skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why it seems so hard to sell higher quality software in some cases. The party paying might not appreciate the invisible robustness, might underestimate the cost of failure or overestimate the ability of an operator.

Maybe there is a way to make those things more visible and clear?
Prematurely designing for scale when I just needed to finish the beta version has been my engineering vice.
This is what I was trying to say too. These low-IQ countries you speak of - they don't care about pollution and even if they did - at their current development stage they couldn't afford to. Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing. It doesn't take a genius to realize what impact on global warming that's gonna have.
> Because if that is not the case, this idea would be applicable to a lot of things right? Seems like an easy hack

Well that does seem to be Microsoft's position at least. (see: Copilot)
I think latest Fedora runs out of the box.
In todays market where developers are commoditized “resources” it’s only logical for the “ninjas” or “superstars” who repeatedly see their role being perceived as “working bees” who don’t want to fall into this management / worker dichotomy or choose serving a “management” queen.. to rebel and redefine the work as they see fit, a good enough business where work is done and is more aligned with the interests of the working class, so no VCs and no conforming to top to bottom hierarchies.. just work
>Removing pests, such as aphids, thrips and lygus bugs, is a next step for FarmWise

This would be great. Poisons become ineffective against their intended targets pretty quickly after a few generations, but evolving resistance against being zapped is a bigger hurdle to overcome.
Sure, the standards-based web was quite simple 25 years ago. But of course that's not the web that Netscape and Microsoft cared about.

Netscape and Microsoft were engaged in a land rush to extend the web into their proprietary platforms. If they could grab enough marketshare, they'd get to define the web's direction. Initially it was Netscape in the driver's seat, but by 1999 Microsoft had taken control.

It was an opportunity to invent everything from scratch. There was no standard styling, no standard DOM, no standard plug-in API, no standard programming language...

Solutions and answers that seem predetermined in hindsight were anything but. For example, Netscape was pushing their own scripting language initially called LiveScript but then rebranded into JavaScript as part of a Sun partnership. Meanwhile Microsoft's browser supported multiple programming languages that could access a common object model: you could program web pages in VBScript, or Microsoft's own JavaScript look-a-like "JScript", or other languages not yet defined.

Maybe a language-agnostic model would have been better for the web than JavaScript dominance? We might have had something like WebAssembly much sooner. We'll never know. But the answer to these design challenges certainly were not obvious in 1996 to engineers at either browser company.
This looks to be the first major confirmed orbital collision in a decade
Can you explain reasoning for that? It is literally phone in shape of the watch.
Ask HN: Has anyone bought an abandoned business?
I've been eyeing one for a while and was wondering if anyone else
was dealing with the same ? How did it go ? What to look for ? Red flags ?

Both digital and physical ones welcome.
It seems they succeeded, besides Wikipedia the first result my Google view has is the codec.

If we have a scarce namespace, first come first served is not a much better way to allocate names than by popularity.

People have yet to successfully stamp a trade mark on words like Opus, and that is perfectly fine by me. Codecs and NLP datasets are distinct enough domains that any confusion will resolve itself quickly.
That's missing the specific point I was attempting to make.

That may have been my fault.
It's interesting you equate HN with IG/Twitter/FB/reddit. While there are similarities, they are quite different from each other.

If you are worried that HN will become your last bastion, perhaps you could find other online communities where you have passions/interests.
The Nokia 8110 4G „banana phone“ is cheap feature phone which allows tethering and wifi hotspot. It’s running an older version of KaiOS, based on FirefoxOS. Can be easily rooted and bloatware is removable. Battery lasts up to a week if data is mostly turned off and flight mode turned on during night hours.
Of course they do. But is a nice playing ground for the army and the military industrial complex makes good profits. The lifes of milions do not matter for them.
> Does china really have designs on Afghanistan? For what purpose?

