skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“British actors (usually) speak clearly”

Until the last couple of decades, most British movies/TV tended to use a lot of “Received Pronunciation” English (the Queen’s English) which has very crisp enunciation. Other accents were usually relegated to very specific character roles that highlighted the rustic “cockney” or “Yorkshire” character.

More recently, other British accents have been used more and many of them are the opposite of crisp enunciation. Some seem to be talking with marbles in their mouths. This seems to represent a greater democratization of the characters represented with less of an emphasis on upper classes.
> Since Reels launched, my feed and the search screen is basically just softcore porn.

I had this problem with Reels too - I think you're right that it's just kind of "what we show dudes by default." But under the three-dots menu there's a "Not interested" option. Tell the algo that a couple times and you won't see that stuff anymore.
What worked for me:

1. Move front and surround and height if you have them speakers to full range.

2. Set center speaker cutoff a few hz higher than normal, like 80 or 100

3. Turn up level going to sub. Turn down volume knob on the sub. This prevents auto off

You get a lot of the low end effects off the sub, and the center and sub is just for dialogue. You get that depth effect without the dialogue being muted. I feel filmmakers do this so their movies don't age. Supposedly they're going to have a laser speaker, and the flat panel tv will be a speaker itself with the sound shot across the screen. All those movies get a new release for that.
Step back from the content of the claim and think about the form. It's just another millenarian fantasy, flavored for tech kids this time. Not taking millenarian claims literally is a historically safe bet.
Try the Samsung Internet Browser.. It will give you the benefits of Chromium but with a better user interface.
There is no darkness in the world of FOSS, it's an actual, currently functioning, computing utopian dream.

Let Caeser have his awful stuff. We can all push for fun, and free computing.
This calls for a motorized solution!
Yeah, this is huge, especially for hobbyists. The M1 is a great laptop but being freed from buying one just to build for iOS is still cool.
Vaccinated people can spread the virus. However, if everyone in .de were vaccinated the R value would be somewhat below 1. It wouldn't be zero, because vaccinated people can spread the virus, but 1 is a critical threshold.
First, I'd say it'd be an impoverished scientific worldview that excludes algorithms just because it's not a "thing" per se!

But I could have just as well chosen a "thing"-ier example. For example, do quarks/the strong nuclear force affect the melting point of metals? There's probably a large "parameter space" where it literally has zero effect (in some part of parameter space atoms cease to exist, so it is a leaky abstraction!). But you can have melting phenomena in substrates that don't even have quarks. In fact, to bring it back to software, you can get melting phenomena in a pure algorithm like the Ising model.

(I won't comment on what the author meant to include -- he responded to me earlier, and maybe he'll respond to this too.)
This is exactly what I was thinking.

> Websites and documents usually end up with a lot of whitespace and padding around them

I can't imagine have _any_ window full width on a large screen. I have 5 windows visible on my primary screen right now, and that's not even a lot for me. The browser, at max, is about 60% of the screen's width.
Money and airplanes only really work when there is a highly organized stable society. I think it's a mistake to assume that will be always the case at the extremes.
> No sir, the systems in place work flawlessly for those who put them there

Well, if you define "work" as benefiting as many people as possible, then no they don't work. That's obviously the point the author was making.
Location: Arizona

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, SQL, Postgres

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CTranByH0hfIzvkeTVGIHFK4...

Email: matthew.toensing@gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/matttoensing

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-toensing/

Hello Everyone,

I recently graduated from Turing School of Software and Design and I am looking for my first position as a professional software developer. Primarily a backend engineer but I like working on both sides of the stack. I am most skilled in Ruby but I am not opposed to working in a different language or framework.
Having spent the greater part of my life trying to be an unbiased, descriptivist bent on being a realist---I've realized it was a waste of time; and I was a coward.

Neither world exists. There is no objective observation. Our senses are limited, and our neurons filter through what we "observe," in order to create a cohesive story that doesn't disturb the one that's been continuously built all our lives. (Elsewhere, one could write an encyclopaedia's-worth of examples how our rational faculties are lacking in the absolute sense.)

The only thing that is different between the two is their proclivity for (or lack thereof) taking action.
They are mac minis: https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760...
I'd be afraid to talk negatively about any of the jobs I've had at a FAANG while working there.
Particularly in the era of remote work, I anticipate LA moving towards a denser downtown and West Side and relying on expanded suburbs in the inland empire and OC to provide the classic single family housing neighborhoods for those who want them.
All useful markets are regulated by the free choices of the market participants of which transactions they will and will not engage in, yes. The idea that a free market, with the definition of "free" that I gave (all transactions are voluntary) is "unregulated" is simply wrong. In a free market, you can't force other people to do things they don't want to do; you have to get them to voluntarily trade with you. That regulates the behavior of all market participants. And it does it better than any regulation by third parties, who have no skin in the game and suffer no penalty if their regulations cause harm, can possibly do.
By which criteria are they not successful as a society?
This is really cool. It should be obvious that a few thousand hand-rolled assembly opcodes targeting a fixed architecture would win the race. If the size of the solution grew a couple of orders of magnitude larger though, I'd expect that the micro optimization challenge would overwhelm the author and compilers would be more competitive.

