skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you mind elaborating on why you chose to make the disclosure? It puzzles me because I don't see how it's relevant to the rest of the comment.
In Stack Overflow's 2021 developer survey, 34.5% of pro developers said they use Java and 29.8% said they use C#:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...

That doesn't factor in other JVM and .NET languages like Scala and F#, but it does give you some idea.
The "usually" violent was added to that dictionary in 2013.
500k-2m depending on severity is a good ballpark figure for numbers I’ve heard of
China is not located in the Americas, while Canada is. American geography education is indeed in a dire state.
OK, I agree. Why are you calling me entitled, though? I'm not demanding that the headsets be sold at loss. By "I don't care whether it makes companies money", I meant "I don't care whether it makes more money for the company purchasing them" (because the context of the discussion was that it would be companies purchasing these headsets for their own corporate efficiency reasons). A selling company must obviously make enough money to keep the production line going, how is it sustainable otherwise?

All I am saying is that:

A) certain conditions need to occur for a hackable home headset space to flourish

B) said conditions haven't occurred yet, and will not until the price comes down
This project uses librespot-python to access Spotify, it takes care of whatever is needed to access content. Can you give me a link to one of those DRM-encumbered "podcasts" to test? Thus far I have not come across anything like that.
If you're stuck with reading (not writing) relevant things from Reddit, there's always a Teddit[0] or Libreddit[1] instance somewhere.

[0] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit#instances

[1] https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit#instances

That these will break eventually is absolutely true however so to the Fediverse we shall slowly walk towards.
Using what rendering engine?

At these densities, increasing the autohinter strength (going from slight to medium/full) might yield comparable results with AA without having to enable subpixel rendering.

I've always used subpixel rendering along with full hinting strength to get sharper results so far, but I tolerated the fringing more than anything else. I'm quite glad to sacrifice the font shape instead.
I live in Seattle, and I would say that homelessness there is also reaching a state of crisis. Sometimes I see people in pain, sometimes I ask them about how they are doing or if they need anything or if there would be something that can help them; sometimes I can help them a little. Most of the time I don't understand what's happening.

You've obviously thought about this a lot more than I have so I'd like to gain some insight from you. I won't ask you about what the solution should look like since you didn't claim to know what it would be, but I'd like to learn more about what you think it would look like to actually address it as a serious problem?

Honestly I don't even claim to understand what the problem actually is, just that there seems to be some sort of problem and it seems to be growing rather than getting better. Could you write a little more about this? I'm curious about your thoughts here.

Here are some contrasting viewpoints I consider:

- Some believe that the US does not have much of a social safety net; some believe this to be by design; some believe this to be beneficial

- Some believe the US to be an individualistic society; some believe this to be beneficial in that it promotes the strong, the efficient, the productive, etc, to outcompete the weak, the wasteful, the lazy, etc.

- Some in the US believe that everyone should get therapy, psychiatry, etc under the guidance of a licensed professional; some in the US believe that psychiatric issues are just excuses made by the lazy to avoid work; some in the US believe that religion will save you and it's all the work of the devil; in some well-to-do places in the US, waiting lists for psychiatric care are months-long even with really good insurance; some believe that we are also in a worldwide pandemic that has had deleterious mental health consequences for everyone, and that many have been pushed to the brink

- Some believe we should increase taxes and have the government do things for people, or force people into doing things for themselves; some believe in reducing taxes and government interference; some believe people should fend for themselves and if they are losers, so be it; some believe in charity and doing good deeds; some people donate to virtue signal, some use donations for tax write-offs, and some people donate anonymously and never tell anyone and nobody else ever knows of what they did

- According to some studies, the US ranks #1 in charitable giving, or generosity towards strangers; contrast this with other countries that some believe have better safety nets and more direct government action, though perhaps higher taxes

- There's a saying that goes something like "charity begins at home"--some take this to be a call-to-action for your daily interactions with others you come across, including strangers since that would have the most immediate impact; some believe in a utilitarian mode of action where energy/time/money should be directed where they'd have the most effect or return the greatest value; some believe charities to be scams; some believe charities to be ineffective
There are important differences in most of those countries including (importantly!) direct government regulation of prices, including salaries in the medical market.

British doctors, for example, work under a contract negotiated between a British version of the AMA and the British government. The government and the providers both have leverage, but the British government is the primary purchaser of services in that country. Salaries are lower since the government exerts pressure on them, as they are paid for out of direct taxation.

