skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like there's some more contemporary context here: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12817403-300-technolo...

Basically, in order to take full advantage of this system every house would need their own ONT to convert the fibre optic into something useable. This would be very expensive with 1990s tech, and internet access wasn't a selling point back then (even the BBC didn't have a proper internet presence until like 1994) so the way they hoped to make that money back was by bundling in premium TV channels - leveraging their existing telecoms monopoly into becoming a US-style cable TV provider except over fibre. Like, I've found a paper from the BT Research Laboratories about it and it has a lot of stuff about "broadband signals", but what they mostly mean by that in the short term is analogue TV (which is indeed broadband by the 1990-era usage of the term). This was not popular with the government, who'd prefer to break that monopoly instead due to them doing such a poor job of basic things like actually connecting people to to the telephone network in a timely fashion.

All the wider-scale rollouts I'm aware of used the cheaper Street TPON option mentioned in the article, where the ONT is in the street and shared between multiple customers, who only get traditional copper POTS service from it - and I mean that's literally all it can support. Telecom-grade audio at presumably the usual 8-bits, 8ksps, u-law. No ADSL, no ISDN, no digital data on the customer end of any kind, just POTS only with no direct upgrade path to anything else. Some of these continued operating and being a millstone around the neck of their customers until well into the 21st century, in fact it's possible some are still in use now.
We're stuck on 18/1mbs up in the rural north (and that's with AAISP, so we're getting the most the line can provide), B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North - which would have been 1gbs fibre) has stalled because of Politics.

I've just stuck an external antenna up and we're getting a decent 4G signal from EE so that will have to do for the time being. It's peaking at 50mbs with a bit higher latency, but the upload is 25x faster than the landline which does make for far more responsive usage.

Annoyingly, there's a full Fibrus fibre rollout about 10 miles south, but apparently there's no money in running a line up the main trunk road between the two major population centres for this area.
I like Fastmail's app but I have different Fastmail for work and home. I don't want to connect them and I don't want to switch between them in one app. For now I have Fastmail for work and I use Apple Mail for home, but in the past I have used K9 Mail for this sort of situation.

I wonder why it's not permitted to have multiple instances of an application with different configurations.
So far it’s been great overall. You can’t use foreign keys but that’s not a big issue for me (there is an easy work-around for this in Prisma and you just need to remember to add indexes on those columns).

Aside from that nothing is coming to mind. You just change your Prisma file, “npx prisma db push” to update your dev DB branch, and then when you are ready to move environments you just make a pull request to the next branch (like dev->qa).
Typically these sales are scheduled and announced well ahead of time and then, like another user pointed out, may be solve over the course of months. So the market typically reacts near the announcement and it isn't much because it looks like business as usual. From the article you linked it specifically says that he was exercising options that would have expired. IIRC he also has another large stock allocation that expire in August of this year and so will be selling those.
The website appears to have been shut down, definitely should remove.
* Who do you see as your competition? AWS's CloudWatch / Centralized Logging? Splunk? GCP's Logging? Logstash? Graylog?

* What kind of query language are you thinking? I imagine SQL-like, as that's Clickhouse's native language.

* Business-wise, how are you gonna integrate with the cloud providers, AWS / GCP / Azure? Most people who use those services just use the built-ins.

* More than Grafana, I think you need something like Metabase integrated OOTB. That might be a killer feature.

* IMHO, FTS is a must-have from day 1. Most software that folks run produce non-structured logs OOTB (sad, I know), so folks won't even be able to try your service without changing their software. And getting a lot of software, even popular ones like Python/Flask, Ruby/Rails, Java/Spring, to produce structured logs is not a simple task.

Best of luck!!
Indeed I do occasionally wish the bluebox also acted as an interface, but I also really like the fact that the Bluebox is a stand alone recorder (unlike the TX-6). I often don't want to be sitting in front of a computer when I'm jamming and making music.

There are two USB interfaces on the bluebox -- one for power, the other USB midi devices.
The situation in the UK is shockingly bad. Openreach need to pull their finger out.
You can fight for freedom of speech while still wanting people to not say things/do things that you feel puts your personal life at risk.

Freedom of speech has to come with some caveats or its dangerous as it can be used as a weapon.
It’s amazing to see people come out of the woodwork to denounce him owning it but never mention the very biased way the company is currently run.
Inverse to the number of subs
Have you seen a comparative teardown of an Apple charger vs a $1 Aliexpress charger? They're completely different internally because the cheap ones skip all the required isolation and noise filtering, and usually deliver only half of their rated current.
Darn. I saw TRRS and assumed balance mono inputs.
It used to be that if you were going to run BSD that meant either compiling from ports or source. Packages were only available for the most common components, but the default was ports and most admins went along with that because you got greater flexibility/opportunities to optimize. Back then source compiles of software like Apache were the norm for even the Solaris boxes I worked on. Same for most perl modules (I had a decade-long war with Math::Pari).
> tool of propaganda for Musk's financial interests and self-aggrandizement looks very very concerning to put it mildly

How is it any different than Bezos buying WaPo, in principle? That does not seem to have been detrimental to Amazon shareholders. And how does having a propaganda arm detrimental to Tesla financial interests? Marketing is a euphemism for propaganda after all.

