skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JPEG XL can do lossless compression of 16-bit or 32-bit (or even 24-bit and other custom float types) float data, just like EXR. It can do pretty fast encode/decode (for mezzanine use cases) and also (if you have time for encoding) it can do the densest lossless compression.
There doesn't seem to be a great consensus on the best microphones to use on my usual sources (HN). This is surprising because the difference between laptop mic or bluetooth mic and a good microphone is enormous. I also don't mind spending a bit more $$$ because this is for my day job.

But when buying a mic, I've read many types of good microphones (bluetooth streamer/podcaster looking mics vs XLR traditional looking mics e.g., Shure SM58-LC). Its hard to pull the trigger and know whats best. At this point I'll go with the Shure model, a stand and an XLR to USB-C cable sooner rather than later.

I have a nice webcam so a great mic is the next step.
Interesting that you like it, personally I couldn't seem to find the "good" content. There are always a huge number of chats going on and it feels impossible to figure out which ones are the interesting ones. Also, after following a few people the number of notifications was so high I had to turn them off. But without notifications how can you know what is going on?
I don't think there's a loophole there. If you're making, selling, or using technology that is patented by another party, you're infringing, even if you aren't the creator of that technology.
You'd think it should be a law against racketeering (something like RICO). Some tried to use that against patent trolls, but it didn't work.
Everything about this is 100% accurate. The nightmare was super real ~3 years ago when this was posted, and it's even worse now, and it's a horrifying indictment of the entire academic pyramid scheme.
College is not job training. I'm not sure why this misconception is so widespread. I have a degree but my employers do pay for relevant training for my job. It's not like the industry stopped evolving 10 years ago.
The main difference is wealth is only realized when it is liquidated. Investments appreciate and depreciate over time, so it makes sense to tax when you cash out. You could pay taxes on your retirement savings gains every year, and then then end up with less than you put in if value goes back down before you pull it out.
Giant rhino fossils in China show new species was 'taller than giraffe'
where if I need to pull it back out later on, its almost impossible???

Or, in my wife's case, actually impossible.

She's tried repeatedly for almost a year to download "her" data from Facebook. All she gets is a 4GB zip file that when uncompressed has a bunch of mostly empty folders and a 3.5GB "facebook_754893.zip.enc" file. By the filename, I guess it's an encrypted zip file, but nothing will open it. Searching the interwebs shows lots of people with the same problem, but no solutions.

If she was in the EU, she'd raise a stink. But being American, she's S.O.L.
Google executives see cracks in their company’s success
Wondering if this would also be full of social media specialists, 'millionaires' telling how to become one, etc.

This is wdb, and I finished talking.
same feeling here too. there is almost very less actual concepts involved and more or 'where to click to do what' . indeed boring and unmotivating.
Thank you. It's a tough habit to break after reading it for so many years.
Building your own transistors is out of the question for most of us, but we could build our own magnetic logic, and scale that up to a computer. You could verify everything with an analog oscilloscope.

You need insulated wire, saturable cores, some various passive components, and a large 2 phase power source. (You likely could use a modified car alternator, then upscale to about 1 Mhz clock rates)

It was done before, most (not all) of the logic was magnetic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_Solid_State
It's based on extensive experience. I've been homeless, long-term unemployed, manual labourer, company director, CEO, and everything in between. I also have an MBA, but that's probably irrelevant here.

People really don't want to sit around doing nothing. They want to be useful, contribute, lead productive lives. Sitting around on the porch drinking beer is really boring after a relatively short while.

Again, if the only reason you're working is because you're being paid, go find another line of work. No-one should be that miserable.
I don't have to be able to predict the future more than everyone else to vastly expand water reservoir's, increase education, build solar/wind/fission, public works... also, i've seen HN comments do extremely complex calculations about delta V but no one seems to do that math for UBI. what's 300m * $1000 a month? and 1,000 still doesn't cut it in most major cities.
Not having money would also probably consume you.

If you have to ask some strangers on HN what to do with your life, you’re almost guaranteed to not be ready.

You’re going to have basic questions about setting up your business, insurance, contracts, payroll and HR, vendors, before you even get to your business idea.

If you don’t have that all sorted out, you’re not even in the right place yet. You’ve got some homework to do before you even take any sort of dive.

Maybe you’ve started a business before and don’t need to hear this, but from what I can tell, you haven’t and startups are not typical small businesses.

If you don’t know how to run a simple small business before attempting to run a startup, you’re going to have a bad time.

Also, I don’t know who is going to take you seriously in fundraising.
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As far as AWS is concerned, most jobs don't require certificate in AWS. It's usually the professional services and (external-facing) trainers that need the certs.