I understand that you feel very strongly that student debt for doctors is unjustifiable or too high or something. Student debt is not the main driver (or even a driver) of high salaries among US doctors. The level of their student debt is a completely separate topic.
Intel’s Mobileye to Launch Self-Driving Shuttles in U.S. in 2024
So one of my goals to start with was data autonomy. Campaign-planning and worldbuilding is really personal, so I wanted to find a way for users to feel in control of their data, while still having robust online features. Implementing a hybrid CRDT application is really hard, it turns out! Especially when your users are super prolific. So building an offline-capable system, able to gracefully support collaboration, that would still scale to thousands of docs, has been the hardest part. I think fundamentally we accomplished that goal, but there's still lots of improvements I want to make.

Another hurdle that fellow developers might be familiar with is dealing with IndexedDB across many platforms... Including Safari.
I think this is going to be a wake-up call, not just for Apple but big tech in general. They're used to the US where regulators, when they even exist, can trivially be worked around with lobbying or a half-assed, bad-faith "solution" like this one. It seems like this kind of strategy no longer works in the EU.
This is a huge disappointment in the computer monitor space, and not just because of text rendering! It’s such a bummer that Apple’s Retina displays on Macs didn’t make lead to high resolution displays taking over in the desktop market. My $2000 iMac from 2015 is still my best desktop monitor, and there’s still no remotely affordable equivalent options on the market except the LG 5K that Apple sells (which is well over half the cost of a new iMac).
Where it matters, the US already uses the metric system. Virtually all products are dual labeled, with good chunk being in metric sizes. The military uses metric exclusively, and so does most of the science community.

But to force the people to go fully metric would take a genereration.
Something weird going on with this tree. I've seen in posted on reddit and hackernews all around the past couple of weeks.

Funny how knowledge spreads on the internet.
I love and highly value open-source software. I try to donate to the creators of every piece of it I use, and make a rule of it if I intend to use it commercially. I admire open-source developers and hope for all of them to make a great living doing what they do, regardless of whether they themselves want that.

That said, yes, I think it's undeniable that offering one's work for free decreases its value in the market. Is that inherently bad? Certainly not, but it does make it harder to make a living doing it. Devs are doing okay right now because of how things are going—illustrators, not so much.

Projects like this rub me the wrong way for two reasons:

1. I've personally lost several contracts to people who charged very little or nothing for the (oftentimes very good) work they do for well-funded, plenty-capable-of-paying-fair-wages companies. I fully recognize this is just sour grapes, but hey, I'm eatin' 'em. Wouldn't you be frustrated to lose work to someone offering to do it for free for a client who intended to get rich using it?

2. Illustrations like these are, these days, intrinsically commercial and aimed at customer acquisition for businesses. These are for marketing; for raking in money. They aren't being presented as (though I concede they could be used as) jumping off points for artistic exploration or further creative development. I recognize others may not agree with me here, but that makes them somewhat antithetical to the open-source … cause? attitude? whatever.

A possible third, but more loosey-goosey point is that because the effectiveness and quality of illustration is much more subjective and difficult to measure than software:

Reasonably efficient functionality seems to be a satisfactory baseline for most people evaluating software, so that gives them a way to make a rudimentary cost analysis on it. A free, open-source search tool is great if what you need is a search tool, but if you need a membership management system, you can't just throw the free search tool on your site and call it good.

With illustration, however, 'screen that vaguely resembles a dashboard', or 'people in a meeting', or 'someone walking through a park' can all theoretically be used to visually communicate countless different service offerings or brand principles (which is precisely what makes these libraries so popular and effective), especially if you don't have a tuned or critical eye, or simply don't have much incentive to care about being more precise. It's therefor much more possible and more likely that a company can go years making tons of money without ever paying a penny for illustrations, despite those illustrations potentially being of great value to them. Which, yeah, bravo for them, I guess? But that sucks for illustrators.
Technology is still central to "tech-as-a-cost-center" enterprises. I'm absolutely a cost center and contribute to the firm's market differentiation by using technology effectively.
It isn't new and it isn't going away. Employers have always exercised discretion in dismissing employees, and they especially exercise it for high-profile ambassador-like figures in the company. Public outcry (also not new), possibly amplified by media (again, not new), is just one justification they might use, and it's not the worst or most chilling among them.

There is no satisfying solution to stop this because of course we generally want businesses to be capable of responding to public pressure, though we might not always agree with the outrage or like the people it comes from.
Company spins news to make itself look good.

Nothing new here, definitely nothing unique to cryptocurrency companies.
My wife took a child development course last semester and her instructor said the opposite: the school doesn't want me to fail anyone, so here's a bunch of makeup assignments and extra credit options.
Oh they 100% do use a version control system.

Your standard "shot" will contain 10s or hundreds of versions of animation, lighting, texturing, modelling & lighting. Not to mentions compositing. They are often interdependent too.

A movie like shrek will have literal billions of versions of $things.

> Does anybody knows how that works?

