skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I can't remember the last time a video buffered a single time

happens quite often when trying to switch resolutions. Becuase Google wants to continually tell my 200 Mb/s connection that 480p is the optimal streaming solution, and now that is spreading to mobile as well.

> your responses so far have been thinly veiled, "You're too stupid to get it right."

I didn't get that impression at all, and I think we interpreted this thread very differently. The point wasn't that PeerTube would be the new Youtube, it would be that if you don't have terabytes of local storage to keep your videos, you can upload it to a place where DMCAs won't mean your videos being lost in the void.

No need for caustic language.
The back end might be because it's using Sia, but I think it's misleading to call this web app decentralized.
Love this comment. My company is rebuilding our EHR software right now to make it more customizable among other things. Know any good resources on making the right architectural and product decisions to protect against or prevent this eventual fate?
What other banks do this in Europe (outside of Denmark)?
There is a hole in this logic. It’s perfectly legal in the US to create your own religion proclaiming you as a deity whose boredom will destroy the universe and thus you need lots of expensive toys to keep your boredom from collapsing the universe. Any religion can have a nonprofit organization formed around it, making it acceptable and even expected that any donations made to that religious nonprofit are used to carry out the observance of that religions doctrine, that being the purchase of more expensive toys to prevent your boredom from ending the universe. Any donations to the religion would be not taxable.
You should look up what makes ASIC miners different than common gamer video cards
Read “digital minimalism” and try a detox using the Screen Time tip mentioned in another comment.

Make it black and white and as uninteresting as possible. Then find something else to do with your time that is actually solid recreation.

I go in cycles on this and tend to flip from the extremes. Recently bought a 12 Pro Max solely for the camera so I would have the best possible iPhone camera to take photos of my family and a bigger screen to access work resources on the go. But it’s leaking into other areas as well. So I’ll just need to do spring cleaning and delete apps soon. I find email and all communications channels get cluttered if you don’t cull them or put guardrails around them.

I’d love to know any other tools people recommend for dealing with this.
Is this really a dark pattern? There's tons of truly deceptive practices but this is one where websites are plainly asking for permissions.
I find plain Linux namespaces as sufficient for many things, for example:

unshare --map-root-user chroot ~/rootfs /bin/sh

Sure, it might not be able to clone the rootfs for you, but you don't need snapd to install it and it comes as part of util-linux, essentially being part of almost all Linux systems. (https://ilearnedhowto.wordpress.com/tag/unshare/ is a nice introduction.)

Edit: https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/ is also interesting.
For iOS, I recommend Apollo (https://apolloapp.io/). A reddit client that isn't from Reddit.
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Hopefully not bothering anyone with my wild speculation and incomplete physics knowledge here...

Could it be there is some way to target a location with multiple radio beams such that the damaging effect occurs at the point of interference? Maybe just constructive interference from multiple weaker beams? Something like this would need to be aimed precisely of course.

I was further led to thinking about the way you can generate sound at a distance from beams of ultrasound. [0] Either the fluid within the beam or an object struck by the beam acts as a demodulator. I don't really know if something like this could apply with radio.

The other thing that I thought of was the way microwave ovens excite water molecules specifically. Maybe there is some other wavelength or combination of them which excites other specific molecules or structures present in the brain?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_from_ultrasound
Weird, as the other commenter mentioned their's in the UK don't have patient information in them. In fact the medical professional I know in Canada have pagers that give essentially the same information about the UK commenters. It's either an extension to call, or for a code.

Maybe countries like the UK and Canada are more strict about personal health information and have kept personal info out of pagers? I know working in healthcare systems in Canada I would get in trouble even if I used a medical software to look myself up in it.
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Yes, strings are one of the most important. Also dirty and old strings vs new and clean strings.
Politically guided everything is bad.
Couldn't Google obfuscate the changes if they really wanted to?
Rails Governance
This could be genuinely interesting for tools like e.g. sphinx-doc, which currently has a client-side search that does indeed ship the entire index to the client.
I'd love for the industry to reduce sugar would be appropriate then

( It was mentioned)
Yeah from what I have heard from Canadian based doctors the pagers are used for almost identically the same as what you described for the UK.
People debate if Apple is about primarily hardware or software but I posit their forte is marketing. They make good products but also consistently beat out superior competition by engineering desirability.
Blue apron. I can’t figure out how to cancel through the app, so I keep cancelling The deliveries
Here's a Canada example (apparently patient transport coordination, fixed after media attention): https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/pager-systems-used-in-healthca...
Major banks in the Netherlands do.
Everything in SQLite is stored in B-Trees. Data or indexes. So you don't need to download the whole index first; you only need to download the necessary pages of the trees to access data, whether it's part of an index or actual data
A few years ago I read an article that argued that one of the best ways to help many African countries would be to send accountants and help set up a cadastre.
I know it is also happening in Switzerland.[0][1]

