skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true for friday night stabbing type of crime, pretty much anything drug related (excepting the higher-up El Chapo types), and anything driven by poverty.

Do it also hold for white collar greedy banker type crime?
I've been following this saga for a while. but always based on The Register's coverage. Is the current management really as entirely screwed up and corrupt as they appear?
I think the creator of the project has moved on and it is not maintained anymore. But they have https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
It's “freedom to X shall not be limited save by whatever lawmaker feels like”, but a lot of words to obscure the meaning.
Windows Media Player in Windows 10 still plays MIDI files. They've however removed the option to select a default MIDI device from the configuration GUI, so it'll always play on the built-in software wavetable synth unless you use a third party application to change the default.

For Linux, you can use aplaymidi from alsa-utils to play back on a MIDI port, or timidity for a software wavetable. I think most OS packaged versions of timidity ship with a basic soundfont so that you can listen straight away.

OS X, last I tried in maybe 2016 or 2015, had a built-in software synthesizer, and IIRC one of the built-in players used it for playback, maybe Quicktime.

I'd say support is pretty good considering how unlikely it seems that anyone should use SMAF as a consumption media format these days.
Natto.dev – A Canvas for JavaScript
I'd say the current banking system does an excellent job at money laundering and most major companies seem to play the tax system like a fiddle as to pay less taxes than a fast food employee.

So, what's left? Oh, the climate. Where to even begin here? Call me when hash function workers create smog in a small city. Until then, our industry seems quite capable of killing the planet by itself.

It's better for the world long term if people that care about it are not poor. So, do make money and improve the world in other ways. Clearly you can offset with good deeds whatever energy will be wasted.
The project I’m working on now has 3,879 direct/indirect dependencies, beat that
Australia brought in some consumer law business that didn't have costs or you don't use, could not lock you in.

So for example a phone on a plan is fine as there's a capital good but a gym isn't.
Why does the stock price matter? It’s all the same in the end. Stock splitting doesn’t change anything except perception.
Can someone please give a little bit more context for people out of the loop? It’s confusing to understand who stands for what (board of .uk, that company, the ex BBC dude) and what is/was going on.
That's a very cynical perspective. How did you come to believe that?
...and sheep in a group are called flocks.
His peers don't say he can't better himself. They say he resists it extraordinarily strongly.

Feeling more empathy for people who deal with him isn't callous.
https://aloso.github.io/2021/04/12/linked-list.html
Do the US and UK Governments want Julian Assange do die in prison?
That's not a typo.
The downfall of Adobe is interesting to watch. New releases get more expensive every year, but they aren't really adding features. I had to switch to Affinity to get an iPad version, for example. 21,000 employees and they can't port Photoshop to ARM? I think at this point, they're just coasting on brand recognition alone. They certainly aren't adding much value; all they can do is rent you their software at higher and higher prices every year and hope nobody notices. The subscription cancellation shenanigans just show how bad their software is -- people will pay them money to not be able to use their software anymore. If that's not a hallmark of a dying company, I don't know what is.

I'm surprised they haven't started suing people over range check functions yet.
Now you can test drive Samsung on your iPhone
>>Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s.

This is misleading.

https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/winter-2019/us-median-hous...

>>Average household size declined from 3.28 persons in 1967 to 2.62 by 2000 and 2.54 by 2017 (Census 2017b). Larger households can be expected to have greater income earning potential from the availability of more potential workers. It is thus important to adjust for household size in assessing the long-term growth of household income. Otherwise, the larger households at the beginning of the period would tend to exaggerate the income levels relative to household incomes toward the end of the period.
Most countries (at least here in Europe) have very high taxes, so whenever you go, you'll pay pretty much the same. So if people move, they do it for what they can get back for the money they pay.
However the problem is that the system is setup so that it penalises ambitious people while protecting the rich.
In many countries the governing parties see people as their clients and in their interest is to keep everyone dependent on benefits or being on the verge of needing them. That's how you game democracy and as a side effect you severely inhibit growth. (Good example is how little "unicorns" Europe has)
Wow. If Amazon is being held up as a good example, things are truly bad. My only experience is with Audible, and it is way too difficult and obscure to figure out how to cancel your subscription. Although at least once you do they don't try to pull anything except give you a discount, I suppose.

