skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wish we had a still-active and maintained fork of winamp :/

I just want a little 3 box thing with whats playing, my EQ, and my playlist, on a native TUI/GUI. Everything now is so greedy for space.
This is kind of fringe medicine podcast territory, but I learned a lot listening to these two discuss breathing and its physiological impacts. There’s quite a big overlap here between stress and sport performance. Sometimes I try this when I go running and am always curious with the results.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/103-youre-probably-bre...

Box breathing is also a strategy I think was developed and used by special forces to control stress in critical environments. That’s not me, but it certainly has helped me regain composure when I feel my heart race or am distracted. Fascinating stuff.
Perhaps you're arguing that the leverage ratio I used as an example was extreme, but otherwise you are wrong that "no broker would force you to sell your own equity."
If there's a margin call and you don't deposit additional cash, then a broker will force a sale of the stock. "Brokers may force a trader to sell assets, regardless of the market price, to meet the margin call if the trader doesn’t deposit funds."

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/margincall.asp
Like Sleeping on the Job? Make $400k a Year Snoozing on TikTok
Cute, from 2013.
In my family the iPhone has replaced all other computing devices. I’m the only one with a laptop.
Unfortunately, the answer to "will that happen" is "it depends".

Lawyers will do very well for a while, I'm sure of that.
But the act of typing on the code and running/debugging it should be. Any toolset where you have to wait excessive amounts of time just to be able edit/ compile/launch/debug/review results is not really going to make you think more carefully about your code (an exception could be made for super long compile times, which do force you to be more careful with what you input, but I'm not really convinced it can help you write better code).
https://archive.ph/EBFEB
maybe to expand - this isn't really about me. I managed successfully and now have my company.

but there is a reason that a significant proportion of the startups in Germany were UK Ltds until Brexit cooled that down. I don't take it as a positive sign for the process that people will literally use another country's registration process because the home one is so bad.
PDF or PNG? It's not clear from your comment. :)
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune
Uh, plenty of currencies not tied to governments have collapsed.

And the military is part of keeping the country going and enforcing the currency as legal tender.
Author of this post should develop something bigger by himself, then mantain it and after all of this succesfully completed complain about status of "free software".
A country like the economic and industrial powerhouse of the European Union?

Yes, I think they're doing fine without business owners who are not interested in being business literate in the market they intend to participate in.
I think it's a case of "we'll know it when we see it". I agree it looks like moving the goalposts, but I think most people would agree that current LMs just don't feel like AGIs.
I think it's interesting the amount of justification given for why this is being built. Twice in the same paragraph. And no doubt there will be hundreds more wondering why do create something that already exists. Software developers are too fixated on pragmatism. If you're writing code, the resulting code better be something useful OR ELSE.

Do you ever ask someone why they're doing a crossword puzzle? Playing a video game? Trying to get of an Escape Room?

No. But if someone say writes their own Lisp as an exercise, oh the vitriol from the pragmatists.

I've personally stopped answering that question.
You do have a point; I do not think I can reasonably dispute that a lot of people will spend more time online.

I am not sure if it is fear though. I personally feel I already spend way too much time online as it is. It was beyond awful as I was going through school, where I ended up doing work/school/fun by effectively just switching screen throughout the day. After years of that pattern I eventually severely cut back ( and even now I think I am overdoing it, but baby steps ).

I am ok with losing some people and some of the artificial online relationship that brings ( I accept that some online relationship may actually be stronger than generic RL ones ).
It has not been a replacement for me. But I use my computer's keyboard a lot. If I mostly consumed content and sent out a few emails then the ipad would be a great fit. I think I use my phone more than my ipad. It's simply because it's way easier to type out a message if I need to send one.
loved nvalt, these days i'm using Simplenote (which is what i was using for syncing nvalt)
Neither pdf or svg do text layout. They’re both pretty similar really, though the pdf spec is really deep and broad to cater for a million things.

My advice to everyone re pdfs is to crack them open by running `mutool clean -d file.pdf` And opening in a text editor. They’re just a tree (well, graph, I guess) of obvious objects.

Ps: mutool convert does a good job of converting from pdf to svg in a fairly faithful way.
You have a much more active imagination than I do.

Others have linked the code and an article about someone trying it out. What you can do with this is that you wave around two yagi antenna. You point one at a broadcast source and an other at something flying in the opposite direction from the broadcast source. If all the stars align and the system works you then get the range, and the dopler. The measured range is the full distance from the broadcast source to the object and back to you.

This is not a radar where the user gets a display full of tracks in front of them. One maybe one day might develop something like that from this core.

