skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally blame good video/audio editors working on interviews, as well as "staged" interviews where the interviewee gets time to review questions and form answers before the cameras start rolling. Either way they make it seem like everyone has the answer right at hand by removing pauses for thought and stammers, which means future interviewees are compelled to give an answer straight away since they believe smart people are certainly capable of having wise answers on hand.
This case was notable: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-york/nyedce/2:2013cv06...
I don't care either way. If an AI can do your programmer job, it means you aren't using your brain enough.

An AI can probably do half of my day job because it's stupidly repetitive. Leadership imposes old ways, and they dismiss anything "new" (i.e. newer than 2005). For example, writing all these high-level data pipelines and even web backends in C++ despite having no special performance need for it. Even though I'm not literally copy-pasting code, I'm copy-pasting something in my mind only a little higher-level than that, then relying on some procedural and muscle memory to pump it out. It's a skill that anyone can learn, just takes time. If I didn't have side projects, I'd forget what it's like to think about my code.

Some old-school programmers complain about kids with high-level languages doing their job more efficiently, so they work on lower-level stuff instead. It's been that way for decades. Now AI is knocking on that door. But before AI, C was the high-level thing, and we got compiler optimizations obviating much of the need for asm expertise, undoubtedly pissing off some who really invested in that skillset. If I'm working on something needing the performance guarantees of C or Asm, and the computer can assist me, I'm all for it. Please take this repetitive job so I can use my brain instead.

And the copyright thing is just an excuse. Programmers usually don't give a darn about copyright other than being legally obligated to comply with it. So much of programming is copy-paste. GPL had its day, and it makes less and less sense as services take over. GPL locks small-time devs out of including the code in a for-profit project but does nothing to stop big corps from using it in a SaaS. The biggest irony is how Microsoft not only uses GPL'd code for profit but also ships WSL, all legally.
Don't know if it's the first such implementation, but perl's DBD::CSV is 25 years old this year.
> It's one model and in a non-strategic area where there are existing open source projects (Kaldi, DeepSpeech, ...).

I can already tell this is much better than any of the existing open source projects with the exception of the wav2* sequence of projects and potentially nvidia's nemo.
How can that be if companies don't get a good ROI from online advertising? So that means you need to get Google Adwords in order not to waste practically all your ad spend?
Yes. Powell is on record saying he wants the public to save and not trade on the market. He wants bonds to go up. He wants salaries to stop going up. If everyone is flush in assets from having cash to spend it fucks up the game for establishment elites.

He’s keeping the public out of the way of elites. Banks are raising savings account rates to keep cash stashed. VCs are scaling back. Prices on say, homes will crash, rates will be too high for average people, elites build property management portfolios and expand their rent seeking.

The recent era of spread the wealth has been put on pause while the asset class shores up public agency that was getting away from it by creating too many elites. If everyone is an elite the current elites have no power. That’s the simple game they’re playing, leveraging technical indirection to obfuscate.
Are you talking about "Metamates"—if so I said that ironically. I don't think I've ever heard anyone outside of the execs use that term when they weren't being sarcastic.
> In contrast the wealthy are hit enormously by inflation as they start losing in real terms.

Umm, the poor are hit far harder by inflation than the rich. And it hits everyone in a way unemployment does not, that's why its far more important to fight inflation.

Ask your self this question. If inflation keeps going and interest rates go up to 10%. Who will buy the houses that come available on the market that people can no longer afford?

The rich or the poor?

And who will be the main sellers of those homes?

The rich or the poor?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2022/03/18...

https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/comment/does-inflation-...

https://goldcountrymedia.com/news/135064/how-inflation-makes....
More importantly, how was the ice cream you made? Apparently liquid nitrogen ice cream makes smaller crystals or something and tastes better? That could be the sequel…
NIRCAM has a resolution of 0.031 arcsec per pixel, and Uranus is between 4.1 and 3.3 arcseconds wide as viewed from Earth, so it would only ever be between 132 and 106 pixels wide.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-camera https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/uranusfact.h...

If you want a higher resolution image, we'll either need a bigger telescope or a Uranus orbiter.
Ask HN: Why can’t I ‘unfollow’ a Slack message before a thread is created?
When someone uses an @here or @channel in a slack message and said message does not pertain to me I would like to be able to “unfollow” that message before the inevitable thread is created off of it. Why doesn’t slack allow for this? I’m assuming it’s because of the fact that messages are not threads until someone responds to a message in a thread and one can only “unfollow” (Turn off notifications for replies) threads. I’ve brought this up with other folks in my org and they’ve echoed my desire for this feature. Can any Slack employees here provide insight?
As noted in the article, they announced that the loan was liquidated at a date where the difference in BTC price between when the loan was emitted and the loan was liquidated was greated than the overcollateralization ratio.

