skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it’s an average piece of software that has bugs and crashes on the hourly. Live 11 has been a massive regression in terms of speed and stability.

It’s original mission statement of being a great hybrid live performance and studio production software has kind of failed. The instability makes it scary to use live and the performance issues makes it frustrating in the studio.

(I guess each producer has a different use case. If you’re DJing with ableton using audio tracks in sessions view it’s stability is okay! But doing large live sets with hundreds of tracks and I start getting nervous.)

That’s not even talking about the lacklustre update that was live 11 especially for the price.

It’s obviously been on a downward trend for years given that Bitwig came out from some of the original founders.

I’m not condoning stealing. Actually the opposite. I’m encouraging people to try the free trial instead of pirating. Pirating software can be dangerous and have added malware. Ableton give out a free trial, use it and decide if you think it’s worth the money.
The headline clearly says "if you park at this Trader Joes".

It's pretty clear that this is about an issue with the parking garage at a specific Trader Joes. Whether the retailer or their landlord came up with the stupid scheme doesn't really make a difference to the customer.
No, because since the FAANGs aren't Chinese companies, they have no real power or influence in China, and China is polluting so much that even if every other country in the world stopped polluting completely, it wouldn't be enough to solve climate change.
If I were an actor in danger and the camera man stopped filming I would be rather annoyed unless the rescue effort was assisted by stopping filming.
I didn't suggest to lie, I said, what if the customer actually doesn't have a mobile? Have we reached the point now where if someone claims not to have one, they're lying?

I should clarify i wasn't referring to myself - I have a mobile (deGoogled, at least). But there do exist people who don't want or need a mobile device.
I also think this. Children surely were like small probes for their communities, specially in the past. Just think the amazing variety of foodstuff traditional cultures were able to tell apart from the poisonous stuff. How did they learn that? My guess is, countless children puting unknown things in their mouths, and either surviving while discovering a new delicacy, or dying, but teaching their elders about a new poison in the process.
Disks have had complex CPUs on them for awhile, might as well go full mainframe and admit they're smart storage subsystems and put them on the first class bus. is "DASD" still an IBM trademark?

Of course theres a long history of "multiple interface" drives which are always ugly hacks that turn up as rare collectors items and examples of boondoggle.
Truly great OS. The pinnacle. Rock solid. Just look at that perfectly consistent UI. Everything afterwards is bloat and UI BS.
One of my local shopping complexes had their landlord add tolls to the previously free parking. It was all done via an incredibly shitty app that required you to set up an account and link a credit card to pay. It was slow, hard to use, and crashed a couple of times on me while I was trying to set up the account forcing me to start from scratch. They also had kiosks, but they were not working.

I used to go to that shopping complex a couple of times a month, but now it has been almost 4 years and I have not been back. All of the stores and restaurants I used to frequent have since closed up and moved out anyway, so there isn't much draw. I'm not even sure what is in there now, if anything. I uninstalled the parking app.
Good clarification. Thanks!
They wanted proof bin Laden was responsible for 9/11. Given that they've denied he was responsible as recently as a couple months ago despite him claiming responsibility on video in '04 or so, I don't think this was in good faith.
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Reminds one of the dotcom bubble that happened in the late 90s.

There was a lot of funding and companies appearing to be "X, but on the Web". Most of them went bust around 2000.

The only thing cryptocurrencies have really created a boom in is malware and illegal goods markets.
Seen this a few times but I'll leave you with this:

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Also, Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How.--NYT Opinion[1]

Has a focus on housing, but it's the same underlying issue. People love to signal their virtue, but their true values are revealed by what they do.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDgcjVGHIw&t=670s
I like to think of DSL's for regex as a good way for people who don't have time to master regex itself, or are beginners, to actually use regex. Been doing programming for about 10 years and only fairly recently took the time to properly learn regex, but could've definitely benefitted from a DSL way before that. Good job Abhinav!
The alternative is to have engineering managers be the interface between engineers and business, product managers partner up with the engineering managers and team leads do the project management part along with EM. Product tells the team what business problems are worth solving and then gets out of the way completely. EM and Team lead are who decide on timeline and deadlines after consulting with the rest.
It used to be a thing a lot more but most cities suspended this due to covid.
> Indeed, almost all of Metropolis’ information gathering was justified by the spokesperson as being necessary for improving the company’s service.

Is it just me or is this poor writing? I thought something had to be true in order to be justified. They "attempted to justify" or "rationalized" but they didn't "justify". I know this is nit-picky of me but this is a newspaper with professional writers and editors. Maybe my understanding of the word usage is too narrow.
> The most foolish notion of all is the belief that everything is just which is found in the customs or laws of nations. Would that be true, even if these laws had been enacted by tyrants?

