skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is, even as new, it's still the worst of about a dozen consoles or devices in the house capable of letting my kids play video games. They play PS4 or the 360, and occasionally an original Xbox for a particular party game. There are older consoles than those that get completely ignored but would be superior to the Micro Genius!

But you reminded me that we did take it to an electronics store for a quote to try and fix it, and I think the quote was more than we paid for it. Also a bit pointless with the pace new consoles were being released!
Metallica on making metal’s biggest ever album (2021)
I have tried something similar to this but its self tests still don't pass. Will give this a try. Thanks!
Wow this is awesome, thanks! I'm working on a Go project that uses sqlite right now, and I thought I was going to have to use xgo[1], which is cool and all, but it's like an 8 GB docker container, and I'd still be worried about glibc issues.

[1]: https://github.com/techknowlogick/xgo
Cool rainy winters and hot dry summers are characteristic of the Mediterranean climate, which is often seen as "pleasant".

I thought you would mention that it can be hot in CT in Jan-Feb, in the 30-40C range. But it's a dry heat.

> Winter is very very cold

Since it does not freeze in CT, not that cold. Not even as cold as JHB.

> it rains every single day

It does not typically constant rain every day in CT in winter (it's nothing like London, Dublin or Seattle in that regard) instead, storms bring strong wind and rain very few days, which abates and clears before the next cold front. I find this preferable to e.g. London's "long months of grey drizzle and dark at 4pm". It's certainly more eventful.

Wind speed is also not constant, and depends on where exactly you are, some areas are sheltered, some spots are "high-sided vehicles will blow over when there's a storm".
Not since last year

https://vat-one-stop-shop.ec.europa.eu/index_en
This discussion is the reason I hope that C++20 modules gain traction. It is nice to improve myself a a developer (and have a look at different viewpoints), but in the end I don't want to have a tradeoff between code performance and readability.

I would convert my entire codebase to modules in a second if the CMake Support was nicer.
As a young boy I too was taught how to kill rabbits and poultry by my grandparents.

As a city boy I was chasing my screaming village nephews with a rabbit eye all over the grounds.

I've spent few summers around cowhouse and young calfs, "helping" my aunt take care of them.

I've killed and cleaned few fish for christmas.

The animals I watched killed were living good life and there was no suffering at the end.

So I always had an image in my mind of animals living in green fields, and then miraculously and humanly killed in an instant.

But I've never been around slaughterhouse or in a highly industrialized meat production facility. Even now many people in cities don't know where milk comes from (yes, they know it's from cows, but they don't know that you have to artificially inseminate the cow and take away the calves, and they never heard them crying for days).

The amount of suffering, brutality and aggression of slaughterhouse staff, the supposedly human ways of killing our food, the long, painful and stressful process of killing, the amount of screaming of distressed animals, skinning of alive animals - documented in the Dominion (2018) movie - I was not prepared for that.

But that's not what made me vegan. I've seen it long after I've become vegan.

I'm not advocating for soylent (soylent green is people, anyhow).

But it is an argument for changing our practices, because it shows that propaganda of meat industry (happy cows & meals in burger joints, pictures of cows grazing in the fields on supermarket shelves, etc.) is just a big lie. And that we simply don't know how to kill painlessly.

Few quotes:

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life. [Howard Lyman]

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. [Paul McCartney]

Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced. [Peter Singer]
I work on design systems and a few things jump out at me:

- Shocked there's no line-length restriction on long-form content, especially for a newspaper

- I like the inclusion of bundle size info (even if it's currently broken) on each component - more design systems should be aware of their impact on bundle size

- I wish their support info were more obvious - it's currently buried under Resources. Also wish their GH were visible.

- It's not immediately apparent how to use their DS from a technical standpoint. I'm assuming it's React?
> society is probably happier and more stable as a whole.

The pill capital of the world? Who can't decide which international alliances to run with?