It's a fairly easily checkable lie.
Can you think of any possible reason I would do this on a basically new account, labeled throwaway, basically making it worthless as a long term account anyway?

Furthermore, I said early on I was top 1% in the country (for my brand atleast, which already only hires 'better' and experienced salespeople) and later narrowed it down to the most accurate at 0.3%.

But let's say I'm lying.. for fun I suppose? Doesn't everything I wrote apply to someone that actually IS top 1% in car sales? Even if I didn't sell 30 cars a month for 10 years, surely you don't deny someone does that? And even if you'd argue that "no, no one can sell 30 cars a month for years!!"... Doesn't the entire point of my original message still stand.. even a salesperson that is just average will still make tens of thousands of calls, practice thousands of closes, see how thousands of people act as they try to negotiate or stall...

Are you implying top sales people don't exist, or that one wouldn't be on hacker News, or that I was simply not one because of the way I write things?

Ps, if you check my post history, you'll see I went to Cal as an ME, and recently self taught and wrote an entire Saas in shitty php that 30+ companies pay for happily. Unless that is ALSO made up, doesn't that sound exactly like the type of person that would probably outperform the average car sales person?
It might require too much work for what you are looking for, but the wav2letter library is the best real-time transcription OSS I have found by a considerable margin.
Yeah I definitely agree we have a serious lack of accountability in policing.
Microsoft Learn Expands, Replaces Microsoft Docs
I would say that that statement is a tautology of any new language and was true also of C and C++ when they were respectively introduced.
Good question. Right now, LiteFS operates with async replication so its possible to have a transaction written to the primary get lost if the primary fails before it's replicated out. For that short window, you could read a transaction that no longer exists. From that standpoint, I believe it would technically be Read Uncommitted.

However, during normal operation it'll function more like Snapshot Isolation. LiteFS does provide a transaction ID so requests could wait for a replica to catch up before issuing a transaction to get something closer to Serializable.
True, though for me, control over placement of memory buffers and low-level scheduling is way more important than C++ lambdas and getting to write kernels in the host language. Those benefits are certainly not great enough to throw the whole eco-system out and start over. :/
It's not bad code until the authorities get involved.
The faux-friendship interactions with chat I think can be pretty unhealthy for sensitive viewers (shut-ins and teens). Like many shitty sites, if you go to the places with fewer people, it isn't so bad. Stick with people with a few hundred viewers, avoid simp-magnets and loudmouths.
A simple example: If your mortgage or credit cards debt or car loans cost more due to higher interest rates, you are going to have less money left over to purchase other products.

This will make you less likely to want the new expensive Iphone, especially if you were going to finance the purchase, so as Iphone sales plumit, there will be less of a chip shortage since supply now meets demand.
There are more and more countries that are on a path to ban physical cash.

Pretty chilling when put in this context.
I thought it was going to about adding salt to the ice cream but was not :/

I have a compressor so I have no use of a salted ice bath but I find that using salt in the mixture will make the ice cream not as hard when left overnight or longer in the freezer.
Life After Lifestyle
The empirical evidence that money supply increases don't necessarily cause infaltion is https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL from 2009 to 2019. Money supply doubled and inflation was non-existent. Obviously this is an incredibly complex topic, but there was at least some reason to believe inflation wouldn't be as high as it has been. There are also many reasons beside money supply inflation for the rise in price inflation.
I find it interesting the Feds is an independent branch run by unelected officials. Because your average voters are idiots that can't be trusted with important levers of society. If you look at Turkey it makes perfect sense.
How much of the inflation is due to money injection? How much is due to the war, the energy crisis and post covid supply chain problems?
No, that's not true, if you buy a walkie-talkie, the seller has all kinds of obligations to ensure that it follows the requirements.

Radio devices are a good example where it fact is illegal to make, sell or import transmitters that do not conform to permitted RF bands.

IIRC in USA there is an exemption in FCC rules if you're importing a device for personal use by e.g. buying it online from abroad (and then you're responsible to use it properly), but if you'd want to resell that device, you can't just transfer the liability to the user, you are responsible for ensuring that the transmitter follows FCC rules.
> Sadly, this proves that the economy is ultimately run on debt.

All economies are run on debt [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
> It holds another - margin stock trading requirements, but that path has all but been forsaken

I didn’t know this, could you explain when it’s last been used, if ever? Could they theoretically drastically raise margin requirements for some stocks and lower it for others to encourage sectors to be rebalanced?
Why did we wait so long for wind power? Part I
When I moved to a house that is only served via LTE, I built a linux router based on the quite popular PC engines APU and put a miniPCIe LTE modem inside. It has been very reliable, allowing us to work from home without issues.

