skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently vinyl records have now surpassed CDs in sales.

https://qz.com/2111339/vinyl-outsold-cds-in-the-us-for-the-f...
It’s 2022, so why is USB-C still so damn complicated?
WASI doesn't support sockets yet, and in any case there's no browser API available to implement socket-level networking. Practical use of this would require bridging over to JS to implement HTTP requests and the like,
I went to the effort of setting up a pihole, and pointing all the devices on my network to it.

When I saw this notification for the first time yesterday I was a bit annoyed - do I now have to think about every application ignoring OS level settings and using its own?
Per minute.
Ok, at least in Germany I noticed since I moved here that all residential routers were dual-stack. I even ended up disabling v6 because I wanted to run some things in my home network and I wasn't too sure about the firewall configuration.
> Don’t do this shit. It’s a great way to have everyone reserved rather than relaxed with free flowing ideas.

It’s kind of a shame that this is probably true. My company has some bi-weekly presentations/meetings that are recorded and I get a ton of value out of not attending them, but then pulling them up in my own time and playing them back at 2x speed.
As a person who codes on MacBooks and iPads and also uses them for fun..

You’re missing the segment of people who are traveling and don’t want to take their entire MacBook places. Even if it’s smaller, I can’t simply detach it’s screen and hold it to watch Netflix or such.

I often take on the extra size an iPad may have for size versatility down the road. One doesn’t always have or want to figure out a flat surface to place your device when on the road, in bed, on toilet, or in a bath.

I also code quite a lot on my iPad as an iOS dev, because playgrounds are a fantastic way to create mini libraries, apps, or explore some idea you may have on the go. Performance is amazing with the M1 series as well.

The one thing I dont do with my iPad is any sort of pen input. I’ve never found it useful, but I’m also faster at typing than drawing or annotating. I used to always by the pencil to go with the pro, but stopped doing that a couple years ago because I simply never use it.
So when is actual work done among all those meetings?
I wonder, why are you calling yourself the most powerful ?

Any comparison to solutions from Hugging Face or John Snow Labs ?

I know these guys have been claiming SOTA for a few years and don't see how Cohere would be any more powerful, do you provide training ?
This sounds incredible. If you can share more information, pictures, how you made it, powered it, etc. that would be a real joy to read! Thanks in advance!
I'm anti censorship and post ideas controversial enough to get banned from here pretty often but personal attacks are just stupid. There's no reason for that.
Very good point, actually - Vim keybindings are absolutely the thing to learn, we will forever discuss which editor/guitar is great, but as long as the muscle memory stays the same, you can compare...
> I find it amusing when people automatically think that an increase in the money supply must result in inflation.

Because that is what happens with other countries. The only reason US gets a free pass is because the dollar is a global currency which is sought by everyone.
You are in one of the modt privileged positions in the world. Don't drink the coolaid but a little annoyance is nothing, nothing compared to what you are getting out of them.
If it already existed sure, but couldn't you add some wind or solar capacity to offset other energy uses in the time it would take to get a project of this scale going? When you choose the low carbon option you get the benefit of being insulated from oil and gas market shocks.
Well, it wasn’t unexpected since we intentionally did it, but one ritual we do is that we don’t have internal meetings. At least nothing preplanned, and nothing longer than 15 minutes.
> Ummmm a spammer is a person who must create many accounts to game the system.

No, that's not what a spammer is.

> Scraping is a huge part of spamming.

No, it isn't.
With this kind of attrition rate, I am impressed that the researchers dared to write it up and got it published ... Then I found it was published on "JAMA Network Open", is it even a serious journal?
Which is why nobody is going to produce something that is shiny and impressive but offers no added strategic advantage against existing counter-measures in this old struggle.
Just so you don't get angry for no reason: the actual policy says nothing about a specific age. You could be 60 and use it to buy a house.

It also doesn't have to be your first one. If you had a house than sold it and lived in an apartment for 4 years you are eligible again. If you own your house but your spouse doesn't they can use this for your next house.
Truly, Seekingalpha.com is the home of Betteridge headlines.
> your only goal is running all known software, then you can get away with some massive accuracy bugs.

> Some people want to do retro programming and develop new software for a platform. And if you don't have accurate emulation, then the more likely you are to introduce a bug that works in the emulator but not on real hardware.

The two things go hand by hand. If era-developed software is unlikely to suffer from timing bugs, then _your own software_ is also unlikely to suffer from timing bugs. It's down to the same argument.

It's like claiming that because I developed for Pentium 4, my software is unlikely to work on the Pentium 3. Save for the very explicit case that I use some new extensions, how crazily out of the way would I need to go in order to even remotely hit such an issue?

