skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Livestock and domestic animal vectors can be though.
> A) Why async in the user code? Is it really necessary?

We support both sync and async mode. The Python ecosystem is in a state of flux at the moment between sync and async, so it seemed like the best approach to offer both and let developers choose.

> B) Can you mock pipeline events?

Could you share a bit more details on what you mean, to make sure I understand correctly?
I remember it the other way around, Google killed Talk and repeatedly replaced it with non-XMPP things while XMPP survived to this very day!
On the cultural barrier part, vocaloids are nowhere touching the leaderboards even in Japan, so it is far from being a widely accepted thing yet.

To me the most interesting part to vocaloid is the ability for a sole producer to make a complete song without any external help. The vocal parts have always been a barrier, and while emotionless and still lacking in some areas, vocaloids are “good enough” to support a well produced song.

We’ve seen creators rise through the ranks through vocaloid, get experience and exposure, to then move to full professional production with a staff and an actual singer (who’s voice will also be heavily processed, but they have a ton of tuning experience at that point)

I also agree with the parent comment that some creators do benefit from the “mechanical” part. Throwing more links, Giga works with both singers and vocaloids and is pretty good at extracting the best of boths: https://youtube.com/c/GigaVideos
He's doing his own fair share of polarization too.

"Ukraine should just let Russia keep what they've got now, and agree to their demands and wrap this all up."
Divers find Challenger space shuttle wreckage off Florida coast
To my understanding, he's only laid off teams that he doesn't think are important so far. I know everyone is talking about 50% layoffs, but from what I can see that hasn't actually happened yet, it's only confirmed in the sense that it will happen.

I'm happy to be proven wrong but I just don't see anything saying that, only teams that have been reduced by ~15% and other teams which have hardly been reduced at all
It can be, under the article 434-15-2 that is about that. The decision today is an explanation to French courts about how to interpret and apply this law. The context is a person formally arrested for drug possession and trafficking, who was formally requested under this law to unlock their phones (allegedly used for drug trafficking) and refused.

Rough quick translation: "Is punished by 3 years of prison and 270 000 euros fine, the action, for whoever has the knowledge of the secret means to decrypt cryptographic means likely to have been used to prepare, facilitate or carry out a crime, to refuse to submit said ways to authorities or apply them, upon official request under II and III of criminal code.
If refused, and providing or applying said means would have allowed to prevent a crime or reduce harm, punishment is increased to 5 years and 450 000 euro fines".

French: "Est puni de trois ans d'emprisonnement et de 270 000 € d'amende le fait, pour quiconque ayant connaissance de la convention secrète de déchiffrement d’un moyen de cryptologie susceptible d'avoir été utilisé pour préparer, faciliter ou commettre un crime ou un délit, de refuser de remettre ladite convention aux autorités judiciaires ou de la mettre en oeuvre, sur les réquisitions de ces autorités délivrées en application des titres II et III du livre Ier du code de procédure pénale.
Si le refus est opposé alors que la remise ou la mise en oeuvre de la convention aurait permis d'éviter la commission d'un crime ou d'un délit ou d'en limiter les effets, la peine est portée à cinq ans d'emprisonnement et à 450 000 € d'amende."
I briefly experimented with using such an agent to communicate with a separate hardware firewall and found it was not worth the effort for myself and a better solution was just sandboxing anything I don't trust in a VM, since escaping a VM is harder than compromising the local agent to mask the traffic as coming from something else.
Would be interesting to know if the company is recapitalized/option pool reset and what the new deal is for the remaining employees in terms of options like a traditional startup.

Would lend credence to the belief to have outsized returns for the brutality.

I'd also imagine if this ends in a positive financial turnaround, against all expectations of the peanut gallery, it would be a really impressive career achievement.
Certainly nothing to do with the ridiculous gun laws. No sir. It’s multiculturalism.
> In Japan, the term is "denpa" (電波ソング)

In Japanese, there is no distinction between syllable-final [n] and syllable-final [m]. But in English there is. Traditional romanizations of Japanese will transcribe this as "dempa", for the obvious reasons that (a) that is what the Japanese spelling says; and (b) that is also how the word is pronounced.

