skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, that is how normal people can end up with "perfect" relative pitch. Many people can almost instantly remember the notes of their favorite songs and so using those as anchors give people without perfect pitch the ability to determine chord/key/etc via relative pitch.

A second or two of a song is shockingly good at triggering your memory of songs you know well.
> A happy driver will be less rude to passengers too.

You probably don't take taxis enough
What do you mean? My mother tongue is better for the sole reason that it is my mother tongue!
Somehow I missed Crackle TV's 'Startup' (2016). I just finished the first season. The show so far has been spot in in illustrating the crypto world we live in today. I'm wondering if this show didn't help fuel the run up in crypto prices in 2017.
> Worker power was maybe never lower than it was between 2008 and 2020.

Wages blew inflation out of the water through the later half of that period, so I'm not sure that tracks. Wages struggle to keep up with inflation, let alone beat it, when workers don't have much power. The reality is that the job market was very strong from the mid-2010s onward, save the COVID shutdown period. Although, obviously, not uniformly so.

It is true that the job market was difficult at the beginning of Uber's existence, which is why I said "most of" not "all of". I suppose what you're saying is that the exploitation was short-lived during their early days or limited to certain local markets?
> Many people manage to pay of their student loans and don't have to live in debt if they don't want to.

Probably varies a lot by location. IIRC, the UK government's own report on their current university fee/loan structure anticipates a large number of people paying off their loans so slowly that they will end up being written off.

I think this counts as both a stealth tax and stealth government borrowing.
This right here. I've done the same. It's absurd the level of password hoops at some places. I appreciate the secure password, but when it's hand written in marker and faded it can be quite frustrating.
I always thought that 'History' should never be considered as a scientific subject. It should be more like 'what somebody heard about something and what slice of it that person decided to share about it' thing, where people would have their starting point calibrated to "it's more this person version of what could have really happened" instead of "that must be true, let's kill in the name of it".
I'm not sure you've got the causative arrow going the right way...
This question cannot be answered unless you tell us what you already know.

Also "which language should I learn?" is probably the least useful but most repeated question in tech.

It's not useful because the basic axiom of Computer Science goes back to Alan Turing which is "to first order all programming languages are the same" Sure you write

len(s)

to get the length of a string in Python and

s.length()

to get the length of a string in Java, but most of the differences that turn up are superficial.

Now if you could tell us what kind of projects you want to do, what you find limiting about the tools you use already we can help you, otherwise you're going to get people arguing over the narcissism of small differences.
If Internet access is not harming, then why do Bills like this exist?
I think the buttons in offices to nuke all records electronically if being raided by authorities is maybe extremely illegal?

End of the day, tech companies exist and can attract investment due to IP protections provided by the rule of law.

That rule of law involves actually having the laws being followed.

VCs backing companies like Uber don't get to have it both ways and violate the laws they deem worthy of disrupting while employing legal departments to ensure the laws that protect their IP are followed.
Lyft doesn't operate in Europe
It always was. There wasn't a day in the history of Microsoft that they were aiming for a level playingfield.
Apple Notes vs. Hyperlinks
Key paragraph: "In parallel, we are starting a piece of joint work with the Central Digital & Data Office, in partnership with Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) across government, to understand what a future central hosting offer could or should be. We don’t know what we’ll conclude, the options ranging from doing nothing, to creating a reusable set of configuration and management components (similar to the GOV.UK Design System, but for secure cloud hosting) all the way through to building a new PaaS v2 using different architecture."
Email scams are getting more personal. They even fool cybersecurity experts
2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583179 (31 comments)
Full Text Search UDR (User Defined Routines) for Firebird Based on Lucene++
The screenshot seems to be iSpot.tv, https://www.ispot.tv/ which seems to be somewhat accurate. You can sign up for a trial and look up the ad.
> That sadly immediately rules out Protonmail.

