skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has nothing to do with being brainwashed. Couldn't we say the same about your stance?

Yes they are people, but a company is NOT responsible for them. Where does this come from? An employee has an employment relationship and not a friendship and while it certainly sucks to be let go, it's not the company who is the bad guy.

From what I see, you can't take off your personal morale views from business decisions.

> Meanwhile the rich fucks are still getting richer even with the "risk" they take.
What even has that anything to do with what parent is saying? Or the topic we are discussing?

Is in your opinion no company is allowed to let go people, except if they pamper them with a big severance package? Sorry, but your post reads very childish and naive.
> So there goes a janitors job, secretaries etc. Local cafes, bars, transport lose out. The dependents of all the company are now involved. There's a long chain of consequences after this. Why not just target the guilty: maybe any punishment should make them suffer.

I agree. It would be better to make execs personally criminally liable.
This is a perfectly valid comment. And a situation I experience many times.

For example, reaching from Liverpool street to Farringdon could take 30 minutes during peak times. I still have the image of nearly a dozen busses queueing up and trying to take people from the station.

I decided to talk very often instead of not taking the bus and it wasn't slower.
Or worse than having to wait for the replacement, by the time you need to replace your favorite foot warmer the product has been discontinoued and all the available alternatives are worse or at least different enough that you have to spend time figuring out which one is best for you.
> but yeah humans rarely draw 7-fingered hands

Guess you haven’t seen hand drawings done by young children?
Not verbatim which might in fact be illegal.
Plenty of aerospace/defence companies too; Airbus, BAE, Dassault, Pilatus, Piaggio, Thales, Siemens, Rolls Royce.
In other news companies launch products that fail. Not sure what is suprising about that.
Is this an internationally remote position?
Heard this in a few places. Can't say I've noticed myself (though I never lucid dream). I've even seen it put forward as evidence these models are like the brain as they have similar 'failure modes' - anyone know if there is any truth to that?
Not that great since its nondeterministic. Maybe a better solution is to use a columnar database.
> chances are I'll be able to reach my destination on foot faster than by bus

This is only true in extreme cases - very short distances, very heavy traffic, being able to take shortcuts on foot. The majority of bus journeys would be slower on foot by a large margin.
You can say this because their environmental destruction wasn't enough for you personally to be worse of than them. If that's the case for future generations, they will almost certainly be angry.
> Red & blue are exactly what a U.S reader would think they are.

As a non-American, only the fact you wrote "American" makes me think democrat-republican; but for that I would've thought of the similarly named TV tropes entry: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlueAndOrangeMor...

> "Rainbow tribe" I just made up, but I think you can guess what I mean now based on context.

50-50 this is either a LGBT+ reference or a reference to all the other color schemes used by various political parties around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_colour
By the time you include corporation and employment taxes, I'd be surprised if the "total cost of employment" per employee was much different in Europe.
That is stark lack of diversity in these software then which don't account for fact that not everyone has a last name.
Thank you for calling this out! That is the correct link and it has been updated.
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That specific journey is much faster now that the Elizabeth Line is running.
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Yes, of course. If you use C++, try to not shoot your foot off. The same advice also applies to Rust or any other programming language. You should still try to follow best practices and not mess up, even if a language makes it less likely to mess up in certain ways.

The question is how often you mess up in each language and how bad those mess-ups are. This depends a lot on the programmer(s) and the kind of project. My personal view is that the space of team/project combinations where you should ever start a new C++ project is now confined to "team desperately wants C++".
a bit more detail on what a mediterranean diet is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet

It's not necessarily the modern diet of mediterranean countries, but it is inspired by the local traditional cousine.
> I'm not as familiar with them, but I believe you have these in English speaking countries too

Yes, exactly. E.g. there are definitely similarities in the names of streets built on new estates. 'Acacia Avenue' is a joke generic street name in England. Estates built on old WW2 airfields (there are quite a few of these) often have streets that are named after aircraft.

We also have a phenomenon where old established pubs - with historically / locally relevant names - are now being rebranded by the chains that own them. So the Roeshot (named for the hill it is built on) is now the Toby Carvery.

[Edit] The other big effect in England is that older town names reflect the language of different waves of settlers / invaders [0]. Town names that end in 'ing', 'ford', 'ham' are usually Old English, 'thorp', 'thwaite', 'toft' etc are usually Scandinavian, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy_of_England
100% agreed. Though the work I do pays very well!
I'd love to read your blog post about your experiences in this matter. We need more of these here on HN.
Hey, what's your take on Thermo-Acoustic heat pumps?
Like the sibling poster said, this won't cause jitter.

