skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the sessions by any chance stored as plain text files? What's the session format like?

I used Non DAW [1] quite a bit to edit radio shows, and I loved its session format: each and every editing step is written in the file as a single-line entry. As a result, the sessions were really fun to parse and modify with awk scripts. The "unlimited undo" feature was also just consecutive lines in the session file. Most importantly, I could write a stupid converter in awk to turn the .non files into Vegas EDL files (a plain text format). From there, I could use the fascinating AATranslator [2] to convert my sessions into Avid Pro Tools files, which my editing studio was using and insisted. Saved me a ton of trouble: no need to edit my show in WinXP, Pro Tools 7 (!) and its hopeless fan noise even during simple, almost idle-like editing tasks. I wonder if later Pro Tools versions are any better in terms of resource overconsumption; I always found that almost ridiculous.

As a frugal systems geek and a dreamer, I've been conceptualizing a text-based non-destructive audio editing suite written in awk. No GUI, just operating with text files and terminal, along the lines of Mixer4 (really cool conception, unfortunately closed source) [3], Ecasound [4] and SPED (I think this was just an academic conception, though) [5].

This is still just a dream, though. Non-destructive audio editing with basic Unix tools in an as-simple-as-possible ed-like interface.

1: https://non.tuxfamily.org

2: https://www.aatranslator.com.au/

3: http://www.acousticrefuge.com/mixer4.htm

4: https://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/

5: https://tinyurl.com/y9s8mgme
Possibly related: I was at Cornell when there was a guy who was an excellent artist and was making money by selling pornographic art of other actual students. Needless to say, a stop was put to this once word got out...
> While some of the deepfake recordings used are convincing enough, others can be easily detected due to various sync mismatches, mainly spoofing the applicants' voices.

> "Complaints report the use of voice spoofing, or potentially voice deepfakes, during online interviews of the potential applicants," the US federal law enforcement agency added.

Something about this doesn't smell right:

1) Don't video deepfakes require lots of high-quality input video (which is why they were often made of Obama)? Where would an attacker get this for some rando?

2) Why would voice deep-fakes even be necessary, given the interviewee is very unlikely to be known by the interviewer? I suppose it could be used to fake accents, but I don't think that would be an issue for a "remote tech job" -- just steal an identity that could plausibly have your accent.
There must be some psychological or clinical term for this: to be stuck in some fixated state that prevents forward progress unless a break is actually taken.
America is arguably the oldest political system today. Being ~250 years old makes it an extreme outlier. The median life of a political system/regime is much lower, so saying up to 200 years from now is a pretty safe confidence interval for any country.
Amazon and AWS both hire for specific roles and teams. Additionally. so does Microsoft. I was contacted by them in the last few weeks.
I’m having a hard time parsing this comment, can you expand on who’s doing what?
It may be that "being stuck" is "uploading the problem and interconnections"... a necessary pre-condition for the walk, the shower etc to work.

It could be that one is stuck longer than necessary for uploading... or it could be that one is only able to let go when uploading is complete...

What evidence would show which it is?
It shouldn't delete and make it inaccessible in the meantime. From their email, they can limit it, while not taking away my access. It was deleted with no recourse, that sort of automated system seems broken.

I can guess why it happened, it's just fubar.
> high wealth inequality, high homicide rates, low social cohesion, etc.

These seem like more important causal factors than race/ethnicity. I understand that these can correlate, but I wouldn't concentrate on the confounding variables.
There is risk with everything in life. If someone is having sex, regardless of condom use, birth control use, vasectomy, etc., they are accepting the risk of an unplanned pregnancy.

Why is it that we push for the killing of unborn persons instead of taking responsibility for the consequences of one's actions?
IMHO: Product managers are super important: it's their job to understand the market (where it was, where it is, and where it is going), the competitive landscape, and work with leadership on strategic planning.