This changes by company, but everyone tends to have an asset database. This is a thing that (should) give a UUID to each thing an artist is working on, and a unique location where it lives (that was/is an NFS file share, although covid might have changed that with WFH)

Where it differs from git et al is normally the folder tree is navigable by humans as well so the path for your "asset" will looks something like this:

/share/showname/shot_number/lighting/v33/

There are caveats, something like a model of a car, or anything else that gets re-used is put somewhere else in the "showname" folder.

Now, this is all very well, but how do artists(yes real non linux savvy artists) navigate and use this?

Thats where the "Pipeline" comes it. They will make use of the python API of the main programs that are used on the show. So when the coordinator assigns a shot to an artist, the artist presses a button saying "load shot" and the API will pull the correct paths, notify the coordination system (something like ftrack or shotgun) and open up the software they normally use (maya, zbrush, mari, nuke, etc etc) with the shot loaded.

Once the artist is happy, they'll hit publish.

The underlying system does the work of creating the new directory, copying the data and letting the rest of the artists know that there are new assets to be pulled into their scene as well.

Then there are backups. Again this is company dependent. Some places rely on hardware to figure it out. As in, they have a huge single isilon cluster, and they hook up the nearline and tape system to it and say: every hour sync changes to the nearline. every night, stream those to tape.

Others have wrapped /bin/rm to make sure that it just moves the directory, rather than actually deletes things.

Some companies have a massive nearline system that does a moving window type sync, so you have a 12 hourlys, 7 dailies and 1 monthly online at once. The rest is on tape. The bigger the company, the more often the fuckup, the better the backups are tested.
I had so much trouble buying a replacement battery for a server raid card. At the time, this was a card they were still selling! Oh man. Dell. What a mess.
I never want to criticize something that someone has made, but I do want to offer an alternative!

I think you'd be SHOCKED how much amazing, completely custom artwork is available out there on sites like Fiverr and Upwork. For $100, you can get something beautiful and not generic... and best of all, support an artist!

(Obviously you can eventually spend significantly more on talented designers, once your project becomes more successful! Design isn't cheap, but it definitely can scale as your needs and wallet do.)
Probably? but another rule states that you can't have the entitlement and IAP in the same app, so the end result would be Apple taking away user's choice between IAP or external and forcing the developer to decide for all of their customers.
I think a lot of people view the billionaire space race as just another version of them comparing super-yachts. At least with the super-yachts, nobody's pretending it's an altruistic endeavour.
Can I steal this?
The Wikipedia article is probably your best bet for a summary of factual information at this point.

> One of the main organizers behind the convoy, Canada Unity (CU), acknowledged that they had planned to submit their signed "memorandum of understanding" (MoU) to the Senate of Canada and Governor General Mary Simon, described in the MoU as the "SCGGC". The MoU which was signed by James and Sandra Bauder and Martin Brodmann, was posted on the Canada Unity website in mid-December 2021 and publicly available until its February 8 retraction. (...) CTV cited Bauder saying that he hoped the signed MoU would convince Elections Canada to trigger an election, which is not constitutionally possible. In this pseudolegal document, CU called on the "SCGGC" to cease all vaccine mandates, reemploy all employees terminated due to vaccination status, and rescind all fines imposed for non-compliance with public health orders. If this failed, the MoU called on the "SCGGC" to dissolve the government, and name members of the CU to form a Canadian Citizens Committee (CCC), which is beyond the constitutional powers of either the Governor General or the Senate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Convoy_2022#Protest_go...
I've been working on one of these on and off for a while now!

It'll eventually be up on gosayhito.com. I'll try to remind you when it's done, but you can also probably put the website in as a monthly thing to check on.
This guy must be the most dangerous criminal alive: https://github.com/aaronryank/fork-bomb
This is the worst possible way to measure CPU frequency. Just use turbostat.

https://www.linux.org/docs/man8/turbostat.html
> You can always use a burner phone with a fake identity if you want to stick it to the man.

For the uninformed, living in the U.S., how do I get a burner phone that isn’t associated with my identity? I’ve looked in the past, it’s been a few years admittedly, but it seemed non-trivial.
From March 2019.
> The computer would randomly wake up from hibernate and drain the battery till it was dead.

I am under the impression that this was a more general Windows issue. Does someone else have more information?
>Did they fail to make interest payments as promised? Did they advertise an interest rate the they didn't fulfill?

You could say more or less the same thing about Bernie Madoff's fund, at least right up until the end. I'm not saying that BlockFi is doing anything wrong here, but simply having good results for a while in a bull market doesn't make everything magically ok.
I've been following yjs for a while. I've been really inspired by dmonad's progress, and I can be a bit of a performance junkie. Yjs's benchmarks were really impressive, and ultimately it was Kevin's blog post that convinced me to use it: https://blog.kevinjahns.de/are-crdts-suitable-for-shared-edi...
That's why HN is the best place.
The full stop on surgeries and appointments isn't the only thing that could impact excess deaths.

