skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
foobar2k + soulseek was a heady combination. one abiding memory was how fragmented the components for fbk2 were and how you had to search through the hydrogen audio forums for updates and they often got abandoned/picked up by someone else, and the forum community was incredibly unwelcoming!

even though spotify has almost completely destroyed my need for fb2k, i do still use it for listening to radio streams. i'd love if there were fully fleshed out components that let you use spotify with fb2k.
I've certainly done plenty of complex sql querying in my time, but I don't think making nice-looking code for solving wordle bears much relation to normal analytical sql workflows.
I disagree that you'll be a worse computer scientist. Computer science doesn't happen in Plato's heaven, it happens in real processors and memory.

I tend to think focusing on abstractions is almost always the wrong approach. Abstractions should arise naturally as a solution to certain problems, like excess repetition, but you should almost always start as concrete as possible.
I'm a counter-example. I drink wine. I have no idea what anything is. I've never seen Sideways, and don't know what it's about. I can tell the difference between red and white. I don't really get any of the rest of it. I still like to drink wine. Just a glass now and then. Sometimes I pick out a bottle at the store based on the look of the label.
An anectdote: I am 5'10", have a 30" inseam (longer torso than normal for my height), and cycle a lot. My legs are quite muscular, and upper body is reasonable with just a bit of a stomach. My RHR is in the 50s. I weigh ~175 most of the time, dipping into the upper 160s during summer.

If my weight gets lower, into the low-to-mid-160s, even notoriously-skinny cyclist friends start to think I'm looking exceptionally thin and should watch it.

At my physicals the software automatically classifies me as overweight, but the doctor never mentions it, because he clearly gets how these categories can go wrong for folks like us. Someone my same height, with longer legs and a shorter torso, ends up 10-20 pounds just by nature of having less core. But of course BMI is just height vs. weight.
You're thinking waffles.fm -- what.cd was seized by authorities. waffles didn't even come close to the glory of what.cd
> We’re also looking further ahead to the future and have been following everything happening in Web3 as a source of inspiration to continue innovating on YouTube.

> The past year in the world of crypto, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and even decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) has highlighted a previously unimaginable opportunity to grow the connection between creators and their fans.

First Discord, then Reddit, Twitter, Instagram and now YouTube are getting in on NFTs; as if YouTube was already bad enough for most small creators getting their accounts locked immediately.

So basically YouTube is about to get a lot worse in general and especially for those who detest NFTs. They don't care and they will never change.
Modafinil had only major flaw in my experience, but it was significant enough for me to stop taking it; it made it very difficult to stick to a 24-hour circadian rhythm.

To illustrate, if I got a full night sleep, then took modafinil, I would be up for easily 18 hours without feeling any urge to sleep...which seems great until it's 5am, and you need to be at work again in 4 hours.

The apparent solution to the problem is just take modafinil again in the morning. This worked for a while, but there's a limit to how much modafinil can cover a sleep debt. While modafinil had a strong effect preventing the symptoms of sleep deprivation, it had an even stronger effect blocking the capacity to sleep. Modafinil can lead to a very strange and unpleasant feeling of desperately needing to sleep and not being able to.
Ask HN: What are options to Docker for local dev due to the licensing changes?
In lieu of the Grace Period for the Docker Subscription Service Agreement Ending soon, what are some viable alternatives to Docker Desktop? I hear about a lot of them including podman etc., but not sure how much of a drop in replacement it would be.
The parent implied diet was less impactful than walking.
If I rent a car using Google Chrome, the internet turns into a spam factory that tries its hardest to get me to rent another one. Targeted ads for the win?
> I felt utterly amazing. Like I could take on the world. I had a hard time focusing at work, because I just wanted to be talking to people (not an extrovert) or going for a 10 mile run.

> I can't compare it to cocaine

Sounds like you just did.
> It's hard to beat.

It is easy to beat, if you use any non-Apple OS or want a good browser email experience. It is only hard to beat if you're already deep into Apple's ecosystem with nothing else on the horizon.
Thanks for the tip! I'm looking for the best weather since that's one of the main reasons I'm having a look at the Canary Islands.

Are there any cafes/co-working spaces to work in?
I believe it's hosted in Australia.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, a devkit would work if its just about building new connectors. But we believe that the community would want control over the entire project rather than just the connectors module. We also wanted to provide a usable version of the product for free to the community, which you can self-host and maintain yourselves as well.
Context, and the inability to actually have any understanding is the entire problem with what is called "AI" these days.

Sure "AI" can do a lot of impressive first-level pattern matching, and that can be the basis of many useful outputs.

But ANYTHING that requires actually understanding the context, whether it is existence of new obstacles for a 'self-driving' vehicle, understanding of actual meaning for a language model, or anything else, is a complete and utter failure.

