skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rubik's cube speed-solver and wordle enthusiast here.

Wordle solving is considerably more demanding. It's more like trying to solve a cube in fewest moves.
If I would have to compare mindlessness of speed cubing to a word-based activity it would be speed-typing.
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That's not the only reason to raise prices, or they wouldn't have raised them this year given they made a profit in 2021. Netflix's net income has been positive for the last decade: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/net-i...

It might be a better business _for the the business owners_ with less licensing fees due to less third party content and higher prices, but that's not the same as being better for the users.
>Do you expect the government to host their own analytics?

No analyzing your citizens behavior on a government site (that you paid) should be done by private company's (to make money out of your data)...what a question....
This come across as one of those tiresome comments about what’s subjectively better. I eagerly away an HN argument over whether blue or green is a “better” color.

And trans fats aren’t any less healthy than saturated fats. That’s another lie.

https://junkscience.com/2018/06/flashback-fear-of-margarine-...
In case anyone needs the equivalent for MariaDB: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/uuid-data-type/

Couldn't actually find something similar for MySQL apart from using BINARY as the datatype, historical sources also refer to that though are (hopefully?) out of date: https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/storing-uuid-values-in-my...

An observation: seems like PostgreSQL is HN's darling (and maybe the industry's as a whole), i wonder why MariaDB doesn't get similar amounts of attention, apart from maybe not being as actively developed? Or maybe its relative simplicity or history works against it here?
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Exactly… the projection that datacenters' demand for computing power won't be offset by silicon efficiency improvements is somewhat speculative; the projection that Bitcoin's demand for computing power won't be offset by silicon efficiency improvements is obvious and is by design of the fucking system.
How did Google start to destroy it's central product?
I am now afraid to use Google for my search results as I might miss something important. What is a reliable search engine now, and how did Google end up like this?

Image is perfect example - slightly obscure movie with unusual name, Google didn't even try.
If you're interested about Aldi: https://www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-trader-joes-related/
Brit here: no markings on block butter wrappers at all..
Yeah, and outsourcing sw development to India is a great idea, until ...
Butter is a common ingredient in pastries, which require extreme precision for consistent results
Bazel should be smart enough to build only what changed. Is it possible that your CI doesn't cache previous runs? With Bazel I successfully used Google cloud build to achieve that by storing the bazel-* folders to Google Cloud Storage as last step of every build and downloading them as first step.

The target bucket I use has a very short object lifecycle setting so I don't even have to clean up old artifacts manually.
There are standard ANSI SQL DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL data types.

SQLite is not truly standards compliant by missing these truly essential column types which make it deeply inconvenient for use in enterprise apps. And also for apps that need pluggable/switchable backend SQL storages.
So much consolidation in a single entity. Lessons learned from covid are already forgotten?

What’s plan B?
> if you don't live in the US, how would you know that a stick is a standardized measure?

Because you ran into it in the first place. You think cookbooks are giving out subjective instructions?

"You said stick, but I don't know what that means" is a pretty reasonable conclusion to draw when you encounter the usage. "You said stick; you must not believe that words have meanings" is something else again.
Arguably there doesn't need to be a de facto standard, because there's a de jure one: RIFF INFO.

But anyway, if you're going to do WAV tagging (and remember software support remains poor) most people are using ID3.
> He was very pro-Putin, he still is - he spoke about how brilliant Putin's strategy in Ukraine is during this latest escalation of conflict (https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin-ukraine/).

Having an opinion about brilliance of someone's strategy is not a value judgement. There were plenty of brilliant strategists who were awful people and fought for awful ideas.

I remember how western media attacked Trump after he praised Lee as a great general, making it look as if he supported confederacy — which in context of his speech was clear he did not. In both cases, it's either a gross logical fallacy or a weak manipulation, and just as I can't take the media that reported it seriously after that, I can't take your arguments seriously after this either.
Yeah it does not need to be python, I dropped emacs lisp due to (pain), never liked bash, or perl. Java like in matlab isnt nice either, too damned verbose. Ruby might work, most webstuff is great at showing stuff, but I havent tried it.

The generic variant would be to make it modular and replaceable, but that would be a mistake, I would much rather have a tool good at a specific subset of jobs than a config heavy tool which is medicore at all. Perhaps advanced search and replace fits that, but I think its a fundamental aspect of editing.

Thats a good idea!
I can relate.

Here’s my story: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...
Apache is fine. No reason to switch to nginx unless there is something nginx offers that apache doesn't.

In earlier days a lot of people was under the impression that nginx was much faster for PHP, but that was not true. Apache with mod_php was faster, but the issue was memory consumption for non php files as the php module was loaded on every request, even if it wasn't php.

