skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pi isn't really fast enough to process the speech in real time. deepspeech by mozilla was cited as an offline alternative to the Google speech API but it's difficult to set up with Mycroft and doesn't work very well (lack of data and lag - https://mycroft.ai/voice-mycroft-ai/). Because of this, Mozilla set up Common Voice (https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en) to help build open datasets of voice recordings.
Plants primarily photosynthesize visible light (400-700nm), wherein proposals to 'dim the sun' are speaking of infrared light.
>Finally, to get external traffic from the internet connected to my computer (and specifically to Nginx), I had to set up port-forwarding on my router.

FYI: Most providers will not allow this and will disconnect your services for it.
Wow, this is an effect of our financial crisis that I hadn't considered before... I'd be very interested to see the data on the proportion of people who have been laid off who were sponsored for H-1B visas.
Is this based on personal experience, or are you going by some well known publicly available stories about Musk?

I've heard pretty much every possible opinion about the guy, but the ones that impress me the most are that he loves to go deep into technical topics with people who know their stuff, regardless of their credentials. That, to me, is a sign of a man with deep humility and desire to learn.

At the same time, he's not considered a very diplomatic person and evidently is rather hard to get along with both in his personal life and professionally. Yet, his accomplishments are substantial.

So I would go with maverick, different thinker, fk your feelings, kind of guy who not only isn't afraid to break a few eggs to make an omelette, but probably isn't even aware he's breaking the eggs :)
Wouldn't it have been better if we could use something other than SHA1 as the actual name of something?

Where in the worst dystopian parts of software do we do this?

The SHA1 is kind of a security feature if anything, a side-show thing that should be nestled 1-layer deep into the UI and probably most people are unaware of.

Whereas commits and branches should be designed specifically for the user - not 'externalized artifacts' of some acyclic graph implementation.

Git triggers a product designers OCD so hard, it's hard for some of us to not disdain it for spite.
But at least you're contributing to science
Not tech but I'm convinced that just answering LEO requests from all over the world takes at least 500 people.

I subpoena telcos all the time. My sense is that the number is closer to 2 to 3 dozen.
I find that most cloud providers really earn their money from transit/bandwidth costs, whilst oversubscribing their compute resources to then sell them at a discount - does this not make the WireGuard proxying prohibitively expensive?
This isn’t surprising given that there are known genetic differences in how some African American people present and sufffer with high cholesterol compared to Caucasian Americans.

I don’t recall the specific differences, but I do recall that there are two distinct genetic traits which increase risk. Here is one of them, but I can’t find the other at the moment: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000512084017.h...

In both cases they’re not always present, but the rate of occurrence seemed quite high.

When I found that out I wondered how much that alters population statistics, because the rate of occurrence seems so significant. It seems like risks are generally higher for African Americans, and while population-based statistics are still useful (they indicate enough people are at risk that we should all be more careful), they would be more useful if genetics were factored in.
Thanks for the suggestion, but no. That seems really dangerous. If it gets stuck somewhere heavy or fast, that strap looks like it can take more than your body weight with it...
This is what I do unless I’m working with a large number of people on the feature branch (which is rare, usually that would be multiple branches).

You get the equivalent of “mergeless” history (just restrict your git log to merge commits) but can dig into the individual feature histories easily.
> Why on earth would anyone think a cooler but darker Earth is less of a catastrophic ecosystem change?

It seems possible to me, although definitely not certain.

The worst consequence would be less photosynthesis and less food, but we have surplus food production capacity on Earth. And maybe even that could be avoided if the blocking happens mostly in the infrared regime that causes most of the heating.

On our current path, we have areas of the Earth holding hundreds of millions of people which are projected to become too hot for human life for some of the year. Action that avoids that has something going for it, even if it also has downsides.
Indeed. Just translating it could be a team of at least N+0.5 people, where N is the number of languages you want to translate your product to (the +0.5 accounting for translation verifications). Even if you outsource it that just slows down feature deployment IME.

The people shouting loudly about how Twitter must have been so bloated are really just shouting their obvious inexperience working at global scales or their localized ambitions.

Could there be too many employees at Twitter? Sure. Most companies have dead weight.
The number who were "extra" is probably not 9/10ths the employees though.
I am entirely missing how Clickhouse solves the problem Twitter is solving out of the box, do you care to explain? Sub-question: how does Clickhouse provide monetization for a product?
I think WASM is filling in that gap to some extent. From the spec:

> Any interaction with the environment, such as I/O, access to resources, or operating system calls, can only be performed by invoking functions provided by the embedder and imported into a WebAssembly module

And IIRC, the core instruction set is reasonably compact.
To expand on this idea a bit, I don’t even drink soda. I don’t really use most of the company perks, and I would probably succeed in a moderate version of Musk’s culture.

