skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree with what you wrote. This AI-generated music, while a great achievement, still sounds soulless. It's one thing to look at AI-generated pictures for a few seconds, but listening to this music with its gibberish "lyrics" for minutes really creeps me out - it's the "uncanny valley" all over again, I guess.

Regarding "can you use this to help you through?" - yeah, you could probably use it as a source of inspiration, but at the risk of getting sued by someone whos music you didn't even know you were copying...
Visual Studio (purple icon) can struggle with just one instance, especially if you're using ReSharper. As for the IntelliJ family, I've run Rider with about 10 projects a few times and it was fine (granted, those projects were small).
This doesn't read like an SRE perspective, it reads like a classic SysAdmin perspective. Which, while useful, is a very different role.
> Think about the amount of characters wasted on having to write a whole separate rule to add a hover effect or something similar.

So... 20 bytes or so? A whopping 20 megabytes per a million websites.

Seems like a very, very, very small optimization.
The first thing I did was open the article and search for PFOF (Payment for Order Flow).

> This proposal would address a controversial practice called payment for order flow, in which some brokers collect rebates for sending customers’ orders to wholesalers. Mr. Gensler has called the practice a conflict of interest and, in past statements, left open the possibility of banning it. The SEC’s best-execution proposal doesn’t go that far. But it imposes additional obligations on brokers that engage in payment for order flow to help ensure that customers are getting a good deal.

Shame. They’re skimming money straight off the top. Perhaps I should withhold judgment but I suspect they’re banking on the idea that Joe Schmoe, who downloaded an app to gamble with his future, isn’t going to seek out this financial disclosure data. I have a friend who can rattle off everything there is to know about option spreads and general technical analysis drivel. He initially didn’t believe me when I told him about PFOF.
So shaken that he (and his security team) forgot to file a police report.
The market is acting as if the Twitter purchase was financed in part by a margin loan on Musk's TSLA shares. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/margin-calls-fire-sales-why-....

If Tesla can't show growth beating market expectations, or if he can't get money out of Twitter, or if the Fed keeps raising rates, he could be forced to sell TSLA shares to deleverage, so the worse the Twitter situation looks, the more investors avoid TSLA, compounding his problems.

I am convinced at this point that the "cloudy head" that Musk reported during his first COVID infection pre-vaccination is an ongoing medical condition, perhaps a mild encephalitis, leading to rash actions because the brain fog renders him incapable of thinking through consequences . https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-musk/e...
I’ve seen some members of the science twitter community set up accounts over there too, though most seem to be hedging their bets with mastodon accounts as well. Will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
I've mostly switched over to VS Code from both vim and BBEdit, although I still use both somewhat regularly. It seems to me that VS Code is the 21st-century equivalent of Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping — that is, an editor that does a lot at the cost of quite a few CPU cycles and more than a bit of RAM.

While Emacs isn't quite as heavyweight as it was 25 years ago (hooray for Moore's Law), it still makes me grin to see Emacs fans sneer at the resource usage of a modern Electron-based editor.
Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat
The Studio as Compositional Tool (1983)
Show HN: Transmission Control, a new tool for Transmission BT client
This is my new work I wrote in the last month. It was just released.

Overview
A concise, lightweight and high-performance Transmission Manager and Web Extension. It supports managing multiple remote or local Transmission at the same time, as well as adding magnet links from BitTorrent websites.

Features
Concise, lightweight and high-performance: Removed some not commonly used functions; The installation package size is small; Fast page loading, low CPU and memory usage.
Support simultaneous management of download tasks in multiple remote Transmissions.
Support adding download tasks by right-clicking on magnet links in Web pages.
This extension doesn't require "Read and change all your data on all websites" permission.

Install Links:
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hfhhlbapamidaibjcg...
Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/pefbobclhi...
I'm perplexed why people "supported" this twat from the start
Spin v0.7.0 Released
Version 0.7.0 of the WebAssembly framework Spin just landed.
17x Stronger Artificial Muscle Fiber
> By doing this at speed and scale, we have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.

I get out from this that the days when one could have had a non-Apocalyptic climate change discussion on this forum are now gone for good. Just saying: "we're doing this for the money, because that's where all the money is now going" would have been better, but whatever it works to keep this forum up and ad-free.
Try searching for the account by name. It's search banned. And Kris' tweets can't be navigated to.
Help others do the same and take away as much traffic as possible away
Who's skimming off money where now?
The "not built here" attitude can create a serious sustainability challenge. There are a lot of problems that businesses need to solve for that are well solved already. It's very easy to assume you're the first to do or need x, but often it's not the case. As such, why create a development and support burdon when you can simply buy x at $/seat?

