skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Find out what their average donation is, and then give them double for the next X years."

Eh, I would think volunteering would be a better in. You build connections with the organization more than just being some number in their books. Save that money. If you're lucky it'll be a pay it forward moment, where they've seen you help others and are willing to help you. If not, you have the money to pay someone for help.
reminds me of my 1963 VW Bus. The throttle pedal pressed down on a 90 degree arm/bellcrank which pulled on the throttle cable that ran to the rear engine. Because the throttle cable was old it had more friction internally, and the undercarriage of the vehicle wasn't in the best of shape. So the flat piece of metal on the body that the bellcrank attached to started to rip, so when I pressed the pedal down, the assembly would deflect and very little motion would be transferred to the cable. I took a small needlenose nose vise grip and clamped it over the rip in the metal, and then continued to drive it like that for the next 5 years.
>No one has done more than they have to create the price point expectations for products like theirs.

I think Napster/Limewire/Kazaa were far greater influences on price point expectations for Music. This reads like complete erasure of music distribution from 1999-2011. Not to mention you already have companies like Rdio and Grooveshark that were pretty much squeezed to death by the labels.

Yes, Advertising is a poor way to monetize such a service (just look at Pandora), but Apple is in a privileged position being able to start today with a subscription only service; one that is enforced by their market position in devices. There is no way you could have pulled that off in 2008, and the reason for that was piracy.
Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel (subtitles)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw

I think this is something you should watch if you are interested in how russia works. It's very straight talk and clarified russian mindset a lot for me at least.
I didn't know about it! I primary use a corporate hosted instance GitHub (so we often opt in to new features late), and I don't follow a lot of tech news on social media.
That doesn't really answer the question. But the philosophical puff piece is 'appreciated'
If you don't find context switching costly at all, fine. Some of us can't multitask or quickly regain focus.
Or, an off duty cop was gasing up at the same spot as this "smart" driver and thought of writing down the plate number
> First of all, Desktop linux barely works on the hardware it is designed to work on.

Huh. I have been running linux on laptops for years and I don't even pick my laptops to run linux spefically. My last laptop was a surface pro and Linux ran with 0 issues and that is pretty esotoric hardware in the laptop space.

> Let's say that because of some miracle, Linux becomes usable on M1 macs...

The release of the first version of Linux on M1 mac is weeks away. With the only major things not working beeing the GPU and bluetooth.

> and people start buying M1 macs to run Linux, Apple will have incentive to lock the bootloader (which they don't currently do) so that people are forced to run macOS only... because their profits does not come from the hardware itself but the "ecosystem" (a.k.a. vendor-lock-in) they have built around it.

I don't follow this logic. Why would Apple first create more work for them to unlock the bootloader and build ways to load other Operating Systems to then take it back? Like do you think Apple likes to pay their engineers to play a prank on the Linux community? Or how do you envision this happened.
This is a little silly when you consider volume. A search engine should crawl millions of pages and sites, and over time develop quality indicators so the crap can be filtered out. Anything that works equivalently to Google's algorithm will suffer from the same crap infection as Google results, and to a lesser degree any of the other top 20 engines and meta-search tools.

Something like ublock lists and p2p sharing in closed communities could provide semantic indexing and gradual manual curation, so with a few thousand people you might get novelty + quality in an engine. If you stick to a small, curated list of sites, you won't get site level novelty, and quality will eventually suffer relative to searches that scan over new things.

Even then, consider reddit - build a reddit search that's as good as Google. That updates once an hour.

Sharing bookmarks isn't feasible when you want the functionality of a general purpose search engine.
The great "mistake" of GDPR is that it has consent provisions at all.

After previous cookie banners, they really should've known better. (Or, let's be real, absolutely did know, but left it in for corporate interests anyway.)
> Not to be negative about the research, but I’m pretty sure I could have surmised the pigs’ emotional state in many of these situations (castration?!) without the benefit of a translator!

That's the point. The obvious emotional states are necessary in order to correctly label the data for training. The interesting part is to then use the trained model to identify emotional states in situations where it isn't so obvious.
Talking Silicon Photonics Signal and Noise with Andy Bechtolsheim
Same reason they made their crypto trivial for the server to MITM.

Whether malice or ineptitude it's hard to say but it's one of those.
The old Heathkit HAM radio had a red wire that was tagged "Don't remove this or you will be able to transmit on regulated frequencies!"

This kind of thing has been around 50 years at least :)
If you want stable, maybe look at fixed income investments. Annuities cab be a good option to look at, and are overlooked by many.
How would an Earth-like planet look in Alpha Centauri?
My OS does not ever "require" double-clicking. An application with poor UI might require this, but I would quickly look for a better program.
In addition to what you said, these things will shit out in a couple years. Button breaks, cord goes bad, etc. You pay for the quality.
Amazing, I was thinking of this only yesterday. I read it as a child [0], didn't realise it was PKD!

