skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just have a big complain, as the pace of .NET ecosystem and its languages increased (and Java as well), I kind of have to garbage collect my knowledge of other languages to be able to keep up and get brain storage place.
> Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product

That's called competition
Repealing the Second Amendment has nothing to do with enforcing anything; it just acknowledges that the modern American experience does not need armed militias for the security of the free state, and that where we do have militias they are seldom well-regulated nor do they tend to promote security, and that perhaps arms being what they are today, and America being what it is today, maybe we could decide that there isn't today a right to bear arms.
Whoa! Freesound looks like it might be one of the last few missing pieces I need for a long term passion project.... (I love, and occasionally am lucky enough to be paid to work on, audio signal processing things.)

* goes to create an acct *

Hah! Apparently I made an account 9 years ago, excited to see if it's useful to me now. :D
> A mass shooter would simply ignore them.

School shooters are usually teenagers with easy access to a gun at home. They don't have a criminal history or ties to the underworld, they're loners. It's really a question of whether dad has a concealable firearm. In Canada, they do not.
VMware has the largest on-premises hypervisor footprint by a large margin and sells a zillion other software products to layer on top. Pretty much every large public company has a VMware footprint in their data center, and frequently have their entire on-prem infrastructure built on top of vSphere.
I don't see this happening for at least a handful of generations, if ever, even though it has happened once with the 21st amendment (repealed the 18th).

A supermajority in both houses is doable, but you need all but 12 states to vote in favor, too. There are comfortably 15+ states in the "ain't ever gonna budge" category on that front, and while attitudes could shift in future generations that make such change possible, there is no doubt in my mind that it would take literal generations to happen.
https://railway.app is another good alternative.
Just because the third amendment doesn't invoked doesn't mean we should lose that protection. It's #3 for a reason.

Wait till some general presents innovative cost-cutting measures called something like "homes for heroes" that no patriotic American could object to.
> Am I doing the math wrong?

Your mistake is to assume you need to look at per stay. You should look at per query if you want to improve your search.

My math is based on the following:

- 1000 qps

- 1 query has on average 100 results

- for each query you want to at least get the query string, the list of document ids, and the interaction for each document (view/click/etc.).

So we're talking 1e3 (qps) * ~1e5 (seconds per day) * 1e2 = 10 billions events a day -> 1 peta events for 3 months.

Even assuming 1 byte per event, and 1000 qps being super conservative for airbnb I suspect.
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Instagram used to do this too
That doesn’t seem to be a correlative factor. How would medically treating depression increase gun volence?
KilledByAPixel is a genius
Please spoil the fun, my curiosity doesn't match my spare time
Same thing happened to me and it's got nothing to do with 2FA.
> Big companies are starting to learn that free open source can be supported in house

Sure but the problem here is can you find and retain the people who can do that work, if you are a big lumbering "un-interesting" company where tech is not your core focus? In most cases the answer is "no".

There's a reason major software vendors provide professional services. If their customers could reliably hire and (most importantly) retain experts on their own, they wouldn't need professional services.
> When I hear an good musician now, I inevitably wish I'd tried harder and could do what they do.

I listen to good piano performances on YT and wish I was as good. But then I think about how much time I have spent being good with computers and realize that I could not have spent that much time on piano too. They probably spent as much time over their life pecking on a piano as I have pecking on a computer.

There's only so much time in a day!
We also owe a bit to Peter Junger (https://web.archive.org/web/20061012211535/http://samsara.la...).

He did quite a bit of work (and had a similar lawsuit) that code was speech.

He use to attend the Linux Users Groups meeting I was part of. Amazing person and really friggin' smart. Also, he was pretty good with Tex.
Well if you just want to trick people into thinking you’re present when you aren’t, you can just use a video file as your camera feed. There are a bunch of tools to do this. Now, the main issue would be if you want to speak using this setup, but I guess one solution to that would be to use a model to lip sync your non-speaking video on-the-fly, which seems to be being discussed here[0].

[0]
https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip/issues/358
My Grade 3 teacher had connections with someone who worked at a nuclear generating station in Ontario. There was an open house (!) one weekend that she took my dad and I to. Next year, there was an open house at a different plant that I also got to go to. What’s interesting was that photography with non-SLR camera was allowed but no video camera recordings.

Some of the memorable things were being able to go into the control room with a bunch of green screens, walking up to the spent fuel pool, a drive through tour on a school bus through the outdoor spent fuel storage facility, and seeing an SGI workstation (with 3D shutter goggles!) that they used to model water flow of Lake Ontario in the event of an inadvertent release. I distinctly remember the unique smell of the second plant, something akin diesel exhaust.

