skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like this

> Note that there is no direct support for local music archives (e.g. MP3 files on a NAS) yet.

For me it's major flaw. If I'm going to install such software on my Raspberry I would like to connect 2.5" USB drive and finish the installation and start to use it. But because of unknown to me decisions developers took it is impossible. Secondly putting another RPI unit just to serve content is non effective and increases pollution (one needs to setup another unit, it needs to be bought and powered).
Same happens with Volumnio and MoodeAudio (the latter supports USB drives but with strange behaviour mounting it as a root, it's impossible to mount it manually in fstab, which makes it hard to fill its content via smb/cifs)
My bet is BGP. Its always BGP.
(it was the Apple ecosystem that killed flash)
It isn’t the cause. It’s a sign that it’s already happening and maybe an attempt to remediate the issue somewhat.
Mt Everest grows by nearly a metre to new height
The physical speakers are not trivial to properly design and manufacture. The DSP and amplifier is not a headscratcher for any serious EE. The DSP chips themselves are only $10.

I haven’t looked into this space in a few years and I am of the “budget hi-fi” variety. At a glance, it does look like open source choices exist [0]. My last (finished) DIY audio project was an ODAC+O2 and that has been rock solid for 5 years.

Realtime corrections sound nice at first glance, but I’d be wary of the actual effect. It’s best handled with servo in the analog driver. DSP really shines with room and loudspeaker compensation, especially to linearize phase response (at the cost of delay). Room acoustic issues led me down a rabbit hole that ended with me working on a triple BA IEM with a teensy powered FIR crossover. I gave up on soldering wires to a tiny SM connector. It’s on my revisit list. I’ve been knocking some things out this year, so maybe it’ll be up in another year or two.

If only I could just play with toys instead of working :p

0. https://ohdsp.weebly.com/dsp-adau1452.html
Did they publish any info about these incidents? It would be interesting to see where these robust systems fail and how.
Re: Promoting through /r/django - enjoy it while it lasts, but you are playing with fire.

Reddit subs are notorious for very quickly developing severe allergic reaction to anything of a self-promotion nature. A reaction that will go far beyond Reddit's standard 10% cap on self-promo posts [1] (which you are already in violation of [2]) and all the way to a permanent domain-based ban.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

[2] https://www.reddit.com/user/czue13/submitted/
So now you are in favor of censoring things? I don't think the likes of YouTube are very typical for totalitarian states.

The propaganda by totalitarian states is an entirely different beasts, it reaches into all walks of life.
I just use self-destructing virtual machines in Qubes OS.
Next stop perri-air.
CotEditor – Text Editor for macOS (M1 Native)
The main difference is the isn't any speculation involved.
No one have the financial incentive to create artificial scarcity.
This is a major advantage when talking about the most basic of life needs.
I love how HN is against software patents yet my much more lenient pharma proposal is downvoted :-))
The website sliders don't work well with a touch interface. If I use a mouse, I can smoothly move the slider values. But attempting to tap and slide them either has no response or makes the slide move to the extreme left or right.

I'm using Firefox (Nightly) on a Windows 10 tablet (Microsoft Surface Go).
I think you're both right and wrong.

You're right from the perspective that capabilities have increased, not decreased (though that was not true for a period during the flash / HTML5 crossover). You can make anything you want – and more – in the current context, and any particular historical format or container love is anachronistic pointlessness.

But you're wrong in the sense that development paradigm represented an era where programmers and non-programmers alike could dive in to explore, conceive and create experiences in a way that is more interesting and accessible to a broader group of people than today's more modern, powerful practices.

The flash plugin itself, as a format, does not enable something different, but the editing environment and culture definitely did, so in some way the death of the container does mark an end of a particular creative era in digital society.

Perhaps only for the participants, and even then I'm not mournful, but it is an ever-so-slightly sentimental moment for those that witnessed that fusion of creativity between types who were decidedly not technologoical and those who were, fused in a shared creative endeavour.
He sent me some "sources" in a private google drive link that was access restricted and required me to enter email address to request access -- which I wasn't going to do, as said personal also makes his living doing multilevel marketing and as a "life coach"; not a contact list I have any desire to be on.

And, yeah, seems legit, right?
She could have avoided the whole episode if she left on her own. If you don't fit, think the employer sucks, or they do suck and won't improve, leave.

Whining about it on social media only makes you less employable (in terms of real jobs).
Your mind is chaotic and it shows in your writing. I would be hesitant to recommend that type of thinking, but you seem happy, which is honestly all that matters.
Back then we used to have index.js, chat.js, checkout.js, and so on.. even your grandma’s website had free “code splitting” and “dynamic imports”!
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You're such a turkey
Depending on the company, "major" can be used to mean a number of things, such as visible and painful customer impact, or significant revenue impact.