I was with you until this.
That's salary. Total compensation is significantly higher.
Why are we so obsessed with loving or hating him.

Both amount to celebrity worship. We enable the drama which feeds off both the love AND the hate.

I posit that mature intelligent people don't care about Elon.

Our rallying for or railing against him, is an expression of our own narcissism, as if our individual opinions of him change literally anything in the world.

People need to grow up and focus on their own lives and changing things within their power.
I think what’s worst is how boring he is in all these shenanigans. Peter Thiel invents a method to sue your business out of existence. Evil, yes, but also smart. Musk? Calls people he doesn’t like pedophiles. Like some schoolchild, or Republican House candidate.

And Musks politics are similar: dumb, but also dumb in exactly the same half-informed wannabe libertarian 20-year old American guy way as half the people on Reddit.

It’s really rather strange, because Musk isn’t anywhere close to normal in many other ways, and good ways, too. Making five or six businesses work, some at the same time, with only two or three duds along the way, is far ahead of anyone else and can almost claim statistical significance.
Such a misleading headline, the article even mentions his salary is $175k/year.

> Jassy took over as the CEO of Amazon from Jeff Bezos in July. In 2021, Jassy received $212,701,169 in total compensation, Insider reported in April, citing a proxy filing the company submitted. Only $175,000 of that came from his salary. The rest came from shares: He was awarded 61,000 shares that would vest over 10 years, worth $211,933,520, when he became CEO.

> "The way the SEC rules work we are required to report that grant as total compensation for 2021, when in reality it will vest over the next 10 years," an Amazon spokesperson told Insider in an emailed statement on Friday.

> "What this equates to from an annual compensation perspective is competitive with that of CEOs at other large companies and was approved by the Amazon Board of Directors," the spokesperson added.
The Leaf that Nissan sold while the Model S was Tesla’s only sedan (ie 2012-2017) was not an ICE-equivalent vehicle. It was explicitly a city vehicle with a < 75 mile official range, an effective 40-50 mile range, and no fast charging.

If “high-performance” means “can handle the daily driving needs of > 50% of the population” then I guess you’re right, Tesla only created that market.
I fixed mine with duck tape: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLIl30yVcAQcKw2?format=jpg&name=....
I don’t think I’d try to mix those things together. Same word, completely different things.

In this article, a new grad who works on basic HR IT tasks for a factory is doing staff work. That’s not staff level scope in the Will Larson sense.

There are plenty of “staff software engineers” in the Will Larson sense who create strategy for new product lines and launch them - “line” level work. Also plenty who work on DevX - “staff” level work.
The sandbox submission is not an endorsement from CNCF. It only demonstrates the willingness of the maintainer to create a community-driven, vendor-neutral software following the guidelines defined by CNCF.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers.
Apple sells a Lighting to 3.5mm adapter that has decent (lossless) audio quality https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...
Honestly, it's hard to believe that one person who isn't actually producing/outputting anything can create that much value, and that you can't fund someone to do the same work for half the cost.
I'm curious, what do you think is a better community nowadays?
The same ones that work at Salesforce. [1]

(The former CEO was either blind to the activities of his direct reports, condoned their actions, or actively participated in criminal behavior. All are disqualifying offenses.)

[1] https://www.salesforce.com/company/leadership/bios/bio-wenig...
Edinburgh is drier than Monaco (743.6mm/year) :-)
C++ now supports modules.
An anti-government guy shows why humanity settled on a regulated, stabilized financial system.
The thing that frustrates me about people who insist on meetings is that they're lazy. We all know we can communicate asynchronously. We all know that giving people more time to come to conclusions and do research leads to better decisions. And we all know that waiting for everyone to have free time in their schedule in order to make a decision is actively wasteful of current time. But many people continue to use meetings as the only method of group communication.

