skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people who think they hear a difference in their audio because they're using $30,000 gold plated wires lifted 0.25mm off of any surface such as to not disturb the audio harmonics or whatever voodoo they've been sold to believe in

You're obviously entitled to share your opinion, but also I also find your strawman a little offensive. Vocal pitch correction is a very real and very noticeable category of processing, absolutely not the same realm of snake oil bullshit as $30,000 gold plated wires. If it was, it just wouldn't exist. Why would anyone ever take the time to write software that correct vocal tuning if it made zero perceivable difference to the output?

> There are absolutely edits so subtle [...] Pitch correcting someone's voice up 1/1400th of a step is not going to be noticeable no matter how perfect one thinks their hearing is.

Nobody ever 'corrects someone's voice up 1/1400th of a step'. It just doesn't happen, human voice can't consistently hold a frequency to that resolution for more than a few milliseconds. For reference, a 1/4 step vocal oscillation is only considered 'moderate vibrato' [0]. Even a 1/128th pitch variation is rarely considered noticeable or consistent enough to correct. This is miles away from a '1/1400th' (which is also a very strange fraction to choose btw, even when you take harmonics into account).

I posted this in another comment, but you should take a couple of minutes and take the MusicLab Tone Deafness test [1]. It'll give you an idea of what 1/64th variance sounds like, and how noticeable it is or isn't to your ears.

[0] https://www.vocaltechnique.info/vibrato.html

[1] https://www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/td
20 Companies Hiring Digital Nomads in Poland!
> Incredible workaholism is not a “necessary” characteristic of a useful researcher.

Formally, workaholism might not be necessary to be a useful researcher. But it helps a huge lot.
Would be useful if this had a comparison with Emacs, which also resolves the GURQ.
Two goal post shifts in 1 sentence! "unmaintained" and "revenue".
What do you consider the function of the cyber truck?Isn’t it the opposite? I would consider an extended bed single cab pickup truck to be the ultimate functional truck.
This is exactly how undo works in Emacs out of the box. Personally, I prefer to install the undo-tree package and manually browse through the tree of undo paths. I'm not sure why this author finds a tree unacceptable for this purpose.
Yikes! I hope that was a corner, nee coroner, case, but it would not surprise me. My mother was a student nurse in the 40's. In the U.S. for context. She told me of corpses floating in a big tub, or vat, at uni, and that they had to take them out and dissect them for class. She didn't mention any peculiar schenanigans as you describe and I am glad she did not.
it is still fine
FTX turmoil destroys clout of crypto’s Washington spokesman
I suspect some people are forced to because they don’t have access to fiat banking through their exchanges. So Tether is their only way to move and store “dollars”. I would hope that we’d see adoption of better US-regulated stablecoins (and we have) but Tether remains sticky around the world.
Okay, I've got a question then.

If I have a label to some form element in italic, it would not be correct to write it as <label><i>Name:</i></label> , right?

There's no surrounding text it needs to distinguish from and the fact that it is a label should already point out to screen readers that it's a label, while adding an italic font to the label without the i should distinguish it visually, is it correct?
Nice! definitely going to try this out
Others demanding a "respectful" treatment, usually mean, that handling, diposal and research on remains, should be treated by a seperate group of persons. One which they usually shun socially, should they ever talk about or discuss there work or parts of it. So the respectful treatment, is actually code for "I do not want to talk about that, or engage with that, unless i must."

Meanwhile, pathology is such a interesting science. Especially the quite visual signs of self inflicted decay due to substance abuse or bad living conditions are very hands on. Also the realization, that the body is a self deprecating machine, adapting to all circumstances.

Great german book on famous dead people and the source of there demise:
https://www.amazon.de/Woran-sie-wirklich-starben-Pers%C3%B6n...
> Tesla also bifurcated the charger ports on the market

Not to defend Elon practices in general, but I believe Tesla chargers precede the standard ports in the US (and possibly in the EU)

I do not know whether Elon refused to open the standard or whether that was even considered.

the youTube channel Common Sense Skeptic has eloquent criticisms with little fluff: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKWj1pn3_7hRSFIypunYog
Then what's your definition based on your own goal posts?

Making software that's sitting around and doesn't generate any revenue? That's either a hobby which is fine, or is a waste of resources, both in development and in storage/deployment.

And if the 20 year old software isn't unmaintained but is actually constantly getting updated and support, then is it still 20 year old software or is it basically up-to-date software (the Ship of Theseus problem)?
Im surprised to see the alternative of a zoo higher than say, a library. Imagine being on a call with a potential vendor and hearing a monkey in the background.
Can someone clarify this?

> * Developers believe performance is speed. It isn’t. Performance is a difference in measure between two (or more) competing qualities, the performance gap measured in either duration or frequency.

