skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the market for musicians’ audio software and hardware is underdocumented. Despite this outstanding explosion (especially software), I fail to find "insiders" or dedicated open communities writing articles or books on the business side. You mostly hear the musical side because that's what the audience wants at kvr or SOS...

Don't you think this will give people like you (especially those not well connected) more granular insight to take the decisions they are hesitant about?

Personally. I'm just curious. I've been using VSTs for 20 years, and I find this power fascinating. So, I'm intrigued by all the human and market dynamics behind the scenes that make it possible.

Sadly, in our current system, less economic growth = less money is given to musicians = less money musicians give to tool creators. This may not even be a linear chain, so the effect get a whole worse at the end point (if you know what I mean)
Sorry, but proof of work is not an immutability mechanism.

Proof of work is only a way to randomly and incontestably select a participant when participation is open and no one is trustable, i.e., a consensus mechanism (which, once augmented with other conventions (I'm thinking of choosing the longest chain), will also prevent double spending).

But what makes the blockchain immutable is the Merkle tree structure (each block containing the hash of its parent) and the distribution of the data (which is what guarantees that participants have a comparison point to detect modification). It would work the same without proof of work. A Git repository has the same exact property.

If anything, proof of work makes mutability easier since it is only required to compute partial collisions to have blocks considered valid.
You used to be able to filter for just things sold by Amazon, but that vanished some time ago. Not that a “fulfilled by amazon” filter would do much these days because of how much of other sellers stock there is commingled in their warehouses. Same for the “prime” filter that is present if you subscribe to that, it filters out a lot of junk but far from all of it.
price of electricity should be doubled after a certain high use. lots of businesses just leave their ac and lights on despite not needing, all because its too cheap.
Qt supports WASM and I think anybody who wants to replace Qt framework is going to have a lot of work ahead of them.
> HN has always been quite anti-crypto

Not even a bit. The tide has changed after endless failures on the side of cryptocurrencies.
Depends what you are buying. You can often find things which are perfectly fine quality but too niche for westerners to sell near cost, like electrical and plastic components, basic tools, cables, etc.
BTW -- For these types of discussions, I think it is fine to share links. Don't feel bad. You can also add a disclaimer: "Sorry if this looks an advert." People will respect that here. :)

And good luck with your business!
adding a spectrometer[1] might be more efficent way to monitor sugar / milk / misc 'serial' issues.

[1] https://johnkoetsier.com/star-trek-tricorder-for-real-new-te...
I'd also recommend Naval's 1 hour meditation for 60 days.
Why would anyone not pick React?
> how cool it is compared to Linux.

It a matter of preferences. Linux is hard to beat, but so is macOS. OpenBSD is cool in its own little ways. For me it's the consistency and ever present documentation. FreeBSD fans will say: "FreeBSD has a the handbook, and it consistent", but it is not the same, it's not like OpenBSD. In terms of consistent feel (command line, documentation and system configuration) FreeBSD feels very much like someone made an effort, OpenBSD feels like they succeeded.

While OpenBSD can be a great desktop, even if it does require at little more tweaking than I care for. It's almost there, like an older version of Slackware.

For me personally, it's macOS desktops and OpenBSD servers, if possible.
Lotteries and casinos don't have massive externalities like crypto does. If running a casino required burning coal 24/7 to produce an absurd amount of energy, creating kilotonnes of CO2 & sulfur dioxide and causing respiratory illnesses, environmental damage, climate change, etc., then it would absolutely be illegal.
And they even provided a spokesperson to speak on record for it. Awfulness of the ads notwithstanding, I'm definitely impressed that Bezos let this run.
I suspect it's more about value of returned items than the quantity. I have returned ~half of the items I purchased in the last year
Ex-Twitter, Meta Employees Take to TikTok to Share Their Layoff Experiences
The as-fetch readme says undici is faster (which is the implementation of fetch that shipped in Node.js 18).

So 7 weekly downloads sounds about right for an unknown package that is slower.
A little off-topic, but: I just found out about Comma.ai and... is it really legal in the US? I know it wouldn't be in most (all?) EU countries, as modifications to the vehicle require certification by a professional engineer.

It's kind of terrifying that anyone can modify their vehicle as they please and drive it on the road with everyone else.
Utah just decided to switch his statue out from the National Statuary hall in the US capitol but there’s a lot of consternation over it. It might be back in 10 years.
But the regulator didn't refuse to allow anything.

They said FTX was an illegal, unlicensed, security exchange.

Then did nothing (except fine Kim Kardashian) despite it literally being their job, by their own admission (by their own demand really).

