skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've already got an open source Winamp if you're using the likes of xmms, qmmp, Audacious or anything else that effectively loads classic style skins (not that they tend to get it spot in) so does it really matter what the state of Winamp vs it's source code is...? I'd say no.

As you've clearly got something that fits your needs as do I by slowly making my own Winamp compatible player to run my old Winamp plug-ins (which were always closed source nor am I for or against OSS but it needs to be the dev that decides not external pressure) because I don't trust nor like what's happened with those that now own the brand.

Also source code is pointless without dev(s) & unless we're looking for AI to do all of the coding, whether the code is open or closed, the fleshy meat bag bashing the keyboard is still needed for the time being :)

Use what makes you happy & I'll keep making & using what makes me happy too :)

-dro
Particularly serious is trying to confuse a possible lab accident with a deliberate weaponization of a virus.
"Now playing songs by Drake."
Duckduckgo, "NXP LPC", sidebar, quote from wikipedia:

> LPC is a family of 32-bit microcontroller integrated circuits by NXP Semiconductors.

Not a microprocessor. You are the second guy to pull this on me. Do people even read what i write? Did i write unclearly?
And the other side calling anyone suggesting a lab leak a right wing conspiracy nut wasn't politicizing it?
tbh it went both ways
Mere weeks after Covid-19 arrived on our shores, nearly every media, social media, and scientific establishment were in lockstep denouncing the "fringe", "far-right" lab leak theory, and suppressing it as best they could (Twitter banned people for posting about it in 2020). Not only was it fringe, it was racist too! Before any real, thorough research had been done, they stated with certainty that it definitely did not come from the lab. How could they know so quickly?

Its scary to see how quickly our formerly respected institutions were to suppress a legitimate inquiry, simply because... why? It was associated with Trump? It offended China?

Anyone who argues for more social media censorship needs to look long and hard at the lab leak theory and how it was handled. These corporate giants that are supposed to be the arbiters of what constitutes misinformation got it wrong, and they got it spectacularly wrong. They got it wrong to the detriment of people who want to know what really happened, and they got it wrong in favor of America's greatest adversary.
Sounds like a pretty easy fix for Apple then.
In the long run, it frees up the hardware manufacturer to make big changes that benefit the user. For example one of the reasons Apple was able to pull off the Arm transition was because they didn't have years of backward compatibility to deal with. They didn't have to deal with 32 bit apps, because those had been banned by Apple in a prior OS version. No super old legacy APIs, because they all were already removed in prior OS versions.

Just compare the cluster-fuck that Windows on Arm is to the great experience of running x86 apps on an Arm Mac.

> Users are then stuck with their favorite apps being broken and unusable.

Yes, and they get mad at developers and the developers have to fix it when they otherwise wouldn't have. That means Apple can credibly roll out new APIs and features that are _better_ and force developers to adopt them. That's incredibly positive for users in the long run. Things like HW accelerated machine learning (still not available on Windows!), ARKit (Android equivalent is garbage), GPU accelerated UI (a dumpster fire on Android that no developer uses), etc.

Think about this: if you're an AR app developer and Apple suddenly rolls out a new update that massively boosts performance IF you use the new API, are you going to use the new API and spend time porting over your existing functionality? Hell no. But if Apple forces you to, in the long run users get a way faster app, in exchange for some short run inconveniences because the app broke.

A famous example that the Android community gripes about is Google's Camera2 API. It gives much better image quality but Snapchat refuses to use it. So Android image quality in Snapchat continues to suck because Google doesn't have the cajones to outright remove old APIs and force app developers onto new ones.
Important is to curate your own list based on the company and role. In the posted article there wasn't many cultural questions and I'd certainly add those (why do people typically enjoy working here? examples of tough situations the team or company has been through? What are the company values (does the interviewer even know?) and how are they important or not day to day, etc...) also probe on your managers management style (or you might end up hating the job) as well as ask to speak with future colleagues (in everyone's interest). Be prepared to be quizzed on why you're asking your questions (after all there has to be thought behind it). And for interviewers - many time the free dialog and understanding what's top of mind for your candidate is as important than the scripted questions. In fact I start off interviews saying we both need to get to know eachother in this session, and if there are any burning questions or things they'd like to know already? (that way I can see how much they've thought about the role and what's in their mind before they've had a chance to analyse the company or myself too much and maybe get a better picture of the candidate).. oh and my favorite question to the interviewer (even if it's me) is "If you had a magic wand and could improve one thing about the company what would it be?" - hard not to get some interesting insight into the company with that one.
Are there actually any Webkit browsers on Windows without having to build it myself?
True. What I was trying to say is that since the automation does not have this weakness, we should be improving on mistake-rates, not introducing more failure points.
I'm not against fusion, there just is simply no viable fusion power that can be built today. It's not going to get here fast enough. We need to adopt renewables yesterday. There is no time to be wasted pretending that fusion provides any value aside from starry eyed theoretical aspiration.

