skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this urge many 'experts' have to look at someone who's starting a new hobby (or in this case: mode of transport) and tell them to care about all of this stuff that doesn't matter.

It'd be like someone asking advice on getting his first car and all of these people come in and tell him that you'd really want a boxer engine, and while you can get FWD, RWD or AWD is just superior. And you also really ought to get a turbo on it. Some people still prefer a supercharger, but those are just outdated, and modern antilag systems just make turbos superior in all ways.
It also "Just works" in linux. None of the other launchers do that :)
I’m confused. Shouldn’t we weaken our governments ability to freeze an account without due process?
Not with ublock origin enabled
Every now and then I like to mention the rules were a lot different on PC many years ago. Back then, the developer got the 30% and the publisher (similar to Steam) received the full 70%.
In my experience: It's more likely to be some detail about your two positions than the coarse category.

In my case, a change of saddle made a great difference. The two saddles weren't particularly different in price or overall look, but one happened to fit my body much better than the other. Luck.
This isn't right. Think about putting locks on doors. Everyone is going to put a lock on their external doors and not on the interior doors in their residences (except for the special sort of "lock" on bathroom doors) but maybe on some internal doors in their businesses.

People can make the right choice about security when they know what they are securing. Instead, online we are inundated with so much unnecessary security we start to have a prior biased towards: this isn't important. Back to the physical door analogy, when there are locks on every door even doors that really don't need them, people start propping open doors.
Sometime ago there was a big push "Apache is old fashioned and clunky! Nginx is sooooo powerful! Move to Nginx!!"

Now we are seeing the opposite backlash.

As someone who doesnt know much about this topic, I also wish there was an easy answer :/
Also see: Aftertext,
which separates markup from text

https://breckyunits.com/aftertext.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29643313
Here's how Google shares, monetizes, and exploits your data
Doesn't 16 bit audio already require dithering to capture the full audible dynamic range? That makes me worry somewhat about cutting more bits and layering dithers on dithers.
Who says your filesystem isn't compressing data under you? Actually, who says the disk itself isn't?

(Sometimes they both are.)
1. The great and infamous Stavros has replied to me !

2. Why do I need your image hosting program?
> * Steam sales

I think it's worth adding that Steam's (more recent) refund policy is also a big deal. Even if you don't need it, knowing that it's there can influence buying decisions because it feels more like you can "try before you buy" (although this actually involves paying before you get to try and then putting yourself in a situation where Steam could refuse to give you your money back).

After using Steam almost exclusively for years, picking up a Nintendo Switch was jarring because there's pretty much no way to walk back from a purchase even if you have only played it for a few seconds (or just downloaded it). This also goes with games perpetually sitting at AAA release day price points, release dates often being unclear or promoted more than the actual release and sales affecting your wishlist being undercommunicated in comparison to Steam.

Steam simply lures you back in by sending you that e-mail that the game you wishlisted five years ago is currently on sale at a 90% discount.
GP probably meant something among the lines of: "What is the most nested turing complete system ever built"
Microsoft's SQL Server used to pad a blob that was stored in the database with an arbitrary amount of zeroes. This bit us when trying to verify the hash signature of that blob. I don't know if that's still the case.
Citations needed

I know you are venting, and even agreeing with me, but I wasn't trying to make this a SWE vs PM thing. The dynamic you describe hasn't been my experience, at least so far.