Is the Table of Contents of your upcoming book public?
> EC2 M1 Mac instances are powered by a combination of two hardware components:

>The Mac mini, featuring M1 SoC with 8 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores, 16 GiB of memory, and a 16 core Apple Neural Engine.

>The AWS Nitro System, providing up to 10 Gbps of VPC network bandwidth and 8 Gbps of EBS storage bandwidth through a high-speed Thunderbolt connection.
By every single one of those metrics the world in aggregate is better than 100 years ago. Go back 250 years ago and it's not even arguable.

You're being short sighted.
> The #1 reason people use Earthly today is to be able to reproduce CI builds locally. Earthly helps create a consistency layer, providing a level of guarantee that the build will run the same on your machine as on your colleagues machine, and as in CI. We call this consistency repeatability (note that this is distinct from reproducibility as full determinism is not guaranteed).

> This helps avoid cases where tweaks to the CI script take long interaction cycles to test (git commit -m "try again..." anyone?)

Now you have my attention. I haven't done much CI work and the long iteration times are the main reason why. I have to edit a file, commit, push, wait for CI to start, wait for CI to complete, search through 10k lines of logs to find the error, repeat... seriously? This is the best we can do? I assumed that I was missing something.

I should be able to just `gh run-ci` in a repository on my machine. Or take one of those fancy online dev environments that everyone's making now and specialize it for editing CI files. Open an editor, let me click Run to run CI on-demand, have live error messages for syntax and missing variables, show a pane with a description of the CI jobs, show what config options are available for each job as it's being edited. Then once the changes are working I can commit and open a PR.
UVB-76 is the mysterious station. forgot the exact video.
I think we're talking about different things. I'm not saying the government is going to take try and just take everybody's crypto. But they absolutely could regulate in any way the want, just like with fiat.

In other words, crypto changes absolutely nothing when it comes to the relationship the government has with your money. If the government wants your money and you don't give it to them, you go to jail. Crypto isn't going to change that.
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I've tried a lot of different setups over the years at work and at home, with laptops, 3 monitors, thin monitors, vertical monitors, etc.

I eventually settled on one 43 inch 4k monitor. I have it divided into 3 columns and 2 rows, and have everything I'm working on open at once so I don't have to tab between things, with the core work in center and the reference work either side.
When you say "suggesting", do you mean the email address was auto-filling with your private email address?

If so, this autocomplete data is populated by Chrome from any other site with an 'email' form field - eg. logging into HN.

Had you taken the suggestion, it would still have asked for a password, which Chrome wouldn't have known unless you'd logged in previously, or on any other machine you sync with.
The Linux foundation is in the same league: They are sending me spam^Hmarketing communication, but when I want to unsubscribe they tell me that I have an invalid email. The provider of that address ended up on some self-declared blacklist years ago for some time, which might explain part of it. But not stopping to sending email to those you don't want to deal with is nonsense. Not accepting unsubscribes probably illegal in many countries.
>Time for another fine?

Sure! I mean it's working so well at changing corporate behavior, why would we want to stop now?

Things like this are why I advocate for Corporate Jail time and a Corporate Death Penalty.
I have the opposite setup: three monitors but the central one is vertical. The central monitor is where the actual fucking happens. It only has a glorious 80x80 xterm with a large font.
I've found I like P-L-L

Leftmost monitor is portrait, the other 2 landscape.

Command line and documents on the portrait monitor. Editing/browsing in the centre. Mail and Teams on the rightmost landscape monitor, with browsing often moved there too.
I think they could have done a better job with the aluminum foil. It looks rather not well done. He could have made a pouch and folded the sides over a few times.

I made a pouch for my car's key fob with aluminum foil and metal tape. It isn't as pretty as the ones you can buy, but it wasn't $25 either and It has worked really well.
Dolby Digital audio tracks are supposed to support dynamic range compression in your A/V receiver for exactly this reason. There is a dialog normalization field in the audio data that says how loud dialog is, and then the receiver is supposed to apply compression using predefined curves based on that value. Try looking for a DRC setting.
Seconded. I lived in JP for several years and it was easily my favorite of the Boston neighborhoods to live in. Absolutely gorgeous.

I lived in a 6 bed unit on the top level of a 3-story duplex that had 4 people living on the ground floor. It was a massive house that allowed for ten non-related people to live together on a street filled with similar houses, lined with massive oak trees and a five minute walk from a lovely pond. Gorgeous neighborhood.