I often see English speakers get very confused over exotic modern transcriptions such as "denba" or "senpai", believing there must be a reason they are written that way. But I'm not sure what that reason is supposed to be.
Thus, instead of

- Fruits
- apple
- orange

you must write

- Fruits

- apple
- orange

This is an obvious non-starter.

(edit)

...we allow headings to "lazily" span multiple lines:

> ## My excessively long section heading is too
> long to fit on one line.

What?

...if you open a code span and don't close it, it extends to the end of the paragraph. That is similar to the way fenced code blocks work in commonmark.

> This is `inline code.

Is this a joke?
I like using https://altsysrq.github.io/proptest-book/intro.html for those very reasons. https://github.com/BurntSushi/quickcheck came first, but I prefer proptest’s implementation more than quickcheck’s type-based one
Caroline Ellison - CEO of Alameda Research.
I have worked in both semiconductor manufacturing and drug discovery industries. Reliably and profitably producing 5 nm chips is an extreme engineering challenge, but- it is an engineering challenge. Drug discovery is a question of science and requires a fundamentally different mindset that semiconductor manufacturing. Human biology is much more complicated than manufacturing chips (and that is extremely complicated); drug discovery is about "unknown unknowns". Discovering a drug that has the intended effects without causing terrible adverse effects is something that some of the best-funded companies on the planet struggle with.
Goose wash is the problem with single file. Goose V takes advantage of the up current you get from the neighbors lift. Geese and evolution clearly understand areo better than current HN.
Yup! That gives you an idea of roughly how much it costs to acquire customers and Keep them!
I love working remotely, I definitely feel like I am more productive and pretty much all of my colleagues feel the same way. Perhaps individually, we all are more productive. However, that said…as a team we are simply not as productive as we were prior to the pandemic. No one wants to acknowledge it, but it’s true. I suspect we are not the only ones.

At some point someone in a decision making role is going to see it too, and at that time we will all be disappointed.
Thanks redwoodjs is exactly the type of suggestion I Was looking for. That looks great. I really like that they consider the full stack and leverage existing technologies where it makes sense (a huge + to me)
Show HN: A cmd tool to view your AWS VPC Peering topology
Be that as it may, YAML has plenty of edge cases that make it the wrong choice.
Username doesn't check out.

But seriously, not only is that probably enormously harder, you realize companies would still make money off of that treatment, right?
FYI one of Dagger’s developers runs the most excellent, and breath of fresh air really, Ship It podcast, which focuses on CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (and always be improving!).

https://shipit.show/
Looking at the Tuft website https://sites.tufts.edu/foodcompass/research/data/ it's clear they were focusing on within-category ratings. Celery juice > apple juice and quinoa > tortillas is not going to surprise anyone. And for seafood, salmon has been promoted many times as a miracle diet food. I can't spot any obvious problems in these within-category charts.

If you take a within-category metric and try to selectively apply it across food groups then of course you will get weird results. Is a broad-band metric more useful? I'm not sure. There are meal replacement products (shakes, bars, etc.) but besides those I think you need to break down your diet into at least a few food groups - protein, vegetables, etc. Just taking a random selection of items will probably be deficient in some important nutrients.
you could also put the passengers more towards the middle and the fuel / cargo on the tips. Doesn't solve the problem and balance would be tough I imagine.
This has nothing to do with Bitcoin or not. Bitcoin was probably one of FTXs largest assets. Every cryptocurrency allows self custody, as this is core to the concept.
are you agreeing or disagreeing with me?
PD is a distance between pupils' centers, not pupil and the nose.
Truth is he probably wanted to eliminate even more staff than he did. It seems like he wants to get the smallest possible team that can keep the core product of twitter running, platform for posting small content blocks.

