skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at no point in the blog post or this thread has anyone actually explained what their super special use case is that makes doing what almost everyone else does a bad choice and this replicated sqlite thing a good choice. it's pretty clear you're an investor in this company or have some other vested interest in shilling for them, good luck with that.
What those kinds of people never realize though, is you'll never get rid of the 'poors'. The label just changes places on the totem pole. What was once 'well off' is now 'poverty'.
Where do those panels go? In Seattle, the current style is townhomes with almost flat rooftop decks, I don’t see a place for them, but we aren’t exactly the best place for solar.
I personally think that a microscope without the knobs to move the table left/right and forwards/backwards shouldn't exist, or at least shouldn't be sold.

I can't imagine having to move the <thing that you're watching> with your own hands...

But then again, maybe I'm just spoiled, since I'm used to the microscopes that we have at the university aka. higher budget (>1000€).

Still to anyone looking to buy a microscope, I would very highly recommend that they get one with knobs to move the table.

Do you know of any good sellers that sell in Europe?
Sceptre already has plenty of dumb TVs. They carry them at Walmart.
> Theoretically everyone could just stop buying TVs but that's not going to happen

It has happened which is why manufacturers are struggling now and doing nonsense like this to allow them to sell TVs at the old market prices from back when a TV wouldn’t last that long.
Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely in the works, I just have to force myself to stop getting excited about coding new features and ideas and finally get back into video mode :)
Seems reasonable enough. You usually have at least that many dates / extended interactions with someone before committing to a 2+ year romantic relationship, and your coworkers have to spend way more time with you than your partner does
Ohh gosh thanks for asking I would totally share the ones I'm most proud of, but then you'd search Google and find the embarrassing ones! But don't worry, I'm not going to leave you wanting! Please accept as a substitute this gothic poem that I programmed my computer to generate:

We're lost in this cruel place your voice above
Young soul from out my heart be still in love
Worth this cruel place your voice from the deep snow
That this is the night of the world so slow
Will leave me as my hopes have flown before
Which answered not with a love that was more
I'm sitting in this kingdom by the grave
Your clothes by your voice at the stillness gave
She's gone to the floor floating on our side
She speaks in the earth and the truth inside
Have naught but the pain you feel the bright eyes
Beyond the waves wipe out my heart denies
Your voice from the laugh of the desolate
You're looking for the moon is full of hate
Forgive if I could change the time has come
We're lost in this world is not like a drum

I programmed my poetry generator in C++ to use a monte carlo markov chain model with the help of cmudict and isledict trained on a corpus of Edgar Allen Poe, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and select gothic bands. https://github.com/jart/poemy2 You can read the corpora here: https://github.com/jart/poemy2/tree/master/corpora I hope this helps!
I wonder if someone can take this to small claims court over this. At best the company will take the TV back, at worst you can approach the local TV station to publicize this issue.
> Customers should have the right to return a device any time if they don't like a particular update to the product. I know it's drastic

That's not nearly drastic enough. Customers should have the right to know what potential updates to the product do in advance, to refuse any particular update to the product, and to roll it back if they don't like it, as well as making any other update to the product they want. That's how products have worked for thousands of years, it's how computer products work when they're running free software, and it's an absolute bare minimum to preserve basic liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of association. A future world where X Æ A-Xii Musk can have your Tesla car reprogrammed to scan what you say in the car for possible anti-Tesla sentiment is not a free world.*

The fact that even getting your money back after manufacturers vandalize your product after purchase to spy on you sounds "drastic" to many of us is an indication of how far we've fallen into a dystopian future even Stallman wasn't pessimistic enough to imagine 20 years ago.

Unfortunately, I don't know how we can get these rights in practice without requiring all software in consumer products to be open source/free software, and the software industry is currently organized in a way that is extremely hostile to that course of action. To a significant extent it wouldn't require positive action by regulators; merely refusing to enforce copyright on software would get us most of the way there. Someone would still have to figure out how to update the Vizio Flash chip and reverse-engineer the Vizio drivers, while a successfully enforced GPLv3 would require Vizio to help them, but at least without software copyright they could do it without any fear of legal repercussions. And Linux isn't under GPLv3, iOS isn't under any GPL, and enforcement of even the weaker GPLv2 against Vizio has so far been unsuccessful.

So, at least for the next couple of decades, we are sort of doomed to endure this sort of thing. Maybe a new free software movement founded today could change these things for the better starting 20 or 30 years from now.

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* Maybe X Æ A-Xii is such a good person that he would never do such a thing, but historically speaking, structural guarantees of individual liberty have been much more effective at promoting the public welfare than ceding unlimited power to either rulers (who we hope are benevolent) or to "the will of the people", as amply demonstrated by the blood-drenched history of human dictatorships. Some rulers really are benevolent, but nobody remains in power forever. There's no guarantee X Æ A-Xii's heir will be so benevolent.
Definitely. Pieces end up being listed something like "Symphony No.3, Mvt. II", but they only show the performer which is the orchestra playing rather than the composer so I have no idea which symphony it is. I haven't seen any service get classical music right.

