skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also got about a terabyte of music.

Streaming is useful for me for discovery, not consumption. If I read an online or magazine article that means an artist I want to check out, the fastest way is usually searching for them on Spotify or YouTube Music.

But if I like what I hear and think I'll listen to it again in the future, my next step is to see if the artist is available on Bandcamp with high-quality MP3s/FLACs, or Amazon with AutoRips available. Failing that, I'll purchase the physical album and do the rips myself.
I'm working fully remote (for now), so I'm trying to figure out when the tech industry will be going back to the office in Dublin by reaching out to local recruiters. Most of them don't know yet for sure, but it's like to be some variation of 5 to 10 office days per month.
Reliably defeating ballistic missiles is already a huge challenge. Isn't this idea also interesting because it lets you kill ballistic missile warheads?
Ask HN: Who spends (or prefers to spend) more time on Usenet/IRC than on the web
Hey. I write a newsletter on humans and intentionality, and am interested in speaking with or hearing on here from people who either spend a lot of time on Usenet or using IRC, or who take strong anti-web positions and so chose to circumvent the web and instead engage with other Internet protocols like Usenet and IRC.

While I've got a broad interest in the subject (interested in hearing whatever you'd like to share), I am especially interested in hearing from people who prefer Usenet/IRC to newer, web-based social platforms (Discord, Slack, etc). Especially if you have taken a strong stance either way.

- What keeps you off the web and in non-web spaces?
- What specifically about Use/IRC do you like?
That’s awesome!

I actually still use Winamp 2 on a daily basis. The visualizations were my favorite part and is one of the major avenues which drove me get into software optimization. It would be fair to say my entire life might be very different if it weren’t for that influence.
I set up a Microsoft account because it was required to purchase Minecraft in late 2021. Somehow I forgot the password or the account was locked because I didn't supply a phone number. I tried to recover using my recovery email address and Microsoft would not grant me access unless I gave a record of who I'd corresponded with and some email headings. I literally only have a receipt for Minecraft in the inbox. A recovery attempt failed after 10 days. I don't see how initiating another would solve the problem and I find it mindbending that the won't let me recover using my recovery email address. So here I am telling my kid that we can't access all the worlds we made over the holidays, and contemplating making another purchase because my time isn't worth this annoyance. But I'm incredibly annoyed that they will happily take my money again for something I just purchased!
Why does this and many similar articles frame the debate around comparing different corporate and government influenced social media platforms without mentioning free community run social media as an alternative? https://fediverse.party/
Where is the ratio that skewed?!
I have hopes that the invisible hand will provide some corrective feedback. Because at the end of the day, someone has to do the electrical work and the construction work etc. If it can't be done without some amount of IQ the market will adjust for that.

This is already coming to pass in hot real-estate markets where it's almost impossible to get any sort of trade help. It feels like most of the skilled tradesmen (and women) have a plethora of job choices and they by far prefer to build new housing instead of dealing with nitpicky rich people for the same money.
To be clearer, Microsoft has a program allowing most governments to inspect the source code of Windows. This is not specific to one country.
Are you sure you aren't confusing chenille for Chanel? I made that mistake.
Hey, I kinda agree. Customers are #1 and #2 etc. I believe we have quite some happy customers.

But this is a forum managed by a VC so some people are certainly interested in this. I also thought it was interesting in the context of a side project launched on PH.

Feel free to check my Twitter (link in my bio) on how I think about and interact with customers.
> such levels of muscle development is highly unusual. I doubt it's healthy either.

I think that holds true for almost all female athletes, does it not? Every female Summer Olympic level athlete I can think of has very visible musculature far in excess of what you might see in otherwise 'attractive' women. In terms of ultimate health outcomes, I am not sure. I doubt any top level athlete fares well health wise long term.

> I don't really have a choice as to what I find attractive. I don't believe you do, either.

I think we're coming at this differently - you're referring to what you might find attractive, and I'm trying to consider an attractiveness grading scale. For example, as a gay man, I find both male shotput athletes as well as male gymnasts very attractive, but can at the same time appreciate that on my attempt at an objective attractiveness scale I might grade them differently - and other gay men might grade them very differently. Similarly, I feel absolutely no attraction to female athletes and can still consider them objectively attractive.
My ex company had a single review for 12 months. The review wasn’t a good one for the company but I didn’t disagree with anything in the review.

My company went through a big hiring spree during the pandemic. They found out about the review from candidate feedback and it was supposedly having a negative effect hiring. Still that single negative interview remained.

Then more negative reviews appeared a few months on from new hires who where treated badly and let go or left.

All off a sudden with a handful of extremely one star negative reviews which I would say are true, factual and reflect the company correctly, the negative reviews disappeared and a stream of five star positive reviews appeared specifically debunking each previous negative point from previous reviews with a positive spin.