He fired teams that he didn't believe were core to to that strategy and removed WFH. What he is left with, theoretically, is a hardcore group of people dedicated to the cause and willing to put with anything he might do.
> It would be a remarkable bit of luck that Elon stumbled into both Tesla and SpaceX, took on the role of lead rocket designer at spaceX

If Elon can understand even half of how "his" rockets work I'd eat my hat. I'm not talking about in layman's terms, I'm talking about the actual science that goes into it. Same deal with car design. I'll give Elon props for having a vision and pushing it forward but let's not say ridiculous things like "lead rocket designer at spaceX". That's like thinking Tim Cook could write a line of Swift if his life depended on it or that Zuck knows more than a surface level of how FB's tech works. I don't exactly begrudge them for that (I won't get into profit sharing, or the lack there of at most companies) but let's not pretend that Elon is himself coming up with revolutionary ideas. Putting his money behind this is laudable, at some level, but he didn't invent these things any more than Steve Jobs "invented" the iPhone.

We here on HN should know better than most how "worthless" an idea is on it's own. It's about execution. And Elon gets props for his execution (in this case hiring people who did the real work) but he shouldn't get all the credit for the work of the actual engineers.
localizely.com is free for open-source projects
For those of us who like the openbsd ksh(all two of us) which is derived from pdksh. there is the project oksh.

https://github.com/ibara/oksh

I don't know if this is helpful or just annoying unsolicited "advice"
Many sans fonts including Helvetica, Inter, Franklin Gothic, etc., do not properly distinguish I and l.
And you know I'm ride or die brother - I'd jump on Ariana Grande for you
I don't think I've ever seen a company leave a question of "possible" layoffs up in the air like that. If they happen the announcement is made the same day, otherwise you have people questioning their employment for months.
> RE to below: (due to timeout)

There's no timeout. It takes a little while for a reply link to appear on the main page, but if you click directly through to the comment, you can reply.

> In classic HN autistic pedantry, if someone puts a gun to my head and demands my wallet and I hand it over -- well your honor they were never forced to do it! You see they were just threatened to be convinced to hand the wallet over!

I'm going to take a last run at explaining this to you. I'm not telling you that the government cannot force you to do things. I'm telling you that the government cannot force you to testify against yourself, because that's how justice once worked: you chose somebody you thought did something, then tortured them until they admitted it. This is the beginning and the end of self-incrimination. It doesn't give you the ability to refuse to give your photograph, it doesn't give you the ability to refuse fingerprint or DNA collection. It, in fact, doesn't give you any ability. It restrains the ability of the government to punish you for not testifying against yourself.

> In classic HN autistic pedantry, if someone puts a gun to my head and demands my wallet and I hand it over -- well your honor they were never forced to do it!

I really have to bail, because this is stupid. The government can take your wallet. You are not allowed to keep your wallet because the things inside it can incriminate you. By your own tortured reasoning, self-incrimination would include someone else physically holding you down and taking your wallet.

Nothing can be self-incrimination that doesn't require you to be alive to participate in. Any inability to understand this is willful, and you're only hurting yourself.
Much more advanced, indeed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/form...
The timing of this is the content - not the ending of remote work issue. It's using the news cycle and a hot button issue (end remote work) to bury the regulatory liability of the headline of the 3 chief complaince officers resignation the day before a FTC complaince filing.
Pale in comparison
US was in range of WW2 weapons or Pearl Harbor wouldn't have happened. Sure it took more resources and coordination then just shooting a missile, but Japan clearly in range.
(and Why) to Unboil an Egg
True, likely the main impetus was to influence politicians in order to secure favorable regulations.
In ancient Greek πολύπους (polypus) is the more common and generic term, ὀκτάπους (octapus) the term for the animal, and ὀκτόπους (octopus) a possible synonym that seems to be used more often for the scorpion (which also has eight legs) or as an adjective for anything that is eight feet long or of eight square feet in size. Really, the English should be "octapus" or "polypus," and curmudgeons who want to feel superior to hoi illiterati polloi should cherish this treasure of pointless trivia.
https://www.science.org.au/curious/technology-future/how-and...
Are you able to set a new pin or fingerprint from that state?
Yes, it's clear Gordon has applied a mastering limiter to the tracks he delivered to Bethesda, and given that the style of the music involves heavy processing/effects and multiple levels of compression, a somewhat aggressive mastering limiter seems appropriate here.