When using php-fpm you don't need the php module on every request as php-fpm is contacted as needed. This does increase latency and decrease performance for php requests, but the difference is indistinguishable for most people.

Slowloris attacks was/is one issue with non event-based webservers.

Both nginx and apache can handle a six digit number of php requests each second on a low end server. You application(Wordpress, Laravel) will without a doubt be a bottleneck before the webserver becomes the bottleneck.
A UK and metric cup are both 250 mL and a US cup is 240mL and nobody cooking is getting an accuracy better than 10mL so they are all effectively the same.
Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
What are some of your favorite websites you've ever come across on the internet? And why?

List for whatever reason.. the most obscure, interesting design, the worst design, etc.

I'm waiting to see some exciting findings.
There is no point in trying to fight climate change as an individual. The scale of pollution by industry is so mind-bogglingly massive that there is nothing that we can do to make a difference. We could all turn off every device, never buy anything new, and go back to eating foraged berries while living in a cave and climate change would still happen.

To give recent example of how industry works with no regard whatsoever to the climate, the German airline Lufthansa flew 21,000 entirely empty flights during periods of lockdown so that airports didn't change their schedules[1].

We are at the point now that unless industries change we should really start thinking about how we live with climate change, not how we stop it.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airplanes-empty-slots-covid
I'd argue (I think many would) that FLAC is substantially less complicated than MP3. Perceptual compression, the frequency domain, and things like the FFT are more complicated in implementation and in the math than Run-Length, residual / delta encoding, linear predictive coding. And perceptual compression schemes use both "classes" of compression tools anyway (broadly speaking).
Curious isnt the role of the secret service to protect the president and other elected officials/representatives? Why are they charged with launching crypto currency awareness? It almost feels like the executive branch is pushing for cryptocurrency crackdown through sketchy agencies.
Cash is just the physical representation of a fiat currency. Fiat currencies exist independently of cash.

As long as you can pay your taxes somehow with cash, I fail to see the problem? The tax office doesn't need to accept cash directly. I don't really see the problem if they delegate handling cash to banks or other institutions as long as no one can be denied access to those.
It’s extremely obvious that the person who made wordle killed it. What an admirable success.
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AFAIK stuff like .net's WPF and the GPU accelerated DirectWrite do font rendering in userspace. It's ye olde GDI that is in the kernel, because NT didn't run well on a 486[1]. Yes, Windows has about 5 different ways to render fonts, and no, they don't seem to render fonts the same way.

(In the case of this kernel text mode / BSOD code, I do wonder does it use the GDI font rendering, or does it have its own separate mini renderer just for those screens?)

[1] Probably a bit of a simplification, I know.
It can - it has supported RIFF INFO from the start, and ID3 support exists.

If software writers choose to not extract metadata from WAVs that's up to them... but I guess it amounts to the same thing if you only want to use software that doesn't read tags in WAVs.
I had the pleasure of implementing an Anki import for my SRS app [0] recently, and when opening up an Anki database I found myself scratching my head a lot. I have much respect and gratitude for the people that decoded and documented this stuff!

[0] https://mochi.cards/
Haha, I’d never seen that. I suppose my comment is a bit over-the-top compared to my comment history, but it’s somewhat of a touchy point for me when someone jumps into a new field and claims it’s easy and that they’re an expert without being able to back up the claim (some rare people can do this with a new field; most cannot).
It's not necessarily impoverishing and depressing. It can be, especially if enforced from outside, but many people find satisfaction in minimalism and frugality.
An additional couple of pounds on the bike is only a couple of %, and you're not going to notice it. Wind, tires, positioning, how you're feeling, and road surface matter more. Anything less than a pound and you're talking the difference between a full small waterbottle and an empty one.

Doubling the bike weight, you might notice in the speed, you might not. You might notice it in the handling/feel, you might not. Adding 8kg of panniers to my bike doesn't noticeably slow me down.

Personally, I'm just as fast up hills on a 12kg gravel bike with fat, supple tires (650x42), a rack and fenders as I am on the 8kg carbon 700x25c boneshaker tires.

And I'm faster going down, because I'm not shaken all to hell.
This. It's just silly to throw data away. Who knows when you might need to transcode?
This section in that piece about undervaluing training ("trainingball") is priceless.

I worked somewhere where someone constantly brought up Moneyball as a way of getting an edge in hiring. They later became head of the unit, and it became clear they had absolutely zero ability to manage other people, because they thought of them as consumable goods. They would level scathing reviews of people working under them that they were "poorly mentored" as if this was an attribute of the employee in question, not at all recognizing the irony in what they were saying.