Additionally, there are AWS partners which have to have a certain % of their workforce certified. So that's one thing to consider.
Try classic music
I'm a huge fan of git fork [1] on windows (or mac). Looks good, never failed me and does everything I need (branching, rebasing, merging, squashing, cherry picking, blaming and it can even show lost commits with reflog). And it performs really well (in contrary to sourcetree).

[1] https://git-fork.com/
“But North Korea is better than that. They would not steal all the other movies and not grab The Interview. I am convinced that this is an inside job.”

Surely the fact that The Interview was the one movie they did not want to "grab" indicates that there was something about that movie. Perhaps they grabbed the others to spread them freely on pirate sites, but didn't want to spread The Interview because their whole aim was to make sure no one could ever see it.
JPEG MMXXI ?
I find it interesting how this is premised on the "one big claim per paper" model, which for better or worse seems increasingly common. In my experience a lot of 60's-90's research is of the form "the results of our first study were consistent with [some specific paper], and our second experiment was not." This nuance is pretty hard for people to keep in mind, and often seems to get lost over time (as a postdoc in cognitive science at MIT, I've noticed a big difference between what papers actually say, vs. what people say those papers say 30 years on). I'm excited to see how well Scite actually works as I test it over the next week!
Gay conversion therapy is relevant, as what some people now call “gender affirming care” is considered by many to be a new, insidious form of this. One manifestation is parents who can’t tolerate the idea of a gay son, preferring to believe that their son is really a daughter. There is now a whole industry ready to cater to these parents.
When Sports Fans Change the Game
It doesn't have to work well. It only has to work good enough to damage the existing competition, and scare newcomers from even trying.
> There is nothing to learn from someone like that.

I was with you right up to the end. Obviously there are plenty of things to learn, and you identified some of them.

How you judge those lessons according to your own values will vary, but they're not vacuous.
The staging area (aka "index" aka good god don't try to read git glossary's index for this) is a bad one. There's definitely several cases where I've read the documentation and struggle to figure out if it will or will not affect the working checkout or not.
This is awesome, but my immediate reaction is: it would be better without the browser.

On my MacBook Pro (Retina 15 inch 2015, "the best laptop ever made"), it's just laggy enough to be a bit irritating. A native app would be wonderful.

Edit: Just to be sure, I use Firefox, but it doesn't seem to be a Firefox only -effect, as it's similarly laggy on Chrome too.
Have some sympathy for those administrators please. The backhanders on OBS are non-existent!
What's the difference working 10hrs/week vs being retired with a side project?

People pursue coasting so they can do other things.
I regularly do that. I'm surprised to hear it stated as something you assume to not be possible. I also eat a single meal per day.
maybe you can start with the classic exercise of writing your own shell. That’s a great way to learn most of the fundamentals of systems programming (and usually the go-to exercise for that class on CS courses)
This is oversimplified nonsense and borders on irresponsible, particularly the line saying that if your car suffers $3,000 of damage you should pay for it out of pocket, simply because you have $10k in savings.

The right amount of insurance is a highly personal decision and many factors are involved. It's not black and white.
I strongly disagree. A lot of R&D groups at major companies require them since the work is so specialized and you won't be learning that material in udnergrad.

In the teams I've worked, every member had a PhD, our manager had a PhD, their director/VP had a PhD... everyone up until the C-suits.

It was necessary and expected.

So I think it really depends on your field.
Ah, I was going to check for biking directions after I got my city's map downloaded, glad to hear it has them! That's the one thing I've been using Google Maps for because Apple for some reason just pretends non-coastal cities don't exist for non-car-centric Maps features...

I may request the authors add the ability to use more OSM layers, such as a cycling overlay and maybe speed limit overlay (I've been told by Google that a street was safe to cycle on-road when that street had a 45mph speed limit too many times for comfort).
I switched to a 4 day work week (8h a day) with a 20% gross cut, which is about ~17% after tax, in February.

I had some wrist pain/discomfort (especially on Thursdays and Fridays) which was distracting for me. Since then it completely stopped. Way more effective than all other approached I tried (more exercise, more sleep, healthier eating, frequent breaks).

Since then I have had one evaluation meeting with my manager and we both agree that I have the same or even slightly better performance since. I have never felt that time was the limit of the quality/quantity of my deliverables.

Not worrying about pain, and most important not having the pain/discomfort is the main factor on the improved productivity. And to be honest, I feel like I got a raise, I have more free time for myself and spend less in health and in peripherals or gadgets to try to reduce my discomfort/pain.

And I have motivation to learn tech stuff and create projects of my own after hours and in the weekends, which I have slowly lost since it was physically painful to do so on a 5 day work week for me. This is important to me because I have always had the curiosity and interest to learn and create outside work.
JPEG XL isn't yet optimised for extremely low bpp. I thought the label for tiny, large and medium etc are sort of misleading without looking at bpp number.