People are creatures of habit. We need a formal change of culture within tech to stop using meetings by default to solve all our problems. We need a manifesto that says exactly when you should use a meeting, and when to use other methods. Take the guesswork out of it so it's second nature.
That means a lot, thanks!
Tencent and Huawei are still Chinese companies though, just like parent said. They just replaced the likes of Nortel through IP theft and undercutting them on cost.

So parent's point still stands that Chinese competitors along with customers in the west who prioritized low cost over everything else, destroyed the embedded dev market in the west.
I suspect the art is bland as it is plentiful, consistent, and cheap. This is still a large improvement over many modern spaces which include large blank slabs of concrete, white walls, and if its "fancy" faux-brick.
“Uh, sorry, he’s actually the one who knocks. And everyone saw through your act.”
Sooo... they all had it coming?

I know that's the Bible's take on things, but I'm not sure how well that is supported by actual history.
musk is kinda the closet thing to a celebrity there is in the tech scene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn

> The Parktown prawn or African king cricket

The term used in District 9 also comes from this
For me the problem with Ireland's weather is the lack of sunshine. It gets about 1500 hours of sunshine a year, compared to 2500 in New York and over 3000 in California. Growing up in Ireland I didn't identify this as a problem, but after moving to the US I realized that lots of sun, even on freezing days, is just so nice.
"We grow monocrops that have allowed us to support far more people. The shipping container dramatically decreased the price of shipping anywhere in the world. "

The downside of these systems is that they are not robust. Monocrops can be wiped out by disease (see, for example, bananas). Container shipping made exports cheap an efficient, but the past couple of years have clearly demonstrated the fragility of the system
Understanding the Demise of UST and What Makes a Stablecoin Stable
I've been using a dongle in my car(an older model with no bluetooth), and it is quickly wearing out my phones usb port. Keeps falling out. The headphone jack was a lot more resilient.
I had the same issue with copy/paste on MacOS, until I couldn't stand it anymore and used software to remap the keys. I swapped the builtin Fn, Ctrl, and Meta keys around so they are positioned like you'd expect on a normal keyboard (and a normal OS), and it instantly fixed my issues without any other negative side effects aside from having to learn another key combo for Ctrl-C in terminals.

I highly recommend the Karabiner app, it makes this change trivial. There's also a way to do it without additional software, described here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/88897/how-do-you-m...
Richard Helms destroyed documents regarding the CIA and their work in torturing US citizens and died and free man.
No, just bombs!
Nice job! The choice of accordion def wanted me to play by resizing the window though :)
Executive worship, here..?
I agree that its not a great deal for shareholders, but I can see how we got here.

It works similar in sports, if there is a 33 year old free agent superstar, every team is willing to give them a 2 year 80million dollar deal (40 per year). So the competition becomes who is willing to guarantee 40 for a 3rd, 4th year.

It may not be a great long term decision for the team, but if they dont agree to those unfavorable terms they're simply not getting the player.

I wonder if there were other companies willing to offer similar payment packages to this CEO and the competition become who would guarantee the money without asking for performance goals.
Baseball in Nashville: Its time to end public funding for sports stadiums
Which FAANG compaines are under hiring freezes?
As the title says, Twitter started a hiring freeze this morning. iirc Amazon has been under one. Are there other noteworthy companies under hiring freezes atm?
I've lived in Dublin enough to get depression and gtfo

the weather, even when it's not rainy, it's ofter miserable, with very low overcast that gives us southerner an unredeemable sense of oppression.