What about people who don't go in for preventative care? Or missed checkups causing a problem to go unnoticed until it's too late? Or mistakes made by overwhelmed hospital staff working long hours?

Just because the hospitals were open doesn't mean people chose to go in, and even if they went in they may not have had the same level of care they would have pre-pandemic.
Crypto to me reads increasingly like classical finance as time goes by. The parallel here is that banks lobby against new regulation, then once the regulation exists as a moat, they lobby to keep the regulation.

I'm sure the 100M fine didn't feel great but unless it bankrupts the company I doubt that BlockFi would want to go backwards now. For the low price of 100M they now have a map of how to legally do business in the space, in a way that is now much scarier to any would be new entrants.

At its most optimistic I think crypto is trying to avoid some of these regulatory rube goldberg value extraction machines. Maybe it will in some spots, but you can see too where it may also just reinvent them.
In Iceland there is mandatory retirement funds. You can choose which fund and many people pick a fund that is only made off of government bonds. More people probably don’t have a clue what their retirement fund is made off, it is just some number on their paycheck, so they participate in the stock market both indirectly and unknowingly. I think it is kind of a stretch to say that these people are doing stocks. Most people I know use every opportunity to withdraw early from their fund.

At most these people do stocks like a person who returns their compost to the city does public gardening.
> The SEC simply wants to expand their regulatory power outside of what they are permitted to do and is flexing on a big player for the media attention.

No, they are not. The SEC's goal is to protect consumers and the general public, and like most other regulatory agencies, have been doing a good job at it.

I feel like there is a growing distrust in the government (at least in the US) and this is not a good thing. If you don't like what the SEC is doing, get involved in a democractic way (voting, organizing, etc.) and change it.
Yeah, leaving Spotify for Tidal is exactly like burning books. Spotify clearly had an economic right to my subscription perpetually and I'm a Nazi for going elsewhere.
The love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos
The fact that anyone who has sought mental health treatment can be at a disadvantage in civil or criminal cases as a result is abhorrent. There should be much more stringent limits on the availability of this kind of information in the discovery process.
Warning: Don't click this if you don't understand what it's doing. You may have trouble closing it.

GH pages link: https://hamukazu.github.io/lets-get-arrested/
We officially switched to metric at one point. People were using metric. Specifically, nurses were using metric. Reagan put an end to it. And here we are.
I had disavowed Dell more than a decade ago due to their horrible support, but I figured it was time to give Dell another shot at the height of MacBook keyboard gate.

Boy was I wrong. The laptop itself was great when it worked. But my XPS 13 shipped with a barely functional trackpad. As with you, I had to spend countless hours on the phone with them to get them to repair the laptop that was well within its warranty. Never again.
What is a kilodrought, a centidrought and millidrought?
Is that not intentional? To compare the immunity gained from having the virus, to the immunity gained from vaccination?
I wish my profs had made that clear! I always felt like it was a big imposition to come in there and take up their time on what must have felt to them like a trivial problem. I would have been too embarrassed, I didn't want to be viewed as a needy or problematic student.
Spotify should be ashamed at their attempt to ruin podcasting by denying their basic foundation in RSS. Great project but why support Spotify exclusives at all.
Smartphone UIs are just too slow. Ever used a ps vita? Incredibly fast ui. Once you experience that it's kind of shocking how bad smartphones are. Texting on smartphones is a horrible experience that hasn't improved since 2008.
They are leaving or have already left the residential areas:
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-mayor-says-truckers-have-ag...
Pretty fun for a simple game. Difficulty level ramps up very quickly, perhaps overly so for a situation where eating quarters isn’t a goal.
This can be done with Bitbucket but the existing marketplace plug-in has been broken since they added the connect/disconnect webhooks as mandatory. Of course, the plug-in is provided by bitbucket …so that’s fun.

I wrote a trivial webstack to answer 200 to the webhook and then everything works. (Don’t know if I can publish it unfortunately.)

(Condolences to those stuck on Bitbucket).
Actually no.

Clothes dryers in the US alone (5% of humans) use the same order of magnitude electricity as global bitcoin mining. This claim is based on this back of the envelope estimate from the guy who led the decentralized identity project at Microsoft, ION, which also uses bitcoin as a foundational layer, https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1361342448014778369

And these US clothes dryers are probably responsible for much more carbon emissions, because where people choose to live doesn't necessarily correspond with the cheapest or greenest energy sources, unlike bitcoin mining which is ludicrously mobile.
Getting the phone is easy, just pay cash. Getting the SIM is a bit more tricky, and might involve someone in a dark alley.