skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost sounds like a form of Stockholm syndrome… the audience is their captor.
> Sure, it's not copyright infringement

Which was precisely what the discussion was about.

> But you could argue that this takes away from the hardship the original artist had to go through to perfect their style

You could argue the same things about photoshop, a lot of other digital tools, drum machines, the photograph and the phonograph.
Myths and exaggerations about technology addiction (2020)
I think a fantastic follow-up to The Selfish Gene is Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds:

https://www.amazon.com/Bacteria-Bach-Back-Evolution-Minds/dp...

The author (a philosopher informed by scientific theories, writing on the subject for many decades) weaves together the grand story explaining biological evolution, evolution of minds, evolution of culture, and more (explaining how memes are a very useful concept to understand the tremendous non-biological changes over the course of the history of life).
Ah, I was just joking around my username!
But...they were made naked, as most artists depict them. Why did you decide not to make them so?
Thank you, once again! Really means a lot.
Check server auctions. You can buy out someone else's lease. Pricing and availability depends on supply and demand.

I used to pay $45 for the same specs, until I found this offer and migrated.
I'm not into mathematics or algorithms and the like at all, but if someone explains things like PageRank in layman's terms, I'm like, "yeah I get that". That's been the recurring theme with me and mathematics, if it's just the theory, language and formulas I'm like "what?", but give me a practical example / use case, a way to visualize it, and I get it. I struggled with linear algebra in school - I don't even know why it's called that, and I can't explain it in proper terms - but if it would be called "the math of video games" then it instantly becomes a lot more accessible and visualizable (to me).

Anyway. I think I've intuited plenty of CS algorithms in my career, but don't ask me to explain the theory.
Mastery - Robert Greene (2012).

At the point in my life where I read this book, I was a recent ComSci grad, I had already started working and it was clear to me that I needed some framework to understand where I was going. Not just in terms of software, but in general, I needed some north star as far as a process and an ideal to achieve were concerned.

Reading this book gave me exactly that. A clear, understandable framework that explained the progression from understanding how to do something, to being good at doing something, to being a master. While it didn't give me a step by step guide, the lessons in this book gave me ideals by which to work out my own trajectory, whether or not I felt at any given point as though the efforts I was putting in were guiding me towards mastery, but more so than anything, this book gave me patience. I read somewhere that (maybe just in my country, I can't remember) once you've been a software developer for 5 years, you have crossed over the median age of experience in the industry. As a younger engineer, I was impatient, in a rush to do Interesting Work™ and had no appreciation for how whatever I was doing at the current moment was perhaps exactly what I needed to do to get to what was important, which is mastery. That is to say, getting past the point of good to the point of exemplary, not just being a consumer or repeater of skills but a creator of them. I read this book in Year 1 of my software career, I am now in year 5 and I know that because of this book, years 10, 15 and 20 will bring more reward and more joy in deepening skill.
They will never surpass the most excellent Indian production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8OJB5qLZ6o
People hear horror stories about Paypal, but it is still massive. I stopped living in fear of everything and decided to adopt stuff that does the job. HN loves to be an echo chamber, especially hating on things. If you only listen to the loud voices, you will end up missing out on things that are actually quite good.

I've used GCP / AppEngine for about a decade now. Built one biz that did $80m gross in its first year. Never even a small threat of being shut down. Recently had a billing issue with GCP and after explaining the problem, they credited me far more than I was even asking for.

I currently have 20k+ servers hitting Cloud Functions (golang) and Cloud SQL 24/7, which is a constant 50 requests/sec... costing me about $100 a month total. It was easy to set up, documentation is well written with clear examples, deployments are all through CI on Github. It just works.

Sorry, but I'm a fan.

To answer your question... https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/creating-http-target-tas...
You are insulted very easily over extremely small things.

