skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That difference in loudness between voice and effects happens often when the stereo material is derived by a badly mixed down 5+1 material. Having control of the 6 channels levels before mixdown may help to eliminate it, otherwise some sort of compression/limiting is necessary.
Many TVs have the option to set the audio output level to automatic, which doesn't mean the volume can't be changed but that around a given volume the dynamics are less extreme so that faint sounds are amplified and loud ones are attenuated.
I’d buy physicals if they would fit my budget but alas not. Recent example: $60 book, published by a US company. With shipping + customs it comes out $130 to Europe. At that point I’d really need that book to justify paying double price just because I live at the wrong place.
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War II-II will be fought with ballerinas and hangovers.” – Albert Einstein
That is definitely the case for devs with 4+ years of experience at major firms and the biggest startups. Especially so if you include all the stock grants.
And critically… never completing an incremental rewrite doesn’t matter. Everything remained working the whole time and continues to make the company money. And as a bonus, you were also able to make feature changes that the business wanted at the same time. It’s classic XP, when the money runs out, the system still works!
Tcl/Tk, MQTT, and Mosquitto: Learning “The Internet of Things” with Tcl/Tk
> there sure are a lot of scenes where nothing happens.

"Look, we spent a lot of money on this filming and you will damn well sit through them!"

(see also Thor: Love and Thunder for another thing that needed a stronger edit but presumably didn't for the same reason.)
Yes but you need semi-competent people to manage it and have actual ops dept.

Then again we got a bunch of racks and our ops dept is 3 people.

We have few dozen different apps running on it, anything from "just a wordpress" to k8s cluster (mostly because our customers want us to deploy app they are paying us to develop on k8s).

So far the only actual value k8s provides is self-service aspect of it. Nothing that is running on it needs anything special to k8s, all of it is just "few app servers + one or few DB services".

Sure, there is value in not bothering ops to install yet another VM and plumb the network for it, but you need pretty big team for that kind of savings to be worth it.

There is also value in having complex app deployment centralized in one manifest that can be run on prod or on dev machine, but you can you know... not overcomplicate your apps massively by making a bunch of microservices for a thing that really should be just well structured single app. Again, not really a benefit for small (let's say below 50) teams, for bigger orgs, sure

> But they will instead recommend that for 600k/year in spend you over-engineer all aspects... I call it CVops instead of DevOps. CV being another word for resume...

It's a mix of bad goals and devs wanting to work on cool stuff. I did mildly overengineer a lot of things but about 8/10 out of them eventually became useful, but that's because I'm in ops so everything we do is long term by default.
I think this is a good point I didn't convey in my hastily-written-in-10-minutes-blog-post-that-I-didn't-expect-to-reach-the-HN-front-page.

I can fall into perfectionism, but I find this a suboptimal mindset for healthy outcomes.

Excellence seems the far better path.

Keeping a high bar still, but not expecting something that's unreasonable.

Continuing to challenge yourself to get better, but not expecting yourself to have achieved something already that's out of your grasp.

For me it's about trajectory and momentum over perfection.
There’s no evidence teaching degrees make people better teachers.

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It's easier to pick a good teacher than to train one: Familiar and new results on the correlates of teacher effectiveness

Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master's degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching effectiveness, regardless of the university at which the degree was earned. Teachers generally do become more effective with a few years of teaching experience, but we also find evidence that teachers may become less effective with experience, particularly later in their careers. These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value-added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001–2002 through 2008–2009.

Research highlights
▶ Majoring in education is not associated with teacher effectiveness. ▶ University attended for college is not associated with teacher effectiveness. ▶ Acquiring a master's degree is not associated with teacher effectiveness. ▶ Teachers become more effective with a few years of teaching experience. ▶ Teachers may become less effective later in their careers.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02727...
> do you hold your pen in the hand parallel to the middle and outer phalanxes

I remember trying to do this as a kid and wasn't able to actually hold the pencil like that. It would flip up out of my hand every other word or so (grip was tight enough towards the tip, but towards the knuckle I couldn't hold it, so the pencil would swivel around the tighter grip).
Right, but that's cheating :-). I like everything better on my large monitors.

But they have zero portability, so to me they were not part of this comparison. If I am learning about a net new topic that I want to really dive into and engross myself and dedicate and get into the zone, I like to sit down on a comfy chair, lie down on the couch, or bench in a park, or best of all bring the book to shady lounge chair in Cuba lol! Kindle, tablet and physical book can do those things, my monitor setup less so :-)
In the hours after the Titanic hit the iceberg, there were passengers who chose not to board life rafts because they simply didn't believe that the ship was sinking.
> The vast majority of the population, they don't even know there are solutions that would change their life.