(I can see legitimate Tesla shareholder concern for Musk attention being spread too thin, but to claim having Twitter makes things worse beyond his existing presence as a user seems ridiculous.)
Sure, but how do you build a rich search feature if you are unable to extract features from the private content?
What examples do you have then?
Yes, TSMC is a very important corporation.

No, their (improbable) destruction would not cause an "unimaginable" global economic catastrophe as the previous commentator implied.
Because the BB bonds are currently yielding LIBOR + 7%. A royalty stream is similar to a bond in the sense that you pay a price today to own an asset that will pay an uncertain stream of future cashflows over time.
Ukrainian Man Tracks Russian Troop Movements with Stolen AirPods [video]
Don't leave us hanging, what did you wish it was before now?
The article isn't just revisionist history, it is pure fantasy.

Fiber technology was prohibitively expensive in the 70's and was far from ready to be used in residential homes. You would have to wait until the mid-90's for the "killer app" (the world wide web).
Any fellow European remembers Dederon fabric?
>This is the future nationally. We have a nationwide shortage of police officers that will only get worse

maybe if we keep buying them anti tank weapons and be immune to any punishment, the problem will naturally fix itself!
I am the lower end of the target market for this: I mess around with synthesizers and I prefer DAW-less and while it wouldn’t be an impulse purchase, I could probably afford it.

Except that it doesn’t record, so I still need another device at the end of the chain.

I can’t figure that out. For the price, surely recording would have fit. It’s digital audio anyway, right, in order to do the effects?

There might be a good reason why there’s no built-in recorder, and maybe someone will explain it to me, but it seems like a massive missed opportunity to be the last link in a serious portable synth chain.
This thread has given me so much new material. (lol)
> real aircraft carrier

USN hasn't had the balls to sail carriers through the strait in 20+ years even under Mike Pompeo at the nadir of US/PRC relations since Nixon. Clinton sent 2 during last TW strait crisis for shits and giggles. Strait transits are down to DDGs and coast guard vessels now.

PRC doesn't even need Navy to venture outside the first island chain to destroy East Asia semi, or conduct massive crippling cyber warefare on CONUS. Reality is US has very limited options protecting East Asia interests and US is now existentially vulnerable in multiple domains that can't be solved with biggest military budget and 20 aircraft carriers.

PRC is moving to sanction proof economy and decoupling anyway, eating sanctions for taking back TW is built into the equation.
If you don't count your time whatsoever and don't go for the nice case design.

I mean at the extreme case, if you can tolerate 40ms of latency and stuttering, a Raspberry Pi and some USB soundcards can do it all. The actual power needed is reasonable and ADC/DACs aren't that insane.

A Teensy 4.1 connected to an ESP32 could probably do most of this, if you wanted to do $15k of software development in your spare time and were really good at DSP.
You might be surprised by how little difference there would be!
>If they want to save the environment they should have kept the price the same and knocked off 30 dollars if you didn't want the charger.

This is what they are already doing. You can buy the phone plus the charger or just the phone for 30$ less.
We have that in Australia, AU$8/month. https://flashnews.com.au/

The streaming service itself is owned by Streamotion which is owned by Foxtel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtel

Includes many popular news services (Sky, Fox, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, AlJazeera, NHK etc).
One thing I feel relatively sure of is that present TSLA shareholders are the sort of people who, up until the present, see fit to own TSLA shares. This despite everything that is already publicly known or said about Elon Musk.

If I keep myself in my personal mindset of a Musk skeptic and try to model the behavior of TSLA shareholders, I would anticipate TSLA shareholders selling immediately (today, and every day previously in the past several years), because that is what I would do if I were gifted TSLA. But that's obviously not what TSLA shareholders do, so my personal mindset evidently makes for an inadequate model of TSLA shareholders.

If instead I try to suspend my own beliefs and imagine myself as somebody who thinks owning and holding TSLA is a good idea, then my new assumed mindset says that Elon Musk getting more power, by hook or by crook, is a good thing for me.
You need a broker and a couple million dollars to invest for them to take you seriously. The bonds typically sell in minimum $100,000 pieces.
Most of these problems aren't a "Cars doing something wrong" or "Cyclist doing something wrong" problem. They are usually issues with terrible infrastructure. However, there are systems that would prevent this that are currently in use.

https://freightliner.com/demand-detroit/detroit-assurance-su...
I think a lot of programmers as they are first learning their first language go through a phase of trying to count brackets and parentheses and failing miserably (those bugs are horrible to hunt down) before finding editors that help match them for you. Even then, many editors don't do a great job of this so coders develop a certain aversion to using many parentheses or brackets of any type. This is also rooted in the conventional C philosophies that more than two levels of indentation are a bad thing.

