skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would there be any expectation that a podcast distribution service should also serve as a private file archive? And why would podcast hosts even need to retrieve their own material?

If it's a podcast distribution service it should be distributing the rss and mp3s. That's what "podcast" means!
Yeah, what bugs me is this reduction into a model to then derive all their worldview of reality, it's backwards. Like the spherical cow, free association is a pretty fucking good model and principle but when applied to reality you really ought to add the details to the model to make it realistic and actually work when applied into reality.

Free association in labour is not possible when there's so much leverage from one of the sides of the negotiation. In a perfect idealised model, labour will increase in price due to people not accepting jobs they would, ideally, not think it's worth it, companies will then raise salaries, market equilibrium! In reality people are mothers, fathers, or just basically anyone who needs something to eat, and for food they'll accept any trade to keep some part of their dignity.

A fucking spherical cow-ish principle doesn't take into account human dignity into their pricing models... And so these people work backwards by adapting that if it's not accounted for it's irrelevant, rather than the opposite reality that we experience.
Having state sponsored health insurance is definitely not the same thing as taxes paying for a vaccine then the private company deciding to charge people again
Will the “non-pro” Mac Mini M2 1TB have great SSD performance, like the Pro one?
I'm after the SSD speed, but not necessarily the extra CPU cores/memory bandwidth/GPU cores.

The extra cost for the 10 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC seems like a no-brainer though. Surprisingly affordable upgrade.

Any thoughts/speculations?
Base e would be the most efficient, if one assumes that the cost of representing a number in a particular radix is proportional to the radix. If you restrict the radix to natural numbers (e-state devices being rather hard to construct), base 3 would be more efficient.

As it happens, we've learned to make two-state devices way more cheaply than three-state devices, so binary wins in the real world, but if we figured out how to make three-state devices for at most 1.5 times the cost of two-state devices, base three would win.

It's fun to prove that base e and base 3 are theoretically more efficient than base 2 (and not all that difficult...only basic calculus is necessary).
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I prefer snakecase, but I just use whatever the standard is for the language I'm using, or the project if it already exists. Staying consistent is most important for these kinds of things.
That's quite a take in that White doesn't talk about herself as a journalist but a programmer who does some writing, whereas Gerard has been writing articles and books about this since 2016 and sees himself as a journalist. As do I, for what it's worth.

Anyhow, as somebody who has reading them for years, I think they both have equally negative takes about crypto, although Gerard is certainly more salty about it. I think of him more in the English tradition of journalism, which is much more flavorful then the standard American stuff.

And regardless, Gerard's "'crypto bad' narrative" has been proven much, much more accurate than both pro-crypto partisans and nominally crypto-neutral mainstream journalists, whose naivete has helped a lot of their readers lose a lot of money.
Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps
Turning off SIP means you can’t run iOS apps on macOS. This sucks.
I just bought a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 off of eBay recently, and upgrading to macOS Monterey has made it unreadable. Time to downgrade back to Mojave by way of Time Machine, because Apple hates legacy hardware of third party OEMs, never mind its own.
The First Ordinary Woman in English Literature
As usual, AI has no agency. I believe we should view AI as simply an extension of our own agency. Thus, if you prompt an AI to generate copyrighted work, that's fine. Viewing it yourself is like imagination. However, just as you can draw mickey mouse for your own fun all you want, you cannot sell such images.
This isn't the MS-DOS/PC-DOS era where it was necessary for software to have full and direct access to communicate directly with the (ISA 16-bit bus attached, whatever) hardware and peripherals on a desktop workstation, because that can crash the whole multitasking OS.

In the case of the scanner in the original post here which appears to be from the era of MacOS 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 , the operating system clearly doesn't let the scanning software talk DIRECTLY to it, there's an abtraction layer of some sort for the SCSI or (Firewire 400?) bus.
> The point was probably how shitty of an experience it stayed for people outside the Apple bubble

Could be, but they made it sound like those workarounds are required everywhere outside of Apple devices (which would include Windows as well). Which is painting a pretty different picture from what the reality is, as none of the workarounds are required on Windows, it is click and play just like on any Apple device.
Yeah, that attitude is plenty enough to get you a job at a megacorp looking for a good-enough coder to fill a position.