Do you get insulted over the fact that food producers have been decreasing the size of their food servings while keeping the same price? For example, a “pint” of ice cream is no longer a pint, it’s 14 oz. And the size of OJ had been decreasing Constantly but the price stays the same.

Here you are actually suffering a loss. You are being deceived into believing you are getting the same but you’re not. Are you upset and insulted about this?

With Google all you’re not getting are the results you wouldn’t have used anyway. You don’t actually suffer a loss. And yet, this is what you’re insulted over?
The single frequency situation isn't all that bad though since there are a dozen satellites in view and tracked even in urban outdoor environments.
We have a small ETL process (no other ETL in the apps stack so adding something else was silly) that runs on cloud run. It gets a http request to start, puts a lock,status record in the database, forks a worker and returns the id to the http client. The work runs for 10-30 minutes to finish the work and exits and then cloud run shuts us down till the next request.

Like I said we did it this way to avoid adding a proper queue and worker pool to this app so not recommended for heavy traffic but it works
China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Has Reportedly Entered iPhone's Supply Chain
And in comes some coolness. Well played.

p.s. There are a couple of Greenhouse groups on FB. If you do FB they're worth looking for. I get struck by jealousy and envy at least once per week.
Marshmallow (23) is an odd version to support. Most legacy device apps go back to at least Lollipop (21). Compose UI and some other stuff requires API 21. Any reason for Marshmallow?
Really weird that we're reviewing a movie on a tech platform. Also, your comment suggests a need for western validation which I think is not needed for Asian cinema. I just enjoy Chinese and Korean cinema for the way they are. I searched for this film and seems its loved a lot by westerners too. Sorry if I misunderstood you buddy!
Yes, it's very often recommended. It's surprisingly entertaining for a technical book.
Show HN: Monetize and sell your internet traffic
While I agree-ish, I can list a litany of people deplatformed. All of them are on the right. It could just be only the left has power at the moment.

A common question is why the Ayatollah is on Twitter (and I think Facebook) calling for death, but Alex Jones isn’t allowed to question events.

We can argue both are reprehensible, but only one is banned.

Beyond that I haven’t seen anyone on the right truly call for limitation of speech. I’ve only seen them get upset when something is particularly targeting them (say the push for LGBT in elementary schools)
I hope you're in charge of maintaining the list of vulnerable groups. Expect death threats, whether or not they're legal.
It's an article about how Oberlin was refusing to pay a defamation award --- which it was not, it was simply exhausting its appeals --- which was followed almost immediately by Oberlin paying the defamation award.
I have built a proprietary Swing desktop app that we use inside the tugboat company I run that does this. The wrinkle is that instances of this app are only intermittently connected to the Internet and our central instance of PostgreSQL. The Swing app uses a local SQLite instance and synchronizes it in the background when a connection is available. The users never experience any latency.

Careful schema design to support synchronization without collisions is the only real difference between this kind of app and CRUD apps that expect to always be able to reach the Internet.
IIRC you can join AARP at any age. So it’s worth looking into joining and getting a discount even if you’re not a senior.
Yeah I think it comes down to preference. I have an iPad as well and a windows tablet. Both were more than sufficient for note-taking but often times I would forget to plug them in or something and suddenly I had a dead notebook. Plus I almost never used the features that made these worth 1200+ dollars. Seemed like money I just lit on fire for a note taking tablet to be honest. The android tablets were also considered but I degoogled years ago and won't go back.

eInk leaves a lot to be desired still but the input latency on the supernote seems comparable to the iPad. I think the tactile experience is superior and for me that sacrifice was worth it. I can go a few weeks without charging my supernote and my iPad requires a charge at least once every couple days. The supernote also seems better set up for bullet Journaling and what not. It definitely is exactly as offered - a notebook replacement. Nothing more and nothing less. I find that charming.
Yep, I've had this as my first bookmark on my toolbar for years:

> javascript:(function(){$('.js-search-input').val('!g '+$('.js-search-input').val());$('.js-search-form').submit();})()
If that’s your problem, you can watch the ending and then rewatch the whole film.
Some companies do support open source projects, though that has no relevance here. We're talking about large companies that generate a profit on the back of open source projects, and refuse to support those projects.
My slightly mad quest for the perfect spoon
Reminder that you'd need either equivalent backing storage and overprovisioning (not yet feasible except in the rare cases where pumped hydro can be built) or backing fossil fuel plants for each unit of wind, even more so than solar. The LCOEs are not directly compatible.

