skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people still listen to this moron? He doesn't seem to know people use computers outside of kernel development.

> the disk savings are often not all that big

If you're Linus Torvalds, and we're not talking about Go apps, and other fucking ridiculous 100MB+ static binaries, or any application continuously and iteratively developed and deployed in a CI/CD system, where disk space rapidly grows, and you want to cache as much as possible, and the larger the files are, the slower development gets.

> and disk is cheap

If you're Linus Torvalds, and you don't need to actually scale (or pay for) systems' disk size and performance (or network egress) in response of being thrashed by random access of gigantic files. And you're not developing for embedded systems.

> And the memory savings are often actually negative

If you're Linus Torvalds, and you don't have a bunch of giant apps that you need to run in parallel that happen to use a lot of memory.

> Pretty much the only case shared libraries really make sense is for
truly standardized system libraries that are everywhere, and are part
of the base distro.

Or for any application that uses any kind of library where you might want to release a security patch quickly. Which is literally every library.

If OpenSSL has a hole in it, the fastest way to patch every system in the world is to patch the OpenSSL library. If every OpenSSL app in the world were statically compiled, then every single OpenSSL-using app in the world would need to be patched, tested, released, and upgraded, independently. That's something like 100 different apps for the average Linux host (or probably 10,000+ for an entire Debian tree).

Or if you want to do the same for bugfixes. Or you want to release new functionality. Or you want to replace one library with another using the same ABI.

We can complain all day about packaging decisions, but shared libraries have a dozen great uses, and static compiles have only two great uses: less dependencies and, and..... and.................. I dunno, we'll make one up. Less packaging work. Which is just from less dependencies. Shit. Oh well, I'm sure we'll come up with a second reason static libraries are good.
> Your point about video games is pretty asinine

Well, I would have good points I could write. However, if you're just going to insult me, I'm not going to waste my time.
Someone checks the eruv every week before Shabbat[1] and they have a weekly announcement if it is operational [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...
[2] https://twitter.com/ManhattanEruv/status/1388202630048993281
I admire your optimism. Here are some reasons I don't want to see car makers selling software:

1. There is a huge power imbalance between a car company and a car "owner" (licensee?)

2. The incentives on the car company side are not aligned with the desires of the car owner.

3. The will be incented to lock you in, a la the google/apple store.

4. You now have sunk costs in a hardware platform. What if you want to change from Honda to Toyota?

5. Almost no one is good at making software, and that includes car companies. One year marketing driven turnarounds won't help with safety.
Thank you. If you find a better way which works on a headless Linux container let me know. I would be interested in the older versions of your automation even if the output is worse quality so long as the quality is acceptable.
What? Getting rid of Google Reader was a business decision.

> Siloed applications are UI neutral and represent decoupling, which enables progress and resilience.

The medieval manorial economy is resilient. Is that progress?

What happened to unified look and feel? and rich interactions between widgets? The smalltalk and Oberon GUI visions? All that requires more integration.

I get that we need to make the here and no work, but that is done via the en-mass translation of language-specific package manager packages to distro packages (static or shared, don't care), not vendoring.
There have been times when people’s very existence has been a political issue. That’s not happening in 21st century America.

Of course people’s “lives are affected by politics”—often very significantly. That’s a very different statement than saying people’s “very existence is politicized.” That’s just a rhetorical device to exaggerate the personal impact of political issues.
Earlier fruits didn't have anywhere near the sugar content of the cultivated ones today. In fact, many fruits of old were inedible (e.g. apples).

Sources of sugar such as sweet fruits and honey were rare delicacies, not daily occurrences.

Humans in various regions would have adapted over 1000 generations to better match their environment.

We live in a VERY different world now.
There are more cases in city in Bangalore alone when compared to whole to UP(80Lakh pop vs 22cr). It seems double mutation strains in present in most cases in India. Which initially was seen in Mah. So i do assume it spread from human contact to eveywhere.
> A business is not a government

Yes it is, hence the existence of concepts like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_governance and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_democracy

Employers have a great deal of authority of their employee's lives - to that extent they govern their employees. This is all straightforward, conventional usage of these words and terms.

Government also makes the rules about how businesses operate (property law, contract law, and so forth), and give businesses the right to enforce them - in this way, businesses are an extension of government in the control they have over our lives.

All you're doing is question-begging the exact premise I'm critiquing in the first place: That the workplace is in a magic separate dimension where principles usually agreed to be good (democracy, equality) are no longer desirable or even applicable.
Zelle, a monopolized bank service, where banks can monitor it? Or ACH so my app will be delivered in 3 business days? A lot of the options for payment and what’s good for the consumer just seem so much worse than what apple is offering now.