Based on the description of the outage (issues serving new ads to Messenger), it reads like the latter.

> We are currently investigating an issue where creating new ads with app_destination as MESSENGER results in the following error ...

Admittedly if it does have significant revenue impact, I'm surprised that change hasn't been rolled back or otherwise mitigated in the week+ that the incident's been open. Or maybe it has, and nobody remembered to close the incident.
Crippling disease is free if you don’t get any medical care.
Learning Representations by Back-propagating Errors http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/naturebp.pdf

-- because it was relatively straightforward to understand and convert to code. So it helped me understand backprop.
Ahhhh yes the much better solution of paying Apple 1000$ to compile a JavaScript app and 125$/yr

/s
Thanks for the links, that's quite revealing.

> auto reported crashes and support tickets (most gfx driver related)

I wonder if open-sourcing the game would see those same support tickets come in with patches.

Part of linux has always been about patching it up yourself. Rather than being a time sink for the developer, these linux bugs could actually be a way to crowdsource code improvements.

I know there are intellectual property concerns that prevent open-sourcing commercial products, but maybe there's some sort of hybrid solution to be found.
High proportion of children with SARS-CoV-2 may have thrombotic microangiopathy
well, the regulation applies outside of the browser as a start.
The old swf I've tried worked, as in, it showed the content, but the visual output wasn't the same -- the lines around the drawn objects were much thicker. I still don't know how one is to watch the old swf content to replicate what is seen to match the output of the plugin that is going to completely stop working.

I read that there's some "standalone" player, is that downloadable freely or some part of some paid Adobe offer?
You can only say this if you haven't met people who have suffered from being hacked. Enormously painful stories. Flash is a trash fire, and Adobe and Microsoft externalised the penalties.

There is no reason we couldn't have had safe Flash except Adobe didn't care.
Which EU laws were stopping people creating startups in the UK?

NB Only thing I could think of as being relevant would the working time directive but everyone just opts out of that?

Edit: I did co-found a VC-funded startup in the UK, but not recently, wondering what might have changed!
if 'startups and tech companies' is a euphamism, for shysters, con-artists, charlatans and crooks, then yes, i do believe that Britain is about to get EVEN more attractive
The troubled and now almost defunct Hyflux has contracts in Singapore (on a multi-year committed contract at volume) back in 2011 for desalinated water at $0.45/m^3 or $554/acre foot.

1 acre foot = 1233 m^3.

very close to where the spot market right now is for water. water futures are trading at almost the same price as is the cost of desalination. make of it what you may..

meanwhile: almonds in california..https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonds_in_California

[..]

1.Almonds were California's third most valuable agricultural product in 2016, accounting for $5.2 billion (about 11%) of agricultural output. The state produces 80% of the world's almonds and 100% of the United States’ commercial supply.

2. Almonds are California's most valuable export crop. Farmers exported $4.5 billion worth to foreign countries in 2016, about 22% of the state's total agricultural exports. The majority of these exports went to the European Union, China and India. While the EU is the largest consumer, the latter two countries are expanding markets where the state's Almond Board has actively marketed the nuts as a healthy snack.

As part of the 2018 China–United States trade war, China has imposed a 50% tariff on almonds. As a result, some Chinese businesses have resorted to importing almonds from other producers in Africa and Australia.

3. California suffered a severe drought from 2011 to 2017. In addition to economic consequences for the state's almond growers, the industry came under criticism for its water use. As of 2015, almond cultivation consumed about 10% of the state's water. Furthermore, almond acreage increased by 14% from 2007 to 2014, while almond irrigation increased by 27%. Critics have pointed out that the state's 6,000 almond farmers use roughly 35 times the amount of water as the 466,000 residents of Sacramento.

To supplement reduced deliveries from the state's water system, many almond farmers increased groundwater pumping, which can unsustainably deplete aquifers and cause land subsidence.
AFAIK, this is exactly what GDPR is doing.
I laughed at this because I thought the same thing.

Conspiratorial or no, that line of argument won't fly. Saying everything is so integrated that it can't possibly be decentralized is basically proof of monopoly.
I don’t agree with your argument. Is there really any country in the EU which is not in it for the money and security of its citizens alone? What other motive would a country have to be in the EU, barring ostensibly moralistic arguments, which in themselves will be made with economic motives? Some people win from the recovery fund, and some people don’t. The EU is not a dictatorship. If a country stands to lose, it should be able to make an attempt to have its case accepted. The UK’s hypothetical rejection is no different from a country’s complaint against this very rejection. Both are done with the same motive, and should be treated in an equally sober way.