Wherever you work, I hope you find ways show the value of your work to your management chain too.
FLAC isn't an unmaintainable "engineering marvel", the algorithm is pretty simple and all the data is checksummed. That's enough to make it a better archival format than WAV.
to be fair, even on stores without the 'cartelish' 30%, prices don't seem any lower, so it's not as if how much the storefront takes has any difference for the consumer. Personally I'd say it's a combination of first mover advantage, good (enough) product/service and the fact that a collection of game is rather 'sticky', sine you can't move it to another storefront
No, it was real forensics, dead bodies etc. Very interesting, but you needed a strong stomach for it.
I badly cracked the head tube on my run-of-the-mill steel frame (Reynolds 501 CrMo) and a guy recommended by a bike shop welded it up for me for £25. Six years later it's still going strong.
> I use the term liberally as a euphemism for hacking these contracts and taking everything for yourself under the observation that company/community bug bounty systems are broken and undervalued for the value they provide.

hmm...
> Markdown simply isn't meant for that kind of content. The idea of markdown, is that you end up with a text that is readable by itself, and renderable in more simple graphical environments.

Also renderable safely and in bounded time (TeX is turing complete).

> No one should ever ask themselves "how do I do image positioning" or "how do I add pagination" when dealing with markdown. That's just not what it's good for.

Meh. This is a common question for table extensions, and the full-blown image commonmark spec is a bit of a mess.

> Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX.

That would be an improvement over the current state of affairs at least, though probably a tad overdone on the other side of proper complexity.
That's insulation but insolation can also help with saving energy ;)
Yes, I think the JS ecosystem (which I am certainly part of) does sometimes ignore established terminology and solutions from other ecosystems. Although I must say that the JS ecosystem really has amazing tooling in certain areas (say prettier, eslint which I am missing in the Java world for instance).

I was actually about to mention Nix in my post as well. Being a casual NixOS user myself I wonder if there is any kind of monorepo tooling based on Nix? Without ever having used Bazel myself I always thought of it as Nix-like.
In general GDPR are enforced across the board. But there are so many websites and companies that there are no resources to check everyone if a breach is not brought to the attention of the relevant authority.
Twitter Bots are Attacking to block OSINT users
> > A consultant is independent, for example; a contractor is not. The difference is that the client tells a contractor what to do, while a consultant tells the client what they should do.

It's not that rosy. At the end of the day, you still work for the client even as a consultant. You still have to produce things you would rather not. You still have to properly identify and solve the problem your client wants solved.

Also most people who work as consultants still occasionaly do some work which would be classified as a contractor job by this definition.
People always come up with this population-size argument in contexts where it's totally irrelevant[1]. So what if Germany has eight times more residents than Sweden, or Sweden eight times fewer than Germany?!? Everything still works the same, only scaled up or down by a factor of eight: You have eight times more/fewer consumers to supply (with energy, staplers, food, whatever), but you also have eight times more/fewer entrepreneurs and workers to supply it.

___

[1]: This moronic argument is most frequently brought up as "Single-payer health care can't work in the US as it does in [insert any country with single-payer health care], because the US population is [X] times bigger!" Yeah, but so fucking WHAT? That just means the US has X times more health care recipients, and an X times larger economy to supply health care! It's just the same thing, scaled up by a factor of X. Sheesh...
> The simple answer is to reject the cashless society.

no

> I'll take inconvenience over slavery any day of the week.

your "inconvenience" is the result of modern slavery

you get to not have to work hard because some other poor kid will produce everything you need, he won't get to have your "inconvenience"
Very important to keep in mind.
Thanks. I've been seriously considering Volunteering recently.
I see

If your point is that most users of FLAC would be happier with AAC/Opus etc I agree (and with a more significant savings)

And yeah if you're looking at longer archival times, PCM probably makes more sense. But I think FLAC suffers way less rot than, for example WMA
I did have some problems with some games that claimed to support Linux but wouldn't run on latest 64bit Ubuntu or take issue with whichever graphics drivers I was using, but yeah, generally Steam games would simply work whereas the rest either wouldn't or would require layers of indirection like WINE and a lot of fiddling.
> Nasty surprises seem to happen to people who credibly oppose Putin

I believe, they just don't have/don't want to spend money on showing a real election circus, like in US. Russia is a poor country and making people believe that a cross in a white form means something if you are not a billionaire and can't get billionaires to support you with money, costs a lot.

