skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lemmy development is coming along great, but there are some things I think don't make a lot of sense on a federated network.

1) at the very least there should be an option to run it as a single community, not multiple communities. Federation means you can have multiple communities, each on their own server, the whole user created multi community paradigm makes sense on centralized services like reddit. Added bonus, you remove site administration and have only moderation, removing bureaucratic layers is good.

2) subscriptions on federated services should ideally be handled client side. If I want to subscribe to a community feed, needing to log in doesn't make sense when a community I follow might not be on my home server. I should only need authentication to interact.
But did kubernetes really won the orchestration war or is it still an ongoing thing?
The ongoing and ramped up tyrannies don't affect the people with guns, so it's not doing much good so far. When the oppressed arm themselves, people who claim opposition to gun control suddenly become very pro-gun control.
One of the things everyone hears from some cousin, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, parent, or friend when they don’t get selected for something these days is some form of, “oh you didn’t get it because you are insert [black, white, latinx, male, female, young, old, etc].” This comment is about them not you.

Avoid this line of thinking. It may be true, or it may not be. You will probably never know. What I do know is this is an unhelpful and defeatist line of thinking. Instead prove the haters wrong.
Mexico's top court decriminalizes abortion in 'watershed moment'
The CLO was insider trading on non public info when they were talking to the SEC? I have no idea, just asking.

https://twitter.com/rschmied/status/1433148462518792192
I'm happy to recognize the distinction between fact-checking and partisanship. But if you're running an algorithm that decides who sees what content, you're responsible for the choices that algorithm makes. I think platforms try to disclaim responsibility by claiming to be "neutral" in the sense that they don't actively censor based on partisan preferences, and this is disingenuous.
Decentralized platforms. Firefox OS. A phone app store. There are many technology inequalities caused by major platforms controlling content. A youtube replacement, a private facebook,open source AI. Create a different type of search engine...

Plenty to solve.
Well, aren't you blessed.
This is great, congrats and thank you (& Spotify) for releasing this!

I was just about to look for a library to layer 2 tracks (a text-to-speech "voice" track, and a background music track) and add compression to the resulting audio.

A few questions if you don't mind:

- Pedalboard seems more suited to process one layer at a time, correct? I would be doing muxing/layering (i.e. automating the gain of each layer) elsewhere?

- Do you have a Python library recommendation to mux and add silence in audio files/objects? pydub seems to be ffmpeg-based. Is that a better option than a pure-Python implementation such as SoundFile?

Thanks
If you're looking for a B2C productivity app, checkout Homechart: https://about.homechart.app.
I agree - and they should do that and make a massive public deal about why they are no longer serving that region.
>I'm spending more time feeling good about work than finding and investing in a hobby that'll make me truly happy.

Are they?
Thinking through the particulars in my case: How do I charge if I only have street parking? Can I rely on superchargers only? What's the price of those vs charging at home vs gas? Will I destroy my battery over time if I do that? Am I giving up the thing I like most about my current car (2013 civic -- never leaves me stranded + basically only have to get the oil changed + replace wearable items)?
From the video:

> To clean the food catcher, grab your partner's toothbrush and brush it into the rubbish bin.

I love British humor.
None of those things sell vaccines or justify totalitarian state control.
My understanding is that while there are certainly changing social and cultural pressures which influence how often people use they in the singular, or at the least, increasing how likely some are to use it (possibly decreasing how likely others are to?),

that using “they” as singular was not at all unheard of. It is quite plausible that the sources I am remembering were somewhat over-representing how common it was (they certainly would have motivation to do so, in relation to the changing social pressures that you mentioned), but my impression is still that for a long while, it was not especially unusual for people to use it without meaning to make (and without being perceived to be making) any kind of statement about gender/sex, though it may have been (idk) the clear consensus that it was “technically incorrect usage”.

Furthermore, my impression (I could be wrong) is that while using a singular “they” to refer to a person whose sex/gender was unknown, was not that strange, it would have been fairly odd for someone to use singular “they” in the case where the speaker does know the sex/gender of the person in question, and that this is something which has changed substantially more of late due to changing social pressures etc. (compared to the use when the gender/sex is unknown).

I should note that I have not looked into this closely, and any parts which I have I could have forgotten, and therefore these are only the impressions I have, which could be wrong, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
> He said: "We are working on a new model that has flashing lights."