Moneyball was an interesting observation, but it's also telling because it is implicitly based on a number of assumptions that plague modern workplaces, such as treating people as fixed, unchangeable objects rather than as persons that can learn and adapt.

The comment by that author about "trainingball" is noteworthy because it points to the importance of training but also potential as a selection factor. And not just "potential" in the sense of "new and undeveloped" but in the broader sense of "this person has the attributes and background to be what we need if we just work with them." I think that attitude was much more common in the past maybe, but I wasn't alive then.

There's also a different and many understudied problem, which is institutions failing to acknowledge and/or recognize when there have been significant changes in the institution, and when the employees aren't communicated with about these things. Sometimes training isn't so much training as it is just communicating with people.
What I mean is the impact of Brexit when deciding to move to the UK vs. EU/EEA/Switzerland. If you are an EU (non-Irish) citizen then now there are hoops to go through and your status in the UK is less secure than before.

But for EU citizens who have been in the UK for years then indeed nothing changed.
Don’t worry, Intel is expanding foundry capacity for this case. Apple SoC will stay on the same node for couple years, but that’s not an end of the world for consumers.
Until 2003, the Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury, as the agency was founded in 1865 to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
One of these life lessons was made into a great movie.

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), fantasy directed by Frank Capra:

35. Maintain a good reputation. One day, when you’re in trouble, your good repute will turn out to be your saving grace.
Fred Kummerow discovered that trans fats cause artery disease in the 1950s. He spent his whole career working to get them banned. In 2009 the FDA finally, officially acknowledged the fact, and did nothing. In 2013 he sued the FDA and got them directed to ban it; so in 2014, producers were given 3 more years to continue shipping poison while they found other fats. Thus, they finally were banned, mostly, in 2017.

You still see on nutrition labels on food packaging, "Trans fat: 0%". Because it is banned. Because it is poison.

(Nobody went to prison for poisoning and killing millions of Americans. Just like nobody went to prison for putting lead in gasoline, to even greater effect. But shoot up five people at a bus station, and you get nationwide attention.)
I meant more broadly, the header level number should be derived from its nesting level without you specifying it explicitly. This gives you more freedom to re-arrange (refactor?) the text without having to mass-edit header levels.
They were founded to investigate currency fraud and forgery and even were under the Treasury Department until 2003. I'm think that this fits in as a modern continuation of that role as there are some fraudulent activities going on in the crypto space.
It is clear what the GP meant. What would be the correct word?
It could be a requirement that text paragraphs be preceeded by a title to disambiguate this situation.
+1...though Google's Loon used high-altitude balloons.
I mean, you don't need flac to have audio quality where people can't distinguish in double blind test. Something like 160kbps (iirc, ±30) Opus does the job as well.

(Mp3 is way less efficient and depending on the encoder it can have characteristic artifacts. Vorbis was already better, but opus blows that away. Software support for opus is nearly as good as mp3 since recently. We should either stop considering mp3 the default lossy format or hack it into a container format so audio files can have opus inside while carrying the familiar mp3 extension for the 90s folk to be happy about.)
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That's nice, but these do not stay in the area, and have to take into account air currents.
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Is he going to tweet Wikipedia articles verbatim? What’s the point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asabiyyah
Yeah I think this is the real key, basically the emergency powers are all or nothing. They're designed for an absolute emergency, so it's perfectly reasonable to have the ability to freeze accounts and do all sorts of extreme stuff. It's not like the emergency provisions were designed specifically for this process, they're designed for everything from a natural disaster to a long term pattern of terror attacks or act of war.

So the question isn't "Is it reasonable to have the power to do this in this specific case". The question really should be, are the powers actually being exercised in this way. It seems pretty clear that they aren't. So all this outrage about freezing accounts for donating to a political course are outrage over something that doesn't seem to have actually happened.
It's good that they're making efforts, but in practice it still feels highly lacking: in france there are many competing & overlaping semi-public and public organisations whose copyright stance makes OSS difficult, even when the project is owned by another public institution!

That's not even entering into the issues with ministries which are (illegally) keeping certain software closed source, or have signed recent contracts which make open sourcing impossible.

There's also the related question of Open Data, which I think is often of more civic importance than open source itself. Here again, ministries drag their feet when politically convenient (covid data), or just play deaf.
eBPF for tracing how Firefox uses page faults to load libraries
Finding MH370: New Breakthrough Could Finally Solve Mystery
Enterprise architecture and UML diagrams, along with lots of text and diagrams. No pseudocode or leetcode to be found, only class diagrams at best. Not enjoyable. I don't understand how to get out of this position in all honesty.
TSMC also has the WaferTech fab in the US and is currently building fabs in the US and Japan. I imagine geopolitical diversity is one goal in the placement of those new fabs.

