skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do human ears resolve sound in more than one dimension? I've always considered that, per ear, we only get a sequence of compressions and rarefactions on the ear drum, that other aspects of hearing are through combination or 'cheating' (skin sensitivity and such). So, would it matter?
If the X-37s were civilian, they would be lauded as a fantastic step forward in space tech. They would carry numerous public experiments. But because we use them to spy on the rest of the World, they remain mostly shrouded.
>Sweden funds their music industry to the tune of something like $30-40 million, and the industry returns that in the billions

What a silly argument. I'm sure the US somehow funds the tech industry, but would you attribute the entire tech revenue to them?
I've encountered this so many times in my career, having worked on a lot of UI that product and UX designers came up with.

At first I would spot potential missing pieces in the UI designs as they were proposed and would work with PM and design to come up with workarounds. I did also notice that PMs like to set up meetings to go over them, but often the specific details don't have a massive impact on the actual usability, but still a decision has to be made.

In the early stages, so much of the product design is hypothetical to everyone. Even though you could drill down on specific details, nobody really wants to, unless you're the engineer who has to implement it. This often means it's hard to communicate precisely the design issue you need to address (and often, it's "only" an issue because the implementation has to choose an option).

So, what I eventually would do over time was just work as far as I could until I had a concrete issue I could demo and explain easily to PM and design. Before I'd bring up the issue to them, however, I'd come up with a couple of best-effort solutions. (Not completed, although sometimes I could hack something together.) Usually I'd prefer one solution over the other. I'd present both options and give enough pros/cons to show why my preferred was better, but I wouldn't tell them necessarily that that was my preference, just the facts about what you get with it over the other.

More often than not, product and design would just go with my recommendation. It's true that they really don't care about a lot of nitty gritty details, and often they have bigger fish to fry, so it's a great way of making progress.

Obviously, there are some tricks to how you present the pros and cons to ensure you get your way, but obviously as a senior member of the team, you need to do what you think is best of the team and overall product.
It's for the same reason your recruiters or engineering managers only take a 10 second glance at a resume and never look at the side projects in Github profiles for their potential candidates; ain't nobody got time for that.
It is, and it's a subinterpreters thing. Node has separate interpreters that run in worker threads but also share memory, which is the route Python is planning on taking.
Context is important here. The article starts by mentioning Travis Kalanick, but the quote itself appears in the context of it being presented as a general rule for handling email queues, and a good idea at that:

> The moral here is the following: whenever you send an email to somebody (especially to somebody busy), imagine that this is what their inbox looks like. Unless you send a follow up, you’re not even trying. And they know it, so unless you follow up, they will probably just ignore you, correctly believing that you do not even want to talk to them so much. As Jennifer Doleac notes: I live by the rule that if it’s important, the sender will follow up.

In that context, where the expectation is that you should reply (and you're not Jeff Bezos), then acting like this is simply being an asshole. You are explicitly saying "my time is more valuable than yours so I expect you to waste more of yours repeatedly until I decide to deign you with a response."

Note I'm not even disputing the main point of the article, that it's your responsibility as the sender to follow up. That's actually good advice. But if you as the receiver, are systematically ignoring email because you expect people to email repeatedly until you feel like answering? That's not "efficient email practices". That's just being a dick on a power trip.

In the context that you are emailing Jeff Bezos, of course, then naturally I agree with you: one sucks it up and accepts that realistically Jeff probably gets a million of these a day, probably going straight to spam, and chances are you're not gonna get a response and shouldn't take it personally.
I am at a loss to understand how these constitute _machine_ learning? The preface says "the exercises are ideally paired with computer exercises..." but I am at a loss to imagine what such computer exercises would look like. Somebody ELI(at least 10)?
At 13 weeks, a human fetus is unmistakably human. It has a human face, fingers and toes, etc. https://www.akronchildrens.org/inside/2022/02/22/confessions...

Perhaps you’re thinking of embryonic development?
Well, yes, but what I am saying is that the few ideas that survived from BOLT into Silmarillion didn't form LotR -- they are too distant relatives so to speak.
It it quite detailed, impressive. Brave use of the title font as well.
> actually it looks like you've only primarily been doing that for the last few days

Sorry, I'm sure you've had to primarily deal with stuff like that over the last few days. I'll sit down for a drink with my drunk self to discuss the inappropriate behavior. Though, out of curiosity, would the entire history of a banned account be removed from the site ;)

> (and, god help us, religious) battle lately.

:)
Do people get credit cards just to pay to watch something online? Of course not.

