skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. Wouldn’t call that lack of self awareness. Thanks for the source. Quote:

> Frankly, I hate doing mgmt stuff. I kinda don't think anyone should be the boss of anyone. But I love helping
solve technical/product design problems.

What I hear is that he doesn’t like playing the boss. And that he would very much prefer a company to work like interconnected computers in a network, with no hierarchy. He aspires to having engineering decisions solved on the basis of first principles, not on the basis of social hierarchy. The part where he deems management necessary, however, is making sure that all the vectors inside a company are aligned towards a single goal. Because he knows from experience that, without that, a company will die. so he does that out of necessity. But deep in his heart, he would really prefer to just do the work of an engineer. I mean, to me, that very much fits in with his INTJ personality type.
You mean flights specifically chartered by the US and British governments to evacuate their citizens and their family from Wuhan?

It is all in the articles you linked.
Computer power supplies have (usually) multiple rails, which are multiple voltage regulator circuits outputting the same voltage. You wouldn't be able to do that with two wires. Also, I think the connector needs to be larger to distribute load, and the ATX style pin connectors are already used and no one wants to add a completely new connector type on their assembly line.
I fear that exposing teens to self educating on too personal and too complex topics is gonna backfire. They're extremely quick to accept theories and blend in with it to make it an instant reality.

ps: not helped by online groups or bubbles (twitter, discord) where they can all reinforce their own beliefs in a joyful mayhem.
One benefit of squash-commits to master/main is in continuous integration. If the commit needs to be reverted because it introduced a bug into production, the reversion is relatively easy to do. With an entire history, especially with later commits, finding the buggy commit can be a nightmare.
if you're doors won't open when the power goes out, that is just frikkin' stupid.
Just a note for myself here, Interesting HN is showing 1210 comments in a single page. I think this is new.
This fits with the literature on block vs random order exercise in learning motor skills, where random order mostly outbeats block.

For example see [1]

[1] https://best-essays-service.org/essays/health/the-effect-of-...
OK but being able to just pay and not waste a waiters time is basically only upside? Sure, if you have a special case you can still ask, but for most people it's just like "OK going to give the money now". No needing a waiter to come run over to the cashier to deal with you on top of everyhting else
PS. Read the full "Story of Mel" on Mel's Loop homepage at: https://melsloop.com
I haven’t seen much info regarding their setup, aside from the bits about Pants and Bazel.

Are those actually the upstream repositories, though? And is it known how they interact with them?

Google has Copybara [1], which allows portions of a monorepo to live outside as an entirely separate repository without the need for things like Git submodules. It supports synchronization of histories, pull requests, path and file transformations, etc.

In that sense, something like Copybara would allow them to, relatively, easily open source those bits, receive outside commits, and then sync the changes back to the monorepo.

[1]: <https://github.com/google/copybara>
You have the order reversed. In Buddhism, you learn to let go of attachments, and because of that you let go of smoking, alcohol, etc. It's not the other way around.
Browser choice concerns a minuscule percentage of iOS users. I don't fit the consumer demographic Apple successfully targets (people like my parents, or kids). I write software and do system administration for a living. I have used Macs, iPads, and iPhones for years, and I don't experience "general crappiness" or "lack of control." Safari works fine for me, but I don't put much energy into organizing tabs or customizing home pages or stuff like that, which maybe Firefox or Chrome do "better" in some sense. I don't pile extensions into my browser. For using web pages Safari just works.

