skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for Ardour. I've been using it on an off for a couple of years now (every time I get the itch to remix some pop song that's stuck in my head).

I will say that I consider Ardour unintuitive, and reading your post on the forums I think we have different takes on the perspective used for this criteria. You seem to be making the argument for users coming from other DAWs to Ardour, whereas Ardour was for me was the first DAW I used. Thus rather than comparing it to existing tools I always try to find out how to do X, and often I have to Google for help because what I expect to be possible is not straightforward/"intuitive".

Let me give out two examples that tripped me up recently

1) Wasn't able to easily reorder my tracks. I would have found intuitive to be able to drag & drop tracks within the main view. Instead I had to switch to the mixer view to reorder them.

2) I was playing around with a song that had around 20 stem tracks. Grouped them out by voice, melody, percussion. But once grouped I couldn't find an easy way to solo an individual track within a group, as the solo button would solo the entire group. For me a group specific set of controls would be intuitive, whereas existing buttons changing their behaviour is not. If I recall correctly I had to click the group name in the main view for it to become uncolored (disabled?) for individual controls to effect individual tracks.
Also, take a look at the history of eugenics, which was seen in the years before World War II as a legitimate and noble scientific goal - to improve the human species by the application of science and engineering, no more immoral than breeding hardy tomatoes or fast horses. Many countries that joined the war on the side of the Allies had significant scientific, governmental, and public support for eugenics (the US and the UK had a Eugenics Society, Canada had provincial Eugenics Boards in Alberta and British Columbia, etc.). Neutral Sweden had an active eugenic sterilization program.

So, the "scientific consensus" of that era involved a number of scientists from many countries who agreed with policies and goals that, in retrospect, we now see as not only politically partisan but also specifically aligned with Nazi political ends.
Sttr: A cross-platform, CLI app to perform various operations on string
Show HN: Search for holiday locations with weather inputs
Rot-13 I think these are VPR PHOR and JNGRE?
Sorry, I was being tongue-in-cheek if that wasn't obvious. This site needs to be dragged about two decades into 2021 and I was taking a dig at the effort needed. ;)
Because if there’s one thing that makes the government run well is more spending!
On UNIX-like systems, the shell is a very powerful and universal tool, installed on most systems where other languages might not be as universally available (e.g embedded systems). I regularly write sophisticated scripts that automate workflows that would otherwise be performed entirely in the shell.

Using another language to run complex command line pipelines requires jumping through far too many hoops. I can always uninstall those other tools to get a smaller root filesystem image. Few distributions would survive having the system shell removed. The shell is integral.

That said, let me turn the question around: how would you automate shell command pipelines in Python/Julia/whatever and have it turn out as readable and universally accessible for future developers?

Amusingly, I feel like the original question could be rephrased as “why speak English? Chinese is more popular”… while standing in Times Square. Sure, you can take the road less traveled, but I think you will find the road steeper and longer.
That’s nice and all, but but in the real world, those things aren’t always available (for any number of reasons, not just financial). In the absence of other solutions, sometimes the best choice may be to end a life rather than continue suffering.
financial independence means not using money
I think this website needs help and I know someone who works here - https://www.plume.com/homepass/
Potentially certification. Or it's just missing support components that would be needed for BT to work, but weren't put in because BT wasn't part of the design, and thus disabled since it wouldn't work either way.
Hey guys, please forgive the developer version. Am just seeing whether this is as useful for others as it is for me.
Reminds me of the Italian song made up of English sounding gibberish (although some real words do sneak in, like "alright") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
Smaller generators give out crap waveforms, fail in tedious ways and are generally not good for things that are sensitive.

A big generator won't stall if your AC kicks in at the same time you have the oven on, or something similar.

So if you have regular outages, I can certainly see the appeal of a 27kw generator.
The author of Notcurses released version 3.0.0 several days ago, a ton of work went into that!