And yet.

I think those cultural artifacts are a sign that at the end of the day the company will treat will respect you, respect your work and treat you as a whole person.

It’s both, they’ll give you the autonomy to own your work and won’t get mad at you for missing work to be at the birth of your first child.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-email-tesla-employ...
Yes, VLA is bad, but declare anywhere is very desirable. curl can't move due to old MSVC, but once that is solved, it would make a lot of sense to move to C99. The post itself says "It is not a no to C99 forever".
TL;DR. The latest version (105) of FireFox implemented the trick. Users don't need to do anything other than update.
Severe droughts are a reason to build more dams, not to demolish them.
It's using a neat numbering system called "decimal", you should check it out.
Over the years I have tried to compartmentalise by creating different email addresses:

1. a very old Yahoo address which I never care about unless I need to validate a sign up - a swamp of spam

2. a Gmail address I use for companies I buy from regularly - sadly now badly spammed

3. a Gmail address I use for money/banks and health only - not spammed yet

4. an account on my domain used by friends and family - spammed rarely

5. a Gmail account I use to consolidate the above (including spam) except #1 and where I read mail. By accidentally using it as a "from" in replies I do get some direct emails and a little direct spam.

Theory and practice turn out to be different.
Because "Ask App Not To Track" refers to (for all apps, not just the App Store) tracking across different systems/companies.

For example, a Weather app collaborating with an ad sales company to provide them tracking data would violate "Ask App Not To Track," but Facebook tracking you within the Facebook app does not because it's all internal.

The reason for this is just about the practicality of enforcement: You cannot enforce companies not doing internal tracking because they still have to collect data for their business, so how do you distinguish it.
Lisp macros are nice, but as Gumby said above [0] a common approach is to use Lisp's quoting abilities to construct a data structure that represents the problem at hand (in its own terms) and then create functions to parse / manipulate that data structure.

A classic example comes from Peter Norvig's "Principles of Artificial Intelligence" wherein he defines a subset of English grammar as a data structure [1]:

'((sentence -> (noun-phrase verb-phrase))
(noun-phrase -> (Article Noun))
(verb-phrase -> (Verb noun-phrase))
(Article -> the a)
(Noun -> man ball woman table)
(Verb -> hit took saw liked)))

He then goes on to define a function "generate" that uses the above to create simplistic English sentences.

Additional rules can be added by a non-programmar so long as they understand how their domain logic has been mapped to Lisp.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705558

[1] https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/docs/chapter2....
Thank you for this.

A lot of what you said lines up nicely with what the other commenter said.

I'll start practicing what you suggested. I do weekly bookkeeping for my family's finances, and I wrote a script to check it for inconsistencies. However, I'll also use it as a way to learn more deeply about the balance sheet, P&L, Cash Flow, and their links.

Thank you.
In this thread, nobody seems to understand the concept of "slightly".

There is a dimming effect every time there is a sufficiently large volcanic eruption. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sun-dimming-volca...

This effect is slight - not visibly apparent, you'd have to use instruments to detect it. That would also apply to solar panels. But this is the same effect as global warming in reverse.

If we have a top-of-atmosphere insolation of, say, 1300W/m2, and an emission of 1299W/m2 (not exact numbers), that will cause warming. If we add reflection, can we get those numbers to balance once more?

And note that this stuff will fall out of the atmosphere over a period of time. It would be an ongoing expense to do.

I don't see it likely to happen, on sheer cost grounds.

An alternative slightly more long-term plan would be a solar shade at a Lagrange point. Could even be used for space solar power, although at this point we're into deep science fiction. The Mars trilogy posited a solar Fresnel lens which would be used to warm Mars.
You can prevent a process from being killed by OOM killer: https://backdrift.org/oom-killer-how-to-create-oom-exclusion...
Because that same standard is being applied to CO2 emission, right?

What a double standard you have.
That's a big thing with Julia actually. A lot of people first getting into it criticise it for its use of 1-based indexing (I'm not the biggest fan of it either tbh), but in reality, there are very few cases in which you actually directly interact with array indices at all. And even if you do, the idiomatic way to iterate over the indices of an array is to use the `indices`-function, which has the benefit of working with multidimensional arrays, or arrays that start with an index other than 1.
There may be some extra trigger that causes it to go beyond seven for everything, I don’t know (never worked on a repository anywhere near that large), but there’s certainly still at least some form of collision logic in there (and this is why I said what I said, because I’ve used lucky_commit enough to experience it):

