skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it doesn’t replace old recordings, but moving forward there is a lot of great music on Bandcamp, usually available to download in several lossless formats like wav and flac.
Maybe Apple had some heads up about the chip shortage and adjusted hiring plans accordingly
Single core systems don't really exist anymore outside embedded systems.
Right, but I often want to read those sites so I don't bother (but perhaps I should go for it). Though really I'm speaking vicariously through the hoards of non-technical people who don't even know what JS is who enjoy long battery life.
What you've said isn't surprising.

The problem isn't whether 0 or 1 are "right" or not, it's the inconsistency. It makes transcribing something from a textbook harder, because the indexing logic in a textbook algorithm can get quite intricate. It's even worse if they use slices like M[i:j,m:n].

Indexing from 1 is the standard in many areas, going back many decades. SWEs have adopted a different convention.
I like movie theaters a lot, including AMC. The ones near me are clean and well maintained. No one is forcing you to buy concessions. I really don't want everything interesting outside of my house to stop existing.
One real danger of putting all historical video media on streaming sites is that it makes it far too easy to introduce an Orwellian Ministry of Truth that is empowered to rewrite the past to make it conform to today's acceptable social norms, academic ideologies, government agendas and so on.

For example, one could make the argument that Alfred Hitchcock's entire library promotes negative stereotypes of women - and it's true, women in Hitchcock films are not the strong types, they're more often helpless victims who have to be rescued by male characters. This clearly, one could say, promotes negative female stereotypes which are damaging to young women so all those movies should be removed from streaming services.

One could continue in this manner, selectively pulling anime movies because they promote excessive violence and sexuality to a teenage audience, or war movies like Apocalypse Now and Dr Strangelove that portray military generals as clueless maniacs, or if the pendulum swings back to the social conservative end, pulling all horror movies that don't portray Christianity in a positive light or have too many Satanic themes, and on and on.

Keeping hard copies in your personal possession is one way around this, but since the copyrights and hence distribution rights are held by these conglomerates that don't want to get in trouble with some political group or other by making them available, nobody else can view them without going through pirate sites - a very unfortunate situation.
Throughout my career (electrical engineer) I have lived through four major downsizings of at least 30% each. I was never laid off, I was never affected. I have always wondered if that was a good thing?
I wonder what causes the cost projections to be so far off. Not enough time or research into what the final structure will actually cost? Overly optimistic projections to help ensure the project is approved and started, thus getting the "foot in the door" to complete it?
Her husband ian't right about dvds, the government is wrong about how they are regulating streaming services. The government needs to enforce reasonable content licencing across all the services like they did with music and radio stations decades ago so all content is on all services and the services start competing on vectors that actually matter to consumers like interface design and fast content delivery networks.
Capital One axes 1k tech roles
Hitchens's Razor
It's a cute trick but I can't imagine a worse ground plane. People say ok -- this is fine for low frequency circuits. There is no such thing as a low frequency circuit when there's a microcontroller present since the clock edges have frequency content well into the GHz. The only way I could imagine getting away with this is if you sacrifice a layer to the heater and put a ground plane between it and the rest of the PCB stack as a shield. Still I think it would be better to scatter resistors around the board and heat sink them to a solid ground plane. I don't know. I love basically everything Carl does but if anyone is considering this seriously they need to learn a bit about Maxwell's equations.
What to do when you’ve ruined your life
Nah... When you managed to go past one monster... Not only would it still run after you but another one would appear and join him if I remember well.
Availability and ownership aside, Blu-ray is far better quality than what you’ll get on most streaming services. If I really care about a movie or show, I always get it on Blu-ray.

That said, if they could shift 1080 BDs down to DVD pricing and UHD BD down to what BD costs now I would buy a lot more. I’m starting to build up a collection of UHD Blu-rays but Jesus, £20-30 per movie really adds up. Definitely paying the enthusiast tax there.
I don't wear a hat, I wear a fursuit head.

Any judgments (white hat, black hat, etc) are invalid and often little more than projection.
It's not just web pages. It's easier to build bloated things in less time than non-bloated things. For-profit companies (rightly, I'd argue) don't value the Craft as much as the Bottom Line.

My home page, though admitted sparse and functional, is a total 39 KB download, including 9 link icons and a blurred full background image. (Turns out blurring the image allows you some incredible levels of JPEG compression with few artifacts.) I worked a bit to get it there. And that's nothing compared with what some demoscene folks can do. :)

The other day in one of my "get off my lawn" moments, I declared to the Rails app I was messing with that, "Every web framework sucks!" And then quickly amended the sentiment to include every test framework and build framework, for good measure.