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/releases/tag/v3.0....
And now due to the prolonged hypoxia, you're a vegetable.
This person below stole $1.6 million in PPP loans and is going to jail for 9 years. The system can and does work, although outliers can be unfortunate. Overall, arguably, the US justice system functions and rule of law is needed for a functioning society.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/30/houston-man-spent-ppp...
No. That's why we created banks to store this gold.
The reason we moved to paper and digital currencies was so governments and banks could create money out of thin air.
Naive Idea, but some mechanisms, like the testosterone-level in males, change with age. Why can't we, as a first step, just try to keep the levels fixed where we have a "reference level"?
Because if a private company had worked on that same thing, the results would have been 10x.
El Salvador? How else would you explain an authoritarian leader of a narco-sponsored state and paramilitary groups being so interested in promoting Bitcoin?
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that if given the choice any given crypto company would gladly become “the man” they would seem to be fighting against.
Amazon uses USPS for small and rural cities. Only USPS delivers my Amazon packages at my business. Amazon vans delivers at my home. My business & my home is 20 miles apart.
Does it have a tracker-style interface? I think trackers are more intuitive than the piano rolls many audio software have.
Takes political courage and public pressure. There is a little bit of that being exhibited by the current administration, but it's also pretty clear that another potential administration would have had a lot more potential to fix these problems.
It would be fun to watch which one of these companies make the tech actually usable. Everything is already there, it's just that we are missing some easily accessible form factor, that allows us to be in both reality at same time!
Yea I will pass on that as well, as an example I my City pays a private company to pick up trash, I have no recourse, I have to pay the city, the company has no obligiation to me at all, and there fore I get TERRIBLE trash service

When I lived out outside the city limits I had the choice of 5 different trash service vendors, all offering a different range of services at different monthly costs to suite my needs (and the needs of my neighbors) not only was the service CHEAPER, I got more for the money and if I needed something special or out of the ordinary I simply called up the company, asked for the additional service and maybe paid a little more... I have no such options with a city / government "public -private" partnership service
Oh so he's only pretending to be one of the people who know just enough to be dangerous while expecting everything new to have zero learning curve and live up to all the hype?

I don't even know if that raises or lowers my opinion of their content.
Whining about political correctness is political correctness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/18/trump-a...
One of the few certainties in life, along with death and taxes, is that a Government body/or institution (any government) will be less efficient, the more money it has.
Great write up on the USPS banking pilot: https://prospect.org/economy/postal-banking-test-in-the-bron...

Not a fun outcome but the fight isn't over, yet.
Java's new preview of virtual threads is relevant. It promises the ease-of-use and ease-of-debugging of synchronous blocking threads, but the scalability and low memory usage of asynchrony. https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/8277131 ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236375
I think its more fundamental than that. The grid in the EU is mostly well funded, and isn't a political football.
I feel we are still talking orthogonally.

Connectors are the same, so what? A cheap and poor micro usb, or apple magsafe, or household 110v or whatever cable, can fry your stuff. Regardless of connector or standard or shape or size you can buy a quality product or a crap product. Usb c is not a sign of quality. It's a standard. I think to siblings point, you can buy an apple fake charger that can fry your Macbook. That's not apples fault or standard fault or universal design fault. That's a crappy no name cheap part fault.

Don't get me wrong. I used to buy 50cent Dollarama cables too. Then I followed some of the links fellow hacker news folks posted and now I don't - whether usb c or whatever else. Seeing an oscilloscope or whatever graph of quality vs shoddy charger is illuminating and terrifying.
Not exactly what you’re describing, but check out Final Cut: https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
I've also found this one to be useful. Sometimes this site will give better results than the other and vice-versa. https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/
Maybe worked a little harder? I cheated my way through some hard courses (e.g. physics), while others (e.g. differential equations) had very low bar for passing and now I sometimes feel it would be cool to know more about these subjects.
Just now Intel is finally starting to get some of the RAS features sparc + Solaris had back in the 90s. Sun Sparc boxes were far more robust to hardware failure/recovery than their x86 counterparts from what I remember.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19620-01/805-4453/6j47hg5qf/inde...
spacex stands on the shoulders of giants. don't forget that!
What solution already existed for transferring money across distance without a trusted 3rd party?

If we go down this line of arguing we will end up with one or more of

- It's actually a good thing for a central bank to control the money supply

- We should be able to censor/reverse certain transactions

- Ordinary people don't actually care about those things

proving my point that if you don't value decentralization then you will think that existing solutions that don't have it are better.
> instead of this we gave a fuck ton of money to the post office

Or the post office could find a sustainable and growth economic model . . . at which point it might be indistinguishable from Amazon/Walmart/Safeway/etc.
Amazon doesn't send me shit I don't order and don't want. More than 95% of my mail is junk mail and there's nothing I can do about it. Circulating what the vast majority of people would consider as junk is the only thing really keeping the USPS in operation. Well that and they don't have to turn a profit and also have the protection of law to keep them going.
To some extent it seems to have happened in China.
You broke the site guidelines egregiously in this thread and crossed well over the line where we would ban an account. Not only that but you have a long history of doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25961423 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161447 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471378 (March 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012949 (Sept 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17863013 (Aug 2018)

Not only that but it looks like we've had to ban you in the past. All this is seriously not cool, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

I'm not going to ban you right now because it doesn't look like you've been doing it recently, but please review the rules and stick to them from now on, because if you keep doing it, we're going to end up having to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No. Euthanasia is well defined in Swiss law, and it is not the same as assisted suicide. Let's not complicate things even further.
Yeah, sure. Go look up what those programs involve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#2005%E2%80%932009:_Falc...

