skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It plays directly. It is possible to capture the audio data directly with a little hacking. For instance, something like

with open("data.dat", "ab") as f:
f.write(frame.planes[0].to_bytes())

in Audio's process() does indeed dump out the captured data to something that can be replayed.
I'm pretty sure that doing a deal with a Chinese brand would get them additional scrutiny from the US government.
What I suggest if you have the opportunity to go anywhere south of the USA is buying a 2$ claro SIM chip and putting 2$ on it at least once every 3 months or so in order to maintain it (Can even maintain payments over the internet as long as you can understand the Spanish website). This makes the monthly cost around 66 cents a month/$7.92 a year for an SMS verification mule, and it will receive texts anywhere that has GSM band 1 without having to activate roaming or anything expensive like that.
To be fair, clock speeds have not really gone up in the last 20 years or so.

Multi core CPUs and speedups in other bottlenecks on the other hand..
With this change, the 5 user limit[1], and original intent to delete dormant repositories[2][3], it seems as though GitLab is no longer able to support the free side of its business. GitLab has been touted as more OSS-friendly than GitHub, but a large part of the OSS ecosystem depends on free repositories. With these changes and this trajectory, I can't see myself putting another OSS project on GitLab.

It's a shame it's come to this, but I'm confident GitLab didn't make this choice lightly. It must be done in order for them to stay afloat.

Thank you GitLab team for your efforts. I hope you guys are successful in your future endeavors.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-tier...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention...

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/gitlab_reverses_delet...
Honestly for me the bigger issue is the upcoming bandwidth limit.

There is no clear date to when its going to be enforced.

But its definition is so wide its crazy, its basically any egress data except the web interface and shared runners.

AFAIK it will also include git clones!, so if your project suddenly gets popular the users clones will cost you many too.

Also if you use your own runner, cloning the repo to the runner will also be included in your bandwidth limit.

And since it should apply to GitLab pages, it becomes useless for anything the you want to get few visits.

Since GitLab is behind cloudflare, you might as well just use Cloudflare Pages at this point.
"You're the product" doesn't really give the vibe I want it to. It sounds like someone is making money off of you, which is true, but it doesn't convey the "at your own expense" part. Even by simple things as better targeting, but eventually as main goals or side-effects of better ML/AI, you're manipulated to spend more, to feel worse about yourself so you spend more and so on. There was recently another article about "insight porn". If someone wants your attention and time, that's another way to take it. The better you know someone, the better you can convince them to give you money and time. So whether you're the product or not, you're paying for it.
you can provision in API/IP-enabled "mobile" number through a provider like Twilio or competitors, do everything in software (or do nothing regarding custom software and just enable SMS forwarding in the provider's UI), and pay fractions of pennies per SMS, plus a monthly fee for the number like $1.50.

See my comments elsewhere in thread, but a "VOIP" number is a ridiculously tiny corner case in the world of telco, hence lack of support.
Governments source huge volumes of information from private organizations, very unlikely they would limit these organizations unless they had a way to gain the information in other ways that are unlikely to be cut off long-term.
> VPNs add a layer of security at the network level

Which you get from TLS. Strong authentication and authorization per-web-application using short-lived tokens through OAuth/OIDC is about a billion times more robust than any VPN network security.

90% of what VPNs are useful for is connecting you to a non-routable network.
I think those of us who are good at math greatly underestimate the amount of rote needed to reach competence-- first, how much we actually needed, and second, how much more of it most people need.

A good math education in arithmetic, algebra, and calculus is a combination of concepts and drill. This was a concept that I rejected back in school. Now I'm teaching-- not mathematics, but I have tutored and helped students catch up who have had problems.

There's a fair number of students struggling in pre-calc who have all the concepts just fine, from the bottom to the top. But when they're dealing with lots of terms and keeping a higher level goal in mind, their performance on a few simpler things, like fractions and quotient properties, falls apart. Maybe they missed a week or two in 6th grade when this was really solidified and practiced.

The terrible thing that tends to happen, once you stumble in math: the amount of concept content you have falls. The focus moves even more to rote, but focused on the "more difficult" stuff--- leaving whatever core deficit there is intact. There's solid reasons for this, but the outcomes are not great.

I also have a kid who is going into AP Calculus pretty young. I'm kinda nervous that he just has not had enough reps of practice, even though he scores very high on placement tests.
"That conversation, on some level, demands value judgments."