Edit: I’ll add that I never experienced any negative effects in JP that I’d associate with such dense living. Unlike the more rowdy student oriented neighborhoods like Allston that were far more rough and messy.
I don’t contest that characterization; however, they did try to rehabilitate their brand, and, I think they did. So why go through that effort and throw it away?

To circle back to your point, I now feel Google’s Don’t be evil was a deke, a fake and was all about building reputation which they leveraged for market share.
> successful as an economy, not as a society

You 're going to have to give a definition of that. Subjective measures of success don't matter, that's why people have different morals. Maybe the west has produced the most "culturally dominant society" but it has also been boosted by a few centuries of economic dominance, while china has just come out of poverty. I'm not even going to ask why china is considered unsuccessful as a society since afaik the chinese neither commit suicide in droves nor are they running to exit as fast as possible.
memoryholing
> NLP is actually understanding the language.

That's actually not an accepted terminology. There's, indeed, this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding

Not sure why are you so adamant that yours is the "true meaning", when NLP existed long before machine learning and AI were used for it. And even if not, every term can be defined differently, so it should be normal to have different institutions/people define NLP differently.
I love your last sentence here - so well stated.
How can I build a fintech app?
DDG has been my default for a few years, now, and on the very rare occasions I've been forced/mistakenly use Google, their results have been without exception worse. Much worse.
http://www.stormfax.com/huryear.htm

I don't see a clear trend in number of hurricanes. Sorry. I'd have to look at how "extreme events" were ascertained (hopefully not cherry picked) in the 2 20 year periods by the UN article you link.

I just don't see, from casual observation, an increase in floods and storms over when I was a child. Maybe it exists and I just am not picking it up but it's not "double" and the storms are certainly not worse.

I do understand the sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking for some time. Paradoxically it's not in the Antarctic. This could be partially due to warming (which I agree exists, no argument). It could also be due to dark soot accumulation on the snow/ice to some extent causing more rapid melting.

This is what I'm talking about. This kind of thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm
Many months later and more than 5 times more expensive than Scaleway though.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/
That's a good idea, I'd make it a option. Do you want newest first, oldest first or by stability?
SysAdvent 2021
It's fine on my 4-core Haswell Xeon desktop but I really notice the lag on my Haswell 2-core laptop. I suspect there's a bit too much Electron-type stuff in the UI.

It's a small price to pay for a browser that lets me configure the UI the way I want it. If Chrome supported tabs on the side as well as Vivaldi, even with an extension, I might not have switched. The rest of the configurability is just gravy for me.
Great essay, but I think fundamentally wrong.

There are some important distributed systems he overlooks: the ones found in nature. Gas Laws, photosynthesis, and radiant energy are pretty great, it means I always have air to breathe. No one is regulating that, and to do so would only make things much worse.

The challenge is that humans suck at designing distributed systems. Nature is exquisitely designed (or, if you want, evolved). The solution then, is to root ourselves in nature rather than desperately, constantly trying to replace it. Bitcoin is the only new tech I can think of that does this (not sure if that's the 'most obvious horrifically misguided recently-popular "decentralized" system' the author refers to). Everything else: farming subsidies, AI, Keynesian economics, plastic surgery, vaccines, desk jobs — are all hopelessly out of touch with reality.

That's not to say technology is Bad, but it needs to be real, not manufactured.
I can argue it's not really that hard. We can even experiment right now to recreate it on Mars, or on Earth with Mars-like conditions (it's certainly much easier to colonize Antarctic than Mars).

Just create big hermetic container, and put there minerals, bacteria and fungi. Heck, people even do it at home with big sealed glass bottles.

No need to bring living biome. Just bring spores, seeds, sperm and eggs.
Omicron Time
As soon as you look at the zoning of LA, the housing problem there becomes clear as day, even for someone who doesn't visit very often.

I don't know what you would call this system but LA's problem is that the folks that have the power to fix housing have zero interest in doing because it would hurt their self interest. Housing is only a "problem" if you haven't bought a house yet, once you purchase a house, all the issues with housing there all of a sudden become benefits.

This is a small step in the right direction but California has really dug themselves into a hole here. California needs whole apartment blocks, not just duplexes, but apartments is something that is likely to never happen because of the above issue where no one will vote against their self interest. One could say the State should step in but that would be un-democratic. In fact this whole situation is weirdly democratic but un-democratic. Un-democratic in the sense that it casts out folks that don't live there, but democratic in the sense that the voices of those who own homes are clearly heard.

