skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yay - you're still alive!

Seriously, I read that title and panicked. I remember watching ZDTV in high school, and listening to twit podcasts up until 2011-ish? We're taking about the foundation of my love of tech. The early-90's to early 2000's pre crash was an amazing time to come up in the internet. Even the post crash boom was like the wild west compared to today. You were there producing content through it all.

I got off the habit of tuning in after I abandoned itunes and the iphone for Android. There just wasn't as a robust podcasting network on Android at the time.

It sounds like twit is still going strong. Time to check back in!
IMHO you can be a genius in a few areas of expertise but you cannot be a genius at everything. There is no such thing as a person who is a genius at everything so every person we call a genius is actually a genius at a few things at most and not all things.
I love that Slack is the first icon on the list :D it's kind of true though, It's probably the worst offender.
Yeah. I had an awful time with it. I can’t describe my dream because it doesn’t belong here at all, and while it wasn’t a nightmare so to speak, it was extremely unsettling.

It has a sort of vividness and trueness to real life that, given the subject of the dream, was totally unwelcome in my mind and eerily blended the dream world and real life. I’d never experienced anything like it.

Somehow the dream also felt long. Not long for a dream, but like an actual day passed. It was a seriously unsettling experience.
It's bad enough with an ssh session to a bastion on the other side of the pond...
At first, a much better service than anything we had seen and 1 GB of free storage.

But I think the service truly exploded in popularity with Android phones asking people to either sign in or sign up.
Looks like short term thinking to me. Great for the next two years, but a problem after that, but hey can always have another job by then so it will be someone else problem.
To find old things like that, use the search box at the bottom of the page: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=adobe+voco. Big splash 6 years ago, then nothing.

It seems Adobe never advanced Voco past the research project stage ([1] via [2]). I'm guessing they had trouble getting it to work reliably on a wide-enough range of real-world audio.

[1] https://community.adobe.com/t5/audition-discussions/beta-tes...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Voco
> Once, Mr Ordeñana captured a video of P-22 making plaintive mating calls. They would never be answered; the freeways and development surrounding Griffith Park guaranteed he was walled off from any potential females and would never reproduce.

As much as P-22 ended up being a sort of local celebrity, I wonder if it would have been more humane to relocate him to somewhere he could interact with other mountain lions, not to mention that it may have been safer for him, too.

Sure, ideally we build spaces that are safer for wildlife in the first place, but that ship had already sailed in this particular area, and any positive changes would have come far too late for P-22. He might be still alive (and happier) in a different place, even if it might have been an adjustment for him.
Hotmail and Yahoo mail were the primary contenders at the time. Both featured banner ads at the top. Because CSS and HTML were in their infancy, the height was generally fixed, and on smaller monitors it could take up 1/3 of the screen or more.

As I recall, Google had no ads. A small text ad, maybe, but I think that was added later. They also did a much better job of removing spam from my inbox. In addition they offered a lot more storage for free, which was actually a concern at the time. I'd have to go through and purge my email because simple emails with images were forcing me to manage my old emails. This became a problem over time with Hotmail, which I used, because I wanted to save some emails for their historical value or value to me.

Gmail jumped right on common features like folders and tags, and continued to expand further than other free email clients with better search functionality, easier multi-account SMTP and POP management through a single account, which I use for my 15 email accounts to this day, and automated filters that allowed me to make sure I saw certain emails or didn't see others unless I wanted to.

I think for most people it was just a clean interface, more storage, and better spam. But it also had features for more advanced users that made both tech amatuers and pros prefer it.
Not only freakishly tall, their average grew 20 cm in less than a century!

Apparently, aside from better food, natural selection also had an effect [1].

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.201...
IntelliJ you buy and you keep what you buy. That's it. You can pay each year to buy the "latest" version, with a price decrease every year until the 3rd year.

You can use the version you buy forever.
... where every action costs user some real money.
Right, like all of Google’s other profitable businesses not related to search over the past two decades.

But I’m sure they will get right this time.

Did I mention Google Fiber? They literally abandoned cities and left streets in ruins.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...
But we can't even "bookmark" or save a position in a playlist. No way to place a pin in a playlist, go listen to something else, then come back to that playlist position. Major let down of Spotify playlists.

Also the mandatory syncing across devices is annoying. I sometimes listen on my PC, and don't want my phone to lose it's place where I paused it previously.

Also finding playlists by "humans" not algorithms seems deliberately blurred. Spotify wants to push certain content, so they've designed their service to make it unclear or unintuitive if you want to find playlists curated by people only.
I know a bunch of fellow Indian Devs who tlpride their Jugaad code and they're all horrible developers. Never do Jugaad.
While not giving any energy back, Teslas can now detect when regen breaking is limited, and blend in the regular brakes for you, so that you don't have to change your driving style. It has only come out in the past couple of weeks, but I cannot tell the difference when regen is supposedly limited after enabling the feature. Before it was a little dangerous to have to modify your driving style and watch out for how much regen your car uses compared to its normal amount, since after a week of driving an EV in the summer you don't ever really touch the break pedal.
Firefox is a particularly bad experience over X forwarding these days.