Although that shouldn't be held up as a positive either. Where I am, it's literally illegal for utility companies to offer discounts or any other type of benefit to customers who wish to cancel or move to another provider. They aren't even allowed to contact you unsolicited after you have requested to cancel the service, as it could be interpreted as attempting to offer enticement to continue. Ending a subscription to a service should not be a difficult thing.
Show HN: PingMy.Life – Automated Life Check-Ins
I found myself needing to share important information with my wife in case something happened to me. Because, well, you never know. I had a Google Doc I had shared with her a number of years ago, but if it came down to it would she remember that I did? I planned on using a few scripts to automate this process, then figured it would be better to have a UI where I could make quick changes if necessary. At that point I might as well make it available for anyone, right? It's free to use - you can buy me a coffee if it helps you out as well.
Altruism vs. sponsorship is a false dichotomy.

sourcehut (https://sr.ht) is a good counterexample. It funds itself and is completely open source.

Anyway, I am not suggesting that the project has been compromised just because it has been commercialized. I don't do all my development in open source and don't expect anyone else to do so either.
Lets just pick a simple example, for an inner loop

a = m[i+1] + b
c = m[i+3] + c
e = m[i+7] + d

assume you only have 3 registers, in a RISKy architecture. Every statement becomes something like

r1 = *pb // load c
r2 = r0[1] // m[m+1]
r1 = r1 + r2 // a = ...
*pa = r1

Since all registers are used, and all but two instructions are dependent, in the assembly the blocks have to follow one another. There`s also spilling of the b,c,d variables, they have to be read from registers (which could be elided). Assuming no re-order buffer, these instructions runs in three cycles (the first two are independent) - even though the top level instructions are independent.

If you want them to run all statements with 4 instructions at a time, you need to have a reorder buffer that covers the whole sequence (12 instructions). (Imagine if b,c,d get modified inside the inner loop and spilled into memory, you have to track memory locations in order to do register renaming.)

Now lets assume you have 6 registers. Now all variables fit in registers and the compiler can easily interleave the code giving a sequence of 3 or 4 independent instructions at a time. If you want to run 4 instructions at the same time, you need no reorder buffer.

This is a kind of specific example, but it shows that if you have more registers (i.e. ARM vs x86), the compiler can more easily interleave instructions, which can help reduce the number of instructions that need to be in the reorder buffer. Or with the same size re-order buffer, its easier to find more independent instructions and keep all the execution units fed. Or, when jumping to some code thats not in pipeline or icache, it allows to sooner run more instructions in parallel, when only a small number of instructions are decoded and in the re-order buffer.
The purpose of democracy is to let citizens exercise control of their own country. Wealth, status, heritage etc. is always going to be confounding factors for this to work. Ideally the democratic process should account for this, but in reality it will always be a sliding scale. A truly perfect democracy doesn't seem possible.

This doesn't contradict the fact that democracy is something to strive for. Most people would like to have their voices heard and not be subjugated by authoritarian leaders.

Alas, this is were it seems like a lot of Russians have just given up; "We'll have an authoritarian regime, because it's always been like that. This one isn't as bad as the previous ones, so it's fine."
You sound like someone, who does not want to be wrong on the Internet, so he brings up the ultimate argument.

It does not make any sense, too. Harvard graduates are globalists, who are more likely to allocate their assets globally, which is what saves you from such events.
Guess link is only valid when opened using an iPhone or changing user agent...
It’s working for SpaceX.
It's baffling how this issue gets overblown, both in Japan and on the international stage. IIUC they will discharge water which got filtered from all radioactive isotopes except tritium. If they dump everything at once, IIRC it was calculated that in one year an average Japanese citizen will get an additional dose equal to 0.8 µSv, which is approximately equal to how much you regularly get from natural sources in just 3 hours. The number will be even lower for neighboring countries and they plan to discharge water very gradually during the next 30 years.

I guess it's a big problem with the modern politics, politicians get more points by over-blowing issues and loudly protesting against them, than by carefully explaining to population essence of those issue and trade-offs of various solutions.
I am not sure why you are presenting this statement which says exactly the same as I did as an argument against what I said.
Good example is UK. As a specialist you would be in area of 40% effective tax rate, but going over 50% is not uncommon (after IR35 changes some workers have to pay employer's NI) plus there are other taxes like council tax or high VAT.
> Next time read the terms of a contract before signing it.

But that's unworkable in modern life. We often have to agree to multiple terms documents per day, jumping through hoops for urgent things like receiving security updates. 99% of people clicking "I agree" do so without reading the terms.
Don't some of them just do it and pay the fines because it's still profitable?
What an effing great article. Not only for the clarity and care behind the writing, but also for useful links like [0].

Adam's (author) podcast Full Stack Radio is useful like this too [1].

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/examples/menu-butto...