Maybe I'm a dummy, but if someone says "make a fast webapp", I'll be doing things like reducing requests, optimizing queries, making things smaller, using the right data structures, manipulating data in a fast and/or memory efficient way.

This should result in lower loads, more stability, better availability, etc, so also "more performance". I do think of it as lots of focus on speed since, for the most part, I'm measuring how long it takes for a function/query/etc to run.

Happy to check out some articles/keyword suggestions.
I am sure plenty of inmates will be happy to make SBF their bitch. He is a smart guy, im sure he knows not to pick up the soap.
> I guess the most famous "hugbox" in that sense, is Truth Social.

It isn't. "Hugbox" is used pejoratively specifically to attack people with perceived left wing beliefs and associations. The idea is that people who aren't interested in seeing a ton of transphobic content or whatever are too "soft" to expose themselves to "real conversation."

"Echo chamber" is more neutral in orientation, though still carries a negative connotation. "Hugbox" is specifically slanted.
This can feel insurmountable if you didn't know Sum Types are a thing.

Once you've seen Sum Types it's obvious that you just wanted Option<T> - a sum of None and Some of your pointer / reference / whatever type T.

Thus type T must actually point at / be something, whereas Option<T> can be None, and your APIs can be design accordingly e.g. the function which always adds a Dog to this Kennel should take a Dog, not an Option<Dog> that would be silly, but the function to take the most recent addition to the Kennel back out would return Option<Dog> not Dog because if the kennel is empty there is no latest addition to return.
There is an excellent chapter in Ghost in The Throat[1] that answers this question in a somewhat more poetical fashion.

[1] https://tramppress.com/product/a-ghost-in-the-throat-by-doir...
> Most of Nim’s standard library collections are based on hashing and only offer O(1) behavior on the average case. Usually this is not good enough for a hard real-time setting and so these have to be avoided. In fact, throughout Nim’s history people found cases of pathologically bad performance for these data structures. Instead containers based on BTrees can be used that offer O(log N) operations for lookup/insertion/deletion.

I'm surprised that hash maps can stray far enough from O(1) to become unusable in hard real-time. Is it because RT systems have to use lower-quality PRNGs?
I don't think people realize that when you have a huge commodity income stream under threat of ceasing to exist, it's quite realistic to spend a huge percentage of this on lobbying to stretch it as far as it will go.
It's definitely more work than it should be to bootstrap Rust, but we should be able to rule out most "trusting trust" scenarios with a fully bootstrapped compiler, right?
Private, though you don't pay it out of pocket for 95% of stuff as the medical aid covers it using your premium. Public is probably much much cheaper (free) but not a place any sane middle class person here would ever want to experience.
How original a thought...
It is valuable, you can tell because companies like Google and Facebook have no intention to automatically forget old data, instead they are intent on keeping it forever. I expect they see data=money.
That's quite a weird framing of the result. The actual takeaway numbers should be that 83% of people would take some sort of action to attempt to rectify the situation and 17% would not act on the information.
> Everybody just wants wants wants and act like children when they don't get.

Wow, what an immature attitude YOU have.

Of course everyone "wants wants wants". You're displaying that attitude right now. You're feeling hurt about not getting more, because you want more. That's normal. That's OK. If someone offered to bump my salary to a million pounds for no reason, of course I'd take it.

You should probably try asking for a pay rise. Pay, in tech, has everything to do with your negotiation power, and almost nothing to do with how good you are at your job. Your job is to maximise your salary. For the person paying the salary (your boss), their job is to minimise it. They're not doing it because they despise you, think less of you, or want to exact petty revenge on you. they do it because it's their job to keep costs down. Just like you would try to minimise the cost of servers, or software licenses. The sooner people understand this, the better for everyone.

Now go and advocate for yourself. If you really feel under-paid, ask for a raise. Threaten to walk (be sure you can actually follow up on that). If your contribution to the company is deemed to be worth the money, you'll get it.
https://gobyexample.com/ is one of the best interactive "courses".
could you link to a good tutorial?
You should talk to an older person from eastern europe, where believing in communism is (rightly) seen at the same level as believing in nazism (and in absolute numbers it actually harmed more people). Then you can reassess your comparison.
The dastardly National Parks system! (I’m also pretty happy with the FAA, Library of Congress, NOAA, NIH, NSF, etc)
FBI Arrests a Member of the LockBit Ransomware Gang
The alleged LockBit operator is currently in custody in Canada and will be extradited to the United States.
2...

In a sea of a 500,000,000 tweets...

...a day...

Are you familiar with the term statistically insignificant?
Quality 2 enables one to get away with all sorts of stuff including but not limited to 1.
This is what you get when product managers run a company.
Not the person you are replying to, but I agree with him/her.
The definition of a free market has to do with it being free from regulation, not that information is free [0][1][2].

