skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are vast swathes of 'classical' that I won't listen to but just about everything I do listen to fits within the 'classical' umbrella."

I understand that. There are classical works that I've little time for. Like any classical music lover, I have strong preferences for certain composers and compositions. I indicated several in my reply to musicale.

In your quote of me I chose the words 'much of the mainstream rock and popular music' with care as I do like some modern music, and some of it I find very inventive and cleaver. That said, I can't stand to listen to rap and most stuff with a monotonous repetitive beat, it's boring and doesn't make sense to me. How people find it interesting I'm damned if I know.

I fully take your point about those Asian countries and classical music, they are producing many performers of world class. Several weeks ago I was listening to the Sydney International Piano Competition and the young Asian performers were remarkable for their age. I stumbled across the Competition by accident on FM not knowing what it was. I came in part way through a stunning performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major —a work I know very well, I not only have multiple recording thereof but also a copy of the score (but my piano playing doesn't extend to me being able to perform it). Anyway, I was quite transfixed by the brilliant playing. During the performance I was trying to figure out who the artist was but to no avail. When the back-announcement said it was Jeonghwan Kim I was very surprised. Kim, although Asian, is based in Berlin, it shows the lengths these Asian performers will go to achieve excellence.

What I'm still unclear about is why the West has largely lost interest in classical music, it's essentially ditched its own cultural heritage. By way of example, that FM station broadcasting the competition has less than 1% of the radio audience.

Proof enough I reckon that people have little interest.
I always hear people suggesting to grind leetcode but never hear anything about grinding hackerrank.
As another person noted, there’s a downloadable version at:

https://cloud.google.com/alloydb/omni
Starlink is unique in being a LEO massive constellation using phased arrays and thus afaik cannot work like that. The terminal and satellites must work in conjunction to steer the beam electronically at a pretty fast rate, they're only ~550km away at a relative velocity of 7-someodd km/s. Cells are quite small, beam spots even smaller, and terminals must both track a given sat and jump between multiple ones.

Yes, all indications are that SpaceX auth is also very modern and very good, but the very nature of the system means they have to have quite precise location information on both sides. The satellites will simply not transmit where it's not permitted by regulators, and can do that with high resolution because they simply physically cannot usefully see very big circles. That's exactly why thousands and thousands of satellites are needed.

In another comment you mentioned "if there's any beam shaping" which seems to indicate you really haven't ever taken any real look at Starlink? It's nothing like an old HEO sat system.
Erasure codes are your friend, if you have the compute.
promiscuous terminology :)
This looks like a nice improvement on current video to video techniques:
https://stable-diffusion-art.com/video-to-video/
Java Is Not Dead yet. Why Is Java So Popular Even in 2023?
"information hoarder" !

a manager at Apple was known to have team meetings where he would add some info item.. and then have a different team meeting with others and tell them something different.. and then try to find out who knew which one.

secondly making a blunt statement that implies some team member lied or withheld information, in front of others on that team

third casually mention that his work was not done yet, and he "needed to get to it" and that would go on for months.. while team members where required to compete to get their work done, with the loser being on termination review..

oh he is from Japan too
There is, but you are wrong... Hang on, let me go find my old flame war cheat sheet I need to throw a few more insults at you.

/s
Wow, the amount of willful ignorance in some comments here is astonishing. It's so strange to see people argue for the continuance of something harmful to mankind as a whole. It really feels like seeing an argument on behalf of leaded water. What's the next leap? Trying to justify 3M/DuPont/Chemours/Corteva not paying for destroying the environment, even though they're profiting tens of billions a year from doing this? Let's try to stay grounded in factual reality; lawsuits don't happen randomly, and a $1,185,000,000 in damages should be taken VERY seriously!

They knew it was toxic for 73 BLEEDING YEARS[0], yet none of the studies come out publicly. They do it for profit, never any other reason[1]. Stock prices won't drop if people think it's safe[2]. They took a page right out of the big tobacco playbook there. It's as ingeniously profitable as it is evil.

[0] https://www.ewg.org/research/decades-polluters-knew-pfas-che...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/07/pfas-3m-...
[2] https://static.ewg.org/reports/2019/pfa-timeline/3M-DuPont-T...

Lawsuit sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/dupont-p...
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/dupont-chemou...
https://apnews.com/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-dupont-dri...
The lock doesn't prevent using the machine - it prevents restarting the cleaning process. The fact that the cleaning process hasn't been completed is what prevents using the machine.

There is no danger in unlocking the cleaning process so the cleaning process can be restarted.
Don't get discouraged, FE is amazing, and it's only getting better imo. It's just a small number of grumpy developers stuck in the past who don't get it, just see them for what they are, wrong and ignorant.