[0] https://www.moneyland.ch/en/swiss-banks-with-negative-intere...
[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-national-bank_wh...
Sorry, didnt catch the sarcasm through text :)
Yes - they're circumventing the intent of the permissions restrictions implementation to the clear detriment of the user.
The impetus for using a columnar format is precisely to get data locality. It is absolutely about data locality generally. You wouldn't take his approach at all if you didn't get the locality with it's associated performance improvements. It would be strictly more work for no gain. Locality is the entire point.
Rofl. It’s factual that many countries the US is at odds with are autocratic. North Korea (obvious), China (the people do not vote), Iran (the ayatollah controls everything)…

All countries in the US-sphere, they have direct voting by the people to elect the government.

So you’re completely wrong on that.

Next point. So western Europe, Eastern Europe, balkans, Japan, South Korea, Colombia, Mexico, Philippines, Canada, Australia/NZ… they are all exploited or exploiters?

What a joke. I just destroyed your two arguments.
You have to understand: your claims are nonsense without evidence.
Anglo-Norman was never the main administrative language of England: Latin was the major language of record in legal and other official documents for most of the medieval period. However, from the late 12th century to the early 15th century, Anglo-Norman French and Anglo-French were much used in law reports, charters, ordinances, official correspondence, and trade at all levels; they were the language of the King, his court and the upper class.

During the 12th century, development of the administrative and judicial institutions took place. Because the king and the lawyers at the time normally used French, it also became the language of these institutions. From the 12th century until the 15th century, the courts used three languages: Latin for writing, French as the main oral language during trials, and English in less formal exchanges between the judge, the lawyer, the complainant or the witnesses. The judge gave his sentence orally in Norman, which was then written in Latin. Only in the lowest level of the manorial courts were trials entirely in English.

During the 15th century, English became the main spoken language, but Latin and French continued to be exclusively used in official legal documents until the beginning of the 18th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language

As far as I know, most early US colonies exclusively used English, not French, at a time when British courts operated in French. So it seems not unreasonable that British English has more French influence than American English because French was the official language of the British courts for centuries and it never was here.

A notable exception in the US is that Louisiana has French influences of various sorts, including on its legal system. But most of the US is very much British influence and English language based.
Super cool. I wonder if an approach like this could ever work for a writable database. I guess the issue is that you couldn't have fine grained access control without a whole lot of server side validation, at which point you might as well just run a regular database server.
Facebook Asks Users to Enable ATT in Order to Keep Services 'Free of Charge'
Article linked from the submission was from December 25, 2018, and the tweet from Feb 16, 2019. Seems likely that writing this article (and first having the experience of delivering for Amazon) got him hired. Good for him!
Btw, would swallowing the AirTag whole be just as dangerous? They're water resistant, but I'm assuming that they won't stay sealed in stomach conditions.
Not sure if this counts but yesterday I saw that skipping updates is now a Pro feature in Docker Desktop!
> There are plenty alternatives that work

In this case, there aren't. Show me 1 successful business with large headcount that doesn't put effort into hiring the competent and firing the bad and I'll concede your point. Until then, your ideology is clashing with all of reality in an irreconcilable way.
People are willing to pay the government to specifically not invest in the trash options in the market

They’d probably be willing to pay a lot more, -5% yielding government bonds anyone?
> "Over a year of daily washes, it would have cost £174 ($242) in Bob cassettes alone!"