[0] Edited to add the book: "Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters", highly recommended. http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?25965
Just 5 minutes ago I read someone from here commenting[1] that "Spotify spread lies about COVID" which of course is about the Joe Rogan controversy. The answer summarize all I think about this: «Are there alternatives to Spotify that can only provide me the right information so that I don't have to think by myself?»

This is not about Trump or Joe Rogan, I don't care about that. It's about how people are fine with removing or hiding content for the sake of «It's misinformation».

I'm not making an statement for those cases, but what will happen when it isn't misinformation what we are hiding from the people? Can't people think for themselves that they have to be shelled from what they see on the internet?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30647382
It still exists, it can be enabled by opening Folder Explorer -> Options -> Folder options, General tab -> Single-click to open an item (point to select).
I probably listen to music on Spotify ~5h a day while I work and I haven't had any downtime ever since I subscribed. As for censorship there was that thing with Joe Rogan, but as far as I know Spotify sided with him so I don't see where the censorship is?
I'm not ignoring it, I'm just not going to pretend the actual solution is "no one decides" because that's nonsense. Hard problems don't go away because you don't like them. Not censoring misinformation isn't going to work, period. Some trust is required for society to operate at its current scale.
https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/08/how-t...
Former mathematical physicist here. I haven't read the article yet so don't take this comment as a defense nor as a rebuttal, but I just want to point out that your reasons for immediate dismissal are not obviously valid.

- The Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy directly relates information to entropy. There has been an "it from bit" program (and more recently "it from qubit") dating back decades that tries to treat information as somehow fundamental with matter/energy emergent. The jury is still out, but I wouldn't consider it to be particularly controversial (at least not moreso than other speculative theoretical physics).

- To me it seems absolutely physically plausible that cooling a hard drive to absolute zero would destroy its contents. As another example, you can destroy the information contained in DNA at much warmer temperatures than absolute zero. Why would heating it back up restore the information? Most thermodynamic processes are irreversible. And by the way, thermodynamic irreversibility is related to entropy change, which is a measure of information lost.
https://render.com/blog/svelte-design-patterns is the actual article…
The average car also comes with 4 seats, which theoretically puts them below an airliner. But my joke was about the plane fuel use, not per-passenger.
> the 10 movies or so I watch per year is cheaper than a subscription service.

I think the value here _really_ depends on your usage patterns. For you, it sounds like individual discs make a ton of sense. But, many people watch more movies than that (during the height of lockdown, we were watching 1-2 movies _daily_), so streaming services made the most sense. Sure, it's annoying that movies come and go, but the price is certainly right.

Once size won't fit all here, so it's definitely great that discs are still an option. I'm glad it works for you!
Giving up completely doesn't help either, my sweet summer child. Pretending we can just let anyone say anything unchecked isn't actually a solution, it's a dodge because you don't want to have to trust. There's no way around having trust.
> If you think that's impossible, then how about we change the system such that it is.

Who is "we"? The people who can change the system are those in elected offices of power. Your suggestion means convincing them to change it so that most of them will not get reelected and will lose all power. That can never happen, human nature.
My biggest complaint with all the streaming apps I tried was that their interface was terrible (in my opinion), so that was an especially important consideration to me. I prefer an 'old school' music player interface that focuses entirely on just my library.

Then there's also the issue of VPNs, especially on my phone, I prefer to always have my VPN active which most streaming services do not allow.

Plus, on desktop I often prefer to use a separate music player (MusicBee), which again lends itself nicely to the self-hosted solution since I just have it pointed to the same library as plex. Related to this is that I can organize my music however way I want and don't have to worry about being locked into the app's quirks.

Then, with the spotify outage I came across many complaints about login timeouts causing the app to outright log them out, preventing them from accessing even their downloaded music, which is also a nice thing to not have to think about.

On top of all that, my taste in music is indeed slightly niche and it isn't too uncommon for some track I have to outright not be on any streaming service (sometimes because it's too old, sometimes because it's from too small of an artist or isn't a public release), so not having to switch to a different app for only that music is also nice.

So combining all that makes a plex/plexamp style arrangement much more convenient to me than any streaming service.

I used to pirate the music back when I was too young to afford it and might still do so for music that isn't available for convenient purchase (ie only available by importing expensive physical media from the other side of the world), but otherwise since I can now afford it and am often somewhat invested in the artist's career, I don't mind buying it.
As well as some potentially really shady practices.
https://youtu.be/whQ8UBoz-To
Creating separate Github accounts for each employer/organization is crucial to avoid creating a personal access token for one organization which has global permissions across all repositories your account has access to. This has been a problem for many years.

