skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing I have in my "someday" list of tasks for Glancer is the possibility of adding/using the whisper binary to get captions when/if unavailable. Aside from that I just keep it more or less working by using it myself (and to be fair on this one, I wish I wrote it in another language, Haskell can be a bit finicky to build if you do it sparingly).

Any addition that is on the "view" layer (the generated HTML) is very easy to add, just needs to go into the template file, at some point I might tweak that area but currently have no outstanding idea/requirement. The rest (i.e. the bulk of the code) is just a very bare-bones parser for captions that should be pretty stable and need no additions (crossing fingers here).
I am sure governments will be able to externalize the cost of such an undertaking to Dupont and 3M, right? Right?
Because one is a forum the other is a microblogging platform.
You are right about the "coger" (to pick up / to fuck) part. But fútbol is just the sport. You'd talk about "coger la pelota / balón".

I'd assume is the same in Argentina, but I do not know that for certain.
The wind turbine is some very large blades on a very large stick turning a generator that is under much higher loads in the wrong direction sitting on top of a big slab or buoy of concrete or steel.

A pebble bed reactor is basically just a ball pit full of very expensive balls that will "get cheaper with scale bro we swear" that gets hot and needs stirring from time to time.

The steam generator part, even if you're not using one that already exists, is about the same cost and upkeep as a wind turbine as the added maintenance from the temperature and steam is roughly offset by the smaller size.

So it comes down to whether the ball pit once it gets all the indirect and hidden subsidies that nuclear gets can be about the same price again, then the slightly higher load factor makes up the difference.

My money is on we get a few shoved down our throats whether we like it or not at prices about comparable with wind (lower up front but more expensive once it's obvious that O&M is 5x the estimate), then the IAEA and NRC will be all shocked pikachu when they start dispersing a not-immediately-provably-fatal amount of fission products as if it's a surprise and not inevitable. Then the limits will be raised during some energy crisis pointing to the failure of wind after a large storm knocks out a bunch of power lines and one wind turbine.
I agree with you. I simply have no words for how much this pisses me off.

I'm seriously considering importing my next car from Russia or India or some country where consumers aren't as easy to abuse and defraud as they are in the west. But getting it certified for the road might be difficult, and I'd basically be on my own regarding maintenance. I live in rural Germany with close to zero repair shops close by that are capable of servicing non-German cars. (Okay, maybe there's a Ford dealership here somewhere, but that's just about it).

Wasn't "consumer protection" something that governments were supposed to be doing? Where are they right now, as they're watching this shitshow?

The way it worked in the software industry was that the move from purchase-prices to subscription prices was a huge structural change that made it difficult for consumers to compare prices and lead to a drastic price increase.

Consider Toggl track, a time-tracking software that I like to use and that, at $9/month without any predatory subscription tactics, I consider very reasonably-priced. ...but at the same time, I can still recall a day when you'd pick up small software utilities like that from a Radio Shack. They came on floppy discs (later CDs) in cardboard boxes that would cost you maybe $20-$30. This was to own the software and you could use it for the rest of the hardware's lifetime if you didn't do any OS upgrades. (often they would even survive an OS upgrade or change of hardware). That was so much better value for money.
I think the show "Lost" showed that many shows simply don't have any kind of long-term direction; the writers just make stuff up as they go along.
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> Globally networked computers exist and they trivially render any information abundant at negligible costs

So you'll be okay with me photocopying a printed book you published and giving it away for free, because "trivially" is a relative term, and I can certainly "trivially" reproduce your book a million times (compared to 12th century monks copying holy works by hand)?

> Attempting to make it work requires the destruction of free computing as we know it

And I suppose copyrighted printed books (and poems, and song lyrics) destroyed "free press" as we know it?
I got to know the world of voice acting because I am a sound engineer and I had to record quite a few people. I started when I took acting classes, but the truth is that since I was little I liked to clown around with my voice. I've taken TONS of classes over the years.

There are so many genres where a voice actor can do voice acting. Think of anywhere you hear a voice. There is a voice actor behind it.

I don't know what area you live in but if it's something you're interested in, I'd look into where you can take classes.
Counting pitchforks doesn't make the pitchforks objective.
It's the same for every field these days. A relative of mine, as part of his bar association continuing education requirements, attended a seminar on helping minority juvenile defendants. Instead of teaching useful things that might actually help these kids like, y'know, strategies for securing better plea deals for your clients, the whole thing was about recognizing the white privilege inherent in the justice system etc etc yadda yadda.
Thai warship sinks in severe weather, leaving 33 crew missing
What blas implementation does numpy use on Windows?
This is a supercomputer meant for academic and research use primarily. The computer thus must support a wide array of users, who'll be working on an even wider array of software, much of it very much not optimized for anything in particular. Now, the FZJ that hosts this machine has a department that aims to help researchers optimize (and professionalize, i.e. tests and CI and such) their software. We can help optimize your tool for our particular machine, or some other hardware, and we make some tools that help you use supercomputers (some of our users, perhaps many, are not trained software developers at all, let alone habitual HPC customers).