It is a bit like looking at bitrate for Video quality without looking at video resolution.
It's a fantastic ingenious hack for, IMO, a model that needs to die.

There is no reason to reteach the same class every semester . The best minds need to get together and put in N (say 10) semesters worth of effort into creating the highest production value lectures that all can use until the material fundamentally changes. Most of these kinds of lectures have little to no interaction which can come at other times and the need to "do it live" leads to subpar teaching production.
Netflix Strikes Deal with Filmmaker Steven Spielberg
Can't do this on Lobsters! Yet another instance of good reputation design.
As the top reddit comment points out, a sad read. Also note this post is 2 years old.

It makes me wonder - are there opportunities for a digital hybrid of techie and historian? The data hoarder subreddits come to mind but they tend to be focused on tech itself or unfocused in what data they collect.

Though even if you could maintain and do analysis on a digitized archive of a specific subject I wonder what kind of market there is for that since that’s kind of what libraries have become?
i didn't say natural, i said real life. Those things are all products of labor, without that labor they wouldn't exist.
> thieves had gained access to a key part of Bangladesh Bank's systems, called Swift

Eh, what? I recall that to get access to SWIFT, you would require a SWIFT USB stick. How would a hacker be able to access SWIFT without the USB stick? This story doesn't smell right to me.

Here is a link for SWIFT Alliance Lite 2:

https://www.swift.com/our-solutions/interfaces-and-integrati...
Harnessing the Sun: The Story of the Bell Solar Battery
Shameless self plug but I just helped set up this stream: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQRHhSGD_Py/

Visual Synthesizer is what's used to get some of the visual to react to the drum set input via MIDI. Surprisingly easy to setup with a DAW like Ableton: https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs-visual-synthesizer

I'm happy to answer any questions in the meantime until I write up a blog post about it all.
It depends on your definition of "fuck people over". The insurance plan for healthy, fit, young people would likely be cheap. However, they were subsidizing older and/or less fit people. The rates for the "not young, fit and healthy" plan are going to go up. Drastically. I would also be unsurprised to see that the "healthy, fit, and young" group ends up becoming the "average" group, and that they use the other group to lump together people they don't want to insure, with rates so high people can't afford to pay them.

I.e. they keep you in the healthy, fit and young group until you get cancer, and then they move you over to the $7,000/month group.

The current system just averages that out. Your rates are higher than they have to be when you're young, but your rates are lower than they have to be when you're old. It negates the risk by lumping everyone together. Your form of insurance doesn't do much to reduce risk because you can always be moved to another category. The insurer really just becomes a middleman between you and your medical providers then, if the goal is to allow people to pay for what they use. It's basically an HSA.
They do get royalties, but it's called equity. For the same reason the mic boom holder doesn't get royalties, most software devs don't get equity - the contributions are just not valuable enough.
> Anything that needs to be fast either is or can be made fast

It can be made fast how? Typically by writing it in some other language. That's the point.
Spot on. Same goes for Steam/etc vs pirate game content sites. Random/latest lists are great
To be fair, nothing in the New Testament explicitly denies the possibility of repeating the cycle. CMIIW.
Great work. I wish usability/ergonomy was taken more seriously for popular tools that everyone uses (like git). Another stupid pain point with git is the inability to commit empty directories. I mean, come on.
Thanks for linking. Per the Wikipedia article, the drug was also to blame due to it suppressing her ability to urinate. It also quotes:

"If Leah had taken the drug alone, she might well have survived. If she had drunk the amount of water alone, she would have survived."
HN never fails to amazes me this is one of the best community where people from all backgrounds can take part in discussion

And I wish all the best
> This type of language isn’t why I read hacker news everyday

Scroll past it then? Doesn't seem like a big hardship.
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the ultra-rich built amazon, made very profitable trades, or inherited the labor of the ancestors. Also, you seems to be applying that there is a fixed pie wealth. The rich can create wealth where there wasn't before. Rob the rich and give to the poor is also a terrible strategy.
Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong. `git clean` is useful, though not "can't-live-without-it" useful. I couldn't imagine my workflow without `git reset`, though, and I recommend checking it out!
Nice, this is really cool. Similarly, I had to implement extra plumbing on top of Git to make snapshotting possible. I'll update the blog post with a reference.
In Facebook's case, they are being run by nobody. Never witnessed a more haphazard, disorganized company before working there. Truly frustrating place to work at, ruled by people with no vision and managed through a Kafkaesque system designed to create conflicting incentives for teams supposed to collaborate. I don't miss it at all.
Indeed it is a dead end. It is a mere 'feature request' to many of the existing popular apps out there rather than a separate full blown app.

The pandemic was Clubhouse's selling point and it has been copied to death by its competitors. Now that it is nearly over, there really isn't any point in going back or waiting for an invite when everyone else has the same feature on the old platforms.

