skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love that website. Another great resource for engineering your way around sound is http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-ak-ohm.htm
What dreams can you have from labor that doesn't even provide enough to own a home?

Less to gain => less invested.
You can get a perfectly good slide rule for less than 20 USD on Ebay including shipping. On Finn.no (a similar site in Norway) there are decent slide rules for half that price. A quick search of a random Craigslist, Central New Jersey also finds several in the sub 20 USD range.

Sounds reasonable to me, what did you mean by a reasonable price?
This sounds an awful lot like the Do Not Track setting in every browser.
You can also do this with docker containers for other architectures + the binfmt qemu-user trick, which may be easier to work with pre-existing rootfs images and other software.
Tech is an exception to the rule, I've told friends it's tech or die tongue in cheek. Most of my friends aren't in tech, and all of them are convinced they will never own a home or get ahead in life, and so find it unwise to start a family, so might as well live it up now as there is no social safety net and most of them don't have employer insurance.

A lot of jobs will hire hourly and cap the worker at 34-39 hours as well to avoid providing benefits.
Because one would presume that a company building online file storage as a product would want it to work?
Stable relationships are possible without marriage. Some people view these as synonyms and others see that as a clear mistake.
The data is inherently skewed. You only have a mortgage if you can afford the down payment in the first place and so of course it’ll follow the age old rule of 1/3 of your income. This doesn’t capture how housing supply hasn’t followed population growth/ all the people stuck paying rent in perpetuity.
While this blog post is over the top, I think it is more charitably read as the real-engineer version of "your hobby project or 20 person startup is not a FAANG". Hobby projects or startups are not limited by their ability to scale with massive load spikes or coordinate thousands of code contributors, trendy solutions used by FAANG aren't going to help.

Similarly science students, machinists and most engineers working in the physical world are not NASA performing atmospheric models, they are not limited by their ability to perform arbitrary precision calculations. Giving a student a slide rule may help them build an intuition and deeper understanding than giving them a TI-89 or copy of Mathmatica.
Bit flips are scary even on Earth.

At a previous job, we had a customer who suddenly couldn’t send us email anymore. When their IT sent us the server logs to “prove” it’s our fault, we saw that the one letter in the cached MX record was wrong. This was puzzling, until I looked at the ASCII table to verify that the difference was exactly one bit.

We never found out where in the name resolution process the bit got flipped. The problem healed itself a few days later when the DNS cache expired, so it wasn’t worth further investigation.

That really gave me pause how often random bits are wrong in other data.
I wonder did the destruction of unions and the export of jobs have anything to do with it? Also the destruction of mom ‘n pop retail. What about TV and the internet, destroying in person social interaction? What about the large scale jailing of black youth, for non violent crimes, three strikes and all that? I dunno about any of this, but the article is just recycling old right wing tropes.
The spirit described in the article while now misdirected is potentially incredibly powerful.

The slight perspective change needed is not a rejection of success, but a rejection of the conventional notion of success.

https://www.businessinsider.com/learn-excel-tiktok-miss-exce...
> maybe voice an opinion of your own

In regards to "type hinting/type checking" in Python, my "opinion" is somewhat similar to automated testing: "use it when it can help increase your confidence about the soundness of your program and its design, but don't rely on it as a guarantee of it being bug-free."

In regards to the article, my opinion is that if you want to claim "disappointment" with a language your expectations should be aligned with the language developers and the general motivations of the community at large. Another opinion is that if the author took the time to understand these underlying motivations there would be no "disappointment" and consequently no article, perhaps?

> expose yourself to critique

Hum, that's interesting. I don't think of "expressing an opinion" as something that "exposes oneself to critique". Maybe I am too accustomed with the idea of "keeping my identity small" and "strong opinions, loosely held", that it's natural to me to differentiate an "attack" on the argument vs the person?

Any chance is this why you are so defensive?

> try to avoid the cross-examination? It's against the rules on HN.

First, not rules but guidelines. Second, you have been responding with passive-aggressive insults and retorts which also makes for unpleasant conversation. Third and most important, there is no cross-examination. I am not challenging your motives or trying to invalidate you as a way to invalidate your opinion. The "prodding" is because I don't think your argument has any merit yet, but perhaps this could change if you provided some underlying reason?

> I've already told you your meta-commentary is unwanted.

It's not lost on me that I when I asked "what you would like to change about python's type hinting without changing the language, and what is wrong about python's type checking that is not just a matter of improving the tool", you completely ignored it and preferred to continue with this grating back-and-forth.