Dependability has value to society and LCOE does not account for it whatsoever.
Which laws have passed that restrict speech?
I think about presentations in terms of emotional hooks. For a short (30-second) demo:

1. Start with a provocative and almost hyperbolic (true) statement, and then don't answer it... leave the viewer hanging. Example: "Everyone knows Lambda is a black box and impossible to debug. No inspector API! Everyone is wrong. WE can make Lambda dance. Watch this magic." --> This crappy intro which I pulled out of thin air sets a particular tone: very casual, a little cocky. That might or might not be the way you want to brand your product. But the point is that it grabs your attention and leaves the viewer saying "Whaaaaa????". And then they keep watching, and the emotional part of the brain is engaged so they're fully engaged.

2. Quick demo. Keep it punchy. For a 30-second demo, this could be all of 10 seconds: click, click, click, and we're done. Skip over anything remotely irrelevant. You can cover that later in a detailed walkthrough.

3. Recap: [Product] does [value] even when [obstacle]. Our [technology] makes it possible to [restate value in different words].

4. Logo.

For a longer demo, you'll want to stretch things out more. Tell a story perhaps, maybe go into more detail. But as always, consider your audience and the emotional beats. You'll want to start with a hook (a provocative unanswered question or declaration), then proceed through the demo which answers the question, then restate what you just said.

A subtle nuance here: never ask the viewer to imagine themselves in a situation, just go with the solution. So not "Have you ever found yourself [problem statement]", but instead start immediately with "[Solution to impossible problem]". If you ask the viewer to imagine themself having a problem, their brain will still be working on the imagining (which is hard work!) and they'll miss the solution. If you jump strait to the solution, anyone who's had that problem will immediately place themself in the situation and go "wait how is that even possible?!?". Don't make someone's brain work harder than it has to.

Lastly: remember that delivery matters. You should be providing energy. If you're talking in a monotone nobody cares. Repetition matters here... if I'm recording a talk I might rehearse it word for word 10-20 times before landing on a delivery that I think is good enough. Keep polishing your word choice, pacing, etc. All those casual, easy voice-overs you've seen are smooth because of practice not because of some un-learnable raw talent.
I think this is the reality for the majority of software developers, although it's not to be underestimated because it's not just a one-off button, it ends up being dozens, hundreds of "simple" things like that. Keeping all of them up to date and consistent is where the challenge is in that regard, and not many people manage - in my experience, a lot of systems as you describe them are rewritten every 5-10 years.
Or Cloud Run Jobs https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/create-jobs
Or from exploitation by people with more nimble minds.
Hey I just wanted to respond to this comment real quick. This platform fee covers the cost of payment processing and helps pay for the server infrastructure. AppCenter in itself is not a profitable venture at this time and it struggles to break even. Reducing this fee would guarantee that it runs at a loss, which might be feasible to consider in the future but for right now there’s not such a wide margin in the budget to run services that lose money
That last bit is a software issue. Apple maps is constantly trying to route me to a parallel street for 1 block in a city and it actually thinks I listen to it. Google maps doesn't have either of these behaviors on the same hardware/APIs.

No, a more accurate GPS will not fix Apple's bugs.
On an Android device, Slide allows you to add subreddits without logging in. I follow several subreddits but have no account. I don't see any ads.

Go to the hamburger menu > settings > manage your subreddits.

Another mobile option is i.reddit.com.
> 10% of annual revenue is not 10% of annual burn.

