skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember this from many years ago. I seriously considered making one when I was ripping my cd collection to mp3z. Ultimately, I didn’t, but I still think an actually useful robot would be nice.
Was thinking the same thing!
I think the important bit is to pay attention to what the successful do differently from common sense advice, not the bits that everyone follows. For example, Elon Musk's housing choices when traveling, Steve Jobs' higher education, Tesla's approaches to thinking.
That's an interesting argument, I do see what you're saying. I'd counter that since someone of any race can be a Jew by this definition, it doesn't exclude on the basis of race.

The intent is also quite clearly to establish the country as a religious nation, and while I'm quite glad to live in a secular nation (the US) I don't begrudge religious nations their right to exist (eg; islamic ones).

(disclaimer, I am a secular Jew)
I wonder how poor whites react to their resume getting tossed out for not being diverse enough [0][1].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/new-lawsuit-exposes-googles-desp...
Astrophotography is less like photography and more like scientific data acquisition.

To specifically answer your question though, this is "1250 hours of exposures" and not "a 1250 hour exposure".
Learning and Proficiency
BotWars http://botwars.io

A fun little revamp attempt of an old game “RobotGame” that I found on HN years ago, which unfortunately doesn’t exist anymore.

Basically a game where you write the bot AI, and battle out against other players in an automated sandbox environment.
Just like everything in medicine it’s all risk management. If the risk of suffering damage from covid is lower than the risk of damage from a vaccine then you don’t need the vaccine. A doctor will know your proper risk assessment.
> In summary, I will never ever work over 40 hours for any company.

Even if anyone can, please don't (exception applies). Especially if you're a developer, 40+ hour a week will burn you out fast.
(And What It Has to Do With Aliens)

Hint: nothing.

Why the need to bring aliens into it? I like how this isn't in the topic here, because it's really clickbait. I didn't find one mention of any talk about aliens in the whole thing. But it is a great article about radio astronomy.
Even that might not be universal truth.

Billions of Hindus would disagree with billions of Muslims who would disagree with billions of Christians, who would disagree with billions of unaffiliated people/atheists.
I don't think that you can make that conclusion. How do you know that a 5-day week with the other interventions still in place isn't better than a 4-day week? Or how do you know that keeping everything the same and moving to a 4-day week wouldn't have a negative/neutral effect?
For those interested Audacity's underlying design, it's featured in The Architecture of Open Source Applications: https://www.aosabook.org/en/audacity.html

There's a section that references .aup files, see 2.6. BlockFiles (Audacity 3.0.0 introduces the .aup3 file format)

The most memorable parts of this to me was wXWidgets. Here's ShuttleGUI:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/blob/master/src/Shuttle...
Forrest Hayes was a junkie and a "john" who died from a heroin overdose: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/whos-to-blame-in-google-execs-o...

I don't think it was right for Alix Tichelman to leave without calling 911, but there is also no way you can call her actions murder.
Audacity is a great project and I’m very glad it exists.

Personally I only need pretty basic wave editing and am happy with OcenAudio (https://ocenaudio.com - free but closed source), it’s the closest thing I’ve found to Cool Edit 2000 (which I still think is the best wave editor ever!) and has quite a nice UI.
Very pleased that Audacity is still actively developed. I said it before but I think this can't be overstated:

Audacity may had some quirks over the years but it's still one of the most (if not the most) accessible tool for audio editing by non-professionals with an adequate feature set. It's used by community radio stations all over the world since it's easy to teach and cross-platform while being free.
Lol at this point we are way past hipsters paving new paths. The paths are established and have been for awhile.
Learn from the best:

Force difficult people to borrow money from adversaries, the marxists, the jihadis, the drug cartel.

Take the difficult people's money.

When the loan comes due, dump them in the ocean. Good luck collecting.

There will be a standoff with your adversaries. To hell with nuclear weapons. How about using recent developments in fusion and matter waves to turn the sun into a giant microwave? Or, better yet, pair production and coherent control to turn the black hole the sun orbits into a giant microwave, and then melt a couple billion people off the earth as easy as adjusting the volume on my speakers.

The article mention heart surgeons. Not like any heart surgeon ever defrauded the public, cashed out in crypto, and flew to Mumbai from Canada with USB stick in their shoe. And not small town surgeons either. Heads of big pharma and research universities.
Audacity is a wonderful piece of software - I've used it in a lot of projects for mastering/tweaking sound-effects. And it's come a very long way in terms of stability. Long may it continue to thrive :)
Asking this question on HN certainly helps! Let’s go for cc-by-sa collaboration faq sites.
That’s why democratic government is so powerful.

