skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The App Store reviews, while mostly positive, are full of dozens of one-star ratings from people complaining that the app is hitting on them too much, flirting too aggressively, or sending sexual messages that they wish they could turn off.

Despite the AI being horny, it still has mostly positive reviews. I find the slightly critical tone of the article a bit inconsistent with that fact.
Will Robots Replace Fast Food Workers?
Your examples of CI and VSCode are on point, and in the bigger picture it's always about tooling.

The mono/multi repo argument is fundamentally boring to me because it always boils down to whether the shape of the tooling problem is easier to work with on this or that side of the divide.

The answer is always whichever tradeoffs work best for your situation, and the reason at the end of your post is as good of a reason as as any.
> proposes to delegate on a per-issue basis, but the cost of expert identification is necessarily a function of the cost of expertise acquisition

Isn’t part of being an expert recognising expertise?
99% of writing on medium is longer than 4000 characters.
https://archive.ph/JQBKh
WhatsApp is incredibly reliable.
> The lock in isn't a negative, it's just a cost.

> just use the other vendor,

The point of lock in is to make it not a “just” to use a different vendor.

I also disagree with characterizing it as a cost. It is a negative because of its risk.
That's what your immune system is for. Unless you're unusual, you'll be fine.
from the Gemini FAQ[1], 2.5:

> The problem is that deciding upon a strictly limited subset of HTTP and HTML, slapping a label on it and calling it a day would do almost nothing to create a clearly demarcated space where people can go to consume only that kind of content in only that kind of way. It's impossible to know in advance whether what's on the other side of a https:// URL will be within the subset or outside it. It's very tedious to verify that a website claiming to use only the subset actually does, as many of the features we want to avoid are invisible (but not harmless!) to the user. It's difficult or even impossible to deactivate support for all the unwanted features in mainstream browsers, so if somebody breaks the rules you'll pay the consequences. Writing a dumbed down web browser which gracefully ignores all the unwanted features is much harder than writing a Gemini client from scratch. Even if you did it, you'd have a very difficult time discovering the minuscule fraction of websites it could render.

> Alternative, simple-by-design protocols like Gopher and Gemini create alternative, simple-by-design spaces with obvious boundaries and hard restrictions. You know for sure when you enter Geminispace, and you can know for sure and in advance when following a certain link will cause you leave it. While you're there, you know for sure and in advance that everybody else there is playing by the same rules. You can relax and get on with your browsing, and follow links to sites you've never heard of before, which just popped up yesterday, and be confident that they won't try to track you or serve you garbage because they can't. You can do all this with a client you wrote yourself, so you know you can trust it. It's a very different, much more liberating and much more empowering experience than trying to carve out a tiny, invisible sub-sub-sub-sub-space of the web.

[1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
I push for async stand ups because they’re just such a waste of time. Look at the frigging board if you want to know what’s going on. Blockers should be brought up as soon as they occur.
Most of them have not heard of
The video didn't really deliver on its title (a riff on the DESTROYED youtube clickbait meme.) He seemed to be arguing that "1) Pop songs are too robotic sounding, 2) listeners don't care, 3) that will make it easier for AI to take over, and 4) I don't know how musicians will get paid for AI-generated songs." (The last point recalling historical worries that player pianos, recorded music, radio, drum machines, synthesizers, or other music technology would displace musicians.)

He's almost certainly right that AI will be used in music production, but he didn't seem to present much evidence for point (3) beyond "I can certainly imagine AI making a song like this." And what is to prevent AI from being trained to sound more organic or "human"? Drum machines already include swing and randomization (or "humanization") features, and adding varied swing and 2 vs. 3 vs. 4 to a metronomic beat was popularized decades ago.

Regarding autotune itself, Cher (in 1998 as he notes - this isn't new!) and T-Pain innovated by popularizing it as a vocal distortion effect beyond simple pitch correction. (And as Rick noted T-Pain is actually a good singer and also licensed the fun I am T-Pain iOS app to recreate his signature effect.)

At the end of the day autotune and time quantization are production tools which can be overused or misused like anything else. They can certainly make vocals sound unnatural, bland, mechanical, or distorted. But robotic voices and/or mechanical beats have been heavily used in popular music for decades in the case of vocoders, click tracks, and drum machines - or centuries in the case of the venerable metronome.

Compare his defense of backing tracks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXUPuiC9Eo
> same thing that prevents someone from buying your vote now - there would be no way to prove the delegation

This is an oft-overlooked downside to mail-in ballots. (I still broadly support them.)
AN is actually quite stable. It clumps when wet, and people back in the day would use dynamite to break mounds of it apart. It takes the addition of fuel to make it slightly unstable, but even then it takes a a high explosive to trigger it. The Beruit explosion was only possible because they stored AN, car tires, and fireworks in one location. And even then, best estimates are that only 5% of the AN combusted.
For what seems to be a scientific source, evidence cited includes:

"Polls show that most of the American public, regardless of their political leanings, believes the virus came from a laboratory, and, in 25 of 26 countries surveyed, more people think the virus came from a lab rather than nature."