Despite appearances, while some of it is genuinely useful, we're really no further than fancy parlor tricks. Crack even the next level of contextual understanding, and it will be an astonishing leap.
Witness at scene of CDC lab monkeys crash has developed symptoms – Harrisburg100
People also say that someone stole their heart, but it does not mean that they have a gaping hole in their chest. Casual use of a language for narrative purposes is one thing, speaking about actual criminal activity another.

To be clear, I make some money on my IP (being a self-published author who sells his books) and I encountered people pirating scanned copies of my work. I do not mind on this scale, but I am aware that if someone just started publishing my books commercially and I had no copyright to protect me, I would be in trouble.

But it still wouldn't be theft, rather a foul kind of "competition". My physical books wouldn't disappear from my (rented) garage and readers who like me would still hopefully buy them directly on my e-shop.
I was thinking something like for example if my interests are Economics and I stumble upon paywalled article which is economic in nature website can say "This article matches your interest of Economics would you like to unlock it for $0.20?". I was aiming at paywalls because from my personal experience I bump into so many articles from variety of different websites that are behind paywalls that it is not feasible from consumer point of view to subscribe to dozens of publications when I read their articles every now and then and not all of them. So throwing a few cents(let's say from $0.05 to $0.20) for accessing an article wouldn't bother me. It would be something like PPV(pey per view) model. But now when I stumble upon an article which is behind paywall I can either choose to leave it or to view de facto pirated version on archive.is or on some other mirroring service.
Is there any distortion/difference seeing the painting in real-life at an off-angle that cannot be replicated through current scans?

And are there any neurological studies about seeing/feeling physical objects versus virtual? And would VR help close the gap?
Neurotransmitters are often synthesized from amino acids. They have different functions in the body, often either inhibiting or exciting the neuron that it targets.

There are a bunch of different aspects to being awake. Caffeine works on adenosine, which has to do with wakefulness. But also things like adrenaline have a different aspect of wakefulness that amphetamines target. Modafinil targets orexin receptors I believe, which involve wakefulness as well as eating.
I expected one of the other answers to encapsulate how I feel about this, but they didn't, so here goes:

You have probably noticed in your "fairly simple scripts" that your language has some notion of types. Your variables are one type or another type, in some languages they can change type and in others they mustn't, but likely the language has the notion that, for example, while dividing 9 by 3 is a reasonable thing to do, dividing your array of business departments by the name of a CSV file is not.

Now, these types aren't like the elements (whether classical or chemical) they were chosen by the language authors. There are probably a handful of obvious ones, probably strings like "Clown" and numbers like 19.03 are different types, your dictionary isn't a number, and if your scripts are allowed to access files probably a file "Handle" or equivalent isn't the same kind of thing as a dictionary.

So, in this sense a class is merely a type that you can define in your program.

This has any number of useful properties, for example suppose you deal with a lot of Social Security Numbers, if you had an SSN class it'd be clearer that, while SSNs might well be "numbers" in some sense, you can't go around summing them up, any place that seems to be happening is a bug waiting to happen, as a class there's no reason it should be possible to do arithmetic on SSNs. Your chosen language might provide easy ways to say e.g. "This dictionary is for numbers, don't put anything else in it" and chances are if that's available you can likewise say "Only for SSNs" and now there's no risk you accidentally got the total number of people processed as a Social Security Number.

Does that justify classes as an idea to you?

The specific word "class" is associated with a particular approach to programming called Object Oriented Programming, which is much less popular today than it was at the end of last century, but this general idea of being able to make types for your application is more general.
> So knowing why it's there is impossible, and if you condition taking down the fence on that

The condition is to make an effort, not to necessarily succeed. If you try and can't make sense of it, you have the green light to proceed with caution.
I had a friend that liked the effects of Modafinil, but would complain of bad headaches every time they took some. Even less than 1 quarter of tablet would be enough to produce the bad effects.

Is that something that happens just to some people or is there a way to avoid the headaches?

I'm curious about trying, but since I used to suffer migraines (not anymore fortunately) I am worried that I will have headaches or trigger a migraine.
what's your firefox version and OS name and version?
Who said anything about grovelling? I have a feeling you feel like this about every drug, but why should one feel shame for consuming drugs? I agree that some people behave very bad on drugs, but that's no reason to forbid it for everyone.
The Twelve-Factor App (2017)
“Whoever has cried enough, laughs.” — Heinrich Mann
That probably isn't very useful since the video isn't moving.
> language like "solutionism at its worst" feels counter-productive[...] why not let a thousand flowers bloom?

Because resources are not infinite. Gemini sucks the air out of the room.

> Sometimes an adage is trotted out that goes roughly like this: Welp, it's not perfect, but it's better than nothing!¶ And sometimes that's true. It's at least widely understood to be true, I think.¶ What I don't see mentioned, ever, is that sometimes "it's better than nothing" is really, really not true. In some cases, something is _worse_ than nothing.