To humiliate America

Other than the Khybar Pass, Afghanistan is a piece of land of very little value, and only 38 million of very proud, and militant people.
True, planning means very little as it might be unusable while waiting those properties.
3 kbps is not enough for music in any meaningful way.
I was helping teaching my son's grade 8 class for about a month and a half. I was surprised at the enthusiasm from the majority of the students - most of them were really into it.

It was great expericence, both for me, the other parent helping, the teacher, and the students (as far as I could tell). I have written more about what we taught them, how we went about it, and things we learnt here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2017/12/17/programming-for-grade-8/
Any suggestions for great diagramm site/catalog (like dribbble for designs)?
Wars are not meant to be win. If you win a war quickly you don't make any profit.
> Already covered extensively: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180074

Fortunately I knew what's happening in Bullseye, but it's counterintuitive that the referenced post is linked into the release notes, which is already available months* ago. Also, in my personal opinion release notes misses the context.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180747

"Is it released yet ? The download page still gives a download link to the version 10.10"

Someone (hint: not the linked comment) was too excited yesterday.

* Actually, years ago.
You are too hard on US. Afgan Army had 300 thousand soldiers trained and well equiped.

If Afgans do not want to fight Taliban themselves what US can do?
Just running with that a little ...

So, at what point during a phoneme does it become distinct?

After any one phoneme has been sent down the wire you can truncate the audio and send a phoneme identifier; at the other end they just replay the phoneme from a cache.

Like doing speech to text, but using phonemes, and sending the phoneme hash string instead of the actual audio.

Must have been done already?
Art Emotions Map
I've also been playing around with bit mixers and hash functions recently. I use avalanche diagrams to visually inspect the diffusion, and SSE (sum of squared errors) to compare the bias of different mixers.

https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/avalanche-diagram/

I guess the next step is to evolve / optimize good constants to improve them further, and rewrite everything in C to make evaluation faster.
In that context, Mudita Pure [0] is a similar phone with its OS being developed in the open.

[0] https://mudita.com/
Lisp has been around for a long time. If adopting Common Lisp was a winning move for startups, we'd expect to see many startups adopting CL and running circles around their competition. The fact that we haven't seen that seems to suggest to me that that's not the case.
What's cooking on Sourcehut? August 2021
Yeah, and then they'll come for the gays or christians, depending on which group you feel closer to.
- What was her age when you started this?

- Did she have experience with board/card/pen-and-paper games before? Dice games?

- What was starting typing speed and how it goes now? Do typing lessons causes frustration?

- Have you noted some prior math skills? I see lessons start with strings but then move to "geometry" stuff
> Most notable for large-scale deployments is yescrypt's optional initialization and reuse of a large lookup table, typically occupying at least tens of gigabytes of RAM and essentially forming a site-specific ROM. This limits attackers' use of pre-existing hardware such as botnet nodes.

Is this needed? Assuming proper salting it is not feasible to crack SHA-2,blake2 etc hashes, let alone bcrypt and argon2 with thousands of iterations of them, is that not correct?
This is not a disaster for Bidden. I'm sorry to say it but it is really a victory for Bidden to limit the loss of lives.
For a project that aims to improve the estimate, I do not understand the statement

“Avoiding adjacent kings only improves the upper bound by 10%, which is not worth the complications and resulting slowdowns

I could understand it if it were claimed that there must be much larger low hanging fruit, so that we can postpone this one for now, but I don’t see any such claim.

Chances are, at some time, further progress has to come from such relatively small improvements.
> The Biden administration doing this so haphazardly is irresponsible and with little to no reward

The same was said about Bush administration when the war was started. The same was said about the whole 'nation building' and troop surge and so on that happened until now...