Not in general. But if the company is “barely profitable” then revenue is approximately equal to cost, and thus 10% of annual revenue is approximately equal to 10% of annual “burn”.
I was referring to “asshole”.
I don’t think anyone needs protection from perception (unless clinical). I do think, however, that as a society we’re doing a terrible job of distinguishing relativism (personal perception) from reality (universal axioms).

The idea that someone has their “own truth” separate from the rest of the universe is one of the most absurd ideas in pop culture, imho. That a large portion of the population considers their perception universal reality makes it difficult to progress culturally.

Determining and disseminating truth is not straight forward but abdicating to relativism feels like devolving to the Middle Ages.
Compiler theory is a wide topic, here the focus is on static analysis, while the Dragon Book is more wide-spectrum.

However, I can tell you that this book is so much better than the Muchnick (Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation). The way data-flow analysis is explained in Muchnick sucks, while in POPA it's vertical but once you get over it, everything clicks and you are able to design new analyses in a sound way.
> all publicly traded companies should not be allowed to censor speech as they are essentially "owned" by share holders, not the management team.

Insightful.

So worker-coops should be able to then, as they are (in theory; so lets assume they are) properly self-owned?
>>There will always be some blurry / ambiguous photos. The fact that no sharp pictures show alien spacecraft means that blurriness is the phenomenon.

>It's not just blurry photos. There are also military pilot sightings corroborated with radar and FLIR

Can you link to specific incidents? All the ones I'm aware of are all pretty blurry/ambiguous. That makes sense, considering that if there was a high quality photo of an alien aircraft, it would be a settled matter and we won't have to speculate on an internet forum about whether they exist or not.
Any foam earplugs with rating above 30dB will give you a bit of peace.

For normal life when you want to hear things around you but less annoying get Etymotic ER20 musicians earplugs.

If you want in-ear-monitors get Etymotic ER2SE or ER2XR. With Comply p100 eartips they will give you 35dB noise reduction easily and you can enjoy glorious sound quality.

Comply p100 are also compatible with ER20 earplugs so these can be made more comfortable.

Hang in there, there are solutions, you are not alone in this.
The issue is that when we abandon the general principle it immediately becomes a question of what speech is ok to ban and this can be weaponized by rivals.

People always imagine themselves or people they agree with in the position of determining what gets banned, but they should imagine their political rival or enemy in that position.

The free speech principle is about setting the bar such that everyone agrees on the right for everyone else despite that meaning it will protect speech nearly everyone agrees is terrible.

It draws a real distinction between speech and actual violence and it’s an important one. The people in positions of power to limit speech are often wrong.

Forcing private companies to not moderate though is different - that is itself a violation of the company’s speech. I think policy like cloudflare’s approach where they try to make distinctions between application level and infra level tools is generally better than capricious enforcement. Still, this issue is a real one and a result of the local max we’re trapped in because of incentives that lead to our centralized tech stack. We need better tools.
iOS actually does have a separate "internet access" permission for apps, but it's only available for devices sold in China.
There is such a thing like criminal libel. The bar is high and hard to prove. Civil procedure is technically a form of prosecution. The main goal of the students was a financial damage to the bakery. In fact, students action led actions by the college.
I use docker containers with separate dedicated users with just enough permissions for their purpose.
For example my media server user can't touch anything other than the media files and isn't part of sudo.
Is that a lot? Smartphones were in their infancy until very recently. I think 2GB is entirely reasonable, especially because the Android ecosystem doesn't require the latest OS version to be a commercially viable and usable phone.

Windows 98 required 16MB of RAM, Windows XP required 4x more (64MB) and it was released just 3 years later.

I can see some Android phones with 2GB of RAM that cost under $100.
This has serious “old man yells at cloud” energy.
All recent ones.
Humans like me (and a couple other billion on YouTube) enjoy watching another human explaining stuff to them.