I mean, they have their place for rapid development, of course. But the accompanying bloat and dependency surface hurts my soul.
Quiet, ultrathin AirJet solid state active cooling chips could replace fans
I'm seeing the terrible practice of people writing code bases where a lot of logic depends on the ui framework.

I guess your case is something like this as well, that's why it's so hard to test.
But where's the snow monster? :(
Or, she might recommend that someone else watch them. If they are no longer on streaming services, she could loan them her DVDs. It is either that or pirate them.
If we lose GPU functionality but can still work as a generic S/VGA adapter, that seems all well and good. Not much lost there.
Cold War Britain Patented a Flying Saucer (2017)
> … the future is uncertain. It's always possible that she might want to … even if she never actually does.

True, although …

"Difficulty discarding possessions is characterized by a perceived need to save items and distress associated with discarding them. Accumulation of possessions can result in living spaces becoming cluttered to the point that their use or safety is compromised. Compulsive hoarding is recognized by the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5)."
This leaves off the fact that they don’t usually work well.
All this commercial vacancy but it has barely affected the residential rent prices
A script for converting the keyboard layout indicator on Gnome from text to country flags
Locally: Contract test (mock provider/consumer)

As part of CI/CD: Depending on complexity - basic functional tests against the specific endpoint or end-to-end test of API functions (using mocks when APIs aren't available).

Once deployed to pre-prod: Monitor just like prod - end-to-end functional tests w/routing rules to mocks when a certain microservices is unavailable.

Prod: Monitor using end-to-end functional tests.
So there is a way to get past them?

That's the thing though, I killed them, rather than getting past them. So they couldn't chase after me.

Or it was just a skifree fever dream.

But I'm curious how to get past that damned devil. Is there any info anywhere?
>” I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods”

Welcome to my Ted Talk…
What about Outline [0]? The self install process isn’t very hard and you lose a decade of enterprise cruft.

[0]: https://www.getoutline.com/
Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem
There's an argument to be made for not undercutting the third party ecosystem as well.
I've got a HiSense android phone with e-ink (the a5) which I had to order directly from China. It has great performance, I can watch YouTube videos on it. I mean it isn't a pleasant experience but I can. I wonder if it is using the forbidden algorithms? I should compare it to an e-ink reader that's sold in the US and presumably is following the relevant patent laws.
why would anyone choose VHS over laserdisc I'll never understand
> But I also wish that streamers would create Blu-rays of their original content. I should be able to purchase the complete Bojack Horseman on Blu-ray to hold on to it forever—what if something happens to Netflix?

Like you or not, MKV files on your own hard drive and piracy in general is the answer.
All future generations should remember the Python 2 to 3 transition as the one time in history that a programming language successfully made a breaking change so far into maturity and survived, and only just by one single fingertip holding on to avoid falling into the abyss below.

(I’m being hyperbolic, a little).
https://medium.com/everything-80s/why-are-streaming-services...

They already do this frequently. 4chan has been tracking it for ages now.
That's the specification of a measuring instrument. Commercial VMCs don't hold 0.00025” over 20" even without being loaded. A slight temperature change will throw that off.
Despite the niche obsession with 100% test coverage, tests aren't an all-or-nothing thing.

Test what can easily be tested. Architect your code such that business logic, etc is modular and testable. Don't worry too much about testing the hard stuff, especially if it's not likely to break.
Google has way more power to collect data on the software they care about than MS does
I have a valid license of 2010 but it was not installed at the time the activation server news broke. So I don't know how to install it any more. Are there any tricks that can help? Still the same computer as I originally had it on.
The headline (and presumably article) isn't about survival, it's about surprise, and the headline (and presumably article) is pretty boring: If you've been through it, you aren't surprised by it.
Gas stoves became part of the culture war in less than a week. Here's why
Trouble is, the intersectionality always excludes baked-in poverty. The diversity push is classic divide-and-rule, with a bit of a boost for middle-class black and brown people who really don't need it. It is detestable.
U.S. FAA says 'unintentionally deleted files' prompted computer outage
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday a preliminary review found that contract personnel "unintentionally deleted files" disrupting a key computer system and prompting a nationwide groundstop on Jan. 11 that disrupted more than 11,000 flights.

The FAA said the issue occurred while personnel were working "to correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup database." The FAA said it "has so far found no evidence of a cyber-attack or malicious intent."
And 2008 didn't even affect the tech sector all that dramatically. To your point, there's another article in the NYT today:

Layoffs at Tech Giants Reverse Small Part of Pandemic Hiring Spree

Some of the biggest tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. But even after the layoffs, their work forces are still behemoths.