[1] https://fullstackradio.com/
What's the opportunity here?
Inflation and scarcity will make it impossible to get good deals but it looks like it's going to be good time to sell.

I sit on 2 apartments in downtown and am thinking about selling one of them.
Some brokers allow you to buy fractional shares... Just like you don't have to buy a whole Bitcoin...
Attackers can delete your Google developer account
https://www.techradar.com/news/nominet-ceo-finally-ousted-af...

The current board is made up of many vested interests, hence the resistance for change.
SoftBank-backed Grab agrees to deal to go public in world’s largest SPAC merger
Yes, they have to start somewhere. That somewhere is reading and working with the code they want to read slowly.
Isn't the Permian extinction considered to be generally worse?
"Hold" is a package state that may be set to not change that package in any way. If it is currently installed, keep it installed and at that version, if it is currently not installed, do not install it under any circumstances.

"Broken" means that the package in question has dependency conflicts, unfulfilled dependencies or stuff like that. If an installation, upgrade or deinstallation is requested, the dependency solver will look for a solution without broken packages (naturally). If a broken package is in a "held" state, it cannot be changed, so the solver has no solution without any broken packages, which is why it will give up with the error you are seeing.

Try "apt -f install", and maybe (if it isn't "delete everything", which can happen, or does other undesirable stuff) accept the suggested solution. If that simple fix doesn't help, here are more involved solutions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/223237/unable-to-correct-pro...
Capitalism and the machine usually wins.
You cannot have a "perfect free market" when huge swaths of the population are simply not anywhere near as free as the wealthy and privileged swaths. See the top comments for details.

Side note: It's heartening that the HN community has evolved in the last 10 years -- the current top comments wouldn't have been at the top 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago. While I think there is still a long way to go, it has come far from almost unbridled worship of PG, libertarianism and "meritocracy".
Are there more sources for technical details about the new infrastructure? The interview linked above left me with more questions than answers.
University was a pretty tough time for me as well. The kind of trade-offs (t-shirt vs. food) is not exactly unknown to me. I had a first old PC XT at 17, too.

And yet I do not believe that if my single parent was richer, I would have been a better programmer or writer. I made some money teaching well-off, but pretty dim youngsters whose parents, even though rich by my standards (which meant middle class, probably), were concerned about their future. Even private tuition only gets you so far.

That said, the fact that I was born with a fairly good brain that could soak up both English and mathematics/programming easily, is by no means my own work. It is precisely random luck, together with the fact that I was born precisely at that period of history when such skills are considered useful and marketable.
Java 8 – BiConsumer Interface
Discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26773398
Yes, because doping wasn't surviving second poly
If you have a undithered shallow gradient from black, it will look terrible as you can clearly see bands where the pixels go from #000000 to #010101 (or whatever color the gradient goes towards) and further steps. We had one of those gradients in an app where an image faded out to black, it looked great. And then on the next phone model, the black background was really black instead of a dither pattern and it looked absolutely terrible.
I understand pessimism of author and others in this thread when they notice that free software ideas are attacked from everywhere: companies subverted idea with fake "open source", many young people dislike GPL as "not cool", companies taking over projects such as with redis and so on.

But I noticed change in my personal perception (and I am not alone) towards more positive reception of actually free software and I believe that mass perception may change.

This is what changed my perception:

You see how often proprietary and "fake" open source software gets subverted by companies over time, especially when company is heavily funded by VC. After you see it couple of times you just get tired and there is no motivation to invest yourself into it so you just ignore it. Keybase is perfect example of such failure.
Now when I see something like Signal I just ignore it (their recent controversial addition of crypto proved to me that it was right decision).

And it applies to software that I use in my work too, if I get to decide what software to use I try to avoid such projects.
The "innocent until proven guilty" principle applies to legal systems, not companies. There is no such thing in the financial- or any industry.
> But an entrepreneur who gets rich by reducing waste and improving productivity by harnessing technology deserves our praise. They're not causing the "poor to get poorer".

Extracting more work from the poor is often veiled under the guise of "improved productivity", so this measure of praise is not particularly helpful.

When companies measure labour productivity by the bottom line "Revenue output per Wage input" rather than "GDP output per worker" this ignores a subtle distinction that has severe societal impact.
Social market economy. Socializing some things does not mean you have to put up red flags everywhere, hold big party meetings and kill all the intellectuals. You can still keep markets where they make sense and outcompete others in a global capitalist system. Extremists are always wrong.
It's somewhat "ironic" that pg seemingly has a blind spot on this when the norm for startups is to start with a "family and friends" funding round.