> What of the many deadly, the many pestilential statutes which nations put in force? These no more deserve to be called laws than the rules a band of robbers might pass in their assembly. For if ignorant and unskillful men have prescribed deadly poisons instead of healing drugs, these cannot possibly be called physicians’ prescriptions; neither in a nation can a statute of any sort be called a law, even though the nation, in spite of being a ruinous regulation, has accepted it.

Cicero
And going out of lockdown you get things like a spiking of RSV infections (in turn apparently enough to noticeably fill up children's hospitals in some countries) because kids are now "catching up" in one go with all the infections they normally would have had spread out over the course of the last year or two.
Also usually gets you plenty of Safeway Rewards @ Chevron.
> 1. are we 110% sure that Bin Laden ordered the attack?

Bin Laden attacked the USA in the 90s (the original twin tower attacks). Then issued a Fatwa declaring a Holy War against the USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fataw%C4%81_of_Osama_bin_Laden).

Bin Laden's writings on 9/11 are well published, even on Western Media (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver).

There's no doubt in anybody's mind that Bin Laden was involved in 9/11.

> 2. Are we 120% sure we can capture and execute Bin Laden without civilian fatalities?

Of course not. We would have preferred for the Afghan government (aka: the Taliban) to cooperate with us. But they didn't.

> 3. Why western media didn't give enough voice to Taliban at that time?

We have Bin Laden's writings published and the Taliban's writings published. What exactly is missing from their argument that you want published?

> 4. Are we sure war wasn't lobbied?

Oh, Cheney was definitely a Warmonger. But that doesn't make the Afghan War a wrong move.
I've bought a coffin and an urn outside of the funeral home that provided us with their services. Neither times was I told our decision was inferior. The point you seem to have latched onto as the most representative of your argument doesn't appear to hold water.
Renewables don't all have steady load, so it could be an alternative to batteries/hydro batteries. Use natural gas peakers when renewables don't produce enough, use excess renewable power to remove CO2 from the air when they are producing more than you need. Basically it's using the atmosphere as a reverse-battery
Everything I guess. From what I can tell, it's not possible to build or install purescript without also installing the whole npm universe, which is a bug-addled security nightmare. So I spent a while on the purescript website but have never actually run it. I might install it on a bare vm sometime. I don't want it on any machines that I actually use.
In a very literal sense, we have been using the atmosphere as half of a battery since forever-- combustion on earth uses atmospheric oxygen as as an electron acceptor.
That's rich coming from Maher.
Next time you wind up in a situation like this, just lie about your number.
My favorite fact about the law of large numbers is that the more you play the higher expected distance from the expectation is.

This sounds counterintuitive to many so it's worth considering for a bit.

The law of large numbers says that the number of successes divided by the number of tries converges. It doesn't mean the number of successes converges to expectation - quite the contrary.

For example when you flip a coin and go up a unit every time it's heads and down one unit every time it's tails your expected distance to 0 is sqrt(n) where n is the number of flips. Similarly when you play poker your expected distance from real EV to what you actually get is going to increase the more you play.

With this mind it's not correct to say the amount is already close to calculated results with more tries as the article says. Try it, you will get numbers farer away from the expectation the more times you play!
> We're also getting there at other places because some establishments/jurisdictions are requiring proof of vaccination (ie. signed QR code).

This is an entirely different situation from a legal and social point of view.
Don't connect it to the network, ever, and it can't update.

You took actions that initiated the auto update mechanism (plugging in ethernet, typing in with password) that were the root cause of the issue you experienced.
He's not talking about ground effect, he's talking about the overpass above the blades "cutting off" available air for a second.
> We need to get out of this mindset that electric utilities will provide unlimited power at a fixed price.

We already pay spot price here in Norway.
> are we 110% sure that Bin Laden ordered the attack?

Bin Laden made a video in '04 regarding the US presidential election at the time in which he implicitly claimed responsibility.
A fanatic is someone who won't change their mind and can't change the subject.
They are recommended when you want speed, but most people writing Python probably never need that much speed (or would probably want numpy anyway), and the few who do likely have more private sources to recommend it for specific occasions. It should probably be used for more things (instead of reaching for numpy at first chance) but is still a niche tool.
When they ask for email address, I give them postmaster@hashbang.com
They are quoting the discredited liar and former spy Christopher Steele:

The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has said he believes Moscow thinks it is at war with the UK and its allies.
It's common in China and some parts of Europe that they just use a license plate reader camera to log the time you entered, and another one at exit

In China you just scan a QR code from a screen to pay and leave, but I think that could be replaced with a credit card reader or contactless payment.

