skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Modern style" pixel art doesn't always mean higher resolution. You could use low resolutions but high bitdepth or lighting or transforms or shaders or ...

(Although I would consider a low-res limited-palette game which uses transparency, lighting, rotation, scaling and other transforms as retro since that was already possible decades ago.)

I (and many others) think mismatched pixel sizes look bad, but that there's nothing inherently wrong with those other things.
You didn’t happen to buy them from somebody through the Seattle Robotics Society, did you?

I had collected a bunch of General Instrument’s SP0256 chips that I sold (along with the rest of my electronics hobby stuff) maybe 15 years ago. I think there was a Basic Stamp or two, a Handyboard, and maybe a Pic chip or two.
Yellen Wanted Biden Relief Plan Cut by a Third, Biographer Says
I'm a huge fan of feathersjs and I don't even use the websocket features.
I find the web interface completely unusable. It's hard to pinpoint why it's terrible. It's just bad at every step of normal use, and sluggish as something slow.

I only have two problems with the ios app, but they're annoying enough. One is making you find a button to transition to a second screen to get to basic play controls, then find another button-like thing (even now I can't tell you off the top of my head where it is) to get back. I do not understand why the "play a song" interface needs multiple pages.

The other thing is that once every few hours I get the popup: "song isn't authorized" and I have to click around on shit until the app remembers that yes it actually is authorized because I pay $10 a month for it to be. I'd like to hear the UX rationale for showing a message which to 99.9% of their users just means "We're not going to play your song right now, for no particular reason except that computers don't work in general" and to the rest means "We're not going to play this song right now, even though we probably could if we were less paranoid, or better software engineers, which is an us problem but we'd rather make it a you problem"
Can you give a sense of how Superhuman helps you get through those emails faster?

50 emails does not sound like a lot to me; I’m not sure how I could get through them any faster than I can now using the default MS365 web Outlook + Mail app on my iPhone.
Unfortunately, Telegram doesn't cooperate with German authorities in the majority of cases, because it operates out of the jurisdiction.

Telegram probably figured if they don't at least share information on child abuse and terrorism, they'll just motivate regulatory action.
Correct (horse battery staple). This is how it’s done in all production implementations.
Ah well you would know much better than me! I heard someone mention James as the architect of aws and recall him mentioning designing dynamodb. Did he do that, or am I universally wrong sans his love for formal methods?

Thanks for the clarification though. This is truly why I enjoy HN so much. The ability to get corrected by the experts is an honor :)
No matter where you shop, it will be absolutely impossible to figure out where the eggs are. They fall into no typical aisle category.

Someone please create a crowdsourced website wheresthedamneggs.com
In the words of dark souls (and apparently evolution): Time for crab
He and central bank Gov. Sahap Kavcioglu believe this is the peak and inflation will begin declining to near 43 percent by the end of the year and single digits by end of 2024 “thanks to a gradual decrease in supply-demand mismatches and disruptions in supply chains, in addition to the results of the steps taken for price stability” (remarks from central bank governor last month).

Ergodan’s course is not changing, for now
Every single country on the planet has exactly that.
Mastodon is definitely not web3. It offers a world without Facebook/Twitter.

How would web3 improve that?

You don’t need a blockchain to do federation (I.e. Mastodon).
I think this is one of the reasons why Germany doesn't have a startup ecosystem.

People who are loosely playing with the idea of running their own tiny company (e.g. as a student side gig, not with the "I'm planning this like a businessperson and here's my plan how to turn it into a unicorn and how to exit" approach) take a look at the system and bureaucracy, and simply give up and forever write off the concept of running your own company as a worthwhile option.

Even becoming an independent contractor is fraught with many of the same hurdles. This creates a strong push towards employment vs. doing your own thing.
I thought they have their own “SAP cloud”

but maybe it’s just some marketing BS
Zimbabwe is a completely different animal.

They had an economic collapse due to the exodus of people, corporations, and capital at the end of their civil war.

