skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refactoring?

Speeding up Maven compiles?
It's 2021. Do not use software that doesn't have an "undo" functionality.
FOSS Torrents team already provided `.torrent` downloads for Audacity 3.0.0.[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/FossTorrents/status/1372176177708818433

[1] https://fosstorrents.com/softwares/audio/audacity/
It sounds like you believe the marginal utility of currency or wealth is constant and anything else is contrary to "basic economics".

Can you explain further, because it sounds weird to me?
Google Ranks Democrat National Committee’s Blog Post as ‘News’
We don't ask for permissions. We believe in positive-sum game.

Social proof is given in the first place by people to people whose work or service made a positive impression on them.

We focus to showcase that and leave the rest.
I'm sorry but I still don't get it. Why is referring to people by their state not enough? It's more or less equivalent to nationality in Europe.

Why is race necessary or useful in the same way?
I don't expect anything other than businesses will do what businesses do. Its just sad that mainstream media consumers will interpret this very differently from reality.
I've reached the doubly-cynical conclusion: the critics are right, but it will probably keep climbing in value in the medium term. Actual on-chain transaction volume will remain dwarfed by on-exchange volume.

Tether will get clobbered in the next few years. This ought to affect the bitcoin price, but won't.
Well, that's something we could find out. But to me the more interesting thing to find out is: is there a work process that is as good or better then the current work process in output produced yet allows me to only work 4 days.

Now sure you could say, all productivity boost were due to other process changes and the benefits of this boost should not go to employees, but if you wanted to be more attractive to talent, that be a good benefit, and knowing that your business wouldn't be affected compared to how it's doing currently is the first step to consider this benefit as a viable one.
> You do realize I made up all of the numbers, right?

Yes, I realize that.

I figured out the misunderstanding. Your $10/hour figure is net value after wages ($15/hour - $5/hour), whereas I was assuming you meant gross value provided by the employee to the employer. So, at least we're on the same page regarding that now.

> That reason is the value the company provides.

Yeah, exactly. Labor is one of the factors of production. The company puts all the factors together in a way that individuals cannot (due to scale or whatever), and pays labor a rent based on market prices. It also pays land or capital (other factors of production) rents too, based on market prices in the property and corporate bond markets.

Where we depart is on the normative judgement that labor should be paid more of that surplus value creation than what it's currently getting. The fact is that they currently are capturing some of that value creation, and that amount is determined by supply and demand in the labor market. The reason they don't get more is there's a large over-supply of fungible unskilled labor which just isn't that useful. It's like if there's a glut of capital or an over-supply of land (e.g. in a rural area); the rents go down accordingly because the inputs just aren't scarce. To introduce an intentional mispricing in the labor market, which would need to be done by force, will lead to a misallocation of resources. If inequality is a concern, there are less economically damaging policies to consider.

Where we especially depart is on the framing of this as exploitation. This mindset only leads to more human suffering. If you offer someone a job for $X+1/hour when their alternative is $X/hour, you've made their life better off, and we want to incentivize this as much as possible instead of condemning it because $X+1/hour is "too small". It is after-all what pulled China out of poverty, and if we instead had pushed this exploitation narrative, we might not have seen this humanitarian miracle play out.
Sounds more like a price-fixing cartel, and they are only acting now because they're afraid of anti-trust litigation.
That's not the Hawthorne effect, that's people responding to incentives.
Alright, keep cooking up the ideas in an ivory tower and us lowely well paid devs will just code it up. Because that is how outsourcing works. Really, may as well outsource your in-house devs.
HBO special says Ron Watkins is Q
I have not seen it mentioned here a lot, but Joplin (another open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool) also has a vscode extension (to search and edit notes in code), in addition to desktop and mobile apps. Joplin is much simpler however (no linking between notes for example), depending on what you do that may be an advantage.
The only people I see campaigning for the return of the gold standard are populists.
One more comment / suggestion: I watched the video and saw there are lots of pre-configured environments. I see this a lot, but to be honest this is not to helpful for me because I'm not doing development in your environment, I'm writing and checking the code somewhere else and then training on the gpus.

For the same reason, I'm only getting value out of the gpus when I am right ready to train. So I would be much happier if I could push a docker, or maybe even a conda environment spec, along with my code, attach data storage, and run e.g. train.py (or more likely a shell script that calls it) to completion and then immediately release the GPUs. Everything else is just the overhead of as quickly as possible trying to get the environment right, run my script, and then shut down the instance as soon as it's done. It would be awesome to have this kind of functionality, or is there a way to do that I missed?
From elsewhere in the comments, a quote by Thomas Sowell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26496786
Expanding recruitment won't be racist by itself, no. But going beyond what company is doing now to hire more _black_ devs would be (they didn't ask where to recruit people, so they probably have enough candidates, the question was "where to recruit black devs if we don't have any black candidates").
To add to that, Algorand has the ability to prevent double spending, and is decentralized proof of stake.
It's impressive that, as a species, we once chose science over additional infomercials.
And 40 million of those are just declaring inheritance hierarchies and factories.
Every critique in this list could be levelled at networking equipment that costs thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.
This is very much how the US stock market works. Stocks aren’t actually traded in real-time, but instead are netted and eventually settled through DTCC.