Note that Github only allows one free account, so the business needs to pay for each one if its dev accounts.
Katrusya and Marusya – Ukranian propaganda for kids
In my experience, the storage, bandwidth and time savings using Alpine Linux (even if they were much more significant than they are in practice) are not worth it given the issues you run into every once in a while. Just go with Ubuntu/Debian base images and you'll be much happier that you did in the long run.
> Nobody says "wear a gun". It doesn't sound right.

Native speaker, I have heard other native speakers say (or seen them write) “wear a gun” quite a bit. “Carry” seems to be more currently common, but far from exclusive.
No flag is illegal.

You can indeed switch flag, but it's not easy, and they do not like that solution for several reasons:

- for them the flag means "Russia" not "Putin" (they added the Ukrainian flag by the way, which might also be borderline illegal)

- I suspect they do not want to give way to what they perceive as a temporary hysteria

- the ship is a replica of the first ship of the Baltic sea, it carries various flags of historical importance. You can't just relabel it as a panamean ship and call it a day (although maybe that's what will be done eventually, if only temporarily).

I personally believe that they are right to stand against russophobia, as long as possible. Please don't misinterpret this as suport for the current war, or support for some russian imperialism. Come to visit the ship one day if you have the chance, and see for yourself.
It was known in advance that HTTP/3 support would eventually be enabled for the load balancers. If you wanted to force support for it or force it to not support it there was an override setting. Mozilla did not override the behaviour meaning that they did not mind HTTP/3 to be advertised as being supported.
Don’t have anyone querying the data but have everyone. Trying to line up definitions, dq requirements etc. ends up with internalisation of the proliferation of interfaces of explicit producer consumer relationships. Therefore, don’t be scared to go for point to point. That’s the spirit of elt after all, but we tend to always strive for am imaginary perfect data model.
Just like a sibling comment says I also haven't ever seen a case where a long press didn't turn a laptop off but i agree maybe a pin push button for hard restart might make sense in such cases.
I use a zoom h6n - which records to an SD card - so I can separate the stereo left and right into their own mono recordings then recombine on the back end (this allows me to use the XLR ports instead of 1/8” stereo port for better fidelity). This isn’t strictly necessary, just make sure you’re getting the stereo audio and not combining it into a mono track (unless of course it’s not stereo vinyl).

A computer is totally fine. You should be able to do it through the headphone port if you have one (I’d be surprised if you didn’t). It just all depends on what output options your turntable has. My technics 1200 mk II are RCA out so I go turntable -> left RCA right RCA adapted to their own XLR -> zoom h6.
To be fair, it's not really like Prius's out there accelerate regardless of intention.
> the term I use is "data cartel". There is literally a financial data cartel, but I am convinced this is the decade that get's broken up

It won't happen. Full stop.

Just the same as the marketing lies perpetuated by Bloomberg terminal competitors that they are the next "Bloomberg-killer". They are not (I've tried some of them, they don't come close, infact they are so far away its a joke).

The fact of the matter is financial data is HARD.

To ensure consistent quality takes a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money. Data will have errors, some of them will be easy to spot (e.g. missing values) but others will be tricker to spot for the untrained eye.

Some financial data requires manual inputs which can't be automated (e.g. fixing bad OCRs, or inputting data that is only available in paper form).

The other fact of the matter is BREADTH.

Any Tom, Dick or Harry can have a good chance at getting you currency data, or BASIC data on US stocks, that sort of data is common as muck.

But only the Bloombergs or Refinitivs of this world can give you TRUE global coverage. Only the Bloombergs or Refinitivs of this world can give you more advanced GLOBAL data such as swaps, swaptions, CDS. Only the Bloombergs or Refinitivs of this world can give you true IN-DEPTH and GLOBAL fundamental data for any company on the planet. Only the Bloombergs or Refinitivs of this world can give you many decades of GLOBAL historical data.

You would need billions to properly compete against Bloomberg or Refinitiv. And that's only the startup costs of getting you to the point where they are today.
Does it really eat up all your time, or just your energy? I find side projects are great for getting that energy back. Don't plan for something epic. Start with light stuff, eventually it snowballs to more interesting things.

I played Dwarf Fortress before it was Dwarf Fortress; it was some weirdish game that you could run around and stab things, or use magic to teleport organs out of monsters. Minecraft when I first played was just something where you dig out a block and put it elsewhere. No combat, no crafting, just moving blocks around like old school legos.

If you want to quit, perhaps get your idea past the prototype stage.
I can guarantee you that the sampled Yamaha CFX grand which is in YDP-184 is
but a small fraction in size compared to model of Yamaha CFX sampled by Garritan at Abbey Road Studios. And sounds like shit in comparison.

The Garritan CFX full version (with near and far mics) is 132gigs in size, and even if you take only one set of near/far microphones, it would still be ~40-41gigs in size.