The most optimal way to work in this industry is to deliver great working products. No one can argue with results.

If you want to strengthen your position, which is always a great idea, you can go many directions: FE + App development (react native for example), FE + backend, FE + design, FE + product, any pairing is super valuable.

Also don't underestimate the power of frontend in an organization, it's where everything comes together, its where the rubber meets the road. It's where backend and design become an actual product, it's what your clients actually see, it's what business people demo and sell.

If you do it well and take control, you can be the glue in an organization and influence literally everything.
Yes, the Culture novels have an extremely biased POV by design, comparable to an alien's only knowledge of human society being CIA mission reports.

> The Culture is explicitly a direct democracy

It's not, and what you've quoted at length only reinforces my point.

Sure, humans get a vote in the design of their habitats, and even input on where the ship might fly.

But that's like saying that a modern nuclear power is a democracy because people get to vote on where their local park benches are located.

I'm saying that humans have no say on anything of consequence in the Culture. Anything that matters is decided upon by sentient hyperintelligent machines.
Ah, thanks a lot. I used to have this page bookmarked but lost due to unforeseen consequences.
> No matter how you put it, the US residential power grid is conceptionally lagging.

Not just conceptually == reliability is lower than that of its peers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268155/ranking-of-the-20... (if you don't have a statista account, US is at the bottom of this list at 98.6)

State level data: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/
Meh. That's mostly semantics. Debian and Fedora and Mint and all the others are all still complatible distros. The days of wild changes in library standards or C++ ABIs or whatnot are decades behind us now. Are there still compatibility burps for people wanting to ship cross-distro binaries? Sure. But the overwhelming majority of binary distributors do fine with "build it on whatever the second most recent Ubuntu LTS is". And that includes games (though increasingly "make it work on SteamOS" is supplanting Ubuntu there).
[Author] This is what I meant. That even if it doesn't work at a single layer, you could build a "verifier" stage whose approach is similar to this verification process and it can make the decision.
Pair Programming with AI: An Introduction to Rix’s Code Writer
If Apple could someone make Macs relevant for gaming again it'd be interesting, but I'm not sure what the roadmap to that result looks like. Implementing Vulkan support would likely help, but PC games are still chiefly written with DirectX, which is a big part of why Proton is necessary.

Perhaps the key is for them to work closely with Valve to make Proton work well on macOS, which would also neatly deal with the 32-bit issue because WINE/CrossOver on macOS handles 32-bit Windows binaries just fine despite macOS having dropped support for 32-bit Mac binaries ages ago.

This however seems unlikely because even setting aside the issue of how Apple might see doing this as pushing users to a competing marketplace, it also cedes some amount of the Mac's functionality and thus marketability to a third party which Apple has never been keen on.
Interesting that the quest 2 wins for Vr headsets even though it’s stand alone.

Unsurprisingly nvidia dominates with gpus.
In the grass north of the runway, you can see a pattern of scars, all the same length, mostly orthogonal, and a few diagonal. These are almost surely archaeological trial trenches:

https://www.borderarchaeology.com/services/archaeological-ev...

Often these are dug to evaluate land before it is built on, in case there is important ancient stuff that will be disrupted or buried. That hints that the airfield may be about to be redeveloped.
There are tons of people who have garages with table saws, air compressors, etc. that would benefit from 3 phase power.
The Lancet, was also found to have massive conflicts of interests in that regard.

Thou dost not research hard enough.
Most of the large-scale botnet and ransomware activities are operating out of Russia. Not exactly a country that is going to collaborate with US law enforcement.
year-by-year they are doing exactly this.

I hear more often than not ubuntu users using the arch wiki for example because despite the package manager, lots of things are similar.
Half-right. In my experience, it's often younger folks out of school, with no kids, who make low wages and live with their parents. It's folks for whom unemployment insurance is a great benefit, assuming they were at their previous job long enough to collect it.
Cloud SQL is RDS; AlloyDB is Aurora.
It is not only that, but I have known a lot of developers who simply hate the daily stand-ups, either because they were lead in the wrong way or because it did not match with their introvert personality, and that this added a lot of anxiety that it had a negative effect on their performance. Anxiety is an important factor in procrastination.
It's fair to say that it depends a lot on the people on the works council. A good works council is superb, a mediocre council just says yes to everything the company leaders want, and a bad one can make life very annoying for employees and the company itself.
Lots of smaller (kw) circuits is safer than a few very large circuits. The NEC in the US actually stipulates that you must use different receptacle styles for higher ampacities specifically because it is less dangerous. If you run a small appliance on a 30-40amp circuit, you run the risk of that seemingly safe appliance pulling the full 40+ amps required to trip the breaker
Autocratic surveillance states are here in the form of countries like China, Russia, NK, etc. The US is clearly the leader against these types of dystopias (despite it's many past mistakes and current faults), so I think to lump them all together would be naive and dangerous.
NPM-Follower: A Complete Dataset Tracking the NPM Ecosystem
Do I really sound that old? I am closer to 20 than 30!
because RMS is free software Jesus and people want others to see him in this light
I'm not 100% sure they're talking about this specifically but logit control/manipulation is often used to conform to a specific schema.

https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance

I'm going to butcher this explanation - after you've generated your selection of logits but before you sample from them, you check which ones conform to your schema. If you want the only two options to be "true" or "false", then you take any of the logits that would provide invalid answers and lower their probabilities manually.