We will not be here in 200 years to enjoy fusion if we don't adopt solar and battery _right now_.
Just read the Twitter they're citing

https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1491297779855278082?t=...

probably the url should be replaced with that anyway
Yep, one of the confounding factors of this whole conversation is that there have always been several theories under the heading “lab leak.” Some of which were completely plausible (though had little to no evidence) and some of which were 10 layers deep in actual conspiratorial lunacy (also with similar amounts of evidence).
Was Trump the one making it political? Or were his opponents making it political by using it as a cheap excuse to accuse him of racism/xenophobia, as they did when he suggested a travel ban in March while democratic senators were explicitly encouraging citizens to visit their local chinatowns?
My grandmother was a programmer working at a university, so I know. Nobody here said women aren't suited for that type of work. It is just that when video games became mainstream in the 80's you saw an avalanche of boys wanting to learn to program, and ever since then the field has skewed heavily male, like most other engineering fields where you build things that moves. My grandmother might have been a programmer, but she was never interested in computers as a hobby, it was just work to her.

Note that the number of women entering the field didn't decrease, it was just the number of men increasing so much.
"Would you like a car that updates its entire control panel, unannounced, with a software upgrade and will hide familiar buttons on you when you need them the most?"

https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1488030592880967680
IMHO hierarchies are useful, the issue is which hierarchy, being able to change it easily, and having more than one.

A sequential form (like text or code) has only one hierarchical organization, but references - names of many kinds - encode graphs.
You sound like a bot.
Best tool for boolean geometry I’ve personally used. I’ve had many more successful 3D prints than any of the point-and-click CAD tools in which I have also spent hundreds of hours.

But with ADHD tendencies, the rendering time of OpenSCAD often had me getting distracted and forgetting to finish whatever I was doing for a while.

This is very exciting! Great work, OpenSCAD team.
Eventually some Mazda owner will get frustrated enough to actually do that.
Two hour old account posting crazy right wing propaganda to HN? Why aren't these insta flagged? And wow, sensible comments are already greyed out. Is HN getting brigaded?
> One obvious example of this is the fact that CMU admits 50% women into its CS program, even though their applicant pool and similar caliber schools have around a 20-30% ratio. So if you believe that women and men in the applicant pool are equally qualified, women have a 2x higher chance of getting in. That's just basic statistics.

This is a reasonable initial assumption (candidates are equally qualified), and so there is evidence that something is happening (by examining the initial figures). But it may or may not be a bias in favor of women (that is, in this case, something like giving "points" to female applicants either explicitly or implicitly). You'd have to examine the actual applicant pool to determine what was happening other than being able to conclude that something is happening. It is also plausible that the female candidates are, as a group, more qualified than their male counterparts.
Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (Loftid)
Wild to me that data showing men are facing objective decline is called a win, just because the gender gap is smaller (or speeding in the opposite direction as before, with regards to college entrance rates) due to the situation being worse for men.

Society really loves to kick them while they’re down these days.
According to this source[1], the average student loan debt for a new 4-year graduate in 2020 is $28,400. Of course, this is highly variable depending on the student, but $150-200k is not typical for a 4-year degree.

[1]: https://www.credible.com/blog/statistics/average-student-loa...
> Would those governments have been more forthright if one of their labs were to blame?

I'd say maybe not.

But the Chinese are a lot better at suppression!

Defenestration is a very effective tool....
At t=0, none of the theories had any evidence. That's cause for investigation, not derision.
There is no technical reason that Apple cannot maintain the exact same review processes that they have today, or even more stringent ones (that’d actually be good), BUT instead of then putting the app in the AppStore, they simply sign it with with the AppleBlessed(TM) key, and give the binary back to the developer.

Whatever might happen to that binary between Apple signing it, and the iOS installer getting hold of it DOES NOT MATTER — if the signature is still good, then it’s no worse off than if it was put in the AppStore.

The security argument is total BS.
Ravens Matrices
I’ve always imagined a lock as a conditional sleeping operation. What’s the difference?
fwiw vimeo requires login to watch that
Is 'fair local government' correlated to the presence of robust local media? Seems like a sad state of affairs if that is indeed the case..
I disagree on the lack of work community and camaraderie, and I don’t keep animals at home, period. I also don’t see pair programming as a huge plus in any event, but when it’s needed I’ve not found it to be any less effective remotely.