But early stage startups, as mentioned in this article, don’t really work that way. You’ll be working closely with people who are enthusiastic enough about the company to make major sacrifices to be there, and they will want to work with people who feel the same way whenever possible. You’ll be interviewing with these people, they will be senior, and they’ll recognize feigned enthusiasm.
If you think about it, the documentary would have gone viral either way - either parts of the documentary as video clips on social media, or the news about banning of it. Imagine if there was a documentary about Canada's PM - irrespective of the topic, it would have gone famous. So looks like the government chose the option which was less bad for them.

> Even bad criticism should be tolerated in a democratic country

It can lead to movements like the "birther" conspiracy where some people would refuse to change their minds after getting exposed to some information (also similar to anti-vax movement or people still thinking one of the famous dictator in the past being short when he was not actually short). Whether that is good or bad is a very complex topic, and most modern democracies want to let criticism flow through. Ironically, the censorship law used here were introduced by the opposition when they were in power. So this is a true case of "both sides" being complicit in censorship.
You should look at spreadsheetgear. Great .net library for spreadsheet manipulation, which also has its own calculation engine (though it doesn't support xlsb and pivot tables).
Um, IEEE 754 specifies that -0.0 + 0.0 is 0.0, not -0.0. It's still commutative.
It’s wild how popular Modi is: https://morningconsult.com/global-leader-approval. He’s had a 70-80% approval rating for years, and is by a good margin the most popular elected leader of a major country. The westernized elite in India have basically collapsed as a political force.
There are thousands of people contributing ADS-B data many times a minute.

You can't just "create a blockchain". Blockchains depend on hashing power for security. A new niche chain provides very little security, and a rich person like Elon could set up a hash cluster to out-hash everyone else and block updates for his jets.

In order to fund hashing power and security, there has to be economic incentive for the miners. That requires some token, which ultimately requires everyone who submits updates to pay a fee.

The reasons I and many other people provide ADS-B data to aggregation sites is that it's free (minus the one-time cost of the hardware) and I get something in return: a free upgraded account which, depending on the site, enables historical flight searches. If I lost money every time I provided data, it wouldn't make any sense to continue.

I also wouldn't want to have to download an entire (or a good chunk of a) blockchain or raw data ledger to check history for a tail number. That's what I'd have to do if it were truly decentralized. Ledgers do not provide efficient indexing.
I don't think GP is advocating to keep the land undeveloped. They even go so far as the point out how the area makes a lot of sense for developers. The problems they identify seem to be 1) the reckless abandon to which developers are damaging ecosystems 2) an economic situation that allows developers to benefit significantly without these benefits necessarily passing into the community 3) the significant challenges of rapid population growth and 4) the fact that this development threatens their home. These are worth discussing and balancing against any benefits.

I also object your false dichotomy, and the idea that employment and "progress" (I doubt we can ever objectively make such a declaration) are zero-sum here.
I encourage you to leave the city and get a real sense of geographic scale.
> The fundamental misunderstanding is that Apple is not hosting the source RSS feed or media. As someone who operates a podcast hosting service, it's bizarre to me that the author doesn't understand this.

Please Google the Apple Podcasters Program, launched in 2021. This absolutely exists and is distinct from shows that they only list in their directory. They absolutely host the source material. I signed up for it myself to test!

> Of course, because it's not an RSS feed URL. And again, I'm shocked that this person doesn't understand the difference.

Apple exposes a public API that returns the listing metadata given the podcast ID (extracted from the end of the listing URL). That contains the RSS feed URL. You can test this with a service like getrssfeed.com. Other hosts like Transistor also offer this convenience.

