skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laundromat -> liquor store -> hotel -> retire rich is a common path here. Rinse and repeat a couple times at each point, and because you sell each time to the guy trying to do the same thing behind you instead of to a big competitor, there's never non-compete agreements. Bonus in that the first two are recession proof and cash heavy businesses (if you wish to avail yourself of the possibilities that suggests).
Ironically, the website is called "timeanddate" and I'm still confused by the times on this site. Perhaps I'm reading it wrong... let me know. Right now it's 12:53 PST, and the countdown says it's about 5hr 38 mins to go until the eclipse begins, but then if you click the Seattle link on that page [1] it says it actually begins at 8:34 pm PST. On top of that, it shows the maximum at 9:11 pm PST.

In short, maybe the countdown is 3 hours off? And it's trying to communicate the time left until the maximum?

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/seattle
Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic
I built modern thing a little like the old console stereo units. Used high end full-range drivers for the left/center/right and built in a sub. The thing looks like furniture but has your 3.1 covered. I think there's a Yamaha receiver in there but it isn't too crazy with regards to connectors and such.

I like to think the console stereo could come back for people who want higher quality speakers/audio.
1:35:44 on mobile ... felt like the DOMresponse was a wee bit laggy, but no excuses

More fun than you'd think!
Many reasons

- I've observed that people in real life seem overly concerned about keeping things "harmonious"

In real life, leaving is not just closing a browser tab. When you are stuck with people, you try not to make it a bad time for you and the others.

- They also seem to lack patience in various things

Same reason, it is harder to ignore people in real life

- In contrast people online seem so much more generous

People online are often in front of a larger audience, your post can be seen by dozens of people, and you want to project a positive image. Also, online, you only show what you want to show, maybe you just took the seat from an old lady on the bus, but no one is there to see it.

Online, people are different, I am different, you are different. It is simply a too different situation for people to be the same.
The earliest Sound Blasters had IRQ7 as default. This conflicted with LPT1 so the default was changed to IRQ5. There are a few games like "Gods (1991)" and "Space Quest III (1989)" that have IRQ7 hardcoded, so for best compatibility with older games IRQ7 is needed.
On a normal day, I spend about two and a half hours commuting, but two thirds of that time are actually a brisk walk to/from the railway station(s) and the rest is a train ride which I spend reading. I would have walked and read regardless. But this is an untypical constellation of factors, yes.
Yeah, used to buy a lot of stuff from Parts-Express (mainly full-range drivers) and made some nice speakers, etc.
There's not really a lot of difference between Algol descendants and Lisp in this case if you look at problem as one of building a projectional editor.
$5/mo to monitor 3 cron jobs? And $50/mo if you want any kind of notifications from it?

Am I reading that right?
> Though once you do have a working setup and know which buttons to press, there isn‘t a lot of inconvenience anymore, apart from being bound the particular room.

I was going to comment the same... I've got a quality stereo amp (bought used), great floorstanding loudspeakers, a little DAC. I set up everything once, making sure everything was correctly positioned. There's one input I use on the amp: the DAC. I typically hook a MacBook Air to the DAC.

There's zero inconvenience. There's a volume button and that's it.

No updates. No wifi. No "smart" anything. Only a totally dumb setup that simply works.
Adding a separate full screen mode with split view also adds complexity and is more limited than full window management.
There's big risk that legislation will be passed that allows utilities to pay wholesale price for electricity generated by home solar instead of retail price. It's not profitable at that rate to put it on roofs, building solar farms makes much more sense.
Who snitches on snitches?

I feel like there's a java hammer factory joke somewhere here.
No, both the OS and the hardware are certified by the Bluetooth SIG. An example: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/pipe...
In the future, BTC could be more abundant, because devs in bitcoin core can increase the upper limit of max bitcoins ever mined.
That is a good point, but consider the following:

1. If a cryptocurrency is dominated by specialized miners, then you have a centralization effect as the majority hash-rate can be more controlled by monopolies that can take advantage of their economies of scale. Because mining is mostly done by companies at scale, it is easier for governments to impose regulations on miners and control the type of transactions that are allowed to be verified.

2. Vendors accepting cryptocurrency can always choose their own level of risk by deciding how many blocks to wait before accepting a transaction. This allows them to "wait out" temporary attacks.

I would say that the permanent miner takeover as described #1 is an order of magnitude more threatening than the temporary attacks as you've described. But it is still quite an issue.

Specialized hardware will depreciate if it is tied to a cryptocurrency that has been attacked. So miners are incentivized not to attack, lest they devalue the resell value of their hardware. Note that this advantage doesn't really apply to GPU-mined cryptocurrencies.
>People still tell me I shouldn't be hungry.
>Maybe it's Ok to be a little hungry.