That's the problem here.
Keigo Language in Japanese: Sonkeigo, Kenjōgo, Teineigo
There is good and bad in all tools.
I feel that the danger with photos or videos is the loss of context, and living in the past. Maybe there need to be an open forum for each photo that people can comment on to help guide the viewer. It may be recorded audio as well. Either way, should viewers be left with no reference or insight? We have comments for youtube videos, facebook and instagram photos, but what about personal collections whether it be Apple or Google photos, etc.?
Oooh these blind Americans, why did they rely so much on Russian gas, and didn't invest more in new green nuclear energy? Now a lot of them will freeze to death this winter :(
It’s annoying because they used to give you a UPS label you could use, now they make me drive 30 miles to a UPS store.

I was able to get a label for one item and shove all the others in the same box and it worked. For now.
It seems like people are reading this like "add this thing to always busy wait so your site goes faster and drains battery" when in reality it's just saying "schedule low priority tasks to happen at next idle"
I want a government which is humble about its ability to declare an activity valueless to society. It would have been vastly arrogant to declare that cryptocurrency is useless in 2012. In 2022 it is… debatable.
Oh it’s crazy. That he’s spending 350+/mo on storage eats me up.
One of the things that suck most about being poor is that you need to have money in order to save money.
You need to have enough money to buy a certain level of quality, and if you don't have it, you're forced to buy cheap stuff that breaks more easily (thus spending more money in total).
I found this aspect hard to understand for others, the attitude often seems to be: "you don't have to be poor, you simply need to invest wisely!" This is true if you are free to choose to buy a new shirt now or save a bit and buy it later. But if you are running out of shirts now, you don't have that choice.
>I can be relatively sure I'm not getting ripped off by more than +/- 25% and that's good enough for me.

Look at Keepa for historic prices
What kind of question is that? Games or applications like Figma obviously require more computing power than a static homepage.
The whales are sad
Yeah I’m lucky in that everyone uses UPS or FedEx to reach me.
There are some technical inaccuracies in this article.

While Sarnoff did try to kill FM as a threat (more NIH than anything) The move to 88-108 had some other good technical reasons - the higher frequency is less prone to skip, multipath, and tropospheric ducting. When the band opens on 6m (where the original band was) stations hundreds of miles away can swamp local traffic. Because Television isnt subject to the capture effect, there are less issues with it with analog TV. The interference of remote stations at the frequency it happens on low band VHF, would have sunk FM in the long term.

AM Radio Bandwidth. The original allocated channel bandwidth for AM allowed closer to 11-12kc of audio bandpass, with 8-10 being pretty common - the quality was more a function of how the lines feeding the network traffic to the station and the station to transmitter link were conditioned, and often well into the 70's the STL link was a leased conditioned line from the telco.

I do not disagree that RCA used its market position as holder of most of the radio related patents to shut out Armstrong, and it was/is despicable - but not all of the bad thind that happened were just malicious to be malicious.
The certificate of this domain is expired. I can't check what it does exactly but I would guess that all your Cuckoo Cycle Proof-of-Work scheme does is [something equivalent to calculating hashes - something equally meaningless in itself - for all intents and purposes of your parent commenter].
No idea. He claimed on HN to me years ago that he found the Arthur Whitney k interpreter code[0] to be easy to read, and said that I was revealing my own incompetence by saying I found it to be quite impenetrable. I see only one comment under his name so he's somehow got his comments bulk-deleted.

He's undoubtedly a good developer, he's just also quite ... headstrong shall we say :)

[0] - see http://kparc.com/b/a.c, worth noting that I was persuaded by another much more recently to give it a shot so my feelings towards this style have softened slightly.
Maybe whales are just social mammals and the change in pitch is the whale equivalent of an accent or dialect. This could also explain why different regions vary (I’ve anecdotally observed this in crows over different geographic regions).
This is about crypto-mining operations that are running power plants that would otherwise not run. So to your point they are in fact banning the source of the pollution which is fossil fuel power plants. You're still free to pay market rates from the grid for your crypto-mining operations.
There is growing legal pressure to not consider an IP address used as evidence that the "owner" of said IP address is the one doing the activity.

For example, my IP address is paid for by me, through a run-of-the-mill ISP subscription. Does that make me legally liable for all the activity of the other person that lives with me and uses "my" network for all their private internet traffic?

I guess there are laws about facilitating piracy, and whatnot, but you can't reasonably expect me to screen all my fiance's activity on the network. Most of it is encrypted anyway. I can't be on the hook for that.

I'm privileged in that I have an ISP that feels the same way as I do about this. They've fought for the privacy of their subscribers before, and will likely keep doing so in the future, because an IP address does not identify any individual.
The ban is not specifically for bitcoin with asic mining, but for all "proof of work" operations. You are right that most bitcoin hardware is not general purpose computing hardware, but I would still defend the liberty of a business to optimize their hardware for whatever their compute objective is.
Of course, these are just details that make the differences in mortality rates completely unsurprising.
Will that help us have fun on the moon? or should it be someone else?
To add to that there’s also scriptable for JS
Scamazon just sucks now. It was once good, but every time I go to use it I waste time and get frustrated. I now only seem to buy stuff where the trade off on research vs going to store is not worth it and buy their probably crappy prime brand batteries.