Turns out lots of software depends on at least minimal hardware acceleration.
Please no. Every dev I know who fantasizes about the Jugaadness of their code is an idiot. Don't be like them.
spam filter and large e-mail storage got me to switch. In short,they offered a better product and it was free. Also, very important, it was easy to switch. It took little to no effort.
Wow that turned out very clean. This person must be rather experienced though. I appreciate that they laid out the design process there.

If you like this you may want to check out Ben Eater's series[1] building an 8-bit computer from 7400 series chips if you haven't.

1. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...
Love the reviews.
Some people act like villains and it’s okay to call them villains but if you dig deep enough to understand their motives they’re usually just misunderstood and actually not villains at all. Makes sense to me. Thank you for explaining!
If you want prestige, Amazon did spend $1 billion on their middling-earth multi-ring documentary about tory political infighting or whatever it is.
I feel this is suffering from the typical US problem that public infrastructure does either not get built at all or in a super expensive way. There must be ways to build these crossings way cheaper than 90 million and place them in more locations. They only have to hold animals that at best weight a few hundred pounds.
Hard agree! But Twitter is in serious meltdown, which makes it a good place to start.'

Long live the Fediverse!
This is why I think JetBrains nailed the pricing with IntelliJ. You own what you buy, and can use it forever. You pay for upgrades. That's it.
Me, as a QA in Microsoft. I assume other groups in Microsoft at the time were running it too. I wrote a bit about that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639461
With the exception of a new-account troll, it's really heartening to see all the positive comments here. I clicked through expecting that, but also expecting to read a bit less compassion, and a bit more "these are human spaces" type comments. Nudges my faith-in-humanity meter up a little bit to see advocacy around wildlife crossings and just making human spaces respect wildlife more.
Tried it. It works! I always wanted this. Thank you YoutubeTranscript.com person(s)!
wow this is a garbage fire, Im leaving

- another relevant PG quote
I'd agree with that. And also add to the list (for later, maybe) two books by Steve McConnell[1] - Code Complete and Rapid Development.

[1]: https://stevemcconnell.com/books/
The experience of time has as much to do with focus and your capacity to take in information at a given moment. With sports, it is quite possible to play for many years and never gain enough skill to truly play well. When I have had a time slowdown experience, it has often come after a change of approach in which some aspect of the game that previously had been hidden to me is suddenly revealed. I'll never forget the time that I saw two defenders in front of me jumping up for a rebound and I was able to simultaneously see them and the trajectory of the ball and realize that they had jumped in the wrong direction and that I could easily swoop in and claim an easy offensive rebound that I wasn't even planning to go for. It was truly like bullet time in the matrix, but it was also a completely mundane event in a random pickup game with rather mediocre players (including me).

At the absolute highest level, the game plays you as much as you play it. I have the most experience with basketball, but I am certain what I'm going to say applies to other sports, including but not limited to soccer.

With a rhythmic sport like basketball, you can gain a huge advantage over most amateur players by simply learning to play with rhythm. If you can dribble rhythmically, then you free your mind up to focus on the game situation rather than the mechanics of dribbling. It becomes like improvising music. At your rhythm, the game has a pulse. In between beats of the pulse, aka your dribbles, you can analyze the situation and adapt your approach depending on the position of your teammates and the opposition. If your opponents are not playing in rhythm, then they are stagnant and it should be easy to get by them. Even if they are playing in rhythm, if you can play at a faster pace than they are, time effectively slows down for you relative to them because you can make more changes of direction than they can in a given unit of time. When you are at your best, you are simultaneously aggressive and completely passive. You are dictating the terms of engagement, but accepting whatever the game gives you, knowing that you will always have a good option (provided you have developed sufficient skills, which does take practice). This is what I mean when I say the game plays you. There is a reason why we describe great athletes as unconscious and they report having out of body experiences.

Just because you have never experienced this doesn't mean that you never will. I played basketball for more than 20 years before I had the above time slowdown experience. It only came after I had been focusing on rhythm while learning a musical instrument.
> burning time to setup their own unique snowflake of an environment

Anyone good is doing that even if you tell him not to. One size does not fit all.
I had one for running very early builds of Win64 at Microsoft. It was a very aesthetically pleasing piece of hardware. The builds of Windows I ran on it were truly at the stage of "hey it built" so I remember getting a dialog one time that said something like "Invalid Error Code" with half the warning icon rendered and the other half random garbage. We moved on to IA64 and AMD64 shortly afterwards.
Which foreign language?
Why ironically? (Genuinely curious)
I'm pretty sure I can say I've listened to every episode of This Week in Google¹ since the very beginning. It's a pause whatever else I'm listening to and start listening to it event whenever it hits my podcast player.

