skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Global Warming one was weak. The inherent contradiction in modern life is that you participate in the economy as part of "modern life".

But that is unquestionably leading to a future such that if this were coalesced to a single (rational) person and telling them they will certainly get painful, awful cancer if they do X anymore that any sane person will stop doing X.

You can't change the sheer inertia, and even if you did, there is a powerful set of people (this would be, say, the part of the brain addicted to a drug that will kill you with painful awful cancer) whose influence over society is far more powerful.

So you either become an "edgelord" and pick rational sanity but everyday life is so bad it is functionally insane, or you go along with the flow and pick rational insanity, but everyday life is a lot better and therefore really the sane choice.
He would still need to pay taxes in Brazil, and explain why it's not international money laundering. Same if the money touches the US, will have to pay taxes there too, then transfer it to Brazil for more taxes and paperwork.
Except his watch's case is fine, it's the internals that need fixing. The customer shouldn't have to pay more in this case - Apple should either swallow the cost or actually repair the existing device.
Gassée testified to Scully and the board against Jobs, betraying Jobs’ trust and accusing him of planning a coup in the company. This is what got him ejected from Apple. Shortly after Gassée took over Jobs’s role as head of the Macintosh project. Jobs considered Gassée “evil” at least in 97 and probably until his death: https://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/key_people/jean-louis_gass...
Hungarian notation is what I was thinking of
Variant Xi
This blog post is a lot of letters for 1-letter typo.
I really have no problem with the brackets. I did iOS right when Swift came out. However, I much prefer Swift.
Experts crack the secret to last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots
If you really want broader content, you might as well just talk to people directly. Sure it's not as easy as browsing to begin with, but once you're good enough at it, it's bound to be more fulfilling.
The about box mentions the Zoom "original sound", but I can't find Zoom on the page. Did the page get a bit of, err, amnesia? :(
Yep. As long as our capacity to build, maintain, tune and secure our systems depends on our ability to understand the entire pot of spaghetti - we're in trouble.

Security is the worst because most of our systems are only secure if every single line of running code is secure. In the face of exponentially increasing system complexity, this is a race we will always inevitably lose.
> Log4j 2.16.0 completely mitigates this issue by removing support for message lookup patterns and disabling JNDI functionality by default.

I think this should've happened from the beginning.
She’s trying to save her own skin and wants to get re-elected so she’s trying to pretend she’s going to fix this problem she helped create. Then she’ll ignore it and do nothing again.
*Turns everything to maximum and sits listening to the result for a few moments*

So this is what a career-ending catastrophic production failure sounds like.

I feel I should be responding to this like a horror movie with clowns in it.
If you have that much savings you really should just leave and look for other opportunities or explore spaces you are interested in imo. Usually I hear it is best to look for other jobs while you are employed, however from my experience it is really hard to pull off looking for jobs while being simultaneously employed if you have a heavy workload.

I left my job of 5 years earlier this year because I was purely burnt out, with only around a year of savings but don't regret it at all. I've had the opportunity to explore spaces I'd never have the chance to do while working at a traditional job, and even if my individual entrepreneurial efforts don't work out, the skills I've picked up while technically unemployed are very attractive to the field that I'm actually working in. Think of it as a full stop pivot in my professional career.

But really, working a job you hate only gets worse and worse. Your productivity will start dropping and you'll start to increasingly feel like crap. Burnout is really rough, and you are almost certainly more valuable than you are being treated at a company like that.

That's what I'd do at least, but yeah your call of course.
You don't program "an airplane". Each box has its own spec to which it must conform, so for example the little controller that regulates fuel flow into the combustion chamber is first modeled as a system in e.g. MATLAB. For throttle position X, at altitude Y, with air temperature Z and Mach number W, the fuel flow must be ABC pounds per hour so set the servo valve position to DEF.

So on and so forth (it gets a lot more complicated than that but you get the idea).

Then, you ask the mechanical guys what the operating environment will be (vibration, temperature, pH, etc.) and you source a chip from an approved manufacturer that can handle your system dynamics and the environment. Then you hit the autocode button in MATLAB, flash the generated code to the chip, and run the programmed chip through bench tests.
> we need to be much louder and angrier about why, 2 years into a pandemic, we still haven’t built up additional hospital capacity that we know we need.

Hospital capacity limits are mostly about personnel and not equipment/space. Equipment and space are issues too, but temporary measures are possible.