The very presence of such a quote confirms to me this is "opinion" not science.
Those places have strong gender roles though? Like, the arab world is sort of well known for having portions that very strictly define gender roles...

That's the opposite of what the parent was suggesting I think?
Because the government is just a proxy for the will of the people, and the people don't like icky things and thoughts. And mishandled corpses are very icky to see and think about.

It's the same reason the government has a history of getting involved in people's bedrooms.
I think "the bad guy dies at the end" is mild enough to be outside the statute of limitations for a 40 year old movie.
This is why myopic technical founders need a balanced partner to help recognize the blending of company mission and company implementation.

However, it is natural for a myopic technical person to want to leverage their existing skillset, as this knowledge represents to them the key value that they bring to the organization. Unfortunately, blind loyalty to technical stacks is not likely to be an advantage, long-term. The ability to balance the need to leverage existing skills and taking advantage of new skills is critical.
Yes, that is exactly what predicted to happen in the future - dark cold universe
I kind of feel like _all it can do_ is seek new abstractions. It’s clustering the data into what you might think of as “concepts,” even though we haven’t made all that much progress on interrogating those concepts directly. I just think clustering concepts by their latent relationships is sort of what abstraction is.
Maybe an aside, and I don't necessarily disagree that async is sometimes inefficient, but it's more efficient if you bias for reading instead of writing. For example, take 15-20 minutes to write the thing, so it only takes 3-5 minutes to parse.

This matters because async can become more efficient than sync when it prevents you from having to repeat yourself, but you lose this efficiency if you don't invest in clear writing that is easy to parse (repeatedly) to begin with.
> an absolute shitload of good-to-great films do come out every year.

Pick any of the last 5 years.

If there are shitloads, then you should easily be able to name 5 great films from that year.

What are they?

Note; I can easily do this for any year from let’s say 1990 to 1995, but personally I can’t for recent times. Am I just missing the quality? Maybe. Excited to see what you come up with.
Meta sues Voyager Labs, saying it created fake accounts to scrape user data
There are some reasons why cosmologists don't like the idea of a universe that loops back on itself, one is that such a universe can't be both isotropic (the same in every direction) and homogeneous (the same at every point) [edit: while also being flat, as observations seem to indicate it is].

To get a rough idea of why, imagine taking a 1km by 1km square and identifying the opposite sides, you now have a homogeneous space (every point is equivalent to every other point), but it isn't isotropic because some directions are special. If you put a rock on the ground and walk due east, you'll have to walk 1km to reach the rock again (assuming you start in what used to be the center of the square it takes 500m to where the edge used to be, and another 500m from the edge back to your starting point). On the other hand if you walk south east you have to walk sqrt(2) km to get back to your rock (sqrt(2)/2 km to get to what used to be the south east corner, and another sqrt(2)/2 km to get back to where you started).

So although the torus space is homogeneous there are traces of the fact that it used to be a square, embedded in the fact that some directions are special (the 4 cardinal directions have the shortest distance to get back to where you started and the 4 intercardinal directions have the longest). Cosmologists think this lack of isotropy is essentially ugly, and don't like the idea of living in a universe where some directions are special.

Aside from just not liking the idea (which isn't very scientific) its also relevant that the universe looks pretty isotropic when do observations, we emphatically don't see traces of the sort of anisotropy you'd see in a toroidal universe anywhere.
Run Lotus 1-2-3 on Android
Maybe? I found Go pretty stifling and ran into corners where I was faced with having to copy/paste a lot, write a code generator, or resort to ditching type safety. None of those options are very satisfying. I know generics are now there so maybe this has changed since I last used it. Good if so! 100kloc go program was fast to compile, but awful to modify.

It was amusing to me that often times the answer in Go to avoiding repeating yourself was creating a code generator though, because the language didn't have the native abilities in macros/generics/meta programming itself to do it.
Ah, I had never thought of it that way for some reason. Duh. Thanks.
I don’t think there’s a reason to vote in most cases, but I’m not nihilistic.
Dont forget Erlang!
I don't condone piracy, but then again I always end up misusing the word condone
Charging cars, heating water in a well insulated tank
The connection isn't saturated all the time. Total curtailment is only 6%.

The graph of the day they screenshot shows the curtailment stops as soon as people wake up and start using electricity. On many days there is no curtailment.

And... You can build wind in other places, like the offshore wind near Dogger Bank they show on the map and then forget about.
E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines
PerformanceTracker-March-2001-final_updated_for_2003-new(2).doc
I think the reductionist blame-shifting of "consumers get a pass because not buying oil is inconvenient because <reasons>" is unhelpful.