The audio isn't played directly from the ethernet packets. It has to be decompressed, decoded, buffered. In the end of it all the audio goes into a ring buffer and it is played very precisely by the sound card.

The playback itself is a hard-real-time process that needs time guarantees. Failure to fill the ring buffer by any reason can cause audible skips, but not jitter. But most players in practice will simply stop the playback.
I guess it would also depend on distance. If it's a 10 minute walk vs waiting up to 5 minutes for the bus then a 5 minute bus ride I get it. Also I just plotted distances between stops on my tram commute (waiting for the CI[0] :D) and 200 metres is much shorter than I realised, so actually I think I am with you. The stop distances for my commute home are:

- 100m

- 761m

- 681m

- 371m

- 506m

- 335m

And since it's a tram this is a bit different since it doesn't have to contend with vehicles (it's extremely rare to be blocked by cars or trucks) so this 2.75km ride takes ~11 minutes and that first 100m hop feels really short. I don't know where my ideal cutoff is, but that #63 route in London stopping on average every 42 metres must feel really slow.

[0] - https://xkcd.com/303
The HN moral judgement cycle is in overdrive again. There seems a genuine distain for people that make money based on speculation.
Was looking for something like that :)
> my meat comes from locally raised grass-fed-and-finished cows

https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/humane-meat

> It is actually much, much cheaper than buying meat from a supermarket

Thanks to subsidies ... taxes taken also from vegans ;)

> the massive, endless fields of soybeans

"More than three-quarters (77%) of global soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. Most of the rest is used for biofuels, industry or vegetable oils. Just 7% of soy is used directly for human food products such as tofu, soy milk, edamame beans, and tempeh"

https://ourworldindata.org/soy

> Fill the plains with cows. For thousands of years, they were filled with ruminants

You need also predators ... and I don't mean weekend hunters. Without predators the ruminants tend to stay in one place and eat everything, till nothing than desert remains. See Sahara and near east.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836166704... Blame it on the goats? Desertification in the Near East during the Holocene

> there's a lot of money in producing highly processed foods and (soon) artificial meat

Not yet, and artificial meat may not be here in next few decades (the scale is the problem). Soon is an overstretch. Artificial meat doesn't need to be highly processed ... in principle it's just plant protein (flour), starches, colorings (red beet etc.) and spices, maybe oils and vitamines. No magic, no complicated processes involving toxic chemicals etc (depends on the oils, tho).

> holistic look what what we need to do ecologically and environmentally, which would include meat

Meat is not necessary in those equations. We don't need to eat meat to live and prosper. We have composting and syntropic agriculture. We don't need animal inputs in agriculture. We can rewild areas used for animal farming (75% of 50% agriland of habitable land) and let the wildife rebound and manage the ecosystems. We can restore carbon sinks (double the forests) and stop anthropogenic wild life die offs. We don't have to rape the nature as we do now. For that the vegan movement is the logic outcome.

>> fated to death from birth

> Everything born into this world will die

https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch
> The worst part is how the public now thinks if you’re involved in software you must be a massive believer in cc/NFTs because they keep hearing about it so all techies must think it’s awesome, right!?

This used to be the case about a year ago, now I see the trend shifting towards AI.
I recommend the book Business Planning: Closely Held Enterprises by Dwight Drake though it is not targeting finance and risk management directly, more of the legal framework around business planning, succession, business protection estate planning etc. it was a required MBA reading more than 10 years ago.

https://www.amazon.com/Business-Planning-Enterprises-America...
We are stuck on the S3, yeah. The C3 is lovely, but doesn’t have everything we require, at least currently. Might change in the future but not right now.
How would a columnar DB help?

BTW I believe all the big RDBMs now support columnar tables.
> Is matching the original recorded sound really the purpose of a good hifi system ?

Yes, at least it used to. Hifi means High Fidelity, which means a high degree of exactness in reproducing the music, as the artists and recording engineers intended.

> Hifi speakers are supposed to add their own character to the recorded sound, no?

I would argue they should not. But consumer "Hifi" certainly does often colour the sound. This is why many audiophiles had to seek out "studio" monitors and earphones. However, even this term has lost its meaning. You will not find "Beats Studio" earphones in any studio.

> When talking about acoustic instruments, doesn't each one sound different?

Maybe slightly yes, but only in certain ways. A bad audio system might make them sound unnatural. Pianos and violins certainly have much less variation than electric guitars.
The point is more that I don't want to use email for feedback.
It is a nice feature to have and probably not too hard to implement.
>Oh right, it's unethical and immoral do to that to other humans

there's a difference between a sort of provincial ethics between individuals and ethics with regards to entire species over aeons. Would the universe be a more interesting place if some animal species had squashed out all other life a billion years ago for self-preservation, including humans?