I've been floating like $100+ of amazon credits for months because I keep getting damn gift cards and more credit from returns. Sure there is things I kind of want, but I end up saving it for things I need, and then when I waste time researching what to buy on Amazon, I end up not buying it on Amazon because of their awful fake reviews and cloned YGGFSS named brand items.

It's a real shame that brick-and-mortar stores don't realize their advantage is that I'd rather pay more and drive to pick something up TODAY than waste time waiting and risking garbage on prime, yet they flood their own stores with "online seller marketplace items" or nothing is ever in stock.
One effect of a service degradation like you are describing is that people will hit Reload more often when things appear broken, further increasing the load. This can quickly lead to a cascade failure at a tipping point.
I would be very interested to see a citation and also to know what other large exchanges do this.
This would be a great role for Josh Gad.
Thanks for your comment! I'm actually working on this point to fix it as FAST as possible! sorry for that...
Nice project! I like the goals, and hope we see more good ActivityPub options like this. Just a note that the web UI isn’t formatting correctly on iOS!
Are there any plans to create a bridge to Azure issues? I searched for an open issue but couldn't find one.
> why not a carbon tax scheme for everyone

Because the world is not fair and a general carbon tax will not get passed.
Not sure about the faster shipping.

Maybe if you live in a town with a Cheesecake Factory (tracer for retail competition) you get two day shipping with Prime but if you live a little further out, two day shipping probably went out during the pandemic. This is not about the feasibility of AMZN offering it to you because it is frequently unavailable in the same zip code as their warehouse.

Every other retailer seems to get me things in two days or less but I get packages from Japan faster than from the AMZN warehouse that is a 3 hour drive away. They must be spending the money they saving on shipping on Alexa or something.
I agree on this. Poverty, in this sense has, more to do with being than with having.

A friend of me recommended to me on this subject the book: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_at_the_Bottom).
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So if you hire 6000 people in Ireland you can doge taxes for all the products sold in Europe, right?
If you think the corporate tax thing is a bit much, up until the 00's there was two areas in the country that were entirely tax-free to operate in.

I'm sad I never got to take advantage of it, though there are still a load of companies still operating in there. GE being the most notable one, I think.
Thank you so much! What's your project?

Here is the roadmap for the future:
· Audio sharing
----> FOR YOU · Convert Text To Audio
· Convert PDF To Audio
· Convert Photo To Audio
· Chrome extension - to convert while browsing
· Mobile App - to manage audios everywhere, simply
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this happen. Also look at how some YC leaders have recently praised Musk’s management approach RE Twitter.
Can you name a country that has enough censorship in your view?
What version of the US are you talking about? Perhaps the shame that the author discusses makes a sizeable amount of poverty not visible.
It's 12.33$ for me
https://i.imgur.com/hWyQ466.png
I can’t remember the list of thousands of excuses I came up with :)
This does not do what you think it does. You're tilting at windmills.

It's not about doing stuff in a tab that isn't in focus. "Idle" refers to the main thread idling in the page you're currently using, so it's about controlling the execution order and priority of JS tasks. E.g. on Google Maps you give priority to rendering the visible map tiles while deferring preloading the surrounding non-visible tiles until the main thread is unblocked (and thus idling).
And even that is not guaranteed. Lost of secondary sellers on their 'marketplace'. I order lipton tea a week ago and it's still not shipped.

I don't remember how this is called, something like a honeymoon period. Most of the web love bombed us with unsustainable (loss leaders like) offers until they got everybody hooked and now they rely on habit, laziness and reduced competition. It's somehow quite a shame.
It's my computer though, and I'm paying for the electricity to run it. Why is it any business of yours what calculations I run on it? What an absurd statement.
Maybe we should just call them pedant wires?

Man on internet tries to correct things outside his control, news at 11.

Today, a random person on the internet took it upon themselves to let the rest of the internet know that someone was doing something they did not like. Themselves, in all things being perfect, decided it was high time to correct the pedantic use of a word in a way that differs from their personal use. In other news, the internet yawned, and went about its day.
Same!

I was planning on buying a new Tesla next year before Elon literally turned into Scrooge McDuck
Brief discussion of Takahe in the TalkPython podcast here
https://youtu.be/LhBfMoR3bvI?t=2369
That's not the only one. I'd appreciate a links or see also section in the readme with links to similar projects
Filter by seller is still available
I understand that and am challenging that mindset. We are all seemingly in a hurry to diminish ourselves on the basis of external value judgments that are often arbitrary or unbalanced. Why do we value extraordinary athletes over extraordinary caretakers? If you are comparing yourself to others constantly, you are unlikely to reach your full potential, which is going to more or often than not inhibit you from being extraordinary in the conventional sense anyway.
Let me guess that you write more code than visual art?