If plain text is your thing then that's good as well, to each its own.
Shoving stuff in a 401k, IRA, SEP-IRA, etc and leaving it. As opposed to a traditional brokerage account where capital gains are charged yearly. I called it that so I didn't have to list out all the different vehicles :).
No. We are using a 3rd party developer, too. But I'm interested in eventually becoming a developer/consultant for the product. I already do python programming at my current job, too.
There is no such thing as a "climate refugee," nor is anyone fleeing to Canada.
Are there countries where there is another main competitor? iOS is at like 30% global market share isn’t it (a bit higher in North America, uk, and some Asian countries like japan, lower elsewhere)

I’m not aware of anywhere having a larger competitor to android though.
Because not everyone has the hand-eye coordination and/or motor skills to keep track of an arbitrarily changing scroll bar, particularly the elderly and the disabled.

An accurate and consistent scroll bar is a valuable navigation tool, please don't break it.
I have some speech I’d like you as a private citizen to platform for me. If you are disinclined to do so, are you censoring me?
Responses like these are why we are where we are.

Enjoy the ride.
Physically Based Rendering (vol.3) Pharr, Jakob, Humphreys.

Because it covers most, if not all, the maths required to do PBR right. If you are interested in graphics, this book MUST be on your shelf.
>I mean there is no art there. There is art, there is angst, in OG punk songs, and the music helps. There is no art in Bukowski's poems.

To quote art critic J. Lebowski, that is, like, your opinion, man.

Both laymen and a number of literature figures and literary critics have appraised Bukowski's work.

So there's that, it's not like it's some guilty pleasure or something only undiscerning crude fans appreciate...

>At least punk songs have some kind of emotional resonance, or at the very least a good hook, you know?

There's all kinds of emotional resonance in Bukowski's work. And I'm not great fan of him either, in fact don't even have a single book (while I have of tons of others poets of the era).

Just a random pick:

the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh

>I guess what I'm saying is that every Bukowski poem I've read reads like one I wrote in seventh grade.

Then you either overestimate your sevent grade poems, or you wrote great poems in sevent grade and should have done something with them...

But, I think the more plausible idea, is that you have a different sensibility and find them beneath you, but more from a moral and/or formulaic judgement and a prejudice about how a proper poem should be...

To make an easy analogy, that could be the same way a "rawk" fan can't understand electronic music, and thinks it's all rubbish, even it's Aphex Twin and not Skrillex.
> Hard to pick one as nothing has shined recently. I’d give “Zindagi Na milega dubara” / “Chak dhe” a look.

+1 for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - one of my all time favorites. For a more recent Bollywood film, Kapoor and Sons is pretty good.
The Better RuboCop World to Enjoy Ruby
What you describe is people exercising their free speech.
Hi, I am interested in the position. Could you send me your mail id?
>a big semi full of salt

Let's have the semi jump off the end of an unfinished highway overpass and do a barrel roll. While the truck is slo-mo flying through the air we'll cut to a ground shot of a middle-aged dad about to salt some meat on the grill, but the barrel-rolling truck overhead spills just the perfect amount of salt on his burgers so he just looks up and shrugs. Finally we'll cut back to the massive explosion as the truck hits the ground.
As your renewables approach “free” (sub 2 cents/kWh), the marginal cost is storage, and is still competitive against fossil and nuclear (per page 122 of NextEra’s most recent investor deck). Near firm is industry parlance for battery backed.

Tangentially, the Australian gov is pulling forward 10 years their coal generator retirements (2037->2027) due to how quickly new utility scale renewables are going live.

https://cleantechnica.com/files/2022/06/lcoe-small.jpg?mrf-s...
If you stop talking because someone else has a better argument, that means you lose the debate, not that you are being censored.
The film certainly took the level of art and craft in Indian cinema several notches up. Pleasantly surprised that some of the visual effects used the Blender pipeline. Very cool.
I miss sandstorm.