I know the company and CEO, the CEO is a text book psychopath. It was fairly obvious he’d written the reviews and somehow got the negative reviews taken down. If it was by contacting Glassdoor or sending threats and lawyer letters to the recent staff who left I don’t know but either wouldn’t surprise me.

Any company on Glassdoor with endless positive reviews I’d treat as suspicious. The useful reviews are the informative negative reviews.
I heard they were writing the scenes of Casablanca as they filmed it. seems to work out ok.
> Shouldn't we care about how society is treating people, no matter who they are, instead of getting into a pissing contest about who society is _really_ screwing over the most?

This is a great point that often gets overlooked in discussions around gender, race, sexuality, class, or any other issue surrounding equality. I think people often hone in on the latter and it becomes counter-productive to fixing these issues. Thanks for bringing it up.
"Is it necessary to be competitive to have a successful career in tech?"

Depends on your definition of success, the definition your boss uses, and the culture/disposition of your peers.

I'm very much a 'we did something' type of person vs taking credit for it myself. It absolutely has hurt my career.
Throwaway's point about how the system is extremely self-selecting is still a very good one though.
Thats not quite accurate- it is true that high amp current is deadly in many scenarios, but it takes both amps and volts to kill. High amp, high voltage current is a killer for sure, but high current at sufficiently tiny voltages is not necessarily deadly. Similarly, high voltage at low currents is usually not deadly (but can be very painful).
In China, there is more thought policing when it comes to anything related to criticizing the government or authority.

Concerning social matters, people are far more likely to get bored than angry.
> Both of these are explicit examples of regulatory capture.

> The FAA is heavily dependent on aircraft manufacturers to self certify. EU members met in Brussels to discuss the exact metrics VW was spoofing, but failed to implement a measurement strategy that would have easily detected this manipulation due to pressure from companies regarding the expense and time of tests.

Furthering this line of thought, are you suggesting that these companies complaining about expense and time of tests would volunteer into a trade organization (and pay for it no less, which is how they exist), that of course would still require the same tests to be effective? Otherwise the end result would just be another certification that consumers would want before buying, but wouldn't mean anything unless they entail stringent tests.

> You cannot substantiate this assertion. If the state did not have easily captured, monopolistic, and absolute authority over the certification and other confidence-instilling industries, then it's highly likely trustworthy, neutral third parties would exist and compete to assess and verify the safety and other metrics of various industry. In the restaurant industry, ServSafe and its competitors are a great example.

Not to knock the service industry, but airplanes and cars are a bit more complicated to evaluate.

> There's also tons of nongovernmental safety and quality certifications in plenty of other fields with the potential for catastrophic failure and loss of human life.

I would be much more interested in examples here.

> Please actually read some of the foundational literature. Pretty much everything you've said is explicitly addressed.

So please address it using your already obtained knowledge instead of dodging.
I was using wireguard-go on FreeBSD jail running on top of an APU2C2 board. Torrenting from my laptop caused wireguard-go cpu usage to spike to high loads and 30-50% CPU usage. Loading wireguard-kmod on the host machine plus some devfs rules dropped the CPU load to 0s.

Not sure what happened there. The processor seems to score less than an RPi4 on Geekbench.
> I think the point is that nobody wants to make some account, then pre-load that account with money, and then wonder what the balance is, etc. etc. etc. Yuck!

Those free-to-play phone games seem to survive ok while making players pre-load a balance before they can buy their in-game advantage items with it.
Very few services are actually totally free or with neutral purpose. On larger scale, it is really hard.
Interesting. If someone were describing a word as "icky" in Internet subcultures, I'd guess "moist", not because it's actually icky, but because it's Internet subculture.

It's sort of how if someone on the Internet said "He's got a fedora", I would conclude that they're saying "This guy is a dork". In the real world, it would likely be a statement of fact, and based on the girls I hang out with, a statement of fashion.

Without evidence to back it, I'd hypothesize that this is a subculture effect, more than a gender effect.
That is fantastic, kudos to you for finding a way to cover those extra two digits. I am going to use this opener.
Or just press '.' if you're logged in
My issue now is that there is no way to stream my music and make these visualizations come up on people’s screens

I want something as simple as spotify over chromecast, that shows these visualizations on the fly

The metric is: can I do this in a hotel room that happens to have a smart tv?

Because it has to pass that bar, not the bar of plugging in a computer to my own tv’s hdmi port
Perhaps you mean The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love?