Anyway, you are right when you say it's time to lay this one to rest. I hope the next one gets to be more enlightening to both of us.
> even with moderate hearing damage your ears are still very capable and amazing

Absolutely. A quality audio level spectrum analyzer in a few grams with this incredible output system. Nature is amazing at every turn.

> Equipment and room acoustics play a great deal in how much information you perceive from an audio wave. It's shocking when you step into a treated room from high-end speakers. I've done a lot of damage to my ears over the years as a sound engineer, tour manager, musician. I have mild tinnitus. I can still walk into a treated room and listen to audio from a high-end sound system and have a bunch of "OH SHIT" moments where I perceive so much more information than I do through headphones, car stereos, high-end home systems.

Good for you. But just being able to listen closely - the kind of thing that makes the difference between a good sound engineer and a not-so-good one - is hard work and requires your undivided attention. Most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a master, a digitized version of the same master and an MP3. Which is fine.

> The last 1-2 decades of computer audio have been a race toward the bottom of punchy bass and air'y high end. It's the equivalent of motion smoothing on TVs. Except nobody talks about it, you can't turn it off, and 'good sound' is just stuff that has a tight thump. This is true of every range of products from Airpod Max's, to high-end Bang & Olufsen to Sonos systems.

Indeed. But: compression alone, streaming artifacts, synthesis of the sound back from whatever junk the compression algorithm introduced, all of these are such enormous sources of distortion that all a high end system will do is accentuate the junk. Less clarity may well be a blessing in that case.

> Anyway, my point with that is...Sure this stuff may not get preference in a blind test. That's missing the point tho. The audiophile's pursuit is to limit points in the signal path that create distortion and cause loss of fidelity.

Yes. And these cables are bullshit.
In many jobs there's no growth to be had.

Sure, here on HN, the average person is a programmer or sysadmin, and there you very much can have growth. Learning new languages and technologies, getting to work with high end equipment, etc.

But exactly what growth can an Amazon warehouse worker expect? Your job is to take things and put them in a box. There's no advanced techniques, no special knowledge, no skill to be obtained besides learning to perform the same movements better than you did your first week, and which are useful nowhere else.
How much do you earn? Sorry if it’s rude, I’m genuinely just curious, I figured you’d make enough as a data analyst in any decent-COL living city to be fine
>Income after taxes and transfer payments has grown for everyone since 1970

And education, housing, and health costs has sky-rocketed, number of "essential services" to pay for (mobile phone, internet, severan "rentier" subscriptions) has increased, while job stability and availability for working and middle class has plummeted...

But yes, the top 10%, the types to usually post at HN, never had it better.
We would need a radical change on immigration to make a difference. Net migration from Mexico has been negative for years now. We should make those reforms but we aren't going to.
I fear that most americans aren’t aware how vastly different wages are in europe and for what reasons
Where do you live that is unaffordable?
Thank you for the detailed answers! I take it you guys concluded it would be better and/or more cost efficient to do all this media work in-house instead of outsource it to a variety third parties. Interesting.
I get what you're saying, but TFA isn't really referring to highly skilled labor. It's referring to filling the jobs that very, very few people actually want to do. The garbage collectors. The wait staff. Toll booth operators. Assembly line workers. Taxi drivers. Construction laborers. Truck loading/unloading. Ditch diggers. And so on.

And even those with the coveted skills - they'd probably rather work for themselves than someone else. But either they don't have the business skills, or the financial means.

That said, sure, speaking in absolutes is absolutely wrong. ;)
Labor for thee, Capital for me
>download a macro software (i.e AutoHotkey(1)) to remap troublesome keys on normal keyboards

And, on Linux, this is combining `xdotool` with the native "shortcut" functionality in your desktop environment. ;)
Because it isn't only about cookies, it's about tracking in general.
As the decision seems to be deliberate, I'm interested why Google has chosen not to implement such a feature. I'm a paying GSuite customer. I'd love to be able to NFS-mount portions of my home directory into Google Drive for access across platforms and sharing/collaboration with others.

There's got to be a reason that Google Drive isn't interested in implementing linux mounts -- I'd be surprised if it is market share alone. The reason may be interesting/unexpected.
Yes, this is an excellent book. About 1/3 of the people where I work read it. The difference between those who did and those who didn’t is stark.

A good “add-on” read to this is Essentialism. I felt like it complemented Working Clean very well.

https://www.amazon.com/Essentialism-Disciplined-Pursuit-Greg...
I have a keyboard with GMK firmware. This is fairly easy to do. In combination with layers, my hands don't have to move around as much. Easier on the tendons and possibly faster.
Here is a rundown of Linux key remapping software that I wrote a few months ago: https://medium.com/@canadaduane/key-remapping-in-linux-2021-...