Perhaps you should do a little more keeping up with the podcast industry if you're one of my competitors? ;)
There are some large AWS customers that probably burn that in idle time on a bunch of unused machines per week (probably day).
Kind of yes, but the MAME code is very structured with lots of macros and looks extremely declarative. Once you have HDL versions of the most common components (such as CPUs, CRTCs, memory, etc) most of the code is declaring how these are connected, what RAM and ROM goes where. To translate that kind of code to an HDL wouldn't be impossible.
They’re just copying the IDF recruitment Ad model, who hired Eastern European models to dress as IDF soldiers and perform “cute poses” in clips & pics for social media.

https://youtube.com/shorts/nYwDs7V95W4?feature=share
Here's some data for your claim: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr... . Interestingly it does look like there's two peaks a day, 6-8pm when people get home and 8-10am as people are waking up. Weekend morning peaks are noticeably lower than weekdays too.
That’s not much?
I understand that the Supreme Court said in Google v Oracle that the use of APIs is fair use. Does that mean HelloSystem could re-implement all the Cocoa APIs and have Mac apps compile & run seamlessly?
PostgreSQL's indexes – BTrees internal data structure (2018)
Do you happen to have another example? This one doesn't work for me, but for an entirely different reason - it says that this specific podcast isn't available in the US store at the moment. So I cannot even access the episode on any device at all.
Agreed. Anything that has a mobile user base is pretty awful.

See: Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, FB
Most US websites I deal with throw a random error when I give them my name. And it's not even weird, just one non-ascii character. Especially annoying since they always say something to the effect of "Write your legal name here, exactly as it's on your documents, do check twice it's the same".

I know sometimes it's because of legacy ASCII protocols in finance/airlines (but sometimes it's just bad databases/regexes). I know how to fix it, but please just don't say in the error message that my name is "invalid".
I get your point.

In that sense, your view on gatekeeping would be more like what happened to Huawei and how they were straight banned from the US market.

It sometimes happens, but few things are so black and white in politics and market regulations IMO. Killing the viability of an import route by pushing the tarrifs outside of the reasonable range is often enough and helps to avoid "smoking gun" headlines.
The legacy media is not dying off with its dignity intact, if it even had any to begin with.

DYK that direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers in only legal in the US and New Zealand?
To me it feels more like "How would you like to slightly inconvenience yourself?"

[ ] Socially
[ ] Financially

Just advertise the price and I'll decide whether to buy or not. Then I'll pay you the price that you advertised. If you configure your POS terminal to make it awkward, I probably won't want to come back.

(Culture note: Not American)
Once again, that's not the point. The ideology required to promote copyleft licenses at all is the point. The OSI's standpoint is that you can distribute software that provides the user with their freedom. The FSF's standpoint is that you are ethically obligated to.
I do find your straw man for the camel case amusing. Specifically, "versus compared to" doesn't parse well and hurts my ability to read it.

That said, data in this study is interesting for being data and a replication. I don't know that I've given much thought to liking one style over the other in a long time, neat to see the impact it can have.

Directly to your last point, I do greatly prefer single word names, if they can be used. So, `candidates` over `candidateList` or `candidate_list`.
Sure. We see this differently. Such are the glories of the internet.
Because you’re just using the courts to stall and prevent competition to generate profit. You know you’ll lose and the courts know you know you’ll lose.
Author here. I run pinecast.com, which offers paid subscriptions for Podcasters as one of the features. You can do what Apple does without looking yourself to one platform. Pinecast is hardly the only service that offers this, as well.
I thought this was mainly because of infix math operators?
Both the time-step size (recommended 30s, 60s isn't uncommon) and the validity window (+-1 (3 windows), +-2 (5 windows)) are configurable by the implementation. The time-step size can't be changed after the setup (both the server and the client would have to agree) and are visible to you. The validity window can be altered server side and isn't visible to a user. It's in the best interests of implementer to keep the validity window small since they have to check all valid TOTP codes for a client, but the phishing window while near-time, is larger than the time your code is visible.[0]

[0]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238
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And that sucks for them, but it is also what the service is. It’s a cheap way to funnel people through the Podcasts app and generate more services revenue for Apple; you can’t even really call it a podcast host by any reasonable definition. Spotify’s service is about funneling people through the Spotify app to sell subscriptions and ads. YouTube’s service is basically the same. It’s a legitimate service that they signed up for that if you know what you’re getting into probably isn’t the worst deal.

