skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this website built with some online no-code website builder. Very slow right now and bad UX.
Ask HN: In ChipTone, should one repeatedly click “randomize” for unique sounds?
Is there a better way to find unique sound effects for a game using ChipTone?
I think the problem is that javascript has stopped being one language of many and has become the language.

There are hundreds of thousands of developers now who only know javascript. They have no perception of the parts of javascript that are badly designed because they don't know any other language. They think that computers taking 500ms to render a webpage is just how slow computers are because that's how it is with javascript. They think desktop applications that use 400MB of memory on startup are normal.

People no longer weigh up the pros and cons of javascript and decide it is the best option for a certain project. Javascript is all they know, and it shapes their entire view of programming.
Housing is an investment, you're not meant to live in it. Money is also an investment, you're not supposed to use it as a medium of exchange.

Go kneel and beg in front of the owners of capital and land. Your concerns will be ignored.

You think this is psychotic? I doubt that, I can guarantee that secretly you are thinking the same thing. You would rather see yourself and everyone else around you suffer, for a chance to become one of the corrupted yourself.

The "working class" does not derive anything from interest and capital gains. It pays more in that it could possibly get back. It is in its collective interest to abolish all rent seeking and let capital yields and profits shrink to 0% as perfect market theory predicts.

But no, everyone wants to start their own feudal little dynasty. Eternally passing our obligation to work for them to their descendants, despite the fact that we won't be alive when those descendants are alive, forcing us to pass the debt onto our own descendants.
It does sound professional, to be honest. His tone is measured, he explains his position, gives reasons for his choices, and offers a plausible timeline.

This particular piece of evidence is not conclusive, but neither is it in your favor.
Fully agreed. Two aspects that I don't see acknowledged often enough: (1) Not everyone has fast internet. This is particularly the case in rural locations and developing nations. We're witnessing internet inequality and heavy websites are fuelling it. (2) Information transfer requires fuel and burning fuel is destroying our habitat. It might seem trivial to shave kB off download sizes, but the cumulative effect of large sites doing this should be acknowledged and encouraged.

My reaction to this ridiculous situation:

Use Preact instead of React -- I'm planning to switch to Svelte next -- and using minimal dependencies and writing my own minimalist implementations where feasible. I need to get better at this.

Use code-splitting and lazy loading to keep gzipped download under 100k for all content per "page".

Avoid web fonts, images, tracking, 3rd party crap, cookies, advertising, etc etc etc. I'm lucky enough to be in a position where nobody is telling me to put this stuff in.

Tree-shake, minify, compress (brotli if possible). Sure, it takes processing power to decompress at the other end, but my suspicion is overall compression wins. Happy to be proven wrong.

User-test everything on a throttled connection at 3G speeds. Or "poor 3G" or whatever the browser dev tools have. This is subjective, of course, but gives me a good sense of user experience.

It's not a perfect recipe, but downloading megs of crap for a web page is totally unacceptable.

(Obviously all the above side-steps the "no JS" perspective.)
Vivaldi is another browser I kind of like, made by the former CTO of Opera.
I do hear that actually, my little brother plays and there is a pretty big age gap there, so he has unlimited energy and time and I do not. He plays so much better than I can manage, and I just don't have the time to commit to it anymore. I still play for fun though.
Has it been a year yet?
I’m doing ok. I was recently promoted from Technical Product Manager to Director of Product Development. I am making well into 6 figures. Not super happy with the relationship I’m in. Girlfriend spending habits are out of control
The author seems to have a different definition of the word broken than I have. I would expect broken to mean something along the lines of non-functional, but they seem mean insecure, slow to build or non-reproducible.
> This is false.

> Good quality LEDs are >90 CRI, and the higher end ones are 95+.