To paraphrase Steve Jobs, an alternate web browser would have to improve my experience 10x, not 10%. Having used all of the major browsers, for years, I can say that none of them do anything useful (for me) ten times better than any of the others.
Author here, what do you mean?
0 code is the best then?
https://archive.ph/t3Ni4
The author of that piece has a long lecture about NYC steam heating at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgM0qCy5o4 . Very interesting!
I kind of use it as a red flag to move on from a role. When I think I might have it down pat I kind of get worried I'll end up pigeonholed and make a jump into a semi related new role.
9/10 my experience in UK is: the waiter is already walking away from you before you get a chance to ask, then they just repeat “oh you can just order with the QR code it’s super easy” while walking away again
With mandatory SMS 2FA.
Show HN: Hyper minimalist habit tracker for Chrome
I'm an undergrad at cal who's trying to get better at React and building apps. I'd love any feedback on the general UI and user experience, new to coding products!

If you don't want to download it, but still want to give me feedback, app demo vid & pictures in official launch https://tinyurl.com/reactlaunch

Please let me know your thoughts, critical or supportive! Looking to learn
I love QR menus. I live in Singapore though were things are well designed and efficient. Pretty much all menus are web applications, some restaurants allow to pay directly from the menu web page.
If Twitter is paying under fair market rate, that's collusion to benefit Twitter at the expense of Tesla.

If Twitter is paying above fair market rate, that's collusion to benefit Tesla at the expense of Twitter.

If Twitter is paying exactly fair market rate, why does it need to be Tesla employees? That starts to look like self-dealing to make Musk's live easier.

You can't really win in this situation, which is why any sane executive avoids such a conflict of interest in the first place.

(I'm not claiming there will be any repercussions mind you - if Musk got away with SolarCity he'll surely get away with this.)
Spectrograms are analytical tools, they don't convey the nature of sound: whether it's consonant or dissonant, cool or warm, pleasing or annoying. We could, and do, analyze pictures with 2D spectrograms, but hardly anyone would argue that those spectrograms are true representations of pictures. And that's the question I've been trying to answer: if spectrograms and waveforms aren't the true images of sound, then what is?

On these ACF images, consonant frequencies produce regular patterns, that appear good due to their regular structure. High and low frequencies map to different colors, that appear to arrange themselves in a certain good looking way - this effect is surprising to me. The interesting observation here is that the good looking arrangements happen only for pleasing sounds. Different vowels, 29 total, taken from the Wikipedia's IPA table, produce different and distinct shapes - that's what I meant by "visual morphology".

The ACF data can be presented in any form, it's just data after all, but I'm not interested in just information, I want the image to convey the "harmonic nature" of sound, and the polar coordinates happen to do this well.

There is a link to demo there, and you can generate ACF images for any sounds you have, just make sure they are isolated 1-2 sec recordings. After looking at the images and listening to sounds that correspond to them, you'll quickly notice some pattern and will be able to guess the sound by looking at its image.
Exactly. This is why high wattage USB-C cables rely on the power supply negotiating a higher voltage in order to work. Sending 100W over 5V would be ridiculous (20A). Instead the device tells the power supply to switch to 20V and then the cable only needs to be rated for 5A. Something like that for GPUs would make sense.
Musk fired Twitter execs in attempt to avoid payouts
Why do you need so much cash to launch?
The technical term is stonks
> I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired.

Larry Ellison famously once said "if you aren't a developer, and you aren't a salesman, then tell me real slow just what it is you do".
It’s a shame you can’t collapse commits when merging a branch - generally see a the single commit for the merge, but can expand to view the commits that were collapsed if you ever need a fine grain review in the future.
I run a medical software company. I think it is despicable that these companies co opt people into things making it look innocent.

As developers ALL OF YOU should force your employers to enforce strong security policies and stop this sharing of data where it can be hacked. People suffere for years in various ways from a hack and it is always because of idiots like companies sharing data and dropping security
Mid-2007 I walked into Grand Central, clueless and exhausted after having worked over the entire previous night, I only half-registered that it wasn't very crowded. However I needed stuff at the Rite-Aid before going home. No one was at the register. Then no one was at the register at the other entrance to the Grand Central Rite-Aid store either.

I put everything down. Left the store and noticed that there were no other people in the station at all. Nope. I'm out. Second time in six and a half years that I just walked home.