Even if it were a stealth radar like that it is very dubious how it would help a drug smuggling operation, or why they would bother with it at all.
For all those who successfully transitioned:

Did you already own your home?

I live in a HCOL area, and rent. Time off or transition to hobby-job that pays less, even if I have a lot of savings, means risking my ability to find a new rental if I need to move. Landlords want to see cash flow or they suspect you. Also rents are going crazy in the US.
Or the radium girls

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
They are better at scale (hundreds of developers or machines needed to run the system).

They are better at avoiding downtime during deployments because everything is built around supporting it - but at huge cost. Offline migrations - which may be taking just seconds/minutes - are so much easier to do. We're talking about order of magnitude difference in complexity of adding new features.

In typescript world, monorepo with shared packages where some are dockerized services (all under same monorepo wide version) is more than enough for most projects. Microservice crowd will call it monolith (because services can't be deployed independently, they likely share SQL database etc), but it's a set of services. You can run it from docker/swarm/k8s - scalability is not really a problem here until you're HUGE (hundreds of developers or hundreds of machines to deploy to). Refactoring, adding new features, dropping stuff etc. - is all easy, usually type checker will guide you to all places that need changing. Single set of migrations. Straight forward e2e. Fast local development where you can spin the whole thing etc. Why people like to complicate their lives when they have this?
yes, they do well.

However, I think they would do better by making the business registration process more accessible to outsiders.
If they are so convinced the claim is invalid and the claimant used the DMCA process, all this company has to do is file a counter notice and Google is obliged to restore the app, unless the claimant actually files suit within 14 days.
If people are going to buy crypto they should just buy Bitcoin on the Cash App or Coinbase (ETH as well there). Everything else is likely going to zero.
Except it's not actually true. Build issues are mostly a solved problem with reproducible build systems, like Nix and Docker to an extent. If a project is not using this, kindly suggest it to its authors, or, you know, propose the change yourself.

The lack of documentation is also a problem with specific projects only, not a widespread F/LOSS issue. And again, if the project lacks in this area, you have the means to improve it.

As for projects being difficult for newcomers; yes, this is an issue. But it's one you'll also encounter when approaching _any_ codebase, where you'll find it takes time and effort to understand and contribute a meaningful change. If you're not a programmer experienced in a particular tech stack, then it's obvious the barrier to entry will be even higher.

None of these issues are specific to F/LOSS, so the post reads like a rant from an entitled user. The right mindset to begin with should be one of gratitude that developers are granting you these freedoms which you don't get with the majority of consumer software nowadays.

And another benefit of F/LOSS: just because a project is inaccessible to person A, person B might find it easy to contribute, which encourages a community to exist, from which everyone ultimately benefits.
I disagree that most "make a difference" fields are dominated by liberals. In my experience, many non-profit board members tend to be wealthy conservatives - bankers, car dealership owners, real estate brokers, etc. This can lead even organizations where the mission, staff or clients are mostly liberal to develop a conservative, elitist culture. Combined with the revolving door of donors and relatives into senior leadership roles, it also can lead an upper management that trends conservative.

Many low-paying social service jobs are filled by spouses of people with high-paying jobs. This can lead to an elitist culture, even in the lower levels.

There is also a lot of overlap between social service orgs and religious orgs which can lead to a conflict between mission and church doctrine.

All in all, I perceive it as being as diverse a field as the rest of society, and filled with many viewpoints. It doesn't seem dominated by one "side" or the other
I don't understand how this is directly related to the women's abortion issue though. This is whataboutism at it's best.
As long as they're still cars, you should keep holding your breath. Tires and breaks still give off the polluting dust, not to mention the noise
Interesting how the contemporary publications cited were authored during WW2 yet only a few years earlier Russia intentionally perpetuated the Holodomor. The Hunger Plan sounds more like Russian propaganda spun by assets in the West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
If you print to PDF, you'll have the page's print css applied. And it is probably paginated.

If you go direct to SVG the capture will use the screen css and not be paginated.
Wow I should really start reading this Worm thing
Be careful of what?

A viral “bank run” is the ultimate fitness test of these black-box centralized exchanges, and if an exchange has underlying issues it’s better that they be found out sooner rather than later.
Amazing description of for what today are called the layers of a multiplex.
That wasn't the only issue with the one child policy.

Countries that depend on children caps also generally see sex-selective abortion, because generally in most marriage customs the man is favored over the woman and no one wants to be unfavored. (Interestingly, as regulations have eased and also with both increased gender mobility in general and the current lopsided situation favoring women, the sex ratio is starting to swing back in China.)

If anything, lopsided sex ratios are even more dangerous, because revolutions do often get started by young, restless men.
> If you select a truly random set of citizens to rule a country, there are no guarantees that you will get a representative sample of the citizenry.