I think you're 100% on to something. We suffer from avoidance of discomfort, as demonstrated by our obesity and opioid epidemics. Facing that discomfort is usually the fastest path to growth in every aspect of life across career, education, diet, love, exercise.

We always try to find routes around discomfort. There're endless dating gurus promising to save you the potentially horrible pain of rejection, cosmetic surgeries, drugs, and avoidance options. None of these shortcuts work, instead resulting in addictions, cowardice, unfulfilled dreams and lives.

There's mounting evidence of the health benefits from calorie restriction, though autophagy and inflammation reduction. We evolved to have maintenance pathways only function in times of caloric deficit, and to eat when food was available. Now food is always available.
I've found that taking coffee while I fast reduces the discomfort. Depending on the mechanism of action, this might decrease the benefits.

All of us have opportunities in our lives to practice equanimity with discomfort. There's no moral failure here. We can all support each other to face our discomfort as we endeavor every day to move a step closer to our goals.

Congratulations on your progress!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction#Life_exten...
I still have an Onkyo ... Mini-Disc system from Japan.
If transactions scale enough for you to be able to shut down most bank branches, end commutes for all banking and central banking employees, shut down all credit card companies and their offices and terminals, turn off ATMs, end printing physical paper money and minting money, just to mention a few, I think the environment will be way, way better off.

That’s the argument behind unlimited on-chain transactions.
Scripting data movement is easy only for small and easy jobs. With many thousands of tables and more than a few TB, all kinds of issues start popping up. I read somewhere that 85% of large data migration projects fail.
Data warehouses really need an optimal Parquet file sizes to work efficiently, and for Snowflake it's roughly 100-200MB per file.
The good way to copy that is relying on DB statistics to determine the optimal number of records per chunk. Then, to have the job finish in a reasonable time, one needs to read a certain number of data chunks in parallel and stream that data into Parquet at S3 (or Azure Blobs). Once the data is up, Snowflake can ingest it.

Shameless plug: my company created a commercial solution which does exactly that (https://www.spectralcore.com/omniloader). Happy to answer any questions.
It's compact, more ergonomic, easier to touch-type on (no need to remember offsets), and it looks really really cool. If you were pitching it to a VC, you'd call it KBRD, pronounced "Awesome"
(FYI, the JIT is in the jit branch)
These spikes are in a nook above the office at work. They help hold the bird nest there perfectly, and actually seem to make nesting easier. I could see them keeping away large birds, but for their intended use case, they just made it easier for nests to be put where they otherwise might not stay.

That said, I don't mind it, watching the birds is fun.
The problem is that there is no choice. There are no good receivers that have modern UIs with sane defaults. They just hacked on wifi and phone apps that do a horrible job papering over the complexity. Sonos tried to fix this but their hardware is woefully inadequate for theater quality setups.
Fast5.live – A Multiplayer Wordle Race
I'd strongly suggest Simon Sinek:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16144853-leaders-eat-las...

presently reading:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38390751-the-infinite-ga...

Before these, I've really appreciated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effecti...

Someone already suggested Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Me...
...and I absolutely agree!

Next in my queue is Flow by prof. Mihai Csikszentmihalyi:

https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_flow_the_s...

Happy reading! :)

Edit: formatting
Just from skimming the wikipedia article, it doesn't seem useful for translating. But it is slightly stronger than "The most frequently appearing words in this pile of un-translateable text are the most common words in the language it is written in." It tells you that, for example, the most popular word should be about twice as popular as the second most popular word.

It doesn't tell you what those words are, but it is a pretty specific observation about the frequency/rank relationship. So, as the wikipedia article liked about points out, it can tell us that the Voynich Manuscript was probably written in a language (of course, it could be a cypher of a real language or something made up, like elvish in Lord of the Rings, but it probably isn't just a random collection of symbols because it is unlikely that a random collection of symbols would happen to follow this distribution).
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º Programming the SoundBlaster 16 DSP º
º Written by Ethan Brodsky º
º (ericbrodsky@psl.wisc.edu) º
º Version 3.2 º
º 8/3/95 º
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https://archive.org/details/sb16doc_zip
Right until the spring wears out.
One reason I stopped buying Onkyo AVRs is that they don’t have a good room correction system like e.g. Audyssey or Dirac.

Edit: Apparently Onkyo caught up at some point, but at the time I switched away from them they were lagging behind regarding room correction.
Can i interest you in some Me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_(mythology) Hand crafted by the gods themselves!
What workarounds are you talking about? Pipewire is stock in distros, and you don't have to configure anything.
Ponzi schemes are good at kicking the can down the road but when they eventually collapse, they're orders of magnitude worse than they would have been if the core problem the scheme was implemented to address was just addressed when it first became a problem.
When I discovered full-range I disavowed multiple drivers, crossovers.