> I know everything, don't tell me. I'll ask" is exactly the attitude that prevents learning

This feels parental-- a version of mommy knows best. Why not let me, by default, decide if I want personalized advertisements? What if I want to be ignorant in regards to the new fad product? What if I don't want companies to mine my interests, location, prior searches, etc just to tell me that coursera exists? Advertisers are afraid of using an opt-in model because they know most people won't do it.
I personally use KDE Connect ([1]) on Linux; I use GNOME on my computers but luckily there's also a shell extension that's compatible with the protocol which integrates nicely with my desktop [2]. There's also a Windows binary available [3] that supports most features I believe.

This tool allows for file sharing/browsing over LAN/WiFi as well as sharing notifications (including quick responses), remote keyboard support, integration with SMS messaging, and all other kinds of cool stuff. For example, KDE Connect also pops up a media player control window notification on your phone if you start playing a video in your browser, which is super useful because now my smart watch can pause my browser. Everything is end-to-end encrypted through (basically) standard SSH so you're not relying on cloud stuff to make it work.

Android has nerfed keyboard sync (no background access to the clipboard without rooting your phone unless you're Google or the manufacturer) but there are other benefits as well. I rooted my phone just to get this feature back and I've got to say that copy/pasting my TOTP codes makes 2FA so much easier to deal with.

Apple devices aren't as well-supported yet as the restrictive app store policies and lack of developers were a problem for the KDE folks for a while. The iOS version has recently picked up some speed and I see there's a macOS version as well now, so if you're on those platforms you could give it a go and see what happens.

[1]: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

[2]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

[2]: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/kde-connect/9N93MRMS...
There is almost no information about that product on the website.
You Might Not Need the Virtual DOM (2018)
Since Apple, Microsoft and Amazon revenue mostly comes from non ad sources, a price war would weaken AlphaMeta relatively.
On the other hand, teaching is an innate human capability, and a big part of what makes us humans. An education degree is an extremely recent phenomenon.

Clearly, some teachers are better at it than others. But if anyone did a study and found that Masters in Ed teachers did a better job than Bachelors in Ed teachers, I'd be genuinely surprised.
You have to re-weight by the value of the housing.
> x11 was designed around assumptions that are no longer correct

Nothing could be further from the truth. If you use Xrender properly you can make very sophisticated drawing operations that are extremely efficient over the wire and that are GPU accelerated even when the process does not run on the local machine.

It is Gtk and Qt that for wahtever reason decided to ditch their Xrender backends.

> multiple round-trips

This is also a problem introduced by badly designed tool-kits like Gtk and Qt. It is trivial to design tool-kits in X11 that require no round-trips.

> It just seems completely pointless to even bother with something x11's network transparency

This is mostly true because desktop software on Linux is mostly written by highly incompetent developers that produced abominations like Gtk3+.
Mostly reading a lot of blog posts and whichever e-material was available. Also read a lot of code.

So on the scale for the original question, ebook over regular books. I used to use physical books in the past, but with the broad availability of material on the web, my need for them dropped dramatically.
Yeah! That's what I meant when I said arenas solve a different problem! I don't think I mentioned using unique_ptr with the arena and I didn't mean to suggest that if I did. My point was that arenas are not a replacement for unique_ptr at all, and instead solve a different problem where allocations don't have a simple and deterministic lifetime.

With an arena ideally you can just pass out actual references (T&) to callers instead of pointers!
He has nothing to do with Von Neumann, a sophisticated intelllectual and the last polymath who was all about vanity and avoiding physical work.
We have pretty good documentation on the performance of currencies over the past 500-2000 years. It is usually of historical note when an entire nation's economy collapses as a result of hyperinflation.
Everyone here likely works for a company that advertises.

It might be in our individual best interest to have super effective advertising (for increased revenue), but it might be in the world’s interest to not allow that, because effective advertising leads to consumption… (and for privacy reasons,etc.)
Quite literally. I assume you never got a snowball in you eyes?
Mind elaborating what’s your general business and which ad platforms worked for you?