I have a hard time going back to my rank-and-file job after reading stuff like that :P
This is not changing the criminal code, it's creating civil liability for those who engage in this activity. It's already illegal but it is rarely prosecuted because of the high standards for a criminal case.
Sure, I'd like to see it on some level. Probably the best way to increase the pay of entry-level McDonald's workers is to improve education outcomes so there isn't as much demand for unskilled positions.
In a world of quick solutions, elevator pitches and so forth, there will demand for summaries of summaries (of summaries). Dealing with the actual complexities is something that is often successfully trained away in the more recent generation of executives and leaders.
> At what point am I allowed to connect the dots that democracy and socialism are inherently incompatible, as nice as they sound on paper?

When what's tried is not fundamentally (authoritarian vs democratic) different from the start.
HTTP still works practically as-is on devices from about 25 years ago.

HTTPS does not even work on devices from 5 years ago.

After non-removeable batteries, SSL/TLS implementations have been the single largest headache when you want to keep using a device for more than a couple of years.
Sorry about that! This is the one I bought: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32651747570.html?spm=a2g0s.9...

I've also updated the link on my site.
Was MitMing half the web the giveaway?
>We need to educate more people against logical fallacies

Definitely! And train them on how to identify and fend this sort of abuse, particularly on students (and youth in general) who often find themselves in situations where there is a huge power imbalance playing against them.

While I was studying at KAUST (Saudi Arabia's flaghship university), my daughter was kidnapped by the staff there and held hostage for a few weeks,
all of this to try to get me to sign some documents I didn't want to [1]. Aside from other things, they were desperately trying to get some dirt on me using such tactics, so that part of the post resonated with me very well.

I am in the process of writing a book about this whole ordeal with the intent of letting other people learn from my experience and how to get out of this sort of thing in time, or better yet, never fall into it in the first place.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827524
That's a good thing.

Having a giant political flamewar about how critical thinking should work has good potential to result in mutual destruction.

If you really play it out in your head, critical thinking is pretty hard to abuse because it tends to lean away from blind trust.

Every trick that could be taught to get people not to trust your enemy, is one less way you can take advantage of them yourself.
I’ve recently migrated four different accounts, three of them Gmail with their own domains, to Fastmail and I was astonished by how easy the process (that I’d put off for _years_) was. Huge weight off my mind and I’ve been very happy with the service since then.
These are the numbers that matter, and they're not good. They're proudly declaring that they will be producing a bit over 2 million EVs per year by 2030. Tesla is currently shipping at a rate of 1m per year.

I'm afraid they're going to use their brand power and customer loyalty to drag everyone else down.
> You cannot sell yourself to someone to hire you for your 1 year experience in 8 different things.

It heavily depends on what those things are. If you have one year of legitimate experience in cyber security right now, you've got a job almost anytime you want it. The same goes for many in-demand programming languages at present. That level of experience will not initially net you a very high paying tech job, however compared to the median it'll be a good paying job and you can work your way up from there.
To me, web3 isn't about building everything on some blockchain.

Firstly, it's about building networks and systems that serve us instead of what we have today: big, monolithic networks that profit off our rage and addiction.

Secondly, it's about building a model of democracy that is fundamentally more scalable than what we have today: people with differing opinions and values being forced into a single echo chamber and fighting in a zero-sum game to take control of the chamber.

Decentralization won't solve all our problems, but I believe it's a more natural and scalable way to organize on the web.
I took multiple CS classes at a top university* and I never heard about message buses or events...

Admittedly I was not a CS major and don't work in software engineering.

(To be honest, it being a top university probably decreased the probability that they would teach me practical/useful engineering practices like this. The programming classes I took were fairly focused on more theoretical concerns)
It's 100% this. Artificial inconveniences created to convince people to willingly give up all their information past, present, and future for government surveillance. That they additionally convinced us to pay $80 for that is just perfection.
The 2017 flu season killed 200 Americans per million, world wide that amounts to 1,400,000 people.

Should we have locked down in 2017?
Death of a 12-Year-Old Boy Sparks Worries of a Nipah Virus Outbreak in India
I think mozilla is trying to draw a line that separates it from privacy invading tech giants.. while still taking billions to host their tech in its browsers
Heh, this. I keep the thermostat between 78-80°F during the summer months (which allows the A/C to run enough to keep humidity down below 50%), and between 68-72°F in the winter.
Have you looked at the View Plus (€300-ish)? It has PM2.5, CO2, radon, humidity, pressure and temperature. Also I believe it has multiple of some of the same sensors for better accuracy.

Way overpriced vs AliExpress but oh well.

https://www.airthings.com/en/view-plus
"Edit: I guess the crux of the issue is, it's hard to optimize for being a force for good because the world is big and complicated. But it's quite easy to optimize for making more money, you just go down the list of top paying employers on levels.fyi and filter the ones you don't like."

Why I am reading this as: Is more easy to make money than being force for good? Because hey, the world is big and complicated. Or "hey making the world better place is not monetary rewarding endeavor, let's move fast and break things.