You have "free press" and "free speech" in the internet, doesn't seem to help much, does it?
It's kinda funny, it used to be that "can I pay by card?" caused cashiers here to sigh and get a little annoyed by having to process a card payment. Some scolded me that I should've told them sooner (though exactly when was never clear to me). Presumably their POS systems were geared towards cash payments and card payments were bolted on as an afterthought.
I have tried it. It works, but the difference in my experience isn't a huge one.

Complexity 0 is about twice as fast as 10. Which isn't bad, but if you want to go really fast it still leaves something to be desired.
There is https://nderf.org/
It's nice how things get "pretty damn smart" if you don't optimize for trackable eyeballs on ads.
Yeah it is essentially storing bytes in a encoded form.. it is never the most efficient way. uuid, hex, base64 whatever.. when it hits the db it can be decoded into bytes and stored more efficiently which is generally a good idea.
The internet should operate like a sunflower, servers should follow the sun. Data centers should operate on solar energy, deploying themselves at the sunrise and shutting down at sunset in given location.
> This is beyond insulting, especially since modern flagships also lack microSD expansion.

They'll do everything they can to push people into using their cloud services. It erodes the concept of ownership when you have to ask for permission from another party to access your own stuff. The more dependent they can make you on them the better. Plus when I listen to an MP3 stored on my phone, there's no opportunity for 3rd parties to track what I'm listening to and how often or to push ads at me.
Very good info, just want to add one thing: if you haven't biked for some time, your butt will hurt after the first couple of rides.
Yet another flappy bird kind of a thing that caught on. It seems pretty boring to me and I don't wonder at all why I didn't have this idea first.

It's pretty much a crossword variation.
Did you actually Sell any colors?
You can do it already if you 3D-scan your place with this for example https://poly.cam/
>except maybe Apple.

Apple obsoleted all 32 bit iphone apps a few years ago, so not even remotely comparable to steam in this area imho.
I'd say it's 50% luck and 50% strategy. I have written my own clone, and my colleagues play it everyday and share their result. I can tell that some people are consistently _really_ good at it and never lost a single game, while some are average at best.

Of course, if you pick the right word in 3 tries or less, it's mostly luck. But beyond that, you have to plan a little bit ahead, recognize there are more possibilities than available lines, and act accordingly. That's when the game becomes interesting, and gives a little bit of dopamine. Finding the word in <= 3 tries is nice if you want to brag a bit, but not really satisfying. It's when you finally find it at your 5th or 6th try that it's pleasing.
The annoying part with Steam is, almost every time I start it, it is downloading a few hundred MB large update.

This makes absolutely no sense to me.
* first of all they could reduce the patch size
* second, what need is there to update a launcher this often, why not pull the required info from some online database

This thing is wasting internet traffic without any apparent good reason.
All lossless codecs use only integer math or else they wouldn't be lossless due to hardware/compiler optimization rounding differences.

…is what I want to say, but IIRC Lagarith actually does use floating point so you have to emulate x87 to decode it.
> Who says your filesystem isn't compressing data under you?

Me, because we don't use transparent compression anywhere.

> Actually, who says the disk itself isn't?

I'm not very sure about that, to be honest. SSDs do that to prolong their life, but the saved space doesn't return as more space on FS level. It just returns as endurance, which is more important in my case.

So, disk's transparent compression doesn't mean very much from a sysadmin/OS operations perspective.
I think that this is the problem. No one understands what is going on. So instead of trying to find the root cause of anything, they add another tool or another layer. And then we have 45 micro services running on a lot of expensive hardware (somewhere) doing less and with worse performance than what we used to do 15 years ago in a monolith on a single server.
FLAC bitrots less than WAV, because WAV doesn't have checksums.
Mass attack is targeted to OSIN users covering Russia & Russian movements near Ukraine.[0]

Addition: some OSINT users censored on Twitter in Germany, due to Nitter's dev reply to me.[1,2]

As result tweets not visible on Nitter's instances hosted in Germany as well.[3]

UPDATE: Multiple OSINT accounts that were locked received the notification from Twitter at the same time..[4]

[0] https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/149640978479026176...

