skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just updated the FAQ (https://flowful.app/faq) but will post here also:

I record a bunch of samples from VSTs I have. Once I have the samples I upload them to a server, which you request when you load up a song. In your browser, the generators (which is another way of saying 'tracks') then piece together these samples in ways I have coded. So for example, I might have a list of chords which sound good, and a loop which selects from that set. Or maybe a bunch of note patterns to play at a certain interval, but they only have a small probability to play. To make it always unique (and hopefully always fairly interesting), I do things like automate filters, introduce randomness, and switch things around based on how long the track has been running for. Each track has it's own pre-defined set of samples and musical key. The code works on the arrangement, randomness and modulation over time. These random effects are different every play, and so each person will have a slightly different song than the next.
That's not how DALL-E works. It doesn't understand specifics enough to give you something useable in any of those fields. A car company is not going to use a DALL-E image as a car. It might have a professional designer, who themselves use DALL-E to look for something interesting, but that is not "disrupting" the car concept drawing market like the author claims. DALL-E isn't capable of that. Same with tech, Hollywood, etc. For fashion, I suppose you could just create whatever weird thing DALL-E throws up, but again this isn't any kind of disruption, it's just a novelty thing.
"Suppose every organization is able to clearly define their data and model quality SLOs."

I laughed out loud. The rest of the essay is so on point I'm attributing the author full marks for a classic example of the dark, laconic understatement that builds so many bridges amongst technology professionals.
I moved to Iceland, and it's pretty much like you say England is. Half the salary, and worse health care than the US by far. If you factor in taxes, and the portion of my taxes that goes to the health care system (61%) I pay more than I did with excellent health care coverage in my US tech jobs. Inflation is running rampant, further fueled by a post-covid tourism boom, and salaries haven't budged in years.
Hey Marc, I think this is a brilliant idea, simply digested and easily accessible platform for all of us procrastinators. thanks!
2. Wow I didn't know that HN did that! I have never really considered using text files as long term storage outside of some very questionable things I had to implement at financial institutions for some ancient FTP/UserManagement stuff.

Do you store in plain text or do you simply use CSVs and treat them like a database?

Do you find that the repository pattern helps mitigate the issue with long-term DB deprecation? You could backup your databases as CSV files, and then load those into any DB server later. Your repository layer should allow you to use whatever DB tooling is fancy at the time and the CSV backups would be around for longevity?
I really wish Sun didn’t run itself into the ground.

Hard to believe Oracle only paid $7.4 billion

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/story?id=7395780&page=...
When you eat food, something had to die for that. It was a transfer of biochemical energy from that creature to you.

Even if it was a vegetarian meal, it got transported to you and dumped CO2 into the atmosphere. The truck probably hit bugs and maybe ran over some small wildlife.

If you didn't exist, there would be slightly less demand. If 300 million of you didn't exist, there would be a whole lot less demand. The world would be noticeably different.

Everything is energy expenditure and reallocation. Even hugging your son expends ATP that could have been used elsewhere. Hug him a million times and you will be very tired.

I'm not arguing that you shouldn't love your son. I'm saying that the world, at the most fundamental level, revolves around the availability of energy and resources. All of these things in the micro add up in the macro. And even if you aren't concerned about it, your government likely is.

Every single choice has some quantum of opportunity cost and will play out in butterfly effect fashion.
I cannot recreate the results

> git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel
/git/torvalds/linux.git/

> cd linux

> git log --pretty=format:"%<(60,mtrunc)%ae %h %s (%ar)" -i --no-merges v5.17..v5.18 -- fs mm kernel | grep oracle.com | wc -l

> 21
These days liberal OSS licenses are really just free labor for this kind of thing. If you use a very liberal OSS license just make sure you are 100% OK with your work being appropriated this way, including having your name stripped from it and some hustler taking credit.

In the long term I think this kind of behavior is going to kill open source for things beyond libraries and building blocks.

Everything open on the Internet is destroyed by exploitation of one form or another: appropriation, spam, scams, etc. I've become fond of saying "the Internet is a dark forest."
It seems especially unwise now in the light of Apples M1 M2 arm shining a new light on a old x64x86 world.