Most people don't have family and friends able to lend them a few thousand dollars, let alone tens of thousands, to invest in a complete moonshot (given that we all agree that most startups fail, i.e. lose the investment).

This makes the startup scene extremely self-selecting. Even if you pretend that Elon Musk is a rags to riches story because he says he had to sleep in the office when he started out, he wouldn't have had the millions of dollars to invest in Tesla if he hadn't had an extremely lucky exit with Global Link and then again with X.com. Not to mention that he had previous access to both UPenn and Stanford, which also means massive networking opportunities (assuming he had access to those networks, which again requires a certain inherited status).
Lip-Reading with Visemes and Machine Learning
It's worse than you think.

The Hekla-3 eruption likely ended the Bronze Age c. 1100 BC, wiping out 95% of all Mediterranean cities. The first crop failure was bad enough, but the second year's starved almost everybody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hekla_3_eruption

Note that all societies were very religious (superstitious) whether Aztec, Mayan, Mediterranean or African.

Christianity largely grew after the Byzantine Roman Emperor, Constantine, converted around AD 312.

(The Roman Empire was so large that it had two capitals, Rome in the west, and Constantinople (Byzantium) in the east. The latter became Istanbul in AD 1453.)
Wut?

Toyotas are not "good value" because they're cheap -- just look at the prices for new Toyota Tacomas! They're a good value because of the exceptional engineering, and they sell at a premium because of it.

People need to stop drinking this stupid "scale is all that matters" kool-aid.
I have no idea if Eric Weinstein is a misunderstood genius or not. Hopefully history will redeem him if he is. This caveat at the top of his research paper is not indicative of trustworthy, serious science though:

> ∗The Author is not a physicist and is no longer an active academician (...) This work of entertainment is a draft of work in progress which is the property of the author and thus may not be built upon, renamed, or profited from
without express permission of the author. ©Eric R Weinstein, 2021, All Rights Reserved."[0]

Given such a glaring admission, I'm surprised at the pushback the parent comment is getting. Or is it worded like this for some obscure, legal reason?

[0] https://geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Geometric...
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I haven't, will look into it. Thanks!
Not a huge fan of managing something as critical like this. GitHub has a dependancy management tool and also Snyk is a great addition to our pipeline for code packages and Docker Images.

Using both in production.
How do I buy Coinbase shares in Britain tomorrow?
Honestly I wasn't even trying to make it easier to get rich but so that everybody can understand how easy some have it and how hard other may have it.

It's difficult to understand unless you lived in it, and I only had a small taste of the bad. Urgency forces you to lower places where you get less and less acceptable conditions and you don't even have time to think about getting rich.
I think that in that context, investing means putting money back in circulation. For example you invest in a company and that money goes to pay providers, salaries, taxes, etc. It gets back into circulation straight away. But I don't think that's the case with most stocks and ETFs, most of that money just circulates in the stock market for speculation, maybe a small part of it goes back with comissions and brokers and taxes, but it doesn't do that much good in the overall economy.
If it's got a fix it's not a zero-day.
You speak as if ownership is a force of nature.

It is not. Ownership, wealth, money is an outcome of processes of the government -- like the existence of police and military, and that the majority of the population (in a democracy) agrees to only the state having a monopoly on violence, and agreeing on who owns what.

In a democracy, one asks everyone to agree a) that violence is monopolized, b) to protect ownership.

If wealth is then superconcentrated -- why would that work? Why would or should most people participate in that specific social arrangement?

A problem with capitalism without any form of wealth tax is that it is fundamentally unstable mathematically -- those with a lot already have more opportunities to get even more, making wealth more and more concentrated.

Without wealth tax, there is no stabilizing force.

This is about mathematics more than right or wrong. There just isn't a way a system that only concentrates wealth can keep working without mechanisms to redistribute wealth.

At some point, majority of people are slaves or starve and there isn't a way for that economy to progress further.

This is not hyperbole... it is human history. Historically, devastating wars and/or revolutions have been the mechanism to reset wealth distribution and happen all the time.

Tax on wealth isn't about "fair vs unfair", it is about whether one wants to construct a system that can be stable over more than a few hundred years.
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Peace upon your head
Yeah, as a mass extinction event it is. However, I figured that took longer to escalate than one year, so it wouldn't quite work when answering the question of worst year to be alive
> then the person renting from you can probably also get a 5% yearly return by investing their freed-up capital elsewhere and/or by not having to pay interest.

This might be true if one could get as cheap and deep leverage on alternative investments as a house mortgage.