Total crap though for podcast listeners, and also if you didn’t check out the service before committing to it. Sorry for your prospective customer, hopefully your post helps keep others out of this lobster trap.
Where do you work and how much does it cost to work with you? ;-)
Thanks for the Spinal Tap reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyh1Va_mYWI

Gotta love glam rock mockumentary pisstakes from the 80s.
I was fully in the Apple ecosystem several years ago. I came to the realization you talk about some time in 2019 or so—very glad I got myself out of it.
snake_case strains my fingers way more with the excessive reaching to tap shift-underscore.

Thank goodness for PyCharm auto-complete. Typing every variable name fully manually in snake_case 24/7 everyday was begging for me to develop RSI.
It’s not really that great on US boards, either. Way off to in a corner, and requiring shift.
"The boulder with the markings is 3.5 to 4 feet high and about 5 feet long. Photos show a surface with numerous fissures."

A very strong bored kid.

At the bottom of my garden there was the concrete remains of some bridge footings. There's a stream at the perimeter and Dr Beeching caused the bridge to be no longer needed back in the day. Anyway, I dug them out and the largest was a lump about 4'x3'x2'. It nearly killed ... it took a lot of effort and some funky lever action with a very long modern steel crowbar to move and the rest had some quality time with my hammer drill and a SDS chisel bit and the mechanism set to hammer with no spin (obvs).

Anyway, enough of the foundations of my rockery.

Autism? Not indicated. You are looking for Godzilla or King Kong.
I do prefer snakecase visually but having to press shift for the underscore is a pain and it’s also quite far from the home row on the keyboard.

I wonder if a lot of people rebind the underscore character to a more convenient key?
don't come crying to me about the rising cost of canned air
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I’m sure they do understand, but it breaks their (clients’) use case of migrating a podcast from Apple to their service by using Apple as the source. Their clients may still have the original media, but it is missing the podcast metadata (episode descriptions etc.) that was presumably entered/authored using Apple’s system, making it difficult to associate that metadata back to the original media in an automated fashion.
EFF Tells Supreme Court: User Speech Must Be Protected
Ngl, for someone who’s gloating so much - you sent some crummy cnn article which didn’t show any theory or model, much less one being correct
How wide scale can this even be? I haven't been able to access ChatGPT free version for days, and the paid version is not available. How many people are even using this?
>Rather, I think the area that really needs focused developer attention, and with bigger and more meaningful payoffs, is in bringing the most secure and hardened base systems up to full compatibility with the broadest possible application ecosystem/s.

Do you have thoughts on the idea of HelloSystem re-implementing the Cocoa APIs so that it can run Mac apps "natively"?
That could be the difference between being in shape or not. Or having written a book or not. Even just feeling tired or not.
I don’t understand how people can be against remote working.
Mentalization
Ask HN: Do VCs not sign NDAs in 2023?
I'm a VC now. I have been recently asked to sign an NDA, and my approach is not to sign any NDA.

If you are a VC or the founder of a tech startup, could you share what's the common approach on this in 2023?
Real life Yellowstone but instead of ski resorts and casino's, its data centers.
There are specs. Notably the folks at RadioPublic put one out a few years ago that would standardize the process, but it never panned out. At Pinecast you get a unique feed URL that's tied to a paid subscription, but that's a bit hard to use, unfortunately.
What If Diversity Training Is Doing More Harm Than Good?
It used to be common to count by scores (twenties) in English, though this has mostly disappeared other than for poetical/literary usage (e.g., "Four score and seven years ago").