> The first two Falcon 1 launches were purchased by the United States Department of Defense under a program that evaluates new US launch vehicles suitable for use by DARPA. The first three launches of the rocket, between 2006 and 2008, all resulted in failures. These failures almost ended the company as Musk had planned and financing to cover the costs of three launches; Tesla, SolarCity, and Musk personally were all nearly bankrupt at the same time as well; Musk was reportedly "waking from nightmares, screaming and in physical pain" because of the stress.

> However, things started to turn around when the first successful launch was achieved shortly after with the fourth attempt on 28 September 2008. Musk split his remaining $30 million between SpaceX and Tesla, and NASA awarded the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract to SpaceX in December, thus financially saving the company. Based on these factors and the further business operations they enabled, the Falcon 1 was soon after retired following its second successful, and fifth total, launch in July 2009; this allowed SpaceX to focus company resources on the development of a larger orbital rocket, the Falcon 9. Gwynne Shotwell was also promoted to company president at this time, for her role in successfully negotiating the CRS contract with NASA.
> the technology exists for fully decentralized exchanges

Don’t these DeFi projects have an even worse track record than the centralised exchanges?
As detailed in the second paragraph of the article
The reason people need / use high egress (ie, far above the 1TB etc AWS gives per month) is for things like video sites, software updates / distribution etc.

I've been burned (too many times) by these "free" claims.

Will you absolutely guarantee (and pay me if needed) that I can host a large video website on cloudflare with no egress? This will be in PB not TB.

What I have found is that these sites with "free" are inevitably scams, that the types of loads that actually need high traffic egress result in that middle of the night email to squeeze you into some high cost plan (which does in fact have an egress price).

That said, if you will cover overage charges - I'll spin up a website on cloudflare. Do you understand bandwidth needs of video hosting sites? I'm sure porn sites are in 10-15PB per day range (ie, > 300PB/month).
Well it is fine like this. I wish the entire web would be similar to HN in terms of information density and resource usage.
And for anybody reading, Norcal in this example does not mean San Francisco, which is ~350 miles driving from Los Angeles. Driving 600-700 miles would be going from Los Angeles to the Oregon border or San Diego to Redding in far Northern California...
dynoderma

dyn·o·derma

a slender, membranous musclelike structure, believed to represent a cross between a cranium and the external spaces of fish and invertebrates, supporting the glans in most vertebrates

"a dynoderma is thought to have existed in all living organisms"
IMHO, comics can't be reasonably read at a screen size less than 25cm (10") or so. The pages are laid out for about that size, the letters are scaled for that... Leaning in closer doesn't improve the experience much.

The Amazon Kindle Fire HD10 is cheap (less than $100 on sale, which happens every few months), has a 10.1" color LCD screen, and enough CPU and RAM to make it painless for reading comics. I recommend it for that purpose alone... and not really for anything else.
I'd much rather we disincentivized intercontinental transport to incentivize domestic production and reduce carbon emissions due to transit. I don't necessarily mind that Amazon is successful so long as they aren't simply the best at deriving profits from Chinese slave labor, IP theft, and pollution. I don't think the solution is to make the Post Office better at those things.
i'm really curious
They weren't net short by design since they have to stay delta neutral. They were long spot and short futures. However when the liquidations started happening, the futures to spot premium went outta whack.

https://twitter.com/AlamedaTrabucco/status/14672197436901416...

So instead of locking in some spread they target, they ended up benefitting with a much larger profit.

And BitMart has no option to trade in USD. They trade exclusively in USDT. Tether might not have a hand in the hack, but they definitely have a hand in providing liquidity to exchanges which they print out of thin air with no actual 1-to-1 USD backing.

The Tether part was to highlight how this space is rife with scams, both on the shadow banking side and on the exchange side of things.
Agreed, but that is simply cause-and-effect by virtue of the majority of the world using the current global financial system rather than crypto and many more hackers are targeting said folk.

Either way two wrong's don't make a right, there will be losses in both systems but I would argue that storing your money with a unregulated crypto-firm would be more dangerous than with a modern-day bank.

I think the main gripe that many people have including myself with crypto is that it doesn't even have the proper consumer protections so that a decent/strong chance of recovery is possible.

This trend of massive amounts of crypto currency being stolen is not even a relatively recent one, see Gerald Cotten's (Quadriga) death in 2019 which resulted in $150 million in assets going missing with no chance of recovery.