I think your list is pretty good (composer/piece/orchestra/conductor/performers). It'd be nice to also have a field for the movement. Also I totally agree with custom sort order being a must. E.g. for choir pieces swap out 'orchestra' for 'choir', for piano pieces only include 'performer' field, concertos should have the 'soloist' before the orchestra, etc.
I agree 100%. I remember using it for the first time in the house, being pleasantly surprised that I could see which side was up :)
Anything for .NET?
love the ads
> people underappreciate how much big-box stores are willing to take returns. if you bought a TV at wal-mart and years later it started showing ads, you can take it back.

source? walmart's return policy explicitly says the return period is 90 days.

https://www.walmart.com/help/article/walmart-standard-return...
The issue is not what kind of ad, where, when, how or why it is being shown. The issue is misfeatures foisted upon consumers.

("But wait," you might ask, "why do you get to decide which features are good and bad? I found that ad very useful - I had no idea one could watch Fox TV shows on the Fox TV app!" The answer is: can you disable it? If not, it's a misfeature.)
5th Generation Warfare: History, Modern Context, and (Some) Solutions
This essentially is a clickbait article with dubious examples. At least for the DRY example, the problem isn’t DRYing up the code but premature optimization where the problem wasn’t understood sufficiently to come up with a good design.
It's very likely you're the kind of person who makes everyone want to wfh.
This is one of thise asinine things that I can't beleive though at the same time, I know you're telling the truth. Our world is so dumb sometimes.
Why doesn't this work with Adblock on?
Ok, so it's a real story, thanks!

I read it as "as many ads, but now some are interactive".
The change that they create an opportunity for in cognition is a change in regulation and structure at a biochemical level
A "university student" has no free license to go around damaging the work of professional developers (whose output is relied by many other programmers around the world). Even actual interns at companies try to tread carefully when it comes to the work of people there.

The fact that the "university student" doesn't even care about basic syntax (e.g. the word 'man' for manual), and repeatedly spams repos, tells you that this is a really carelessly-designed bot and that the writer of the bot is incompetent and disruptive.
> our goal was to not only compress images, but also to call to attention this act of compression

> we found that dithered images can be stretched beyond their actual image size to emphasize its distinct aesthetic, and that these artifacts of compression can become an integral part of the design.

Attention, aesthetic, design. At no point do they even claim dithered PNG / GIF is smaller than a good JPEG. If it was, they wouldn't need to justify it as aesthetic.

What gets my goat is the motte-and-bailey. On the front page for lay people, it's a power-saving environmentalist stance. When we techies press them on it, they admit it's a graphic design fad.
Don’t expect hacker news to actually read the article when there are hot takes to be had about a headline.
I’d love to live in a skyscraper (99th floor?) but those are pretty expensive. 30 stories is about the limit for economical concrete construction, and those are hardly considered skyscrapers.
It is way more than that. Among all vertebrates the puffer fish has a famously small genome of only about 342 million basepairs (Mb) (x2). Compare that of human at 3200 Mb (x2).

Now you might claim humans are more complex than pufferfish but that is mainly human hubris at work and would be exceedingly hard to prove in a court of law.

Fish genomes range “in size from 342 Mb of Tetraodon nigroviridis to 2967 Mb of Salmo salar” (from https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1286...).

Do you think all of that difference between two teleosts is functional?
Valve Software Archive
This remind me of this framework's blog post: https://frame.work/blog/in-defense-of-dumb-tvs

I wish they made themselves dumb tvs, it seems to be a good fit for their business.
>I want to sue them for the theft of my functional TV and replacement with a superficially similar but vastly inferior alternative.

You're free to sue them, but I suspect the lawsuit is going to get tossed almost immediately. Do you really think a multi-billion dollar company is going to expose themselves to a theft lawsuit?
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It could be an example of Lake Woebegon effect[1], though I'm not sure that's the case here.

On the other hand, making broad proclamations about nationalities based on anecdotes has another name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_...
Have you had the chance to test it out? If so, how's the quality of the objectives/lenses?
Vendors that have a large amount of returns are often penalized by the store. Returning the product (if possible) would have a much bigger impact than you getting a $10 merchandise credit to cover the value of the “change in functionality”. You’d also have more money to buy a different TV…
There's also different releases of the same album... 2020 remaster, vinyl rip, web flac, japan edition...

Sometimes the music app just smooshes all together so the "album" looks like it has 4 of each track
How exactly do you reduce that number when it’s a fixed quantity at FAANG, big tech with their stack ranking, managing out and OKR’s that requires to put a certain number of people as “under performs”?