Edit: I’ve tried to make a faithful argument. Please explain instead of downvoting.
Yep, might also need to set the browser agent to a chromebook. Haven't tested it recently but it worked well enough a few weeks ago.
I'd be far less offended and not at all betrayed if they hadn't shortened the support life for CentOS 8 from another 9 years to like 380 more days.
Every time this happens I have a mental metaphorical image of somebody tripping over the $5 power strip that has the single point of failure route-server or route-reflector plugged into it.
Funny, because by that logic London wouldn't have been attractive to companies in all this time it spent in the EU

Oh and now they're losing facilitated access to the whole of EU developers. But I guess that doesn't matter (even though the flood of openings I see on Linkedin, etc)
I have mixed feelings.

On one hand, the data harvesting targeted by cookie laws and associated privacy stuff is important and legislators/regulators are right to target it.

OTOH, effectiveness is pretty marginal. There have been some (minor) gains on disclosure. Somewhat better progress on data selling/sharing/security. But, no real gains on consent, which is a big part of the regulatory effort and this specific case. Between dark patterns, take-it-or-leave it propositions and predatory defaults... I don't think most people have a more censenting relationship with amazon or google than before.

Regulators (also prosecutors, often) tend to focus enforceability on easy to prosecute, legible stuff. "Must contain small print" rules. This is how we end up with such meticulous small print norms for advertising pharmaceuticals, financial products and other regulated industries.

Fines themselves do not deter profitability monsters like this and the "fix" is going to be an update to the popup, small print, naming of buttons and other things that don't really matter much outside of a legalistic perspective.

I'm all for the goals of these efforts. Consent. Privacy. Non-abusive relationships with companies generally. That said, I'm worried that most of the regulatory enforcement efforts are focused on technicalities without reference to real world achievements.
"antivaxing, antimask, covid-is-a-lie conspiracies"

You are mixing things together that don't belong together. Covid is very new and scientific discussion is still ongoing. There is no consensus. Anti-vaxxers are about tried and proven vaccines they don't trust.

I think as with other things (like religion), people get mostly "infected" by their peer group. Also there are certain aspects that make memes prevail, like fear and protectiveness of one's own children in the case of vaccines. It's not simply a matter of exposure to YouTube videos.
I absolutely agree. I don't remember where it comes from, but the stock market was discribed as "trading today hopes for tomorrow based on yesterday's information". Robinhood, and others (i am so fed up by YouTube adds for Etoro, Traderepublic and so on) are just using this fact. Both things are a problem. And the very root seems to be greed, not sure of that can be fixed.
German language summary here:
https://www.scinexx.de/news/medizin/corona-mikrothrombosen-a...
Rural voters are actually sympathetic to privacy concerns, at least on some issues like fun registries and healthcare records.

Note that the constitution gives any 25% of the country "veto power" as far as amendments go. Folks are, yes, going to actually have to find privacy laws and amendments that significantly benefit almost everyone. And actually convince them of that.
Honestly this is probably because other businesses started doing it. When businesses have no clue they look to the market for the "standard" way of doing things. We don't make mechanical engineers design mechanical solutions for fun.It is just a consequence of the early culture of "hackers" and people who do that stuff for fun and for work. Hopefully dies over time, but it is unlikely given that now seems like the standard thing to do. Businesses are not rational thinking creatures. They just do what feels like lower risk if they can.
> There is a massive secondary consulting market because of AWS's price obscurities.

While that's true, there is consulting market for most things that are complicated. Doesn't mean they are shady. It's simply not for you. You are welcome either to dive in or get a consultant.
I promise you though, that AWS pricing isn't difficult once you understand few concepts and know your way around the Cost Explorer. With proper tagging, it's easy to drill down which resource is consuming how much. I don't believe there is a way to have a simple billing for a complicated product(s).
Yeah, because men have nothing to do with it, they admire stay-at-home fathers... /s

The other comment about society is important too. A full-time job will range from 30 to 60 hours depending on the society. I heard of a Japanese wife disappointed that her European husband was "lazy" because he was working European hours.
Silver light is eol next year
I know they don't, that's why I wrote "if". I wanted to express that I don't see the difference between a perfectly fine native Linux proprietary build, and a perfectly well executed, proton-backed user experience.
I think I get what you're saying, that currently Linux builds behave better than whatever proton can provide, and I agree.
True, but that's also because phone hardware was crap at the time. I imagine current phone hardware is 20x faster than what we had at the time, probably more.

Javascript was also slow back then, Chrome/V8 were only launched in 2008 and reached phones only years later, yet JavaScript based websites were used on smartphones.

I'd be curious to see a comparison of site performance now, Flash vs a bog-standard HTML + JS + animations site. I think they would be quite similar.
I don't think the vote was rigged.

But rationally I have no way to be 100% certain, because, as a thought experiment, if it really was rigged, what would look different to how it does look?