But your point about "increased dynamic range" due to the editing errors is a distraction from your claim that Gordon applied a mastering limiter (which he clearly did). It creates ambiguity, because you're using it in a way that's not aligned with common usage in this context. That's part of why you're getting pushback.

In any case, if we want to try to answer the question of why the OST has low dynamic range (in the mastering limiter sense), I am somewhat receptive to ndepoel's argument - it seems reasonable that in-game tracks could be mastered more aggressively, and with lower dynamic range, than what would be appropriate for a proper OST release. Caveat: I haven't done mastering work in the context of game audio so I can't say if that's common practice, but it seems a little more likely than not.
COUGH! IBM! COUGH! GE!
Ask HN: What does a solution architect do?
I think I’m one. I used to be a developer, but now I spend most time in meetings, creating tickets, and pushing tickets over the finish line. I’ve noticed I’ve had to drastically improve my writing skills. I function as a support agent + developer + consultant.

This role feels like I’m wearing too many hats. I don’t mind. The team is only 4 people. No one has the knowledge I have so I feel special on the team.

Any book recommendations for what I’ve described would be helpful! Thanks.
He voted for Mayra Flores in June:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-drifti...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1536973965394157569

Mayra Flores is pro-oil and pro-gas. She says the "oil and gas industry is critical to the success of our State and Nation". And that she "will always work to help the oil and gas industry and stand firm against radical policies that would undermine it":

https://www.mayrafloresforcongress.com/issues/

She's an election and January 6th conspiracy theorist:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/mayra-flores-cap...

She lost her seat in the midterms:

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-mayra-flores-blamed-vote...
Ukraine claims big gains, fears Russians will turn Kherson into 'city of death'
It was seriously impressive. I wish I had a backup of just the website and library itself, even if the torrents and tracker were gone forever. The meticulous organization of the library was a thing to behold and a great way to discover music.
I mean, there are definitely stations that the MTA has not rehabbed in the last 30 years. There’s also no realistic plan to renovate every station either. (And they do need it, many stations have water damage and the like)
Do you have any writing I can read about your classification? This sounds extremely interesting and useful. (I have some related thoughts, but not 20 years' worth and largely not recorded.)
That’s the 10 billion dollar question.
DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA = The Lord is my light
> How does that fit in NASA’s mission?

That first A there in NASA stands for Aeronautics. Advancing aircraft design and technology is part of NASA's mission. It's even in their official mission statement:

> NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.
When dash came out I was a massive fan but found the abstraction layer not quite right.

When writing a python script you tend to think from top to bottom - as your script runs through. Dash adopts the html approach of defining a document and callbacks. After doing the refactor to this model I found the trade-offs of Dash wasn't worth the time saved of going straight to a more traditional stack, and again you're pretty locked-in to this choice now.

One example was writing a Dash SSO component turned into quite an ordeal (more so than most SSO integrations) - my aim here is to make an extension like this easier because you've got access directly to the FastAPI app with `hs.app`.
It's "Call me" pricing :-(
It seems very tonedeaf to describe the welfare of Amazon employees in terms of the health of the job market. Have you considered the employees who can't find a better job elsewhere, but also feel insufficiently compensated for their time? I believe it likely that you'll find more in that group than either of the two that you described.
Hahah it can go both ways.