Agreed, integration can be a challenge, but the key here is good enterprise IT architecture and avoiding SaaS sprawl.
For small European country. I remember one my co-workers. He used to work in USA for some years, got green cards for himself and family, I think in months. Then returned here and simply just returned those cards.

The system truly isn't equal. And from outside is bit bizare.
How many people believed the earth was flat at one point?

To be clear, I don’t care either way about vim or vscode. I use vim mode in vscode right now, but I might use something else later. All I care about is being able to work pleasantly.

What I meant is that numbers of people doing something is not proof for something being better.

For instance: How many people listen to Justin Bieber and how many listen to The Doors?
I don’t see how it is an obvious GDPR violation. The GDPR is a lot more nuanced than “all private data is protected”. It has exemptions for data published based on a legal requirement (could be the case here), data that cannot easily linked to an individual (number plates are not protected by themselves) and data regarding companies is also exempt. This jet isn’t owned by musk, it’s owned by a company. Journalists (including citizen journalists) also have broad protections in European law and those must be weighed against the GDPR protections.

There’s so much nuance to this that it’s possible this might fall under GDPR, but it’s very far from obvious.
Typescript makes VSCode very slow though. I remember the feeling when switched from Atom to VSCode it's wicked fast. And then Typescript happens, my macbook's fan keeps spinning from time to time.
In the future, it will be studied as one of the slowest, worst performing software products mankind has produced.
Because many people fallaciously assume that someone who is not vaccinated must be an idiot and hence should not be listened to.
I think what was meant is "Robinhood the app's parent company, also named Robinhood"?
No one cares about the fediverse.
Did you watch the same video I did? It's easy to see this as something other than petulance. It's not complicated. Elon is scared for his family. That's a very human thing. In his place I'd do everything I could to protect them. The elonjet account was a security risk to a public figure in the same way that publishing the home address of Supreme Court Justices is a legitimate security risk -- and in the same way that it led to an attempted assassination of Judge Kavanaugh.
> > All good tools need getting to know them

> Wrong. Good tools don't require that.

No, good tools absolutely require learning how to use them.

To think that they don't is a maddening take because it has led to the infantilization of applications in so many areas of the software world.

There is definitely a place for simplistic tools that have no customization, no configuration, a single limited way to do anything and no hooks/APIs to modify their internal behavior. Yes, such tools are easiest to pick up and casually use in the limited way they can be used and that's often all that is needed.

But, the world also need professional tools. In the non-software world this is obvious and such tools exist in every profession. Even your hammer example is wrong as the sibling post noted, there are "professional hammers" (nail guns) that require a bit more care to use but are much better.

There is a place for test lights (that anyone can touch to a wire to see if there's voltage). But we can also buy voltage meters of increasing complexity and capabilities. They start to require a little bit of understanding of volts and amps and ohms, but they are so much more useful. But yes you need to learn a little to use them. There are also things like oscilloscopes which an untrained person wouldn't stand a chance to know how to use at first sight. But of course they are vastly more useful once you learn the tool.

Just one random example of thousands. Yes, good tools absolutely require training.
Being the smartest man on the planet means you can make the mental leaps to see that was them and this is him so it is totally different.
Mistakes to avoid while recruiting for your startup
It's not a security concern.

If this was actually a security threat, the man could take chartered flights anonymously forever with a rounding error's worth of his money. Opsec is clearly not important to him.

It's the Elon show. He needs the attention and doesn't care if it's positive or negative.
Worlds biggest free standing aquarium exploded
Oh, I definitely liked thinking it was intentional. Made it a fun freudian slip.
You’re definitely not coming in to this having much familiarity with the ecosystem of either other tool. Distributions like LunarVim, Spacemacs, and Doomemacs exist that fill that gap between the basic terminal editors and a ready-for-anything experience. Think, open a source file and get the language server auto detected and suggested for installation, right in vim.

Not to mention IntelliJ which I can’t help but keep coming back to after repeatedly getting frustrated enough trying to adopt VSCode. The git tooling in VSCode’s marketplace is a far cry from what’s available for some of these other tools. Fortunately for me, Fleet (new editor aimed at VSCode segment) is maturing at a rapid enough pace that I’ll likely be able to migrate to it in months/weeks and hopefully have a more zen experience.
> Embed yourself with your teams. Ask to be part of design discussions.

I agree that this should happen, most successful projects have people with all sorts of knowledge contributing to it, without too many silos in place.

> You have no excuse!

However, the Ops people don't always get that power or a say in the matter. In many dysfunctional environments they'll simply be given an apparently finished service and will be told to put it in prod.