There’s a lot more people than developers. And to a user, it doesn’t matter who takes what money. As long the transaction is frictionless and Apple’s advertisements about privacy sell, there won’t be much push from the consumer side.
Rebuilding tens of thousands of packages on a dependency upgrade is not a big deal.
I keep waiting for someone to write a book about how often this is the case in different industries, areas of expertise, etc. It's a variation on the George Bernard Shaw thing: "every profession is a conspiracy against the laity".

In my own profession I'm extremely wary of my peers and the services they provide for the simple fact that I know how much and how often things can go wrong, and when I've needed those services myself, it takes me a very long time to vet people.
No Jew believes that. If your mother is Jewish, or if you converted, you’re Jewish.
Regarding your brain-body ratio
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/18/eabe2101
The fruit we have today is so much higher in sugar than back in times when the vision evolved.
You can download maps in the maps app. I download a pretty large area because I drive a lot. Not that it takes away from your point, but at least there is that.
How to Configure Visual Styles in CodeLobster PHP IDE?
It'd be adorable if when Ingenuity gets cold, Perseverance rolls over to shelter the little helicopter and even warm it a little with that nuclear heater the rover uses for power.
The interesting part is how this notion of the word being a slur expands. A Kenya-born person living in Estonia is likely to consider the word “neeger” a slur despite it never having had this connotation before the Internet arrived. And it is increasingly used as one, too. Which is why people are increasingly avoiding the word - no reason to be deliberately offensive. Curious how global culture can indirectly influence language.
Oops, my bad! :(
> I will never stop being amazed at how Americans argue that something decent is wrong, or untrue, or even impossible... when Europe exists.

In Europe there are zero businesses operating at the margin that would go under if unable to staff their operation? That was the thing you are responding to.
It sounded very cheap, and then I looked up what these types of bridges normally cost, and now it sounds expensive. The former world's longest pedestrian bridge, the Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in Switzerland, cost 720k Francs - and that was built in the Alps, with Swiss labor costs (Switzerland has the highest minimum wage in the world.)

By contrast, the minimum wage in Portugal is the lowest in Western Europe by far, at 665 euros (!!!) per month.

It's not like this bridge was built in particularly inhospitable terrain or something - it ends less than 300 meters from a paved road. The Swiss bridge appears to be 1750 meters from the closest road.

The bridges are very similar lengths - 494m vs 516m - and similar construction.

So why did the Portugese bridge cost 3.5x more?
I hadn't heard of Backcountry Navigator before. Just looked at their website which states "some maps require an additional subscription." you maybe you got in on the app before they moved to subscription?
Nope.

1. Have the users been asking for everything to be a laggy electron app? I don't think so.

2. Within these apps are languages based package managers that don't encorage vendoring, it's just one people go to package for distros that they vendor away. Distros do need to make it easier to automatically convert language-specific package manager apps.

The future is making development builds and production builds not wildly different, and both super incremental, so one can easily edit any dependency not matter how deep and then put their system back to together.

Again, I am fine with static linking. My distro, NixOS is actually great at that and I've helped work on it. But vendoring ruins everything. I hate waiting for everyone to build the same shit over and over again with no instrumentality, and I don't have time to reverse-engineer whatever special snowflake incremental dev build setup each package uses.
Wire and Lights in a Box (1958)
From the same author ( Everyday Astronaut )

Why won’t Starship have an abort system? Should it?!

https://everydayastronaut.com/starship-abort/

Video Version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6lPMFgZU5Q
If you convince consumers to switch over to FOSS for ethical reasons like surveillance and avoiding influential algorithms then you have something compelling. But at the moment the world is glued to proprietary social media.

I'd love if users would flee Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. They are such simple concepts that can obviously be replicated, but those established companies already have the users at their control.

There needs to be focus on convincing users to move away from these services. There also needs to be more funding for social media alternatives. Rather than FOSS developer attention going into reimplementing Android apps from 2011 or God knows what these people in the Linux phone community are thinking.

Those are some pretty big steps before we even think of Linux for phones, assuming ethical reasons are the interest.

I don't understand this interest in Linux on phones. It doesn't make a difference for anyone outside of the tech hobbyist realm.
Minerals aren't evenly distributed on planet earth.
Now is the right time to buy a pre internet car and relevant consumables (belts, alternator, starter etc) of your choice before this becomes an issue.
So long as you keep the suspension in good shape, and maintain the drive train properly you will be in good shape to avoid the rentier surveillance culture looming.
Curious about this idea. What happens if illegal stuff happens? Assuming bandwidth = internet.

Side thought is renting out your mobile device for peripheral testing. That's something I was looking for recently video/audio specifically.
People would litter just to create more garbage to “mine.”
They mean local minimum as in an attractor state. Each "memory" is an attractor state stored in the Hopfield network.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/632169/jewish...
In Israel most of elevators (at least modern one) have Sabbath mode. It has interesting implications upon relations between neighbors within building.