Whoever made that decision is going to appear in economic textbooks in the DONT Exampels.
Presumably grandparent means QE, ZIRP and the whole range of other easy money policies that inflate the money supply but give investment banks, and the financial industry generally, first crack at the new money. This is definitely a way in which "just being rich" gets you access to policy-defined ways of making money basically risklessly.
I think it applies perfectly. Just like with houses the creative works need to first be created - but the ones profiting in perpetuity by collecting rents are more often than not the original creators.
> once the water wars kick off in a few decades

?? could you provide some details about this? i thought water is a non issue because we have incredible amounts of it that just needs energy to desalinate, energy which will come very cheap in a couple of decades.
I submit PRs. If the author doesn't want them, that's fine, I'll keep them in my own fork. If they do, win/win.
Why do you think that `pip freeze` wouldn't be what you want? (I once had the exact same issue with TF and protobuf and specifying the exact protobuf version I wanted solved it.)
The current Indian government has taken an increasingly fascist approach towards Indian Muslims. It has been jailing Muslim activists without due course and trials, demolishing homes of Muslims participating in peaceful protests and turning a blind eye to fireband Hindu leaders openly calling for genocide against Muslims.

https://m.thewire.in/article/communalism/beyond-blasphemy-in...

https://www.boomlive.in/news/hindu-rashtra-convention-bengal...

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/india...

https://article-14.com/post/jailed-or-punished-with-or-witho...
let me understand this right holding rallies / calling violence are synonyms to one another all comes under free speech ?
> Well, at least the Romans that replaced them had a senate?

Not a scholar of the period, but I was under the impression that Greece's democratic system meant that only male land-owners could vote and that the leading philosophers of the day considered slavery the natural order of things, women marginally (if at all) better than slaves, and boys suitable for divine pleasure. It doesn't seem particularly democratic for them?

I do think it's reasonable to see in ancient Greece the seeds for democracy, but modern republican and democratic forms are pretty far removed from those days; and I don't suppose most of us would be very pleased to live under such a system.
Facebook is a private communication party.... they can be screaming their lungs out on the streets, if their goverments allow it.
It's only one tip, but if both developers and designers are in color-calibrated environments with color-accurate monitors, you can eliminate some it-looks-good-on-my-screen arguments with technology (colorimeters). Many developers that are working pretty close with designers are using really bad, not-calibrated panels and aren't seeing the same thing as the person giving them the design.
The max issues weren’t corner cutting on quality, it was corner cutting on investment in a new design and type rating and available pilots.

Although it could have quality problems; stories of 787 quality problems are concerning. But quality skimping was not the cause of the 2 fatal crashes
PCem is an emulator, not a virtual machine.
Show HN: I made Subcare subscription tracking using email
I live in a small, boring town and regularly walk in the countryside. I think our definition of silence is different. Even in the north of the Peak District you'll get planes from Manchester airport. Everywhere else you'll hear loud cars/motorbikes from every direction. There are pockets of quiet, but it's very difficult to find true silence in Britain now. In any case, my point was really that these last few pockets are now at risk.
I’ve noticed what I think is a trick to hide the negative reviews with default filters. When you first go to the reviews page it will say something like “Showing 30 of 35 reviews” and the filters are “English” and “Full Time”. Sometimes reviews don’t have those tags and most people don’t notice they are just being subtly filtered.
Yeah, this is something I am still struggling with. The gain normalization is super manual currently, so I want to try and programmatically even them out between tracks. Sorry about that!
looks like a product aimed at junior devs, who don't know how to use DevTools

also "Save 59% - Product Hunt Launch Deal - only until July 21st" sounds sketchy AF

i don't buy anything from websites with countdowns or fake discounts
Ask HN: What features in Airtable are you missing?
I remember looking for casual work ten years ago and a lot of jobs had hours arranged to specifically attract people who were happy to have their income subsidised by benefits. Since there were plenty of available workers it was a good game they were playing. Now the same employers are complaining they can't attract people to apply for the same shitty deal as if they are entitled to have a surplus of people to pick from.

The problem is now that the cost of housing has more than doubled over the past ten years and now we have an inflation problem too. They can't double the pay and, even if they could, this would just be adding fuel to the fire.

How this will play out, I don't know, but maybe we don't need multiple versions of the same kind of business and only those who can get the staff will survive and prosper?
You're lucky, some I've worked with seem oblivious to mobile platform conventions altogether. Is it that hard to sit down and spend some time reading the HIG?
You don't have to live in a tiny apartment, you can live anywhere you want but you'll have to commute.

Public transport being half decent means you don't have to actively drive everywhere freeing up time for yourself, even if you have a long commute.

I don't think there's many owning their own houses in NYC or DTLA, it's weird to compare like this.
Construction materials is something like 30%
I think we can all assume the suspicions are true.
People had their life ruined for a tweet from a decade ago. Now imagine your whole life is tweeted minute by minute. Even if the current government won't hang you, it doesn't mean the next one won't do it for the things that are legal and completely normal today.
What if it's all just bad data and we can't use Okinawa etc because the data is listing very old people who simply aren't there anymore?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071
Thanks for the reply; will ponder and muse!
This seems fantastic news for home archivists! But on the practical side, what is the adoption rate of this technology? Are there any user-accessible tools that use it? (Handbrake and VLC come to mind for encoding/decoding.)
I started my career in the OS/2 - OS/2 Lan Server world in the banking industry where we deployed OS/2 workstations running on Token Ring across the state of Louisiana.