Try it sometime. It's like headphones without the headphones. Crossovers + multiple drivers kill phase information and you throw the "sound stage" out the window.
I try to break out of filter bubbles as much as possible. One such strategy I've employed is having an array of lists for different topics in Twitter's app. I avoid their 'You may like' algos as much as possible, and their timeline in general. The first thing I launch is their 'lists' feature, which is a highly underappreciated feature. One list for Football, another for compsci, another for inspirational quotes / stoicism, etc

As a bonus I don't get promoted tweets in Lists, but that could change at any time when Twitter gets unscrupulous and they need to force as much AD impressions on their users as possible.
What's wrong with Indian tutorials?
Hopefully Google Assistant Soon
Headsets without a boom microphone only work in the quietest of environments, the Bose is not really a suitable replacement for the Jabra model mentioned above.
I remember Popeye's to be quite good, a long while ago though.
I thought the same before reading the article.

After reading it I feel like Gattaca barely scratched the surface. It was actually a pretty tame movie.

Some of the points made by the author are far scarier: gene editing startups with VC funding and sociopathic founders or amoral autocratic governments (think N.Korea, Russia, etc)
And yet Buffett decided to become business partners with them:

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/warren-buffett-kraft-heinz-p...
Which other language has interfaces specifying field access, that does not go through indirect method call anyway? I guess if you consider C++ templates to be interfaces, that would apply, but C++ templates are even less clean (given that there isn’t even any clean way to specify interface expected by C++ template, all you have is type traits, which are opposite of clean).
Nearly. In Internet debates we're all sociopaths. People can be very empathetic online, but not when they're disagreeing about fundamental values.

But let's not pretend this is exclusively an online phenomenon. One-to-one debates can be civilised in person. But as soon as you get more than a handful of people involved there's a real possibility of violence - even if it's only ridicule and condescension.

The odds of physical violence scale quickly as the numbers increase.
That's not highly parallelizable, that's only 2 task.

If those two tasks aren't themselves multithreaded (which they arn't if you're doing them in your browser) then you need at most 3 cores.

All the other background processes in your browser and OS are not using any significant CPU time, and can all comfortably share a fraction of a single core.
That's the problem though - the people who treat "listening to music" as an activity of its own are getting fewer and fewer. I listen to a lot of music, but I mostly do it while commuting, while programming etc., not in the living room. I even have a good old stereo that's served me well for over 20 years now (Sony, not Onkyo), but it mostly only serves as better PC speakers nowadays. I still play a CD on it occasionally though...
From further down on your link:

- "6:32 pm: Penumbral Eclipse begins / Below horizon"

- "8:29 pm: Total Eclipse begins / Below horizon"

- "8:34 pm: Moonrise / Rising, but the combination of a very low moon and the total eclipse phase will make the moon so dim that it will be extremely difficult to view until moon gets higher in the sky or the total phase ends."
Streaming services don't compress dynamic range, rather the opposite - because every streaming service employs loudness normalization the loudness wars have largely ended. Compressing your track to hell in an effort to get it to sound louder doesn't work anymore because every streaming service will just normalize it anyway.

Spotify at least uses 320kbps vorbis for their "high quality" setting which is at the point where I don't believe it's humanly possible to distinguish from a lossless encoding.
Love this approach. We can just bypass all the normal web scraping and get the structured data straight from the source. These APIs are usually no less stable than the ever changing HTML structure anyways.

Case study: YouTube.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31021611

https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js
I must say this is a rather sober ending to the week, and for the company. For a company that lived for over half a century - that is a lot of people who've lived their entire lives working at that place. Households that were purely supported because of people buying their audio gear.

I'm not a fan of Onkyo specifically - having never used them, or even had the money to buy proper audiophile gear - but it is a bit sad to see once-great industries and companies slowly start fading and dying off, as gradually fewer and fewer people remember them.
A lot for what? You get a car, he gets a rig. You're both carbon-equivalent in the current regime.
The toy demo does seem like it's a great starting point for the original poster.

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/cranelift-jit-demo
Whats the good of licensing a brand if the company was known for high quality products? Its kind of like how toshiba made laptops 25 years ago that still work today but now they just license their name out to be stamped on cheap crappy laptops that barely make it through their warranty period.
Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence
Likely due to all the "race is skin deep and/or a social construct" rhetoric.
It's dehumanization. We use that word in a bad way most of the time but in the case of online discussions, it's quite normal. Like I know that you're a real person and you know that I am a real person; however, when were talking online that fact can get ignored by our brains.

It goes from "I'm talking to a person" to "I'm responding to brabel". In a physical conversation it's impossible to achieve the same level of "dehumanization" because you're staring at the person.

That's my Sunday couch quarterback explanation.
The merger of religion and politics is incredibly dangerous, and it seems to be succeeding -- I'm deeply worried for our future in that regard.