I don't get confused or pretend that oil companies go to great lengths to provide oil to the world because they're evil. They do it because people (you and me and billions of others) demand it and benefit from it.

We can't reap the benefits and avoid the blame for our choices. (I mean, we obviously can, but that doesn't actually result in any change, so if you want to feel better but not actually change anything, have at it...)
This is something I preach often, even at FAANG. Often engineers feel comfortable and in-the-zone when solving for a process. One saying I often delivery is: Engineers often think their job is to build things. That's not the whole story, they build things for _people_.

Nobody cares what your code looks like. Nobody cares what your architecture looks like. As engineers we should worry about creating forgettable experiences (at least in enterprise). They care that it does the job well, with low load times and an easy to use UX. That's it. If you did your job right they'll forget that software helped them do their job or complete their task faster / better because the experience was so seamless they spent the entire time focused on their own goal, and not how to navigate your software to get there. How you get there is irrelevant. Now it's your job as an experienced and intelligent engineer to make quick, thoughtful decisions on how to get your product to where it needs to be so that your _customers_ can create more impact on their own business / lives faster.
Yes, I continually dislike why engineers are so discounted in terms of parsing customer problems... we build the damn things, we also happen to know how to use the mobile apps, web apps, and desktop apps we build. I'm likely heavily biased and bitter at this point, but I've yet to work with a good "product manager" - and I still don't know what a good one would look like or do.
I bought one and regretted it as there is a strict no return policy. My purpose was possibly using it for AR development but I found the experience not much better than Google Day Dream, as far as I can remember, and possibly worse because the hard plastic molding made it harder to position your phone. Also I missed the Daydream remote.

On the upside it disabused me of the idea that AR was any closer to ready at a relatively low consumer price point.

Per typical AR product, the preview videos were wildly better quality than the actual experience.
> For example, Rituxan (rituximab) only dates to 1997

It is kind of scary to me that drugs these days have such long regulatory lead times that a drug developed in 1997 is just now being entered into treatment regimens.

I understand why that is (the Thalidomide tragedy stuff and like that), but I also clearly remember reading an article ~10 years back that asked why cancer treatment seemingly hadn’t made any leapfrogs since the ~70s, and the answer was back then they could aggressively iterate on treatments.
It's probably also worth mentioning that you _build_ Basti as well as using it, otherwise you may come across as shilling.

That said, thanks, Basti looks very useful!
Water most likely. NH4NO3 + FeO -> FeN + 4 H2O
you can use (abuse?) multiplication to get a nice dither without any tables:

bool dither(int time, int value) {
time *= value;
return (value + time ^ value ^ time) < 0;
}

where value is in the range 0 ... (int_max/2)
Ask him for a demo URL where he tests his plugin, send him a message to grab his admin cookie (don't make it complicated, just make it ping your server with with a 1px '/xss.jpg + document.cookie' and check your web logs), set your cookie as his to open his wp-admin and change something. Demonstrate why it's such a big deal since he is clearly a security novice.

And yes, if there's anything I've learned about WooCommerce plugins and WordPress plugins in general, it's to be very careful.
You're asking why there's a law against setting a boat on fire and casting it adrift on a waterway? I feel like that one speaks for itself frankly. In general most ways of burning a body on a floating boat aren't safe to other people, and there hasn't been enough demand to carve out rules for a safe way to do it.
PWM still has its place - it's not uncommon for high-end sigma deltas to have a multi-bit rather than one-bit output, which feeds into a PWM final output stage. It helps with numerical stability. I've used a similar technique to improve the audio output in FPGA projects where a simple 1st order SD feeds a 5-bit PWM. On the boards in question the output drivers seem to be somewhat asymmetric, making an SD quite noisy at higher clock frequencies. With the PWM final output stage the same effect manifests as a DC offset instead, since (when not saturated) the PWM has a fixed number of rising and falling edges in a given time period.
These estimations are pure imagination. I doubt you have `any` real data to support it. Also, that is not the reason why Typescript was created, nor the reason why people adopt it, not even what Typescript really is. Today, almost every Node.js framework supports Typescript out of the box. I challenge you to provide a modern framework that doesn't provide types. And this is not an opinion, nor it is wishful thinking, it is a fact: type checking and strongly typed languages will take over almost every modern software development paradigm.
Here’s the important point I think you are missing. You are looking in TIME, not in space. When you look very far away, you are looking back to the beginning of time, back to a singularity where all matter and energy existed at a single point. In every “direction” you end up looking back to the same time and the same place, the beginning of everything. There’s nothing “beyond” that, it is the beginning.