I have a broad-market/horizontal smb Saas and tried google ads to not much success. Was getting charged ~$3/click for quite irrelevant searches even after lots of negative filtering. Suppose I could’ve tried some more…
A LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Helps You Get That Job
I just don't bother with all of that, since it has been years without any improvement and with confusion of alternatives of alternative system components that are not working together and decide to fight against the OS as you have already explained this inconsistency.

At that point, I just use macOS to just get work done without fiddling or googling cryptic errors for just using the trackpad or hunting down and googling why either GNOME, Wayland, LightDM, Dbus and LibInput and the video driver(s) decided to have a fight and crash the desktop.
https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources/blob/mai...

For being "quite obscure", I've at least heard of most of these sites before. Banks with "maxlength: 8", you love to see it.
Once you're passing pointers around, you have to manually track lifetimes of things they point to.
Just 6 days ago they merged a custom condvar implementation based on futex directly to workaround the glibc bug. Before that it was just pthread_cond_wait
> that means fundamentalist indoctrination, no math, no history, near illiteracy,

it looks like it was the same here. He essentially practiced the life of a middle age peasant. I guess many had their farm going by the age of 12 ... and probably didn't have some weird capitalistic, and nationalist inspiration porn ideologist in the background (because writing a pseudonymous book and then dying to young sounds like that... also the wondrous mentors...)

see for example:
https://greatbasingreen.com/about-us-2/ (who is we? - would anyone write like that about themselves with those achievements )
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Tell-Cant-Ambitious-Homeschooler...
That is not in fact how I'd sum up my thoughts. "Enforcing a culture of accountability" is valuable, but neither necessary nor sufficient for safety depending on context. Food safety's an obvious example there. People still get sick from food. And plenty of restaurants and manufacturers would never cause illness if government oversight were to vanish.
I agree, but that doesn't make it any less valuable of a metric. Nvidia cards are extremely widespread, reporting the performance on Nvidia hardware does a good job of representing what a lot of people will experience.

Furthermore, Nvidia made inroads for Wayland support years ago, GNOME just refused to adopt it. Nvidia's terms were always that Wayland implimentations could adopt EGLstreams whenever they wanted, and that GBM would not be considered an acceptable alternative until it was faster. Their so-called hostility towards the Linux desktop mostly amounts to not contributing to GNOME and making their drivers proprietary for so long. In that sense, they're about as evil as webkit contributors who don't fix x86-linux bugs.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00308
Qt didn't ditch it. I use it all the time. If you have Debian it's compiled-in by default - just set QT_XCB_NATIVE_PAINTING=1
Well, to understand tax law, you need to understand language quite well (see another post these days on the frontpage...) - which usually comes with some skills in applying it. It smells a bit fishy, if you claim a person can do the first, but not the latter.
I have had the opposite experience. I have tried many different ad networks for my product and the only two that work are Google and Bing, but Bing has very low volume. Facebook's bounce rate is about 80%. I get billed for so many accidental clicks.

Most other non-faang ad networks are hot garbage. So many bots. In my view, Google has a "monopoly" not because of anti-competitive behaviour... It's because they have the best ad product.
> 100 billion you spend on something is a 100 billion you can't spend on something else. It's the basic definition of opportunity cost.

I agree on principle, except it doesn't matter because that logic is respected at all by modern international monetary policy.

> The promise of nuclear was unlimited energy for almost free.

I'm not sure who was suggesting that, but it was always wrong.

> The last bastion is can we run a grid on 100% renewables

According to?

> renewables have been dismissed for 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% of total grid and the critics were proven wrong every time

No and no. Renewables have their place but they have not proven to be able to support the grid on their own the way that deposit forms of energy do. This is entirely self evident. No one would be advocating for nuclear if solar and wind were a viable alternative to fossil fuel. Solar technology has been around for over half a century and its efficiency pales in contrast to internal combustion. Even the Stirling engine is more efficient (but was abandoned because its use in solar poses a danger to birds). They have to be able to make a profit, and they can't do that without having society as a group pay for them through policy.
This is the first time I hear about Ada package manager. You can always download GNAT, an Ada fronted for GCC, and start coding in terminal and a text editor. You don't need package manager and all of the other stuff.
Oh yeah, that's exactly my point.

IMO, The vulnerability from most vulnerable to least goes:

Facebook > Google >> Apple ~> Microsoft = Amazon
Thanks! Very kind.
Their posts end up on HN and make the signal-to-noise ratio worse.
> Do you imagine this in your language's communities?

Absolutely! C# introduced "var" back in 2008, and to this day there are people arguing that you shouldn't use it except when it's outright impossible to spell out the type.