Political discussion is fraught with danger when it is partisan based, however, we should encourage more of it here on the nature and impact policies promoted and enforced.

Businesses should not be burdened by bureaucratic harassments, but the answer is not to remove the rules but to make those rules easier to follow.

Side note: my take on libertarians is that every single one I've encountered has been white, male, and financially secure. It's a lot easier to want government out of the way when the world is your oyster.
Utility solar deployment is a money printer[1], residential rooftop solar deployment is an expensive[2] fashion statement.

The reason solar panel manufacturers don't go into the power generation business is because building a solar plant is a political problem, while building solar panels is a technological problem. It's not their core expertise.

[1] In locations that need more electricity, have regulators that will favor you over coal-burning and gas-burning incumbents, and where you can deal with the NIMBYs.

[2] It should be obvious when you consider that economies of scale mean that utility solar will always be cheaper than rooftop solar for on-grid homes.
I don't understand what this means. I've used dozens of wired 3.5mm devices for decades and have never had an issue with a spring. I have headphones from the early 2000s that still work and only needed replacement ear-cup foam.
I definitely remember SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 in my autoexec.bat.
> There's nothing magical about testers

There is a spectrum, of course. But, a good QA has a "feeling" for finding where things break, an excellent QA know how to fix it.

Just as writing software is a skill, so is QA'ing along with Sysadmining.
Yeah, that's the lesson I learned a long time ago. A lot of people interpret advice as criticism and some family members react badly to (what they consider to be) criticism.
There's no evidence that any of that would be technically feasible. And hypothetically even if it was technically feasible, the nation states which have taxing authority and hold an effective monopoly on violence would never permit it.
Think of it more as supply/demand and marginal revenue.

To simplify - a company should hire more/pay more until the marginal value of that employee < the marginal employee cost.

If the 2nd best option for CEO would result in increased revenue by 1%, and the best option by 3%, then it makes sense to pay up to 2% of revenue to get that better CEO.

Compare that with the best SWE option (in terms of marginal cost vs marginal gain) vs the 2nd best candidate.

Compared to the CEO, the SWE may be far more intelligent, more hardworking, and directly improve the product more. But pay is unfortunately not based on that or any notion of “fairness”
there are multiple variables here.

one is the cost of the hardware. 2000$ is not enough for latest generation ASIC miners. It just isn't. You want the latest generation ones. We are probably talking 10k+ for something decent.

The second one is the cost of power. People like to talk shit about the environmental impact of bitcoin and stuff, but the reality is that the bitcoin you mine is worth less than the power you are using in most places around the world. Bitcoin mining is profitable in areas where the cost of power is heavily subsidized (it's free real estate meme) or you can easily generate power yourself (solar, wind, thermal, etc). So, if the cost of power is > value of mined bitcoin, it does not make sense to mine it

The third part is mining pools. You can build all the rigs you want, but the reality is that most bitcoin is mined by mining pools. So you will have to join one of those pools if you want to have a steady guaranteed small income.

So to answer your question: depending where you are for an investment of X this could be profitable (medium/long term) but you need to understand more about the cost of the hardware, cost of power and dynamic of mining pools to actually pull this off (so for a noob, you're better off just buying 2000$ of BTC, holding for 2 years and selling. sorry noob. The wild west era of bitcoin mining is long behind us)
> … Audyssey or Dirac

Gotta remember these names for when I can afford a good audio system…
Close but not quite.

1 is always free (includes email notifications)

$5/month for 3 with email notifications

$19/month adds integrations for notifications through services like Slack, PagerDuty, and Squadcast (among others).
They don’t want the truth? Like teens get horny and start questioning about sex, but instead of treating it with the proper bodily function it is let’s ignore it and promote scare tactics that still to this day are effective.
God forbid you don’t want to have a unplanned pregnancy or worse.
There's no shortage of outrage focused "comedians" willing to emotionally manipulate me on YouTube at whatever time of day I want. No need to wait around for aging bozos in a set timeslot.
I thought RPis were extremely power efficient. Is that wrong?
One increase every time its theoretical limit is approached, which becomes exponential as transaction growth becomes exponential.
So, this is progress made visible? 2 guys in business suits impress their boss with what are now 12y/o skills?
> mentally ill

What does that mean? We're all 'mentally ill' to some degree, in some situations, etc.

> almost all content online comes from people who are mentally ill

Wow! But I agree: Almost all content online comes from people, and all people are 'mentally ill' - or just normal.
Here's a little history family history related to See's. My great grandpa was a chocolatier. Had his own store in San Francisco in the 30s. WWII hits and chocolate gets rationed. He has to close down his store. See's stays open because they have contracts with the military to provide chocolate for soldiers. See's hires my great grandpa as chocolatier.