I don't see why it requires downloading an app.
On the same vein, I am do glad John Carpenter used practical effects when doing The Thing.
Thanks! That makes sense to me. Wider prices because more dangerous orders.
https://github.com/RootMyTV/RootMyTV.github.io shows the code, that rootmy.tv uses to root some recent LG WebOS TVs.
They also bought vbulletin itself, and then developed future versions in house.
Perhaps they are mixing up the “there is therefore a maximum safe rate of worldwide energy use (however far away we are from that)” point with the “CO2 emissions from fossil fuels contribute to greenhouse effect” point, and...

ok, I’m not sure either
Could run a shadow vlan/tablet/etc. where you do absolutely nothing personal and just use it as a UI for the subsidized IoT devices. Obviously this is serious effort right now for most people, so a mass-market shim that makes it easy for all could be a successful niche.

People love the integration of a single thing in their pocket, but maybe some are getting privacy-conscious enough to have two. Think of it like a TV remote that floats around your coffee table.
In CPython at least, there's no other way. Everything is an object, even simple types like integers. And references to objects are implemented with pointers. Even a Numpy array which stores a contiguous array of simple values requires conversion to an object when you actually try to use those values.
Theres also the possibility to verify things, which is at least as much effort as to write it in the first place but then you know it wont kill anyone.
The standard array module was more relevant in the distant past, before version 2.6 added the bytearray type. Otherwise, numpy arrays are considerably more useful in virtually every circumstance.
We're really really far away from having difficulty with where to put solar.
Docker can run Win 2000, but older versions of Win 10 can't run Docker. There must be some irony here.
NVMe supports multiple queues even for a single namespace, and multiple queues are used more for efficiency on the software side (one queue per CPU core) than for exposing the parallelism of the storage hardware.

There are several NVMe features intended to expose some information about the underlying segmentation and allocation of the storage media, for the sake of QoS. Since current multi-actuator drives are merely multiple actuators per spindle but still only one head per platter, this split could be exposed as separate namespaces or separate NVM sets or separate endurance groups. If we ever see multiple heads per platter come back (a la Conner Chinook), that would be best abstracted with multiple queues.
We have a need for ceilings. When you account for that the amount of space needed provide ceilings, powering our civilization with solar is a negative number rather than a positive number. Negative, because we can more then power our civilization with existing space through dual purpose structures. An example of this is a solar roof. However, even if you ignore that potential, the amount of space needed is only a few square miles. It's not like it would be the size of a country or even the size of a state. The amount of space is small enough to place in some remote desert and for all intents and purposes to then forget about it.
Golden example or greedy landlords killing their golden goose.
I find the suggestion that the audience of this site is uniquely unreceptive to the article because of the cognitive dissonance of buying things from Apple et al implausible, and I think it's patronizing in the sense that it basically says that the only reason you might not like the article is psychological bias or deficiency. The guilt angle would seem to throw in outright blaming readers who didn't like it. I think the unfocused, screed-like nature of the article, as originally proposed, is a more compelling rationale.
You count as fully vaccinated with 2 doses.

The minimum time between 2 vaccinations is 2 weeks but it might be better to have a longer interval according to research².

Recovered need to wait for a minimum of 21 days before getting a vaccination.

Vaccination need to be refreshed after 270 days.

2:https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1875
When we are going to start taxing coal manufactured products (like e.g. Bitcoin) correctly? There should already be a huge tax on, for example, Chinese made steel that imported both iron ore and coal from Australia by ship to be smelted in the mainland...

Until we make capitalism work for climate it will work against it.
every single person looking to leave FB should be asked a large number of questions in the mold of "when did you stop beating your spouse?" re:

sex trafficking
white supremacy
genocide
causing depression in teenagers
throwing parties for judges who assault women

specifically: you were comfortable with your employer monetizing/engendering these things and part of your large compensation coming from them up until now.

Why are you now against these things?
what changed your mind?
Rocket fuel isn't gasoline, it's hydrazine. It's not pumped out of the ground, it's synthetic.

This is a good lesson for the carbon capture economics.

We know how to make synthetic fuels and biofuels. As a general rule, making them costs around the same as carbon capture. "Grow some plants or something" is actually one of the most efficient known methods of carbon capture.

Biofuels cost more than pumping crude out of the ground. They also cost more, in most cases, than electric cars. So if you don't care about CO2 then fossil fuels win over biofuels because they're cheaper and if you do care about CO2 then electric cars win over biofuels because they're cheaper. Basically nobody uses biofuels unless they're subsidized. But we know how to do it; we just also know of something better to use in 98% of cases.

Then you have the other 2% of cases. Like aircraft. Existing batteries are too heavy for aircraft and we don't know if or how long it'll be before we have sufficient ones. But we could use biofuels for that. Put a carbon tax on fossil fuels and that's what might happen, because for a plane that might be the most cost effective alternative.