With crypto is the same. Once you setup a crypto wallet and learn how to use it, you can pay for anything with it.
> No it’s not, this is pretty well known and discussed

It definitely isn't. Tons of people think Arabs are actually native to Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, etc... or that Turks are native to Turkey/Anatolia. Most Americans and Western Europeans have no clue about the history of Christianity in the Middle East and Turkey, Arab conquests, etc... Or the fact that Christians were still a majority in a Middle Eastern country within the last 100 years.
storing the thermal energy from the compression process.

They're not storing heat. They're dumping the heat, and store liquid CO2 near ambient air temperature. Here's some analysis of CO2 liquefaction cost, from an unrelated project.[1] You can have multiple stages of compression, with heat exchangers between them to get the temperature down. How to set this up is a good homework problem in thermodynamics.

It's not clear if this is profitable, but it's a lot better than some of the other ideas. Ones such as the crane and concrete block thing, or the electric trains full of rocks on a hill thing, or the giant rock cylinder with water underneath thing.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293044124_Simulatio...
But what do you use on the backend? What web framework? That you like and works well with Scala

Looking forward to one day having ported all my Scala code to 3 :-)
any internally consistent application of civil liberties means caring about both.
Just that. Variables that are causally related frequently show no correlation, or a weak correlation with the opposite sign from the one you would expect. There's already an example sidethread from me - the correlation between the temperature outside a house and the temperature inside a house would ordinarily be close to 1. But a normal modern house tampers with the indoor temperature, reducing the correlation to something close to 0 instead. This is as dramatic of a change in correlation as it's possible to see, altering "basically the same thing" (the correct answer) to "basically unrelated" (correct in an observational sense, but wildly off in a causal sense).
I have Ask and Show in my feed, to boost good submissions from these categories.
I employed an Account Execs (sales people) last year who paid for virtual assistants (out of pocket) to do 50% of their daily work. I didn't find out about it until after we let him go due to performance issues. Apparently virtual assistants don't make great sales people.

I've also employed an engineer with multiple jobs (3 total). He's an active HN reader. I (sadly) wish they would have at least tried to outsource their work rather than not do the work at all and miss all their deadlines.
Combined with sophisticated noise cancelation and other relatively mature tech, this could make intentional focus listening possible, analogous to looking at something, as well as closing your eyelids, but for hearing.

Imagine being able to shut off specific ambient noises (and sometimes.. people) without losing spatial awareness. Or tune in a source you're paying attention to (the cocktail party problem).

The issue with super-hearing would be to re-adjust expectations of who can reasonably hear us. Could be used for creepy things, obviously..
> Widespread gun ownership significantly lowers the EV of committing crime

Be useful to post evidence of this claim.
Thanks for this, especially the link about Operation Choke Point.

But I think the details around Operation Choke Point give me confidence, not wariness. Yes, Operation Choke Point was government overreach, but when the truth came out:

1. US Congressional reps proposed laws to stop the practice.

2. The FDIC Inspector General and the DoJ investigated the operation.

3. The FDIC issued a letter "effectively ending the practice" in early 2015.

4. The government officially ended the practice in 2017.

That is, IMO, government worked here: overzealousness came to light relatively quickly, was debated publicly, and was terminated.
Perhaps your fervor to declare a conspiracy prevented you from actually reading the first sentence:

>"(CNN) — The A380 superjumbo is beloved among aviation fans, thanks to its spacious interior, mighty size and quiet inflight experience, but its days have been numbered since Airbus announced in 2019 it was ceasing production of the airliner."

The CNN Travel section regularly covers Airbus news. Here's an exciting Airbus A330 article from last week:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/a330-luxury-explorer-plan...
Your comment seems to be true of US big tech, but at Australian startups, no one is worried about being too friendly and getting canceled. Where I work the managers and execs attend these parties too and no one is afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Walking on eggshells in US big tech just doesn't seem worth it.
Not here to defend Fresh, it has lot of flaws, but

> I think that having by default a pretty awesome templating system (which even allows for components), a webpack based build system for frontend assets

Fresh literally does that "by default" without having to include any library/dependency.

> easy way to serve, cache and bust assets, and a trivially easy way to submit forms and validate user input.

It's almost the same effort in Fresh.

> makes it pretty full stack

Define fullstack, but even defining it, Fresh totally covers what you said.

To be "fullstack" to me means to be filling in all stacks, being in web? Frontend and Backend.
To me, having a templating system and having things rendered in backend can be "frontend", but you saying "Laravels is pretty more close to a fullstack framework than Fresh" is not something very logic here.
> there’s no reason smartphones shouldn’t be able to record calls out of the box (using it within legal boundaries should be on the user) but phone makers will self-block that behavior with no specific interest on their side.