Another example is structures like JSON can be validated so when your sample is "{'name':'Carl'" you lower the probability of "{" since that would invalidate the json. In fact the only valid ones you'd likely have left would be ",", " ", and "}"
The "Extend" stage is the key: it's actually supposed to refer to attempts to introduce "better" / "more advanced", but proprietary and inherently implementation-locked technologies into an implementation (and thus into the platform the implementation implements); where these technologies don't complement, but instead supersede the use of the platform's existing open-standards capabilities, for those using this implementation.

In the "Extinguish" stage, the open-standards capabilities are then deprecated in favor of these proprietary technologies — in theory just for the implementation itself, but in practice ecosystem-wide, due to the implementation's majority user share. As the locked-in nature of the component makes it impractical to offer any other implementations of it, all other implementations "fall behind" due to lacking this component, supporting fewer and fewer greenfield projects, until users give up on them, "Extinguishing" their market-share.

The "Extinguish" stage only makes sense insofar as the technologies introduced in the "Extend" stage have inherent implementation lock-in. Otherwise, it's just a regular open-standards dueling-RFC-banjos scenario, not EEE.

With Internet Explorer, the "Extend" phase was when Microsoft attempted to get people to write ActiveX components (that could only ever possibly work on Windows, since the ActiveX "platform API" is just "the entire Windows API") instead of writing JS. If doing this had become popular, no website that did it would have worked on any other browser than IE (and so there would have had to be "the ActiveX-enhanced IE version" and "the regular HTML version" of the site. Which was actually a thing for a short while... though only on Microsoft's own web services, AFAIK.)
[Author] The problem is: how could you objectively evaluate the factuality in any other way? Summary ranking is an established approach in the literature.
Fastmail is great, untill your wife and kids also need an e-mail account. Then it get's expensive real quick.
That's odd. Usually an employee is vested after five years. That means that even if they leave before "retirement" age (defined by the employer), they still get an annuity based on their vesting.

When a company eliminates pensions, it applies to new hires and perhaps future contributions but does not retroactively eliminate benefits already accrued.
I disagree with just one point of this article: no-passphrase sync encryption is a sensible default.

The average person cannot handle an encryption password that nukes their data if they ever forget it.
Just target steamOS and Ubuntu.

For every other distro, someone in the community will take what you’ve done and patch together the pieces to make it work.

Say you’ve got SteamOS and Ubuntu support, let the user click an “OK I know what I’m doing” button, and they’ll figure it out.
I'd expect that since Starlink has to be a bit more involved in the communication (particularly for determining need for packet routing over the laser interconnects between satellites), they might not be bent pipes.

Plus, with things like updating the constellation, which likely is a significant security concern, they would probably be relying on some sort of geofencing.
> they don't require a biopsy; you're still free to not get the biopsy after the mri

Have you ever talked through a scan with an oncologist? Or are you just reasoning in the abstract because you feel you can first-principle it?

Also, seriously, you want to turn this into a communism debate? fwiw, capitalism has already decided. The vast majority of resources goes to anything but full-body scans, because actual experts made the call what's more effective. Repeatedly. On many cases.

But you are right, you are of course free to make bad decisions with your money, and there will always be somebody happy to separate fools from their money. Capitalism does work.
The observation on perfectionism is really good.

When I interview someone now if the candidate mentions their perfectionism, I immediately say, "Tell me about the last thing you've done perfectly." Very few people have a satisfying story to tell. It usually turns out that perfectionists rarely achieve perfection!