My favorite is keyd, which allows the sort of hold vs press configuration spoken of.
> you have to choose your specialization wisely

The problem is that most people don't get to choose. There are few of these high paying jobs, so by definition most people are excluded. Either because they're not "smart" enough to get into elite training programs (e.g. medical school) or because they don't have enough money to spend years in training with zero or negative income.
Much like Signed HTTP Exchanges/Web Bundles, the value of an opt-in protocol such as TLS-n is much less than one that would work with all the HTTPS sites already out there. I doubt the Associated Press wants to get into the blockchain oracle business.
Unmotivated people were always in this same boat, and always will be.

Counter narrative: Nigerians come to the US and have excellent upward mobility. The ones I know are willing to work hard, defer gratification, and sacrifice for their children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounding_volume_hierarchy

_A bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) is a tree structure on a set of geometric objects. All geometric objects, that form the leaf nodes of the tree, are wrapped in bounding volumes. These nodes are then grouped as small sets and enclosed within larger bounding volumes. These, in turn, are also grouped and enclosed within other larger bounding volumes in a recursive fashion, eventually resulting in a tree structure with a single bounding volume at the top of the tree. Bounding volume hierarchies are used to support several operations on sets of geometric objects efficiently, such as in collision detection and ray tracing._
Isn't wealth _always_ more concentrated in higher age brackets? It's only logical that the longer you've been around (and more dues you've paid) the more you opportunity you've had to accumulate whatever you're after.

> millennials don't have anywhere near as much share of wealth as Gen X had

I hate to go there, but isn't this because of their unrealistic views on work? I've heard of millennials not turning up for work because they "didn't feel like working" that day. Anecdotal, sure, but I've heard too many of these stories from too many different people for it to be co-incidence. You don't want to work, well okay that's your prerogative, but how can you then complain about getting fired?
The 1960s USA is the exception rather than the norm, and thus is not a good point of comparison. It's a peak of the very peculiar post-WW2 global economy where most other industrial countries had their economies destroyed and this gave the USA middle class a unique privileged opportunity enabling conditions that weren't possible almost anywhere else, weren't possible for USA before, and most likely won't be possible for USA or anyone else ever again.

Working conditions becoming unlike USA 1960s are an inevitable regression back to the norm as the rest of the world recovered after WW2. Look at the conditions of USA 1920s-1930s (or perhaps UK 1960s, or all of the non-Western countries today) for comparison instead; the society has to function well in these working conditions (which are quite ordinary in both historical and current global context) instead of hoping that a return to the 1960s-USA model (which simply won't happen) would fix the problems.
A .txt file with a "char-checkable" list
Not directly related, but I heard during the Lia Thomas scandal one of the complaints against her was she changes in the women's locker room despite not having bottom surgery. It's kind of shocking how easily people accepted that, considering if Lia showed the same organ two years earlier before transition it would make him a sex offense traumatizing women
Hi Jacob. Is there a site where I can learn more about ROK startups?
Look into equal work, equal pay companies (was trending on twitter like yesterday)

That I can remember of: Vercel, Gatsby, Gitlab, and much more.

Move to somewhere cheaper if you can?
I think there are several things driving this, not necessarily generational:

Many employers (not the tech industry) enjoyed a weak labor market for roughly 2 decades. And each time when things began to heat up a recession would come by and cool things down - flooding the market with newly unemployed qualified candidates.

This sustained discrepancy caused many employers "people management" skills to atrophy. Treating employees badly was OK because 1) Where else are they going to go? 2) Even if they quit you can just hire someone else who is likely just as qualified. Because of this, anti-social behavior among management never seemed to impact the bottom line, so it became embedded into the culture of these businesses - "That's how we've always done things here!"

Things changed sharply in 2020. You had the pressure of Baby Boomers retiring. And unlike other generations, many Boomers actually saved for retirement; employers did not have the power to retain them. Second, COVID pulled a ton of people out of the workforce for several reasons: needing to provide childcare, death, "long COVID", etc all pulled people permanently or semi-permanently out of the labor pool. At the same time, consumer spending shifted placing additional demand on many industries that were now shorthanded (and short-supplied).

The problem is many of these companies do not have the ability to attract and retain employees. On your local news you might've heard a sob story of a local employer having to cut hours or close-up shop because they "can't find anyone wiling to work" - but if you dig a little deeper you'll find they have a reputation in the community for being a bad employer. People do want to work - just not for them. And because there's no longer a cushion of qualified labor that has to settle for their anti-social work environment, they can't hire anyone to operate their business due to their poor reputation among the local workforce.