Also, it is bizarre to characterize Yang's mayoral campaign as listening too little to advisors. He seemed a completely different person than in the presidential campaign, and it was mostly because of all the expensive new consultants.
Making a support club for men probably has the same problem as trying to start a UFO or vaccines scepticism book club - since it is taboo you will have a hard time attracting sane members.
I don't know if a men's teaching club would be accepted, but I can tell you I've been told by a female school teacher looking for work that it's much easier to get hired as a male because high school administrators are desperate for more male role models to help struggling male students given the lack of male staff in high schools.
> Well, that is kind of the problem with generative art, it is all process with no point.

I don't see how this should be specific to computer-generated art. You can make drawings by hand that have no point. In my opinion computers are just another tool for artists.
Same here. Nowadays I usually do "reverse interviews" and have the candidate grill me and ask me questions. After all, there's a ton of tech jobs and the power is in the hands of the candidate; their questions should come first.

Some folks are surprised by this and I often have to help them along, but that's cool -- it is a bit different.
I'd argue that the people correctly handling encodings in Python 2 were vastly outnumbered by the people that weren't, but were getting away with it because the code didn't outright crash. Now in Python 3 it crashes, which is a pain in the short term but better in the long run.
> the proportion of adults without a college degree who marry plummeted from just over 70 percent to roughly 45 percent.

seems to be the answer is right here - college. Historically the basic level of necessary education has been increasing. 4 year grammar school couple centuries ago to the K-12 30 years ago, and today it is "K-16", i.e. K-12 plus college. Not having college today is more and more like not having GRE several decades ago.
It is a meaningful distinction. A microprocessor architecture would require support chips, like a south- and north bridge, plus RAM in additional chips.

x86 being the classic example. Here [1] is an example of a microprocessor board, you can see the MX support chips on both sides of the CPU. As you can see, the RAM (and the most of the address space-mapped things) is not on-chip. The bus is wired across the PCB.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/386DX40_...
Even if you're in crypto, it's good to note that DeFi is collateralized lending, for which the intended purpose is to avoid paying capital gains for the borrower, or making unrealistic returns for the lender because they're helping people avoid taxes.

I'm not saying this is unique to crypto (stock collateralized loans help the rich avoid paying taxes in the same way), but it's not interesting or unique.
> the movement of large objects would seem inherently more random than the movements of individual particles

sounds contrary to law of large numbers
The odd thing about this article is that it seems like the author is conceding to removing all restrictions on third-party software being installed on the iPhone because Apple is not currently restrictive enough on what third-party software makes it into their App Store.

I suppose I can understand the appeal of that argument, since it does resolve apparent hypocrisy and lying in Apple's statements about its policies, but crucially this argument doesn't actually address whether allowing sideloading will be good for users, despite the author indicating that they think it will be ("Until today, I thought forbidding applications sideloading on the iPhone was good for users. But…").

All the arguments that preventing sideloading protects users still apply, and haven't actually been addressed in this article.
Really depends on the sort of "windows-only" jobs you're thinking of.

I was hoping you were going to follow that up by saying you're working on a robot to clean vertical glass.
I drive Skoda Octavia III. The whole AC is electronic but with physical buttons and knobs (encoders) for everything (except steerwheel heating, but that turns on/off on setting last used when seat heaters turn on/off, which are on physical button). That said, only buttons I use are for defrosting front/back windshield in winter, seat heat and sometimes recirculation for smelly cars. The automatic temperature control works really great, I basically never have to adjust temperature manually. Its matured, ergonomic, thought out, responsive and always working.

Stay away from octavia 4 tho, its their pioneer of "software for everything" (whole climate control on touchscren), and its buggy af. 25% of time something basic wouldnt work, (such as the whole climate control, or even turning on lights!), with more challenging things (like phone pairing) failing basically every second ride.

The 3 is a solid quality no bs car, tho
> and porn

Are you talking about Shémale? Pretty sure it's a fashion brand.
Microsoft does this all the time where they will lock you out of an account and make it near impossible for you to recover even when you still have access to the email address and password.
Alec driving laws to blacklist companies that boycott the oil industry
And they also employ Phoenix framework creator.
> Have you never shopped for textiles for your house or apartment?

45 years old, and no. Why would I do that? All my furniture and drapes are pretty much IKEA. I have some interest in clothing, but aside from the occasional Hallowe'en death cloak don't know much about fabrics other than cotton/polyester/nylon.

A minute shopping is a minute wasted, in terms of my interests. I don't want to spend any time thinking about it unless I have to, in order to accomplish some other goal. I tend to standardize on colours / outfits / style to make sure I don't spend much mental energy on fashion or shopping, while still not looking like I don't "get" it.
https://archive.is/zl0O6
That's a good question to look for, as it indicates a really stupid and unimaginative interviewer. One should regard it as a possible symptom of a dull management staff. It's also a good one to turn around on the interviewer: "What have you been able to achieve here in the past 5 years?"
It is a little different with the nsa tapping the underwater cable trying to steal info where in China they create an internet where they hire millions of people to watch every conversation happening in real time.