¹ https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google

¹ Has been an increasingly inaccurate show title for many years now - covers many areas in the world of online companies and journalism these days.
I'm sincerely confused as to whether this post is satire or not.
Not for CLI tools.
It’s not just cost though.

Thanks to my employer, my wife and I have amazing insurance in the US that covers a ton. However even so, she chooses to fly back to Korea for healthcare. I didn’t understand it at first, but then I witnessed the Korean healthcare system in action and I’m an convert now.

Here in the US, you get sent to many different places for every procedure ranging from the initial doctor consult to getting blood drawn to getting an X-ray etc.ep etc., all punctuated by waiting.

In Korea, she went to one doctor and everything was handled on the same day in by the same doctor, or at least within the same building. A process that would take weeks or even months in the American system might take a few days or a week or two in Korea.
Used to be some of my favorite tech books, but these days it's so damn hard to figure out what books they still print if any, so I have mostly moved over to No Starch Press as my default goto for tech books.
That particular feature came from a language called Self, which was a prototype object based dialect of Smalltalk invented at Xerox PARC in the late 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

It was one of several big language influences for Brendan Eich when he knocked out Javascript in a hurry a few years later.
This reads to me like Twitter pushing back on the FBI. Am I missing something? How does it read if you previously felt the Twitter Files were significant?
He pivoted to podcasts a long long time ago: https://twit.tv. Tons of shows covering tons of topics.
They just have bad taste, or are overly fixated on later seasons.
Try the Chinese Communist healthcare system instead of the American healthcare system, and you will likely chande your views.
Something must be wrong on your system. I habe an previous gen ultralight laptop and opening the start menu is instantaneous.

Maybe try disabling indexing or those web search feature.
Yea, this is the fitness industry.

30 years ago it was a guy in a magazine on every drug known to man that would claim the reason for their size was Muscle Mega 3000 and then on the next page would be an advertisement for Muscle Mega 3000.

30 years ago Mike O'hearn was Mr Natural USA or some BS.

The same thing over and over.

If anything it was even worse 30 years ago when there was basically no information outside of bodybuilding magazines and even Mr Olympia would say they were natural. There was almost an unspoken code of silence and denial.

On the other hand, there are probably quite a few people today that everyone thinks are on steroids but they are 100% natural. People have such huge variance in natural testosterone levels.
Do you watch OTA live? I am shocked by the number/length of commercials on OTA broadcasts. Even when I watch network television from NBC/CBS/etc. on their websites, it's much easier to switch to a different window, mute the volume, and check back in a minute or two (and rewind if needed).
Everything should be pay-as-you-go. We need infrastructure for low fee microtranscactions. Subscriptions exist because of the minimums on card payments. You can't charge a cent to read an article because the banks will be taking 20c + 2%.

Micropayments are my dream. I'm extremely negative on cryptocurrency but the lightning network is the closest technology I have seen to achieving it. It is just a nightmare to use. I looked into going through banks and it was just a nightmare to set up something that had the hint of being a money service business. I will feel like the future has arrived when I can pay 5 cents for a news article or pay per second on a YouTube video.

Micropayments would also unseat advertising (and tracking!) as the defacto payment mechanism on the web.
Same story for me! I had just moved to San Francisco in ~2014 after landing my first Silicon Valley tech job. One of the first things I did was head up to the studios to watch This Week in Tech live. Leo was so nice and we chatted for a bit after the show and took pictures. I love that photo! I’ve been a fan since TechTV!

Leo in many ways has spawned a whole industry with podcasting and youtubers covering tech. Kevin Rose did a great interview years back with Leo as the subject and it was fascinating hearing about how it all came to be. Much respect!
It happened to me with both providers I mentioned. With Frontier, it's when they bought Verizon FIOS, and I lost several movies. On Amazon Prime Video, I lost 2 seasons of a British detective show.
Definitely not all those improvements. I can guarantee you that.
Using ChatGPT to write and direct a film in a weekend
I don’t go to movie theaters anymore because audiences suck. It been at least a decade.

Too many are not there to see a movie, but instead to laugh, talk, light up the room with their phones. Theaters don’t address this proactively, and getting up to ask them to do so means I miss part of the showing.

