to make an unfair profit, I'm not sure I'm tracking the logic of that argument because the tax in this case is entirely voluntary. Where I have an ethical problem is when wages are suppressed so much that the public must subsidize employee wages in the form of government benefits. In that case, non-customers are subsidizing the company profits; since they are not consumers of that company, it makes it a compulsory tax to protect their profit. This is entirely different than a voluntary tax on those who use the service.

Personally, I would prefer tipping in general to be banned because it's a clunky, inefficient system. It's much more transparent and straightforward to just have a fair wage without all the game theory that comes along with a convoluted system of tipping.
Did they say that? I would be surprised if they released more Intel Macs.
> AI-inspired 5g cloud connected human brain interface gig economy

You pair the app to your NeuraLink brain interface, you black out for five hours, and some amount of money appears in your bank account. Sometimes $50, sometimes $5000.