skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know we are going to hear from the Apple haters soon or those that don't like what apple is doing (modular upgradeable systems going away) BUT it seems like Apple is moving in a similar direction as nvidia.

Apple is also I think going to soldered on / close in RAM. Nvidia looks to be doing this two CPU / GPU / Ram all close together and it doesn't look like any upgrade options. Some thinking was that Apple was continuing to increase durability / reliability etc with their RAM move.

Does anyone know requirements for the LPDDR5X type of ram mentioned here. Does this require soldering things (you obviously get lots more control if you spec chips yourself and solder on)?
Oh I totally would if it were fucking up my country's attempts to meet the Paris climate accord.

But I'm not American and have no problem with a nanny state doing the right for society (crypto libertarians really, really hate society I have noticed).
Did you know you could put an entire bitcoin miner in apple desktop notifications?
well, currently most option for fancy food in France are closed because of Covid-19. Though having tried French tacos once, I think I'll still choose McDo/Burger King if I'm hungry and on the move at an odd hour
The CPU cores are probably not that interesting, it's going to be the GPU and interlink stuff (pretty impressive if true) that's going to drive this?
> You 'have' to go back to the start of your function to fill in the correct size of the stack frame

foo:
push ebp
mov ebp esp
sub esp .stacksz
; ...
.stacksz = 0x14
leave
ret

> similar to how you handle filling in the branch offsets in forward branches in if/then/else, and that’s something you have to do, anyways

Pretty much this. I'm with Joker_vD on this one; I don't see a problem here.
I honestly cannot tell whether this is a joke or a real product that launched at one point.

It seems like https://www.blacksocks.com/en/ is a real company, but I can't find anything on smart socks on the website.
I thought Peter Gregory died in a safari
There seems to be 2 types of discussion about Bitcoin I've read so far:

A) 95% of the discussions and focus on the strict monetary value of the Bitcoin as an investment and financial gains.

B) 5% are related to ideological concepts of a decentralized monetary system and how that's a very good thing.

I fail to see the real value for humanity in general for this, not to mention the environmental impacts of the energy consumption of the bitcoin mining operations.

I am open to reading other points of view.
In practice, it appears that even though Apple is using the ARM instruction set, they are still relying on truly massive reorder buffers.
Intel in talks to produce chips for automakers within six to nine months
Except of course the Nintendo Switch and the handheld devices like the 3DS. They are all ARM-based.
MongoDB is not trending towards death and is actually still growing by almost any metric.
I think Heroku was something contained to US, or maybe even narrower. Never heard or seen EU company hosting on Heroku.
Why wouldn’t this one be gamed just like most of the others and set to a higher priority?

I feel like the best chance at a semi-accurate result may be fast.com that uses actual Netflix streams for its tests.

Couple that with either the ISP branded and maybe an non-local speed test and you can get some idea at where an issue may be.
Personally I don't see the point dethroning bash. I mean Bash still hasn't completely dethroned the Bourne shell. And now there is a lot more competition in shells than there ever was.

Personally I think the better approach is to accept that bash/sh will always be about for legacy stuff and for alternative shells to carve out a niche elsewhere. Particularly because to some of bash/sh's pain points can't be addressed without break compatibility in the first place (like handling file names with spaces).
Exactly.

"If I had to guess, I would say ~40 hours"

That's just the tip of the iceberg if you're going to maintain this for years upon years. No thanks
Ask HN: How to further validate my indie game project?
Hi Hacker News,

Throwaway for obvious reasons.

Recently I've been working on an indie game project. After some upfront work of about 2-3 months, I published a Steam page and started to build a community.

Without revealing too much, I was able to build a Discord community of over 100 people in just a few days. However after a few initial successes on Reddit and Imgur, my traction has fallen off a cliff.

I'm worried that my game isn't as enticing as I thought, but this early success plus some recent playtesting makes me think there may still be potential here.

How can I further validate my game?

I know the indie market is tough, so I want to be sure before investing further.
Steam changed their content recommendation algorithms a couple of years ago to heavily favour big name titles, I think to attract more aaa games like from EA. Indies have really struggled since then, with revenue plummeting. It’s nice to have an alternative
He speaks profusely about tetrachords. I believe his best examination of the chromatic scale is in chapter 12.