The currency becoming worthless was a symptom of all that, not the cause.
I know, and I agree. MTProtov1 criticisms aside, the E2EE system Telegram uses is perfectly safe.

It's just disabled by default, unavailable in group chats or channels, and enabling it reduces usability (i.e. you can't use multiple devices to chat if you enable E2EE).

Telegram as a chat app has the best UX of any chat app out there in my opinion, so the lack of proper E2EE is simply disappointing. I don't really trust either, but I consider WhatsApp more secure than Telegram, despite Meta mining my metadata.
So are tall people (who have natural head-down tilt in conversation) assumed to be more cooperative than short people? I've never noticed this.
>From the homepage it took me 7 clicks to drill-down into information about a specific compute service and see pricing, and it leads to their generic contact form

7 clicks? I count a single click to basic prices and two clicks to full pdf pricelist?

https://www.stackit.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/220601_STA...
The layers have checksums so couldn't you store the metadata centrally and mirror the checksummed blobs?
I've been part of Effective Altruism (EA) for over a decade (joining Giving What We Can (GWWC) over 10 years ago - donating at least 10% of my income; donating 50% during one of the years of my life - https://boldergiving.org/stories.php?story=Boris-Yakubchik_1... ).

I made a 5-minute video interviewing college students who joined GWWC. It features Nick Beckstead who later became a Program Officer for Open Philanthropy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZKh0M9x8s4

The article mentions Zell Kravinsky (not explicitly an EA), who I invited to give a talk at Rutgers. You can hear his talk (an my intro at the beginning) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvUcbcUMtXw

I gave a 12-minute TEDxRutgers talk at my college promoting EA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPe9-OM7vgU

As a developer, I created an open source charityware Video Hub App, most proceeds from which go to charity; It's netted almost $15,000 to the GiveWell-recommended cost-effective Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) over the last 4 years: https://videohubapp.com/en/blog

I'm a strong proponent of Effective Altruism and would be honored to answer any questions. https://yboris.com/
Kinda but not really. Hetzner targets small businesses, etc, or at least they have the reputation to do that. Large companies in the EU will mostly avoid them for anything serious, because they do not seem "reliable" and "stable" and "big" enough. Same thing with OVH. One of OVH's data centers burning down did additional reputational damage (which happened because they seem to have skipped on proper fire suppression systems in order to build it faster). I am sure Hetzners reputation took a hit as well, even though they had nothing to do with it, but are kind of considered to be on the same tier as OVH.
Signal works fine in Germany, doesn't it?
Spotify's UI is a case study of the negative impact of assigning single screens to single teams, designers and managers. There is no cohesive vision. The useful functionality is all obscured by esthetics. I am perpetually annoyed at how poor spotify is at it's basic purpose. They have leaned way too far into recommendation systems and over designed layout. 99% of the time, I know what I want to listen to. Spotify's UX is designed for people to 'browse' the app. That doesnt resonate with me, at all. I know what I want.

My biggest gripe with spotify is it's inability to reliably answer the question of "what playlist or source am I currently listening too?". A constant flow that spotify fails to deliver on is this: Search for a song, play the song, then the rest of the album, on repeat, without shuffle. It's annoying to have to load multiple slow UIs to navigate from search to album, visually search the album's track list and play the song your after.

Itunes and Windows Media Player set the standard for how media should be navigated and Spotify should use some of those old standard concepts.

EDIT:

Try browsing Armin Van Buuren's massive discography on Spotify.
Great post, fully agree. Also, if you plan on leaving Germany you can save a lot on taxes if you do it before 100k profits/year and as a Personengesellschaft (without limited liability, so no UG/GmbH).