My main gripe with LTE/5G modems is that they are not made to be bought and used by consumers. These things are rather sold in bulk to car makers or laptop manufacturers. This means that modems usually come with limitations or artificial locks, for example requiring a support contract to get firmware updates.

There is also a bunch of different standards for how to get a data connection from the modem depending on the manufacturer but on Linux NetworkManager/ModemManager make this problem much smaller.

For the antenna, my understanding is that it is possible to either focus on a specific tower with a pair of high gain antennas oriented towards the tower, or use antennas that blasts in every direction like a phone.

At home I use the focused approach with 15 dBi indoor antennas and the four different metrics for signal quality reported by my modem are all excellent. The drawback of this approach is that in the rare cases when my tower is down, the antennas cannot fall back to a different tower.
I'm really curious about learning of some countries that don't provide ID cards to residents. One of the first things my family had to do when moving to any new country was go and get some kind of identification issued.
I appreciate when people inside FB/Meta speak directly like this (as someone who loathes the Metaverse project)
>...they'd rather have a low performer than no one at all.

Seems contradictory to many modern interview process opinions that low performers introduce a net negative effect.
How do you play the game?
By the time you're prosecuting someone in court, yes of course you double, triple, quadruple check everything. That's why lawyers get paid the big bucks (for now...). But yes you can identify which content probably has errors and flag it as such.

Look, I have decades of experience dealing with human speech, and not just as an editor - I can trace the human voice from neural impulses in Broca's region through the physiology of vocal production, mechanical transduction into electrical signals, discrete fourier transforms of the resultant waveforms into spectral information and back again, the reproduction of altered signals from time-aligned speakers to create a sense of spatialization, how those are processed in the human ear, and how the cilia are connected by nerves back to your brain. I'm a good enough editor that I can recognize many short words by sight of a waveform, or make 10 edits in a row by sight and know it will sound good on playback.

So when I say that machine transcription is as good as human realtime transcription now, I say so with the clear expectation that those decades of craft are very close to being rendered obsolete. I absolutely expect to hand off the mechanical part of editing to a machine within 2 years or so. It's already at the stage where I edit some interviews as text, like in a word processor, and then export the edited document as audio and it's Good Enough - not for every speaker, but more than half the time.

NPR and a lot of commercial broadcasters cut their material this way already, because you can get the same result from 30 minutes of reading and text editing that would require 3 hours of pure audio editing with no transcription.
Tether does not have USDT backing. Some people are going to end up in prison for life.
Metalabel
> You see it in direct code too, from new or naive coders

Many moons ago in one of my first coding projects I not only used a separate query for each record, but a separate database connection too. In addition to this, I didn't use a loop to generate these queries, I copy and pasted the connection setup and query code for each record, leading to a 22k code file just for this single web page.

There were probably on the order of 1000 records (they represented premier league football players), and amazingly this code was fast enough (took a couple of seconds to load - which wasn't so unusual back in 2007) and worked well enough that it actually had ~100 real users (not bad a 14 year old's side project).
Flotsam? I wonder if ZIM can claim them back.
Presumably that is less significant a drop than the equilibrium melting freezing point being 5 degrees lower as even if endothermic it won’t be much will it and will just return back up when you add the warmer mixture bowl?
Roughly 99%,which has consistently been the failure rate of tech startups since Y2K.
> Apparently liquid nitrogen ice cream makes smaller crystals or something and tastes better?

It's about how fast you freeze the ice cream so the crystals don't grow.

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You can get N2 from a local gas supplier but a lot of grocery stores stock CO2 (Dry Ice) that can also be used for ice cream.

CO2 has the disadvantage of if you get it in the ice cream it makes it carbonated but the smoke looks like a witches cauldron so it looks cool imo.
> * a chance to stop the KGB in 2000, possibly in 2004

Given how much of a shitshow shock-therapy economics were in the 90s, I think the results of those elections were completely expected.

People have spilled a lot of ink in 2016 about how MAGA rode a wave of people being disillusioned by the status quo - well, imagine that, but ten times worse, and you'll get a picture of Russia in the 90s. It leaned westwards, got burnt hard, was ready for a change, any change, and look, here comes a Russia-first strongman to make the country 'great' 'again'.

It had as much of a chance to stop Putin in 2000 and 2004 as Kentucky has to not re-elect Mitch McConnel.
How could it not be? Most players lose money over their lifetimes. It's played in Casinos. There's skill involved, sure, but it's still gambling.
Just use libgen?
No you cannot...
Crack, heroin, firearms, sex work.

There is a massive list of things one cannot start a business doing in the US.
Why would you say such nonsense?
Post-match interview with Magnus Carlsen on Hans Niemann
> Presumably those end up making a HUGE change to the WAL (since they could affect every stored row in a large table), which means LiteFS then has to send a truly giant chunk of data out to the replicas.