Isnt it a bit anthropomorphic to compare the two algorithms by "how a human believes they work" instead of "what they're actually doing different to the inputs to create the outputs"?

These are algorithms and we can look at how they work, so it feels like a cop-out to not do that.
I use Google Colab notebooks frequently. Free if you want, but I pay $10/month to get better GPUs for deep learning. Easier than using my GPU rig at home.

Not really Jupiter notebooks, but I am starting to experiment using GitHub Codespaces which is a remote VSCode environment. I like it for when I have unusually library requirements and setting up a container for sporadic use is sometimes worth the effort.
> There is no recognized cryptocurrency addiction.

Crypto speculation. Like all speculation is ultimately gambling, which people can get addicted to.
An irresponsible centralized exchange crashing doesn’t challenge the fundamentals of the bitcoin protocol.
I don’t think Proof of Work should be illegal anywhere. The value is not in what is computed but in what properties it gives to the system.

What should be addressed though is the problem of negative externalities not being priced in. This is not specific to energy usage of PoW or any other use of energy. Those producing emissions should categorically be required to foot the bill for repairing any damage done and those taxes should be put to use to that end. Once priced in, many things that otherwise commonize costs but privatize profits may prove to be not worth pursuing.

If the societal good done by certain things is worth the negative externalities, those can be explicitly and transparently funded through subsidies which offset some portion of the costs.
The issue isnt just stock levels, it is stock levels at a specific distribution hub.

As i posted i ordered a few items on tuesday and delivery will be friday.

One of the items tracking details shows me that it is being shipped from a city ~ 120KM away yet there is a massive 1,000,000 square foot hub within waking distance from me??

Tracking hasn't updated to show me where the rest of the stuff is being shipped from so i can speak to the entire order.

This gets to the CORE issue with amazon. Because i no longer have prime my stuff is almost intentionally held back to encourage me to get prime?

It will not surprise me at all to see that when shipping is finally updated the other items on my list come from the local hub.

Not all hubs hold all items and because of this your shipping times can fluctuate.
Bitcoin mining uses energy, it does not generate it. What needs to be regulated is the dirty ways of producing energy, they should be banned out right. All fossil fuels.

But miners just pay their energy bills like any other citizen. Who are you to tell them what activity should they perform with the energy they purchase?
not only is there derelict wireing in houses, there is very often derelict wireing to the street, and often spare or derelict "pairs" at the demarcation blocks.

with a signal sniffer, a jacknife, and stealth, all while wearing a grey hat, one could revive parts of the analog phone system
I would have thought that agglomeration of economic opportunities and desirable quality of life in urban areas for working age populations is some of the “root” of the problem.

And also the aging demographics, leaving fewer and fewer younger age people to support more and more older people.

>I'm thinking if each rich old person in the village paid a subscription for a dedicated local care team who lived together in a nice house in the village (like 30x people paying £1000 a month to support 5 people) then that would be a balance for a very decent care wage + consistent high quality care

What is your basis for thinking 5 people would have the expertise to support 30 old people, and they would do it for 6k pounds per month each, and live in a single house together?

I highly doubt that a person would go through years of grueling medical training to live that lifestyle.
I haven't but I'm not sure it's really necessary. What needs to happen first is a large enough usage of git-bug, or at least a large enough use case coverage. To do so, I think it needs:

- support for pull-requests

- support for external auth in the webUI, to make it work as a public frontend where anyone can browse and interact with bugs like any other forge

If that happens and people are convinced, I'd think that git-bug would become a natural companion for git. Then it's just a matter of packaging.
What are your thoughts on this: The FED is this launching this service mid 2023? - https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
I think this is a prime example of why the fediverse won't even come close to replacing Twitter for Twitter users.
for me no, anything perl-related is not simple

I also tried putting this question in GPT3:

> Isn't simpler to use perl?

> It is simpler to use Perl, but it is not as efficient as using C or C++.
For the architect / construction engineers out there.

I'm always a bit concerned where I see those wood projects I really wonder about two aspects:

1- thermal conductivity. How well isolated can they be when you have full beams of wood with one side outside and one inside.

2- durability. I really appreciate wood for SOOO many properties, but what is really the realistic durability of woods? from an ecstatic standpoint, from a maintance standpoint (do I need to regularly treat it), and from a functional standpoint (what happen with heavy duty use)?

Would love some inform opinion
NewEgg rather infamously scammed Linus Tech tips and thousands of stories of them doing similar came out (myself included). I don't know why anyone buys from them. They will commit outright fraud and steal money from you.

Amazon at least maintains the fig leaf of plausible deniability and part of that is no questions asked returns.