If the VP for Channel Allocation at Marconi made that decision, you would have no recourse at all.
I'd be curious to see a similar study for a 6 day workweek. In a way, if a 6 day work week increases productivity as well, it becomes more curious that 4 day would too.

I say that because I think the challenge here is measuring productivity, and people are just mentally skeptical that less working hours could equal more productivity. I hope it is true, but I too feel like really?

So maybe a counter data-point could make things clearer. If the 6 day experiment has worse outcome, at least we'd start to suspect that overworking might be detrimental to output. And that could reinforce the theory of 4 day work week.
I guess I’m not following you here because it seems like you’re making a pretty wild claim. Are you saying that the original story was correct, but it was the retraction which was somehow wrong?

That just seems...odd.

Or are you just not seeing the story or something?

> Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find “dishonesty” there. He also told her that she had “the most important job in the country right now.” A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.

The story was wrong. It wasn’t that they just misquoted him. The quote was the predicate for the entire story which they are now acknowledging was made up.

>pressuring to overturn and invalidate votes

Yes, but if those votes were cast illegally, shouldnt they be invalidated? That is the core debate here.

“If votes are cast illegally, they should not be counted” does not seem like it should be a controversial claim, and the absolutely absurd amount of spin and misinformation that people are putting out to try and claim that it should even be up for debate is incredibly damaging to having a functioning democracy.

And in fact I would say that some of the comments here are doing a good job of illustrating the damage that this sort of misinformation can have.
Life’s too short to not learn how to write bash code.
Google Oxford comma. It’s not simply a comma before an ‘and’.
I will cheer for the success of ETH2 as well. The reason I like Lightning better is because the engineer in me wants to freeze the base layer and do the experimental layers in isolation. Internet infra is all layered for good reason.
"In summary, I will never ever work over 40 hours for any company."

In general I would say, don't generalize.

If you are with a good company and in a great team, you might want to make exceptions again to succeed as a team.

(exceptions as in at critical times, family would still come first)
JFTR, There is already a project[0,1,2] on adding Audacity into Blender:

> The Blender & Audacity add-on playing both apps in sync - without Jack - so you can edit sound in Audacity and using Blender as video player

[0] https://github.com/tin2tin/audacity_tools_for_blender/

[1] https://twitter.com/tintwotin/status/1371885605735530500

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61Zvb8AipA
Docker has tooling for building images and is lighter than VM.

Devs can make their docker containers quite easily. With VM you have to update operating system and other stuff. With Docker as a Developer you are concerned only about your direct dependencies.

I run my systems in VMs and it is quite a lot of work to update all unrelated stuff. Well related stuff is also a lot of work but that is price I am willing to pay for.
The problem with using Bitcoin for payments is volatility. Bitcoin's price is volatile. Bitcoin supporters say volatility will go down "at some point". The logic is pretty silly. Bitcoin is money for the people. But when the super rich people adopt it, volatility will go down. They have more money. The Bitcoin money "tank" will be bigger. Its volatile flow will go down.

Bitcoin is digital gold, God's money. When it comes to volatility, it's up to humans to "fix" it. The fix means we all have to "buy" into it, that is, blindly believe the problem will be fixed somehow. Stop selling, keep holding. Maybe, forever. :)

It's probably not going to be fixed. Volatility is likely an inherent property due to its limited supply.

https://bitflate.org/post/2020/05/10/bitcoin-volatility.html
Barnes and Noble Nook e-readers are sold out
Amazon Won’t Let You Read My Book
Approval isn't expected until April[1]. There are additional tests going on that will hopefully clarify the blood clot issues that have stopped the vaccine's use in other countries.

A number of other countries are also waiting on those results.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/astrazeneca-seek-...
So you don't need a massive army to engage in an insurrection but you do need a massive army to engage in Guerilla warfare? What sized army do you need to engage in terrorism?
Peraps IPFire? https://www.ipfire.org/
That's a great point. This explains why I have not been able to get anything done after lunch during this extended WFH situation. I used to think it was because I ate too much or something similar, but this had never been the case when I was in office. Now I need to figure out how to trick my mind to believe that I can't login after 5pm :(
> to a sufficiently satisfactory degree

That's an opinion, not a fact.
I remember seeing this project launched at CodeCon way way back in the day and I'm happy its been cruising along ever since.
I believe that usage of 'master' in git was copied from bitkeeper which did reference the master/slave relationship.

Whereas blacklist in its original forms was used outside of a racial context. I think it'll be pretty hard to try to break the association between black (the color) and night, hiddenness, unknown, sin, fear, etc. All of which are pretty negative, but not originally racial.

I find it difficult to distinguish one of these changes from the other in terms of usefulness.