Chasing big work is not related to money. It is related to creating meaning outside egoistic need of fulfilling some billionaires vision of success.

Creating big work is a personal choice. And obviously is not popular or advertised.
k8s is just a bunch of processes working together. The downside is that if something goes wrong, it is unclear which process is faulty and how to fix it. A misconfigured DNS may take down the whole cluster, and the symptoms are that every process fails because the network is out. Difficult to backtrack to the fault source, there are a lot of configs pertaining to the network that could be faulty.

On the plus side, if someone else configured the cluster correctly for you (e.g. a Cloud service like GKE), then it's a breeze to use.
Decentralized forge: distributing the means of digital production
> It's been 30 years since I've studied formal writing in earnest, but "they," is, or at least was, grammatically incorrect in that sentence, unless you are referring to more than one person.

It is incorrect, as is “her” both times used in the preceding sentence, but not because of number of the referent (a sibling comment addresses “they” and its long-established singular use, but that's not actually relevant here.) Rather, “her” is incorrect because the possessive pronoun that corresponds to the “one” used in the earlier clause of the same sentence and with which “her” shares a referent is “one’s”, not “her”. And “she” is incorrect because it has, again, the same referent as the subject pronoun “one” in the preceding sentence, and therefore should use the same subject pronoun.

> English doesn't have a proper gender neutral singular pronoun.

Leaving aside whether it does for a known, specific referent, it absolutely does for an generic referent, and it was even properly used in one of four places the same generic referent was referred to using a pronoun in the last two sentences of the post: “one (subject)/one (object)/one’s (possessive)”.
no really, billion has different meaning around the world. personally I’m a fan of gigabucks, way shorter to say than “billions of dollars”
Early on my wife and I had a blow out argument about the dishwasher. Truth is we just started living together and we had some little annoyances bottled up and the dishwasher is what broke the camels back that evening. But, we remember it as the dishwasher fight. And, she does all the dishes now because I’m standing my ground that there is nothing wrong with my method, it’s just not hers. Happily married and have been living together for almost 20 years now and I haven’t loaded a single dish in almost as long. It actually worked out brilliantly for me now that I think about it.
If all the Agile people and all the Project managers got stuck in an endless status meeting, no one would ever notice.
Not really. Work is just a way to enrich your employer. I don't really find that all that fulfilling unless I was in an exceptional position, such as upper management in an R&D company developing revolutionary technology. But no, I'm a guy who develops insurance software for a wage. It's not bad, but it's not hard to find far more fulfilling things on my own time.
Right. The family is your moral priority, not your career. But people are selfish. They will sacrifice their families for their careers when the two are in conflict. Divorces ensue, estranged children that are poorly adjusted. Actually, all this mostly started with the industrial revolution. Before then, work usually took place in and around the home for most people. Both men and women worked. But with the industrial revolution, fathers were torn from the home and forced to go off and labor in the factories. I hope that COVID finally destroys this stupid modern tradition for occupations where it is possible to do so.

Besides, if all you know and do is your career, then you're a pretty boring fellow. Human beings don't just eat and shit. They do other things as well. Culture needs leisure[0]. The world of "total work" is not a good one. And generally, it is a sign of latent nihilism. If you cannot put work to the side and take care of the other important stuff you're neglecting, then you are probably using work as something to avoid uncomfortable realizations. Work becomes an opiate. You're no longer thinking in terms of what is objectively good, but what you find subjectively pleasing. The two need not be at odds, but they can be when you subordinate the truth to your desires instead of subordinating your desires to the truth.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767958.Leisure
Are you using python to do realtime audio processing, or is this all offline ("batch") processing? It wasn't entirely clear from reading the blurb ...
I think this is super impressive and super far into the realm of "oh my god please don't actually use this for anything real".
I felt like I lost RSS altogether after my macbook died, years ago - Vienna is one of the greatest macos apps out there. Or was, >5 y ago.
No, it is the standards/specs which are changing.

E.g. today SSL/TLS almost universally means TLS 1.2 or 1.3. The SSL specs are no longer accepted by practically any server.
Cutting the Fat: Lightweight Perl OO Modules
Starting with ESXi 6 VMware has disabled the transparent page sharing (Memory Dedup) by default. Back in 2015 or so there was a theoretical VM escape vector that used the shared memory pages. So VMware just changed the default to disabled. I usually recommend turning it back on in lab environments, but leave it off in production for security reasons.
Hi there! Could it be used as a business intelligence in the company? I see you support visualisations and dashboards
If you're talking about a class of people, it's not really a forced application.

e.g. "If people can, then I don't see any issue at all" as opposed to "If a person can, than I don't see any issue at all." There's nothing wrong with either.
"This minor temporary inconvenience I don't like is as bad as eugenics" is its own trope.
Because I like it
I've been trying to find accurate signals of this and haven't found much. I've only really spent time looking into the <50 yo cohort. I think the confounders for older folks are too significant to glean much truth from the type of data we have.