High CRI is fine, but it's not something we should be completely satisfied with:

> R_a is the average value of R1–R8; other values from R9 to R15 are not used in the calculation of R_a, including R9 "saturated red", R13 "skin color (light)", and R15 "skin color (medium)", which are all difficult colors to faithfully reproduce. R9 is a vital index in high-CRI lighting, as many applications require red lights, such as film and video lighting, medical lighting, art lighting, etc. However, in the general CRI (R_a) calculation R9 is not included.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index#Special_...

> The most commonly used value of CRI is called Ra, which is the average value of the first eight indices (R1-R8). Lesser-known but more accurate is the extended CRI (Re), which uses the average value of R1-R15 and thus serves as a more accurate measure of color fidelity given that it takes the rendering of more colors into account.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-CRI_LED_lighting#CRI,_Ra_...

See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index#Alternat...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quality_scale

High CRI / Ra scores are fine for what they are, but they do not measure the entire 'colour reality', so when the GP says that CRI scores are 'lacking'—even ones in the 90s—they're not wrong. Current LEDs may match the CRI scores of incandescents, but incandescents may still produce results that are better outside of what CRI measures.

Of course this may only matter to those of us who remember incandescents: the younger you are the more likely you lived your life never experiencing incandescent, and so LED is "normal" and "fine".

Regardless: CRI was a decent place to start, but it'd be nice if we could collectively raise the bar.
> it has not been an overnight success.

Amen to that! A long road to get to this point, no doubt. I hope to see you back in the iOS/Swift world someday, a lot has changed around here :)
N Times 'well: great atmosphere and colleagues; no minus points'
Exactly, would agree as well! Guess it is still a huge benefit to know frontend as well. Even if for some reason you would have to take care of both sides.

I think the worst is when frontend and backend is mixed with node js for example. Then there is no way out..
As 2022 Hurricane Season Looms, a Current That Fuels Monster Storms Is Warm
Instead of language complexity I think it's a result of the specific positioning of the Rust language as a more safe successor to C/C++.

Rewrite-in-Rust is a thing. Not only for applications but also for foundational libraries (crypto, http, async, etc). The ecosystem is still young with lots of gaps and many devs are experimenting with new approaches to fill those gaps. More new projects -> more abandoned projects.
Again, you'll need to offer something else if you wish to credibly defend your claim, because that post is not doing the work you think it is.
True, start innovation with javascript will not lead us to anywhere because the design is not going to be generic enough to form an innovative pattern that can be used everywhere. It's called "client-server" arch for reasons.
Chart-SVG – a Haskell charting library
What tools did you use to create these sketch images? They are great.
I wonder if it works that way in other fields.

Do the suits at Boeing get upset that the engineer they hired keeps talking about things like thrust, lift and control surfaces instead of what EBITDA will be this quarter? Actually maybe... That might be the reason airplanes are throwing themselves at the ground and why all your personal information is now public knowledge.
QuickPass – Strong Password Generator
> The fact that he's advocating how easy this could be

If that is the takeaway, I truly wasn't careful or thoughtful enough with how I worded this post. Definitely not easy, still isn't. To throw myself a bone though, I have never had a HN trend or anything - so I kinda wrote this on a whim instead of doing a blog post on the book's one year anniversary and walked away. Then it picked up on me.
> An upgrade broke my system. I never had any such experience with Win or Mac, so it was a Linux-specific problem.

Counterpoint: somewhat recently, a Windows update permanently disabled my wireless headphones. They still work with any device that isn't running Windows. They won't work with other people's devices that are running Windows.
I recommend Chinese Milight led panels, there's a 2000 LM variant, very bright, cheap but high quality.
They have full RGB + white temperature + dimming, I found the RGB part a pointless gimmick but dimming is invaluable.
Could you clarify "big O" and "a burn"?
I switched to Firefox a little over two years ago because of the whole Manifest V3 snafu (and wild and unfounded invocations of "security" to justify it), and never looked back. It works perfectly well for everything -- and I couldn't live without reader mode.