Which smartphones block call recording? Every brandname Android I have had enables this feature for voice calls. (Although the feature is missing for app calls, and I'm now at least 5 years behind the newest phones.)
There are FAR more people like me, with none of that shit, than the caricature you described. I worked a gun shop counter for a few years and boy would you be surprised who has guns.
Palo Alto Networks Brings Out-of-Band Web Security to Cloud
I think people don't read replies. :/
Some context: I've worked with massive PostgreSQL db's, containing millions of daily records spanning multiple years (allowing for potentially massive numbers of returned rows). I also exclusively MVP simple db architectures in SQLite (think: no massive joins or need to partition data).

Best takeaways here:

- SQLite kills it. It appears untuned PostgreSQL is only 2 seconds (???) faster than untuned SQLite; always try to kickoff a project with SQLite

- PostgreSQL has a performance cliff when query responses leave memory. This is extra true when an index no longer fits in memory. worker_mem is critical for pushing back this performance cliff

Side note: Tuning postgres can be really painful, but it's also a really dope tried-and-true db.
You have to define legal. In the case of pot, it's not actually legal - the feds simply choose not to enforce the law in states that have legalized it at the state level. There is substantial risk there as a payment processor. If it were actually up to the states, then it could be more like you describe.
Long ago, I had a Motorola 68HC11 CPU with 512 bytes of EEPROM to store code in.... I had a pulse input that needed to be scaled to a different frequency, I ended up using a phase accumulator to build a phase locked loop, in about 40 instructions or so (looking back, it's hard to be sure)... when I was done, I had a machine that could adapt to a wide range of line speeds, physical offsets, amounts of glue to apply, patterns, etc., while accommodating fixed timing delays, all in 511 bytes.
Camping in the Clouds: The Aeromodeller II
An airship concept that recharges itself by working as a windturbine when not traveling.
Sounds for Synths (Jexus / WC Olo Garb)
The Last Night looks great in the trailer, but it has also been in development since 2017 and still has no release date. I'm not sure if that style of art scales poorly, or there is some other reason. What do you think of the art of Dead Cells? https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ra1_wvRXZkI
First of all, good work on the reverse engineering!

A more general question - What's the hardest part about reverse engineering technology from the 1960's and such, from your experience?

Cheers from a former Avionics Technician. Keep up the good work, and love your blog.
I did a quick Google search and found https://nyti.ms/3edFGs8. Lo and behold, the Biden administration is fixing what can be fixed in ATF.

"At the N.R.A.’s instigation, Congress has limited the bureau’s budget. It has imposed crippling restrictions on the collection and use of gun-ownership data, including a ban on requiring basic inventories of weapons from gun dealers. It has limited unannounced inspections of gun dealers. Fifteen years ago, the N.R.A. successfully lobbied to make the director’s appointment subject to Senate confirmation — and has subsequently helped block all but one nominee from taking office."

I'm pretty sure no DA is refusing to prosecute violent crime. One party is limiting the gun crimes that DAs can prosecute. https://www.salon.com/2022/06/06/us-laws-are-causing-mayhem-...
Without DeepFakes: I know several people in tech in the bay area who locally interviewed for contracts, got the job, then outsourced all tasks to eastern-eu folks whom they hired as a sub and project managed them.

Basically, hiring an consulting company masked as an individual.
e.g. Mastercard and Visa could be required to report suspected violations to a regulatory body, to which the incriminated party could appeal.

That would help separate denial of service derived from regulation and denial of service derived from corporate policy. It's a big step in terms of transparency of the impact public policies have.
Sony announces InZone gaming monitors and headsets for PC and PS5
> the energy CAN NOT be metered and thus charged for.

> It's NOT FREE ENERGY as many claim. Not remotely.

Make up your mind :)

(/s I understand that some would have to pay to fuel the transmitters.)
> Is this a real occurrence from your experience or just a hypothetical figment of your imagination?

I have worked as an SRE bringing up and down services in data centers, as a SWE I've designed an instruction set for a VM and implemented an interpreter, written browser attestation code in JavaScript, did some consulting about 3D rendering with OpenGL for an internal prototype, and I'm currently writing web components for YouTube, all of this at Google. Hopefully that's close enough?
So are you suggesting Visa/MC shouldn’t comply with laws & regulation?

Visa/MC aren’t the “bad guys” here. They are just trying to adhere to the required laws & regulations impose on them.

EDIT: I can’t reply to your comment below, so I’m going to reply here.

> If selling adult services or goods is "illegal," then the US law should codify it, not leave it up Visa/MC/processors to decide.

This is where I think you’re confusing matters. Visa/MC aren’t “deciding”. They are simply asking a merchant to prove if unknown activity is NOT illegal.

If the merchant can’t prove its not illegal, then correct - that merchant can’t continue to transact.

But they aren’t deciding. And that’s the big difference.

EDIT2:

> Now, it’s within Visa and MC’s prerogative to operate how they see fit. A government-backed or decentralized network would bring some needed competition.