> hurricane force winds

my worst landing ever were all clustered around the dublin airport. gusts up to 100/130 aren't as uncommon as you make it to be.

and all the people I knew that indulged in water sport did so with thick wetsuites
"Gets ruined" is subjective. It is true that when a community grows it naturally "dilutes" the original attendees so they may feel that the good old days are gone, but for new comers it's different.
"The problem is, there is little that Nashville can offer if it wants to hold the line on issuing tax-exempt financing for the facilities; in this case, the problem suggests the answer. If Tennessee wants a fair shake at competing to sustainably and equitably play host to the next MLB expansion team, every effort should be made to support bills like the No Tax Subsidies for Stadiums Act of 2022, introduced in the House in February."
> It's a fantasy that ignores any sense of economy, science and politics

Welcome to the world of crypto!
Chart: US solar installations could fall 50% or more under new tariffs
I started reading this column to follow this saga, and I have been delighted so far. He has a way of explaining very complex financial topics in a way that's easy to understand. And his writing about the twitter deal is full of wit and personality.

It's a great tragedy that his column is off today. Cannot wait to see what he has to say on Monday
Congrats on shipping.
He doesn't want a better price, he wants to get out of a serious case of buyers remorse. The play has so far gone like:

- "I'm going to buy twitter", buys a bunch of shares, has to report it

- Board says "No", adopts poison pill

- "Fine, I'll make you let me buy you" submits a contingent but binding offer to the board.

- Board says, well, our duty is to the shareholders, you're offering a big premium, we accept, here's a bunch of terms to keep you from backing out without paying them something.

- "Ha Ha!" shouts Elon, "I've proven I can buy anything now!"

- Yes, yes, say the banks as they bind him and his companies stock to the tender offer, you can buy that, we just want TSLA stock, that's fine.

- Stock market looks at the situation and says "wat", down-values TSLA because their CEO is spending his time buying... a social media platform?

- Musk starts to see the writing on the wall and realizes if he can't make twitter substantially more valuable in the short term, he's on the hook for a large chunk of his personal wealth (which hurts) but also a large chunk of his company (which hurts the ego) and starts to suffer buyers remorse.

- "Ha ha" says the board, you can get out any time you'd like, we'd just like our 10-digit check.

- looks for an escape clause - maybe you committed securities fraud Mr. Twitter? Check again for me would you?

I mean, broad strokes, this has been the saga in front of us - rich man wants to do something silly, gets told no, gets more determined, and fights tooth and nail, and finally, regrets his decision.

So now, _either_ he was short-sighted and wanted to buy a company he'd failed to do due diligence on and is trying to get out of the purchase that way, OR he has heap big buyers remorse, pays a billion and gets out of it that way, or he becomes the proud partial owner of a social media company with limited network effects. Who knows, but he had already staked up 7% or so beforehand - so 3B give or take, didn't back down looking into their numbers then, and only _after_ ponying up another 35B did he think, you know, maybe this is a bad idea.

But I just got an air popper, so please, let the show go on.
Yeah, but that's because we spent our childhoods and young adulthoods dealing with the consequences of not understanding what we were doing wrong, and put effort into figuring out what we were doing wrong and fixing it.

Now, I don't think Musk never faced consequences when he was young, and never learned this stuff, but I do think he faces absolutely no consequences today, and is happy to not put in any effort.
> The Tiled Vertex Buffer is the Parameter Buffer. PB is the PowerVR name, TVB is the public Apple name, and PB is still an internal Apple name.

Patent lawyers love this one silly trick.
The crypto bros were telling everyone on Twitter to "enjoy being poor", when they were loaded up on Luna. How am I supposed to feel about that kind of attitude?
> If you don't understand the code, probably you don't know what kinds of mental processes are needed to understand it.

Probably, but then: I spent close to a year of my life writing "software" in APL.

I hated every second of it, especially the part where I'd need to zoom to the bathroom and come back 5 mn later not being able to understand how the last line of code I wrote worked.

I can't even imagine what it would take today, or to the poor soul who inherited the code.

The code I've looked at here reminds me exactly of that time.

Boy would I never go back to doing stuff like this.
Than it was 100 years ago?