As for the rest, I (personally) don’t see them as positives anyway…
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Sorry, but I don't remember how I became aware of your comment, and I also don't see why or how that would matter.

We have lots of different windows into the threads and I sort of random-walk through them all day. Possibly someone flagged something.
Video of the flight hardware being inflated https://www.nasa.gov/feature/getting-pumped-up-for-launch
> This isn't some fringe crackpot theory - and it shouldn't ever have been treated as such.

I agree. I think it got labelled as crackpot because a lot of the early proponents were suggesting that it was leaked on purpose, which strays well into conspiracy theory territory.
How is the most expensive model ‘required’? The only difference in models is screen texture and storage.
You make it sound like the spread of covid could have been avoided. Only some island nations managed to prevent the spread and even then they are merely delaying the inevitable.
I've discovered that the crippling bug in asciiflow [1] is not present when running it in FireFox, to my great relief.

[1] https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow/issues/185
> I think the ball is firmly in the woman’s court now. Women have most of the advantages (education, societal promotion, fit in better with our institutions)

I don't think we at all can define what individuals should do based on their gender; that is sort of the point. They can be who and what they want to be.

Maybe by some theory women have most of the advantages, but the outcomes clearly indicate otherwise. Look at the successful and elite in almost any field.
>Someone else was complaining about it affecting their cochlear implant. That is horrifying.

Definitely.

>It is awful that my CPU has to be constantly running a FFT to read this signal. I think Apple has an ASIC which does the Siri voice recognition.

Isn't it the zoom box that has to be doing the detection? The pc is just sending the signal, which wouldn't take much processing.

>It's awful that it triggers the orange light to be constantly on so you end up ignoring it.

I think someone commented that's for the purpose of detecting if someone is muted and notifying them. Still, there should definitely be a choice to disable this behavior. I wouldn't be able to ignore it.

>What if Zoom is simultaneously using the microphone stream for nefarious purposes.

There's a lot of nefarious things they could potentially do even without using the mic, considering it's software already running on your pc that already has an encrypted connection to their servers.

>This is what Bluetooth was made for.

Good point, that would have been better.
I think the op was talking of being obese, which it sounds like you are not.
This is so cool! Really fascinated by the idea
Great call out. I forgot about some struggles in this regard myself, though IME dwarfed by the aftermath.
It has been my experience and my expectation that Sr. roles in engineering have a grasp of the business and the impact of what they deliver has on it. Jumping roles at a certain level at the likes of a FAANG 100% require that you have created / managed / delivered a project that had business impact.
I'm basically tired of debating this, but feel the need to correct another inaccuracy.

"That category simply means that it hasn't been ruled out - again, proving a negative. Nothing has established that link."

This is not correct. IARC group 3 means something has not been ruled out. Group 2B means there have been findings that suggest a potential link but the data is not conclusive and needs further study.

"And as for EM radiation and calcium channels - is that in vivo?"
Referenced studies in the prior link included, mice, rats, in vitro, and in vivo.

"At what level?"
Types and levels varied by study.

"How does that compare to exposure in the environments you are talking about?"

Again, varies by the referenced studies, from weaker to stronger.

"Is there any demonstrated harm there either?"

Oxidative stress

"Does this kind of change have a conclusive link to cancer or anything else?"

Oxidative stress is linked to, and thought to be linked to, many issues.
8-bit... amateurs :-)
It's pretty obvious that we are not going to have "conclusive proof" of any kind of origin.
That wouldn't really change this for the better. This whole thing is about Apple not having the final say.
Humm. I think you feel attacked.

Have you read the whole article though? The author goes on to mention that it's possible to do well in management for example.

And by the way, don't think you are better than the people you manage, you are most likely not. Most of them could do your job they just don't want to nor have the inclination. Could you do theirs?
This is just patently untrue. The failure rate of ventue-backed startups is 75%. The failure rate of all startups is 90%. Funding is correlated with a lower failure rate.

https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-failure-rate
I don't see how we'll be able to make people care about this issue at the current zenith of The Future Is Female zeitgeist in the West.

Given the current cultural and moral fashions, I can't think of many things that would be harder to empathize with than the laments of straight working-age men. There are so many more groups that are higher on the oppression totem pole that there's no way anybody will ever make it far enough down to care about boys.