At least that was how I used to see things, prior to getting familiar with Lisp and emacs. Now I find myself using all kinds of parentheses in every language so as to make order-of-operations more explicit at a quick glance. I even learned to count parentheses and almost enjoy it.

I think learning Python's complete-opposite approach of getting rid of brackets in most cases and using indentation-only also clarified my thinking on the matter. I find that this brings back the old problem of mismatched-bracket bug hunting, but worse because indentation levels can get shifted and then there's no amount of paren-matching that will help sort things out.

In essence, I think everyone should learn Python and Lisp, then see which philosophy they like better.
It's a great pity Thatcher chose to be cremated otherwise there'd be a huge queue the length of the UK lining up to take a leak on her grave.
I’ve been buying Apple kit for 15 years now, on my fourth Mac and we’ve had over a dozen iPhones and handful of iPads on the family.

The reason I trust Apple is the products we’ve bought have lasted years and years, been highly reliable, had solid software support and upgrades for many years and been easy for me to repair (I’ve replaced the batteries on 4 phones using third party kits). Plus three times now when I’ve had problems with a device, even outside warranty, I’ve had free repairs or replacements for various reasons.

Data point of one of course from your perspective, but from my perspective this is handfuls of data points that tell me I made a good choice.

Yes I know plenty of others have had bad experiences, but I’ve had bad experiences with plenty of manufacturers. Overall through Apple has sky high customer satisfaction ratings for reasons.
The article doesn't discuss how Sun turned away from Tcl and embraced Java instead (understandable since it focuses on Tcl).

It's interesting because Sun had the same goals for Tcl as they did for Java (or vice-versa!): "evolve Tcl into a universal scripting language for the Internet", "allows untrusted scripts to be evaluated safely", "Tcl plugin, so that Tcl scripts can be evaluated in a Web browser".

Ousterhout spun Tcl out of Sun in late 1997, which feels like the timeline when Sun was turning to Java.

Is there insider history available anywhere on how and why that transition happened? I can certainly imagine that performance and expressivity were a concern.
> must have taken many years and many, many millions of dollars

I don't have any inside knowledge, and obviously you can burn many millions even with a small team but:

"We started building Column in 2019 and launched in 2022." [0]

"We’re only six engineers (seven if you count me…but I’m a weekend code pusher)" [1]

[0] https://column.com/company/
[1] https://column.com/blog/hiring-at-column/
I think of "computer science" somewhat like "engine science", AKA thermodynamics: they're both intimately tied to practical engineering (hardware/software; steam locomotives) and they're both intimately tied to abstract mathematics (computability, complexity theory; statistics, information).

An easy way to reconcile this is to consider that everything is an engine (~ 'system that transforms energy'); and likewise that everything is a computer (~ a 'system that turns inputs to outputs'). Each field offers a different perspective, on different aspects of, the world :)
The original contract was something like a two sentence contract. Presumably the royalty stream has been subdivided a lot. And it's the best selling mouthwash in the US. AFAIK, all the mouthwashes under the brand, including alcohol-free ones, are still covered by the original contract and there have been significant reformulations.
What absolute horseshit.
According to the benchmarks, pdqsort only really helps for Go's integer sort.

The fastest way to sort integers is a radix-256 increasing-significance radix sort, and that has been a well-known fact since the 1960's. In other words: a stable bytewise counting sort, sorting from least-significant byte to most-significant byte.

A comparison sort, no matter how clever, will not outperform a radix sort, except for very small arrays or very large (many byte) integers.
For European, or international, affairs? Which issues did DW cover more neutrally than the BBC?
Engineer at Column here. We absolutely want to be early adopters of all new Fed technologies and payment rails. That being said, the rollout on these things is...slow. The Fed moves at its own pace, but we will definitely be right there with them.
Which might have been from the Fleetsmith acquisition.
I worked at a company that used the phrase "getting jamf'd" as a verb to describe when the management system broke things on your macbook.

E.g., "I'll be able to test that code change in a bit, I got Jamf'd pretty hard this morning and now my build is broken..."
I suspect that even for the slow games you listed, performance was very important to get the number of features they needed into the game.

> After all premature optimization is the root of all evil.