This would be unheard of in this day and age.
Self-enforced, the same way the media no longer glorifies teen suicide because of the risk of suicide contagion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide#Journalism_cod....
Social media as we know it today didn't exist in 1999 when the Columbine high school shooting happened. That's the first mass school shooting in my memory, though Wikipedia lists several before that, as far back as the late 80s.
Fundamentally, because unlike driving our right to bear arms is enshrined in the 2nd of our 10 foundational constitutional amendments, and licensing, registration, etc. are historically used to disenfranchise certain groups in favor of others. See: voter ID debate. We make IDs required and "all you have to do" is go to the DMV that's only open during hours you work, has absurdly long wait times, and we close down the ones near predominantly black neighborhoods. The same would certainly happen for the kinds of firearm regulation you propose.

Which isn't to say there isn't some reasonable compromise to be had there, just that there is a pretty reasonable argument why we don't do that.
> Do these type of transactions ever end up well for either the acquirer or the acquired company?

It depends on what you mean by "end up well" and who, exactly, is meant by "acquirer" and "acquired". Yes, they're lucrative and worthwhile from the point of finance people, a rarified sliver of stake-holders and the law firms who buzz around to service all these. If they weren't you would not be seeing them as much.

From the point of view of technology advancement, the professionals who want to actually WORK in these domains, and the customers who depend on the products? No. These mergers/acquisitions are at best a mixed bag and more often a downgrade, or worst of all, a career-derailing adjustment.
It wasnt for the tellers, it was literally for the banking customers.

It was the statement of revenue the credit union had - the overdraft section was a single line on the document... I am uncertain as to why they posted it, aside from a "transperency" for the credit union members...
Thanks for the answer!

Sorry for not giving more details initially - I am actually looking for studio monitors, powered. I'm going to sit very close to them (they will be on my working desk which is 200x80cm). Small room - around 13 m^2. My ear is pretty unrefined :)

Reason for monitors vs. general purpose speakers is that I do some recording and want to use them when playing guitar through modelers. But since they are going to be on my desk, I'm also going to listen to music through them, mostly on Spotify. I currently have a pair of 8-inch Tannoy Reveal which I got from a friend, but they are pretty terrible for this size of room and distance I'm listening at.

Your LSX recommendation might actually be great for my living room!
> Sure, they could try. And the Supreme Court would strike down the law they pass.

Isn't the balance to this that congress and the executive branch can restructure the courts? Eg. add justices, set term limits, etc.
> I can’t think of any of the big tech companies that even use VMware.

I would be shocked if every single 'big' tech company didn't use _some_ vmware product _somewhere_ internally. Their software portfolio is a hell of a lot bigger than just the actual vmware product. Example: where I work we use the vmware product Carbon Black for 'endpoint protection', which as I understand it is virus scanning + some amount of port monitoring.
Well done for putting it out there!

We've worked on this about 3 years ago, plus background removal (realtime alpha-matting still not really done well by anyone), portrait re-lighting (G-Meet is now doing this) and even eye-contact (adjusting eye position to create the illusion of looking directly into the camera).

Some findings:

- Competing with dedicated H264/5 chips is very hard, especially when it comes to energy efficiency, which is something that mobile users ultimately care a lot about. Super-resolution on H264 is probably the way to go.

- It's hard to turn this into a business (corporates that pay for Zoom don't seem to care much).

PS Also a big fan of super-tiny AI models (binarized NNs, frequency-domain NNs, etc) for edge applications. Happy to chat!
one other solution is to build a sub project that links to a subset of minimum dependencies needed for ui development and build your swiftui stuff there...

it will be lightning fast compared to large xcode project... and it might even be better architecturally too, since you'd have to factor out lower level logic (view models or whatever) anyways
> So the conversation from anti-gun people basically amounts to less guns everywhere, but that genie might be out of the bottle already. There are already hundreds of millions of guns in the US and it would be impractical to seize even a tiny percent of them.

And even if we could wrangle the hundreds of millions in circulation, 3D printing democratizes gun manufacture and seems prohibitively hard to regulate.

> Wyoming should have a higher murder rate than Michigan. … In fact, guns were often brought to high schools. In 1969, most public high schools in NYC had a shooting club. And yet there were no school shootings.

I haven’t heard these observations before; I would be really interested to hear potential explanations debated.
‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon
Seems even better than MOF-based approaches [0]

The linked self-watering soil article [1] makes me wonder if the material could be used to reverse desertification.

[0] https://wahainc.com//smithsonian
[1] https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/02/self-watering-soil-could-...
Nice work, but you might find it's not super unique - video codec people have been thinking about how to apply face recognition ML tech to this use case for 5+ years.