Data:

Graph from the CDC: https://i.imgur.com/Ql25IjB.png
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e1.htm

Spreadsheet based on weekly UK data: https://i.imgur.com/yySYFyd.png
Source (PDF warning): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

And a Twitter thread on Israel for good measure: https://twitter.com/gummibear737/status/1434237628258344961

All of this data says the same thing to me. Basically if you're younger there is no significant evidence these vaccines reduce your risk.

In the CDC case: They show 1-2 unvaccinated hospitalized cases out of 100k and <1 for vaccinated (<50 cohort). It's important to remember in all of this data the unvaccinated do not represent a strict control group which is analogous to one found in an RCT.

In the UK case: ~0.5% less incidence of hospitalization for <50 cohort and effectively none wrt mortality.

In the Israeli thread: Author comes to the opposite conclusion and decides to call risk reduction 90% even though they're comparing 2 extremely tiny numbers. Both less than 1 severe case out of 100,000.

If the improvement over severe outcomes is so stark, as many claim, then where should I look to see this data such that I can come to agreement?
I take the opportunity to wash all the hand wash items with the water I am running to get to the hot water for the dishwasher. The water is nice and hot for the final rinse of the hand wash things, and to then start the dishwasher.
In my experience unsafe tends to be used really sparingly by most users, if at all. And besides, unsafe doesn't really turn off static checks - it allows you to do a few extra things that can't be proven to be safe statically, in tightly scoped specially annotated regions. It's mostly about bending the rules temporarily, for 1-5 lines of code at a time.
Because the prize for a pie eating contest is more pie.

https://workingwithmckinsey.blogspot.com/2013/03/McKinsey-pi...
> In 1919 essentially the entire world was at war with the USSR

Not sure that was true. Europe was pretty busy with the aftermath of WWI (and to a large extent, Germany supported Lenin getting back into Russia in the hopes that he would instigate a revolution there that would take Russia out of the war). US had supported Kerensky's government, was anti-Bolshevik and withheld diplomatic recognition until 1933, but was hardly "at war" with the USSR.
> 8 billion people waking up every day.
And all they do is seeking social relevance,

No they don’t. Most of this earth is seeking food and clean water and substance. You’re lucky enough to have that and seek your social relevance
Twitter doing nothing about it and making it easy for people to sign up to be sockpuppets is part of what defines what it is to be Twitter. It's maximizing for a certain kind of thing.

Facebook has strongly different intentions: it is aggressive about wanting to tie single identifiable accounts to single identifiable real people, and wouldn't like the Twitter-nature one bit. Facebook's purpose is to do that, and then make it easier for people to pay money to propagandize exactly whatever people you can define as most vulnerable, for any reason you like, no questions asked. That's Facebook-nature. You can be pretty sure an individual person there is a single, real actual human, and also that you can sell preselected groups of them on anything you want them to believe.

I like that people are complaining about it, don't get me wrong. I think it's pretty clear at what point all this becomes a problem: if it isn't clear already, it will become clearer within ten years, guaranteed, and humanity may or may not survive the result. Complaining is GOOD.

I'm just saying, the reason these social media giants are as huge as they are IS because of their natures. Twitter will not go against Twitter-nature. Facebook will not go against Facebook-nature.
It is not populated by leftists because they get banned elsewhere, it is populated by leftists because the developers (who are also the admins of the earliest, biggest instances) are loud and proud self avowed Marxists.

Which is fine, write code, live by your beliefs, but enforcing them in software on other people who might implement it is what I have a problem with.
That's easy to do if you first strip the WAV formatting stuff and then at the end add back the format information.

You can't really do it without that, because sound.wav contains both actual audio data and "metadata".

In the real world however, almost nobody who has done this sort of thing actually wants to do it that way. The processing always has a lot of parameters and you are going to want to play with them based on the actual contents of sound.wav. Doing this in realtime (listening while fiddling) is much more efficient than repeatedly processing then listening.
There are some interesting developments happening here. Tools like divjoy blend the no-code/low-code paradigm with the ability to dive into actual code. The future will be a mixture of the two.
That seems odd to me. I've never tried this, but it seems to me that you have to put the filter on the intake side of the fan, other the fan would just blow it off. And on the intake side, would not the pressure differential hold it in place?