From there I talk about how we're not looking for candidates to do anything perfectly. We want candidates who can get things done to the reasonable standards we have. You can still be engaged in your work and do a great job, but if you're not getting work done because you're trying to make everything perfect, you're not going to be a good fit.
This is one of those things you might not get unless you've been in the situation yourself- if the shoulder is small or dangerous (e.g. debris), taking the lane is the safer option. If you don't, you end up getting close-passed/buzzed as people trying to squeeze between you and the opposing lane. Some particularly bad humans will even get close on purpose (known as a "punish pass").
I certainly don't know enough to understand all the science here, but when they say "deliberate natural selection," are they implying that the variants are the results of laboratory manipulation? If so, how is it that they appear in different parts of the world? If it's a conspiracy, it's a pretty big one.
Le Petit Larousse single-volume encyclopedia included a page of mushrooms and their names. A couple of decades ago they had a typo that misnamed a mushroom, killing some people. The company issued a sticker you could glue over the erroneous page.
Depending on the market it can also be cheaper per BTU to heat with gas than with electricity, at least resistive heating. Heat pumps are starting to challenge that math, but with higher upfront costs and more complexity as tradeoffs.
Power = V*A. You can get any given power output out of any voltage by following the formula. The number of wires is not a factor at all. Number of wires and voltage is a factor in cost of install of course, but nothing else.
I know where you are coming from. I migrated from a European country with a very robust public safety net (14 months parental leave, long term disability, etc) to the US where similar protections largely don't exist. I don't think unions have played any role in the difference.
Won't somebody please think of the children?
God, all this sounds like a nightmare. I can't wait for laws that prohibit platforms/software from refusing service/content to users on the basis of the level of control they have over devices used to interact with it.

Dark times.
This is so true. I’ve been playing some games from the early 2000s and it was easier to get them running under Linux than windows
It has nothing to do with efficiency (do the math on the conductor gauge and it all mostly cancels out) or power (idem) but the types of motors used (squirrel cage I believe).

The problem is getting the motor to start spinning. You cant start all motors on just one or two phases. And if a motor isn't spinning, it's essentially a short.
No, the differences are purely superficial. Which is why they don't pool together.

Your argument is like saying Lutherans and Episcopalians aren't both Protestants because they disagree on the meaning of the trinity, despite agreeing on 99% else.

Most Linux guides do work on all distros, as long as you're willing to adapt for package management solutions and Desktop Environments (when applicable).
Slightly off-topic: Take a note web developer, you see there is a fully functional site with images, links, and everything with no or minimum js needed, it looks authentic and fast to browse, pretty much 90% of the cases you don’t need most of the stuff you shove into visitors faces, grapghQL node_modules vite etc.. look at this! https://roadmap.sh/frontend
I was looking for this. There are definitely two types of duplication. For example not every use of the number 16 should be replaced with a SIXTEEN constant. However if the maximum allowed password length is 16 you shouldn't be writing 16 all over you code, you should be writing MAX_PASSWORD_CODEPOINTS because your system may depend on that value being consistent.

Although I would disagree that you should never deduplicate things that are coincidentally the same. Sometimes code that is coincidentally the same can have the same bugs and require the same updates over time, so deduplicating them can reduce maintenance cost and remove bugs. However I wouldn't race to deduplicate these things. Just if they become frequent patterns or have remained the same for long enough to justify the effort to unify them.
Add enough decks to completely fill two shafts and you've invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift
It's not that far off. Whenever I'm looking for distro-level documentation, I end up either on manpages (which are shared), or the Arch Wiki.

And as a Debian user for many years, the differences are surface-level enough that the Arch Wiki is still one of the best resources with completely applicable answers.
Is it possible to install Steam w/o enabling 32-bit architectures yet?
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise – the death of more startups
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-disabling-ad-blockers-detection
Interesting/random side note: modern mini Christmas light bulbs do burn out (mostly) closed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MOpfT0f7bQ&t=179s
low tech biology would be easier, cheaper, and more accessable

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40093-019-0257-7

https://www.cetjournal.it/cet/22/96/077.pdf [PDF]
> Duplication, on the other hand, is detested almost as much as the goto statement.

Honestly, even the goto statement isn't that bad. It's pretty useful in C code. I'm not saying anyone should put it in a new language, but the amount of hate it gets is really just related to BASIC monstrosities from the 1970s, not any real-world applications of it.
Note: I am the author of this article.

Yes, they will probably ask Facebook then. Or check your web search history. There is more than one source for them to draw from. But you can shut down this huge source of your private information easily. You can deal with the rest of them later (all possible).
In the genomics field this is why we are working on making “data visiting” easier: https://www.ga4gh.org/product/workflow-execution-service-wes...
Java is the backbone of so many enterprise apps out there. It’s got a lot of momentum. While I prefer the syntax of other languages I could easily see my knowledge of Java/spring being a value add the rest of my career
I can't talk about Finland, but in Central Europe it's pretty common as there is a culture of house building.

In the US, a developer typically buys an entire neighborhood's worth of land and builds a bunch of houses there to sell to individuals.

Over here, the individuals will typically buy their own small plot of land and then have a house built there according to their specifications. You need to be able to run heavy construction equipment to do so.