Basically because the Wegzugsbesteuerung (moving away tax) only affects limited liability entities and Personengesellschaften are only affected by the Steuerentstrickung, which can be minimized by saying your profits are equivalent to a salary you'd be making elsewhere.
libs like https://docs.rs/tracing/latest/tracing/ (for rust, but i'm sure most languages have things like it) can make logging work for async programs. it achieves it by structuring the log in nested spans, instead of just appending a timestamp and thus losing which async task is related to which log line. alongside with https://github.com/tokio-rs/console it makes log-based debugging for async programs a breeze (tokio-console shows which async tasks are running, like a top(1) but for async tasks, and can show logs of a given task)

it's really fundamental to have good logging! both to discover issues as they unfold, and to debug past runs of the program for which you didn't know there was a problem and as such you didn't run the code in a debugger
On the other hand, you created Lidl and Aldi. So that’s not worth nothing.
I don't know why you think these numbers are so wildly impossible if you look at the number of tech roles pre-pandemic.

And that number was what, specifically? Going by which source?

So right away, we're looking at tens of thousands of roles to fill if there is zero growth.

I can totally imagine they have 10k+ actual tech rolls to fill per year; just not 68k, and probably not even half that number. Even assuming their ridiculous (and artificially accelerated) attrition rates.
Disco Elysium is not exactly devoid of violence and aggression, even if they aren't central mechanics. It's great storytelling but with some mature themes.

Honestly, I thought I'd have an easier time coming up with some other suggestions to throw in but there's usually some ass-kicking in my favorite story driven games.

The Oni platformer games are a little bit fight-centric but not really violent or cruel, and the story is great. Worth looking at.

Another decent one I just thought of is Outer Wilds, it's kind of a myst-like puzzle game where you just explore the world and discover the story as you go.
Wasn’t the whole first part about how annoying it was to create a startup in Germany, and what he learned in the second part made him realise he shouldn’t have even bothered in the first place (regardless of whether or not YC would eventually be involved)? That was how I interpreted it anyway.
Armbian 22.05
Physical storage space. ;)

My laptop is smaller than any collection of CDs and can store an entire building of them in the space of 12 jewel cases.

If you include my phone and a cellular connection for streaming, the entire world of music can be accessed in a device smaller than any portable CD player. And the speakers in my iPhone are better than most stereos from the same era.

We truly live in the world where science fiction has become reality. :D
I am still unclear on what mustUse is or does is there any sample code?
That's "opiate of the masses" claim, but rather its removal of suffering and imbuing life with permanent meaning and purpose which isn't lost at the point of death (theosis).

What is the point and purpose of life, beyond avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure? Even the ancient pursuit of honor and memory is rather ephemeral and lame.
World of contraptions.

Planet crafter is a grind, but still fun.
But at what price… I have said it here many times, but I am a nobody so I can repeat it; one of my weekend side businesses is optimising overall performance for companies. They contact me with something like ‘I am paying 50k$/mo for aws and out app still goes down with traffic’. The case I did today one month ago was doing 10k/mo on aws and that jumps up mentally with traffic. This is a SaaS site and startup and they are bootstrapped. I moved all over to docker compose and then to a $10/mo vps; it didn’t crash and burn and now they make profit. This is not apples to apples; they made a complete shitshow on aws and in their code and their db (on rds). So I fixed some things and moved it over. On aws this improved setup would still be 10x or more expensive. It is very visible that most startup owners never saw a crisis now; this took me 12 hours… so that’s about 2k$ cost for me for a $9990 saving per month.
I never said he does. In fact, I have no insight into what he is thinking or doing.

My comment is only pointing out how destructive high inflation is.

Please don't attack a straw-man.
The weird thing afaiac is that lidl is about the least online supermarket there is, at least here in the uk. No home delivery, no online catalogue, one time I had to order a replacement battery for one of their drills and was directed to a different company entirely.

Aws was spun out from a successful large scale online retailer. What are lidl thinking?
Gaming on Linux has been a complete joy. Some games do run worse (e.g. No Man's Sky takes a long time to procgen textures), but others run significantly better (10-15% uplift in AOE IV). If a game doesn't work on Linux then I simply don't play it.