As long as "composition" of building is homogeneous, i.e. either totally religious or secular, Sabbath mode will be either on or off.

But it becomes tricky when into secular building move one or more religious families that request to turn Sabbath mode on. In best case scenario there are two elevators (required for buildings with more than 5 floors), so one of them will get switched to Sabbath mode (though bunch of people will be unhappy as electricity usage of building will go up + some inconvenience).
If there is only one elevator, Greek drama might be a correct way to describe what happens.

edit: from the other side misery of lonely secular family in religious building where all elevators are in sabbath mode is real...
So in other words, there's a campaign (centralized or not) to pump Chia on HN? :(
Yes, you can. That's called a grinding attack. There is mitigation in the proof-of-space construction for exactly that. That is also the reason that they will have to move to more expensive proofs as time goes on, and hardware improves.
Maybe try and write out the complete path for the github repo when using straight, I am using the abo e packages (except vertico) and have not had any issues
> there is no good technical reason why I shouldn't be able to distribute the same ELF binary to every distro

Oh, your app also works on every single kernel, every different version of external applications, and supports every file tree of every distro? Sounds like you added a crap-ton of portability to your app in order to support all those distros.

> I can't feasibly write a package for every package manager in existence.

But you could create 3 packages for the 3 most commonly used package managers of your users. Or 3 tarballs of your app compiled for 3 platforms using Docker for the build environment. Which would take about a day or two, and simultaneously provide testing of your app in your users' environments.
I find it hypocritical too, but there are some animals that also just don't taste that great compared to what is "common".
Whale meat for instance resembles beef, in kind of the way alligator resembles chicken. But whale and gator are pretty terrible in comparison to the more common animal so they just aren't worth it to eat.
Mmm not to me no, I believe in a capitalist system that lets losers lose. However the argument was ordinary folks would pay.
You’re mixing up nation states and ethnostates. The US is a nation state and like every other nation it gets to decide who is allowed to take up residence there. The fact it’s not an ethnostate just means it doesn’t make those decisions in order to preserve an existing ethnic homogeneity. That doesn’t deprive it of the right to decide on what terms foreigners get to live there.

Deportation isn’t a “punishment.” It’s restoration of the status quo ante in response to someone entering illegally. If you build a house on someone else’s land, they can force you to tear it down. That’s not a punishment, it’s just undoing the effect of the illegal act.
Embrace this pain.

I regularly run into the very issue you describe. I then update my designs.

To me, documentation is also tool to verify my designs.
> This just happens to be

The inch is defined as 2.54 cm, since 1959. You might know this, just thought I'd add this note.
The original question was whether or not audio could be fingerprinted from white noise, or if compression would obscure that fingerprint. The original context was YouTube videos specifically.

Sufficient to support the latter assertion was that lossy compression is frequently used.

YouTube's webm does in fact use lossy compression as noted. MP3 is, I assert, still significantly used in multiple contexts, including many podcast sites. I haven't specifically surveyed those, and don't use Apple Podcasts myself (never bought into the ecosystem, though as it happens, this specific response is coming from a MacOS system). I do make heavy use of tools such as youtube-dl and mpv, and find that those do in fact frequently find and extract mp3 audio from various sources, including podcasts and IIRC Soundcloud.

Verification is as simple as:

youtube-dl -F <URL>

The '-F' flag will list available downloadable formats.

E.g.:

$ youtube-dl -F 'https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-362-thoughts-on-wordpress'
[soundcloud] danyork/tdyr-362-thoughts-on-wordpress: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] None: Downloading webpage
[soundcloud] None: Downloading webpage
[soundcloud] danyork/tdyr-362-thoughts-on-wordpress: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] 637919466: Downloading JSON metadata
[soundcloud] 637919466: Downloading JSON metadata
[soundcloud] 637919466: Downloading JSON metadata
[info] Available formats for 637919466:
format code extension resolution note
hls_opus_64 opus audio only audio@ 64k
hls_mp3_128 mp3 audio only audio@128k
http_mp3_128 mp3 audio only audio@128k (best)

Pedants are my fourth favourite people, but only during Lent on leap years, prior to Vespers, during a blue moon.
Maemo Leste continues to develop Maemo:

https://maemo-leste.github.io/
I created a service to people can find out if their eruv is up/down http://eruvstat.us
To which I ask: Why not place a small loop of (wire, cord, thread, whatever qualifies) on the ground in a park somewhere. Then define "outside" and "inside" the other way 'round from "normal", thus making very-nearly the entirety of the earth "inside", and the very small portion "outside".

It seems logical to me, and I've never heard a reason it can't be done other than "that's defeating the point."