However, all three groups (UX, PM, Eng) need to work symbiotically. Everybody needs to be sharing information and acting as partners in the work they're doing.
SSE4.1 added `blend` which does this for most data types. The lone exception is 32 bit integers for whatever reason, which wasn't added until AVX2.
> States are not allowed to restrict interstate travel,

States can restrict interstate travel for...well, lots of reasons, and preventing what state law defines as murder is certainly one of them, but there are limits on the burdens they can impose on travel.

> And they cannot punish you for a thought-crime, meaning they cannot arrest you under the supposition that your travel is arranged with intent to get an abortion outside their jurisdiction.

States absolutely can punish for the combination of intent and action.

They can also punish under their laws a crime whose culmination happens outside of their borders when some part of it occurred within their borders.

If a state can define a fetus as a person who can be murdered, they can absolutely make it illegal for someone to transport that person to any place (inside or outside the state) for the purpose of killing them.
"Ihopeda Pmgotanicebonusforwastingmytime" is my fake name for things like this.
This seems a little bit odd. Working exactly 40 hours a week is stressful enough - is it really worth it to double both your salary and your hours? I think I'd want at least 4x the salary in order to work 80-hour weeks - or is this practice mostly done by workaholics that enjoy long hours?
Breaking news, man on subway car capable of locomotion.
That idiom might be useful - until you stray near lawyers.
It's just an art project, a means for public servants to redistribute excess public cash to their artsy friends instead of improving the common good. Don't read too much into it, at most be angry if you are a dutch taxpayer.
well exactly, you wouldn't notice the tricks used to make it completely indistinguishable from reality, you wouldn't notice the pitch perfect voice, you wouldn't notice anything if it's done by a professional
I think it depends on the problem space you're interested in solving. I'm interested in databases and data tooling, of which a very sizeable chunk of the users for that are in SV.
That's fair, I think in GV at the time we were more thinking about Fennec parity, so that's where my thoughts originate.
I watched most of this video and it felt like I was getting trolled.
The mobile version https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events is less busy and arguably better readable/accessible than the desktop version.
Can anyone give instructions for M1 Max MBP? I had a compilation issue in building the wheel for psutil that looks like "gcc-11: error: this compiler does not support 'root:xnu-8020.121.3~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000'" (gcc doesn't support ARM yet?)

What toolchain will get it working on Mac?
> You could probably grow a farm of deep fakes on some social media site, talking to each other about peculiar niche things using language models, and once that farm is big enough use it to shift opinions/attack. It's scary how small groups of people, or even an individual could do that.

Wouldn't that be fairly easy to detect because the accounts would belong to an isolated, tightly-connected cluster?
Yes. Humans make decisions based on feeling and intuition, and most people then check the decision for any glaring errors by using rules of thumb, and, in rare cases, reasoned logic. But nobody makes decisions based on logic. We all just have opinions, and later, when pressed, find “reasons” to keep them.

See also this discussion about how to choose a phone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656790#21661157
The trick is not working 40 hours :-)
I think that documentary was published in 2009:

https://www.theonion.com/more-american-workers-outsourcing-o...
This is correct. Full-time devs are going to spend their work time on what the people who pay them tell them they should be working on.
You could also consider building your own by adding various RSS feeds into your own RSS aggregator software/service and using that as your front page.
hint: look at the involved people and notice how its pretty much all artists
Why can't I delete this submission on Hacker News
No, but the pertinence of each “side” of views is way different. Whole lot of frustrated farmers in California who are dominated by the big cities. Probably a similar percentage of blue Alabama folks dominated by the Red sea. Generational change is required to alter the non-purple states and it’s not worth the effort for most people to try. Move to where the political climate is congruent with one’s philosophy is far easier.
I came here to write almost the exact same comment. This tool can take metal off in shavings - great for repairing the edge of a rusty machete.

When I picked it up at Lee Valley they warned me not to use it on kitchen knives.
> If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they’re 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren’t perfect, so in real life condoms are about 85% effective — that means about 15 out of 100 people who use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant each year.