I guess Phase 3 is when we start to see ByteDance creating their own Clubhouse clone and other smaller companies will be selling an SDK for others to rapidly create their own Clubhouse rooms.

At the end of this experiment, it will result in Clubhouse shutting down and giving back the money they raised from the VCs. Isn't that right Secret Inc.?
Grammarly
Arrested, including 2 juveniles, for breaking into Everly school
Why the use of Go instead of something more traditional like c++, or even rust ? Isn’t it primarily used for infrastructure scripting and will affect performance of the db
And the reason why we have prop 13 is because there was a period in which housing values in California increased dramatically, and we literally had seniors having to sell the homes they'd lived in for decades, because they couldn't afford the newly-assessed property taxes.
If you want really secure computing, build a system that consists of a grid of 4x4 bit Look up tables, hook them in a grid so that each has 4 inputs and outputs : up,left,down,right

Clock them in a checkerboard pattern to eliminate race conditions

A B A B A B A B
B A B A B A B A
A B A B A B A B
B A B A B A B A

The logic will just work, there's no program counters, etc. You can flip, rotate, split, fold logic to work around bad gates, you can isolate an input or output by wrapping it in a fence of logic.

However, you give up everything you're used to inheriting from Von Neuman in the process.
> Also note this post is 2 years old.

The History job market now is not better than it was 2-3 years ago. If anything it's worse, and schools continue to pump out PhDs like it just doesn't matter that they're tricking kids into burning the better part of a decade for less than nothing (average time to complete in the US is 7-8 years!)
The Read Command in Vim
A brief overview of a handy Vim command
Hexagon is the architecture of the DSP cores included in the modem, running in parallel with the ARM cores that run Linux/Android.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Hexagon
Is it the routing algorithm or just OpenStreetMap not knowing about this bike lane? Latter one you could easily fix and help others too.
I have this in my .gitconfig so the pull will fail rather than merge.

[pull]
ff = only

If it does fail I can decide whether to merge or rebase.
I haven't lived in Sweden in quite some time, and don't really follow the news on a daily basis.

I searched for the term (in Swedish) and all I could find was suggestions to implement a new tax on capital, and I couldn't find any suggestions as to what that tax should look like other than a statement that it should affect the top 1% in Sweden. I'm pretty sure that having 100k in savings does not get you in the top 1%.
> But, Social Sign In was faster: ~5 seconds on average compared to ~8 seconds for email and password.

No wonder, you put email and password on separate pages! If you had exposed both fields on one page, email + password logins would be faster.
Git init inits a git repo.

Git submodule runs commands on submodules.

What is hard about this UX?

And it's not punishing you, its doing what you asked, to pull into a non matching head, how does it know you're not using git in the intended and distributed way?

Btw, just quit the editor without saving, it aborts.
> Forensic psychology has a lot of skeletons in its closet.

I'm in agreement. One minor example, for as much as anyone thinks the Hippocratic Oath has worth - let's be honest, this is HN, there is sure to be a spectrum of opinions - psychologists are NOT required to swear it.
> they were basically army doing a lot of actual combat

This was mainly the Waffen-SS which was only built up during the war, the SS as a whole was responsible for the worst atrocities in the occupied areas and within Germany (for instance running the extermination camps).

(also, Himmler was both head of the SS and Gestapo by 1934, I guess there wasn't much of a distinction between the two organizations)
`hg` literally already has `hg undo` as a command. It's good that `git` can have a similar tool
Or just add a few special purpose physical buttons to the side.
I feel that one of the more worthwhile results of high-school poetry education is being able to remember them later in life when they're applicable.
Oh yeah forgot about their alt license phase for awhile to try to stop that.
3.6T a month? that would be greater than the whole of the US economy every year. Taxes are only a portion of that, so we would probably be spending 60-70% more than we are making from taxes on just UBI and no other social programs.
So that's why he stopped responding to me after two or three emails
SCOTUS unanimously sides with former athletes in dispute with NCAA about comp
Ethereum isn't a currency
Isn't rooting it blowing a giant hole in the security model?

There's obviously benefits to doing so, but it has some big costs?
> "git branch create" is "git branch [name]".

I've been using Git professionally for of a decade and you just taught me something new. I always use `git checkout -b [name]` (which is a completely bananas UX, but it's the one I know).
"Access housing that is within their budget."
It's by far the biggest issue to address. And also the most difficult one.

So easy to say. So hard to implement. Especially if the goal is that the access does not go away as income goes up.

Most solutions out there involve shoveling money at the problem. But in practice, this will just make housing prices go up. The poor will still be left out in the cold.

The only solution which might work is building more units that would appeal to people with low income in desirable locations. This is still almost impossible due to zoning restrictions, but it's the only way out.