From what I hear, it's the same story with "var" in Java 10.
The sense in which the Lisp code (list 'lambda (list 'x) x) evaluates to the data representation of (lambda (x) x) is exactly the same as the sense in which the lambda calculus code λa. λb. λc. c (λx. λa. λb. λc. a x) evaluates to the data representation of λx. x.

What makes Lisp special is that this particular correspondence is made visible to the programmer via quote and other macros. Again, very cool, but not fundamental to this particular discussion.
The feature never even worked on mine, every time I tried to use it Chrome complained its version was too old or something similarly stupid excuse why it wouldnt work.
The number one problem with this language is that everything is inlined because they don't have the concept of macros or variables. They have some variables but they are all ad-hoc designed into the language. For instance: ad-valorem means something but it's all from history. Adding a new term is a huge effort in this language.

Secondarily, they don't have a concept of macros except in a very ad-hoc sense. This means that they are afraid of macro use because they do not know the concepts of macro hygiene.

This is likely due to intentional creating a moat around the industry.

tl;dr Legalese is impenetrable because it uses the equivalent of Forth but POSIWID
Former chemist, now software (security) person - yep, this tracks. Overlooks a few things, but is pretty much on point.

The other thing is that I feel studying chemistry directly made me a better programmer - a lot of the skills are transferable.
Thanks! Yeah, I think that's my best bet sponsorship-wise. I don't think it's big enough yet, though. I've reached out to a few youtubers and podcasters, but haven't heard back from any of them. Oddly, I also reached out to some about advertising on their channels, and I didn't hear back about that either. I'll keep trying!
It's not a movie, it's a TV show that will have a run time of ~40 hours.

The scenes where no story development happen also serve a purpose: allowing the viewer to not be drowned in over-information.

The show is easy to follow because of that reason, even for someone who hasn't watched anything LOTR related before.

All the comments about the development being too slow or some scenes being just for spectacle are nonsensical. The ones mentioning the budget as if it had been allocated to the first 4 episodes are even worse.
Yes he does, pretty directly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbJpP_6pOww
I don't know whether you used Remote X, but I used it in a project, and it's extremely inefficient, esp. in thin client applications, and if you try to carry anything like a video, a 100mbps connection could easily be saturated by one pair of X server and client. In other words, it doesn't work in any way unless you have a gigabit LAN.

NoMachine developed a couple of libraries called NX back in the day, which transferred images and image deltas over with high compression. We used this instead via in the same project (with X2Go), and I reimplemented the same stack to my university where 20 something users connected remotely to a single "terminal" server to do remote research, and it worked like a charm.

While I like Remote X, it's still very inefficient even today. So, unless it's made extremely efficient over normal internet, over residential connections, it won't be missed.

Moreover, the rarity of projects using Remote X, or abstracting it with libraries like NoMachine kinda validates the idea is the feature is considered a novelty and not used much.

While I like the feature, I have feeling that it won't be missed or sought after much.

On the other hand what killed X is its code state, rather than the complex architecture. It's haphazard development over the years which made the code unmaintainable.

Addendum: Remote X made sense back in the day. Carrying minimal data, mostly terminal windows between terminals and central mainframe/time sharing system, over relatively short distances. I guess it's never designed and considered for long distances like today's internet, hence it's left to the wayside.
streaming the entire desktop is an absolutely horrendous experience when compared to just ssh -X and running the app I want
What is their pitch? The landing page only mentions Yet Another Blockchain and a programming language I've never heard of before.
USDA approves genetically-modified purple tomatoes
Just want to say THANK YOU for this insight. It never occurred to me, and I just checked out one of the big sites that I scrape for a side project and, lo and behold, you are 100% correct. Found their origin in Censys in about 30 seconds and I've never been able to crunch through their pages more easily.

To others out there who explore this: As with all scraping, be gentle! If you start pounding on someone's origin server directly, you're much more likely to be noticed than if you're pounding on something behind a CloudFlare cache. Set rate limits, scrape during off-peak hours, etc. Be a good scraping citizen.
Because it depends on your online tool, Midjourney for example adds things to your prompts to make sure your images are better, OpenAI adds things to your prompts too.

SD is much more raw.
It might be easy to maintain to you. Somebody who has to pick up that codebase later would have to spend time and effort figuring out all those custom smart pointers and their idiosyncrasies. If all they do in the end is the same as unique_ptr & shared_ptr, it's all wasted time.