Similarly, BTC will just be a transmission mechanism between multiple large, centralized, highly regulated, trusted entities, which will perform all of the work.
This is why it's important to have good managers who deeply understand what their subordinates are doing. Detached managers can easily be gamed by maximizing metrics like hours-in-chair, which is pernicious because it makes people choose between making an impact and getting promoted.
One day a week would be somewhere between 48 and 52 days off, that's over a month of time off.
Interesting ideas. Thanks for these. We will look into it and implement accordingly.
If curious, past threads:

Audacity 2.2.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15621681 - Nov 2017 (146 comments)

The Future of Audacity, Interview with the Team - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9392035 - April 2015 (28 comments)

Removing background noise in Audacity by differencing stereo channels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6158058 - Aug 2013 (13 comments)

Audacity 2.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3714766 - March 2012 (63 comments)

Learning a new language with Audacity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2962284 - Sept 2011 (9 comments)
Tesla's Bitcoin investment has carbon footprint of 1.8 million cars
Ask HN: What's the name of that office design layout?
where the deeper you go into a company office and further away from the entrance you are, the more that space is reserved for deep work, quiet and concentration?
Probably any modern car? OBD-3 was supposed to have a small GSM transceiver in it to relay GPS location, smog emission, speed, allow remote engine-shut-off, misc other things and that was starting to be deployed in 2012 on some cars but then put on hold for privacy issues. My old vehicle does not emit any RF and is OBD-2. Are there any car hackers on here that have hypothetically speaking modded the OBD-3 transceiver modules? i.e. hypothetically spoofed speed, emissions, location. I can't even find a list of manufacturers that have implemented this. SEMA were the group leading the effort.
> open nature of the blockchain

Only some are open. Take a look at Monero. There's a bounty out to make transactions on it traceable [1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25752042
You seem to have a very US centric view. There are other 7.5 billion people in the World.
It says they are using USDC stablecoin for the conversion.
Yeah this company can fuck itself, eat a bag of dicks and hopefully die.

I don't want to live in a world of surveillance such as this and anyone working for this company should down-right fuck off.

We already built a surveillance system that is too vast.

go fuck yourself:

Source: I helped build tracking tech for Lockheed, was the personal tech trainer for Tom Ridge when he joined the board of Lockheed and used to go to his house

I was also director at [company] when my team built all the Vizio, Samsung, LG spying tech into your Television... [Real-time screenshots from your TV, what you are watching and other data] ((kill your smart TV))

Yeah - it sickens me and this company can get fucked.

I am so tired of growing up in a world where I read science fiction in the 80s and thought "wouldnt it be cool if" and then helped make this dystopian nightmare of surveillance that we now live in.

Any engineer working on this crap should not be proud of the genie they just released from that bottle.

You know whats fucked up is that the biggest social media company has car tracking around its HQ and it reports lic plates back to the municipal city government...
If you click on the thumbnails it'll link you to the generated page!
The wikipedia article does not mention the most common example -- .app "files"/bundles.

E.g.:

zsh% ls Applications/Firefox.app/Contents
CodeResources Library PkgInfo _CodeSignature
Info.plist MacOS Resources
Evo-psych is certainly concerned with the psychology of other animals - why for example the peacock has its feathers. But we can't have a peacock say "I don't know, the feathers don't seem sexy to me, but if I were a tiger I think I'd be scared of them."

Humans have both much more complicated psychologies than most animals (whether we have true peers is debatable), and we certainly are much easier to collect data on. It makes sense that human evo-psych should dwarf animal evo-psych for the same reasons terrestrial-biology dwarfs astro-biology. I wouldn't interpret that to mean we don't consider the questions interesting.
> Bitcoin doesn't. We can ban bitcoin tomorrow, and not a single person will be seriously inconvenienced, other than speculators.

Sure, let's also ban all motor racing, tourism, recreational shopping, etc. It's a big waste of resources and it'll only inconvenience the people that care about those things, but they can still live their lives so it's fine.
I would start by kicking out the person who suggested this terrible idea. They are either naive or cunning. Either of those are dangerous for a new company.