You guys and gals have an interesting problem on your hands.
https://i.imgur.com/5nYPlOc.png
If you are on Linux, you can use JACK or PipeWire and simply insert a compressor (I use the one from Calf) into the route to your audio sink.
TBD to me is pretty clearly just trying to capitalize on memecoins. That Twitter is exactly what a watered down corporate version of a shitcoin looks like. Some technical mumbo jumbo, a white paper, bs name, and what boomers think memes are (putting lowercase text on a hat, using a drake img as your Twitter profile, weird snarky responses).

Based on my knowledge of shitcoins, this will do extremely well.
Ransomware groups increasingly using data leak threats to pile pressure on
> Our broken institutions are fighting to protect their kingdom

Three years ago I bought an apartment.

I got a loan from a bank over internet and phone. The contract was three pages of clear Swedish that even I, with my rudimentary knowledge of i, could understand. The contract signing was intermediated by a person whose job is to make sure everything goes smoothly.

In the end, all of the following was guaranteed:

- I had the money

- money was transfered into the other person's account

- I was not a scammer

- that person wasn't a scammer

- I received actual physical keys to an actual physical apartment (and not to an non-existent address)

(a bunch of other stuff)

So, tell me. What exactly does your crypto improve?
I run 7 monitors. I've got a 2x3 grid of 24" monitors on a stand, and then a 27" widescreen standing tall beside it for code or a long terminal.

It's fantastic, though I could stand to have another row above. It's nice rarely having to switch windows - everything I need and use is right in front of me.
thank you! checked out your site, but it says software jobs? and we hire primarily for content-related tasks (medical writing, video production etc)
Duplexes, literally the least they can do.
I'll add my two cents as someone who works at Uber (another company that people here like to take potshots at).

For the vast majority of employees, it's just tiresome to keep hearing negative hot takes being parroted over and over by people who don't have any insider insight, and often times not even the decency of verifying their sources before jumping on a bandwagon to bash some strawman for some internet points.

A lot of times, these hot takes are clearly victims of egregious cognitive biases, like suggesting that working for X employer must necessarily mean that you share the company ideology, or that getting paid more money is somehow directly associated with being morally corrupt. There's also armchair "hiring managers" who boldly claim they would never hire FB people (an actual hiring manager knows how hard it is to find talent and knows they don't really have the luxury of flaunting arrogance, and they certainly know that discrimination - even of non-protected classes - is a no-no). These threads often devolve into what-about-isms galore and I-dont-use-X-because-reason anedoctes that frankly are not very snowflakey or insightful at all.

These employees get it, they've heard them all. It's like asking which twin is older: people think they're so clever for having the "insight" that one must necessarily have come out first, but that's literally the first thing everyone and their brothers asks. So, put yourself in their shoes and ask yourself what you would do if literally everyone that met you made a remark about a facial feature of yours or something like that. Chances are, you'd grin awkwardly, roll your eyes and find some way to change the subject to something less tiresome. On the internet, you'd just find another less bothersome thread to spend your precious attention span in, and that's exactly what people do.
She's not an average ship, Jim!
You need to dedicate the instance for a full 24 hours, so if you're doing daily builds you'll probably end up paying for a mac mini every month.

Not that I'd ever do or recommend it in a commercial setting, but hobbyists should probably just fire up something like https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM to do builds.
You deployed that meme effectively. I generally cringe at the mention of Peterson, but "polemics" disarmed my knee jerk. That was a cool example of the vector-payload model!
Quite tacky really. Would be interesting to see if that is effective. It seems like it's a one time hit as you download Chrome and annoying enough for people to mark it.
I think the acknowledgement is implicit in this piece - current structures have allowed this "power capture" and need to be improved. The point the author makes is that blockchain has very obvious avenues for the same power capture and that for this reason, it's not a better option than the difficult work of improving existing and well-explored systems of power/political order.
Broaden your historical context, and Keynes becomes the junior developer who thinks he can elegantly fix everything.
My guess is that its market research shows that for a profitable number of people, the 24-hour requirement isn't a big deal.

It's not like Amazon doesn't have the ability or experience to research business decisions before they're made.
Montréaler here; I live in a neighbourhood which is uniquely composed of plexes - 3 to 8 units per "plex", with the typical number being 3, thus the term "triplex".

Honestly, it's the ideal density IMHO. I get the convenience factors of urban density, but without (most) of the downsides of a high-rise condominium building.
you can lock columns!
Boston was incorporated two hundred years before Los Angeles. Of course it is going to have more beautiful, old houses. Of course it is going to have more walkable neighborhoods.

But what I'm more interested in is this:

> Nearly every single home is multi-family, and the single families that do exist are usually $2 million and up.

SFH are already 1 million and up in LA, really in SD, LA, SF, Seattle, and Vancouver. It will be interesting to see what happens to SFH values if they become scarcer. It seems like it might have the opposite effect that the NIMBYs generally fear, and make them even _more_ wealthy.