$ git init x
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/x/.git/

$ cd x

$ git commit --allow-empty -m one
[master (root-commit) 4144321] one

$ git log --oneline
4144321 (HEAD -> master) one

$ lucky_commit

$ git log --oneline
0000000 (HEAD -> master) one

$ git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author --allow-empty
[master 3430e13] one

$ git log --oneline
3430e13 (HEAD -> master) one

$ lucky_commit

$ git log --oneline
0000000f (HEAD -> master) one

$ git reflog --oneline
0000000f (HEAD -> master) HEAD@{0}: amend with lucky_commit
3430e13 HEAD@{1}: commit (amend): one
00000005 HEAD@{2}: amend with lucky_commit
4144321 HEAD@{3}: commit (initial): one

$ git reflog expire --expire=now --all

$ git reflog --oneline

$ git log --oneline
0000000f (HEAD -> master) one

$ git gc --aggressive --prune=now
Enumerating objects: 2, done.
Counting objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Total 2 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0

$ git log --oneline
0000000 (HEAD -> master) one
That flooding is actually highly beneficial to the ecosystems

While I don’t see a way it’s going to reduce future flood intensity like regular low intensity fires do, but like regular fire it’s needed for a lot of the ecosystem balance to function as it used to
I've heard stories of teams that were more or less dedicated to nothing useful except policing the company, product, and users for woke violations. All these "affinity groups" to ensure voices were "being heard" when decisions were being made or some garbage like that. In essence, at some point there was a takeover and senior leadership either agreed with it or simply didn't want to get into trouble like Google did with these things, so they just went along with it all.
Says "last updated May 28, 2021". Also has a year tag in the title.
Geoengineering is our plan B, or even plan C.

It’s a bad solution, but I guess it’s good to have it ready in a drawer if things start going really wrong.
Yeah, this is a classic 'nice to have' solution - it's a pain point in the process and so you hear feedback and requests for solutions.

But the real question to determine if it's a viable product/business is does it drive enough value that people will actually buy it, use it, and remain paying customers?

I'd say in your example above, it likely won't massively decrease costs (the salespeople are still having to interact with a CRM) or drive increased incremental revenue in any real way.
Serious but potentially seriously stupid question: If clouds cool the earth, and we have a fresh water shortage, what if we boil the oceans?

Hear me out.

What if we had large floating barges of dark surfaces floating in hot areas. And what if we set it up so the dark surface was just an inch under water. Wouldn't this cause the sun to evaporate more water than it normally would, thereby increasing clouds in the sky, and potentially addressing two climate issues at once?

There's probably a million reasons why that's stupid, but I can't think of them at the moment. Seems like a simple solution to a complex problem.
Depends on what specifically you mean by stack ranking.

The way that ratings work at Google is that each person is compared against the level expectations, not each other. But when you've got an org of 1,000 people it starts to become inevitable that some people won't be meeting expectations. If numbers are wildly off then there's some extra review to make sure that the org is training people to interpret the ladder expectations correctly. Sometimes this process breaks down and shitty directors give teams mandatory distributions. It's been done this way for years and years. I've never personally witnessed anybody get asked to bump down a rating they believed to be correct because of expected distributions.

Are there people who end up "ranked" lower than other people? Yes. Are those rankings decided by comparison with other people? Explicitly not.

The thing people usually worry about with stack ranking is people being incentivized to make other people perform badly or be perceived as performing badly so there is somebody to go below them in the stack. I don't observe this where I sit at Google.
Regarding your last part, it is true that hacks are a serious concern. I guess I just can't bring myself to think about that (for this data) since I already feel powerless. Plus these companies are already doing stuff with my data that I don't want so how much worse could hackers be? (I know seriously much worse but for me there is not much difference between Facebook/google having this data and hackers... I still did not consent to it).

I agree on people running. I have been saying for several years that if a candidate came out and said "I don't have a strong technical understanding of [insert important technical discussion], but here are the people I will keep personally employed to help me with that to answer that question" will mean a lot to me. But I also know that admitting you don't know something will be picked up by the media and they will be destroyed for saying that, even though in admitting it is really a great sign.

Many of the people in power may have people that can explain it, but they will never truly understand it. Especially when they have so many other things they also have to deal with.
The monstrous part is then saying we shouldn't look for lung cancer treatments.
> Are homes there air conditioned?

Air conditioning is becoming more and more common, but the same kind of brick wall with mortar was already used back when ceiling fans were the most common cooling mechanism.
The hard part of twitter is on server side.

I am not saying that writing twitter like app is easy, but writing it and keeping it running are two different things.

If you are not adding new features, you are just mostly keeping up with Android/Apple platforms, which can be annoying, but not that difficult.
> I have no opinion if demolition is right or not, but should it not make sense to also in the same bill fund a project to replace the lost power?