I was particularly struck by the this comment. So, the machine is small enough that he can have it as a countertop appliance, but it is also small enough that it gets fill with one day's worth of dishes and needs to be run? So it's a high price to pay for diswashing, especially when it seems the machine is not really doing a lot. It seems like it would be better to just wash the dishes yourself.
Why aren’t hardware designers designing hardware for the languages and methods we have?
He did get into that, that sometimes it's smart to outsource, the example was the fuse on the toaster. But you need to build something, you need to have some core competence where you can innovate because you build.
These kinds of optimizations always make me wonder whether they are worth it. Might it be more efficient to use these transistors for more, simple cores instead? Perhaps the property that most problems are so sequential makes timing/clock rate optimizations inevitable.
I worked in company with culture which could be considered international and working language was English. But still when locals were alone they switched to local language... Ofc, when non-natives were present it was English. I don't see European nation states going anywhere.
The key with small farms is that they have "skin in the game" and also the feedback loop is faster since they are often on the land and see the effects of what they do.
Previous discussions:

2018, 87 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230383

2016, 12 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116211

2014, 37 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174513

2011, 30 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428403

This link has also appeared in 9 comments on HN, featuring threads on "Computer Architecture for Network Engineers", "X86 versus other architectures" by Linus Torvalds, and "I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in code", also recommending a udacity course on how modern processors work (https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computer-arc...): https://ampie.app/url-context?url=lighterra.com/papers/moder...

Jason also has a couple of other interesting articles on his website, like intro to instruction scheduling and software pipelining (http://www.lighterra.com/papers/basicinstructionscheduling/) and the one I liked a lot and agree with called "exception handling considered harmful" (http://www.lighterra.com/papers/exceptionsharmful/).
^X^C to gracefully quit before shutting down my laptop. Not every month.
In all fairness, I think Mixer employing this exact strategy showed that it is extremely hard to migrate communities. Even with creators making millions of dollars a year.
Tried to second your comment about playing quietly on a very loud amp but looks like it was deleted. So I'll say it here: at some point I tried playing out of a very high headroom amp, fingerstyle, and it completely changed my playing and understanding of the guitar. I "wasted" so many years on small tube amps that break up right away.
I don't know that they do, but they could potentially read your local files as part of telemetry, gps, nearby wifi network ssids and MAC addresses, etc.
For Homo Econimus, the fake economic model, sure.

Real humans tend to move in crowds, though. Everyone will stay in until relatively suddenly, everyone will start getting out. Perhaps there will be a precipitating event, maybe it'll just be time. It's the same thing as trying to time the market.
>> What is happening here is different - it's a question of "how do we make it as cheap as possible and last as long as the warranty".

They are choosing to ask this question.

But it's possible to ask other questions.

Let's take the example of the Gigabyte "Ultra Durable" mothers.

It's a motherboard series with some improved parts with a focus on reliability. And they are relatively cheap parts. And supposedly the really increase the reliability of this motherboard.

And they've built an affordable brand around it.

And people like it.
How is DIDs not privacy preserving? You chose what information you put in it. Also, Coconut Credentials seems to be for "distributed ledgers" while DIDs are agnostic in their usage.
That's not quite what the author was getting at. She was making an important point that I support wholeheartedly.

Any candidate who is a jerk to the person who shows them to the meeting room and provides coffee pretty much guarantees they will not be joining my company. It's a good sieve for people who won't work out on a team because they lack basic consideration for others.
ahem, what HAS changed since then? besides new models & more updated "MHz" values and some tables with performances, nothing that is of interest to a compressed introduction to the topic. So, personally, what would you have added to the article?
Generally talented people enjoy working with other talented people

Everything else being equal, sure.

and prefer to be hired and rewarded only for that reason.

Why would anybody who knew they were talented and got hired or promoted, assume it had to do with anything other than their talent?

The social justice diversity, equity and inclusion is a political stance that instead of seeing individuals see groups of "oppressed" and "oppressors" which is a recipe for a less productive work environment. These unchosen group identities are political tools and not descriptive of an individual.

It is possible to recognize that a certain groups of people on average face more obstacles and barriers, without equating individuals with the groups they belong to or vice versa.
Which is why I said, "the privileges they require also allow for more effective attacks". If you can scan my system and replace popular DLLs in every application that bundles them, you may as well drop a new Windows service running your malware. Or two, and make them restart each other. Or make your malware a COM component and get the system to run it for you - my task manager will then just show another "svchost.exe" process, and I'll likely never notice it.
It's extremely tempting to try to speed up your progress on the guitar using your existing engineering skills (e.g. what we have here), mathematics skills (e.g. learning music theory), or other resources (e.g. buying loads of gear), but the only way reliably to make progress is practice, practice, and more practice playing the guitar itself.
By definition, it's going to result in a less accurate model, unless you keep all of the dimensions or your data is very weird, right? And NNs are going to complicate your interpretability more?
It just needs to download the pages (x KB chunks) to traverse from the header to the particular index and table schema, a fraction of the whole data.
Avocado have been a thing in South Africa for a long time already. Trees in gardens, fruit in supermarkets. Seasonal export to Europe.
Haiku activity report – March and April 2021
I assume this is more true for men than women.
Perhaps they don't export the good ones, I've enjoyed very much going to the markets in Mexico and asking for avocados for eating today and also slightly less ready ones that will be perfect tomorrow. The fruit sellers know exactly what to give you, they are perfect every time. A splash of lime juice and chili powder.. True culinary happiness.
The best example of a dark pattern for me is Google's privacy settings.
Such a ridiculously convoluted and unintuitive process. The polar opposite of everything else they try to do.
Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Stealth Financial Tech Startup Hiring Junior QA Engineer
Hiring a Junior engineer on contract basis to write SQL test data scripts and REST api test packages. Training/mentorship and pre-defined tasks. Remote is fine, other team is located in Minneapolis MN