I think you could run the ProtonMail Bridge on a personal server. It wasn't intended for that, so IDK how secure it is for exposing on the open internet.

Protonmail is soooo good, so I'd hate to rule it out, and I'd like a solution too. And it makes sense why they don't support IMAP directly, because the protocol doesn't support it, because the emails are all encrypted on their server, and IMAP doesn't support end to end encryption (to my knowledge)
> tried and stopped using because of Australian law that is relatively more hostile to privacy

I see this kind of thing all the time. I could understand if you emailed a lot of stuff to yourself, but privacy is ultimately going to be determined by both email providers. It seems in this case that email is being used as a substitute for secure file sharing and secure chat.
Yeah, external power is the play. On current-gen cameras, you can run with USB-PD. I have a 256000mAh Anker bank and you can shoot 4K60 for a very, very long time on a Panasonic GH6. M43 isn't the best wildlife body, but I have to assume you can get some pretty staggering runtimes in idle on something full-frame.
Honestly, I’m happy and disappointed at the same time.

NASA has lost the plot with space exploration. They haven’t moved manufacturing efficiency or payload mass by any meaningful margin in decades.

We could have had 10 or more JWSTs up there by now for the cost of the overruns and total cost of salaries and overhead.

I’d like them to be a lot more introspective than they are at present. Like, “Yeah, these images are cool, but we could have done a much better job if we had better project management to stick to a budget”
A friend reported the same, but I can access heardle just fine (both Germany). I wonder what's up with that ...
Rule #1 in monkey business: don't get caught!

Seriously though, this kind of BS is not normal corporate behavior. When they do it to individuals it's a huge scandal. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed#Industry_r... or Or more recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

This is effectively Uber at war with multiple sovereign and local governments. It's fucking insane.
1st or 2nd edition is fine
For low light some electronic viewfinders are actually worse than optical ones. I have a (rather old) Minolta dImage 7i which does binning on the sensor in low light, giving excellent results in darkness, but my Olympus OM-D EM1 does not do so and is just cranking up the ISO so much it is very noisy when it's dark.
Congrats, you're the exception that proves the rule.

I know a lot of people who were, frankly, railroaded into college. Middle class kids who never had to worry about money, did good to excellent in school, never worked a serious job, were told by their schools, parents, teachers, television and the internet that any degree was a path to success. Then the clock strikes midnight on their 18th birthday and they have no idea how to make informed decisions, so they just do what they've been told by everyone they've trusted for their entire lives.

They mostly ended up with history, sociology or some other useless undergraduate degrees and working at Starbucks if they're lucky and five to six figures of student loan debt with no way to pay it off. And by the time they're wise enough to actually handle money responsibly they're already trapped.

Also most universities are not freezing tuition, and I'm wondering where you went to college and what your part time job was, and how much assistance you got. You're not paying college tuition by working the counter at California Pizza Kitchen part-time. Plus Tuition has continued to inflate every year even since the early tens, although the rate of inflation has decreased in recent years.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/College-tuition-and-fees/price...
This is only true when:

a) You use a smaller sensor (while this is the norm, mirrorless does not absolutely imply APS-C vs Full Frame)

b) You use smaller lenses (same disclaimer as above)

and, above all else, by far

c) You deliberately cripple your mirrorless line because you're too afraid to cannibalize your SLR business, praying really hard that everyone else is doing the same
What dumbass executive greenlighted this?

$18 per month over 10 years is $2,160. MSRP for the 2020 2 Series--BMW's cheapest sedan--is $35,300.

So instead of charging $2K--5% more--for heated seats out right they have no gone through the expense of (1) building the software, billing, and support infrastructure to manage this (2) pissing off customers.