Why don't we consider the combined probability of condoms + birth control (heck, even + vasectomy, etc.)? It would seem a lot more reasonable to me to take that as a more appropriate measure of real-world risk.
I was once hosted by a Syrian Jewish family for Passover. Their rendition of the classic had gadya (lit. "one goat") in the traditional melody brought over with them from Aleppo was hauntingly beautiful.
It also feels very like ender's game near the end of the book
Good question, definitely a thing she's thought a lot about - I'll see if she can add more details to a FAQ or page.

Couple examples I recall:

- Some of the earliest kits had beans, that's all been migrated to other non-toxic items (obviously nothing is meant to be eaten in this context, but to make sure the items are safe).

- She has a cosmetic-grade ecoglitter supplier (not sure how applicable that is to the Bins, might be more used in the Kits, but still fairly rare!)

- Making sure colors/dyes/toys/tools are kid safe to start with. I mentioned it in another thread, but here is a link to the brand of liquid watercolor she uses for just about everything: https://www.discountschoolsupply.com/arts-crafts/paint-paint...
On a more concrete note:

Your conclusion that needing to hack on the compiler is a sign you made the wrong decision is a bit iffy

I've had ghc cloned and building on my computers for years. It's easy.

Seems like a cultural difference driving your opinion. Nothing more than that. Maybe that means you dislike the culture?
Its probably done by people who snag lower effort remote jobs and do the minimum viable to be considered "good enough".
Not only does it not make sense, they presume they know better than their poor users what their users should see and what opinion on web content they should have. If I want activist browser developers, give me teams like Brave and Vivaldi, thankyouverymuch. Both actually do things that serve the end user in their own way. Insofar as the browsers have politics, they are politics about the browser itself like antitracking, privacy and user control.

Also not American and yeah, if California would stay in California, that would be great.
> Only in the 18th century did grammarians declare that the singular they was invalid, their reasoning being that a plural pronoun can’t take a singular antecedent. [...] According to these sticklers, it made more sense to use he as a “gender-neutral” pronoun when describing one person

> The conventions of a language are shaped by the general population that uses it daily

That author calls academicians «sticklers», which may be read as a diminishing qualifier, and seems to assume that the «conventions of a language» are equivalent to the language - a conventionalist depreciating competence.

Not really the approach to convince the skeptics.

Well, it will be interesting and comforting for those acquainted with languages which use academically confirmed, established "gender neutral masculine form", to meet the notion that the same was academically defended for the English language.
I've nothing against cobol, but I think it's worth there, because of the gap with a python like lang (IBM made one) and cobol. Coffeescript to es5 wasn't too hard to guess.
Absolutely, but if that's required I might as well go and build a full-fledged product around it. There is definitely lots of opportunity to improve and explore the space. It's hard to imagine that nobody except Google has done this so far.
Check https://www.lowendstock.com

Also Rasmus (of PHP) wrote a series of posts https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing a while ago comparing VPS providers in the $10/mo range.

It was discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
I understand and partially agree with all the criticism of the article (and could add my own like why did you tweak work_mem out of all the hundreds of settings on postgres) but it's a blog post, not a scientific article - I still think it's a useful post. I might be in a similar situation at some point and it's nice to know that you haven't encountered any major gotchas and made it even 2x faster. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I Beg You, Please Cripple Your Characters
It seems to be an art project with an idea of extracting precious metals from one's own body through the use of dedicated diets and special extraction agents. Reading through their "handbook" [0] felt remniscent of "House of Leaves".

[0]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K_qEkhMZ5YauNUJpEZQnHo6gft_...
You never ran into an ALTER ?
This page seems to explain it a bit better [1].
Tiny Mining is the, rather bizarre, idea to "mine" rare earth minerals from living humans, instead of from mines.