Of course getting owned by the paperclip maximiser is just as stupid as getting killed by a virus, but future life may be to us what we are to ants.
Why do things have to solve problems? Are you going to an art collector and asking them the same questions?
Would be interesting to every once in a while test "Using Linux without a network connection" (as in: install everything from usb/media and check all your workflows)
ESP-IDF is pretty dependant on it, sadly. I’m halfway through getting to the point where I can build it without!
Sure, the University of Bath, National Coastwatch Institution, and a number of the larger 'public' parks and gardens in England are on strictly limited 999 year leases.

To the best of my recollection none of those thousand year (less one) leases have run out to date.
queynte is such a great word, I'm gonna have to use it more often.
A Pentium 4 worked much better for heating than an Athlon.
Paid per hour, free to chose their working hours, free to work for multiple employers at the same time, etc. How are they not contractors?

They're way more contractors than the contractors that were working 9 to 5, 5 days a week, for years, for my FAANG.
People seem to like brick: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick (I've never used it)
it's existence is irrelevant. how does it perform? this conversation is about performance.
Or, you know, you could look at it. It's a single flat object format with just a few keys. The default is already pretty sane, too. The reason it's Lua is so that you have the option to use features like switching a value based on platform, etc.

I've set my WezTerm config once and have never needed to touch it since. It's been years. There's not a lot there.
> It seems increasingly that the concerns from the ethics branch have not come to pass at all.

It is literally happening right now in the US justice system: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...

There's all sorts of problems with this, but the use of "AI" to launder biased data (via IP law no less - these are proprietary blackbox algorithms being used by the justice system, owned by corporations - every part of that is antithetical to open and fair trials for citizens).

The ethics branch have been sounding the alarm for a long time on this, and have been exactly right as to what the problem is.
I think they always were out of conventional fiat markets. Its just that big corps try to get a slice of the market (and so far mostly fail at it).
Last time I installed, I had to only select "continue with limited setup" (tiny font with bad contrast in the bottom left corner, doesn't really look like a button), and confirm that in the nag-screens that follow. Then it created a local account. After the installation I inserted the network cable and all is well.
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do you want to know how to get malware?

by following this thought:

> there's always a free easy to use GUI app (like the one featured in this topic) that can be downloaded and it's nearly guaranteed to work despite its age

im not saying this tool contains malware, im saying, if it's a system function, the system should allow you to configure it. and no, i dont see missing widgets in open source settings panels as the problem since you could easily compile a better settings panel for yourself
I don't understand your point. There are dpkg and rpm which do exactly that.
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I think the main sell of hidef audio isn't so much the 'extra bits' but usually they're different masters, and not compressed for CD. A lot of it is in the mind though for sure. Almost anything sounds pretty good on good (>500 euro) headphones. :}
If you go to the casino, you don’t know how much money you’re going to loose. But you can calculate an expectation value because the odds are known. In the financial system, you cannot quantify your risk. It depends on many more factors (including human behavior) than rolling a dice.

This is probably true for people working inside SVB. For people looking at the aggregated reports from the outside it’s worse or practically impossible to judge.
It doesn't usually stop that often because half the time people aren't pushing the button every stop.

In central areas where demand is high, busses usually come every ~5-minutes. Even further out in the suburbs, the wait times are 8-10 minutes.

Bus rides are £1.75. You can take as many busses in a day, and it automatically caps at £5.25. You don't need coins, you pay using contactless credit card, or oyster card prepaid cards.

Unless there is service disruption I find the bus is at least twice as fast as walking, typically a lot faster.

I walk if the distance is less than ~30-minutes, but if I do take the bus I never feel like I've wasted my time or money.
It's important to appreciate that there are several different breeds of audiophile out there...

There are those that are obsessed with objectively measurable sound quality. They want to reproduce the recorded waveform as accurately as possible, and they want products that can be measured doing that, but they often pursue accuracy beyond the limits of any human to hear.

There are those that like a little distortion or degradation if it sounds nice to them. These are the people who collect tube amps and will openly admit they're not as accurate, but accuracy is not what they're after.

There are those who embrace voodoo. I knew a physics professor who was one of these. He had hideously expensive isolation platforms, resonator weights, unobtanium cables, "ambient field conditioners"... You name it. He knew there was no scientific basis for any them to work, but he had very deliberately deluded himself. If asked, he'd explain that the ultimate goal of the audiophile's pursuit was pleasure. If he could shut down his reasoning and spend hours moving resonator stones around on top of his CD transport until he thought he had improved the sound, and this gave him pleasure, was that pleasure not real even if the sound was exactly the same?