Please don't dismiss that these circumstances exist altogether and don't shift the "blame" exclusively on the people who already have their lives be needlessly hard, this isn't likely to encourage a positive outlook.
for a quick run it's probably good enough but i was expecting a bit more from "beautiful"
Prayers for Richard (2015)
Show HN: Rapid Reply – GPT-3 AI Email Assistant for Busy Founders
Hi HN, I created Rapid Reply for founders, execs and managers who get 30+ emails a day and want to respond fast and polite. It also helps you overcome writers block. Let me know if you have questions.
> You're confounding the people of today with the people of the future.

This is is just alarmist talk that was made famous by the likes of the Effective Altruism guys.
I’ve seen so many people use a hammer wrong. They don’t swing it effectively, hold it too high on the handle, or even use the wrong type of hammer for the job (yes, there are different types of hammers designed for different types of hammering).

And that’s before you go into all the other technologies invented that are evolutions of the hammer, from nail guns to jackhammers.
I remember the old joke about oracle pricing spreadsheets. Lots of sliders to adjust the parameters. But no matter what you did the price would always increase.
The flamethrower was where it started to feel weird for me.
Recently I wanted to teach my kid Smalltalk and I deep-dived into the current Smalltalk landscape... I wanted to show him how to create desktop apps using a "UI Designer" tool (like it was possible with WindowBuilder in Visual Smalltalk in the 1990s). Impossible to get a copy of Visual Smalltalk these days... Pharo doesn't have a UI designer... VA Smalltalk by Instantiations isn't free anymore... VisualWorks is not free...
why is that logic jump is happening? Mostly because of censorship. If your logic needs censorship to prevent logic jumps, perhaps your logic isn't solid to begin with (or mixed with lies like the vaccine).

For healthy persons in certain age group, COVID risk is almost missing. If they don't want vaccine, regardless of taking 3 doses, I have no right to tell them to take not-thoroughly tested vaccine to help reduce the spread at the potential cost of their own.

The solution is more open studies and acknowledge statistical (in)significance of vax side effects instead of trying to shove it under conspiracy and censorship. Oh, and dont lie about vaccine effectiveness.
Make one for replying to Google Play/App Store reviews and I'm all in
A tesla weighs 2-3 times more than a compact car, so that means it must be extremely efficient pound for pound. Nevertheless, I doubt many people, until recently, bought Tesla's because of (ostensible) environmental concerns.
> Platform conventions matter because uniformity matters.

There are tradeoffs to using software that has different shortcuts for similar things you might do in other software. Uniformity is nice, but I don't find it to be so essential that there is no room for any different ways of working.

> It's a mystery to me why people just accept that in their (terminal) text editor, copying text uses a different shortcut than it does in their web browser.

I don't think they "just accept" it. In the case of emacs (and I believe vim also), you can enable a CUA mode if you wish, and have keybindings that are more like the system. However, in my experience, users of both of those text editors (and indeed, I use both) often choose to use the normal keybindings of those editors intentionally. In my opinion, it doesn't "consume brain cycles for no good reason". There are two very different approaches between those two editors, both are perfectly reasonable and valid. The fact that "modern alternatives exist..." is not necessarily relevant. People have been using both of those editors for years, and they are well versed in how they work and can be very efficient using them. Suggesting that they should just switch to a modern alternative makes some broad assumptions. 1) That they would be happier using some "modern alternative". 2) That whatever value they get from using those editors with different keybindings pales in comparison to what they would gain from switching to an editor with bindings more consistent with the system.

I don't believe you can assume either of those things for most of the people who choose to continue to use either of those editors after working in them for a significant amount of time.

Don't get me wrong, I understand your viewpoint. It's just that not everyone finds that uniformity to be as important as you do.

I also think it is important to point out that both vim and emacs are in active development, so it is not as if either of them has been "mothballed". So while their user interface conventions are very different from much "modern" software, it is not as if they are abandoned -- both are still being developed. They obviously both have significant value to a lot of people.
Why wouldn’t he care if Twitter goes under? It would be a double digit % decrease of his net worth if Twitter halves in value. It would also be a public embarrassment, and a wasted opportunity to have spent more time at his other companies.
Currently, whenever anyone posts a tweet including a URL, Twitterbot accesses that URL and if censored content is found (keywords associated with Mastodon) then the tweet is blocked.

It appears that this behavior is pretty simple and can be defeated by, for example, the following nginx configuration:

server {
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Twitterbot") {
return 200 ElonIsGreat420TSLAToTheMoon;
}
return 301 https://mastodon.social$request_uri;
}
> Is it possible to programatically create a virtual camera on Android that other apps on the device see and can access as a camera? My goal is to be able to add some filters over the real webcam that are available from any other apps.

There is an xposed module that already does this i guess

Do check this out.

https://github.com/w2016561536/android_virtual_cam
Well, there are multiple facets to it. Suddenly having money and having random relatives and old acquaintances show up in your life asking for it might make someone disillusioned about what they thought about the people.

