skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, evolution in nature is really badass. Bats must have some crazy powerful DSP in their brain to process all that.

Fun fact from Ben Rich's Skunkworks book: when the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the world's first stealth plane, was stored in a cave before it's first deployment in the Gulf, it was found in the morning surrounded by dead bats since they keep bumping into it overnight, as the plane was also invisible to their echolocation, which gave the crew reassurance over its stealth capability.
What was broken? How it was broken? Why it was fixed this way? That information is vital during "git blame".

Take a look at the commit histories of the other projects I've linked. Their commit messages are much more elaborate.
Yes, that is why I suggest making the explanation and process more readily available. Non-tech savvy users who already care about the problems of DRM should kmow it is possible to remove it, and ideally have access to a user-friendly way to do it. On the other hand, those who don't even know what DRM is or why it matters may get greater exposure to the issue.
I think I take issue with the word “censorship”. Is it really censorship if free speech was never guaranteed in the first place?

I mean less the denotative definition and more the connotative definition.
A typo of "compiler", I'm fairly certain.
I think Odin is (mainly) written by a single dev. When I'm the solo dev on a project, I also don't put a lot of effort into commit messages.
Something that I am currently struggling at my job is how can I automatically convert everything in a JSON into a table.
I'm writing my own "macros" to deal with it but it's far from ideal yet.
Except there is no gold and the only opportunities is the next persons 2000 dollar seminar on why you aren't succeeding which they then use to network with other individuals who sell them on their 100,000 opportunity.

You'd be better of hiring people with little to no experience than someone who was taught by these gurus.
Audible has some flagrant dark patterns in their design for consumers as well. While you _could_ buy independent audiobooks at cost, their most popular model is to subscribe to a monthly membership where you earn one credit a month. This monthly credit can buy any audio book.

The dig comes if you decide you have too many credits cached. Perhaps because you can't get through one audiobook a month. If you cancel a subscription for an account with remaining credits, you'll lose all your credits. Your choice is to either spend them all at once or keep your account active and keep paying the monthly fee while hoping to eventually pay down the credit debt enough to cancel.

The only thing that's compared in my experience is for Adobe Stock.
I remember Twitter being pitched originally as aspiring to be a messaging protocol. That's why the 140 character limit was in place: 140 character message + 20 character username = the 160 character SMS limit; the lowest common denominator. A protocol probably was his original vision for the product, and it didn't turn out that way. As many in this thread have cynically pointed out, he did make a lot of money on Twitter as a company. Still, I can imagine having some regret over pivoting away from the original idea.
Thanks for the detailed response. I think I do understand your point.

In my (limited) experience so far however I find myself remembering the words themselves, rather than work out their pronunciation from their constituent kanji. To me working from the pronunciations of the kanji themselves is like trying to pronounce 'cough' by fitting together pronunciations for 'c', 'ou', and 'gh' (all of which have several options interestingly enough).
I've said it before, I'll say it again. It's more productive to think of "music theory" as a way for musicians and composers to talk about what they just did, or what they are just going to do, than as a way to generate those things.
This is true for so many successful tech leaders but there’s a lot of reasons many parties don’t want to believe it’s more luck than talent.

But you get the Notches and Zuckerbergs who strike gold once then utterly fail on every subsequent attempt at striking gold again.
thats so cool
True temperament appears to be a marketing term for a fret system providing equal temperament.

A "spherical cow" model of a guitar would be equal temperament, but that ignores the messy reality of how strings behave - chiefly they need to be some distance above the fretboard and pressing them naturally bends the string ever so slightly.
No. It says that smartphones interfere with adult-child relationships.

Smartphones are great when used for direction finding or ordering food or something, totally negative when used to scroll endlessly through tik tok or instagram.

Many people are in total denial that social media have basically turned them into drug addict zombies.

On the upside, tik tok, like video games, is probably great at reducing street crime by keeping teens and young adults plugged into the matrix.
Depends on the temperament you are shooting for, at least that's my understanding after reading the article.
No, it hasn't. Not in America.
If they haven't made any changes to the DB, that's just pointing them to the main website.
MS was afraid of the web. Apple ... not sure what they did during early days (or even now) to popularize the web. Google started in 1997
“ Whales, the argument goes, consume a ruinous quantity of fish”.

I think humans are doing that
Email Is Not SMS (2008)
But how much did you comprehend? Were you able to easily go back when you didn't understand something or re-listen to a specific part to make sure you understood it? It doesn't seem very conducive to a deep understanding of any topic, let alone deep understanding.