So, the hardware needs to be general purpose, because the software it's going to run are not known yet, and much of it will be barely executing ("research software" ;)).
Sony Music, Virgin Records, Universal, and other music producers upload tracks to FRP. DJs download them and mix. The platform unites 12 000 DJs.
I will not be surprised at all if many of these words are simply not used in 10 years.

Stanford is about as influential an institution as we have. When tarball and gray hat are seen as racist there are no bounds.

The bold black aggressive lettering on a white background on that Stanford page is next. I am surprised no one noticed that actually.
It is safe to assume that they just never even heard of the half of those US military actions. Ironically, things like "Nothing happened in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989" (nothing happened in Yugoslavia, nothing happened in Yemen, nothing happened in Syria, nothing happened in Somalia) are extremely common in Western info-bubble.
Or they were using Docker on Mac
The "Why Pascal is not my favourite language" essay mentioned used to get cited frequently,
but a lot of its criticisms are either irrelevant or just plain incorrect with respect to Delphi and co. e.g. "There is no 'break' statement" - In Delphi, there is. "There is no 'return' statement" - yes, there is.

It became a recurring circular argument at that point, with rounds of

"This essay is just wrong now."

"that just shows that Delphi is not Pascal, the essay is correct for _Pascal_ as standardised";

"then why does this essay keep being raised as if it's still relevant to Delphi, when it is not?"

"That's a misinterpretation",

"yes, one that newcomers make constantly. It's harmful."

The article is probably accurate that this essay was influential. "Was it correctly so?" is a different issue.
Stock of Tesla may be down, but I wonder if Tesla/SpaceX employees are not happier with him off the workfloor. Would be quite interesting to see a poll among them...
Or it’s simply correlated with China becoming more powerful?
Yes, it's frustrating to see Elon spending so much time on social media crap when he could be focusing on things that actually has real long term value for humanity.
I know it’s not a competition but Nutty Putty still looks worse to me, because of the upside down position and how they seemed to be close to pulling off a successful rescue only to be thwarted by the failure of the pulley system. The diagram[0] fills me with anxiety and makes me wonder if there was any chance of getting mining equipment to the site.

[0] https://cavehaven.com/nutty-putty-cave-accident/
>They are also somewhat volatile, so they sometimes migrate up. Sometimes as gases. (But that's another story.)

They are sometimes seen again.
And no non-subscription software company has ever gone out of business, and deleted all download links when it did so, preventing you (as soon as you lose the installer) from ever installing it again?
> I know of exactly zero other social media platforms that ban the mere mention of other social media platforms

WhatsApp banned links to Telegram.

Facebook ranks links to Twitter/YouTube lower than content without such links.

> Precisely none of those companies are owned entirely by individuals claiming to be "free speech absolutists"

Either Elon Musk is no longer "free speech absolutist" or does not consider Twitter policy must match his personal preferences.

> Mastodon is not a company, major or otherwise

Competition may be not only for money, but also competition for users. It is quite possible that critical number of users will leave Twitter for Mastodon.
I, for one, definitely am. Twitter is going crazy (or Elon is), but signs are not looking good.
The Economics of Dinosaur Bones
> 'Drastically' in this context can mean the slower approach taking billions of times longer.

Standupmaths - "Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c33AZBnRHks (OK, 41 billion percent is only 0.41 billion times better, but still.)
This is correct. When treating the public, you stand a risk of being sued (at least in the US) for not following guidelines, but with yourself and family, you can put your nuanced and superior knowledge to work without worrying about the risk of being sued/ losing your license etc
CLE requirements are and always have been nothing more than a handout to providers. The jurisdictions that don't have them are doing fine. The best thing you can do if you're sitting at a CLE is complete another CLE on your laptop so you don't have to waste any more time on that crap than necessary.

Edit: Correction; high-end ones are an excuse for big law lawyers to booze and schmooze on the company dime.
I've been using this as one of several tools (noise gate in Audacity, The Levelator) to increase the audio quality in my podcast. Subjectively, I think it's been working, and I love the simplicity of the interface. No tuning, just trust the AI. It works well for standard spoken English, but will do some horrible things to music (it won't detect music and be like "hey don't do anything to this"). So you shouldn't run it on a file that includes both music and voice.
The problem is that these people sell products and services, either directly or through sponsoring based on their physique as a proof the products works. Not it's a lie: what works are steroids
Reminds me of the Chinese "chabudou" meaning "almost" or "not much missing". This attitude is painful and costly in hardware development - you save money and time now, but it costs you a lot more in the long run (e.g. support and RMA costs). But it is in software development where I found it really devastating.