People have been sounding those alarms for years to perfectly deaf ears, and there's nothing in the current culture that would indicate that we are ready to start listening anytime soon. Nobody cares, and help is not coming.
No it isn't and I'm tired of being told to pretend it is. I do things daily which are in no way political, all people do.
You don't lose data on a clean restart.
I don't think anyone wonders why, lol.
This happened to me with LinkedIn (during a job search!) when my phone that had 2FA on it stopped booting entirely (Pixel 3a). Support had no reason they wouldn't simply contact me via the contact methods on my profile to reset 2FA, so I'm in limbo right now.

To be fair, they want me to email pictures of my driver's license to recover the account, which they pinky-promise they'll delete afterwards. I'm not willing to do that, given I didn't have to provide any ID to sign up in the first place. So now I'm looking into having this form they sent to me notorized so I can get access back. What a mess.
To be honest I debated that, but realized that many may not know what this is.
Tell me you don't use Linux without telling me you don't use linux

Wsl is pretty terrible in my experience. your better off using a vm you manage yourself. Every vendor has shared folders. Each one can use a x server to display programs in your windows window manager.
Well then I guess there is nothing left to say, as there is absolutely nothing that can be falsified in your beliefs, only the single-minded faith in an absolute national enemy.

I only wish y'all could hear yourselves when you say these things, with even a fraction more rational clarity, even an ounce more suspicion of the political narratives at work here.

These conversations are deeply troubling to me, makes me absolutely ashamed to be a westerner of any sorts. I think I will go find greener pastures now, thanks for the wake up call, hope you find peace too.
What player do you have that has better UX? Winamp was lightning fast, could do anything in a few keystrokes (especially that "jump to" dialog was magical) and got out of the way. It was perfect.
The picture is nowhere near this neat and tidy. Plenty of men can't get jobs. They want jobs but can't get them. Life circumstances are far more complex. Its not always solved by learning to code either. Not everyone can do that. Offshoring jobs was not good for societal structures at all. It was all about short term profit.

Less men in employment is not a good thing. It isn’t some kind of passing the torch to women happy event. Its just mass unemployment of a significant number of people in their prime earning age. Its societal failure.
Describe to me the scenario where billions don't die?

I think you're pointing to the very likely reality which is that there is no way out. More often than not I agree with you. It's just a shame that, as a society, we've chosen not to even publicly allow conversations about what's really happening and the choices we have to make.
Yeah, I mean what is “all”?

In terms of internet traffic, my understanding is that the NSA would have access to a significant fraction of all of it via this room (and perhaps others). A significant enough fraction that there’s a high likelihood any given internet communication could be intercepted. Maybe not every time but enough stuff routes through the US that eventually it will be seen.

So to me I’ve feel comfortable using “all” in a loose (empirical) sense. But I see your point that it’s not as clear.
Yeah, that's a beautiful aircraft. The ducted fans look more modern and sleek despite being decades older than the V-22.
Yes, usually you keep a (saturating) waiter count, at the limit just one additional bit.
Regardless of whether or the corona virus was a lab leak several things are certain. A moderately lethal virus that is highly transmissible can be created in a lab and those nations with this capability now know what the effect of releasing such a virus will have on a country. As biological knowledge and capabilities increase the purposeful release of a virus becomes more realistic.

Warfare between advanced countries has changed the last decade or so. Cyber warfare, disinformation, fomenting dissent, and creating biological threats are much easier and more disrupting now. It does not require bombs and bullets to bring an advanced nation to its knees.
This isn't a "show HN" so most likely the author is not the poster. HN is also probably more color blind than average, so the poster should have checked multiple browsers and then the palettes before finding it interesting enough to post?

I get the idea that it would be nice if the web were different, but I think that is a personal responsibility to choose for yourself or try to address yourself by submitting a PR that makes the repo better.
And you have 3 coding rounds, so it's 6 problems.

Even the slightest problem solving one of those will be a sureshot ding.
Other people's computers.
And that is solely the company's problem.

You either accept that "people who take your free stuff might not be profitable" or you do a better job screening who you give free stuff to. Zoom exists.
And if the work prior administrations had done on disease surveillance and assistance to other countries in handling outbreaks hadn't been ripped apart, that would have helped as well.

Lot of folks to blame.
It predicted my 2006 Mini One would die in 6 months. No way on Earth, she’s in perfect health, the most reliable car I’ve ever had and has another good 10 years in her at least.
I was thinking it was in spirit of https://www.openttd.org/, but looks like independent?
A literal online course called Grokking the system design interview.
I can assure you I would have come up with the patented solution just as fast in 1996 when I was a teenager and dabbled in 6502 assembler on Atari computer. Because I solved it now on the basis of exactly the expeirience and knowledge I acquired back then.