What happens remains to be seen but so far it's mostly retrenching of big increases.
Well I do it. Or did till App Code was killed. I still do some Swift in CLion.

Here’s my reasons:

- Xcode has many failure cases for refactoring or is slow at finding symbols across extensions. Jetbrains handled it effortlessly. God forbid something crosses a target boundary.

- Xcode is really terrible for multi language projects. If you’re sticking to ObjC and Swift, it’s fine, but the C++ support is really poor. If you need to throw in Python or anything else, good luck. Jetbrains handle multi language super well.

- extensibility is a big deal. Xcode isn’t extensible (well only in a very limited way) and there’s many plug-ins that I either use or create for myself to speed up my work.

If Xcode supported LSPs, it would honestly change the equation greatly. But today myself, and several other devs I know, edit outside Xcode and build via the command line tools instead.
>it’s strange

I don't understand what's strange about it. Short term thinking spreads even among people who know better because of competition. If you're not taking the risks other people are, then how do you do business?

A fairly well known quote from a bank CEO is "As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance".

The corollary, from that perspective, seems to be that government regulation is required to save industry because individuals can't prevent a crisis.
It's crazy that you can go to a grocery store as distribution aggregator and buy any type and brand of food in one place.

You should have to go to a Kellog's store or a Quaker store depending what you want to eat next week.

At least, that's what studios and labels think.
This is actually one of the designs we use at work for building connector-only PCBs (like what you'd find in track lighting raceways) because our FR4 board used for that application is so thin that it can't go into the reflow oven, it will flex and slip off the rails when it heats up. We just make one big PCB with an array of connector-only parts and a track heater built-in, run the board through the solder stencil, pull it out, place the connectors by hand, slap the board on a lapped-flat granite block with a heater under it, hook up power, and watch it until it reflows. We use an extremely-low temp bismuth solder that reflows just a bit above water's boiling point for these boards.

Nice to see hobbyists in the field coming up with the same concepts.
He did risk his life when he interjected himself between the fleet and the approaching MIGs and then spent the next 30 minutes in a dogfight to down 4 of them. It's probably a lot harder in the Air Force to get one but I would consider that one.
This goes back to the classic backup calculation. Never spend more to protect the data than the data is worth, right? That means the husband will be right or wrong on a user by user basis. If you have room to keep binders and binders of DVDs in your house, you need to calculate - is that space worth it for the data on there? Me, personally, once I've seen a movie or a TV show I rarely watch it again. There are a few that I do repeat watch, enough that I have a backup of those movies or shows even though I can get it on my streaming subscription today. But I'm not keeping binders or DVDs because that data is not important enough for me to back up.
The divorce is to firewall creditors chasing OP for post death medical debt. It’s not for lack of love, but because America.

OP should talk to an attorney familiar with creditor and estate law.
Funny this is on HN's front page, given that only a couple of days ago I had this dream I got stuck in an elevator and started to smash the doors trying to get out. I woke up and I had just smashed the bedroom window with my bare hands.

I have pretty bad sleep habits, but never had that happened to me (AFAIK, given that I live on my own). That day I was sleep-deprived (3 hours of sleep on the night before), and had exercised a lot (I'm an athlete).

I'm only 27, but I'm still a bit freaked out about the possibility of this being an early sign of some neurodegenerative disease.
I did this last year, and it was a pain in the ass. I did it out of spite because HR Block tried to force me to pay exorbitant amounts for their advanced filing which I definitely didn't need.

If you do this, set aside an entire evening and expect to do only taxes. It isn't exactly hard, but the number of documents you need available can get large quickly. Instructions are confusing and there's a lot of cross-referencing.

It's very tedious, but totally approachable for most people, I think.
Depends on what you're doing. If you're adding functionality because of a need, you've got a minimal "API" (or rather, interface) already defined. If you ignore that, you might end up with an interface that's not complete and with features that won't be used, but need to be maintained anyway.

There's no fast and hard rule, I'm afraid.
Good point. I’d be curious to hear if anyone has upgraded their plan.
Keeping your own work is completely different from keeping everything you've ever watched on Netflix.

Michael W. Smith tells about being in the studio, and not being able to get something to sound right. He went back to listen to an old work tape, and realized "OK, nobody should be playing but the piano. That's what's wrong right now in the studio." If that's what you do, keep it all, even the "in process" stuff.

But as I said, stuff you watched is different from stuff you made.
100%

And furthermore I find it mind-blowing that this is an unpopular opinion, especially on HN.
“How Python went from 2 to 3”

I know how: badly.
People tend to shit on Spotify (while still using it), but they did manage something that we all want: Access to (almost everything), for a nominal monthly fee.