I have a version translated and commentated upon by Flora R. Levin which provides exquisite anthropological background of how the ancient Greeks thought of music and provides context for what amounts to as lectures given by Nichomachus.
What does it mean to be a single PHP file? Is that like implementing quicksort in one line?
This is purely rhetorical, as I have no doubt you will never be invited to join. However, my question is whether you believe there is ever a level of change and progress and reconciliation that would allow an organization with a far-from-perfect past, to move forward and embrace current social values? Or does every organization that ever had a history of racism or sexism permanently on your "banned" list? If there is no chance of ever getting on your (and people who think like you) right side, why should organizations make an effort to change?
I haven't written else if in javascript in years, and else is a very very rare staple in my code. Return pattern was an eye opener from a senior dev.
> the chances you’d fly if a train trip was less than an hour are pretty near zero

Why is this?

I'm genuinely curious. I've never been on (or even seen!) a train, nor have I ever flown.
A few points. First, here's the actual law: https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/...

Second, keep in mind that LotusEaters is ran by Carl Benjamin[1] -- and so it's most definitely not a balanced take.

Third, the gripe here is mainly that there's no "private conversation" exception for this bill. I personally think it's problematic even without these exceptions. If you read through it, it's riddled with "reasonable," "reasonable person," and so on.

Finally, important notice needs to be paid to section 4A, where it cites Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights of being the pallbearer for what's reasonable and what's not. Article 10 itself says:

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This Article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benjamin
The other aspect of these is that, unless we're also going to eliminate the possibilities of courts ruling on things, the reversibility features of land registries and deeds is a feature, not a bug.

Husband and wife divorce and the courts rule that the husband gets the deed to the house and the wife gets the Ferrari. Husband refuses to transfer the Ferrari's deed. Now what?

Unless you mean that the land registry continues to exist but uses a public blockchain as their database? In which case... why? If they did decide they wanted it all public, auditable, and in the open, they could just publish it as a signed text file every day and anyone who cared could mirror it.

Don't get me wrong, I think there's some really cool possibilities in the space, but lots of the things that get proposed are fundamentally subject to court orders. Unless we change the law so that judges can't say "I don't give a shit what the 'blockchain' says, A belongs to X and B belongs to Y, and anyone who won't play ball can sit in jail for contempt until they get on board," there won't be much point in keeping track of those assets on a blockchain.
I'm afraid that you're wrong about how Atmos works.

Previous Dolby standards worked as you describe, but Atmos is most similar to your alernative 2.

Atmos has up to 128 audio tracks which are each positioned and moved within a virtual 3D space.

The Atmos reciever then processes this 3D space and outputs a number of channels tailored to your specific speaker set up, wherever they are positioned (and however many* speakers you have). I don't know if Atmos for headphones currently includes HRTF processing, but there is no technical reason it couldn't.

*(I believe state of the art limit for home systems is 64, but this is a hardware issue, rather an a limit of the format)
Europe’s human space flight in a black hole
> And they’ll be for pedestrians, bikes, and small subways like the London Underground uses.

Assuming such tunneling is in fact practical, I vote for burying the vehicles and letting the pedestrians have the surface...
Not hard at all to appreciate. I know the consistency woes of juggling thousands of message queues with millions of messages and containers with enormous databases. The problem though, as I found out ironically, is that most dilbert bosses don't appreciate solutions like temporal, unless a tech "guru" tells them about it. For example, I get laughed at when I tell other developers that databases are an antiquated idea and should be avoided in general.

What I've been working on in recent years is actually not too far off in terms of how to approach making truly simple code, but is far off in the sense that it'll take me (alone) years to make a pragmatic implementation, probably as a language in its own right. Rather than attempt to make a system partition tolerant I started thinking what if network partitions were assumed as the default? To answer that question you have to do things like measure the information entropy of data, use knot theory, representation theory such as young lattices, symmetric group mapping, character groups, prime number theory, among other goodies, to represent event-states, workflows, etc. Most of all (this is where things get weird) is rather than code programs, the emphasis becomes how to easily declaratively code and build "homotopic" multiplexed protocols instead (while keeping the business logic familiar), that way SDKs and integrations are a thing of the past. All this has of course has to use existing web standards like HTTP, otherwise it won't be adopted. My friend always laughs at me when I try to explain it to him, so I apologize, ha. But that's all the more reason to appreciate technology like temporal because it's something a developer can use today.
by definition sspl only qualifies as a source available license but it restricts stuff in so many ways that it is basically propriatary, even for normal uses.
btw. even open source licenses are not free or libre, they also restrict usages, just not as hard as most source available licenses.
source code is not open if I'm restricted to use it in most cases without making everything open, it's available of course, but that limits my use case by a huge margin. even open source (osi) licenses do that, but in a way more fair manner, which does not discriminiate usages.
heck I'm not even a fan of gpl 3 (especially agpl) , because I think they also discrimnate usages and are also poorly written (too much stuff that is hard to understand without a lawyer)
Nah. I have had one whole class in Hydrology. I read books about water (rights and development history, for example) for fun. [1]

I just tuckered out before getting to the part of trying to look up average river width for my home state of Georgia. I'm just tired today, as is often the case, or I would be all over that.