Everywhere is having trouble hiring because employers don't want to pay enough wages for people to do the work. The same is true in the healthcare setting, but nursing requires a significant amount of training (AFAIK, 2 years for entry level nursing, I think more time needed for ICU nursing) and doctoring is even more. Hospitals (and healthcare providers in general) are not incentivized to retain enough staff to deal with spikes in demand. AFAIK, there hasn't been increased training, and probably a lot of training was delayed while in-person education wasn't an option. Healthcare workers were also a lot of the early victims. COVID mitigation measures probably reduce healthcare productivity too, requiring even more workers.
6.9 ETH? Seems...Musky?
For the global audience could add one of the most used apps in the world from China - WeChat, which has pretty distinctive sounding pings. Great work!
Sorry, deficit hawks: low interest rates are here to stay
This is great! Thanks for making it. I turned on everything and for a second it felt like I was in the middle of a crazy on-call session.
Michael David Crawford wrote about airplane software and computers and safety but was arrested by the police because he wrote it at Grove Beach McDonalds and was charged with being a nuisance. Soon after these plans like Flight 370 started to happen. He was the first one to discover the bugs in Boeing's software and never got credit for it, just a year in jail with time served.
Sure, but how many wars and famines before we land back to where we stood during the last glaciation?
so that we can track all mentioned libs here https://www.libhunt.com/posts/523016-rough-js-create-graphic...
> I'm starting to be of the mindset that us-east-1 is already "Too Big To Fail". I guarantee you that conversations are being had in boardrooms right now about how to reduce dependency on that region, if not AWS entirely.

If you're not blasting your AWS account manager and asking what their plans are to avoid this happening in the future, then your CTO is not doing their job.

If AWS itself is not internally working out how to "get off us-east-1" for its global services, then it is failing in its role as infra provider.

AWS has a lot of stuff about how to make your infra redundant and resilient to failure, in their environment, mostly about replicating across AZs and then across regions.

The fact that their "global" services are not actually "global" but are "everything goes to us-east-1" is broken and if they're not fixing it, then that is when you start looking at other alternatives.
I would recommend the prologue of the book of John to learn more about this.
Just commenting again here to vouch for this statement. I've spent a ton of time in both cities, and Miami is so different but in my opinion miles better. Constant sun and breezes. 8 months of perfect weather. Actual diversity, not just in ethnicity but also walks of life. Awesome little open bars and restaurants all over at any hour. The people - both men and women, are beautiful. Many people dress nicely and with pride - you'll always see men in nice suits and hats, and women in nice dresses. I just found that interesting as it was so different than most other places, reminded me of something from a movie.

Miami is criminally underrated. Ultimately I just don't enjoy living in a 'big city', but for anyone that does, I highly recommend giving it a try!
I explained the first statement in the rest of the comment. I don't think I understand what you're asking for. Or maybe you're referring to the second statement?
> Of course a suburban township with 1 murder last year and 2 this year has doubled its homicide rate.

So you made a hypothetical in your head and hand wave all criticism away? How is this not confirmation bias? If you like it fine, but to dismiss what everyone else is saying is strange. If you lived in the Bay Area, you could see it falling apart in real time. Homeless, crime, quality of life, drugs and everything else got worse and worse. It wouldn’t be a meme if it weren’t actually there.
Default Apple iPhone ringtone sent shivers down my spine for ages after a few years of having it as my on-call work phone.
Yeah the same logic applies to any network connected device you buy that has microphones on them.
For those with old, tired eyes, there's a video from STH which is embedded in the article and talks about this issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVmDcv782k
> Cash-rich eurozone banks are rushing to change their euros into dollars by the end of the year, driving a key measure of demand for the greenback.

> The interest rates on three-month euro cross-currency basis swaps, in which one party borrows a currency and lends their own in return, have turned more negative in recent weeks. That means traders in Europe are paying a premium to exchange excess euros for dollars.

Demand for dollars is on a tear, sending the value of the dollar higher. You can see this in the DXY, an index of the dollar's value against a basket of other currencies:

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=dxy

This inconvenient fact about the strengthening dollar is swept under the rug by those focused on inflation and their claims that the US is headed for 1970s stagflation at best, or Weimar 1920s hyperinflation at worst.

Also conveniently swept under the rug are the deeply negative yields on 10-, 20-, and 30-year treasuries.

And then there's gold, which has failed spectacularly as an inflation hedge. If the inflation threat is real, gold doesn't give a flip about it because the price hasn't moved in one year. For that matter gold is about the same price in nominal terms that it was ten years ago.

These three markets, gold, treasuries, and the dollar, don't fit the money printer go brrr narrative. What gives?

What gives is that the Fed isn't printing money and lacks the authority to do so. QE is not a printing press. It doesn't conjure money into being. QE can't cause inflation and its effects on long-term interest rates are questionable at best.

The dollar, debt, and gold markets are signaling that the next major move is toward slower growth and lower inflation. Maybe a lot lower.

Whatever the Fed announces or doesn't announce tomorrow is mostly theater.
How does ingrained racism line up with that reasoning? Um, not too good. How about ingrained wealth inequality? Not so great. Or, as I already harped on elsewhere, how about an economic-industrial system structured in such a way that your future is looking quite bleak and the people currently charged with its control have no incentive to change it because they'll be dead when the consequences come to roost? Really not great.