In fact, it can all be summarized to: what CPU timing would you even emulate ? Why would you even target the P3 _specifically_? Why not Transmeta?

Note that this does not apply to accuracy emulation of accompanying hardware, but then again I would also claim that accuracy of hardware emulation is hardly relevant post-P3, since _the real hardware_ often is massively inaccurate by any definition of the word. Why accurately model a specific Radeon card, when the budget model of the same year is completely different , with the differences abstracted by hacks in the driver ?
> The people making this argument don't realize that every for loop in Python is always exited via an exception.

It's just all memory addresses under the hood, so why bother with variable names?

Only throwing exception objects is a layer of abstraction that makes error handling easier to handle.

Nearly all python libraries follow this pattern, and it's extremely easy to pass any variable you want to your custom exception for you to handle however you want.
Cloudflare routes DNS requests to its nearest point of presence (through BGP magic, 1.1.1.1 is not a single place).
You can only edit for I think 2 hours after posting. You get fainter when you get voted down a few points.
All in-person and all remote are much easier to make work than hybrid. Meeting dynamics are in favor of people in the room.

If you have a hybrid work environment, one thing that works is to get everyone on the video call whether they are in the office or not. That puts everyone on equal footing.

> everyone on the team writing up weekly summaries.

We don't do that, what purpose does it serve?

I had one EM who took notes during daily standups but it wasn't helpful for anyone except him.

> record every video conference

This is about timezone diff where not everyone can attend at the same time but would like to watch and keep up. It's also useful when you plan to onboard new people to a project (although it usually requires other supporting material)

> have lots of 1:1 meetings to maintain relationships

Nothing beats being face to face with someone for real. Forcing 1:1's is not effective in my experience.
I'm making sure to unsub from any channel that uses deepfakes, since I don't want the algorithm to promote that in my life. This I can accept as part of my fading grasp of reality if it is clearly stylized.
And i don't get how one would think that I, as a European, would want an overseas company to handle my data. If my ISP is breaching GDPR, all i have to do is to go to data protection agency (at least i have that option on the table), good luck doing that with an overseas company... I have zero indications that my ISP is selling data for marketing purposes (unlike some US ISPs which even inject ads).
What could possibly convince TC Energy or any other entity to trust that the US wouldn't cancel it again? There's a reason that company has given up on it.
At least with video playback you can compensate by delaying the image, with gaming that would drastically hurt the user experience.
Performance overhead for very little gain if I'm not web browsing or downloading stuff from the internet, and just running software on my machine that has already been scanned.
Lumitime – A Digital Clock with No Electronics
I am getting the sense that over time, we will collectively building in AI a realm populated by the Platonic Ideal of objects in the human world. But since it is in learning models, we will be able to see the zeros and ones, but still won't really have mental access to that realm, only the ability to recognize the particulars that it produces.

Really cool and fun stuff.
Just yesterday - Mark Zuckerberg says Meta employees refer to him as the ‘Eye of Sauron,’ but thinks the nickname comes from a place of love - https://fortune.com/2022/04/07/meta-employees-call-mark-zuck...
Watch this; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14&vl=en
Its not just desert, it about water as well. If I not mistaken large parts of Australia had drought in the last couple of years.
Neither Xbox or PS2 are emulated at a cycle level though. They mostly rely on recompilation and API emulation, and PCSX2 has gotten pretty far on that. That generation was really the start of cross platform being the norm, and so the start of a dramatic drop off in games requiring very specific hardware details. If your game had to run on Xbox/PS2/WinXP then there has to be some level of portability considered in the software.
Gravity sort: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead_sort

The algorithm itself is somewhat limited but the visual representation is mesmerizing :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MneHbUXyKHg
Better yet, the trial should only count down when the app is being used. It will be long expired before the features we are waiting for before purchasing get implemented.
Every immigrant has starting capital, be it money or knowledge or courage. What you make out of it is totally uncertain. Do you know there used a time when he was a broke teenager, in a foreign individualist society, scrambling for cash to pay rent or take a shower?

Let's see what that Prince from England will do in the next five years in North America. He's got all it takes to succeed in a capitalist country. So, can we expect for him a much brighter financial success than Musk's? I have many doubts.
Problem: don’t want to bring thing that must be attached to a keyboard at all times to be useful.

Solution: iPad.
> giving players the choice to play as either human or Replicants
The Pentium III family was launched in Feb 1999. That's more than 20 years ago.
Faster reading, through improved comprehension
Suicides in the US fell, pretty consistently, throughout the pandemic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/u-s-suici...

With a troubling outlier of suicides among young adults. So, no, that seems to just be your personal narrative and isn't supported by facts. That most gun deaths are suicide is pretty much irrelevant without a lot of other statistics. This could happen for many reasons. Maybe people aren't murdering each other with guns as much.