"value", and "judgment", and in the same sentence? From none other than Ezra Klein? Did Hell froze over?
More entrenched? The first time I ever touched CUDA was 2012 in university! It's been entrenched for a whole decade!
How Bias in the Property Tax Assessment System Plays Out[video]
The third sentence was the point. I don't want browsers being less reliable and terminating randomly due to unwraps
Very neat. Just discovered anyhow and the context stuff from this post.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in a data scientist job description?
This would be a good way for me not to do anything for years. I suppose as long as I could fake working for that long and keep getting paid it could work....but then my skills would still suffer.
applyPipe is added now: https://github.com/MathisBullinger/froebel#applypipe

It's included in version 0.21.0
Years and years of having to do increasingly more insane things to log into banking apps until we’re fully doing karaoke in our living rooms or stripping nude to reveal our brand tattoos
That per repo, GitLab's is for the whole account.
If a program can now solve these problems better than most people can, even after studying the relevant subjects, does that mean people should spend less time learning how to solve these problems?
>it's hard to believe that they're uncovering actual biology and not just chance correlates with external/socioeconomic factors

Do you think no biological basis exists? Either way, they are still correlates, even if some aren't causative.

These models are still predictive when tested against control groups outside the training population.
That's often the best kind of insight you can gain from having a little distance between you and the problem.
In my experience AirPlay equipped receivers are also a pretty decent bet for long term support. My receiver is a 7 year old midrange Marantz model and its AirPlay has always worked great. It still gets software updates occasionally too which is nice. If I upgrade it’ll be due to changing HDMI standards (it can’t handle high framerate 4K video), not protocol support.

As I understand Airport Express models from the 2000s still work with AirPlay from modern Apple devices too, though I don’t own any and can’t vouch for them personally.
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Looking for a junior/entry software eng. role.

I just graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering, so I have the intuition about physical systems that comes with that. I did a big research project in the area of robot path planning that involved some hefty topics in convex optimization -- math does not scare me. I did a bunch of class projects that involved: classical control, state estimation, gaussian process regression, signal processing, & numerical methods. I really like writing clean, performant code that is capable of modeling and/or influencing complex systems. I love to read the documentation before diving into a problem. And I take joy in doing things "the right way," and always try to get better at doing that. In a previous life (for 7 years) I co-owned a legal consultancy, so I can talk to clients, do business things, talk on the phone, and be under immense stress for short periods of time -- I did courtroom things in big-money litigation. I'm not afraid to talk to customers!
Excerpts from “Silicon Snake Oil” by Dr. Clifford Stoll, Ph.D. Physics

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I don’t believe that phone books, newspapers, magazines, or corner video stores will disappear as computer networks spread. Nor do I think that my telephone will merge with my computer, to become some sort of information appliance.”
“I suspect Big Brother won’t have an easy time tracing us. … Our privacy will be protected, as it always has been, by simple obscurity and the high cost of uncovering information about us.”
“What will the electronic book look like? Some sort of miniature laptop computer, I’d guess. We’ll download selections and page through them electronically. Try reading electronic books. They’re awful.”
“When high-bandwidth links allow every home to access animated, talking, holographic computerized encyclopedias, I can’t help thinking that kids still won’t use ’em.”
“Video-on-demand, that killer application of communications, will remain a dream.”
“It’s easy to make fancy home pages on the World Wide Web. But jumping from one document to another baffles me even more than watching someone channel surf. I’m never certain of my location in a twisty maze of cross-references.”
“Why not send a fax? It’s far more universal than e-mail — we not only find fax machines everywhere, but they can all speak to one another. … I find it easier [than e-mail] to just scribble a note on a plain piece of paper and send it over a fax. Or address an envelope, lick a stamp, and mail the letter
The fastest and most-memory efficient concurrent hashmap in Golang
For all the audiophiles out there, M1 Mac Mini is an incredible digital player. You can basically play lossless audio over iTune/Apple Music and it’s well-integrated with the rest of the Apple ecosystem.
Mine is still showing negative usage for some repos. The most negative is showing -1.08 GB, both from my profile and from the project page.

Repo 130.82 MB
Artifacts 12.74 MB
Wiki 51.20 KiB
Everything else 0 bytes.

Been like this for at least a couple weeks.

This one is public, but I have others that are private with negative values.
Oh, come on, if anyone wanted to get a map of my home they could just get that information on my town's website. It's public information.
That's in a section specifically about picking the right transport. Per your example, it's like saying "TLS is technically superior to TCP, because it means our protocol can offload encryption and authentication to it".
You can absolutely get a contract-less prepaid SIM card in Japan, but you have to show an ID to get it.
> Bend is the only hospital in a 12,000-square-mile area that delivers babies.

This seems like a remarkably poor metric to use, because it could either be a 62-mile-radius circle centered on that hospital, or a 1-mile wide strip that snakes all over the state and narrowly misses several other such hospitals. Also, if you told most people to guess the radius of the corresponding circle, they'd probably be way off.
Trend Micro: Honda to Start Selling Smart Car Data (Oct 2021)
https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/21/j/honda-to-star...