My only gripe is VRR under Gnome. I might try Sway out again.
Well, the University where I work (used to?) employ the founder of BBS:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...

Although that's mostly because BBS was ahead of its time rather than because of the topic specifically. BBS looks a lot more like how you'd design such a thing if you started out in an era with the Web, rather than dusty printed journals, even though BBS actually is a printed journal and started in 1978.

Anyway, Stevan Harnad actually taught a class I took (as a postgrad, so not pass-or-fail, I was just showing up because it was interesting). Cognitive Science is definitely Brain Science, but it's true that I am not employed to actually do that.
> The submissive gesture essentially communicates "I am not primed to physically attack."

Its not that straighforward. It's a combination of posture + facial expression.

In a real fight the first thing you do is to tuck your chin in and tense up your neck to get a chance at not getting knocked out.

So I would say as shown in the paper figures it is the combination of lower chin angle plus neutral or friendly facial expression that is important.

Probably my own bias but in a male context I would interpret a lowered chin as a sign of incoming aggression unless it is combined with a friendly/neutral expression.
Article itself and the idea in general seems controversial at best for me.

I could not find answer for myself why Docker is any close to be dead and why Podman is the thing I should use instead of Docker immediately.

Q 1. Docker has some policy change and your company may need to pay for it - if you have > 250 persons/10 million revenue
A 1: Indi/Solo devs out of scope. Enterprises probably fine with that anyways.

Q 2. Docker has limits for pulls from Docker hub!!!! You have 100 (200 with login) downloads/single IP for 6 hours interval.
A 2: It was already mentioned, switching to Podman, while using Dockerhub doesn't magically helps. Moreover, practically I find it totally fine for Indi/Solo dev. For companies, who's amount of pulls can be higher - you want and have in place your local registry anyways to ensure Business Continuity and this doesn't bother you much.

Q 3. Running no background processes, running rootless is good because of ...
A 3: On dev env (your local laptop, for example) you do not care much - your goal is ease of use. On production, running rootless rises question from me:
* how you expect firewall (iptables) to be updated for port forwardings?
* how you expect networks and bridges organized without root?
* how you expect auto restart for container to happen on failure without supervising it?
* some security advises and mitigation guides mention disabling user namespaces and was/is disabled by default in some distros https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054823 - your security & system administration team may have such limits in place on production
* those who care for intruder gets into container and can hijack system further use FireCracker or similar approach anyways [for production]

So what is left in "pros" for Podman, have I missed anything?
You should try A Story About My Uncle.
Historically, rr has not worked on AMD processors, which is a bummer. However, I have been able to make good use of it on my 5950X now with the workaround script and newer versions of rr. This is good news.

I've not read their extended technical report, but I am kind of curious exactly what performance counters AMD is implementing poorly and how that impacts rr.
Wow no? Limbo is extremely violent. It’s death scene after death scene.
Loginwalled
The Chinese government has forced plenty of US companies to move data local from apple to tesla. Also a vast majority of tiktoks revenue comes from the US to this day, they can’t afford to lose it. unlike with india and probably every other region they operate in outside of china. It’s also not brazen as the two countries aren’t on best terms atm.
My phone does that on the lock screen too, but it works it out from sampling sound, so it "integrates" with everything from someone's AppleTV to an Alexa.
Ah fair. I mostly meant that in the sense that, Tesco is closer to Walmart's "we sell everything" offering. Your second link was talking about the largest grocer in Europe having 1300 stores across 8 countries, which is about the same size as Publix which only operates in 7 states and has 800 stores in Florida alone.
Thank you! Sorry, I have a lot of projects going at once and I'm working on a new system to organize "TODOS" - I'll bookmark your comment to return to, thank you for your thoughts, sincerely.
You’ve given so much. What impact have you seen from your gifts?
Ah, charity foundation, IKEA style. I didn’t know that about Lidl.
So, what you call "an album" or "single" is a release group, because there multiple re-issues of beatles albums, in mono, stereo, red vinyl etc. each of which is a release. They often but not always share the same recordings e.g. the US release may replace an album track with the single version or re-order tracks.