I am by no means suggesting we have it right, but widening the gap between have an have not and then saying "we have, we're ok - you look after yourself" isn't exactly a recipe for stability.
I hate to point to my old posts and say I told you so but ... actually now that I am doing it, I am not hating it that much. Anyways, Elon did not have the money to buy Twitter, he had to sell a bunch of Tesla stock to do so, he tried to sell some stock and then the price of Tesla stock collapsed and there you have it. Just as I said.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31109355#31111059
I agree with this too. It's like everyone on this thread wants Elon to be a perfectly manicured fully formed opinion on everything and that he needs to be batting 1000. He's batting far beyond anyone else that's try to move the needle - don't forget that. I don't pretend that I agree with a lot of what Elon does but I recognize someone who is fundamentally changing the planet.

To the comments of him not wanting to talk to the press most of the time because it's boring ... do you guys know how boring talking to the press is? You get equal parts adoration and pot shots without actually gaining anything but trying to get a message threw. There are very few enlightening moments in dealing with press and podcasts and you are constantly guarded about some asinine sound byte taken out of context. It's not like the podcast/press corps are typically deeply knowledgeable and are going to bring up some new idea to help you out. It's about getting a message out to different groups of people and it is really boring/wearing if you don't like saying the same thing over and over again.

I guess the saying goes - haters are going to hate as is deeply visible on the thread.
On the one hand: really great write up of a great little project that is great at helping people experiment with synthesis and software instrument design.

On the other hand: another example of a development platform ("web browsers") being utilized for something it is fundamentally not designed for, just because it leverages the skills someone gained along the way.

I mostly wish this would stop. People are going to build all kinds of awesome toys using web audio APIs, and every single one of those toys is going to be less performant (latency, CPU/DSP load, interface responsiveness, sensor interactivity) than it's native equivalent. That means that its use will face limitations that are a function of the development platform rather than the designer or performer.

On the other hand, how can anyone be against people learning more about synthesis and instrument design?

My brain hurts.
Seems a lot of what drives Musk is a need to feel that he's smarter than everyone else, even (or especially) if he suspects it may not be true. So he takes the position that the minions of the world are unworthy burdens to him. This includes governments, other organizations and anything/anyone he perceives is attempting to regulate or otherwise "constrain" him.

There's an obvious immaturity there too, wherein he responds to any criticism, hint that he may be wrong, or regulatory effort with the equivalent of a childish "you're just stupid!"

His battles with the SEC are a classic example, and it would be on-brand if this Twitter deal was as much about thumbing the eye of regulators as anything else. His announcement today had at one point caused a 20% dip in Twitter's pre-market price and 5% bump for Tesla's. The entire ride has been an exercise in manipulation.

So, I've wondered at times if a lot of this superiority act is really just deep insecurity, and he needs the world to constantly reassure him that he's as smart as he needs them to believe he is. When you look at the attention-seeking behavior you mentioned, it definitely aligns.
Kindred spirits...I would like to get in touch, my email is in my profile.
A lot of prospective employers only really care about your abilities, so no need to really explain anything, and definitely don't be defensive about it. If you can show, through some projects you've made for example, that you can build the kind of thing they want, in a timely manner, you have a very good chance of getting hired.
Hmmm... but I ask questions on Stack Overflow all the time as part of my work... :)
I have always found this to be a useful distinction, but software is blurring the lines in many cases

For example, when I worked in Wall Street as a dev/SW architect, you could call that staff. But in fact software was so vital to how Wall Street operates that we were treated as effectively line resources. We were a core to the business.

Where as, writing internal billing software as in the example clearly comes in as a staff position. Working IT in industries where IT is not highly valued was…not fun in my experience.
I think it calls into the question what the definition of success is, as an executive.

Plenty of these people are stumbling through their day with no meaningful contributions, and if the larger organization does okay, everyone assumes they're performing.

Are they?
Zoom does something like this. They'll embed unique information into the meeting and meeting audio. I've also heard that the arrangement of the participants can also be a watermark but I don't have a source for that.

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/18/leak-zoom-meeting/
It's time to kick China off social media, says tech governance expert