For instance, have you seen https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine
? They released some pretty nice demos 2 years ago.
The Las Vegas bump-stock shooting was one of the deadliest in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

The fully-automatic question comes up because of pragmatism and practicality. The guy used 1000+ bullets to fire upon a crowd. You physically cannot do that if you only had semiautomatic.
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> “institutional racism" deals with is if one race is disproportionately affected by a policy over others, which is more often than not caused by socioeconomic factors that weren't considered during the creation of the policy

How do you prove these things are caused by socioeconomic factors? At a minimum we have nowhere near the genetic understanding to control for those aspects. At a higher level, human society, culture, and the systems created by it are infinitely complex. Grouping people on 1 axis then saying the reason for this grouping is “socioeconomic” seems…optimistic at best.

There are so many reasons one racial grouping may be disparately impacted by something. We should focus on fixing the downsides of that impact for all people, not asking why X arbitrary category we came up with doesn’t match Y (because the answer to question is far beyond our technical ability).

And our metric of success cannot be “x group more affected” - if we make that our metric, we’ll find a way to hit that target, correct or not.
Yes, the problem is bad and needs to be addressed.

It sounded like you pointed at the supposed homogeneity of the Netherlands as if it were an excuse.
If you are from the US the food is different and is regional. The Algarve is very proud of their traditional seafood. If you aren't used to Mackerel and Cod and Sardines it's hard to get used to. As you move north the dishes change.

The bread is awesome everywhere.
When you say browser won over native, are you referring to the fact that software is more commonly accessed via web instead of software actually downloaded and installed on a user’s machine?
Do you have any benchmarks? Because this looks like it will be unusable on the average $300 windows laptop.
Bunch of if statements can be described as not simple. Some things in code can only be described as simple. Do those things.
> A pyramid scheme means that you use money from new investors to pay previous investors.

That's a Ponzi scheme.

A pyramid scheme is when you have to pay to your superiors and recruit subordinates, in a way that the main way of recouping your investment is by bringing more subordinates, so that it's only profitable to those in the first few levels of the pyramid.
The main goal of the conference is to help Ruby professionals become better at what they do.

wroclove.rb serves best to people who are already fluent with Ruby. The ideas presented at our conference are very advanced. They are meant to inspire the way we write code, the way we help our clients and users. It’s not uncommon for us to present you ideas that come from the Java and .NET worlds, we believe that their ideas can have a great influence on our community. There are good reasons, why our conference is called “the best Java conference in the Ruby world”.
This feels way too pessimistic, VMware got big before open source virtualization took off.

I imagine someone could use docker instead of VMware in most cases, and if that's not possible then hire some people to make it so.

Vendor lockin is a scary thing, the people who are really going to hurt here are mega super corps who are now going to have to pay out the nose. If you're a smaller company, you should be moving to docker or another open source solution anyway.
The worst architecture I ever saw came from consultants, who built the initial bits of a startup I was hired into. It was nice to have a no-longer-present scapegoat to shake fists at when frustrated, but over time I came to realize their most maddening choices were at the behest of one of our founders, who had no software experience.
The horse bolted on that in
about 2006 when Facebook become pretty popular.
I agree with you, I don't say it because I think it's a useful thing to try to achieve right now; I say it only because I believe it's true, and I wish we'd start from the fundamental problem.
Too much of US law is actually judicial opinion - there should be some requirement that if a law is overturned/interpreted, that the legislature has to fix the original law (example: the Affordable Care act still insists it's not a tax even though it was ruled a tax).
> "I wouldn't run any unpatched device with internet access"

You wouldn't go Sunday driving without a helmet. Got it.

It's not a binary game, patched vs unpatched. Safe vs falling down a cliff. Otherwise every piece of software is in either an unpatched state, or discontinued. As soon as you patch software, it's now in an unpatched state relative to the next patch/product update which is a certain event.

If Grandma leaves her old Windows 95 PC exposed to the internet, we might use scary language like "cyber-warfare" and "internet is threatening" to help convince Grandma to upgrade. But the difference between a modern system patched only a few months ago or last year and "today" is only a bunch of unlikely exploitable edge cases, and a whole lot of product update gunk.

Typical patch notes: "possible code injection when unlikely event A happens at the same time as unlikely event B.".

Things that bring regular consumers undone in the world of online mishaps, are manual blunders like having their email hacked, or believing the person on the phone who says they're from Microsoft. Patches don't help with the most common pain points.

Just because Microsoft wants "60 days" to be the most you can go without updating Windows, doesn't mean that 90 days or 180 or 360 days is some kind of industry-agreed threat to the internet. Being "unpatched" beyond the rigid rules you've subscribed to, is not a dilemma worth linking to books about cyberweapons.
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This is true. The downside is that a couple days of not worrying about the understandability of your code can lead to a spiral that quickly gets out of control. Plus it makes expanding a dev team significantly harder since you really need people all on the same page of what readability means. Yes you can do things like coding standards, but the more free form the language the tougher such standards are.

