skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use this to generate MiniDisc playlists to record using the SynchoRec feature to automatically add track markers. I wanted an automated way to add silence between tracks in an album and generate a easy-to-parse file to potentially write metadata from.

You can see an example of it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1z3LtkicovnnGJ6hdcrzSi?si=...

Code is here: https://github.com/ecliptik/minidisc-playlist

This was originally part of "Build Your Summer Playlist" [1] promo Hashicorp ran last summer, which they still have yet to announce winners...

1. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/build-your-summer-spotify-pla...
OK so I'm a little puzzled by this demo (https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/spotify-play...).

The example directive "spotify_search_track" runs a server-side search on Spotify and returns a list of results, which you can use to populate a playlist.

This is like … very cool, but also isn't it a little against the spirit of immutable infrastructure? Every time Spotify re-ranks their search results my terraform apply will populate different songs into my playlist, without anything changing in my main.tf in source control.
Maybe not this iteration, but could something similar in general take off several iterations from now? Maybe

Edit: Someone listed two examples inc Geocities but deleted their comment as examples of Web2 options. These work (although now defunct) by sticking ads down people’s throats. Tokens let you work out other ways to incentivize people to host them than the normal ad revenue model.
I've seen far more incompetence out of college educated engineers than autodidacts. I've seen far more time spent unteaching bad habits and bad ways of thinking for juniors. Computer science theory is mostly useless and only midwits who are wooed by theory would think otherwise. Big O notate the $80k on a degree you didn't need.
It's order in the different things in different places sense. Not the best term, since if I had to give an informational definition of order I'd probably set it up backwards, but not terrible. I like "separate" to communicate low entropy and "mixed" for high entropy, but that's just what particular examples of low and high entropy look like.
I agree it needs a reboot but it’s highly politicized and the things they reform usual cause more and more administrative burdens and thus costs.

The sad truth is labor in America is incredibly expensive. Healthcare is extremely labor intensive. And everything else is expensive too. We don’t pay the came cost from the source for things like drugs, medical supplies, etc. A thing that cost $100 in another country costs $1000 in the US. That’s from the manufacturer who can control what price they charge. It’s capitalism doing it’s thing. But we also have a ton of middle men. Insurance, brokers, wholesalers, distributors, and on and on. All of who need a margin of profit and maintains some level of administration overhead. So when people here say administrators and too bloated and over paid, it’s really the supply chain that is deep and prices that are uncontrolled.

Even parts of this thread exemplifies how difficult it is to get agreement on what the problem/solution even is. People are complaining that healthcare is too expensive others saying nurses need to be paid more or have hospitals increase staffing. These ideas are in complete opposition.
This just illustrates how even in imperative languages like C/C++ programmers naturally reach for more declarative approaches. Type punning with a union is much the same story. It's just unfortunate that C/C++ has so many foot guns.
Could be neither if char is bigger than 8-bits.
SOC-2 is best thought of as a basic soundness check on the cybersecurity stance of an organization. The very pessimistic way to think of it is it is a check on sufficient documentation being in place to keep things running if everyone in DevOps/Security is outsourced overnight.

Adages about being able to ISO 9001 certify a cement life jacket ^H^H^H SOC-2 certify an Open S3 bucket remain true, but there is a certain amount of deliberate intent required on both sides to complete the process. In other cases it can be used as an excuse to give security _some_, much needed reason for funding and effort.

Consider the people who cannot handle a SOC-2 audit. They exist, they walk among us and get funding.
Great idea! It could be a really stress reliever / comic way to spice up your presentation.
I wonder how saml2aws people do this. I know not directly oauth but still a pain. And the tool works great.
Yep. Another thing to watch out for is using bitfields to access device registers.

One time, I was working with an older embedded PPC architecture on a driver to talk to an FPGA that was attached to a 32 bit local bus. The problem is that it didn’t support unaligned accesses. The lower two address bits simply weren’t hooked up, so any access to byte addresses that weren’t a multiple of 4 would just behave as if you masked the two lower address bits off.

There was a structure that used bitfields to access bits in a register on that FPGA. It worked fine til I updated GCC, then it stopped working.

It turns out that the newer version of GCC would do a single byte unaligned read if you were accessing, say, bits 8-15 in a 32 bit bitfield, whereas the older GCC would read the full 32 bit word and shift/mask as needed.

It turns out you can force the older behavior with -fstrict-volatile-bitfields.

Took a minute to figure out, but I learned my lesson. That said, I don’t think you should really be doing IO that way anyway. I typically use IO accessor methods, sometimes with raw addresses, sometimes with struct overlays and taking the address of the member.
1) that was fun. The explanations next to each parameter are helpful to know what each slider modifies.