Judging by the lack of fighting back, nothing was achieved in 20 years and same thing would happen even if US stayed 20 more years...
Very mixed feeling about this. The implications for minorities, women and progress are now obviously dire. Though I can't help feel somewhat pleased to see Dubya/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfo's legacy ground to dust and all their supporters/apologists with pie on their face. I couldn't believe Dubya prancing around like an elder statesman while Trump was in office. There's an element of their m.o. that has overflown from the military to other branches of US life as the military got less stretched in recent years. The mistakes made haven't been as educational as they should've been.
I wholeheartedly agree, and the effect this has on the perceived military capability of the US in particular and NATO in general can't possibly be downplayed.
Micro marvels: Levon Biss captures seeds close up – in pictures
> In this universe, of bootstrapping to several hundred thousand per month in revenue, a founder can walk away with $5m, $10m, $20m (depending on the multiple) in around half the time it’d take to build a “unicorn”.

The odds of this level of success for a solo bootstrapped founder is much smaller when you don’t raise. If you look at the stats on startup success (exits), funding has a strong positive correlation.

There are good and bad reasons to raise capital and many startups do raise for bad reasons, but that doesn’t mean that funding is inherently bad or should be eliminated as an option.
Thank you. If you like tracker music you might like this one too

Binaerpilot:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPZ2AmFjEVSeZjnW7O...
This incident was previously reported on [0], but the evidence that space debris caused it is new.

[0] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4150/1

>"On March 22, [the 18th Space Control Squadron] reported that a Chinese satellite, Yunhai 1-02, had broken up four days earlier, creating 21 pieces being tracked. What happened to Yunhai 1-02, a Chinese environmental monitoring satellite launched a year and a half ago, is not yet known. The 18 SPCS said only that “analysis is ongoing” regarding that breakup."
There is visible 20 kHz LPF, but it is meaningless for use case of music listening, right ?

I did not liked degradation at 140-128kb/s and noise above 16kHz and some artifacts 10-16khz that is clearly visible and much more impactful.

Here is spectrograms https://disk.yandex.com/d/PvQGSS2xBu7ucQ
Samsung has its own AI-designed chip. Soon, others will too
Emacs hackers can be extremely obsessive, and that's a great thing! I know one who even named their dog Emacs.
The Influence of Clerics in Politics
loved that demo back then but it seems swiping mobile keyboards ate up most of the non-disabled target audience. a bit off topic but its weird how sentimental i get seeing that google tech talks intro. its like a flashback to a past where google still was only the good guy and i still naively thought open source and open rest apis would inevitably lead to an open, connected and free digital world.
'Master Face': Researchers Say They've Found a Bypass for Face Rec Tech
Remembering a carver – Ito Susumu (2016)
Huh? See https://how.complexsystems.fail/ and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S0k12uZR14

The "chain analogy" is just that i.e. a Metaphor. You need to map it to your studies in Systems Science and Complexity Science.

Start with the works of Henry Petroski. Then look at the works of Nassim Taleb, in particular Antifragile. Finally, do a search for "Failure in Complex Systems" and you get tons of journal articles one of which i have listed above.
If the Taliban can weaken the position of the US China will support them, just like the US supported the Taliban when they could weaken the position of Russia back in the 80ies.
That sounds utopian. Maybe there are also other reasons why this worked?

In my experience, kids have no ideas on their own. And they don't like discovering things on their own. They want lectures and wait for assignments. Only few are different.

I was amazed how this went contra my expectations.
Hey looking to do something similar, could I somehow contact yu and ask a few questions?
> then Im stuck because it does not have my wifi drivers and I don't have a cable to connect my desktop to my router.

I'd assume you have more than 1 computer at home. So use a USB stick to transfer the missing files. Not convenient, but you don't install a new Debian that often.
They’re paying their interns how much? Either finance pays way more than I thought, or that’s wildly off - for comparison as the most senior developer in our London based organisation, having been here since the beginning, I make about $11k a month.
A correction: Liz has been entirely supportive the Raku Steering Council's efforts to establish our Code of Conduct[0] and to enforce that Code.