[1] https://we-make-money-not-art.com/tiny-mining-extracting-min...
It is, see the "License" link at the bottom of pages that display Wikipedia content. Front page currently points at https://legiblenews.com/june-27-2022/license.

Note: there was a bug that I fixed at around noon PST that wasn't display this link for daily news articles, but it was for the contextual articles.

I intend on fully complying with Wikipedia's copyright notices. If you see otherwise please LMK because its a bug.
"Don't be evil" was better.
Yeah. I was initially intrigued by the idea of extracting rare elements from the body. How much could be extracted? Is it worth the effort? What health impacts does it have? Do biological processes make these elements more accessible than they'd otherwise be?

But the wording in the PDF just immediately turns me off of it. If there's any practical and scientific information, it's bogged down by a bunch of philosophizing and new wave sounding language.
If the shortened emergency FDA process for covid vaccines is "safe" then it should be considered safe for other products as well. If its not safe, then it should be no safe for the covid vaccines as well.
I wonder if we could help them by giving them artificial hands like the ones they are testing with apes
What is in an edit? Automated detection of edit types on Wikipedia
I love how they completely ignore demographics - show me other "rich countries" that have the influx of immigration - especially to those with immigration skewed towards the lower end of the economic spectrum - that is at epidemic proportions as we are facing in the US now.
Web3 Is Restructuring Equity Deals for the Better
Energy Dome’s approach to long-duration energy storage
Agreed - fuel as energy storage is the future. Build out a lot of excess solar and wind capacity, and then use all the excess capacity to continually generate fuels by extracting greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. So we still burn fuel and use the atmosphere to buffer our emissions, but it all gets extracted out so we no longer have the same negative externalities (as long as the full cost of extraction is paid by the consumer of the fuel, which presumably could be done with a tax if implemented correctly).
Serverless is almost always a trivial cost compared to VPS. With lambda, you get like 1M free invocations per month and the price per ms is `$0.0000000017` for 128MB on ARM.

If your endpoint takes 10ms to run and you're running it constantly for a month, it will cost you less than $0.05 (it will actually be about half of that because you get the first 1M invocations free each month, but ignoring that...).

As you point out, running RDS is more expensive, but RDS isn't serverless. You would probably want to look at DynamoDB for a serverless database, which is considerably more affordable than RDS.

Moreover, the serverless stuff is considerably easier to configure and operate than a VM.
These topics are interesting. Do you have links to more info on them?
No.

> that's why they've killed XUL

We couldn't deliver a multiprocess browser without doing it.

> about:config for the android version

I completely supported this and continue to do so. GeckoView on Android works completely differently than desktop Firefox, and about:config's semantics are not identical between the two. A few of us were interested in offering an alternative that gave users a way to make adjustments in a way that was "safe," but as you can imagine that has never been a management priority.
I just checked. Firefox on Google Play is version 101.2.0 from June 8. Fennec on F-Droid is version 97.1.1 from February 26. Maybe it's not abandoned but it doesn't feel that one can count on it for timely bug fixes.

Edit: then I remembered that F-Droid has the quirk of requiring a manual refresh of its repository. I did it and got version 101.1.0 from June 5. Much better.
Why so many people undercharge for their work (2021)
I'd see more as "If you aren't asking the right questions, I don't have time to teach you".

In this 'proverb', if the person had come to Mozart with the right questions or had shown he had tried, there is a jumping off point or quick feedback that could be done.

You should ask questions but you should come to the interaction having done research with results from previous attempts especially if they are accomplished (eg: very busy / have other things to do) and they aren't your friend
That's the argument of biofuels as well, correct? If you're growing plants and then burning them, and regrowing them again, the net carbon in the atmosphere didn't change. This is ignoring
particulate pollution though.