If you ask, what exists today, beyond 13.7 billion light years from earth, the plausible answer is “mature galaxies like ours” but there is no possibility of collecting data or evidence of what is there, since the evidence would take more than 13.7 billion years to reach us, and in fact would never reach us because the expansion of the universe means that distances are getting larger between 2 points all the time.
Wtf is org mode? - 70% of people here, 100% of people outside of here.
Considering the transformative effect of the sickness, perhaps the pandemic we have recently suffered will usher in a global wave of shamans. Or clowns! Hard to say.
A large amount of data is not an issue, but obtaining a high amount of high-quality data is challenging. This is why open-source models do not perform as well as GPT-3 models in real-world usage.
It's possible to write CLI tools with support generic plugins in static languages: drop in {{name}}-{{extension}} executables in a private vendored plugins/bin directory. docker for 1, cargo for another.

At MAANGs, Rust is taking over and Go is waning. Go allows for quick productivity from 0 but it plateaus due to an unwillingness to add features. Rust has a Haskell/Nix/(fancy tool) problem but it has a good productivity curve that keeps going. Sometimes worse is better as UNIX people might recall.
Maybe. But we could also have cold snaps after that.
Ask HN: Do you need venture capital?
Hi all,

I’m wondering these days. Since a lot of well funded companies I read about in the news seem to struggle since it’s becoming harder to raise at the current market, I wonder how many of those companies really were designed to raise vc in the first place.

Do you really need huge amounts of capital to scale a product that itches a major pain?

I’m thinking companies like Zapier. If I’m not mistaken they only raised a small pre seed or seed and didn’t have any further rounds.

That might be super noob to ask but I just feel like way too many companies are getting funded and could’ve been profitable mid sized companies instead going the vc path.

What y’all thinking?
Even suppliers who sign CFDs can delay the start of the contract - Orsted are doing this for one of their recently commissioned wind farms
You avoided the question of whether you've worked for a large employer like Amazon or Target.

Pay packages are not a change to the wording of an employment contract. What I'm talking about is a change to the contract that would have legal implications. You failed to give an example of an employee that has succeeded in doing that with a large employer.

Your example of highly in demand software engineers does not apply to the average worker - the topic is Amazon warehouse employees forming a union.

Your example of a CEO does not apply to the hundreds of millions of average workers.

In the free market labor can organize to get paid according to their collective value.

To get more pay think about being as organized and as powerful as management and the legal team of the company you are negotiating with. Always be thinking about that.
The main freecodecamp course is decently high quality but the youtube videos are basically affiliate junior developers (if that) it's clear that no one is checking the quality of the videos. At least that's how it looks. Over the last 3-4 years the FCC youtube channel has had a huge drop in quality by just being a platform they let anyone post to.
Ordered dithering is great. I use it in my video player, it looks good and is a fast alternative to error diffusion which requires more hardware resources.
No. I was talking about movies. I agree that series are better, but with few exceptions I don’t think series are truly good.
Do we know they weren’t warned? Coinbase put it on Twitter because it was good press for them. At that point all the other double digit yields including Gemini were already out and I guess they didn’t want to backtrack on their customers
For an in-depth analysis of "obviousness" as it applies to software:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2399580

"obvious to try" is probably what you're imagining. This is a real legal doctrine, and it's deplorably underutilized with software, as I explain.

I had a patent lawyer read over this carefully, and he took particular interest in the notion that, as he put it, "software engineers have a bag of tricks they use."

We all know that we do. But the legal system needs some kind of official blessing for the contents of the bag, and "our" ACM and IEEE are never going to give us one.
Paizo Announces System Neutral OpenRPG Creative License
Most interesting features of Telegram (everything but secret chats) are not end-to-end encrypted. The server can read them.
It seems that the difference is that a previous Masimo employee then worked at Apple, lending credence that the patent was directly violated because they stole Masimo's trade secrets. Maybe Garmin was advised by Masimo (and then subsequently negotiated a license) for the patents? Alternatively, Garmin may have different implementation that avoids the metioned patents.
Frankly it depends, just like in C++, how the code is written.

Rust, even more so than C++ code bases I've worked on and with, really tries to do lots of static typing and mono morphizing. If you work with large projects using boost and eigen, or other template libraries like them compile times are far from amazing. Compared to something like Qt where mostly its dynamic typing at work, and compile times were usually pretty reasonable.
Supabase Wrappers: A Framework for Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers
I think the cfds were a Lib Dem idea. Like other good things from the coalition (equal marriage, working people tax cuts etc)
I mostly agree, but how is this part of the piece relevant? Why should it matter what most of the public, American or whatever, believe?

> Polls show that most of the American public, regardless of their political leanings, believes the virus came from a laboratory, and, in 25 of 26 countries surveyed, more people think the virus came from a lab rather than nature.

To me the "it's natural, okay!" scientists aren't behaving like scientists, more like the "The world is flat, ok!" theologians in the time of Galileo.

The side that are also so certain that "The Chinese made it!" are also unscientific, in my opinion. We just don't know yet and there's not much investigating we can do.