But it won't make genuinely nice person into an asshole that kicks kittens, the money just acts as enabler for stuff they might've been afraid to do before coz of consequences. Like for example pretending to be nice to get promotion at work vs unleashing assholery once there is nobody there to kick you down for your behaviour
Why? Mastodon will never take off.
Why though? What public interest does this serve? I'm a veteran. I support your right to post links to the location of Elon's jet, or links you can follow to find same, in the same way I'd die to protect some shitbird's right to burn a US flag or kneel during the anthem, but what are you trying to accomplish? Other than to make yourself look like a jerk?
Twitter Suspends Journalists Who Musk Says Imperiled His Safety
This is completely wrong. Basic tools that solve basic tasks are easy to learn and understand.

I use spectrum analyzers to identify partial discharges in high voltage equipment. Sometimes I use a hammer.
One of them require deep knowledge, with the other one I just give the equipment a whack with to see where the fault lies.
With regards to various applications, the question seems it is not if Electron is fit for them, but if they really need to be a "native application". Why does a chat application need to have it's own native package and can't run in a browser tab? With all the recent development on WebRTC and even File System Access API, can't really find a sole reason* (but feel free to point them out) for 99% of Electron applications: seems some kind of developer ego "we are not just a[nother] web app, we are native".

* Looking at an arbitrary article, "Why does Slack desktop app use Electron?" [1], the answer seems mostly aesthetics, "faster performance [citation needed] and the frameless look".

[1] https://brainhub.eu/library/electron-app-examples#:~:text=Wh...
we had the conversation at University back in 2002; it went, "Atom is a dumb name" (for a beta package for editing, building in). What is this, the year of Marvel Comics taking over the Galaxy or something?
There is not proof it was by a foreign government afaik. Though from the reporting I've read it does seem to be murky at a minimum, and not proven to be as clear as top comment-or said. Doesn't matter though.

That specific context you mention is VERY important:

Russia already did this.

The FBI specifically warned to TW that a leak like this had high chance of happening just at the time it did.

Twitter was right to be cautious.

Maybe didn't do everything consistently or perfectly, but I would far prefer them limiting the reach of Hunter dick pics and crack photos than letting a foreign government do so much damage again.

I think their main error was being slow as more background & info was uncovered.
Yeah you're right actually. Looked into it further and it seems like there isn't a strong correlation based off some survey papers.
Was this the reason for slow death of Sanskrit as a living language? Too codified and "pure"?

Hindi thrives precisely because its very happy to borrow words from anywhere and everywhere.
Intellectual property and copyright are entirely different, and you'd be come after by Disney for making those kinds of images with or without AI. I wish people in the fight against AI would stop trotting this argument out, it muddies stronger arguments against it.
Moon Reader is actually excellent if you're on Android. I rave about it here: https://ab1908.github.io/2022/02/05/moon-reader.html
Fwiw I checked comments of the ones that commented in your past thread and from those whoever has commented on recent Twitter threads has retained their opinion. So based on that cannot imply the people saying "Twitter can do whatever it wants" and people calling out what happens now are the same.
I really hope that Visual Studio Code at least ports the Markdown Preview Plus extension, which was amazing:

https://github.com/atom-community/markdown-preview-plus

Unfortunately, VS Code extensions are often poor quality.
"No worse than a Java-based app" is sorta damning with faint praise. Java is notorious for being ill-suited for user-facing desktop apps - and justifiably so, at least historically.

But I agree with your core point. I use VS Code all the time, regularly switching between maybe a dozen different projects, and I personally don't run into performance issues or resource constraints very often. Certainly less often than with heavyweight IDEs like IntelliJ, Eclipse or XCode. But I felt the same way about Atom as well, so maybe my typical project/workflow/usage pattern is less resource intensive than others. (For one thing I hardly ever run apps from _within_ the IDE, I prefer to build/test/run from a terminal, so that might be a factor.)

VS Code isn't quite as responsive or quick to start as something like vim, or even emacs when run in a terminal, but its resource demands seem roughly on par with any other feature-rich IDE/editor in my experience.
This mindshare is mostly among end developers. Big frameworks will still compete in performance (iff it really that matters, the numbers are kept in secret for some “full-stop” reason) and use preprocessing and boil-down minification as they are now.

The implied impact is based on a wrong assumption and unpublished effects.
I think the take away here is that any "digital town square" should not be a privately owned for-profit corporation.
What are you using instead and what are the main criticisms of kubernetes from your seniors?
What are you on about? It's trivial to get a Godot game to run on a bunch of platforms. In most cases it's just a matter of setting up the export template and hitting export.
Global? Twitter’s barely used in Europe, let alone Asia and Africa.
Remember when people used Oracle for databases? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Actual article rather than tweet:

https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-major-police-operation-as-massi...