You can have 2 major rewrite over 3 years
or you can have a new temporary-became-permanent bug fix.
This this this. Musk isn't trying to win a popularity contest. He's trying to narrow staff down to that 10% that can do 80% and build back from there. A very cutthroat capitalist approach, but was anyone expecting anything else from the guy who ordered TSLA employees back into factories during covid?
To me, languages are all Turing complete in a similar way to how all food contains calories. Some are better for your health than others.
Yes. I own several systems and am not susceptible to motion sickness.
Ask HN: How did early streaming services populate their music databases?
Sorry if this isn’t the right place, but I figured someone here might be able to answer. I’ve been watching The Playlist about Spotify’s first few years, and this is a question that has bugged me in the past.

Even way back then, I remember using Spotify and finding pretty much whatever I wanted to hear.

Did the companies (Spotify, Rdio, or others) build the technology and then negotiate with every record company to get the data? Did they rip a bunch of CDs (seems impossible) and then work out the contracts afterwards? Was there already some sort of online distributor they could get the data from?

I guess even now I’m curious what the flow of data looks like. I’m aware of a few independent distributors like Tunecore, CD Baby. I imagine there’s some sort of online data pipelines set up for this now, but I doubt that was the case back in 2009.

Anyways, I’d love to read more about it if anyone has some links to share or comments to add here!

Thanks :)
The key to this optimisation idea is the exponent gets truncated back to 8 bits when being written back to memory.

For the example of two fp32s adding to infinity.

With 15bit exponent: The add results in a non-infinite with exponent outside the -125 to 127 range. Then when writing back to memory, it the FPU notices the exponent is outside of the valid range, clamps it and writes infinity to memory.

With 8 bit exponent: The add immediately clamps to infinity in the register. and then it writes to memory.

In both cases you get the same result in memory, so the result is valid as long as the in-register version is killed. And the same should apply to the subnormal case (I have not double checked the x87 spec). If you start with two subnormals that are valid f32s, add them, get a subnormal result and then write back to memory as a f32, it should be guaranteed to produce the same result with both a 15bit exponent and a 8bit exponent. It doesn't matter if the subnormal mantissa was truncated before writing back to the register, or writing back to memory. It was still truncated.

You only start getting accuracy issues start doing multiple additions in a row without truncating the exponent. If you add 3 floats, the result of A+B might be infinite, but A+B+C could result in a normal f32 if you had a 15bit exponent (when A+B is positive infinity, and C is negative)

This line of thought could potentially be pushed further. If you can prove (or guard) at compile time that all N floats in a sequence of N adds will be positive (and not subnormal), then you can't have a case where one of intermediary exponent exceeds 127 but then the final exponent is less than 128. If there is an infinite anywhere along the chain, it will saturate to infinity. With 15bit exponent, the saturation might not be applied until the f32 value is written to memory at the end, but because of the preconditions the optimiser can guarantee the same result in memory (either infinity or a normal) at the end while only using 8 bit exponents operations.

Most of the above should also apply to other operations like multiply. I've only done some preliminary thinking about this idea, enough to be sure that some operations could be optimised. I'm only fully confident about clamping to infinity case, and I'm going to be really bummed if when I get around to double-checking, there is something about how the x87 deals with subnormals that I'm not aware of. Or some other x87 weirdity.
Not sure. In the devolved administrations, Scotland in particular, my understanding is they locked down for longer with more restrictions and actually had higher death rates (other factors may be at play here to be fair) or very similar levels:

https://www.ft.com/content/0eccfeef-2913-43a7-9518-6728f15e5...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/covid-lockdown-s...
This is not true at all.

If you are the only person in the world with the private key to your coins, you are the only person who can move them. Period.

FTX is a centralized entity that custodies funds. It has nothing to do with a blockchain, which could have completely prevented this.

There are many examples of decentralized exchanges (DEXs) for which it is mathematically impossible to loan out depositor's funds without their consent, because the only person capable of signing a transaction to move the funds is the depositor themself.