I think the rubicon is crossed with connected car data.
I did an assignment on the Blue Brain Project once. It's an incredibly complex project with lofty ambitions.

One thing that blew my mind was how limited they were by modern storage technology. Storing high-fidelity neuronal cross-section images consumed more space than what was available at the time. Each scan was crazy massive, something like a petabyte or an exabyte.

To store the entire human brain in this fashion would consume more storage space than that which exists on Earth.
I would actually want that to crash, yes. That would ensure it gets caught and resolved by developers during development. Or at least increase the odds thereof. Further, if it allocates a few gb, or if it's allocating a large amount of memory because the size parameter got smashed?

If it crashes enough that you'd get terrible reviews it would definitely be caught during development.

If it messes up your mesh silently then you'll definitely still get bad reviews.

And actually having an std::bad_alloc thrown is even worse since you have no idea what state it left things after running some destructors when you weren't planning for it.
> No Chesterton's fencing around

That’s an interesting way to put it. I think that might be a good rule of thumb to help future maintenance: Avoid unintentionally erecting Chesterton’s fences.
That is a problem. Another similar problem is that programmers write buggy code. I don't see anything particularly special about 'unwrap()'. 'unwrap()' is a common manifestation of it. But as others have pointed out to you, this same phenomenon manifests everywhere and in other programming languages, but through different means.
Only with the old guide it made sense to me:

https://www.thetylergibson.com/ikea-symfonisk-amp-modificati...
Until Amazon puts a gun up against someone's head and forces them to buy something, this is a non-issue.
I would personally consider parsers as part of I/O, but point taken.
I'm confused. I went and looked at the editorial by Paul Krugman. Here's the quote: "To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

Isn't that exactly what happened? And in 2008 the housing bubble collapsed? Or maybe you have a different story about that bit of history.
> It's better to have a DB of the relative size of people's homes than not.

Of course, but is it better to have a DB of the relative size of peoples’ homes—or $1.7 billion?
All the time!

As for what that looks like - it's hard to say. I would not say I commonly find "good" documentation or organization. Sufficient test coverage has been common and extremely helpful (especially b/c tests are often implicit documentation about how functionality is expected to proceed).

I would generally say that well done code has a flow that follows the conventions of the languages & libraries that it uses. Being able to appreciate the flow means that, whatever direction you want to go, you know how to pivot from the current state.

When I get "bad" code it's code that I can't actually work on until I do weeks or months of work trying to understand what the original intent was.
I'd trust the data with a (real, not online) bank more than most other companies like Google.

I'd be more worried about people hacking into networked security camera DVRs at stores and cafes and extracting image data from there. Multiple angles. Movement. Some are very high resolution these days. Sometimes they're mounted right on the POS, in your face. Sometimes they're actually in the top bezel of the beverage coolers.

Banks are the hardest way to get this data, not the easiest one.
There’s no mention of it being a strictly UK affair in the app description. I imagine 100s of people download it each day, fill in the form and then bail once they realize it’s UK only.
Applying technological solutions to social problems hasn't worked a single time before, but SURELY it'll work this time
I've had that experience. I honestly sometimes worry I've peaked and am getting less good at figuring out how to compose good code as my brain ages.

I think I'm actually getting better at it, at least in some ways... but not totally sure there aren't others I'm not quite as brilliant.
Some thoughts since I should have started working an hour ago.. right now the only thing working for me is to "practice" what I have to do since I no longer derive satisfaction from most of what I have to do each day to survive. I tell myself that I'm practicing doing chores so that I don't devote conscious attention to them, I pretend at going to work, going through my mountain of mail to pay bills, etc etc.

I just remembered where I was going with this: the practicing helped me remember learning certain tasks like brushing my teeth. So now I replay good memories of a task as I perform it instead of concentrating on the task itself. The higher the percentage of time spent NOT thinking about what I'm doing, the easier it is to start the task next time.

Maybe this doesn't make sense if you don't struggle with anxiety or haven't burned out yet. But for people who have, changes happen in the brain where it's hard to forget what happened, so you come out of the experience a different person, disillusioned. The games help overcome the mental logic that (often correctly) predicts bad outcomes after years of negative reinforcement loops. Spending more time daydreaming helps restore the feeling of novelty and being young.
Good post. The metaphor is fair.

I remember being annoyed by way to many "insights" and "words of advice" that sounded plausible but in environments that were way too unattainable for me at the time, hence:

A) Not really plausible at all.

B) Too much self-referential and tautologic.