Yes, a large migration could end up sending a lot of data out to replicas. One way to mitigate this is to shard your data into separate SQLite databases so you're only migrating a small subset at a time. Of course, that doesn't work for every application.

> Would the replicas go out-of-date for 10-30s but continue serving read-only traffic, or could there be some element of cluster downtime caused by this?

Once WAL support is in LiteFS, it will be able to replicate this out without causing any read down time. SQLite is still a single-writer database though so writes would be blocked during a migration.
can we get a noscript/basic (x)html link?
well a game of skill with betting seems less harsh and way more fun to watch at any rate. havent seen many slots strategy breakdown videos
Ask HN: What'd be possible with 1000x faster CPUs?
Imagine if we had an unlikely scientific breakthrough and many orders of magnitude faster general-purpose CPUs, probably alongside petabyte-scale RAM modules and appropriately fast memory bus, become widely available. Besides making bloatware on a previously unimaginable scale possible, what other interesting, maybe revolutionary, impossible today or at least impractical, applications would crop up then?
This is just nonsense. Please show your math including sources for the purported ratio and dates.
if this is tiktok they shouldnt worry for long i bet it will be banned before end of year
It's been 2 years now but Docker has started cracking down on this [1]. They introduced pull limits for anonymous and free accounts. Our company actually hit the anonymous limit regularly (several separate teams using docker/CI with the same public IP from our datacenter.) We've since started caching our images locally using Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager plus hosting our own registry for some simple things we used to be pulling from Docker Hub.

As far as financially, Docker now charges for enterprise use of Docker Desktop, which we've also started paying for. But I'm sure the bandwidth for running Docker Hub isn't cheap.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/download-rate-limit/
I'm a recent convert as of this year! However, (and I don't know if this will surprise people, I suspect not) I actually use it primarily for org-mode, for note-taking, to-do-lists, documenting and thinking through small bits of code that require careful thought.

It's also my version of powerpoint, e.g. recently I was sharing my thoughts with someone and made use of folding to guide the ideas I wanted to communicate to them. I use VSCode for code.
You said:

> I think the problem is actually that you can't imagine a world where we have rules and governance without a militarized force which uses violence to enforce those laws

Then you said:

> Armed robberies would probably require an armed response, which would certainly imply we'd need an organization with the resources to investigate this & dispatch armed people to interdict this robber.

The only purpose for a paramilitary force in society is to respond to violence in an organized and accountable matter. There is no society that can possibly survive long-term without the organized ability to deploy violence on occasion.

You keep bringing up nonviolent situations where armed police aren't the best response; I agree with you that the modern people we call "the police" could be reformed, curtailed in responsibility, and replaced with other community representatives, but the core function of police, which is deploy violence when needed, is not appropriate to fully remove from society.
A buddy of mine ended up renting out his condo right next to Dolores Park (ie: pretty great location in SF) after it sat on the market for a few months (including lowering the price). It rented immediately. Places are not selling.
It is inevitable. The only question is to what ends. EU is very focused on a maximalist vision of privacy. US is focused on security with a touch of woke censorship. China couldn’t care less about privacy but is obsessed about keeping out foreign influence and heavily censoring cultural and political content.
> Yeah, I hate it too if people flee from war or use yheir right of free speech and assembly in democratic countries. How dare they!

You seem confused. Tell me which war are these invasion- and genocide-supporting russians fleeing from. Or are we supposed to believe that to Russia's fascist militants a war is only awesome if it's everyone else doing the fighting?
No one said otherwise, this is just a strawman. You don't have to be a dick just because something bad happens to someone doing better than you. Didn't think it needed to be spelled out but there you go.
I always understood "typically" and "usually" to mean something different from "always true". They mean what they say. Whether that is good or bad, it is reality, and if you are calling for a large scale refactoring of how the world works, well, you have a big task in front of you. I can tell you that the Niemann stuff is red-hot drama in the chess world (look on r/chess, for example) and there is a range of views.

One current reality of the chess world is that federations and playing sites usually won't sanction players for misconduct that is not under their jurisdiction. In Niemann's case, that meant his record of cheating on chess.com didn't stop him from playing in the Sinquefield Cup or in the current Julius Baer tournament. There are several grandmasters complaining about this. They want federations and sites to coordinate with each other, so cheating in one place gets you banned from all of them.

Again, whether that's good or bad is up to you, but it's sort of like someone committing a string of crimes in one country and getting to start over in another one. That just doesn't work any more.
>> One possible technical measure that may be relevant when using Google Analytics is pseudonymisation.

Under GDPR pseudonymisation is considered to be reversible and therefor still falls within the scope of personal data. [source: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/gr... ]