Now it could be that the youth suicide rates are out weighing the adult suicide rates. But I suspect not, as despite this uptick, youth suicides are very rare.
From a purely selfish American standpoint, I'm not enthusiastic about damaging the environment in the United States so that Canadian oil companies can sell it to Europeans.
And even we humans switch to "heel up" for high intensity bipedalism. Are we are secret members of the reverse knees club?
. And yet, every small business needed custom engineering work to be done, making integration slow. Several engineers mentioned how they did not understand how spending lots of engineering effort for each small client resulting in little revenue would result in building a company that could be worth $12B one day.

In other words: fast was not itself a one-click checkout product.

Two of my products failed for the same reason. These are high-touch sales in terms of the custom work that needs be done for every new client. I have also seen a product fail due to the high cost of providing tech support vs account revenue.

What seems odd in this case is that Stripe knows very well how a low-touch saas should work and yet they invested in Fast. Maybe they assumed client customization will eventually be solved with a handful of options that would fit most needs?
I don’t think it would have much of an impact. There are a lot of untapped wells with much lower breakeven cost in west Texas that aren’t being exploited because the North American industry has become much more supply disciplined. Bringing more capacity online won’t increase output unless the export markets become much better developed, which will take massive refinery and terminal investments on both sides of the Atlantic.
Yes, it does. Because you don't know if it will take a month, and if you have any confidence (maybe too much) in your abilities, you will likely assume you will sell it quickly. And a second one too.

Its a poor sales person that thinks, "I might not sell one this month..." Not with that attitude.
Not really "winning" per se, but lossless audio is fortunately seeing an improvement over the last few years. It's become a minor selling point on online streaming services (Spotify, Apple music, Deezer etc all provide some level of lossless music). Services like Tidal explicitly advertise themselves as high quality. Apparently as long as you can market it people will buy it and it will improve :')

(See also: improvements in audio sstreaming codecs to Bluetooth headphones in the last few years)
I'm surprised Caddy isn't more popular. I use it to serve my blog and reverse proxy a few services and it's completely hassle free. It's much better than nginx in that respect, especially if you include TLS termination.
Somethings we do in our weekly meetings in our nascent startup (no claims on the efficacy of the rituals):

Open the meeting with a group clap. This one was started by a much younger and more social member of our team. My immediate reaction was aversion. But over time I have come to like this and it I chalk it up as our gratitude journal. As a startup, there _is indeed_ a lot to clap for each week.

What each member did the last weekend. Again my initial reaction was to get on with the topics at hand. But over the last 20-or-so weekly meetings, it has helped me get a more composite view of a colleague's life.

Ending with two puzzles/riddles (I can be a fruit, person or bird. What am I?).

My meta-learning is rituals are helpful as bookends. They perform the role of normalizing/flattening everyone to the same abstraction, removing the relative seniority or variance in roles performed.

I find them useful.
Damn I'm old.
True, although if GP's analogy about slave-catchers is accurate, I think we'd also look askance about a board game that pitted US slaves against slavers, allowing you to play both sides.
I bought two years ago a second-hand Aeron chair and it's fantastic
Far too many.

https://github.com/fcampelo/EC-Bestiary

EDIT: updated link.
You're probably correct. That means the audio CD offered cheaper manufacture and superior sound. (Vinyl lovers will dispute the superior sound claims.)
Fundamentally, cash is about redistributing work. I do some work, get cash, and swap it for the fruit of some other labour. If I inherit cash, I swap someone else’s work for mine. It’s not a perfect analogy, eg what if I get lucky and find a treasure, but I guess at a global scale this is what happens.

The question would thus be, if people get basic income, what happens to the total amount of work done? Would 1/3rd of the society stop working, or work less? Fruit of labour like food or entertainment would become more scarce and thus more valuable in cash terms, ie inflation would go up.

Or would BI enable people to be more creative, productive etc and actually we would become more productive as a society? Leading to deflation in fact.

I’d imagine more the former but what do I know. Certainly that scenario I find quite scary: creating a large group of people who are unproductive, depending on BI for sustenance then facing inflation, wiping out their now-only source of sustenance.
Weird: ©2017 Alcon Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved.
That is great for Europe because then they pay next to nothing for the collapsed rubles they need to pay for the gas they need. Win win?
Wait until one of them takes vacation, see if productivity gets cut in half. Alternatively, ask one of them if the other guy isn’t doing anything.

If you bring on a new teammate and they can do double the work of the other two, then you start asking questions.