2) the way you advertise your app and ask for feedback is welcoming. It feels honest.
I assume that was a "B+ tree" implementation and not a B+ "tree implementation"... :-)
Just sue them to prevent them from being able to quit.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-24/wisconsin-...
https://archive.ph/kpMeV
If anything, this article solidified for me that the main reason remains cost only. Points (3) and (4) are probably not among the most important things for the vast majority of co's, even if they have 10s or 100s of employees.
Al Jazeera English was (at least initially) mostly ex-BBC staff.
Dumb question I couldn't quickly glean from the website, does Render integrate well with gitlab-ci?

Also while I have you, do you support deploying to Canadian regions?

Thanks!
I was impressed when I met the founders of Gaikai (a zero-day network game distribution system later bought by Sony), and asked them what the goal was. Answer: "Buy an island". Honesty has its merits.
Not really. Even from a point of view of an experimenter with perfect information, the entropy of the system declines over time as fewer and fewer bits are needed to describe the system.

For example, start with a Glas of warm water and an ice cube in it. Over time, the ice will melt and the range of different temperatures of the molecules decline. Consequently, you need fewer and fewer bits to describe the complete state of the system. It takes fewer Bits to encode all the velocities of a million molecules that all move at a similar speed than to encode all the velocities of a million molecules that move at very different speeds.

The more similar the state of the molecules becomes, the shorter a text becomes that has to describe the complete state of a system. Therefore, entropy is decreasing even from the point of view of an observer with perfect information.
I mean, come on. You know and I know that the statistical mechanics definition gets you 99% of the way there in terms of intuition. Obviously if I spin a rotor in my thermally insulated box with a magnet on the outside I can add energy to order things with, I don't think anyone is confused on that point.
The original Web 3.0 (the semantic web) would have built a better Internet. This new "Web3" is mostly just hype without a real use case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
No thanks to the MBAs flying people into the ground to pay for their yachts.

Consider the record of the 737 MAX alone and up to the point where it was grounded worldwide. I bet that's not a great ratio of fight hours to lives lost compared to Boeing pre-merger.
EdgeDB raises $4m seed from Accel
I view entropy as a probability distribution of some set of configurations of something. Entropy is low if there’s only one configuration and high if uniformly distributed.

There’s also some observer/interaction effect which is like introduction a conditional probability which would cause crystallization in an otherwise homogeneous system. Essentially a catalyst.

I also find it fascinating that when it is super cold outside and you throw a pan of boiling water out the window it turns to snow instantly vs a cup of room temperature water which does not. It probably fits in terms of activation energy as well.
Webtop: Alpine/Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch based containers w/ full desktop environments
At the bottom, the article says they are not ABET accredited.
> But SF needs to really examine what is going wrong and why they're incapable of solving their problems

Strong network effects.
Yeah, NPR has been driving me nuts with this crap. There seem to be 0 news sources available that can’t help but slip some alarmist flavor text in. I can’t listen to it anymore.
As a regular person, I like startups where the spiel is "Have a fabulous life and be pretty comfortable while doing things that even after some serious devil's advocacy seem as if they might make the world a better place".
Perfectly reasonable. I'll freely admit I'd never considered this argument and a language barrier does make a lot of sense. In some cases that constraint could affect the talent pool significantly.
> academia which is rife with money sloshing around

In the academia that contains money sloshing around, the only grad students teaching are the ones who want to.

In the academia that doesn't contain money sloshing around, it's a different story.

But the truth is, no one in academia is making bank from academia directly -- not the grad students, certainly, but also not the adjuncts, or even the professors. You have to look higher up the chain (or, I guess, laterally?) for that. (Yes, there's the caveat that some faculty make good use of their prestigious affiliations or professional connections to increase income from outside of academia.)
Terraform is just an overcomplicated way to call APIs. It's not deterministic and idempotent, as if you're "doing it right" you don't even know what values it's going to apply until after it's applied them. It can't be idempotent because Terraform doesn't determine if an API call will succeed or fail or do the same thing or not, the SaaS API does. And if you change anything, it can trigger a destroy, a create-destroy, a destroy-create, a create, or a modify, all of which may fail if the provider's resource wasn't designed for that particular operation with those values, which you won't know until it actually happens. Debugging it is a nightmare, and the bizarre interaction with pretty shoddy and inconsistent providers makes it pretty lucky if your applies actually work.

It's basically an annoying version of curl that has a DAG that you can't even make good use of. I wouldn't call it whimsical, but getting anything to work in Terraform consistently definitely requires serendipity.
Trained Russian Navy Dolphins Are Protecting Black Sea Naval Base, Photos Show
That was a fun video, easy intro to analyzing wireless remote control signals with simple, almost free software.
Attracting usage (more people)

and also

Abstracting usage (summary of how it's used)
We've been heading to this point for a long time. Equality stopped being the goal so long ago that it's now a bad word.