Yes there is a sort of institutional logic, or at least an evolutionary path to some sort of functional structure to the world that often isn't obvious. And individuals, almost always blind to hidden forces and instincts of self-preservation and improvement of their survival/control of resources, may not see how civilization-level structures "work" for the whole if it is bad for them.

But let's not pretend that the conservative cultural view is a good one. Slavery was clearly immoral, evil, exploitative, bad bad bad. It took the bloodiest war in US history to dislodge it and move to a slightly less exploitative, explicitly oppressive, slightly less evil structure of society.

Between global warming, species extinction, habitat destruction, general plastic/industrial waste pollution, and the like, there are so many aspects of modern regulation-resistant lobbying-paralyzed capitalism-imbalanced civilization that you can't argue that it's "good" or even "sane". The world as it is structured now is insane and suicidal.
2 or 3. I've left within 3 months with similar jobs. The longer you stay, the more it drags you down. It gets harder to interview because your confidence and energy levels have taken a beating.

If there's one advice I'd say to a younger version of myself, it's to get out faster. Most mistakes lead to building some strength later on, this isn't one of them.

The difference between quitting now and later is that being jobless puts time pressure on getting a new one, so you'll probably miss out on some less urgent companies that take months to interview, and you're more likely to take another bad deal. I think people are not quite picky enough about jobs; 90% of them are bad, same with 90% of the employee pool. So you need some room to go through the interview process and reject bad employers.
I completely agree with you there. Capitalism got us into this mess- it's naive to think it will get us out of it. I was just pointing out that population control is a bit of a "knife's edge" discussion: there are ways to discuss it that don't devolve into eugenics.. But most arguments inevitably do.
> That wouldn't be large enough a change to warrant a new major SemVer.

Yes, it would. Breaking is breaking.
Dec 22, several minutes of terror followed by ~33 days of nail biting until the majority of deployment is complete
I have aphantasia, I've never been able to see anything in my head, but during the end of my eight years in jail I would sometimes sit on my bunk thinking, and four times I suddenly had images appear in my mind. Once was an apple, once a car, once a cat and once a beach scene with a boat.

Each of these was so utterly mind-blowing to me. It was the equivalent of taking a caveman and sticking the latest Oculus headset on him. It was hard to even comprehend what was happening.

The images only appeared for a few seconds, but each time I tried harder to hold the image and I managed to get each to last longer than the previous one. It's never happened again since and I don't know what triggered it.

It made it clear to me that the condition isn't terminal. The hardware is obviously there, it's just the software that's the problem.
Polished? No

There are open source speech to text engines, text to speech engines and assistant software with APIs, you could probably build something with a raspberry pi, I looked into it a while back but I don't really mind light switches.

"Open Assistant" should get the ball rolling for you, search that and dive down the rabbit hole of open source home automation.
well it's been a good few years, but now it's time to pick up another language and wait for the community to beat stupid ideas into that one too
Being personally triggered by some random example doesn't entitle you to expect the world to avoid any references to it in other contexts. Simple as that. People use all sorts of examples for all sorts of discussions, any one of them could offend any random person for any number of personal reasons. The onus is on the offended party to understand that strangers don't owe them a damn thing when they're not even talking to them personally.
Just came here from reading XKCD. What world am I in?
Certain restrictions and de facto vaccine mandates are also arguably ethically challenging. So... we're already there.
Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm
I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the crayon eater comment. Hilarious and I'm sure in many cases it's not inaccurate.

That said, I personally question whether all gigs have to be prestigious and cutting edge and super interesting. I think there should be plenty of room in government and elsewhere for qualified people who do do a good job, but might not be the 20 something work 80 hour per week and rise fast type.

I wish more organizations openly admitted to and positioned themselves that way - like, hey, are you good at your job but don't really want to work super super hard all the time and rise to the top of your organization, or feel like you always have to work on the most prestigious, most cutting edge projects? Then we're the place for you!
cool. the best answer i got in a long time. here is what i have in terms of pricing.
https://whattomine.com
says rx 6700xt is 48mh/s while 3060ti is 58. this is fine but the pricing is 6700xt at around $680 and 3060ti around $1000. now, 3080 is $1500 but it also has 91 mh/s.

anyways, is $15/Mh a good buy because that is what it seems to be
Where is vaccinations mentioned anywhere in the bill of rights?
This is the FB Messenger ding: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1-oKbo4KRh-45x_OLE_KmlGvMhKIk...
It's risk free. And they are being given that money, to loan to Federal Reserve, at a negative rate.