You probably want to find a release of that release group that closely matches your files (e.g. is there a "bonus" track, does it have both mono and stereo versions of everything). It's not 100% vital though to get an exact match unless you care about the bonus tracks and other obscurities.

The beatles are an extreme case since there's like a million demo and session versions of each song, which is why its easier to start from a release, which then points to the specific recordings used.

So if you got the files from iTunes and it's the 2009 remaster then it's this one:

https://musicbrainz.org/recording/2df46dec-b453-4444-91b9-5f...

Which then points to a specific recording used (the original studio mix), which was also released as a single and appeared on many different albums, listed here:

https://musicbrainz.org/recording/2df46dec-b453-4444-91b9-5f...

Although that's on lots of different releases (and release groups), if anyone updates the info on that recording, it'll update for all of them.

To get those track level tags you need to choose an option in Picard and there's a couple of 'plugins' for it that let you format the instrument tags in a way you want. It also lets you script the tags if you have something super specific.
I was under the wrong impression that this [1] was the announcement blog post for Yep. As I read the comments here initially, many mentioned that blog post and I did not pay attention to the date on it and just took it for granted. [2]

It seems that the 'announcement' post I was referring to isn't fresh announcement for Yep but a 2019 blog post by the founder explaining the concept.

In any case my math was meant to be a critique of the proposed model, not any particular product, and I still stand by that analysis. There was no malice intended.

Thanks for holding me accountable.

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/investor-money-vs-public-interest-di...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31615194
Cum Town can be a fun podcast, but it just doesn't belong in between music. "I want to focus on somebody talking about something" is a very different mood than "I want to tune out with some music".

I get the business incentives, but I have to imagine some manager somewhere going "Perfect, it's both audio content!".
It's funny that Spotify is regarded as a talented dev shop, but they don't know how to seed their random number generator.
FWIW, rr integrates into gdb, so it should be possible to use anything that integrates with gdb.

https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/wiki/Using-rr-in-an-IDE
>GNU having ridiculously complex code to do trivial things is kind of a meme.

One of the reasons is that GNU had to reimlmement UNIX tools as GPL code. How do you reimplement something trivial without it looking as the original to avoid copyright claims? One of the solutions is to implement it as complicated as possible.
You put my own discomfort really well. I immediately responded to efforts like GiveWell when I came across them, but all the abstract long-termism and especially the focus on AI just strikes me as smarty pants faffery and I really can't connect with it.
Because most code diagrams would look like a solid black square.
Did you find the story compelling, though? I don't remember there being one. It's kind of a tough request.
I read a blog post about this at some point. When people say shuffle, they don't actually mean random. They mean, songs I haven't heard in a while.
To be specific - my current goal is to earn “f.ck you” money and to move my family to a safe country.

Well see what comes next.
As a Danish software engineer I'm puzzled by how much Germany has convinced the rest world that it is some kind of high-tech powerhouse. Outside the old West German legacy giants the country is stagnant.
Probably climate change and humans.
The physicality of cassettes/records/CDs/mini-disks was fun, and listening to an entire album sometimes was really cool - but almost entirely not. Most albums were padded with crap to fill it up so people didn't feel ripped off. Remember, an album in 1985 cost $40 in 2022 dollars. Sure, there were occasional albums that the artist really thought about, including the slipcase, and the physicality of that I miss. But you can still great albums and listen to them in their entirety. Revisiting that nostalgia in 2022 recently, and I've found the joy from an album isn't really what it used to be - mostly because we aren't trapped anymore.

Want to listen to albums? Stop using Spotify. I honestly don't get why people choose that one. Youtube music blows it out of the water, and you can get ad-free youtube with it as well, and share all of it with your "family". Plus it has whole albums as one of the options when you search for artist/song.