I also don't hold much truck with the 'insulting' and 'patronising' thing. It's perfectly possible for a white person to prefer to remove inappropriate and confusing terminology that trivialised historical injustices and/or glorified things they disagree with regardless of whether or not non-white people are offended by such usage. There seems to be an underlying view that a white person could only want to change such usage for inauthentic reasons. If we want to find things patronising, I find that patronising. Just because you're white doesn't mean you can't hold an authentic position of your own on these topics.
No one is bothering to fix Arecibo...
Anyone who thinks that the word "master" should be removed from English dictionary is just plain stupid.
> Because suspending is very hardware dependent, for it to work everywhere one must install specific drivers for everything.

That's a solved problem (except for the most exotic devices) in Windows and Ubuntu. Mac OS, obviously, doesn't even have that problem.

> It's as though one expects not having to install drivers for one's specific graphics card very specific mouse that has unique features.

That's exactly what one expects from a desktop system. That the system just works out what you have and install whatever is needed to make it work.

> The user did not indicate that he wished to use XFCE, only that he wished to install it. — I would personally be supremely annoyed if by merely installing software, which I might simply do to inspect some of it's files, all sorts of services would suddenly be started, especially if this be DBus, which has a reputation with it's “DBus activation” mechanism of starting a bunch of other things because it guesses that the user wants them started based on similar heuristics as you suggested.

You would be personally annoyed, but other people would be personally annoyed about not having a graphical interface ready after the install for their desktop system. On top of that, even when they try to install the graphical interface for that system, nothing works unless they understand (albeit not deeply) the inner workings of said system.

I'm not saying you're wrong about not wanting that, but most people expect their desktop system to just work, not require googling around why xfce4 won't start. Remember, we are talking here about desktop computers, where the end goal is to run a browser, a video game, an IDE, a video editor, etc.

> The next thing I know, DBus has started NetworkManager, which has then suddenly overwritten some configuration files, all because I installed XFCE, without even deciding whether I wanted to run it.

NetworkManager does solve some of the problems for desktop users who don't want to understand any more of the system than absolutely necessary. Starting it as soon as possible will just help people.

> FreeBSD's cards are on the table here with their target audience.

This was a later edit on my post and you may have missed it:

> I know that's not FreeBSD's goal nor am I saying that it ought be. I'm just stating the fact that it is not an easy to use system for the uninitiated and it will require at least a little bit of browsing the internet and trying things for all but the most experienced FreeBSD users, if they choose to adopt it as their desktop system.

Not saying that FreeBSD don't have their reasons, just saying that most people expect something else from their desktop systems.
All trading within exchanges already happens outside the blockchain. This allows them to offer low or zero fees since transactions only cost money when users withdraw their cryptocurrencies.

I'd say it adds a lot of value.
Indeed, and there are loads of them on this subthread. I'm dating myself here but it just goes to show that, absent body-language, voice tone, and other contextual cues, humour still sometimes doesn't communicate well on the web.
It's coming. Progress is being tracked in these places:

https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1139

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537
I do believe Quora has declined significantly. My personal issue with it is that it seems to be filled with low-quality promotional/SEO answers.
It seems nonsensical to me that simply eating meat protein could somehow cause a genetic change leading to great-grandchildren with larger brains.
maafakaz!
Audacity is an awesome project. I know a LOT of non technical people with no affinity to open source who are using it. I think a UI refresh to something modern looking will help it increase its popularity even more, I hope they find someone to help with this.
How the heck would bitcoin volatility go down when there's no fixed reason to use it? USD has value despite fiat status because it's required to pay US taxes and oil markets are priced in USD (by force and trade agreement). Bitcoin is totally unteathered from reality (and deflationary which is another story entirely).

This means Bitcoin's value is based on completely ephemeral feelings, and the size of its network -- both things that can disappear overnight. The most solid thing you can say about it is that you can use it to get around government sanctions, which is not exactly high praise.
> How do you know that a 5-day week with the other interventions still in place isn't better than a 4-day week?

That we don't know.

> how do you know that keeping everything the same and moving to a 4-day week wouldn't have a negative/neutral effect?

I don't know why we'd want to keep everything the same. What we do know here at least is that a four day work week implemented as it was in the experiment did not result in negative or neutral effects. And that's already quite the positive outcome which means more experimentation is mandated as it seems there's hope for four day work week being practical and realistically implemented by companies without hurting their output.
You realize your sources are from 3 geographically different areas - one of which isn't even in the US?

Everything else you said has nothing to do with the article nor the drone in question. It's just conspiracy theories about cops, predicated off slanted facts from an extreme minority of police interactions.

In other words... what?
I believe they mean something like... you're filtering for only positive reviews (best for your customers) rather than unbiased perspectives (so that humans are best served by unfiltered truth)

So the company is able to "lie" to potential customers.