I'm assuming they're also streamlining production by building heated seats into every car instead of selective models, but again, why not just go with a permanent upgrade model? Everyone buys heated seats, BWM provides a special chip to activate them.
Amazing how powerful the concept of building a game is in teaching someone to program. The combination of graphics and learning some technical chops helps the user really get seasoned quickly in any language while also giving them something they can show their friends and family. Having someone cool to show off really helps maintain that excitement in the learning process.
What is T7 SSD?
wow! what a shame!
Why do I find this so funny? Good work. Thanks.
A pathetic example of the ideological myopia that plagues Europe these days. States have provided services to their inhabitants since prehistory, and the notion that this infrastructure does not need financing is as healthy as a corporation that thinks it does not need to invest to succeed. At best, this strategy of living off of investments made by previous generations is doomed to underperform compared to states that take an active role in their own development.
My Z50 and Z6 autofocus is pretty amazingly good. What issues do people report?
You guys are so sharp...
So could burning $50M, but that's not the advertising they chose.
All of the Uber threads get turned into taxi-bashing (and consequently taxi-defending) threads. It's absolutely an intentional distraction.
Do the labs too: these exercises are the most valuable. In particular, the binary bomb forces you to really understand the stack, heap, assembly instructions.
I like the example, but can you say that NeXT was a large acquisition for Apple? How big was NeXT compared to Apple? Does size matter in this analysis? I believe so. I don't know much about this particular acquisition, but I always assumed that buying NeXT was the price to get Jobs back.
It is mind blowing that this is something people are willing to accept. The feature is there, the ecological damage is done already by including those extra resources, and you've paid for the vehicle but don't actually own its capabilities.
Here's what I do in my home: I've had the same easy-to-type WiFi password (it's a name and a four-digit year) since 2005 and I just tell my guests. It's not even a guest network. It's just my network. Free hugs in my house too.
25 years ago, a (then) friend had a nice car, bought it new. IIRC it was a BMW. He was hypervigilent about its condition. One night some thieves broke into his car and did some damage. Replacing the window wasn't a worry -- that can be replaced good as new, but they had put some dings in the hood somehow.

He was worried that insurance wouldn't replace the hood but would just pay someone to try to knock them back into shape, which was unacceptable to him. So he went and bashed up the hood himself with a bat. The insurance claims guy came out to inspect it and said: we'll replace the window and we'll have a shop hammer out out the damage in the hood.

Served him right.
It is a pretty neat feature.

The only thing I don't love about it is, there's very little user feedback. The person requesting just goes to the wifi password prompt and hopefully this generates the notification for one of their contacts.

Nice when it magically works (you go to wifi, and then someone in the room is like "Hey, dcdc123 wants the wifi password" and you are like "yep," and then it's all sorted), annoying when you are intentionally trying to use it with one particular person.

It would be nice if it showed something like "looking for contacts" "found <NAME>" etc etc.
As a Gen X'er, this is completely gross
Reading this makes me think of the handful of sites, often targeted at professionals, that highly optimize for the experience of actually buying things. McMaster-Carr comes to mind. Their users shop there over and over, and McMaster wants to keep them. So you can find things for $2 or $2000, shipping prices are inoffensive, customer service is friendly but rarely needed, and there are minimal distractions on the way to checking out or even after checking out. The only real issues are mostly related to the fact that they sell so many products that one can get lost in the 4000+ items that all match the search. Well done.

This is an interesting contrast to Amazon that also makes checkout easy but bombasts the user with thousands of listings, mostly mildly fraudulent and consisting of absolute crap, and still somehow gets repeat business.
Why would you say that µFT isn't the best wildlife body? There the long range lenses shine (do I need to say 150-400/4.5?). Also wildlife often means hiking through the wild, where µFT also has big advantages.
The EU's prediction is that population is about to reach its peak and will then decline slowly until the 22nd century or so. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/D... Imo there will be new niches populated by middle aged and old people with no kids.
I'm not a frequent taxi user but to me it's the most reliable mode of transportation which I always have as backup in mind when I need to get somewhere really on time. The additional luxury is cool but probably I'm fine without it, it puzzles me how dissatisfied some people are with taxis
What defines a big acquisition? Price or comparable size of the acquirer versus acquired?
I don't think Bun got harsh feedback, it's just that it is response to unfulfilled performance potential existing in node, one because of javascriptcore and another because of better implementations of everything else node does I suppose.