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/157#issuecomment-104...

[2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1496417682605985793

[3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30439455
After the protests in Canada I started seeing a bunch of recommended videos on YT themed around random acts of kindness. I mainly watch technical videos, nothing else.

I am convinced that someone did something to pump those videos up and get eyeballs on them. If my hypothesis is correct I would find it to be creepy and insulting. I do not want to be manipulated.

Sometimes the truth is hard, and that's ok. Pain is healthy in the right doses.
Salty is a five letter word.
I like historical spellings because they tell the story of the development of the language; even though it can be pretty chaotic and tough to master, the chaos itself has a certain charm (for me) in demonstrating how how one of our oldest technologies lives and evolves in the minds of the human beings that use it.

Besides that, though, I don't like the Shields proposal because it's specific to his dialect. No "r" in "letez" and using an "a" in "jast" for instance makes this difficult for me to read.
1. Hahaha what

2. You don't need it, but you want it
I remember when butter standard in Lithuania was 200g, period. Now we got weird sizes of 190g or 175g.. And dimensions are smaller accordingly. Always gets me mad. Just increase damn price. Luckily few manufacturers still stick to old good 200g.
I think it's easier to sit down and stay put on a snowboard, just about everywhere. Whereas with skis, you seek out some snow naturally, probably on the sides, just to don't glide any further.

(You don't want to sit down with skis. Sitting down provides more friction than standing up.)
It's exactly what I did last time I couldn't play a game I bought on Steam because of third party DRM issues; though that time it was with Ubisoft and their new uplay that wasn't compatible with the game (and I don't think I had my uplay account information anyway)
Would be good to quantify the cash decline, if any, outside the US.

Like others, I incorrectly assumed US was using less cash.

Cash is winning in the world reserve currency, and the cashless doth protest..
Unfortunately events like the ones we've just had are what's necessary to demonstrate to people that no, we actually do need technology like this.

Cashless is going to happen. The convenience gain is too large for it not to. Cryptocurrency is the only way to preserve any semblance of genuine sovereignty in a cashless world. It is a technological necessity.
There does seem to be at least some de facto standard, at least checking my collection for stuff I haven't converted to flac yet I found the Wingspan soundtrack in wav format with, according to kid3, an ID3v2.3.0 tag (including cover art) and RIFF info. It works with mpv and VLC, I didn't try anything else (well, I tried a couple of command line id3 utilities that didn't show the tags). I've seen tagged wav files a few other places as well so it doesn't seem super uncommon. However, checking quick it doesn't seem like flac notices the tags when converting.
I think they are ugly, clumsy and annoying because the companies that are forced to show them resent that and want it to fail. It feels like they’re saying to me “Look at this horrible thing I’m forced to present to you, I’m not letting you read what you’re here for until you go through the most annoying way of responding”

It should be a browser feature but chrome has dominant market share and why would they do anything in the interests of their users’ data security (which of course jeopardises their adtech empire).

We need a better browser…. Don’t say Firefox. Brave could be it I suppose.
But if you use that gas furnace to heat radiators in a fluid-born (usually water) heating system, you only need to install an electric heater next to your furnace and re-route the pipes to/from the furnace to use that heater in stead. Not all that humongous an operation.
Did I miss the amortization of the CO2 emitted during the change?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30439403
The Epic launcher supports Macs.