I for one can't imagine actually getting much out of a 'deeper' book via audio, even if I could sit and listen to them with the comprehension levels I get out of reading.
I'm sure I've see on here something that does not just that, but also remembers what it just did so when you play your next notes it doesn't jump to a different tuning.
No, it's not. The vast majority of consumer-oriented printing originates in a jpg or png image. The file format really isn't that important, the point GP was making is that these images are in RGB space. That's actually correct.

Work that comes in from professional design shops come in as CMYK. But not from small businesses that are not in a tech field, such as grocery stores, restaurants, sports teams, children's or senior's activities, security firms, hardware stores, hair stylists, etc. All that comes in as RGB.
Smm = Social media marketing, buying likes and that stuff. It's a huge market actually. Porn sites also heavily set on crypto to pay their creators, paying out is even more an issue than charging in such markets.

I don't understand where the issue with refunding crypto should be. It's also way cheaper than what stripe, PayPal or co charges if users issue refunds. Personally I only save money by using crypto, I save thousands of dollars in transaction and chargeback fees every year. For me as merchants it's a non brainer.

I also use crypto as a customer but I usually trust these companies before I send money. The swiss Amazon is accepting crypto for example, as customer I trust them and all customer protections laws apply as well.
Awesome response. Any thoughts on what happened with Yugoslavia's experience with co-ops?
I was actually tested for hEDS (amongst other things) in the past because my knees can do some funny tricks and I had some pain there. Turned out not to be EDS but instead the problem was caused by the kneecaps not tracking well - that was easily fixed by exercises.

You know your stuff well!
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I think it's drummed into people at school not to overuse the same word. However, this is, as usual for school, an oversimplification.

Repetition is to be avoided when it is that repetition itself that stands out unattractively. In the previous sentence, "repetition" is repeated deliberately in order to emphasise that the referred-to noun remains the same[1].

If your grammatical gymnastics to avoid a repetition become more annoying than the repetition itself, just leave it. (Again, I could have found a circumlocution here for "repetition", but would it make things better? Would it have the same nuances? Would it rather distract from the actual meaning of the whole sentence?)

Off-topic (and I do hope not too personal; I don't mean to be a grammar bore when we're not here for the grammar): overuse of ellipses is far more aggravating, to me, when parsing a comment than an unintentional reuse of a common word like "I". It stands out most because I have a colleague who does it all the time and it drives me up the wall as I can't tell if there's a implicit conclusion that I should be intuiting(...)

If I have to pick something I overuse, it would be parentheticals (like this).

[1]: If short on space, you could distil "... when it is that repetition itself that stands out ..." to just "... when it stands out ...", but what "it" represents is now implicit, the whole is more neutral and the emphasis is lost.
Feminism as tool to enlarge the labor force and depress wages is the greatest propaganda victory in human history.
hhahahahahaha i honestly take mark z opinions more seriously ; the best you can say about jack and still be within the norms here is that he is very disingenuous
Flash 4 had a very nice interface full of palettes. Flash 5 dropped them all in favor of a "smart" inspector that never showed me what I wanted to see without a couple of extra clicks and a half-second wait. This was about half of why I dropped out of the animation industry, it was a complete flow-killer.

This happened because Adobe sued Macromedia over palettes.

Annoyingly enough, the interface has not substantially changed in the intervening years despite Adobe eating MM.
Nope this is actually useless in it's entirety.

It reads like a starter book for a pyramid scheme like rich dad, poor dad.
I wonder when this self proclaimed successful writer will start his masterclass series on how to write. Or his private seminars to guarantee that first publication in ENTER BIG ONLINE BLOG SITE HERE.
Regarding the article, I write everyday and I recommend everybody journal their thoughts, feelings and ideas. At one point I used to regularly read blogs and check up on each person's websites. But I don't use a RSS reader anymore. I need to check Jeff Atwood's blog and Joel on Software and The Daily Wtf.

I started a journal in early 2010s and it's all public on GitHub. I used Wikidpad and got to over a thousand notes after reading people's comments on Slashdot. Wikidpad is a Windows based wiki software which is good but then I moved to markdown, using the GitHub interface.

When I generate an idea I like, I write it down. I got to over 450 entries. They're mostly computer software or startup ideas, they are related to a futuristic vision of computing, society, concurrency, algorithms, parallelism. They're a dream of how computers should work. How they could benefit society. There are links to it on my profile.

I enjoy reading other people's problems to generate ideas from them.

I find there is a shortage of good things to read on the internet, you kind of need to read books or academic papers for good quality things.

What happened to tech journalism of the 2000s? I enjoyed the era of Wired, Digg, LinuxFormat, Slashdot and sites such as LifeHacker and computer magazines. The web feels more fragmented, lower in quality and less synchronized today than it did.
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By "manual memory management", I think of explicitly allocating and freeing memory. Assuming you're thinking of the same thing, are you suggesting that the compiler (or other static analysis) could catch all of the issues you listed? If so, the natural question is, why is it necessary to manually insert the allocations and frees, if the compiler knows where they are supposed to go?