(TBH, I still use Chrome for developing, as I find the dev tools on Chrome easier to use than on FF, and much better looking. But I could also let go of that if needed be.)
Late Beethoven works are astonishing. The Great Fugue [1,2] is also remarkable -- fiendishly tough on both audiences and players. It is hard to believe it was written during the early 19th century. The fugue also has an interesting story: originally the 4th movement of a quartet, its terrible reception caused the publisher to request a new 4th movement, and the fugue became a standalone piece. The best description I've heard of it is from Stravinsky: "a contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Fuge

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ygvpIg-S0
What miracles and wonders have been worked out by lone wolves, and never recognized by their survivors?

What miracles of computation have been bought and buried by bigger companies who didn't care to compete with smaller fry?

Ultimately it's not relevant until it's realized. Newton may have been 500 years late to the party; but we'll never know and it doesn't matter what others knew the things he explained before him.
A single family home is the ideal, period. Ideally with ten or more acres.

Some people would increase density until we're all living in Blade Runner hoping it would make rents drop.
Yep, anything else works, they are mostly sub 10kB view lib. It's fascinating that the current situation is widely acceptable.
On the contrary, it’s been way easier to change course and visit things along the way because I didn’t have to worry about losing the memorized road. In the GPS there is POI as well which help not to miss amazing spots along the way … I mean how easier could it be when I change the itinerary because I’m seeing a Castel in the horizon and not worry about having to wonder how to get back on tracks …

A GPS makes it even easier to discover the world
Correct. Most backend engineers today do only the APIs to be consumed by the frontend.

And there always was some sort of a separation in the industry: I remember when in some enterprisey places there was the strange role of "webdesigner" or some other (often incorrect) term that was half-designer half-programmer that only took care of HTML/CSS. Javascript was used very sparsely. There were several frameworks whose whole spiel was to allow people not to write HTML/CSS/JS.

Anyone doing both the backend and the HTML/CSS part was considered a bit of a unicorn, even back then. For a lot of self-taught people doing "everything" was the norm, but in the industry it wasn't.

Then came Bootstrap etc and sorta equalised everything. Then came Angular and React and we needed a name for people doing the HTML/CSS/JS work.

When rendering on the server became a focus again, the responsibility of writing the markup once again fell on people able to do HTML/CSS. Which means frontend developers. Which means JS.
A bit silly. Most of the examples are intentionally hiding content with explicit commands no one would ever use, and then saying it is inaccessible.

That said, Lighthouse should do things like "use perceptual parsing trchniques to compare the visible content to the standard screen reader parsed content".
A NixOS flake for Rust, egui, and OpenGL
I can't find the link right on hand, but I believe it was on HN - but there is a guy who does Ruby courses if memory serves. When I looked, he had around 9k followers on Twitter, and his courses have made over 1,000,000 to date. If someone is reading this is and it past of the Ruby community, they may know who Im talking to.

While no books related but apps, I know 3 or 4 Indies who are a wonderful living (close to 1mil) with their apps and their social following isn't huge - but they are great of marketing outside of it. Not the same thing, but kinda the same thing.
I find Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus in Rails to be a perfect low-JS approach.
That's why I wrote it, I was very hesitant at first because these kinds of posts are intrinsically "Look at me!"-ish, but at the end of the day I thought it was somewhat interesting, so I'm glad some folks are enjoying reading about it!
Solid.js may change all this.
Stop inviting more people then, why do you hog all the jobs and then complain that people are coming to the place with all the jobs?
No it wouldn't, that's just pessimism. The entire HN community switching would have massive second-order effects. People would see experts (us) using it, we'd promote it and install it for people, we'd speak positively about it, we'd develop with it, etc. (I won't write the whole list.)
Btw, in macOS Monetery 12.4 Apple also removed country flags for keyboard input.
I've had good luck getting A4000 cards from small vendors, at least as of last summer. ATLGaming was the shop we went with last. It's one person, and was able to source cards at MSRP. Very professional and excellent service. I don't know about EU and VAT, but they did handle US enterprise clients well.