I'm sure that somewhere there's surveillance video of me looking like Mr. Magoo wandering into evacuated region of the city after a steam tunnel had exploded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_York_City_steam_explo...
> Same could have been said for smartphone physical keyboard yet here we are.

The safety aspects are quite different. It is mildly annoying not to be able to touch type text messages; it is deadly to have to fiddle with a touch screen for a car’s basic functionality.
If I were to order using apps and be served by robots I'd rather quit going to restaurants. If the food is the only thing I want, I can order it.
I hate them. It's 100x easier to browse a paper menu than the scroll through 2-5 dishes per screen, and often have to navigate sub menus trying to find what's available.

I didn't come to a restaurant to fiddle with my phone for 5 to 10 minutes

> You don't have talk to anybody in the whole process.

That's a negative not a positive.
The crowd that isn’t happy with Musk probably wouldn’t be happy with Theil… Musk is asshat saying stupid things. While Theil is both further in the same political direction and much smarter.
Play it enough so you can’t forget it.
> There is no business unfriendly GPL code in CoWasm. CoWasm itself is extremely liberally licensed and business friendly.

This is one to save for posterity, when they eventually change the license because the likes of Amazon decided to make a product out of it.
It depends on the venue and provider. A lot of pub type settings will have a note saying that orders placed within 5 min of one another will come out together. In my experience the more upmarket the place, the less likely they are to have ordering via phone (or payment at the time of ordering).

But you can also get someone at the table to place the order for everyone. Or often go and order at the bar (also something that you don't see too much in North America), or if its a restaurant grab a member of staff and order in a more classic way.
what other ffmpeg GUIs are there?
> Touch screen is a better interface because the UI can adapt to the context. I get that when you are driving you don’t want to have to look at the screen but honestly the benefits far outweigh the perceived cons.

When people are too stupid to recognise satire, you get tremendous support for stupid things.

https://www.theonion.com/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-...
10 years is not so old.
I thought you meant a PC from the 80s or 90s. :)
I don't think many people would choose to be paid an indeterminate amount by their employer each month, consisting of how much they feel like paying that month.
Punch em in the nose
I guess that’s the concept of a CEO, to decide if it is justified. He will answer to the board and shareholders.
No, bullshit, you can't just assume something awful happened somewhere. All governments oppress, but you're not making an accusation against all governments. You're red-baiting, which is the thing that capitalists would like most for you to do. Especially in time of war, it's stupid to let our imaginations run wild about how horrible the people on the other side of the planet are. If you know anything at all about this topic you've shoehorned into this discussion, tell us now. Otherwise, you're a troll.
This is awesome! Just saw that in Swiss News too. Here you can find some nice pictures of the event: https://images.swiss-image.ch/event/de/1/3866/group/instruct...
> Normal iOS apps can use 5GB or so of memory before iOS kills them

That number can't possibly be right. Even the most high-end iPhones "only" have 6GB, the rest max out at 4GB and that only recently. And I highly doubt that iOS will let you play with 5GB even on a 6GB device.
I sometimes teach Research Methods. One lesson, I explain scientific
method, honest empiricism, falliblism, and how most experiments
don't have the expected "successful" outcome. I explain that you can
still get an A+ grade from a completely failed experiment if the
results are analysed properly.

I see rows of blinking, uncomprehending eyes and looks of confusion.

How can you fail, and yet succeed?

It takes months to beat the "perfomative ego" out of them, and even
then some would still rather fudge their results to feign "success"
than report what feels like failure.

Market economics and a culture of "success uber alles" have done so
much to damage science in deep and subtle ways.
> Being software controlled means I can require a PIN to open it.

Combination locks have existed for centuries now.
The worst dining experience I’ve had was directly attributable to QR code menus.