Beyond promoting a toxic culture, this will also result in people teaming up to push performance incentives their way. Like any other system, it can and will be gamed.
He's not the governor, and I don't know anyone here (in Texas, not HN) that cares what he says.

However, you did not paraphrase him so much as lie about what he said. "you deserved it because you'd rather die than have the feds involved in your energy grid" is not at all what Rick Perry said. The actual quote is “Texans would be without electricity for longer than three days to keep the federal government out of their business. Try not to let whatever the crisis of the day is take your eye off of having a resilient grid that keeps America safe personally, economically, and strategically.” [0]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-perry-texans-should-endu...
Even if they did track that, it would be first-party tracking, which is fine. Just like Facebook can still show you ads based on what you do on Facebook.

It wouldn’t be fine if Apple sold that data to third parties.

This seems to be what most people expect. My mom knows that what she’s doing on Facebook is tracked by Facebook. She probably does not know that what she’s doing in other apps is also tracked by Facebook.
FM has a property known as "capture effect". The result is that the stronger station will usually "capture" the PLL (back when they used PLLs instead of SDRs for FM demod) and you will not hear the adjacent station. It can become a problem in a mobile environment (car stereo) when the signal levels are constantly changing, but "bleeding" is a problem usually associated with other modulation types (typically AM and SSB).
Recent article from Bloomberg on the topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/four-day-...
The damage is done though, so I don't know that I see this as a thing to be happy about. I am curious if the source is known or unmasked at a later date what does accountability look like?

If WaPo is the only one who can be held accountable and their only accountability is issuing a retraction, that seems like a gameable system.
>Is 50 hours that crazy?

The collective agreement for IT service sector workers (incl. software developers) in Finland is 37.5 hours per week, so it sounds pretty crazy actually.
>I have to ask which hearts are we trying to open? Some are far too gone and it would be a waste of time to try to convince them to let go of their bigotry

Any that can be opened. The ones that are "too far gone" are moot by definition, so we should keep in mind those who might see things differently if we communicate in a way that reaches them rather than puts up roadblocks.

> The very same will feign engagement and argue in bad faith while being energy vampires

Yes, there are many of these people, but my argument is that actions like this empower bad faith actors.

> Why should I supplicate racists before I have my dignity as a human?

We fundamentally disagree that use of the word "master" in a technical context is racist or a denial of human dignity. Using the word "main" instead of "master" doesn't improve economic, social, or political outcomes for black people, it doesn't do anything except create fodder for the bad faith actors.

> Fuck "hearts and minds"

I think this approach hurts the cause. I don't see how our children grow up in a better world if we abandon all hope of reasoning with our fellow citizens. However, as my comment stated, my advice only make sense if the goal is to change hearts and minds, if you don't care about that then my reasoning does not apply.

> but you need to consciously consider who these people are

As you already pointed out, we can't know who they are, thus I think it is prudent to craft broad messaging in a manner that is suitable for those who can be convinced, not those who are already convinced, or those who cannot ever be convinced. I also want to highlight that my comment includes the caveat "where appropriate", that is to say, we should be strident in the face of discrimination and bigotry, but I don't agree that the status quo for git branch names are an example of such problems.
From the posts still visible:

> Shockingly ignorant and dismissive of you.

> I'm not assuming. You've demonstrated your knowledge on the subject. (insinuating I have little knowledge on the subject)

> Maybe you go through life constantly asserting and believing things that are in no way true....with no experience nor credentials nor having even read any literature to back any of them up...

If you don’t find these offensive, you may have thicker skin than most, but it’s still best to leave them out.
> I think this is what you're referring to

Almost. I was actually referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_(macOS) which is the same concept.

See also https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Mi...
We believe the same. In the age of information overload building credibility on the Internet is tough. That's why we are building Shoutout. It will dig the unbiased positive shoutouts and help creators, startups build credibility.
Yeah, those are some of the core features that I can't live without. A lot of the reason for building in VSCode is because they have a good VIM extension :)
While I use Logic for making "real" audio, Audacity is great for those other audio tasks. For example, I used Audacity's "Import Raw Data" feature to open a dd image of a USB drive to recover corrupted audio FTW!
Is there a plan to migrate to an open protocol to allow accessible clients?
Grab a random Chinese app, do a tiny bit of static analysis, and you will see that is quite justified...
Why is this empty vapid rant so upvoted? Who cares?

Writing so many words about this change that doesn't really affect anyone unless they want it to... I wonder why he was so upset?