[1] Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650
1. Because when you buy let's say some ice cream you do not expect and it should not imply that you give a right to the seller to visit your house whenever you take a bite or whenever he wants. The same reason. If person wish to watch some dumb movie his privacy should not be compromised.

2. Because once you allow such things then soon any seller would feel safe to add any degree of tracking/ breaking privacy to any product... Oh wait,isn't it what is happening these days?

3. If you do not understand the value of privacy for the democracy then perhaps selling kidney when you buy ice cream example would work for you. Even if it is written between the lines it should be illegal, isn't it ?
Absolutely. It was all about PR. Still is but no substance to back it up in the least.
How do you know it was real? Russian propaganda still says the American moon landing was filmed in Nevada, might the Vostok 1 mission be a hoax as well?
So in other words at the FSF workers are free to unionize like in the rest of the civilized World, while if you work at Amazon you have to pee in a bottle and be happy about it.
Why not just price carbon?
That code is ugly anyway, something I would have wrote in middle school... why not:

function check(x) {
return test1(x) && test2(x) && test3(x) && test4(x);
}

Or, since I assume is JavaScript, just:

const check = x => test1(x) && test2(x) && test3(x) && test4(x);
Don't be a free user (2011)
Can you be a bit more specific? What you say seems very abstract and probably would be understandable to someone that groks the context.
This reminds of Nintendo’s philosophy of lateral thinking with withered technology.

https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...
Logitech Harmony Remote Controls Officially Discontinued
This guy’s rant against liberals/ode to tech startups is illiterate and contradicted by his own notations. There’s practically a second separate essay down there explaining how he ‘creatively’ interprets data to mean what he wants it to mean. If you have to do that, you’ve written something really quite sloppy.
Open your browser in private navigation
I dont think so. I will guess up to 10% of them are member of CCP.
'This has never happened': San Jose State's wildfire lab makes scary discovery
But it’s still just search and replace right, like renaming a variable or function, or am I missing something?
I don’t think the two or three mods around here would bother since they seem to be pretty nice.

Does the delay setting also delay your comments from appearing on your profile? If not you might want to consider if you’ve annoyed someone enough to write a script that crawls your comments and insta-downvotes them.
They used lead vessels to make wine taste sweeter as well. Saying that makes me curious as to what it would actually taste like. Stevia extract and aspartame are sweet but don't taste the same and both different from suger, what is lead like? The second thing that makes me wonder is, do I already know since I live in a city with some lead contamination in the tap water.
The world record for the triple jump [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump] is just over 18 meters, so quite a bit further than a 10 foot pole.
I’m surprised it never happens because it seems as though the spin of the ball and velocity of collision would send the pin across more frequently than 3 times in 30 years from the top professionals.
FWIW, Amazon doesn't treat its warehouse employees well, but it does pay more than minimum wage.
I appreciate this argument, except for one detail:

> his essay on wealth tax is downright stupid

What's everyone's deal with that essay? It literally has no subjective opinion stated anywhere - all it does is calculate how much percent of your wealth you're left with after 60 years of wealth tax [0]. You definitionally cannot push back on anything stated in that article, or otherwise your problem is not with PG's views but with math in general.

I appreciate the thoughtful reference to Thomas Piketty's book, which I think everyone should read. But IMO attacking algebra takes away from your overall argument.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/wtax.html
Kotlin was created by the Jetbrains team behind Intellij/Resharper. It's named after a city outside of St. Petersburg, Russia. It has nothing to do with Google...
But this is specifically not smell, or even about the brain: it’s about what chemicals the tastebuds are physically capable of detecting. In particular the sweet taste of heavy water seems to be purely related to the sweet taste buds (though there may be secondary flavors that come from the smell).

Within humans there is considerable variance among bitter tastebuds. Roughly speaking, the salt/sour/sweet tastebuds are comparatively simple ion detectors: salt = sodium, sour = hydrogen (from the acid), and sweet = glucose. And yes, sweet is more complicated, because it’s trying to detect a more complicated form of aquatic solute. But the idea is that these tastes are trying to find a specific and well-defined chemical property.

Bitterness is different. Bitterness is basically a poison detector, which means that to be effective it needs to register a wide variety of potential toxins. So akalais/bases tend to be bitter because naturally-occurring bases tend to be toxic. But there are all sorts of complex organic molecules that may be toxic (or are chemically very similar to toxins), which some people can taste and others cannot. Cilantro is probably the most famous example: people who hate cilantro are tasting a (harmless) toxin that other people can’t detect. But this taste is a true taste from the tastebuds, not a smell.
Hundreds. Each team owns a different part of the service.
Tailwind is the weirdest thing I've ever ran across. It's basically inline CSS.