I took a client out to lunch. The waitress came to the table, directed our attention to the qr code and left. I was wanting to connect with my guest but instead had to get out my phone, point it at the qr code then peer at a screen, which is the height of bad manners when you are in someone else’s company, choose what I wanted then hand my phone to my guest, which is a revolting and unhygienic thing to do, nowhere else in society is this expected, then he had to do the same, choose something to eat, then I’m damned if I didn’t have to pay for it there and then at the table, get out my credit card and complete the transaction, just such bad manners and embarrassing. Dealing with money has rules and expectations in our society. Are we meant to go through some sort of “I’ll pay/no please I’ll pay” ritual over a qr code menu at the beginning of the meal? Ugh. I hated every moment of that experience.

Instead of enjoying and exploring the menu, chatting lightly about the choices available, I couldn’t wait to get the awful experience over with.

The printed menu, and the human interaction with the waiter, are an integral and key part of the experience of eating out, and if a restaurant owner doesn’t understand that then they really don’t know what business they are in.

QR code menus are lazy, impersonal, offensively pushing me to use tech when I don’t want to, inconvenient, tasteless and generally the absolute opposite of the experience I want when dining out.

Makes no sense to me that restaurant owners think they are a good idea.

I can see why they’d be good at Macdonalds or fast food restaurants but that’s it.

When I book a restaurant I now ask if the use QR code menus and if they do then I cancel.
On an energy basis, I'm going to doubt this claim. I know there's a common theory that having all the cheap energy of fossil fuels made modern civilization possible, but I suspect it was more of an accelerator than a requirement.

If you have fire and biomass of some sort-- wood, animal dung, etc-- you can get to steam power without too many problems. That gets you to US Civil War tech levels or so. You can build a basic global national transportation network and start mechanizing agriculture on wood-fired, steam powered equipment.

That would be able to provide the level of manufacturing to start bootstrapping electricity-- likely focusing on stationary turbines around hydropower and geothermal sources once biomass hits scaling limits. You might end up seeing an earlier focus on electric transportation systems because the energy density of coal and oil aren't available. You also get telegraphy and radio from that.

A society with electricity would also be have the footholds to start the development of modern physics and get to the splitting of the atom, and at that point, energy is supposed to become too cheap to meter.

The bigger issue I could see is the chemical opportunities hydrocarbon deposits provide.

I could imagine a society without fossil fuels plateauing at a 1870s tech level because of limitations on material technology-- higher-quality lubricants and eventually plastics being obvious missing pieces. They might be able to build an electric car, but it's going to rely on things like fabric-wrapped wires and mica insulation, and have to be lubed with tallow. This would probably only be a transient state though, because without having to compete with poking for goo in the Middle East, many of the "renewable X to oil" pipelines are economically interesting, so eventually, they do get synthetic materials and fuels, although likely at a high price that causes them to be used conservatively from day 1. Once you get to "abundant cheap energy", this likely ceases to be a huge issue.

I'd imagine that this world would end up looking a lot like ours by a hypothetical "2100 AD" tech level. They built on synthetic fuels and electricity because there was no alternative, and we'll have forcibly transitioned to them because we exhausted the fossil stopgap options.
Collusion? No.
Ask HN: Is there a list of richest based on liquid assets not stock wealth?
Cash-poor stock-rich is the current measure, how about liquid cash rich mostly, is there such a list and who would be on it?
The restaurants are trying to maximize profits by not having to pay some meager salaries.

But by doing so they are comiting a capital mistake and that is not delivering what the customer demands, which is not only food but services and potential for human interaction.
> I have this email ready for every new language or tech, with all the hurdles to clear (and the post-mortem costs of clearing them in the past)

I would love for you to share this. (even if it's not english)
> so it wasn’t just a fluke

or gills
> Why would investors be willing to lose money, especially in the current economic situation

A whole bunch of genius investors just bought a company worth $11 billion for $44 billion...
Musk isn't an average Joe and not dumb, unexperienced or something like that.