Not sure that's the goal as such. The goal is to have a selection system that's incorruptible.

> Without any further selection, you will eventually (and sooner than you would expect) put terrible or incompetent people in power.

Well, we have that already. I like the odds of random selection a lot better. With the current system, we're practically guaranteed of getting terrible or incompetent people in power.

> I am French, and my country recently made a sortition experiment[1]

150 people seems pretty small. The US House of Representatives has over 500 members.
Obsidian (or Roam, Logseq, or Athens) feels like a different vehicle for information, it's useful when notetaking something that needs more structure (like a class).

nvAlt (and Simplenote) has felt better for faster scribbles or notes that are technical cheatsheets and such.
As bad as strong parameters is, it was still, at the time, a decent improvement over its predecessor, attr_accessible.
An animal has a ton of data input.

Eyes, ears, nerves across your skin, group behavior, parents etc.

This to comprehend (alone the visual) is gigantic.

A brain also has an architecture which is NOT similar to what gpt-3 does

Alone the difference in how brains train alone is huge.
> the whole process should be translated into English if the country wants to attract foreigners to come here and set up companies

Good luck with that - Ausländern setting up companies in Germany without speaking German. They'll probably incorporate in Estonia or Ireland. It's way easier to set up a company in post communist Eastern Europe.
Hopefully no super funds were dumb enough to get involved with this stuff.
Why is it greedy to ask for money in exchange for content? They are being transparent.
In Europe. the greens are only talking about it, but no concrete law was proposed or even planned afaik. But VW did talk about no longer selling ICE cars in 2035 [1]. But as always, 2030 is long ways off and there is probably a lot of marketing in it, let's see how it plays out.

[1] https://carthrust.com/2021/06/28/vw-says-no-to-ice-powered-c...
That this comment is in every discussion of TV tropes is a weird trope in and of itself.
Whats the status on this? How long before the component model is something we can use?
I normally appreciate links to studies with numbers in the comments, but as the others have pointed out: This article is referring to that study.
well that was rather my point. Estonia makes it easy for non-Estonians to incorporate there. Germany should do similar.
Regardless of where it should be immediately placed in your own wallet.
Well let's certainly not investigate money flowing to one of the most corrupt countries in Europe through one of the biggest ponzi schemes we've had in years and just write it off as another conspiracy theory.
Have you sacrified pay to go into that field and how do you deal with that? You may still know people in the startup space, maybe some of them got quite wealthy while you are strolling along with your nonprofit (no offense, I just assume you wouldn't be paid as much). For me this issue is hard to deal with because I used to work at a FAANG, I burned out but don't think I could go back to tech at a tiny fraction of the compensation.
Who are the users of KrakenRF?
> was FUD and a distraction from real problems.

or actual malice from the bad actors paid for by the fossil fuel companies to spread distrust in the transition to a more sustainable clean energy system.
FTX's co-CEOs together donated tens of millions of dollars to
both GOP and Democratic candidates in the midterms. Not exactly a partisan issue.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbf-has-been-a-significant-do...
Elon Musk doesn't understand GraphQL & blames 1000s of poorly-batched RPCs
Reminds me of this old article on London waterway names: https://londonist.com/2014/08/how-londons-rivers-got-their-n...
Jailbroken (and maybe used) older generation eInk kindle?
We use Gitbook. like this: https://documentation.vincross.com/
One new item I learned: "The largest asset on FTX’s balance sheet was $2.2 billion in Serum (SRM) tokens — another project where SBF is a cofounder. The free float on SRM is currently $120 million..."

The hubris is stunning.
So if I punch you in the face and steal $100 once every day for 30 years, all that is required for perfect fairness is today I merely stop punching you and stealing from you. I get to continue to enjoy my much greater security in life and your reduced ability to compete since I have all your money and have maimed and damaged you. Got it.
> and i know A LOT more people, who'd like a kid, but "when they can afford one", and that 'when' isn't 'now' (mostly due to housing prices)

On top that, I think stress from modern life contributes a lot. Anecdotally, my partner and I had been trying for over a year, and as soon as we went on holiday and detached from our stressful jobs for a couple of weeks... boom, pregnancy.