Personally, I write CSS this way:

1. Select based on cascaded semantic HTML elements;
2. Don't repeat yourself;
3. No unnecessary classnames;
4. No style-descriptions in classnames.

Only when you have troubles selecting an element based on its position in your DOM you should choose a classname. It should not be ".text-gray-500" (like Tailwind does) but it should be "p.author-role".

In my case the classname is semantically descriptive whereas Tailwind is not. In my case you just need to update the CSS and in the case of Tailwind you need to change your HTML and then probably also create a new CSS class.

But still, ideally, you'd simply select it like this:

The author name:

figure.author figcaption h5 { ... }

The author role:

figure.author figcaption h6 { ... }

And even the .author selector would be optional, depending on whether that figure elements needs custom styling that is exclusive to the author or not.
Is M1 on package? Or is it on-die that people keep getting wrong
Mozilla TTS is a great open source speech generator that uses state of the art ML models. https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

If you need good TTS, this is it. It sounds as good as Google, Apple, or Amazon products, if you have a good data set. The pre trained models are decent enough for real use cases.

Datasets are the problem. Quality data is expensive. It takes about 24 hours of aligned and annotated quality voice samples to make a model.

The most common "open" dataset is LJSpeech. It's kinda noisy and recorded with a bad mic. And that greatly degrades quality of generated audio. It's still miles better than anything 5+ years ago, but has a metallic quality.

If anyone is interested, you can record your own voice to make a model for Mozilla TTS. What isn't talked about, is that modern ML voice models aren't synthetic voices, they're audio deepfakes. Clones. We're talking to the point your friends couldn't tell if it was you or the model on the phone.

Some people might find that scary but I think it's incredibly cool. If you build a great quality model for Mozilla TTS your voice can outlive you.
So what happens if the fed cracks down and you have a ton of bitcoin? That goes to zero, right? is there going to be a withdrawal stampede?

I dunno if a crackdown is even going to happen, but in case it does, what's the plan?
There is no doubt the club has a checkered history, but are there any organizations of historical significance that don't have cases of wrongful exclusion?
Commodities and future contracts on them have been around for a while now.
interesting, when searching for mukhala’a, which is supposed to be a North African dish, I only get pictures of muskets.

Though for the rest, for an article written in an American publication, it's not too off-base (surely helped by how the author is living in France).
This is a myth, and if you look into the statistics of the people pushing this Big Lie, you'll find that they cheat and use different inflation metrics for productivity and for compensation.
He didn’t become famous until YC.

I’m also annoyed when people make the argument that goes: “person X became rich from A he didn’t need to do B”. Maslows hierarchy holds true for all of us. Once he got wealth he desired influence (and power).
> - Micro Payments / Internet money

Isn't eth terrible at this? i have $12 USDT stuck on an eth address because i need to spent $30 worth of eth to send it. That's not even including the fee I'll incur when i have to send eth to the address to fund it..
I really miss postfix conditionals from perl/ruby/coffeescript in all of the other languages. (Along with until/unless, which are just while! and if!.)

I asked on the go-nuts mailing list about perhaps including them in go2, but it seems many of the people who replied hate them.
The transition was super painful and took nearly a decade. Some Linux distros defaulted to 2, some 3, some cleanly mapped to python2 and python3 and some just left "python" running some arbitrary default. It was a serious mess.

The worst part is that to an end user the differences were so minor. I'm sure under the hood and as a whole there are big differences between 2 and 3, but for most of us it was really minor stuff like "print x" vs "print(x)"
I don't know, but half of them are below average by definition.

Take a scan down the Fortune 500 and put a star next to each one you think has had 'exemplary leadership' rather than 'competent administration' or 're-arranging deck chairs while the titanic burns'.

The CEO of eBay got busted sending bloody pig masks to people who left bad reviews on the internet, for god's sake. These people aren't a higher plane of being.
Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest
I am also hoping for a return of the Xserve once Apple makes high-corecount variations of the Apple Silicon for the Mac Pro. This would have several benefits. First of all, it would greatly increase the production count of that variant, it could be too expensive to make such a chip just for the Mac Pro. In any case, it should be cheaper than an equivalent Intel CPU as Apple would not have to pay for Intels profits. And finally, just the power savings for the vast compute centers Apple operates should mean a lot of money saved too.
we americans seem to prefer paying for bombs more than paying to have our own citizens treated decently