(I know that part of this comment is referring to events that took place years ago; I don't have any firsthand knowledge about those events but want to correct the record about the present)

[0]: https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/pape...
That's the spirit! Awesome. You've inspired me tonight thank you :-)

I knew I was on to something with this :p ;) xx
PHP and PostgreSQL get a big release every year with good improvements. That you have to wait for the next stable release of debian (or in this case the one after this because they did not upgrade to the newest one) is not a failure of the web people! We are talking about one release every year, not every few weeks! Getting them years later just shows how unrealistic sometimes these stable distros are.
A strong chain isn't enough to generate success though, and you could argue it is the least important part of success. In order for a chain to be useful it needs to pull something, a chain without something to pull is useless. And that thing the chain is pulling could be argued to be the root cause of success, while any part of the chain not capable of bearing the pull would be a root cause of failure.

Making a strong chain is easy, finding a use-case for a strong chain is much harder. It doesn't matter how strong the chain is if there is nobody there who can pull it. And if you have a good use case and a person to pull it you can just get a standard chain, few fail because they failed to get a standard chain.
Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. Platypi are monotremes.

(If you like, you can change the definition of “mammal” to say “give birth to live young, except for monotremes”. That's exhaustive.)
China: The Regime's Managed Economy Is Stagnating
The part two link is broken, they put 11 instead of 12 in the URL, working link: https://blog.oup.com/2011/11/fleming-2/
Industry attempts to control these kind of situations by using press embargos[1] - ensure that the news isn't public until all of the materials and associated marketing is ready to go, focusing the message and conversation.

I'm glad that that isn't the approach taken here (it's a more genuine, transparent and organic approach). Following the micronews[2] site posts was enjoyable.

Although yep, perhaps there could have been good context for newcomers to Debian from this announcement article rather than the release notes.

Fortunately I don't think Debian is under market time or presentation demands, so it'll roll on regardless.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_embargo

[2] - https://micronews.debian.org/
> Please guys, there's a search box on the bottom of the page. ;-)

I wonder if moving the search box to the top of the page would help.
More Is More: The End of Minimalism
Redis Server– Debuging Performance
That's true, but I would like to know if there's a way to find laptops that have Trackpoints (or whatever they are named on different brands [1]). My experience is that there were different brands that had some models at some point in time (HP, Toshiba, Dell, Fujitsu), but don't even mention it on the website, and from one generation to the other they decide to remove or to add them. I would happily go with Dell or some other brand if I knew how to chase for all the requirements above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
Interesting reads!
AirDrop and a Toy Gun Caused a ‘Threat on Board’ a United Flight Last Week
Note that Scheme made this choice in order to make it simpler for compilers to produce efficient code.
I liked the Tau Manifesto’s derivation for arbitrary dimensions: <https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec-volume_of_a_hypersphere>.
A bit more precisely or clearly:

«head of Libereco in Germany Marco Fieber. “The fact that global brands like Procter & Gamble, Mars, Henkel, Coca-Cola or PepsiCo continue to advertise on the dictator’s propaganda channels is a scandal.” // When the Associated Press asked Nestle for comment, the food and drink company replied in a statement, “As a matter of principle, we do not position ourselves along political lines in the countries where we operate, and we comply with all applicable laws and sanctions.” Nestle also announced that it had “significantly reduced” its advertising budget for Belarus.»

«[...] far-right media outlets in America have seen their advertising ranks thin considerably. // The same should happen today. Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Mars, and more, are apparently funding full-on propaganda that elevates and protects a violent authoritarian regime, assisting it in declaring enemies of the state and deeming ordinary people inhuman garbage worthy of repression. It needs to be untenable for these brands to advertise on state-owned Belarusian networks»

I am not sure advertising in this context is an enabler - probably a facilitator (and this is clearly not pedantic - responsibilities vary). A propaganda machine that needs advertisers to exist does not sound like a sound concept.

Still, one could wonder if at the meeting table of any advertiser the embarrassment intrinsic in the situation was perceived and brought to topic. Also, in the theoretical context, in decision making, of the quantitative loss following the embarrassment - that "Ford Pinto" factor that is sometimes forgotten.