There's not much software that supports Macs, but there's increasingly little on Steam too that runs on a modern version of MacOS too because of Apple's decision to abandon the space.
Re: flashers. Point taken. Definitely no front flashers at night. I tend to think they might do something positive in bright daylight on long open roads, but I wouldn’t be the expert on other people seeing me.
I wish they explained how to merge existing repos into one new (mono)repo while keeping git history. Still haven’t cracked that problem
Well, don't forget that people stayed in cinemas for ages after Marvel movies finished to see a teaser trailer for another Marvel movie.
Definitely. With a kid on the back a bike has to be sturdy first and foremost. It's not a slow bike, but it has just three speeds (start-from-standing, normal, downhill/wind-in-the-back).
What is the matter with PWM dimming? Would it be resolved by using a higher frequency for PWM?
The main reason you use PWM for dimming LEDs is because DC dimming (or filtered PWM) causes color shift. By using PWM, you can drive the LEDs with the same current, but effectively switching them on and off. Driving LEDs at different currents produce slightly different color outputs.
But but but …every company needs all possible data about you because of “legitimate business interests”!
> Anyone who has had to deal with format support rot will sing praises of trivial.

Anyone who has had to deal with finding and recovering old data should appreciate the ability to fit significantly more on a disk. More redundancy and cheaper storage means more data survives.

> teenage coder [...] in an afternoon

Finding a FLAC decoder is very unlikely to take longer than that, even 50 years from now.
> in an older version of this, I know some places had and then removed the ability of tollbooths to cut speeding tickets. (It's pretty trivial to establish speeding if you get between two tollbooths faster than the speed limit would otherwise allow.)

Some countries took the opposite approach, and introduced lay-bys just before toll booths, enabling drivers to speed to their heart's content, and then have a rest before going through the next toll booth.
A) If you don't use the cloud, bandwidth is so dirt cheap that nobody cares.

B) Some ISPs will throttle you heavily if you upload too much.

C) Some users still have to pay fees for upload traffic.
There's an overlap in features between Nginx and HAProxy, but one isn't necessarily a replacement for the other. Nginx is a full webserver, HAProxy isn't a webserver.
No lover of Docker, but I'd have much more confidence in the quality of the docker Daemon code than any hpc batch system's local execs.
How do you train cats? I thought they are the king of the house!
Why Dubai is a booming hotspot for fintech startups
Whilst solvable, there's still a skill differential in the scoreboard. So in group-chats, everyone "solves" it, but the person who does it in 2 gets to celebrate (but a chunk of it is luck so it rotates a bit).
> In Germany protest against nuclear weapons and nuclear energy was one of the core issues of the Green Party for the last 40 years.

Yes, "Green" Parties are a blight on the political landscape everywhere.

> Restarting or extending the lifetime of existing plants would be political suicide for the current government.

Well, for the bottom of the current "traffic-light" coalition, anyway... (We can but hope.)
> Apple Music and iOS still do not play FLAC, which is one significant reason why I won't buy an iPhone.

You can't just install VLC on an iphone?
Would be interesting. Unlikely to work out though. On other note, opus 128 kbps is transparent (in my tests i can distinguish 100kbps files at most), with safety margin 256 kbps should be enough for all practical purposes (except archiving).

There are other worser codecs around, e.g. LDAC (best Bluetooth codec) 660kbps vs 990kbps is very noticable (cant setup the same way to compare 990kbps LDAC vs 128kbps opus)
> Most websites I visit show this pop up and it’s more convenient to just click ok than to move to 5 different screens and waste another 30 seconds

So they don't comply with the law. People working for these sites choose to make this difficult and harder than its supposed to be.
> It is also adding concepts, a major change in the way templates are to be written.

Indeed, instead of crazy tricks with SFINAE and tag dispatch, templates can be much easily written.
For you words list, you can look here: http://www.3zsoftware.com/fr/listes.php
Or he just has a knack for creating viral things.
It basically oversimplifies "right" to selfish ideology
and "left" to ideology of "greater good".

For once I would argue, it is for the greater good, if "selfish" individual rights are increased - and apart from that, I think using the left right spectrum is not very helpful for anything, but dividing society into tribal thinking.
That quote

The truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.
—Ursula K. Le Guin

Seems applicable to one or more of the world's dictators today.
What are you doing with it that opus decoding complexity is any kind of barrier?