No reason to think this will stop here or anywhere.
The section about promises is weird. Why would you do that? It's clearly a far better match for the kind of symbolic computation stuff lisp is famous for and functional languages in general tend to be good at, and that compilers often have to deal with (which being why those languages are so good at them). Heck, the article even mentions that `plan` is basically a compiler.
> Rather than hiring permanent people or upping salary, Hospitals have instead elected to just use travel nurses and an extreme premium so as to avoid any salary increases.

Hearsay from the nurses I know: a large hospital near me has a separate budget line item for full time nurses vs. travel nurses or other "mercenery" roles. This incentive system will never create the best patient care, but I suppose that's not really the goal.
It is a problem to solve over the wire, because we should assume at this point that bytes over the internet are monitored. Both in the east (Great Firewall of China) and the west (NSA + Snowden). I don't want my ISP or my government knowing which websites I'm visiting, what apps I open on my phone or, really anything else about me without a court order. Insecure-by-default is a bad default.

To protect users, traffic over the internet should always be encrypted. Even if you don't care, as a user I care. And thankfully the people in charge of our software, protocols and ecosystem are slowly forcing the issue on our behalf:

- Unencrypted http will eventually be deprecated from web browsers. (Newer browser features are already banned in insecure contexts).

- iOS forbids applications from making unencrypted HTTP connections.

- The IETF more or less requires new protocols to be secure.

We'll see more of this over time. Its a good thing. Get on board.
Well writing novels is something that people who grow up in New York aspire to do more than people who grow up elsewhere, and those from elsewhere with those ambitions often move to places like New York.
> reap the rewards of lower costs as profits

yeah...or stay in business because their prices aren't 10x their competitors.

The anti-capitalism is strong on HN these days...
Why are you stumping for less control over things you "own". Do you truly believe that the inability to access the phones battery is related to phone size?

Would it have to become a foot long clown phone to have a removable battery?
The data pipeline for billing requires aggregation of usage data across multiple regions / availability zones, what have you, and-in some cases-must be locally aggregated due to EU GDPR concerns. It’s a secondary concern relative to actual customer workloads, with finer granularity costing a premium (as it requires a smaller window of billing data consistency and greater control-pkane resources).

If you built out an accurate data model for cloud service billing, this would become quite obvious: it’s not as simple as accumulating the consumption of a single resource from an upstream source.

Frankly-this would make a great FAANG interview question, though the implications should be obvious to anyone who’s ever worked in a public-facing cloud service: operations are themselves a billable client whose resource spend must ALSO be managed carefully.
Then decompile the binary, bust out gdb, and do some forensics. Or realize you're about to embark on a multi-decade mission Learn It All(TM) which equates to maybe learning the quirks of enough niches of the programming community to maybe not be surprised by what you find... Eh.. 40% of the time.
I collected a lot of data on my life, and tried to analyse it.
The learnings that I got out of it was very non-surprising. Basically, if I slept 8h and I worked out regularly, I was happier and had more energy. That was basically the only two things that really stood out amongst all the factors I tracked.
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others
I'd love to know if Google uses Google Chat internally, so many missing features that I'd bet that hardly any Google staff would want to use it
Even then, msvc and gcc still generate them differently ...
Change jobs until you find people that are a good match for you. That’s what I did. It works.
Archived: https://archive.ph/q3LMJ
Yep. Also http2 more than makes up for the performance difference. And http2 requires TLS.
Looks like this is just the second time they ran this survey since 2018 [0]; there's no information in that one on how many were considering leaving (maybe 2021 was the first year they asked the question?) It always frustrates me when these stats are given without any context, how do we know if this is even high when we have no relative basis to compare? I think "considering leaving" is particularly difficult because if you were to ask me how many of my co-workers have told me they're considering leaving over the last year, my response would be near 100%. Yet here we are with only a few actually having left.

And why is it so hard to find the raw data from the actual survey? I'm surprised this is scoring so well on HN.

[0] https://www.hospiq.com/about-us/press-releases/new-hospital-...
The future of the internet is creating, reading, updating, deleting desired electron state via new syntactic and semantic jargon; film at 11
Stop letting others take advantage of you.
Hillary Clinton said it takes a village to raise a child.
Cant speak for the OP, but they mightve been leasing them on year long terms
How did you learn to get out of the romantic obsession with code and computers?
By web3, do they mean crypto get-rich-quick ponzi schemes? I’ve never seen so many scams in my entire life as over the last five years reading about this stuff. There is nothing to this but speculation, trying to ride a wave before it crests
> To counter that, the MAX has an automated stick pusher.

The MAX does not have a stick pusher. MCAS works on the position (trim) of the stabilizer. The elevator feel system (which the NGs have as well) works by creating additional resistance at the yoke (which is hydraulically assisted). Neither are stick pushers.

> There’s a similar failure mode in pre-MAX 737s called “runaway trim”.