(I don't actually wonder. Enjoy your lovely community of wonderful like-minded wholesome people, Dang.)
The OSI layering model of internet infra is largely a myth, a simplification for students. It's similar to C is called "portable assembly" despite compilers being far more complex in practice.
Audacity has a chapter in the "Architecture of Open Source Applications" book ( https://aosabook.org/en/audacity.html ). It is a nice read to understand the internals of the application and some of the technical challenges the have confronted.
Great question, we don't have any user caps or limitations as we pass through bandwidth costs. The bandwidth costs are pay as you go.

For reference: Live encoding of input stream ($0.07/min), video stream delivery ($0.0013/min) and video storage ($0.003/min) apply. Billed at the end of each payment cycle.
I do and have been now for almost 3 years. Actually, I work 3 days for 60% (on average that is) and oh my god it's so much nicer than when I was working at companies for 80-100% time. And I'm actually learning again, coding for fun, doing a graduate degree, reading SICP, you know .... BEING A HUMAN BEING.

I will tell anyone who will listen in tech to work less, learn more. If you learn the right things, your salary will likely catch up in the long run and you will be happier, healthier, and smarter. I hardly ever sleep until my alarm now.
Chromium isn't part of the base system. There's some misunderstanding here between the base system and ports.
Someone else said it is measured by: sales revenue per employee

So I think you're right. I still think people will be suspect. Like why couldn't more work be done in a 5 day week compared to a 4 day week? Why would 4 day produce the same work which result in the same sales as 5 day?

And it's hard to logically argue for or against. But if you tried a 6 day week, you could try to answer: well does more working hours result in more work with more sales output? And if not, then maybe the truth is that there's a max budget of real work per week for employees, and more work hours just go to waste. And in turn that could explain why 4 day over 5 didn't see a big change on sales output.
There was an article I read on how arbitrage vs BTC was possible, despite it not being an ETF. I forget the details, it may have taken like 6 months to do the exchange for regulatory reasons.

So professionals were making money while it was >BTC, until they overdid it and the premium went away.

It seems reasonable to be patient because there's just a lot of lag in the system as it's currently set up.

If you've ever paid attention to closed-end funds, you might have noticed how they can trade substantially over or under asset value for quite a while, but not forever.
This is bikeshedding to the extreme. Who cares if Github changes what words they use (from "master" to "main").

The poster claims that they personally were not asked about the change. Who cares what that person thinks? Seriously, this is just one voice (an "anon" user, so they won't even put their reputation behind their words).

This poster is clearly uninformed which doesn't help their case. This conversation has a long history in the computer world, and many companies for years have been removing the Master/Slave terminology (including Master/Slave disks). Don't believe me? Go look at Wikipedia, which has a page devoted to this topic! This is hardly new ground!

There may be problems of race in tech, but fighting against the "good" in order to hold out for the "perfect" is a stupid approach. There is no reason to argue against this change.
For the curious, this exact series of comments _is_ mandated by the standard and therefore be reliably located in every thread that involves C/C++.
Yeah, we don't do outline in the workflowy sense. we do outlines in the sense that we have shortcuts to create notes from bullets and autolink the new note. not the same but gets close. you can see an example here: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/593206ea-5658-4874-bafd-18a138...
OpenAI's Altman: AI will make wealth to pay all adults $13,500 a year
I'm pretty sure my Nokia 770 was from before 2010. I still have it around my room someplace.
Free version is doing all right. It's surprising to find what people use it for. One interesting example I found was this manager who uses it as a clock in website for their direct reports.

Paid version, not so much. I haven't done very much to promote it however.
I think particularly for autistic people that struggle to pick up the implicit rules of the game, they can be useful.
> The only people I see campaigning for the return of the gold standard are populists.

Many of the current crop "populists" don't really have a program that would actually help the people whose support they've gained through emotional appeals. They're mainly just trying to harness dissatisfaction with the current order to fuel personal ambition.

IIRC, the original populists actually opposed the gold standard, when it was still actually a thing, and supported silver because it was more inflationary. They understood deflationary money helps the people who already have money, and inflationary money helps the people who are in debt to them.
It's extremely disappointing to see that the primary reaction on HN to this terminology chain is to bemoan the minor inconvenience of having to type fewer letters or run a replace-all on your scripts. Oh god, the horror. It's almost like people on HN have never used a text replacement tool before.

A "master recording" is the immutable "official recording" and is the source from which all copies are made, but the "master" in this term comes from the historical use of a "mastering lathe" to create vinyl records. It's quite clear that a "master branch" in git is not like a master recording, because a master branch isn't immutable and moreover is the branch that changes get merged into.

Given that the "master" in historic VCS programs (like Bitkeeper) is explicitly based on master/slave terminology, that git deliberately picked the term to maintain continuity of context with other VCS systems, and that "master" is ultimately a inaccurate description of what a "master branch" actually is in the context of git, it absolutely should be changed to something less inflammatory, like "main" or "working" or "local."