Dozens (twelves) were also quite common, and are still in everyday use for certain commodities (eggs, donuts, etc.).
An iPhone can't focus any closer than several centimeters away.
>FYI, Hancock is a writer not an archeologist.

Thank you. My mistake.

And so, why (and why should we care) is a writer focused on history/archaeology challenging an anthropologist to debate about the Java Runtime Environment?
Always liked the Ruby convention of PascalCase for constants and under_score for lexicals.
So what where all those hot take pieces from the media saying that Musk was dragging Tesla down? Propaganda?
i don't think there's anything dystopian about a company banning people who abuse their return policies.

if everybody abused return policies that way, the policies would simply be changed to disallow it for everybody. flexible policies only work because there's a trust that they won't be abused, and they'll only last as long as most people don't abuse them. the people who return everything they buy are just trying to squeeze the most out of the system before they ruin it for the rest of us, and banning them is a much better solution than disallowing returns.
There _is_ an Ohio University that can cause confusion, even for Ohio natives. The reasons for the definite article though stem from its legal history and has mostly just become a way Ohioans signify as being "in the know". Anyone unironically taking offense probably takes offense at the idea OSU's reputation doesn't extend much further out the Midwest (speaking as an Ohioan).
Traditionally, PPC used a different encoding of qNaN than, well, everybody else. PPC itself would later include a hardware mode that aligned to the more universal interpretation of qNaN.
I cool a wafer scale with a liquid that boils at 43 C and immersing the wafer in this liquid. The bubbles (cavitation) of the boiling liquid should not damage the surface layers of the wafer, of course. This boiling liquid is further cooled by water and a sonic heat pump moving the heat into a water tank where the stored heat is used for showers or cooking [1].

Given 45 trillion transistors (45x10e12) times 3 femtojoule (3x10e-15) to switch each transistor at 1 Ghz (10e9) you get 1.000.000 joules/sec = 1 megawatt. These are ball-park numbers, back of the envelope calculations. In reality I make full physics simulations and electrical SPICE simulations of the entire wafer on a supercomputer aka on the wafer scale integration FPGA prototypes and the wafer supercomputer itself.

The EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software tools we write ourselves in Smalltalk and Ometa, and these also need our own supercomputer to run on. Of course the feedback loops are Bret Victor style visualizers [3][2].
Apple Silicon or this small company demonstrate that only with custom EDA tools can you design ultra-low power transistors to prevent our wafer to melt.

The FPGA prototype is a few thousand Cyclone 10 or Polarfire FPGA's with a few terabytes/sec memory bandwidth or a cluster of Mac Studio Ultra's networked together in a Slim Fly network that can double as a neighbourhood solar smart grid [5]. You need a dinosaur egg to design a dinosaur, or is is it the other way around? [6]

A TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 1 megawatt from a 450 mm disk is huge, it will melt the silicon wafer. But then not all transistors are switching all the time and we have the cooling effect of the liquid.

We must power the wafer from a small distance inductively or capacitively, best with AC. So we need AC-DC inverters on the wafer, self-test circuits to make sure we find defects from dust and contamination and isolate those parts and reroute the network on the wafer.

[1]https://vimeo.com/731037615 at 21 minutes

[2] https://youtu.be/V9xCa4RNfCM?t=86

[3] https://youtu.be/oUaOucZRlmE?t=313

[4] https://bit-tech.net/news/tech/cpus/micro-magic-64-bit-risc-...

[5] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Merik-Voswinkel/publica...

[6] Frightening Ambitious Startup Ideas (dinosaur egg)

https://youtu.be/R9ITLdmfdLI?t=360

http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Just doing some quick math, for a relatively well paid dev at $120 per hour with 260 work-days in a year saving about an hour a day that equates to about ~$31k needed to justify going into the office on a purely pecuniary front.