recruiting@techvvs.io
Yes. Hire an architect with a proven track record and significant experience and give them the responsibility. Reading a few medium articles or an O’Reily book won’t be a substitute.
Trash incineration plants (referred to as “waste-to-energy” which sounds like an accurate euphemism to me) definitely generate very strong negative reactions in the U.S. I used to live just a couple miles away from one in Syracuse NY and I thought it was a great idea... recycle and reuse what you can, and everything else gets cleanly incinerated and generates electricity at the same time. There was no detectable smell either. Being supportive of the plant definitely put me in the minority based on all the negative feedback I read online and in the local newspaper.
I recently cancelled without any issue... by virtue of paying for it initially with Paypal, which makes it trivial to cancel the recurring payment on my end. When I called them to cancel, and they tried giving me a runaround, I interrupted to tell them I had already cancelled the payment anyway so they literally had no choice; then I hung up. No worries! I will never subscribe to anything that doesn't accept Paypal for payment, thereby giving me the last word in controlling said payment (yes, I know a credit card would allow this, only not as easily.)
Sorry about that, reposted ;)
Because quitting means they stop paying you.

And unless you live somewhere where new jobs are available that match your skills and current pay that can be enough.
Isn't this the exact same everywhere else?

Your boss wants to know how long you'll spend on a job; if you tell him 30 days and spend 30 days you're just good at estimation.

If you do it in 20, you're a star for doing it under budget!
Your whole series of replies has been "Docker can do whatever they want, don't like it? Uninstall!"

People are sharing their opinion on the direction of a popular software product. I'm confident they understand how to uninstall Docker if that was their intention. Continuously pointing out it's free like that's a valid defense is mind boggling.

> Yesterday I grabbed a free book off a stoop in Brooklyn. Should I go on Twitter and trash the homeowner because there are pencil marks in it?

For this to be valid, the homeowner who left the book out is demanding you pay them money otherwise they'll enter YOUR home and update the content of the book next time you try to read it. Of course this is completely acceptable because you can always throw the book away.
Nice to see some electric guitar geekery on HN :). I started playing last year during the pandemic too, but I had learned a bit in elementary school and I played alto saxophone for around a decade in various school jazz groups.

Gentle suggestion: try to see how many different tones you can get out of one sole pickup by varying your technique (angle and strength of attack, angle that your finger is fretting the string, the part of your finger you fret with, amount of vibrato, type of vibrato, gentle bends, etc). Try practicing with the amp cranked so you can play notes at normal volume just by brushing the pick against the string and listen to the errors it reveals in your technique. The electric guitar is an extremely sensitive instrument. Pickups do make a huge difference (particularly switching between singles and humbuckers), but I got this advice from a teacher and it has totally changed my perspective on tone. If you can develop a deep understanding of the relationship your technique has to tone, you can find a tone that is yours on any guitar, I guarantee it.
> without being second-guessed to death and hounded by people who just wanted to talk about "our tone" or "a lot of work went into that"

Assume the best intent?
Yeaah I felt like at that point the article was already long enough so I didn't bother describing the DOM part too much - even though I spent more time implementing that than I did implementing the rest ;)

Basically SQLite has a virtual table mechanism [1] where you have to define a few functions that figure out how to scan your "fake" table / which indices to use and then how to read / write the actual data. I hook into this mechanism and redirect the request to DOM functions like querySelector() etc. Then there's the issue about SQLite being fully synchronous, but I have to run it in a WebWorker - and the WebWorker can't actually access the DOM and it can only communicate asynchronously with the main thread... So I have to do some weird stuff with SharedArrayBuffer and Atomics.wait to make that work [2].

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html
[2] https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs/blob/master/src/v...