One couldn't say the same.. at all.
Several people I know play and mod Minetest (https://www.minetest.net/). It seems to be the most complete replacement available, as well as enabling extensive modding.
The source code leaked a while ago, but IIRC not the final version. And it's not like one could really use it.
Spend some time reading about infertility at the start of the baby making process and I think you’ll find that it can terribly difficult. Especially as you progress into your mid/late 30s (women). And it is that starting process that can also cost lots of money, time, and energy.
that's theft lol.
In plain c, goto is about the only sane way to do error handling in an ergonomic and easily maintainable way. The only cost is the goto stigma (which is generally justified).
>Pay more than the Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court?

Yes. Why not?

One is a job in a market, with no "external" validation to make up for the lack of pay. The other is one of the most elite legal jobs in the world.
> France has most (or a significant percentage) of the leading fashion houses and cosmetic brands. So it makes sense.

Also, I think French words (in general) have associations of "high class" and "fashionable" in the American context, so calling something by a French word is an easy way for a marketer to fancy something up (for certain classes of something).
At first I thought you were joking, but perhaps you were serious about it?

I can't tell and I'm literally LOL right now because of that
Sateen probably is a quite relevant example - I, as a male, have absolutely no idea what fabric is used for the bedding I sleep in or buy, it might as well be sateen but even when looking for bedding I would not care to read the part of the description where it could say 'sateen'; perhaps I might touch it while browsing in a store and use the sense as a criteria for choosing between, but it's not relevant enough to read and use the fabric name at the time, much less remember it. I know that there exist fancy beddings made of silk, but that's literally as far as my interest in bedding fabric has ever gone.
It’s a great idea. It also seems like it ought to be a simple UI and easy to do, at least if it wasn’t for spam.

Look up my email in my profile and I’ll share what I know about the problem.
agreed! might be oversharing, but I've started this whole end-to-end process, since buying my house in a city. Going surprisingly well, surprisingly enjoyable.

No need to bring in outside fertilizer, not flushing hundreds of gallons of potable water per month into the sewer, and I get top-notch compost to use for growing veggies.
Even in philosophy, it depends heavily on program and concentration. Universities are not consistent about which programs fall under the Philosophy Dept, and even if we look at "proper" philosophy at a highly-ranked university, there are some areas that are considerably less rigorous than others. I think you'll find more "Plan B" students there.

I could say a lot more on this and about the decline of academic philosophy, but you get my point.
Looks like a great game to try tonight! In the spirit of Transport Tycoon?

But man, there's something really off-putting about downloading from Sourceforge. I can't put my finger on it, but it seems scammy.
Simple PHP/MySQL backend with any frontend, usually Vue.js + TypeScript for quick projects and React + TypeScript for larger ones.

I really like Vite and the Vue3 setup script syntax, I might switch entirely to VueJS in the future, but the React libraries are better.
We come in peace. Shoot to kill.
Not sure if this is a publicity stunt.

Or the best news I’ve had all week.
BlackRock Planning to Offer Crypto Trading, Sources Say
Electric heat pumps extract heat from the environment, this is only really efficient above freezing temperatures. A quick google gives me "-10 C" as a minimum operating temp, or 14 F

My house uses an electric heat pump but has an "emergency heat" function that falls back to resistive heat at much higher cost.
The problem is people, including women, get to pick their friends. If you're branded as awkward or ugly all women will avoid you leading to a self-perpetuating cycle.

Since women can pick their friends and generally pick gregarious, outgoing, and socially competent men for their friend groups, they ignore and do not understand the type of man who is labelled an incel.
The authors description of the two has been consistent with my experience. Buildroot is a lot easier to get going with. There might be good reasons to use yacto but if you are new to all this I wouldn’t start their.
No, it must be a joke.

> There also isn't a comment on every line

This must be a joke LOL

Why are folks downvoting?
I need to fight, otherwise I'm not taken seriously.
Very poor analysis and not at all compelling argument for sideloading apps.
One would argue that the app stores provides a benefit to the consumer that would not be implemented anywhere else since these benefits are not lucrative. One example is the ability to cancel subscriptions from one source, App Privacy Reports, seeing when an app is reading from the clipboard etc.

And no, entitlements mean nothing without enforcement.
For the quote you mentioned, i agree with you for the most part. However when it comes to cooking with a wok, another factor may come into play, which would give exception to the quoted “rule”. Some Chinese cuisine require something called “wok hei”, which is essentially cooking under intense heat, something that an induction cooktop could not achieve

https://guide.michelin.com/en/article/dining-out/what-is-wok...
This is exactly what I (selfishly) want Apple to do. I don’t want Facebook, Google, and co. to require sideloading in order to get around Apple’s privacy rules, but I do want to be able to run emulators without paying $99/year.