Obviously bigger isn't always better, and there's a diminshing returns point... however, digitial piano sample sizes don't come even remotely near it.

I would be surprised... VERY surprised if the sample size in YDP-184 would reach even a single gigabyte.

More realistically, the piano sounds in YDP-184 is in megabytes. It has been like this with digital pianos - with very few exception models - for decades, with little to no progress.

If a digital piano manifacturer doesn't specify sample size in megabytes/gigabytes, it is most likely because the samples are embarrassingly small, short, looped and stretched.

Disklavier you linked is not a hybrid or a digital piano. It's a real acoustic piano with playback system.

The hybrids - Yamaha N-1X Avant Grand, 7k euros, Kawai Novus NV-10S 9k euros - have great piano action, but the sound is still pretty embarrassing for the price you pay for it.

If I had Kawai Novus-10, I would still hook it up to Garritan CFX, because built in sounds in it are pathetic (for the price)
I have started building an IDE for Algorand smart contracts (TEAL/PyTEAL) inspired by Turbo Pascal. It will go up on TurboTEAL.com within a couple of months. A lot of the core such as the Python -> PyTeal transpiler is already working. It will have the same look, built in instant context sensitive help, and a few other things.
I went this route. I really like the design of Google's Identity-Aware Proxy. You host your apps behind it, the proxy authenticates users and passes a JWT to the application that contains additional metadata. The app can choose to care or not care about the JWT. This is nice for read-only things that aren't particularly important (something like jaeger-ui). Or the app can choose to care, and do one cryptographic operation to get a trustworthy username and group membership list. This is so much easier from an operations and implementation perspective than integrating something like OIDC. I wish more applications supported this, and didn't force me to hack OIDC into this flow.

As for WebAuthn, yes, that's what you should be using these days. People are terrible at choosing passwords, so why make them?

I wrote an authenticating proxy that maintains username -> WebAuthn credentials, and use it for my personal projects. I wouldn't recommend that someone else use it (incomplete featureset, not security reviewed), but it's totally open source so you can steal the bits you like: https://github.com/jrockway/jsso2

The end result is that I can open up Grafana on my phone and sign in with FaceID. Or if my face falls off, I can scan my YubiKey with NFC. All given to you for free for using WebAuthn. And it costs $0/month, which is much less than the Oktas of the world charge for a more
> I expect that if Russia poisoned Zuckerberg there would be a lot more backlash from the West than in the cases you linked. Maybe even outright war.

Nobody is going to war over zuckerburg or any of the tech ceos. Lets get real here.

> Otherwise, it would mean the entire world should permanently live in fear of Putin

Not the world. Just a few western countries. I don't think zambia or bolivia or india or china or much of the world is going to care one bit.
Good news - as result of Ukraine war failure these lowlifes are starting to eat each other - the director of foreign intelligence of FSB has just got arrested for "embezzling money intended for sabotage and gathering of intelligence in Ukraine and for providing false information about political situation in Ukraine" :)

From https://www.thedailybeast.com/now-russia-is-bombing-western-... :

"Meanwhile, panic appears to be setting in within Putin’s inner circle, with the Russian leader allegedly firing eight generals and putting the head of his FSB spy arm Sergei Beseda and his deputy under house arrest"

Russian:
https://meduza.io/news/2022/03/11/zhurnalist-andrey-soldatov...

All that while 3 generals have already been killed in Ukraine in addition to uncounted number of officers with no major military success. That is bound to cause "friction" between various arms of the "siloviki". There is also a large fight brewing between FSB and Chechens (they have been in "cold war" state) as large convoy of Chechen forces in Ukraine was completely destroyed by Ukrainians based on information that seems to had been leaked by FSB.
The CCP is moving away from that, though, and towards an economy driven more by domestic consumption.
Russia plans to limit Instagram and label Meta an Extremist Group
People in the Tesla community are now calling FSD Fairytale Self Driving -- mainly on account of it being promised to provide 'robotaxi' service since 2019. Clearly, the problem of characterizing the road environment, projecting future paths, and selecting a suitable path ahead is a much more difficult problem than initially thought.
Since GitHub is owned by Microsoft and their other product has had this, I’m guessing it’s yet another copy-over like GitHub Actions was from Azure Pipelines.

Not sure how long it’s been in AzureDevOps but it could have been inspired from GitLab there I suppose.
The all-Europe equivalent is ENTSO-E[1], which has down to 15-minute granularity (depending on operator I think) data for every generation unit in Europe.

There's a similar platform for the gas network too[2] - only daily data but it does have a map interface where you can see the main transmission pipelines across the continent.

I work in energy markets analytics, so grab data from these on a regular basis for SMEs.

[1]: https://transparency.entsoe.eu/
[2]: https://transparency.entsog.eu/#/map
Some are. But this is just another case of memetic warfare – weaponizing memes. :)