This quote means not to optimize too early, not that you shouldn't optimize at all.
Ask HN: Interviews with Founders That Failed
I was looking at old Steve Jobs interviews (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c) and I was thinking, where can I find the interviews of people that failed? That had just as grand visions, and were just as confident, but things didn't go their way.

It is hard to find them, and you tube doesn't recommend them to me.

If you know any, it will be great to build up a list.
My feeling is that this does something to the discoverability problem, to music patronage that's completely superfluous and doesn't serve the artists or their audience. It's being pushed by NFT enthusiasts and a16z, but yet to gain mainstream appeal.

I think this would be much more successful without NFTs, cryptocurrencies and all that. It would make it possible for ordinary people to understand the service better, especially when it comes to payment. The involvement of cryptocurrencies is simply a barrier. Scarcity isn't the best incentive either, it's an extrinsic motivation associated with logic and ownership, whereas for music you want an intrinsic motivation associated with self-expression, creativity and social aspects. These NFT platforms are suprisingly bad at presenting a social influence incentive, you would think it would be their bread and butter. Basically you want that and empowerment, with a bit of epic meaning mixed in. You want a creative playground of artists and their audience both feeling that they have an impact. None of this scarcity crap, instant turn off, it's completely on the other side of the spectrum. The point of music and any creative endevour is not the scarcity of the end product, it's sharing it. It's connection. There is no point in ownership. That's not the kind of connection people trully want, it's bragging rights at best.
The helium was in bladders (big balloons) inside the structure and the outer skin covering. There were many bladders together inside the metal and the outer skin.
Why does the Phone app only allow recording in India?
Actually the cited article rather explains that the move to copper was also heavily motivated to support cable television which allowed to stream more right leaning media to households. In the end it is mostly about power not necessarily corruption.
I believe the Koch brothers are bankrolling the newshour, but not PBS as a whole. By the way David is dead now, and I don't think Bill was considered part of the "Koch Brothers" since he was bought out of the company decades ago. Really it's just Koch brother now I guess.
Thank you for the advice and the good wishes :)
As I understand, it is prohibitively hard to make constant signal with high enough power, so SL will not work.

So usually made trick - EW find when sync should be, and emit short high energy impulses, so snr become too low to receive sync part, and transmission effectively blocked.

Spacex implemented new encoding, where sync is in random place in time-frequency, so now EW could emit, and this will lead to speed degradation, but not to full blocking.
What's not to love about `upvar`? /s
They don't even have to offer two versions, they can just "give the charger for free", or "donate $X to an environmental charity".
The workflows, culture and engineering process that drive 1500% YoY Growth
Oh right, that's also a thing :v
If you're interested in thinking more about it, Peter Thiel's Zero to One is a very interesting book. It's certainly not necessarily true that a monopoly ends up providing value like that, but with Google as an example, it's very unlikely they would provide so much open source code if they were in a vicious fight for survival.

> [T]he history of progress is a history of better monopoly businesses replacing incumbents. Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate. Then monopolies can keep innovating because profits enable them to make the long-term plans and finance the ambitious research projects that firms locked in competition can't dream of.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-...
We use bors as well. Our repo isn’t particularly active, a few dozen committers at any one time, but it lets us have pretty aggressive checks on master without having to run them separately for each PR before it lands.

Definitely recommended. We run ours on a Heroku instance it’s cheap and almost entirely maintenance free.
It will; there are tweaks out there that explicitly allow for installing windows 11 on an mbr partition.

Hint: download the latest version of Rufus, point it to a windows 11 iso and select the "Extended installation" mode. The result will happily install itself onto an MBR partition.

I performed an upgrade (!) of a windows 10 installation to windows 11 in this manner; I'm writing from this SSD right now.

PS C:\Users\alexa> $(get-disk | ? {$_.IsSystem}).PartitionStyle; [System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version
MBR

Major Minor Build Revision
----- ----- ----- --------
10 0 22000 0
How long to we now see Disneyland+ in Meta coming soon…
There are some picture on the internet with HP, Dell and IBM hardware, just the normal rack servers you would expect.

But it is also known they moved a lot of storage to Google servers.
The claim was "perfectly formally correct". If the average is arithmetic mean of all possible inputs, then average case O is worst case O because the worst case term dominates. Therefore they are using an informal definition of average, which doesn't jive with formally correct.
The Nonmachinables (2021)
If you’re just interested in a tiny €130 mixer, Bastl Dude is great:

https://noise.kitchen/bastl-instruments/bastl-instruments-du...
> and to make DB indices happy.

You can do both, use a low precision timestamp with overflows in the ID to keep the index happy, and add a proper timestamp field for analytics.

The 32 + 96 split is what postgres uses for example. I'd say that's a pretty good endorsement.
No "might" about it. On a related note, Apple sent out a notice today that they're shutting down Fleetsmith 6 months from now.