I can't say if life easier or harder 30 to 50 years ago, but there definitely seems to be a lot more stressed people than there used to be.
This looks very cool, I will be signing up and testing it out! Quick question, how many hours per week would you say it took over the two years to reach this point? Full time or part time? Thanks.
Beautiful to observe this happening from a socio-economic complexity point of view.
what jurisdiction is this in

disclaimer, i'm not related to krakenrf
Long term it saves time though. Once you start seeing how often TV/Movies lean on the cliches the site deconstructs it kind of ruins much of the mass produced low quality media these days. So you don't have to waste time watching them anymore.
> or Coinbase

lol if anything, FTX has established that you should not put your coins anywhere. Which is a lesson that should have been learned almost a decade ago.
It is not OSI open source, since it doesn't allow unfettered distribution of original or modified sources.
Box breathing has actually worked for me. It's a nice quick way to get a moment of calm in a busy day. Just a few minutes can make an immediate difference in mood.

There's a zillion apps; I tried a lot of them and settled on Breathly. The UI is simple, it's open source, and it's free without bullshit. https://github.com/mmazzarolo/breathly-app
It's German bureaucracy, of course it's incomprehensible, slow and in person.
Do we owe this to that Minecraft welcome message? Or is fundamentally one of those self-fulfilling prophecies? .
Sadly, the future of software is to become bloated and slow, for business reasons. Any software that is not bloated has fewer features, and can be relatively easily duplicated by a competitor. From a business standpoint, this is bad and a danger for the company survival, as it can now be replaced by a competitor that can crank more features into the product. By adding more features, companies pretty much guarantee that the software will also be slow, at least for a significant number of user cases.
Ok then what do you think all those Coca Cola ads are? At it's core, Coke is just sweet flavored water but in most people's minds it's much much more. All those ads have fundamentally changed the way people think about it. Sure it translates to sales but people don't think of Coke as just another cola drink. And that's just one example.
From what I've heard with Godot there's basically two paths you can take there. Pay another studio who has experience getting the engine to run on consoles to share their engine modifications with you or even port your game to the console for you, or you can have your developers take the time to get the engine working on the consoles yourself. For a studio without many engine programmers, the former is probably more likely to happen and they may either take a cut or charge a flat fee, but the option to do the engineering yourself is still always on the table.
Then start to add all aspects: security, network delay, service downtime.

I think baas is bullshit for security reasons alone.
> it fails in some baffling, opaque way.

It's weird that it actually fails in some ways, and constantly. But then, I myself use it only as a background music player during the week, and as a podcast player in my car, so I definitely don't use it in a variety of scenarios.

> At that level it’s more of a management and prioritisation issue

Actual failures are tracked and prioritised. Sometimes the fixes don't get propagated to all systems quick enough, or they are deprioritised because there's something that affects an even larger number of users (it could be anything from parity of features to bugs to certain behaviours).
You can try to build a monolith that is modular enough to break up later. But I have never seen it happen, and I’ve been around for a while now.

What actually happens, 100% of the time in my personal experience, is that you end up with both the old monolith and new microservices, the monolith never gets fully broken up, and now you need to support two development paradigms forever.

Has anyone here ever seen a monolith be successfully 100% broken up into microservices?
Is there a specific technique that worked for you? I've done a bit of mindful meditation, which is breath-related, and tried box breathing, too. I have a specific breath pattern that I use when I want to fall asleep, as well, and it works wonders, though I'd be hard pressed to describe it at all.

Box breathing specifically doesn't do much for me, though.
Here's[1] a Wim Hof breathing exercise with 56 million “views”. I've been doing it for two years now. I watched the video once (the narration is painful) and I've been doing it without guidance since. I've had been doing box breathing, some pranayama and reichian breathwork before I started doing this one, but somehow the Wim Hof one completely took over. It's been very valuable to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ
Are you familiar with the Gato paper from DeepMind this May? I say this not as a gotcha, but as a genuine question that I'm interested in your response to.

> Inspired by progress in large-scale language modelling, we apply a similar approach towards building a single generalist agent beyond the realm of text outputs. The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding based on its context whether to output text, joint torques, button presses, or other tokens.

> During the training phase of Gato, data from different tasks and modalities are serialised into a flat sequence of tokens, batched, and processed by a transformer neural network similar to a large language model. The loss is masked so that Gato only predicts action and text targets.

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/a-generalist-agent
But a bunch of it is easy.

Are Unsafe Rust and Procedural (as opposed by "By example") Macros easy? No, unsafe Rust is potentially really hard. If you are implementing a new concurrency primitive or something you're going to need at least the expertise you'd want for the same work in C++. However in Rust you know where the line is, "Huh, I need unsafe, I should find a grown-up". And knowing that the problem areas are flagged gives you confidence everywhere else.

But many ordinary programming tasks are pretty easy, compared to Python you will spend a bit more time with the compiler refusing to compile your program because it's wrong, but on the other hand a bit less time with the program failing at runtime for trivial reasons a compiler would have spotted (compare what happens if you typo a variable name in Rust versus Python!)