This path leads you to something like Rust, which is safe without garbage collection or ARC, but I also wouldn't call it "manual memory management". The trade off they took for this is complexity in the language.
I'll argue reading non-fiction books is not solely about information. It's more about insights and actions, actually. You might have a lot of information, but if you can not use them, then they are as good as useless. The hardest part is not acquiring information but gain a personal insight from what the author presented. And to do that, you have to convinced yourself; set yourself in the mind frame and the experience of the author to gain the (same or different) insight. And that takes more than bit of time to read and digest. If you really want to understand deeply, you have to answer the question of how did the author come to these conclusions. That takes even more time than just reading. That is also the reason why distilled summaries (like these on Blinkist or 12 Minutes) read almost all the same and are outright banal. The key ideas are often simple enough. But how to get there is in reality the big question.
So what happens when there are hundreds++ of individuals all interested in a single domain name that will become available at a very well-defined time like this? Do people just hammer the ICANN/registrar servers in hope of being the lucky one, or is it more elegant than that?
>How many developers are there?

According to GitHub, there are 132 contributors. Probably most of them were one-off drive-by PRs, but nonetheless, it's definitely not a one person project anymore.
Sure one can play word games all day long if that is your point.
Do you really think california would do something that helps the people?

That hellhole state is the kind of place that demolishes free homes built for the homeless.
MIDI rolls don't, by themselves, make any noise or even inherently define any note frequencies at all.

The frequency of the sound produced by a given synthesizer when it receives any particular MIDI note number is up to the synthesizer. This is part of the point of the MIDI tuning system. The synthesizer and/or the tuning system may very much care about keys and accidentals.
I’ve lived in some places that emphasize the collective over the individual, and I’ve come to the same conclusion. I have little hope that America improves at all in any of these dimensions. Individualism is too engrained.
“As a client, not being able to make encrypted connections to TLS 1.3-only services/servers is by far the bigger issue.”

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/1979
Coal getting penalized for being unresponsive to demand:

https://www.stanwell.com/our-news/energy-explainer/negative-...

> Negative prices are a signal to either increase demand or reduce supply. Intermittent and fast response energy sources (such as solar, wind, peaking generators) can stop and start in relatively short spaces of time to avoid negative price periods. Coal-fired generators however, incur significant costs stopping and starting and require many hours to restart. This means they continue generating throughout negative pricing periods as it is more cost-efficient to incur the costs of negative pricing than shutting down and then starting up again.

...

> We are working to improve the flexibility of our plant so we can meet consumers’ changing demand needs. Learn more about our flexible plant trials

In California some gas plants installed batteries on site to help them avoid this kind of thing, but there's just too much coal for that to work here. You can see that the battery and pumped hydro try their best to help the coal by increasing their demand but can't quite cover it.

This is also why traditional coal or nuclear baseload is paired with gas or hydro peakers that can adjust faster.
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What do you mean?

California is a blue state which means its flawless and its not run by the same jerks but in another color!

/s
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So many smaller companies I know paying for Slack are doing so because their employees used free versions of Slack in some form or the other so recommended it as the first choice, as opposed to Teams, or other alternatives.

If the employees were agnostic about the choice, it’s highly likely that many of these companies’ IT departments would choose Teams instead, because MS is certainly more company friendly (and its bundles tend to be cheaper).

I think Slack may end up regretting losing these non paying customers, who usually end up being their biggest and only cheerleaders in paying contexts.

The other problem for Slack is this decision makes open source alternatives more popular which means more users of the open source alternatives which would likely lead to more maintainers and developers for those projects, leading to them becoming increasingly competitive with Slack. That would squeeze Slack from all sides, with MS hitting them from the enterprise end and these alternatives from the open source end.

It would be difficult for a company to justify paying Slacks high prices when they have all these options instead.
You don't have to get obsessive with it. I have a keychron k7 and I'm absolutely happy with it, no plans of changing anything. Well, I broke the on/off switch when disassembling because I spilled water over it. I contacted them and got new switches. I soldered on one of them and don't plan to open that thing again anytime soon.
And this is how you print money. I'll be curious to see how much it goes for.
That’s not how marketing works for luxury products (such as fine art), the free/cheap access to see the art is to raise awareness so that they will be impressed by people who actually owns the art.

It increases prestige and pride of ownership for actual buyers.
There's nothing "pop" about it.

On a human scale, a soap bubble may look perfectly spherical.