At the time, the price of the A4000 was similar to scalper-prices for similarly-performing gaming cards, but:

- Had ECC RAM and was generally designed for ML/enterprise/data workloads

- Was more power-efficient

- Had 16GB RAM, which you won't get on anything short of an A3090

I'd taking a consumer card at MSRP over the A4000, but not at street price. For what I'm doing, an A3060 Ti would probably even have been fine. It has an MSRP of $330, but a street price of $500-$1000 depending on the month you look. The enterprise cards tend to sell at MSRP (which is just around a grand for the A4000).

Note that NVidia reuses part numbers. With "4000," there is also an older NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 (no A) selling for the same price on eBay / Amazon / etc. as the Ampere-based A4000.
Yes, the article seems very paradoxical.
Absolutely, the spouse at home is honestly one the biggest reasons for any success I have - no doubt!
Please, please watch the videos I linked. Especially the Not Just Bikes channel. For example, this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQY6WGOoYis can quickly explain why a transport system flooded with autonomous cars and poor public transit would make the overall system worse for everyone.

There is also another video that talks about microcars for people with disability and reduced mobility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0&t=397

No rational person can watch those videos and conclude that the best course of action to solve urban transportation requires self-driving cars. Getting FSD cars is just a rich nerd fetish which will not solve anything and likely contribute to make suburban sprawl worse.
340kb is quite impressive for an OS, it seems browser/web has a lot of great apis that are underused.
Does anyone have any suggestions for any good knots that can be used to tie coiled tubing together? I want to be able to easily tie the hose tightly and at the same time have a knot that can be easy to untie.

My problem is that when tightening the cord around the coiled hose, once I try to tie then the cord gets looser around the coiled hose and the coil gets "sloppy".

I saw a person do a good knot for this once, but unfortunately I didn't see how he did exactly because he did it so fast. When he first tightened it around the coiled hose, it stayed tightened and then he could easily finish the knot so it became permanent and it was easy to untie.

Any suggestions on any knot name I can look at that could be suitable? Thanks
> Financially that reasoning makes sense but economically it’s stupid

What’s the distinction you’re making here? To me it looks like you’re contradicting yourself, but I’m happy to admit I might be ignorant.
They loved it if you see any stats along the line of Scotland/UK + Discord referral haha
An Intelligent Quantum Sensor
Not quite sure why you shouldn't be able to create a proxy service that serves NPM packages in a form that Deno can consume if you feel the overwhelming need to use NPM packages. (I don't, personally, but tastes differ, I'm sure.)
https://github.com/nat-henderson/terraform-provider-dominos

terraform is more than just cloud providers https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers
The Beautiful South, Song For Whoever: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-q_gAM1BXQ

Bo Burnham, Repeat Stuff: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9c0UeYhFc
>Certainly you can make good money off crypto if you’re smart enough

Luck almost certainly has a lot more to do with it than smarts. I can make lots of money playing the lottery too.
I had seen a lot of devrels meme pre-covid, now they seem to come back.
Of course, it wouldn't make sense to spill my whole history on these things - but I would say that's not true.

I grew up with a single mom who provided for us on food stamps. She had about 6 jobs while I was in high school. My dad was not around for all of my adulthood, and my grandma provided a lot for us financially.

Because of these things, I learned the value of saving for a rainy day, and the value of money. So, when I stumbled into tech, and then I woke up one day and had money - I have always held on to it.
something something price gouging.
In the face of the mid-century GM streetcar conspiracy in North America, there were very few options for off-the-shelf streetcars. Toronto ended up working with a provincial agency (UTDC) to develop a design that would meet contemporary needs. It was really a world-class effort: the prototypes were built in Switzerland, adjusted for Toronto track gauge and marketed to Boston (who ended up going with a Boeing design).

In a very oversimplified explanation, most major rail manufacturers now offer something that’s like a kit: cities pick length, types of operation (street running or separate grade), front-end and back-end design and that’s it.
I will not argue the efficacy of the drills. I don't support them, I don't know the data, etc.