Also, this is why managers need to be able to do work themselves. The amount of work a task is should not be a mystery, especially in retrospect.
"I'm behind seven proxies, two fish tanks, a doorbell, and a Korean dishwasher."
Ask HN: Good books on managing a hybrid/remote team?
Hi HN,

I am going through a promotion process at work and a large part of the interview process centres around solving the challenges of hybrid working (which in this context means that each team member will spend some days in the office and some WFH). To complicate matters I am based in a different office to the rest of my team so even when I'm in the office I am working remotely.

I'd like to read some expert insights about how to manage this situation. Can anyone recommend some good books by business leaders or management experts about how to approach management in a remote working or hybrid working environment? I'm not in a STEM field so it doesn't need to focus on STEM (and in fact would rather it is not too closely tied to STEM or any particular industry).

Thanks in advance!
Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines
Without that kind of protection usually some group gains power and becomes the only protected group. Neo-Nazis are an indication that even the most socially unacceptable groups still have a voice. They should be considered a canary and a good thing to see occasionally. I wouldn't want to live in a country where they were censored and if you feel so strongly about it I would suggest moving somewhere else (Germany censors Nazis pretty aggressively for example.)

For example: You're upset that Nazis marched through a Jewish neighborhood. Are you upset about the violent BLM protestors marching through White neighborhoods? I would guess not but there's little difference between the two.

I've moved to places to see if I thought the changes improved things, you learn a lot about yourself and the world by doing that.
And 35 factories lets you hit the 12hr mark within five years and deliver an 85% decarbonised grid. That may not be better but it could be more achievable.
Jupyter Notebook Shortcuts Cheat Sheets
If you're throwing weirdly shaped things inside code other people don't need to interface with, that's fine. Go nuts. You'll be creating a circumstance where any new person working with your code has to learn that you're doing something strange, but you won't really be impacting anybody else.

The fact that JavaScript allows non-Error-derived values to be thrown means that the first thing that any code that works with a thrown value has to do to be technically correct is runtime type inspection. You can't even assume the thrown value has a stack trace attached to it. So while technically the ship has already sailed, we add further complication to everyone's error handlers when we emit non-Error values via throw... Everyone's catch code has to grow support for handling whatever Byzantine type we've decided to toss out of our code today.
Good point about the watermarking, although 500 kB still seems rather generous for that: As far as I'm aware, the "watermark" only encompasses a few IDs plus name and e-mail of your Apple ID (compare https://github.com/avibrazil/un-istore).
Didn’t Saruman muse on whether his uruks or men liked or disliked him? Something about a nickname - sharkey?
I think the first question is a very valid one. You say that newly created money will simply go to people who aren't at the wealth cap but my question is how exactly would that happen? I don't see a direct connection between the creation of new money and the supposedly underpaid people you think should be the recipients. You seem to think the only thing standing in the way is so called wealth hoarding, fine lets eliminate that with a wealth cap but then what? Give me a few extra steps here so it make sense.
Tesla officially opens Texas Gigafactory
https://maurice.fm

It's a work in progress.
I'm not convinced the physical size is the problem.
That additional context was really helpful, thank!
Perhaps. But supplying a one-word correction which requires you to already understand the context fully to be able to interpret it, is difficult to see as anything but pointless pedantry, despite trying.

The only people to understand the comment, are the ones it won't help.
Can someone seriously explain why this is getting downvotes?
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/games/blade-runner/

"Coming 2022"
Because that wouldn't be perversely abusing a language feature for completely the wrong purpose.
Yes. In every way that goto is considered harmful it works fine.
In Developer DAO we have daily vibe sessions.

A group voice chat at 7 pm (my time at least, lol), where members talk about what they did, what they wish to accomplish at the DAO etc.

The DAO is quite big, with thousands of members, hundred of them actively working on dozens of projects. So, it's quite nice for new members to get some guidance in where to start.

We also have regular health and wellbeing calls with an expert in that field. Here members talk about their problems and fears and get some pointers in how to cope with them in a more healthy way or solve them.

Then there are a bunch of open voice rooms, where music plays and some people talk while they each of them do their work of the day.
Reading article helped me process what I've been feeling. Which reminded me fb also has internal Facebook like thing called workplace and all new hires are basically being encouraged to post photos of their whole life like other 10k employees are their close relatives. Also cringey LinkedIn style "I'm so grateful..." blurbs. Basically it feels like they want me to publicly obsessively say "metaverse is the future I'm so happy our values are the best I'm grateful to be here mark is a genius that's why I'll work 60 hours a week"
> A while back, Sky Broadband was even intercepting all customer traffic to UDP or TCP port 53, and forcing it to go to their shitty DNS servers, which panic and drop the connection when they see something 'unusual'.

This is exactly why DNS over HTTPS is a thing. Unencrypted services are regularly abused by ISPs and DNS is no exception.