But it isn't. The closer you look at it, the lumpier it gets.
Are you aware that the tides rise and recede twice a day? Nobody has ever tough a tide would go on for ever, simply by the definition of what a tide is.

But even beside that, the reasons why the ocean has tides are very big indeed. You could try making the argument with a Tsunami, but those also require huge motions of the Earth to happen at any impressive scale.

Finally, the ocean remain big even now!

Honestly I don't get what you were going for, it like an argument version of when sideshow bob is trapped in a field of rakes, every step brings pain.
Even without cheating, online games are not fair
They found water vapor too according to NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/science/space/webb-telesc...
That's not really a rebuttal though. 90% of all UX can be bad, but it's still notable if 99% of OSS UX is bad.

Actually needing to sell your product eventually/get people to use it seems to be a fairly necessary part of ending up with a good UX.
Is there also danger that any flagging system could be abused, with the end of censorship of problematic viewpoints, rather than merely bad science?
I won't be surprised if those in the upper/ruling class considers maintaining a certain level of homelessness and unemployment as appropriate motivation to keep the working class in line.
Only counting slaves traded over the Atlantic is already a cop out.
> This is a recursive definition of scientist "A scientist(t=n) is someone approved by scientists(t=n-1)". If you have a good initial condition maybe it can work for a while, but it seems that time may be coming to an end.

There is no formal definition for a "scientist" and likely will never be. Definitely a scientist is not "one who has a paper accepted".

Here the commenter is just claiming that in order to publish a paper in a specific journal you do need be accepted by a handful of people who have previously been accepted in the same journal. Barring the obvious chicken and egg problem which is easily solved, it does not seem to be like something which "is coming to an end".
What’s wrong with root access to a private cloud VM? Since VMs are private to each user, there are no security concerns with root access. If a dumb user playing amateur sysadmin accidentally borks their VM, they just tear it down and spin up a new one.

On the contrary, sysadmins who give root access to cloud VMs are smart, and know that having root access in safe, controlled environments does wonders for developer productivity. Imagine not having root access to your developer laptop! I have friends who’ve worked at such companies, and they all said it was hell.
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LTT got a TotalPhase cable tester and ran tests on a whole bunch of video cables. Lots of cables from major suppliers like Monoprice failed their tests. Here’s the video for DisplayPort:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn2vdQZhs0w
I'll gladly take possession of his money if he'd like to start fresh with another scrappy startup.
This is like the one valid caps lock use case you hear about. Would having caps lock be somewhere near scroll lock be a bad thing even in your use case? For the vast majority of people and use cases it is a near pointless key in a prime spot. Even worse it USED to be that ctrl and caps lock were swapped on early Apple II, IBM PC keyboards but for some unknown reason IBM decided to swap em.
Here's additional context,

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ethlink-service-about-to-go... ("eth.link service about to go offline because domain owner is in prison")
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the last thing is safe concurrency. this is the greatest achievement of the rust borrower checker imo. the ownership model means data races are detected at compile time, eliminating a huge class of concurrent programming bugs without forcing a message passing architecture. deadlocks are still possible if you have two or more mutexes but that’s a much harder problem
Mastodon technically works pretty well but lacks sufficient marketing and suffers from the network effect.
Yep, it's called "domain drop", it's a pretty lucrative industry to be in. GoDaddy especially knows this and will auction off domains before selling them, where as third parties can try and register the domain every 0.005 seconds. :-)
I felt the same and loved the stock macbook keyboards. Now I have a keychron k7, which is "slim" for mechanical keyboards and that's what I prefer. I still don't like proper mechanical keyboards with full height. Feels weird to me. Whatever floats your boat I guess!
do share!
I'm a "MIDI composer" myself and love to hear what others do :)

obligatory self-promotion, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUmdU7WpuhAv3imtVqkGpIA
Lielow: Playable chess-like game that uses only checkers
Probably, but that's evidence of a free market in operation, craziness happens sometimes but it sorts itself out. There is a massive supply squeeze, these things are to be bound to happen.
I'm guessing Cory Doctorow's spouse knew what she was getting into. For all you know, it might have been her idea to eschew Audible. Plus she sold a company to Disney, so they're probably fine financially. Cory's mortgage reference was probably less reality and more just to illustrate a point.
In my experience, NowPayments.io is at least a year ahead of everyone in the space of crypto payments integrations. They've effectively cloned stripe products to accept crypto and their support is also top tier.
AFAIK, there are even companies that own hundreds of registrars to just do that [1]. Just scroll through [2].

[1]: https://domainnamewire.com/2015/10/09/wow-dropcatch-adds-300...

[2]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids/registrar-ids...
It is a big deal for some of us, author included. And you are being a bit rude by disregarding our opinion like that.