Then there are those who combine contradictory aspects of all of the above without any self-awareness or critical thinking skills. That's the sort that will torment themselves, and others, arguing on internet forums about why their own snake oil of choice is legitimate, real, and how anyone who isn't using it is a cretin.
As someone who was a developer well before Bitcoin was invented, yes, we did.

Here's a conference from 1981 put on by the IEEE:

https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf
This seems to be a weakspot of alot of ideological groups in the west(left/right) but also in the east(ccp), the assumption that one can just "sing" a version of reality into beeing by loudness. What is usually archieved is a placation act, by which the lower status parties involved pretends to kotau, but then gets on with its own life in its own style, with the calmed priesthood.

Its a very strange state of affairs. For objective, measurable scientific reality to be experienced, this process is completely orthogonal. Its better to know what is, even if unpleasant or stressfull, then only to find out at the breaking point?
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LOL (easy) money is running out. (If it wasn't and they were refocussing, they'd redeploy the roadkill onto early stage.) This is comically bad lying.
So does this only work with their V2 mini satelites?
Anyone who knows an artist or has attempted this themselves will immediately confirm that hands and feet are often the most challenging anatomy to get right.

I view this result as further evidence that these algorithms are approaching the target.
> I'm not certain for C, but definitely in C++ it's legal to union a bunch of structures with a common prefix, and then talk about the prefix in the "wrong" variant and that's OK

That doesn't sound right to me. Do you have a source? Is that in the standard?
> And this really is the heart of it: in an effort to ensure the autonomy and rights of those with mental illness, we created a system where you have to be violent to be taken seriously, and where absent violence the people who love you most and know you best have no recourse for forcing you into treatment when you desperately need it. If ever there’s been a tragedy of good intentions, there it is.

I suppose one could call it a tragedy, but I think a balancing act is a much more accurate way to describe it.

It's a bit like the rules around convicting people of crimes. It's been pretty widely acknowledged that there are many people who escape punishment - particularly of intimate crimes - because a prosecutor probably couldn't meet the standard to convict them.

But on the other hand, there are many innocent people who are currently being punished for crimes they didn't commit.

The more we try to suppress type 1 errors, the more type 2 errors we get. And vice versa.

In the case of mental health, sure - there are probably lots of people who desperately need care and can't get it because they can't be committed. But there's also a long history of people preying on others by getting them committed.

I'm not going to pretend that I know if we have struck the correct balance; just that it is a balance. And moving the dial 100% in one direction or the other is the wrong answer.
I think it is a misunderstanding to think Russia holds no soft power in Kazakhstan.
I have read this argument many times and I still don't understand it.

You can attack emissions by limiting supply (stopping new oil drilling projects) or by limiting demand (flying less / driving less etc.). Both should work, since supply and demand are generally balanced. Reducing supply without reducing demand (what you seem to be proposing) will lead to massive price increases and energy poverty. This is confirmed by the energy crisis in Europe this winter, which was the result of a sudden decrease in supply. Reducing demand without reducing supply will lead to massive price decreases, which should increase demand from those that are less worried about climate change.

The transition to renewables can only be done by reducing both supply (less oil drilling) and demand (consumers and industry). I don't see how advocating for flying less, eating less meat, buying heat pumps etc. constitutes greenwashing, even if it oil companies co-opt it to deflect attention from themselves.
Heat pump output temp is lower than a furnace's. Thus, it needs to move more air to inject the same heating power.

In Europe, where the traditional working fluid is usually water in water radiators, this has been a big issue in popularizing heat pumps. Radiators sized right for hot water from electric or gas furnaces were undersized for heat pumps and their lower output temp. This required expensive replacing of the water network and radiators.

Heat pumps in new builds are popular for heated floors, which are great.
> turns out that SVB hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on this crazy plan

It’s interesting seeing New York Finance pinning the proximate blame on Goldman, while the Bay Area is largely angry at large depositors, e.g. VCs.
That's less the point and more that DNS can get hijacked, scripts changed without your control, etc. You run it fine today, begin to trust it, then it's changed and affects you differently, at best causing a headache and at worst stealing your files or wrecking your machine.
> Bato promised to surrender if he and his followers would be pardoned. Tiberius agreed and then asked him why his people had rebelled. According to Cassius Dio, he replied: "You Romans are to blame for this; for you send as guardians of your flocks, not dogs or shepherds, but wolves."[37]

This seems to be a common cause of Roman rebellions. For example, Boudica rebelled after the Roman governor tried to seize her kingdom and then raped her daughters. The Jewish rebellion started after a Roman governor seized money from the Temple.