The point to accept here is:

He is outstanding in what he's doing. In everything. He is a business man and doing everything for getting the most out of that.

No matter if it's his "who pay for Ukraine/Starlink" -> he didn't get the 20th of millions from the government, but he tried it and in the end getting more funds from others.

Or his "lay of 75 percent" - he try to save some money which Twitter is burning ever since. He tries, with the help of his engineers, to find out whether it's possible to lay of so much and still having the company running..

So, the best would be here to ask why this way and not another? All the guys and gals are knowing what's happening. They are the best what could happen to Musk. So, this will be profitable in 6 weeks.
This mechanism is what enables the old ActiveX Scripting APIs (used by classic JScript and VBScript) to consume VB6 classes natively. It's very easy to embed a fully-functional scripting environment in a VB6 app and even define custom classes in VBScript to be consumed by VB6 code.

At one point you could also embed Python because there was a compatible COM wrapper for it, but it had performance and integration issues and maintenance eventually stopped.
Does Case 2 matter if the company is privately owned?
Here is how I'd game the system: I'd sue somebody (like a neighbor) for violating my rights in some way. Then I'd bring a really bad lawyer to court, and take a 50/50 chance on giving that lawyer to my opponent.

If I end up with the bad lawyer, I lose the case, and move onto my next victim.
If you get frustrated reading some other twits articles get offline. It is easy. Log out. Otherwise who is really the fool?

Can they control your life?

Get one!
Thanks for posting this as I was having similar issues just today.
>Passively destroying Twitter from within by not trying

A code review? TL;DR; LGTM, straight to prod!
I thought he had a steady job working for KPFA on an assigned slot, which is where he honed his talent for talking for long stretches to fill the air on the radio—all while chain smoking at the console and answering calls from little old ladies in Berkeley, who would ask him obscure questions about whatever topic he was going on about. I think I remember reading that the archival audio tapes for those shows are still around somewhere, but I’ve never once heard them. I got interested in this like 15 years ago or so, and took a look-see in the Pacifica archives, and I think they are still there locked up in a vault somewhere, unless a fire or a flood took them out, which happens more than you might think.
An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (2015)
Twitter gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2022 was $3.181B, a 11.24% increase year-over-year. Twitter annual gross profit for 2021 was $3.28B, a 39.58% increase from 2020.
In fairness, that civilised solution is extremely slow. If you have a meal with 10 people want to pay separately... that's a lot of wasted time just waiting for a card machine.

I was pretty shocked when I first went to America and they just took all of our cards into the back. Hilariously insecure but you can't say it wasn't more efficient.

App payment seems like a good solution.

Currently the only reasonable option seems to be for one person to pay and then split the bill on Monzo - that does work well but some people don't have Monzo still.
> It is the first thing people cancel when the economy gets difficult

That sounds logical, but I'd hypothesize that a lot of donors are themselves fairly well off, so the effect may be less than you suggest.
http://www.demi-ya.com/ :)
> There are 126,000+ quotations on HackerNews using smart quotes. I find this deeply disturbing.

Mobile devices appear to do this by default. iOS in my case anyway. I turned them off because it was messing up my hugo blog's frontmatter whenever I start a post on mobile.
> This week I saw not one but three striking premonitions for how the scaling maximalism hypothesis might end.

> 1. There might not be enough data in the world to make scaling maximalism work. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.12407.pdf

> 2. There might not be enough available compute in the world to make scaling maximalism feasible.

> 3. Some important tasks might simply not scale. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06177

Note: scaling maximalism hypothesis -> "that AGI might arise from larger scale without fundamental new innovation"
I hate fast foods and big restaurant chains. I like small family owned restaurants where I know I am welcomed, where I can chat with staff and the owners, where people are friendly and have a good disposition.

If I would not afford to pay, I would rather cook at home then settle with subpar food and subpar experience.
In civilised world you pay when you order at the bar (unless it’s real fancy place)