The same thing applies to the claims you made in this post, but maybe you mean that all of these things have to be true for a free market to work well, rather than for it to exist?
Again, I still think this requires proof, especially with regards to information having to be free.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp

[2] I'm just an armchair economist though, so take everything I say with a grain of salt.
It doesn't have to produce revenue, it just has to aid in the production of GDP. I don't pay for Linux, but it is a key part of the GDP I am responsible for.

And while Linux is maintained, the vast bulk of the value it provides is quite old and almost unchanged.
Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
> SQLite has seen runaway popularity on HN lately and I bought into the hype too for a while but when I look under the hood, the 3rd party backup and replication stories just seem janky, tedious and not yet mature. It's the kind of thing where a misconfiguration could wipe out everything and/or waste you hours of time.

If you treat it as a database outside of your application code, yes. Its "database replication" tools are far behind.

But that's "using it wrong". Outside of the application code using it, a sqlite database should be treated as a file, that's the whole magic of it.

Backup and replication tools for files are great and mature, far more mature than for most database. Something as simple as rsync already covers 99% of use case you need for it.

If you need "live replication across multiple servers" or something like that, you're completely out of the scope of the what sqlite is made for.
YouTube desparately needs a leadership change. They make so many weird decisions that piss everybody off.

It's sad what YouTube has become. World's greatest educational resource turning into dust.
It might not be ”the solution” but it seems like this is the best solution these particular women have been able to come up with in the situation they’re in.

I certainly won’t shame these women for talking to each other about what men to avoid.
not sure how much of this correlation talks about founder's personality rather than turning the reader into a succesful entrepeneur. Not that there is no value in the books, but reading alone doesn't build companies, as well as correlation and causation etc,
Windows.

Depending on which API you are calling, you have to represent a “string” differently. This is just one example

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/text/how-to-convert-be...
At first glance it looks a lot like Go, but you can already compile Go to WASM I believe.

In which case I'm curious what are the differences or use case vs just using Go?
Youtube wants to become tictoc and everything they do is for that reason
Let's say at your software company a sales rep brings in $2M in 2022 and demands a $1.8M commission. What do you say?
I would imagine that there's probably a _lot_ of industrial machinery control software out in the wild that's still running on Windows 95/98/etc., where the company that wrote it probably went out of business 20 years ago.
What some activists miss is that to actually stop climate change, we need to accelerate the growth of developing countries. During development, emissions grow, and then decline; By accelerating the development process, we can reduce the duration developing countries spend in the window of high emissions.

This can be done without that much more effort from developing countries, except for absorbing the cost of renewables, the development of the tech, along with contributing technical know-how.
I'm gonna pick out one thing I'm always really curious about; what makes you trust a VPN provider more than an ISP? I've never quite understood this especially with how iffy and downright wrong VPN marketing (e.g. ad-reads on YT) can be.

- Why trust a VPN company more than your ISP? To me it seems like a commercial VPN could have equal or more incentive to do questionable things with your info.

- Is it somehow easier for an ISP to track my activity vs. a single VPN company whose servers I'd tunnel all my traffic through?

Sure, the ISP knows where I live and all that but it seems like a VPN could easily identify/know me to the same degree.

( - or is it like a self-hosted VPN sitting in the cloud, and would such a thing be practical/effective at all)
As energy prices fall and solar becomes more efficient we're likely to use even more energy. The post-energy scarcity stage for society will lead to wild changes, but some could be great. Many things that we see as wasteful today due to efficiency, like splitting hydrogen from water, become acceptable when the energy cost is negligible.
Last night, I had a look at my shelves. Several hardbacks had the old logo. However, four volumes of poetry--Jonson, Byron, Bunting, and Tomlinson--have only the word OXFORD across the bottom of the spine. Several paperbacks have a capital O with stylized crowns on the four sides, pointing out. One, from a "Galaxy" series has a black disks with a white band circling it, off-center and tilted. And books from the Oxford World Classics series just have OXFORD running down the spine.
Either I haven’t taken the time to comprehend each individual response to your comment or people are disagreeing with you solely for the sake of disagreement in defense of liberal democracy.
You have no way of knowing that, nor does the employer.

Maybe I have health issues, maybe I want to go back to school myself to get a more advanced degree, maybe I need more for Retirement because I will not have any kids to take care of me when I am old, maybe 100000 other things

However NONE of that is relevant to my wages, my wages and my co-workers wages should be set Solely and Exclusively to the value we bring to the organization.

if I choose to have 5 kids, or choose to eat fast food for every meal meaning my cost of living is higher should have ZERO bearing on my wages.
There's a filter for that on the home screen! It's called "new to me", and it shows up sometimes! Because why would you want something useful like that all the time? Nah much better to just hide it or not show it at all like 60% of the time.
Docker and corresponding tools.