Things like people not using version control but creating lots of "bak" and "copy" files. Using tools from hacking boards on your own software because we don't bother making a proper build. Unit tests are seen as a waste of time. API design is seen as an academic luxury.

I mean, I am all for agile. And for building MVPs without unneccessary abstractions and fluff. And heroic hacks that save the day. But "good enough" or "duct tape" should never become your main development methodology.
If you have a 10,000 Billionaires, you wouldn't run into this problem
why do they call it "subsetting" vs "load balancing"? is there difference between the 2 terms?
> I’m open to being proved ignorant here. Can you think of some examples where tech was obviously ahead of its time and not accepted?

Google glass as an AR device
Can you explain how a monorepo for microservices is a tooling nightmare and bandwidth sink?

In my experience, a monorepo significantly makes things easier and saves time everyday for all developers involved when compared with multi repo.
> Some creators also have Patreon model where you can get sponsor-free edits for regular payments which seems like an alright decentralized solution.

Patreon is OK for some things but you have to be very passionate about what this creator is doing to spend the time (besides money) to follow and consume their content on an additional platform.

I completely and fully respect people who choose to do this, but as a more casual YouTube user who just wants to see a video once in a while from one of my subscribed channels, this is not something I am going to do personally.

To each their own but personally I feel as if ads and sponsor blocking is the best experience you can get at this time, and it doesn't cost you anything. It's a hard deal to beat.
In the first bit you have not described why updates are necessary, you've given some reasons why updates can be useful. Opting into updates sometimes is fine. The context of the parent and grandparent posts is specifically security and security updates.

Security wise for most applications there's the oft overlooked possibility of just not connecting to the internet. Though when it comes to my personal experience running antivirusless Windows with updates disabled it has not been a problem for me for a decade now. According to my router I'm not part of a botnet either. It just doesn't seem necessary at all. Your attack surface as an individual on a reasonably well secured network is minuscule and your threat model is basically just the background radiation of bots trying whatever random exploits. Sure, I keep my router patched because it's on the edge, but other than that it doesn't matter.

Though I will give you that browsers are a special case where the tool is specifically used all the time to connect to potentially hostile content and give that content the ability to execute code on your machine. Things on the edge are a scenario where keeping up with security patches actually make sense.
Can anyone explain me one thing? Is it some kind of special American sickness to place 51% on top of the 49% continuously? It's obvious to me that this is SEPARATION, and it leads to nowhere but a split. Every poll like this, it is a rocket strike to the commUNITY, essentially splitting it in half, forget about the unity. How come in thew modern world 51% prevail over 49%? How come it is a golden standard in a modern world to decide something by segregating people into Option A supporters and Option B supporters?
Perhaps because not a lot of people posted links to their new profiles on Facebook and Facebook did not consider that a threat.

But Facebook bans links to Telegram in WhatsApp.

Also Facebook ranks posts with links to Twitter (or YouTube) lower than other posts.
I don't know what happened to anthropology but this attitude has indeed ruined it as a science. Asking any question that relates to physical attributes leads to immediate branding as racist. Any talk of genetics is met with a chorus of "epigenetics" , without even understanding how those work. When did it become so extreme that questions aren't even allowed.

An example of such a question: "How has lactose intolerance affected european cultures, and what other historical cultural traits are influenced by genetics"
The 90s and early 2000s. Things like embrace extend extinguish.
Apologies. It was the only "foreign" / "imported" thing I paid for while in Japan (I was road-tripping around the Fuji Five Lakes which does not have a train network at all.)

Accommodation and food prices seemed to be roughly around the same as before, but I did note some bottled soft drinks seemed to come in smaller sizes than before (450ml vs 500ml).

Checking my notes again just now, I did see the Nest Mini 2nd Gen for ¥2980, but that seems to be part of a Christmas promotion going on, so not a useful data point.
Sketch also used this model for a long time. You pay for a year of updates, and you can keep the last version you got forever.

Recently they started to add more cloud/collaboration services/a web app and switched to a regular old subscription model, but you can bet your ass i'm staying on the legacy model for as long as I can.
Apple added official app blocking APIs in iOS 16, so you don't need to use someone's sketchy VPN anymore. Burnout Buddy is an app that uses this.

(disclaimer: self-promotion, I made it)
I paraphrased to try to reach a common ground, not as a kind of trick, but I understand you don't agree with the gist of the argument. We will have to agree to disagree, and that is ok.
Special Relativity and Middle-Earth
He certainly didn't fulfil the predictions of tge worst haters. Those predicted twitter going offline over a month ago.
> The way I develop my own applications is very streamlined to serve a lot of people and generate revenue in a 1-2 step funnel

Would love to hear the opinions of those that have to maintain applications made "your way" after you leave. Hopefully you're documenting and testing it to the same level that Laravel, Rails and Django are, and hopefully the size of your company compensates for the lack of community around it when the problems show up and you're not there anymore.
More features is not a great indicator of quality.
A whole lot of nope from me, too. Between what happened to John Jones in Nutty Putty Cave, the (urban legend?) of Masha in the catacombs, horror movies like "The Descent", or even just events like the Surfside condo collapse, I can't do dark underground caves or structures that might collapse.