<https://www.colbyrussell.com/2019/02/15/what-happened-in-jan...>

> I think the real tragedy of Gemini is that although its existence is a reaction to a genuine problem[... i]t's another instance of a bad solution to a problem making that problem worse. This happens when bad solutions capture the attention of people concerned with and/or affected by the problem, and then they divert resources away[...] instead of allowing those resources to be better put to good use

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25811478>
I'm not sure what you mean by 'lottery ticket' review -- presumably some sort of random global search shortcut, like mutation in genetic algorithms.

If so, then no, using randomness to disrupt search only resets the search to continue at a different (random) spot in the global search space. That kind of approach certainly can escape local minima, but it doesn't diminish the amount of total time/effort required to do (non-convex) global search.

I think the long history of our attempting to use randomness to improve search has shown that all naive approaches inevitably fail unless the number of processors available can be scaled up to 'equal' the number of decisions required to explore the entire search space (as quantum computing seeks to do). But maybe the formal resolution of that question will come only after we prove P != NP.
Most flying is done in airliners (at least in passenger-miles), whose engines don't benefit from any lead.

On the other hand, smaller, piston-engine aircrafts are overwhelmingly a hobby for relatively wealthy people, where leaded avgas is commonplace.

This is just anecdotal, but in the aerodrome near where I live, I'd be surprised if less than 90% of the flights are leisure flights.
>> Like I said show me an Indian company that was a tech giant for analysis on the way down.

>I still have no idea what you intend this to mean. TCS is a tech giant. It's the largest IT service company in the world.

What is so tough here understand here? I've done IT for 30 years. I don't think I've used a gadget, O/S, compiler, cloud resource, dev-ops, or distributed algo from Tata once. IBM? All day long. I consulted at AT&T ... man the number of things they made I used was insane.

Moreover, given time all large companies cycle between running on all 8 cylinders to periods where marketing, paper pushers, corporate culture BS, losing contact with customers and customer satisfaction, poor quality erode the top/bottom line, lead to a loss of market power, pricing power, and so on.

Tata, assuming it ever had the towering heights IBM hit on all fronts, may be big now. But wait around long enough and Tata like most large human organizations will fall from grace too. And I bet, at it's core, outsourcing will not be found to be root-cause; related perhaps but certainly blaming the outsiders isn't wisdom. So as I said, then re-said, and say again show me one of those Indian companies *who are on a down cycle now*. The way I have contextualized it here makes for a relevant comparison.

While I'm at it: I'll say again unlike posters earlier up, I refuse to crap on IBM because it out-sources to Indian companies. Like anywhere some Indian companies suck. Some don't. Some may be on a high cycle like Tata. Those in the US doing the outsourcing maybe already sucked before outsourcing began. It's those kinds of spurious insults which are not appropriate and not my position.
Ok, one perfect (I think) example that this still isn't perfect:

If I hadn't checked /active today I would have missed the story about Google classifying 1 and 0 as copyrighted.

Is there a reason why flagging that story shouldn't count as abusing flags?
It looks like you're asking users to write connectors in Java. Have you given some thought to who your user is? I'd imagine the type of person that'd consider using this would be unlikely to prefer or even know Java.
I don't like Rust's approach, but it is better than C's. Rust should either commit to wraparound or make the default int type support arbitrary values.

In C, the problem isn't the silent wraparound, the problem is that when the compiler sees that expression, it will assume that the resulting value is less than INT_MAX, and optimise accordingly. The other insidious problem is that wraparound is defined for other unsigned arithmetic, so a programmer that hasn't had this explained to them, or read the standard very carefully, would quite easily assume that arithmetic on unsigned short values is just as safe as it is for unsigned char, int or long, which is not the case.
It definitely does.

I agree. Not exactly the same, but I live on the southern shoreline of Lake Michigan, and every year/summer, it claims the lives of many people (mainly swimmers). I've watched coast guard helicopters, drones, boats cover (what seems to be) every foot of the few square miles the person was last seen, and still be unsuccessful at finding the missing person. Unimaginable scale when compared to the Pacific!
It's 2.5 times the mirror diameter, which is 6.25 times the light collecting area.
People generally aren't antsy about targeted ads but data collection and tracking. This avoids that.
They've been saying that from the beginning. There are billions of ARM devices, the ability to sell a GPU to each is worth money.
In many countries there are also testing labs that don't ask any questions nor contact the police if you hand over small samples of illegal drugs, for harm reduction purposes. If you wanna be 100% it contains nothing deadly, use those.
I'm not sure what Frost's _Mending Wall_ was supposed to add to this. In that poem, in the author's view the wall is entirely pointless, since it doesn't actually block anything. But his neighbor insists on repairing it because "good fences make good neighbors".