Fossil fuels are an issue because we're pulling up carbon that's been sequestered for eons and putting it back in the air.
How many immigrants - at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum - does Brazil let in each year?
Cloud functions are not used to look cool, nor are they used solely by people that “don’t know basic system admin”. Their use cases don’t line up with your needs and that is okay.
I don't think I or my post implied that it was out of the box. You also don't need to create your own collection - one just needs to exist with the extensions you are looking for.
Or you know, we just wanted to offer the closest thing we could get to continuous delivery of desktop software?
Relevant twitter thread from a hiring manager who had one of these interviews: https://twitter.com/jonwu_/status/1520072367069876224
I think the idea is you work two jobs that pay for 40 hours but only require 10-15 hours each, not to be noticeably worse than average.
> Thus, the court then reverts to history, which abortion has been historically highly illegal

Which history? Under English common law, abortion was allowed until 20 weeks, and that persisted in the US until the mid-to-end 19th century. Then a century of bans, then Roe v Wade, and now blanket bans. There is far more "abortion is allowed until X" history than anything else.
What I would be looking for is closer to "Stable headcount, profitable without venture capital investments and under 30 people in total".

Edit: another thing. If 80% or more of the total headcount all come from some US-based "top university", the company is also probably not interesting for me.
your onboarding flow is really really annoying, asking for too much info before showing anything useful. Well, now you have another "Blah Blah" among your users :)
A grand total of 0 republicans voted for the ACA. That's after almost a full year of compromise. It's plainly clear that any republican who voted for an Obama policy would've been voted out in their primary.
This should come in handy if I ever have to run a website on the dark web
Amazing. I clicked on the PDF and got as far as page 4. I really tried to read each word of each sentence out loud and pause after each sentence to give myself some time to reflect on it.

This is as if a GPT-3 model kicked into high gear to generate text and a variation of DALL-E which I shall call CCS-E did the perfect layout. It is beautiful but it is complete gibberish.
Yeah, but what's the tablet market for Android these days?
Funny how Hawaii, due to it's geographic isolation, probably doesn't suffer from illegal immigration to the extent as other states.
I used to think this was possible but simply out of what I consider acceptable. Some time ago I worked for a week while interviewing for a company that required candidates to do paid work for them, and it was the most miserable week of my life. I wouldn't do this for an extended amount of time for any amount of money. It's not worth it.
So certificates do not enable privacy they take it away.

SSL may stop your roommate or isp but they provide another vector for linking to other entities.

I wonder how many are using this technique to link web properties together.
Research: Job Portal with focus on open-source
Early in my career, I learned that if I wasn't sure how something was supposed to work, I needed to ask sooner rather than later, because it was unlikely to get clearer all by itself. No matter how ignorant it made me look.
Hello dev folks and open-source enthusiasts!

I'm working on a Job board, that's going to leverage candidates' Open-Source contributions when applying for a job. I have a solid idea it'll work in order to expand candidates' opportunities and match with the best possible companies.

In case that resonates with you, I'd really appreciate it if you found a few minutes to fill out this tiny survey and help me shape the product in order to bring the most value.

The link is here: https://forms.gle/AujpcbGQNbewtsZG8.
Thank you!
Ask HN: CI in 2022
What would you use for CI in 2022? Why? Is there some killer feature you like/want/whatever?

I've heard some praise for Buildkite and Cirrus CI.
The global economy does not really have a carbon problem. It has an energy problem.

That is, if you take the energy required to turn CO2 into methanol, why not just use that energy directly in the things that need it? I'm not saying this is entirely useless, because obviously with renewables the biggest problem is energy storage, but too often I feel announcements like this lead with the "we can turn atmospheric CO2 in gasoline" while glossing over the crux of the problem, which is where does that energy come from in the first place.
I don't work with COBOL but.I had my fair share of old legacy codebases. I sometimes think about how this crappy codebase first started out. Somebody somewhere had to write the first line of code. Was it exciting for them? Was it a sunny day? What did their office look like?
Then I look at the codebase again and all this sentimentalism vanishes.