They pretended too much to be useful good advice but was actually just either show-off of success in disguise (false modesty/success porn) or tautologic; like "To be a multimillionaire just need to spend less than you earn but not earn low enough". Huh? Even a pigeon is smart enough to not need to hear that.
Why would these be payday loans? The lenders also own a large percentage of the shares in the company.
We fundamentally disagree on what the larger problem is.

a. Easy access to drugs.

b. Cartels.

As terrible as cartels are, easy access to drugs is easily a much bigger problem.

Edit: I'm using an admittedly simplistic heuristic: How many people are going to have their lives destroyed by a. compared to b.?
> No. You make it revenue neutral by using the money to reduce other taxes (and make the 0% bracket wider) rather than introducing a distribution system. Why make it more complex than it needs to be?

That are two problems with that as opposed to just returning the carbon tax money to the general population with each person getting an equal share.

First, which other taxes would you reduce? In the US I'm almost certain that the list of taxes that Democrats would want to reduce would be different from the list of taxes that Republican would want to reduce.

Second, even if we can get agreement on which tax to reduce, the benefits to the individual taxpayers aren't likely to be proportional to, or even correlate well with, with how well they are personally doing on emissions.

For example, suppose it is done as an income tax reduction. People who don't make enough money to own income tax would not benefit, but they would have their costs of living go up from the increases in fuel and energy costs due to the carbon tax. They are in effect being taxed to subsidize the carbon emissions of wealthier people.
Personal vehicles will be getting both bigger and smaller. What's different from the past is that electric motors scale much better than IC engines. Both the world's smallest vehicles (kid's toys) and the largest vehicles (huge mining trucks) are both electric.

First the small. Cities will soon start to ban all but electric vehicles in their downtown cores (already happening in some Chinese cities). The primary reason being electric vehicles don't emit the poisonous gases that IC vehicles do. The next phase will be only EV's that are half the width of a normal car lane will be allowed in the downtown core. Most vehicles in the downtown core now are single occupancy, a city can double its downtown vehicle infrastructure for free by restricting most EV vehicles to taking up just half a lane. These vehicles will be much cheaper too, probably less than $10k.

Now the big. IC RV's are a bit of a pain but an all electric RV will be much better all around. That's because all of the required functions will be electric and run off the huge battery. Hot water, TVs, heat, refrigeration, very little maintenance just like a normal house, but smaller. Tesla vehicles already have "camp mode" and people love it. Image when Tesla builds an EV RV. This will become young people's 'First home'. Buy it for $70k and live in it for much less than rent. When you finish Uni, you own an asset rather than peeing your money away on rent. Oh and for weekend trips to the lake or the ski mountain and all that, couldn't be more convenient.

Remember, you read it here first.

EDIT ... a few typos
Seems like this could end up being an anti-trust issue..

Apple is stacking the deck in favor of its own ad platform.

Using a competitive advantage in one industry to gain an unfair advantage in another.

Which seems like the definition of an anti-trust violation.

Of course, like Netscape v Microsoft, this will be a hollow victory for Facebook. It will probably be too little too late.
Locked-In Syndrome and the Misplaced Presumption of Misery
It's interesting to me the level of unadulterated hate Krugman gets. I'm not any kind of avid reader of public intellectual economics so have no long-term basis from my past experiences reading him to have an opinion one way or another, but just looking at this single set of predictions, he still seems to have been right as often as wrong:

- Internet won't have a long run impact on economy - NOPE

- IT job growth will slow drastically - NOPE

- US triumphalism will vanish within a few years of 1998 - YEP

- Inflation will go up in 1999 - YEP, but didn't quite hit 3%

- Productivity growth will slow in 1998 - YEP (not a long-run trend, but he was right about 1998)

- Some time in the next 20 years, we'll see another 70s-style supply crunch - NOPE, but pretty close, since it is happening right now; he just missed by a few years

It's especially interesting in that the entire column seems to be a general poo-pooing of economic optimism and expression of his skepticism that anything happening in the 90s will fundamentally change the way the business cycle works. That seems generally in line with the predominant Hacker News zeitgeist - be skeptical of everything, don't buy hype cycles, the future will probably mostly end up being similar to the past. Every now and again, you spectacularly miss some legitimate sea change, but most hype cycles do end up receding.
I have a giant doc called rude-qa.md that has a bunch of questions an opinionated new hire (dev or manager) might ask about our architecture, followed by a brutally honest “here’s why we did it this way”. Often the answer is something along the lines of “I didn’t have enough experience designing systems back then. We could switch now but the cost is high and there’s not much benefit”. Humility is key. It really helps clarify my own thinking too.
They're doing human things in human spaces with human tools. Human compatibility will enable the same range of genericity as humans. Same robot can operate a bulldozer, cook a dinner, play an instrument, interact with humans etc.
https://archive.ph/V7FDe