When my friends went spelunking and invited me to go, I told them I'd take a rain check. Maybe the risks are negligible, but every one of my alarm bells goes off.
Ask HN: How would you benefit financially from betting on Twitter’s success?
Let’s say the unthinkable happens and by this time next year, for whatever reason at all, Twitter is more profitable and successful than it ever had been before.

Knowing this in advance, how would you benefit financially from this bet?

What would you do or how would you invest in this contrarian position today to win financially in a year or two?
I really hope to see more help in arms deliveries and more advanced weapon systems. More drones and more intelligent systems. I really think the war has just started and these people need all the help they can get.

Also trucks with generators would be nice. Just like the ones that film lighting companies have. They are so handy.
I'm not sure about that - Wayland hasn't exactly been a runaway success either.

The 2 key issues with Wayland, the fact that it's a protocol, meaning a lot of stuff needs to be handled by the window manager that was handled by the platform before, and its opinionated design, that made it very hard to port software that wasn't designed exactly how it wanted to be, meant adoption was (and is) very slow, and still kind of ongoing.

Mir didn't have these issues.
How would you use this with a C/C++ codebase, where you build your dependencies yourself and don't get them from a package manager? All vulnerability databases seem to refer to package repos. Is there anything that works with only library name + version?
It's only very tangently related but I'm wondering if there was a good medical study of steroids usage under medical control for people at old age. Sehr nce a lot of issue when people are old come from the decreasing amount of muscle, I was thinking it could compensate largely for the side effects
How to Use Freemium Business Model Like Notion, Spotify or Slack?
Being able to return JSON makes you "full stack" the same having wings makes a fly an airplane.
To clarify, I meant native as build with native platform gui . No electron no web views.

I’m curious because everytime a topic about desktop pop ups GUI I see passion about it and sentiment native good and electron bad.
Beware of the wind in such a room

(and of the rain too)
Has anyone tried loading COMMAND.COM in there? Surely CGA isn't using all that space.
I would pronounce it “regular expression.” I can see shortening it in text, it is a lot of letters, but reg-eks seems only marginally shorter than “regular expression” and the latter has normal, easy flowing words without weird stop in the middle. “Reglr spression” “Regula espressen.”
When they passed laws that put tribal myths on the same level as western science. Found a 10,000 year old skeleton? Sorry, the Lakota-Sioux say he's an ancestor and you're racist if you want to test DNA to confirm (not that DNA could ever show tribal membership). If you pay big bucks they'll let you test, but the right to do anything with the results will depend on the tribe's assessment of your results. Repatriation laws as they exist are cancer.

Of course, tenured academics have strong incentive to support the paradigm that doesn't require any real work, so there's that.
I've found just using ScreenTime on macOS during the time where I need to get stuff done is very useful. It is a bit hidden, because you have to enable "Limit Adult Websites", but then you can configure sites you want to block. My list is:

ycombinator.com

guardian.co.uk

theguardian.com

nytimes.com

spiegel.de

Works wonders! It really helps for these little breaks where you automatically go to a site subconsciously. And none of these sites are useful for what I do, except HN sometimes to look up information and pointers about technical topics.
Without weighing into systemd debates on which I am not qualified, there is a difference between including the kitchen sink in an app that you don't have to use or have installed at all, eg emacs can be eschewed in favour of nano, ed, nvi or whatever vs a core part of the system you are using.

The unix philosophy is merely an explanation of a preference in building things. It can be ignored by yourself where appropriate, be a minor concern or be considered the key guiding and crucial principle in your decision making.

Whatever you think of systemd its criteria for whether you think it good, bad or indifferent design in principle is likely to be pretty different to emacs.

Rob Pike once said the unix philosophy is dead with Perl reading the Euology. (...and didn't Plan 9 exploit that to world dominance? YMMV)

May everyone enjoy using the systems that they use or at least be getting closer to that ideal.
For those that don't want to install a browser extension (or use an app), I wrote a bookmarklet that lets you toggle between viewing things in your Mastodon instance and a foreign one.

https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/mastodon.html
Removing Uncertainty: The Tip of the Iceberg
Sound takes lesser time to travel in smaller rooms, hence the difference in time is not very large between the original sound wave and the reflected one which makes it harder to distinguish to human ears.
Soon discrimination will be impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Leetcode tells you if you are in the top x% in terms of speed. It might scratch that itch.