The entire system makes absolutely no sense, precisely when looking at
the numbers. You could do anything you wanted during the interview and that still won’t change the outcome that the same number of people will still be fired at the end of the day.
1. buy smart TV

2. don't connect it to the internet

3. enjoy your "dumb" TV
You think judges are dumb, or appreciate having their time wasted?

You're going to be out thousands of dollars and get nothing.
source is working at various big-box stores, as well as returning things to them. the official return policy has little bearing on what the employees are empowered to do.

policy is the least they can do. if you're being a jerk and the want to get rid of you, they can quote policy. if they want to help, they can.
I think this sentiment would be good motivation for her to keep on going. For one, a lot of comedy is based on grievance and grudge and presenting them in a novel light. And she is shedding light on subjects, that could use a more honest representation in mainstream culture.

And as a dutch person, I was happy that I could finally watch a comedian with my wife, that didn't have the rapid fire of separate jokes and at some random point just... ends. Instead I could watch a show with her that had theme and an arc, and also wasn't afraid to just put the audience in uncomfortable position and leave them there for a while. It really felt like going to a dutch comedian, and I was surprised to see this have any success in the US market.
I opened this thread to see if anyone was working on carbon capture solutions. I've been reading a lot about it in my free-time and definitely something I'm curious to explore.

I'll hit you up at the discord you linked.
What is going on in this conversation thread?
This is what infuriates me the most. I keep thinking about replacing my cheap-ass no-name TV that I've been using for the last 8 years, but the only quality options are all smart TVs and I hate it.

I just loathe the idea of having a TV that (1) is going to have a smartphone-class SoC built-in that I won't even use for anything and (2) is going to be yet another computing device I don't control.

I begrudgingly tolerate the fact that my PS4 and my phone are computers I don't control, because at least they offer functionality that's useful to me, but I draw the line at smart TVs because they aren't even useful in the first place. I'm just going to use my PS4 for everything on it anyway, but then I'll have have another device where I have to worry about software updates and shitty anti-consumer practices.

/rant
I used to think that...until my second no-fault eviction in two years...
That doesn't sound fun. Find a new job? I can tolerate having to come into an office if that's part of the job - but it's either safe enough to do so without masks & zoom or it is not, and should still be remote.
For JS projects, I use the script below to analyze dependencies, such as unused files, or files that are used only once and could be consolidated.

https://github.com/uxtely/ops-utils/blob/main/find-unused-de...

--

For monorepos, I check which files are shared between projects with:

https://github.com/uxtely/ops-utils/blob/main/show-interproj...
I'm wondering if you would define a higher than median US salary to be "surviving at best", as most CS PhD programs are at that amount plus health insurance. But certainly far from a FAANG salary, and I agree that there are disciplines usually with smaller programs that are "surviving at best."
If you want to play classic games I would suggest Myth: The Fallen Lords series. It's a story told battle by battle, and you are just given the units you are given.

Very iconic game, loved it growing up.
Modern software and modern devices always seem to turn into a giant bait and switch.
> Well, the body has a whole mechanism for manufacturing cholesterol, so it must be good for something.

It's good for all sorts of things, for example building cells - cell membranes are made of cholesterol, which is why our body produces a shitload of it.
>Those prices seem extremely reasonable.

Whether that's actually true would depend on the picture quality. Paying $800 for a TV that has similar picture quality to a $300 walmart black friday TV is not "reasonable" at all.
Nice article

Dollar dominance may decrease, yet the dollar is going to be top coin for a long time to come
Maybe it’s due to working with people that want to go to work to work with people instead of working.
No. If a cat walks all over your keyboard while you are away getting a cup of coffee and types in several lines of gibberish would you call that “code of unknown function”. By the way, the delete key on you keyboard is broken.

Why is a viral insertion any different? Why is a recombination error any different?
Likewise, but the problem now with the built-in software is that Android TV is getting increasingly user-hostile as well. The major UI update they made which added an uneditable promotional section to the top of the home screen eg.
I've worked on a number of crap, toxic teams over 20+ years. This one's good.

I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the replies here. I make an offhand remark about my current team being a pleasure to work with, and I have multiple replies suggesting that there is something fishy afoot?

"The Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency
to overestimate one's capabilities"

Oh, cool. Because I say my coworkers are good and I enjoyed spending a few days with them, maybe I'm overestimating my own abilities. Great. Very cool. Nice thing to say about a stranger.