The application that ran on these OS/2 boxes was a smalltalk GUI that basically sent commands back to a 3270 mainframe session. It was really a hilarious, basically non-productive application for the employees. Never underestimate how productive a bank teller who's been working for a few years can bang out keyboard combinations in a 3270 session vs now having to point and click to do basically the same thing.

Your post reminds me of the IBM ecosystem, from sales and tech support, Micro-channel token ring cards that were super expensive and had to "insert into the ring" to get network access, to watching the release of Win95, and even myself a hard core OS/2 zealot at the time could not deny that Win95 changed the world going forward.

I ended up going to work for IBM as a contractor doing level 2 support for the OS/2 TCP/IP stack, which was relatively new to the world in general, and so the small 3 person team that just did TCP/IP stack support were considered wizards and unique, given most of the OS/2 world ran on Netbios and even IPX for Netware integration.

It was a wild time of IBM software sales execs signing huge contracts, and deployments of overly complex environments that kept us on our toes.

I ended up pivoting to IBM's newly acquired Tivoli unit, and became a full time employee managing that beast of a enviromnent for "enterprise systems management" - then I got into all the CORBA and crazy frameworks there.

Fun times. Life is different now.
The Caterina de Medici thing is probably a bit exaggerated (depending on where you read about it, sometimes it seems like this princess brought civilization to a country inhabited by savages, while obviously France and Italy had already continuos contacts), but we do have records of ice-cream having been "invented" in Tuscany by either Ruggeri or Buontalenti in the 16th century.

Some sort of sorbets were however "imported" much earlier from the East, recipes being mentioned by Marco Polo, and even earlier there are records of sorbets recipes being brought in Italy by people returning from crusades (probably faloodeh, orginating from Persia/Iran).

It seems like Ruggeri "invented" more moderns sorbets, whilst Buontalenti was the first one to introduce the egg (and thus "proper" ice cream).

Both, directly or indirectly, worked at the Medici court in Florence, but while Ruggeri was actually a cook brought with her by Caterina de Medici in France, and his sorbets seem to have been served in occasion of the marriage, Buontalenti was an architect that worked all life in Tuscany and created the ice cream much later (the marriage of Caterina de' Medici took place in 1533 and, Buontalenti was born in 1531), Buontalenti probably invented ice cream around 1565.
Ukraine is a terrible example. Russia started that, not Ukraine or the US. Giving weapons and funding it would have been completely absent without Russian aggression.

Promoting a better way for countries to adopt, partnering with them in economic activity and education, and helping them to defend themselves when neighbors try to use aggression to oppose that partnership is a much better mechanism for bettering the world than outright war and conquering other nations.

Does the US do shady stuff that bites them later? Yes. Is the world overall better with the US as one of the biggest out there for now? Also yes. Both things can be true.

By all means shine a light on, and oppose the shady stuff but don't make the mistake of thinking that the world doesn't need a strong entity who can both promote and also defend better ways to govern.
One more example, the Brazilian Pepper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schinus_terebinthifolia

It grows quickly. I’ve never heard of its wood having any use. While you’re cutting it down, vibration causes its seeds to fall and they sprout later. And you have to burn/poison the stump or else that regrows too.
juhs an upvote for the cover imaghe!
FAANG has evolved from the acronym about rising stocks into a term representing companies that pay high salaries in SWE circles.

If you see FAANG+ they might be referring to companies like Data Dog or SalesForce or Crowdstrike, companies that pay extremely well but maybe not as much as Meta or Netflix.

At least that's how I read it.
Best to email them at the address at the bottom of the page
Svelte and SvelteKit are great, and it's good to see momentum building behind them.
Is it the only way or the most convenient way? The problem here is that that convenince afforded to creators has a substantial cost for everyone, including other creators.
I thought a little about this. While onchain you cannot censor it, the “view” created for convenience on web2 could just ignore sufficiently flagged responses.

This would still generally allow anonymity.

Of course you could also have anonymity on a traditional platform by not requiring people to sign in with usernames but use a private key instead. So just use that part of web3 but no blockchain storage.
Turns out, our landlords are also living paycheck-to-paycheck, just not their paycheck
Could you elaborate what free distribution mean? Often these platforms have enterprise license. Does that mean it is not free?
By that logic, when you pay for potato, you also pay for the gas used to transport the potatos. But you already pay for gas when you drive around, so you're getting hit by inflation twice.
> You could go all WebDAV with status 422 for non-syntactic errors, but I am skeptical of its utility.