From what I understand the author was proposing some solutions which could speed up node by a lot, but this wasn't considered by node community for some reason. Not sure if he did or is it only marketing trick to make others use his lib.

However I don't understand one thing - why thing like uwebsockets wasn't merged into/incorporated into node runtime if it is, in author's terms, clearly much much better? Node is used by millions of people and significant performance improvement is a big deal. I really don't get it.

Hence the question - does somebody use it in prod (uwebsockets.js) and can share their experience?
> someone who isn't trying to build a brand around Elon Musk hatred dig into the details

Isn't everyone who regularly publishes "trying to build a brand". And isn't everyone who covers Elon Musk critically trying to incorporate that into their brand? How do you distinguish between "I analyze Elon Musk's statements for accuracy" and "Elon Musk hatred"?
If there's sufficient determination, people will just write replacement backends.

This is a real phenomenon. As I recall some years ago Ubisoft tried to come out with a (single-player) video game which couldn't be played offline, and which was dependent on an online server as an anti-piracy tactic. I believe this game was still pirated using some kind of fake server.

It's also interesting how common it is for people to create replacement servers for popular MMOs, given the extent of the reverse engineering that this requires, using custom non-HTTP protocols which are much harder to reverse. MMOs should be "unpirateable" yet unofficial open source server reimplementations are a real thing.
I'm happy customer of posteo.de for years now. They don't want to have data they don't absolutely need (e.g., you can pay cash envelope), they're very transparent on what they do with the data they need to have, gov requests etc., they have optional full encryption built in…
and it's only €1/month :)
> A pretty obvious counterpoint: one can believe that raising the minimum wage drives unemployment among lower class workers while also raising the cost of living--this is an eminently empathetic viewpoint with respect to service workers, etc.

Except this counterpoint is not based on real evidence but largely based on purely theoretical arguments which have been shown numerous times to be way too simplistic.
I’m grateful to people that splurge on tech and later sell their barely-used gadgets in eBay where I get them for cheap.

Joking (half) aside, as others (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070678) said, it’s your hard-earned money. People will criticize you for doing what you want much more intensely than they will thank you for not doing it.

Now, if you find that many of the things you buy don’t spark joy but rather make you feel dissatisfied and start looking for the next thing to buy, then there might be a problem.
I didn't realize that's how perfect relative pitch works. That's super cool.
I don't know if you've intentionally misunderstood me or if I was hard to understand. This is not about one of those "just 30 years away"-technologies and their startups. This is about EXISTING nuclear reactors and people who want to keep them running or build more of them.

Their representatives on the anti-social networks are people like Shellenberger and his "Institute" selling the "green nuclear" idea while spreading hate against renewable energy with it.

- https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/the-new-denia...

- https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2020/09/16/statement-on-zion-... (NSFW)

- https://nuclear.foe.org.au/michael-shellenbergers-pro-nuclea...
Holy crap, every parent needs to watch these videos end-to-end.

Roblox is predatory platform in so many ways.
Yes, and/or a second copy mirrored to a completely different cloud provider that has no dependencies on your main provider. (Including login dependencies!)
Not really. Surely a megacorp like dominos would get better rates (because of negotiating power/buying in bulk) than buying at spot prices on some self service website?
And Uber has much higher ratings than the Taxi industry in the Chicago area. I'm guessing there are people under 30 that have never even been in a cab. They've never felt the need.
This makes me imagine a little part of the Mandelbrot set saying it is irrelevant because it's such a small part of the whole. But in truth, the Mandelbrot set is not the Mandelbrot set without every part of it (the math would be off). We are the universe. As Alan Watts said: "an apple tree apples, and the universe peoples".
> Also, mailbox.org forces cloud drive, video calls, etc on you. I don't need that crap.