So you say hey, maybe it'd be better to keep using fossil fuels in planes and then use carbon capture. If carbon capture has a cost similar to biofuels, that could be competitive. But it's not. Because biofuels produce fuel. With carbon capture you still have to pay to buy petroleum.
Show HN: Janni – Visualize your time and change your habits
Hi all,

We built a tool that people can use to have more visibility into their use of time, from A to Z, with functionalities for reports, visualizations, setting targets for important time categories, and keeping track of related progress over time. We launched a prototype at https://janni.app

During work-from-home periods due to lock-down, I personally had trouble managing my time. From talking with others, this seemed common. I wondered a lot about how I was spending my time, between work and home, and almost everything else being done inside. I often doubted my productivity, was I working too little or too much, and felt depressed because some days I felt like I was not productive nor spending my time in a healthy manner, and did not really understand why, when my days sometimes felt like they just blurred together. Maybe you can relate. So I started tracking my time with a spreadsheet. I ended up logging everything for a few months, and started analyzing the data. This data showed a more complete picture of where all my time went, and my habits, unbiasedly. It enabled me to see with a lot more clarity about how I was spending my time, and it helped with making adjustments that worked, to reach my time targets.

We built and launched a web-app. It can show feedback and insights on the user’s last 24hr, 3 days, 7 days, etc. and total time spent. The user can set time targets for important things, and can see their related progress daily.

From our own experience tracking our time and working on the tool, everyone is just too different to have any conventional naming for tasks, categories, etc, so beside generic starter categories we decided to let the user define their own tasks and time categories without restrictions, but they need to be linked, once linked, the time spent on a any task will go into the correct category automatically

While getting daily reports and insights motivated us to keep logging, data-entry was kind of a pain, so we added an algorithm that learns a user’s habits and tries to suggest a task they can click on. This greatly reduced the amount of effort needed, and its accuracy improves over time. We average around 15 tasks a day, with the quality of life features implemented, we typically take 1 to 2 seconds to log a task, so our time spent logging reduces to much less than a minute each day to produce all the reports.

We’d love your feedback, experience and thoughts!

Ex:
Some users have mentioned privacy, exports, tracking only certain areas, and onboarding. We’re listening (team@janni.app, feedback in-app, and discussions on discord https://discord.gg/Qs3N33zc)
> The tiny crystals turned out to be a form of calcium silicate that was theorised to exist in the lower mantle but had never actually been observed before.

So awesome to see theory validated like this!
Lessons From The Tech Bubble 1999/2000
Those wildfires are not new, and are more a factor of humans over meddling (putting out every tiny fire instead of letting nature do it's thing). Global warming plays a part but it's not as if nature was without forest fires pre-man.

Likewise droughts are just as much caused by misuse of water resources than they are changes in rainfall. California in particular has no business having cities as large as it does given their groundwater situation - and that has been before global warming accelerated.
Updating the firmware is the reason you never connect it to the network!

If the firmware from the factory doesn't work, return it. If it does, never, ever connect it to a network, because it may stop working, start spying, or show ads.
Goreleaser Release v1.0.0
Take advantage of the MemVerge Fault Tolerance Service early access program to mitigate the risk of terminations which can save you a ton of heartache and money.

What you get
1.Memory Machine software with Fault Tolerance Service.
2.Free professional services needed to configure various services for automated recovery and restart.
3.A free license for Memory Machine for 6 months.
4.Free white glove support for 6 months.

What you have to do
1.Deploy a non-fault-tolerant and/or long-running workload on AWS.
2.Pay for services (AWS) not provided by MemVerge.
3.Provide on-going feedback to MemVerge about the status of the deployment and operation.

frank.berry@memverge.com

Lear more at https://bigmemorycloud.com/
My approach was simpler, provide some composability.

;compiled at run time
(re/or #"a" (re-pattern "b"))
=> #"(a|b)a"

;compiled at macro time
(re/or #"a" (re/and #"b"))
=> #"(a|(b))"

https://github.com/coltnz/re-ext
What's the difference between smelting the steel in Australia and shipping it to China, vs shipping the coal to China and smelting the steel on location? I don't think there is any material difference there.
Concise and good explanation. :)

So the syscalls of a Linux/Unix machine are the same, b/c of the POSIX API. The POSIX API is a standard for *nix OSes.

Now, we have compilers such as gcc, clang and Microsoft's C++ compiler.
Do they decide on their own ABI (specification of how things should be implemented in the lowest levels) then?:

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/abi.html
It's easier to convince the public that the climate problem is being worked on with this Carbon Removal and Storage. If it turns out not to work that great, it's most likely somebody else's problem 5-10 years from now.
Austria brings back Covid-19 lockdown, this time for the unvaccinated
In America (land of the free) it is considered normal for all the surrounding landowners and/or voters to decide how you may use your own property. Typically you must ask permission or change local laws to use land in other-than-narrowly-prescribed ways.