That doesn't make a language bad, but it does change when and who can get away with using it. Same as the argument that comes up every time people talk about Lisp.
Not just with development environments, but all computer configuration, I stick with the defaults as much as possible. Instead of changing the configuration of the computer, I change myself.

For example, let's say an app has a default keyboard shortcut I don't like. I won't change it. Instead, I'll just get used to it until it becomes muscle memory.

Now the default configurations are my preferred configurations. Of course, there are still a few things I change from the defaults. But since there are so few I can just configure them by hand, because how often am I setting up a new computer? Not very often. And there are so few config changes, it only takes a minute.

The only thing I have to actually sync is my vim config. It's a very small config, but it's still more than nothing. I just store it in a Git repository.
The point of massive acquisitions are to enrich company stockholders (generally the CxO's and key management), lock up key engineering talent from the market, and give the manager who lead the acquisition a fat bonus. Generally, everyone else loses. To offset the cost, typically value is extracted from the bought company until the product's value dies. Short term-wise, the people involved will get a lot of money and be gone by the time the consequences cannot be ignored.

That said, acquisitions can work if there is due diligence. I'm in a company that has acquired several companies in a related field. Each of the companies have had complementary products, and the cultures were vetted to be similar ours before purchase, ie small groups (30-50 people) who have demonstrated high skill, high trust, and low ego. Finally, there has been an effort keep groups generally autonomous while finding ways to synergize employees and services. There has been a strong feeling of working together. Groups have been willing to share their expertise and experience with other.

I guess in other words: the acquisition is a good idea, even if a product is subsumed into another product, there is plenty of real work to go around for employees to do. If you have to promptly fire people "because redundancy," it wasn't being done to improve your position in the field.
KRK ROKIT are very good bang for your buck nearfield power studio monitors. As studio monitors they are very flat and clinical, though. You also probably are going to want a subwoofer. Properly balanced, you can get any system to sound pretty good.

My system right now is a Rythmik sub plus vintage Ohm speakers and I replaced the crossovers with a MiniDSP running Dirac room correction.
> intellectual property laws are the only thing stopping Big Company A from just cloning Small Company B's product

Is that really the case? Does it work? Isn't Instagram basically cloning TIkTok right now? and cloned Snap before that?

Apple with Alfred, Spotlight, F.lux etc are also examples. Seems like for software, either patents aren't utilized or simply can't be enforced.
Some companies seem to be glomming project management into the list of job responsibilities for the dev lead on the team. Oftentimes this results in a role where the dev lead is 1/4 project management (or scrum master), 1/4 engineer, 1/4 people manager, and 1/4 hiring manager. Say what you will about it, but I think the trend will continue as organizations try to cut costs with the coming economic downturn.
This is why all computer time displays should feature explicit timezones. Ambiguity serves no one, especially in the context of international travel.

Not a fan of how airline tickets implicitly apply local times to the different start and end flight times.
OBS virtual camera is another easy way. Load a video of you paying attention and have a quick key assigned to a scene of your live cam if needed.
So are you saying a random person can build apps with no code solutions.

That's the promise of No Code, the business analysts are now developers.
It's probably awful but I sorta really just rely on system backups for my configs. Download and restore anything I'm missing from the latest backup when I reinstall the system.

I do keep my ~/scripts/ directory in a git repo (also this directory is in my $PATH) because they're all very hack and slash "I need to do a thing repeatedly, quickly" scripts. Sometimes I might want to go back a step or two when I really break everything. This repo auto pulls/commitpushes every now and then as this one is more useful to be up to date on all machines than to have useful commit messages

As for live syncing devices I do have unison running on my laptop frequently to sync (when its on) a few directories I might need offline. Mostly everything I need as a dev is in git repos though, so I use manual git push/pulls to sync everything else

I did previously use mackup (https://github.com/lra/mackup) to sync configs but if I'm honest I forgot I had it set up the last time I reinstalled so it got removed from the process unintentionally
This isn't what you are asking for (sorry!) but the "Creeper World" series are RTS where you are encouraged to slow time down, or pause, when planning. Doesn't work like that in multiplayer, but I enjoyed the campaign. I'd just stat with the latest one (4).
OBS allows you to create a virtual webcam, where you can use the live compositor to switch between, say, a looping video of you sitting still and your actual webcam. Smoke and mirrors could include a low frame rate and heavy compression to hide the transition
yes, stow + a git repo is really useful when replicating a conf on many environments. Its a nice alternative to ansible which is sometimes overkill for some easy copy-and-paste
I have experience working with IoT hardware, there were a fair few bugs, in an apparently constrained domain.

One including a datatype mismatch, that was also a bug in the specification.
no "blink" or "marquee"?