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

And many others, really.
Those are some good points, but let's talk about OOP for a second. Isn't it just a set of conventions with intuitive names? The principles are often not followed as is with inheritance, and the other principles are applicable to other paradigms. In contrast, FP in its strictest form (best form) is formally defined by lambda calculus and extended via category theory. I agree there is no comparison between FP and OOP, but in my opinion it's because OOP isn't really a paradigm but a set of conventions that "lower level" languages made popular by making these conventions first class.

I think FP is the best paradigm because it is so well defined, but the biggest problem that I'm seeing is that it's not enterprise friendly. It's hard to scale teams using pure FP, it's hard for managers to intuitively grasp the concepts which decreases "transparency" and shifts the control to engineers (and unfortunately that is not good for most companies). If the software industry shifted to using pure FP as its main paradigm, the benefits would ripple across all layers of software. UI's would not be so unreliable, apps would crash less and crash gracefully when it happens. Then there is the development experience where we would see unprecedented modularity and reusability, functions would be written once and the stack would grow without reinventing the wheel. But again, this doesn't happen because it would require companies to let their engineers have much more control than the leadership roles are willing to entertain. The complexity and esoteric nature of FP would prevent non-technical people from overseeing the process.

Using the wizard analogy, the ivory tower is both a source of magic and inevitable isolation.
That's a good point. I've seen this myself during a layoff. The more senior staff (who, presumably, were earning more) were the first to go, save for a couple who were kept so that all the senior knowledge of the system wasn't lost.

This is just the application of basic economic principles to specific circumstances (sometimes, it makes more sense to cut junior staff because the senior staff too more valuable).
My favorite coworking space was Code & Supply in Pittsburgh. It was designed by programmers for programmers. Simple place, but really cool people with a similar vibe and tables with monitors you can plug into.

WeWork is alright, but a lot of the design and stuff fades away and you’re just working on a small desk that’s like a coffee shop with good internet and some phone booths.
People spent $8 just to make misleading tweets that appeared to come from verified accounts.

A lot of said people won’t be doing so next month.

Ad sales will drop because of it. If all it takes to put words in a company’s mouth is $8, why would the company want that risk? Where is the upside?

Is Elon Musk good at sales? Sure, the same way a lousy sales rep can pump their numbers for more commission. Just don’t look at the pipeline. And don’t ask too many question. Just look at the sales. Really just try not to look at any of it.

In fact, maybe look at Musk! There he goes running his mouth again. Did you know he’s a rocket scientist or something?

What were we talking about?
I know. Are you going to respond to the comment you're replying to?
When targeting hard real time you want strong worst-case guarantees, not weak probabilistic arguments like "we hope the hashes are distributed well enough to achieve O(1) in practice".

The malicious version of this is hash DoS, where an attacker chooses the values inserted into the hash table so they have the same hash (or at least same bucket). Randomized hashing using a secure hash mitigates this somewhat, but the attack is still possible to some degree, especially if the hash secret is long lived.

Another issue is that inserting into hash tables is usually only amortized O(1), with the collection growing exponentially when it's full. So most insert operations are cheap, but occasionally you get an O(n) insertion. However it doesn't sound like this is what the article is talking about.
Residents of states also pay state taxes, and in high tax states those can exceed federal taxes so the "they also pay Puerto Rican taxes" line doesn't get them off the hook in any way.
>>Thanks to this attitude birth rates have collapsed in most of developed world and we have 2 pensioners for every child.

Maybe they should have thought about that before they based retirement on the Ponzi Scheme of income based taxation
Sure, it can help. You'll advance in a lot of careers if you work more than 100% more hours than your peers. And if you are aiming for a good faculty position then a massive volume of papers is indeed expected nowadays. You might even perform more good science than your peers.

But that doesn't mean that your lab mate who is working sane hours isn't producing useful research that contributes to the community. Telling people that they simply don't have the personality to do science if they aren't allowing themselves to be abused is unhealthy.
If you want a challenge, try "The Go Programming Language" by Alan A.A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan.

It's somewhat akin to what "The C Programming Language" (K&R) is to C. It's a fairly practical and on-point, and has a lot of (somewhat tricky) exercises, while still providing a complete overview of the language.
The thing is that in this scenario you need to consider the worst case access, not the average. So instead of O(1) accesses you're stuck with O(n).
That's true, and it's why other sources of energy are useful still, such as wind and nuclear and hydro.

But I also think we'll never get to the point that everyone has solar installed. There are plenty of situations where it doesn't make sense, such as properties with lots of taller trees around short buildings.

Also, generating 120% generally doesn't make sense because the payout from the electric company for the other 20% is pitiful.

A battery makes sense for a lot of people for a few reasons, too, so the power company doesn't necessarily have to be the one to do all of that, either. We did it mainly for relief from power outages, but it also works well for places with prices that change by time of day.
You literally described what capitalism is all about: extracting the most value out of what you pay for the labour...