If you're young, your first step into the labor market is likely going to be one where you're asked to pull double-duty by an organization that, again, has a poor reputation. Their first experience in the workforce isn't at some friendly company, but rather a hostile employer who drove experienced labor away, forcing them to "settle" for someone with no work history. Thus giving these young workers probably the worst (modern) experience possible of what it means to be in the workforce. Thus the aggressive job-hopping - it's not a candidate problem it's a company problem.

So how does this get fixed? Well, if the labor market stays hot long enough, many of the anti-social companies will just get out-competed by ones able to attract and retain skilled labor. In this situation the rising tide will NOT being lifting all boats.
I always start with SNAIL ROUTE.

Those are the 10 most common letters in 5-letter words. Even if I get good hits with SNAIL, I enter ROUTE.
I ain't know expert, I feel like instead of just pills, pills & a plan is viable

I didn't expect there to be a period where I felt notably better / full of vigor, and I feel that if I'd do everything over again, knowing that a potential boost of emotional energy would be coming, I would be able to make use of that. Instead I was happy (IMO reasonably so) to just enjoy not being depressed for a bit
You got that backwards. Teenagers are horny and want a "romantic" life in the bedroom. Once they get older they slowly lose that drive and finding a partner requires a huge amount of "activation energy".
As I didn't know what the BVH is, from the first, OP linked article: In this series we explore the wonderful world of the bounding volume hierarchy: the mysterious data structure that enables real-time ray tracing on recent GPUs, in complex, animated scenes. Despite the broad adoption of ray tracing in games, in-depth understanding of the underlying technology seems to be reserved to a select few. In this article we show how a proper BVH is implemented without support from DXR / RTX / OptiX / Vulkan, in easy-to-read ‘sane C++’.
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That’s the thing. I know this sounds glib, but the barrier to entry is so low ($20 5th hand laptop will do just fine to do first-steps development), I can’t understand why the market isn’t flooded with coders. So many people say “oh I could never do what you do”, and I’m like “I’m a shaved ape who wanted to play computer games and accidentally ended up learning stuff, you absolutely can”. Then they just go on saying that they’re helpless.

Out of the hundreds I’ve had this conversation with, two that I’m aware of took my advice and just tried to start making stuff. One now runs a dev shop, the other is at alphabet making bank.

I think, more than anything else, learned helplessness is crippling people. so many are mollycoddled from cradle to grave and never understand their own capabilities.
Affording a house in which geographic market?
Elsa-gate and other nastiness shuttle have been a big wake-up call for YouTube to get their shit together on the kids area of the platform.

Nice, wholesome, patriotic Russian propaganda like that shouldn't be possible to post. Mandatory human review with a checklist and log should be one of many hurdles needed to post content for the kids-only content area. It should be the best guarded, most highly curated segment, but all sorts of inappropriate garbage gets through, and sticks around for weeks or months even after being reported.
This is the kind of entitled attitude that destroys any hope of productive socialism.

As an extreme example - you don't 'pay taxes' so that the government will launch a $20 million dollar rescue operation to save your life from deadly illness while on an arctic operation. You're just going to die.

We do a form medial triage on everything (there's an unlimited demand for medical services) and it's largely resources based.

Ex: COVID antivirals - not everyone gets them. They are rationed.

Every service definitely has it's limits, costs get out of hand at the far end of the spectrum on pretty much everything you can imagine.

Which is why 'co pays' are entirely rational - and likely more fair - form of paying for services, in fact it's surprising they are not more common.

A $20K bill for having 'having a baby' is outrageous as it happens in the US, but for '100 medical professionals in attendance' at once isn't unreasonable at all.
Tech firm rips apart NEW washing machines to harvest their computer parts
That’s exactly what they’re asking but for different reasons.
And good for them- if they are happy with that. If young men do what they like, I'm happy with that. If young women do same, I'm equally happy. Why should anyone expect anything from someone else? I expect things only from myself.
Physicist and Bayesian pioneer E. T. Janes had a pithy take on this theme:

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

From Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, E.T. Jaynes, 2003.
In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated world
American boomers grew up in lot of privilege after winning world war 2. Now is a different time where the world is more competitive. A lot of jobs in manufacturing have gone to China, in the services sector to India. Dancing off on Tiktok and working at Starbucks won't give you a comfortable life like your parents had. So better start grinding those leetcode questions like the rest of the world does. American hegemony is all but over.
The Sane Prepper Mantra: Common sense rules for prepping (2018)
In the US many data analysis jobs are at tech companies, so they require living in expensive cities and competing with software engineers for homes, but pay only like 1/3-1/2 of what software engineers make.