EU banks get paid to take money/loan then get paid to deposit it. Regular people don't get access to this scam, which is ultimately paid by 6%+ commodity inflation felt by working class in USA.
I remember trying this and it would get overwritten. Cool to see that OpenSSH is still seeing such careful maintenance.
The link to the original paper in the article is wrong, it can actually be found here [1](pdf).

1. https://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRev...
By what measure? Major cities in CA saw significant population declines during the pandemic and the SF Unified School district has a major budget short fall now. Places like Miami and Austin which were much less restrictive are now booming and gaining residents by all accounts. SF crime is so bad businesses are closing because no sooner do they stock the shelves than roving bands of thieves clean them out.
Ruby has two kinds of exception handling. There is try/catch, this is used for flow control and should not be used for error handling (it doesn't have stack traces). And then there is raise/rescue.

Using try/catch as intended is a bit of an art, but raise/rescue is everywhere. It is absolutely the primary way of handling errors. I think you might be confusing these two.
Both of you are chasing a straw man. The U.S. doesn't have a wealth tax, doesn't claim to, never did. People pay taxes on income (to the Federal govt, not talking property, sales, gasoline taxes etc which are local). The tax code was never intended to be equally weighted by someone's wealth.

If you are in favor of wealth confiscation, I mean wealth tax, come out and say that, and lobby and vote for it. Don't try to wrangle the income tax into something it isn't.

Of course, in the interim, you could try and cancel the two most popular tax deductions, mortgage interest and charitable donations, which benefit rich, wealthy people far more than everyone else. Let me know how that goes.
Were 100,000 of lives lost because of a delayed vaccine? Considering the third world hasn't had access to the vaccine and death rates are lower with delta I'm not sure skipping trials would have done much good.
Technically you should be able to run your own back-end, but I ended up giving up on this endeavor when I tried a few months ago. It should be doable if you give it a few good days, but it wasn't very well documented at least when I tried, and there's a lot of different parts you have to get working.

After you get it to work, I'm not sure if your server would have a worse data set for speech recognition etc, maybe, maybe not. I'm guessing it should be all right because they are using a Mozilla free data set (which you contribute to by default I think, if you use their server).
I really resonate with Nat's DeFi articles. If you're wondering "What are blockchains even useful for" I highly urge you to look at his other articles on the Almanack. He does deep dive's into all the interesting DeFi products, and almost all are products that are not possible without a blockchain.
I found the article quite interesting and informative.
Execs are paid mostly in stock, and it's a bad idea to leave all your money in one stock basket. Seeing how they are mostly round numbers on a regular schedule, it's probably a https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp sale on a schedule.
Tiny house communities is good branding for slums. Weird how we are going backwards with property codes and rule of law in general. Ironically it’s the Shitlibs and neo-liberals who seem to be implementing some weird libertarian Ancapistan dystopia which is fine for the rich with private security but everyone else is on their own.
Yes, with 0.05% sugar at Federal Reserve because the loaned funds need to be deposited somewhere.
Things don't just sort out though. Where does that money go? If it goes back into a project that is equally as environmentally destructive, you've just laundered the carbon. Given that the institutions responsible for implementing and enforcing a carbon tax are inextricably linked to the institutions producing some of the highest sources of carbon pollution, I find the proposition that a carbon tax will sort anything out to be unsettling.
The Librarian of Congress has the opportunity to grant such exemptions in a rulemaking once every three years, which then expire if they are not renewed, which makes them a risky basis on which to base a product; probably the LoC would have to develop the software themselves, which isn't really a strong competency of theirs, instead of relying on outside help.

It isn't the kind of thing where a summer intern can ask permission to break a DRM scheme for archival purposes and then be successfully preserving material the next week.
It’s much a lot more difficult to leave the military or change colleges than it is to get another job after Google, so Google actually has a lot less leverage here
As far as I know existing owners and even near-term ones are grandfathered into the old rules so your dad won't have to pay extra until something like 20 years from now?
It's unfortunate that another comment that links to Rhasspy has been downvoted (I assume because it lacked any other context) so I wanted to mention the project with some additional context: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/

While I've not used the entire Rhasspy project myself (but trying it out is on the long list of things to do :) ) I have used the offline Text-To-Speech sub-project Larynx...

...and it is amazing!

Larynx is significantly ahead in terms of quality of output & variety of voices (fifty--across multiple languages, accents & genders) of any other FLOSS Text-To-Speech project I've tried.

I think the relative new-ness of the project is part of the reason Larynx (https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx/) currently flies under the radar.

If the rest of Rhasspy is as good as Larynx I'd imagine it's worth trying out.

Larynx demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBmhDf8cl0k

Samples of pre-trained voices: https://rhasspy.github.io/larynx/#en-us
Tesla smartphones can be game changers
Amazing what Kenya has come up with
Why is that? Do you have some moral objection to python?
Who needs scientific research and data when you have the HN comments section