The odds of me enjoying a movie more at home are significantly higher, and it has nothing to do with the movie or the venue.
For context I built a straw bale home with a lime exterior plaster (carbon neutral on the long term scale) and clay interior plaster. The claimed R-value of the exterior walls is R44 and there is no thermal bridging due to the 20 inch walls that are solid straw bale with plaster directly adhering to the inside and outside of the bale. I think it's a high performance home... That said:

Part of the conservatism of building is due to building codes. Building inspection is fundamentally about risk management and my building inspectors wanted to see familiar products with already specified installation procedures in the building code - or else a detail stamped by a eg structural engineer so there is somebody to sue if things go wrong. In some cases they would also take a manufactured product with manufacture provided installation instructions.

Any "high performance" building that is innovative will automatically require a lot of additional engineering overhead to pass building inspection and in general residential building departments wish you would just do things like everybody else...
The article we're discussing is from Uber, which has a huge monorepo. It's exactly the use case they designed Devpod for.
I agree, I have been using https://freedom.io for a few years and like it. I also enjoy their podcasts.
Twitter Safety Poll: Block Advertising of Other Platforms?
As promised, Twitter is polling on the policy change implemented and reversed today. This may be no way to run a railroad but I suppose it’s worth registering an opinion if you’ve kept your account active.
assists?
> "Surely pretty much any equivalent gas car remote cabin heating too, it's a very common feature."

Remote cabin heating in a gas car requires a "remote start" feature, which is illegal in many European countries - particularly Germany. This is not a common feature in Europe, except in EVs.
PSG has that Qatari money. Barca isn't quite as well funded.
That totally won't motivate anyone to pirate removed shows.
I disagree. I never saw an ad for gmail. The initial exclusivity was a gimmick, but it was dropped pretty quickly. As I recall any user could invite 10 people, including their own email accounts. Also I got like 25 more invites for reasons I can't remember after 3 people signed up with my codes. If you couldn't find someone with an invite code, you weren't asking the right people.

I remember having to actively manage my storage space on Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. Some email clients would delete your email unless yous said otherwise or paid after like 60 days. Google gave way more for free. And the promise of "more storage" has continued, because I've only had to manage my email space once in a decade, mostly deleting daily reports that included big attachments. Also I'd have to sort through spam emails, which I don't think I even have the time for today. And then there were no annoying banner ads.

That's similar to the whole reason Google search caught on. They had a clean interface, fewer ads, and slightly better results. They did next to 0 advertising back then, unlike Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and Alta Vista. They just released a marginally better and significantly less annoying product.

The few products Google hasn't killed succeeded because they were legitimate improvements before their time or at least "good enough" alternatives back when people trusted Google more than Microsoft or other companies.
put down your car.

put down your air conditioner.

put down your suburban commuter "neighborhood"

put down your local whole-foods too

put down your phucking phone! and the data-centers that run the useless apps upon it.

there's a lot more to the problem of ecology than meat consumption!
Given the multitude of problems facing California this is an asinine thing to focus on. Rather than hoping for a celebrity mountain lion in your neighborhood you should probably focus on the problems endangering humans in your state.
As a user of modular synthesizers (and before that, long time users of all kind of software synthesizers) this article fails to find the apeal in modular synthesizers.

Yeah. Digital sounds are more perfect. Yeah digital can produce analog dirt as well. Yeah. Digital can safe and recall presets, does not drift with temperature, all true. Digital is superiour.

But it is not physical. There is something about having a synthesizer with a ton of knobs that makes you want to interact with it directly. Modular synthesizers are that to the max. There are no assumed connections. You can think about your synthesizers fresh everytime you connect it new.

I use digital synths when I want to quickly get a certain sound. I use a modular synth, ahen I want to get lost in exploring the possibilities, when I want the machine to influence me as much as I am influencing the machine. Patching a modular synthesizer is a dialogue and if you listen it will guide you to musical ideas that you would have a hard time even to put into words if it wasn't for that apartus.

And if you want it tobe a sophisticated drum machine, it can be just that. It is modular, after all.
Are there generators for programming exercises?
>3. Cast everything on sight to types that have same size as in 32bit.

Which is why on windows they defaulted to 32 bits for ints
Related - I spent years injecting molasses into the ground to do VOC remediation. https://semspub.epa.gov/work/HQ/401583.pdf We used GeoProbe tooling to get the molasses down there.
No kind of ads will work if your LM is skipping them. I am thinking along the lines of having an OS-LM or a browser-LM, should be a standard component.
If you're comfortable sharing, do you have some kind of severe dietary restriction? Do you spend a relatively normal (at least for HN) amount of time outdoors?
This sounds like a very unusual story, I would be concerned about some other underlying pathology.
I'm glad you're doing better!
I don't think it's worth what it costs.
80 million people is still a lot of people.
I won't say I was advertised to, but it definitely felt like a marketed presence. The slow roll invite may have been technically reasoned but I assume it was more an inclusivity trick.

The storage, though. That was the true hook.