The merchant doesn’t have to accept those card networks. They could accept cash, check, ACH, bitcoin, bank transfer, PayPal, WePay, Zelle, etc.
Architecture without architects, an intro to nonpedigreed architecture [pdf]
Tesla Lays Off About 200 Autopilot Workers in Latest Cuts
nitpick, website with footer and infinite scroll not good. :D
> The only thing about last year that was a "fluke" was the way the final race was officiated.

This. It was the way that it was won that made it questionable, Perez was clearly holding HAM up and the Team were telling him to do that in order for Max to win [0] which are just team orders in the end.

0: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.2021-abu-dhabi-gran...
But heat loss improves as the product is scaled up(heat loss is function of surface area, whereas total heat is a function of volume, which grows quicker than surface area), so at a certain point you could make this big enough to let you store energy efficiently on a seasonal basis?

Also the same reason elephants can't have metabolisms as fast as mice, or else they would spontaneously combust.
DUOLINGO (or some equiv) - should be actively going after all languages that will go dark at some point and building courses around them.
If you’re buying guns for resale, you may need an FFL. In the example you provided of buying a 10k rifle because you know some collector will pay 12k for it, I would think an FFL 01 is appropriate.

It may not be a straw purchase, but it’s also not primarily for your collection. The threshold of “business” or “dealing” seem intentionally vague by the ATF, but what you described can be interpreted as illegal without an FFL. My two cents anyway.
> We couldn't deliver a multiprocess browser without doing it.

So uh. What was that whole thing about making all the extensions rewrite their code to support multiprocess?

Which many extensions did, putting in huge amounts of work, only to be told shortly after that XUL was going away.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191220054834/https://developer...
This is a really good point. I think payment providers are like utilities these days, as cash becomes more obscure in society.
Are you sure this tech isn't "parabolic"?

Depending how you define personal credit, its been around ~100 years (or more!), with the card format being adopted in the 60s. It's only been the last 15 years or so that not carrying cash has become a reasonable approach to day-to-day life.

So for bitcoin to become as big as it has as a brand new technology in only 14 years seems accelerated.

This is analysis complicated a bit by the fact that bitcoin is not a top-down tech like credit, there's no centralized group deciding who gets to use it. On the other side of that though - the tech infrastructure build-out that made credit cards ubiquitous also benefits and accelerates the potential adoption of bitcoin.
I believe this is the report and if remember right it's on page 52 or maybe 54. Decide for yourself.

https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/news_centre/ohrc-interim-report-to...

edit: nvm I'm dumb; it's not that but the report is named 9082-2018-TPS-Annual-Report.pdf if you can find it on its own. You can google "tps force report 2018 -2020 pdf". I'd find it myself but I'm downloading a 12mb pdf that's taking forever and I'm pretty sure this is the one.
Yes, this comes down to very specific state rules.

In college I would find deals on guns on Backpage, buy them cheap, and then resell them at a much higher listed price.

No background checks were required for private sales, so all I had to check was that the person had a driver's license for the correct state when I sold it, and even then no bill of sale or info was required.

Make your selling process known, and you'll get some very sketchy buyers that are willing to pay high prices, and it's all technically legal as the seller as you don't even need to ask if the buyer is legally able to purchase a firearm, and it helps fund college tuition.
absolutely hate the fact that it snaps then you have to wait until you can slide.
Ask HN: Where do you find great designers for startups?
I'm the founder of a startup & an engineer. My biggest pain point right now is finding a good designer.

We have tried just about everything:

- $2k/day freelancer through a highly recommended design agency: lackluster, very little value for the money spent

- Remote agencies based in Europe: Moderately successful but the design feels a little amateur, and has no personality, i like that they propose lots of options but few of them are close to being usable.

- Individual freelancers found on WNW and similar sites: These are ok, they know how to use Figma and can work quickly, but they very rarely propose major improvements. Have to spend lots of time with them and nitpick obvious things to get a good result.

I look at other startups sites & apps and they seem polished, fresh, modern, and have some personality to them as well. Did they struggle through many iterations to get there, or are there good designers out there that I am just not finding? Where can I find a designer or agency with good taste, creativity, and high attention to detail to revamp a homepage + web app of 5 pages.

Sincerely,

A very frustrated non-designer
The 6 right wing judges are going to ban these sort of medications and contraceptives and roll back the civil rights act while they are at it.
Not true for the new guns either. For example Glock’s serial number is a small metal plate embedded into the polymer.
Governments shutdown financial institutions or threaten to pretty regularly.

India suspended mastercard for failing to adhere to their new data privacy laws in 2018 (https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/mastercard-shifts-f...).
Or maybe have the object code for the executable as one static constant and jump to it on the one and only line of the program: speed, size and one line of code (maybe two depending on how the counting is done)