The fact that "everyone knew" and was expecting the losing side to cry foul means that when they do, everyone says "you see? Told you so."
But if it really was, how would we know? What would look different?

The fact that those who are meant to look out for such things (primarily, the media) are not trusted by one side to do so impartially means that if there really was foul play, their reporting would not necessarily be different. So again, how would you know?

To reiterate, I am not saying I think it was rigged. I'm not American, nor have I ever lived there. I'm just saying that _if it was_, things would look pretty much as they do now. _If t wasn't_, things would also look pretty much as they do now. So how can we know?
I don't really care if you think it's unlikely. People dying of thirst where water-intensive, non-essential industries operate is empirically happening, now. It has happened in the past and will do so in future.

Btw, poor people lacking influence is not consistent with how quite a lot of European nobles died or the vast array of modern working practices that are suboptimal from a capitalist's point of view. I'll leave the debate there since I've no interest in arguing a fictional universe.
Depends on the program.

Also computing power increases with time, so this is a silly reason to kill off a feature.
> Static binaries can just be deployed as a single file, no need for containers.

Sure but most web apps are more than a single binary. There's generating static files, a database, background worker / cache, and more. Then there's wanting to be able to develop that project as a whole on Windows, macOS and various Linux distros as well as deploying it to a specific distro of Linux (most likely). Then there's the distribution of the binary across a network in a reasonable way.

Docker and its ecosystem of tools solves all of those problems once your app is containerized. And if you want to go 1 step further and run a distributed system with load balancers and friends, container orchestration tools let you solve this problem at a level above your application.

And the best part is you can do all of that in the same way with any tech stack.
MS Teams is down for us as well. Possibly a spike related to people looking for a backup.
> You can still be outside norms without being at the fringes. This has always been the case and nothing new.

That's absolutely ridiculous. "outside norms"? Whose norms? Your in-group's norms, which is at best around 20-30% of the country. There's a stronger argument that you all are the ones who are outside our country's norms, at least at present.
>Also I shouldn't have to opt out

Actually, the law says the tracking cookies have to be opt in, which is why the pop ups are so aggressive and undismissable in the first place.
It's because they're planning to use CentOS Stream as a beta test for RHEL. Which is not kosher with those of us who use it in production.
Server operators are more capable of blocking badly behaving bots than users are of blocking adtech companies. Consequently you follow the limits in robots.txt or you risk getting blocked.

On the other hand, if you follow the limits in DNT, you get nothing, and the consequences of not doing so are ... nothing, so companies did not follow that. (See also P3P for another previous attempt)
Yes, it's the same reason to say Free Software, or FLO[1] Software, instead of Open Source Software. Technically the definitions are the same, but they have a different political message.

[1] Acronym for free/libre/open
The terminology used is perfectly fine, consensus is that you can steal intellectual property -- and you can do so without making it inaccessible for the owner.
It's not narrow mindedness. The healthcare system in the US can destroy you financially in a couple of years (or even months!), even if you do all the right things and work a job with a good salary, save, etc.
All for what? For being unlucky and contracting cancer? For having a chronic disease that needs daily medication? Is that what sick people deserve, to have all their finances wiped away?

This here is a very famous comment on Reddit that perfectly encapsulates what's wrong with the healthcare system in America:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/hj6t3t/not...
Yeah, good point and definitely agree with this.

I don't actually promote my product on Reddit, I just promote useful content I've created. My posts pretty consistently reach #1 on /r/django because (I suspect) I put substantially more time and effort into them than the average Django guide. I also try quite hard to be a good citizen and give back in a non-promotional way.

Edit: I didn't know about those numbers/terms you added. Will take a look and update my behavior accordingly if necessary.
My wife's department (at an unnamed major investment bank in London) just gave up on trying to hire for a position in Frankfurt. They'd been trying to fill it all year. They're now going to hire for it in their UK branch office (not London). By having the role in the UK will breach the EU regulations for the role in question - I don't know what their medium-long-term plans are though. It's a shit situation when you literally "can't find the staff".
Cyberpunk 2077 compiles and runs perfectly fine natively on Debian, but it lacks a renderer (there was OpenGL but it was dropped years ago and Vulkan is a very specific implementation for Stadia only).
>Even in this extreme case, it is still a self correcting problem. There is no need to artificially correct it.

You're forgetting the most extreme form of self correction... People killing each other in a coordinated fashion AKA war.

The problem with your argument is that you consider wars to be an acceptable solution.
I just think it's ridiculous that these same people are usually the ones that DONT protest mass surveillance or airport security checks. Masks are a trivial thing, they should be just as passionate about mass surveillance.
sysadmin isn't infrastructure engineer nor SRE. The salaries for latter are way above 74k/year