That's a thing that can happen on any plane with a similar horizontal stabilizer setup. I'm sure even a plane with a flying stabilizer (e.g. L-1011) has similar failure modes.

> The giant trim wheels on the center pedestal spin in a loud and attention-getting fashion.

The "giant" trim wheels were reduced in size on the NG (and MAX?) reducing their leverage.

> The fix? Pull the breaker on the overhead panel.

There are two switches (whose function was subtly changed with the MAX) that control the trim motors and they're located behind/below the thrust levers.
> Staying when you want to leave indicates there's enough compensation to 'make it worth it' at least versus whatever shitty alternatives you have

Not necessarily. The "transaction costs" of switching careers are huge. If you want to make comparable money to nursing, you probably need training in something else, which likely requires a period of low or no income, possibly years of schooling or other training, etc.

It's hard to switch careers after 30 -- not always impossible, but certainly hard to revert back to the lifestyle of a 20-something for some time. People may stick it out despite unhappiness.

Doesn't mean compensation is adequate.
What’s really horrifying is that they will use a PA or NP instead of a real anesthesiologist to save money
I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books
It's particularly depressing because this story isn't new. A portion of the right at least have been reporting on this story for 18 months, but it all got lumped together as Bill Gates / anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory crap.

But it's been forbidden to talk about anywhere until this week, until NPR decided to take it off the banned list I guess.
I've tried various schemes for measuring my life and what I found was most effective was keeping a simple emotional journal every night. I've fallen off the wagon, but what I found was that the process of doing a nightly retrospective of my day improved my mood, made me less likely to get angry and made it easier to stay focused.
> Some people wanted to know if this is doable with an Arduino. The Arduino simply can't toggle its digital out fast enough to transmit at this frequency

There is no need to be able to toggle a pin fast enough to be able to transmit at a given frequency. You can rely on the harmonics to get you to a much higher frequency than your code is toggling the pins.
I am not sure pepperoni should lose, I was just curious if there was some sort of alternative.
Seattle gets a beautiful 5 non-contiguous weeks of summer. The rest of the time is rainy or overcast.

Source: I lived there for 8.5 years in the 2010s.
As others have mentioned it's a difficult test as some have native support for H3, but Mark has some great real-life benchmarks, I would prefer to see the load times included in the total time as they can be significant.

I think you can improve the BigQuery benchmark with a few simple tweaks similar to how you did on Postgres even using on-demand:

- Use CTAS rather than altering (very slow on BQ)
- Store the lat,lng as a Geography Point type on ingestion (increases performance significantly vs casting)
- Consider spatially clustering the table around the H3 output (wont affect benchmark speed but will make subsequent processing speedy!)
You are gonna FLIP out when you hear about cars.
They come across as pretty scummy: "Yea, we put your whole VPS provider in our blocklist. It's their fault for having one spammer customer: Blame them! By the way there's nothing you can do about it--except of course pay us to be whitelisted..."
Install Fonts on Your Mac from the Command Line with Homebrew
"On the other hand, a compilers course and a programming languages course would have been welcome additions."

... this is not a CS degree. The author is crazy motivated, but this is more a reflection of the crumbling foundations of higher ed in the US.
Exactly, without any context this number is meaningless. How many were considering leaving a year ago, 3 years ago? We have no idea if this is a trend or even outside the norm -- perhaps nurses simply often run into days that make them reconsider their career choice.
The White Anglosphere (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) has a somewhat shared cultural identity.
It’s a mixed bag. Open financial protocols are obviously great for development.
> I just didn't want to call it as "intelligent" and use this as basis for defining "intelligence." We can call them something else.

TL;DR We're also mostly brute forcing our way to discoveries. We're not that smart.

People too are relying on cultural handouts, maybe most of our intelligence is also "something else". Before electricity was discovered we had superstitious ideas about electrical phenomena. Before germ theory was discovered we were getting sick and dying like animals, helpless. Not so smart, even though it was a life and death situation for us.

It's easy to be "intelligent" when you're given the solutions beforehand by culture. ML learns from the same culture, like 99.99% of us who can't discover new things even to save our lives. And many of our discoveries are a gradual work of trial and error, we don't go directly to the target but stumble/brute force our way to it.

There was a news story recently title "Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure". The funny part is how the authors stumbled onto the amazing solution after many many unsuccessful trials by all the math community. Not a great sign of intelligence when you have to rely on chance so much and so many fail before one succeeds.

This tells me we're also mostly doing "something else". Intelligence means solving novel problems with few attempts, not spamming our attempts to death until something comes out. ML research looks more like spamming than intelligence too.

You know what else looks like spamming? Evolution. It's a blind search process brute forcing the problem of self replication for billions of years. It created us and everything else in one run but it's not very intelligent, it just spams a lot.