Huh? I've been a mailbox.org user for years now and didn't even know that they have a cloud drive and video calls. How are they forcing it on you?
Idea: make one for each AirBnB you stay in. If you don’t have access to a printer while you’re there email them a PDF.
I suspect this is half way to the truth. The Z mount lens portfolio is looking pretty good these days. At some point the FTZ will be the only F mount being sold.

I sold all my F mount lenses last year finally. Despite owning a Z50 and a Z6 I only seem to use the Z50 and the DX kit lenses. Might sell the full frame stuff apart from the 35mm prime which is amazing on the Z50.
that means no sandisk or the like
So... evolutionary legacy from the cave dwelling era when the gender roles were more rigid?
but something as big as an auto purchase is a amalgamation of many decisions into one. what they are relying on is that the pain of subscription does not out weighs the rest of value a BMW provides. esp if they can bury this in details and give it away for a couple of years like volvo does.

My suspicion is this will become a lot more pervasive & render every auto purchase to choke full of these under the surface sour decisions.
I believe this is the model for taxis -- at least it was about 20 years ago when I worked as a taxi dispatcher in a small town for a short time.

Drivers rented taxis, and the taxi company only made money based on renting out the fleet of cars. It was something like $80 for 12 hours.

Drivers were independent and made money from the customers directly. The drivers I talked to most were a husband/wife pair who rented the same taxi and they told me about having a CPA that wrote off basically everything. Haircuts, clothes, the majority of what they bought was written off their taxes because it was for business.

The dispatcher (what I did) answered the phone and got an origin/destination/name, and radioed drivers until one of them accepted it.

I think the whole operation was a couple dozen cars, a tiny rented building, 3-person rotation of dispatchers, a general manager, mechanic, and an owner.
It would not use that one, it sends the network name and password to a server. This was easy to verify with browser dev tools.

There are QR code generators that are work entirely client-side, I would trust those much more, or just use a native app.
Pixar acquisition by Disney comes to mind
From what I've seen (I don't shoot Nikon but I keep up with the market) Nikon's rolling shutter issues seem to be mostly addressed as of the Z9; you can shoot oversampled or subsampled 4K60 and the sensor readout is fast. Rolling shutter on the Z9 seems to be no worse than the Sony a1. I would expect this to move downmarket over time.
Well, English lacks Ü, and İ, so in reality it will be Turkiye, which is will be said something like "turk-eye-eeee". You're welcome.
Assortative Matching at the World's Most Exclusive Marriage Market
The Schoolteacher Who Saved Her Students from the Nazis
A great reason to end the taxi system is that it isn't a monopoly?
> give up on your own judgment and opinions and say "the data says"

The beauty of AB testing is that you don't have to give up your opinion. You can just change irrelevant things until the result you desire gets proven by chance and now you've got data to base your opinion on!
> That's what "abolishing the minimum wage" IS. It's about allowing slavery.

No it isn't, plenty of countries with much better worker conditions than USA doesn't have a minimum wage.
I loved The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, thanks for adding another book to my "to-read" queue!
It's doubly sad because the larger phone or iPad would be perfect, but every year it's another $200 to tell Google they're doing the right thing.

At least on iPad/iPhone you can set the apps to access Google mail, etc, which doesn't change as often, but still too often.
The point is that it's an immobile target with known protections, and missiles are accurate enough to hit it directly as many times as necessary. I'm sure it's specifically targeted by sufficient weapons to destroy it. It could survive a lot, but not enough.

And, like I said, the proof is that it doesn't actually handle much of NORAD anymore. NORAD is mostly above ground because any immobile target is hopelessly vulnerable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson_Space_Force_Base This is where NORAD is based now.

Also, I read the article wrong, it's 30MT at 2km away.