Which I admit, it entirely is, but I don't see it as any more "wrong" than encircling entire cities, and it's a whole lot simpler to maintain.
I read the same claim on Usenet about 30 years ago and researched it. My conclusion was that soldiers break stride to avoid nasty oscillations, but I couldn't find any actual collapses. There was one bridge that was claimed as a collapse from people marching on it, but it was actually very high winds that caused the collapse.
New Spectre Exploits Beat All Mitigations: Fixes to Severely Degrade Performance
Some more of these fun photo ops:
https://twitter.com/thainewsreports/status/13886984576579051...
You can write most of your app in any language, it's only some UI and startup code that needs to be in the javalike languages.
Oh! Well, you need a way to link to the page with the impact tab open, since I never noticed there were tabs at all!

It's still very unclear that the left quadrant is a mini-map of the other three quadrants. I recommend just graying out the top left and writing "Zone 1 - High Impact" somewhere inside the quadrant it describes.
Estimating is really hard. It's not something I've had to do until my current role leading frontend development efforts.

It takes me several days to come up with a plan of action for planning several months of work for the team. In this action plan, I map out every task that needs to be done, and figure out which tasks that can be done in parallel. Which ones have dependencies on each other. How to prioritize features that matter first. Which things need more discovery. Which features are high risk and how to mitigate. How to do a progressive demo to the stakeholders while still leaving time to tackle tech debt. How to divvy up tasks efficiently between teams so resources are utilized properly.

The article captures my thought process on time estimation. Being able to make an estimate, and deliver on it, can really drive your career. Businesses almost always have a hard deadline. You have to be able to put yourself in everyone's shoes but with enough practice it's not so bad. Being able to commit to this plan let's you have conversations to deviate or adjust as needed. No estimations are ever 100% accurate, but getting something close makes planning each sprint significantly easier
I keep wondering why nobody just supersets Android. Even just having an Android phone which is designed to be repairable and have drivers in the kernel tree so it isn't tied to a specific kernel version, people would pay for that.

And then on top of it you can add all of your Google-alternative libraries and services, which need not be perfect immediately to get people to use it because they can start off running Android apps and buying it for the open hardware. But as you get more users, the software improves too.
Can you not just use an NFC tag to choose your floor, or call the elevator? No button pressing required, just stand near the door with your keys in your pocket.
I've been wondering if non-turning complete languages might be the way to go for many smart contracts, which often resemble vending machines more than what general purpose languages are used for. Those should be captured by pushdown automaton or even a finate state machine and the corresponding languages (but except from regex, I'm not really aware of any..).

My CS knowledge got really rusty, but I think it should be possible to put tight bounds on the computational cost of these, as well as statically guarantee that certain states cannot be reached, both of which would be very valuable in this case.
Can't comment on the NYTimed, as I am not from the USA. But there is a huge rift between usefull and not wrong.

There is the whole Gell-Mann amnesia thing. There is the basic selection of which news is important and which facts are relevant for it. There is the bias in reporting. Each of these can make an article untrustworthy without needing any retraction.
Good answer. Email is the classic example. I'd like to add another to more clearly show whatvis new here:

Mastodon is like Twitter, except anyone can host their own instance and you (and others) can follow each other across instances, just like mail in iamevn's example.

Pixelfed does the same for images, it is kind of an Instagram clone where you can follow others.

Writefreely enables the the same for blogging.

Also to the degree it is practically possible it is often possible to follow accounts across types, for example a Mastodon account can follow a Writefreely account.

Oh, and they are mostly (all?) open source, and since everyone can create their own instance it is harder to block out people (you can of course block people you find annoying etc, but Mastodon cannot receive a request from a government and suddenly you are thrown out from the network, they have to apply pressure to every instance around the world and then you could always create your own instance.)

If you think this sounds insanely cool then you are right.

There are a list of names elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010161
I bought an industrial microwave a number of years ago just for this feature: Its controls consist of a single dial: how long to cook for.

Also, in an industrial microwave the magnetron itself rotates, so there's no silly rotating plate business. Just put food in, turn the dial, take food out, and clean up is a snap.
Actually that’s not at all why I brought it up. There’s a concept called “the pioneer tax” where being the first X of anything means you’re the pioneer. For example, the first female in a team of 3 engineers pays a much lower pioneer tax than the first female engineer in a team of 20 engineers. Replace female with black or Latina. It’s the same thing there. Career choices are a huge choice; why wouldn’t you choose to work where you’d feel most comfortable with the culture?

Ideally the earlier you can intentionally focus on diversity the better. This also goes for leadership too - both for hiring other leaders and it’s an easy demonstration that the company’s commitment to diversity isn’t just for token representation purposes.

Anyway...yeah, nothing about catering to candidates biases or people judging you as bigots. I sense the anger here at that but hopefully you can see that’s not where I’m approaching it from.