This reply has been a little-bit scatter-brainish, so my apologies for that.
"Well" is subjective, "well run" Governments by their nature have run programs to meet the needs of the "average" person which means there will be many people for which the programs simply do not work.

Poorly run government are corrupted so you end up with the programs working for a very small minority, but at best the government program will work for probally 51% of population.

Government programs can simply not offer the level of customization, flexibility, and variety that a private market can
The internet is quick to grab the pitchfork but it looks like there's a different story here.

If you compare arkann1985's MVIKotlin vs badoo/MVICore it's an understatement to say it was "inspired by". It looks like an almost identical clone.

And as others have pointed out, it's not like Bumble is going after all of this guy's projects, just the ones where he was "inspired by" company work.

It would be difficult to argue that the projects in question would exist without benefiting from his employment at Bumble where the originals were developed.
Ok, if you're looking into notcurses, you may want to watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY (~ 6')

the WTF effect that video had on me lasted quite a while.

I still can't describe it.
Campaigners threaten UK legal action over porn sites’ lack of age verification
That is quite possibly true. The primary goal of government is not efficiency. We need to quit making that some kind of top priority. The first thing government should be is effective. This is fundamentally why mixing for-profit businesses into government functions always ends up a clusterfck.
Exactly! I figure you can't actually fail in making a terrarium. You're just growing mold instead of whatever you originally intended :)
I have made no-name maps for BF2, and it was "just" sculping terrain, dropping assets, painting woods, roads and ground terrain.

But when I think about it I think you are right regarding "corridor like" fpses, like Half-Life or Quake, where you need to make the buildings.
Yet they seem to prevent banks from having all their stored value exfiltrated. of all my worries about my credit union, them having all their money shipped of to an anonymous crypto wallet obfuscator is not one. I can manage the risks of systems i interact with directly, but some non zero chance of the assets disappearing i cannot manage
USPS would be, and historically has been, profitable if it weren't for the politicians actively trying to drag it down with arbitrary, arcane rules to protect their donors.
Apple should just buy Russia and be done with it.
https://app.osmosis.zone is a fully decentralized exchange with zero fees where you can trade any token including stable coins like (UST e EEUR)
That is super rad, and markets can be so dope, and nothing beats good fair service like that, but doesn't it also seem kind of crazy inefficient to have 5 different company's trash trucks running around the city? Maybe I'm wrong, but in terms of overall ecosystem input/output, I would guess that 1 system consumes way fewer resources than the sum of 5. I guess if the prices correspond to resource-use, then maybe it is actually more efficient overall? Crazy.
I have four G604 mouses. On three of them middle button broke about 6 - 9 months in use. I got two mouses "for free", as I was not required to send the old ones back and they just sent me new ones from warranty.

It's remarkable how many different kind of switches even within the same model they have. I think only two of the four have same feel to the switches. Some have stronger actuation force, and some are nearly noiseless.

I have opened up few of the mouses and the switches are even different color, one had white and one had black switches. I will definitely look up these third party switches, if they are more consistent in quality than what ever the logitech puts in these.
For a non-native speaker of English - this sounds like lots of songs.

Tangentially related - this is how I discovered Nightwish some 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ
Well, everyone has their own bank account. There's a lot of potential there to just transact directly. You would have to design the deposit layer to be someone efficient though so traders can still use credit. But I think its possible.

To give you an example there is this application called https://bisq.network/ that uses double-sided collateral in contracts to trade fiat currencies. There might be the potential to link this up with SSL, too. I've seen this application that can provide proofs that a page was in your browser https://tlsnotary.org/. Use that to prove a bank transfer happened on an SSL page and you've got yourself a dex that can work trustless with oracles.
As a general trend, when you make effective suicide less convenient, e.g. switching from lethal gas to carbon monoxide free natural gas in ovens, they happen less often. Not necessarily because of fewer attempts though.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/saves...
This. I have tried reporting mod ban abuse, which you can do if you look hard enough through the help pages. I gave them all the evidence needed to show the mods were violating Reddit’s own policies around arbitrary bans. However I only ever got a form response that shows Reddit doesn’t care. At this point I am convinced Reddit just needs to die and get replaced by something better.
But weed is still illegal over there, right?
“A fool and his money are soon parted”

Fool’s gold has always been a thing. Similarly, there will always be some who cannot distinguish between Bitcoin and the latest dog coin. Few Bitcoiners are selling Bitcoin to buy NFTs or altcoins.
I’d be curious to know what carriers I could use with the dongle here in the USA..?
I’ve been trying to make an IoT project and being that T-Mobile is shutting down their 3G GSM there’s only a few IoT devices that are licensed and approved for use with Verizon and AT&T for the 4G band.
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