Its juxtaposition with Chesterton's essay is kind of weird, because Frost doesn't even know what the wall is for, and apparently neither does the neighbor.
Oddly, Modafinil breaks women's birth control pills
"How about not strike back, just try to survive & show future generations of the world how to be. Go live in that other country that isn't radioactive."

The word for that is "surrender".
I tend to think you should be able to go back and fourth between mental models. Like obviously when you're thinking through how to set up business logic, you should not be thinking in terms of registers and memory layouts.

But when you're considering two different architectural approaches, you should, at least in broad terms, be able to think about how the machine is going to execute that code and how the data is roughly going to be laid out in memory for instance.
There is always docker's command line -- it is actually pretty good and not that complex. Yes, there is a bit of the learning curve, but command line ability is pretty useful in general.
That's the point; they can't. It's not a viable business without supporting iOS as it's too dominant. The point the ACM is making is that Apple is abusing it's dominant position in the market.
"The Great Resignation" feels a bit like a phrase that folks have grasped on to and just attach the narrative they want to believe to it.

Constant articles and such with very little data. Very frustrating as a reader.

The idea that amid a pandemic and such that there are a variety of reasons seems backed up by the data, although I admit that's what I'm inclined to believe / seen.
Your case is exception, not the rule. People always bring up how inaccurate the BMI is, and it's true but not for the reasons they usually think (i.e., overestimating how prevalent obesity is). BMI is bad because it actually underestimates obesity prevalence.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20125098/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I like how Ken Wilber puts it (the consequence of practicing awareness): "hurts more, bothers you less." As someone else here mentioned, the dentist is a great place to practice mindfulness and surrender to pain.

The key distinction seems to be between "pain" (the first dart) and suffering (the second, which is created by resisting the first). The Buddha defined enlightenment as "the end of suffering" (not the end of pain). The pain is still there, and you feel it more keenly than ever -- but it doesn't bother you.
That's down to store policies though not any legal requirement. And in the case of Walmart you're not shipping back to China anyways you ship back to some distribution hub/return center in the US. Amazon too often the products are staged and returned to the US.
> exactly what have Google and Microsoft been up to?

Buying chips from Nvidia to power their data centers, for one.
I have a completely Google-free Android, and never had a problem. Is it really that bad to install an app? I like the choice.
Customization still makes this a must for me. It's cool to have tree-view playlists that can link to youtube, or whatever else. You also don't need to uncompress your zip/rar archives to create playlists from them - which isn't very common, most other players won't allow you to play consecutive tracks from a compressed archive. Saves space and that's how I always liked organizing albums.
Computers are not "a technology". They're processed rocks.

Insofar as tea involves technique, including selection, cultivation, harvest, processing, and preparation, it's a technology. One that I personally dislike.
That must have been it, used kuro5hin quite a bit back then.
The EC retains control of the fans because an OS process could crash, starve, or otherwise fail to do its job in a timer manner. Without that code running, the hardware cooks itself.

That said, the OS could have been allowed to give its input into the situation, and that might have solved a lot of these problems.

Moreover, I think this serves as example of why we collectively need to advocate for rights to repair/tinker, as some of these EC firmwares could be updated. Sadly, many are burned into ROM, so the only sane choice there would be to avoid the purchase in the first place.
Anyone can say they didn't mean it that way/they were joking without any cost to themselves as well.

Not to say that there isn't anything wrong with how people have been increasingly incensed in the last few decades, but that's basically what it was like in the 90s and before. Someone was like, "whoa dude what you said wasn't cool" was met with "it was just a joke".

Your reasoning cuts both ways I think.
> spectacles like the immense popularity of the "Anti-Work" thread on Reddit — have gone as far as to suggest this record-breaking trend is a movement of young, able-bodied Americans rejecting work altogether.

I don't think this is the point of "anti work". The point is (to me) that people should be treated equitably at work and that work shouldn't be the center of our lives
Right, why would they do that when it's clear that everything on the page is designed and intentional?
Luck has nothing to do with it. It's your diet, full stop. You are eating junk, and/or simply eating TOO MUCH, guaranteed.
You know this happened 500 years ago, right? If someone did this today and had that death rate, I would absolutely agree, but the challenges then were drastically different. No, not everyone made it, but those who did were the first to circumnavigate the planet - and they very much did make it.

A little off topic, but as a reminder of how different the world used to be: families used to move across the US on foot, maybe with a wagon carrying their supplies, and many died doing so. I'm quite thankful I can just get on a plane to see my family :).

Also, as someone who needs to remind themselves occasionally to be less negative, I would encourage you to be less negative about things that aren't 100% a success.

P.S. If you really want to hate on Magellan it would make sense to do so for something like him burning a village in Mactan because they didn't want to convert to Catholicism[0], not this. You may be pleased to hear that this directly led to his death.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mactan