"Replace the lost power" is something the market will do without legislation.
That looks like a turd. Remarkable that they spotted it. Some people find all kind of things in fields, like stone age spear tips etc. I guess the key is to keep your eyes open and not immediately dismiss what you see.
The zoom is especially bad with raster OSM right now since they only support zoom up to level 19, which results in a lot of pixelation if you want to go closer than seeing an entire street.
Yeah, of course, I know. But thinking of good ideas is hard and working on the "how" somehow feels productive, so sometimes I fall into the trap.
Why do you need to control it yourself in order for it to be valuable as an open-source project? Maybe the team has a specific vision for the product, and reading through PRs from random people online takes away from their limited resources.
The trick was implemented in 105, but the latest stable version is 107 already.
Why would you think I may not despise working from home? I wouldn't recommend scanning back through my comment history because it's fairly dense and silly, but if you did, you'd find a recent comment where I believe I referred to it as "diet hell" because it only lasts 8 hours a day for 30 years as opposed to 24 hours a day for eternity.
Feels like one of those "ideas that sounded good in the conference room" that turns out to have unintended consequences.

Hopefully they can fix this and have an effective way to verify identity... or else just give it up and go back to the old, creaky, somewhat effective method since people are used to it.
What exactly do you mean by most? None of the ISPs I've used have ever done this.
Just for completeness I'll mention that there is another style:

start, count

This seems to be popular in .NET ecosystem.
if it was SHA256 we could find an usage for all bitcoin miners that we have...
WhatsApp and twitter’s latency calculations are on different things.

Twitter’s latency stems from calculating what tweets should show on a given request. Even if you try to show tweets from 1 minute ago, it’s hard to cache that stuff using traditional systems because of the fan out. If an account with 50 million followers tweets, you need to update 50 million timelines. How do you do that quickly?

And you would have to define maximum latency, is it seconds, minutes, hours? because you can’t have the timelines be inconsistent for too long as that leads to some people getting news faster than others.
You can always get an external SATA to USB adapter or enclosure, no?
I find it really interesting that today there are individuals who are able to fund projects that previously took the resources of an entire country to fund. It's got to be the invention of the Internet that has made this individual wealth accumulation possible.

Also, I'd like to see a list of all the suggestions that people have made for a better use of Musk's money than to buy Twitter.
The hubris in the climate change cult --because that is what it has become-- never ceases to both amaze and horrify me. Unbelievable.

I have said this here many times. If we continue to listen to these brainwashed cult members we are going to succeed at killing everything on this planet.

In a rational world, anyone proposing to control planetary-scale phenomena should be laughed off the stage. This cult has gained foothold in powerful political circles. This drives billions (hundreds of billions?) of dollars for research and general-purpose nonsense. The greedy among us (universities and private enterprise) jump on that bandwagon and promote the nonsense because it makes them millions of dollars.

It's a horrific positive feedback loop with potentially devastating consequences. The sad part is we are wasting time and obscene amounts of money that could be put to work on the reality of climate change, rather than the fantasies they continue to erect to keep the money machine going.

NOTE: In a rational world you should be able to get just as much funding from government to disprove or counter these hairbrained schemes. How much of that funding you think is available? Zero. Therefore, if you depend on research funding to make a living or a university depends on it to keep a department funded, guess what your conclusions are going to say, every, fucking, time?

Today, if you are a researcher or a business and dare go against what the cult has decreed to be "The One and Only Truth", your career is over and your business is going bankrupt. That should make everyone take pause. This is nothing less than Orwellian.
I am romantic about it - all the classics I read - the first program in C, in Assembler, in JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python - Charles Petzold, Stroustroup, Larry Wall - discovering procedural, declarative, object oriented, functional for the first time - setting up vim, working from the command line - gets me almost sentimental - and yet, I lost the passion, lost the drive, feeling burned out after years in the industry. I really hope I'll manage to reignite that fire. After all it's the only thing I'm moderately good at and I need to earn money to pay my bills after all. Working in the industry was only rarely living up to the sentimental romanticism you dream up as a youngster fiddling away in your past time after school. I'm working on it to stay positive - meditation is my personal defragmentation tool (those days when you could look windows - wasn't using Linux back then - over the shoulders organizing those colorful tiles - those were the days - when PC magazines came with CDs and funny programs on it). I'm not old yet really. I will have my come back. I'll show all of you. I know, I'm more than just a code monkey.
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He even mentions that it's Windows-specific, both in the commit message and in the article... and then seemingly fails to make it Windows-only? That's "not very nice" either.
> We love it so much we do it for free.

I think this truism is well overstated by HN regulars.