But it'd still lead to a massive global chip shortage if TSMC's facilities in Taiwan were wiped out. And I guess that is a deterrent that Taiwan can use against China.
I have, and you are right. But after a few years I used that wisdom to conclude I prefer a low average with a few severe lows and rare few extreme highs. The latter are great, but mostly it just makes me feel more alive, instead of like some monk serenely walking towards oblivion.
Card reader acting up is very different from your bank account being frozen for weeks.
In the majority of cases, not much. My point is more that many people who claim expertise in machine learning do not have a holistic understanding of the field; their knowledge is patchy and they aren’t able to implement a solution to more than the most general of problems. It would be like a car mechanic that can change the oil but doesn’t know how to locate and fix a leak.

Most neural networks that perform well nowadays are highly specialized to a particular problem domain, and I gave an example of an approach that might be used by someone designing a neural network that is invariant to certain types of symmetries on the input data. This isn’t something a typical DS/ML bootcamper would know how to handle, or even how to approach, despite their claims of expertise.
I think in a lot of ways this is a continuation of the Poland-Russia rivalry to be the savior of the Slavs. This rivalry has been a major factor in Ukraine’s history, for instance the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth absorbed a large Western chunk of Kievian Rus during its disintegration at the same time Moscow consolidated much of the Eastern Rus principalities. It may simplistic to say this is the reason Ukraine and Belarus have separate histories but this was at least a major factor.
I think his (perfectly reasonable) point is that, in the long run, a natural border might make it easier to establish and maintain a legal border, and will likely favour internal cohesion by forcing connections to go certain ways.

Obviously it is not a prerequisite for statehood, which is a complex construct that goes beyond territorial claims (since Woodrow Wilson at the very least, in legal terms).
Switzerland has difficult languages too, including German, and Switzerland is not part of the European Union (if you meant that by "EU") ;)
Richard Godfrey, aerospace engineer and physicist, discusses how he tracked the missing aircraft by observation of HAM radio signals.
With US butter, it is very hard to be sure. There is always the temptation to mix in cheaper, corn-fed butter.

Likewise, American "organic" corn is very often not, as farmers and distributors get to choose who certifies them, so certifiers learn not to be too picky. Or at all picky. Or, indeed, ever to decertify anybody.
I mistakenly used the french acronym, sorry for the confusion
Good (supple) wide, low pressure tires are _awesome_ on pavement. 650x42, or my favs, the Rat Trap Pass 26x2.1. They're expensive ($80 each), but they're a game changer. (They're good for 5-7% speed increase on my tandem over the Schwable 26x40mm that I was running). Bad chip seal? no problem. Gravel? no problem. Smooth road? like buttah.
It is true. The jab prevents collapse of the health system.

But why stop at the jab? Fat people are also a burden on the health system. It is not too demanding that they lose weight.
Industry ultimately exists to serve individuals.

> We could all turn off every device, never buy anything new, and go back to eating foraged berries while living in a cave and climate change would still happen.

If consumers disappeared then its not like industry would keep on churning pollution to no end.
"Even a child is able to understand that force is still force regardless of whether it involves the direct visible physical kind."

I'm sorry but I don't think that is true, unless people lose this understanding by the time are eligible to vote or obtain higher education that is.
What Will Happen to Ukraine
Capitalism, or more specifically inequality created the tribes. Denying their existence is to purposefully avoid looking for a solution.

It’s not an ideology of greater good. I mean it literally in the utilitarian sense: left thinking, focusing on improving the plight of wage earners literally effects more people and is a greater good.

Improving/preserving wealthy elites will naturally benefit fewer people.

These are facts, with evidence. I can go deeper if you find this simplification too blunt. It isn’t overly simplified it. It describes what the left right spectrum means, and yes I’m applied a value judgement, but I can back up my value judgement with facts.

I’m not an extremist in my views though, and I will accept democratic processes, and there is benefit to floating around the spectrum, rather than committing to a single point.
It's a hardcoded list, the NYT removed some words but didn't change the rest, so "old wordle" is just a few words behind "NYT wordle"
First Ever Recording of Dying Brain May Shed Light on Our Final Moments
When you use monorepo to solve one problem, you have two problems to solve.
Maybe we could abstain from computing and engage more in other activities...
Right about the time where computers are finally fast enough where we can just have all software run with Electron without caring about the performance hit.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should waste ssd/cpu when there are absolutely no benefits, aside perhaps from saving a few kilobytes of extra decoder code to save multiple megabytes per song.
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