We need the same, but for movies and tv shows. Globally. It's an economical problem that currently has a suboptimal solution.
It is said that Hemingway leveraged the same effect by leaving a sentence unfinished when stopping writing for the day. I use the same technique to remind myself I am not finished with something. This is also called the Zeigarnik effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik_effect
For Audio CDs you want to rip it lossless with something that support AccurateRip so you can be sure that others made the same copy byte-to-byte. Fortunately there are several options https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=AccurateRip#Soft...

For DVDs you can use the infamous DVD Decrypter to make ISO files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Decrypter

or MakeMKV which straight copies the MPEG2 files (.vob) into a nice MKV container https://www.makemkv.com/
Why is it brutal? The legal status is just a document; the commitment to mutual care still seems present and honored. Why would it be honoring that commitment to leave one spouse in extreme medical debt, and the other spouse with the guilt of that?

(If you read "may want to divorce to avoid their medical bills" as "you should break up with them", I don't think you interpreted the suggestion correctly.)
I'm just going to point out that GNU netcat has nothing to do with the GNU project, which confused me a lot :)
What drugs?
I will be a little contrarian maybe but I don't really start with tests.

The rationale being that until the API is fixed, I don't want to have to adapt the tests to the changing API all the time.
Not just young but older as well..
My mother-in-law (who is not in tech) really steered my brother-in-law hard towards job in tech as software engineer thinking it's the greatest job ever - "working in IT is the best job!"

Luckily he graduated just in time a bit under a year ago and managed to sneak right before the hiring freezes happened.

IMO the most stable careers in terms of good demand and pay continue to be nursing and doctor (though probably more stressful and less flexibility)
I used to think so regarding Microsoft, but since the WinRT reboot, deprecation of the tooling and rebooting again back to Win32/COM, while at the same time rebooting Xamarin.Forms into MAUI, and parallel to those two efforts, trying to push Blazor everywhere there is some form of Web Widget, I am no longer sure.
My existence is split between OpenBSD and Linux. What I really want is OpenBSD than runs Steam and Proton—nothing more.

OpenBSD has maintained exceptionally good taste when it comes to change. When they rip out and replace a "classic" utility, they invariably make a modern classic: openssh, pf, doas

When others rip out a system and replace wholesale, they often just do the hard work to secure the existing thing: Wayland vs. Xenocara

I don't know that there's any objective way to know ahead of time whether replacement or repair is the right approach. But the fact that such a relatively small project such as OpenBSD has managed such outsized positive impact across the open source landscape speaks volumes to their intuitions here.
>In general, I’m skeptical of any sort of “look what you made me do” reasoning

Sure, I would be too. But you're not conversing with the people who did it, are you?
but this depends a lot on the particular formula. For example, if you use discrete Furier transforms, all formulas are natural with 0-indexing, but weird with 1-indexing. In general, when the indices of an array are to be interpreted as modulo N, you want them to be 0, 1, ..., N-1

It is inevitable to have to use both conventions if you do varied math stuff. Thus, you will never be happy.
Sort of like the anniversary edition of ET where Spielberg replaced the guns with walkie talkies, and other digital edits. Ironically he was criticized for too much smoking in the West Side Story remake. And sometimes a film I want is nowhere to be found, even a mainstream, older hit. I keep a few boxes of DVDs to make sure I can show them to the people stuck in the Matrix in the future!
I'm a very happy Apple Music subscriber, but I'm also 52 and so own thousands of CDs and hundreds of LPs.

I subscribed to AM for a possibly non-intuitive reason: for me, the "all you can eat" aspect is secondary. The driver was "stop syncing my phone." My library is too large to carry on my main computer, so the "music computer" had to be the one running iTunes and whatnot. Getting something new on there was a hassle, and couldn't be done on the move.

Moreover, while this scenario made sense to ME, my wife found it so off-putting that I discovered she was just not listening to music on her phone at all.

AM solved this problem pretty well. PLUS, AM has a feature where it will give you access via Apple Music to weird, indie, or out of print stuff in your library that might not exist in Apple Music's library.

A case in point is the 1990 Wendy & Lisa record Eroica. It's one of my favorites, and has always been part of my library -- it's even been re-ripped, because the first time I digitized it I only used 128Kbps MP3, and I wanted it at 256Kbps AAC. But it's also 100% not available via any streaming service because of rights issues of some kind.

YOU can't get it from Apple Music, but I can because Apple Music sees it in the library on my music server. That's pretty cool.