How companies manipulate Glassdoor is an interesting case study
Oh it's massive especially for kernel-devs/os-devs, snapshots and boot-environments (bectl)....for personal machines...zfs-send..never have to think about correct backups/restores anymore.
Good point, I gotta stop calling my feature branches `slave` it's a bad habit!

Real talk though, when this first blew up, I took the opportunity to change all my master branches to trunk, the oldest and best term for "that from which branches grow".

"main" is lame, it reeks of compromise and giving the least amount of thought possible to the replacement. Worse, it shares the same first two letters with "master", and that means more time spent typing out the wrong branch name, muscle memory being what it is.
Is this true? It seems insane that you cannot watch 4k video on arguably the most powerful platform there is..
The core issue I've seen that goes unanswered is what problem does BTC solve? The answers I've seen so far are:

1. Avoiding Venezuelan hyper-inflation - it is a use-case, but doesn't really apply to the United States for example.

2. Store of value - volatility is way too high and there are much better alternatives (Treasury bonds)

3. Evading capital controls - it is a use-case, but not really applicable to most citizens in the US, and is unlikely to be applicable in the future.

4. Settlement layer for banks - banks already have a settlement layer that works for them.

The downsides of a decentralized system vs. a centralized system are an increased cost (in energy, computation, time, money, etc.) of transaction. So what justifies the cost?
* the personal relationship with G'd in silent prayer is nonverbal. G'd knows all things, is part of all things, it makes no sense to tell G'd anything. hence: *silent* prayer. It __does___ make sense to listen though , with your heart. And in the gentle *felt* presence your wounds may heal, and your love may grow. why *felt* presence? because G'd is everywhere, where else would G'd be. so you don't pray for G'ds presence. you pray to immerse into it.

* this immersion is not about fancy mystical experiences, but about healing in the presence of what as Christians we call G'd; it often is initially calm, then happy, ecstatic to some, and then that makes room for neither ecstasy nor void but pure presence, a state that can be experienced, but not described appropriately. On that path there lays and lurks inner work on your personal baggage, a liberating cleansing process, which is not only fun while it lasts, and a process which contemplative teachers today could call 'purifications'. The beatifications of the sermon on the mount give a fairly good step by step guidance of this purification process which leads to life "in Christo", as Paul describes it.

* contemplative or silent prayer was and is an outlier, yes, however certainly not in early Christianity, see the sibling comment for a random quick example
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26497034

* contemplative / silent prayer, like comparable Jewish and Islamic traditions, and like a number of eastern traditions, puts the experiential personal liberation above authoritative teachings of some church or another. It's a radical shift of authority from rulebooks and logical learning to an inner process, guided and supported by open minded teachers.

* I respectfully doubt you have read the book. It is anything but superficial.

May I ask if you have personal experience with any kind of meditation, secular (like MBSR) or in some religious tradition?
> Demian Thirst

OK. This NFT stuff is a total scam. They don't call it 'con-temporary art' for no reason.

If it has such a reason, then it would be; an NFT.
Yeah this is trading 101 for anyone who has cut their teeth somewhere decent. I had that drilled into my head.

There is no such thing as house money.
True. But in a period 1969-1989 it had a return of, IIRC, 5700%.
I actually haven’t insulted your intelligence.
High volatility is due not to supply, but to the trading volume. Like Taleb said, there is no long-term stability without short-term volatility.
Love to see audacity still going strong, was one of the first audio tools I used for music production back in the day and is a great piece of software
Ah gotcha, did you have to move them to your DC and have them racked?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM4gNVme5a0
No matter the side, I prefer Hacker News when comments aren't politicking.
” New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin...
Because of FCC rules and limitations elsewhere, the city of Paterson had no other options to bring a TV station on air other than channel 37.

The fun part about this is that McVittie, who helped to set the wheels in motion for the blanket ban of channel 37 in the U.S., never learned exactly why the FCC made the decision to flip its mindset on this issue.

Racism? Against Latinos in 1963? Nah, couldn't be.
> the decentralization is effectively moot when payment processors like Visa get involved

It's a deflationary currency. If it has a future as a store of value, and I think it very well may, it would have a net effect of concentrating wealth. And with wealth comes power. Whether that power is exercised through how the blockchain processes transactions or via some other vector seems something of a side show to me.

The wealthy never wanted to abandon the gold standard. It was the populists and the bankers. The poor and the middlemen.
Sure they will.

Saks Fifth Avenue sells a $1500 plastic tic-tac-toe board. Plenty of upscale market for absurdly expensive things that do the same thing the cheap version does. https://www.saksfifthavenue.com/product/edie-parker-tic-tac-...