FastAPI uses 422 for "your data is structured wrong for this schema" and it's better than sliced bread.

I think the worst part about the 4xx/5xx distinction is that it doesn't really tell you whether the request is failing in a transient or permanent way (or can't tell). It would have been nice to have more leading digits (6xx, 7xx) and make some distinctions:

- the client did something wrong but might be able to succeed later if state changes (403, 404, 429)

- the client did something wrong and the result is unlikely to change without changing the request (405, 422)

Same with the 5xxs, split into "server" (endpoint) failed, vs middleware (load balancers, etc) failed or is overloaded.
Your paying for the right to live there. What the money you pay is used for is none of your business.

I find it a lot healthier to not worry about the money after I spend it, it's no longer mine for I have agreed to trade it away.
No, but slow :)
> you can eliminate some it-looks-good-on-my-screen arguments

If a designer exports their design in something like figma, sketch, or xd, where the developer can access the css values for the colors, then why would it matter how it looks on the developer's machine?
How do you find this subset of discords? I mean most of the ones I hear about are from creators promoting their servers and by definition they’re too busy and chaotic. Any pointers?
It's broken in Firefox for me.
The British brought over, sold, and legalized slavery in the 13 colonies (and other North American locations), long before the USA was even a thing. The USA slave problem was started by Europeans.
They claim to do a bunch of optimizations to remove the mess:

> No unuseful, duplicated, overridden, or longhand CSS. CSS Scan runs hundreds of real-time advanced optimizations on the code to make it shorter, crystal clear, and prettier.
Yeah, I’m not saying they made the right call… If they have any business sense they will just open up the microcode after this.
Is it Facebook's role to monitor a country's human rights record? I'd be all for it, if that were the case, and it the criteria for human rights transgressions were universally applied.
That depends on what you want to do. OBDII diagnostics is legally mandated by law and so not hard to do across all cars. It is minimal information, but enough for most things. If you want anything else it different for each car (not just each manufacture, sometimes sometimes the same car model will have more than one variant).

The information you need isn't impossible to get: the manufactures make this available to third party scan tools, but they assume anyone wanting this information considers paying $100,000 a nominal cost and won't question it. In a previous job (I left in 2010) I had access to this information, but we still spent a lot of time reverse engineering things because the documents were too often wrong.
Apache also doesn’t require you to share source code. Just because a company publishes their code under an OSS license doesn’t automatically make them the good guys and unless there’s some critical context it seems like pure FUD.

Afaik Apache only requires you to maintain the copyright when distributing in source form (ie you don’t need to mention the license in binary form) but I’m not a lawyer and maybe misread. The license is certainly irrevocable and patent indemnifying provided you don’t violate it.

You can’t both try to engender good will by releasing your code as OSS and then simultaneously going after someone who would seem to be complying with the terms with FUD. To see the FUD most clearly:

> and we believe they may also be in violation of the GNU AGPL v3 versions of MinIO

If that were the case you’d actually be in a court of law enforcing the license rather than trying to sway any kind of public opinion.

This almost certainly stems from their switch to AGPLv3 to ensure that cloud providers can’t use it as part of their own offering. That’s fair but also provides context on motivation.
Hi! You could still use the extension to quickly inspect things, to understand how other websites are designed, or you could also use on your own website when debugging CSS or making fast edits (it's possible to edit the CSS with the extension).
I've worked in the field for 20 years and I've struggled to find something that works consistently. My frank opinion is that design (particularly UI design) as an industry has a perfectionism problem - designers are encouraged to strive for the platonic ideal in their work and are unwilling to budge after their ideas encounter reality. Software engineers on the other hand are encouraged to ship and not make perfect the enemy of good, because the product of their work is often immediately delivered to customers and turned into value for the business. This puts design and engineering at odds with each other, with engineering often being able to play the trump card because they're self sufficient in developing the end product.

Exacerbating this issue is the fact that design teams often don't report under the same organizational departments as software engineers, and aren't incentivized the same way as software engineers, which produces a lot of organizational strife. Design organizations often consider their final output to be the mockups/wireframes that describe the product, which is thrown over the wall to engineering, at which point they step away from the process and from that point serve only to criticize the end result or ignore it entirely.

The above is my experience and subjective take on the issue, I'm sure others have experienced different. But the above strikes me as somewhat commonplace based on my own conversations with folks in the industry.
Just wait until you find out your internet bill has a potato surcharge because their engineers need to buy potatoes too.