I've never ever had such absolutely bizarre replies on HN. I can't remember the last time I had such bizarre replies anywhere.
But then what does it mean when you sell the NFT to someone else?! (laughing on the inside, love the idea)
Portal for Apple II (2017)
How is this good? It does not even cover scenarios such as folks buying properties before they can move in (e.g., parents waiting for their kids to finish their school year before they can move; buying for parents who are retiring in a few months), people living in properties for a few months of the year and leaving them vacant, people pooling their money and buying as a corporation or partnership (small-scale investors who will only own a few properties at any given time, or people who want some sort of de-facto rent-control on shared rooms in the property), or people buying vacation homes that they will occupy for a few months in the year? Is it socially just to stop all these classes of property buyer?
Or really: Natural Language Processing still sucks. Trying to fit anything human produced into a reasonable data model is doomed to failure.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to me that Tailscale's controller, discussed in the previous blog post [1], is like a typical CRUD API server, currently only running on one machine (they're not using Litestream's work-in-progress live read replicas), not something widely distributed like Fly's service discovery infrastructure.

I'm not joining the "just use RDS" crowd, but it looks to me like using a managed DB service like RDS would have been a reasonable decision for this application.

[1]: https://tailscale.com/blog/an-unlikely-database-migration/
To me, the scariest part is that the TV is monitoring what you’re watching. If it recognizes it and has an ad for it, it will display the ad. But in order to do that, it first has to figure out what you’re watching.

That just seems super creepy.
We are not learning that. Much unknown DNA is repetitive crufts. Get used to it. Biology is even messier than coding.
In my area, those older houses have all been renovated by flippers. Flipped renovations were pretty depressing when we were looking: the house was priced like a new build, and the renovation wasn’t really to our liking (at least they all have A/C, usually modern heat pumps). So we just went for a new build.

The flippers (basically investors) are looking for those places that would have been a cheaper entry point into the housing market, and after they are done with their 1-2 month renovations, they are no longer cheap entry points.
But is it really worth paying for the modem/cell service just to get the remaining 1% of users that don't connect to wifi?
That’s Honda.

The Toyota RAV-4 decision was made back in 2005. In don’t think education has improved in Alabama since. Also, IIRC, the higher Canadian wages were partially offset by not having to provide health benefits.

I cite it as I’m somewhat familiar with it as a friend and colleague worked for a supplier pricing out a in-region facility.
On the flip side, here. That is, those (company complaint incidents) are some of the few occasions I regret having never cultivated a social media world. When I'm on the hard end of some business/corporate injustice, and realise exactly how expendable and voluntary most of my so-called consumer's or citizen's rights are.

As a lone voice desperately holding his bowl out to a corporate giant, like a modern day Oliver Twist - and no army of social media friends behind me...
I don't think this comment section is supposed to be a competition. Neither do I think the article was a sneer towards others, but a way to ask for empathy for a certain situation. It wasn't about you, and you don't need to make it about you.
Source? Every time I hear this being brought up, the ultimate source gets traced to an unsubstantiated reddit post on /r/privacy.
Wrong. It is not called junk DNA out of ignorance but because we know much of it is ancient viral insertion. There is no way to cleanse the genome effectively.
Someone else replying to this post strongly implies there’s heavy neo-nazi content on Tumblr. Seems like it’s just whatever bits you happened to run into on a particular day.
> I think it's more likely to be the project of a near-retirement-age programmer who is outraged at all the "social justice warriors running amock" and created the project to mock people working on inclusiveness, generate blowback at them, and misrepresent their movement to de-legitimize them. Sort of like how in the 50's and 60's everyone ran around screaming about how feminists were "kill all men" commie baby-stealers.

Let's just be clear: that's pure speculation on your part, and not facts.

And to entertain your speculation, it's also possible that the disruptive bot is instead the genuine work of a coloured/female/young social justice warrior who was trying to police the language of professional repos on the internet, right? Since you are speculating, that's just as much a legitimate speculation as well, if we go by the actual user history of the profile.
The needless socialization at the office killed my productivity. I don’t need to be interrupted and I don’t need an hour lunch. I socialize off-hours with real friends and family. Work is for (more effective) working
> …music library managers are often quite annoying when dealing with classical music.

Apple will apparently be solving this problem this year with a dedicated "Apple Classical" app, the origin of which is their Primephonic (https://www.primephonic.com/) acquihire.

"Why are you shutting down Primephonic?"

"To focus on creating an even better experience for customers around the world. Apple Music plans to launch a dedicated classical music app next year combining Primephonic’s classical user interface that fans have grown to love with more added features."
Maybe Google Season of Docs?

https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/
I think you can check Oreilly media.
I started my PhD in software engineering at 51 after decades of work in IT.

The point is that if you value money over knowledge and unique experiences, then by all means keep doing what you love the most.

Some of use are prepared to build up our savings and then live frugally on less than ramen noodles stipend whist pursuing making a tiny dent in the universe of knowledge in a specialized field.

At my university there were dozens of mature age PhD students doing research in a broad spectrum of fields. None of whom I met were rich in materialistic terms.