--

Edit: not bad, this *The National Interest". And quite a useful RSS with it. Thanks.
How very 'mathematical analysis' of you.
Yep, totally right. I think you need to also tell about Afghan government itself "returning Pakistan a favour," and dispatching the Pakistani Taliban.
True Life Story: The Lesson an Imbecile Taught Me
I just implemented something similar in Go[0]. Just yesterday I added the ability to compile it as a loadable sqlite3 extension, so you can use the normal sqlite3 cli tool to query databases hosted on an http(s) connection.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfshttp
The point of such declining population articles is not one of taking sides on increasing vs decreasing population.

The point of such articles to examine what kind of society we are building. Are people feeling comfortable to produce the next generation? What challenges exist in production and raising of children? And finally, how many producers (young) to consumers (old) exist in society.

These are interesting questions, one that a lot of millennials associate with. E.g. Society appears to be designed such that marriages are obsolete for millennials, producing a child is a burden and the future appears bleaker for individual humans.

That said, a declining population is good for the planet, so long as we are not stuck in a death spiral. Immigration is America's life saver. Other countries are not so lucky.
As cargo shipments boom, ship strikes imperil whales worldwide
The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore
On the contrary. Taliban increased poppy fields by 50 percent in 2020 and they are also pushing meth through their channels. Taliban budget estimated at 2 bilion dollars is supported chiefly by opium trade...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/19/taliban-expanding-drug-...
No idea. All I know it's that the HDMI is hardwired to the NVIDIA on these Lenovo laptops. I don't think it has to be this way. Surely that Intel integrated graphics chip is capable of driving an external HDMI? Perhaps what they should have don't was make the hardware of the port switchable. Even a physical switch would have done.
Neither are being pedantic. There's a pretty large difference (a complete categorical one, actually), between not existing and having been influenced.

Your dismissive tone all around is pretty jarring too.

You were factually, categorically wrong (twice now). That happens. You may want to accept it gracefully it and go on with your day.
The Taliban is absolute horrible. US tried to do a good thing here. For me this is a failure of the Afghan people who are not willing to fight for their rights, especially the rights of their wives, sisters and daughters.

At least US tried to make a difference. EU is very passive in that sense (I'm from EU).
Finding a market like that sounds really difficult to do. How does someone discover a market like this without a ton of luck?
Touchpoint seems to be affected too, but starts working again when I suspend and resume. Buttons as well. The thing that doesn't recover at all is the touchpad itself. Although I have also had cases where none recovered.

How was it for yours?
Massive tracker music fan (and quiet author, hardly anything released) here, my main exposure was as the PC-scene arose (from ScreamTracker onwards).

I'd like to recommend some mostly-pc tracker-music authors that are perhaps not necessarily the 'Pop-Stars' of the tracker scene, but I still think they made really absolutely awesome, different and interesting music in this format:

Dune aka Brothomstates (https://modtu.be/?m=26492)

Shad (https://modtu.be/?m=337401)

Croaker (https://modtu.be/?m=89553)

Yolk (https://modtu.be/?m=55561)

Sulphur (https://modtu.be/?m=385511)

Xhale (https://modtu.be/?m=55280)

Groo (https://modtu.be/?m=30096)
Really cool project :D

Even better to see it on independence day :D
Also an interesting question in context of the regulation discussion: whoever sold you the phone is responsible for addressing significant product defects according to consumer protection rules in most (?) countries in EU. So it could become a problem if the irreplaceable phone batteries didn't die about the same time as the security updates end.
We Have a Communication Problem
14.5k is almost the monthly base pay for a senior software engineer at a FANG in Bay Area/NY/Seattle/ZRH (not counting bonus and stock though - which make a significant difference).

So it does seem very high, but not impossible?
> sunk cost and babies

It’s not that they (middle managers) are stupid. It’s political. KPIs and objectives and individual careers are misaligned or work against what is good for the user and ultimately, good for the company. Blame the CxOs.