But, if you're going to do a drill, and it's known to be a drill, practice like you play the game; if loud gunshot sounds freeze your escapees or their teachers to the point where they're not preserving themselves, the drill was for nothing.
Agreeing on the flicker. I don't think it's surprising that it's so common, though--undimmed lights are cheapest to power by not making proper DC out of the AC coming from the socket, and dimmed lights are cheapest to dim by slow PWM (pulsing ~100 times per second) without including inductors to flatten the pulses.
Yes, it's amazing, until the API changes and you have to wait for an update for it to work.

Also, you only get to see top level comments. (Maybe that's a feature for some people.)
Exactly.

And if one really needs a slimmer version of React, there's always Preact [1] which is 3k-4k gzipped and has pretty much the same API.

Of course, in real life the 130k of React is far from a problem. The React code is (more often than not) dwarfed by the application code itself.

[1] http://preactjs.com
Archimedes?

Plato?
> Video heavy sites, especially YouTube. It loads extremely slowly compared to Chrome. And has much more video stuttering. Probably Google is sabotaging YouTube in Firefox.

Hmmm... I've never had this problem and I use YouTube heavily. You sure your video acceleration and codecs and all that are set up right?
One of the reasons I've been reluctant to go back to FF is the lack of support for users (that Chrome). I like to set up a Chrome user (effectively a new instance of the browser) for each project / client. Each gets ends up with its own password manager, history, bookmarks, etc.

Having users helps me silo things abd stay organized. I can also have multiple users' browsers open at the same time.

How can I replicate this with FF?
Fabric can be a replacement for adhoc shell scripts for chore/CI tasks in a project e.g., it can be `make docs` replacement. It is the best of both worlds: shell one-liners glued together using Python.

It doesn't replace ansible--it invokes it (it plays the role of the vagrant utility in this case).
Right now the books are only available via Gumroad. I'd love to do hard copies someday, but that's just a world I know nothing about at this point.
Chaos: The problem with quantum mechanics [video]
There are situations where they can mix reasonably well, but it means making the roads uncomfortable for driving, something few authorities are willing to do. If you look at Autoluw streets they are narrow, have lots of visual obstructions (trees, etc.) and are the kind of place you only drive if you really need to. Which is why they're such nice places to walk!
That's what TXT records are for:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXT_record
Homeowners outnumber them and local politicians listen to them more than to some far away group of people in NYC. Really it is quite simple, homeowners vote in tax cuts for themselves which also apply to landlords.
Honestly, I love it too haha. The only thing is, it's a pain to spell it for folks especially outside of tech who can't relate to the wordsmithing behind it.
No because the metadata on the deleted resource is now lost.

With the information being stored outside the resource, we know that it was deleted and the metadata about it.
So, what have you tried?
Seems this project jumped on the cryptocyrrency bandwagon (a dealbreaker for me).
You’ve not answered the question…
I'm probably producing around 250-500 Gb data/month at this point.
I don't think this is true... I've worked with excellent engineers and aside from a couple at the very, very beginning of their career (~2009/2010 no less when the economy was terrible) they were very well paid.
The only chrome feature that is preventing me from moving to firefox is the "tab grouping" feature in chrome.
Yes. The full title and subtitle, which I needed to shorten to post, are

Red Flag Laws Are As Good as the Data: School shooters only hide their intentions from those who aren’t looking.

The author says this:

"A disciplined, hardened terrorist, or an odd fish like the Las Vegas mass-murderer Stephen Paddock, might not otherwise betray his murderous intentions, but the typical gun-fetishizing, mass shooter-admiring obsessive copycat will. This has been made clear in excruciating episode after excruciating episode. As the Texas atrocity showed again, killers of this ilk advertise their inclinations online and offline. They advertise their acquisition of weapons. They give voice to threats because making threats meets the same psychological need that acting on those threats does."
Saying English is from England/UK is as offensive as calling it "Engl-ish", a non-issue AFAIK.

Huh?

English is from England.